Yeah right, pal. Australia is one big bland POS. America is as different as New York, Utah, Florida, Chicago, Atlanta, Alabama and Alaska. There's not that kind of diversity anywhere else. Due to our immigration policy, we have more ethnicity and culture in New York than All of Australia since its beginnings as a make-shift prison.
Actually, I'm hoping for the opposite. I'm hoping that less people go into engineering because there is an oversupply of labor in the IT industry (blame L-1 and H-1B). If people finally understand that getting a CS degree is a stupid thing to do then maybe I'll be able to do the job I love 10 years from now.
Well, I'm running KDE. Experience shows that although Windows behaves faster consitantly, it is also extremely unstable under load when compared to Linux/KDE. The system will slow down, but it won't crash. In Windows 2K it's a guaranteed crash.
Re:Let's vote for the greatest forgotten...
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Actually,.NET is taking off big. Just ask any H-1B. While you're at home reading Slashdot, they're doing your job writing applications using.NET, C# and SQL server.
That's why I just bought a Canon i90. I have had years of experience with Canon products and very little complaints. I also own a portable Canon 850 and love that printer.
Region-locking is all about control and price fixing. What you call free trade and free markets media and drug companies call it "the black market", refering to any product purchased from another country that's not sold in your country. So much for free trade.
If what you say is true then we would all be programming in assembly. Efficiency is pointless if you never get the work done on time. Most experienced C++ programmers take years to learn this, but eventually never have a second thought about portability/readability vs performance.
And by the way - you're dead wrong on Linux being efficient. It compiles for more platforms than I know of and that's because while windows chooses to be compatible with one platform, Linux went the way of portability instead of performance.
Ironically, since the Sahara is one of the sunniest places on earth, Saudi Arabia would still have a monopoly on fuel.
I'm happy for homosexuals everywhere
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I'm glad we have finally reached a point where companies can come together for the benefit of the homosexual community. This really is great news for progressives everywhere.
I've been using Debian for years and my big complaint is that I have a dual P3/866 and my system runs slowly because all the packages are compiled for a 386. They really should split off their x86 distribution into 386 & Pentium. Better yet, they should add the ability for you to select a processor on a line in apt.conf. So, entering Pentium-3 would download a P3 optimized package version and if not available would download the P2, Pentium, and finally default to the 386 version if that was the only one available.
Yes, I tried Gentoo but after the install crashed after a 30 hour compilation, I gave up. Actually, first I swore at the computers, then I gave up.
1. Use Debian 2. apt-get install spamassassin 3. apt-get install hotway 4. Add this to your/etc/inetd.conf: pop3 stream tcp nowait nobody/usr/sbin/tcpd/usr/bin/hotwayd 5. Switch to Kmail 6. Menu: Settings|Configure Filters 7. Add first filter.
a. Select Match Any of the following
b. Select size 250000
c. Filter action: PIPE THROUGH spamassassin 8. Add second filter
a. Select 'Match any of the following'
b. Type 'X-Spam-Flag' (no quotes)
c. Select equals. Type 'YES'
d. Filter action: Move to folder [your spam folder] 9. It's crucial thta the second filter happes after the first (use the arrows to the left).
There you have it - a spam-free Hotmail account. Not quite setup.exe, but this is Linux after all.
There's no sun light no more. Robots ain't so good with making food into energy. Humans seem to do that just fine. Robots are putting the human's intestines and junk to work converting foot->heat->electricity
Not so much a battery as a generator running on non-renewable energy.
Software does have a future. As an industry, not as a career. As software has become a business commodity the programmer has become the intellectual version of the grunt laborer. Once Big business realized this, outsourcing was inevitable. And of course, being that this is America, big business also used their money bribe our legislators into letting them have slaves in the form of H-1B.
