You'd be surprised how badly some *cough* nvidia *cough* graphics cards do at straight text. They're so 'optimised' for high benchmark framerates that the 2d quality becomes utter shite. Compare an older Matrox with a current gaming graphics card and be surprised.
I speak from experience. the pain isn't worth it. sure, you'll get the occasional good job, but then you'll be held to blame for everything that ever goes wrong with the box there after. if you're after easy cash, you'd be better off getting a job as a rent-boy or sewer cleaner.
funnily enough it's not the best they've been hiring. with the exception of daniel robbins none of them have been high profile or particularly skilled. and from what i've heard, robbins's main skill was organisation rather than vision or technical excellance.
Oh, so you didn't like our last game? That's ok, our next game will fix all of the things you didn't like, honest! Buy it even though our track record is deteriorating!
Except that python doesn't even come close to ruby in terms of power. Try implementing Rails' 'belongs_to' in python... It's when you start to do neat tricks like this that the advantages of having real higher order classes (as opposed to the python Klass hack) and real higher order functions (as opposed to what python laughingly calls lambda) shows up.
I bet you're violating your licence by allowing multiple people to access the machine on which the compiler is installed. I also bet that it'll cost your company a whole lot of money when that machine breaks or needs to be taken offline. Smart...
What happens when your camera can't take pictures of anything with a special DRM mark on it, and your paper won't let you write DRM-protected material on it?
Think it's daft? Go out, buy a reasonably decent new scanner or photocopier and try to copy a US or EU banknote.
Where can you find people nowadays that have time to learn how to do proper layout, typesetting, graphics and indexing as well as knowing all that's necessary to write a book? Division of labour is a good thing.
Suddenly? Uh, not really. They've been a fairly serious software house for a long time, but until recently nearly all of their work has been internal-only.
It's hardly unique... Remember, there are more programmers working on in-house projects than on commercial software.
A *good* C++ compiler? No-one's ever written one of those. Heck, there's not even a complete C++ compiler + standard library implementation yet (although g++ is getting close). Do you expect AMD to be the first?
I used to have to switch between French and British layouts on a regular basis. Now I have no problems with British and Dvorak. I have more difficulties with the physical positioning of keys between my laptop and Microsoft Natural keyboards...
Folder? IMAP has folders. Filesystems have directories. Sounds to me like you ran IIS on a public-facing machine, in which case you deserve everything you got.
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It's a myth that NetBSD runs on more than Linux. See gregkh's writeup.
You'd be surprised how badly some *cough* nvidia *cough* graphics cards do at straight text. They're so 'optimised' for high benchmark framerates that the 2d quality becomes utter shite. Compare an older Matrox with a current gaming graphics card and be surprised.
Compile your own mplayer, or switch to a distribution that ships a non-crippled build. It's fine in mplayer 1.0_pre7 on Gentoo.
why would you ask slashdot for moderated arguments? the mods here are a) linux whores and b) on cheap $2 crack.
Try selling a box that doesn't do what the user wants. See how many customers you have left. Unless you're a huge monopoly you won't get very far.
I speak from experience. the pain isn't worth it. sure, you'll get the occasional good job, but then you'll be held to blame for everything that ever goes wrong with the box there after. if you're after easy cash, you'd be better off getting a job as a rent-boy or sewer cleaner.
funnily enough it's not the best they've been hiring. with the exception of daniel robbins none of them have been high profile or particularly skilled. and from what i've heard, robbins's main skill was organisation rather than vision or technical excellance.
Why else do you think they've hired four Gentoo people over the past six months?
Oh, so you didn't like our last game? That's ok, our next game will fix all of the things you didn't like, honest! Buy it even though our track record is deteriorating!
You'll need an update to /usr/share/zoneinfo/ . Expect the next Debian release in late 2012 to support this.
Except that python doesn't even come close to ruby in terms of power. Try implementing Rails' 'belongs_to' in python... It's when you start to do neat tricks like this that the advantages of having real higher order classes (as opposed to the python Klass hack) and real higher order functions (as opposed to what python laughingly calls lambda) shows up.
The bleeding edge of obsolescence.
I bet you're violating your licence by allowing multiple people to access the machine on which the compiler is installed. I also bet that it'll cost your company a whole lot of money when that machine breaks or needs to be taken offline. Smart...
What happens when your camera can't take pictures of anything with a special DRM mark on it, and your paper won't let you write DRM-protected material on it?
Think it's daft? Go out, buy a reasonably decent new scanner or photocopier and try to copy a US or EU banknote.
As ever, this won't stop anyone serious about circumventing DRM, and will only fuck over the innocent. Do they never learn?
Where can you find people nowadays that have time to learn how to do proper layout, typesetting, graphics and indexing as well as knowing all that's necessary to write a book? Division of labour is a good thing.
Suddenly? Uh, not really. They've been a fairly serious software house for a long time, but until recently nearly all of their work has been internal-only.
It's hardly unique... Remember, there are more programmers working on in-house projects than on commercial software.
How many people do you know who understand the gcc source well enough to find this kind of thing?
A *good* C++ compiler? No-one's ever written one of those. Heck, there's not even a complete C++ compiler + standard library implementation yet (although g++ is getting close). Do you expect AMD to be the first?
Hm, with a degree from Teesside you'll have trouble even getting a visa. A degree from an ex poly isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
Not all libraries should be standard.
Dead tree lasts longer than computer media. Ask anyone who has ever tried to get data off twenty year old tapes...
I used to have to switch between French and British layouts on a regular basis. Now I have no problems with British and Dvorak. I have more difficulties with the physical positioning of keys between my laptop and Microsoft Natural keyboards...
Folder? IMAP has folders. Filesystems have directories. Sounds to me like you ran IIS on a public-facing machine, in which case you deserve everything you got.
An easier way is to learn Latin. Then you'll always use them correctly, because you'll know exactly what they really mean.