An 'evolving stance'? Isn't that the same damn thing as 'straddling the fence' or 'flip-flopping'? When HASN'T a politician had an 'evolving stance'? Listen to any of them talk at different locations and they contridcut themselves more often than not.
Each of these morons is nothing more than the puppet of their respective parties. Neither one is a LEADER in any respect. Although, I give the nod to McCain simply based on the fact that the man fought in a war as a fighter pilot. Obama? What the hell has he done? He's first term Sneator and thinks he can run for President?
Help us all if they are the best we have to offer.
I just took a look at the demo (And since I"m a Gentoo user, can't install the plugin) and why the hell does every female avatar in there look like a damn elf? I mean I don't know of any girl alive who has eyes like that. Do the guys at google masturbate to Bratz dolls or something? That's ridiculous.
for goodness sake, WHY? Seriously. Does Microsoft really think Yahoo will help them? It'll just make a bloated conglomerate even more bloated with extraneous staff and duplicate job junctions. Sure, some of those will be weeded out, but dammit, when will MS get the point that they don't need to be BIGGER, they need to be LEANER and more efficient in doing things. Get rid of redundant redundancy. Stop having 12 guys work on the Start menu. And you wonder why their products are so bloody crappy now. Will they ever learn?
but can we PLEASE work on getting apps to run on more than just ONE core/processor for now? I mean it's amazing how many apps still are not SMP aware unless you can (possibly) compile them for that purpose and even then you don't always get the kind of increase you would expect. Let's start with programming on 2 cores and then maybe go to 4 or more. For now, the kind of stuff Intel is discussing is moot. If we can't get shit to run on 2 procs, why do we bother with thinking about 12?
I live in NC and one more part of this story should be told. They are recalling all the plates that start with 'XXX' because some fruit thought it offensive. I don't think it's offensive so why should I be penalized for this nutters pissy attitude.
I'm sick to death of being some big company's bitch. I don't get dinner and a drink before they ask me to drop trou, grab my ankles and spell run. The hell with Apple and AT&T. It's a bloody phone, people! It is supposed to make and receive voice calls. Instead, it's a portable porn viewer that makes calls. Idiots. When will upgrade fatigue hit the Mac fanboys?
Oh this is JUST GREAT. Let's just let the calculator do it. Hey MORON, who do you think developed the bloody calculator? Engineers who had to build it with a slide rule, and a damn good dose of mathematics. Are you completely barmy? How are we to advance beyond the 'calculator' stage if we don't know how they do they math?
How is my 17 year old daughter going to know that the answer the calculator gives is correct? Does she just assume? Do you remember the math bugs in Excel? In the early Pentium processors?
See, this kind of mentality is what is killing American education.
That and the fact that you obviously aren't that educated to say 'Maths has changed'. If you can't get grammar right, who the hell do you think you are to even offer an opinion on math?
But sadly, there WILL be BT throttling and other shenanigans going on and everyone in America knows it. Instead of investing in technology here, the big Telcos (and ROT IN HELL for this Billy Tauzin, et al) have a stranglehold on the market and can dictate everything. Therefore we're stuck in the bleeding Dark Ages while everyone else on the planet is sporting >=10Mbps at HOME.
I'm am a rabid collector of books, especially Sci-Fi and Fantasy (along with almost everything else EXCEPT romance.) I have over 5K books in my personal library. Finding good books online is nice, but hit the local used book stores. Yeah, I know it requires you to get off your ass and do some walking, but you'll find what you want more often than not there. Hit up library book sales.
Again, it requires actual physical activity, so this may not work for you it seems.
Is this how all open source projects will end? With some for-profit company buying it and then trying to squeeze every last cent out of it? We'll be only left with the kernel and a handful of core utils that won't be hamstrung because of who own them?
