Teenagers are inhaling paint thiner and now this! Now I can prove that the world WILL destroy it self. In other news, a 15 year old playing around with his own DNA, has grown 4 extra heads. Mean while 17 other deaths from teenagers tring to make there dicks bigger. I can see it now.
Why sit here and waste the energy with 10 million differant formats. Why not create a standard. I know MS would not like that, but, thats there problem. Yet, another reason why people should think about not using there products. I think a standard is long overdue for, documents, spreadsheets, etc.. Remeber 10 years ago where there was 10,000 differant types of databases. Foxpro, dbase, etc.. Now we have SQL, which makes life sooo much easier. I hate it when people use.doc for sending stuff to me. I had a company send me there price list in that format. I told them that unless they sent me it in plain text format, I refussed to buy from them. After a number of emails back and forth, I was told that I am using an OS that is garbage becuase its not MS. Don't get me wrong, I could have converted it. Bt, its not worth my time. PDF is another example. I won't use it, becuase its a stuiped properity format owned by 1 company. If it was an open standard, I would use it. If the file format goes with there product only I can understand that. But, if there is 10 products very simular to it, I think its a waste of my time and everyone else. Ok, I have stepped off my soap box now...
Like reading all of the sarcastic funny slashdot comments. Gotta love it. Well, I haven't seen it, but, EVERYONE everywhere says its horriable. So, the good thing is, I can stop hearing about that little spainish kid in cubia. Damn, give it up already.
I am very happy to see something like this! Why you might ask, becuase *maybe* it will start making people wake up. People need to relize that computers are NOT Windows.
Let me tell you, they are burning every single bridge they have left. MS, don't bite the hand that hand that feeds you. Soon, there won't be any more food down the road. I am seriously begin to think that Bill is losing his mind. No joke, the bussiness moves he is making are completly crazy.
I am begining to think that Bill wants "us" to win. People of the world, WAKE UP!!
" So what's to prevent the two new companies from poking holes in their firewalls for each other and sharing information informally? " Where talking about a ms product here, the damned thing is like swiss cheese already.
... its bad enough worring about power surges blowing out your equiment. Now, everything on the network gets blown apart. I dunno, seems like an intersting idea, but, something is bound to go wrong.
My girlfriends kids use Linux all the time. They range in age from 6 to 9. They know how to login, start up X, load Quake3 and play there games. Outside of that, they really can't do that much. But, they are learning. My gf wanted to teach them on somethimg easier like Windows. I refussed, let them learn something! The biggest thing you have to remember is that THEY have to want to learn. If they are not interested, they won't to do.
VB wouldn't be such a bad idea. I started in BASIC and Turbo Pascal. (Mostly Pascal) No matter how much bashing you do on MS, for simple things windows will do. But, for anything that requires any sort of power. Then theres good `ol *nix!
I think starting off with "Hello world" is way too simple. Start showing them what you can do. Write something for them. Then example to them that it does take sometime to learn to program.
Give them some goal, write a simple text based game. ( gotta love those:) Then they have something to shoot for. Once they get going, let them go at there pas. But, don't let them give up.
When I start in programming, my uncle just got an XT and was taking a few programing classes in Turbo Pascal. He started showing what he could do and what the computer can do. Since I had not used a computer yet, I thought it was amazing. He showed me a bunch of games on the computer. Some of which basicly sucked. So, I figured that I would make my own. I think that was the driving force behind me getting into computers in general. Well, I never wrote a game, except for a few little BS things. When everyone was getting Pentiums and I still had a 486. I kind of gave up, until about 2 years ago. I was creating a website that was going to be used for my company. I just got into Linux a little while before this and I figured that I would try doing some stuff in Perl. Then ever since I am doing websites full time. I use PHP mainly these days. I have started learning C, but, I feel thats a little beyond what I need to know. As funny as it sounds, I can read C, but can't write it. I can go through a program and understand it fairly well. But, when it comes to writting it, well, thats another story. If anyone wants to get into programming, you NEED some sort of goal. What type of programming are you going to do, database, kernel, games, web, system utils, GUI frontends, GUI apps, etc... Find a program you would like to make, and go for it! Start writting things for yourself. Besides "hello world". If you a fairly decent at writting something, go out and start making small programs that you would find usefull for yourself. Do you play Quake with a dedicated server ? Write a program to create config files. Always start small, but, have a bigger goal. Its kind of like why do people go and becomes proctolodists. ( how ever you spell that ), do they say, I want to look at peoples assholes all day. No! They find something intresting about that subject. Find what you are intresting in. Not, what the rest of the world is working on. Becuase, in 5 years, the world will change greatly in computers.
