Work experience in engineering fields is a GOOD thing. Use it.
You have forgotten almost everything that was useless in the real world. So your comprehensive/qual exams will kick your ass to put it bluntly, plan to study.
You will have NO social life, unless you're already married, in which case you will have no life at all. You simply will not have the time.
Living on the cheap is fine, educational loans are at record low rates, and will be trivial to pay back once the dollar crashes and hyperinflation hits.
I saw alot of posts about partying or dating undergrads. I have some swamp land in Florida for sale...
Most importantly - If you're doing this becasue you think the job market will be better when you get out - forget it unless you're Chinese. Your well paying job in India is already gone, and companies are already looking at African outsourcing because the Chinese are getting too pricey to compete with open source.
Every pirate eventually hits puberty, discovers girls, and suddenly has better things to do then rip off "da man". Just like almost all those hippies are now lawyers.
Most places in the civilized world have them, with the exception of the US, which has no real public transportation in all but the largest and oldest cities.
People wont pay for movies and music, but they will donate money to LAWYERS so they can do... whatever satanic things lawyers do... while they rip off movies and music.
Correct, that's the only way out of the GPL, rewrite anything not done by the forking team. Not fun, and a non-optimal use of everyones time, but it is a USE of time, which is often the point.
Stop being so mean! It's not PHP's fault they can't run in a thread model. Threads have only been commonplace for 25 years, and the standard way you do things for 15.
They just need some time to catch up. Apache 2.x is light years faster/leaner/meaner then 1.x was. Oh, and PHP runs perfectly fine under 2.x, as others have pointed out.
OK, so yea, it's actually kinda sad (read: pathetic)
No, glibc was just one of dozens of libraries I could have used as an example. Not to mention the 39 flavors of installers/packaging systems out there, etc.
Writing an application to work reliably under all variations is not a slam-dunk.
s/a slam-dunk/possible/
Solution: Python, Perl, ANSI C, etc. i.e. don't code "for Linux" at all, just code. Of all the ports I've done, Linux is always the biggest pain in the arse, due to the joyous work of glibc, and of course Redhat's need to do everything their own way.
You heard it here first, Apple will invent the iPhone, the first phone in the world to work as... a PHONE!
Because ya sure as heck can't but a phone now, sure a PDA, or a camera, or any of that, but nothing that you can use to talk to people with for more then 15 seconds at a time, with a battery that lasts more then 30 minutes before the thing superheats and burns your hand.
They will sell exactly ONE of them, to me, since I'm the only one on the planet that wants such a rediculous product!
I can see some people having huge use for this, drug dealers, chat room stalkers, and of course all communications between an executive and their broker;) Any place you need to be able to say "I didn't say that" later - where woulkd that be except a courtroom???
I can't think of any good reason for _me_ to use it tho. Maybe I'm just not shadey enough.
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Work experience in engineering fields is a GOOD thing. Use it.
You have forgotten almost everything that was useless in the real world. So your comprehensive/qual exams will kick your ass to put it bluntly, plan to study.
You will have NO social life, unless you're already married, in which case you will have no life at all. You simply will not have the time.
Living on the cheap is fine, educational loans are at record low rates, and will be trivial to pay back once the dollar crashes and hyperinflation hits.
I saw alot of posts about partying or dating undergrads. I have some swamp land in Florida for sale...
Most importantly - If you're doing this becasue you think the job market will be better when you get out - forget it unless you're Chinese. Your well paying job in India is already gone, and companies are already looking at African outsourcing because the Chinese are getting too pricey to compete with open source.
Well you see, over here we have loopholes. Deductions and things.
It means anyone with any real money, brains, or just a compitent accountant, doesn't have to pay any taxes at all. It's a great system, and it works.
Your system is all "fair" and we don't take kindly to that over here in the USA.
So which ones on the list are free as in no patents (implys beer and code)... AND ... playback on Windows, OS X and Linux.
Any of them yet? I didn't add the ultra critical "plays on mom's 50$ DVD player" because I'm sure none of them will do that.
There is no point at all encoding anything unless the above are all true.
And by that I mean AGE old struggle.
