I prefer to hire engineers who never attended college or left early. I think college warps you. Too much theory. Every engineer I know with a BS or worse MS are so into the latest thing without thought to its real world applications. I've had people coming in to interview wondering why anyone want's to proram with C/C++ anymore since Java is sooo much better.
But then comparing a BS in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering with a BS in Comp Sci is like comparing a jet fighter pilot with an RC plane pilot.
if they don't get a college education, and just stick to computer related stuff.
if they did go to college, they might meet other people, develope critical thinking skills, become independent minded and develope all those other dangerous skills that make them question authority, and make them hard to manage.
They might even become commies.
Here techie, here's another 5k, bringing you up to 45k, will you do another 70 hour week?
Really, if you disagree with someone, don't try to debate their points, instead attack them personally, perhaps calling them a hated member of the society.
I guess if enough people do that, we'll all post on a harmonious, dissension free, doubleplusgood Slashdot.
But you have to consider the advantages that a unionized IT labor force would have. Perhaps union is to loaded a word, how about a professional giuld of IT workers.
They could impose hiring restrictions on who the companies could hire, no more hiring cheap foreign nationals to avoid paying for someone's experience.
They could make IT companies hire and/or keep older workers, no more getting turned out to field when you don't know the lastest language (even though you could learn it in a month).
They could give worker's a decent working day, nothing wrong with the occasional clock wrapper, but 70 hour weeks are insane and exploitive.
They could use a guild structure to offer an employment path that doesn't go through college, but instead focuses on on the job training, which many geeks prefer to dry textbook learning.
Something to think about, someday you may not want to work a 70 hour week, you may have a family, you may grey hair or be balding, do you want to be replaced by an undercutting youngster or foreigner?
Whilst this may be fine for Americans in love with their right to shoot people, some of us would rather play a game that involved us in something other than violence and hate.
Excuse me, perhaps you can wish to live in an idealized, violence free Eden, but I'm all to aware of my animal roots, and if humanity weren't the meanest, nastiest, violencest sort of critter, we wouldn't be ruling the roost like we do.
A good fps is cathartic, it reminds me of a time when life was worth living, being too slow to defend yourself was a cause for death, and there was more to life than just cubicles and computers. We evolved (ooh, there's that word again) fighting tooth and nail for our life over millions of years, to try to turn that off overnight (evolutionarily speaking) is almost as trying to turn a life bearing woman into a warrior.
By your anti-American slant, I'm assuming you're a Brit. Well, what kind of fascination, wonderful games have come out of the UK, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Crumpets III D, Bow to the King? Face it, just like every other facet of the computer world, American's make the best computer games.
I'd start tossing things out if I was forced to pay taxes to corporations. Didn't something like this happen in the 1700's?
Yeah, yeah, there was the American Revolution in the 1770's which freed America, but that was against the British, they only had to learn the lesson once, one war, and they were gone.
The Germans have to be reminded every few decades, or they get upppity again.
Mildly off-topic -- but this is Ask Slashdot, right? So why doesn't Slashdot have someone on staff who can answer these questions from a legal standpoint?
Because too many of these issues (DecSS, Napster) are in legal gray areas, a lawyer would be worthless.
Is distributing DecSS code legal? Judge Kaplan says no, the lawyer for 2600 says yes, we really won't get an answer until the Supremese hear of it.
Is creating an Everquest server clone legal? Maybe, maybe not, a lawyer can only argue for it, a judge ultimately decides.
The more I experience about what Lucas is doing now, the more relevant the question is whether he actually even likes episode IV to VI at all. He certainly seems to have no respect for them as finished actual works, and continues to obliterate their charm in his next efforts.
FJ!!
Well, he's not leaving well enough alone with eps iv and vi.
In A New Hope, he ditched the scene where Han fired first at Greedo, and made Han return fire. That certainly cheapened Han's character, and made his turnaround less dramatic.
In Return of the Jedi, he CGI added tentacles and such to that sand worm.
With the advent of Mac OSX, isn't this now a challenge between Linux and BSD? Both will use window managers to hide most of the low level portions (I can say for a fact most users won't use it), so it will be interesting to see what will come out of all this.
Unfortunately (disclaimer, I use FreeBSD and Linux), I don't see FreeBSD ever surpassing Linux.
I see a lot of people move from Windows to Linux, they want a more powerful operating system, they want to learn UNIX, they have slower hardware, they want fewer crashes. There is a lot of books, web pages and user groups available to help them do this.
There aren't as many resources available for move a user from Windows to FreeBSD. You almost need to be an experience Linux/UNIX user to get to FreeBSD.
There aren't many advantages to move from Linux to FreeBSD, and several disadvantages. The only advantages I can think of are greater TCP/Ip performance, and the ports selection. Unless you're running yahoo, you probably wouldn't notice the greater performance FreeBSD would give you.
