Undergraduates should be taught programming principles that should easily carry over to different language paradaigms. Direcly learning Fortran in an undergraduate cirriculum is unneccessary.
WTF, how is this news for nerds and how does this matter????? and another thing that pissed me off as i visited/. today (its been my homepage since 1998) i found some kind of hover ad that was ontop of the fucking content!!!! I MEAN wtf. I remeber when/. didn't have any ads at all!
And I had thought that digg's comment posing was mindless enough, now we have AOL (the internet with training wheels) trying to be with it and think they can just come along and do a news site. I mean, i'll give them that it's a decent beta at this point but hardcore slashdot type people usually dont want to touch AOL with a ten foot pole. So good luck on having any intellegent discussion by people who actually have a degree in a cs/engineering/science related field (and no, devry university doesn't count).
I'll make the prediction right here and right now that this website will be the myspace of internet news.
Dvorak is simple a technology "poser" i'm suprised that people still listen it him at all. Or maybe I should be more suprised that users still care what he has to say--and post it on slashdot for people to pffft at. He's a n00b, i dont care how many years hes been running his mouth at techno crap.
This in many ways makes no sense at all. I thought one of the main reasons that they were buying IBM's PC business was to expand their customer base. Haven't they learned that by looking at MS's past deals w/ vendors similar to Lenvono deals have gone sour and they have paid the price for not considering the open os market? Everyone knows that some of the most loyal gnu/Linux enthusiasts used thinkpads mainly because they had an excellent support relationship with IBM? _geezzz_ Someone has just shot themselves in the foot. Sure other people in the comments have been saying the exact same thing that I have but, it's so critical i just had to post it;-P
I'll give it to the designer of the winning submission: it looks nice enough. Granted, I couldn't pull off something that nice myself so I wont go too negative. However, i'm going to agree with many others that say you're just, "polishing a turd" with this redesign. Nothing great or radical has come from this design in my opinion -- It's just more of the same with all this web 2.0 type look and crap. What about changing to a color scheme thats easier to read? geez... As for the second design... it takes more chances than the winning one does, and looks better. Chances are there isn't going to be another "major" cosmetic change to the/. frontpage in sometime to come so it kind of feels like this oppurtunity has been wasted to experiment with a different way of thinking for _at least awhile_. If I had my way, I would have made the website themeable so that you could do you own fance little css design, and upload it to some centeral server. To go even farther, you could maybe browse all the designs that have been uploaded based on previous votes or something like that. The design for the front page would then be the overall winner for past month or something similar. Oh well...
man, the crack team at/. thinks they have to give an update posting on every thing that google works on from random crap to irrelevant shit. because of this, if i were one of the founders, i'd totally just start giving random employees uppercuts and roundhouse kicks to the face. then people would be like, "OMG Larry just totally assulted that man and give him a world class cleveland steemer, i SOOO have to post this on/.". Then you'd have slashdots regular audience (13 year olds who think they know C++), posting things in the comments area like, "d00d digg had this story like 3 hours ago man", and i'd totally laugh my ass off and go eat some crackers.
does this mean they'll finally switch or offer the option of ext3 or rieserfs filesystem during installation? i installed their latest one and they're still using ext2 for the '/' filesystem! pathetic.
Wow, real creative guys
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I thought this was supposed to be a "news for nerds site". You don't have to that high up to know about FreeBSD. Why the hell is it news to re introduce the FreeBSD OS all of a sudden? This is really pathetic guys; i mean really if you haven't heard of FreeBSD and don't know the differences about it and it's license vs gnu/linux then you really shouldn't even be visiting this webpage. I've been reading about comments for years on how/. has been going down hill. Damn, well this clearly shows it.
i'm actually pleased to see microsoft doing this. having gnu/linux run on old pc's as network clients isn't always the best (because come on, most people think windows is the only os ever made). why the hell didn't they do this 2 years ago?
