Lots of people are suggesting quitting. Here's a better idea:
Are you really working all of those 12 hours? I imagine not. Probably taking a lunch break, right? Eat at your desk, use your lunch break to work out. 30min a day of strenuous stuff is all you need. Here's an example:
You don't need to go to the gym; you can do it all with bodyweight exercises: pushups, pullups (get a pullup bar that sits in a doorframe without being attached to anything, like Iron Gym, so you can put it up when you're working out and then take it down), Hindu squats (google it) and crunches will get you 90% the benefit of a more thorough workout. If you want some variety, do yoga.
5min to change, 30min of circuit training (google it) with these four exercises, 5 min to change back. If there's a shower onsite, then +10min to shower, and you still have 10min left to relax and start your lunch.
The above is a little inflammatory, but essentially correct. There is no job you could get as a IT major that you could not get as a CS major. There are many, many jobs you could get as a CS major that you would _not_ get as an IT major. Additionally, you may find yourself _interested_ in the science-y aspects of CS, and perhaps even go on to graduate school -- an avenue which would not only be blocked off as an IT major, but of whose existence you would not even be aware.
70 days/played. This guy is nothing more than a scrub in a medium-level guild. My guild is probably more advanced than his, and my gut is in BETTER shape than when I started playing. PS- over 100 days/played. And my GF still hasn't broken up with me.
I just realized you installed Slackware from the CLI. Why the hell did you pick the GUI installer for Gentoo? I originally had no intention of trying to actually prosletyze you to Gentoo, having been under the impression that you were a bog-standard Ubuntu/Mandrake/SuSE/etc user. But as someone who installs Slackware "the old fashioned way" you're actually basically the target audience for Gentoo. I would recommend using these instructions:
to install Gentoo (NOT the 2006.1 instructions that seem to all use the crappy installer). At the very least browse through them; I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Why did I do it the second time? There's always that sliver of a chance that I did something wrong the first time. Well, Gentoo was wrong both times and I won't be wasting my time with it again.
Actually, you probably did do something wrong. If you're not talking about the GUI install, you're basically a liar (as the CLI install has you do your own partitioning:-), and if you're talking about the GUI install, well, as someone who's been "messing with computers for 28 years" you should have done the CLI install. It's really not that hard.. while the GUI could be used by a trained ape, the CLI does require a notch more intelligence.. but again, if you've been "messing with computers for 28 years" I assume you've got that:-)
At the end of the day though, even the GUI installer didn't wipe your partition table without you doing something seriously wrong.
I would think printf statements might be problematic when trying to debug timing window issues or certain types of reentrancy errors (where changing the size of the executable or altering/extending code execution paths could impact the problem itself), but those tend to be fairly uncommon situations.
Ih, how I wish that were true.. Yet EVERY bug I encounter seems to be of this variety.
Linux makes Windows look good on the gaming/soft realtime/attempt to be responsive front
You must be kidding. Using fluxbox and mplayer, I can have mplayer fullscreen on one workspace and switch around workspaces including the mplayer one just as fast as if mplayer weren't even running. Alt-tabbing between WMP and other applications on the same machine in Windows is painfully slow. For that matter, I can do the same with Starcraft and WINE.
The article is certainly filled with anti-GMO FUD. The most telling is the following facetious summarization of the science:
Let me summarize this. First, you add genes to a plant which will then easily absorb dangerous and toxic chemicals. Then you use these plants to feed cows. But why on earth a cow would need to ingest more selenium? And are you sure that you want this selenium in your plate?
Check this: Livestock require selenium as a cofactor for the antioxidant enzyme glutathione peroxidase. Supplementation of feeds with selenium has greatly reduced the incidence of deficiencies [1]. Furthermore, as other posters have pointed out, we _ourselves_ need it in our diets and clearly don't get enough. Mod the article -1 Troll. ------------------- [1] http://www.engormix.com/e_articles.asp?AREA=GDL&NR O=66
.. Microsoft gets hammered for this kind of stuff..
