Why use a $200 hammer that can't turn a screw when you can use a free screwdriver that can pound in a nail.
You ever try building a house without a hammer?
Fiddles have no frets, cat intestines were never used for any part of the violin (sheep intestines were), and the strings haven't been made of gut in hundreds of years.
man, i haven't seen your name in years and years.. probably getting close to a decade now. since the last time i hit the old hornet archives, looking for something that ran decent on my crap hardware at the time.. those were the good ol' days, when computing was still fun. before windows demos, before linux demos.. when a 486 was high-powered, and when a GUS was key to having your demo run as fast as possible, on account of its hardware mixing capabilities.
man.. does anyone else remember how many different.MOD mixing libraries there were, some for real-mode, some for protected.. everyone had their own. and then.S3M came along..
i wonder if i still have any of my old.MODs. too bad winamp's visualizations can't hold a candle to the old players.. sixteen little oscilloscope views, one for each channel. my motherboard's onboard audio no longer needs to preload the samples to the GUS ram, either (anyone else have 8mb in their GUS pnp pro?)
i miss those days. everything's changed. the barrier to entry is in some ways so much higher. no more MOV AX,13h; INT 10h to get your graphics on.. no more PC speaker music. yeah, things are more pleasing to the eye, but i miss it. i'd go back in a heartbeat if i could.
(sorry about the rambling..thanks for the memories)
That's the thing. He's wary of anyone who says they're equally at home in the embedded space, personal-computer applications, Web applications, secure e-commerce applications, network stuff, and man-rated programming... knowing one of these in some truly valuable depth can take years of diligent work, but to say you know them all raises a few red flags (as it should.)
I can play the violin, piano-accordion, anglo concertina, and pennywhistle, but I can also half-ass my way through a couple of songs on the piano, ukelele, guitar, and mandolin. You won't see me making money on more than two of those, though, and I don't list any of the fringe languages I've toyed with on my resume, either.
I bet you list DOS Batch, huh.
If this was really such a threat, why doesn't MS just email linus torvalds a copy of the windows source, and then accuse him of copying windows source?
Just so people know, there's been much concern that the CLS will take languages that are paradigmatically different from the C/C++/C# family of langauges (like Haskell, which is a functional language) and strip away the syntax that makes them powerful in their own way (closures, continuations) until they're basically C/C++/C#, differing in syntax only.
At which point, the CLS would no longer be a good thing.
Annoying to you, maybe. Good thing the whole world doesn't have your sense of taste, though, or we wouldn't have such triple delights as Homestar Runner.
heh.. there is another alternative - that people can just decide to do something different with their lives.
Hey, original poster, try this: become an apprentice cabinet-maker to start to learn a trade, then learn to build things, and then go into artistic woodworking. Decent money, and at the end of the day you've really built something. People will appreciate the things you've built, and some may keep them around for generations if they're good.
Or try music - learn an instrument, dedicate yourself to it, and in a few years you'll be able to start gigging for cash. Later you can give lessons for more cash.
Other career options - law enforcement. Turns out, despite what many people on the internet say, that most cops really are decent people and really believe that they're doing good. (And you know what? most people would say that cops _are_ doing good.)
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It won't be spelled properly, though, so we'll still have to guess by context at the meaning
WHY wouldn't they spell-check their home page? CONCIEVE idiots!
Dude, excellent writing. Can the salshdot editors hire my esteemed compatriot here? (maybe they'll hire him twice! ;( )
Remember, you're not losing freedoms, you're gaining limits on freedoms ! (courtesy of the daily show)
The way hatelife does it is pretty classy - try visiting the site in your modern browser, and then NS4.7...
Just to be pedantic (this is slashdto, right? ;) ), I'd say the RIAA is very interested in sales - control is the most efficient means to that end.
Why use a $200 hammer that can't turn a screw when you can use a free screwdriver that can pound in a nail. You ever try building a house without a hammer?
idiot
real musicians write songs and release them as albums for a reason. and that, my friends, is why modern music is so formulaic.
Hey, I know part of your SSN, too! It's got a five in it somewhere, doesn't it?
trixter, you old dog!!
.MOD mixing libraries there were, some for real-mode, some for protected.. everyone had their own. and then .S3M came along..
.MODs. too bad winamp's visualizations can't hold a candle to the old players.. sixteen little oscilloscope views, one for each channel. my motherboard's onboard audio no longer needs to preload the samples to the GUS ram, either (anyone else have 8mb in their GUS pnp pro?)
man, i haven't seen your name in years and years.. probably getting close to a decade now. since the last time i hit the old hornet archives, looking for something that ran decent on my crap hardware at the time.. those were the good ol' days, when computing was still fun. before windows demos, before linux demos.. when a 486 was high-powered, and when a GUS was key to having your demo run as fast as possible, on account of its hardware mixing capabilities.
man.. does anyone else remember how many different
i wonder if i still have any of my old
i miss those days. everything's changed. the barrier to entry is in some ways so much higher. no more MOV AX,13h; INT 10h to get your graphics on.. no more PC speaker music. yeah, things are more pleasing to the eye, but i miss it. i'd go back in a heartbeat if i could.
(sorry about the rambling..thanks for the memories)
A better question is .... why don't they back it up before they work on it and possibly fuck it up?
Imagine a ... cluster of .. ???
it's what i read it as! (you fill in the blank)
That's the thing. He's wary of anyone who says they're equally at home in the embedded space, personal-computer applications, Web applications, secure e-commerce applications, network stuff, and man-rated programming ... knowing one of these in some truly valuable depth can take years of diligent work, but to say you know them all raises a few red flags (as it should.)
I can play the violin, piano-accordion, anglo concertina, and pennywhistle, but I can also half-ass my way through a couple of songs on the piano, ukelele, guitar, and mandolin. You won't see me making money on more than two of those, though, and I don't list any of the fringe languages I've toyed with on my resume, either.
I bet you list DOS Batch, huh.
Ever wonder if NASA would have funding problems if only they'd actively publicize the cool-sounding "DEEP SPACE NETWORK!!!"?
If this was really such a threat, why doesn't MS just email linus torvalds a copy of the windows source, and then accuse him of copying windows source?
Serious question.. replies?
This is possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a while.
... ...
7801. ???
7802. Profit!
Just so people know, there's been much concern that the CLS will take languages that are paradigmatically different from the C/C++/C# family of langauges (like Haskell, which is a functional language) and strip away the syntax that makes them powerful in their own way (closures, continuations) until they're basically C/C++/C#, differing in syntax only.
At which point, the CLS would no longer be a good thing.
The signal analyzes you!
i mean..
Fef ghsafs kbvlknwn gas!
Press F7 in-game.
Insightful, yes... but apache doesn't run on minix.
Annoying to you, maybe. Good thing the whole world doesn't have your sense of taste, though, or we wouldn't have such triple delights as Homestar Runner.
Borrrrring..................
heh.. there is another alternative - that people can just decide to do something different with their lives.
Hey, original poster, try this: become an apprentice cabinet-maker to start to learn a trade, then learn to build things, and then go into artistic woodworking. Decent money, and at the end of the day you've really built something. People will appreciate the things you've built, and some may keep them around for generations if they're good.
Or try music - learn an instrument, dedicate yourself to it, and in a few years you'll be able to start gigging for cash. Later you can give lessons for more cash.
Other career options - law enforcement. Turns out, despite what many people on the internet say, that most cops really are decent people and really believe that they're doing good. (And you know what? most people would say that cops _are_ doing good.)
Social work? Do you like people?
Mmm..... pie....