Once you have that 'or equivalent' it doesn't matter. I never did cobble together a degree despite several years of college (changed majors a lot). I've held jobs that 'required' everything from a BS in CS to MIS and/or an MBA. Nobody ever asked questions. If you can put the experience on your resume and do the job you can get the job, with very few exceptions.
Agreed. I had a pair of Voodoo 2's and thought much the same as you about the whole 'why not just go with OpenGL for the future?' question. Things might be very different today.
It becomes everyone's business when your property is a hazard or risk to others. If you on a sweater that's fine. A gun is more like a car. If you want to own it and operate it there some regulations to limit the risk that your neighbors have to endure.
There is no Constitutional right to drive a car. There is to own a gun. Bad analogy.
I remember the MPC 'spec', and I've been using computers for maybe a decade longer than you. It was in the early 90's or so I think, an attempt at a 'standard' spec so that people knew their PC's were 'multimedia' ready.
Actually the problem is gamers who keep buying the crap made by game companies. Said companies are making fistfulls of dollars so what is their incentive to improve the crap they put out?
I do tend to differ with you on Skyrim though. I found the interface quite easy to use on my PC. I've never played any of the console versions though.
Maybe given that it is the holiday season a subset of users of such services decided to spend time with real people like real friends and family for a change? You know, instead of the hundreds of 'friends' they've never even met?
He owns it. He presumably is paying his property taxes on it. Who are you, or who is anyone for that matter, to say what he should do with it? Unless of course you don't believe in private property ownership.
The mailing list post says it is used '... in GNU systems, and is careful to also say '... most systems running the Linux kernel...', from which I infer that they're two different things. If GNU systems doesn't mean the Hurd, then what would it mean?
Besides Linux there is at least one variant of BSD to add to the GNU family mix. Note on the same page there is an OpenSolaris flavor too.
I really can't see one. It seems like a massive waste of fuel to carry more stores on board then land vertically. Couldn't there be a better way of slowing descent in the atmosphere and recovering the module, like parachuting it into the ocean?
Quicker and cheaper recovery, enabling it to be reused far quicker, etc.
You do have a point. The first PC I coded on had 1k and I had fun with it. It also didn't have a graphical desktop or other modern software, so your point, while valid, is also somewhat limited.
That being said I ran Linux and OS/2 on a system with 24 megabytes of RAM and 110 meg hard drive. I browsed the web, did email, etc. Software bloat is here to stay though.
because they were paid to do so in order to make recent Linux run on ColdFire processors again.
Do you have the attention span of a gnat?
Do you have the reading comprehension of a gnat? The 'Why' that was postulated was 'why resurrect the m68k port'. It had nothing to do with someone else paying to port it to Coldfire. The latter just gave the m68k geeks an opening. The rest of the 'Why' is 'because we can.'
You don't get out much then, do you? I'll see your anecdote with my own. I know many people who use tablets for productive work when a portable device makes sense. That doesn't mean PC's are going to go away. It means that tablets can be more than mere toys. I am sure quite a few people here use them for email, looking (work related) things up on the Web, and other tasks that fall into the 'other than toy' category. That is without going into all the real productivity apps that exist for iOS and Android, and probably even for Windows 8 (I haven't bothered to look).
The owner, he is still ultimately in charge, if he is drunk, tough
SImple analogy, if i come home drunk and start up my chainsaw and mutilate a few people, is it the chainsaw or me at fault?
Simple, but flawed, analogy, since your chainsaw is not a computer programmed to operate without human assistance. Any humans in a programmed driverless car cannot be held resposible, unless it can be shown they tampered with its programming.
To be fair, this *is* Slashdot. How do you know for sure that his chainsaw is not run by a computer program?
You're so right. We should also leave all of our doors and windows unlocked because face it, a determined intruder will just find a way in, and we could be blocking legitimate friends and family. We might actually have to get up and answer the door!
That will work two, three, maybe even four times if you're really good. Then you finally start running into hiring managers who are wary of job hoppers or who get bad references about you. Then you're flipping burgers.
And here I thought all of it, canonized or not, was fan fiction of a sort. It's certainly mostly fiction, historical fiction in some cases but fiction nonetheless.
If it cost $.001 to send a email, I bet we'd see a lot less spam (I'd probably receive less updates I want too, or need to subscribe to a lot more RSS).
The problem is that a certificate is a fixed cost. Its only $0.001 per email if you send X emails. If you only send 0.001X emails, then its $2.00 per email.
So logic suggests that if this is a deterrent to email activity, then its more of a deterrent to non-spammers than it is to spammers.
Except that spammers are not going to pay for certs for each and every account they use, since they often use hundreds of throwaway accounts it would rapidly become cost prohibitive.
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Once you have that 'or equivalent' it doesn't matter. I never did cobble together a degree despite several years of college (changed majors a lot). I've held jobs that 'required' everything from a BS in CS to MIS and/or an MBA. Nobody ever asked questions. If you can put the experience on your resume and do the job you can get the job, with very few exceptions.
Agreed. I had a pair of Voodoo 2's and thought much the same as you about the whole 'why not just go with OpenGL for the future?' question. Things might be very different today.
