So essentially turning a netbook in a rather weak workstation. It costs approximately the same as buying a quad core system (but without PC flexibility).
There are two schools: young earth and old earth.
You can find in many Eastern Orthodox Church theological articles acceptance of theory of evolution as a practical tool of God.
I may not like that I can't just install Linux, but I understand why you can't let me! But in that case, you need at least to let me have Cygwin or something.
Why? Really. 99.9% of things you can do in Linux and you can do in Cygwin, but not on Windows are developing in languages that don't have a stable Windows implementation - in which case you're surely in a wrong place, because either they don't know what they're doing, making you develop on Windows when they really need Linux, or you don't know what you're doing, trying to drag a "new and cool language" where it's not needed.
Or maybe you are cross-compiling for an embedded target using gcc and the software for your debugger
works only under windows.
If that was sarcasm, you should use the snark sign and type properly. The sarcasm got lost in such a poorly constructed sentence, I thought I was replying to a non-native English speaker.
Ups, I don't have the snark sign on my keyboard. Do you have it on your original Apple keyboard? It must be that snark sign is also patented by Apple (*snark sign*)
So to be informed on a topic is to be a fanboy, even when supposed fanboy presents evidence that doesn't credit Apple? Yeah that makes a bunch of sense.
Clearly you should be doing some thinking first. That's such a lazy ill-thought out argument.
For God's sake, Sheldon, do I have to... hold up a sarcasm sign every time I open my mouth?
If you read even Job's biography, those at Xerox get the credit for the mouse and the GUI.
Before everyone try to call somebody fanboy on Slashdot, you should think first! This is want a fanboy really means, You Linux fanboys, how many of you read Linus Torvalds biography? M$ fanboys, what about Gates and Ballmer?
One of the reasons is also that geeks in general don't understand good manners. They view down to people with other interests (how many times have you read here on Slashdot some rants about how stupid people are because they don't know everything about computers), go on and on about their own interests (computers, programming, RPG games..) without even thinking if the other side is interested to talk about that. Geeks cannot grasp the concept of being and acting friendly to other people. It doesn't make only you feel awkward - it makes the other side feel awkward too.
Well, if I need to talk about trash TV program, super cool new MTV stars, shoes and other brain-dead things then I really do not want to be friendly to other people. Is it too much too expect from others to switch on their brains and talk sometimes about some really important things (science, philosophy, history,...,meaning of life)?!
The "non-geeks" cannot grasp the concept of thinking so they are acting unfriendly to "geeks", so you must defend yourself.
This was in the late 90s. There was no option for a male voice, and BMW had to recall the cars. I guess the American buyers of the same model didn't have a problem.
Wow!!! Thanks for the enlightening!!! I was sure that Germany == USA
Germany is a little backwards; after all, isn't that the country where they had to recall a bunch of cars with navigation systems because male German drivers refused to take directions from a female voice?
I didn't hear that cars were recalled. On every navigation system you can choose between female and male voice. Do you have any link to a research about how many drivers use female and how many male voice in the USA?
For all of the USA's faults, that's definitely not a problem over here.
So you say that female engineers are treated like the male engineers in the USA?
Bosses think like that because they are stupid. You don't put all the eggs in the same basket. We talk here about engineers so why don't we analyse this like engineers: where is a redundancy, where are safety measures. If we develop a critical device it will have dozen of safety measures, fall-back protocols and warnings if something goes wrong. But our bosses will not think about what will be if some of us is hit by a bus. Do you have another engineer who can immediately replace you if you are somehow disabled to work?
I have a colleague who has been diagnosed cancer. The bosses just prayed 6 months that he will come back.
Should we also give our medical records and genetic analysis to the bosses so that they can see in advance if we are in a critical group for some illness?
depends... my mother is a teacher (in Germany) and could take 9 years of maternity leave (most of it obviously unpaid) after me and my brother were born without losing her job.
Because she is a teacher. It the same like you told as that a clerk in your local city hall had 20 years maternity leave. Once you get a state job you are safe. You can take a credit and buy a house without thinking if you will have a job next year and money to pay rates because you know that your job is safe and you will have it next 65 years...
