in middle school I learned BASIC for the Apple IIe
in high school, I took "emerging computer technologies" in 1993. here I learned about hypertext.
the teacher hadn't a clue what it's applications were(she maintained it was used for a presentation to someone). we also learned about video capture and editing. computer networks were never mentioned.
my other computer class was on a macintosh something or other 40MB hard drive. My accomplishments in this class were regarding being able to play a modern game.
not once in all my high school years or earlier, was I offered a class in programming. or anything involving a PC. for note, I graduated in 1995.
had I been tought about computers by someone who knew what the hell they were doing, I would be a dot com billionaire right now.
now, I did have a commodore 64 since I was 5. in all that time, I never knew about computer programming. My brother learned to program it though, and he now turned out to be an EE.
my father was a tech for Data General for 20 years until they got looted by EMC.
so I have an extensive background in computers. but never the slightest hint about programming. still to this day, the only programming I've ever done has been the classice convert temperatures F to C and C to F in the C language.
U.S. companies don't need to pressure the government for education reform.
they can just hire an indian or a russian. you know, the countries that teach their kids math and science(real science, not christian pseudo-science).
the American education system is in place to train worker bees to fit in. Those who don't fit in usually end up in jail or art school.
unfortunately these days, as worker bees are supposed to enter the hive, they are pushed out the door and fall on their ass.
this H1B-a-thon that is currently going on is not recognized as the threat it is(or was, since off-shoring has happened already).
The only solution is a major reform of the education system to include more science and math.
it starts at the beginning. my wife is a first grade teacher in FL(read: no child left behind). she is allowed 3 days of the school year to teach science. even then, her science experiment of which apple has the most seeds, ended up being a moral lesson on appearances.
today's kids can't start intermediate math until high school, but they certainly can't learn that if they don't learn the basics. they can't learn the advanced stuff until they get to college. if they get to college.
but why reform education when the indians are qualified. and they work for rupees which is like a handful of pennies a day!
my cpu supposedly supports this junk
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my presler core 930 supposedly supports viiv. so far I don't know what it is or what it does. intel made mention of virtualization.
the viiv demo software on the intel site doesn't even install on xp.
they don't lose $20 or $30 because who's to say a person was going to actually buy it in the first place? think of it in real terms: they only lose when someone buys a pirated copy for $0.75 which is why they'll compete at twice that price!
in order to get help from the appropriate sources, you need to know how to tread.
the first question any linux guy worth his salt will ask you is, "did you read the docs?"
the climate is less of linux snobs and more of linux fishermen.
give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime.
linux newbies have a problem, they come to ask a question before turning to the docs. they want instant satisfaction. they don't want to be bothered in looking up the answer themselves. most of these people are not technical. they expect a technical person to come to their ignorant rescue. you can't blame the experienced users for a little disdain.
that being said, how do you foster the adoption of linux to non-technical people?
that is the real question.
the OS just has to work. The documentation needs to be spot on. There needs to be a lay-person's version of the linux documentation.
a non-technical distro on the surface but a finely tuned geek opus underneath.
solution?
ubuntu (not that I use it) but it just works.
there should be a stock response in lieu of RTFM.
such as: If you're not willing to read the docs, maybe you should try a less technical distro such as ubuntu.
why is this service coming to the UK first and not the US? This is clearly a service that US customers want. is there bad blood between the MPAA and netflix?
most modern disk utils let you choose between 512b 1k 2k and 4k sectors
what we will start to see here is our inodes will fill up faster than our disks. or, on NTFS our $MFT will fill up past the files.
I format all my drives with 512 byte sectors. this means more sectors on a disk than with 4096 byte sectors. if you have a lot of small files you should use 512 byte sectors.
the caveat is more sectors means more to go wrong.
I've been using a dual processor computer since 2000. Just recently I upgraded to a pressler core Intel D 3GHz. anyone who think's they don't need a dual-core system is just plain wrong. unless you've got plenty of time to spare. my made-up statistics suggest dual-core systems save us an average of 30% processing time vs. the same speed single core system.
the reality is, I don't ever see that annoying little hourglass cursor. hyperthreading is truly a joke as well.
It's not about applications supporting dual-core or SMP. it's about our OS supporting it. I let that Processor intensive application chug away while I check my email and surf the web like nothing else were running.
WinXP is a fat three-legged dog with a single-core it is a fat four-legged dog with a dual-core
I've been working in IT since 1998. This is in South Florida, so that's an exception. since then, I've not had a stable job for more than a year. in 2002 when I decided to up my skillset and became LPIC2 certified, I figured I would land a nice permanent position. since then, I've been labled as a gun-for-hire in Linux. My longest contract has been 2 months. I'm constantly struggling to find work here.
The reason isn't me, though I've long considered that.
The reason is management's view of IT.
