Having a degree doesn't make you a great coder and neither does being self taught. Talent and understanding big picture concepts are what makes a great coder. If you don't have either of these by age 30, then having a degree or not doesn't matter as you're useless to all but the most bloated of organizations.
If you are a hot shot coder fresh out of high school and understand how to follow a schedule, estimate hours, generate unit tests, use an automated build process, use revision control, capture requirements, and can generate readable documentation, then you are FAR FAR beyond where most self-taught people are.
If you have a brand spanking new CS, SE, CE, IT degree and can do all of those things above but understand why compiler errors are typically on the line following the error, why C++ link lines need the libs in a specific order, why Java and.Net apps are trivial to disassemble, and have actually wrote something on your own that wasn't part of school to solve a problem you have, then you are FAR FAR beyond where most young people with a degree are.
If either are the case, contact me cause I would probably hire you.
Note: After age 30 or so, neither of these matter as you should have enough experience in the real world to do all of it.
The issue isn't Gnome 3 vs. Gnome 2 at all. The issue is DE's are boring. Remember when Compiz was first being developed? There were crazy plugins to make the windows dissolve into flames and wobble and all that. Gimmicks. Fun for a second but they're gimmicks. What ended up happening was DE's merging the compositing effects into the DE and sticking to keeping out of the way of the user. BOOORRING. All the DE needs to do is provide a way to launch apps and manage settings and that's not fun to work on if there's no new ground to cover. Windows 8, Mac OS, IOS, Unity are all going the same direction: big button toolbar for touch and search. Gnome 3 did the same thing and you can't fault the devs for that.
As for the Gnome 3 sucks, use Cinnamon or MATE crowd, let me ask this: what makes more sense to you? Use that.
Or you could stop blaming Linux users for the actions of modders and botters. PlayOnLinux says at least 30,000 people are using it to play Diablo III. I'm one of them and I have not been banned. MANY Linux users have not been banned because the only people who seem to be posting in these threads are the handful of people who claim to have been banned and Windows users who keep saying "quit whining, you're unsupported". My suspicions are that they are using bots and using Wine as their excuse.
The recent Humble Bundle had Linux support for all of the games and I was happy to buy it. I do support the companies who support Linux, but I have no intention of buying Windows simply to play a game when the company (with one glaring exception with WoW way back when) has had stellar support for Wine even if they don't handle officially because of cost. I've been Linux only for over a decade and will be happy to stay that way.
Back your assertion up. Does it manage windows? Yes. Does it offer status information? Yes. Can I control settings like wifi, bluetooth, etc. quickly? Yes. Does it have DE utilities to manage preferences, wallpaper, etc? Yes.
Sounds like a perfectly good desktop environment. Any comments beyond that are simply opinion.
Microsoft switched to the ribbon much to the dismay of experienced users, but for new users, it's significantly better. Their own research backed that up. Eventually, you get accustomed to it.
Gnome is trying to stay current, by offering capabilities that are found in modern environments without having to add in utilities like Gnome-Do or Cairodock. If you want the *old* interface, use XFCE or LXDE or whatever other oldschool windowing environment you'd like to use. That's what it means to have choice in the FLOSS community.
I bought the N1 unsubsidized. At the time, it was the $529 or $199 subsidized with a 2 year contract. Of course, over those two years it was an extra $20 a month on T-Mobile so $480 extra over the two years which is more than the savings from the phone. As for my monthly charges, I get 500 anytime, unlimited night and weekend, unlimited text, unlimited web for $67.78 after taxes. Broken out, it's 29.99 for minutes, 10 for text, and 20 for web according to my statement. Plus I can tether. Compare that to my wife on an iPhone 3G who's paying $89 or so after taxes with similar minutes, limited texting, and soon to be limited data. For me, that's a huge discount.
If Google, YouTube, and MySpace put banners on their screens informing people about Net Neutrality and what it'll mean for their services, this issue would go away quickly.
You could make a CD in Russia from their service and bring it into the US since it would then be a tangible object and be legit. There is no difference here.