Here's my theory: the rest of the Universe is actually normal and is made up of dark matter. Us "regular matter" people are in the minority so we think we're alone in the universe. But if you ask me, the intelligent life in the universe that's made up of dark matter is regularly interacting with other dark-matter civilizations in Star Trek fashion.
That, or we're all just computer simulations.
Re:OT, may the mods have mercy on my karma
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The capacitors on my 3 y/o Bbit VP-6 leaked. Grab a soldering iron and head over to wwww.mouser.com. It's not that difficult of a job. I only burned myself 5 times.
DISABLE FALSH!!! Macromedia is an intrusive advertiser's dream tool. Until they give the user the same permission control as Mozilla, I'm keeping it off my system.
No. Global economics are not about labor-cost government subsidies. Global ecnomics means India vs US vs, everyone else. When government arbitrarily increases supply while doing nothing about demand - that's a subsidy. I'm practically quoting Milton Friedman here - the premier free-market capitalist of our time. My ancestor and every other immigrant came here on a fair lottery-based system that doesn't take corporate greed into account. Unless my ancestor was an African slave, you're nothing like him. Slavery was also a government subsidy. Oh I'm sorry, maybe you're going to tell me that the plantation owners couldn't find "local talent." Nope, slaves cost less - only the cost of food and storage. Just like the H-1b.
Does Apple ever tell the truth anymore?
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I mean really, first they call the G4 a supercomputer (it was actually slower than a same-price intel machine). Now this. Shameless.
It won't surprise me if Comcrap starts port blocking to prevent "spamming" from open wirless acess points. Basically, turn their network into a port 80 output-only network slightly more sophisticated than a television.
The H-1B program is a corporate subsidy. Government is artificially driving up the supply while doing nothing to change demand. You don't have to be a genius to see that this isn't a free market. The only people that believe H-1B is anything other than a subsidy is either here on an H-1B visa or is the ITAA. By the way, Milton Friedman, the premier free-market economist of our time has stated that H-1B is a government subsidy.
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Yeah right, pal. Australia is one big bland POS. America is as different as New York, Utah, Florida, Chicago, Atlanta, Alabama and Alaska. There's not that kind of diversity anywhere else. Due to our immigration policy, we have more ethnicity and culture in New York than All of Australia since its beginnings as a make-shift prison.
Actually, I'm hoping for the opposite. I'm hoping that less people go into engineering because there is an oversupply of labor in the IT industry (blame L-1 and H-1B). If people finally understand that getting a CS degree is a stupid thing to do then maybe I'll be able to do the job I love 10 years from now.
Except that things tend to even themselves out. Software will come back to this country, but only after we're all making $8.5/hr writing C++
Well, I'm running KDE. Experience shows that although Windows behaves faster consitantly, it is also extremely unstable under load when compared to Linux/KDE. The system will slow down, but it won't crash. In Windows 2K it's a guaranteed crash.
Actually, .NET is taking off big. Just ask any H-1B. While you're at home reading Slashdot, they're doing your job writing applications using .NET, C# and SQL server.
That's why I just bought a Canon i90. I have had years of experience with Canon products and very little complaints. I also own a portable Canon 850 and love that printer.
No kidding! Adaptec at one point charged over $100 for a SCS-160 ribbon cable. Not even rounded! Just bought a rounded cable on e-bay for $15.
Region-locking is all about control and price fixing. What you call free trade and free markets media and drug companies call it "the black market", refering to any product purchased from another country that's not sold in your country. So much for free trade.
If what you say is true then we would all be programming in assembly. Efficiency is pointless if you never get the work done on time. Most experienced C++ programmers take years to learn this, but eventually never have a second thought about portability/readability vs performance.
And by the way - you're dead wrong on Linux being efficient. It compiles for more platforms than I know of and that's because while windows chooses to be compatible with one platform, Linux went the way of portability instead of performance.
Ironically, since the Sahara is one of the sunniest places on earth, Saudi Arabia would still have a monopoly on fuel.
