How could FriendFeed (A fantastic site with much potential) sell to Facebook?! This is like the Sun-Oracle deal, when a good company sells itself to pure evil.
What's next, a Microsoft-Google merger (Googlesoft)? I'll let Slashdot choose the evil on that one;)
Google: Buy our OS, it'll run on any computer and you can buy the speed you need.
It seems likely that this will be Google's new market once Chrome and the cloud are developed further. Microsoft and Apple will most likely follow suit.
Then, there's Flat World http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ (A relatively new, growing site) that contains not as numerous titles as Wikibooks, but the writing is thorough and usually better than the textbooks themselves. The big downside to Flat World is that in your case (since it's still developing), it doesn't contain a computer science section, but it's being worked on and is expected to be released soon.
Though I have not personally used Wikibooks and Flat World extensively, I've heard from others that they're amazing resources.
Microsoft has done an excellent job of completely destroying the PC gaming market with two simple tools: DirectX and DRM. DirectX has limited gamers to the newest M$ operating systems, so many older gamers and Linux/Mac users will pass right by some newer titles which make game sales slump.
Then there is DRM. Spore, for example, was supposed to be a huge hit because it worked with both DirectX and OpenGL, but when word got out of the draconian DRM EA had implanted to "help" the gaming industry, the game was trashed. Especially in this economy, people don't want to buy what they can't own.
There's no easy way to bypass the M$ monopoly and convince game makers to convert to OpenGL as well as DirectX other than writing to them and make your opinion heard. It has been done already, but if more do it they are bound to listen.
The solution for DRM and piracy is easy. Require an quick online login to open your games, and then your free to play. Yes, the online login won't be convinient, but it's better than DRM.
It's good to start out simple, with something like VB.Net and then progress onto more complicated things (HTML, Java, C/C++, Ruby).
With VB you get the fundamentals of programming (Data types, If-then-else statements ect.) and a good idea what programmings consists of. It's very easy to self-teach and doesn't take long to get the hang of things.
Also, if you have the resources try to grab onto some old hardware and tinker with it a bit. After a while of fiddling and reading you'll be able to build a computer, and then go onto other stuff such as overclocking.
I know Slashdot has a reputation for late articles, but this was discovered by Darwin over a hundred of years ago, it's called natural selection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection
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Through the window.
He has class. The guy wanted to leave, and he let him without begging or throwing chairs.
It's spelled Redundant*
Just because you are wrong and I called you out on it doesn't mean I am a Troll.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think the mods intentionally replaced "Slashdotter" with "Gamer" in the title?
We all die in 2012, so why the study?
The shitty thing is, 2012 is my freshman class year.
100 light-years! Boy that barely missed us, better put on your hardhats boys because the next mash up is said to be only 80 light-years away!
How could FriendFeed (A fantastic site with much potential) sell to Facebook?! This is like the Sun-Oracle deal, when a good company sells itself to pure evil.
What's next, a Microsoft-Google merger (Googlesoft)? I'll let Slashdot choose the evil on that one ;)
Google: Buy our OS, it'll run on any computer and you can buy the speed you need.
It seems likely that this will be Google's new market once Chrome and the cloud are developed further. Microsoft and Apple will most likely follow suit.
Learn from the best.
It seems as if the only tech job left is SysAdmin; I wonder why that spot is always left open...
First, there's Wikibooks http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page which includes a large number of references, but the quality isn't always superb.
Then, there's Flat World http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ (A relatively new, growing site) that contains not as numerous titles as Wikibooks, but the writing is thorough and usually better than the textbooks themselves. The big downside to Flat World is that in your case (since it's still developing), it doesn't contain a computer science section, but it's being worked on and is expected to be released soon.
Though I have not personally used Wikibooks and Flat World extensively, I've heard from others that they're amazing resources.
It's password! How ingenious is that?
Oh, wait...
The entire PC gaming market needs a reboot.
Microsoft has done an excellent job of completely destroying the PC gaming market with two simple tools: DirectX and DRM. DirectX has limited gamers to the newest M$ operating systems, so many older gamers and Linux/Mac users will pass right by some newer titles which make game sales slump.
Then there is DRM. Spore, for example, was supposed to be a huge hit because it worked with both DirectX and OpenGL, but when word got out of the draconian DRM EA had implanted to "help" the gaming industry, the game was trashed. Especially in this economy, people don't want to buy what they can't own.
There's no easy way to bypass the M$ monopoly and convince game makers to convert to OpenGL as well as DirectX other than writing to them and make your opinion heard. It has been done already, but if more do it they are bound to listen.
The solution for DRM and piracy is easy. Require an quick online login to open your games, and then your free to play. Yes, the online login won't be convinient, but it's better than DRM.
I, for one, welcome our robotic overlords.
It's good to start out simple, with something like VB.Net and then progress onto more complicated things (HTML, Java, C/C++, Ruby).
With VB you get the fundamentals of programming (Data types, If-then-else statements ect.) and a good idea what programmings consists of. It's very easy to self-teach and doesn't take long to get the hang of things.
Also, if you have the resources try to grab onto some old hardware and tinker with it a bit. After a while of fiddling and reading you'll be able to build a computer, and then go onto other stuff such as overclocking.
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Seriously. Guggenheimer, Ballmer, Jobs, and Wozniak. That name must have something to do with their products...
Shouldn't he pay more attention to his operating system, and not TPB?
Anyone remember Dungeons and Dragons The Movie and how awesome that turned out? Or the TV series based on Super Mario and Zelda?
Yeah...
You obviously aren't a nerd because nerds don't like to be called the derogatory term "nerd", nerd. Geek is the preferred insult :)
For the first time in my life (Probably the last), I wish I was British. This is so damn cool...
What's Emacs?
I run MCP and how do you run two operating systems on top of each other?
You kidding? Slashdotters have a better chance at marriage then sex. Women hardly want it as it is, and nerds are a total turn off.
Slashdotter: Hey, so after the movie you want to go to my place?
Babe: Sure
Slashdotter: Here it is! *walks in*
Mom: Hey honey, how was the date?
What's Debian?
I run DOS you insensitive clod!
What the hell are you talking about? I was just playing Warcraft and clearly a chimera is a two-headed dragon.
I know Slashdot has a reputation for late articles, but this was discovered by Darwin over a hundred of years ago, it's called natural selection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection