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And at least spellcheck your articles before you post them?
I counted 5 grammar, style, and punctuation errors in the post.
The only high point of this one is that there is not a blatantly editorializing comment slapped on the end as is the norm here on SlashDork.
Granted, this site has never been mistaken for "literary," but in order to move it to the next level, and build a reputation, you've got to pay attention to the details.
That is, or course, unless you (and your parent company) are satistifed with a demographic of 14-to-20-year-old fanb0yz and bored, unproductive developers.
I am swiftly tiring of the steadily declining quality of the articles posted here. I ceased reading comments a year ago because the moderation system is so completely broken, and my only request at this point (like Woody Allen's famous restaurant review) is for more articles, but with higher quality. You geeks can have a big discussion parade, waving your sticky keyboards down the lane, but give me some actual "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
P.S. Why is 'Nerds' Capitalized in Slashdot's tagline? Is it suddenly a noun which describes a recognized group of people, like a religion, political party, or secret society?
You're missing the leap implicit in our young friend's comment:
The apps they are talking about are Carbon or Classic apps that would need to be significantally modified to compile on x86.
So, Apple would have to write an emulator to allow these apps to run within OSX on x86. Problem is, they'd be doing this from scratch. I mean, know any good PPC emulators?
On the other hand, could they do something like add a slower G4 to the system, as a CPU dedicated to these legacy apps, and then tweak the Carbon APIs to use it? There is a precedent here from the days of the first PPC's and PPC upgrades.
Let me guess, you probably follow the directions on the back of the mac & cheese box, too.
Fragments are ok sometimes -- their abruptness is part of their meaning. And you seem to have no problem with the fact that the sentence in question starts with a conjunction. Why didn't you fault him on that?
There is a difference between saying "Computers are going nowhere" and saying "Computers aren't going anywhere."
The difference in connotation should be obvious, at least to a native speaker. If you are not a native speaker, then this has been a blunt attempt at American Idiomatic English instruction.
You know why cats bring the animals they kill in the house? Not trying to teach humans to hunt, as one sod suggested -- rather, they are showing their pet humans that they care forthem , and will provide for them.
Now, you don't think they bring every rodent they kill into the house, do you?
But a Ho like you must be used to being treated that way.
Why, when I was a contract employee for Verizon, my manager would beat the sh*t out of me at least once a day, and I liked it! I begged for more!
Now I have a 'real' job, and get to take abuse from college-educated people with a single motivating factor: Get ahead at any cost, as long as it does not involve doing the work yourself.
OK, I hope you just haven't had your coffee yet today -- your math's a little off:
$4 to start + 50% increase != $8 (that would be a 100% increase)
The progression should be:
4
6
9
13.5
20.25...
Still, I find that hard fathom, realistically. On the other hand, I myself started in a tech job at $9 an hour (ISP tech support) and I'm happy to say my increase has stayed close to the same curve (although not linearly).
That's the beauty of the tech world -- your skills ARE more valued than your degree (mine's in Analytic Philosophy) -- but to a point. Lacking a degree of any sort will hinder you beyond a certain level. But that degree doesn't have to be in CS.
On the other hand, as has been discussed here many times before, it can be just as difficult to continue to "move up" if you want to do nothing but code. -- But I'll leave that to the other/.er's
Toganet
I do handle purchasing for the I.S. dept of a medium-sized (~500 users) health care company. We exclusively buy Dell desktops, and until recently, IBM Thinkpads (T-series). Last month we switched to Dell Latitude C600-series notebooks. Why? Were we dissatisfied with IBM's product? No -- we loved the Thinkpads, the employees loved them (although you couldn't tell from the broken LCDs) -- but their service sucks in comparison to Dell's. D
ell gives us 24-hour turnaround service, a tech comes out to do the repair, and we don't pay a dime unless it's our fault.
Contrast that with IBM -- we call them, maybe they'll authorize us to send it in (but I'm telling you, the screen is broken! How is replacing the battery going to fix that?) then we wait 1-2 WEEKS until the laptop gets back, and maybe it is fixed, maybe it is not.
Ok, maybe I am a little bitter towards IBM's warranty department. I only hope that in 6 months I don't feel this way toward Dell's.
A definite must-read for someone of your professed interests is Future Perfect : American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century
by Howard Bruce Franklin
It's sort of a history of the genre with a great selection of the early, influential works that really inspired the whole SF thing. Great commentary too.
I've run Debian 2.2 on a 486DX50 with 8MB of RAM -- X works, but I'd recommend a low-weight window manager (Blackbox, IceWM, TWM). You can do the base install from floppy, then complete the install using apt-get and/or dselect via FTP/HTTP/NFS.
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And at least spellcheck your articles before you post them?
I counted 5 grammar, style, and punctuation errors in the post.
