Ah, good point (yes, i realised you were probably joking, but around here, who knows). Luckily for me, my uni (st bonaventure university), very little was geared at "corporate IT". I personally worked at our technology services department, so i learned alot about helpdesk support, etc. But anything im using in the programming part of my job, i either learned by my self (save algorithms, etc), outside of class. And i like it that way. With a CS degree (from a college that treats it right), you can do a hell of a lot with that base knowledge.
I personally never really have liked versioning software, it often impedes development (in a small shop, anyhow). If someone had a way to make it mostly automated and seamless, theyd have a winner and a half on their hands. I use cvs, but not nearly as much as i should.
Obivously, thats not what CS is. CS is a mathematical diclipline. At least, thats the way I see it. Granted, I can do those things, but I did stuff like that in my spare time (or learned it here at work). If you wanted to learn that stuff, go to a trade school.
PS. Im a "computer scientist" and I'm IT manager, 1 year out of college. Hows about that?:p (yes the company is small, but theres a reason im in charge)
Dont forget DOA Ultimate. Its too bad that team ninja games were the only ones i could think of off of the top of my head (and even had to doublecheck to make sure 3 didnt hit the ps2, which it didnt)
Every one of those team ninja games has been fun (and ruled in the case of doa3/U and NG)
That is my problem with the xbox and its current library of titiles. All they have is rehashes of the type of games youd see on a PC (at least, the style of game, and ive played games like those for a while) Id like to see something a little different, a little weird on the next xbox, and the Japanese developers sure deliver in spades.
Oh, i just remembered another exclusive: Jet Grind Radio Future. All the fun of the dreamcast game with BETTER cell shaded graphics (not sure if that even makes sense)
But i thought (according to slashdot) that blackholes didnt exist?! I realise there is more to it then just plain 2d coordinate system in a plane, however, the last math course i took was several years ago (calculus in highschool, graduated in 2000), so anything outside of algorithms in programming im not to fresh on.
I dont see banner ads on/. thanks to adblock. Not only are they annoying but they mess up the format sometimes (when they put them on the right side instead of bottom).
i also like how the last is the only time they acknowledge that they are parts of the same company as tg.
I dont want a virtual reality, i just want an augmented reality. Kind of like a non intrusive hud. Night vision (i can barely see at night, and any light is a halo thanks to my astimgatism), maybe a scheduler, so that when i have something to do, it appears in my vield of view as a notice (Today: Pay bills. eh, leave that till tomorrow)
Granted, my examples arent the best, but i have a feeling that augmented reality has a lot more to offer than virtual reality.
Some of the stuff that steve mann is doing that ive read is sweet. All i can think of is "Why cant that be integrated into my contacts?!"
sigh, a few more years off, i suppose
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann/index.html
conspiracy theories make life more fun! In my expirence, ive been able to find anything im looking for on google (even with the google bombing pages, just need to find some keywords in those pages not relevant to your search and remove them from your query).
Google search gets me by, and their new features just keep kicking serious amounts of ass.
but im no fan boy. i swear.
If you know how to use google to achieve your results, whats the issue? If a better search comes along, im sure it will be posted on slashdot (twice), so you dont need to worry about missing out.
I use my xbox for gameboy color emulation, and that pad works well enough for me. If you disregard the two analog sticks and the black& white buttons, its the exact same layout as the snes controller (4 buttons, 2 shoulder, dpad, start select).
I know liking the xbox controller (at least the s type) is something that is frowned upon, but it has grown on me in the past 6 months that ive had an xbox (so much so taht the dualshock 2, previously my favorite controller, seems small and fragile. I have big hands btw)
Im 23 (slightly below your example), i work 40-50 hours a week and game around 15-25 during the week. Then again, i dont have cable, so its my primary entertainment medium. Though, after gran turismo 4 came out, its been 20-30 hours per week (with my bspec driver racing endurance races while i sleep). Not that im addicted or anything:)
the network admin at my campus (Who i worked with, not for, in our tech services dept) let me grab distros of linux without even blinking at the massive downstream bandwidth i was consuming. Our upstream was far more limited, however, so he preferred i use ftp. Which was great. Snagging linux ISOs at megabits per second was awesome. BT, on the otherhand, was like kb per hour. ugh.
Agreed. However, in my case, i transferred in CS credit from HS, and not a whole lot else. I spent the first two years there basically doing the liberal arts grind and taking the few electives i could struggle through. By half way through juinor year, was so burnt out of learning, i was barely attending class (enough to not fail). Too bad the classes i was taking then would have been interesting a few semesters earlier. On the plus side, those transferred credits made it so I had enough to graduate after 8 semesters, got the heck out of there. Now im a working drone. Boy, isnt life grand? Wish i had the amount of free time now that i did in college. Thats the one thing i miss: Programming for fun.
