i sold my car last year because i wasn't using it and it was still costing me about $2k per year just to keep it around. had i used it as my primary mode of transportation, i probably wouldn't have been spending $12k per year, but certainly at least half that.
your father's eyesight is going to be getting worse with age, not better. big, pretty LCD's are ridiculously cheap these days. you can find good quality 24" screens for under $300 all sorts of places. these may not last 15 years, but they're going to be so cheap when they do fail, it hardly matters.
you're correct about this. you can't watch content on hulu that is not on hulu.
and what you watch with it
you can run hulu full screen on any computer with a web browser and flash. doesn't seem very limiting to me.
I'd rather a simple purchase/rent model myself
would you really be willing to pay for every tv show you might want to watch? i certainly wouldn't pay to keep up with half the stuff i have subscribed on hulu.
one of the things i like most about hulu is finding new shows and being able to watch an episode right away to see if i like it. all it costs me is a minute or two of commercials, during which i'm not likely to pay attention anyway.
ad-supported viewing is still viable, though it's not going to fail because of individuals like you. it's only going to fail when people tune it out well enough that these typse of ads no longer generate a good ROI. in the meantime, try to enjoy the free video streaming while we have it.
if hulu disappears, we're unlikely to get anything better in it's place.
If you consider that 99% of Hulu's content is only available to viewers in the US because of licensing issues, and 99% of Hulu's ads are targeted at US markets, there's little incentive for Hulu to support any form of regional access at this time. When they have more content and ads that can be shared outside the states, certainly.
oldhack was making a joke, contrasting "laptop" with "desktop". it seems that you and everyone else who responded somehow missed this. he was not implying that linux was somehow irrelevant or broken
Those are going to open the most doors for you. As a developer fresh out of school, you're unlikely to get a job that would require C (mostly for low-level work, as you pointed out in your summary).
It's important to realize, though, that knowing a language only takes you so far. It's the libraries and other things built on top of the language that really give you some tools to build on. If you go the Java route, it's worthwhile to look at the enterprise side of things, learn some swing, beans, etc. If you go the C++ route, definitely spend some time on boost.
Regardless of what choice you make, it's almost always worthwhile to learn SQL and a thing or two about how databases work.
As an Illinois resident, I would be supremely happy if my legislature spent less time in session. The growing state debt and budget deficit has been caused by politicians unwilling to make the tough decisions necessary to turn things around.
A credit card is ideal because it places risk at the credit card company instead of at the bank, where your money is. A fraudulent credit card charge is far easier to deal with than a fraudulent withdrawl. Good luck paying your bills when your checking account is empty.
the corollary, and what really bugs me about politics, is that even though 51% chooses the winner, the winner gets 100% of the office.
most of the candidates i vote for don't win elections. do i have any representation in the city council? no. the state legislature? no. certainly not in congress or the white house. the officials elected to "represent" me don't do anything of the sort. they don't share my views.
some countries have proportional representation. i think it would be worth trying in the states.
Fedora is the basis for Redhat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, both widely-used operating systems. It's a great choice as a starting point, not necessarily an end product.
Using Fedora will cripple their productivity and they will start to hate Linux.
Developing a national distribution will cripple their productivity. The effort would be better spent producing something the Russian people actually need, rather than what some Russian bureaucrats think they want.
It's also worth noting that Best Buy has decent prices these days. I picked up a new hard drive for the same price as newegg wanted for the same model. I would have paid shipping with newegg, but instead paid sales tax at Best Buy. The difference wouldn't have been more than a dollar or two either way.
research on this sort of thing has been going on for almost two decades now. the increasing ubiquity of in-car nav systems, cellphones with gps, and other positioning and communications technologies helps to overcome the biggest hurdle: critical mass. this sort of system isn't useful if only a handful of cars have it.
the other, and more difficult, part of this work is using this data in a way that can provide predictive travel information to drivers before that data becomes outdated. it's one thing to know about congestion on a road 10 minutes from your current location. it's better to know whether it's still going to be congested when you get there. models to do this sort of thing exist, but aren't (yet) fast or reliable enough to be used in real time.
in urban areas, there's been an increasing push for taxis to be outfitted with gps transponders both as a political move, but also as a research tool and eventual mechanism for supporting real-time traffic data collection. taxis in major cities cover all the big and little streets, all over the place, all the time. they're perfect for fitting into a regional live traffic data collection system.
you're forgetting that China filters heavily. there's no reason to believe any RPM repositories other than the one hosted by the government would be accessible.
Hell, that kind of shit would have been a nightmare for me at that age when I had massive social anxiety and was extremely uncomfortable in such situations.
Alternatively, it might have been exactly what you needed to overcome your social anxiety.
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Everything SGI has sold over the last couple years runs linux.
state/city registrations
maintenance
insurance
cleaning
parking tickets
i sold my car last year because i wasn't using it and it was still costing me about $2k per year just to keep it around. had i used it as my primary mode of transportation, i probably wouldn't have been spending $12k per year, but certainly at least half that.
as long as they can push more polygons (or rays?!), bigger, badder video cards will still be on the market
you could also buy a much smaller SSD for $250, but why would you use that stuff?
on how to create money out of thin air. stop spending, mister president. the national debt is at an obscene level.
