I hate to break it to you, but universities are not supposed to be places for vocational learning. Anyone with the intellectual capacity to be enrolled at a 4 year institution should be able to pick up the skills necessary to operate the aforementioned software on their own.
I don't have a problem with a class period or two being devoted to the basic operation of the software, but it should never be the basis for actual school credit in an accredited curriculum.
One of the problems Ubuntu has from a selling standpoint is that Gnome's look, even with the Ubuntu customized settings, look like a dull hodgepodge ripoff of Windows XP and OS X Panther.
If you can't get people to use your distro because it looks like it's way past its prime, then it doesn't matter how useable it actually is. People need to see past ideology and make something that looks like what people are likely to want to use.
So, your claim to maturity and attention to detail is that you work at a low paying job and live with mommy and daddy? Back up, folks, and let the expert speak so that he may enlighten us with his views on wealth redistribution!
The secret societies of politically biased internet kooks will tear that site apart.
Unless the entire point of the site was to get all these idiots to continue to drive up the number of page views (and ad revenue) as they try to spam the ratings mechanism, then it's going to be fairly worthless in the long run.
That's because his job takes more skill and expertise than yours does. A college degree is not the be-all and end-all when it comes to being awarded compensation.
This is like going to McDonald's and bitching at the drive thru attendant for the amount of fat and calories in their food.
Not only is it not productive in any conceivable manner, but the public at large will look at them as a bunch of kooky assholes who deserve to be ignored. Which is largely true.
One of the things I learned over the course of designing and developing commercial websites is that pure black letters on a pure white background are hard on the eyes. Now, I prefer to set my editor to an eggshell white background and a very dark grey foreground. For colored syntax, I find the darkest color for each group, and then lighten it just a bit. The result is an editor that is very easy on the eyes.
Another thing I'll do is limit myself to 3 hours of programming at a time. After that, it's time to take the eyes off the CRT, leave the fluorescent lamps, and go outside for a few minutes (or, if I'm in the mood for a stogie, an hour), just to have my eyes readjust.
At least you had hands. If we could afford dreams we would have dreamt of having hands. We had to carry the sand in our orifices. Do you know how uncomfortable it is to carry 20 pounds of wet sand in your bowels? We would, if we could afford knowledge.
Scraping your dumb ass off the pavement after you wipe out doing 85 on your manhood compensation device because you tried to cut in between two cars on the interstate requires resources that we all pay for. So is the insurance burden, and/or the social security you'll draw for the rest of your life as you sip your gruel through a straw while the nurse changes your diaper.
There is an enormous glut of Windows based freeware out there specifically tailored to the needs of children, many of which go above and beyond any Linux based edutainment package (and WAY more kid friendly). You're just angry because Microsoft is better at selling their software than you are at proseletyzing your bullshit.
You, also, should go seek mental help, since you're obviously a paranoid shut-in hoping to waste your words of delusion in the hopes of gaining karma.
How dare you allow your daughter to live and declare your willingness to deny humanity the right to induldge in sweet, creamy and/or crunchy peanut buttery goodness?
Reese's peanut butter eggs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your kid
Google is one of the biggest culprits in the utter destruction of the highest traffic Usenet discussion newsgroups. The volume of spam that comes from those servers is ridiculous, not to mention all the former AOL idiots that were the scourge of the groups.
This is where all the posers gather to trade their favorite Che Guevera anecdotes and act like they're qualified to have a position on shit that is completely and utterly over their heads. Out of 1000 posts, there might be ONE with any shred of factual information or intellectual thought.
And that one post? It's always MINE!
Go ahead, ask any clown on here how far away Linux is from being widely accepted as a desktop OS.
Here's the answer: 5 years. There, I saved you the trouble.
But you know how long it was supposed to be 10 years ago?
5 years.
And when you ask why, they'll get on their high horses and start preaching to you about freedom and liberation theology and longing for the loins of RMS. They're like a bunch of fucking Jehovah's Witnesses with laptops and bluetooth headsets.
Don't get me wrong, the Mac groupies are annoying too, but at least they have personal hygiene standards and do ACTUAL WORK with their machines. Meanwhile, the Slashdot Linux Zombies are mesmerized by their spinning cube desktops and their ability to login to their own machines as root. 3 years ago, they had to settle for baghira.