AMD kicks ass. I have used them in every computer I have bought in the past 5 years. ( About 25 )
But, I am a little conserned about the whole duron thing. I don't like to idea of a economy chip. My girlfriend ones a celeron 400, my AMD-300 kicks its ass up and down the block. Why ? Becuase celeron suck. I know they can be overclocked and everything.
AMD has been busting there ass's for years to make a go name for them selfs. Know that there starting to kick Intel to the curb, there following in intels foot steps with bad ideas. Go into an newbie computer store. What do people think, celeron is good, cheap and a better. People think they bought a Ford Mustang when they really bought a Dodge Neon.
I would prefear that AMD not release half assed chips. It tends to casuse to much confussion in new user land. Which ends up making my job harder! "I want a celeron", "no, you don't", "I want a celeron, I heard that they are really...."
Think about it as a car then... You go out and buy a brand new mustang. Sure, from the factory its pretty quick. Quick enough for most, sure. Quick enough for eveyone. No! You got those guys out there that will do anything for more speed, remove seats, radios, replace headers, change the timing, cool the intack, etc...
The point is that people like to grab all of the horse power they can out of anything. If Ford or any other car company put something on a fast car that would completly stop it from go over a certain speed, how many people do you think would buy it ??? Think about neons, ( i know they suck, I own one:), Chrysler found that people love putting preformace parts on there cars, but, hate voiding there warientys, so they made OEM parts that are high preformance. And people LOVE it! There are a great number of people I know that but neons for racing.
All and all, any chip company would do sooo much better if they did not put anything in the chip to make them go faster. People are aware of how chips are made, people know what they do to limit the speed. If I bough an AMD-500 and it was really a 600 in a AMD-500 case. I would love to jump up the speed. Are they lossing money, no, not really. If I bought an AMD-500 and it was really a 500....
Rember the days before wolfenstien and doom ? Software companys went great length to prevent anyone from doing anything other then what the game was intended for. Then the day came when people started figureing out how to edit a map and replace the last guy with barney. Then companys like ID, finally got the idea that people got a kick out of this stuff. So, they started to allow it, then 1st person shoot `em up games got to the point of quake3 of today. 1,000,000 different mods for it. What the hell does this have to do with overclocking ? A lot! One day, AMD, Intel, ( and others ) will relize that there products will sell better if that don't try to make it harder for people to overclock there CPUs. Thell make it easier! Thats when the will complety kill the other guy. Just my $0.02
I have never playied around with CF or mivia. My uncle programs with Mivia full time and he loves it. I tried to show him PHP, but, it said it was to complex to use. I have used Perl for quite some time now, I think it is by far _the_ nicest langague I have used. But, there is a serious draw back. Its very slow, thats why I used PHP. Yes, there are things like mod_perl, but there too much of a pain in the ass to get working correctly. The only thing I do not like about PHP, is that it does look ugly. The way arrays are used complety sucks comparied to Perl. Pretty much I use both, PHP for web stuff, Perl for eveything else.
