great employment as writers for the tech-pop-media?
Enderle, Didio, O'Gara, Lyons, Murphy, and Dvorak, among so many others.
These people actually get paid - a lot - for being babbling morons. And here we are on slashdot giving it away for free.
How do I get a job like that? I have much better credentials in I.T. then any of those bozos. I know how to troll. I'll even suck up to msft if there is enough money on the line (why not? nobody believes that drivel, anyway).
How many classics came out of that era? Just a few I can remember: barbie, hola-hoop, silly putty, legos, G.I. Joe, slinky, frisbee, play-doh, easy-bake oven.
Don't know why, but it seems like era stands out in toy history.
What movies were not remakes were almost all sequals, TV show adaptations, comic/children's book adaptaions, or biographies. What ever happend to an original idea? Can't you get that from software?
Remakes: "King Kong" "Willy Wonka" "Yours, Mine, and Ours" "The Bad News Bears" "War of the Worlds" "The Fog" "Oliver Twist" "The Longest Yard" "Damn Yankees" "Fun With Dick and Jane"
revenge of the nerds
Remakes in the works: "Doberman Gang" "Superman" "Bullit" "The Birds" "Warriors" "Fahrenheit 451" "Revenge of the Merds"
Sequels: "Herbie: Fully Reloaded" "Harry Potter" "Starwars"
TV: "The Honeymooners" "Bewitched" starring Nicole Kidman "The Dukes of Hazzard" "Serenity"
Canopy used to own 40% of scox, canopy bought dr-dos, used it to sue msft, then canopy threw dr-dos on the scrap heap. Arguably, canopy wanted to do the same thing with UNIX.
SCOX's flagship product, OpenServer, is built on Xenix - which used to be owned by msft.
Another linux distro is exactly the same, but include apps A,B,C,E.
So we end up with hundreds of distros, many with very little difference between them.
To me, it seems idiotic, and has seemed idiotic for years. Distro makers often tout the applications they throw in as special features, as if it's something unique to their distro, you see OpenOffice in their feature list.
I like debian's 100mb base system download approach. I don't have to download a ton of cr@p I don't want, I don't have to sort through the lists of hundreds of apps selecting the apps I want.
No reason to fork the distro everytime you change the included applications.
According to cringely, the solution to the problem would be for everybody to give the phishers bogus information. Bogus credit-card numbers etc. If thousands of people did that, the phishers would be frustrated out of existance, or maybe even caught.
I've tried this once or twice, but I'm too lazy to keep it up.
Anybody familiar with Murphy knows this. His blog entries are no more insightful than standard msft FUD, or some pro-msft rant I could read on usenet. Why this guy is treated as some sort of an insightful expert is beyond me.
I have no problem with articles bases on blog entries, or windows v linux debate; as long as it's something new and insightful.
What I have found is: no matter what experience you have, employers want something else.
If you have cisco, unix, windows; they want unix, citrix, windows, tivoli. If you have java, php c++; they want java, visual basic, c#.
When you consider how many technologies there are, the odds that any one job will actually match any one person's experinence is astronomical.
It seem to me that every IT is completely different animal. There is no established set of skills that prepares you for any IT job. There is no established career path. This is very different than other other fields like law or medicin.
I don't know, but I get tired of the endless half-baked FOSS projects out there.
For example, how many FOSS CMS projects are there? At least several dozen, maybe a few hundred. If half the effort went into about six CMS projects, those projects would be awsome.
When every FOSS developer decides to go his/her own way, you get an endless series of cr@p.
Fact is: Apache is way more successful than 99% of FOSS projects out there. So maybe everybody else is out of step?
When I got hit by adware/spyware, it wasn't because of some software app I installed. Going to the wrong site, is like stepping on a landmine. And going to those sites isn't hard to do since they have it rigged to route you there if you mis-type the url.
I don't know about others here, but I'm stuck with comcast service, and the fastest download speed that I have ever sustained is about 600kbs. Usually, my download speeds are much slower, often well under 100kbs; 30kbs is not unusual.
I don't want to spend all night downloading a movie. I don't want to get 90% of the way through a huge download, and have the download crap out on me.
