While it's true that it's not a requirement to be able to type above 50wpm, I think it's something that impresses older bosses who still hunt and peck type. Also, it saves bits of time and energy, allowing jobs to be done quicker and easier at work.
As an engineer, I have had to at times write my own Technical Specs, including Manuals and other material. Typing speed helps, but overall knowledge of keyboard commands and shortcuts is a lot more important. Moving inside of a Word doc using ctrl-arrow and other similar commands, rather than a mouse, has saved me hours of time every month or week. Of course, that is more of a program knowledge, as has been mentioned previously. Overall, a combination of these two is ideal. Anywho, back to talking on AIM...
Then I suggest starting the easy/cheap way like I did.
My brother was mad that I used his 8086 computer all the time to play Bugs (aka Centipede). So, he took the floppy disk and crumbled it into a ball and threw it in the trash. I picked that sucker up, wedged it into the floppy drive... and it still worked fine. He eventually burned it though.
I've also sparked my Intel 440BX-2 w/450P3, down by the ISA slots. It wouldn't restart for a few minutes, but then it worked perfectly.
Check reviews on google, it's not too difficult. Please be more self sufficient. Not for yourself, but for all the people who you probably keep asking for help. "Is rpm revolutions per minute?" "I hope Linux has a Windows Update." ect
I however, am currently (yes, this second) installing BeOS on my laptop (or craptop, as I call it). You just have to ask yourself what you want to do with your computer, and pick and choose the OS, software from there. For me, aim, simple web browsing, and word fuctionality are sufficient for my craptop: Thus, Abiword, BeAIM, and Mozilla are all I'll be using on this P166MMX w/40MB, 2gigs.
I agree. Sadly, there are so many people that don't know what they're doing (I would say, ~80 to 90%), that it's hard to implement for everyone.
My school, the University of Dayton, used to be a wide open lovely LAN. Then, Napster came. They blocked that. Then, other file sharing progs came. They blocked those. Recently, Direct Connect on campus only servers came. They actively shut those down. Now, they require a java-based log-in for all Windows2k/XP and Linux machines. Other OS's must register MAC addresses, ala the old method. They check AV, updates, ect. Which is fine, as many need that
However, for the people here at least, it's not hard to view who has been spamming out Blaster or other viruses, and shut them down. However, if this happens, the student tells their rich parents to call the school, cause havoc, ect. It's a nasty situation.
Anyway, i really don't think that intrusion onto systems is such a necessity. They could get cable-modems for everyone via roadrunner and dry their hands of the act, and things would run much more smoothly! I really don't think that a University network should be unable to let students play a game of Q3 online at less than 10fps. Screw it all, i'm gradiated, thank god!!
Well, with pop accounts that you download locally, you have the option of leaving a copy on the server. With Gmail this would be awesome, as it'd be a perpetual backup!
As for Google not being able to search emails downloaded offline, I've been trying to think of an alternative for this myself. Given that Google's strength is Adsense and the posting of text-only advertisements near to the pertinant information, and offline viewing of emails would put a wrench in this system, there are several options. They could send a separate email with advertisements (ineffective, I think), create their own email program that would show advertisements that are sent from a google server, or create an offline version of Adsense that does this. Or, as they sugguest at gmail.com's FAQ, they can charge for pop3 access.
I agree that Hotmail has little respect for sent items, or even a lot of items incoming (Gmail invites, the do-not-call-list, ect).
However, for a person who likes to easily download all of their messages locally, this is a pretty good deal. Sure, I use OE6, but it works well enough for some spam accounts. As far as I know, there's an ass-backwards method to pop3 to gmail, but I really don't feel like having to mess around like that, sorry.
Yes I do have gmail accounts, and if you want one, email me at my spam account at edtgerf@hotmail.com. I also have edtgerf@gmail.com, but I really don't check it as often as I do accounts I have on OE. Eas of use there buddy.
Creating another chip ads just a bit more cost to a computer. And where would you put that chip? on the mobo? as another ad-on card? I have no idea how large it'd be (probably not very), but it'd still be another thing to add. Think of it along the same lines as DVD-rom decoding cards that were more in use with older computers: faster, but not needed.
