I'm so glad someone dug up that link. I've been telling people all night "guess there won't be any nerd riots tomorrow!", but no one seems to have the first clue what I'm talking about.
It sounds to me like most of those need to be accepted my MARKETING people, not the programmers. Its marketing that says "oh, major crash? Just, uh, fix it. Oh by the way, the release date is next tuesday."
And this is why they'll have to pry my laserdisc player from my cold, dead hands. Those laserdiscs have the original versions of the movies. No Greedo-shoots-first, no guns-replaced-with-walkie-talkies, nothing. Just Star Wars in its purest.
Yes, but eventually they taught us to wipe our own asses, and now we do it without their help (at least I do, I'm making a leap of faith for the rest of the/.'ers). We also eventually learned how to do our homework, cook (well, some of us), and resolve our own social problems.
I don't think anyone here is whining about the ONE time their parents asked for technical support/advice. Its not a big deal to suggest an anti-virus program, or even show someone how to install it.
However, the 4th time you ask me to change the font size in Word, you're getting a beatdown or I'm getting a paycheck.
I live in Berkeley, and we suffer serious "rain fade" during the winter. I've been without signal for a whole night during "hard" rains (and this is Berkeley, where we don't get flash floods). If the winds are strong, that might create problems too.
Dish is far from perfect, but I'm happy enough with the quality to avoid dealing with cable outages.
And yes, my incoming signal is about 99/100, for those who are about to tell me to adjust my dish.
Yes. Before Napster, their function was to fix prices and fight for their right to not put "parental advisory: explicit lyrics" labels on their CD's. Then spin it so it looked like they were fighting for free speech.
Important stuff. I can see now why I pay $16 for a CD.
You're confused. The writer meant HIS lifetime, not the product's.
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Oh jesus, people, quit your whining! I am so tired of everyone bitching about how special shapes are ruining lego. You know what? I *LOVE* the custom pieces. They add detail that I wouldn't be able to get otherwise.
Not when there are so many that the entire set is 8 pieces. That's stupid. But on a large set (600+ pieces), I see nothing wrong with having custom parts. Look, I love to build models. But I'm at college, and I don't have a lot of room for that. Instead, I build large lego sets. Sure, they only take a few hours, but they take a lot less space to build and are no less beautiful to me. And if the 2100-piece rebel blockade runner has a custom piece for its radar, BIG FUCKING DEAL.
That gorgeous 3000-piece star destroyer uses those "custom" magnets to hold the outer panels together. If it didn't, it'd be SOLID LEGO and weigh 42 tons. If you want to build everything out of the original shaped blocks, then every model lego sells is going to be the size of a small car.
Apparently, I'm the only one on Slashdot who feels this way. Maybe its not the most creative/inventive thing I could do with those blocks, but its fun for me.
As an engineering student with some experience working in the field (Civil Eng.), I can say that you are partially correct. I love being one of four mac users in my department (two others being the Chair and Vice Chair, I believe, and one more student). Sure, I have to run some stuff in Virtual PC. At the companies I've worked at, I had to use a non-Mac for the heavy-duty CAD and custom vendor-access applications. VPC just isn't built for CAD...yet.
But its not nearly as bad as it used to be. With MATLAB available (and decent) for OS X, and MS Office, its all a question of what applications you need. Frankly, I'd love it if the next company I worked at bought me a $1000 iBook for Email/Office/Web and a $200 PC for CAD (Windows is incredibly stable when it only runs one app!). There are heavy CAD apps for UNIX, like UniGraphics. The first major application (Solidworks, ProE, UniGraphics) that gets ported to OS X is going to make a killing, I think.
I've decided that even if I work at PC-only companies for the rest of my life, my home computer will always be a mac. And I'll still be an engineer;-)
Just because something is good enough to inspire brand loyalty doesn't mean that everyone will feel that way or that everyone can jump on the bandwagon. Some people just never get exposed to macs. Either because they aren't sold at the local computer place, or the "knowledgable" person they trust doesn't use them. Believe it or not, some people have never heard of Apple.
Also, some people see it and don't care, and some people see it but can't afford to go buy one (expense argument aside, entry level macs are more than low-end PC's).
With a small but loyal following, Apple could easily stay in business. TiVo is still around. So is BMW. Everyone who drives a BMW loves it and wants one, but for some reason I still see lots of Fords and Chevys. But my parents are going to be buried in their BMW's, I assure you.
I've already patented the letters U, R, and L! After Microsoft patented 1's and 0's [http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatent s.html], I had to find a way to get even! Now, they can't even spell their own name without paying me.
Oh yeah, and CmdrTaco owes me $0.10 every time he says "CmdrTaco". And $0.50 every time the name "slashdot" appears.
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You have lost. You will be sued.
Stop lying to your wife and just admit that you were watching porn at work!
Whenever a fellow student asks me a question about class or the homework, I always qualify it with this statement:
"My advice is worth exactly what you paid for it."
That keeps them from complaining when my advice leads them astray on the midterm, helping me to the high point of the curve. BUWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah, because the first thing a kid thinks when he signs up for the CS major at school is "this is SOOOOO gonna get me laid!"
There were a lot of really rude comments I wanted to add to this about women and CS majors...but I'll keep my mouth shut. Generalizing never helps.
I'm so glad someone dug up that link. I've been telling people all night "guess there won't be any nerd riots tomorrow!", but no one seems to have the first clue what I'm talking about.
HAHAHAH! And /.-er's called me an asshole for not having a cell phone. Looks like I've got the last laugh!
I realize you meant to say "CURE a faulty piece of hardware", but when I first read it I thought you said "CAUSE a faulty piece of hardware".
