Totally depends on the industry you work in. Go in to aerospace and you're not going to find 20 year old kids designing VB.NET programs, you're going to find 50 year old guys in hawaiian shirts using C/C++ and older/more complex languages on many projects. Conversely, head in to web application development at some Random Internet Company, and you'll find the opposite.
Is it really that hard to get an old PC? I've got PCs sitting around with P60, P200, K6-2 500, K7 Athlon 700, Dual 550 Xeon, Dual P2 350, etc. These are all PCs I've used in the past or just put together through a teenage and adult lifetime of collecting old shiat from friends and family that I helped out. They're really not all that hard to come by if you look around
Hybrid Crossfire begs to differ. Build an integrated architecture and those that still want discrete graphics cards will still benefit while the reduction in sku's improves production efficiency. Hybrid Crossfire, of course, being another innovation that AMD has taken to the market ahead of anyone else despite limited resources.
It's not so much about engineering new architecture.. you can't do that with those kind of resources all of the time. Instead, innovate existing architecture, which is cheaper to develop, takes less time, and is better for the consumer and product developers. Doing things like increasing the instructions per clock cycle during the mhz wars are reasons that AMD still exists while other companies like Cyrix are afterthoughts. Innovation doesn't exclude extreme optimization.
Hell no. Spent 70$ on a CCNA course+cert at local CC and 125$ per test for MS certs. I had the skills, but not the certificates. It's not worth 3500 for something that is developing far faster than other regions of IT(and thus makes the certification obsolete even faster)
Not true. I've worked most of my adult life in proprietary software/hardware support, development, installation, and configuration. None of these employers(2 multinational Fortune 100 types, 2 nationally recognized/utilized small businesses) required knowledge of the proprietary software beforehand. Instead, they ask for industry knowledge(of the software target) and/or related IT knowledge and/or certifications(CRM, IPT, MCSE/A+, etc). In my experience, this is the case across most of the IT world(unless you talk about fields like the Defense industry and government work).
Virtualization is a required skill nowadays(as I unfortunately found out during a 9 month unemployment period), and to go with that required skill, in order to be certified by VMWare(which regardless of what people feel about them/the product they are a market leader), you need to take their required courses to qualify. The required courses cost $3500. You don't directly need to take a course to qualify for an Advanced cert, but since you need a VCP to qualify for an Advanced cert, you need to take the course anyways. It's really a lovely racket. Not even Microsoft stoops to that level
And this is what is wrong with America. People are too worried about litigation instead of having a good time. Food poisoning? Big deal. Drink some fluids, lose a few pounds. Unlikely that you'll die from it unless you're an idiot
That's fine. We'll also remove food subsidies in the mean time, and kick out all of the warehouses in rural areas(one of the largest land based shipping corridors in the US(LA/LB port complex -> Inland Empire/High Desert 15fwy shipping corridor) has much of its warehouse and rail access in rural(or once rural, now semi-developed around the formerly rural area) regions.
You're urban dwelling is not economically feasible without the rural areas that subsidize your cost of living tremendously. And, very abstractly, if economies of scale had anything to do with it, urban living would be cheaper than rural living, since economies of scale dictates more production means cheaper cost. It's really the opposite, which is diseconomy of scale.
And that doesn't mention the cost of social problems that center themselves in urban areas.
Silverlight has great potential for a long term future in corporate web applications..Net applications in a web browser are a pretty significant thing, and much better than anything else currently available.
The nice thing about Flash on certain mobile platforms is that you don't need to install it. Skyfire supports it on Android, WinMo, and Blackberry and it is run through the remote renderer. Not so hot for games, but works for regular browsing on websites that utilize flash. Flash isn't going to go anywhere soon, maybe down the road, but not now. So it is nice to have a multiplatform browser that has Flash support despite OS limitations. Too bad Apple won't allow Skyfire on iOS
pre-Velious, not pre-Luclin(well, that's technically still pre-Luclin). It may have even been pre-Kunark when they nerfed jboots. There was also the Manastone(pre-Kunark). But you could just buy them on ebay instead, which was very popular at the time for items.
