Are there any screenshots somewhere? I looked at the site, but it's down at the moment and those few pages I saw did not indicate that they have screenshots...
I don't get my degree to make more money. I enjoy what I do at University.
But the point is that I equally enjoy working in the business already and as I see by other fellow ex-students' examples, you can work in the biz without the degree.
That makes one wonder - do I really have to stay at university for two more semesters or should I just go ahead right now. That's what my original question was about.
"I didn't mean to be derogatory with the not sure where you're from because I've heard that in Germany they care a whole lot more about your education and even after 20 years in the workforce you'll still be asked what your education is."
One of the first things that came up when searching for the iWin CEO name on the net was this: http://kleinbus.org/~zza/iwin/iwin-eng. html It's an interesting list of strange facts about iWin.
I study in Germany, where things are quite different.
1.) students study a lot(!) longer, yet do a lot more of jobbing while at university (hence study longer)
and 2.) the bachelor's degree is something that is completely new here. Until very recently, everyone either made a master's degree or dropped out before making it. Only few universitys offer a bachelor's degree and many faculties are sceptical about such a "half a master's degree".
Here at Hamburg University, they introduced a bc just to find out if it is being accepted by students and the industry, also as a way to honor those who did most of their studying yet decide to leave university.
I myself already qualify for a bachelor's degree and may even go and get myself the paperwork just for the fun of it (despite continuing on my master's degree).
This page is very very fuzzy, where's the meat (or a trial download)?
Well, there are two blurry screenshots and they do look suspicious. One of them appears to be a Win98 screenshot, the other one looks like Windowmaker to me (though I am not that much of an expert on Window Managers).
Honest question to everyone: Is a degree necessairy in the business today?
I myself study and hope to have my master's degree "real soon", but different companies suggested to me to quit studying and start working already.
Of course, I don't want to quit when I am almost done, all those semesters I have done so far would instantly be wasted if I stop studying when it only takes a little bit of additional time to have the degree.
Then again, I meet former university students who started studying with me. They quit, some of them years ago, now run their own company (or work in high profile jobs) and it doesn't really seem to be a problem for them that they don't have a degree.
He's a German screen designer who actually knows what he's doing. He got the German art directors' award for his work and has done some of the more prominent web sites in Germany.
Quote: "CyberLegs provides a comfortable and healthy keyboard height and angle."
This text appears on the cyberlegs site below the image of a woman who certainly does not look like she sits comfortable and that laptop surely does not seem to be in a healthy height and angle. This looks almost as strange as those ever-happy infomercials where people get excited about the smallest strange product...
On the other hand, working with a computer while standing is indeed a good idea. I do that from time to time at an office where I work as a freelancer and now I consider buying a taller table for my home office, too.
Uhm, sorry for the blatant self-promotion, but if you want to know how political speeches are being written today, go visit the Phrasemonger. Thank you.
PHP, ASP, Embperl all are different variations of the same idea. One major factor why people PHP so much - it is damn easy to install, while Embperl/mod_perl requires quite a bit of more knowledge.
Not that I personally think that Embperl itself is worse than PHP. It's just the installation that makes PHP so much easier to start with.
And I checked the European Linuxberg/Tucows mirrors and they don't carry the image file, in fact, the two German universities' backbone Linuxberg mirrors don't seem to carry any files, only the file list.
Years ago back in high school, I wrote a "virus" that basically just copied a short segment of source code to GW-Basic programs it found on the hard disk - yes, GW-Basic, that old thing for DOS 2.11 that existed before Visual Basic and Turbo Basic were known.
It didn't do any harm, it didn't "infect" EXE files and I did it just to find out if it was possible and what writing a virus is like.
Scary thing though that this simple program (just a few lines of code), despite being harmless and doing its task clearly seen in the open light (is that an English phrase, anyway) followed all the requirements to be called a virus. Today's macro viruses actually do exactly the same thing.
While I never spread "my virus", it was an interesting experience. From a pathetic viewpoint, those virus writers could be called seduced by the dark side of the force; being among crackers, script kiddies and other menaces to IT society must be like being in a street gang. They have their own set of values of what is "cool" and what gives you "respect" among the peers.
It sure would be nicer if those talented hackers (which they often are) would use their talent for something useful and write "good" software to gain a kind of respect that's actually worth gaining...
