Wait 'til you find out that you'll need to know REAL SUBJECTS like MATH and PHYSICS to get a degree.
You can't just fake your way through life anymore by cutting/pasting other people's Perl scripts.
Don't get me wrong, I wish you the best, but I like how the world cycles around and Degrees are important once again.
I spent 6 years in college, and they were well spent. I survived the dot-com boom unscathed, never been unemployed one day in my life, and I get to do cool stuff.
It's useful to learn about other religions, so you can know exactly how blasphemous they are (like Christianity's IDOL WORSHIP). I don't consider that a waste of money.
At the company I worked for, we were sick and tired of getting 1000s of mailings from Linux people complaining that we didn't support them--even though they had no intention of paying $$$ for our stuff if it were Linux compatible.
They became as rabid as Mac people
I've switched to FreeBSD for my Unix needs because 1.) Less crazy users and 2.)*FAR FEWER* security problems.
Macintosh nutcases, fruitcakes, and zealots love to use the argument "BETA was better than VHS and it, too, lost."
This argument is a load of CRAP.
VHS was better than beta *for the features that mattered*. Why did VHS win? Because it had a 6 hour recording time available when BETA had 4.5 hours. Users liked to be able to get more shows on one tape. And they preferred that over quality.
It's the same with the Macintosh. I don't care how many "studies" you can pull out of your butts showing "it's easier." For the featured that mattered, the PC was better, and the market voted.
For example, in 1984 when the PC and the Mac came out, the PC offered a real keyboard, 80 columns of text, and IBM terminal emulation. In an office environment, these features were more important than Mac's picture of a garbage can, and the market voted.
The BETA vs VHS argument is *not* a good example of an "inferior" product winning; VHS was better in the features that mattered.
Why don't you go make love to your Macintosh (unplug it first!) and leave the rest of us alone?
Macintosh nutcasees love to use the argument "BETA was better than VHS and it, too, lost."
This argument is a load of CRAP.
VHS was better than beta *for the features that mattered*. Why did VHS win? Because it had a 6 hour recording time available when BETA had 4.5 hours. Users liked to be able to get more shows on one tape. And they preferred that over quality.
It's the same with the Macintosh. I don't care how many "studies" you can pull out of your butts showing "it's easier." For the featured that mattered, the PC was better, and the market voted.
For example, in 1984 when the PC and the Mac came out, the PC offered a real keyboard, 80 columns of text, and IBM terminal emulation. In an office environment, these features were more important than Mac's picture of a garbage can, and the market voted.
The BETA vs VHS argument is *not* a good example of an "inferior" product winning; VHS was better in the features that mattered.
Why don't you go make love to your Macintosh (unplug it first!) and leave the rest of us alone?
I have this crazy desire to "picket" in front of the Apple store in Palo Alto with a sign that says:
MAC OS X 2001 == Unix 1969
It would serve them right.
I really have no bias. for any computer or operating system. In my office, I have a FreeBSD box, a PC running XP, and a Mac G4. The XP box is the most useful. With "cygwin" I can do nearly everything I need Unix for, and it's extremely stable.
The Macintosh (running OS9) tends to "rot." Becuase processes aren't protected against squashing other processes' memory, the machine will get less and less stable until I have to reboot it. Mac people are so used to this that they don't notice. Most Mac users will reboot as a matter of course before starting a new Adobe Illustrator project, for example.
why does Slashdot love Apple so much? Many other companies have integrated PC's with flat-panel displays.
Why does Apple's iMac computer warrent special mention?
I can (sort of) understand some of your objections to Microsoft, but why are PC manufacturers, who provide a range of machines that can run a variety of operating systems, treated lousy, but Macintosh is treated specially?
Apple, with its desire to control the hardware *and* the software, is much more "monopolistic" than Microsoft ever was. It's just that Steve Jobs made an inferior product, and the market made its choice.
...admitted pedophile (he plead guilty) Patrick Naughton as part of his plea bargain . Now, this child-pornographer-turned-FBI agent is using his technical expertise to catch his former buddies with whom he used to exchange pictures of naked little girls. (See Salon article, search for word "baby" in it to see exactly how young Patrick Naughton likes his girls)
It seems to me that Patrick Naughton may have devloped the Java Language initially to facilite searching the internet for child pornography
In my mind, Java is so associated with Naughton and kiddie porn, that I refuse to use it.
PLEASE--check the references here, all on legit news sites--and MODERATE UP! There are too many friends of Patrick Naughton who support Child Pornography that like to moderate these down.
