I went to a local 2 year community college for two years then AIU for the last two. AIU I would probably classify as scummy, however the nearby 4 year university was going to force me to go there 3 years to finish up my degree. I had just finished an associates degree in two summers and two semesters, so I really didn't want to be forced to attend college for 3 full years just to make the school more money. I was working nights at the time, and it was killing my health. Back then the choices were pretty limited but today I think there are legitimate colleges you can attend fully online.
There is also value in a single driven focus is there not? I mean, Einstein wasn't known as a rounded scholar. Most of the most brilliant people in their fields pretty much just got past the other worthless classes on their path to greatness.
People who constantly defend college are just as bad as those who constantly attack it. Some people seem to think that college is the only path to greatness, of course that's probably because it's the path >they chose. I personally went to college, graduated at the top of my class, and it has been slightly useful in my life to get interviews more than anything else because I can fill that line in on the application. My father never went to college, makes three times as much as I do, and probably ever will, and is one of the smartest people I know.
Just because a path is right for you, doesn't mean it's right for everyone, or it is best for everyone.
Yea, we should definitely take that money away from people who want to build spaceships and further the entire human existence, and give it to small business owners selling beanie babies on eBay, new fad get skinny quick schemes, and plastic disposable toys retailers./me slaps you with a fish
I just gave my mac book pro the same my wife. I had purchased it to learn macos, and have a nice snappy laptop instead of my d620. I what I learned in a month now that I macos developers are childish to the point of hobbling their products. Take connecting to a SMB share. I was connecting to a samba share, and but was still treated to a picture of an 80's era IBM clone with a blue screen. I wish when my mac book locked up with some remote desktop sessions and a lot of firefox tabs open that I could have gotten a cryptic blue screen error code to figure out what caused the ktrap. Sure maybe I could have figured out where the log files are and hoped for a dump, but an error code that could be google is much easier.
Overall I found my Linux and win systems to be more stable. Mac seems to expect everyone to stay on the apple plantation, and and if they do so it works well.
I think it will last. Binsearch doesn't categorize on pirated goods. It just provides a string search function. I never subscribed to nzbmatrix but I think they provided graphics to show what movies people were getting, and stuff like that, and categorized based upon pirate goods. Binsearch does no categorization that I know of.
This comment is factually correct, although it's modded down because it is contrary to someones worldview, that's often the case with Slashdot negative moderation. I used to run a NNTP server for a small ISP in 1994. I just filtered out the worst offending binary groups when the cost became prohibitive. I ran an NNTP server on a 486 with a couple scsi drives just fine with just the text groups. I can't imagine it being a "huge cost" to any ISP without the binaries.
But is that because people with degrees are more inclined to look for work, or because they are more likely to be hired? I mean lets be honest, motivated people not interested in college who are willing to put in the effort in real world learning are clumped into lazy government leeches that live off scamming social programs and charities for their lively hood in those "demographics".
Some of that may be because of the degree, but it is likely more because people who have degrees are more ambitious by nature. That's why they went to college!
I do know ambitious people who didn't go to college who have never had a hard time getting a job. Mainly because they work, and they look for a job relentlessly when they lose the last one.
You sound like the kind of person I would love to hire:D
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What I get so frustrated by is that there is this mentality that people can somehow "fall back" on a degree. That's bullshit. There are tons of people with degrees and even advanced degrees selling refrigerators at Sears. A degree doesn't magically bestow ANYTHING. People that think they have a degree and somehow get to start a rung higher than someone without one are sadly mistaken as well. One of my best friends used to bitch nonstop about how he had his masters degree, and his boss only had a high school degree. One day after a few beers I had enough of it and said "Look, you went to school for 7 years, he started two businesses after high school, both failed, but he learned a lot from his failures, then went to work making nothing as a call center manager, worked his way up the management chain reading books on it, and going to conferences to get better at it. His trade is management, yours is Java development, and just because he is your boss doesn't mean he automatically makes more money than you. Great developers are harder to hire and fire than great managers." He never said crap about it again.
