I am extremely sorry as well. I don't know how someone as non-brilliant as GW has made it this far? Oh, wait, yes I do! The Republicans want someone who doesn't think very deeply, but does only what he is told. I don't know how people can accept this? Oh, wait, yes I do! The filthy rich and the ones more ignorant than GW himself. That makes about 50% of the population. McCain would have given the GOP a better chance. No?
RedHat doesn't *need* to give anybody any shares as a gift! Neither to Linus nor GNU. Yes, RedHat does/did not develop most of Linux. And Yes, I can freely download RedHat Linux or order the Cheapbytes CD for $1.99 + shipping. RedHat is in the business of support and distribution the way I see it. Is their contribution of developers and Linux advocacy not enough?
Yuck, Avoid El Paso like the plague. Aside from being a generally nasty place to live and sandwiched between a burnt out Army base and Juarez (need I say more), they have the highest utility rates in the state. If that's any indicator of the housing cost?, I'm not sure.
San Antonio, TX is very nice with a low cost of living. ASDL is operational within parts of town and RoadRunner Cable Modem is coming in the next couple of months. The SAT LUG is strong with large meetings every month. Of course, if you go up the road 60 miles, you have Austin which is bigger and better in the tech industry, but the cost of living is steeper there. It's an all around nice area to live. Not too wet and usually not too dry, but almost unbearably hot in August.
They ship out of Martha's Vineyard. It takes a really long time; my order boards the ferry steamer, crosses Nantucket sound, on a horse to Boston, Perl Cookbook arrives 10 days later. Who's idea was this anyway? Couldn't they have built on the North Slope and saved a couple days?
> "an essay predicting the arrival of "sexbots" that never have headaches."
Thanks, Jon! Now we're all a bunch of stupid perverts! Go watch Citizen Kane! Why does this "sexbot" episode still hang around like a bad fart, anyway?
I've smoked happy weed a few times, but still believe that it's better to get 'high on life'. So does that make me an exception?
No, of course not! It takes more effort to take delight in life sometimes, but if an individual has got what it takes, they can squeeze water from a rock.
It's much harder to sailboard than to operate a jet ski. Think about that one!
Right above where it asks me to contribute to the FSF, sits their beloved mascot, which makes me think of cleaning the barn instead of writing code or docs. Is there something implied that I don't know about?
Maybe the ruskies were giving their MIG-17's away for that price, but who would take one of them except maybe for display. The 29's were more like $100,000 at the cheapest. Still dirt cheap for a fighter on par with a US F-16.
Create hoopla about switching to Linux or write up a prophetic vision on Linux, get an article slot on/., and watch your readership increase by 23%. WooHoo!
I couldn't have said it better myself. (aside from a few grammer missteps.)
These *pop* writers who casually throw around words like 'wild-eyed' and 'anarchist' without really expaining themselves, don't deserve much respect anyway. But I guess the target audience for CNN are the clueless masses who couldn't think critically if their life depended on it.
Maybe at a monkey school like yours!
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I don't know what school you went to, but it sounds to me like you wasted your time and money. The CS courses and math courses that I have to take are of the order of a magnitude harder than courses of many other majors at my university. Good instructors are disciplined and brilliant themselves and will force you develop and adjust your ways of thinking.
I have observed that some schools have poor CS curriculums. I guess maybe CS hasn't aged enough for there to be enough standards from which to base a proper curriculum. Or perhaps the problem is with the instructors. Just like in math courses where there is little guarantee of finding a decent instructor inside of a university, for many subtle reasons.
Comments about a CS degree being obsolete as soon as you get it are likewise ignorant, that is if CS is taught from the proper perspective. Meta skills never become obsolete. Standard algorithms do not become obsolete overnight. Many CS abstract models will be used for many years to come. Of course, the implementation details and standard protocols may change rather frequently. Which is why you should be left to figure these things out on your own. This is a piece of cake if you can grasp the harder, more 'permanent' information. CS should be a very difficult degree, as human ideas can become very complex. If your CS degree is considered easy at your school, maybe you should stop cheating yourself and find someplace where they get into the 'real meat' of the matter.
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I am extremely sorry as well. I don't know how someone as non-brilliant as GW has made it this far? Oh, wait, yes I do! The Republicans want someone who doesn't think very deeply, but does only what he is told. I don't know how people can accept this? Oh, wait, yes I do! The filthy rich and the ones more ignorant than GW himself. That makes about 50% of the population. McCain would have given the GOP a better chance. No?
