Do we really repair computers anymore? It's not like in the bad ol' days when computers cost $5k, and the components were unreliable. Today, we pull out the daughter cards, maybe wipe off the connectors, re-install, smoke-check. When the industry started, we had a magazine called "boot", because getting the first PC's to boot was a major obstacle. Now it's all plug and play. Look at the instruction manual that comes with a mother-board, just a few pictures of how to plug-in the USB wires. Look at what comes with a new MS OS... A big card.
I suggest "the internet book mobile" approach. Get a laser printer, and print free books, stitch them up, you have a low-cost new book, after the first $1k for equipment, the new books will cost less than the transportation of used books.
About programming, I'm sure a lot of cons get data entry jobs, there may be some that get promoted to "operator". High tech companies won't hire a felon. Not when they can hire a immigrant programmer with a few masters degrees, and not worry about "issues with cons". The leopard being what it is...
Yes, I know there's an issue with finding employment for cons, I don't know the answer, especially if they come out as an older adult without a career of work experience.
As far as I can tell, after school, most of us geeks don't buy new low-level computer books. We only buy books if we're learning a new language, we get our knowledge from the net.
You might try taking this question to Stack Over Flow dot com, as there's getting to be way too much noise on/.
With "modern" editors, one always ends up driving the mouse. To me, driving a mouse for a living, is about as cool as driving a truck for a living... Except that when driving a truck, one cannot hear the toad in the next box clearing his throat every 20 seconds, and the scenery does in fact change.
Crap... Don't remind me of those days. The first time I used the internet, is was through a dial-up BBS, I connected UUCP to somewhere, and paid $100 for the bandwidth to download a broken Star Trek game. The second time, I was on a Sparc2 at work. Before I knew of X windows, and was on the console. Trying to remove a file, I typed "rn file"... But that's how I learned PERL with "CLMP"
One of he tenants of modern science is considering consequences instead of embracing every seeming discovery as immediately applicable as a solution.
No... Considering the consequences is _not_ part of the scientific method.
While considering the consequences is a vital step. Consequences falls under the category of value judgments, and are part of the political method.
It is vital that politics be kept out of the scientific method. If we allow the scientific method to be polluted by politics, Science will not be able to help us solve problems. Look at what happened to Mr Galileo Galilei in the era when politics controlled science.
I plugged a large 12v capacitor into a 240v outlet because I thought....hmmm....if a 9v battery make that big a spark....Ten minutes later I had it screwed to a wooden booard with a domestic power cord attached....KABOOM!!!...
Ultra caps should not have that problem, as they don't heat up when over charged, and they can have a higher voltage rating. If I RTFW (read the fine wiki) correctly.
...this probably means that she decided it long before she told you.... This is why dating sucks. The guy is always the last one to know that the girl he likes is just...
Perhaps the guy needs to learn to play the dating/socialization game. Mario does not get to work on the plumbing without sufficient chick points. Those points are easily won/lost by various action/inaction that are not clearly understood by a logically thinking Wandering Software Salesman. To play the game well, one must watch the Pros. The body condition and face score you rolled are not really the great advantage a player would think they are Young Grasshopper. A pro does not lurk like a stalker, nor does he charge like a predator. To play well takes time and _much_ patience... You must always play this game, or never at all. Subscription services are newbie invitations to the playing fields, treat them as such. Activity clubs, or volunteer organizations can be much better. Electronics/Technology are usually point detriments in this game. That means throwing away the TV/computer games and play full time (except that watching/discussing a few Chick shows can be serious points). College is a great place to play, the work place is really poor on many levels. Always play as an observer, a predator never fits in with a herd. If you focus on your objective (sex), you will fail to achieve it. Move in and around the playing field and the players picking up points here and there. One the players will find you, and give you points. Any player who gives you too many points too soon can be dangerous (fatal attraction). Observe other players, and see if they sense the danger. Always collect points even from players outside your classification (age bracket or other classification), as low point tallies with multiple players can form a progressive points multiplier in addition to added experience. Good luck, play safe, enjoy.
the wolf brings to the table his warrior's instincts, his brains and his training. the sheep remains a sheep no matter how well armed.
