I bought a Matrox. I think it was a Parhelia. Can't quite recall.
I had heard "buy Matrox" all along since around 95 when I first started with linux. well long story short: it's an urban legend. To be sure, the 2D on those cards are just awesome! Sucks for 3D but the 2D is just gorgeous.
However, their support for linux is just plain shoddy. At the time I was using the card, their driver wouldn't work for that particular model. someone was providing some patches to get the thing to work. but just barely. I wish they supported it better. I would love to use that card - I don't have much use for 3D. But I simply can't. Using nvidia now since it came with this computer. but would love to use Matrox. just can't.
> software he was recommending contained over 100 bug fixes
So, did you guys replace windows, exchange, office with other products? Wait a minute...
Oops, my bad. You were talking about Joomla and Drupal. Somehow I did a mental s/Joomla/windows/g;s/Drupal/Office/g' in my head - subconsciously, I might add. And the whole time I was like - "Those bastards! The SP[123] and the freggin updates.windows.com" and not letting me shut down my computer without applying patches every other day (or so it seems)... But you're right. I googled a bit for a list of all the bugs for Windows and Office and couldn't find it. Occams Razor: there are none! That's professional! The Drupal/Joomla punks have the bugs listed on their OWN website!! How amateur!!
I've always been annoyed by this.. click on 'start' in windows, hover over 'programs' and count the number of times 'Microsoft' appears. To the point where the actual name of the program is hidden because it's too long (i think, in vista; I could be wrong since I use windows maybe once a month).
Now add the fact that we read left to right. To locate 'Office' I have to read through 20-30 instances of Microsoft... before I hit 'Microsoft Office'. I get it. The OS and a bunch of programs were written by Microsoft. Do I need a constant reminder? 20-30 repetitions at a time? Multiple times a day?
If that's not Advertising I'm missing something. At least in my mind, that's the most brilliant idea out of MS (for MS). They are, after all, a marketing company that just happens to use software as a vehicle. Kinda like Google and ads.
> outgoing traffic always allowed, incoming only in response to outgoing
thus began the end of the world wide web. in it's place we have the next gen *cable* with producers and consumers. no wonder comcast is looking to buy disney or other "content producers".
just what is so horrid about having my computer serve content by allowing connections to it? someday we will be so damn secure that no one will be able to talk to anyone else.
seeing how they are so picky; if there are a few that are not so well endowed in the city, would they belong to the "itty bitty city titties committee" ?
and, during the study, did the researchers ever use the line "I'm studying tits, honey!" - now I can legitimately use that line every night if the wife catches me *studying* online.
I keep reading arguments about DBs that eventually end up claiming that - "well it's all well and good that youtube, facebook etc use MySQL but it's not really for the enterprise/heavy lifting/financial part so really, MySQL is no good."
Well then stop thinking of MySQL as an RDBMS if that pleases you. At least admit that it is good at something that other DBMSs aren't quite as good at - clearly there is a need for a 'less than ACID compliant DBMS' and MySQL fills that role quite well, thank you very much.
What would upset the balance and thereby the (relative) peace in the world is if they make it so that it's easy to re-program any phone to talk to any device.. well, my wife's phone would be able to control the TV! Oh the freggin humanity!! Wives can't be relied upon to change the channels!
The remote is the modern day specter a man holds in his castle - anything to upset that and it'll be Armageddon, I tell ya!!
And most of the people in the applicant pool know.Net/C#. Wouldn't you want to set yourself apart and go after the less 'popular' jobs for which there is bound to be less competition?
After over about 15 years of programming, i ended up with varying degrees of experience with roughly about 10 languages (not counting shell scripting). ALL of it helps in becoming a better programmer in any of the languages - I can't say I'm a good programmer but I can say that I'm better than I used to be because of the various perspectives the different languages gave me.
I can't say that the same will work for you - you may want to specialize in a particular language. In my case, having the somewhat broad experience has allowed me to get promoted to a position where if I need a specialist, I can hire someone.
That said, don't learn lisp unless you want to curse at every other language out there. Ignorance is bliss sometimes.
But you have plenty of time to discover the joys (and pain) of programming - just pick something you like and plow at it, but keep you mind open for other possibilities and other languages and learn those as the need comes up. Just don't use the same hammer for everything as some people are prone to do.
But above all, play with the language you like - you'll get good at it and you'll find the job you like. Learning a popular language just because there are a lot of jobs for that language means you'll end up with a job you won't like - after all you don't need the thousands of jobs - you need just the one.
I learned the languages I liked - Lisp, Python, Erlang, R (among others) - and have the one job I like - the Director of IT for a smallish company; 10 year anniversary coming up.
Don't chase the thousands of jobs for languages you don't like much - find the language you like, get good at it and find the one job you like.
Oh, and no one expects a recent grad to write a multi-threaded banking app.