I notice that when i keep my head and eyes still for a few moments without blinking, everything that im not focusing on seems to fade (eg. loses detail, color, etc). Im sure if my contacts allowed my eyes to stay open more than a few seconds without drying up, It would happen further. I always attributed this to my terrible eyes. Even with corrective lenses, my astigmatism makes it a bitch to drive at night, as well as poor perepherial vision.
Same thing with foriegn languages. I had a terrible time in french class because of it. I could translate single words, but forming complete thoughts? forget it
sonofabitch, thats awesome. I hate having to open up an explorer window just to grab a few files (too bad, however, drag and drop uploading wont work)
still cool.
thanks for the tip
Its a sub category of hardware called communications. Im pretty sure the phone could give that away. Why they link to hardware instead of keeping it at ask is beyond me.
in the case of iTunes (i use it also, btw, but dont have an ipod) id like to move those songs between my work and home PC. Id like to use those same songs in my car (via my pda, my zaurus 5500), as well as posibly use another player (itunes is great, if you have the horsepower. It seems to suck resources like no tomorrow, on windows anyhow). Id also like to be able to listen to them on my laptop (running debian). These are a few examples of why im not a fan of their DRM. I actually like it. Its weak enough to crack, and if thats not the avenue you want to go, you can burn a CD and re-rip to mp3/ogg. Being a geek, both options are available to me. And so is a large (and mostly paid for) music colletion.
I put in the extra work to get around it so that i am not at their control. Libdvdcss? Check. Modded XBOX? check. Burn CDs of itunes songs and rip into mp3/ogg/whatever i feel like? Check.
Now, if i could get an open source/non drm couch, id be happy:)
Agreed. If my coworkers could create reports themselves (or update them, as it were) then a large amount of my time would be saved. hey, if you teach them crystal, send their resumes my way, will ya?
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, that sounds interesting, like a blog that i would actually read. Care to link me up?
Ah, good point (yes, i realised you were probably joking, but around here, who knows). Luckily for me, my uni (st bonaventure university), very little was geared at "corporate IT". I personally worked at our technology services department, so i learned alot about helpdesk support, etc. But anything im using in the programming part of my job, i either learned by my self (save algorithms, etc), outside of class. And i like it that way. With a CS degree (from a college that treats it right), you can do a hell of a lot with that base knowledge. I personally never really have liked versioning software, it often impedes development (in a small shop, anyhow). If someone had a way to make it mostly automated and seamless, theyd have a winner and a half on their hands. I use cvs, but not nearly as much as i should.
Obivously, thats not what CS is. CS is a mathematical diclipline. At least, thats the way I see it. Granted, I can do those things, but I did stuff like that in my spare time (or learned it here at work). If you wanted to learn that stuff, go to a trade school. PS. Im a "computer scientist" and I'm IT manager, 1 year out of college. Hows about that? :p (yes the company is small, but theres a reason im in charge)
Dont forget DOA Ultimate. Its too bad that team ninja games were the only ones i could think of off of the top of my head (and even had to doublecheck to make sure 3 didnt hit the ps2, which it didnt) Every one of those team ninja games has been fun (and ruled in the case of doa3/U and NG) That is my problem with the xbox and its current library of titiles. All they have is rehashes of the type of games youd see on a PC (at least, the style of game, and ive played games like those for a while) Id like to see something a little different, a little weird on the next xbox, and the Japanese developers sure deliver in spades. Oh, i just remembered another exclusive: Jet Grind Radio Future. All the fun of the dreamcast game with BETTER cell shaded graphics (not sure if that even makes sense)
But i thought (according to slashdot) that blackholes didnt exist?! I realise there is more to it then just plain 2d coordinate system in a plane, however, the last math course i took was several years ago (calculus in highschool, graduated in 2000), so anything outside of algorithms in programming im not to fresh on.
Thats not a circle, thats a disc that has been bent in some odd shape (somewhat like a bowl). That is a 3d object. a circle is 2d. Flat. No depth.
I dont see banner ads on /. thanks to adblock. Not only are they annoying but they mess up the format sometimes (when they put them on the right side instead of bottom).
i also like how the last is the only time they acknowledge that they are parts of the same company as tg.
Goddammit taco! the icopulate was funny at 930 this morning, but not (i think) 4 fucking times now!
The joke might be that a similar topic was posted just a few weeks ago on ask/.
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/
The topic was slightly different, but several threads talked about benefits of lcd vs crt.
i was looking for another stupid ask slashdot again. Ah well, funs over.
