If it's possible, it's not possible from Microsoft.
Every attempt by them to make computing "easier" has resulted a useless, broken new method that even newbies ought not to use. The control panel in Windows XP that let you do 6 things is a prime example.
You're right. The problem is there aren't nearly enough homosexuals in the linux community. Plenty use Windows, so it's very easy to find some to design visual elements. In linux it's much harder.
One thing I noticed from your post is that the Windows versions of all those games still run too. I wonder how much of the problem is changing versions of Windows, and how much is just hackish code some developers write?
Here I was, thinking that giving someone with a Grade 3 reading level, a Grade 2 writing level, and an ego regarding their abilities which can only be attained by someone who has learned nothing of substance in the past 5 or so years, a laptop which requires excellent reading ability and desire to learn from, and excellent writing ability and desire to communicate with the outside world with...
You know what? It's just too ludicrous. You've got to have fundamentals before a laptop and the ensuing internet access is of any use, and even then, they won't help with anything they'd be teaching in any sort of school where you're not expected to buy your own laptop if you need one.
I never understand CS folks who want to work at that sort of job. I've got a friend, I helped him with his resume, and he was making like 10 bucks an hour at CompUSA with this awesome education, he was the top of his class taking a bachelor's degree in CS in 3 tough years, and he had tonnes of enterprise level networking experience using top vendors. Later, he got an actual job, and then the education made sense.
That's actually the thing though, isn't it? If you knew it was intentionally FUBAR'd by someone either stupidly or maliciously , then you'd start like that. However, when you're dealing with ACTUAL problems, you start with trying to fix ACTUAL solutions.
In a commercial setting, if someone's floppy cable was backwards, I'm positive I'd either take a long time and a lot of effort to diagnose the problem or fail entirely, because the context is "It just stopped working". Cables don't flip themselves. Depending on the nature of the problem with the drive jumpering, I'd probably get it wrong too, for the same reason. These are "This guy is an idiot who was playing with something he knew too little about" problems. In the real world, unless you know you've got idiot problems, they're the hardest to diagnose, because a good tech will try to test for the most common failures or causes for errors first.
I'm not some fresh faced CS grad with no experience, either. I've been plugging away at hardware issues on PCs since I was a kid with an 8088, ripping all the jumpers out and putting everything together again for my 256kB of RAM(With the memory card to up it to 640kB even!) with those wonky half-standard MFM drive controllers and Norton Calibrate. The issue is simply that the problems the grandparent mentions aren't problems that actually come up in the real world, they're manufactured -- either by idiots touching things they don't know about, or in this case, by an asshole making a point at the expense of the truth.
Computer Engineering is a third discipline. You're in for a hard time if you hire a guy trained to design computer hardware to do Software Engineering. The guy I know is a god in his world, but doesn't know how to make anything happen in Windows.
I dunno, it seems to me you're attacking an argument he isn't making. You have to know something about programming languages, operating systems, computer hardware, to be able to create effective algorithms, because algorithms almost never exist in a vacuum. I do instrumentation, automation, and control, but they made sure to teach me about digital logic, electronics, and other things that aren't directly related to instrumentation, automation, or control, but are essential to being able to actually apply your skills.
Sure, if you wanted to spend your entire career tinkering with the worlds most complicated LOGO program it's practical, but otherwise, you're just building a brain with no arms, legs, eyes, or ears.
I had a whole post written, but the long and short of it is, you needn't worry about the African rain forest. The significant energy and chemical requirements for a bleached Kraft paper mill, and the significant need for skilled workers and on-site engineers pretty much blow the whole idea away. I was reading about an industrial plant with a much less complicated process than bleached Kraft being run in Africa(I know it's a whole continent, but it's not a very accomodating one), and the operators are basically illiterate, and any time they send in a skilled person from outside, he or she gets kidnapped and ransomed. Also, the lumber requirements of making pulp mean that rain forests would make terrible lumberyards. Most pulp is made with the fastest growing trees possible, so the mill doesn't completely irradicate the trees in the area, removing the use of a paper mill in not that many years.
What you're doing is contrary to your own morals, and against commonly held professional ethics for your trade. Tell them that breeching those morals could make you lose your licenses. Then remind them that they could lose their own professional licenses, and thousands of dollars, if they continue this illegal and immoral path.
Sure, they can fire you, and you can tell your story, and I'm sure the police, the labour board, and the copyright owners would all be very interested to hear how you were fired for refusing to break civil and criminal law.
That's funny, I remember right before the last presidental election in the US, Osama bin Laden came on and was all like "I'm Osama bin Laden, and I support Anyone But Bush".
I swear to God, that man is working for the Republicans.
I figure, if you're that thin skinned, maybe you need a new line of work. I mean, part of the job of being a teacher is having to deal with the fact that kids are going to say mean things about you behind your back, sometimes on the Internet.