Because when a computer is all you got, you might as well have dominion over all. Of it.
Hey, at least there's nethack. That's gotta count for something.
Other countries are more politically active and have more than 2 political parties. In America, you're either for the Republicans or for the Democrats and whichever side you're on, you're convinced that the other is evil and out to destroy your rights.
Of course, that makes you only partially right. In reality, both parties are evil and want to destroy your rights, so in the end, you're only supporting the evil bastard who has the best campaign manager.
And click on the Eclipse Plugin tab and download the plugin.
Then open Eclipse, go to the workbench, and in the menu, do Help > Software Updates > Find and Install, then choose to Search for New Features to Install, then choose install from archive and point it at the plugin you just downloaded. It will tell you it needs to restart afterward.
Now you have a functional IDE, and you can use Window > Show View > Other to choose whatever panels you want to have open in your workspace. I mix and match Aptana and PDT.
Last but not least, you need the Zend Debugger. Do Help > Software Updates > Find and Install, then do Help > Software Updates > Find and Install, then choose to Search for New Features to Install, then choose New Remote Site. For Name, put Zend Debugger, and for URL, put http://downloads.zend.com/pdt. Make sure that site is checked in the list, then click Finish and it will search for your debugger. Find it, install it, then do go here:
Oh, really? Sworn to never run core business components on a Microsoft platform? I doubt there are very many companies out there like that of the appreciable size necessary to run and get benefits out of running SAP. If Microsoft turns out to have the best platform for what you need to run, then you run a Microsoft platform.
What's more interesting is what happens to SAP's consultancy if Microsoft were to take over. There is a large percentage of SAP employees out there already who are less than enamored at all the cuts to their benefits and pay that they've had to endure since the tech boom. I know one woman who worked on the HR module who was getting billed out at 1300 dollars an hour. Another fellow who was pretty much the lead on developing the module left the tech world altogether to become a chef.
... because the movies coming out are generally either of poor quality or are so niche oriented that most people would rather not watch them. Also, with DVDs and on demand television, people are more apt to wait for the movie to come to them via Netflix or their cable company than go out to wait in line, pay for overpriced concessions, and sit in a seat that may or may not be horrible.
And that's just part of it. The movie-going generation generally skews young, but young people have other things to distract them, including the web and its social networks. Also, before you could perhaps rely on word of mouth from one person and maybe a newspaper rating of a movie before making a decision to go see it. Now you can get hundreds of opinions instantly.
People still go out to see great movies. They just won't put up with crap as much as they used to.
You have obviously never been a successful recruiter.
Any job that requires anything more than proof that you went to school after you've been out of it for more than 2 years is a job not worth interviewing for. The only thing that matters is practical experience. If candidate A has a 4.0 GPA in computer science and no experience and candidate B has a 2.8 in computer science and 2 years of practical experience in the workplace, candidate B wins every f'n time in any environment where common sense counts. No amount of sitting in a classroom and doing little assignments can possibly compare to developing applications in a real world environment. Even if candidate B is only average, he's still going to beat the shit out of candidate A in terms of productivity and getting up to speed for at least a year, and when you're hiring kids out of college, a year or two is really all you can expect to keep them for.
You can say whatever you want about the TINY, TINY percentage of females in comics who have died over the years, but Jason Todd was VOTED TO DIE BY THE FANS, and nobody gave it a thought, because men are supposed to die.
The percentage of men in comics who are killed, maimed, depowered, and disfigured DWARFS the female characters both in percentage and number.
Hell, the ORIGINAL Superman was beaten to death. His wife just passed away naturally. Chalk up old Lois to the list, I guess. And it isn't important the way that Kara Zor-El died, only that she did. Who gives a shit about heroism when you can have kvetching instead?
Batman and Superman couldn't BE Batman and Superman without being alive or being able to walk. It's kind of a prerequesite to the job, and they obviously aren't going to have anything major happen to them since they support so many books. Hyppolyta didn't stay dead. And Barbara Gordon is a more important character now as Oracle than she ever was as Batgirl... and the reason she isn't walking right now is because she CHOSE not to, in a story that Gail wrote.