College now is the high school diploma of years past. It's good, but it's a fairly cheap commodity now. If someone doesn't have one, then they are just missing a cheap commodity.
Yes I have a bachelors degree, and no I don't think it's really helped me at all.
so as a power user you actually navigate to what you want to run instead of just hitting the windows key types the first few letters of the app and hitting enter?
I keep trying to launch safari by touching my MacBook screen, but all I get a nasty screen smudges. How exactly did you get yours to work better than windows 8 in touch mode?
My e6430 feels faster and more responsive than my MacBook pro especially under a heavy load. The best part about the mbp id s the vents placed behind the bezel in front of the monitor. Heat dissapation on the macbook is great. I can set it on my blanket in bed and do light web surfing without it melting down unlike most windows PC's. I know everyone here lives the retina display but I can't get over how shiny the screen is. I felt like I needed to clean it nonstop. when perfectly clean yes the display is crisp.
I saw more window manager lockups (2) in three weeks of usage on the macbook than windows 7 pro and I use 7 pro more. The lockups are more difficult to deal with under Mac because the task manager wouldn't start or ran super slow.
Mac still has a bad bug in its vpn subsystem on connecting to windows small business server VPN through some routers where windows systems have no problem. Every single business professional I know has another windows laptop or boot camp for when they need to actually get stuff done.
I dunno maybe I'm just pushing the Mac too hard? I usually just run a bunch of remote desktops, listen to Pandora, have a few logmein sessions up, a few SSH sessions, some graphics editing apps, and Google apps under chrome. I seemed to have no problem crushing the Macs performance constantly though.
As far as swapping between apps and keeping the desktop organized I prefer Linux. I'm not sure why I just seem to get more done under linux than any other OS. Of course my customers use MacWin so that is where I am at more often.
In WW2 it was advance technology fast or the other guys could kill everyone you love. That's a pretty big motivator to cut the red tape and bullshit, and pull as a team. His will they recreate that here?
Anyone ever seen a car/bus impact? The bus is usually a little messed up, and the car is usually cut to ribbons, and they pour the occupants of the car out, while the bus occupants are generally unharmed.
It may not be politically correct, but size=safety for the people in the larger vehilce. That's one reason I'll pay for the gas for my 3 young children to be shuttled around in a suburban.
I try to tell my American compatriots this exact thing when they get on the american cellular providers suck bandwagon, but it usually goes in one ear and out the other. As much as I hate American Telco's I'd take them any day over many of the European ones.
I'm not a libertarian, because I don't agree with them on some very key things, but I do respect their opinions as long as they are educated. You however are one of the 80 percent if 80 percent are imbeciles that can't be bothered to educate themselves on what someone else believes before belittling them. Libertarians do not however believe there should be no government, that is an Anarchist tenant.
If that was the case why didn't Washington just become king. Your rant is stupid and fanatical, and so are those that modded you up. It was a monarchy that foisted slavery on our nation not a republic. The republic ejected slavery as incompatible with a free society.
They do, but if they want an agreement not to block ads, then they need to present that to the viewer. There should not be invisible land mines consumers can step into where they don't know what they are allowed to do around reading content and not allowed.
Personally I don't block ads in most places other than my laptop which I use on a cell connection a lot, and bandwidth matters. I've been able to disable ads on slashdot for a long time, but I don't do it. I've even clicked on a couple that are relevant or a product I might need.
I respect that that guy hates ad blockers. I don't respect him for calling people thieves when there was NO legal agreement with the website in question that ads would be blocked. If there was such an agreement, and you blocked ads then yes you would be a pirate. I hate it when people see some sort of legal agreement when there is none.
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I went to a local 2 year community college for two years then AIU for the last two. AIU I would probably classify as scummy, however the nearby 4 year university was going to force me to go there 3 years to finish up my degree. I had just finished an associates degree in two summers and two semesters, so I really didn't want to be forced to attend college for 3 full years just to make the school more money. I was working nights at the time, and it was killing my health. Back then the choices were pretty limited but today I think there are legitimate colleges you can attend fully online.