Wait....A full-sized real brewery, or a full-sized "beer flavoured beverage for mass consumption" factory? The former would be awesome, but adding beer flavour crystals and corn alcohol to carbonated water isn't a great project. You could basically control it without even using a PID if you didn't care much about the consistency of the brew. Boooooring.:)
It would work better if you simply made it a continuous process. Have it so the "greenhouse" is actually a very slow moving conveyor upon which a medium of sugar water or something is poured(again, very slowly), and then pace it so the plants at the end have reached a certain mass by the time they reach the end. The only issue is that it would be so ridiculously slow and inefficient that you might not as well do it. The byproducts are part of the carbon cycle anyway(Thus carbon neutral), so quit whining.
I don't think it's appropriate to ensure that only the rich can afford lighting.
This reminds me of a passage from a book, where the poor bought shoes that lasted a week, and shirts that lasted a week, and pants that lasted a week, and they each cost a dollar, where the rich man bought the same item for three or four dollars, but it lasted virtually forever.
I switched my entire apartment over to compact fluorescents last weekend. It ended up costing me 60 dollars, but it was worth every penny. White light is much cleaner looking than nicotine stained looking incandescents.
They're fucking liars and criminals who don't even follow the laws they write. When they die, they're going to come face to face with a PISSED judeo-christian God saying "What the fuck have you been saying I've been telling people?"
The National Post is a wannabe Fox News clone. He's a fine fit.
I read it for years because it was better than the local Sun in terms of range and depth of news, but over the years I read it, I learned to take everything in it with a giant lump of salt, because there's too much hate in there for it to be remotely serious.
Regarding your sig, in most of the industry, it WOULD be deny any so it'd hardly ever make it through the access list, but that's not how things usually work at Microsoft.
Personally, I prefer the whiter, cooler light of flourescents. Especially in my bathroom and kitchen, because having white light instead of yellowish light makes the whole room seem much cleaner.
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If it's possible, it's not possible from Microsoft.
Every attempt by them to make computing "easier" has resulted a useless, broken new method that even newbies ought not to use. The control panel in Windows XP that let you do 6 things is a prime example.
You're right. The problem is there aren't nearly enough homosexuals in the linux community. Plenty use Windows, so it's very easy to find some to design visual elements. In linux it's much harder.
One thing I noticed from your post is that the Windows versions of all those games still run too. I wonder how much of the problem is changing versions of Windows, and how much is just hackish code some developers write?
Here I was, thinking that giving someone with a Grade 3 reading level, a Grade 2 writing level, and an ego regarding their abilities which can only be attained by someone who has learned nothing of substance in the past 5 or so years, a laptop which requires excellent reading ability and desire to learn from, and excellent writing ability and desire to communicate with the outside world with...
You know what? It's just too ludicrous. You've got to have fundamentals before a laptop and the ensuing internet access is of any use, and even then, they won't help with anything they'd be teaching in any sort of school where you're not expected to buy your own laptop if you need one.
TERRORISTS! FUCK YEAH!
Coming again to save the motherfuckin' day yea!
TERRORISTS! FUCK YEA!
Taking money from the Yanks is the only way yeah!
Non-Terrorists, your time is through, 'cause now your bones turned to glue
by TERRORISTS! FUCK YEAH!
I never understand CS folks who want to work at that sort of job. I've got a friend, I helped him with his resume, and he was making like 10 bucks an hour at CompUSA with this awesome education, he was the top of his class taking a bachelor's degree in CS in 3 tough years, and he had tonnes of enterprise level networking experience using top vendors. Later, he got an actual job, and then the education made sense.
That's actually the thing though, isn't it? If you knew it was intentionally FUBAR'd by someone either stupidly or maliciously , then you'd start like that. However, when you're dealing with ACTUAL problems, you start with trying to fix ACTUAL solutions.
In a commercial setting, if someone's floppy cable was backwards, I'm positive I'd either take a long time and a lot of effort to diagnose the problem or fail entirely, because the context is "It just stopped working". Cables don't flip themselves. Depending on the nature of the problem with the drive jumpering, I'd probably get it wrong too, for the same reason. These are "This guy is an idiot who was playing with something he knew too little about" problems. In the real world, unless you know you've got idiot problems, they're the hardest to diagnose, because a good tech will try to test for the most common failures or causes for errors first.
I'm not some fresh faced CS grad with no experience, either. I've been plugging away at hardware issues on PCs since I was a kid with an 8088, ripping all the jumpers out and putting everything together again for my 256kB of RAM(With the memory card to up it to 640kB even!) with those wonky half-standard MFM drive controllers and Norton Calibrate. The issue is simply that the problems the grandparent mentions aren't problems that actually come up in the real world, they're manufactured -- either by idiots touching things they don't know about, or in this case, by an asshole making a point at the expense of the truth.