I would sy the most important thing is to talk it over with your boss(s) and get it in writting. This way, if there ever where any problems, then you have proof and something to fall back on. If you feel that this could lead to a real problem, talk to a lawyer. What ever you do, I would make sure you have some sort of a written aggrement stating what you are doing and who owns it.
I sure hope all of this greatly influcing the DOJs dession on breaking up MS. I hope the rest of the world starts waking up to MSs crap and takes action. Its just a matter of time.... First they ignore Then the laugh at you Then they fight you Then you win! ( I forget who thats by )
This is an outrage. This is plain and simply freedom of speach. I *WILL* not allow MS's monolpoy control my freedom of expression. There tring to domonate the software world, now this. I REALLY can't wait until the DOJ breaks them up. This is a clasic example of the crap they are try to pull. Slashdot will not go down in flames becuase there whining that no one likes them or there software. Fight em! You/we will win!
I would love the lawyers to try to sue me for downloading a song off a CD I already own. So, why would I download it and not just rip it ? I bought the CD a couple of years ago and it became badly scratched and there is NO way I am going to spend $20 for a CD that cost $10 when I bought it. I would not even spend the $10. Sure, this is one legitimate use of MP3s and I am sure that not eveyone is doing that though. I am not suprised that they are doing this. They where *GREAT* back in the day. Now there all washed up and looking for a handout. Face it, they suck now. After the black albulm that went down hill. I guess that would be the same for Dr. Dre. I have lost a lot of repect for them. Know, don't get me wrong, they do own the music. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
After I upgraded rh6.2 a few weeks ago, I didn't even bother looking in the apache directory. I was working on redoing my LAN at that point. Then I noticed it by addicedent. What really got me was the fact the password was addversied right there that it needs to be changed and it was still the default.
I don't know why rh put it in there, I did not say to put anything with clusters in it.
If you are going to it in there, fine, make the default password a random number or something.
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Teenagers are inhaling paint thiner and now this! Now I can prove that the world WILL destroy it self. In other news, a 15 year old playing around with his own DNA, has grown 4 extra heads. Mean while 17 other deaths from teenagers tring to make there dicks bigger. I can see it now.
Why sit here and waste the energy with 10 million differant formats. Why not create a standard. I know MS would not like that, but, thats there problem. Yet, another reason why people should think about not using there products. I think a standard is long overdue for, documents, spreadsheets, etc.. Remeber 10 years ago where there was 10,000 differant types of databases. Foxpro, dbase, etc.. Now we have SQL, which makes life sooo much easier. I hate it when people use .doc for sending stuff to me. I had a company send me there price list in that format. I told them that unless they sent me it in plain text format, I refussed to buy from them. After a number of emails back and forth, I was told that I am using an OS that is garbage becuase its not MS. Don't get me wrong, I could have converted it. Bt, its not worth my time. PDF is another example. I won't use it, becuase its a stuiped properity format owned by 1 company. If it was an open standard, I would use it. If the file format goes with there product only I can understand that. But, if there is 10 products very simular to it, I think its a waste of my time and everyone else. Ok, I have stepped off my soap box now...
I am happy that he is being reconized as the one who started it all. He is truely the one who started it all.
Like reading all of the sarcastic funny slashdot comments. Gotta love it. Well, I haven't seen it, but, EVERYONE everywhere says its horriable. So, the good thing is, I can stop hearing about that little spainish kid in cubia. Damn, give it up already.
I am very happy to see something like this! Why you might ask, becuase *maybe* it will start making people wake up. People need to relize that computers are NOT Windows.
Let me tell you, they are burning every single bridge they have left. MS, don't bite the hand that hand that feeds you. Soon, there won't be any more food down the road. I am seriously begin to think that Bill is losing his mind. No joke, the bussiness moves he is making are completly crazy.
I am begining to think that Bill wants "us" to win. People of the world, WAKE UP!!
" So what's to prevent the two new companies from poking holes in their firewalls for each other and sharing information informally? " Where talking about a ms product here, the damned thing is like swiss cheese already.
