"Hi I'm a trendy moron, who when not racing down to my local growers co-op in my recumbent bike, wants to blow some money on something I barely understand based on buzzword love. I want a mac, because its overpriced and I love Justin Long, but its just not pretentious enough. Can someone please tell me how to buy a Mac with the words "Linux" on it so I can be the envy of my dorm.
oh noooo...Almost 40.. I'm 41 and I pretty much use a completely different technology stack than I did 3 years ago. I switched from down in the bones Embedded real time to the goulash of frameworks that in Java back end coding.
Almost 40 is not even close.:)\
Seriously, this is the man behind Lotus notes and Groove. Two of the biggest piles of snot ever made. His existence at MS was a blight. Now if they can get Balmer to join him they may have something there.
You don't belong to a religion that requires a fast burial.
Hell, lets cut to the chase, this is got to be sponsered by Amtrak, cause that will be the only way to travel.
I have seen this debate *every month* of every single year on line since 1994.
They have the same structure, same debating points, same assumptions, and have always been unrelated to the facts and bore little resemblence to the outcomes.
If you look like the art-school drop out on the right, you like macs..if you looks like the geek on the left, you don't.
Maybe thats all there is to it? I mean, I want to listen to the arguments, but why bother?
Remember when it was going to be java terminals? or PowerPC? Or OS/2?.. In any event, MS is a huge ass software company, and apple just changed its name from "computers"..
We were convinced was lapping us in all things that glitter, then it was the Japanese, then for a time it was the EU, now our paranoia has moved on to China and India.. As the Greek once said, fortune rarely stays in one place very long..But we've done pretty good so far:)
I can't see what they would provide in terms of useful knowledge. That said, if you purpose is simply to have something to read on a topic that interests in certain cituations (Subway, waiting outside, etc) its as good as any.
Apple did do this in 95, when they pulled the license of some of their clones. Effectivly closing the market for Mac hardware to them selves. Ahh I remember those flames on Usenet..
They dont prepare you well for development, but are more suited for webapps and little servelets. C or C++ would be much better.
Pretty much, I dont consider someone with out C experience to be a developer.
The homophobia I see sometimes on slashdot is really depressing.
As for me, I love the new Dr Who. Alot. And never thought anyone could relplace Tom Baker until this season.
To me Russel Davies has done a great job, as good as Ronald Moore has done with Battlestar..
Honestly, this is the simply wishful thinking (bordering on delusion) under the guise of expert analysis.
This is even less true now than it was ten years ago.
A better question will be who will buy Sun.. I'm guessing Dell.
Oh yeah! Iraq! Remember that? That was gonna be a cheap, novel way to achieve fantastic results if we ignored all those doubters!
My point is not to simply smear Instapundit, as he does that for himself everyday, but to point out there is a rather large groups of people in the chattering classes out there who beleave EVERYTHING can be solved by an all out push of all resources..
A war on Cancer/Poverty/Terror/Drugs or some other project to build a huge flipping pyramid of ego.
This is like when Minsky told a grad student to solve the problem of computer vision on summer break....
I wrote an amateur PC game in 1989 that did this called "serial killer". It used interchangable text to describe an event from a variety of viewpoints...some insane. Basicly it was like text based adventure meets markov chain.
I'm not saying I Invented this idea and will be suing Nintendo, I'm saying its not exactly original in the least.
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"Hi I'm a trendy moron, who when not racing down to my local growers co-op in my recumbent bike, wants to blow some money on something I barely understand based on buzzword love. I want a mac, because its overpriced and I love Justin Long, but its just not pretentious enough. Can someone please tell me how to buy a
Mac with the words "Linux" on it so I can be the envy of my dorm.
Nailed it right?
oh noooo ...Almost 40.. I'm 41 and I pretty much use a completely different technology stack than I did 3 years ago. I switched from down in the bones Embedded real time to the goulash of frameworks that in Java back end coding. :)\
Almost 40 is not even close.
Seriously, this is the man behind Lotus notes and Groove. Two of the biggest piles of snot ever made. His existence at MS was a blight. Now if they can get Balmer to join him they may have something there.
A perfect example of the achilies heel of open-source..
on the sea shore? Those have always fascinated me.
800k or what Haliburton calls "pocket change".
Wait till you see Bushs "fees"
You don't belong to a religion that requires a fast burial.
Hell, lets cut to the chase, this is got to be sponsered by Amtrak, cause that will be the only way to travel.
I just hate to see something diffirent die..
Oh wait..it will be.
I have seen this debate *every month* of every single year on line since 1994.
..
They have the same structure, same debating points, same assumptions, and have always been unrelated to the facts and bore little resemblence to the outcomes.
If you look like the art-school drop out on the right, you like macs..if you looks like the geek on the left, you don't.
Maybe thats all there is to it? I mean, I want to listen to the arguments, but why bother?
Remember when it was going to be java terminals? or PowerPC? Or OS/2?
In any event, MS is a huge ass software company, and apple just changed its name from "computers"..
We were convinced was lapping us in all things that glitter, then it was the Japanese, then for a time it was the EU, now our paranoia has moved on to China and India..
As the Greek once said, fortune rarely stays in one place very long..But we've done pretty good so far:)
I can't see what they would provide in terms of useful knowledge. That said, if you purpose is simply to have something to read on a topic that interests in certain cituations (Subway, waiting outside, etc) its as good as any.
Apple did do this in 95, when they pulled the license of some of their clones. Effectivly closing the market for Mac hardware to them selves.
Ahh I remember those flames on Usenet..
They dont prepare you well for development, but are more suited for webapps and little servelets. C or C++ would be much better.
Pretty much, I dont consider someone with out C experience to be a developer.
The homophobia I see sometimes on slashdot is really depressing.
As for me, I love the new Dr Who. Alot. And never thought anyone could relplace Tom Baker until this season.
To me Russel Davies has done a great job, as good as Ronald Moore has done with Battlestar..
Honestly, this is the simply wishful thinking (bordering on delusion) under the guise of expert analysis.
This is even less true now than it was ten years ago.
A better question will be who will buy Sun.. I'm guessing Dell.
Did you just say "positive Pete's instead of neagative Nancy's"?
Also "ludacris" is the singer , not "ludicrous"
>If we can clone a sheep, I'm sure we can build a space elevator.
What does one have to do with the other? At all?
Oh yeah! Iraq! Remember that? That was gonna be a cheap, novel way to achieve fantastic results if we ignored all those doubters!
My point is not to simply smear Instapundit, as he does that for himself everyday, but to point out there is a rather large groups of people in the chattering classes out there who beleave EVERYTHING can be solved by an all out push of all resources..
A war on Cancer/Poverty/Terror/Drugs or some other project to build a huge flipping pyramid of ego.
This is like when Minsky told a grad student to solve the problem of computer vision on summer break....
I wrote an amateur PC game in 1989 that did this called "serial killer". It used interchangable text to describe an event from a variety of viewpoints...some insane.
Basicly it was like text based adventure meets markov chain.
I'm not saying I Invented this idea and will be suing Nintendo, I'm saying its not exactly original in the least.