The entire line of thinking is fucking stupid. Most of the main characters in comics are men, because men are the people who buy the majority of comics. If you want to build up conflict, you can do it a number of ways, but when you want to build up a tragedy for a character, it's going to come in the form of hurt to someone that character cares about, and MOST of them are heterosexual men, therefore most of their love interests are going to be women.
Did it have to be Sue Dibny in Identity Crisis? Yeah, it pretty much did. Sue and Ralph have been around in comics for years, but aren't really important characters. Sue in particular had a reputation for being sweet and fun, so it made sense for her to be the target if you're going to have to kill off a non-hero character important enough to the other characters for them to all panic without directly impacting any of the other books. Likewise, Jean Loring wasn't an important character, UNTIL she killed Sue. Now, she's one of the most important characters in the DC comics universe.
But you know what? If it had been a guy killing another guy the exact same way, you wouldn't have given it a second thought. Because men are supposed to be violent and kill other men, but women are supposed to be precious. What utter bullshit.
Connected together with a switch to turn them all off. Turn off the lights and TV in any room and look around at all the nice little glowing LEDs that are shining back at you. There's no f'n reason whatsoever for those things to still be consuming electricity, yet they run 24/7 whether they are "on" or not. Want to conserve energy? Fix that first and THEN deal with smart appliances.
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I hate to break it to you, but universities are not supposed to be places for vocational learning. Anyone with the intellectual capacity to be enrolled at a 4 year institution should be able to pick up the skills necessary to operate the aforementioned software on their own.
I don't have a problem with a class period or two being devoted to the basic operation of the software, but it should never be the basis for actual school credit in an accredited curriculum.
One of the problems Ubuntu has from a selling standpoint is that Gnome's look, even with the Ubuntu customized settings, look like a dull hodgepodge ripoff of Windows XP and OS X Panther.
If you can't get people to use your distro because it looks like it's way past its prime, then it doesn't matter how useable it actually is. People need to see past ideology and make something that looks like what people are likely to want to use.
In other words, brown is bad in this instance.
Soccer is boring enough. Making it so small that you can't see it with the naked eye?
Brilliant!
Can we get Ronaldo and Beckham on the fast track to miniaturization, please?
And someone do some research on pico-curling, while you're at it!
Academia tends to align with the party that will funnel them the most grant money and won't screw with their tenure! Film at 11!
How about Mr. Adams give us some actual data which backs up their opinions instead of simply giving us some fun bite sized percentages?
So, your claim to maturity and attention to detail is that you work at a low paying job and live with mommy and daddy? Back up, folks, and let the expert speak so that he may enlighten us with his views on wealth redistribution!
The secret societies of politically biased internet kooks will tear that site apart.
Unless the entire point of the site was to get all these idiots to continue to drive up the number of page views (and ad revenue) as they try to spam the ratings mechanism, then it's going to be fairly worthless in the long run.
Yeah, like shorter work weeks, better insurance coverage, universal health care, more vacation time.
Really, people, lighten up!
That's because his job takes more skill and expertise than yours does. A college degree is not the be-all and end-all when it comes to being awarded compensation.
No. The murder happens where the body is located. You may have shot him from Mexico, but he was murdered in the US.
This is like going to McDonald's and bitching at the drive thru attendant for the amount of fat and calories in their food.
Not only is it not productive in any conceivable manner, but the public at large will look at them as a bunch of kooky assholes who deserve to be ignored. Which is largely true.
One of the things I learned over the course of designing and developing commercial websites is that pure black letters on a pure white background are hard on the eyes. Now, I prefer to set my editor to an eggshell white background and a very dark grey foreground. For colored syntax, I find the darkest color for each group, and then lighten it just a bit. The result is an editor that is very easy on the eyes.
Another thing I'll do is limit myself to 3 hours of programming at a time. After that, it's time to take the eyes off the CRT, leave the fluorescent lamps, and go outside for a few minutes (or, if I'm in the mood for a stogie, an hour), just to have my eyes readjust.
At least you had hands. If we could afford dreams we would have dreamt of having hands. We had to carry the sand in our orifices. Do you know how uncomfortable it is to carry 20 pounds of wet sand in your bowels? We would, if we could afford knowledge.