There is also value in a single driven focus is there not? I mean, Einstein wasn't known as a rounded scholar. Most of the most brilliant people in their fields pretty much just got past the other worthless classes on their path to greatness.
People who constantly defend college are just as bad as those who constantly attack it. Some people seem to think that college is the only path to greatness, of course that's probably because it's the path >they chose. I personally went to college, graduated at the top of my class, and it has been slightly useful in my life to get interviews more than anything else because I can fill that line in on the application. My father never went to college, makes three times as much as I do, and probably ever will, and is one of the smartest people I know.
Just because a path is right for you, doesn't mean it's right for everyone, or it is best for everyone.
Yea, we should definitely take that money away from people who want to build spaceships and further the entire human existence, and give it to small business owners selling beanie babies on eBay, new fad get skinny quick schemes, and plastic disposable toys retailers. /me slaps you with a fish
I just gave my mac book pro the same my wife. I had purchased it to learn macos, and have a nice snappy laptop instead of my d620. I what I learned in a month now that I macos developers are childish to the point of hobbling their products. Take connecting to a SMB share. I was connecting to a samba share, and but was still treated to a picture of an 80's era IBM clone with a blue screen. I wish when my mac book locked up with some remote desktop sessions and a lot of firefox tabs open that I could have gotten a cryptic blue screen error code to figure out what caused the ktrap. Sure maybe I could have figured out where the log files are and hoped for a dump, but an error code that could be google is much easier.
Overall I found my Linux and win systems to be more stable. Mac seems to expect everyone to stay on the apple plantation, and and if they do so it works well.
I think it will last. Binsearch doesn't categorize on pirated goods. It just provides a string search function. I never subscribed to nzbmatrix but I think they provided graphics to show what movies people were getting, and stuff like that, and categorized based upon pirate goods. Binsearch does no categorization that I know of.
Actually I wouldn't be against that, or Switzerland. Of course giving it to those pasty white countries is racism you know ;).
This comment is factually correct, although it's modded down because it is contrary to someones worldview, that's often the case with Slashdot negative moderation. I used to run a NNTP server for a small ISP in 1994. I just filtered out the worst offending binary groups when the cost became prohibitive. I ran an NNTP server on a 486 with a couple scsi drives just fine with just the text groups. I can't imagine it being a "huge cost" to any ISP without the binaries.
Binsearch.info is coming back with relevant results still, that's what I've always used, and it does an acceptable job.
Now is their chanc to experience the awesomeness ofRussian and Chinese control.
But is that because people with degrees are more inclined to look for work, or because they are more likely to be hired? I mean lets be honest, motivated people not interested in college who are willing to put in the effort in real world learning are clumped into lazy government leeches that live off scamming social programs and charities for their lively hood in those "demographics".
Some of that may be because of the degree, but it is likely more because people who have degrees are more ambitious by nature. That's why they went to college!
I do know ambitious people who didn't go to college who have never had a hard time getting a job. Mainly because they work, and they look for a job relentlessly when they lose the last one.
You sound like the kind of person I would love to hire :D
^^THIS!!!
What I get so frustrated by is that there is this mentality that people can somehow "fall back" on a degree. That's bullshit. There are tons of people with degrees and even advanced degrees selling refrigerators at Sears. A degree doesn't magically bestow ANYTHING. People that think they have a degree and somehow get to start a rung higher than someone without one are sadly mistaken as well. One of my best friends used to bitch nonstop about how he had his masters degree, and his boss only had a high school degree. One day after a few beers I had enough of it and said "Look, you went to school for 7 years, he started two businesses after high school, both failed, but he learned a lot from his failures, then went to work making nothing as a call center manager, worked his way up the management chain reading books on it, and going to conferences to get better at it. His trade is management, yours is Java development, and just because he is your boss doesn't mean he automatically makes more money than you. Great developers are harder to hire and fire than great managers." He never said crap about it again.