Owning sheep, I'd like to clarify...
Sheep will try to defend themselves, but they lack the ability to form an alliance with other sheep or prey animals... Sheep will try to attack once or twice. The only tool they have is ramming. And adult male sheep (Rams) do in fact kill lots of humans every year.
Most canine predators have the ability to form alliances for the common good, and they have really good predator teeth.
Sheep lack teeth for attacking, and they have an attitude of "give-up, roll over & die". You see this when you vaccinate. The vaccinated lambs take a few steps, roll over and wait for death. After about 5 minutes, they realize that death has passed them by, they get up and seek out mom for a drink. I can't see the evolutionary advantage in this strategy, we might have bred it into them.
Where I work, one of the UNIX Gods wrote a PERL program that loads the daily dilbert into the root of our X ssessions. Of course on Friday the dilbert script broke. When I was in IT, it could be a firing offense to make a major change on a Friday.
In another life, I was a hardware tech (60's military simuilator), and our digitized audio installed in the 80's, ran on a Xenix system. The goof-ball Sysadmin found a bunch of files he thought were "Sexy Porn", and deleted them... Fortunately we had this marvelous thing call backup tapes, because he was deleting files that matched $EXECPROF.
Paul Graham has a great article on the govt being the larger thread (in relation to gun control). The basic point, is that in the 20th century, about 100M homicides were officially sanctioned (wars), while only 1M were non-official (non-govt or private homicides).
Is a "Doctor Evil Super Grand Master Global Command Center" like this really useful? It seems to me, that this kind of thing is more of a TV prop than a real tool.
I'm under the impression, that in the past (before the 1950's) we slowed the spread of diseases with isolation (Quarantine). After the 50's, we eliminated most bacterial diseases with sanitation and vaccination.
How exactly does a satellite image show the spread of disease?
we still haven't seen much in the way of any real "breakthrough" in desktop CPU design
I think you need to look at the computer industry in 1987... There were no plug and play components. You had to buy hardware from the vendor you bought your PC from. Meaning keyboards, monitors & printers. Intel was behind a lot of the standards so that computers could share hardware (PCI, firewire, USB). There is a legacy reason we call it a "Centronics" printer port. A 5 1/4 inch floppy was $300. A friend of mine bought a 80387 (the math co-processor to the 80386), yes they were a seperate option... an $800 option. Just look at Moore's law... double the transistor density, and speed every 18 months. What if automobiles doubled the efficiency every 18 months? Now we have sleep modes to save the battery in your laptop. Today the average wrist watch has more computing power than the 1970's super computers. We've come a long ways in 20 years.
The cost can go way down if you buy used books at amazon. Granted you may have a time hit on delivery. Then take the $50 credit for charging your order to the Chase high interest credit card. Pay the card off promptly, then shred the damn thing and never order from it again. Last fall, I needed $150 in books, found them used at amazon for $87 and change. Got $50 for charging to the credit card. I was down to $27. Paid off the card, and sent it to visit Mr shredder. Chase continues to supplement a lot of my online purchases.
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Be careful how you talk about Moe Zilla, that pen name was invented by Shampoo...
Your post was great, I wanted to ask if this were invented by Shampoo...
There was a lot of Gallagher humor in there.
Much appreciated by those who appreciate such things...
Do we really repair computers anymore? It's not like in the bad ol' days when computers cost $5k, and the components were unreliable. Today, we pull out the daughter cards, maybe wipe off the connectors, re-install, smoke-check. When the industry started, we had a magazine called "boot", because getting the first PC's to boot was a major obstacle. Now it's all plug and play. Look at the instruction manual that comes with a mother-board, just a few pictures of how to plug-in the USB wires. Look at what comes with a new MS OS... A big card.
