Anywhere between 24 and 35 I'd say. Being curious about the answer and hyping Telemate, I'd narrow it down to between 24 and 30.
Disclaimer: I'm 20. 21 at the end of this month. I was a Telemate user, though SALT scripts were so much more powerful (and less buggy. Telemate's scripting was so annoying. Ugh. Oh look, I've been running for a while. Crap, I've run out of memory because I have memory glitches and half my commands don't work.)
But otherwise, telemate 4 life!!:) (Though now PuTTY is my preferred terminal. Just because telemate can't SSH.;))
!! You just found the next big revolution. They say that porn drives all technological improvements and pushes the boudnaries..
Keyboard layouts designed for one-handed use! Brilliant! You can write code with your [less 'favorite'] hand, while that pr0n video clip in the lower corner of the screen has your other hand...
Who said it was art? I said it requires some specific skills and ambition, that are hard/impossible to teach. Anyone can learn to write programs. Learning to write programs WELL requires the desire to do so, and probably a specific personality (mildly autistic/majorly masochistic) type and brain patterns as well. (Though the brain-pattern argument depends on the type of program. Obviously people tending more towards artistic stuff aren't going to be working on a pure number cruncher, that's for the mathematically inclined. But if they understand the system well enough, they might make good program designers -- people to plan the overall structure, and supervise.. to make the overall picture look good, while the mathematically inclined lead to 'beautiful' algorithms, etc.)
But above all else, to do well at something you have to WANT to do it. Doing it just for the money isn't enough. I could probably cram enough to pass the bar exam, given enough time. I could probably win a couple cases. I wouldn't like doing it though, and I wouldn't be as effective as someone who wants to be a lawyer. THAT was my point.
Money is not enough of a motivator. You can get money by doing it 'good enough'. You can get personal satisfaction by doing the best you can. But if you hate programming and do it only for the money (and I've met so many of the delusional fools, now without the promise of any sort of paycheck after graduation, let alone a decent one), then you don't derive any satisfaction from doing as good a job as possible. Or at least, (probably) not as much as you could.
If you like what you're doing, you'll do it better.
Everything can be done elsewhere. There is nothing special about where you live to make it possible to do something ONLY THERE. (Ok, there might be a few exceptions)
You have to figure which have a decent likelihood of being done elsewhere. Management tends to stay in one spot, since they don't like to vote themselves to having to relocate, and they wouldn't outsource themselves. Lower levels get moved to cut costs.
Especially if management sees you as a blue-collar worker, you're going to get moved. Unfortunately, programming is often seen by people who don't program as a rather easy process. Ideas go in, program comes out. The programmers are just more people on the assembly line. It's a different kind of factory, but still a factory in the eyes of the management. Factories are staffed by monkeys, monkeys can be hired for cheaper in other parts of the world. Therefore, outsource.
So yeah, the key is figuring out which jobs management thinks require intelligence and skills, and can't be done by just anyone. Programming isn't one of those.
I blame the # of people who tried to prove them right by rushing to get a degree in some computers/tech field and polluting the job pool. If your answer for "Why did you get a degree in X" is "For the money", I hate you. I program because that's what I like doing. I don't care about the money, as long as it's enough to eat. Unfortunately people who got their CS degrees (or whatever your university called it) and might have maybe learned the mechanics of writing programs and how comptuers work, but not how to design programs that work well are the problem. Eventually they'll be fired as the incompetents they are, and the people who know their stuff will get hired/promoted.
At least, that's what I keep telling myself while looking for a job.:) Wow I got offtopic there.
You don't seem to realize that that wasn't what the.com bubble was all about. It burst because there WASN'T stuff being sold (or at least, not sold properly). It was all lies and hype, and buying/selling of stock to go along with it.
Therefore a 'ComBack' of that would be with people buying and selling stock. It doesn't matter if the company sells stuff or not:)
Wow, the author himself. Didn't expect that one;) Yeah, you had mentioned the update providing new features, so I was planning on checking it again. Would PNGs really increase the size all that much? (I'm too lazy and ill-equipped at the moment to do a comparison, stupid lab computers.)
