and lose any hope of your software catching on with the general public.
NO NORMAL USER wants to compile their applications from source if they don't have to. Most users don't even know how.
Screenshots as well. Nothing "sells" a program to a user like being able to see it in action. Try using words to describe Enlightenment to a user not familiar with window managers aside from those from M$. Then show them a screenshot. "Ooh, sexy!"
Binaries and screenshots are a necessity for getting Joe User to download your app.
beats the hell out of vi's "hjkl". I personally blame microsoft for killing wordperfect, and wordperfect for killing wordstar, the last good wordprocessor.
Thank you, whoever modded my previous post (the parent) down. I love it when people piss on a valid discussion. I mean, that post was obviously harmful to all readers of slashdot, and was certainly not worthly of the +1 that normal posts get.
Moderators should definately be modding the bad down, and not wasting their precious points on promoting the good!
I apologise for my lapse of judgement. It won't happen again. Next time I will simply ignore anyone who asks me a question that could be contrued as offtopic.
I shall devote the remainder of my day to figuring out why Netscape 6 running under Windows 2000 (it's my work machine, no flames, please) turns periods. into copyright signs.
"The New Digital World: Hackers, Napster, Free Speech, and Piracy: How it Will Change the Entire Communications World Including Entertainment and Education."
That title would be really, really funny if it weren't real.
You've all seen the jokes about how a news site makes up a story using every buzzword mentioned on slashdot just to get the story posted? Well here's a real life example! I mean, GODDAMN! Give that man a/. account and watch him become the penultimate karma whore!
Don't get me wrong, it should still be interesting, but whatever happened to the powers of understatedness and subtlety?
Thank you, whoever modded my previous post (the parent) down. I love it when people piss on a valid discussion. I mean, that post was obviously a flame, and a troll, and harmful to all readers of slashdot, and was certainly not worthly of the +1 that normal posts get.
Moderators should definately be modding the bad down, and not wasting their precious points on promoting the good!
Well, I took that code snippet form the source of NSCopy, the "free, throttled flexible file copier for Win32," made by www.nullsoft.com.
He uses the INTEGER microsoftsuxbadly as the argument for a switch statement. The value of microsoftsuxbadly gets changed from 1 to 0 depending on some other cases. So what you've just said has little relevance in the code's actual context.
But, if I'm not completely braindead, isn't a boolean TRUE the same as 1? And so if you #define OH_YES_INDEED to be 1, that makes it true, right? And we want microftsuxbadly to be true, right? Or is it your point that microft does not suck badly, and I have just been trolled?
The job was developing applications for Windows CE-based PDAs which the maintance crews would take onboard ships to log data on the ship's functions. The data is then entered into an Oracle database and served up using ColdFusion extensions on IIS.
In short, it was a lot of extremely (notoriously?) non-free (neither speech nor beer) software. (And the pay was shitty.)
Needless to say, it would be really cool if other branches of the armed forces followed the Army's lead here. If the above scenario was linux running on the handhelds, and linux, apache, perl, mysql running on the servers, the job would have been much more attractive. And plus, everyone would think the Navy was cool;-)
Question:
There was a/. story awhile back about how the US Armed Forces were having trouble getting new IT workers. Would *you* work for the Army if you knew you could get your hands on these embedded linux devices, and promote OSS at the same time?
I think I would. For one thing, the job security would sure beat working for a dotcom...
This isn't a question, just a comment:
There must be alot of philadelphians reading slashdot (PLUGgers?) since the *two* philly thanksgiving show comments have been modded up high. I was at that show as well. What did everyone think of muckafurgason? Who do you think was behind all the pranks getting pulled on them?
Cheers!
Slashdot needs a good groupware package to facilitate interdepartment communications.
This wasteful duplication of effort could have all been prevented if Hemos in the Bad-Timing-For-Transmeta Dept. had "touched base" with Timothy in the Oy-Vey-Ist-Mir! Dept.
I recommend Lotus Notes R5, which unlike M$ Exchange is available for Linux.
-the wunderhorn
Or prehaps we need to get on Compaq to add Yiddish capabilities to Babelfish...
As a computer science cooperative education student at Drexel University currently on fall/winter coop, I just went through the process of hunting for jobs (and getting a LOT of rejections, this is only my second year in school and my first "real" job) and had a very relevant experience.
I received a job offer from the Navy that was awfully tempting: a chance to learn and practice CGI programming, Java/JScript, IIS, Cold Fusion, and program handheld devices. The salary? $300/week.
I also received an offer from a private-sector company that would basically be IT gruntwork, and maybe a chance to do some C programming for the set-top boxes the company is designing. Not as attractive as the Navy, which would have put me on track to be a successful web developer. But the salary was exactly double what the Navy was paying. Needless to say, I took the private-sector job.
A higher salary would definately help gov't jobs seem more attractive to people like me who have trouble seeing past the $17k tuition due in a few months. Unfortunately it appears that these raises in salary are not across the board, which is what the government needs to do to keep attractive the best workers.
