If an autodidact without degree turns out to be problematic, the hiring manager gets in hot water and will probably need to justify his decision. He will have a much easier time if the new hire graduated from a prestigious school. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.
No you don't. Truly you don't. Just don't pick the most graphics intensive title every time. Or better yet, DON'T buy the latest and greatest. Take a look at the bargain bin. Also your upgrade to your PC benefits you for other things - be it office documents or coding, picture editing etc. Consoles mostly don't do that at all in standard configurations. (I'm sure someone will tell me about running gimp on their PS3 or some such nonsense but it's not easy or standard)
With a console, I DO buy the latest and greatest title and I can be 100% sure that it will work perfectly. Without having to worry about specs. Ever. Also, if I upgrade my graphics card, arguably the most critical gaming component, it does exactly zilch for my office documents.
When a game's got a glitch it may be impossible to finish it, or even get very far in it. With a PC game there's a good chance you'll get the patch.
Oh PLEASE. When was the last time this happened with an even moderately mainstream game? 1979? When there's no way to patch a game, developers and publishers will make damn sure they get it right the first time. Whereas on PC, you get shit like Hellgate.
Sometimes after you get into a serious company, you'll probably figure out that having a supported configuration is worth much more than saving a few hundred bucks by using hacked cheapo hardware instead of the real thing. Maybe you'll even lose your patronizing attitude.
Having a device that can create goods out of basic materials that are locally available would kill the current economy. Granted, we would still have to pay for power and patented "Replicator" data designs. However, it would represent a major change in the world.
Yeah right, just as having the ability to copy stuff killed the software and music economy. Oh what's that? You think you'd be allowed to freely replicate stuff? There'll be laws against copying physical goods that you didn't create, and there'll be license fees for everything else, you communist pig.
Eh, maybe you should mention that German citizens cannot be extradited as per Article 16 GG. The only exception is the extradition to an international court e.g. Den Haag. There may be possibilities to extradite German citizens to other EU nations (Europäisches Haftbefehlsgesetz), but such laws have either been ruled to be unconstitutional in the past or they wouldn't apply in this case.
No, they will not (or at least the Quicksilver developers won't). They correctly identify Spotlight as an addition to and not as an replacement of their respective applications. In fact, the QS site even hints at Tiger being an requirement for the final version.
For example, Macintosh gets its behavior by simply declaring GUI and command line apps to be different and incompatible: you can't double-click on most executables, and you can't (easily) run most GUI apps from a shell.
Wrong. If the executable is an X11 application, you can double-click to launch it along with the X Server if necessary. There is no way to launch pure CLI executables like 'less' from the Finder, because it doesn't make sense. How do you specify parameters or build up pipes? However, if it doesn't need to do that (a simple shell script for example), you can either simply append the '.command' extension to make it launchable from the Finder or associate the file to launch with Terminal.app by cmd-clicking on it.
Native OS X applications can be easily launched from the Terminal by using the 'open' command: 'open/Applications/iTunes.app' will launch iTunes, 'open.' will open a new Finder window in the current directory and 'open foobar.cpp' will do exactly the same as if you had double-clicked on foobar.cpp (usually launching Xcode in this case).
So there: there is no real difference or incompatibility as you had dreamed up.
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List processing, huh? Witness what a _real_ list processor can do:
(loop for x from 1 to 100000
when (zerop (mod x 2))
collect (* x x))
0.16 seconds on my 1Ghz G4.
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If you like the more practical approach of books like this and always wanted to see what the fuss about Common Lisp is all about, then Practical Common Lisp is for you. The book isn't finished yet, but some chapters are already online for review. Learn CL while writing a flexible MP3 database, a spam filter or a generic parser generator for binary files. How about a streaming MP3 server or a unit test framework? It's all in there without the boring stuff, which usually accompanies books like these.
Not everybody can get a higher education - you have to earn it first by, you guessed it, getting good grades. This is called the "Hochschulreife". Without it, you are not eligible to even apply to a University. There's ALSO this thing called "Numerus Clausus", which basically says "only people with these grades or better get even LOOKED at" for degrees with a limited capacity. And furthermore, if you don't spend effort to study, you'll get kicked out - if you don't manage to pass the exams in the given time-limit (if there is one) or flunk twice, you'll lose your right to ever take another exam in that discipline again. Forever. For every University in Germany. This means, that if I manage to flunk twice in Mathematics, I'm not allowed to study anything where Mathematics is a part of the degree (Engineering, Computer Science,...).
There's also no studying forever: you get one and a half times the specified time of study for that particular degree (in BW at least). After that you'll have to pay tuition fees. But this is different from state to state.
