If there was a BeOS driver for your sound card, it just worked. No recompiling the kernel, no reading highly technical HOWTO files that even experienced programmers have trouble interpreting to work out which compile switches to set, no editing/etc/modules.conf in Mysterious Ways to load the driver with the correct parameters, and definitely no futzing with PNP tools to interrogate and configure older cards.
Damn, better go and recompile my windows kernel again!!
I dunno why everyone is saying 'get a CS degree' - I've done CS, and I wouldn't know where to start administrating a Unix server - its given me the basics to start a good career in software engineering, but if you ask me, you'd be better off doing 'targetted' qualifications, if you're really sure what you want to do...
but I would say that your age may be a problem, given your lack of experience.
I would recommend trying for a place at a small (i.e. less than 20 people) startup tyep place, where it's easy to convince others of your worth and you can gain valuable experience - you may not get the position you want at first but do a bit of everything.
I think if you apply for a position at a major company you'll find yourself in a room with younger better qualified people!
many people prefer to sit on their ass playin games or watching tv, and if someone can come up with some way of making that slightly more healthy, its got to be a winner! I go the gym, and its the most broing soul destroying thing on earth.
Now, they just need a way of getting it delivered to the lardies on their sofa and placed under their feet for them...
Seeing as I'm at work I ain't gonna check that site out - but seeing as playBOY.com is full of hot chicks trying their hardest to cover their vaginas up to save the photoshoppers some work, surely playGIRL.com is gonna be full of GUYS right? Or am I horribly confused??
>> I really believed that is even yet possible with Linux until I configured my
girlfriends Box.
Wow - this guy's girlfriend has a configurable box? Today blonde and trim, tomorrow brunette and bushy! Is there anything these open source guys *can't do*???
Er, hello Mr. 'I want to make my lame-ass anti-American point'.
>>If Microsoft were a small company or individual with no substantial wealth, this case would have been concluded years ago and a more fair and justified judgement would have been in place.
Er, 'If Microsoft were a small company or individual with no substantial wealth' it's hardly likely they would have been taken to court for monopolising a massive market through anti-competitive practices is it?
Mod parent down, mod me up. And the.sig is ironic, or something.
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY english pounds for a 4 meg upgrade - can't even remember how much my 70 meg hard disk was - I just got a 60 GIG one for my pc for less tho, that's for sure!
I'm willing to shell out about $0 to say I'm running linux on my pda - when I buy a pda it's based on other less important things, like its features and usefulness, not some kind of weird fetish with a particulat operating system.
This is exactly why this site blows - this comment is not 'interesting' - it is exactly the kind of obvious no-mark comment that any of the linux-obsessed windows-blind pricks who frequent and ruin this site could have posted.
So mod me down motherfucker, and maybe you'll get some pussy one day, you sad nerdy geeks.
>> There could be way better answers to most of the claimed quoted from these Halloween memo's and though the author has made a substantial effort during writting of the article, it feels like he got tired and didn't think many of his arguments through.
>> I sometimes wonder what would happen to consumer spending, both in volume and in distribution, if everyone stopped running ads for a week. I don't think much would change. Those of us who like pizza know where we like to get it from, those of us who like to get groceries (anyone?) know where we like to go to get them.
Do you now? What an intelligent thing to wonder! Yes, I can see everyones behaviour changing in *One week*!!! Yes, we wouldn't change bloody pizza houses, because we wouldn't see new ones advertised!!! Jesus fucking Christ you naive fuck!!
is that this is a straight argument between these two standpoints:
Old-fashioned camera: Take loads of images, but when you run out of film, you run out.
Possible side benefit: You may have inadvertently taken some super shots which on at first appear useless but later may be worth a fortune.
Obvious disadvantage: When you've run out of film, you may wish great pictures you're purposely trying to take.
Digital camera: If you run out of space, you can quickly got through your digital storage on site and delete any 'useless' images.
Possible disadvantage: You may delete a piccy that at a later date proves very valuable.
Obvious advantage: You have more space to purposefully take decent photos in space of the crappy but may be valuable 1 in a million times ones.
People may be able to come up with miraculous stories of Clinton and lewinsky being caught on an old discarded picture, but for every 1 of those, there must be x billion dullard images of the president with other women, who until they blow him off, are worthless.
But it's more likely that photos that are not discarded at the time will prove to be worthwhile, surely!!
What a bunch of crap! If we can decipher age-old languages, methinks future civilisations will be able to 'work out', or even 'look up', how to read the data on a cd.
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Yay - it's the anti-Microsoft agenda show again! What if the MS box is better, or are you just predisposed against it whatever?
I guarantee if this story was 'X-Box release pushed forward to screw Nintendo' loads of bods on here would be spitting their dummy. As usual.
If there was a BeOS driver for your sound card, it just worked. No recompiling the kernel, no reading highly technical HOWTO files that even experienced programmers have trouble interpreting to work out which compile switches to set, no editing /etc/modules.conf in Mysterious Ways to load the driver with the correct parameters, and definitely no futzing with PNP tools to interrogate and configure older cards.
Damn, better go and recompile my windows kernel again!!
>> Any workplace that considers a piece of paper to be more important than true knowledge and experience is NOT a place you want to be.