... its bad enough worring about power surges blowing out your equiment. Now, everything on the network gets blown apart. I dunno, seems like an intersting idea, but, something is bound to go wrong.
I recived mine yesterday. I went to active my account and it is refussing to co-operate. Anyone else have this porblem ??
My girlfriends kids use Linux all the time. They range in age from 6 to 9. They know how to login, start up X, load Quake3 and play there games. Outside of that, they really can't do that much. But, they are learning. My gf wanted to teach them on somethimg easier like Windows. I refussed, let them learn something! The biggest thing you have to remember is that THEY have to want to learn. If they are not interested, they won't to do.
:) Then they have something to shoot for. Once they get going, let them go at there pas. But, don't let them give up.
VB wouldn't be such a bad idea. I started in BASIC and Turbo Pascal. (Mostly Pascal) No matter how much bashing you do on MS, for simple things windows will do. But, for anything that requires any sort of power. Then theres good `ol *nix!
I think starting off with "Hello world" is way too simple. Start showing them what you can do. Write something for them. Then example to them that it does take sometime to learn to program.
Give them some goal, write a simple text based game. ( gotta love those
BTW: parse error on line 2.
That should read
----- if ($anyone_cares) {print "Just Another Perl Newbie";}
:)
When I start in programming, my uncle just got an XT and was taking a few programing classes in Turbo Pascal. He started showing what he could do and what the computer can do. Since I had not used a computer yet, I thought it was amazing. He showed me a bunch of games on the computer. Some of which basicly sucked. So, I figured that I would make my own. I think that was the driving force behind me getting into computers in general. Well, I never wrote a game, except for a few little BS things. When everyone was getting Pentiums and I still had a 486. I kind of gave up, until about 2 years ago. I was creating a website that was going to be used for my company. I just got into Linux a little while before this and I figured that I would try doing some stuff in Perl. Then ever since I am doing websites full time. I use PHP mainly these days. I have started learning C, but, I feel thats a little beyond what I need to know. As funny as it sounds, I can read C, but can't write it. I can go through a program and understand it fairly well. But, when it comes to writting it, well, thats another story. If anyone wants to get into programming, you NEED some sort of goal. What type of programming are you going to do, database, kernel, games, web, system utils, GUI frontends, GUI apps, etc... Find a program you would like to make, and go for it! Start writting things for yourself. Besides "hello world". If you a fairly decent at writting something, go out and start making small programs that you would find usefull for yourself. Do you play Quake with a dedicated server ? Write a program to create config files. Always start small, but, have a bigger goal. Its kind of like why do people go and becomes proctolodists. ( how ever you spell that ), do they say, I want to look at peoples assholes all day. No! They find something intresting about that subject. Find what you are intresting in. Not, what the rest of the world is working on. Becuase, in 5 years, the world will change greatly in computers.
AMD kicks ass. I have used them in every computer I have bought in the past 5 years. ( About 25 )
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But, I am a little conserned about the whole duron thing. I don't like to idea of a economy chip. My girlfriend ones a celeron 400, my AMD-300 kicks its ass up and down the block. Why ? Becuase celeron suck. I know they can be overclocked and everything.
AMD has been busting there ass's for years to make a go name for them selfs. Know that there starting to kick Intel to the curb, there following in intels foot steps with bad ideas. Go into an newbie computer store. What do people think, celeron is good, cheap and a better. People think they bought a Ford Mustang when they really bought a Dodge Neon.
I would prefear that AMD not release half assed chips. It tends to casuse to much confussion in new user land. Which ends up making my job harder! "I want a celeron", "no, you don't", "I want a celeron, I heard that they are really
Think about it as a car then... You go out and buy a brand new mustang. Sure, from the factory its pretty quick. Quick enough for most, sure. Quick enough for eveyone. No! You got those guys out there that will do anything for more speed, remove seats, radios, replace headers, change the timing, cool the intack, etc...