Er, well, not quite; Microsoft gets hammered much more for "embracing and extending" standards and then preventing other implementations from using those "extensions" thereby forcing everyone who wants to be compatible with Microsoft to use Microsoft products. Google not including the doctype , on the other hand, is fairly innocuous, its not like IE or Firefox have issues with it.
To paraphrase liberals everywhere, "Just because it takes courage doesn't mean its right."
When you write code, you find small bugs that you didn't predict, and you write small bugfixes for them. As these small bugfixes pile up, it starts to look like just "messy" code. A year later when you rewrite everything ("I'll do it cleanly this time!"), you've forgotten all those small bugfixes and it takes another 3 or 4 iterations to get them out again, by which time the code is again "messy".
That said, if your entire design is horrendously flawed, starting from scratch is less of a bad idea..
Boy I sure do love this one. Is gentoo easy for first-time linux users? Well, lets ask the guy with an iBook who now happily runs gentoo, his first linux distro. Or the guy who not only used to run WindowsXP, but was a big MS fanboy at that, who now runs gentoo 24/7 (his XP partition feels lonely). Or any of the 6-7 other people I started on gentoo and who love it. Hell, lets ask my mom. People say gentoo is hard for linux beginners based on some preconceived notions they have. I have empirical evidence to the contrary.
Yes, you are quite correct, many of the individual points are available with many mainstream distributions, gentoo included -- something that this fellow claims is not the case. Thus, by illustrating this, you contribute to my point that he is an idiot.
As far as your thinly veiled claims that I use gentoo because it is "trendy", I give you extra troll points for mixing in an ad hominem attack with information that supports my point in a clumsy effort to demean gentoo users. I've tried LFS, and while it was an interesting diversion, I find that gentoo provides all the benfits of LFS plus the added bonus of real package management.
No, seriously, this guy is either an idiot, or has never really used gentoo. Let's look at his list here:
0.) Performance patches from Con Kolivas, i686 2.6.7 kernel, reiserfs 1.) All original sources, minimal patches. 2.) Compiled with i686 against latest gcc 3.) Stripping 4.) Prelinking 5.) Latest gcc and glibc and other sources 6.) Keep everything only dependent to what it really needs not what the./configure happens to find. 7.) Hdparm on install
0) Check. And the option of quite a few other patchsets including aa-sources, mm-sources, and gentoo's own gentoo-dev-sources. 1) Check. Gentoo does this. 2) Checked and beaten. Gentoo (with 5 seconds of configuration) compiles everything for your specific class of chip, e.g. athlon-xp or pentium4. And if you don't want to do the compilation, there are stage3 (i.e. complete systems) available for each class of chip. 3) Check. Gentoo does this. 4) Check. Not only is this 5 seconds in Gentoo, but the new version of portage does it automatically. 5) Check. Gentoo has this. Also, he doesn't mention Yoper's deal, but Gentoo has support for NPTL. 6) Check. Gentoo allows you to set what configure options are turned on and off with USE flags. 7) The single point on which Yoper has Gentoo beat. And seriously, man hdparm.
Thats a cute bit of disinformation. For the benefit of any poor soul who doesn't know better, this has been patently untrue on Linux -- and my guess is any modern OS implementing fork() -- for a long time. Anything that you might consider "dead weight" -- i.e., A's information that B doesn't use or B's information that A doesn't use -- is kept in shared pages. So none of the "weight" is "dead". Furthermore, memory is actually saved, because information that both A and B use is not duplicated with this method.
Also, this car is an automatic; or at least, the decription says so, from the poor angle the photos provide its impossible to tell. The scene at the beginning of BTTF1 in which Marty is raing away from the Libyans clearly shows the original time machine to have a manual transmission. Oh well..:/
Sorry, I'm afraid this time it's you that doesn't know what's going on.
Since the Pentium Pro, Intel's IA32-based chips (and AMD's chips from a similar point in time I'm sure) have actually had to translate IA32 instructions into an even lower-level RISC-like instruction set before they were executed. At this point the IA32 instruction set no longer truly reflects the runtime architecture of an x86 CPU.