The futurama ones were the ones that mostly mattered to me (being a big anime fan.. I don't have a DVD drive in my portable, so I just compress them to watch them when I'm not at home. Some might argue that I'd be better off buying a new drive for it, but it's cheaper to rip my [legal] collection.), so maybe I was a bit harsh since that's where you mentioned the JPEG problem the most:)
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Doom9 could have used PNGs. Quite annoying that half of the screenshots were totally destroyed by using ANOTHER lossy compressor on them. Yes, I should be looking at the video clips and not the screen shots, but then why the hell provide them at all?
Well that sucks. I used to like being able to whip up quick little pages in the location bar to form a link for something to download. Yes, annoying, but sometimes I have a link and IE is retarded and tries to view it, not save it. But I can't right click it and choose save as (for whatever reason. Stupid page not allowing it, etc.).
I use phoenix now, but it IS somewhat useful. I think. Ok, prolly not.
No, see.. the point is, he'll be doing all this stuff trying to get it to work. By the time it's all set up perfectly, the market will have slumped again. He'll then let the setup go to pasture, then when it's about ready to climb again, he'll work on this, miss that one, ad inifitum.
Therefore, this IS his way of not getting financially burned again, as long as he realizes when the market's headed for a downward spiral:)
And the funny part is, you only need the input line. So therefore putting something like this on your page: <a href="about:<input type die>">Click here</a> to crash IE. will also work. Though it kind of gives it away how it works if you look at the status bar. Too bad/.'s filter won't let me post that link properly. Bleh.:)
Damn, SCO got ripped off when they bought that code, and so did the people who copied this program in to linux.
I'm assuming they want \n?:) Though, it would make it pretty easy to see that it's just a copy and paste. I love when my students submit code with the same spelling errors in either comments or output. Dumbasses.:)
Yeah, there are times when it's pretty broken. I once upgraded a system from 8.0->9.0 using standard RPM, because urpmi broke on me. The newer versions (9.0+) haven't given me any problems though, so you might want to try and upgrade those first. of course, I think they have pretty intrusive version requirements, so you might have to upgrade everything anyway. Whee!
use this website: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php to find sources, I could never find an easier way to put them in, the urmpi.addmedia command's documentation was complete crap.:)
Hope it helps. Mandrake is nice for not wanting to have to deal with stuff toooo much. but I still prefer sorcerer.;)
Sorcerer was the first source-based distro I used, I heard of it from slashdot as well. Sourcemage is a fork. Kyle Sallee started sorcerer, and still maintains sorcerer. I still use sorcerer, never tried sourcemage (it's had over a year now forked, so it's prolly pretty different than sorcerer is now. Hell, sorcerer is pretty different than it was a few months ago.:)), and dislike Gentoo. I gave it a try like I said I eventually would, and just didn't like it.
Mandrake has a pretty damned nice selection too. Type "urpmi appname", go pick your nose whilst it fetches the sources installs it all for you. Want to update every application on your computer to the newest tested version? Type "urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select -a" (Or use software update. It's in your K menu somewhere.)
Yes, they lag behind in versions (Especially if you don't have cooker in your update sources). Yes, it's not compiled for your system (though afaik the src packages let you do this, I've never tried). But it is also pretty damned easy.
You fail to mention on Gentoo is innovative? Every other actual distribution can do basically the same thing.
Disclaimer: I use sorcerer on my machine, and manage a Mandrake machine for a friend.
urpme postfix To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be removed (9 MB): mutt-1.4.1i-1.1mdk postfix-2.0.6-1mdk
Is this OK? (Y/n)
There are graphical tools to manage thsi as well. Using straight RPM in Mandrake is like putting your nuts in a vice. There's no fucking point, and it's painful and stupid as all hell.:)
Ok, there are times when using rpm is nice/required, but very very rarely since urpm(x) does dependency checking and automatic downloads if you have your sources set up properly.
That being said, I like sorcerer, and use it as my primary OS.:)
there's also nehe's site which is pretty nice. Tends towards windows, but a lot of things have been re-written in SDL, and should therefore work in linux.
Yeah, I've tried to understand Eva.. it hurts my brain to think about it too much. That and Lain. Both very good series. And I forgot to mention Lain earlier when someone else was asking me for a list of stuff I liked. I liked a lot, I just listed some of the more recent stuff I could remember watching.
