Considering that most graphic designers don't know much about networking, scripting or coding, they tend to prefer the Mac.
I find this an ironic statement; the reason I "switched" from PC + FreeBSD to MacOSX a couple years ago is that I finally had a platform that could run office apps while at the same time I could do my networking, scripting, and coding work. Your argument may have made sense prior to MacOS X, but that doesn't make much sense now. If you go to major computer networking forums (e.g., IETF, NANOG), you see growing number of powerbooks because it's very well suited to doing coding/networking.
As a side note, I was considering swtching to FreeBSD-only or to Linux, but decided to go the somewhat more expensive route so that I didn't have to spend a significant time tinkering with my computer to make it work.
I'm curious what is meant by Linux being "more complete" than the other OSes. I would hazard a guess that Windows has more specialized software options available for it than any other OS.
I beta tested ATITD version one. It's an intriguing game and worth checking out - there is no combat and no killing. It's all about players collaborating to work on projects together. I didn't play the main game because I don't generally have the 2+ hours a day needed to focus on most MMORPG's, but the beta was fun.
I had the same experience with taking the Pascal test then getting bumped into a second year CS class. However, it was a harder transition for me because in the first year class some OO concepts were taught, which I didn't get at all in AP Computer Science in high school.
To address some other threads, I also got exposure to imperative langauges in that same second year CS class, my school focused much more on concepts than it did on any specific language. We were allowed to use pretty much anything for most assignments in most classes (unless it was OpenGL for Graphics, or something). Someone even turned in an assembly interpreter in Hypercard at one point.
resellers including smalldog.com and macmall.com often offer older models (ones that are totally gone from the apple store) for more reasonable prices.
I think someone in Alabama or some other State full of Southern Baptists needs to advocate the removal of references to 'daemons' in UNIX since they're Satanic!
It seems that my post is seen by Microsoft Security as being a security violation. The picture itself might have been permissible, but because I also mentioned that I worked at the MSCopy print shop, and which building it was in, it pushed me over the line.
Apparently Microsoft Security is very sensitive about their buildings and what is in them. Microsoft obviously buys Macs - they develop Mac software. This was likely all about having a picture of a piece of the building the guy worked in, and identifying what was in it. He didn't say anything 'embarassing' about Microsoft, but he did compromise their idea of security.
I am a bit confused about how complexity is introduced into these systems. It seems that there are very well-defined inputs and outputs and that there is no reason they should not be rock solid.
Kiosks and terminals that perform fairly simple tasks like this have been around forever. Two examples are ATMs and some multiple guess touchscreen terminals I remember seeing as a kid in the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.
Someone mentioned earlier that the machines are running Windows. This seems like a bizarre decision to me. That adds a layer of massive complexity for a machine that's supposed to only do a very basic set of operations (take votes, record votes, disseminate votes to a file and hardcopy). This is extremely similar to what an ATM does, and you don't see banks installing Windows in those - even the new fancy ones that feed you stupid video advertisements while you wait for your transaction to process. A complex OS simply isn't the right tool for the job.
And I am just talking about crashing, above. Apparently these things are also inaccurate. That is a huge software problem. I can not fathom how a program doing such a simple thing (tally votes) can do it inaccurately. Yes, they might have to make sure transactions don't walk on each other, but this is certainly not rocket science.
I think I'll stop here before I go off on a tirade about this likely being a classic example of what happens when you don't use some kind of reasonable engineering methodology.
I wonder if this is in part a response to the U.S. Government's policy to not use some Israeli software products. In particular, I am aware that they refuse to use Checkpoint for security concerns.
I'd be curious to see some of the other tradeoffs, such as the required rackspace per tflop. The G5's are in desktop cases at VT, I'm interested if we are going to see G5 Xserves sometime in the future that have a much better power/rackspace ratio.
I'm also curiuos how much the coolant systems were to build and to operate (and how much power both systems take, while we're at it).
I think it's great to see what Apple can do, but there's other metrics that would be of interest to universities as well.
There is a huge display billboard on the 405 freeway near Long Beach, CA, that plays all sorts of nifty animated advertisements. One day it was almost completely filled with a huge Windows error box.
I've had a couple good experiences with recruiters, though it seems to usually have more to do with the individual than their company. I think it has to do with people who look at business relationships as being long term as opposed to being purely a single transaction.