It becomes everyone's business when your property is a hazard or risk to others. If you on a sweater that's fine. A gun is more like a car. If you want to own it and operate it there some regulations to limit the risk that your neighbors have to endure.
There is no Constitutional right to drive a car. There is to own a gun. Bad analogy.
Here you go: Multimedia PC.
Never went very far.
I remember the MPC 'spec', and I've been using computers for maybe a decade longer than you. It was in the early 90's or so I think, an attempt at a 'standard' spec so that people knew their PC's were 'multimedia' ready.
Actually the problem is gamers who keep buying the crap made by game companies. Said companies are making fistfulls of dollars so what is their incentive to improve the crap they put out?
I do tend to differ with you on Skyrim though. I found the interface quite easy to use on my PC. I've never played any of the console versions though.
Maybe given that it is the holiday season a subset of users of such services decided to spend time with real people like real friends and family for a change? You know, instead of the hundreds of 'friends' they've never even met?
He owns it. He presumably is paying his property taxes on it. Who are you, or who is anyone for that matter, to say what he should do with it? Unless of course you don't believe in private property ownership.
The mailing list post says it is used '... in GNU systems, and is careful to also say '... most systems running the Linux kernel ...', from which I infer that they're two different things. If GNU systems doesn't mean the Hurd, then what would it mean?
Besides Linux there is at least one variant of BSD to add to the GNU family mix. Note on the same page there is an OpenSolaris flavor too.
I really can't see one. It seems like a massive waste of fuel to carry more stores on board then land vertically. Couldn't there be a better way of slowing descent in the atmosphere and recovering the module, like parachuting it into the ocean?
Quicker and cheaper recovery, enabling it to be reused far quicker, etc.
You probably had trouble coding back in the day due to all the pterodactyl attacks.
Get off my lawn! ;)
You do have a point. The first PC I coded on had 1k and I had fun with it. It also didn't have a graphical desktop or other modern software, so your point, while valid, is also somewhat limited.
That being said I ran Linux and OS/2 on a system with 24 megabytes of RAM and 110 meg hard drive. I browsed the web, did email, etc. Software bloat is here to stay though.
It says right in the summary:
because they were paid to do so in order to make recent Linux run on ColdFire processors again.
Do you have the attention span of a gnat?
Do you have the reading comprehension of a gnat? The 'Why' that was postulated was 'why resurrect the m68k port'. It had nothing to do with someone else paying to port it to Coldfire. The latter just gave the m68k geeks an opening. The rest of the 'Why' is 'because we can.'
You don't get out much then, do you? I'll see your anecdote with my own. I know many people who use tablets for productive work when a portable device makes sense. That doesn't mean PC's are going to go away. It means that tablets can be more than mere toys. I am sure quite a few people here use them for email, looking (work related) things up on the Web, and other tasks that fall into the 'other than toy' category. That is without going into all the real productivity apps that exist for iOS and Android, and probably even for Windows 8 (I haven't bothered to look).
The owner, he is still ultimately in charge, if he is drunk, tough
SImple analogy, if i come home drunk and start up my chainsaw and mutilate a few people, is it the chainsaw or me at fault?
Simple, but flawed, analogy, since your chainsaw is not a computer programmed to operate without human assistance. Any humans in a programmed driverless car cannot be held resposible, unless it can be shown they tampered with its programming.
To be fair, this *is* Slashdot. How do you know for sure that his chainsaw is not run by a computer program?
You're so right. We should also leave all of our doors and windows unlocked because face it, a determined intruder will just find a way in, and we could be blocking legitimate friends and family. We might actually have to get up and answer the door!
I certainly hope not.
Sounds like the market working as it should to me.
That will work two, three, maybe even four times if you're really good. Then you finally start running into hiring managers who are wary of job hoppers or who get bad references about you. Then you're flipping burgers.
Put all of the project management records in a tool or data set they're not using. Give them only aggregate data.
Stop inviting them to meetings.
Don't use corporate e-mail.
Three good ways to get fired.
TFA never made claims that consumer products using this material were anywhere close at all. It's about the science at this point, not applications.
If you want to be a drug dealer or engage in other criminal activity, don't broadcast your location to the rest of the world with your cellphone.
No, the moral of the story is a potential erosion of all of our civil liberties, even law abiding citizens...
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
And here I thought all of it, canonized or not, was fan fiction of a sort. It's certainly mostly fiction, historical fiction in some cases but fiction nonetheless.
quakes.
they should build it in Finland. no quakes, lots of free space.
This. Not necessarily Finland, though that's not a bad idea, but someplace that is at least somewhat geologically stable.
If it cost $.001 to send a email, I bet we'd see a lot less spam (I'd probably receive less updates I want too, or need to subscribe to a lot more RSS).
The problem is that a certificate is a fixed cost. Its only $0.001 per email if you send X emails. If you only send 0.001X emails, then its $2.00 per email.
So logic suggests that if this is a deterrent to email activity, then its more of a deterrent to non-spammers than it is to spammers.
Except that spammers are not going to pay for certs for each and every account they use, since they often use hundreds of throwaway accounts it would rapidly become cost prohibitive.