I suggest "the internet book mobile" approach. Get a laser printer, and print free books, stitch them up, you have a low-cost new book, after the first $1k for equipment, the new books will cost less than the transportation of used books.
About programming, I'm sure a lot of cons get data entry jobs, there may be some that get promoted to "operator". High tech companies won't hire a felon. Not when they can hire a immigrant programmer with a few masters degrees, and not worry about "issues with cons". The leopard being what it is...
Yes, I know there's an issue with finding employment for cons, I don't know the answer, especially if they come out as an older adult without a career of work experience.
As far as I can tell, after school, most of us geeks don't buy new low-level computer books. We only buy books if we're learning a new language, we get our knowledge from the net.
You might try taking this question to Stack Over Flow dot com, as there's getting to be way too much noise on /.
so in month we get about an shot glass
Why don't you up the volumes? What a great side benefit to your job. Add some hops, bottle, next month, you got a brew.
..we all know damn well that no amount of tequila or diamonds could cause any girl to sleep with a Slashdot reader.
I disagree... Look at what diamonds got for Gates...
With "modern" editors, one always ends up driving the mouse. To me, driving a mouse for a living, is about as cool as driving a truck for a living... Except that when driving a truck, one cannot hear the toad in the next box clearing his throat every 20 seconds, and the scenery does in fact change.
Crap... Don't remind me of those days. ... But that's how I learned PERL with "CLMP"
The first time I used the internet, is was through a dial-up BBS, I connected UUCP to somewhere, and paid $100 for the bandwidth to download a broken Star Trek game.
The second time, I was on a Sparc2 at work. Before I knew of X windows, and was on the console. Trying to remove a file, I typed "rn file"
One of he tenants of modern science is considering consequences instead of embracing every seeming discovery as immediately applicable as a solution.
No... Considering the consequences is _not_ part of the scientific method.
While considering the consequences is a vital step. Consequences falls under the category of value judgments, and are part of the political method.
It is vital that politics be kept out of the scientific method. If we allow the scientific method to be polluted by politics, Science will not be able to help us solve problems. Look at what happened to Mr Galileo Galilei in the era when politics controlled science.
I don't need a license to light up my barbecue, turn on my furnace
I see you either:
A- Don't live in California.
B- Don't follow the letter of the law too closely.
I plugged a large 12v capacitor into a 240v outlet because I thought....hmmm....if a 9v battery make that big a spark....Ten minutes later I had it screwed to a wooden booard with a domestic power cord attached....KABOOM!!!...
Ultra caps should not have that problem, as they don't heat up when over charged, and they can have a higher voltage rating. If I RTFW (read the fine wiki) correctly.
I got tired when Clarke discovered ctl-C ctl-V
...this probably means that she decided it long before she told you.... This is why dating sucks. The guy is always the last one to know that the girl he likes is just...
Perhaps the guy needs to learn to play the dating/socialization game. Mario does not get to work on the plumbing without sufficient chick points. Those points are easily won/lost by various action/inaction that are not clearly understood by a logically thinking Wandering Software Salesman.
To play the game well, one must watch the Pros. The body condition and face score you rolled are not really the great advantage a player would think they are Young Grasshopper. A pro does not lurk like a stalker, nor does he charge like a predator. To play well takes time and _much_ patience... You must always play this game, or never at all. Subscription services are newbie invitations to the playing fields, treat them as such. Activity clubs, or volunteer organizations can be much better. Electronics/Technology are usually point detriments in this game. That means throwing away the TV/computer games and play full time (except that watching/discussing a few Chick shows can be serious points). College is a great place to play, the work place is really poor on many levels. Always play as an observer, a predator never fits in with a herd. If you focus on your objective (sex), you will fail to achieve it. Move in and around the playing field and the players picking up points here and there. One the players will find you, and give you points. Any player who gives you too many points too soon can be dangerous (fatal attraction). Observe other players, and see if they sense the danger. Always collect points even from players outside your classification (age bracket or other classification), as low point tallies with multiple players can form a progressive points multiplier in addition to added experience.
