I had studied in Moscow State Technical University, Special Engineering faculty. "Special Engineering" means weapons. Bombs, fuses, tanks, explosives, radars, smart and dumb mines, rockets, warheads, guidance systems, targeting systems, etc. Pretty much everything except for ships and planes. Gray haired professors who taught us all this stuff didn't mention that it kills a bunch of people even ONCE in 6 years that I've been there. They referred to weapons as to "devices", and to their targets as to "objects", "enemy's live force" (rarely), "targets". This helps them enjoy what they're doing because with rare exceptions they don't think about the shrapnel tearing apart human bodies. Exceptions are those people who come up with more efficient shrapnels and weapons targeted directly at causing death of a human. Directly meaning pierce, tear apart, blow up or burn the body itself.
I saw those professors behaving like excited kids when they blew up an old plane in a field test of their experimental warhead. They ran around it, and enjoyed the result of their work.
On ebay you can get headset for even less than that. That's what I use to call home (tiny town in Southern Russia with slow dial-up connections). It works really well and saves me and my wife at least $20 every month (and that's if we used Net2Phone instead). We've been using this for half a year already ($120 in savings).
There's got to be something on the web dedicated to TV antennas. I've disconnected my satellite dish (feel stupid paying $40 a month to watch commercials every 15 minutes) but my Terk aerial antenna leaves much to be desired. Are there any designs to make a decent (and compact, and possibly even amplified) TV antenna at home?
in plain english and asks to just select one checkbox. I don't have to pay $60 per year to be able to automatically update the software I've already been charged for. Sure, advanced user will not buy into RH "service" crap, but remember, we're talking average Joe Sixpack here.
Sell something remotely as good "for the dummies" as Windows, I'll gladly pay you your $12. Until then, shut the fuck up.
Putting out all this software is $5+ billion investment PER YEAR for them. Sure, MS software is expensive in terms of up-front investment, but long term (again "for dummies") it's cheaper than buying beer for a linux guru without whom you can't even apply patches because you have no idea what the heck a "patch" is and why you need to apply it.
Every freakin' feature in Gnome or KDE is stolen from Windows 95. All office suites are written to "closely resemble" MS Office. Should I continue? Show me one single innovative open source product targeted at desktop users.
This is a drug sold in Europe which increases brain blood flow and oxygen delivery (used to treat kids to increase their learning capacity and alcoholics to reduce effects of their brain damage). I used to take this stuff starting one month before exams while studying in the University (Moscow State Technical University, Russia). Graduated with Honors, but I doubt this was due to the drug - I haven't felt anything special.
The thing is, it's easier to write an exploit for an operating system (because it's pretty common and easy to experiment on) that to a hardware solution (closed code, hundreds of _different_ firmwares -- wanna reverse engineer some?).
Do you seriously believe they don't patent the stuff they're inventing? Just to protect themselves? They'd be stupid if they didn't, and they aren't stupid.
I've never purchased a single CD from them anyway. I don't feel it's fair that developers put it all together for free and then RH comes in and charges arbitrary money for a CD set. $60 for a $5 book and 50 cent CD? Gimmeabreak.
Nobody wants to have an employee who's not satisfied with his job. And you clearly aren't going to be satisfied with anything less than an Architect position.
Leave it as it is, in 5 years only the crazy few will be using it anyway. C++ will never become as standard as C, so making the standard book thicker is a moot point.
Zope is very close to Russian 'zhopa' which means 'ass'. Just so you know.
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Heh. The thing is, with pencil and a sheet of paper you're not constrained by the medium. You can draw, you can write formulas, you can write as fast (or faster, if you learn stenography) as you can type. Your input device doesn't require batteries, can be used anywhere by anyone and contains just the essence of the information your teacher tried to communicate to you. For me it's an invaluable tool. Having graduated with honors using a pencil and a notebook (paper kind) I don't need to be convinced it's the best way. Best of all, even if I don't have a computer at hand, I can still do a helluvalot - design electronic circuits for example, plot graphs, solve mathematical tasks... It's fun.