If I want to make a serious inquiry or express an opinion to a company, government agency, or politician, I send a letter.
For even more impact, a Handwritten letter.
Email, being so cheap and easy to send, carries no impact anymore. I hope that people don't stop reading their mail; a first-class letter remains the most effective way of making yourself heard.
It's amazing how sick and twisted Macintosh-ophiles are.
Since 1995, Windows let you distinguish file types from resources in a file. You'd write a "shell extension" to permit the operating system to inspect the file and determine the correct handler for it. (This is, for example, how Adobe Photoshop for Windows puts up thumbnail icons for.psd files. You can rename a.psd file something else and Adobe Photoshop will still find it if you click on it.
The Salon article is written by some whiny Mac-head (they claim that the Mac doesn't have this "problem") who doesn't understand how computers work.
And it's long been hold that mere listings of information, like a PHONE DIRECTORY, can't be copyrighted (but a particular expression can), so you can retypeset the white pages and bind them with your proprietary yellow pages.
Of course, Slashdot readers don't usually let the truth get in the way of a good story. They just like to sit home, hug their Macintoshes and Linux machines, and chuckle to their fat selves.
I was the FIRST PERSON to point out a misspelling in a story about "Florda", yet I was moderated down as "redundant" -- the L1nux sissies who read Slashdot thought that, somehow, I'd know that people would post the same comment _after_ I did.
It's the zeal of the linux crazies on Slashdot that caused me to dump Linux and run FreeBSD.
Which gets me back to this story. The only facts we know are what some site called "LinuxFreak" says. I don't know the facts of the trial. I'm sure the FBI thought he did *something* wrong.
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If I see "Eagle Scout" on a resume, I Won't Hire that person.
It's legal, according to my HR rep, to do that.
I'm sure the NAZIs were good students too (another group similar to the Boy Scouts of America.)
> Do they pay six figures for that these days?
You people are so full of shit! You say "degrees don't mean anything" but apparently you measure people with $$$!
I'm quite sure I'm doing better than you, if that matters. What's more important is that my DICK is bigger than yours, too.
I've been out of school for TWENTY YEARS!
I paid my way through school by WORKING. (My parents didn't pay a cent.)
And, to those unemployed snot-commers who asked, I'm doing quite well, thank you!
...are now scrambling to get one! Ha!
Wait 'til you find out that you'll need to know REAL SUBJECTS like MATH and PHYSICS to get a degree.
You can't just fake your way through life anymore by cutting/pasting other people's Perl scripts.
Don't get me wrong, I wish you the best, but I like how the world cycles around and Degrees are important once again.
I spent 6 years in college, and they were well spent. I survived the dot-com boom unscathed, never been unemployed one day in my life, and I get to do cool stuff.
It's useful to learn about other religions, so you can know exactly how blasphemous they are (like Christianity's IDOL WORSHIP). I don't consider that a waste of money.
I am a very religious person, but not a christian.
STOP SHOVING YOUR GRAVEN-IMAGE-PLASTIC-IDOL-ON-A-WOODEN-STICK DOWN MY THROAT.
What ever happened to separation of church and state? I find this whole thing highly offensive.
At the company I worked for, we were sick and tired of getting 1000s of mailings from Linux people complaining that we didn't support them--even though they had no intention of paying $$$ for our stuff if it were Linux compatible.
They became as rabid as Mac people
I've switched to FreeBSD for my Unix needs because 1.) Less crazy users and 2.)*FAR FEWER* security problems.
Macintosh nutcases, fruitcakes, and zealots love to use the argument "BETA was better than VHS and it, too, lost."
This argument is a load of CRAP.
VHS was better than beta *for the features that mattered*. Why did VHS win? Because it had a 6 hour recording time available when BETA had 4.5 hours. Users liked to be able to get more shows on one tape. And they preferred that over quality.
It's the same with the Macintosh. I don't care how many "studies" you can pull out of your butts showing "it's easier." For the featured that mattered, the PC was better, and the market voted.
For example, in 1984 when the PC and the Mac came out, the PC offered a real keyboard, 80 columns of text, and IBM terminal emulation. In an office environment, these features were more important than Mac's picture of a garbage can, and the market voted.
The BETA vs VHS argument is *not* a good example of an "inferior" product winning; VHS was better in the features that mattered.
Why don't you go make love to your Macintosh (unplug it first!) and leave the rest of us alone?
This argument is a load of CRAP.