Hear me out. At my school, there's a project in collaboration with the US Dept of Defense to make a hardware compiler for Java. This is because the government likes using Java for its ability to run on so many platforms, but they also want it to be faster if it's running some critical system in aircraft.
Though a hardware implementation would be cool, i doubt it'd make a large impact in the civilian sector, due to cost.
At the time, i was a complete computer n00b, having no idea how to install hardware or do much else properly. However, a friend down the hall in my dorm convinced me to give it a try, so i did. That OS was amazingly simple and easy to use. However, it didn't play Counter-Strike, the bane of my freshman year, and for that it lost out.
Why does it always seem that I'd love to use some alternative OS, but the few games i play come in the way?
He said "apologise" instead of "apologize." This means that the poster is not American, as he claims, and is in fact just another Brit/Euro trying to mock the US. Pathetic.
And why is the US in the MAGLEV research business? Other countries have already done a lot more research, we can just work with them. Eh, I don't work for the Gov't, so I guess it'll neer make sense.
There was a/. article not long ago, where a guy took MS to small claims court to get his $200 back for a copy of WindowsXP (which he did not use, and the EULA promises a refund if not used...). Basically, make sure you're very well prepared with simple, explanatory information for a non-technical person, and you'll get your $50 and court costs back.
Personally, i think this is why "Pirating" a game to just try it out is a good thing. If you had "tried" it out first, you would have realized how flawed the game was, and not had to go through this hassle.
His criticism reminds me of a speaker at a recent IEEE meeting at my school. She talked about the work environment, and some nuances of how to act or not to act.
One interesting thing about her contracting company she runs, is that if you charge more, you get more business. The thought here is that companies think that since this certain company costs more, it must be better. Obviously though, she did not get smarter by charging more, only richer.
That is the thinking that this fellow is using: chargine more must mean it's a better product. Sadly, he is in a large part of the population that does not understand the Open Source community, or business models. His view is outdated, and frankly, wrong.
Besides, what other companies besides M$ find a huge hole in all of their flagship products, but fail to patch it for close to a year?
Interestingly i just took a History class at the U of Dayton last semester, and we talked about this a bit. I believe that he pretty much got screwed out of a job at NCR (National Cash Register), where he'd been working a long time and had gotten a lotta patents for. This is just offhand memory though, so don't quote me on anything.
Dayton used to be awesome for development of stuff... from the airplane, to tetraethyl lead, freon, GM's reasearch labs, all kinds of stuff. Now it's just boring.
Does a 20mhz processor really need 128mb of ram? I mean, with a bus speed that low, you can probably put the data to flash ROM just as fast. What are the chances of you using all 128mb of ram?
I imagine they can use all the storage they can, since there's no hard drive. So, the RAM acts as a cache for everything that is transmitted (which is a lot, actually). The Flash is used for more permanant software, like OS, commands, other files, ect. I'm amazed they can do it all with as little as they have.
UI looks like Windows (fairly generic to be sure, but some things came from MS, such as the "Start" button in the lower left hand corner), and certainly when the name "Lindows" was coined it wasn't with the generic "windows" usage in mind.
You are WRONG. Lindows has an "L" in the lower left corner. NOT a Start button. Their layout of their gui resembles windows very little actually. They have some controls that are similar, a folder resembling My Documents.... which i don't think is patented. Most of their User Interface resembles Linux more than Windows, actually.
And, Mr. Retard, have you ever used MATLAB 6.5? I have. It has a "Start" button in the lower left of the program!!!! OH SNAP! Go back to school, or at least learn something that a 20 year old with little to no research can lambast you on.p?
I Agree with the writer of this article. *GASP* yes i said it! Now, listen as to why before you troll me.
Coders have a skill that is valuable. But, a lot of people can do it. Too many actually, creating a glut in the market. And, Indians, Pakistanis, and others in Asia work for so much cheaper than Americans, that outsourcing saves money.
As for Project Managers, it is a VERY different job than programming. Not only must a Project Manager know how to program at a reasonable level, they must know how to communicate exactly what is needed for a project to those who are coding. Especially if that programmer does not speak the Project Manager's native language. Plus, there are change orders, budgets to meet, and other crap that gets handed down from Upper Management. Also, paperwork, timelines, and all kinds of requirements fall on the shoulders of the Project Manager. If something doesn't work, he gets the blame. If it works, Upper Management gets the credit.