To answer your other question, I doubt that MS itself is the target. A virus must find a common platform as a host to spread itself, and Microsoft software, both Dos/Windows operating systems and Office/Outlook application software, are commonplace. This makes an obvious target.
...for following the other distributors' example and putting a free (this time free as in free beer) version of their Linux distribution online for download. I'll try it out as soon as I see a mirror within the German universities' backbone.
Yes, it took two days installing, in the end it worked, but nobody knew it did and nobody knew why it didn't before. It was a specialized Compaq server (rack mounted) that was more or less constructed to run NT and the person installing NT was a senior technician who had years of NT experience; not a moron as you suggest.
It just didn't work. Sure, this is just an anecdote and has no general value when judging on NT, but nevertheless, it happened...
Btw, there was another project that a friend of mine did for a major German web company, it also was a "one platform policy" deal and two Microsoft employees were transferred to his technical team just to help them installing IIS. Nevertheless, even the Microsoft experts were not able to install some basic features that he knew exist in Unix platforms... Just another anecdote.
Could you slashdot guys please make a panel about this topic?
Ask the team of legal experts that are to write about the Microsoft trial if they'd be willing to answer questions about patent follies, too.
Anyway, are there any initiatives in the US to make this patent game a thing of the past? Is there anyone who still thinks that these patents have any use whatsoever?
Slashdot Mirror
Are there any screenshots somewhere? I looked at the site, but it's down at the moment and those few pages I saw did not indicate that they have screenshots...
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Same question here. Is it possible to scratch an MP3?
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Is there any word about the performance of the game?
I mean, is the Intel Linux version better than the Windows version running on the same machine or not?
Is the Linux PPC version (if it exists, I have been ignorant about this so far) better than the MacOS version running on the same machine or not?
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I don't get my degree to make more money. I enjoy what I do at University.
But the point is that I equally enjoy working in the business already and as I see by other fellow ex-students' examples, you can work in the biz without the degree.
That makes one wonder - do I really have to stay at university for two more semesters or should I just go ahead right now. That's what my original question was about.
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It's interesting that China's interest in such activities (if real or invented hype) is portrayed as something bad, evil and dangerous to America.
I am sure that the US has its own info-war corps at training right now and they will use the very same methods for the sake of western civilization.
Funny that other nations' troops are always the evil guys, despite using the same actions, tactics and weapons during war.
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Linus Torvaldx?
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How about the best compressed Linux distribution?
"Yes, we have invented verygzip, the new infinite compression algortihm. Full Mandrake install from one 5,25 inch 360 kb floppy disk."
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"I didn't mean to be derogatory with the not sure where you're from because I've heard that in Germany they care a whole lot more about your education and even after 20 years in the workforce you'll still be asked what your education is."
This is true, to a certain degree.
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One of the first things that came up when searching for the iWin CEO name on the net was this: http://kleinbus.org/~zza/iwin/iwin-eng. html It's an interesting list of strange facts about iWin.
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I study in Germany, where things are quite different.
1.) students study a lot(!) longer, yet do a lot more of jobbing while at university (hence study longer)
and 2.) the bachelor's degree is something that is completely new here. Until very recently, everyone either made a master's degree or dropped out before making it. Only few universitys offer a bachelor's degree and many faculties are sceptical about such a "half a master's degree".
Here at Hamburg University, they introduced a bc just to find out if it is being accepted by students and the industry, also as a way to honor those who did most of their studying yet decide to leave university.
I myself already qualify for a bachelor's degree and may even go and get myself the paperwork just for the fun of it (despite continuing on my master's degree).
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> It would be stupid to create another
> distro to do the exact same job of
> another one already much more accepted.
A Linux distribution that includes a full system-level emulation of the old Amiga (so that you can run your old software) would make sense.
Nevertheless, I also doubt that iWin is for real.
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Someone registered it, tried to milk the copyright and then experienced the fury of the community. Finally, he donated it to Linus.
See http://www.linuxmall.com/news/ announce/lxtm.001.html for a bit of legal speak about the story.
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This page is very very fuzzy, where's the meat (or a trial download)?
Well, there are two blurry screenshots and they do look suspicious. One of them appears to be a Win98 screenshot, the other one looks like Windowmaker to me (though I am not that much of an expert on Window Managers).
Hmm.
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Honest question to everyone: Is a degree necessairy in the business today?