Glad to learn that Apple is doing well. But is this a flash in the pan? Or a long term thing?
I think there is something of a trendy, faddish, element involved with ipod sales. What happens when ipods become passe?
I doubt anybody would admit to it now, but eight years ago, I bet a lot of people felt the same as Dell. And why not? Apple was dipping below it's cash value.
To me, it seems like one of mysql's greatest strengths is that it will run on cheap web-hosts. So a lot of F/OSS web apps, like CMS systems, run on mysql.
I don't see the situation changing because these semi-free testing version databases.
Why not put the porn in one place? The porn is there anyway, you may as well control it.
Frankly, I don't know if a.kkk would hurt. At least it would be easier to block them, if you wanted. Or to find out what they are up to, if you wanted.
So what if porn site get.xxx? Why is that some international incident? It would make it easier for concerned partents, with small children, to block out porn. It would also make it easier for non-USA nations - which don't allow porn - to block the porn. So what's the BFD?
The UN is well known to be anti-USA. Is this just knee-jerk whining about anything the USA has or does? Or does the UN have any real point what-so-ever?
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great employment as writers for the tech-pop-media?
Enderle, Didio, O'Gara, Lyons, Murphy, and Dvorak, among so many others.
These people actually get paid - a lot - for being babbling morons. And here we are on slashdot giving it away for free.
How do I get a job like that? I have much better credentials in I.T. then any of those bozos. I know how to troll. I'll even suck up to msft if there is enough money on the line (why not? nobody believes that drivel, anyway).
Back in the mid-1980s the NeXT had a GUI that was supperior to far more powerful system, even today.
In terms of raw system power, the NeXT cube would a joke by today's standards, but it had a great interface.
I know about bart's CD, and it's great for what it is.
But I don't know of anything like Knoppix in Windows-world.
It's been over ten years since I read the book.
As I remember, Ender did not want to kill bonzo. In fact, Ender didn't even know that he had.
How many classics came out of that era? Just a few I can remember: barbie, hola-hoop, silly putty, legos, G.I. Joe, slinky, frisbee, play-doh, easy-bake oven.
Don't know why, but it seems like era stands out in toy history.
Something Like: "because of damn music pirates, Britney Spears won't be able to buy a third Caribbean island"
Is 2005 the year of the remake, or what?
What movies were not remakes were almost all sequals, TV show adaptations, comic/children's book adaptaions, or biographies. What ever happend to an original idea? Can't you get that from software?
Remakes:
"King Kong"
"Willy Wonka"
"Yours, Mine, and Ours"
"The Bad News Bears"
"War of the Worlds"
"The Fog"
"Oliver Twist"
"The Longest Yard"
"Damn Yankees"
"Fun With Dick and Jane"
revenge of the nerds
Remakes in the works:
"Doberman Gang"
"Superman"
"Bullit"
"The Birds"
"Warriors"
"Fahrenheit 451"
"Revenge of the Merds"
Sequels:
"Herbie: Fully Reloaded"
"Harry Potter"
"Starwars"
TV:
"The Honeymooners"
"Bewitched" starring Nicole Kidman
"The Dukes of Hazzard"
"Serenity"
Canopy used to own 40% of scox, canopy bought dr-dos, used it to sue msft, then canopy threw dr-dos on the scrap heap. Arguably, canopy wanted to do the same thing with UNIX.
SCOX's flagship product, OpenServer, is built on Xenix - which used to be owned by msft.
One linux distro includes apps A,B,C,D.
Another linux distro is exactly the same, but include apps A,B,C,E.
So we end up with hundreds of distros, many with very little difference between them.
To me, it seems idiotic, and has seemed idiotic for years. Distro makers often tout the applications they throw in as special features, as if it's something unique to their distro, you see OpenOffice in their feature list.
I like debian's 100mb base system download approach. I don't have to download a ton of cr@p I don't want, I don't have to sort through the lists of hundreds of apps selecting the apps I want.
No reason to fork the distro everytime you change the included applications.
According to cringely, the solution to the problem would be for everybody to give the phishers bogus information. Bogus credit-card numbers etc. If thousands of people did that, the phishers would be frustrated out of existance, or maybe even caught.