Every pirate eventually hits puberty, discovers girls, and suddenly has better things to do then rip off "da man". Just like almost all those hippies are now lawyers.
it will be made entirely of flowers and will not attempt to enslave the crowd
Well then it's not nerd news! Let me know when the enslaving starts, not the allergies.
What, are you implying the chinese would take the Cisco product, copy it IOS, product number and all, then add IPv6?
That's absurd, noone can read Cisco source code.
It scales perfectly, it's called a BUS.
Most places in the civilized world have them, with the exception of the US, which has no real public transportation in all but the largest and oldest cities.
People wont pay for movies and music, but they will donate money to LAWYERS so they can do ... whatever satanic things lawyers do... while they rip off movies and music.
Hahahahahahhahaha AWESOME!
And you think that's any LESS then your average gearghead does to their car? Or moders do to their PCs?
And you're on Slashdot? Out, OUT with you! We dont want you non-geeks here. Your PC is probably beige too!
The car at the starting point, gas engine reved up and getting louder, charging up the electric system...
A slight yellow glow enveloping the car...
Rocks and dirt flying up in a whirlwind around it...
Driver screaming SUPER HYBRID SPEED WAVE!!! and darting off in a cloud of dust...
Um... this car was Japanese right?
Fear not!!!
:)
4 is only "yellow" which we've been trained can be fixed with just some duct tape and plastic sheeting
$3k + 1.25 man-YEARS of labor... wow.
;)
Even at chinese outsourcing prices, that's one VERY expensive project that doesnt do anything useful.
Go get an Apple ][, you can learn just as much for $50
They were watching... always watching... plotting against us... they had to be smashed... before they became alive and killed us all...
Correct, that's the only way out of the GPL, rewrite anything not done by the forking team. Not fun, and a non-optimal use of everyones time, but it is a USE of time, which is often the point.
... die by the GPL.
You're fine. If they didnt want to share, they shouldn't have stayed with the GPL.
At least you're giving credit, which is a pile more then most bother to do.
Stop being so mean! It's not PHP's fault they can't run in a thread model. Threads have only been commonplace for 25 years, and the standard way you do things for 15.
They just need some time to catch up. Apache 2.x is light years faster/leaner/meaner then 1.x was. Oh, and PHP runs perfectly fine under 2.x, as others have pointed out.
OK, so yea, it's actually kinda sad (read: pathetic)
Yea, but it DOES include bits and pieces of the Chinese slaves they used to make the laptops.
So the Karma all evens out really.
No, glibc was just one of dozens of libraries I could have used as an example. Not to mention the 39 flavors of installers/packaging systems out there, etc.
Writing an application to work reliably under all variations is not a slam-dunk.
s/a slam-dunk/possible/
Solution: Python, Perl, ANSI C, etc. i.e. don't code "for Linux" at all, just code. Of all the ports I've done, Linux is always the biggest pain in the arse, due to the joyous work of glibc, and of course Redhat's need to do everything their own way.
Perhaps some old cypherpunks could come up with a better wap
... Pay for your movies.
... Move to China, you'll fit right in.
OK, here ya go, since you asked:
Oh you wanted a way that doesn't involved paying for the work of others, then the solution is:
You heard it here first, Apple will invent the iPhone, the first phone in the world to work as ... a PHONE!
Because ya sure as heck can't but a phone now, sure a PDA, or a camera, or any of that, but nothing that you can use to talk to people with for more then 15 seconds at a time, with a battery that lasts more then 30 minutes before the thing superheats and burns your hand.
They will sell exactly ONE of them, to me, since I'm the only one on the planet that wants such a rediculous product!
No, that doesnt help you at all in china, there you need to be SECURE and ANONYMOUS.
Denial just gets you shot quicker, in China or under King Bush.
Not sure for _who_, but it's great.
;) Any place you need to be able to say "I didn't say that" later - where woulkd that be except a courtroom???
I can see some people having huge use for this, drug dealers, chat room stalkers, and of course all communications between an executive and their broker
I can't think of any good reason for _me_ to use it tho. Maybe I'm just not shadey enough.
Pack cellphone jammer in carryon bag next time I fly...
/. by next week. Move it geeks, go go go !!!!!!!!!
I expect to see the schematics on
Made in china, by children, for children.
;)
With the savings put into quality control