Dude, thats every day. At least there isnt dupes today... (knock on wood)
I dont want a virtual reality, i just want an augmented reality. Kind of like a non intrusive hud. Night vision (i can barely see at night, and any light is a halo thanks to my astimgatism), maybe a scheduler, so that when i have something to do, it appears in my vield of view as a notice (Today: Pay bills. eh, leave that till tomorrow) Granted, my examples arent the best, but i have a feeling that augmented reality has a lot more to offer than virtual reality. Some of the stuff that steve mann is doing that ive read is sweet. All i can think of is "Why cant that be integrated into my contacts?!" sigh, a few more years off, i suppose http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann/index.html
conspiracy theories make life more fun! In my expirence, ive been able to find anything im looking for on google (even with the google bombing pages, just need to find some keywords in those pages not relevant to your search and remove them from your query). Google search gets me by, and their new features just keep kicking serious amounts of ass. but im no fan boy. i swear.
If you know how to use google to achieve your results, whats the issue? If a better search comes along, im sure it will be posted on slashdot (twice), so you dont need to worry about missing out.
I use my xbox for gameboy color emulation, and that pad works well enough for me. If you disregard the two analog sticks and the black& white buttons, its the exact same layout as the snes controller (4 buttons, 2 shoulder, dpad, start select). I know liking the xbox controller (at least the s type) is something that is frowned upon, but it has grown on me in the past 6 months that ive had an xbox (so much so taht the dualshock 2, previously my favorite controller, seems small and fragile. I have big hands btw)
Im 23 (slightly below your example), i work 40-50 hours a week and game around 15-25 during the week. Then again, i dont have cable, so its my primary entertainment medium. Though, after gran turismo 4 came out, its been 20-30 hours per week (with my bspec driver racing endurance races while i sleep). Not that im addicted or anything :)
the network admin at my campus (Who i worked with, not for, in our tech services dept) let me grab distros of linux without even blinking at the massive downstream bandwidth i was consuming. Our upstream was far more limited, however, so he preferred i use ftp. Which was great. Snagging linux ISOs at megabits per second was awesome. BT, on the otherhand, was like kb per hour. ugh.
Agreed. However, in my case, i transferred in CS credit from HS, and not a whole lot else. I spent the first two years there basically doing the liberal arts grind and taking the few electives i could struggle through. By half way through juinor year, was so burnt out of learning, i was barely attending class (enough to not fail). Too bad the classes i was taking then would have been interesting a few semesters earlier. On the plus side, those transferred credits made it so I had enough to graduate after 8 semesters, got the heck out of there. Now im a working drone. Boy, isnt life grand? Wish i had the amount of free time now that i did in college. Thats the one thing i miss: Programming for fun.
I notice that when i keep my head and eyes still for a few moments without blinking, everything that im not focusing on seems to fade (eg. loses detail, color, etc). Im sure if my contacts allowed my eyes to stay open more than a few seconds without drying up, It would happen further. I always attributed this to my terrible eyes. Even with corrective lenses, my astigmatism makes it a bitch to drive at night, as well as poor perepherial vision.
Same thing with foriegn languages. I had a terrible time in french class because of it. I could translate single words, but forming complete thoughts? forget it
yeah, but imcreasing the speed of which i do things means ill be able to get more done during the day... who wants that?
sonofabitch, thats awesome. I hate having to open up an explorer window just to grab a few files (too bad, however, drag and drop uploading wont work) still cool. thanks for the tip
Its a sub category of hardware called communications. Im pretty sure the phone could give that away. Why they link to hardware instead of keeping it at ask is beyond me.
in the case of iTunes (i use it also, btw, but dont have an ipod) id like to move those songs between my work and home PC. Id like to use those same songs in my car (via my pda, my zaurus 5500), as well as posibly use another player (itunes is great, if you have the horsepower. It seems to suck resources like no tomorrow, on windows anyhow). Id also like to be able to listen to them on my laptop (running debian). These are a few examples of why im not a fan of their DRM. I actually like it. Its weak enough to crack, and if thats not the avenue you want to go, you can burn a CD and re-rip to mp3/ogg. Being a geek, both options are available to me. And so is a large (and mostly paid for) music colletion.
I put in the extra work to get around it so that i am not at their control. Libdvdcss? Check. Modded XBOX? check. Burn CDs of itunes songs and rip into mp3/ogg/whatever i feel like? Check. Now, if i could get an open source/non drm couch, id be happy :)
Agreed. If my coworkers could create reports themselves (or update them, as it were) then a large amount of my time would be saved. hey, if you teach them crystal, send their resumes my way, will ya?