Not to mention, we have software "export" laws governing what crypto can go to other nations. By your argument, if I make that software available to someone in North Korea, I'm not exporting, I'm letting them reproduce.
I noticed your arguments on this way back in September and you were one of only two people arguing that this was illegal yet you were nearly HALF the posts. I have no idea why you feel SO strongly on the subject but considering KCTL radio switched to using AllofMp3 (site down, can't confirm) for their content, I don't see where you have a leg to stand on.
More like the reason is since the music industry isn't getting a lick of their money and they aren't promoting them and they aren't on the radio, they aren't "broken by the internet"
I gotta call BS on this. 10 yrs experience and a BS in SE? What college is your degree from and what industry/work did you do for those ten years? If you're up in Oregon you should be making well more than that.
about:config will solve 1. for you. Put "about:config" in your menubar. On that page, find font.FreeType2.autohinted and set it to true. Do the same for font.FreeType2.enable. Set font.FreeType2.unhinted to false. Also, for number 3, ensure that you go to preferences and that you have Remember Passwords unchecked. You may also want to ensure that its not a cookie thats storing it. Restart Firefox and you'll have much nicer fonts.
Yes, the quality of your lawyer is the biggest disadvantage. It works fine in a civil sense in most situations, but say you get into an accident with someone very wealthy, or you sue a construction company for say demolishing your house instead of the one next door. You are now in a situation where if you lose the case for whatever reason, you are going to pay the other side's legal fees. Say your lawyer makes a critical mistake in some document, you just lost. Say the lawyers for the other side do some manuevering and can shift blame, you just lost. Loser pays works great in theory but it reverses the whole little guy vs. the big guy problem. It becomes TOO risky instead of no risk at all.
I don't see how you can talk about usability with those three apps in the same sentence. Firefox does usability perfectly. 90% of the things you can change are hidden in about:config. The general user will never see them and the defaults are fine. Aside from that, the menu options are straight forward and you're never given a ton of options all at once, it's a small subset at a time. Gaim on the otherhand is a mess. Everything is located in one place with few seperations of concerns. It's a literal maze of configuration options, many of which should be moved to where they make sense. ie. I should have to go to preferences to remove a toolbar, I should just be able to right click on the toolbar and select remove. Gaim is definately developed for geeks with way too many options. Fluxbox I wouldn't EVER give to someone who wasn't a geek. Its all well and good until you want to configure it. "Open a what?" is the exact response i'd expect to get if I told a user to open a text configuration file, modify it by hand, and then reload. There are some apps out there to do this configuration for you, but they should be a PART of fluxbox, not disjoint.
How does this make us open to hijackings? The terrorists from 9/11 had valid credentials. They went through a metal detector. The added security does nothing but placate the sheeple. Try flying sometime and you'll see how security is spotty at best. You don't have this kind of trouble in foreign airports that are BIGGER targets for this sort of thing. Think about that.
Lets take a look at some of these new/improved features:
Metadata: This is something great for the aspect oriented folks out there but unfortunately they made the mistake of making it look EXACTLY like a javadoc. Keep code and comments seperate.
Generic Types: Could be argued either way but if everything was an Object already, why break that? If stronger typing will improve performance, this could be a good thing, but I think it weakens the strong 'everything's an object' paradigm.
Autoboxing: Good if you like generic types, bad if you like strict OO.
Enhanced For-loop/Iterators: WTF. Added syntax just to save a few keystrokes? Its the equivalent of adding "(something) ? do this : do that" to a language. It hurts readability and adds unnecessary syntax.
Enumerated types: Its about time
Static import: Total missuse of a keyword.
Formatted output: Its about time
Varargs: Its about time though not totally necessary since arrays have a given length.
Those are just my thoughts. They make things easier for writing but they're hacking the language to pieces to do it. Metadata should have been done C# style and we don't need generics to do the work.
October of 2003 wasn't "just found" not to mention you have to install a plugin that doesn't come with gaim by default. We're talking default configuration on windows compared to a nonstandard configuration on some OS. Apples and oranges.