MySQL was my default choice for DB on *nix systems, it worked great and was pretty easy to maintain. Now that Sun owns it, and plans on destroying it with closing off the source (and the backup code, etc, is ONLY THE BEGINNING, I assure you) I'll have to go elsewhere. PostgresQL, here I come.
This sickens me to no end. It makes me wonder is there is any hope for true FOSS in the long term.
Tim Couch? You mean like the crappy NFL quarterback? It's not the same guy (I HAD to check), but seriously, he's offering this bill so people will stop crapping on his name. I mean really. If his name was Michael Jordan, he wouldn't submit this legislation.
Okay, I MUST be missing something. They want cell phone providers to cease service between 7pm and 5am because the Americans can track them when they are using their cell phones? WTF? If they can do it between those hours, don't you FREAKING THINK THEY CAN OUTSIDE THOSE HOURS? Idiots. Well that just proves right there those dillholes don't know shit about technology. There's nothing better than a group who wants to keep their people in the Dark Ages.
Oh, hello, Congress. I didn't see you standing there. I was talking about the Taliban, not you. You guys are doing one hell of a bang up job in DC. Honest.
WTF? Why should any country care about any other county's laws? Seriously? Do we follow Russia's laws, copyright or otherwise? Hell no. Who the hell do we in the US think we are? Okay maybe not ALL of us, but the ones in charge. This is stupid. And beyond obvious. Hey, guess what? The United States doesn't follow Canadian Copyright Law either. Idiots. Get a grip, people. We aren't the world govermnment.
Is it just me or has everyone else noticed that the initials of Duke Nukem Forever is DNF? Race speak for DID NOT FINISH? I wonder if that's coincidence. How's it possible this company can continue to bullshit us? Are we that stupid? This is just a sad, sad, joke. The trailer shows no real game play and had they ANY game with which to demo, they surely would have shown some of that NOW when the game itself has become a joke. This isn't massive anticipation for the game, it's gone way past that to sheer apathy for anything related to it. The bone they threw us was no bone at all.
3DRealms can just STFU about this 'game'. If the gaming community would just ignore them, don't you think they would go away?
While you can get a good overview of the languages/tools you will use in the real world (what's that?) It seems to me that only by getting a job out here in said world will you really get the skills you need. Tinker all you want, every little bit helps, but very little I learned as an undergrad really prepared me for the corporate world. The whole 'college teaches theory, not application' is pretty accurate in my opinion. College (and school in general) tends to have a curriculum that's a mile wide and an inch deep. Lots of subjects covering very little in depth. I certainly think you should go with what you enjoy the most, not where the money is. I've found I'm a much happier person in a job I like making less money than getting 6 figures thrown at me and hating the job. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, none of your skills will matter much, as you'll be less interested in really using them.
My biggest 'wish list' item for undergrads, especially in an IT related field, is a little more concentration on public speaking and people skills. Being a geek really is its own culture,but that doesn't mean you have to be a social retard. I've seen many a great coder fired for lack of tact/ability to dress properly. I think this is becoming a little less of an issue, but that's still one of my pet peeves.
College can only get you so prepared for ANY field, the rest is a trial by fire. Be confident in what you DO know. Just out of school, don't oversell yourself to prospective employers, and you should be just fine.
Seriously, those of us who use linux (the majority I'd wager) use it because it's cheap (indeed, free), it works in so many different environments and we can fix it, if it's broken, from the source code level and up. By making the switch to Apple, the n00bs are trading one Master for another. Another crappy OS who does it's best to save you from yourself. Maybe a little 'under the hood' work by those n00bs would make them smarter about security and such.
And personally, if Jobs isn't the Antichrist, he's His personal secretary.
Amateur. I passed 3,500 a LONG time ago. Currently, my library consists of just over 5,000 books, mostly first editions and things. I literally had to add on an extra 1,000 sq ft on to my house because I ran out of furniture to throw out to make room for my books. I don't do the whole barcode thing, mainly because I don't loan my books out, but I do use Tellico for my book database and it works great for the books with ISBN numbers. Since a good portion of my volumes are pre-1960s (I think that's when they started using ISBN) I had to manually enter a lot of mine in. It took a while, but I don't have any issues with it after getting them in there.