So yeah, Lain's good too if you liked the aspects of Eva that made you think. If you thought it was cool cuz stuff got blown up, then maybe Lain wouldn't be so good.;)
Evangelion was a psychological anime. The 'robots' weren't really robots, though you appear to have realized that by now ^_^. I get slightly confused as to how many endings there are, and in which order they were released. The way I heard it/understand it is that there is the original ending, which is the psychological one. The last two episodes look like the animators did every single drug and mushroom in the world and then decided to write the script and draw it. It's all in Shinji's head.
"Air & Heart" is the name of the other ending, which is for the people who thought that it was a robot anime, which they made after much pressure from fans and stuff who didn't like the original ending.
"Death & Rebirth" is a two hour 'recap' of the series, focusing mostly on the combat/robot aspects, for people who wanted to watch "Air & Heart".
That's basically the way I understood it, and I just confirmed it with a friend who thought the same way. So hopefully there's a little bit of factual information in there.:)
*sigh* I'll bite. First my favorite argument: liking Anime as a format is rather stupid. Liking genres of stories, not so stupid.
What types of stories do you [think you would] like? There's a few typical anime genres, though there seems to be a lot of cross-genre stuff. Typical, and largest being shoujo (targeted at females), and shounen (targeted to males). But in there there's subcategories. Magical girl (sailor moon is probably the most popular/well known example in America) is a type of shoujo. There's comedy ones, serious ones, 'love get' ones, etc. It's rather hard to tell you what might be good if you don't narrow it down.
That being said, here is a list of my favorite series. While I say liking anything because it's anime is wrong, I do tend to like a lot of it because they often have good stories. Though there's enough I hate. *Shrug*.
Anyway, list: Evangelion (A classic).
Love Hina ('love get' of sorts, with college entrance exams. Comedy.)
Azumanga Daioh (really recent, not in the states I don't think. Again, comedy).
Tokyo Underground (Not sure of classification, not a comedy per se. Basic story: there's a city under tokyo where some people have control over various powers of elements. They're trying to unleash a great evil. Must go stop them. *shrug* typical premise;))
Ranma 1/2. While it got repetitive, it's still pretty funny. Interesting look in to Japanese ideas of sexuality too. We actually watched this in one of my classes here in Japan.
Chobits. Agh, it's just so cute. Interesting plot too.
Spriggan. I thought it was pretty good, but it's one of the few that is good/different enough that people who don't like anime like it. ymmv.
I dunno, I tend more towards shoujo type stuff, and comedies in particular. Not too fond of serious stuff (Blood, etc.). Though psychological things (Evangelion) and things which deal with topics interesting to me (like Chobits and Ranma did) are also decent.
If you have any friends who know what type of normal movies you like to watch, ask them for recommendations. They might know what you'd like better. Just hope they aren't the type that swears everything is good.
I think the categories might be there since there are frequently stories in them. The matrix gets probably as much stories as half of all other movies combined here on slashdot, especially with the sequels and animatrix episodes. Therefore, people who hate the matrix and don't want to hear about it can filter it's topic.
Same with anime. I think having more fine-grained topics is GOOD. I agree with Apple as a topic. PC users who don't care/hate apple might just block it. Breaking apple down in to smallter categories might be a bit much. People who like apple hardware probably would be interested in apple software as well (since they do often go hand-in-hand there). Then there's the hardware buffs, etc.
I dunno, I'm all for smaller topics, not larger ones, but making them TOO small seems rather annoying/odd. (How many people have interests only in network cards, but not in Video cards, sound cards, or all computer hardware/technology? Breaking 'Hardware' down would be somewhat odd. Also, how often are there stories devoted to network cards to make it worth it?)
The matrix and anime are posted in to a decent amount, and they're there so you can filter them out if you want.
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Anywhere between 24 and 35 I'd say. Being curious about the answer and hyping Telemate, I'd narrow it down to between 24 and 30.
:) (Though now PuTTY is my preferred terminal. Just because telemate can't SSH. ;))
Disclaimer: I'm 20. 21 at the end of this month. I was a Telemate user, though SALT scripts were so much more powerful (and less buggy. Telemate's scripting was so annoying. Ugh. Oh look, I've been running for a while. Crap, I've run out of memory because I have memory glitches and half my commands don't work.)