This sort of stuff goes on all the time. I currently hold a position of "Software Engineer" just like many of my peers at my job. Of course, I am the ONLY Software Engineer however. I have a degree in Software Engineering. Everyone else, Computer Science. Corporate America doesn't know nor care about the differences between SE/CS/CE/IT degrees. They just want to know if you can program in whatever languages they want with whatever utilities they have under a structure they dictate. If this degree/certification gives them those skills for today, great. If it leaves them in a position to get passed by people with a 4 yr degree or masters in the future, well, it was their gamble.
I think one of the things underestimated though is the power of some bells and whistles. Pop-up blocking and tabs are HUGE benefits once someone uses them. When people care about improving the browser experience, not just if it renders correctly, thats a big deal. My favorite featurse of Firefox aren't any of these noticeable bells and whistles, its the ones you rarely see: Page Info and DOM Inspector.
DOM Inspector is great when trying to create a standards compliant site. You can even use it to change some attributes on the fly and see EXACTLY how they interact on a page. Its great for Javascript programming also.
Page Info is even more handy. Ever been to a site that restricts right clicks for saving an image or midi? Howabout want to download some media file without having to parse through the extraneous HTML? Page info lets you do it all directly from the media tab.
These things will probably never be used by 90% of the people out there. For those that do know and care though, they are invaluable utilities.
Yes, but thats not for 2 years. And thats only for a NEW version of windows, not the existing. The key to gainging back dominance is to get Firefox on any PC you can find. Word of mouth means alot.
I can agree with you there. Double middle click is very unintuitive. However, once you're used to it, its not too bad. You can also hold shift when you double click which is a little more natural and I should train myself for that instead. Ctrl W is used in windows so a moot point. And the three key isn't something you'll use that often, but its there just in case.
Regardless, all I was trying to point out is you are in control of what windows get opened.
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Having a degree doesn't make you a great coder and neither does being self taught. Talent and understanding big picture concepts are what makes a great coder. If you don't have either of these by age 30, then having a degree or not doesn't matter as you're useless to all but the most bloated of organizations.
If you are a hot shot coder fresh out of high school and understand how to follow a schedule, estimate hours, generate unit tests, use an automated build process, use revision control, capture requirements, and can generate readable documentation, then you are FAR FAR beyond where most self-taught people are.
If you have a brand spanking new CS, SE, CE, IT degree and can do all of those things above but understand why compiler errors are typically on the line following the error, why C++ link lines need the libs in a specific order, why Java and .Net apps are trivial to disassemble, and have actually wrote something on your own that wasn't part of school to solve a problem you have, then you are FAR FAR beyond where most young people with a degree are.
If either are the case, contact me cause I would probably hire you.
Note: After age 30 or so, neither of these matter as you should have enough experience in the real world to do all of it.
The issue isn't Gnome 3 vs. Gnome 2 at all. The issue is DE's are boring. Remember when Compiz was first being developed? There were crazy plugins to make the windows dissolve into flames and wobble and all that. Gimmicks. Fun for a second but they're gimmicks. What ended up happening was DE's merging the compositing effects into the DE and sticking to keeping out of the way of the user. BOOORRING. All the DE needs to do is provide a way to launch apps and manage settings and that's not fun to work on if there's no new ground to cover. Windows 8, Mac OS, IOS, Unity are all going the same direction: big button toolbar for touch and search. Gnome 3 did the same thing and you can't fault the devs for that.
As for the Gnome 3 sucks, use Cinnamon or MATE crowd, let me ask this: what makes more sense to you? Use that.
I wrote off all social media long ago
As you post in a threaded message board...
Or you could stop blaming Linux users for the actions of modders and botters. PlayOnLinux says at least 30,000 people are using it to play Diablo III. I'm one of them and I have not been banned. MANY Linux users have not been banned because the only people who seem to be posting in these threads are the handful of people who claim to have been banned and Windows users who keep saying "quit whining, you're unsupported". My suspicions are that they are using bots and using Wine as their excuse.