I myself study and hope to have my master's degree "real soon", but different companies suggested to me to quit studying and start working already.
Of course, I don't want to quit when I am almost done, all those semesters I have done so far would instantly be wasted if I stop studying when it only takes a little bit of additional time to have the degree.
Then again, I meet former university students who started studying with me. They quit, some of them years ago, now run their own company (or work in high profile jobs) and it doesn't really seem to be a problem for them that they don't have a degree.
So what's the opinion?
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> Are there any design agencies who actually
> 'get' the internet?
Allow me to advertise a friend of mine: Manfred Spiller.
He's a German screen designer who actually knows what he's doing. He got the German art directors' award for his work and has done some of the more prominent web sites in Germany.
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Quote: "CyberLegs provides a comfortable and healthy keyboard height and angle."
This text appears on the cyberlegs site below the image of a woman who certainly does not look like she sits comfortable and that laptop surely does not seem to be in a healthy height and angle. This looks almost as strange as those ever-happy infomercials where people get excited about the smallest strange product...
On the other hand, working with a computer while standing is indeed a good idea. I do that from time to time at an office where I work as a freelancer and now I consider buying a taller table for my home office, too.
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Uhm, sorry for the blatant self-promotion, but if you want to know how political speeches are being written today, go visit the Phrasemonger. Thank you.
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PHP, ASP, Embperl all are different variations of the same idea. One major factor why people PHP so much - it is damn easy to install, while Embperl/mod_perl requires quite a bit of more knowledge.
Not that I personally think that Embperl itself is worse than PHP. It's just the installation that makes PHP so much easier to start with.
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And I checked the European Linuxberg/Tucows mirrors and they don't carry the image file, in fact, the two German universities' backbone Linuxberg mirrors don't seem to carry any files, only the file list.
:-(
See my point?
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"Fighting fire with fire - burning down the house."
(Think of Tom Jones)
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Years ago back in high school, I wrote a "virus" that basically just copied a short segment of source code to GW-Basic programs it found on the hard disk - yes, GW-Basic, that old thing for DOS 2.11 that existed before Visual Basic and Turbo Basic were known.
It didn't do any harm, it didn't "infect" EXE files and I did it just to find out if it was possible and what writing a virus is like.
Scary thing though that this simple program (just a few lines of code), despite being harmless and doing its task clearly seen in the open light (is that an English phrase, anyway) followed all the requirements to be called a virus. Today's macro viruses actually do exactly the same thing.
While I never spread "my virus", it was an interesting experience. From a pathetic viewpoint, those virus writers could be called seduced by the dark side of the force; being among crackers, script kiddies and other menaces to IT society must be like being in a street gang. They have their own set of values of what is "cool" and what gives you "respect" among the peers.
It sure would be nicer if those talented hackers (which they often are) would use their talent for something useful and write "good" software to gain a kind of respect that's actually worth gaining...
To answer your other question, I doubt that MS itself is the target. A virus must find a common platform as a host to spread itself, and Microsoft software, both Dos/Windows operating systems and Office/Outlook application software, are commonplace. This makes an obvious target.
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Thanks but...
CNET: One ftp site so far.
Tucows: One ftp site so far.
Well...
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...for following the other distributors' example and putting a free (this time free as in free beer) version of their Linux distribution online for download. I'll try it out as soon as I see a mirror within the German universities' backbone.
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Yes, it took two days installing, in the end it worked, but nobody knew it did and nobody knew why it didn't before. It was a specialized Compaq server (rack mounted) that was more or less constructed to run NT and the person installing NT was a senior technician who had years of NT experience; not a moron as you suggest.
It just didn't work. Sure, this is just an anecdote and has no general value when judging on NT, but nevertheless, it happened...
Btw, there was another project that a friend of mine did for a major German web company, it also was a "one platform policy" deal and two Microsoft employees were transferred to his technical team just to help them installing IIS. Nevertheless, even the Microsoft experts were not able to install some basic features that he knew exist in Unix platforms... Just another anecdote.
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Could you slashdot guys please make a panel about this topic?
Ask the team of legal experts that are to write about the Microsoft trial if they'd be willing to answer questions about patent follies, too.
Anyway, are there any initiatives in the US to make this patent game a thing of the past? Is there anyone who still thinks that these patents have any use whatsoever?
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