;)
To which I thought, "well that's silly, because some piece of hardware stops working every time I install windows!"
ex girlfriend?
It sounds to me like most of those need to be accepted my MARKETING people, not the programmers. Its marketing that says "oh, major crash? Just, uh, fix it. Oh by the way, the release date is next tuesday."
Welcome to Civil Engineering.
And this is why they'll have to pry my laserdisc player from my cold, dead hands. Those laserdiscs have the original versions of the movies. No Greedo-shoots-first, no guns-replaced-with-walkie-talkies, nothing. Just Star Wars in its purest.
I'm sure if the file you sent out was called "thisvirusisnamedJim.vbs", it would be called Jim.
She can even keep her $100! In fact, she can probably expect HIM to pay for dinner ;)
Yes, but eventually they taught us to wipe our own asses, and now we do it without their help (at least I do, I'm making a leap of faith for the rest of the /.'ers). We also eventually learned how to do our homework, cook (well, some of us), and resolve our own social problems.
I don't think anyone here is whining about the ONE time their parents asked for technical support/advice. Its not a big deal to suggest an anti-virus program, or even show someone how to install it.
However, the 4th time you ask me to change the font size in Word, you're getting a beatdown or I'm getting a paycheck.
I live in Berkeley, and we suffer serious "rain fade" during the winter. I've been without signal for a whole night during "hard" rains (and this is Berkeley, where we don't get flash floods). If the winds are strong, that might create problems too.
Dish is far from perfect, but I'm happy enough with the quality to avoid dealing with cable outages.
And yes, my incoming signal is about 99/100, for those who are about to tell me to adjust my dish.
Yes. Before Napster, their function was to fix prices and fight for their right to not put "parental advisory: explicit lyrics" labels on their CD's. Then spin it so it looked like they were fighting for free speech.
Important stuff. I can see now why I pay $16 for a CD.
Girls are people too, k?
Geez, don't you watch Family Guy? Quote Peter Griffin: "Women are not people. They are devices created by the lord Jesus for our amusement."
Sheesh. So uncultured.
(This was a joke you idiots.)
To quote Dilbert (loosely)
Dilbert: I've written software that prevents kids from seeing smut on the internet.
Dogbert: So you're pitting your engineering prowess against the collective sex drive of all the teenagers who own computers?
Dilbert: What's your point?
Dogbert: Did you know that if you put a little hat on a snowball it can last a long time in hell?
You're confused. The writer meant HIS lifetime, not the product's.
Oh jesus, people, quit your whining! I am so tired of everyone bitching about how special shapes are ruining lego. You know what? I *LOVE* the custom pieces. They add detail that I wouldn't be able to get otherwise.
Not when there are so many that the entire set is 8 pieces. That's stupid. But on a large set (600+ pieces), I see nothing wrong with having custom parts. Look, I love to build models. But I'm at college, and I don't have a lot of room for that. Instead, I build large lego sets. Sure, they only take a few hours, but they take a lot less space to build and are no less beautiful to me. And if the 2100-piece rebel blockade runner has a custom piece for its radar, BIG FUCKING DEAL.
That gorgeous 3000-piece star destroyer uses those "custom" magnets to hold the outer panels together. If it didn't, it'd be SOLID LEGO and weigh 42 tons. If you want to build everything out of the original shaped blocks, then every model lego sells is going to be the size of a small car.
Apparently, I'm the only one on Slashdot who feels this way. Maybe its not the most creative/inventive thing I could do with those blocks, but its fun for me.
You mean like a fork? I don't think that will help much. Unless you want to EAT spam...but why anyone would want to do that is beyond me.
As an engineering student with some experience working in the field (Civil Eng.), I can say that you are partially correct. I love being one of four mac users in my department (two others being the Chair and Vice Chair, I believe, and one more student). Sure, I have to run some stuff in Virtual PC. At the companies I've worked at, I had to use a non-Mac for the heavy-duty CAD and custom vendor-access applications. VPC just isn't built for CAD...yet.
;-)
But its not nearly as bad as it used to be. With MATLAB available (and decent) for OS X, and MS Office, its all a question of what applications you need. Frankly, I'd love it if the next company I worked at bought me a $1000 iBook for Email/Office/Web and a $200 PC for CAD (Windows is incredibly stable when it only runs one app!). There are heavy CAD apps for UNIX, like UniGraphics. The first major application (Solidworks, ProE, UniGraphics) that gets ported to OS X is going to make a killing, I think.
I've decided that even if I work at PC-only companies for the rest of my life, my home computer will always be a mac. And I'll still be an engineer
Just because something is good enough to inspire brand loyalty doesn't mean that everyone will feel that way or that everyone can jump on the bandwagon. Some people just never get exposed to macs. Either because they aren't sold at the local computer place, or the "knowledgable" person they trust doesn't use them. Believe it or not, some people have never heard of Apple.
Also, some people see it and don't care, and some people see it but can't afford to go buy one (expense argument aside, entry level macs are more than low-end PC's).
With a small but loyal following, Apple could easily stay in business. TiVo is still around. So is BMW. Everyone who drives a BMW loves it and wants one, but for some reason I still see lots of Fords and Chevys. But my parents are going to be buried in their BMW's, I assure you.
Silly psuedonyms. You're referring to Steven P. Jobs
I've already patented the letters U, R, and L! After Microsoft patented 1's and 0's [http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatent s.html], I had to find a way to get even! Now, they can't even spell their own name without paying me.
Oh yeah, and CmdrTaco owes me $0.10 every time he says "CmdrTaco". And $0.50 every time the name "slashdot" appears.