But otherwise, telemate 4 life!!
!! You just found the next big revolution. They say that porn drives all technological improvements and pushes the boudnaries..
...
Keyboard layouts designed for one-handed use! Brilliant! You can write code with your [less 'favorite'] hand, while that pr0n video clip in the lower corner of the screen has your other hand
Well, you get the idea.
I love trolls. *smooch*
Who said it was art? I said it requires some specific skills and ambition, that are hard/impossible to teach. Anyone can learn to write programs. Learning to write programs WELL requires the desire to do so, and probably a specific personality (mildly autistic/majorly masochistic) type and brain patterns as well. (Though the brain-pattern argument depends on the type of program. Obviously people tending more towards artistic stuff aren't going to be working on a pure number cruncher, that's for the mathematically inclined. But if they understand the system well enough, they might make good program designers -- people to plan the overall structure, and supervise.. to make the overall picture look good, while the mathematically inclined lead to 'beautiful' algorithms, etc.)
But above all else, to do well at something you have to WANT to do it. Doing it just for the money isn't enough. I could probably cram enough to pass the bar exam, given enough time. I could probably win a couple cases. I wouldn't like doing it though, and I wouldn't be as effective as someone who wants to be a lawyer. THAT was my point.
Money is not enough of a motivator. You can get money by doing it 'good enough'. You can get personal satisfaction by doing the best you can. But if you hate programming and do it only for the money (and I've met so many of the delusional fools, now without the promise of any sort of paycheck after graduation, let alone a decent one), then you don't derive any satisfaction from doing as good a job as possible. Or at least, (probably) not as much as you could.
If you like what you're doing, you'll do it better.
Everything can be done elsewhere. There is nothing special about where you live to make it possible to do something ONLY THERE. (Ok, there might be a few exceptions)
:) Wow I got offtopic there.
You have to figure which have a decent likelihood of being done elsewhere. Management tends to stay in one spot, since they don't like to vote themselves to having to relocate, and they wouldn't outsource themselves. Lower levels get moved to cut costs.
Especially if management sees you as a blue-collar worker, you're going to get moved. Unfortunately, programming is often seen by people who don't program as a rather easy process. Ideas go in, program comes out. The programmers are just more people on the assembly line. It's a different kind of factory, but still a factory in the eyes of the management. Factories are staffed by monkeys, monkeys can be hired for cheaper in other parts of the world. Therefore, outsource.
So yeah, the key is figuring out which jobs management thinks require intelligence and skills, and can't be done by just anyone. Programming isn't one of those.
I blame the # of people who tried to prove them right by rushing to get a degree in some computers/tech field and polluting the job pool. If your answer for "Why did you get a degree in X" is "For the money", I hate you. I program because that's what I like doing. I don't care about the money, as long as it's enough to eat. Unfortunately people who got their CS degrees (or whatever your university called it) and might have maybe learned the mechanics of writing programs and how comptuers work, but not how to design programs that work well are the problem. Eventually they'll be fired as the incompetents they are, and the people who know their stuff will get hired/promoted.
At least, that's what I keep telling myself while looking for a job.
You don't seem to realize that that wasn't what the .com bubble was all about. It burst because there WASN'T stuff being sold (or at least, not sold properly). It was all lies and hype, and buying/selling of stock to go along with it.
:)
Therefore a 'ComBack' of that would be with people buying and selling stock. It doesn't matter if the company sells stuff or not
Wow, the author himself. Didn't expect that one ;) Yeah, you had mentioned the update providing new features, so I was planning on checking it again. Would PNGs really increase the size all that much? (I'm too lazy and ill-equipped at the moment to do a comparison, stupid lab computers.)
:)
The futurama ones were the ones that mostly mattered to me (being a big anime fan.. I don't have a DVD drive in my portable, so I just compress them to watch them when I'm not at home. Some might argue that I'd be better off buying a new drive for it, but it's cheaper to rip my [legal] collection.), so maybe I was a bit harsh since that's where you mentioned the JPEG problem the most
Doom9 could have used PNGs. Quite annoying that half of the screenshots were totally destroyed by using ANOTHER lossy compressor on them. Yes, I should be looking at the video clips and not the screen shots, but then why the hell provide them at all?