Disadvantages include fewer resources, and less software, though FreeBSD will run most Linux binaries.
In a nutshell, there are lots of reason to move from Windows to Linux, but few to move from Linux to FreeBSD.
Microsoft owns Apple (at least 10% of if, I heard). Microsoft is barely keeping Apple alive (releasing Word for Mac late, etc) so that they can claim Windows is not a monopoly, since Apple has a 10% market share.
If Linux never existed, Apple would hover at 10% of the Windows share forever, enough for MS to credibly claim that Windows is not a monopoly, yet not enough to be dangerous.
Now, with Linux out there, it's a whole new ballgame. I wonder what this year's Halloween memo will say.
With such a large surface and so many 1x1 bricks the guy could have actually made an image. All someone would have to do is open a nice desktop image (like some wallpaper of a nature scene or a space scene or hell, render something cool) and then convert it to a 2-bit (4 color) image. Scale to the size of your LEGO desktop.
Well, this isn't a new idea, someone's already beat you to it.
A quick search for mosaic on lugnet brings up a few interesting images.
According to the Times, MP3Board argues in its filing that it has committed no copyright violations in it service. But if it should lose its suit, the company argues, AOL and Time Warner should help shoulder any penalties because of their indirect role creating the Gnutella program.
To put this in more common terms:
Officer, why did you stop me for speeding and not stop all those other cars?
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or tubbies, it's hard to tell.
wassa minger?
I prefer to hire engineers who never attended college or left early. I think college warps you. Too much theory. Every engineer I know with a BS or worse MS are so into the latest thing without thought to its real world applications. I've had people coming in to interview wondering why anyone want's to proram with C/C++ anymore since Java is sooo much better.
But then comparing a BS in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering with a BS in Comp Sci is like comparing a jet fighter pilot with an RC plane pilot.
if they don't get a college education, and just stick to computer related stuff.
if they did go to college, they might meet other people, develope critical thinking skills, become independent minded and develope all those other dangerous skills that make them question authority, and make them hard to manage.
They might even become commies.
Here techie, here's another 5k, bringing you up to 45k, will you do another 70 hour week?
is the oldest trick in the books.
Really, if you disagree with someone, don't try to debate their points, instead attack them personally, perhaps calling them a hated member of the society.
I guess if enough people do that, we'll all post on a harmonious, dissension free, doubleplusgood Slashdot.
But you have to consider the advantages that a unionized IT labor force would have. Perhaps union is to loaded a word, how about a professional giuld of IT workers.
They could impose hiring restrictions on who the companies could hire, no more hiring cheap foreign nationals to avoid paying for someone's experience.
They could make IT companies hire and/or keep older workers, no more getting turned out to field when you don't know the lastest language (even though you could learn it in a month).
They could give worker's a decent working day, nothing wrong with the occasional clock wrapper, but 70 hour weeks are insane and exploitive.
They could use a guild structure to offer an employment path that doesn't go through college, but instead focuses on on the job training, which many geeks prefer to dry textbook learning.
Something to think about, someday you may not want to work a 70 hour week, you may have a family, you may grey hair or be balding, do you want to be replaced by an undercutting youngster or foreigner?
Whilst this may be fine for Americans in love with their right to shoot people, some of us would rather play a game that involved us in something other than violence and hate.
Excuse me, perhaps you can wish to live in an idealized, violence free Eden, but I'm all to aware of my animal roots, and if humanity weren't the meanest, nastiest, violencest sort of critter, we wouldn't be ruling the roost like we do.
A good fps is cathartic, it reminds me of a time when life was worth living, being too slow to defend yourself was a cause for death, and there was more to life than just cubicles and computers. We evolved (ooh, there's that word again) fighting tooth and nail for our life over millions of years, to try to turn that off overnight (evolutionarily speaking) is almost as trying to turn a life bearing woman into a warrior.
By your anti-American slant, I'm assuming you're a Brit. Well, what kind of fascination, wonderful games have come out of the UK, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Crumpets III D, Bow to the King? Face it, just like every other facet of the computer world, American's make the best computer games.
Count me as a proud, American, gun-owning poster.
I'd start tossing things out if I was forced to pay taxes to corporations. Didn't something like this happen in the 1700's?
Yeah, yeah, there was the American Revolution in the 1770's which freed America, but that was against the British, they only had to learn the lesson once, one war, and they were gone.
The Germans have to be reminded every few decades, or they get upppity again.
Why not just photocopy the barcode onto sticky labels?
It would take a bit of work to put a barcode on each label, and then you have to hope that the barcodes printed fine enough.
Really, this CueCat thing sounds pretty lame, one more way for people to spend money.
You scan in the barcode for some cheap-ass Americn swill, and print it on a label.
Verify that the barcode is good with the CueCat, then go to your local market.
Slap the sticker on something decent, maybe Grolsch or Sierra Nevada or Guinness.