Good luck, play safe, enjoy.
Owning sheep, I'd like to clarify...
Sheep will try to defend themselves, but they lack the ability to form an alliance with other sheep or prey animals... Sheep will try to attack once or twice. The only tool they have is ramming. And adult male sheep (Rams) do in fact kill lots of humans every year.
Most canine predators have the ability to form alliances for the common good, and they have really good predator teeth.
Sheep lack teeth for attacking, and they have an attitude of "give-up, roll over & die". You see this when you vaccinate. The vaccinated lambs take a few steps, roll over and wait for death. After about 5 minutes, they realize that death has passed them by, they get up and seek out mom for a drink. I can't see the evolutionary advantage in this strategy, we might have bred it into them.
I think he meant a "sign painter", usually a free-lance pro who designed and hand painted billboards.
Where I work, one of the UNIX Gods wrote a PERL program that loads the daily dilbert into the root of our X ssessions. Of course on Friday the dilbert script broke. When I was in IT, it could be a firing offense to make a major change on a Friday.
In another life, I was a hardware tech (60's military simuilator), and our digitized audio installed in the 80's, ran on a Xenix system. The goof-ball Sysadmin found a bunch of files he thought were "Sexy Porn", and deleted them... Fortunately we had this marvelous thing call backup tapes, because he was deleting files that matched $EXECPROF.
So if UNG stands for "UNG is not GNU"... And GNU stands for "GNU is not UNIX"...
Then it seems to me, that perhaps, there is a very slight possibility that "UNG _is_ UNIX" ???
I guess that when the going gets weird, the weird go pro... (yes, that's a stolen sig)
I'm more afraid of the govt. screwing me
Paul Graham has a great article on the govt being the larger thread (in relation to gun control).
The basic point, is that in the 20th century, about 100M homicides were officially sanctioned (wars),
while only 1M were non-official (non-govt or private homicides).
Is a "Doctor Evil Super Grand Master Global Command Center" like this really useful? It seems to me, that this kind of thing is more of a TV prop than a real tool.
I'm under the impression, that in the past (before the 1950's) we slowed the spread of diseases with isolation (Quarantine). After the 50's, we eliminated most bacterial diseases with sanitation and vaccination.
How exactly does a satellite image show the spread of disease?
I think you need to look at the computer industry in 1987...
There were no plug and play components.
You had to buy hardware from the vendor you bought your PC from. Meaning keyboards, monitors & printers.
Intel was behind a lot of the standards so that computers could share hardware (PCI, firewire, USB).
There is a legacy reason we call it a "Centronics" printer port.
A 5 1/4 inch floppy was $300.
A friend of mine bought a 80387 (the math co-processor to the 80386), yes they were a seperate option... an $800 option.
Just look at Moore's law... double the transistor density, and speed every 18 months.
What if automobiles doubled the efficiency every 18 months?
Now we have sleep modes to save the battery in your laptop.
Today the average wrist watch has more computing power than the 1970's super computers.
We've come a long ways in 20 years.
I dis-agree here.
Parasites exist on a host because the host has not developed an effective resistance to the parasite faster than the parasite can evolve a new tactic.
You're forgetting that this is "/." and is populated with Geeks... and a few way-out-there Geeks.
These way-out-there Geeky-Geeks often have a hard rationalizing value comparisons that the closer to average type Geeks might consider common sense.
The cost can go way down if you buy used books at amazon. Granted you may have a time hit on delivery.
Then take the $50 credit for charging your order to the Chase high interest credit card.
Pay the card off promptly, then shred the damn thing and never order from it again.
Last fall, I needed $150 in books, found them used at amazon for $87 and change.
Got $50 for charging to the credit card. I was down to $27.
Paid off the card, and sent it to visit Mr shredder.
Chase continues to supplement a lot of my online purchases.
Oh you beddy beddy bad man...