I'm glad we have finally reached a point where companies can come together for the benefit of the homosexual community. This really is great news for progressives everywhere.
I've been using Debian for years and my big complaint is that I have a dual P3/866 and my system runs slowly because all the packages are compiled for a 386. They really should split off their x86 distribution into 386 & Pentium. Better yet, they should add the ability for you to select a processor on a line in apt.conf. So, entering Pentium-3 would download a P3 optimized package version and if not available would download the P2, Pentium, and finally default to the 386 version if that was the only one available.
Yes, I tried Gentoo but after the install crashed after a 30 hour compilation, I gave up. Actually, first I swore at the computers, then I gave up.
1. Use Debian /etc/inetd.conf: pop3 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/hotwayd
2. apt-get install spamassassin
3. apt-get install hotway
4. Add this to your
5. Switch to Kmail
6. Menu: Settings|Configure Filters
7. Add first filter.
a. Select Match Any of the following
b. Select size 250000
c. Filter action: PIPE THROUGH spamassassin
8. Add second filter
a. Select 'Match any of the following'
b. Type 'X-Spam-Flag' (no quotes)
c. Select equals. Type 'YES'
d. Filter action: Move to folder [your spam folder]
9. It's crucial thta the second filter happes after the first (use the arrows to the left).
There you have it - a spam-free Hotmail account. Not quite setup.exe, but this is Linux after all.
There's no sun light no more. Robots ain't so good with making food into energy. Humans seem to do that just fine. Robots are putting the human's intestines and junk to work converting foot->heat->electricity
Not so much a battery as a generator running on non-renewable energy.
Reall, I mean, it's excessive.
Software does have a future. As an industry, not as a career. As software has become a business commodity the programmer has become the intellectual version of the grunt laborer. Once Big business realized this, outsourcing was inevitable. And of course, being that this is America, big business also used their money bribe our legislators into letting them have slaves in the form of H-1B.
(read in simpsosn comic book guy voice)
Here's my theory: the rest of the Universe is actually normal and is made up of dark matter. Us "regular matter" people are in the minority so we think we're alone in the universe. But if you ask me, the intelligent life in the universe that's made up of dark matter is regularly interacting with other dark-matter civilizations in Star Trek fashion.
That, or we're all just computer simulations.
The capacitors on my 3 y/o Bbit VP-6 leaked. Grab a soldering iron and head over to wwww.mouser.com. It's not that difficult of a job. I only burned myself 5 times.
DISABLE FALSH!!! Macromedia is an intrusive advertiser's dream tool. Until they give the user the same permission control as Mozilla, I'm keeping it off my system.
Disable page moving, page resizing, and bringing page to foreground.
No. Global economics are not about labor-cost government subsidies. Global ecnomics means India vs US vs, everyone else. When government arbitrarily increases supply while doing nothing about demand - that's a subsidy. I'm practically quoting Milton Friedman here - the premier free-market capitalist of our time. My ancestor and every other immigrant came here on a fair lottery-based system that doesn't take corporate greed into account. Unless my ancestor was an African slave, you're nothing like him. Slavery was also a government subsidy. Oh I'm sorry, maybe you're going to tell me that the plantation owners couldn't find "local talent." Nope, slaves cost less - only the cost of food and storage. Just like the H-1b.
I mean really, first they call the G4 a supercomputer (it was actually slower than a same-price intel machine). Now this. Shameless.
It won't surprise me if Comcrap starts port blocking to prevent "spamming" from open wirless acess points. Basically, turn their network into a port 80 output-only network slightly more sophisticated than a television.
The H-1B program is a corporate subsidy. Government is artificially driving up the supply while doing nothing to change demand. You don't have to be a genius to see that this isn't a free market. The only people that believe H-1B is anything other than a subsidy is either here on an H-1B visa or is the ITAA. By the way, Milton Friedman, the premier free-market economist of our time has stated that H-1B is a government subsidy.