Ubuttu Ladyboy Remix works fine for me on 2 laptops with no probs. Oh wait, I had to reset the machines after install finished cause I was running the beta installer...
I've got 2 laptops running it just fine. Got winXP and Win7 running in a virtual box. I've yet to find a problem... I run my Openoffice Impress slideshows on our projector and advance the slides with my mobile phone. I dunno, it "just works". Blows people at work away when I'm 500x as productive as they are. Sometimes I show them some 3D games like Nexuiz or OpenArena and they can't seem to believe I can run all that on a crappy Intel GMA 965 with shared memory and only 1GHz dual processors.
I currently use TexMacs with Maxima. It's like Mathematica with macro support. Just read all the docs and make your own macros. You'll be typing integrals with one key-stroke.
The point is that we don't need fossil fuels. The algae gas can be used to power a "hybrid" engine and the electricity and gas can come from renewable sources while removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Thus eliminating the problem of global warming once and for all!
It's more Unix-like than Ubuntu. I presume this means the directories follow a unix naming convention, shell commands are like the old unix ones, etc. It's great if you're trying to learn Unix, solaris, BSD, etc. If you want to add something to your startup files it would be in in a run control script and you'd need to know all the run levels to find the right one plus you'd need to know shell scripting to add it. One thing you'll notice is lagging support for proprietary hardware(think wifi, bluetooth, SD Card Reader), less packages than Ubuntu, less things work out-of-the-box.
I agree. The language is quite easy to pick up from a text or class. What takes a long time is learning libraries and tool-chains. You should only take Python, Java, or C++ and then learn the others on your own as needed. Instead, focus your time on learning an IDE and some libraries like OpenGL or whatever is the main library for what you want to do when you grow up. hehe
Sounds like pretty crappy code. You'd think a "major US Tech Company" would be able to sync a database efficiently. Are you sure you're not just buying your own PR FUD? Every day I get recruiters telling me "Opening at a Major US Tech Company" and it turns out to be some no-name start-up trying to sell ring-tones or other such useless vapor-ware. I think IBM would be major, Sun, MS, etc. I doubt if Robert Half Consulting or Volt Technical or Manpower Staffing qualifies.
BTW, 1200 lines of code and 10 classes in a single source file is pretty common industry practice for large projects. Obviously, 10 lines can be one small function due to to all the linebreaks instead of single-line statements so it might actually just be 120 lines of code...
I'm a math teacher and what he's saying is completely true. Feedback from a student, like this, is critical to teachers. I completely agree with his ideas about internalizing math and bringing out the artistic side in people. More importantly, he gives us a clue to what and how the learner experiences modern math in a real-world context. I feel his frustration, as do many other teachers, with the standard curriculum of math and the teaching methodologies which have become common in schools. Why can't we paint in painting class? This has the connotation that students are asking: Why can't we calculate in math class? But it's true! My students are always asking why we do things this way or that, why we don't just do math like the world suggests... Instead, we are trapped inside of a regimental rigmarole of successive problem-solving skills which are never expressed in the real world until it's too late! Tomorrow dawns a new era for mathematics teaching(at least at my school).
I've looked at several MSCS degrees and they are pretty weak. I taught myself 70% of the Stanford MSCS curriculum in my basement or on-the-job and the other 30% I learned in math class. Unless you can get into a top school(Carnegie Mellon, MIT) and arrange post-grad work in advance, a Master's is a waste of time/money.
The next rung is a System Administrator. You'll need to learn a few additional OS's and a bunch of gnarly hardware. Following that, go into either Dev(programming), Sys Engr(hardware), or DB(data).
After you've spent 15 years of your life working your way up the ladder, your job will be outsourced to the slums of East Beijing and the best you can hope for at that point is to start a new career in another field. Good luck!
Your MS degree won't mean squat because they are easily faked(or bought) in places like India, Phillipines, Vietnam, China, etc.
Get out while you can. IT is going to hell in a handbasket fast. Your master's and Bachelors degrees won't mean squat when they can outsource your job to someone in India with a fake degree for 1/10th the cost. It's a race to the bottom and I don't know why anyone would try to make a career in such a pathetic, cutt-throat industry. All these people who say all this crap about hiring are full of it. They always say "Well if you can code you can get a job" but they don't even define a good coder nor would they know one if they saw one. If you really want to work in IT, just lie your ass off, use a fake degree, take the money, and run. Soon you'll have an impressive resume with big name companies on it and you can sit on slashdot and brag about how you're a real hard-core coder...
Healthcare providers != Insurance companies. You need electronic records to minimize labor and materials. We also need to get rid of for-profit insurance, doctors, pharmacies, and hospitals. I have no problem paying into an insurance pool, but when 30% is taken out for profit to some rich people, it really chaps my ass.
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I use OOo Spreadsheet for everything excel can do... Perhaps you're using the wrong program for your tasks?
Well I can do it because I don't have to pay $50million in bonuses to worthless CEOs. FOr that money, I'll just hire 50 google employees for a year.
Seriously, and I'll bring a bunch of my friends. We can do it for $250 million.
Ubuttu Ladyboy Remix works fine for me on 2 laptops with no probs. Oh wait, I had to reset the machines after install finished cause I was running the beta installer...