But if you do pick up an OO language, learn the concepts of OO and not treat it like a purely procedural language. Like, learn how to truly use dynamic binding and inheritance and not if-then-else etc. The same goes the other way also. OO is not always the answer - learn functional programming etc. Which, surprisingly, will give you a better understanding of OO and vice versa.
for cpu - AMD is fine. The 'buy intel' generally applies to other parts of the hardware - video, ethernet, wifi...
I have a dell with nvidia, who-knows-what wifi (at least I haven't had to find out) and broadcom ethernet.
needless to say - "It Just Works" - apart from nvidia - but even that is not quite the pain it used to be.
So, generally, get intel components and you'll get a mac-like 'it just works'. if you want to get special hardware, any cpu should be fine, ethernet should 99.9% of the time be fine, video cards - harder, wifi - hardest. not that you can't get it to work most of the time... but might take some work.
They got at it not because they were horny but because all the others that didn't get horny at that time didn't pass on their spontaneity in love making. The only ones that remain are the ones that get horny at that time.
So despite what the wife tells you - spontaneity is not a good thing.
Another way to look at it is that birds that didn't think they had to build nests to lay eggs in didn't pass on their genetic wisdom since they had no one to pass it on to. So that trait was naturally selected out. At least it can be argued that birds didn't learn to build nests by having experimented with laying eggs without one and then realizing that they actually needed one!
However, stockpiling stones to fling at visitors aren't (in an obvious way, at least) something that is naturally a survival instinct. Flinging whatever is within reach is - fight or flight. However, foreseeing and preparing for a fight is not. Especially in the environment of a zoo, to which the chimps have only been subjected to for only for about a few hundred years. It had to have been learned. In their lifetime.
So, wordsmitthing aside, there is a difference and as the parent pointed out - it has to do with learning and applying that knowledge to an anticipated future event.
From what I gathered from the article, most MCPs were selling licenses at a loss anyhow since that is how they could compete with the other MCPs - all with the hope that they could make that up in support contracts.
If that's true, then they were starting with a loss - and sold support.
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very repetitive. back and fourth. back and fourth. oh wait... that's not what you meant. never mind.
I bought a Matrox. I think it was a Parhelia. Can't quite recall.
I had heard "buy Matrox" all along since around 95 when I first started with linux. well long story short: it's an urban legend. To be sure, the 2D on those cards are just awesome! Sucks for 3D but the 2D is just gorgeous.
However, their support for linux is just plain shoddy. At the time I was using the card, their driver wouldn't work for that particular model. someone was providing some patches to get the thing to work. but just barely. I wish they supported it better. I would love to use that card - I don't have much use for 3D. But I simply can't. Using nvidia now since it came with this computer. but would love to use Matrox. just can't.
You might also note that the supreme court decided that it also applies to non real people: corporations.
I've used parted. And let me tell you, it's made of neither the fool or his money.
> software he was recommending contained over 100 bug fixes
So, did you guys replace windows, exchange, office with other products? Wait a minute...
Oops, my bad. You were talking about Joomla and Drupal. Somehow I did a mental s/Joomla/windows/g;s/Drupal/Office/g' in my head - subconsciously, I might add. And the whole time I was like - "Those bastards! The SP[123] and the freggin updates.windows.com" and not letting me shut down my computer without applying patches every other day (or so it seems)... But you're right. I googled a bit for a list of all the bugs for Windows and Office and couldn't find it. Occams Razor: there are none! That's professional! The Drupal/Joomla punks have the bugs listed on their OWN website!! How amateur!!
> and have all the ads
I've always been annoyed by this.. click on 'start' in windows, hover over 'programs' and count the number of times 'Microsoft' appears. To the point where the actual name of the program is hidden because it's too long (i think, in vista; I could be wrong since I use windows maybe once a month).
Now add the fact that we read left to right. To locate 'Office' I have to read through 20-30 instances of Microsoft ... before I hit 'Microsoft Office'. I get it. The OS and a bunch of programs were written by Microsoft. Do I need a constant reminder? 20-30 repetitions at a time? Multiple times a day?
If that's not Advertising I'm missing something. At least in my mind, that's the most brilliant idea out of MS (for MS). They are, after all, a marketing company that just happens to use software as a vehicle. Kinda like Google and ads.
> press the 911 key
is that next to the Esque key?
sincerely,
Homer.
> He's a secret Brit!
Nope. Obama is Irish.
> outgoing traffic always allowed, incoming only in response to outgoing
thus began the end of the world wide web. in it's place we have the next gen *cable* with producers and consumers. no wonder comcast is looking to buy disney or other "content producers".
just what is so horrid about having my computer serve content by allowing connections to it? someday we will be so damn secure that no one will be able to talk to anyone else.
> The demand for XP came from the bottom up - from OLPC's potential customers.
Bottom up indeed.
> The geek for all his talk of the cathedral and the bazaar tends to think top-down.
Remember to think bottom-up. First the cash under the table. Then the contracts on the table. Bottom-up.
> ... food and enlightenment
you mean this? I didn't know monks were that picky about the wm.
seeing how they are so picky; if there are a few that are not so well endowed in the city, would they belong to the "itty bitty city titties committee" ?
and, during the study, did the researchers ever use the line "I'm studying tits, honey!" - now I can legitimately use that line every night if the wife catches me *studying* online.
