I use CentOS for the exact same reasons as the parent above. I'm a developer on a single user system. Futzing around with the OS is not even in the top five things I want to spend my time doing.
Growing up, I used to know a lot of people who were carpenters. A lot of them were respectable hard working people working for a lower middle class living. And then the other half were drunks who could never keep a job, but could always get a job as a carpenter. Was your house framed on a Monday or Friday?
My uncle was a roofer, but that was out of state - so my sample size is one. Made an excellent living, but then he owned his own company. He has some hilarious stories(plural) about them accidently tearing down the roofs of the wrong house.
Except that it wont happen for 25 years... FEAR, UNCERTAINTY, CHANGE... RUN!!!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!! (in 25 years)...
With the acceleration of development that has been occurring over even the last 10 years, I hardly doubt there will be much to worry about 25 years from now.
You sound like a manager. Leave this on the back burner for the next 24.5 years and then drop everything because then the sky is falling.
I'm glad this issue got mentioned because frankly I don't ever think about the unix epoch time overflowing. It's a good thing to give programmers a nudge for their current(and future) development
"Hey use 64 bit time values"
"Oh yeah, sure,"
25 years later, no problem.
Indeed who are these 'hippies' and other people living work free off the largess of others? I look around and I see a soon to be permanent underclass working 60 hours a week at 2 part time jobs.
I remember watching him using scare tactics to convince his audience that food shortages were immenient and everyone should rush out and buy 20 pound bags of rice. A shortage of rice(really a price increase) in the international market was in the news that week because the typical exporters of rice were keeping more of their output for domestic consumption that year. That was in 2008. I hope grandpa and uncle fred like 4 year old rancid rice.
My first consideration in either using FOSS or buying closed software is to take a look at the documentation. I have enough dirt for my hands working on my own project, I don't have enough time to sift through manure.
In places like Detroit or Washington DC or Baltimore City where legal gun ownership is basically non-existent, the huge amount of gun proliferation results in an armed criminal element and a disarmed citizenry.
I can't speak for the other cities, but there is nothing overly restrictive about the gun owenerships laws in Detroit or the state of Michigan. Open carry is allowed assuming the gun is registered and CCW is legal after taking the course and the background check. The people of Detroit do often keep guns in their house because they know the police are not going to show up in any reasonable amount of time, if at all.
Just because the city is a shit hole, don't assume the reason for that is one that fits your ideological bias.
What do you think this zombie shit is about? It went from 'crazy Haitian shit' to 'horror story' to 'social commentary on the human condition' and now, currently, 'acceptable social replacement for the mental imagery of shooting people you don't like.'
I think the current zombie trend is about venting all the accumulated fear of biological warfare that accumulated immediately after 9/11. Also some of the climate change or genetic engineering fear - notice the cause of the zombies is no longer Black Magic, Satanic or End of Days, but now biological. At least for the well adjusted folk. And for the not so well adjusted, I have to agree there is the thrill of unfettered killing of 'the others'.
That was my first thought as well. I'm married to an incest and childhood rape survivor (and yes 'survivor' is the appropriate word here) and a lot of her therapy included extremely graphic written descriptions and drawings of the things that she went through. It brings it out into the open as something that really happened, rather than 'bad things happened, but we don't talk about'. Who is to decided what the intent of any writing is? I'm sure some pedos would get off on her therapy art. Do we really want to jail people for getting better, rather than keeping it all in and self destructing? Just to keep a pedo from getting a boner and MAYBE doing something?
There's plenty of insanity being produced by other countries, available for import to the United States. But will the American consumer develop a taste for exotic insanity or prefer the home grown domestic stuff?
Losing jobs and a lower standard of living has been happening for a solid 3 decades.
Just how many facials do I need to take from the Capitalists who are really running everything before I can stop worrying about America becoming a third world country just for the sake of their stockpiles of money getting larger?