I've got 2 laptops running it just fine. Got winXP and Win7 running in a virtual box. I've yet to find a problem... I run my Openoffice Impress slideshows on our projector and advance the slides with my mobile phone. I dunno, it "just works". Blows people at work away when I'm 500x as productive as they are. Sometimes I show them some 3D games like Nexuiz or OpenArena and they can't seem to believe I can run all that on a crappy Intel GMA 965 with shared memory and only 1GHz dual processors.
I currently use TexMacs with Maxima. It's like Mathematica with macro support. Just read all the docs and make your own macros. You'll be typing integrals with one key-stroke.
Remember NASA Tech Briefs? That was the bomb before /.
No they didn't. Linux blows MS out of the water in terms of users, groups, and network resources.
ICal, IMAP, WebDAV... Blows exchange out of the water, IMHO. Feckin Tards in IT these days.
Umm, LDAP is Active Directory.
The point is that we don't need fossil fuels. The algae gas can be used to power a "hybrid" engine and the electricity and gas can come from renewable sources while removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Thus eliminating the problem of global warming once and for all!
It's more Unix-like than Ubuntu. I presume this means the directories follow a unix naming convention, shell commands are like the old unix ones, etc. It's great if you're trying to learn Unix, solaris, BSD, etc. If you want to add something to your startup files it would be in in a run control script and you'd need to know all the run levels to find the right one plus you'd need to know shell scripting to add it. One thing you'll notice is lagging support for proprietary hardware(think wifi, bluetooth, SD Card Reader), less packages than Ubuntu, less things work out-of-the-box.
Service Level Agreements... Works for all sectors.
I agree. The language is quite easy to pick up from a text or class. What takes a long time is learning libraries and tool-chains. You should only take Python, Java, or C++ and then learn the others on your own as needed. Instead, focus your time on learning an IDE and some libraries like OpenGL or whatever is the main library for what you want to do when you grow up. hehe
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Actually wind comes from heat energy, so it would effectively cancel or reverse the global warming effect of increased wind/storms...
Sounds like pretty crappy code. You'd think a "major US Tech Company" would be able to sync a database efficiently. Are you sure you're not just buying your own PR FUD? Every day I get recruiters telling me "Opening at a Major US Tech Company" and it turns out to be some no-name start-up trying to sell ring-tones or other such useless vapor-ware. I think IBM would be major, Sun, MS, etc. I doubt if Robert Half Consulting or Volt Technical or Manpower Staffing qualifies.
BTW, 1200 lines of code and 10 classes in a single source file is pretty common industry practice for large projects. Obviously, 10 lines can be one small function due to to all the linebreaks instead of single-line statements so it might actually just be 120 lines of code...
Good US coders don't apply for your crapola jobs. We go on to new careers or start our own businesses.
Find x: 25=3-x -Here it is!
I'm a math teacher and what he's saying is completely true. Feedback from a student, like this, is critical to teachers. I completely agree with his ideas about internalizing math and bringing out the artistic side in people. More importantly, he gives us a clue to what and how the learner experiences modern math in a real-world context. I feel his frustration, as do many other teachers, with the standard curriculum of math and the teaching methodologies which have become common in schools. Why can't we paint in painting class? This has the connotation that students are asking: Why can't we calculate in math class? But it's true! My students are always asking why we do things this way or that, why we don't just do math like the world suggests... Instead, we are trapped inside of a regimental rigmarole of successive problem-solving skills which are never expressed in the real world until it's too late! Tomorrow dawns a new era for mathematics teaching(at least at my school).
I've looked at several MSCS degrees and they are pretty weak. I taught myself 70% of the Stanford MSCS curriculum in my basement or on-the-job and the other 30% I learned in math class. Unless you can get into a top school(Carnegie Mellon, MIT) and arrange post-grad work in advance, a Master's is a waste of time/money.
The next rung is a System Administrator. You'll need to learn a few additional OS's and a bunch of gnarly hardware. Following that, go into either Dev(programming), Sys Engr(hardware), or DB(data). After you've spent 15 years of your life working your way up the ladder, your job will be outsourced to the slums of East Beijing and the best you can hope for at that point is to start a new career in another field. Good luck! Your MS degree won't mean squat because they are easily faked(or bought) in places like India, Phillipines, Vietnam, China, etc.
I'll do it for $30 million!!
Get out while you can. IT is going to hell in a handbasket fast. Your master's and Bachelors degrees won't mean squat when they can outsource your job to someone in India with a fake degree for 1/10th the cost. It's a race to the bottom and I don't know why anyone would try to make a career in such a pathetic, cutt-throat industry. All these people who say all this crap about hiring are full of it. They always say "Well if you can code you can get a job" but they don't even define a good coder nor would they know one if they saw one. If you really want to work in IT, just lie your ass off, use a fake degree, take the money, and run. Soon you'll have an impressive resume with big name companies on it and you can sit on slashdot and brag about how you're a real hard-core coder...
Healthcare providers != Insurance companies. You need electronic records to minimize labor and materials. We also need to get rid of for-profit insurance, doctors, pharmacies, and hospitals. I have no problem paying into an insurance pool, but when 30% is taken out for profit to some rich people, it really chaps my ass.