One in particular has maintained a relationship with me even though he has worked for four different agencies since I've known him for the last few years. I hear from him every six months to a year to just catch up with me. When I have told him I am looking, he will usually run two or three things by me - all of which are extremely well suited for what I am telling him I am interested in. He placed me at one company that was an excellent match, and he doesn't seem to ever get upset when I choose to go places other than the places he's lining me up for.
Most other recruiters I have spoken with just try to match buzzwords on your resume with buzzwords on job postings. But there are a few good ones out there!
(b) "California electronic mail address" or "California e-mail address" means any of the following:
(1) An e-mail address furnished by an electronic mail service provider that sends bills for furnishing and maintaining that e-mail address to a mailing address in this state.
(2) An e-mail address ordinarily accessed from a computer located in this state.
(3) An e-mail address furnished to a resident of this state
I'd say that based on the intent of the law, the answer to that is "no", but it could be argued that point (2) does apply to your situation.
chrisd notes that his company is making SCO employees unhireable.
given the current job market, it is asinine to bar people from consideration for keeping a job at a place like SCO rather than go unemployed. i'm surprised they aren't turning down people from amazon over one-click and people from M$FT while they're at it.
most anybody who would be applying to a job at that place would have had NOTHING to do with the decisions that led to the bogus SCO lawsuits.
why not make a real statement against something more meaningful? for example, people who chose to work for companies that have a bad environmental record or displace native populations in south america, and so on.
When the labels know what people are downloading, they know what to put on the radio, and sales in the area increase.
I wasn't aware that the labels [legally] "put anything on the radio". It probably wouldn't be the best idea for them to build the idea that they do into their business model, since that would be an admission of payola.
Wow, it's weird to see Stanford and Berkely in those high spots for Engineering. Usually the top three for engineering are some combination of MIT, Carneige-Mellon, Caltech, Harvey Mudd, and Rose Hullman. (MIT being almost always #1).
Classified environments often have unclassified terminals with Internet connections, and sometimes information gets onto them that shouldn't be on them.
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Considering that most graphic designers don't know much about networking, scripting or coding, they tend to prefer the Mac.
I find this an ironic statement; the reason I "switched" from PC + FreeBSD to MacOSX a couple years ago is that I finally had a platform that could run office apps while at the same time I could do my networking, scripting, and coding work. Your argument may have made sense prior to MacOS X, but that doesn't make much sense now. If you go to major computer networking forums (e.g., IETF, NANOG), you see growing number of powerbooks because it's very well suited to doing coding/networking.
As a side note, I was considering swtching to FreeBSD-only or to Linux, but decided to go the somewhat more expensive route so that I didn't have to spend a significant time tinkering with my computer to make it work.
I'm curious what is meant by Linux being "more complete" than the other OSes. I would hazard a guess that Windows has more specialized software options available for it than any other OS.
You just proved global warming exists, but you didn't prove WHY. That's the hard part.
I beta tested ATITD version one. It's an intriguing game and worth checking out - there is no combat and no killing. It's all about players collaborating to work on projects together. I didn't play the main game because I don't generally have the 2+ hours a day needed to focus on most MMORPG's, but the beta was fun.
I had the same experience with taking the Pascal test then getting bumped into a second year CS class. However, it was a harder transition for me because in the first year class some OO concepts were taught, which I didn't get at all in AP Computer Science in high school.
To address some other threads, I also got exposure to imperative langauges in that same second year CS class, my school focused much more on concepts than it did on any specific language. We were allowed to use pretty much anything for most assignments in most classes (unless it was OpenGL for Graphics, or something). Someone even turned in an assembly interpreter in Hypercard at one point.
Did you think the Pascal and C++ programmers the AP test was churning out before were somehow more of a threat to you "old-style" programmers?
And on top of that, the poster making $45K said they have a toddler and an infant.
resellers including smalldog.com and macmall.com often offer older models (ones that are totally gone from the apple store) for more reasonable prices.
they are connected to the internet so you can download security patches onto them!
I'm currently under the thumb of a contract in which I'm modifying my own GPL'd code for the company but I can't rerelease the code.
Doesn't that mean your company is breaking the GPL?
I think someone in Alabama or some other State full of Southern Baptists needs to advocate the removal of references to 'daemons' in UNIX since they're Satanic!
It seems that my post is seen by Microsoft Security as being a security violation. The picture itself might have been permissible, but because I also mentioned that I worked at the MSCopy print shop, and which building it was in, it pushed me over the line.
Apparently Microsoft Security is very sensitive about their buildings and what is in them. Microsoft obviously buys Macs - they develop Mac software. This was likely all about having a picture of a piece of the building the guy worked in, and identifying what was in it. He didn't say anything 'embarassing' about Microsoft, but he did compromise their idea of security.