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I still think everything should start with a pencil and a blank sheet of paper. This allows the mind to grow freely without using any technological crutches. Applicability of techologies to technical problems is very limited. Sure you can draw up, say, a bridge in AutoCAD. But in order to do that you have to have some fundamental knowledge about materials, structures and their mechanical strength. There's still no computer program that can help you learn this stuff better than you would learn it with a pencil and a sheet of paper.
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He's now employed by Microsoft. AFAIK they hired him just because he wrote Tetris (and passed their 5 hour interview of course:0). I bet he's a rich man now, albeit not from the royalties.
Come on, guys! Will someone fix the main problem with GTK? Its controls are HUGE. What's the point in having tons of empty space on the toolboxes? What's the point in those huge menus slowly but surely eating away the space on my monitor? I mean. come on, there's a bunch of work that needs to be done BEFORE implementing all this stupid eye candy. Just pure usability work.
of a stupid cheap Linux zealot who doesn't know shit about technology and has just tried linux a couple of weeks ago because it's "cool". You're still lost in config files and random crashes of KDE don't yet piss you off because (oh, dear) it doesn't crash the kernel.
I've been using Linux at home for the last 5 years or so and I'm well aware of its strengths and weaknesses. Weaknesses must be admitted to be fixed. And the attitude of people like you is a barrier for this to happen.
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...and chemistry instead of wasting money on PDAs and WiFi? What about giving them some real knowledge and skills that may help them understand the world better and be more successful in their future lives? Isn't this the goal of education? How exactly being in the woods with a PDA supposed to improve their understanding of ecological concerns, their causes and possible remedies? How is it better than a good ol' book with a bunch of color pictures commented by a bunch of gray-haired scientists?
I can't freakin' believe some shcools are wasting money this midlessly.
Google and Amazon being stable has nothing to do with a good kernel design. They don't use that much kernel functionality. What I was talking about was extensibility. Ability to introduce parts of the system without re-compilation and without even knowing anything but a small set of standard interfaces. Unfortunately, at this point it's a pipe dream in Linux.
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I had studied in Moscow State Technical University, Special Engineering faculty. "Special Engineering" means weapons. Bombs, fuses, tanks, explosives, radars, smart and dumb mines, rockets, warheads, guidance systems, targeting systems, etc. Pretty much everything except for ships and planes. Gray haired professors who taught us all this stuff didn't mention that it kills a bunch of people even ONCE in 6 years that I've been there. They referred to weapons as to "devices", and to their targets as to "objects", "enemy's live force" (rarely), "targets". This helps them enjoy what they're doing because with rare exceptions they don't think about the shrapnel tearing apart human bodies. Exceptions are those people who come up with more efficient shrapnels and weapons targeted directly at causing death of a human. Directly meaning pierce, tear apart, blow up or burn the body itself.
I saw those professors behaving like excited kids when they blew up an old plane in a field test of their experimental warhead. They ran around it, and enjoyed the result of their work.
On ebay you can get headset for even less than that. That's what I use to call home (tiny town in Southern Russia with slow dial-up connections). It works really well and saves me and my wife at least $20 every month (and that's if we used Net2Phone instead). We've been using this for half a year already ($120 in savings).
There's got to be something on the web dedicated to TV antennas. I've disconnected my satellite dish (feel stupid paying $40 a month to watch commercials every 15 minutes) but my Terk aerial antenna leaves much to be desired. Are there any designs to make a decent (and compact, and possibly even amplified) TV antenna at home?
in plain english and asks to just select one checkbox. I don't have to pay $60 per year to be able to automatically update the software I've already been charged for. Sure, advanced user will not buy into RH "service" crap, but remember, we're talking average Joe Sixpack here.
Sell something remotely as good "for the dummies" as Windows, I'll gladly pay you your $12. Until then, shut the fuck up.
Putting out all this software is $5+ billion investment PER YEAR for them. Sure, MS software is expensive in terms of up-front investment, but long term (again "for dummies") it's cheaper than buying beer for a linux guru without whom you can't even apply patches because you have no idea what the heck a "patch" is and why you need to apply it.
My XP has only crashed once and this was dues to a faulty harddrive. Haven't lost any data (thanks to NTFS).
Wouldn't that be AWESOME?
Every freakin' feature in Gnome or KDE is stolen from Windows 95. All office suites are written to "closely resemble" MS Office. Should I continue? Show me one single innovative open source product targeted at desktop users.
