Oh, yes... those were the games of my childhood. Actually, I have learned a tremendous amount of english by playing them. You had to read, find words (ah, command-line games!). My dutch-english and english-dutch dictionary were *always* near the computer.
I miss Sierra.... At least the Sierra that Ken Williams built.
You are thinking of democracy:
Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time. - Winston Churchill, 1947
Apart from that, "capitalism" (often horribly misspelled on slashdot as "capitolism", I absolutely hate that mistake) is a economic doctrine (or philosophy, as you like). Not a form of government.
I tend to like socialism more, but to everyone his favourite economic doctrine.
Sorry, read your comment too fast... I see you eplain the aigu and umlaut. Hmmm, I'm going to see if I can change my keyboard into "international US" for my Windows machine.
How is Linux support for these things?
It seems in that case that I have a "normal" US keyboard. My ^, ~, ` are not "sticky". How do you do a accent aigu on such a keyboard? Using the single quote? Also it does not have the umlaut modifier.
I actually like tha Apple strategy to solve this problem. Alt + s for ß and Alt + n for ~. Very cool.
You might be surprised to hear that there are other keyboard layouts around the world. Just slightly different from the QWERTY. I think here of the AZERTY (French/Belgium) and QWERTZ (Swiss/Germany). It is an absolute pain in the butt. I live in a country where all those keyboards are used, and I need half an hour adaptations every time I use another keyboard.
I ordered a US keyboard to at least have no problems on my home computer. My iBook however has the Swiss layout, and at work it's the French layout. Only problem I have with the US keyboard is that accents or umlauts are virtually impossible to do. I always wondered why we just didn't take the US layout, changed one of the "Alt" keys to the "Alt-Gr" keys (that we already have) and then just add the accentuated characters when that modifier key is hold down.
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Exactly how I work too. I haven't had the need of a password manager, ever. Besides, I like it when a system prompts me for my username and password.
The size of a resume depends wholly on culture. In anglo-saxon resumes you are right, not do in french resumes. There you are supposed to write about personal stuff.
For the people that don't know what they want to do there is Med School, Law School and Business School. When I was at highschool, those that didn't know what to do went in those directions.
Of course, many failed. See, if I care! Computer Science was becoming another "Med School", "Law School" or "Business School". Note: I don't bash anyone who goes into those educations, many do so by choice. Unfortunatley, a lot do so because "it will be a good job".
Also note that I have no concept of "Minor" and "Major". I'm European, we don't have that. (At least not to my knowledge, perhaps in the UK...)
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Never trust a computer proffesional that doesnt list computer as a hobby.
I completely agree. But beware, I work as a consultant and we're supposed to write our own CV to be sent to customers. So, in the personal field I mentioned my own computer experimenst (meaning my two LAN's, servers, alternative OSes, etc...)
The guy from sales asked me at once to remove it because it's "amateur stuff" and not "professional work". *Ouch* I had a fierce discussion with him, but you won't find it in my CV anymore. Yes, I still work there, but the people reading CVs (the first filters, not the technical people) don't want no amateurish sounding things in a CV.
Sad, but true...
If you chose an education, you should not choose what is trendy, but what you *like* or what you are *interested* in.
That's what I did, before the internet boom, and I graduated in the middle of the internet boom... *not* taking advantage of it and just looking for a stable job. Which I still have, right now.... (Just got a raise, so I am not to complain).
Yes, I chose Computer Science because I love computers, I love programming and I discovered that I loved the math and theory behind all of it. (Because, boys 'n girls.... Computer Science doesn't end at being a good coder)
Apart from that I have to quote the article: People aren't seeing the glory in computer science that they used to.
I think that is false: there never has *been* glory in Computer Science. Not even in the dot-com boom. No, *technology* was glorified, not the science.
Anyways: do what you like. That's the only advice I can give. (Oh, and to my surprise I read in the article that there are more girls doing CS now! Damn, I wish I was younger and back at University *grin*)
Well, as I said: there is inconsistency between your subject ant the content of your post: in the subject you talk about Aqua on Linux, in the comment you talk about Aqua on OS X. No mention of Linux...