:), Chrysler found that people love putting preformace parts on there cars, but, hate voiding there warientys, so they made OEM parts that are high preformance. And people LOVE it! There are a great number of people I know that but neons for racing.
....
The point is that people like to grab all of the horse power they can out of anything. If Ford or any other car company put something on a fast car that would completly stop it from go over a certain speed, how many people do you think would buy it ??? Think about neons, ( i know they suck, I own one
All and all, any chip company would do sooo much better if they did not put anything in the chip to make them go faster. People are aware of how chips are made, people know what they do to limit the speed. If I bough an AMD-500 and it was really a 600 in a AMD-500 case. I would love to jump up the speed. Are they lossing money, no, not really. If I bought an AMD-500 and it was really a 500
I think you get the point
Rember the days before wolfenstien and doom ? Software companys went great length to prevent anyone from doing anything other then what the game was intended for. Then the day came when people started figureing out how to edit a map and replace the last guy with barney. Then companys like ID, finally got the idea that people got a kick out of this stuff. So, they started to allow it, then 1st person shoot `em up games got to the point of quake3 of today. 1,000,000 different mods for it. What the hell does this have to do with overclocking ? A lot! One day, AMD, Intel, ( and others ) will relize that there products will sell better if that don't try to make it harder for people to overclock there CPUs. Thell make it easier! Thats when the will complety kill the other guy. Just my $0.02
I have never playied around with CF or mivia. My uncle programs with Mivia full time and he loves it. I tried to show him PHP, but, it said it was to complex to use. I have used Perl for quite some time now, I think it is by far _the_ nicest langague I have used. But, there is a serious draw back. Its very slow, thats why I used PHP. Yes, there are things like mod_perl, but there too much of a pain in the ass to get working correctly. The only thing I do not like about PHP, is that it does look ugly. The way arrays are used complety sucks comparied to Perl. Pretty much I use both, PHP for web stuff, Perl for eveything else.
I would sy the most important thing is to talk it over with your boss(s) and get it in writting. This way, if there ever where any problems, then you have proof and something to fall back on. If you feel that this could lead to a real problem, talk to a lawyer. What ever you do, I would make sure you have some sort of a written aggrement stating what you are doing and who owns it.
I sure hope all of this greatly influcing the DOJs dession on breaking up MS. I hope the rest of the world starts waking up to MSs crap and takes action. Its just a matter of time .... First they ignore Then the laugh at you Then they fight you Then you win! ( I forget who thats by )
This is an outrage. This is plain and simply freedom of speach. I *WILL* not allow MS's monolpoy control my freedom of expression. There tring to domonate the software world, now this. I REALLY can't wait until the DOJ breaks them up. This is a clasic example of the crap they are try to pull. Slashdot will not go down in flames becuase there whining that no one likes them or there software. Fight em! You/we will win!
I would love the lawyers to try to sue me for downloading a song off a CD I already own. So, why would I download it and not just rip it ? I bought the CD a couple of years ago and it became badly scratched and there is NO way I am going to spend $20 for a CD that cost $10 when I bought it. I would not even spend the $10. Sure, this is one legitimate use of MP3s and I am sure that not eveyone is doing that though. I am not suprised that they are doing this. They where *GREAT* back in the day. Now there all washed up and looking for a handout. Face it, they suck now. After the black albulm that went down hill. I guess that would be the same for Dr. Dre. I have lost a lot of repect for them. Know, don't get me wrong, they do own the music. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
After I upgraded rh6.2 a few weeks ago, I didn't even bother looking in the apache directory. I was working on redoing my LAN at that point. Then I noticed it by addicedent. What really got me was the fact the password was addversied right there that it needs to be changed and it was still the default. I don't know why rh put it in there, I did not say to put anything with clusters in it. If you are going to it in there, fine, make the default password a random number or something.
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