Check out the ntfsresize info page. From the linux-ntfs project page, and second option on google for 'ntfs resize'.
Well that sucks. I used to like being able to whip up quick little pages in the location bar to form a link for something to download. Yes, annoying, but sometimes I have a link and IE is retarded and tries to view it, not save it. But I can't right click it and choose save as (for whatever reason. Stupid page not allowing it, etc.).
I use phoenix now, but it IS somewhat useful. I think. Ok, prolly not.
No, see.. the point is, he'll be doing all this stuff trying to get it to work. By the time it's all set up perfectly, the market will have slumped again. He'll then let the setup go to pasture, then when it's about ready to climb again, he'll work on this, miss that one, ad inifitum.
:)
Therefore, this IS his way of not getting financially burned again, as long as he realizes when the market's headed for a downward spiral
And the funny part is, you only need the input line. So therefore putting something like this on your page: <a href="about:<input type die>">Click here</a> to crash IE. will also work. Though it kind of gives it away how it works if you look at the status bar. Too bad /.'s filter won't let me post that link properly. Bleh. :)
damn my broken english. s/up until/while/
Actually the parent code was up until LESS THAN 256. Therefore loop from [0,255]. no problems with the code.
Damn, SCO got ripped off when they bought that code, and so did the people who copied this program in to linux.
:) Though, it would make it pretty easy to see that it's just a copy and paste. I love when my students submit code with the same spelling errors in either comments or output. Dumbasses. :)
I'm assuming they want \n?
Yeah, there are times when it's pretty broken. I once upgraded a system from 8.0->9.0 using standard RPM, because urpmi broke on me. The newer versions (9.0+) haven't given me any problems though, so you might want to try and upgrade those first. of course, I think they have pretty intrusive version requirements, so you might have to upgrade everything anyway. Whee!
:)
;)
use this website: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php to find sources, I could never find an easier way to put them in, the urmpi.addmedia command's documentation was complete crap.
Hope it helps. Mandrake is nice for not wanting to have to deal with stuff toooo much. but I still prefer sorcerer.
Sorcerer was the first source-based distro I used, I heard of it from slashdot as well. Sourcemage is a fork. Kyle Sallee started sorcerer, and still maintains sorcerer. I still use sorcerer, never tried sourcemage (it's had over a year now forked, so it's prolly pretty different than sorcerer is now. Hell, sorcerer is pretty different than it was a few months ago. :)), and dislike Gentoo. I gave it a try like I said I eventually would, and just didn't like it.
Mandrake is very simple to install.
Mandrake has a pretty damned nice selection too. Type "urpmi appname", go pick your nose whilst it fetches the sources installs it all for you. Want to update every application on your computer to the newest tested version? Type "urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select -a" (Or use software update. It's in your K menu somewhere.)
Yes, they lag behind in versions (Especially if you don't have cooker in your update sources). Yes, it's not compiled for your system (though afaik the src packages let you do this, I've never tried). But it is also pretty damned easy.
You fail to mention on Gentoo is innovative? Every other actual distribution can do basically the same thing.
Disclaimer: I use sorcerer on my machine, and manage a Mandrake machine for a friend.
urpm[i/e/q/f/whatever] is your friend.
:)
:)
urpme postfix
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be removed (9 MB):
mutt-1.4.1i-1.1mdk
postfix-2.0.6-1mdk
Is this OK? (Y/n)
There are graphical tools to manage thsi as well. Using straight RPM in Mandrake is like putting your nuts in a vice. There's no fucking point, and it's painful and stupid as all hell.
Ok, there are times when using rpm is nice/required, but very very rarely since urpm(x) does dependency checking and automatic downloads if you have your sources set up properly.
That being said, I like sorcerer, and use it as my primary OS.
there's also nehe's site which is pretty nice. Tends towards windows, but a lot of things have been re-written in SDL, and should therefore work in linux.
So true.
Mostly I'm just replying cuz I like your username. nan nen kan nihongo wo benkyoushita?
god japanese looks ugly in roman characters.
