I'm terribly sorry that KDE and GNOME are attempting to cater to the majority. I shall get them to cease all work immediately and instead focusing on pleasing you. just you.
yes it is a very sad world when companies have more power than the government. I mean, we set up these governments to choose what is best for the people and that is the one thing they do not do. They do what they want and what rich corporations want, and the people get shafted every time. Its not surprising really...but anyone who thinks there is fairness and rightness(?) in the world needs to take a look at this sort of thing.
Is there any government in the world that is not at least partially corrupt? i doubt it. we're all human, and humans are naturally greedy and selfish.
I find its far easier not to put the bugs in in the first place. If I dont put them in, then I dont have to waste time looking for where I put them later...
seriously though, I do find that testing each feature as I add it in goes a long way towards bug-free code.
wow man, you're a genius. I can just see a sysadmin allowing someone with no experience to help with PROGRAMMING stuff. Remember, that was the job the OP was looking for? kind of doesn't work with the example you gave. Congrats on getting your internship btw, but probably not that helpful advice for this guy.
Yes, for sure, if you know the right people it can really help, but is it really his fault for not knowing the right people?
I'd agree with those who suggested contributing to an open source project. Just one - should be enough. Make it something you're interested in and even passionate about. And give it your best work.
Secondly, +1 for personal contact. Always follow up your resume with a phone call - as has been mentioned above. Make sure whoever is hiring for the job knows who you are. When they come to making a decision - you definitely want to be one of the people who they are thinking of.
Other than this, persist with it. With the right attitude, you will get a job eventually.
how about a big red button on the dash that allows some kind of manual override...
The point is that there shouldn't be a single point of failure in any electronics where human life is placed in its hands. If one component fails, it shouldn't bring down the entire system. We still cant get that right on computers.
what a croc. I tried sleep/resume on both linux and windows vista and in both cases there were sometimes issues, and when it DID work, it took just as long to reach a useable state as just cold-booting in the first place. What a useless piece of crap idea that is...
Either boot your pc normally or use a sometimes iffy mechanism that takes just as long...
right. so if you cant post for like half a day its because Morgan just went on lunch when it was his turn to post. I'd go and shut his browser down for you but I've already posted so I dont care. He'll be back at 5:30.
I would REALLY like to see a point-and-shoot camera with a full size sensor from a DSLR. Give me the colour quality and exposure advantage of an SLR with the small(ish) form factor and convenience of a point-and-shoot.
Even if physical size is the issue - there are many non-photographers or hobby-photographers who would like a camera with good colour range coupled with point-and-shoot handling.
Instead the sensors on point-and-shoot cameras are getting smaller (albeit higher res) and DSLR camera bodies are still bulky and with no "intelligent auto" modes.
As the owner of a Nikon D40X (10MP) and having a brother-in-law who bought the D40 (6MP) I can definitely say the extra MP counts as far as resolution/detail goes. Granted, it is also a newer sensor, but I think it still supports the argument, based on the fact that the 10MP sensor gives more detail than the 6MP sensor. Not much was changed between the 2 camera models - they even supplied the same default lens.
hang on, this "new" OS you're referring to is basically UNIX (BSD). It was invented before Windows. Sure apple has modified it and put a shiny new layer on top (that works exceptionally smoothly, mind you), but if you wanna get technical, they didn't come up with a new OS, they improved an old one.
Then if you look at iPhone OS, that has been highly, highly optimized. An iPhone 3GS with a 600MHz CPU outperforms a Nexus One with a 1000MHz CPU.
There is a difference between "highly optimised" and the iphone supporting hardware floating point while the nexus one doesn't (yet - the hardware does, but Android needs an update to support it).
As for another view on performance, it seems ars doesn't agree with you:
Those optimizations are part of the reason why Apple is currently undercutting both Android and Palm on price, which is the opposite of what was expected by Palm and Android developers and the entire industry.
Actually, no. They're not undercutting Android because Android is free. They're also not undercutting all Android hardware, only some of it. And if you compare the specs on the hardware with a higher price, you'll find it is generally of a higher spec. How it performs is definitely a question of optimisations in software etc. but almost everything you have quoted has little to do with optimising an OS to use all available resources.
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This is definitely an improvement.
The windows 3-finger salute now only requires 1 finger. You guess which one.
I'm terribly sorry that KDE and GNOME are attempting to cater to the majority. I shall get them to cease all work immediately and instead focusing on pleasing you. just you.
grrr I clicked "just bugger off" and the popup just kept coming back again!
How long must keep bringing up such a miserable piece of junk and humiliating Microsoft?
Forever. And often. They need some humility.
We should do the same for other companies -- Apple needs some humility, too.
yeah but you dont get half the mod points...
"It's" is a conraction. It means "it is."
I think you mean't "contraction"
I think you meant "meant"
Brian? is that you?
I think you hit the nail on the head there.