For a long long long long LONG time I was a Slack man myself. Loved it, swore by it, refused to talk to RedHat/Mandrake users, the whole deal. Recently a friend of mine with a ppc box wanted to put linux on it, and we decided on gentoo since it wasnt a RedHat derivate like YellowDog but still had a complete ppc version (not hard to do when you build everything from source, eh..).
It rules. Absolutely rules. I'd be willing to bet that gentoo was started by a bunch of old slack hackers disgruntled with the less than perfect package management on slack, but still wanted to stick with compiling everything from scratch. It's what I use on my box now, it's what my friend uses on his ppc box, and I'll be putting it on a couple more peoples' boxes over the next few weeks.
Haha. You almost came close to having a point. But its too bad you were too lazy to even read the fucking/. abstract. Because if you had, you would've noticed that India already has a cruise missile that beats the living shit out of anything the US has come up with yet. And even though it was developed in a joint venture between India and Russia, most of the actual new technology was developed by India. And India's space program has actually been going places: as you will see if you just search/. for news about the Indian space program, there are more have-done announcements than will-do ones, and it's at the point where many foreign companies use India to launch their satellites because India does it cheaper and better.
Now as to the point that the money would be better spent on education etc., I half-agree with you; but a burgeoning space program (and a good tech sector in general) draws lots of foreign investment, resulting in a net gain for India.
Honestly, you should watch that stray foot, it gets far too close to your mouth for comfort.
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This is absolutely false. The regulation was promulgated by the Register of Copyrights, who is an executive branch official.
Lots of people are suggesting quitting. Here's a better idea:
Are you really working all of those 12 hours? I imagine not. Probably taking a lunch break, right? Eat at your desk, use your lunch break to work out. 30min a day of strenuous stuff is all you need. Here's an example:
You don't need to go to the gym; you can do it all with bodyweight exercises: pushups, pullups (get a pullup bar that sits in a doorframe without being attached to anything, like Iron Gym, so you can put it up when you're working out and then take it down), Hindu squats (google it) and crunches will get you 90% the benefit of a more thorough workout. If you want some variety, do yoga.
5min to change, 30min of circuit training (google it) with these four exercises, 5 min to change back. If there's a shower onsite, then +10min to shower, and you still have 10min left to relax and start your lunch.
Why not? It'd make http://xkcd.com/333/ a lot less awkward..
The above is a little inflammatory, but essentially correct. There is no job you could get as a IT major that you could not get as a CS major. There are many, many jobs you could get as a CS major that you would _not_ get as an IT major. Additionally, you may find yourself _interested_ in the science-y aspects of CS, and perhaps even go on to graduate school -- an avenue which would not only be blocked off as an IT major, but of whose existence you would not even be aware.
Choose scientist over technician.
70 days /played. This guy is nothing more than a scrub in a medium-level guild. My guild is probably more advanced than his, and my gut is in BETTER shape than when I started playing. PS- over 100 days /played. And my GF still hasn't broken up with me.
I repeat: do not use either installer. Read the directions above, especially the x86 quick install.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x8
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinst
to install Gentoo (NOT the 2006.1 instructions that seem to all use the crappy installer). At the very least browse through them; I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Ih, how I wish that were true..
Yet EVERY bug I encounter seems to be of this variety.
You must be kidding. Using fluxbox and mplayer, I can have mplayer fullscreen on one workspace and switch around workspaces including the mplayer one just as fast as if mplayer weren't even running. Alt-tabbing between WMP and other applications on the same machine in Windows is painfully slow. For that matter, I can do the same with Starcraft and WINE.
Check this: Livestock require selenium as a cofactor for the antioxidant enzyme glutathione peroxidase. Supplementation of feeds with selenium has greatly reduced the incidence of deficiencies [1]. Furthermore, as other posters have pointed out, we _ourselves_ need it in our diets and clearly don't get enough. Mod the article -1 Troll.
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[1] http://www.engormix.com/e_articles.asp?AREA=GDL&N
Er, well, not quite; Microsoft gets hammered much more for "embracing and extending" standards and then preventing other implementations from using those "extensions" thereby forcing everyone who wants to be compatible with Microsoft to use Microsoft products. Google not including the doctype , on the other hand, is fairly innocuous, its not like IE or Firefox have issues with it.