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and lose any hope of your software catching on with the general public.
NO NORMAL USER wants to compile their applications from source if they don't have to. Most users don't even know how.
Screenshots as well. Nothing "sells" a program to a user like being able to see it in action.
Try using words to describe Enlightenment to a user not familiar with window managers aside from those from M$.
Then show them a screenshot. "Ooh, sexy!"
Binaries and screenshots are a necessity for getting Joe User to download your app.
-the wunderhorn
Philadelphia, PA has a working trolley system in addition to the subways and regional rails.
I take the trolley to work each day.
-the wunderhorn
disclaimer: the above is not a troll
-the wunderhorn
To quote: 'Humans, the human body or any human body parts may not be listed on eBay...."
It's too bad, cause I'm sure an arm running an embedded version of linux would get a really high price from some open-source-advocate amputee...
It's funny, laugh.
-the wunderhorn
Thank you, whoever modded my previous post (the parent) down. I love it when people piss on a valid discussion. I mean, that post was obviously harmful to all readers of slashdot, and was certainly not worthly of the +1 that normal posts get.
Moderators should definately be modding the bad down, and not wasting their precious points on promoting the good!
I apologise for my lapse of judgement. It won't happen again. Next time I will simply ignore anyone who asks me a question that could be contrued as offtopic.
I shall devote the remainder of my day to figuring out why Netscape 6 running under Windows 2000 (it's my work machine, no flames, please) turns periods. into copyright signs.
.........
-the wunderhorn
no.
-the wunderhorn
That title would be really, really funny if it weren't real. /. account and watch him become the penultimate karma whore!
You've all seen the jokes about how a news site makes up a story using every buzzword mentioned on slashdot just to get the story posted? Well here's a real life example!
I mean, GODDAMN! Give that man a
Don't get me wrong, it should still be interesting, but whatever happened to the powers of understatedness and subtlety?
-the wunderhorn
Yes, and since if(error) evaluates to 'true', we get the output 'Error!'
Thus, OH_YES_INDEED should be defined as 1 so that microsoftsuxbadly will be true.
-the wunderhorn
Moderators should definately be modding the bad down, and not wasting their precious points on promoting the good!
I apologise for my lapse of good judgement.
-the wunderhorn
He uses the INTEGER microsoftsuxbadly as the argument for a switch statement. The value of microsoftsuxbadly gets changed from 1 to 0 depending on some other cases. So what you've just said has little relevance in the code's actual context.
But, if I'm not completely braindead, isn't a boolean TRUE the same as 1? And so if you #define OH_YES_INDEED to be 1, that makes it true, right? And we want microftsuxbadly to be true, right? Or is it your point that microft does not suck badly, and I have just been trolled?
damn.
-the wunderhorn
I interview with the Navy a few months back as a coop for their Naval Sea Systems Command.
The job was developing applications for Windows CE-based PDAs which the maintance crews would take onboard ships to log data on the ship's functions. The data is then entered into an Oracle database and served up using ColdFusion extensions on IIS.
In short, it was a lot of extremely (notoriously?) non-free (neither speech nor beer) software. (And the pay was shitty.)
Needless to say, it would be really cool if other branches of the armed forces followed the Army's lead here. If the above scenario was linux running on the handhelds, and linux, apache, perl, mysql running on the servers, the job would have been much more attractive. And plus, everyone would think the Navy was cool ;-)
Question: /. story awhile back about how the US Armed Forces were having trouble getting new IT workers. Would *you* work for the Army if you knew you could get your hands on these embedded linux devices, and promote OSS at the same time?
There was a
I think I would. For one thing, the job security would sure beat working for a dotcom...
-the wunderhorn
This isn't a question, just a comment: There must be alot of philadelphians reading slashdot (PLUGgers?) since the *two* philly thanksgiving show comments have been modded up high. I was at that show as well. What did everyone think of muckafurgason? Who do you think was behind all the pranks getting pulled on them? Cheers!
-the wunderhorn
I think The Pope ¥not Kurt the Pope, being the head of the Vatican city/state, has an excellent web site©
It presents you with a language selection then moves right on to the relevant information--including a site map, faq, and search© And the graphics are awesome© Such is the power of God©
The only bad thing it relies primarily on graphics for navigation, and while the holy webmaster does use alt= tags, they're all in Italian© Still, it looks great on Mozilla©
©©©©or did you mean U©S© Government webpages?
-the wunderhorn
Maybe it has to do with the word 'root'?
Like, say you're a 1337 h4x0r d00d, and you told all your buddies on #h4x0ring that you are trying to own microsoft's box© When you succeed, you say to them "w00t!" so they know you got root©
That's just a theory©
I like the word just because it sounds like an expression of pure joy©
w00t!