The fastest database I've ever seen(as far as queries, returning results, performance under load, etc) is a non-sql database. That would be Pick, a hash-file driven multivalue database(ENGLISH query language). Been around since the 60s and still going strong. The only reason it isn't more popular is because the database is it's own operating system as well, so it's emulated on *nix. Databases with 30 years of complex financial data running on Digital Unix with an Alpha processor outperform the latest and greatest hardware configurations I've seen running similar data in a (SQL) relational database(which I see often working with Sybase all day).
Realistically, you should be using Firefox anyways since Chrome doesn't support the hooks that NoScript needs to work, and NoScript is required(imho) for any power user(which everyone on Slashdot should be, or used to be).
As far as the rest, there are ways available to put native PDF/flash support in Chromium, support H264, and update. The benefits of open source
Which is the crux of the problem. I don't want or need google's tracking built in(among whatever else they have in it) even if I have the option to turn it off. Chromium works fine, Chromium Updater exists for updating it, and it works very well.
While I can't decipher what this article is referring to in particular, Chromium is the base for Chrome. Think of it as the development platform. Everyone should be using Chromium instead of Chrome because Chromium doesn't have the built in usage tracking that Chrome has
Major university math/engineering department chairs, well known scientists, and pretty much anyone with science or math degrees are protesting the most harmful thing to happen to math(and education) since No Child Left Behind. That horrible thing they are protesting is Everyday Math, which is continuing the destruction of math education in the US one bright young mind at a time. This article touches on memorization, but EM goes beyond that, since you don't even learn math mastery, and this is an elementary school program.
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Totally depends on the industry you work in. Go in to aerospace and you're not going to find 20 year old kids designing VB.NET programs, you're going to find 50 year old guys in hawaiian shirts using C/C++ and older/more complex languages on many projects. Conversely, head in to web application development at some Random Internet Company, and you'll find the opposite.
Is it really that hard to get an old PC? I've got PCs sitting around with P60, P200, K6-2 500, K7 Athlon 700, Dual 550 Xeon, Dual P2 350, etc. These are all PCs I've used in the past or just put together through a teenage and adult lifetime of collecting old shiat from friends and family that I helped out. They're really not all that hard to come by if you look around
Sony does it on PSN for .99-2.99 per episode, but they're also sales instead of rentals
Hybrid Crossfire begs to differ. Build an integrated architecture and those that still want discrete graphics cards will still benefit while the reduction in sku's improves production efficiency. Hybrid Crossfire, of course, being another innovation that AMD has taken to the market ahead of anyone else despite limited resources. It's not so much about engineering new architecture.. you can't do that with those kind of resources all of the time. Instead, innovate existing architecture, which is cheaper to develop, takes less time, and is better for the consumer and product developers. Doing things like increasing the instructions per clock cycle during the mhz wars are reasons that AMD still exists while other companies like Cyrix are afterthoughts. Innovation doesn't exclude extreme optimization.
That's the joke. Also, MW2 = MechWarrior 2
Hell no. Spent 70$ on a CCNA course+cert at local CC and 125$ per test for MS certs. I had the skills, but not the certificates. It's not worth 3500 for something that is developing far faster than other regions of IT(and thus makes the certification obsolete even faster)
Not true. I've worked most of my adult life in proprietary software/hardware support, development, installation, and configuration. None of these employers(2 multinational Fortune 100 types, 2 nationally recognized/utilized small businesses) required knowledge of the proprietary software beforehand. Instead, they ask for industry knowledge(of the software target) and/or related IT knowledge and/or certifications(CRM, IPT, MCSE/A+, etc). In my experience, this is the case across most of the IT world(unless you talk about fields like the Defense industry and government work).