It's great to hear someone else has the problem as I.
From TFA: Microsoft general manager... Utzschneider says a shrunken version of Windows XP could potentially run on 2 Gbytes of flash memory.
POTENTIALLY? 2GB? Are you kidding me? I run my entire Gentoo system from 1GB with multiple browser windows, email, a dozen ssh sessions, and compiling updates or the latest code I'm working on and NEVER touch the swap file. Seriously, only potentially run? I'm appalled, yet not surprised. Microsoft can't fix their OS so they expect everyone else to square the hole for their peg to fit in. Idiots.
let's throw out the existing governmental system, you know the one that is bought and paid for by the corporations, or anyone with the cash on hand to do so and replace it with SOMETHING THAT FREAKING WORKS. I'm sick to death of the government pandering to these idiots who can't keep up with the times and the technology. For those, the only method of survival is bribery to dismantle any competitive alternative to themselves (you hear that Verizon and all you other morons?). Elections aren't working, since the parties are in the pay of the same group of a*holes as well. This truly is extortion on a country-wide scale. Bastards.
Why is it that some dude kidnaps a kid and gets virtually nothing, and these two punks (yes, they are punks) could get 20 years? I emphasize could, but still. We have such a skewed sense of justice in this country, it's really insane.
Agreed. My wife is a Middle School teacher and the bloody brainless ignorants that are coming through there are atrocious. No matter how much she tries, they all end the year being just as stupid as they came in. It's the 'tie bonuses to test scores' and 'let's teach the kids how to pass the tests' that are killing them. No one my oldest daughter knows (she's a HS junior) can write a paragraph without blowing a lobe in their brains and definitely cannot SPELL.
I wish all these fuckers would go away. I'm sick of taking it in the ass by Verizon and AT&T. I work for a small non-profit ISP and you'd be amazed how much business we get because these yahoos keep jacking up prices for no benefit but to shareholders. So, I say open up the 700MHz spectrum to all and lets shove these bastards out of business for good.
I don't trust MS to determine if my copy of Windows is Genuine, do I really think they can keep my medical history safe? Hell no. How long do you think it will be before they cut a deal to 'share' that information with marketers/insurance companies for a buck or two?
To Microsoft: NOT A CHANCE IN HELL. I'd prefer running naked through a pile of broken glass than let you have my medical information.
I monitor every move my kids make online using squid and log analyzers for various things. I also deny connections to everything but SPECIFIC websites that must have my OK before added to the list. Granted it can be a giant pain in the butt to add in subdomains to sites if needed, but this is far preferable to my 8 year old stumbling across anything she shouldn't. I also think putting the system in a place easily viewable is a help, but even for my teenage daughters, synergy is great for viewing their desktops at any time. Which I frequently do while I'm working, I'll have their desktops on a separate display and they know it.
But nothing overcomes good parenting. Sadly, the good parents (and I like to think I am one) have kids well behaved enough to know not to go looking for it, but they are usually the ones who put those controls in place. It's the crappy, loser parents who don't and then bitch and moan about all the stuff on the web, or that their kid gets snatched by some predator on MySpace. With well raised kids, the THREAT of being monitored is just about enough. But even I'm not stupid enough to think my kids are perfect. I make sure they know the risks and the threats out there, I cant shield them completely, that's insane, they have to know the whole story, not just hover over them at all times thinking that if I hide them from it, it will never happen to them.
So, I have to be a Nazi about what they see. Just in case.
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An 'evolving stance'? Isn't that the same damn thing as 'straddling the fence' or 'flip-flopping'? When HASN'T a politician had an 'evolving stance'? Listen to any of them talk at different locations and they contridcut themselves more often than not.