Scraping your dumb ass off the pavement after you wipe out doing 85 on your manhood compensation device because you tried to cut in between two cars on the interstate requires resources that we all pay for. So is the insurance burden, and/or the social security you'll draw for the rest of your life as you sip your gruel through a straw while the nurse changes your diaper.
There is an enormous glut of Windows based freeware out there specifically tailored to the needs of children, many of which go above and beyond any Linux based edutainment package (and WAY more kid friendly). You're just angry because Microsoft is better at selling their software than you are at proseletyzing your bullshit.
You, also, should go seek mental help, since you're obviously a paranoid shut-in hoping to waste your words of delusion in the hopes of gaining karma.
Really? Rage and contempt? Over a value priced computer aimed at educating kids who otherwise would never get to use ANY computer?
You should see a mental health practicioner and get your priorities in order. Your stupidity is clouding your view of reality.
How dare you allow your daughter to live and declare your willingness to deny humanity the right to induldge in sweet, creamy and/or crunchy peanut buttery goodness?
Reese's peanut butter eggs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your kid
Google is one of the biggest culprits in the utter destruction of the highest traffic Usenet discussion newsgroups. The volume of spam that comes from those servers is ridiculous, not to mention all the former AOL idiots that were the scourge of the groups.
Least rational?
Ahem.
This is Slashdot.
Okay, okay, you didn't get it.
THIS IS SLASHDOT.
This is the home of the fundamentalist wannabes.
This is where all the posers gather to trade their favorite Che Guevera anecdotes and act like they're qualified to have a position on shit that is completely and utterly over their heads. Out of 1000 posts, there might be ONE with any shred of factual information or intellectual thought.
And that one post? It's always MINE!
Go ahead, ask any clown on here how far away Linux is from being widely accepted as a desktop OS.
Here's the answer: 5 years. There, I saved you the trouble.
But you know how long it was supposed to be 10 years ago?
5 years.
And when you ask why, they'll get on their high horses and start preaching to you about freedom and liberation theology and longing for the loins of RMS. They're like a bunch of fucking Jehovah's Witnesses with laptops and bluetooth headsets.
Don't get me wrong, the Mac groupies are annoying too, but at least they have personal hygiene standards and do ACTUAL WORK with their machines. Meanwhile, the Slashdot Linux Zombies are mesmerized by their spinning cube desktops and their ability to login to their own machines as root. 3 years ago, they had to settle for baghira.
Because when a computer is all you got, you might as well have dominion over all. Of it.
Hey, at least there's nethack. That's gotta count for something.
Other countries are more politically active and have more than 2 political parties. In America, you're either for the Republicans or for the Democrats and whichever side you're on, you're convinced that the other is evil and out to destroy your rights.
Of course, that makes you only partially right. In reality, both parties are evil and want to destroy your rights, so in the end, you're only supporting the evil bastard who has the best campaign manager.
Easy way to get a functional eclipse setup for PHP and web development:
Go here to get the Yoxos Eclipse distro (I like this one because it does the best job of finding your dependencies for you).
http://ondemand.yoxos.com/geteclipse/start
In plugin explorer, search for and schedule PDT, SQL Explorer, and either Subclipse or whatever is compatible with your versioning software.
Click Start Download, and then unzip and copy the eclipse directory to somewhere suitable.
Meanwhile, go here:
http://www.aptana.com/studio/download
And click on the Eclipse Plugin tab and download the plugin.
Then open Eclipse, go to the workbench, and in the menu, do Help > Software Updates > Find and Install, then choose to Search for New Features to Install, then choose install from archive and point it at the plugin you just downloaded. It will tell you it needs to restart afterward.
Now you have a functional IDE, and you can use Window > Show View > Other to choose whatever panels you want to have open in your workspace. I mix and match Aptana and PDT.
Last but not least, you need the Zend Debugger. Do Help > Software Updates > Find and Install, then do Help > Software Updates > Find and Install, then choose to Search for New Features to Install, then choose New Remote Site. For Name, put Zend Debugger, and for URL, put http://downloads.zend.com/pdt. Make sure that site is checked in the list, then click Finish and it will search for your debugger. Find it, install it, then do go here:
http://www.thierryb.net/pdtwiki/index.php?title=Using_PDT_:_Installation_:_Installing_the_Zend_Debugger#Installing_Zend_Debugger_client
And follow whatever directions are consistent with the platform you're using.