Good, you don't like Aqua. My point was that most popular desktop environments are very bloated too. With this I mean XP's interface and KDE (Ouch, the loading hurts). Personally, if I use Linux (or BSD), I don't use KDE whereever I can: XFree and WindowMaker are my favourites, just because they are light.
On the Mac however, I *like* Aqua. It eats memory for breakfast (not much more than XP or KDE), yes, but it isn't slow. Not to my feeling. I don't think Aqua deserves that bashing.
My iBook came with OS 9. I decided to give it a try. Uhm... that thing crashed so much it wasn't funny. Interface was nice, but a bit, aged. Oh, and memory usage on OS 9 wasn't for the faint of heart either.
I'm comparing two popular OSes. You did only specify "Aqua On Linux" in the subject of your post. The rest was pure Aqua bashing. How would it be any different to put Aqua on a machine with a Linux kernel instead of a Mach kernel? I don't think much.
Aqua is the most dog-slow, RAM-hungry POS in existence. I've always considered it the biggest *problem* with using OS X, since you can't use OS X without having to have this huge beast bogging down your machine.
Don't see any Linux references there, and I do see a Mac OS X reference....
No, it really is a troll... My iBook, idle after reboot runs at 81Meg RAM used. My Winbox at work uses 128Meg RAM before I start anything (W2K). Please explain me *which* one exactly is bloated.
Yes, Mac OS X feels a little slower, but I use a G3 at home and a P-IV 1.7Ghz at work. That's not really fair to compare...
Just tried....
This is my Pentium I, at 166Mhz with 256Meg RAM. It runs OpenBSD 3.2 and took 20 seconds to start X including WindowMaker. The memory usage (according to top) was 14Meg before launching and 28Meg after everything launched.
Summary: 14Meg of RAM used, started in 20 seconds. I want to see my Windows 2000 box do that....
That's only because you're used to it. Money is money. The greenbacks look ugly to me. I have some here, I don't see what you mean with detail. Look at a 20 Euro, it has a lot of detail too. My opinion, your opinion.... We won't agree on this topic.
Fact is: European (and other countries) currency is more modern. Better protected against forgery, and often designed for the blind and bad seeing. Your greenback has none of these... The US could pull it off too, modernising it's whole series of bills. It happened here, without much problems.
The most common ones are indeed 5, 20 and 50 Euro which are distributed out of ATM's. You can get the bigger bills though, if you go to the counter of bank. I live in a country known for it's banking, so that might explain why I'm a bit more exposed.
I've often seen the green ones (never had one though... my post was just an example). The 200 and 500 bills (yellow and grey) exist, but I've never seen them live. I've never seen a shop that has signs saying that they don't accept them (as the other poster mentioned), but I've never tried, so I don't know. On the other hand, it's not as if you see the "bigger" bills like 100$ often either in the US. (There is a thousand, right?)
Same here: expensive == VISA. Added bonus, you get only charged for real one month after purchase.;-)
... Which means, I have to take out all my bills out of the wallet to sift through them. Meaning I show everyone around that I have over 500$ in my wallet. Very very good idea... NOT...
Here I just pull out a blue note when I need 20, and not the green one because that's 100.
Yeah, except that when you're a tourist and there are 20 other tourists waiting in a queue behind you and you have to sort through all your bills to find the correct amount while the others get impatient, it's a real pain.
No wonder I usually use my credit card in the US. I still got over 100$ of cash in my wallet from my latest trip to the US... I just stopped using it after a while. I mean, if you can pay your 2$ beverage at the bar with your credit card, why bother. (That would be frowned upon here in Europe)
As a European I did not know, and have never seen one. Seems they are collectors items nowadays. Being curious, I googled a picture . Neat... I wouldn't have believed it if someone would have given one to me.
Anyways, that new 20$ looks great! I like the design. Seems you guys doing a step in the right direction. Boy, had I trouble in the US keeping the different bills apart...
Oh, wait.... It says "User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*" can scan everything. This surprises me however. Still, that's not "GoogleBot", which I see from time to time in my apache logs.
Anybody got an idea what "Mediapartners-Google*" exactly is?
Sorry, but Germany is a good memember of the EU, whatever you say. The economic woes of Germany are unrelated to the Euro. I have *never* felt as if Germany dictates the EU policy, nor have I ever felt that about the french... and believe me, I don't live in either of those countries.