What a great idea! Those have such a fantastic historical track record I can't believe nobody though of it before! WTG Congress!
your father's eyesight is going to be getting worse with age, not better. big, pretty LCD's are ridiculously cheap these days. you can find good quality 24" screens for under $300 all sorts of places. these may not last 15 years, but they're going to be so cheap when they do fail, it hardly matters.
WOOOOOSSSH
it's called an xbox 360
they're not quite down to $150 yet, but close
you can watch any content on hulu at any time.
you're correct about this. you can't watch content on hulu that is not on hulu.
you can run hulu full screen on any computer with a web browser and flash. doesn't seem very limiting to me.
would you really be willing to pay for every tv show you might want to watch? i certainly wouldn't pay to keep up with half the stuff i have subscribed on hulu.
one of the things i like most about hulu is finding new shows and being able to watch an episode right away to see if i like it. all it costs me is a minute or two of commercials, during which i'm not likely to pay attention anyway.
ad-supported viewing is still viable, though it's not going to fail because of individuals like you. it's only going to fail when people tune it out well enough that these typse of ads no longer generate a good ROI. in the meantime, try to enjoy the free video streaming while we have it.
if hulu disappears, we're unlikely to get anything better in it's place.
If you consider that 99% of Hulu's content is only available to viewers in the US because of licensing issues, and 99% of Hulu's ads are targeted at US markets, there's little incentive for Hulu to support any form of regional access at this time. When they have more content and ads that can be shared outside the states, certainly.
oldhack was making a joke, contrasting "laptop" with "desktop". it seems that you and everyone else who responded somehow missed this. he was not implying that linux was somehow irrelevant or broken
Those are going to open the most doors for you. As a developer fresh out of school, you're unlikely to get a job that would require C (mostly for low-level work, as you pointed out in your summary).
It's important to realize, though, that knowing a language only takes you so far. It's the libraries and other things built on top of the language that really give you some tools to build on. If you go the Java route, it's worthwhile to look at the enterprise side of things, learn some swing, beans, etc. If you go the C++ route, definitely spend some time on boost.
Regardless of what choice you make, it's almost always worthwhile to learn SQL and a thing or two about how databases work.
As an Illinois resident, I would be supremely happy if my legislature spent less time in session. The growing state debt and budget deficit has been caused by politicians unwilling to make the tough decisions necessary to turn things around.
A credit card is ideal because it places risk at the credit card company instead of at the bank, where your money is. A fraudulent credit card charge is far easier to deal with than a fraudulent withdrawl. Good luck paying your bills when your checking account is empty.
the corollary, and what really bugs me about politics, is that even though 51% chooses the winner, the winner gets 100% of the office.
most of the candidates i vote for don't win elections. do i have any representation in the city council? no. the state legislature? no. certainly not in congress or the white house. the officials elected to "represent" me don't do anything of the sort. they don't share my views.
some countries have proportional representation. i think it would be worth trying in the states.
Fedora is the basis for Redhat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, both widely-used operating systems. It's a great choice as a starting point, not necessarily an end product.
Using Fedora will cripple their productivity and they will start to hate Linux.
Developing a national distribution will cripple their productivity. The effort would be better spent producing something the Russian people actually need, rather than what some Russian bureaucrats think they want.
i thought they died out in the 60s
I guess I should have said "decent prices on some things". I agree that some of their other hardware is overpriced.
It's also worth noting that Best Buy has decent prices these days. I picked up a new hard drive for the same price as newegg wanted for the same model. I would have paid shipping with newegg, but instead paid sales tax at Best Buy. The difference wouldn't have been more than a dollar or two either way.
How about (C), none of the above? Neither spending plan is necessary.
research on this sort of thing has been going on for almost two decades now. the increasing ubiquity of in-car nav systems, cellphones with gps, and other positioning and communications technologies helps to overcome the biggest hurdle: critical mass. this sort of system isn't useful if only a handful of cars have it.
the other, and more difficult, part of this work is using this data in a way that can provide predictive travel information to drivers before that data becomes outdated. it's one thing to know about congestion on a road 10 minutes from your current location. it's better to know whether it's still going to be congested when you get there. models to do this sort of thing exist, but aren't (yet) fast or reliable enough to be used in real time.
in urban areas, there's been an increasing push for taxis to be outfitted with gps transponders both as a political move, but also as a research tool and eventual mechanism for supporting real-time traffic data collection. taxis in major cities cover all the big and little streets, all over the place, all the time. they're perfect for fitting into a regional live traffic data collection system.
ssl tunneling doesn't change the fact that the packets are going to a specific ip address, which can be filtered
you're forgetting that China filters heavily. there's no reason to believe any RPM repositories other than the one hosted by the government would be accessible.
Hell, that kind of shit would have been a nightmare for me at that age when I had massive social anxiety and was extremely uncomfortable in such situations.
Alternatively, it might have been exactly what you needed to overcome your social anxiety.