Exactly. You haven't got the experience employers are looking for because you consider getting that experience to be a waste of time.
Pretty much confirms my point.
Also I already have problems getting Windows development jobs because I've refused to touch "Visual" C++.
And who's fault is that? That would be yours, wouldn't it now.
Maybe you should stop complaining that people won't employ you and learn Visual C++. Nobody likes a stuck up programmer.
'Customers' who pirate games aren't really customers, and I doubt Sony give a flying frogstar fart about alienating THEM.
The main reason anyone ever fits a mod-chip is so they can pirate games. And all consoles follow the Gillette model. Sell them the razors, and they'll buy the blades from you for years to come.
OK. So let me see how this thing works. I guess now Sony will be The Great Satan in the Slashdot Hivemind, right up to the point they release a cool game, at which point the Slashdot Hivemind will heartily recommend it.
Well, that's how it runs with other things...
And to think Slashdot portrays Bill Gates as the Borg!
The usefulness of this device depends entirely on the kind of pub it takes you to.
It would be a tragedy if such a device were only able to offer the locations of trendy bars which only sell loathesome fizzy piss.
Obviously, it should use the CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) database of pub locations, so that you can always be assured of a good beer at the end of your journey.
You say: "his credentials are dubious at best." Really? The man has written a book, how many books have you written? I'm much more likely to believe someone who has gone to all the trouble to research and write a book about something, than someone who hasn't.
David Icke has had several books published, but this doesn't disguise the fact that he is still a barking mad loon!
it seems to me that one more AOL-Linux user is a Linux user who will not contribute, and who will demand features and bells and whistles over stability and security every time.
I'll pass, thanks all the same.
You know, it's that kind of attitude which ensures Linux will forever remain in a geeky ghetto.
But then, that's what you want, isn't it...
Heaven forbid Linux should ever become mainstream and popular with non-geeks...
It's a two DVD set, where DVD 1 contains the six episodes of the TV series in their longest cut available, coming to 3hrs and 20 mins. The DVD includes "Production Notes" which come up like subitles and are snippets of information about the scene you're watching.
The second DVD is stuffed to the gills with extras, some of which have never been seen before.
It's a tremendous package and an essential purchase for all Hitch-Hiker fans.
How the hell does this get moderated as a troll?
It's a perfectly valid point.
WHY!
Why the hell bother? Does the guy building this thing have absolutely no life?
Why hark back to "The Good Old Days" when they weren't "Good" at all! What was so good about the "Good Old Days" when computers were painfully slow and unfriendly and games consisted of "move the blob and fire a smaller blob at another blob", and if you HAD a wordprocessor you had no idea what stuff was going to come out like or even if it would at all!
Fuck that. I'll take my 2Ghz P4 over any clapped out old Apple II any day.
This whole exercise is a pointless waste of time. The guy doing this obviously has some skill, knowledge and talent, and it's a damn shame he's choosing to waste it on some old crap.
You've not been to Britain lately. While we invented bloody railways, we're the worst at actually running them, having broken up the system and put it into the hands to fat cats who ran it down - sacking engineers, slashing maintenance, and leading to the deaths of several people in a train crash that would have been avoided had the line been properly maintained as it had been prior to Privatisation.
If Tony Blair wasn't such a toadying arsehole he might actually hear the people telling him that public transport should be run as a public service!
The first shuttle that went into space was the Columbia, yes, but the first shuttle built was called Enterprise. It never actually went into space, it just got dropped off a 747 to test the shuttle's landing abilities.
Sorry, but how is the Hugo a clique setup? Anyone can vote for the Hugos, all they have to do is have a membership of the Worldcon.
Harry Potter won last year because the majority of people attending the Worldcon voted for it to win. It's as simple as that.
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I can't believe Mr. Katz wrote a whole article without once mentioning Seattle.
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Huzzah for that man! Saved me having to slag off that nutcase Graham Hancock!
Exactly. You haven't got the experience employers are looking for because you consider getting that experience to be a waste of time.
Pretty much confirms my point.
Imagine Quake4 released ONLY on Linux!!!!?!?!
Imagine Id Software going bankrupt.
...for many of us, fun is more in programming a module for the kernel or some kde app.
Jesus Christ. That is one of the saddest things I have ever read.
A LOT of companies, mine included, were fucked by the economic downturn that occured as a DIRECT RESULT of 9/11
Yeah. Right. Let's hang everything that goes wrong on that one event. The economic downturn began a way before last september.