Each of these morons is nothing more than the puppet of their respective parties. Neither one is a LEADER in any respect. Although, I give the nod to McCain simply based on the fact that the man fought in a war as a fighter pilot. Obama? What the hell has he done? He's first term Sneator and thinks he can run for President?
Help us all if they are the best we have to offer.
I just took a look at the demo (And since I"m a Gentoo user, can't install the plugin) and why the hell does every female avatar in there look like a damn elf? I mean I don't know of any girl alive who has eyes like that. Do the guys at google masturbate to Bratz dolls or something? That's ridiculous.
for goodness sake, WHY? Seriously. Does Microsoft really think Yahoo will help them? It'll just make a bloated conglomerate even more bloated with extraneous staff and duplicate job junctions. Sure, some of those will be weeded out, but dammit, when will MS get the point that they don't need to be BIGGER, they need to be LEANER and more efficient in doing things. Get rid of redundant redundancy. Stop having 12 guys work on the Start menu. And you wonder why their products are so bloody crappy now. Will they ever learn?
but can we PLEASE work on getting apps to run on more than just ONE core/processor for now? I mean it's amazing how many apps still are not SMP aware unless you can (possibly) compile them for that purpose and even then you don't always get the kind of increase you would expect. Let's start with programming on 2 cores and then maybe go to 4 or more. For now, the kind of stuff Intel is discussing is moot. If we can't get shit to run on 2 procs, why do we bother with thinking about 12?
I live in NC and one more part of this story should be told. They are recalling all the plates that start with 'XXX' because some fruit thought it offensive. I don't think it's offensive so why should I be penalized for this nutters pissy attitude.
WTF? Indeed.
I'm sick to death of being some big company's bitch. I don't get dinner and a drink before they ask me to drop trou, grab my ankles and spell run. The hell with Apple and AT&T. It's a bloody phone, people! It is supposed to make and receive voice calls. Instead, it's a portable porn viewer that makes calls. Idiots. When will upgrade fatigue hit the Mac fanboys?
Oh this is JUST GREAT. Let's just let the calculator do it. Hey MORON, who do you think developed the bloody calculator? Engineers who had to build it with a slide rule, and a damn good dose of mathematics. Are you completely barmy? How are we to advance beyond the 'calculator' stage if we don't know how they do they math?
How is my 17 year old daughter going to know that the answer the calculator gives is correct? Does she just assume? Do you remember the math bugs in Excel? In the early Pentium processors?
See, this kind of mentality is what is killing American education.
That and the fact that you obviously aren't that educated to say 'Maths has changed'. If you can't get grammar right, who the hell do you think you are to even offer an opinion on math?
Dumbass.
And rate it flamebait, this guy's a dipshit.
'we'll continue to hear debate on this subject until either the convention or Hillary steps down.'
Damn. I had NO IDEA the convention was running for the nomination! If I had known that I would have not voted for either of these morons.
CONVENTION '08!!!
Yeah, has a nice ring to it. And would be just a useful in office as anyone (or anything) else.
But sadly, there WILL be BT throttling and other shenanigans going on and everyone in America knows it. Instead of investing in technology here, the big Telcos (and ROT IN HELL for this Billy Tauzin, et al) have a stranglehold on the market and can dictate everything. Therefore we're stuck in the bleeding Dark Ages while everyone else on the planet is sporting >=10Mbps at HOME.
Bastards, every single one of them.
I'm am a rabid collector of books, especially Sci-Fi and Fantasy (along with almost everything else EXCEPT romance.) I have over 5K books in my personal library. Finding good books online is nice, but hit the local used book stores. Yeah, I know it requires you to get off your ass and do some walking, but you'll find what you want more often than not there. Hit up library book sales.
Again, it requires actual physical activity, so this may not work for you it seems.
