My brother just emailed me his flash movie that he did for a class last night. He wanted a full version of flash (read cracked), so that he could go beyond the basics. He was able to find it in minutes.
Not that I advocate (or dis-advocate) piracy, but if there's a will, there's a way.
I still think that teaching flash (among other things) in HS CS courses is the sole reason that students go to university thinking they'll be l33t programmers on the flip side of four years...that's a separate issue though.
Sitting in front of an XP** box (default skins, colours, f'ed up menu) always reminds of the Simpson's episode where they went to Japan...killer seizure robots anyone?
Seriously, can you actually get in an environment like that? Or is it really about doing work anymore?
Just kidding... Anyway, as a CS student about to graduate, my experience has been the reverse of yours. I enter Uni not even know anything besides Mac and Windows existed. I struggled against UNIX my first year...vi, pwd, wtf??? Then, in a stroke of irony, I saw a Linux banner ad (link exchange, i believe)...possibly the only useful banner add I've ever seen. I tried Linux that Christmas, and haven't looked back.
Now, 4 years later (my program is 5 including co-op), I'm the hippy in the CS lab badmouthing the lack of standards compatibility, program robustness, etc.
I don't forsee a time in the future where I'll gladly use or embrace any MS products...not until there are no more decent options, anyway. I used to be pissed about the stability issues, but those seem (mostly) resolved as of win2k...now, my beef is the standards compliance issues. I know.doc is defacto, so open the damn spec so everyone can exchange docs in the same format...oh wait, that might encourage competition.
Anyway, I don't know if this on topic or off, but wtf!...Anybody need a good linux sysadmin or programmer?
I second that...the only way to beat a bad format, is to not use it.
Fuck.doc, fuck.wm*...fuck, fuck, fuck.
If only the peons buying this shite realized it was shite, we'd be much better off. If they want to use crappy software to view it, hey that's their problem, but at least use open, portable document formats.
It's been my experience that people don't really know how to perform tasks with their software anyway. If they don't do a mail merge for two months, they've forgotten and have to call the helpdesk. The more advanced users can remember small things, but overall if it's not a repetitive task, game over.
It's also been my experience that the interface doesn't really matter to users. They use what's there, regardless of the options (hence the adoption of IE as peoples browser of choice). If that browser had been Mozilla they would have used that too. Users don't care!!
Therefore, if you're still following my argument, this transition, while surely costing a couple days of retraining, won't cost that much more in the end. You're still going to have people calling the helpdesk because they can't remember how to do a mail merge with Star Office. They'll call about how to save bookmarks to that damned 'desktop cat' (glad nobody ported that one yet) in Mozilla.
Grand Finale: Users will still be clueless whether they're using Windows or Linux. After the initial frustration, they'll forget they've even switched, and continue pestering the helpdesk.
If you don't believe me, you've never been in the trenches.
Teach them how to communicate effectively, not how to use Powerpoint.
Funny you should mention that...
I'm currently taking a couple MIS courses as 'outside the department' electives (I'm a CS major taking 'bird' courses). My prof (same for both classes) gets unbelievably flustered when the projector doesn't work properly.
I think he spends more time creating his PowerPoint slides (read: complete fluff) than he does preparing the actual lecture. Class is started with him wasting the first ten minutes fiddling with his laptop and projector. Then, when the projector doesn't work properly, he'll constantly refer to the (absent) slides...When the slides do work, they're not worth the time anyway...bullet form of his major points. No need for them whatsoever, aside from being a distraction!
I really get the impression that the PHB-style people pumped out of a business program are incapable of doing anything without a PP presentation to back them up.
A friend of mine recently worked for a large corporation where even web-traffic was blocked for all but a select few users...
I've also got a beef with hotmail (anyone else have this problem?)...
Just the other day, I had a site deliver an email (with attachment) to my hotmail (read: spam collector box) account. After having this file virus scanned before downloading, hotmail continuously asks me to re-sign in to passport. I can't freakin' download the attachments to my own email through Mozilla (0.9.6). What a fuckin' pissoff all this passport/.net stuff is going to be. My account, my attachment, give the the damn file.
Theoretically, if Eclipse is as modular as you say, then the repository system could be added as a module. This still gives you the ability to choose whichever 'fool' system you want, but also makes it nice and easy to integrate.
I don't think it matters which species will be most at risk...what matters is: There are people out there STUPID enough to think this is a good idea!! This guy must have thought of it while rubbing his sticks together to make the fire outside his cave. What a dolt.
Education is about seeing the possibilities and concepts, not about group mentality and status quo. If everyone thought like you, we'd still be flingin' shit at each other from trees, just because 'everyone else is doing it'!!!
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My brother just emailed me his flash movie that he did for a class last night. He wanted a full version of flash (read cracked), so that he could go beyond the basics. He was able to find it in minutes.
Not that I advocate (or dis-advocate) piracy, but if there's a will, there's a way.
I still think that teaching flash (among other things) in HS CS courses is the sole reason that students go to university thinking they'll be l33t programmers on the flip side of four years...that's a separate issue though.
-Ben
I'm buying a distro here and there (pay the developers for their time), and get the rest of my software (legally) for free.
Before, I'd copy windows, copy corel, copy everything. Now that I get my software for free, I'm willing to 'give back'.
-Ben
That's easy to fix, and I'm surprised other sites haven't spurred you to already.
/. started this. I was beginning to wonder when the new ads would should up.
Mozilla:
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Scripts & Windows
I hadn't even noticed that
I'm surprised they went with popups (second nasty only to popunders), and not some big ugly things...or have I been trolled?
-Ben
Sitting in front of an XP** box (default skins, colours, f'ed up menu) always reminds of the Simpson's episode where they went to Japan...killer seizure robots anyone?