You know, that's this whole thing of being a community. We're supposed to help each other out, and the UK just takes and never gives. That's about all I got to say about it.
Please leave UK, your philosophy doesn't match that of the rest of the EU. We'd do fine without the UK! I think the UK would suffer more from an economic separation from "the continent". The other option you'd have is the US as big economic partner, and welcome "USification". (Because you're da US bitch, baby!)
State me one thing *we* couldn't get without the UK? Apart from that, you'd have a nice day without the illegally imported cigarettes and tobacco... (Go and watch a port/the chunnel on a sunday....heck *any* day of the week!)
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I miss Sierra.... At least the Sierra that Ken Williams built.
Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time. - Winston Churchill, 1947
Apart from that, "capitalism" (often horribly misspelled on slashdot as "capitolism", I absolutely hate that mistake) is a economic doctrine (or philosophy, as you like). Not a form of government.
I tend to like socialism more, but to everyone his favourite economic doctrine.
Sorry, read your comment too fast... I see you eplain the aigu and umlaut.
Hmmm, I'm going to see if I can change my keyboard into "international US" for my Windows machine.
How is Linux support for these things?
It seems in that case that I have a "normal" US keyboard. My ^, ~, ` are not "sticky". How do you do a accent aigu on such a keyboard? Using the single quote? Also it does not have the umlaut modifier.
I actually like tha Apple strategy to solve this problem. Alt + s for ß and Alt + n for ~. Very cool.
You might be surprised to hear that there are other keyboard layouts around the world. Just slightly different from the QWERTY. I think here of the AZERTY (French/Belgium) and QWERTZ (Swiss/Germany). It is an absolute pain in the butt. I live in a country where all those keyboards are used, and I need half an hour adaptations every time I use another keyboard.
I ordered a US keyboard to at least have no problems on my home computer. My iBook however has the Swiss layout, and at work it's the French layout. Only problem I have with the US keyboard is that accents or umlauts are virtually impossible to do. I always wondered why we just didn't take the US layout, changed one of the "Alt" keys to the "Alt-Gr" keys (that we already have) and then just add the accentuated characters when that modifier key is hold down.
Exactly how I work too. I haven't had the need of a password manager, ever. Besides, I like it when a system prompts me for my username and password.
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The size of a resume depends wholly on culture. In anglo-saxon resumes you are right, not do in french resumes. There you are supposed to write about personal stuff.
Who? I don't even know who they are. I think I need to google a bit. Oh, and a programmer is not a Computer Scientist.
Of course, many failed. See, if I care! Computer Science was becoming another "Med School", "Law School" or "Business School". Note: I don't bash anyone who goes into those educations, many do so by choice. Unfortunatley, a lot do so because "it will be a good job".
Also note that I have no concept of "Minor" and "Major". I'm European, we don't have that. (At least not to my knowledge, perhaps in the UK...)
I completely agree. But beware, I work as a consultant and we're supposed to write our own CV to be sent to customers. So, in the personal field I mentioned my own computer experimenst (meaning my two LAN's, servers, alternative OSes, etc...)
The guy from sales asked me at once to remove it because it's "amateur stuff" and not "professional work". *Ouch* I had a fierce discussion with him, but you won't find it in my CV anymore. Yes, I still work there, but the people reading CVs (the first filters, not the technical people) don't want no amateurish sounding things in a CV.
Sad, but true...
That's what I did, before the internet boom, and I graduated in the middle of the internet boom... *not* taking advantage of it and just looking for a stable job. Which I still have, right now.... (Just got a raise, so I am not to complain).
Yes, I chose Computer Science because I love computers, I love programming and I discovered that I loved the math and theory behind all of it. (Because, boys 'n girls.... Computer Science doesn't end at being a good coder)
Apart from that I have to quote the article:
People aren't seeing the glory in computer science that they used to.
I think that is false: there never has *been* glory in Computer Science. Not even in the dot-com boom. No, *technology* was glorified, not the science.