-the wunderhorn
This whole thing reminds me of Flatland, by Edwin Abbot©
It absolutely blows my mind how there are ideas/qualities completely beyond comprehension© Like higher dimensions, ultrasonic/subsonic sounds, ultraviolet/infrared vision©
We can experience sounds beyond our hearing and colors beyond our vision by shifting them back into the human-accessable spectral range, so maybe there is a way to "dither" ¥? a tetrachromatic image down to an average-joe trichromatic one©
But it would never be the same as actually being able to experience it©
-the wunderhorn
#define OH_YES_INDEED 1
Or if you install Mandrake 7©3 you get the opportunity to chose which of approximately 5©6x10^12 half-finished applications to install, 3 of which will show up in the "start menu©"
This seriously happened to me© I chose to make a "development" machine and I got items in the KDE menu© I still haven't figured out how to add items to the menu ¥in windows there was a c:\windows\start menu\ directory, I can't find any equivliant in KDE, and I have very little clue what all went into my HD or how to find it!
-the wunderhorn
#define OH_YES_INDEED 1
Fi doesn't allow dual citizenship? Please explain©
-the wunderhorn
#define OH_YES_INDEED 1
Since there's a few newbies wondering what's going one here:
;-
The Top Level Domain ¥or tld, as in ©com, ©us, etc© for Poland is ©pl , which also happens to be the extension for Perl scripts© CmdrTaco loves Perl; it's what Slashdot is based on©
From what I understand, the "tax" on free software is more like what we in the US would call a "tariff" or a "duty©" The Polish gov't taxes imported goods as do most national governments© The screwed up part is that they're saying since free software is worth the same to computer users as non-free software, it should be taxed at the same market value© Hence taxing a copy of Star Office at the same rate as MS Office©
In a way it's almost a compliment, as the goverment is basically admitting that free software is just any other programs available© ¥okay so it's a stretch but let's look on the bright side of things, OK?
-the wunderhorn
#define OH_YES_INDEED 1
Nobody can, nobody can©
Where's my cats's pajamas?
In the can© The big trash can©
Swing is a word?
Six feet down©
Three Eight Seven Six Nine Six Two Narrrrrrrrrrr
Three Eight Seven Six Nine Six Two
Three Eight Seven Six Nine Six Two
Three Eight Seven Six Nine Six Two
Swing is a word?
SIX FEET DOWN!
-the wunderhorn
#define OH_YES_INDEED 1
From CNN:
For all the "Bush sucks" and "Vote Nader" talk that went on here, these statistics seem rather surprising..
-the wunderhorn
-the wunderhorn
#define OH_YES_INDEED 1
Slashdot needs a good groupware package to facilitate interdepartment communications.
This wasteful duplication of effort could have all been prevented if Hemos in the Bad-Timing-For-Transmeta Dept. had "touched base" with Timothy in the Oy-Vey-Ist-Mir! Dept.
I recommend Lotus Notes R5, which unlike M$ Exchange is available for Linux.
-the wunderhorn
Or prehaps we need to get on Compaq to add Yiddish capabilities to Babelfish...
-the wunderhorn
#define OH_YES_INDEED 1
I'm a fiscal Republican but a social Democrat. I've yet to see a candidate that ever made me feel at all inspired.
Have you seen Harry Browne??
"Fiscal conservativism yet social liberalism" pretty much sums up the main beliefs of the Libertarian Party.
Please do check it out, I'm sure you won't regret it, and it may even change your mind about the futility of voting this year...
-the wunderhorn
-the wunderhorn
#define OH_YES_INDEED 1
I'm a fiscal Republican but a social Democrat. I've yet to see a candidate that ever made me feel at all inspired.
Have you seen Harry Browne??
"Fiscal conservativism yet social liberalism" pretty much sums up the main beliefs of the Libertarian Party.
Please do check it out, I'm sure you won't regret it, and it may even change your mind about the futility of voting this year...
-the wunderhorn
-the wunderhorn
#define OH_YES_INDEED 1
One word: Lego.
-the wunderhorn
-the wunderhorn
#define OH_YES_INDEED 1
As a computer science cooperative education student at Drexel University currently on fall/winter coop, I just went through the process of hunting for jobs (and getting a LOT of rejections, this is only my second year in school and my first "real" job) and had a very relevant experience.
I received a job offer from the Navy that was awfully tempting: a chance to learn and practice CGI programming, Java/JScript, IIS, Cold Fusion, and program handheld devices. The salary? $300/week.
I also received an offer from a private-sector company that would basically be IT gruntwork, and maybe a chance to do some C programming for the set-top boxes the company is designing. Not as attractive as the Navy, which would have put me on track to be a successful web developer. But the salary was exactly double what the Navy was paying. Needless to say, I took the private-sector job.
A higher salary would definately help gov't jobs seem more attractive to people like me who have trouble seeing past the $17k tuition due in a few months. Unfortunately it appears that these raises in salary are not across the board, which is what the government needs to do to keep attractive the best workers.
-the wunderhorn
-the wunderhorn
#define OH_YES_INDEED 1