Who told you that bullshit anyway? Take it from someone who actually studies in Germany...
How is this insightful? Do you honestly think the authorities are so foolish as to take the readings at face value? If get caught speeding here in Germany, the police/has/ to subtract 3km/h from the measured value (in my favor) to compensate for inaccuracies. Furthermore, you won't be convicted for a transgression as low as 4-5km/h.
If you aren't able to go to the Applications/Utilities folder and double-click on the monitor-like icon labelled "Terminal", then you have no business futzing around there anyway. "Mac user for years" my ass! Even the X-hating OS9 zealots are able to find their way around...
The image is supposed to be showcasing a new feature called "expose" (it these are real that is), which should help managing your windows. Take a look at the preferences.
Also you'll notice, that foreground windows are shaded grey and have coloured stoplight buttons, while the unfocused window is plain white and has monochrome stoplight buttons. So, apparently unfocused titlebars are not translucent anymore.
I really hope those screenshots are either fake or just plain unpolished/unfinished. Jaguar looks way better IMHO.
I'm 99% sure it will cost money. Probably $129 retail, $79 academic and $0 for ADC members. You had to pay for 10.2, what makes you think 10.3 will be free?
What an idiotic argument. That's like saying "For the Mercedes lovers amongst us, there's no alternative to Mercedes". If my engine breaks down, I need a new Mercedes engine. If my motherboard breaks down, I need an Apple part. If I need new tires, I can buy whatever brand I like. If my HDD explodes, I can buy whatever brand I like. Where's the difference?
You don't really need tabs: there's a nice keybinding for switching between terminals. Try cmd-left and cmd-right to go the previous/next terminal window. I was delighted when I found that one out:)
I have a dual MDD PowerMac, a TiBook, an iPod, a Siemens S55 and drive a Mercedes C-Class. My father is an electrician and my mother works in a supermarket - I'm a student myself and I could afford to spend money on all this stuff. You see, the secret is having a job and being able to manage money.
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No, it's way too risky.
If an autodidact without degree turns out to be problematic, the hiring manager gets in hot water and will probably need to justify his decision. He will have a much easier time if the new hire graduated from a prestigious school. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.
No you don't. Truly you don't. Just don't pick the most graphics intensive title every time. Or better yet, DON'T buy the latest and greatest. Take a look at the bargain bin. Also your upgrade to your PC benefits you for other things - be it office documents or coding, picture editing etc. Consoles mostly don't do that at all in standard configurations. (I'm sure someone will tell me about running gimp on their PS3 or some such nonsense but it's not easy or standard)
With a console, I DO buy the latest and greatest title and I can be 100% sure that it will work perfectly. Without having to worry about specs. Ever. Also, if I upgrade my graphics card, arguably the most critical gaming component, it does exactly zilch for my office documents.
When a game's got a glitch it may be impossible to finish it, or even get very far in it. With a PC game there's a good chance you'll get the patch.
Oh PLEASE. When was the last time this happened with an even moderately mainstream game? 1979? When there's no way to patch a game, developers and publishers will make damn sure they get it right the first time. Whereas on PC, you get shit like Hellgate.
Actually, I think it's hilarious that your query returns a googlewhack: a link to the very comment you replied to. Pretty impressive.
Sometimes after you get into a serious company, you'll probably figure out that having a supported configuration is worth much more than saving a few hundred bucks by using hacked cheapo hardware instead of the real thing. Maybe you'll even lose your patronizing attitude.
Yeah right, just as having the ability to copy stuff killed the software and music economy. Oh what's that? You think you'd be allowed to freely replicate stuff? There'll be laws against copying physical goods that you didn't create, and there'll be license fees for everything else, you communist pig.
Eh, maybe you should mention that German citizens cannot be extradited as per Article 16 GG. The only exception is the extradition to an international court e.g. Den Haag. There may be possibilities to extradite German citizens to other EU nations (Europäisches Haftbefehlsgesetz), but such laws have either been ruled to be unconstitutional in the past or they wouldn't apply in this case.
What? How does "only supporting SSE" prevent Mac OS X from running? A G3 processor has no vector unit at all and it runs just fine.
And why, pray tell, would this be a smart move for Apple?
"Oh look, perfect Windows emulation! Why maintain that Photoshop port if we can just run under the emulation layer."
Yeah, great.
No, they will not (or at least the Quicksilver developers won't). They correctly identify Spotlight as an addition to and not as an replacement of their respective applications. In fact, the QS site even hints at Tiger being an requirement for the final version.