If I'm doing my job well, there is no need for me. Management can't "justify" paying me a salary for sitting around I.C.S.H. (in case shit happens) They can't comprehend that I'm preventing shit from happening. And sometimes the IT staff get blamed if shit happens. (sometimes it's their fault)
Is IT a shitty career? YES Why do I do it? I love the work. I'm a second generation computer tech.
The article is like trying to convince a goldfish it's better to be flushed than live in a bowl.
DRM is not the act of a producer or an artist. DRM is the act of the publisher trying to protect their investment. Publishers are trying to ensure a revenue stream through draconian technological means. There are no articles in the constitution to protect revenues. There are, however, articles in the constitution to protect "content creators" rights to own their work and control who gets to "use" their work and for what. If anyone is violating copyright law, it's publishers who make artists sign away their rights to their works for distribution purposes.
Copyright law in the constitution does not apply to publishers trying to protect their revenues, it applies to music creators ensuring they get credit and compensation for the use of their music by commercial entities. As for the people, the music is supposed to be heard by the people.
Copyright law is a protection of the people from commercial entities.
Copyright law has been twisted somehow by the commercial entities into a protection of their interests from the people. This is a direct violation of the constitution's intent.
If you are an American citizen, write to your congress people. Let them know that you cannot vote for them if they cannot support your views.
in all the discussion of copy protection, why has no one mentioned the security wheel? I had tons of games that needed a wheel. it was easily copied with a xerox machine.
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in middle school I learned BASIC for the Apple IIe
in high school, I took "emerging computer technologies" in 1993. here I learned about hypertext.
the teacher hadn't a clue what it's applications were(she maintained it was used for a presentation to someone). we also learned about video capture and editing. computer networks were never mentioned.
my other computer class was on a macintosh something or other 40MB hard drive. My accomplishments in this class were regarding being able to play a modern game.
not once in all my high school years or earlier, was I offered a class in programming. or anything involving a PC. for note, I graduated in 1995.
had I been tought about computers by someone who knew what the hell they were doing, I would be a dot com billionaire right now.
now, I did have a commodore 64 since I was 5. in all that time, I never knew about computer programming. My brother learned to program it though, and he now turned out to be an EE.
my father was a tech for Data General for 20 years until they got looted by EMC.
so I have an extensive background in computers. but never the slightest hint about programming. still to this day, the only programming I've ever done has been the classice convert temperatures F to C and C to F in the C language.
It's extremely easy to install on linux.
launch the package manager and select what you want to install and insert the disk, and click the mouse.
if you consider trying to install something you need to compile from source as "hard as hell", I don't know what to tell you.
millions of admins install from source for a lot of reasons. you prefer to install binaries.
well, bottom line, you prefer a computer system that doesn't require you to think because you're lazy.
Not that I'm a linux snob, but you really are just lazy.
and yet I think the problem is immigration.
U.S. companies don't need to pressure the government for education reform.
they can just hire an indian or a russian. you know, the countries that teach their kids math and science(real science, not christian pseudo-science).
the American education system is in place to train worker bees to fit in. Those who don't fit in usually end up in jail or art school.
unfortunately these days, as worker bees are supposed to enter the hive, they are pushed out the door and fall on their ass.
this H1B-a-thon that is currently going on is not recognized as the threat it is(or was, since off-shoring has happened already).
The only solution is a major reform of the education system to include more science and math.
it starts at the beginning. my wife is a first grade teacher in FL(read: no child left behind). she is allowed 3 days of the school year to teach science. even then, her science experiment of which apple has the most seeds, ended up being a moral lesson on appearances.
today's kids can't start intermediate math until high school, but they certainly can't learn that if they don't learn the basics.
they can't learn the advanced stuff until they get to college. if they get to college.
but why reform education when the indians are qualified. and they work for rupees which is like a handful of pennies a day!
my presler core 930 supposedly supports viiv. so far I don't know what it is or what it does. intel made mention of virtualization.
the viiv demo software on the intel site doesn't even install on xp.
that is how they rationalize it you shill!
they don't lose $20 or $30 because who's to say a person was going to actually buy it in the first place?
think of it in real terms: they only lose when someone buys a pirated copy for $0.75 which is why they'll compete at twice that price!
I've been a newbie before.
I'm now also an experienced linux user.
in order to get help from the appropriate sources, you need to know how to tread.
the first question any linux guy worth his salt will ask you is, "did you read the docs?"
the climate is less of linux snobs and more of linux fishermen.
give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime.
linux newbies have a problem, they come to ask a question before turning to the docs.
they want instant satisfaction. they don't want to be bothered in looking up the answer themselves.
most of these people are not technical. they expect a technical person to come to their ignorant rescue.
you can't blame the experienced users for a little disdain.
that being said, how do you foster the adoption of linux to non-technical people?
that is the real question.
the OS just has to work. The documentation needs to be spot on. There needs to be a lay-person's version of the linux documentation.
a non-technical distro on the surface but a finely tuned geek opus underneath.
solution?
ubuntu (not that I use it) but it just works.
there should be a stock response in lieu of RTFM.
such as: If you're not willing to read the docs, maybe you should try a less technical distro such as ubuntu.
sure this is one guy's experience with DDR2, but it's good stuff
crucial ddr2-667 doesn't perform well.
ocz gold ddr2-800 just doesn't work.
corsair ddr2-675 performs well above specs. and it's half the price.
in my abit AW8-MAX board with it's i955x chipset, I'm running the ram at 667MHz with timings of 4-4-4-12
I can clock the RAM to 220@3:5 or 733MHz!
as far as I can tell, the crucial ballistix I bought was stable at jdec specs.
the ocz gold didn't even post.
why not just go there and dig?