RedHat doesn't *need* to give anybody any shares as a gift! Neither to Linus nor GNU. Yes, RedHat does/did not develop most of Linux. And Yes, I can freely download RedHat Linux or order the Cheapbytes CD for $1.99 + shipping. RedHat is in the business of support and distribution the way I see it. Is their contribution of developers and Linux advocacy not enough?
Yuck, Avoid El Paso like the plague. Aside from being a generally nasty place to live and sandwiched between a burnt out Army base and Juarez (need I say more), they have the highest utility rates in the state. If that's any indicator of the housing cost?, I'm not sure.
San Antonio, TX is very nice with a low cost of living. ASDL is operational within parts of town and RoadRunner Cable Modem is coming in the next couple of months.
The SAT LUG is strong with large meetings every month. Of course, if you go up the road 60 miles, you have Austin which is bigger and better in the tech industry, but the cost of living is steeper there. It's an all around nice area to live. Not too wet and usually not too dry, but almost unbearably hot in August.
A Clockwork Orange? Well, almost thirty years ago.
When I first skimed over the subject line, I read 'Golden Nice Aware', which sort of makes sense.
"Mr. Torvalds wins the Golden Nice Award for his humble attitude in not always insisting that his ideas on the kernel have top priority... etc."
OK, I suppose it's a stretch, even for geeks.
I haven't tried it yet but it's here.
They ship out of Martha's Vineyard. It takes a really long time; my order boards the ferry steamer, crosses Nantucket sound, on a horse to Boston, Perl Cookbook arrives 10 days later. Who's idea was this anyway? Couldn't they have built on the North Slope and saved a couple days?
Great prices, though. Can't argue with that!
Here is link to the thread on Deja.
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> "an essay predicting the arrival of "sexbots" that never have headaches."
Thanks, Jon! Now we're all a bunch of stupid perverts! Go watch Citizen Kane! Why does this "sexbot" episode still hang around like a bad fart, anyway?
I've smoked happy weed a few times, but still believe that it's better to get 'high on life'.
So does that make me an exception?
No, of course not! It takes more effort to take delight in life sometimes, but if an individual has got what it takes, they can squeeze water from a rock.
It's much harder to sailboard than to operate a jet ski. Think about that one!
Right above where it asks me to contribute to the FSF, sits their beloved mascot, which makes me think of cleaning the barn instead of writing code or docs. Is there something implied that I don't know about?
Maybe the ruskies were giving their MIG-17's away for that price, but who would take one of them except maybe for display. The 29's were more like $100,000 at the cheapest. Still dirt cheap for a fighter on par with a US F-16.
Create hoopla about switching to Linux or write up a prophetic vision on Linux, get an article slot on /., and watch your readership increase by 23%. WooHoo!
Appearantly he hates UNIX in general, and hates Linux specifically. I'm a bit surprised; ran into the comment while skimming his 'links' page.
Oh well, to each his own.
I couldn't have said it better myself. (aside from a few grammer missteps.)
These *pop* writers who casually throw around words like 'wild-eyed' and 'anarchist' without really expaining themselves, don't deserve much respect anyway. But I guess the target audience for CNN are the clueless masses who couldn't think critically if their life depended on it.
I don't know what school you went to, but it sounds to me like you wasted your time and money. The CS courses and math courses that I have to take are of the order of a magnitude harder than courses of many other majors at my university. Good instructors are disciplined and brilliant themselves and will force you develop and adjust your ways of thinking.
I have observed that some schools have poor CS curriculums. I guess maybe CS hasn't aged enough for there to be enough standards from which to base a proper curriculum. Or perhaps the problem is with the instructors. Just like in math courses where there is little guarantee of finding a decent instructor inside of a university, for many subtle reasons.
Comments about a CS degree being obsolete as soon as you get it are likewise ignorant, that is if CS is taught from the proper perspective. Meta skills never become obsolete. Standard algorithms do not become obsolete overnight. Many CS abstract models will be used for many years to come. Of course, the implementation details and standard protocols may change rather frequently. Which is why you should be left to figure these things out on your own. This is a piece of cake if you can grasp the harder, more 'permanent' information. CS should be a very difficult degree, as human ideas can become very complex. If your CS degree is considered easy at your school, maybe you should stop cheating yourself and find someplace where they get into the 'real meat' of the matter.