For example, Macintosh gets its behavior by simply declaring GUI and command line apps to be different and incompatible: you can't double-click on most executables, and you can't (easily) run most GUI apps from a shell.
/Applications/iTunes.app' will launch iTunes, 'open .' will open a new Finder window in the current directory and 'open foobar.cpp' will do exactly the same as if you had double-clicked on foobar.cpp (usually launching Xcode in this case).
Wrong. If the executable is an X11 application, you can double-click to launch it along with the X Server if necessary. There is no way to launch pure CLI executables like 'less' from the Finder, because it doesn't make sense. How do you specify parameters or build up pipes? However, if it doesn't need to do that (a simple shell script for example), you can either simply append the '.command' extension to make it launchable from the Finder or associate the file to launch with Terminal.app by cmd-clicking on it.
Native OS X applications can be easily launched from the Terminal by using the 'open' command: 'open
So there: there is no real difference or incompatibility as you had dreamed up.
If you like the more practical approach of books like this and always wanted to see what the fuss about Common Lisp is all about, then Practical Common Lisp is for you. The book isn't finished yet, but some chapters are already online for review.
Learn CL while writing a flexible MP3 database, a spam filter or a generic parser generator for binary files. How about a streaming MP3 server or a unit test framework? It's all in there without the boring stuff, which usually accompanies books like these.
Why do you need a 3D graphics monster for Logic? Or Photoshop? If you want to play games, you can also order the G5 with a Radeon 9800 XT built in.
Have a look at the Wikipedia entry for Byte.
What the fuck are you talking about?
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Not everybody can get a higher education - you have to earn it first by, you guessed it, getting good grades. This is called the "Hochschulreife". Without it, you are not eligible to even apply to a University. There's ALSO this thing called "Numerus Clausus", which basically says "only people with these grades or better get even LOOKED at" for degrees with a limited capacity. And furthermore, if you don't spend effort to study, you'll get kicked out - if you don't manage to pass the exams in the given time-limit (if there is one) or flunk twice, you'll lose your right to ever take another exam in that discipline again. Forever. For every University in Germany. This means, that if I manage to flunk twice in Mathematics, I'm not allowed to study anything where Mathematics is a part of the degree (Engineering, Computer Science,
There's also no studying forever: you get one and a half times the specified time of study for that particular degree (in BW at least). After that you'll have to pay tuition fees. But this is different from state to state.
Who told you that bullshit anyway? Take it from someone who actually studies in Germany...
How is this insightful? Do you honestly think the authorities are so foolish as to take the readings at face value? If get caught speeding here in Germany, the police /has/ to subtract 3km/h from the measured value (in my favor) to compensate for inaccuracies. Furthermore, you won't be convicted for a transgression as low as 4-5km/h.
Q: How do you pronounce "DaimlerChrysler"?
A: The "Chrysler" is silent.
Wow! Is that OS X or Gnome? I can't tell from that screenshot size.. Yay for innovation!
If you aren't able to go to the Applications/Utilities folder and double-click on the monitor-like icon labelled "Terminal", then you have no business futzing around there anyway. "Mac user for years" my ass! Even the X-hating OS9 zealots are able to find their way around...
Because it was 9/10 Deutsche Mark before, which doesn't exist anymore. 4/10 Euro is roughly equivalent to 9/10 DM, so there you have it.
The image is supposed to be showcasing a new feature called "expose" (it these are real that is), which should help managing your windows. Take a look at the preferences.
Also you'll notice, that foreground windows are shaded grey and have coloured stoplight buttons, while the unfocused window is plain white and has monochrome stoplight buttons. So, apparently unfocused titlebars are not translucent anymore.
I really hope those screenshots are either fake or just plain unpolished/unfinished. Jaguar looks way better IMHO.
I'm 99% sure it will cost money. Probably $129 retail, $79 academic and $0 for ADC members. You had to pay for 10.2, what makes you think 10.3 will be free?
What an idiotic argument. That's like saying "For the Mercedes lovers amongst us, there's no alternative to Mercedes". If my engine breaks down, I need a new Mercedes engine. If my motherboard breaks down, I need an Apple part. If I need new tires, I can buy whatever brand I like. If my HDD explodes, I can buy whatever brand I like. Where's the difference?
You don't really need tabs: there's a nice keybinding for switching between terminals. Try cmd-left and cmd-right to go the previous/next terminal window. I was delighted when I found that one out :)
I have a dual MDD PowerMac, a TiBook, an iPod, a Siemens S55 and drive a Mercedes C-Class. My father is an electrician and my mother works in a supermarket - I'm a student myself and I could afford to spend money on all this stuff. You see, the secret is having a job and being able to manage money.