VHS was better than beta *for the features that mattered*. Why did VHS win? Because it had a 6 hour recording time available when BETA had 4.5 hours. Users liked to be able to get more shows on one tape. And they preferred that over quality.
It's the same with the Macintosh. I don't care how many "studies" you can pull out of your butts showing "it's easier." For the featured that mattered, the PC was better, and the market voted.
For example, in 1984 when the PC and the Mac came out, the PC offered a real keyboard, 80 columns of text, and IBM terminal emulation. In an office environment, these features were more important than Mac's picture of a garbage can, and the market voted.
The BETA vs VHS argument is *not* a good example of an "inferior" product winning; VHS was better in the features that mattered.
Why don't you go make love to your Macintosh (unplug it first!) and leave the rest of us alone?
MAC OS X 2001 == Unix 1969
It would serve them right.
I really have no bias. for any computer or operating system. In my office, I have a FreeBSD box, a PC running XP, and a Mac G4. The XP box is the most useful. With "cygwin" I can do nearly everything I need Unix for, and it's extremely stable.
The Macintosh (running OS9) tends to "rot." Becuase processes aren't protected against squashing other processes' memory, the machine will get less and less stable until I have to reboot it. Mac people are so used to this that they don't notice. Most Mac users will reboot as a matter of course before starting a new Adobe Illustrator project, for example.
Why does Apple's iMac computer warrent special mention?
I can (sort of) understand some of your objections to Microsoft, but why are PC manufacturers, who provide a range of machines that can run a variety of operating systems, treated lousy, but Macintosh is treated specially?
Apple, with its desire to control the hardware *and* the software, is much more "monopolistic" than Microsoft ever was. It's just that Steve Jobs made an inferior product, and the market made its choice.
It seems to me that Patrick Naughton may have devloped the Java Language initially to facilite searching the internet for child pornography
In my mind, Java is so associated with Naughton and kiddie porn, that I refuse to use it.
PLEASE--check the references here, all on legit news sites--and MODERATE UP! There are too many friends of Patrick Naughton who support Child Pornography that like to moderate these down.
Here's what you do:
-Become about 30 pounds overweight
-Grow a long scraggly beard
-Stop bathing regularly
-Learn some disparaging jokes about those "other" operating systems
-Start using Unix command, like fsck and chmod, in everyday conversation
-Have a large collection of Star Wars action figures that you can decorate your cubicle with (and a light saber, too!)
If I want to make a serious inquiry or express an opinion to a company, government agency, or politician, I send a letter.
For even more impact, a Handwritten letter.
Email, being so cheap and easy to send, carries no impact anymore. I hope that people don't stop reading their mail; a first-class letter remains the most effective way of making yourself heard.
FUCK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.
The article I posted contained NO flamebait.
Slashdot has lost all its credibility.
I hope our armed services DRAFT all you young punks and send you to AFGHANISTAN. Maybe you'll get a dose of reality then.
Since 1995, Windows let you distinguish file types from resources in a file. You'd write a "shell extension" to permit the operating system to inspect the file and determine the correct handler for it. (This is, for example, how Adobe Photoshop for Windows puts up thumbnail icons for
The Salon article is written by some whiny Mac-head (they claim that the Mac doesn't have this "problem") who doesn't understand how computers work.
Maybe to lure little girls over for immoral purposes?
And it's long been hold that mere listings of information, like a PHONE DIRECTORY, can't be copyrighted (but a particular expression can), so you can retypeset the white pages and bind them with your proprietary yellow pages.
Here's some information about this.
Of course, Slashdot readers don't usually let the truth get in the way of a good story. They just like to sit home, hug their Macintoshes and Linux machines, and chuckle to their fat selves.
But if companies insist on hiring H1-B programmers who can't speak English and have dubious credentials, we get low quality software.
Face it, Microsoft has millions of supporters, buy a tiny, vocal group of anti-Microsoft crazies (like Guy Kawasaki).
I've almost gave up on it and switched ti Kuro5hin!. I hope that this "banjo" thing makes things better.
I was the FIRST PERSON to point out a misspelling in a story about "Florda", yet I was moderated down as "redundant" -- the L1nux sissies who read Slashdot thought that, somehow, I'd know that people would post the same comment _after_ I did.
It's the zeal of the linux crazies on Slashdot that caused me to dump Linux and run FreeBSD.
Which gets me back to this story. The only facts we know are what some site called "LinuxFreak" says. I don't know the facts of the trial. I'm sure the FBI thought he did *something* wrong.
Is is, sort of, how the south'ners say things, but you really should spell it correctly!