The recent Humble Bundle had Linux support for all of the games and I was happy to buy it. I do support the companies who support Linux, but I have no intention of buying Windows simply to play a game when the company (with one glaring exception with WoW way back when) has had stellar support for Wine even if they don't handle officially because of cost. I've been Linux only for over a decade and will be happy to stay that way.
Back your assertion up. Does it manage windows? Yes. Does it offer status information? Yes. Can I control settings like wifi, bluetooth, etc. quickly? Yes. Does it have DE utilities to manage preferences, wallpaper, etc? Yes.
Sounds like a perfectly good desktop environment. Any comments beyond that are simply opinion.
Microsoft switched to the ribbon much to the dismay of experienced users, but for new users, it's significantly better. Their own research backed that up. Eventually, you get accustomed to it.
Gnome is trying to stay current, by offering capabilities that are found in modern environments without having to add in utilities like Gnome-Do or Cairodock. If you want the *old* interface, use XFCE or LXDE or whatever other oldschool windowing environment you'd like to use. That's what it means to have choice in the FLOSS community.
I bought the N1 unsubsidized. At the time, it was the $529 or $199 subsidized with a 2 year contract. Of course, over those two years it was an extra $20 a month on T-Mobile so $480 extra over the two years which is more than the savings from the phone. As for my monthly charges, I get 500 anytime, unlimited night and weekend, unlimited text, unlimited web for $67.78 after taxes. Broken out, it's 29.99 for minutes, 10 for text, and 20 for web according to my statement. Plus I can tether. Compare that to my wife on an iPhone 3G who's paying $89 or so after taxes with similar minutes, limited texting, and soon to be limited data. For me, that's a huge discount.
If Google, YouTube, and MySpace put banners on their screens informing people about Net Neutrality and what it'll mean for their services, this issue would go away quickly.
Markos addresses it Here
He was transparent about it and kept a constant reminder about it at the top of the page. Hardly close to the Williams scandal.
You could make a CD in Russia from their service and bring it into the US since it would then be a tangible object and be legit. There is no difference here.
Not to mention, we have software "export" laws governing what crypto can go to other nations. By your argument, if I make that software available to someone in North Korea, I'm not exporting, I'm letting them reproduce.
I noticed your arguments on this way back in September and you were one of only two people arguing that this was illegal yet you were nearly HALF the posts. I have no idea why you feel SO strongly on the subject but considering KCTL radio switched to using AllofMp3 (site down, can't confirm) for their content, I don't see where you have a leg to stand on.
What's a TLA?
More like the reason is since the music industry isn't getting a lick of their money and they aren't promoting them and they aren't on the radio, they aren't "broken by the internet"
I gotta call BS on this. 10 yrs experience and a BS in SE? What college is your degree from and what industry/work did you do for those ten years? If you're up in Oregon you should be making well more than that.
about:config will solve 1. for you. Put "about:config" in your menubar. On that page, find font.FreeType2.autohinted and set it to true. Do the same for font.FreeType2.enable. Set font.FreeType2.unhinted to false. Also, for number 3, ensure that you go to preferences and that you have Remember Passwords unchecked. You may also want to ensure that its not a cookie thats storing it. Restart Firefox and you'll have much nicer fonts.
Yes, the quality of your lawyer is the biggest disadvantage. It works fine in a civil sense in most situations, but say you get into an accident with someone very wealthy, or you sue a construction company for say demolishing your house instead of the one next door. You are now in a situation where if you lose the case for whatever reason, you are going to pay the other side's legal fees. Say your lawyer makes a critical mistake in some document, you just lost. Say the lawyers for the other side do some manuevering and can shift blame, you just lost. Loser pays works great in theory but it reverses the whole little guy vs. the big guy problem. It becomes TOO risky instead of no risk at all.
Rathergood's abnoxious singing rodents in Quizno's commercials.
fluxbox, gaim, and firefox?