College now is the high school diploma of years past. It's good, but it's a fairly cheap commodity now. If someone doesn't have one, then they are just missing a cheap commodity.
Yes I have a bachelors degree, and no I don't think it's really helped me at all.
so as a power user you actually navigate to what you want to run instead of just hitting the windows key types the first few letters of the app and hitting enter?
I keep trying to launch safari by touching my MacBook screen, but all I get a nasty screen smudges. How exactly did you get yours to work better than windows 8 in touch mode?
If you can't rebut his arguments without attacks hen abstain please.
My e6430 feels faster and more responsive than my MacBook pro especially under a heavy load. The best part about the mbp id s the vents placed behind the bezel in front of the monitor. Heat dissapation on the macbook is great. I can set it on my blanket in bed and do light web surfing without it melting down unlike most windows PC's. I know everyone here lives the retina display but I can't get over how shiny the screen is. I felt like I needed to clean it nonstop. when perfectly clean yes the display is crisp.
I saw more window manager lockups (2) in three weeks of usage on the macbook than windows 7 pro and I use 7 pro more. The lockups are more difficult to deal with under Mac because the task manager wouldn't start or ran super slow.
Mac still has a bad bug in its vpn subsystem on connecting to windows small business server VPN through some routers where windows systems have no problem. Every single business professional I know has another windows laptop or boot camp for when they need to actually get stuff done.
I dunno maybe I'm just pushing the Mac too hard? I usually just run a bunch of remote desktops, listen to Pandora, have a few logmein sessions up, a few SSH sessions, some graphics editing apps, and Google apps under chrome. I seemed to have no problem crushing the Macs performance constantly though.
As far as swapping between apps and keeping the desktop organized I prefer Linux. I'm not sure why I just seem to get more done under linux than any other OS. Of course my customers use MacWin so that is where I am at more often.
In WW2 it was advance technology fast or the other guys could kill everyone you love. That's a pretty big motivator to cut the red tape and bullshit, and pull as a team. His will they recreate that here?
Anyone ever seen a car/bus impact? The bus is usually a little messed up, and the car is usually cut to ribbons, and they pour the occupants of the car out, while the bus occupants are generally unharmed.
It may not be politically correct, but size=safety for the people in the larger vehilce. That's one reason I'll pay for the gas for my 3 young children to be shuttled around in a suburban.
I try to tell my American compatriots this exact thing when they get on the american cellular providers suck bandwagon, but it usually goes in one ear and out the other. As much as I hate American Telco's I'd take them any day over many of the European ones.
I'm not a libertarian, because I don't agree with them on some very key things, but I do respect their opinions as long as they are educated. You however are one of the 80 percent if 80 percent are imbeciles that can't be bothered to educate themselves on what someone else believes before belittling them. Libertarians do not however believe there should be no government, that is an Anarchist tenant.
If that was the case why didn't Washington just become king. Your rant is stupid and fanatical, and so are those that modded you up. It was a monarchy that foisted slavery on our nation not a republic. The republic ejected slavery as incompatible with a free society.
Libertarians believe humans should be free to do whatever we want as long as it does not bring harm to other humans.
Grow up.
They do, but if they want an agreement not to block ads, then they need to present that to the viewer. There should not be invisible land mines consumers can step into where they don't know what they are allowed to do around reading content and not allowed.
Personally I don't block ads in most places other than my laptop which I use on a cell connection a lot, and bandwidth matters. I've been able to disable ads on slashdot for a long time, but I don't do it. I've even clicked on a couple that are relevant or a product I might need.
I respect that that guy hates ad blockers. I don't respect him for calling people thieves when there was NO legal agreement with the website in question that ads would be blocked. If there was such an agreement, and you blocked ads then yes you would be a pirate. I hate it when people see some sort of legal agreement when there is none.