are things really that scary EVERYWHERE, or are you just assuming everyone else's Univeristy is just like yours? Where I attend school, all C and C++ is taught using the GNU Compiler on Linux, or Sun's C compiler on Solaris. There is only one CS class that even introduces MS Visual Studio.
funny you say that... my parents live just 3 miles outside a fairly large (10000 person) town, which is just 30 minutes outside of St. Louis. Guess what? no cable tv. no cable internet. no dsl. no cell phone coverage! Across Missouri, cell phone coverage (along with the other things mentioned) is no where near ubiquitous.
your telling me! The email address I have registered with/. is strictly there to collect spam. I've never registered it anywhere but/., but now I'm getting tons of rejected messages from Sobig.F saying that my email from this address was undeliverable. f'ing spammers not keeping their wintel boxen up to date...
that reminds me of a small town just south of here. The local police put up a sign on the highway about a mile south of the town saying DWI checkpoint ahead. People who are obviously drunk get off at the exit thinking they are avoiding the cops. What they don't realize is that the checkpoint is at the top of the exit.
agreed, they have continually made things harder and harder to use since 1.4. Hiding options, changing menu's, etc. And don't even get me started on nautilus, the POS that just won't die....
X11?!?! on my Zaurus SL-5500? What kind of a performance hit does it take? Can I still play movies and mp3s on it like I can with Qtopia? Does it still have solitaire, ti85emu, other necessary apps?
There's the problem. All the truely qualified software engineers are not unemployed. If you have the skills to back up what's written on your resume, there really is no problem finding a job. It's the people who went to 2-year tech schools during the bubble or leared "java in 21 days" and now expect 70,000/year that can't find a job.
I don't know about the MIT team's budget, but they haven't even been close to competative the last 3 rayces. Oh, and Rolla's car was only around $100,000 this year:-)
actually the Rolla car is extremely efficient, and was running almost completely on solar power, barely touching the batteries. So even without the 2 day stop in Albuquerque, the car still could have gone the speed limit all the way down to California.
no sun? NO SUN!?!? I'm in Missouri, and in the past month and a half it has been > 95 degree highs, 60+% humidity, and has rained exactly once. Obviously you've never been the Missouri....
The site needs to be updated. That was Solar Miner II, the car UMR won with in 1999. The winner of this rayce (yes, spelled correctly damnit) was Solar Miner IV. It uses much lighter batteries and the car itself is much lighter as well.
Heh, I find that midly amusing, only because on our longest one-day run in the race, 435 miles, we had to stop to refuel the f'ing chase car. The solar car was just fine running on batteries alone.
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are things really that scary EVERYWHERE, or are you just assuming everyone else's Univeristy is just like yours? Where I attend school, all C and C++ is taught using the GNU Compiler on Linux, or Sun's C compiler on Solaris. There is only one CS class that even introduces MS Visual Studio.
funny you say that... my parents live just 3 miles outside a fairly large (10000 person) town, which is just 30 minutes outside of St. Louis. Guess what? no cable tv. no cable internet. no dsl. no cell phone coverage! Across Missouri, cell phone coverage (along with the other things mentioned) is no where near ubiquitous.
Insert some vague simpsons reference here about lisa, the laws of thermodynamics, and the obeying thereof.
your telling me! The email address I have registered with /. is strictly there to collect spam. I've never registered it anywhere but /., but now I'm getting tons of rejected messages from Sobig.F saying that my email from this address was undeliverable. f'ing spammers not keeping their wintel boxen up to date...
that reminds me of a small town just south of here. The local police put up a sign on the highway about a mile south of the town saying DWI checkpoint ahead. People who are obviously drunk get off at the exit thinking they are avoiding the cops. What they don't realize is that the checkpoint is at the top of the exit.
change the .mov to .zip and you should still be able to grab it. I am right now at least. If the connect dies, remember to use -c with wget to resume.
or if you wait 11 minutes you could fry an egg on an AMD athlon XP 1500+.
agreed, they have continually made things harder and harder to use since 1.4. Hiding options, changing menu's, etc. And don't even get me started on nautilus, the POS that just won't die....
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gee, I would have though this was funny if I hadn't seen it in the last 30 SCO/IBM stories...
must we all produce a new comment thread, produced by the comment in the original article?
X11?!?! on my Zaurus SL-5500? What kind of a performance hit does it take? Can I still play movies and mp3s on it like I can with Qtopia? Does it still have solitaire, ti85emu, other necessary apps?
your right, I forgot they closed the one on Pine street. Still, 3 > 0
There's the problem. All the truely qualified software engineers are not unemployed. If you have the skills to back up what's written on your resume, there really is no problem finding a job. It's the people who went to 2-year tech schools during the bubble or leared "java in 21 days" and now expect 70,000/year that can't find a job.
That must be why Rolla won then. In a town of 17,000 people (including 5,000 college students) we've got 4 subways! beat that!
I don't know about the MIT team's budget, but they haven't even been close to competative the last 3 rayces. Oh, and Rolla's car was only around $100,000 this year :-)
actually the Rolla car is extremely efficient, and was running almost completely on solar power, barely touching the batteries. So even without the 2 day stop in Albuquerque, the car still could have gone the speed limit all the way down to California.
Actually, I believe the saying is "There's a ton of women in Rolla, there just aren't many of them."
you guessed it. 176lbs is the minimum for the rayce. If the driver isn't that heavy, they do have to use wights to bring the wieght up.
no sun? NO SUN!?!? I'm in Missouri, and in the past month and a half it has been > 95 degree highs, 60+% humidity, and has rained exactly once. Obviously you've never been the Missouri....
Actually under the rules of the rayce, the driver must weigh a minimum of 176lbs.
The site needs to be updated. That was Solar Miner II, the car UMR won with in 1999. The winner of this rayce (yes, spelled correctly damnit) was Solar Miner IV. It uses much lighter batteries and the car itself is much lighter as well.
Damnit, that should have said solar power, not batteries. From what I was told, it barely touched the battery.
Heh, I find that midly amusing, only because on our longest one-day run in the race, 435 miles, we had to stop to refuel the f'ing chase car. The solar car was just fine running on batteries alone.
no, he's thinking of running for California governor. He cant run for president because he's not an american born citizen.
Well, you could go the Gentoo route and not provide an installer at all, but provide instructions on how to do it yourself instead.
Or, you could use parts of Slackware's installer. It began as a distro for Pat V. and his friends.....