Because Mr LEO would never watch skype traffic between a husband and wife who are separated and missing each other. Or just between a couple of freaky horny teenagers. Because nobody would ever do such a thing, right?
I've known for awhile that I'm getting my fix of 'false accomplishments' playing games. I've always enjoyed empire building games, but that has fallen off over the years as I'm getting into my 40s and wondering what the hell happened to my 30s? Plus the games today suck, but that's a get off my lawn sentiment.
Sometimes I just love killing zombies in L4D. I don't care about 'progressing' into the harder levels, I just want the thrill of killing zombies. OK, maybe I should strive for less than 5 friendly fire 'accidents' a game. Yeah that sounds like a good goal. Yeap I suck at multiplay, but I don't care -- I'm here to kill zombies.
When I start feeling down like I haven't accomplished anything in my life, I'll remember this and be glad that I work only 40 hours on most weeks and actually enjoy seeing my wife. Life is good, who knew?
Add Ogre3D, Irrlicht and Torque game engines to the list too.
I spent way too much time recreating their functionality in DirectX. It gave me an appreciation for the fundamental concepts of 3D graphics, but I spent months wrapping my head around it -- yes, I know I'm a dumb-ass, but it eventually clicked.
Now I work with Unity and Photon and am mostly happy.
Having another kid ISN'T bad for them financially. The welfare state is there to make sure of that.
Schooling and education were once considered important because they provided a way out of poverty. Now the government provides. Why bother with pointless chores like learning arithmetic?
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter of empty rhetoric and angst filled superiority.
Voters get conned into voting for higher school budgets because they want better schools and higher property values, but the truth is much of the money is wasted. I voted against several school budgets that had over $1mil set aside for landscaping.
Indeed, students should be outside doing the landscaping themselves. Dual credits in PE and vocational training -ftw!
Slashdot Mirror
I use CentOS for the exact same reasons as the parent above.
I'm a developer on a single user system. Futzing around with the OS is not even in the top five things I want to spend my time doing.
Growing up, I used to know a lot of people who were carpenters. A lot of them were respectable hard working people working for a lower middle class living. And then the other half were drunks who could never keep a job, but could always get a job as a carpenter.
Was your house framed on a Monday or Friday?
My uncle was a roofer, but that was out of state - so my sample size is one. Made an excellent living, but then he owned his own company. He has some hilarious stories(plural) about them accidently tearing down the roofs of the wrong house.
Except that it wont happen for 25 years... FEAR, UNCERTAINTY, CHANGE... RUN!!!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!! (in 25 years)...
With the acceleration of development that has been occurring over even the last 10 years, I hardly doubt there will be much to worry about 25 years from now.
You sound like a manager.
Leave this on the back burner for the next 24.5 years and then drop everything because then the sky is falling.
I'm glad this issue got mentioned because frankly I don't ever think about the unix epoch time overflowing. It's a good thing to give programmers a nudge for their current(and future) development
"Hey use 64 bit time values"
"Oh yeah, sure,"
25 years later, no problem.
Don't trust anyone under 30?
Indeed who are these 'hippies' and other people living work free off the largess of others? I look around and I see a soon to be permanent underclass working 60 hours a week at 2 part time jobs.
Not to shit in your corn flakes but Brits are about as obese as Americans.
We can't have our British friends closing the obesity gap.
Everyone waddle down to Golden Corral right now!!
This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations.
What the fuck is this?
No, because I would be careful with placing the duct tape.
Examples? Citations? Please share.
I remember watching him using scare tactics to convince his audience that food shortages were immenient and everyone should rush out and buy 20 pound bags of rice. A shortage of rice(really a price increase) in the international market was in the news that week because the typical exporters of rice were keeping more of their output for domestic consumption that year. That was in 2008. I hope grandpa and uncle fred like 4 year old rancid rice.
My first consideration in either using FOSS or buying closed software is to take a look at the documentation.
I have enough dirt for my hands working on my own project, I don't have enough time to sift through manure.