Computer Engineering is a third discipline. You're in for a hard time if you hire a guy trained to design computer hardware to do Software Engineering. The guy I know is a god in his world, but doesn't know how to make anything happen in Windows.
I dunno, it seems to me you're attacking an argument he isn't making. You have to know something about programming languages, operating systems, computer hardware, to be able to create effective algorithms, because algorithms almost never exist in a vacuum. I do instrumentation, automation, and control, but they made sure to teach me about digital logic, electronics, and other things that aren't directly related to instrumentation, automation, or control, but are essential to being able to actually apply your skills.
Sure, if you wanted to spend your entire career tinkering with the worlds most complicated LOGO program it's practical, but otherwise, you're just building a brain with no arms, legs, eyes, or ears.
I had a whole post written, but the long and short of it is, you needn't worry about the African rain forest. The significant energy and chemical requirements for a bleached Kraft paper mill, and the significant need for skilled workers and on-site engineers pretty much blow the whole idea away. I was reading about an industrial plant with a much less complicated process than bleached Kraft being run in Africa(I know it's a whole continent, but it's not a very accomodating one), and the operators are basically illiterate, and any time they send in a skilled person from outside, he or she gets kidnapped and ransomed. Also, the lumber requirements of making pulp mean that rain forests would make terrible lumberyards. Most pulp is made with the fastest growing trees possible, so the mill doesn't completely irradicate the trees in the area, removing the use of a paper mill in not that many years.
What you're doing is contrary to your own morals, and against commonly held professional ethics for your trade. Tell them that breeching those morals could make you lose your licenses. Then remind them that they could lose their own professional licenses, and thousands of dollars, if they continue this illegal and immoral path.
Sure, they can fire you, and you can tell your story, and I'm sure the police, the labour board, and the copyright owners would all be very interested to hear how you were fired for refusing to break civil and criminal law.
Freedom isn't free. Buy some Asprin and quit whining. :P
That's a silly idea. Corporate sponsored ass is corporate sponsored ass, no matter where you go.
That's funny, I remember right before the last presidental election in the US, Osama bin Laden came on and was all like "I'm Osama bin Laden, and I support Anyone But Bush".
I swear to God, that man is working for the Republicans.
I figure, if you're that thin skinned, maybe you need a new line of work. I mean, part of the job of being a teacher is having to deal with the fact that kids are going to say mean things about you behind your back, sometimes on the Internet.
Wait....A full-sized real brewery, or a full-sized "beer flavoured beverage for mass consumption" factory? The former would be awesome, but adding beer flavour crystals and corn alcohol to carbonated water isn't a great project. You could basically control it without even using a PID if you didn't care much about the consistency of the brew. Boooooring. :)
It would work better if you simply made it a continuous process. Have it so the "greenhouse" is actually a very slow moving conveyor upon which a medium of sugar water or something is poured(again, very slowly), and then pace it so the plants at the end have reached a certain mass by the time they reach the end. The only issue is that it would be so ridiculously slow and inefficient that you might not as well do it. The byproducts are part of the carbon cycle anyway(Thus carbon neutral), so quit whining.
I don't think it's appropriate to ensure that only the rich can afford lighting.
This reminds me of a passage from a book, where the poor bought shoes that lasted a week, and shirts that lasted a week, and pants that lasted a week, and they each cost a dollar, where the rich man bought the same item for three or four dollars, but it lasted virtually forever.
I switched my entire apartment over to compact fluorescents last weekend. It ended up costing me 60 dollars, but it was worth every penny. White light is much cleaner looking than nicotine stained looking incandescents.
Tell a Canadian that Republicans want free trade.
They're fucking liars and criminals who don't even follow the laws they write. When they die, they're going to come face to face with a PISSED judeo-christian God saying "What the fuck have you been saying I've been telling people?"
If I'm changing light bulbs while taking a shower, I deserve whatever the results are, and I'm thinking that Hg is the least of my troubles.
The National Post is a wannabe Fox News clone. He's a fine fit.
I read it for years because it was better than the local Sun in terms of range and depth of news, but over the years I read it, I learned to take everything in it with a giant lump of salt, because there's too much hate in there for it to be remotely serious.
CURSE YOU SHWARTZENEGGER!!!
Regarding your sig, in most of the industry, it WOULD be deny any so it'd hardly ever make it through the access list, but that's not how things usually work at Microsoft.
In Soviet Russia, Mercury poisons YOU!
(In Soviet Russia jokes are backwards in Soviet Russia)
Personally, I prefer the whiter, cooler light of flourescents. Especially in my bathroom and kitchen, because having white light instead of yellowish light makes the whole room seem much cleaner.