What's with the latest string of intensely stupid articles on slashdot? First XBox downloads of apples outpaces iTunes downloads of oranges, and now a random fact of biology overrules an accepted theory of physics? Why do people write such retarded titles and how do they get posted?
Hi there, sophomore CS major at some ritzy school here. This summer I'm working for a Silicon Valley startup where I plan to actually be useful. Last summer I worked as an intern on campus for a research group, so I have a bit of experience.
Essentially, there are three things you can do: 1. Spend the summer jobless and contribute to as many open source projects as possible. Treat it like a full time job, spend 8 hours a day coding/reading code. If you have enough discipline(I don't) you can get a lot done and have a lot of stuff to put on your resume. 2. Work in IT. This is what I did through summers in high school. You probably won't be programming anything sweet, but a job is a job and an entry on your resume is an entry on your resume. Boring, but you can probably surf the web most of the day if things don't go wrong. 3. Apply at startups. After freshman year, every big company told me to not even bother applying at their job fairs since I was so young. They're usually right, but if you're good enough (I probably wasn't), you can apply to startups and hopefully get hired. Some startups give interesting interviews out here in the valley where you can show your actual talent instead of a resume. The second interview for this summer's employer consisted of being sat down in front of a machine and being told to write a webserver that serves static files. 3 hours later I had done it and they made me an offer.
I think any of these three options are viable, consider them.
Are you seriously blaming a Windows crashing problem on something besides Windows? Step back and think about that for a moment.
I got a freeipod.com ipod, noticed how it just worked when I wanted it to, no stupidity involved. This inspired me to get a PowerBook, and guess what? It works. All the time.
Apple makes awesome hardware. Microsoft makes bad OS's. I dunno about your gtkipod problem though. Good luck with it.
No one really likes the ******** anyway. When was the last time you enjoyed watching one of the events, or rather, were allowed to enjoy the event without minutely interruptions from sponsors and sponsored talking heads. The events aren't that exciting in general anyway (POWER WALKING!).
Maybe in 20** when a pub isn't allowed to say they're showing the ***** without paying a million dollar licensing fee, they'll decide to just not show them. And no one will miss them.
Anyone else getting this? Mac OS X.4, I play WMV videos almost every day for watching classes remotely, but MSN video doesn't know how to make WMVs viewable cross-platform? What a bunch of assholes.
The problem here is we're not legislating morality. Patents have no reality outside of laws on paper.
Patent laws are like meta-laws; laws about imaginary obejcts called patents. Since they're not part of the realm of the real world, morality has no claim on them so law must. QED.
Although I have no doubt that Apple may use this technology, locking a customer in doesn't seem like the Apple thing to do. Much of the sweetest software on Macs is mirrored in some form on an x86, even Final Cut Pro has some kind of a Windows version. I would think that Apple would offer OS X for sale to everyone, even for use on generic x86 boxes, but would only offer decent support on their machines. The reason that Apple would still win out even in the hardware realm is because Apple hardware provides a vastly superior user experience than any PC manufacturer has attained.
There's another story about how nervous he was one time when this unsavory hippy/bikerish guy was following him around when the guy chased him down. He then thanked him for his work in expressing his opinions regarding legalization of the green stuff.
I'm really, really brilliant. No, I don't think you understand, I'm a friggin' genius. Take how smart you are, move it up to how smart you think you are, multiply it by ten, and then if you were that smart I would have a conversation with you, though I would belittle you in this conversation and make fun of you in ways you wouldn't understand until hours later.
That being said, I also have a tattoo (of pi!) and two piercings. Any company not willing to hire someone as amazing as me is really only hurting themselves.
Not that it matters, I'm more for startup culture than large corporations anyway, where we of the younger generation don't have the homophobically-rooted prejudices of those old folks who just won't die yet.
Everyday I walk by their original storage box that you can see on that site. It's not even made of real legos, they're cheap imitation brand plastic toys. They've been working with commodity parts since the very beginning it seems.
They don't. I don't appreciate your rudeness, telling my family and I to "enjoy renting," because we don't. I'm in college at the moment, and my parents are strapped enough to pay tuition. Moving from low-rent housing to ownership is not a matter of just deciding to. Try having bad credit in this country, try not having enough capital to put down a down payment on a house in ANY forseeable time in the future. You're an asshole, enjoy living in your own house and mocking those below you.