Anyways: do what you like. That's the only advice I can give. (Oh, and to my surprise I read in the article that there are more girls doing CS now! Damn, I wish I was younger and back at University *grin*)
Good, you don't like Aqua. My point was that most popular desktop environments are very bloated too. With this I mean XP's interface and KDE (Ouch, the loading hurts). Personally, if I use Linux (or BSD), I don't use KDE whereever I can: XFree and WindowMaker are my favourites, just because they are light.
On the Mac however, I *like* Aqua. It eats memory for breakfast (not much more than XP or KDE), yes, but it isn't slow. Not to my feeling. I don't think Aqua deserves that bashing.
My iBook came with OS 9. I decided to give it a try. Uhm... that thing crashed so much it wasn't funny. Interface was nice, but a bit, aged. Oh, and memory usage on OS 9 wasn't for the faint of heart either.
Aqua is the most dog-slow, RAM-hungry POS in existence. I've always considered it the biggest *problem* with using OS X, since you can't use OS X without having to have this huge beast bogging down your machine.
Don't see any Linux references there, and I do see a Mac OS X reference....
Yes, Mac OS X feels a little slower, but I use a G3 at home and a P-IV 1.7Ghz at work. That's not really fair to compare...
Just tried....
This is my Pentium I, at 166Mhz with 256Meg RAM. It runs OpenBSD 3.2 and took 20 seconds to start X including WindowMaker. The memory usage (according to top) was 14Meg before launching and 28Meg after everything launched.
Summary: 14Meg of RAM used, started in 20 seconds. I want to see my Windows 2000 box do that....
That's only because you're used to it. Money is money. The greenbacks look ugly to me. I have some here, I don't see what you mean with detail. Look at a 20 Euro, it has a lot of detail too.
My opinion, your opinion.... We won't agree on this topic.
Fact is: European (and other countries) currency is more modern. Better protected against forgery, and often designed for the blind and bad seeing. Your greenback has none of these... The US could pull it off too, modernising it's whole series of bills. It happened here, without much problems.
So real money should look boring? (Not colourfull, not pretty)
Everybody it's own I guess.
The most common ones are indeed 5, 20 and 50 Euro which are distributed out of ATM's. You can get the bigger bills though, if you go to the counter of bank. I live in a country known for it's banking, so that might explain why I'm a bit more exposed. ;-)
I've often seen the green ones (never had one though... my post was just an example). The 200 and 500 bills (yellow and grey) exist, but I've never seen them live. I've never seen a shop that has signs saying that they don't accept them (as the other poster mentioned), but I've never tried, so I don't know. On the other hand, it's not as if you see the "bigger" bills like 100$ often either in the US. (There is a thousand, right?)
Same here: expensive == VISA. Added bonus, you get only charged for real one month after purchase.
... Which means, I have to take out all my bills out of the wallet to sift through them. Meaning I show everyone around that I have over 500$ in my wallet. Very very good idea... NOT...
Here I just pull out a blue note when I need 20, and not the green one because that's 100.
Yeah, except that when you're a tourist and there are 20 other tourists waiting in a queue behind you and you have to sort through all your bills to find the correct amount while the others get impatient, it's a real pain.
No wonder I usually use my credit card in the US. I still got over 100$ of cash in my wallet from my latest trip to the US... I just stopped using it after a while. I mean, if you can pay your 2$ beverage at the bar with your credit card, why bother. (That would be frowned upon here in Europe)
Anyways, that new 20$ looks great! I like the design. Seems you guys doing a step in the right direction. Boy, had I trouble in the US keeping the different bills apart...
Oh, wait.... It says "User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*" can scan everything. This surprises me however. Still, that's not "GoogleBot", which I see from time to time in my apache logs.
Anybody got an idea what "Mediapartners-Google*" exactly is?
No... Check robots.txt
You know, that's this whole thing of being a community. We're supposed to help each other out, and the UK just takes and never gives. That's about all I got to say about it.
Please leave UK, your philosophy doesn't match that of the rest of the EU. We'd do fine without the UK! I think the UK would suffer more from an economic separation from "the continent". The other option you'd have is the US as big economic partner, and welcome "USification". (Because you're da US bitch, baby!)
State me one thing *we* couldn't get without the UK? Apart from that, you'd have a nice day without the illegally imported cigarettes and tobacco... (Go and watch a port/the chunnel on a sunday....heck *any* day of the week!)