wow, this is all well and good but if you've been looking into how e17 is coming along you could easily see that we've been at this stage for awhile now. how come e17 hasn't gotten this well deserved attention? move along, nothing to see here.
this is mostly redlicious in my opinion. but say if apple were the new microsoft, shit an actual cool monopoly would be pretty neat and with a bitching operating system too? now that'd be pretty intresting.
dude, i was just making a comment about the story and how it applies to me. if you feel it was irrevelent or pointless just skip over it and stop complaining. many people are in the same boat as me, as where to turn. besides say something were to happen to the powerbook, i'd probally have to send it to this third rate company and deal with them. one of the reasons you buy a pb are because of the customer service. i mean really what the fuck about the three year warranty i bought with this thing?
if i buy a 2400 dollar laptop i'll bitch about it all i want.
man thats going to suck since i just bought a t42 tw o months ago, i'll have to always explain it's not a piece of shit since it was from before all this bullshit. serously, my thinkpad is the finest computer i've ever owned, and it's a shame to see this kind of thing happen. i mean what other good laptops are there to chose from anymore? i'll never buy a gateway, hp/compaq, sony (well...), or some noname brand. guess i'll have to go back to ibooks (which might not be so bad).
i thought what the guy was talking about the darwin kernel being descended from berkely unix, i thought he made the mistake and put linux;-) yes gnu/linux does kickass on this platform
lots of people bitch and complain aboout the quality of hp laptops, i think theyre great. personally i would have thought ibm would be the first major laptop maker to embrace linux pre-loaded, oh well hp is going to make a lot of money from this. thanks hp.
that would be reletively easy to set up a linux system like that, i'd think the hardest thing would be to (or pain in the ass) would be to configure a dos boot disk to execute the loadlin.exe at startup in autoexec.bat. does anyone know of any bios that lets you boot off a usb storage device?
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Undergraduates should be taught programming principles that should easily carry over to different language paradaigms. Direcly learning Fortran in an undergraduate cirriculum is unneccessary.
WTF, how is this news for nerds and how does this matter????? /. today (its been my homepage since 1998) i found some /. didn't have any ads
and another thing that pissed me off as i visited
kind of hover ad that was ontop of the fucking content!!!! I MEAN wtf. I remeber when
at all!
the 90s called, they want their obvious news back. slow day for posts?
wow, just... wow. on /. of all places
And I had thought that digg's comment posing was mindless enough, now we have AOL (the internet with training wheels) trying to be with it and think they can just come along and do a news site. I mean, i'll give them that it's a decent beta at this point but hardcore slashdot type people usually dont want to touch AOL with a ten foot pole. So good luck on having any intellegent discussion by people who actually have a degree in a cs/engineering/science related field (and no, devry university doesn't count).
I'll make the prediction right here and right now that this website will be the myspace of internet news.
Dvorak is simple a technology "poser" i'm suprised that people still listen it him at all. Or maybe I should be more suprised that
users still care what he has to say--and post it on slashdot for people to pffft at. He's a n00b, i dont care how many years hes
been running his mouth at techno crap.
This in many ways makes no sense at all. I thought one of the main reasons that they were buying IBM's PC business was to expand their customer base. Haven't they learned that by looking at MS's past deals w/ vendors similar to Lenvono deals have gone sour and they have paid the price for not considering the open os market? Everyone knows that some of the most loyal gnu/Linux enthusiasts used thinkpads mainly because they had an excellent support relationship with IBM? _geezzz_ Someone has just shot themselves in the foot. Sure other people in the comments have been saying the exact same thing that I have but, it's so critical i just had to post it ;-P
yeah, i mispelled some words. get over it.
I'll give it to the designer of the winning submission: it looks nice enough. Granted, I couldn't pull off something that nice myself so I wont go too negative. However, i'm going to agree with many others that say you're just, "polishing a turd" with this redesign. Nothing great or radical has come from this design in my opinion -- It's just more of the same with all this web 2.0 type look and crap. What about changing to a color scheme thats easier to read? geez... /. frontpage in sometime to come so it kind of feels like this oppurtunity has been wasted to experiment with a different way of thinking for _at least awhile_.
