I, too, dropped out after two years of college to take a computer job. Luckily it wasn't for a dot-com, so I still have it.
After two years of college, I felt like I really hadn't gotten anything out of it. On top of that, I hated college. I can not express enough how unhappy I was there. From things like getting a C in programming class for poor attendance even though I aced every quiz and test, to the asinine rhetoric most college students are filled with, I hated it. Why spend an entire school term learning what you could learn in two weeks on your own with a book?
Example: In an introductory unix class, which, like other classes, I was not allowed to skip or challenge, the professor showed us X, using the fvwm window manager, which he said "Makes it look sort of like Windows."
One enterprising young student in the front row raised his hand, and said "I think you mean fvwm95, which tries to emulate the Windows95 appearance, whereas this is regular fvwm blah blah blah" SHUT THE FUCK UP, THE PROFESSOR KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE.
Engineering classes are full of horrible people like this. Eager to show off how much they know, possibly in the hopes that the professor will be impressed and say "Well, administering the HPUX systems is usually reserved for the grad students, but I think you're ready early..." and then he can brag to all his little pals at the next LUG meeting or something.
The downside is that once you get out into the real world and look for a job, most places are not going to take you that seriously if you don't have a degree. If you get an interview, and the interviewer happens to be a techie himself, and he can quiz you on your knowledge, then you're in luck. But in most cases, it's just some know-nothing with an MBA who has know way of verifying whether or not you actually know your stuff. All he has to go on is whether or not you have a degree.
For some reason, these people have not yet figured out that having a degree doesn't actually mean anything. I've met people with computer science degrees who don't know how to change the IP address on a windows system. I've met people who have four-year programming degrees who can't code with shit in Visual BASIC.
What it all comes down to is: If you know what you want to do and you can learn it on your own and you don't like being surrounded by your asinine peers, college is going to be a nightmare hell ride. But if you want to get a job, your chances are greatly increased by having a degree.
Maybe one day, this would allow the poor poor vegetarians out there who choose their diet based on moral objections to killing animals able to eat a big juicy steak. Now those smug bastards won't be around longer than us when we all keel over from cardiac arrest at age 55.
Just imagine giant cubes of laboratory-grown chicken meat, sliced into perfect cubes by machines and then battered and fried. Chicken McNuggets are abandoned in favor of Chicken McCubes. If they were cubes, the fast food industry could make packaging for them to fit perfectly in.
"We need the packages to hold 10 cubic inches of smeat."
But what about the java? The java support on Oracle is pretty damn nice, and damn it, I don't think it's "crazy" to expect the same kind Oracle-quality from mysql...
On that second screenshot..
The date is 8/9/91. Netware 3.11 was released in March of 91. How could it have been up for six years? Was it possible to upgrade Netware without rebooting?
It's about time someone actually told Slashdot to look into things before they post them, instead of just putting up any story that anyone and their brother sends in.
And while I'm on the subject, I hate when Slashdot says they've "covered" a story, when all they do is paste a URL to a real news agency's -- that does reporting and EDITING -- coverage of something.
Does this Furby hack include the ability to equip them with firearms?
I'd like a Furby with a high-voltage taser attachment and the ability to fire lasers out its eyes.. and hell, while I'm at it, I'd like it to breathe fire. Be a surprise for the first person that tries to tickle its tummy.
"On October 5th we put out a call for questions about the FBI's Carnivore boxen that we could..."
I can not tell you how much it makes me want to kill when people say "boxen."
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I, too, dropped out after two years of college to take a computer job. Luckily it wasn't for a dot-com, so I still have it.
After two years of college, I felt like I really hadn't gotten anything out of it. On top of that, I hated college. I can not express enough how unhappy I was there. From things like getting a C in programming class for poor attendance even though I aced every quiz and test, to the asinine rhetoric most college students are filled with, I hated it. Why spend an entire school term learning what you could learn in two weeks on your own with a book?
Example: In an introductory unix class, which, like other classes, I was not allowed to skip or challenge, the professor showed us X, using the fvwm window manager, which he said "Makes it look sort of like Windows."
One enterprising young student in the front row raised his hand, and said "I think you mean fvwm95, which tries to emulate the Windows95 appearance, whereas this is regular fvwm blah blah blah" SHUT THE FUCK UP, THE PROFESSOR KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE.
Engineering classes are full of horrible people like this. Eager to show off how much they know, possibly in the hopes that the professor will be impressed and say "Well, administering the HPUX systems is usually reserved for the grad students, but I think you're ready early..." and then he can brag to all his little pals at the next LUG meeting or something.