I've tried this once or twice, but I'm too lazy to keep it up.
Anybody familiar with Murphy knows this. His blog entries are no more insightful than standard msft FUD, or some pro-msft rant I could read on usenet. Why this guy is treated as some sort of an insightful expert is beyond me.
I have no problem with articles bases on blog entries, or windows v linux debate; as long as it's something new and insightful.
But Paul Murphy?
Lots of religous folks in the Mormon capital of the world. A local-yocal jury might not want to convict the great crusader against pornography.
This strategy has worked successfully for others.
Yarro owns 40% of SCOX.
The newest version of libranet is about two years old, I think. Last time I checked, they are still trying to sell it for $90.
Folks, not many people are going to spend $90 on a two year debian distro. Especially when Ubuntu is around.
Just OSS the entire project. Maybe somebody will pick it up. But, as a viable business, I can't see it.
I've worked in IT for 25 years.
What I have found is: no matter what experience you have, employers want something else.
If you have cisco, unix, windows; they want unix, citrix, windows, tivoli. If you have java, php c++; they want java, visual basic, c#.
When you consider how many technologies there are, the odds that any one job will actually match any one person's experinence is astronomical.
It seem to me that every IT is completely different animal. There is no established set of skills that prepares you for any IT job. There is no established career path. This is very different than other other fields like law or medicin.
If I could go back, I'd avoid IT.
There are many projects out there. I have tried several. I forget exactly what they are called: PHPTrio, or Apache2Trio? Again there are several.
But XAMPP actually works. It is up-to-date, installs easily, and works well.
That is my experience anyway.
I don't know, but I get tired of the endless half-baked FOSS projects out there.
For example, how many FOSS CMS projects are there? At least several dozen, maybe a few hundred. If half the effort went into about six CMS projects, those projects would be awsome.
When every FOSS developer decides to go his/her own way, you get an endless series of cr@p.
Fact is: Apache is way more successful than 99% of FOSS projects out there. So maybe everybody else is out of step?
> Ever heard of Solaris? Stalker?
Solaris was boring, and no, I don't remember Stalker.
> It is also missing what is for me possibly the best sci-fi movie of the 90-es. Gattaca.
Gattaca is hardly a "space" movie.
Besides, who did the rating? If other countries were allowed to vote, then you have nothing to complain about.
Maybe, as tech becomes more speciallized, people are going into related majors such as software engineering, or information technology?
I have no idea myself.
When I got hit by adware/spyware, it wasn't because of some software app I installed. Going to the wrong site, is like stepping on a landmine. And going to those sites isn't hard to do since they have it rigged to route you there if you mis-type the url.
I predict that in the future, everybody in the USA will earn a living by suing everybody else.
Leave that science stuff to other nations, we have better things to do.
I don't know about others here, but I'm stuck with comcast service, and the fastest download speed that I have ever sustained is about 600kbs. Usually, my download speeds are much slower, often well under 100kbs; 30kbs is not unusual.
I don't want to spend all night downloading a movie. I don't want to get 90% of the way through a huge download, and have the download crap out on me.
I'd rather catch the movie on dvd or cable.
JMHO.
Glad to learn that Apple is doing well. But is this a flash in the pan? Or a long term thing?
I think there is something of a trendy, faddish, element involved with ipod sales. What happens when ipods become passe?
I doubt anybody would admit to it now, but eight years ago, I bet a lot of people felt the same as Dell. And why not? Apple was dipping below it's cash value.
To me, it seems like one of mysql's greatest strengths is that it will run on cheap web-hosts. So a lot of F/OSS web apps, like CMS systems, run on mysql.
I don't see the situation changing because these semi-free testing version databases.
Is the very existance of xxx offensive?
Why not put the porn in one place? The porn is there anyway, you may as well control it.
Frankly, I don't know if a
Anyway, I doubt that 40% of the internet is kkk.
So what if porn site get
The UN is well known to be anti-USA. Is this just knee-jerk whining about anything the USA has or does? Or does the UN have any real point what-so-ever?