Oh, really? Sworn to never run core business components on a Microsoft platform? I doubt there are very many companies out there like that of the appreciable size necessary to run and get benefits out of running SAP. If Microsoft turns out to have the best platform for what you need to run, then you run a Microsoft platform.
What's more interesting is what happens to SAP's consultancy if Microsoft were to take over. There is a large percentage of SAP employees out there already who are less than enamored at all the cuts to their benefits and pay that they've had to endure since the tech boom. I know one woman who worked on the HR module who was getting billed out at 1300 dollars an hour. Another fellow who was pretty much the lead on developing the module left the tech world altogether to become a chef.
... because the movies coming out are generally either of poor quality or are so niche oriented that most people would rather not watch them. Also, with DVDs and on demand television, people are more apt to wait for the movie to come to them via Netflix or their cable company than go out to wait in line, pay for overpriced concessions, and sit in a seat that may or may not be horrible.
And that's just part of it. The movie-going generation generally skews young, but young people have other things to distract them, including the web and its social networks. Also, before you could perhaps rely on word of mouth from one person and maybe a newspaper rating of a movie before making a decision to go see it. Now you can get hundreds of opinions instantly.
People still go out to see great movies. They just won't put up with crap as much as they used to.
You have obviously never been a successful recruiter.
Any job that requires anything more than proof that you went to school after you've been out of it for more than 2 years is a job not worth interviewing for. The only thing that matters is practical experience. If candidate A has a 4.0 GPA in computer science and no experience and candidate B has a 2.8 in computer science and 2 years of practical experience in the workplace, candidate B wins every f'n time in any environment where common sense counts. No amount of sitting in a classroom and doing little assignments can possibly compare to developing applications in a real world environment. Even if candidate B is only average, he's still going to beat the shit out of candidate A in terms of productivity and getting up to speed for at least a year, and when you're hiring kids out of college, a year or two is really all you can expect to keep them for.
Two words for you: Jason Todd.
You can say whatever you want about the TINY, TINY percentage of females in comics who have died over the years, but Jason Todd was VOTED TO DIE BY THE FANS, and nobody gave it a thought, because men are supposed to die.
The percentage of men in comics who are killed, maimed, depowered, and disfigured DWARFS the female characters both in percentage and number.
Hell, the ORIGINAL Superman was beaten to death. His wife just passed away naturally. Chalk up old Lois to the list, I guess. And it isn't important the way that Kara Zor-El died, only that she did. Who gives a shit about heroism when you can have kvetching instead?
Batman and Superman couldn't BE Batman and Superman without being alive or being able to walk. It's kind of a prerequesite to the job, and they obviously aren't going to have anything major happen to them since they support so many books. Hyppolyta didn't stay dead. And Barbara Gordon is a more important character now as Oracle than she ever was as Batgirl... and the reason she isn't walking right now is because she CHOSE not to, in a story that Gail wrote.
The entire line of thinking is fucking stupid. Most of the main characters in comics are men, because men are the people who buy the majority of comics. If you want to build up conflict, you can do it a number of ways, but when you want to build up a tragedy for a character, it's going to come in the form of hurt to someone that character cares about, and MOST of them are heterosexual men, therefore most of their love interests are going to be women.
Did it have to be Sue Dibny in Identity Crisis? Yeah, it pretty much did. Sue and Ralph have been around in comics for years, but aren't really important characters. Sue in particular had a reputation for being sweet and fun, so it made sense for her to be the target if you're going to have to kill off a non-hero character important enough to the other characters for them to all panic without directly impacting any of the other books. Likewise, Jean Loring wasn't an important character, UNTIL she killed Sue. Now, she's one of the most important characters in the DC comics universe.
But you know what? If it had been a guy killing another guy the exact same way, you wouldn't have given it a second thought. Because men are supposed to be violent and kill other men, but women are supposed to be precious. What utter bullshit.
Connected together with a switch to turn them all off. Turn off the lights and TV in any room and look around at all the nice little glowing LEDs that are shining back at you. There's no f'n reason whatsoever for those things to still be consuming electricity, yet they run 24/7 whether they are "on" or not. Want to conserve energy? Fix that first and THEN deal with smart appliances.