This is exactly why nerds are baffled by the success of Apple. You and I have no problem with storing our music files in a hierarchical tree of folder and copying them onto something that mounts as a storage device.
Now think, how many people do you know who store all their document in the default folder for whatever program they're using and have a zillion icons covering their desktop? How many people call you in a panic when they can't find an important document because it's in a folder called "Important Documents"?
Really, this is the kind of remark best ignored rather than obsessing or getting upset over. Company execs talk nonsense all the time. I mean what do you expect him to day "Oh dear, this new OS will cut into our sales, as Linux has been doing and will continue doing for the foreseeable future"? Didn't think so.
Let him talk, just nod politely and continue compiling your kernel.
Can't we mock him and feel a smug sense of superiority?
Just for that, I'm not going to put my music on iTunes. Not that I have any music right now, but one day I might form a band and have some music. It's possible that at that point, I might change my mind and let my music onto iTunes.
Computer Science != Software Engineering != Programming. Computer Science is the theory. Programming is the practice. Software Engineering is how to put the theory into practice.
I agree about version control. It should be taught to everyone. It's important whether you're programming or not. I'm currently in a Masters program and all of the electronic course handouts and all of my assignments are stored in an SVN repository for each class.
The Bible actually teaches evolution. If you read the bit just after Adam and Eve get kicked out of Eden, God explains to them that things are going to be different, in particular there will be thorns and thistles. This is an adaption to environmental changes, just described as a curse.
So, you ain't dating anybody, and you spend last night re-compiling the kernel, then crying yourself to sleep in your cold lonely apartment. Only comforted by the hum of your computers.
Or is that just me?
With that many computers, it's certainly not cold.
Anybody who has your email address can give it to Facebook or some e-card place, or any other sketchy place that may send you unsolicited email. Anybody who has your real address can sign you up for dozens of magazine subscriptions or order pizza delivered to your place.
As soon as the information is out there, you've lost control over it. It's not nice, it's not good, but that's the way it is.
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Part of the problem with the world today is that too many things are viewed only through the lens of "is it useful in business".
The pope has been found to be catholic, birds fly, fish swim and bears defecate in woods.
I'm an ostrich you insensitive clod.
Linux has the greatest game of all! emacs
Plus, with gcc and perl and python and ruby and others, who needs games.
Should this be modded "+1 Too Informative"?
And more importantly, it would mean end of religions, unless we want to fool ourselves now on new, grandiose scale.
Why would it mean the end of religion? All it would mean is that God is even more creative than we had previously though.
Can we argue that God has created life throughout the universe in myriad more ways than we can imagine?
I put on my robe and wizard hat...
This is exactly why nerds are baffled by the success of Apple. You and I have no problem with storing our music files in a hierarchical tree of folder and copying them onto something that mounts as a storage device.
Now think, how many people do you know who store all their document in the default folder for whatever program they're using and have a zillion icons covering their desktop? How many people call you in a panic when they can't find an important document because it's in a folder called "Important Documents"?
There is a difference between what you can legally do and what you can physically do.
Like Canadians, eh?
FTFY
Really, this is the kind of remark best ignored rather than obsessing or getting upset over. Company execs talk nonsense all the time. I mean what do you expect him to day "Oh dear, this new OS will cut into our sales, as Linux has been doing and will continue doing for the foreseeable future"? Didn't think so.
Let him talk, just nod politely and continue compiling your kernel.
Can't we mock him and feel a smug sense of superiority?
Just for that, I'm not going to put my music on iTunes. Not that I have any music right now, but one day I might form a band and have some music. It's possible that at that point, I might change my mind and let my music onto iTunes.
There are two places where someone can gain that power.
He who controls the servers.
and
He who controls the clients.
You missed he who controls the pipes.
Frankly, if this thing was worth a damn, it would be all over the civilian logistics industry by now.
You do realize that a lot of things that are now all over civilian uses got their start in the military.
Computer Science != Software Engineering != Programming.
Computer Science is the theory.
Programming is the practice.
Software Engineering is how to put the theory into practice.
I agree about version control. It should be taught to everyone. It's important whether you're programming or not. I'm currently in a Masters program and all of the electronic course handouts and all of my assignments are stored in an SVN repository for each class.
The Bible actually teaches evolution. If you read the bit just after Adam and Eve get kicked out of Eden, God explains to them that things are going to be different, in particular there will be thorns and thistles. This is an adaption to environmental changes, just described as a curse.
Who the fuck is ALICE?
I don't know, but she's been exchanging a lot of encrypted messages with BOB and I find that *very* suspicious.
Oh yes we do, your on slashdot:
So, you ain't dating anybody, and you spend last night re-compiling the kernel, then crying yourself to sleep in your cold lonely apartment. Only comforted by the hum of your computers.
Or is that just me?
With that many computers, it's certainly not cold.
Anybody who has your email address can give it to Facebook or some e-card place, or any other sketchy place that may send you unsolicited email. Anybody who has your real address can sign you up for dozens of magazine subscriptions or order pizza delivered to your place.
As soon as the information is out there, you've lost control over it. It's not nice, it's not good, but that's the way it is.
The white house reacted quickly to solve the problem and re-inaugured obama as the president of the pants of canada.
This would have been an excellent time to mention Bill Clinton.
I take it you've never worked in big business.
However, Oracle has more to lose than SCO.
Forget FarmVille, when can we play Space Rabbit Teeny Witch Bikini Adventures? That's what I want to know.
Adobe Photoshop could be modified to become a program that indoctrinates me in Marxist philosophy.
I fooled them. I use GIMP which is put out by the very capitalistic ... Ah, I see how this works now.