As for the second design... it takes more chances than the winning one does, and looks better.
Chances are there isn't going to be another "major" cosmetic change to the
If I had my way, I would have made the website themeable so that you could do you own fance little css design, and upload it to some centeral server. To go even farther, you could maybe browse all the designs that have been uploaded based on previous votes or something like that. The design for the front page would then be the overall winner for past month or something similar. Oh well...
man, the crack team at /. thinks they have to give an update posting on every thing that google works on from random crap to irrelevant shit. because of this, if i were one of the founders, i'd totally just start giving random employees uppercuts and roundhouse kicks to the face. then people would be like, "OMG Larry just totally assulted that man and give him a world class cleveland steemer, i SOOO have to post this on /.". Then you'd have slashdots regular audience (13 year olds who think they know C++), posting things in the comments area like, "d00d digg had this story like 3 hours ago man", and i'd totally laugh my ass off and go eat some crackers.
this story is stupid.
does this mean they'll finally switch or offer the option of ext3 or rieserfs filesystem during installation? i installed their latest one and they're still using ext2 for the '/' filesystem! pathetic.
I thought this was supposed to be a "news for nerds site". You don't have to that high up to know about FreeBSD. Why the hell is it news to re introduce the FreeBSD OS all of a sudden? This is really pathetic guys; i mean really if you haven't heard of FreeBSD and don't know the differences about it and it's license vs gnu/linux then you really shouldn't even be visiting this webpage. I've been reading about comments for years on how /. has been going down hill. Damn, well this clearly shows it.
wow, thats an embarrsing typo having pc's. don't even flame me on this. i know.
i'm actually pleased to see microsoft doing this. having gnu/linux run on old pc's as network clients isn't always the best (because come on, most people think windows is the only os ever made). why the hell didn't they do this 2 years ago?
it's about time, too bad gentoo isn't that great of a linux distribution ;-P
wow, this is all well and good but if you've been looking into how e17 is coming along you could easily see that we've been at this stage for awhile now. how come e17 hasn't gotten this well deserved attention?
move along, nothing to see here.
this is mostly redlicious in my opinion. but say if apple were the new microsoft, shit an actual cool monopoly would be pretty neat and with a bitching operating system too? now that'd be pretty intresting.
it just seems dead to you because your a dumbass
biatch.
don't ever question the power of netbsd.
dude, i was just making a comment about the story and how it applies to me. if you feel it was irrevelent or pointless just skip over it and stop complaining. many people are in the same boat as me, as where to turn.
besides say something were to happen to the powerbook, i'd probally have to send it to this third rate company and deal with them. one of the reasons you buy a pb are because of the customer service. i mean really what the fuck about the three year warranty i bought with this thing?
if i buy a 2400 dollar laptop i'll bitch about it all i want.
man thats going to suck since i just bought a t42 tw o months ago, i'll have to always explain it's not a piece of shit since it was from before all this bullshit. serously, my thinkpad is the finest computer i've ever owned, and it's a shame to see this kind of thing happen. i mean what other good laptops are there to chose from anymore? i'll never buy a gateway, hp/compaq, sony (well...), or some noname brand. guess i'll have to go back to ibooks (which might not be so bad).
i thought what the guy was talking about the darwin kernel being descended from berkely unix, i thought he made the mistake and put linux ;-)
yes gnu/linux does kickass on this platform
i think you mean bsd instead of linux ;-)
lots of people bitch and complain aboout the quality of hp laptops, i think theyre great. personally i would have thought ibm would be the first major laptop maker to embrace linux pre-loaded, oh well hp is going to make a lot of money from this. thanks hp.
that would be reletively easy to set up a linux system like that, i'd think the hardest thing would be to (or pain in the ass) would be to configure a dos boot disk to execute the loadlin.exe at startup in autoexec.bat. does anyone know of any bios that lets you boot off a usb storage device?