Virtualization is a required skill nowadays(as I unfortunately found out during a 9 month unemployment period), and to go with that required skill, in order to be certified by VMWare(which regardless of what people feel about them/the product they are a market leader), you need to take their required courses to qualify. The required courses cost $3500. You don't directly need to take a course to qualify for an Advanced cert, but since you need a VCP to qualify for an Advanced cert, you need to take the course anyways. It's really a lovely racket. Not even Microsoft stoops to that level
Yea, Asheron's Call 2 really didn't last that long. You're wrong, though. DRM wasn't the problem with AC2
And this is what is wrong with America. People are too worried about litigation instead of having a good time. Food poisoning? Big deal. Drink some fluids, lose a few pounds. Unlikely that you'll die from it unless you're an idiot
War, it's fantastic!
Sorting may be boring, but it is an awesome way to really dive in to a language(at least c++).
That's fine. We'll also remove food subsidies in the mean time, and kick out all of the warehouses in rural areas(one of the largest land based shipping corridors in the US(LA/LB port complex -> Inland Empire/High Desert 15fwy shipping corridor) has much of its warehouse and rail access in rural(or once rural, now semi-developed around the formerly rural area) regions. You're urban dwelling is not economically feasible without the rural areas that subsidize your cost of living tremendously. And, very abstractly, if economies of scale had anything to do with it, urban living would be cheaper than rural living, since economies of scale dictates more production means cheaper cost. It's really the opposite, which is diseconomy of scale. And that doesn't mention the cost of social problems that center themselves in urban areas.
Silverlight has great potential for a long term future in corporate web applications. .Net applications in a web browser are a pretty significant thing, and much better than anything else currently available.
Exactly. Dick is the prophet here, not a crappy movie
The nice thing about Flash on certain mobile platforms is that you don't need to install it. Skyfire supports it on Android, WinMo, and Blackberry and it is run through the remote renderer. Not so hot for games, but works for regular browsing on websites that utilize flash. Flash isn't going to go anywhere soon, maybe down the road, but not now. So it is nice to have a multiplatform browser that has Flash support despite OS limitations. Too bad Apple won't allow Skyfire on iOS
Can I get the companion release: Ubuntu Iceman?
pre-Velious, not pre-Luclin(well, that's technically still pre-Luclin). It may have even been pre-Kunark when they nerfed jboots. There was also the Manastone(pre-Kunark). But you could just buy them on ebay instead, which was very popular at the time for items.
Those blast marks on that router are too precise for sand people
The fastest database I've ever seen(as far as queries, returning results, performance under load, etc) is a non-sql database. That would be Pick, a hash-file driven multivalue database(ENGLISH query language). Been around since the 60s and still going strong. The only reason it isn't more popular is because the database is it's own operating system as well, so it's emulated on *nix. Databases with 30 years of complex financial data running on Digital Unix with an Alpha processor outperform the latest and greatest hardware configurations I've seen running similar data in a (SQL) relational database(which I see often working with Sybase all day).
That would be the routing table from hell
Realistically, you should be using Firefox anyways since Chrome doesn't support the hooks that NoScript needs to work, and NoScript is required(imho) for any power user(which everyone on Slashdot should be, or used to be). As far as the rest, there are ways available to put native PDF/flash support in Chromium, support H264, and update. The benefits of open source
Which is the crux of the problem. I don't want or need google's tracking built in(among whatever else they have in it) even if I have the option to turn it off. Chromium works fine, Chromium Updater exists for updating it, and it works very well.
While I can't decipher what this article is referring to in particular, Chromium is the base for Chrome. Think of it as the development platform. Everyone should be using Chromium instead of Chrome because Chromium doesn't have the built in usage tracking that Chrome has
Major university math/engineering department chairs, well known scientists, and pretty much anyone with science or math degrees are protesting the most harmful thing to happen to math(and education) since No Child Left Behind. That horrible thing they are protesting is Everyday Math, which is continuing the destruction of math education in the US one bright young mind at a time. This article touches on memorization, but EM goes beyond that, since you don't even learn math mastery, and this is an elementary school program.