Is this how all open source projects will end? With some for-profit company buying it and then trying to squeeze every last cent out of it? We'll be only left with the kernel and a handful of core utils that won't be hamstrung because of who own them?
MySQL was my default choice for DB on *nix systems, it worked great and was pretty easy to maintain. Now that Sun owns it, and plans on destroying it with closing off the source (and the backup code, etc, is ONLY THE BEGINNING, I assure you) I'll have to go elsewhere. PostgresQL, here I come.
This sickens me to no end. It makes me wonder is there is any hope for true FOSS in the long term.
Tim Couch? You mean like the crappy NFL quarterback? It's not the same guy (I HAD to check), but seriously, he's offering this bill so people will stop crapping on his name. I mean really. If his name was Michael Jordan, he wouldn't submit this legislation.
Okay, I MUST be missing something. They want cell phone providers to cease service between 7pm and 5am because the Americans can track them when they are using their cell phones? WTF? If they can do it between those hours, don't you FREAKING THINK THEY CAN OUTSIDE THOSE HOURS? Idiots. Well that just proves right there those dillholes don't know shit about technology. There's nothing better than a group who wants to keep their people in the Dark Ages.
Oh, hello, Congress. I didn't see you standing there. I was talking about the Taliban, not you. You guys are doing one hell of a bang up job in DC. Honest.
WTF? Why should any country care about any other county's laws? Seriously? Do we follow Russia's laws, copyright or otherwise? Hell no. Who the hell do we in the US think we are? Okay maybe not ALL of us, but the ones in charge. This is stupid. And beyond obvious. Hey, guess what? The United States doesn't follow Canadian Copyright Law either. Idiots. Get a grip, people. We aren't the world govermnment.
Is it just me or has everyone else noticed that the initials of Duke Nukem Forever is DNF? Race speak for DID NOT FINISH? I wonder if that's coincidence. How's it possible this company can continue to bullshit us? Are we that stupid? This is just a sad, sad, joke. The trailer shows no real game play and had they ANY game with which to demo, they surely would have shown some of that NOW when the game itself has become a joke. This isn't massive anticipation for the game, it's gone way past that to sheer apathy for anything related to it. The bone they threw us was no bone at all.
3DRealms can just STFU about this 'game'. If the gaming community would just ignore them, don't you think they would go away?
While you can get a good overview of the languages/tools you will use in the real world (what's that?) It seems to me that only by getting a job out here in said world will you really get the skills you need. Tinker all you want, every little bit helps, but very little I learned as an undergrad really prepared me for the corporate world. The whole 'college teaches theory, not application' is pretty accurate in my opinion. College (and school in general) tends to have a curriculum that's a mile wide and an inch deep. Lots of subjects covering very little in depth. I certainly think you should go with what you enjoy the most, not where the money is. I've found I'm a much happier person in a job I like making less money than getting 6 figures thrown at me and hating the job. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, none of your skills will matter much, as you'll be less interested in really using them.
My biggest 'wish list' item for undergrads, especially in an IT related field, is a little more concentration on public speaking and people skills. Being a geek really is its own culture,but that doesn't mean you have to be a social retard. I've seen many a great coder fired for lack of tact/ability to dress properly. I think this is becoming a little less of an issue, but that's still one of my pet peeves.
College can only get you so prepared for ANY field, the rest is a trial by fire. Be confident in what you DO know. Just out of school, don't oversell yourself to prospective employers, and you should be just fine.
Seriously, those of us who use linux (the majority I'd wager) use it because it's cheap (indeed, free), it works in so many different environments and we can fix it, if it's broken, from the source code level and up. By making the switch to Apple, the n00bs are trading one Master for another. Another crappy OS who does it's best to save you from yourself. Maybe a little 'under the hood' work by those n00bs would make them smarter about security and such.
And personally, if Jobs isn't the Antichrist, he's His personal secretary.