The only high point of this one is that there is not a blatantly editorializing comment slapped on the end as is the norm here on SlashDork.
Granted, this site has never been mistaken for "literary," but in order to move it to the next level, and build a reputation, you've got to pay attention to the details.
That is, or course, unless you (and your parent company) are satistifed with a demographic of 14-to-20-year-old fanb0yz and bored, unproductive developers.
I am swiftly tiring of the steadily declining quality of the articles posted here. I ceased reading comments a year ago because the moderation system is so completely broken, and my only request at this point (like Woody Allen's famous restaurant review) is for more articles, but with higher quality. You geeks can have a big discussion parade, waving your sticky keyboards down the lane, but give me some actual "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
P.S. Why is 'Nerds' Capitalized in Slashdot's tagline? Is it suddenly a noun which describes a recognized group of people, like a religion, political party, or secret society?
You're missing the leap implicit in our young friend's comment:
The apps they are talking about are Carbon or Classic apps that would need to be significantally modified to compile on x86.
So, Apple would have to write an emulator to allow these apps to run within OSX on x86. Problem is, they'd be doing this from scratch. I mean, know any good PPC emulators?
On the other hand, could they do something like add a slower G4 to the system, as a CPU dedicated to these legacy apps, and then tweak the Carbon APIs to use it? There is a precedent here from the days of the first PPC's and PPC upgrades.
That's the only way I can sleep at night.
Let me guess, you probably follow the directions on the back of the mac & cheese box, too.
Fragments are ok sometimes -- their abruptness is part of their meaning. And you seem to have no problem with the fact that the sentence in question starts with a conjunction. Why didn't you fault him on that?
There is a difference between saying "Computers are going nowhere" and saying "Computers aren't going anywhere."
The difference in connotation should be obvious, at least to a native speaker. If you are not a native speaker, then this has been a blunt attempt at American Idiomatic English instruction.
You know why cats bring the animals they kill in the house? Not trying to teach humans to hunt, as one sod suggested -- rather, they are showing their pet humans that they care forthem , and will provide for them.
Now, you don't think they bring every rodent they kill into the house, do you?
But a Ho like you must be used to being treated that way.
Why, when I was a contract employee for Verizon, my manager would beat the sh*t out of me at least once a day, and I liked it! I begged for more!
Now I have a 'real' job, and get to take abuse from college-educated people with a single motivating factor: Get ahead at any cost, as long as it does not involve doing the work yourself.
Toganet
OK, I hope you just haven't had your coffee yet today -- your math's a little off: $4 to start + 50% increase != $8 (that would be a 100% increase) The progression should be: 4 6 9 13.5 20.25 ...
Still, I find that hard fathom, realistically. On the other hand, I myself started in a tech job at $9 an hour (ISP tech support) and I'm happy to say my increase has stayed close to the same curve (although not linearly).
That's the beauty of the tech world -- your skills ARE more valued than your degree (mine's in Analytic Philosophy) -- but to a point. Lacking a degree of any sort will hinder you beyond a certain level. But that degree doesn't have to be in CS.
On the other hand, as has been discussed here many times before, it can be just as difficult to continue to "move up" if you want to do nothing but code. -- But I'll leave that to the other /.er's
Toganet
I do handle purchasing for the I.S. dept of a medium-sized (~500 users) health care company. We exclusively buy Dell desktops, and until recently, IBM Thinkpads (T-series). Last month we switched to Dell Latitude C600-series notebooks. Why? Were we dissatisfied with IBM's product? No -- we loved the Thinkpads, the employees loved them (although you couldn't tell from the broken LCDs) -- but their service sucks in comparison to Dell's. D
ell gives us 24-hour turnaround service, a tech comes out to do the repair, and we don't pay a dime unless it's our fault.
Contrast that with IBM -- we call them, maybe they'll authorize us to send it in (but I'm telling you, the screen is broken! How is replacing the battery going to fix that?) then we wait 1-2 WEEKS until the laptop gets back, and maybe it is fixed, maybe it is not.
Ok, maybe I am a little bitter towards IBM's warranty department. I only hope that in 6 months I don't feel this way toward Dell's.
NO, but the PPC port does. And PPC RS/6000s use the MCA bus.
Now who's on crack?
A definite must-read for someone of your professed interests is
Future Perfect : American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century by Howard Bruce Franklin
It's sort of a history of the genre with a great selection of the early, influential works that really inspired the whole SF thing. Great commentary too.
Your University library should have it.
If they don't... transfer.
Just my $0.02.
I've run Debian 2.2 on a 486DX50 with 8MB of RAM -- X works, but I'd recommend a low-weight window manager (Blackbox, IceWM, TWM). You can do the base install from floppy, then complete the install using apt-get and/or dselect via FTP/HTTP/NFS.