Sorry mate, but that's crap. My wife has a degree in CS and she desperately tries to find a job in the field (in Germany). The reason why there is so few woman engineers working like engineers is because company bosses think like this:
1. if she doesn’t have children, she will get pregnant and the company must search for replacement during maternity leave
2. if she does have children, she will think more about children and tend to go home when regular working hours are over instead of staying and showing "loyalty" to he company
3. I can squeeze more energy from man then from women because they they think less about their health and the future then women (who cares about burnout, projects must be finished as fast as possible with as least engineers possible)
Sometime I am somewhat impressed that Lennart never even did try to sue Ubuntu for all the badmouthing and ill-will and extra time he had to handle because of how Ubuntu did not know how to use pulseaudio, broke it in more ways than one thought possible, and then ship it in a "stable" release...
I feel pain in your words and that sounds like the pain I had after last Ubuntu upgrade. I ditched pulseaudio because of all the problems I had and now they installed it per default. I can't believe how many things they brake every time. After so many years being faithful to Ubuntu I will switch to Debian unstable to get more stable system!
You will not get far away with K&R (although the "C Programming Language" is THE must have book on the shelf). Most of the questions that C Programmers ask are on a compiler forums and they are mostly compiler related. For beginners there are so many language tutorials that there is no need to ask (1000 times already asked) questions on SO.
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The President is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
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Re-entry is a relatively easy problem to solve at suborbital velocities. A parachute usually does the job just fine.
Is it parachute license GNU compatible?
Actually, I wanted to say that people and governments doesn't do enough or don't care enough about peace and people (other then them self).
The military's job is fighting wars. Securing peace is the people's and governments' job.
And the military is the only who does it's job.
So essentially turning a netbook in a rather weak workstation. It costs approximately the same as buying a quad core system (but without PC flexibility).
There are two schools: young earth and old earth.
You can find in many Eastern Orthodox Church theological articles acceptance of theory of evolution as a practical tool of God.
I may not like that I can't just install Linux, but I understand why you can't let me! But in that case, you need at least to let me have Cygwin or something.
Why? Really. 99.9% of things you can do in Linux and you can do in Cygwin, but not on Windows are developing in languages that don't have a stable Windows implementation - in which case you're surely in a wrong place, because either they don't know what they're doing, making you develop on Windows when they really need Linux, or you don't know what you're doing, trying to drag a "new and cool language" where it's not needed.
Or maybe you are cross-compiling for an embedded target using gcc and the software for your debugger works only under windows.
"The term "Most Valuable Player" is typically only used in Canada, the United States, the Philippines and South Korea."
Courtesy of Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Valuable_Player
Term MVP is also used in European basketball competitions.
If that was sarcasm, you should use the snark sign and type properly. The sarcasm got lost in such a poorly constructed sentence, I thought I was replying to a non-native English speaker.
Ups, I don't have the snark sign on my keyboard. Do you have it on your original Apple keyboard? It must be that snark sign is also patented by Apple (*snark sign*)
P.S. I'm not a native English speaker.
So to be informed on a topic is to be a fanboy, even when supposed fanboy presents evidence that doesn't credit Apple? Yeah that makes a bunch of sense.
Clearly you should be doing some thinking first. That's such a lazy ill-thought out argument.
For God's sake, Sheldon, do I have to... hold up a sarcasm sign every time I open my mouth?
If you read even Job's biography, those at Xerox get the credit for the mouse and the GUI.
Before everyone try to call somebody fanboy on Slashdot, you should think first! This is want a fanboy really means, You Linux fanboys, how many of you read Linus Torvalds biography? M$ fanboys, what about Gates and Ballmer?
Pilots?!
Q. How do you know your date with the fighter pilot is half over?
A. He says "but enough about me - wanna hear about my plane?"
Yep, that's really cool (and true, btw)
True, but who they are? ... but they are cool, not like "geeks".
Artists
One of the reasons is also that geeks in general don't understand good manners. They view down to people with other interests (how many times have you read here on Slashdot some rants about how stupid people are because they don't know everything about computers), go on and on about their own interests (computers, programming, RPG games..) without even thinking if the other side is interested to talk about that. Geeks cannot grasp the concept of being and acting friendly to other people. It doesn't make only you feel awkward - it makes the other side feel awkward too.
Well, if I need to talk about trash TV program, super cool new MTV stars, shoes and other brain-dead things then I really do not want to be friendly to other people. Is it too much too expect from others to switch on their brains and talk sometimes about some really important things (science, philosophy, history,...,meaning of life)?!