I'd rather hire a good Project Manager and o.k. Programmers than an o.k. Project Manager and good Programmers. But maybe that's just me, thinking too business-like for the/. community.
Can someone have some AI build a better P2P? Once you think about it, wouldn't that be the easiest way to come up with the next bestest efficient P2P protocol?
Becomes a whole lot easier. Imagine the corruption! This stuff is a lot LESS random than sports events, which can be 'thrown' are a lot easier to spot as frauds.
I'm just waiting for the disgruntled engineer to whisper to his cousin to place his money on the new Intel Hypertanic chip to be released in Q4. Then flee with the millions reaped. Puh-leez, this ==lame idea;
Mozilla, and its components. However, do you want to be able to access the same emails from each OS? would you need a third partition for this sort of data perhaps?
This might take a bit, but bear with me. On google.com, you can search for how many times a site is linked from another site. You use the command (e.g.) link:www.websitehere.com This search is very cool to discern how popular a site is. For example, google.com itself is linked almost a half million times. Yahoo, well over a million times.
However, www.msn.com has a lot fewer than half million. Fewer than a thousand even! In fact, there are only 51 (yes, Fifty One) People in the world who link to www.msn.com. www.MSNBC fares even worse with 7 (SEVEN) links to it. Compare this to www.cnn.com with 74,000 links.
What does this mean? Well, if you consider these links as votes (which they are... if you like a site, you link it from your website or blog), it means that no one likes MSN or MSNBC at all. But, i wonder, why do people still go to these sites? The only answer i can give is this: Monopolistic practice. If you have almost a complete monopoly on the desktop, and you link your website on every one, of course you'll get some people to go to it. Could this example be used in a court case? Possibly, i guess (IANAL, but my bro-in law is
Do what you want with this info, i just thought the/. crowd would like to see this.
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While it's true that it's not a requirement to be able to type above 50wpm, I think it's something that impresses older bosses who still hunt and peck type. Also, it saves bits of time and energy, allowing jobs to be done quicker and easier at work.
As an engineer, I have had to at times write my own Technical Specs, including Manuals and other material. Typing speed helps, but overall knowledge of keyboard commands and shortcuts is a lot more important. Moving inside of a Word doc using ctrl-arrow and other similar commands, rather than a mouse, has saved me hours of time every month or week. Of course, that is more of a program knowledge, as has been mentioned previously. Overall, a combination of these two is ideal. Anywho, back to talking on AIM...
Then I suggest starting the easy/cheap way like I did.
My brother was mad that I used his 8086 computer all the time to play Bugs (aka Centipede). So, he took the floppy disk and crumbled it into a ball and threw it in the trash. I picked that sucker up, wedged it into the floppy drive... and it still worked fine. He eventually burned it though.
I've also sparked my Intel 440BX-2 w/450P3, down by the ISA slots. It wouldn't restart for a few minutes, but then it worked perfectly.
Check reviews on google, it's not too difficult. Please be more self sufficient. Not for yourself, but for all the people who you probably keep asking for help. "Is rpm revolutions per minute?" "I hope Linux has a Windows Update." ect
I however, am currently (yes, this second) installing BeOS on my laptop (or craptop, as I call it). You just have to ask yourself what you want to do with your computer, and pick and choose the OS, software from there. For me, aim, simple web browsing, and word fuctionality are sufficient for my craptop: Thus, Abiword, BeAIM, and Mozilla are all I'll be using on this P166MMX w/40MB, 2gigs.
I agree. Sadly, there are so many people that don't know what they're doing (I would say, ~80 to 90%), that it's hard to implement for everyone.
My school, the University of Dayton, used to be a wide open lovely LAN. Then, Napster came. They blocked that. Then, other file sharing progs came. They blocked those. Recently, Direct Connect on campus only servers came. They actively shut those down. Now, they require a java-based log-in for all Windows2k/XP and Linux machines. Other OS's must register MAC addresses, ala the old method. They check AV, updates, ect. Which is fine, as many need that
However, for the people here at least, it's not hard to view who has been spamming out Blaster or other viruses, and shut them down. However, if this happens, the student tells their rich parents to call the school, cause havoc, ect. It's a nasty situation.