I've always seen IBM's support of Linux as being a mardyarsed attempt to 'get their own back' for the failure of OS/2.
If the head honchos at IBM ever decide that Linux isn't really a threat to Microsoft, they're liable to drop it like a stone.
Only time will tell.
Also I already have problems getting Windows development jobs because I've refused to touch "Visual" C++.
And who's fault is that? That would be yours, wouldn't it now.
Maybe you should stop complaining that people won't employ you and learn Visual C++. Nobody likes a stuck up programmer.
Please tell me the name of the president of the UK then :)
That's an easy one. Tony Blair.
Oh. Wait. Tony only thinks he's a president...!
'Customers' who pirate games aren't really customers, and I doubt Sony give a flying frogstar fart about alienating THEM.
The main reason anyone ever fits a mod-chip is so they can pirate games. And all consoles follow the Gillette model. Sell them the razors, and they'll buy the blades from you for years to come.
OK. So let me see how this thing works. I guess now Sony will be The Great Satan in the Slashdot Hivemind, right up to the point they release a cool game, at which point the Slashdot Hivemind will heartily recommend it.
Well, that's how it runs with other things...
And to think Slashdot portrays Bill Gates as the Borg!
Well, I suppose there's not much of a point in awarding high damages if that's more than the defendant can possibly pay.
The usefulness of this device depends entirely on the kind of pub it takes you to.
It would be a tragedy if such a device were only able to offer the locations of trendy bars which only sell loathesome fizzy piss.
Obviously, it should use the CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) database of pub locations, so that you can always be assured of a good beer at the end of your journey.
You say: "his credentials are dubious at best." Really? The man has written a book, how many books have you written? I'm much more likely to believe someone who has gone to all the trouble to research and write a book about something, than someone who hasn't.
David Icke has had several books published, but this doesn't disguise the fact that he is still a barking mad loon!
Or do you believe him too?
Please mod the parent post down to oblivion. It is obviously some elitist fuck.
They're neo-maxi zoom-dweebies!
But then, that's what you want, isn't it...
Heaven forbid Linux should ever become mainstream and popular with non-geeks...
It's a two DVD set, where DVD 1 contains the six episodes of the TV series in their longest cut available, coming to 3hrs and 20 mins. The DVD includes "Production Notes" which come up like subitles and are snippets of information about the scene you're watching.
The second DVD is stuffed to the gills with extras, some of which have never been seen before.
It's a tremendous package and an essential purchase for all Hitch-Hiker fans.
How the hell does this get moderated as a troll?
It's a perfectly valid point.
WHY!
Why the hell bother? Does the guy building this thing have absolutely no life?
Why hark back to "The Good Old Days" when they weren't "Good" at all! What was so good about the "Good Old Days" when computers were painfully slow and unfriendly and games consisted of "move the blob and fire a smaller blob at another blob", and if you HAD a wordprocessor you had no idea what stuff was going to come out like or even if it would at all!
Fuck that. I'll take my 2Ghz P4 over any clapped out old Apple II any day.
This whole exercise is a pointless waste of time. The guy doing this obviously has some skill, knowledge and talent, and it's a damn shame he's choosing to waste it on some old crap.
You've not been to Britain lately. While we invented bloody railways, we're the worst at actually running them, having broken up the system and put it into the hands to fat cats who ran it down - sacking engineers, slashing maintenance, and leading to the deaths of several people in a train crash that would have been avoided had the line been properly maintained as it had been prior to Privatisation.
If Tony Blair wasn't such a toadying arsehole he might actually hear the people telling him that public transport should be run as a public service!
The first shuttle that went into space was the Columbia, yes, but the first shuttle built was called Enterprise. It never actually went into space, it just got dropped off a 747 to test the shuttle's landing abilities.
I suggest you check YOUR facts matey boy!
How wude!
On an article which has absolutely nothing to do with computers in any way, people STILL manage to turn it into a "Microsoft sux, Linux rools"-fest.
Christ on a bike!
Sorry, but how is the Hugo a clique setup? Anyone can vote for the Hugos, all they have to do is have a membership of the Worldcon.
Harry Potter won last year because the majority of people attending the Worldcon voted for it to win. It's as simple as that.
I can't believe Mr. Katz wrote a whole article without once mentioning Seattle.
Or Columbine. Strange days indeed!
Prince Andrew acted as Exocet Decoy during the Falklands, allegedly, flying his helicopter in front of the ships to lure Exocet missiles away.
Mind you, it would have been no great loss had he been blown to bits by one.