When you write code, you find small bugs that you didn't predict, and you write small bugfixes for them. As these small bugfixes pile up, it starts to look like just "messy" code. A year later when you rewrite everything ("I'll do it cleanly this time!"), you've forgotten all those small bugfixes and it takes another 3 or 4 iterations to get them out again, by which time the code is again "messy".
That said, if your entire design is horrendously flawed, starting from scratch is less of a bad idea..
Boy I sure do love this one. Is gentoo easy for first-time linux users? Well, lets ask the guy with an iBook who now happily runs gentoo, his first linux distro. Or the guy who not only used to run WindowsXP, but was a big MS fanboy at that, who now runs gentoo 24/7 (his XP partition feels lonely). Or any of the 6-7 other people I started on gentoo and who love it. Hell, lets ask my mom. People say gentoo is hard for linux beginners based on some preconceived notions they have. I have empirical evidence to the contrary.
As far as your thinly veiled claims that I use gentoo because it is "trendy", I give you extra troll points for mixing in an ad hominem attack with information that supports my point in a clumsy effort to demean gentoo users. I've tried LFS, and while it was an interesting diversion, I find that gentoo provides all the benfits of LFS plus the added bonus of real package management.
Better luck next time, troll.
0) Check. And the option of quite a few other patchsets including aa-sources, mm-sources, and gentoo's own gentoo-dev-sources.
1) Check. Gentoo does this.
2) Checked and beaten. Gentoo (with 5 seconds of configuration) compiles everything for your specific class of chip, e.g. athlon-xp or pentium4. And if you don't want to do the compilation, there are stage3 (i.e. complete systems) available for each class of chip.
3) Check. Gentoo does this.
4) Check. Not only is this 5 seconds in Gentoo, but the new version of portage does it automatically.
5) Check. Gentoo has this. Also, he doesn't mention Yoper's deal, but Gentoo has support for NPTL.
6) Check. Gentoo allows you to set what configure options are turned on and off with USE flags.
7) The single point on which Yoper has Gentoo beat. And seriously, man hdparm.
Clearly, because you always start counting from 0.
Why is it that only senators and congressmen of the Democratic party get "confused" for terrorists?
Thats a cute bit of disinformation. For the benefit of any poor soul who doesn't know better, this has been patently untrue on Linux -- and my guess is any modern OS implementing fork() -- for a long time. Anything that you might consider "dead weight" -- i.e., A's information that B doesn't use or B's information that A doesn't use -- is kept in shared pages. So none of the "weight" is "dead". Furthermore, memory is actually saved, because information that both A and B use is not duplicated with this method.
Imagine a world where PHBs can turn their office wall into a window onto any cube.
Sure: tv fitted in wall, hidden cameras in cubes.
Also, this car is an automatic; or at least, the decription says so, from the poor angle the photos provide its impossible to tell. The scene at the beginning of BTTF1 in which Marty is raing away from the Libyans clearly shows the original time machine to have a manual transmission. Oh well.. :/
Since the Pentium Pro, Intel's IA32-based chips (and AMD's chips from a similar point in time I'm sure) have actually had to translate IA32 instructions into an even lower-level RISC-like instruction set before they were executed. At this point the IA32 instruction set no longer truly reflects the runtime architecture of an x86 CPU.
It rules. Absolutely rules. I'd be willing to bet that gentoo was started by a bunch of old slack hackers disgruntled with the less than perfect package management on slack, but still wanted to stick with compiling everything from scratch. It's what I use on my box now, it's what my friend uses on his ppc box, and I'll be putting it on a couple more peoples' boxes over the next few weeks.
I definitely wholeheartely recommend you try it.
"I made them [wxWindows] an offer they couldn't refuse."
--Steve Ballmer
Now as to the point that the money would be better spent on education etc., I half-agree with you; but a burgeoning space program (and a good tech sector in general) draws lots of foreign investment, resulting in a net gain for India.
Honestly, you should watch that stray foot, it gets far too close to your mouth for comfort.