Hmm I'm walking into Stanford this fall with about 20 credits from APsthat count toward my major, including last year's comp sci AB getting me out of a cs101 class, 2 years of calculus testing me into multivar, and cheesy freshmen physics out of the way. It varies wildly from school to school.
I'm in a very similar situation myself. I've been accepted to a top-tier school and I really have no way of paying for it, my family has zero savings to pay for it. They make a fair share of money a year so my university given aid is low, but I happen to live in a household of half a dozen and money is always tight. I'll be the first in my entire extended family to go to college, so I figure why not make it to the top tech school that's not in Boston?
That's a damn good sob story, eh? Think I could make a website out of it and beg for money, a dollar or two on paypal, to send me to school? Would you pay for it?
A friend was nice enough to get me a book called "Why Be Good?" and even highlight select passages for me. One such note in the book is the highlighting of a chapter called "Ego Management." Think they're trying to tell me something?
What you want to see if Fry's Electronics. They have them in Texas and California and a few states in between. Imagine something the size of that big desert you guys call Australia, and imagine it full of electronics at a decent price. It's not quite so big as the great aussie desert, I guess, but Fry's is huge. I'm not ashamed to admit I shed tears of joy on my first visit to this mecca of geekdom.
i use the same technique on my main box. its a good 50 pounds of stainless steel, rackmounted, 3'x2' sweet case. i dont have to worry much about anyone taking off with it at a lan party.
it's not so much the money that gives them the message, but the fact that someone is willing to buy their software off of a shelf, and that their business model has hope.
This is just another example how the first amendment is no longer in effect in places such as the internet. Yesterday a bunch of people walked through some city totally naked to prove a point about free speech. I think an event like this on the net should take place. I'm already naked...
why make him code? instead, teach him to pitch! if he could develop a nice curve ball no one would want him back in cuba. but then you may have to pay him...
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What's with the latest string of intensely stupid articles on slashdot? First XBox downloads of apples outpaces iTunes downloads of oranges, and now a random fact of biology overrules an accepted theory of physics? Why do people write such retarded titles and how do they get posted?
Hi there, sophomore CS major at some ritzy school here. This summer I'm working for a Silicon Valley startup where I plan to actually be useful. Last summer I worked as an intern on campus for a research group, so I have a bit of experience.
Essentially, there are three things you can do:
1. Spend the summer jobless and contribute to as many open source projects as possible. Treat it like a full time job, spend 8 hours a day coding/reading code. If you have enough discipline(I don't) you can get a lot done and have a lot of stuff to put on your resume.
2. Work in IT. This is what I did through summers in high school. You probably won't be programming anything sweet, but a job is a job and an entry on your resume is an entry on your resume. Boring, but you can probably surf the web most of the day if things don't go wrong.
3. Apply at startups. After freshman year, every big company told me to not even bother applying at their job fairs since I was so young. They're usually right, but if you're good enough (I probably wasn't), you can apply to startups and hopefully get hired. Some startups give interesting interviews out here in the valley where you can show your actual talent instead of a resume. The second interview for this summer's employer consisted of being sat down in front of a machine and being told to write a webserver that serves static files. 3 hours later I had done it and they made me an offer.
I think any of these three options are viable, consider them.
Are you seriously blaming a Windows crashing problem on something besides Windows? Step back and think about that for a moment.
I got a freeipod.com ipod, noticed how it just worked when I wanted it to, no stupidity involved. This inspired me to get a PowerBook, and guess what? It works. All the time.
Apple makes awesome hardware. Microsoft makes bad OS's. I dunno about your gtkipod problem though. Good luck with it.
No one really likes the ******** anyway. When was the last time you enjoyed watching one of the events, or rather, were allowed to enjoy the event without minutely interruptions from sponsors and sponsored talking heads. The events aren't that exciting in general anyway (POWER WALKING!).
Maybe in 20** when a pub isn't allowed to say they're showing the ***** without paying a million dollar licensing fee, they'll decide to just not show them. And no one will miss them.
Anyone else getting this? Mac OS X.4, I play WMV videos almost every day for watching classes remotely, but MSN video doesn't know how to make WMVs viewable cross-platform? What a bunch of assholes.
The problem here is we're not legislating morality. Patents have no reality outside of laws on paper.