Anyway, i really don't think that intrusion onto systems is such a necessity. They could get cable-modems for everyone via roadrunner and dry their hands of the act, and things would run much more smoothly! I really don't think that a University network should be unable to let students play a game of Q3 online at less than 10fps. Screw it all, i'm gradiated, thank god!!
Well, with pop accounts that you download locally, you have the option of leaving a copy on the server. With Gmail this would be awesome, as it'd be a perpetual backup!
As for Google not being able to search emails downloaded offline, I've been trying to think of an alternative for this myself. Given that Google's strength is Adsense and the posting of text-only advertisements near to the pertinant information, and offline viewing of emails would put a wrench in this system, there are several options. They could send a separate email with advertisements (ineffective, I think), create their own email program that would show advertisements that are sent from a google server, or create an offline version of Adsense that does this. Or, as they sugguest at gmail.com's FAQ, they can charge for pop3 access.
I agree that Hotmail has little respect for sent items, or even a lot of items incoming (Gmail invites, the do-not-call-list, ect).
However, for a person who likes to easily download all of their messages locally, this is a pretty good deal. Sure, I use OE6, but it works well enough for some spam accounts. As far as I know, there's an ass-backwards method to pop3 to gmail, but I really don't feel like having to mess around like that, sorry.
Yes I do have gmail accounts, and if you want one, email me at my spam account at edtgerf@hotmail.com. I also have edtgerf@gmail.com, but I really don't check it as often as I do accounts I have on OE. Eas of use there buddy.
Creating another chip ads just a bit more cost to a computer. And where would you put that chip? on the mobo? as another ad-on card? I have no idea how large it'd be (probably not very), but it'd still be another thing to add. Think of it along the same lines as DVD-rom decoding cards that were more in use with older computers: faster, but not needed.
Hear me out. At my school, there's a project in collaboration with the US Dept of Defense to make a hardware compiler for Java. This is because the government likes using Java for its ability to run on so many platforms, but they also want it to be faster if it's running some critical system in aircraft.
Though a hardware implementation would be cool, i doubt it'd make a large impact in the civilian sector, due to cost.
At the time, i was a complete computer n00b, having no idea how to install hardware or do much else properly. However, a friend down the hall in my dorm convinced me to give it a try, so i did. That OS was amazingly simple and easy to use. However, it didn't play Counter-Strike, the bane of my freshman year, and for that it lost out.
Why does it always seem that I'd love to use some alternative OS, but the few games i play come in the way?
I'm going to patent the Windows 2000 source code that is all over the internet! (disclaimer: I never downloaded or looked at any part of that code)
Anyone else?
He said "apologise" instead of "apologize." This means that the poster is not American, as he claims, and is in fact just another Brit/Euro trying to mock the US. Pathetic.
And why is the US in the MAGLEV research business? Other countries have already done a lot more research, we can just work with them. Eh, I don't work for the Gov't, so I guess it'll neer make sense.
Hmmm - so they are going to market video games inside video games? Wow - that's like, so cool!
Those crazy a$s Sims players!
There was a /. article not long ago, where a guy took MS to small claims court to get his $200 back for a copy of WindowsXP (which he did not use, and the EULA promises a refund if not used...). Basically, make sure you're very well prepared with simple, explanatory information for a non-technical person, and you'll get your $50 and court costs back.
Personally, i think this is why "Pirating" a game to just try it out is a good thing. If you had "tried" it out first, you would have realized how flawed the game was, and not had to go through this hassle.
His criticism reminds me of a speaker at a recent IEEE meeting at my school. She talked about the work environment, and some nuances of how to act or not to act.
One interesting thing about her contracting company she runs, is that if you charge more, you get more business. The thought here is that companies think that since this certain company costs more, it must be better. Obviously though, she did not get smarter by charging more, only richer.
That is the thinking that this fellow is using: chargine more must mean it's a better product. Sadly, he is in a large part of the population that does not understand the Open Source community, or business models. His view is outdated, and frankly, wrong.
Besides, what other companies besides M$ find a huge hole in all of their flagship products, but fail to patch it for close to a year?
Interestingly i just took a History class at the U of Dayton last semester, and we talked about this a bit. I believe that he pretty much got screwed out of a job at NCR (National Cash Register), where he'd been working a long time and had gotten a lotta patents for. This is just offhand memory though, so don't quote me on anything.