I think he meant that they deserve credit for pushing it into the mainstream, when they used that tech in their desktops.
Broward County has a huge democratic base and also a huge black population.
what would possess you to believe that the mac mini would be a gaming machine?
no, they'd take everything once and bankrupt the organization.
worse yet, the riaA would get the FBI involved claiming that the organization was organized crime.
then they'd come and steal all your computers and take all the money as evidence.
then you'd all go to jail for downloading music, but under charges of organized crime like racketeering.
they mean fast or slow in terms of brain development
Anonymous reader writes to force us to read commercials for shit we don't want need or like.
/. institute some fucking standards about what you'll post.
This so-called anonymous reader perhaps works for cablevision?
wake up
At least tell us it's a commercially sponsored post.
he probably is already in deep debt, which is probably why he did it.
why is this service coming to the UK first and not the US?
This is clearly a service that US customers want.
is there bad blood between the MPAA and netflix?
most modern disk utils let you choose between 512b 1k 2k and 4k sectors
what we will start to see here is our inodes will fill up faster than our disks.
or, on NTFS our $MFT will fill up past the files.
I format all my drives with 512 byte sectors.
this means more sectors on a disk than with 4096 byte sectors.
if you have a lot of small files you should use 512 byte sectors.
the caveat is more sectors means more to go wrong.
I've been using a dual processor computer since 2000.
Just recently I upgraded to a pressler core Intel D 3GHz.
anyone who think's they don't need a dual-core system is just plain wrong.
unless you've got plenty of time to spare.
my made-up statistics suggest dual-core systems save us an average of 30% processing time vs. the same speed single core system.
the reality is, I don't ever see that annoying little hourglass cursor.
hyperthreading is truly a joke as well.
It's not about applications supporting dual-core or SMP.
it's about our OS supporting it. I let that Processor intensive application chug away while I check my email and surf the web like nothing else were running.
WinXP is a fat three-legged dog with a single-core
it is a fat four-legged dog with a dual-core
and Linux 64-bit SMP oh what elegance.
Call center jobs are hardly IT and certainly not a career. The turnover rate for Call centers is extremely high.
I've been working in IT since 1998.
This is in South Florida, so that's an exception.
since then, I've not had a stable job for more than a year.
in 2002 when I decided to up my skillset and became LPIC2 certified, I figured I would land a nice permanent position.
since then, I've been labled as a gun-for-hire in Linux. My longest contract has been 2 months.
I'm constantly struggling to find work here.
The reason isn't me, though I've long considered that.
The reason is management's view of IT.
If I'm doing my job well, there is no need for me.
Management can't "justify" paying me a salary for sitting around I.C.S.H. (in case shit happens)
They can't comprehend that I'm preventing shit from happening.
And sometimes the IT staff get blamed if shit happens. (sometimes it's their fault)
Is IT a shitty career? YES
Why do I do it? I love the work. I'm a second generation computer tech.
The article is like trying to convince a goldfish it's better to be flushed than live in a bowl.
DRM is not the act of a producer or an artist. DRM is the act of the publisher trying to protect their investment.
Publishers are trying to ensure a revenue stream through draconian technological means.
There are no articles in the constitution to protect revenues.
There are, however, articles in the constitution to protect "content creators" rights to own their work and control who gets to "use" their work and for what.
If anyone is violating copyright law, it's publishers who make artists sign away their rights to their works for distribution purposes.
Copyright law in the constitution does not apply to publishers trying to protect their revenues, it applies to music creators ensuring they get credit and compensation for the use of their music by commercial entities. As for the people, the music is supposed to be heard by the people.
Copyright law is a protection of the people from commercial entities.
Copyright law has been twisted somehow by the commercial entities into a protection of their interests from the people. This is a direct violation of the constitution's intent.
If you are an American citizen, write to your congress people. Let them know that you cannot vote for them if they cannot support your views.
I am against click-thru licensing on commercial products.
but not when it comes to my music.
Supercomputer Performs Simulation of Virus, Accidentally Deletes Own Harddrive.
in all the discussion of copy protection, why has no one mentioned the security wheel?
I had tons of games that needed a wheel.
it was easily copied with a xerox machine.
I say SuSE like John Philip Sousa -> Sooza