Linux is whatever you want it to be.
Windows is whatever Microsoft wants it to be.
yes it is a very sad world when companies have more power than the government. I mean, we set up these governments to choose what is best for the people and that is the one thing they do not do. They do what they want and what rich corporations want, and the people get shafted every time. Its not surprising really...but anyone who thinks there is fairness and rightness(?) in the world needs to take a look at this sort of thing.
Is there any government in the world that is not at least partially corrupt? i doubt it. we're all human, and humans are naturally greedy and selfish.
It doesn't run the "Other" OS anymore.
there, fixed it for you.
I find its far easier not to put the bugs in in the first place. If I dont put them in, then I dont have to waste time looking for where I put them later...
seriously though, I do find that testing each feature as I add it in goes a long way towards bug-free code.
whoosh!
NASCAR would be so much better if they had, you know, corners...
wow man, you're a genius. I can just see a sysadmin allowing someone with no experience to help with PROGRAMMING stuff. Remember, that was the job the OP was looking for? kind of doesn't work with the example you gave. Congrats on getting your internship btw, but probably not that helpful advice for this guy.
Yes, for sure, if you know the right people it can really help, but is it really his fault for not knowing the right people?
I'd agree with those who suggested contributing to an open source project. Just one - should be enough. Make it something you're interested in and even passionate about. And give it your best work.
Secondly, +1 for personal contact. Always follow up your resume with a phone call - as has been mentioned above. Make sure whoever is hiring for the job knows who you are. When they come to making a decision - you definitely want to be one of the people who they are thinking of.
Other than this, persist with it. With the right attitude, you will get a job eventually.
how about a big red button on the dash that allows some kind of manual override...
The point is that there shouldn't be a single point of failure in any electronics where human life is placed in its hands. If one component fails, it shouldn't bring down the entire system. We still cant get that right on computers.
duh, you worded it wrong. Of course no one can hear him if there's no one there.
The correct line would be:
"If a boy falls out of a tree in a forest, and no one heard him, did he make a sound?"
what a croc. I tried sleep/resume on both linux and windows vista and in both cases there were sometimes issues, and when it DID work, it took just as long to reach a useable state as just cold-booting in the first place. What a useless piece of crap idea that is...
Either boot your pc normally or use a sometimes iffy mechanism that takes just as long...
huh? I was promised an iPad.
oh crap. I'm in the wrong line!!
yeah but everyone knows .0 releases are buggy. I'll be sticking with V1.x until at least 2.1 is stable.
and version three will send you to bed without supper if you get one question wrong.
right. so if you cant post for like half a day its because Morgan just went on lunch when it was his turn to post. I'd go and shut his browser down for you but I've already posted so I dont care. He'll be back at 5:30.
Cya in the queue for the next thread...
so if you're not using F/OSS because its not a democracy, what the hell ARE you using that supposedly is?
I would REALLY like to see a point-and-shoot camera with a full size sensor from a DSLR. Give me the colour quality and exposure advantage of an SLR with the small(ish) form factor and convenience of a point-and-shoot.
Even if physical size is the issue - there are many non-photographers or hobby-photographers who would like a camera with good colour range coupled with point-and-shoot handling.
Instead the sensors on point-and-shoot cameras are getting smaller (albeit higher res) and DSLR camera bodies are still bulky and with no "intelligent auto" modes.
mod parent up.
As the owner of a Nikon D40X (10MP) and having a brother-in-law who bought the D40 (6MP) I can definitely say the extra MP counts as far as resolution/detail goes. Granted, it is also a newer sensor, but I think it still supports the argument, based on the fact that the 10MP sensor gives more detail than the 6MP sensor. Not much was changed between the 2 camera models - they even supplied the same default lens.
Come up with the great new OS...
hang on, this "new" OS you're referring to is basically UNIX (BSD). It was invented before Windows. Sure apple has modified it and put a shiny new layer on top (that works exceptionally smoothly, mind you), but if you wanna get technical, they didn't come up with a new OS, they improved an old one.
Then if you look at iPhone OS, that has been highly, highly optimized. An iPhone 3GS with a 600MHz CPU outperforms a Nexus One with a 1000MHz CPU.
There is a difference between "highly optimised" and the iphone supporting hardware floating point while the nexus one doesn't (yet - the hardware does, but Android needs an update to support it).
As for another view on performance, it seems ars doesn't agree with you:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/01/nexus-one-review.ars/4
Those optimizations are part of the reason why Apple is currently undercutting both Android and Palm on price, which is the opposite of what was expected by Palm and Android developers and the entire industry.
Actually, no. They're not undercutting Android because Android is free. They're also not undercutting all Android hardware, only some of it. And if you compare the specs on the hardware with a higher price, you'll find it is generally of a higher spec. How it performs is definitely a question of optimisations in software etc. but almost everything you have quoted has little to do with optimising an OS to use all available resources.