Someone, please scan all O'Reilly's books, convert them to PDFs and put them on Kazaa/Gnutella/What-have-you.
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We'll see if the song he sings so enthusiastically changes then.
This is a drug sold in Europe which increases brain blood flow and oxygen delivery (used to treat kids to increase their learning capacity and alcoholics to reduce effects of their brain damage). I used to take this stuff starting one month before exams while studying in the University (Moscow State Technical University, Russia). Graduated with Honors, but I doubt this was due to the drug - I haven't felt anything special.
The thing is, it's easier to write an exploit for an operating system (because it's pretty common and easy to experiment on) that to a hardware solution (closed code, hundreds of _different_ firmwares -- wanna reverse engineer some?).
...weekly. That's why I'd rather get a hardware solution for myself.
Do you seriously believe they don't patent the stuff they're inventing? Just to protect themselves? They'd be stupid if they didn't, and they aren't stupid.
I've never purchased a single CD from them anyway. I don't feel it's fair that developers put it all together for free and then RH comes in and charges arbitrary money for a CD set. $60 for a $5 book and 50 cent CD? Gimmeabreak.
Nobody wants to have an employee who's not satisfied with his job. And you clearly aren't going to be satisfied with anything less than an Architect position.
I saw their beta - this thing blows everything else FAR away in terms of convenience.
Leave it as it is, in 5 years only the crazy few will be using it anyway. C++ will never become as standard as C, so making the standard book thicker is a moot point.
Zope is very close to Russian 'zhopa' which means 'ass'. Just so you know.
Heh. The thing is, with pencil and a sheet of paper you're not constrained by the medium. You can draw, you can write formulas, you can write as fast (or faster, if you learn stenography) as you can type. Your input device doesn't require batteries, can be used anywhere by anyone and contains just the essence of the information your teacher tried to communicate to you. For me it's an invaluable tool. Having graduated with honors using a pencil and a notebook (paper kind) I don't need to be convinced it's the best way. Best of all, even if I don't have a computer at hand, I can still do a helluvalot - design electronic circuits for example, plot graphs, solve mathematical tasks... It's fun.
I still think everything should start with a pencil and a blank sheet of paper. This allows the mind to grow freely without using any technological crutches. Applicability of techologies to technical problems is very limited. Sure you can draw up, say, a bridge in AutoCAD. But in order to do that you have to have some fundamental knowledge about materials, structures and their mechanical strength. There's still no computer program that can help you learn this stuff better than you would learn it with a pencil and a sheet of paper.
He's now employed by Microsoft. AFAIK they hired him just because he wrote Tetris (and passed their 5 hour interview of course :0). I bet he's a rich man now, albeit not from the royalties.
Come on, guys! Will someone fix the main problem with GTK? Its controls are HUGE. What's the point in having tons of empty space on the toolboxes? What's the point in those huge menus slowly but surely eating away the space on my monitor? I mean. come on, there's a bunch of work that needs to be done BEFORE implementing all this stupid eye candy. Just pure usability work.
of a stupid cheap Linux zealot who doesn't know shit about technology and has just tried linux a couple of weeks ago because it's "cool". You're still lost in config files and random crashes of KDE don't yet piss you off because (oh, dear) it doesn't crash the kernel.
I've been using Linux at home for the last 5 years or so and I'm well aware of its strengths and weaknesses. Weaknesses must be admitted to be fixed. And the attitude of people like you is a barrier for this to happen.
...and chemistry instead of wasting money on PDAs and WiFi? What about giving them some real knowledge and skills that may help them understand the world better and be more successful in their future lives? Isn't this the goal of education? How exactly being in the woods with a PDA supposed to improve their understanding of ecological concerns, their causes and possible remedies? How is it better than a good ol' book with a bunch of color pictures commented by a bunch of gray-haired scientists?
I can't freakin' believe some shcools are wasting money this midlessly.
Google and Amazon being stable has nothing to do with a good kernel design. They don't use that much kernel functionality. What I was talking about was extensibility. Ability to introduce parts of the system without re-compilation and without even knowing anything but a small set of standard interfaces. Unfortunately, at this point it's a pipe dream in Linux.