Amateur. I passed 3,500 a LONG time ago. Currently, my library consists of just over 5,000 books, mostly first editions and things. I literally had to add on an extra 1,000 sq ft on to my house because I ran out of furniture to throw out to make room for my books. I don't do the whole barcode thing, mainly because I don't loan my books out, but I do use Tellico for my book database and it works great for the books with ISBN numbers. Since a good portion of my volumes are pre-1960s (I think that's when they started using ISBN) I had to manually enter a lot of mine in. It took a while, but I don't have any issues with it after getting them in there.
It's great to hear someone else has the problem as I.
From TFA: Microsoft general manager ... Utzschneider says a shrunken version of Windows XP could potentially run on 2 Gbytes of flash memory.
POTENTIALLY? 2GB? Are you kidding me? I run my entire Gentoo system from 1GB with multiple browser windows, email, a dozen ssh sessions, and compiling updates or the latest code I'm working on and NEVER touch the swap file. Seriously, only potentially run? I'm appalled, yet not surprised. Microsoft can't fix their OS so they expect everyone else to square the hole for their peg to fit in. Idiots.
let's throw out the existing governmental system, you know the one that is bought and paid for by the corporations, or anyone with the cash on hand to do so and replace it with SOMETHING THAT FREAKING WORKS. I'm sick to death of the government pandering to these idiots who can't keep up with the times and the technology. For those, the only method of survival is bribery to dismantle any competitive alternative to themselves (you hear that Verizon and all you other morons?). Elections aren't working, since the parties are in the pay of the same group of a*holes as well. This truly is extortion on a country-wide scale. Bastards.
Why is it that some dude kidnaps a kid and gets virtually nothing, and these two punks (yes, they are punks) could get 20 years? I emphasize could, but still. We have such a skewed sense of justice in this country, it's really insane.
Agreed. My wife is a Middle School teacher and the bloody brainless ignorants that are coming through there are atrocious. No matter how much she tries, they all end the year being just as stupid as they came in. It's the 'tie bonuses to test scores' and 'let's teach the kids how to pass the tests' that are killing them. No one my oldest daughter knows (she's a HS junior) can write a paragraph without blowing a lobe in their brains and definitely cannot SPELL.
I wish all these fuckers would go away. I'm sick of taking it in the ass by Verizon and AT&T. I work for a small non-profit ISP and you'd be amazed how much business we get because these yahoos keep jacking up prices for no benefit but to shareholders. So, I say open up the 700MHz spectrum to all and lets shove these bastards out of business for good.
I don't trust MS to determine if my copy of Windows is Genuine, do I really think they can keep my medical history safe? Hell no. How long do you think it will be before they cut a deal to 'share' that information with marketers/insurance companies for a buck or two?
To Microsoft: NOT A CHANCE IN HELL. I'd prefer running naked through a pile of broken glass than let you have my medical information.
I monitor every move my kids make online using squid and log analyzers for various things. I also deny connections to everything but SPECIFIC websites that must have my OK before added to the list. Granted it can be a giant pain in the butt to add in subdomains to sites if needed, but this is far preferable to my 8 year old stumbling across anything she shouldn't. I also think putting the system in a place easily viewable is a help, but even for my teenage daughters, synergy is great for viewing their desktops at any time. Which I frequently do while I'm working, I'll have their desktops on a separate display and they know it.
But nothing overcomes good parenting. Sadly, the good parents (and I like to think I am one) have kids well behaved enough to know not to go looking for it, but they are usually the ones who put those controls in place. It's the crappy, loser parents who don't and then bitch and moan about all the stuff on the web, or that their kid gets snatched by some predator on MySpace. With well raised kids, the THREAT of being monitored is just about enough. But even I'm not stupid enough to think my kids are perfect. I make sure they know the risks and the threats out there, I cant shield them completely, that's insane, they have to know the whole story, not just hover over them at all times thinking that if I hide them from it, it will never happen to them.
So, I have to be a Nazi about what they see. Just in case.