Patent laws are like meta-laws; laws about imaginary obejcts called patents. Since they're not part of the realm of the real world, morality has no claim on them so law must. QED.
Although I have no doubt that Apple may use this technology, locking a customer in doesn't seem like the Apple thing to do. Much of the sweetest software on Macs is mirrored in some form on an x86, even Final Cut Pro has some kind of a Windows version. I would think that Apple would offer OS X for sale to everyone, even for use on generic x86 boxes, but would only offer decent support on their machines. The reason that Apple would still win out even in the hardware realm is because Apple hardware provides a vastly superior user experience than any PC manufacturer has attained.
*Seconded*
There's another story about how nervous he was one time when this unsavory hippy/bikerish guy was following him around when the guy chased him down. He then thanked him for his work in expressing his opinions regarding legalization of the green stuff.
28 degrees is 4 degrees below freezing, DUH.
I'm really, really brilliant. No, I don't think you understand, I'm a friggin' genius. Take how smart you are, move it up to how smart you think you are, multiply it by ten, and then if you were that smart I would have a conversation with you, though I would belittle you in this conversation and make fun of you in ways you wouldn't understand until hours later.
That being said, I also have a tattoo (of pi!) and two piercings. Any company not willing to hire someone as amazing as me is really only hurting themselves.
Not that it matters, I'm more for startup culture than large corporations anyway, where we of the younger generation don't have the homophobically-rooted prejudices of those old folks who just won't die yet.
Everyday I walk by their original storage box that you can see on that site. It's not even made of real legos, they're cheap imitation brand plastic toys. They've been working with commodity parts since the very beginning it seems.
They don't. I don't appreciate your rudeness, telling my family and I to "enjoy renting," because we don't. I'm in college at the moment, and my parents are strapped enough to pay tuition. Moving from low-rent housing to ownership is not a matter of just deciding to. Try having bad credit in this country, try not having enough capital to put down a down payment on a house in ANY forseeable time in the future. You're an asshole, enjoy living in your own house and mocking those below you.
And does it allow for four simultaneous computers to exist within one? It must if it claims to be cubic.
Hmm I'm walking into Stanford this fall with about 20 credits from APsthat count toward my major, including last year's comp sci AB getting me out of a cs101 class, 2 years of calculus testing me into multivar, and cheesy freshmen physics out of the way. It varies wildly from school to school.
something tells me that spammers would put the money and time into developing a machine to pass the turing test. maybe it's not such a bad idea...
I'm in a very similar situation myself. I've been accepted to a top-tier school and I really have no way of paying for it, my family has zero savings to pay for it. They make a fair share of money a year so my university given aid is low, but I happen to live in a household of half a dozen and money is always tight. I'll be the first in my entire extended family to go to college, so I figure why not make it to the top tech school that's not in Boston?
That's a damn good sob story, eh? Think I could make a website out of it and beg for money, a dollar or two on paypal, to send me to school? Would you pay for it?
A friend was nice enough to get me a book called "Why Be Good?" and even highlight select passages for me. One such note in the book is the highlighting of a chapter called "Ego Management." Think they're trying to tell me something?
What you want to see if Fry's Electronics. They have them in Texas and California and a few states in between. Imagine something the size of that big desert you guys call Australia, and imagine it full of electronics at a decent price. It's not quite so big as the great aussie desert, I guess, but Fry's is huge. I'm not ashamed to admit I shed tears of joy on my first visit to this mecca of geekdom.
i use the same technique on my main box. its a good 50 pounds of stainless steel, rackmounted, 3'x2' sweet case. i dont have to worry much about anyone taking off with it at a lan party.
it's not so much the money that gives them the message, but the fact that someone is willing to buy their software off of a shelf, and that their business model has hope.
how do they expect to keep this secure? I could write an internal microsoft memo and sign it as bill gates...
This is just another example how the first amendment is no longer in effect in places such as the internet. Yesterday a bunch of people walked through some city totally naked to prove a point about free speech. I think an event like this on the net should take place. I'm already naked...
I'm sure someone else said it, but how far away is moving picture(mpeg)2000? that'd be nice.....
why make him code? instead, teach him to pitch! if he could develop a nice curve ball no one would want him back in cuba. but then you may have to pay him...
what is required to register a top level domain like .god? can just anyone register it and get it recognized by icann?