I am a bit confused about how complexity is introduced into these systems. It seems that there are very well-defined inputs and outputs and that there is no reason they should not be rock solid.
Kiosks and terminals that perform fairly simple tasks like this have been around forever. Two examples are ATMs and some multiple guess touchscreen terminals I remember seeing as a kid in the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.
Someone mentioned earlier that the machines are running Windows. This seems like a bizarre decision to me. That adds a layer of massive complexity for a machine that's supposed to only do a very basic set of operations (take votes, record votes, disseminate votes to a file and hardcopy). This is extremely similar to what an ATM does, and you don't see banks installing Windows in those - even the new fancy ones that feed you stupid video advertisements while you wait for your transaction to process. A complex OS simply isn't the right tool for the job.
And I am just talking about crashing, above. Apparently these things are also inaccurate. That is a huge software problem. I can not fathom how a program doing such a simple thing (tally votes) can do it inaccurately. Yes, they might have to make sure transactions don't walk on each other, but this is certainly not rocket science.
I think I'll stop here before I go off on a tirade about this likely being a classic example of what happens when you don't use some kind of reasonable engineering methodology.
I wonder if this is in part a response to the U.S. Government's policy to not use some Israeli software products. In particular, I am aware that they refuse to use Checkpoint for security concerns.
I'd be curious to see some of the other tradeoffs, such as the required rackspace per tflop. The G5's are in desktop cases at VT, I'm interested if we are going to see G5 Xserves sometime in the future that have a much better power/rackspace ratio.
I'm also curiuos how much the coolant systems were to build and to operate (and how much power both systems take, while we're at it).
I think it's great to see what Apple can do, but there's other metrics that would be of interest to universities as well.
it's just the next step of /. mania. first we got posters who haven't read the links. now we have SUBMITTERS who aren't reading them.
10.2.8 is Jaguar, not Panther.
There is a huge display billboard on the 405 freeway near Long Beach, CA, that plays all sorts of nifty animated advertisements. One day it was almost completely filled with a huge Windows error box.
I've had a couple good experiences with recruiters, though it seems to usually have more to do with the individual than their company. I think it has to do with people who look at business relationships as being long term as opposed to being purely a single transaction.
One in particular has maintained a relationship with me even though he has worked for four different agencies since I've known him for the last few years. I hear from him every six months to a year to just catch up with me. When I have told him I am looking, he will usually run two or three things by me - all of which are extremely well suited for what I am telling him I am interested in. He placed me at one company that was an excellent match, and he doesn't seem to ever get upset when I choose to go places other than the places he's lining me up for.
Most other recruiters I have spoken with just try to match buzzwords on your resume with buzzwords on job postings. But there are a few good ones out there!
This is from the law:
(b) "California electronic mail address" or "California e-mail address" means any of the following:
(1) An e-mail address furnished by an electronic mail service provider that sends bills for furnishing and maintaining that e-mail address to a mailing address in this state.
(2) An e-mail address ordinarily accessed from a computer located in this state.
(3) An e-mail address furnished to a resident of this state
I'd say that based on the intent of the law, the answer to that is "no", but it could be argued that point (2) does apply to your situation.
chrisd notes that his company is making SCO employees unhireable.
given the current job market, it is asinine to bar people from consideration for keeping a job at a place like SCO rather than go unemployed. i'm surprised they aren't turning down people from amazon over one-click and people from M$FT while they're at it.
most anybody who would be applying to a job at that place would have had NOTHING to do with the decisions that led to the bogus SCO lawsuits.
why not make a real statement against something more meaningful? for example, people who chose to work for companies that have a bad environmental record or displace native populations in south america, and so on.
When the labels know what people are downloading, they know what to put on the radio, and sales in the area increase.
I wasn't aware that the labels [legally] "put anything on the radio". It probably wouldn't be the best idea for them to build the idea that they do into their business model, since that would be an admission of payola.
Who wants a C? Thats as good as an F in college, if you get a C you can just drop the class and take it again!
So you went to Stanford?
Wow, it's weird to see Stanford and Berkely in those high spots for Engineering. Usually the top three for engineering are some combination of MIT, Carneige-Mellon, Caltech, Harvey Mudd, and Rose Hullman. (MIT being almost always #1).
Just the GPL.
Classified environments often have unclassified terminals with Internet connections, and sometimes information gets onto them that shouldn't be on them.