I keep reading arguments about DBs that eventually end up claiming that - "well it's all well and good that youtube, facebook etc use MySQL but it's not really for the enterprise/heavy lifting/financial part so really, MySQL is no good."
Well then stop thinking of MySQL as an RDBMS if that pleases you. At least admit that it is good at something that other DBMSs aren't quite as good at - clearly there is a need for a 'less than ACID compliant DBMS' and MySQL fills that role quite well, thank you very much.
PhD: Permanent Head Damage.
What would upset the balance and thereby the (relative) peace in the world is if they make it so that it's easy to re-program any phone to talk to any device.. well, my wife's phone would be able to control the TV! Oh the freggin humanity!! Wives can't be relied upon to change the channels!
The remote is the modern day specter a man holds in his castle - anything to upset that and it'll be Armageddon, I tell ya!!
And most of the people in the applicant pool know .Net/C#. Wouldn't you want to set yourself apart and go after the less 'popular' jobs for which there is bound to be less competition?
After over about 15 years of programming, i ended up with varying degrees of experience with roughly about 10 languages (not counting shell scripting). ALL of it helps in becoming a better programmer in any of the languages - I can't say I'm a good programmer but I can say that I'm better than I used to be because of the various perspectives the different languages gave me.
I can't say that the same will work for you - you may want to specialize in a particular language. In my case, having the somewhat broad experience has allowed me to get promoted to a position where if I need a specialist, I can hire someone.
That said, don't learn lisp unless you want to curse at every other language out there. Ignorance is bliss sometimes.
But you have plenty of time to discover the joys (and pain) of programming - just pick something you like and plow at it, but keep you mind open for other possibilities and other languages and learn those as the need comes up. Just don't use the same hammer for everything as some people are prone to do.
But above all, play with the language you like - you'll get good at it and you'll find the job you like. Learning a popular language just because there are a lot of jobs for that language means you'll end up with a job you won't like - after all you don't need the thousands of jobs - you need just the one.
I learned the languages I liked - Lisp, Python, Erlang, R (among others) - and have the one job I like - the Director of IT for a smallish company; 10 year anniversary coming up.
Don't chase the thousands of jobs for languages you don't like much - find the language you like, get good at it and find the one job you like.
Oh, and no one expects a recent grad to write a multi-threaded banking app.
But if you do pick up an OO language, learn the concepts of OO and not treat it like a purely procedural language. Like, learn how to truly use dynamic binding and inheritance and not if-then-else etc. The same goes the other way also. OO is not always the answer - learn functional programming etc. Which, surprisingly, will give you a better understanding of OO and vice versa.
I'll get off the soap box now.
for cpu - AMD is fine. The 'buy intel' generally applies to other parts of the hardware - video, ethernet, wifi...
I have a dell with nvidia, who-knows-what wifi (at least I haven't had to find out) and broadcom ethernet.
needless to say - "It Just Works" - apart from nvidia - but even that is not quite the pain it used to be.
So, generally, get intel components and you'll get a mac-like 'it just works'. if you want to get special hardware, any cpu should be fine, ethernet should 99.9% of the time be fine, video cards - harder, wifi - hardest. not that you can't get it to work most of the time... but might take some work.
They got at it not because they were horny but because all the others that didn't get horny at that time didn't pass on their spontaneity in love making. The only ones that remain are the ones that get horny at that time.
So despite what the wife tells you - spontaneity is not a good thing.
>> And you cannot represent every statement of concepts in a purely mathematical expression.
> Yes we can, it is the whole point of mathematics.
Had you said that in mathematics, I would have believed you.
Another way to look at it is that birds that didn't think they had to build nests to lay eggs in didn't pass on their genetic wisdom since they had no one to pass it on to. So that trait was naturally selected out. At least it can be argued that birds didn't learn to build nests by having experimented with laying eggs without one and then realizing that they actually needed one!
However, stockpiling stones to fling at visitors aren't (in an obvious way, at least) something that is naturally a survival instinct. Flinging whatever is within reach is - fight or flight. However, foreseeing and preparing for a fight is not. Especially in the environment of a zoo, to which the chimps have only been subjected to for only for about a few hundred years. It had to have been learned. In their lifetime.
So, wordsmitthing aside, there is a difference and as the parent pointed out - it has to do with learning and applying that knowledge to an anticipated future event.
From what I gathered from the article, most MCPs were selling licenses at a loss anyhow since that is how they could compete with the other MCPs - all with the hope that they could make that up in support contracts.
If that's true, then they were starting with a loss - and sold support.
Why not start at $0 and sell support?
> ... 6 apps that I have that will break, off the top of my head.
You may want to move your head out of the way - you're liable to get a concussion.
It just struck me:
McAfee = Mac A Fee
Mac more that just a fee while you're at it.
I've always hated it when people lick their fingers when counting bank notes, or when turning pages in a book...
If this doesn't put a stop to it, I don't know what will.