Dayton used to be awesome for development of stuff... from the airplane, to tetraethyl lead, freon, GM's reasearch labs, all kinds of stuff. Now it's just boring.
"longest movie title in history"
I vote for "Z," which was made in 1969. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065234/
Does a 20mhz processor really need 128mb of ram? I mean, with a bus speed that low, you can probably put the data to flash ROM just as fast. What are the chances of you using all 128mb of ram?
I imagine they can use all the storage they can, since there's no hard drive. So, the RAM acts as a cache for everything that is transmitted (which is a lot, actually). The Flash is used for more permanant software, like OS, commands, other files, ect. I'm amazed they can do it all with as little as they have.
P.S. I really wanna see if this university's pipe can take it :D
Sorry, I know EVERYONE was thinking this too... exponentially, not logaritmically
Sorry, i know EVERYONE is thinking that they're essencially the same thing. Have you ever heard of a BODE plot?
UI looks like Windows (fairly generic to be sure, but some things came from MS, such as the "Start" button in the lower left hand corner), and certainly when the name "Lindows" was coined it wasn't with the generic "windows" usage in mind.
You are WRONG. Lindows has an "L" in the lower left corner. NOT a Start button. Their layout of their gui resembles windows very little actually. They have some controls that are similar, a folder resembling My Documents.... which i don't think is patented. Most of their User Interface resembles Linux more than Windows, actually.
And, Mr. Retard, have you ever used MATLAB 6.5? I have. It has a "Start" button in the lower left of the program!!!! OH SNAP! Go back to school, or at least learn something that a 20 year old with little to no research can lambast you on.p?
I Agree with the writer of this article. *GASP* yes i said it! Now, listen as to why before you troll me.
Coders have a skill that is valuable. But, a lot of people can do it. Too many actually, creating a glut in the market. And, Indians, Pakistanis, and others in Asia work for so much cheaper than Americans, that outsourcing saves money.
As for Project Managers, it is a VERY different job than programming. Not only must a Project Manager know how to program at a reasonable level, they must know how to communicate exactly what is needed for a project to those who are coding. Especially if that programmer does not speak the Project Manager's native language. Plus, there are change orders, budgets to meet, and other crap that gets handed down from Upper Management. Also, paperwork, timelines, and all kinds of requirements fall on the shoulders of the Project Manager. If something doesn't work, he gets the blame. If it works, Upper Management gets the credit.
I'd rather hire a good Project Manager and o.k. Programmers than an o.k. Project Manager and good Programmers. But maybe that's just me, thinking too business-like for the /. community.
Can someone have some AI build a better P2P? Once you think about it, wouldn't that be the easiest way to come up with the next bestest efficient P2P protocol?
Becomes a whole lot easier. Imagine the corruption! This stuff is a lot LESS random than sports events, which can be 'thrown' are a lot easier to spot as frauds.
I'm just waiting for the disgruntled engineer to whisper to his cousin to place his money on the new Intel Hypertanic chip to be released in Q4. Then flee with the millions reaped. Puh-leez, this ==lame idea;
Mozilla, and its components. However, do you want to be able to access the same emails from each OS? would you need a third partition for this sort of data perhaps?
This might take a bit, but bear with me. On google.com, you can search for how many times a site is linked from another site. You use the command (e.g.) link:www.websitehere.com This search is very cool to discern how popular a site is. For example, google.com itself is linked almost a half million times. Yahoo, well over a million times.
However, www.msn.com has a lot fewer than half million. Fewer than a thousand even! In fact, there are only 51 (yes, Fifty One) People in the world who link to www.msn.com. www.MSNBC fares even worse with 7 (SEVEN) links to it. Compare this to www.cnn.com with 74,000 links.
What does this mean? Well, if you consider these links as votes (which they are... if you like a site, you link it from your website or blog), it means that no one likes MSN or MSNBC at all. But, i wonder, why do people still go to these sites? The only answer i can give is this: Monopolistic practice. If you have almost a complete monopoly on the desktop, and you link your website on every one, of course you'll get some people to go to it. Could this example be used in a court case? Possibly, i guess (IANAL, but my bro-in law is
Do what you want with this info, i just thought the /. crowd would like to see this.