Yeah, I've tried to understand Eva.. it hurts my brain to think about it too much. That and Lain. Both very good series. And I forgot to mention Lain earlier when someone else was asking me for a list of stuff I liked. I liked a lot, I just listed some of the more recent stuff I could remember watching.
;)
So yeah, Lain's good too if you liked the aspects of Eva that made you think. If you thought it was cool cuz stuff got blown up, then maybe Lain wouldn't be so good.
Evangelion was a psychological anime. The 'robots' weren't really robots, though you appear to have realized that by now ^_^. I get slightly confused as to how many endings there are, and in which order they were released. The way I heard it/understand it is that there is the original ending, which is the psychological one. The last two episodes look like the animators did every single drug and mushroom in the world and then decided to write the script and draw it. It's all in Shinji's head.
:)
"Air & Heart" is the name of the other ending, which is for the people who thought that it was a robot anime, which they made after much pressure from fans and stuff who didn't like the original ending.
"Death & Rebirth" is a two hour 'recap' of the series, focusing mostly on the combat/robot aspects, for people who wanted to watch "Air & Heart".
That's basically the way I understood it, and I just confirmed it with a friend who thought the same way. So hopefully there's a little bit of factual information in there.
*sigh* I'll bite. First my favorite argument: liking Anime as a format is rather stupid. Liking genres of stories, not so stupid.
;))
What types of stories do you [think you would] like? There's a few typical anime genres, though there seems to be a lot of cross-genre stuff. Typical, and largest being shoujo (targeted at females), and shounen (targeted to males). But in there there's subcategories. Magical girl (sailor moon is probably the most popular/well known example in America) is a type of shoujo. There's comedy ones, serious ones, 'love get' ones, etc. It's rather hard to tell you what might be good if you don't narrow it down.
That being said, here is a list of my favorite series. While I say liking anything because it's anime is wrong, I do tend to like a lot of it because they often have good stories. Though there's enough I hate. *Shrug*.
Anyway, list:
Evangelion (A classic).
Love Hina ('love get' of sorts, with college entrance exams. Comedy.)
Azumanga Daioh (really recent, not in the states I don't think. Again, comedy).
Tokyo Underground (Not sure of classification, not a comedy per se. Basic story: there's a city under tokyo where some people have control over various powers of elements. They're trying to unleash a great evil. Must go stop them. *shrug* typical premise
Ranma 1/2. While it got repetitive, it's still pretty funny. Interesting look in to Japanese ideas of sexuality too. We actually watched this in one of my classes here in Japan.
Chobits. Agh, it's just so cute. Interesting plot too.
Spriggan. I thought it was pretty good, but it's one of the few that is good/different enough that people who don't like anime like it. ymmv.
I dunno, I tend more towards shoujo type stuff, and comedies in particular. Not too fond of serious stuff (Blood, etc.). Though psychological things (Evangelion) and things which deal with topics interesting to me (like Chobits and Ranma did) are also decent.
If you have any friends who know what type of normal movies you like to watch, ask them for recommendations. They might know what you'd like better. Just hope they aren't the type that swears everything is good.
I think the categories might be there since there are frequently stories in them. The matrix gets probably as much stories as half of all other movies combined here on slashdot, especially with the sequels and animatrix episodes. Therefore, people who hate the matrix and don't want to hear about it can filter it's topic.
Same with anime. I think having more fine-grained topics is GOOD. I agree with Apple as a topic. PC users who don't care/hate apple might just block it. Breaking apple down in to smallter categories might be a bit much. People who like apple hardware probably would be interested in apple software as well (since they do often go hand-in-hand there). Then there's the hardware buffs, etc.
I dunno, I'm all for smaller topics, not larger ones, but making them TOO small seems rather annoying/odd. (How many people have interests only in network cards, but not in Video cards, sound cards, or all computer hardware/technology? Breaking 'Hardware' down would be somewhat odd. Also, how often are there stories devoted to network cards to make it worth it?)
The matrix and anime are posted in to a decent amount, and they're there so you can filter them out if you want.
If you thought Evangelion was a robot anime, you're the reason they created the other ending. Congratulations, you missed the point. :)