I don't see how you can talk about usability with those three apps in the same sentence. Firefox does usability perfectly. 90% of the things you can change are hidden in about:config. The general user will never see them and the defaults are fine. Aside from that, the menu options are straight forward and you're never given a ton of options all at once, it's a small subset at a time. Gaim on the otherhand is a mess. Everything is located in one place with few seperations of concerns. It's a literal maze of configuration options, many of which should be moved to where they make sense. ie. I should have to go to preferences to remove a toolbar, I should just be able to right click on the toolbar and select remove. Gaim is definately developed for geeks with way too many options. Fluxbox I wouldn't EVER give to someone who wasn't a geek. Its all well and good until you want to configure it. "Open a what?" is the exact response i'd expect to get if I told a user to open a text configuration file, modify it by hand, and then reload. There are some apps out there to do this configuration for you, but they should be a PART of fluxbox, not disjoint.
How does this make us open to hijackings? The terrorists from 9/11 had valid credentials. They went through a metal detector. The added security does nothing but placate the sheeple. Try flying sometime and you'll see how security is spotty at best. You don't have this kind of trouble in foreign airports that are BIGGER targets for this sort of thing. Think about that.
Lets take a look at some of these new/improved features:
Metadata: This is something great for the aspect oriented folks out there but unfortunately they made the mistake of making it look EXACTLY like a javadoc. Keep code and comments seperate.
Generic Types: Could be argued either way but if everything was an Object already, why break that? If stronger typing will improve performance, this could be a good thing, but I think it weakens the strong 'everything's an object' paradigm.
Autoboxing: Good if you like generic types, bad if you like strict OO.
Enhanced For-loop/Iterators: WTF. Added syntax just to save a few keystrokes? Its the equivalent of adding "(something) ? do this : do that" to a language. It hurts readability and adds unnecessary syntax.
Enumerated types: Its about time
Static import: Total missuse of a keyword.
Formatted output: Its about time
Varargs: Its about time though not totally necessary since arrays have a given length.
Those are just my thoughts. They make things easier for writing but they're hacking the language to pieces to do it. Metadata should have been done C# style and we don't need generics to do the work.
October of 2003 wasn't "just found" not to mention you have to install a plugin that doesn't come with gaim by default. We're talking default configuration on windows compared to a nonstandard configuration on some OS. Apples and oranges.
This sort of stuff goes on all the time. I currently hold a position of "Software Engineer" just like many of my peers at my job. Of course, I am the ONLY Software Engineer however. I have a degree in Software Engineering. Everyone else, Computer Science. Corporate America doesn't know nor care about the differences between SE/CS/CE/IT degrees. They just want to know if you can program in whatever languages they want with whatever utilities they have under a structure they dictate. If this degree/certification gives them those skills for today, great. If it leaves them in a position to get passed by people with a 4 yr degree or masters in the future, well, it was their gamble.
Yeah, great idea. Let me know when our "new" country survives the great Emacs/Vi Civil War.
Sweden. Sounds fine by me. I got dibs on the princess. Swedish Princess SFW
I think one of the things underestimated though is the power of some bells and whistles. Pop-up blocking and tabs are HUGE benefits once someone uses them. When people care about improving the browser experience, not just if it renders correctly, thats a big deal. My favorite featurse of Firefox aren't any of these noticeable bells and whistles, its the ones you rarely see: Page Info and DOM Inspector.
DOM Inspector is great when trying to create a standards compliant site. You can even use it to change some attributes on the fly and see EXACTLY how they interact on a page. Its great for Javascript programming also.
Page Info is even more handy. Ever been to a site that restricts right clicks for saving an image or midi? Howabout want to download some media file without having to parse through the extraneous HTML? Page info lets you do it all directly from the media tab.
These things will probably never be used by 90% of the people out there. For those that do know and care though, they are invaluable utilities.
Yes, but thats not for 2 years. And thats only for a NEW version of windows, not the existing. The key to gainging back dominance is to get Firefox on any PC you can find. Word of mouth means alot.
I can agree with you there. Double middle click is very unintuitive. However, once you're used to it, its not too bad. You can also hold shift when you double click which is a little more natural and I should train myself for that instead. Ctrl W is used in windows so a moot point. And the three key isn't something you'll use that often, but its there just in case.
Regardless, all I was trying to point out is you are in control of what windows get opened.