It'll stay niche until people come up with more useful things to print than a handful of Yoda figurines or a gun barrel that's guaranteed to blow up in your face. While there are some people who've made useful things with 3D printers, the average person is not going to produce the engineering quality 3D models that are needed to build such useful items.
My one regret is I never learned any mainframe technology except from the client end. Over the years of my career, I worked with pretty much every other platform and OS that was available except for the mainframe and AS/400.
It's not an issue of marketability; I'd still be unemployable due to my migraines and therefore out of work. But it would have been fun to tackle yet another platform.
Nobody in their right mind is going to resort to the black market for XP support for a business -- it'd be like *inviting* the crackers into your network.
Home users either won't know how or won't care to bother. Most people I know who are still running XP have been virus-infected for months or even years. As long as it lets them play YouTubes, check their gMail, and surf Crackbook they just flat out don't *care* that the machine is infected.
Hell, most of them don't even realize the adware popups they keep seeing are due to an *infection*, not "bad behaviour" on the part of the aforementioned websites. One fellow I knew used to complain about the "popups from YouTube" all the time, 'cause all he ever did was YouTube and Crackbook. As far as he was concerned, it was YouTube that was putting up all the porn ads.
That said, you'd be better off completing your current degree.
Most companies are just looking for a degree and work experience rather than looking specifically for a CS degree. I've worked with very good programmers who had degrees in philosophy, business administration, history, and even an english major.
A degree proves you can learn on your own and that you have the persistence to finish a long term project; it does not prove you are a programmer or any other career choice.
That said, one of the key factors of a degree is that it comes with a rounded education. What kind of shit school did you go to that you've gotten this far without basic courses in english, humanities, mathematics, etc.? I wasn't even allowed to take most of my computer courses without such "irrelevent" credits in my course history.
Possibly because, given the nature of the committee, and the presumption that people appointed to it would have at least some vague idea about the subject matter, the politician's questions was akin to your mechanic asking you where to put the key in your car.:P
So it only took about a year of screaming from the users and slashdotters before Microsquishy paid attention and brought back the MENU instead of that god damned useless start screen. Who knows -- by 9.x maybe it'll even be as usable as 7 again.
The fact that you once released a product under any particular license does not require you to continue to release the product under that same license. As the copyright holder, you're free to change the license at any time.
Have they pulled the source code for the GPL version? Is it no longer available?
If it's still available, they haven't got a case to stand on.
What happens? You end up with the kind of unemployment rates that we're already starting to see as the "norm" in North America and Europe.
We already have far more people in the world than we have a need for from a labour perspective. This is being further aggravated by longer life expectancies, which means the people who do have jobs are hanging on to them longer, because wages have not gone up anywhere near as fast as inflation, so they can't afford to retire properly.
Look at areas like Africa where there are people starving. They aren't starving because there isn't enough food in the world -- they're starving because there aren't enough jobs for them to pay for their food.
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Zzzzzz..... *urp* *wake up*
Is the article over yet?
Wake me up when bozo boy learns to follow his own advice and be concise.
It'll stay niche until people come up with more useful things to print than a handful of Yoda figurines or a gun barrel that's guaranteed to blow up in your face. While there are some people who've made useful things with 3D printers, the average person is not going to produce the engineering quality 3D models that are needed to build such useful items.
My one regret is I never learned any mainframe technology except from the client end. Over the years of my career, I worked with pretty much every other platform and OS that was available except for the mainframe and AS/400.
It's not an issue of marketability; I'd still be unemployable due to my migraines and therefore out of work. But it would have been fun to tackle yet another platform.
Nobody in their right mind is going to resort to the black market for XP support for a business -- it'd be like *inviting* the crackers into your network.
Home users either won't know how or won't care to bother. Most people I know who are still running XP have been virus-infected for months or even years. As long as it lets them play YouTubes, check their gMail, and surf Crackbook they just flat out don't *care* that the machine is infected.
Hell, most of them don't even realize the adware popups they keep seeing are due to an *infection*, not "bad behaviour" on the part of the aforementioned websites. One fellow I knew used to complain about the "popups from YouTube" all the time, 'cause all he ever did was YouTube and Crackbook. As far as he was concerned, it was YouTube that was putting up all the porn ads.
Troll?
How so?
Because I don't want to buy into the digital leash mentality that "everyone owns a cell phone?"
Fuck you.
I am NOT buying a fucking cell phone to read a core dump.
Just fuck right off already. Not everyone wants a digital leash.
Just how many years are we going to see postings/articles on how buggy and security-hole-ridden SCADA is?
Near as I can recall, people have been bitching about this steaming pile of shit for over a decade.
Do that and watch them try to use it to take out every torrent site in existence.
That said, you'd be better off completing your current degree.
Most companies are just looking for a degree and work experience rather than looking specifically for a CS degree. I've worked with very good programmers who had degrees in philosophy, business administration, history, and even an english major.
A degree proves you can learn on your own and that you have the persistence to finish a long term project; it does not prove you are a programmer or any other career choice.
That said, one of the key factors of a degree is that it comes with a rounded education. What kind of shit school did you go to that you've gotten this far without basic courses in english, humanities, mathematics, etc.? I wasn't even allowed to take most of my computer courses without such "irrelevent" credits in my course history.
I spent all my time and money having fun, and now I realize I need an actual job. Help!
If all you want is the cellulose and fiber, hemp produces paper-quality fiber at nearly 4 times the rate per acre/year as even poplar trees do.
Oh, right. Gotta keep all those woodchippers employed. :(
GMOs are NOT good science. There are too many proven side effects and issues despite the claims of the pro-GMO crowd that they're "safe."
GMOs do nothing but sell more Roundup.
Possibly because, given the nature of the committee, and the presumption that people appointed to it would have at least some vague idea about the subject matter, the politician's questions was akin to your mechanic asking you where to put the key in your car. :P
First Episode: My struggle to remain a relevant nerd, by Wil Wheaton.
So it only took about a year of screaming from the users and slashdotters before Microsquishy paid attention and brought back the MENU instead of that god damned useless start screen. Who knows -- by 9.x maybe it'll even be as usable as 7 again.
Not until the sponsor sues them for breach of contract, at least.
When working for companies, everything was "in the cloud" already: on remote servers. It's not like I was running the stuff on my desktop.
SSH to Amazon or SSH to a box in the closet. Pretty much no difference to me.
Doh! But then there's the picture that loaded this time. *LOL*
My bad.
The article doesn't say anything about clear plastic being used...
But what if the next generation of the Oculus Rift comes with a bacon scented "smell-o-vision" cartridge?
Thanks for the clarification. I hadn't considered caching.
As far as I know, the web tier is basically read-only images of the services to be run. The updates and data are on the back end.
So what, precisely, does using Btrfs in such a deployment prove? It's the stability of modified disks that is in question.
The fact that you once released a product under any particular license does not require you to continue to release the product under that same license. As the copyright holder, you're free to change the license at any time.
Have they pulled the source code for the GPL version? Is it no longer available?
If it's still available, they haven't got a case to stand on.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a mail truck full of discs.
What happens? You end up with the kind of unemployment rates that we're already starting to see as the "norm" in North America and Europe.
We already have far more people in the world than we have a need for from a labour perspective. This is being further aggravated by longer life expectancies, which means the people who do have jobs are hanging on to them longer, because wages have not gone up anywhere near as fast as inflation, so they can't afford to retire properly.
Look at areas like Africa where there are people starving. They aren't starving because there isn't enough food in the world -- they're starving because there aren't enough jobs for them to pay for their food.