Yum, a six-pack for $2.99, don't know why it scans as Milwaukee's best, must be a computer error.
Heh-heh-heh.
At least, that's where I was putting my money.
Mildly off-topic -- but this is Ask Slashdot, right? So why doesn't Slashdot have someone on staff who can answer these questions from a legal standpoint?
Because too many of these issues (DecSS, Napster) are in legal gray areas, a lawyer would be worthless.
Is distributing DecSS code legal? Judge Kaplan says no, the lawyer for 2600 says yes, we really won't get an answer until the Supremese hear of it.
Is creating an Everquest server clone legal? Maybe, maybe not, a lawyer can only argue for it, a judge ultimately decides.
Count up the sales for Visual Basic and Visual C++.
Figure at least 1 Hello World for each sale.
That must be at least 70,000.
in other news, leaked photos of the new OSX server reveal it to be large, black monolith.
The more I experience about what Lucas is doing now, the more relevant the question is whether he actually even likes episode IV to VI at all. He certainly seems to have no respect for them as finished actual works, and continues to obliterate their charm in his next efforts.
FJ!!
Well, he's not leaving well enough alone with eps iv and vi.
In A New Hope, he ditched the scene where Han fired first at Greedo, and made Han return fire. That certainly cheapened Han's character, and made his turnaround less dramatic.
In Return of the Jedi, he CGI added tentacles and such to that sand worm.
Will he never leave well enough alone?
It's no secret he doesn't want to work with actors and actresses. He's probably champing at the bit to do a completely CGI film.
The quality of Toy Story indicates it has a little bit of a way to go, but it may only take a few years.
A shame, really, as humans add a lot to a part, even if they don't speak much.
Can you imagine A New Hope with Maz Headroom instead of Alec Guinness?
Oh well, I hope Kenny Baker has a good 401k, he;s getting shafted by GL.
Think about it, it makes a lot of sense to have medical textbooks that are time limited.
Consider eating eggs for example.
1950 Eggs are good for you.
1970 Eggs are bad for you.
1980 Eggs aren't so bad for you.
With the advent of Mac OSX, isn't this now a challenge between Linux and BSD? Both will use window managers to hide most of the low level portions (I can say for a fact most users won't use it), so it will be interesting to see what will come out of all this.
Unfortunately (disclaimer, I use FreeBSD and Linux), I don't see FreeBSD ever surpassing Linux.
I see a lot of people move from Windows to Linux, they want a more powerful operating system, they want to learn UNIX, they have slower hardware, they want fewer crashes. There is a lot of books, web pages and user groups available to help them do this.
There aren't as many resources available for move a user from Windows to FreeBSD. You almost need to be an experience Linux/UNIX user to get to FreeBSD.
There aren't many advantages to move from Linux to FreeBSD, and several disadvantages. The only advantages I can think of are greater TCP/Ip performance, and the ports selection. Unless you're running yahoo, you probably wouldn't notice the greater performance FreeBSD would give you.
Disadvantages include fewer resources, and less software, though FreeBSD will run most Linux binaries.
In a nutshell, there are lots of reason to move from Windows to Linux, but few to move from Linux to FreeBSD.
Microsoft owns Apple (at least 10% of if, I heard). Microsoft is barely keeping Apple alive (releasing Word for Mac late, etc) so that they can claim Windows is not a monopoly, since Apple has a 10% market share.
If Linux never existed, Apple would hover at 10% of the Windows share forever, enough for MS to credibly claim that Windows is not a monopoly, yet not enough to be dangerous.
Now, with Linux out there, it's a whole new ballgame. I wonder what this year's Halloween memo will say.
Well, this isn't a new idea, someone's already beat you to it.
A quick search for mosaic on lugnet brings up a few interesting images.
he area also forbids microwaves or other devices with lots of RF noise
No microwave?
How do they feed the resident geeks then?
Now I can retype all my 15 year old engineering programs to invert matrices and run them on my PC!
Yes, I know that Linux has a fortran compiler, I just don't know why I'd use it.
Which didn't stop me from garbage picking a Fortran 77 book a few months ago.
According to the Times, MP3Board argues in its filing that it has committed no copyright violations in it service. But if it should lose its suit, the company argues, AOL and Time Warner should help shoulder any penalties because of their indirect role creating the Gnutella program.
To put this in more common terms:
Officer, why did you stop me for speeding and not stop all those other cars?
Wah-wah-wah
well, it would actually be two separate scripts, one to generate RedHat for Dummies and one for Caldera for Dummies, but I think you get the gist.
Wanna call IDG and get the FreeBSD for Dummies license?
s/Linux/FreeBSD/g
s/rpm/port/g
You do know that there's a Sex for Dummies book, don't you?
That's one of my favorites.
The life-size Dr. Ruth centerfold makes it all worthwhile.