The downside is that once you get out into the real world and look for a job, most places are not going to take you that seriously if you don't have a degree. If you get an interview, and the interviewer happens to be a techie himself, and he can quiz you on your knowledge, then you're in luck. But in most cases, it's just some know-nothing with an MBA who has know way of verifying whether or not you actually know your stuff. All he has to go on is whether or not you have a degree.
For some reason, these people have not yet figured out that having a degree doesn't actually mean anything. I've met people with computer science degrees who don't know how to change the IP address on a windows system. I've met people who have four-year programming degrees who can't code with shit in Visual BASIC.
What it all comes down to is: If you know what you want to do and you can learn it on your own and you don't like being surrounded by your asinine peers, college is going to be a nightmare hell ride. But if you want to get a job, your chances are greatly increased by having a degree.
Actually, criminals arrested for cannibalism have said that human tastes like pork.
If they could laboratory grow it, I'd try human flesh. I'd eat anything if it was honey barbecued.
Maybe one day, this would allow the poor poor vegetarians out there who choose their diet based on moral objections to killing animals able to eat a big juicy steak. Now those smug bastards won't be around longer than us when we all keel over from cardiac arrest at age 55.
Just imagine giant cubes of laboratory-grown chicken meat, sliced into perfect cubes by machines and then battered and fried. Chicken McNuggets are abandoned in favor of Chicken McCubes. If they were cubes, the fast food industry could make packaging for them to fit perfectly in.
"We need the packages to hold 10 cubic inches of smeat."
But what about the java? The java support on Oracle is pretty damn nice, and damn it, I don't think it's "crazy" to expect the same kind Oracle-quality from mysql...
TEH SEANS@!!@!@
On that second screenshot..
The date is 8/9/91. Netware 3.11 was released in March of 91. How could it have been up for six years? Was it possible to upgrade Netware without rebooting?
http://www.pcquest.com/dec99/novelnetware.asp
I think this is a great idea, especially for things like aircraft components.
"Any 24 year old who occasionally watches MTV and doesn't need zit cream knows this."
Yeah right.. anyone who's still watching MTV at 24 years old doesn't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
Don't take the name of my favorite Peurto Rican Jew in vain.
Sweet Jesus! A Slashdot editor actually called to confirm a story!
Is where I put my resume and got a swell job doing exactly what you're looking for... PHP, SQL, and Apache.
If I send so many hits his way, I get free immortaility rings.
Thanks for the link. I'll remember you in the year 4000...
Ooh, well if it's from the Jargon File then it must not be totally asinine... good point man.
It's about time someone actually told Slashdot to look into things before they post them, instead of just putting up any story that anyone and their brother sends in.
And while I'm on the subject, I hate when Slashdot says they've "covered" a story, when all they do is paste a URL to a real news agency's -- that does reporting and EDITING -- coverage of something.
Does this Furby hack include the ability to equip them with firearms? I'd like a Furby with a high-voltage taser attachment and the ability to fire lasers out its eyes.. and hell, while I'm at it, I'd like it to breathe fire. Be a surprise for the first person that tries to tickle its tummy.
This was on slashdot like two years ago, when it was AT&T pushing it instead of this LizardTech place that apparently picked it up.
This is such a troll. It pushes all the perfect buttons for slashdot.
Insults open source
Mentions slashdot and sourceforge
Insults RMS and ESR
CueCat
DVD on linux.
How can one consider slashdot to be a journal when all they do is post links to news on OTHER sites?
i mean, they do more, but that's primarily what they do.
yeah, I don't like anime. I must hate the Japanese.
I also don't like Italian food. I must hate Italians too.
Your logic is infallible.
MP3.com is the worst. I hate those bastards. They won't let you unsubscribe from their spam-list without deleting your account with them.
I hate them.
I want "dot" and "dash" TLDs, enabling clever morse-code domains.
i.e. dash.dotdashdot.dot or dot.dashdot.dash
Lieberman, Gore, Cheney or Bush.
I just made a liar out of Timothy.
i'll bet them li'l guys are real itchy
Wasn't the fist Happy Fun Ball pioneered at Berkeley as well?
Now if they can only do something about carpenter's crack (also applicable to plumbers).
I swear, I've gone through so many quarters that way.
"On October 5th we put out a call for questions about the FBI's Carnivore boxen that we could..." I can not tell you how much it makes me want to kill when people say "boxen."