Yes, let's all live in magic-land with all the magic people and happy happy trees
Work - qualification important. C'est la vie.
I dunno why everyone is saying 'get a CS degree' - I've done CS, and I wouldn't know where to start administrating a Unix server - its given me the basics to start a good career in software engineering, but if you ask me, you'd be better off doing 'targetted' qualifications, if you're really sure what you want to do...
but I would say that your age may be a problem, given your lack of experience.
I would recommend trying for a place at a small (i.e. less than 20 people) startup tyep place, where it's easy to convince others of your worth and you can gain valuable experience - you may not get the position you want at first but do a bit of everything.
I think if you apply for a position at a major company you'll find yourself in a room with younger better qualified people!
Good luck!
what you need now is when you frag someone's as they get forced off their bike seat and squish their nuts on the crossbar underneath :)
one of my most painful childhood memories!!!
you're only cheating yourself ;-)
many people prefer to sit on their ass playin games or watching tv, and if someone can come up with some way of making that slightly more healthy, its got to be a winner! I go the gym, and its the most broing soul destroying thing on earth.
Now, they just need a way of getting it delivered to the lardies on their sofa and placed under their feet for them...
Seeing as I'm at work I ain't gonna check that site out - but seeing as playBOY.com is full of hot chicks trying their hardest to cover their vaginas up to save the photoshoppers some work, surely playGIRL.com is gonna be full of GUYS right? Or am I horribly confused??
>> I really believed that is even yet possible with Linux until I configured my
girlfriends Box.
Wow - this guy's girlfriend has a configurable box? Today blonde and trim, tomorrow brunette and bushy! Is there anything these open source guys *can't do*???
Er, hello Mr. 'I want to make my lame-ass anti-American point'.
.sig is ironic, or something.
>>If Microsoft were a small company or individual with no substantial wealth, this case would have been concluded years ago and a more fair and justified judgement would have been in place.
Er, 'If Microsoft were a small company or individual with no substantial wealth' it's hardly likely they would have been taken to court for monopolising a massive market through anti-competitive practices is it?
Mod parent down, mod me up. And the
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY english pounds for a 4 meg upgrade - can't even remember how much my 70 meg hard disk was - I just got a 60 GIG one for my pc for less tho, that's for sure!
to last a whole lifetime - hmmm, now just need that 144 petabyte hard dick, er, disk...
a Beowulf Cluster of these....?
I'm willing to shell out about $0 to say I'm running linux on my pda - when I buy a pda it's based on other less important things, like its features and usefulness, not some kind of weird fetish with a particulat operating system.
:)
>> How do you make a polygon dead? What does that mean???
It's a game about killing other people. The guy coined the phrase 'make other polygons dead' meaning 'you can shoot other people in the game'.
Because anyone who does know about software engineering is working his ass off trying to claw back some time on his 3 year late project ;-)
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, to think my first processor was a P60, and now people are crowing about what a small increase 70MHz is....
Bye bye karma!
This is exactly why this site blows - this comment is not 'interesting' - it is exactly the kind of obvious no-mark comment that any of the linux-obsessed windows-blind pricks who frequent and ruin this site could have posted.
So mod me down motherfucker, and maybe you'll get some pussy one day, you sad nerdy geeks.
well said that man!
>> There could be way better answers to most of the claimed quoted from these Halloween memo's and though the author has made a substantial effort during writting of the article, it feels like he got tired and didn't think many of his arguments through.
mmm, sweet irony. bit like your post really eh?
FOR FUCKS SAKE - WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP!
;-)!
>> I sometimes wonder what would happen to consumer spending, both in volume and in distribution, if everyone stopped running ads for a week. I don't think much would change. Those of us who like pizza know where we like to get it from, those of us who like to get groceries (anyone?) know where we like to go to get them.
Do you now? What an intelligent thing to wonder! Yes, I can see everyones behaviour changing in *One week*!!! Yes, we wouldn't change bloody pizza houses, because we wouldn't see new ones advertised!!! Jesus fucking Christ you naive fuck!!
Sorry, it's before 9am and work sucks
is that this is a straight argument between these two standpoints:
Old-fashioned camera: Take loads of images, but when you run out of film, you run out.
Possible side benefit: You may have inadvertently taken some super shots which on at first appear useless but later may be worth a fortune.
Obvious disadvantage: When you've run out of film, you may wish great pictures you're purposely trying to take.
Digital camera: If you run out of space, you can quickly got through your digital storage on site and delete any 'useless' images.
Possible disadvantage: You may delete a piccy that at a later date proves very valuable.
Obvious advantage: You have more space to purposefully take decent photos in space of the crappy but may be valuable 1 in a million times ones.
People may be able to come up with miraculous stories of Clinton and lewinsky being caught on an old discarded picture, but for every 1 of those, there must be x billion dullard images of the president with other women, who until they blow him off, are worthless.
But it's more likely that photos that are not discarded at the time will prove to be worthwhile, surely!!
I have to doubt that the JPEG specification will be lost totally forever. Some nerd will take to ferreting them all away somewhere :).
What a bunch of crap! If we can decipher age-old languages, methinks future civilisations will be able to 'work out', or even 'look up', how to read the data on a cd.