In places like Detroit or Washington DC or Baltimore City where legal gun ownership is basically non-existent, the huge amount of gun proliferation results in an armed criminal element and a disarmed citizenry.
I can't speak for the other cities, but there is nothing overly restrictive about the gun owenerships laws in Detroit or the state of Michigan. Open carry is allowed assuming the gun is registered and CCW is legal after taking the course and the background check. The people of Detroit do often keep guns in their house because they know the police are not going to show up in any reasonable amount of time, if at all.
Just because the city is a shit hole, don't assume the reason for that is one that fits your ideological bias.
What do you think this zombie shit is about? It went from 'crazy Haitian shit' to 'horror story' to 'social commentary on the human condition' and now, currently, 'acceptable social replacement for the mental imagery of shooting people you don't like.'
I think the current zombie trend is about venting all the accumulated fear of biological warfare that accumulated immediately after 9/11. Also some of the climate change or genetic engineering fear - notice the cause of the zombies is no longer Black Magic, Satanic or End of Days, but now biological. At least for the well adjusted folk.
And for the not so well adjusted, I have to agree there is the thrill of unfettered killing of 'the others'.
[...] porno movie showing people having sex with watermelons but saying that the watermelons were stand-ins for children?
This is my fetish.
Rule 34 strikes again!!
That was my first thought as well. I'm married to an incest and childhood rape survivor (and yes 'survivor' is the appropriate word here) and a lot of her therapy included extremely graphic written descriptions and drawings of the things that she went through. It brings it out into the open as something that really happened, rather than 'bad things happened, but we don't talk about'.
Who is to decided what the intent of any writing is? I'm sure some pedos would get off on her therapy art. Do we really want to jail people for getting better, rather than keeping it all in and self destructing? Just to keep a pedo from getting a boner and MAYBE doing something?
There's plenty of insanity being produced by other countries, available for import to the United States. But will the American consumer develop a taste for exotic insanity or prefer the home grown domestic stuff?
I'm a loser for replying to troll AC.
Losing jobs and a lower standard of living has been happening for a solid 3 decades.
Just how many facials do I need to take from the Capitalists who are really running everything before I can stop worrying about America becoming a third world country just for the sake of their stockpiles of money getting larger?
Because Mr LEO would never watch skype traffic between a husband and wife who are separated and missing each other.
Or just between a couple of freaky horny teenagers.
Because nobody would ever do such a thing, right?
There is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can't be improved with pizza. Thank you.
I've known for awhile that I'm getting my fix of 'false accomplishments' playing games. I've always enjoyed empire building games, but that has fallen off over the years as I'm getting into my 40s and wondering what the hell happened to my 30s? Plus the games today suck, but that's a get off my lawn sentiment.
Sometimes I just love killing zombies in L4D. I don't care about 'progressing' into the harder levels, I just want the thrill of killing zombies. OK, maybe I should strive for less than 5 friendly fire 'accidents' a game. Yeah that sounds like a good goal. Yeap I suck at multiplay, but I don't care -- I'm here to kill zombies.
You mad bro?
Bender programs in Lisp?
When I start feeling down like I haven't accomplished anything in my life, I'll remember this and be glad that I work only 40 hours on most weeks and actually enjoy seeing my wife. Life is good, who knew?
Add Ogre3D, Irrlicht and Torque game engines to the list too.
I spent way too much time recreating their functionality in DirectX. It gave me an appreciation for the fundamental concepts of 3D graphics, but I spent months wrapping my head around it -- yes, I know I'm a dumb-ass, but it eventually clicked.
Now I work with Unity and Photon and am mostly happy.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter of empty rhetoric and angst filled superiority.
Voters get conned into voting for higher school budgets because they want better schools and higher property values, but the truth is much of the money is wasted. I voted against several school budgets that had over $1mil set aside for landscaping.
Indeed, students should be outside doing the landscaping themselves. Dual credits in PE and vocational training -ftw!