The "non-geeks" cannot grasp the concept of thinking so they are acting unfriendly to "geeks", so you must defend yourself.
I didn't hear that cars were recalled.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/21/tech/innovation/female-computer-voices/index.html
This was in the late 90s. There was no option for a male voice, and BMW had to recall the cars. I guess the American buyers of the same model didn't have a problem.
Ah, please not again the stupid Clifford Nass story. I don't believe it. We already had it on /. Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female
If you want official and fresh information you can find it here:
Navis: Women's voices are much more popular than men's voices
(Google translation)
In short: 56% prefer female voices, 9% male, 45% do not care (2% prefer voice speaking in dialect)
Guess what? Germany != USA.
Wow!!! Thanks for the enlightening!!! I was sure that Germany == USA
Germany is a little backwards; after all, isn't that the country where they had to recall a bunch of cars with navigation systems because male German drivers refused to take directions from a female voice?
I didn't hear that cars were recalled. On every navigation system you can choose between female and male voice. Do you have any link to a research about how many drivers use female and how many male voice in the USA?
For all of the USA's faults, that's definitely not a problem over here.
So you say that female engineers are treated like the male engineers in the USA?
Bosses think like that because they are stupid. You don't put all the eggs in the same basket. We talk here about engineers so why don't we analyse this like engineers: where is a redundancy, where are safety measures. If we develop a critical device it will have dozen of safety measures, fall-back protocols and warnings if something goes wrong. But our bosses will not think about what will be if some of us is hit by a bus. Do you have another engineer who can immediately replace you if you are somehow disabled to work?
I have a colleague who has been diagnosed cancer. The bosses just prayed 6 months that he will come back.
Should we also give our medical records and genetic analysis to the bosses so that they can see in advance if we are in a critical group for some illness?
It's worse the racism.
depends... my mother is a teacher (in Germany) and could take 9 years of maternity leave (most of it obviously unpaid) after me and my brother were born without losing her job.
Because she is a teacher. It the same like you told as that a clerk in your local city hall had 20 years maternity leave. Once you get a state job you are safe. You can take a credit and buy a house without thinking if you will have a job next year and money to pay rates because you know that your job is safe and you will have it next 65 years...
Sorry mate, but that's crap. My wife has a degree in CS and she desperately tries to find a job in the field (in Germany). The reason why there is so few woman engineers working like engineers is because company bosses think like this:
1. if she doesn’t have children, she will get pregnant and the company must search for replacement during maternity leave
2. if she does have children, she will think more about children and tend to go home when regular working hours are over instead of staying and showing "loyalty" to he company
3. I can squeeze more energy from man then from women because they they think less about their health and the future then women (who cares about burnout, projects must be finished as fast as possible with as least engineers possible)
Sometime I am somewhat impressed that Lennart never even did try to sue Ubuntu for all the badmouthing and ill-will and extra time he had to handle because of how Ubuntu did not know how to use pulseaudio, broke it in more ways than one thought possible, and then ship it in a "stable" release...
I feel pain in your words and that sounds like the pain I had after last Ubuntu upgrade. I ditched pulseaudio because of all the problems I had and now they installed it per default. I can't believe how many things they brake every time. After so many years being faithful to Ubuntu I will switch to Debian unstable to get more stable system!
You will not get far away with K&R (although the "C Programming Language" is THE must have book on the shelf). Most of the questions that C Programmers ask are on a compiler forums and they are mostly compiler related. For beginners there are so many language tutorials that there is no need to ask (1000 times already asked) questions on SO.
When I went to school we started with Interpreted language (BASIC) and afterwards switched to Compiled (Pascal and C)
You've never obviously done tech support in a school district.
If the teachers decide they want MS, they will GET MS. Or PowerSchool.
If you have choice MS or to lose your job, what you will choose? (yes, the situation is really so bad)
I use them as a glass pad
"The main difference between the 3D in Flash Player 10 & 11 is that this newer version is capable of rendering complex 3D scenes with advanced engine where-as earlier version was more like a 2.5D (Applying 3D effect on 2D content). These new 3D APIs will work through DirectX 9 on Windows, OpenGL 1.3 on Mac and Linux, OpenGL ES 2.0 on mobile devices."
The President is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
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