Seriously, can you actually get in an environment like that? Or is it really about doing work anymore?
**I know you can turn the default $#!+ off.
-Ben
Those are called MIS students .
-Ben
$comment =~ s/[Uu]niversity/M$ Re-Education Camp/g;
.doc is defacto, so open the damn spec so everyone can exchange docs in the same format...oh wait, that might encourage competition.
Just kidding...
Anyway, as a CS student about to graduate, my experience has been the reverse of yours. I enter Uni not even know anything besides Mac and Windows existed. I struggled against UNIX my first year...vi, pwd, wtf??? Then, in a stroke of irony, I saw a Linux banner ad (link exchange, i believe)...possibly the only useful banner add I've ever seen. I tried Linux that Christmas, and haven't looked back.
Now, 4 years later (my program is 5 including co-op), I'm the hippy in the CS lab badmouthing the lack of standards compatibility, program robustness, etc.
I don't forsee a time in the future where I'll gladly use or embrace any MS products...not until there are no more decent options, anyway. I used to be pissed about the stability issues, but those seem (mostly) resolved as of win2k...now, my beef is the standards compliance issues. I know
Anyway, I don't know if this on topic or off, but wtf!...Anybody need a good linux sysadmin or programmer?
-Ben
I second that...the only way to beat a bad format, is to not use it.
.doc, fuck .wm*...fuck, fuck, fuck.
Fuck
If only the peons buying this shite realized it was shite, we'd be much better off. If they want to use crappy software to view it, hey that's their problem, but at least use open, portable document formats.
-Ben
How about a clipboard interface that works with things other than StarOffice???
-Ben
Mozilla to StarOffice, and back again...???
It's been my experience that people don't really know how to perform tasks with their software anyway. If they don't do a mail merge for two months, they've forgotten and have to call the helpdesk. The more advanced users can remember small things, but overall if it's not a repetitive task, game over.
It's also been my experience that the interface doesn't really matter to users. They use what's there, regardless of the options (hence the adoption of IE as peoples browser of choice). If that browser had been Mozilla they would have used that too. Users don't care!!
Therefore, if you're still following my argument, this transition, while surely costing a couple days of retraining, won't cost that much more in the end. You're still going to have people calling the helpdesk because they can't remember how to do a mail merge with Star Office. They'll call about how to save bookmarks to that damned 'desktop cat' (glad nobody ported that one yet) in Mozilla.
Grand Finale: Users will still be clueless whether they're using Windows or Linux. After the initial frustration, they'll forget they've even switched, and continue pestering the helpdesk.
If you don't believe me, you've never been in the trenches.
-Ben
Teach them how to communicate effectively, not how to use Powerpoint.
Funny you should mention that...
I'm currently taking a couple MIS courses as 'outside the department' electives (I'm a CS major taking 'bird' courses). My prof (same for both classes) gets unbelievably flustered when the projector doesn't work properly.
I think he spends more time creating his PowerPoint slides (read: complete fluff) than he does preparing the actual lecture. Class is started with him wasting the first ten minutes fiddling with his laptop and projector. Then, when the projector doesn't work properly, he'll constantly refer to the (absent) slides...When the slides do work, they're not worth the time anyway...bullet form of his major points. No need for them whatsoever, aside from being a distraction!
I really get the impression that the PHB-style people pumped out of a business program are incapable of doing anything without a PP presentation to back them up.
-Ben
I don't usually do this, but here goes:
<troll>That wouldn't be much of a game...try the Canadian Nation Hockey team</troll>
-Ben
PS: Don't take offence, just a little national pride!
A friend of mine recently worked for a large corporation where even web-traffic was blocked for all but a select few users...
I've also got a beef with hotmail (anyone else have this problem?)...
Just the other day, I had a site deliver an email (with attachment) to my hotmail (read: spam collector box) account. After having this file virus scanned before downloading, hotmail continuously asks me to re-sign in to passport. I can't freakin' download the attachments to my own email through Mozilla (0.9.6). What a fuckin' pissoff all this passport/.net stuff is going to be. My account, my attachment, give the the damn file.
I hate hotmail.
-Ben
That's only good if you remember the lilo password that you set to boot into anything other than the default kernel.
-Ben
sounds like the phone company!
Do you live in Thunder Bay too??? <grin>
-Ben
I get the reference, but can't remember who it was that wrote it...
'...margins of this books are too small...'
Can someone remind me.
Thanks
-Ben
Double mod score for a Kevin Bacon reference ???
-Ben
Theoretically, if Eclipse is as modular as you say, then the repository system could be added as a module. This still gives you the ability to choose whichever 'fool' system you want, but also makes it nice and easy to integrate.
-Ben
Ok, I really love UT, but when I downloaded the demo for Uplink, my eyes were opened. So simple, yet so elegant. And the price...that's hard to beat.
I highly recommend Uplink for anyone that is tired of the same old $#!+.
-Ben
I don't think it matters which species will be most at risk...what matters is: There are people out there STUPID enough to think this is a good idea!! This guy must have thought of it while rubbing his sticks together to make the fire outside his cave. What a dolt.
-Ben
People with more than a C average in college realize that there are jobs they can do that don't require metal detectors at the front doors.
I wouldn't be a teacher in America these days either.
-Ben
Education is about seeing the possibilities and concepts, not about group mentality and status quo. If everyone thought like you, we'd still be flingin' shit at each other from trees, just because 'everyone else is doing it'!!!
-Ben
That's funny, I thought the whole reason that M$ released XP was to force users with decent equipment into an unnecessary upgrade.
-Ben
You've obviously never install Minix!! Not that many people do anymore, I guess...
Got it with a text-book last year...YUCK. The OS may be a good 'learner', but the install...YUCK!
-Ben