It seems like the educational market has been forgotten lately. I remember when I was in school, Boreland was offering Turbo C, Turbo Pascal, or the newest thing, Turbo C++ for $69-$99. This was when Microsoft C was around $500.
Everyone I knew had a Turbo compiler. Microsoft lost major ground. And, since the students were most comfortable with Boreland, that was, of course, what they recommended to their future employeers.
But, for some reason, companies have recently been neglecting the educational market. Kudos to Debian for re-starting the trend.
But, is that better or worse than just using an existing protocol and filling it full of vendor specific stuff so that it will only operate with other microsoft items.
Case in point: Have you ever tried to get a dhcp address from a hotel with high speed access? If you 're running windows, it works great. If you're running linux (and sniffing the connection, of course), you see responses filled with microsoft vendor specific extensions, and you do *not* get a lease.
I don't know about the *lack* of brain activity, but after playing many hours of games, I typically am "in the mood" for a bit afterwards:
I sometimes catch myself glancing up at the tops of buildings, and peeking around corners after a bit too much Doom or
After a long GTA3 stint, I have a strong urge to check the doors on parked cars I walk by
But, maybe that's just me.
So, it's a long book then?
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But it's great to have a book like this on your shelf when you're trying to have a discussion with a co- worker who doesn't understand why corporate Web sites need to be user-friendly.
I assume, then, that this is a very heavy book, suitable for *bonking* co-workers with?
Personally, I don't mind that United Linux is trying to make a profit. I also wouldn't mind paying for it, if it was worth it.
Having something be commercial is *not* the same as being closed (propriatary). If they try to charge money for something that sucks, no one will pay for it.
I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, and I'm a huge open source fan. But, people do still need to make money. And, I would rather see closed source software on an open platform, than closed source on a closed platform.
Just my $.02 worth, anyway.
Long ago, I found out that rand() was not random
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In a statistics class in college, we were instructed to run a formula on 100 numbers picked from a telephone book (pretty random) The end result of the equation was supposed to be e (2.71.. yatta yatta)
Anyway, being the computer geek I was, I instead grabed a few thousand numbers from rand(). They were so statistically NOT random, that my equation returned something closer to 2.9. I had to re-do the exercize by hand to figure out what the answer was supposed to be!
Ok, they came out with coin sized disks. That's only a marketing ploy. There are too many problems related to having small disks (just read the first 50 or so responses).
But, imagine how much data they'd be able to store on CD sized media with the density they are using on a coin sized disk . . . now *that* is interesting!
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It seems like the educational market has been forgotten lately. I remember when I was in school, Boreland was offering Turbo C, Turbo Pascal, or the newest thing, Turbo C++ for $69-$99. This was when Microsoft C was around $500.
Everyone I knew had a Turbo compiler. Microsoft lost major ground. And, since the students were most comfortable with Boreland, that was, of course, what they recommended to their future employeers.
But, for some reason, companies have recently been neglecting the educational market. Kudos to Debian for re-starting the trend.
"Woah, why are your eyes so red?"
Damn pr0n.
But, is that better or worse than just using an existing protocol and filling it full of vendor specific stuff so that it will only operate with other microsoft items.
Case in point: Have you ever tried to get a dhcp address from a hotel with high speed access? If you 're running windows, it works great. If you're running linux (and sniffing the connection, of course), you see responses filled with microsoft vendor specific extensions, and you do *not* get a lease.
Either way it sucks. I hate Bill.
It seems that people are more worried about the possibility of going blind than the possibility of death.
Ok, a laser misses, and let's say, blinds 2-3 people.
A bomb misses and takes out a block.
I fail to see the problem with the laser. It seems like it would reduce colateral damage.
And, don't forget, Instant Messaging. In order to use Microshaft's Messenger, you have to have a passport account. That's the only reason I have mine.
Of course, I don't use their messenger, I use Gaim under Linux, but it does speak their protocol . . . .
I don't know about the *lack* of brain activity, but after playing many hours of games, I typically am "in the mood" for a bit afterwards:
I sometimes catch myself glancing up at the tops of buildings, and peeking around corners after a bit too much Doom or
After a long GTA3 stint, I have a strong urge to check the doors on parked cars I walk by
But, maybe that's just me.
I assume, then, that this is a very heavy book, suitable for *bonking* co-workers with?
Personally, I don't mind that United Linux is trying to make a profit. I also wouldn't mind paying for it, if it was worth it.
Having something be commercial is *not* the same as being closed (propriatary). If they try to charge money for something that sucks, no one will pay for it.
I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, and I'm a huge open source fan. But, people do still need to make money. And, I would rather see closed source software on an open platform, than closed source on a closed platform.
Just my $.02 worth, anyway.
In a statistics class in college, we were instructed to run a formula on 100 numbers picked from a telephone book (pretty random) The end result of the equation was supposed to be e (2.71.. yatta yatta)
Anyway, being the computer geek I was, I instead grabed a few thousand numbers from rand(). They were so statistically NOT random, that my equation returned something closer to 2.9. I had to re-do the exercize by hand to figure out what the answer was supposed to be!
So, I stand firmly in the "random sucks" camp
Ok, they came out with coin sized disks. That's only a marketing ploy. There are too many problems related to having small disks (just read the first 50 or so responses).
But, imagine how much data they'd be able to store on CD sized media with the density they are using on a coin sized disk . . . now *that* is interesting!
Anyone else smell TekWar?
But, he was caught cheating twice. (10 years ago, cheating involved copying someone elses course work, and submitting it as your own.)
You were encouraged to communicate with your peers, just not collaborate with them.
These times, they are a changing
Don't forget "Cher just got a new case. That makes
facelift number 1435245"
or for the crude: "Why does Brittney keep going down under heavy loads?"
I figured the case was frivoulous(sp?), but after reading the brief: Logitech has been paying royalties. M$oft is gonna lose this one.
It's the next generation RADIUS application. It's still being worked on by the IETF's aaa-wg, but it's nearing completion.
http://www.diameter.org