I am also graduating with a degree in CS in may. I work as an intern at a government job. As of May 10, I become a full-fledged employee, and they are going to pay me as a GS-9 step 4, which is a little over 50,000 a year, plus some pretty good benefits. I get 2 days leave and 2 more days sick leave a month (it'll go up after a couple of years), a good dental, medical, vision, retirement, 401k plan I can opt into (it costs a little but not bad). After I've completed 30 months of training, I get raised to a GS-12 Step 1, which is a little closer to 70,000 a year. Of course, that is a government job. The contractors that work for us generally only pay their programmers $15.00 an hour or so right out of college. Perhaps you should try civil service. They alwasy seem to be in need of electrical engineers and computer scientists.
If you want a prebuilt binary like every other distro emerge --usepkg whatever after you copy it from the cd rom, get it from the mirror or whatever. It's really not that difficult.
I've been using gentoo for only a week now, but lemme tell you, best linux distro I've ever used. emerge is an awesome tool, for those bitching about it being too techy, it has tools to dumb it down (like genkernel for configuring a kernel especially for your machine). I've compiled most everything I've put on here, but stuff I really couldn't give a crap about optimizing, I just use a prebuilt binary. Hell, if you wanted to, you could use a stage3 tarball (prebuilt binary) and binaries for everything, and have zero compile time (except for your kernel, which genkernel will handle for you if you like).
If, as you say, all programs are a protected form of free speech, and I decide to write a program that completley erases the contents of the hardrive of whoever runs it, and someone tries to sue me, then I can argue that I was just excercising my rights to free speech?
The wife, my best friend and I ended up staying awake until 1:30 AM, even though we all had to be awake to work at 6:00 AM. Been a long time since I did that over a game.
I hate stereotypes. I consider myself to be a very adept programmer, and I don't match the stereotype at all. I'm an ex construction worker/jet mechanic/auto mechanic/tire sorter/furniture mover, I'm a 6 foot tall, 250 pound tatooed guy. I mean, most of the programmers I know don't meet the sterotype of small, glasses, pocket protector, introverted, nerdy, geeky, feeble, poindexter type stereotypes you hear everywhere. I've been married twice and had children by multiple women, hang out with friends, and still have time to program. I think the reason lots of programmers get so good at it is they have had a life like mine, and don't want to go back to it, so their drive to be successful is greater. Nothing like slinging 6000 tires a day at a goodyear factory to get you motivated to do something better. Also, kids can be a great source of inspiration. Any father would want to give his kids better things than I could just four years ago. I loved programming when I did all of those jobs, but thought the prospect would never be open to someone like me to do it professionally, being that I had kids, failed to go straight out of high school, and had too many other responsibilities to handle to do that. But I managed to work a full time job, get sole custody of two of my three children (third wasn't born yet) upon divorce, take care of kids on my own and go to school and make time for them as I did it. I also got remarried and had another, and am still going strong. Some of the best programmers I've met don't meet the stereotype at all, although there are those out there that do.
I don't know what university you go to, but I wish it were as easy here. Computer Graphics I (using c++ and OpenGL), takes a minimum of calc II and linear algebra to even get in the class. The first half is all math (matrices and vectors basically), and the second half is programming. Our programming assignments for the semester were as follows (the last one being due tommorow).
1. Draw an electorstatic graph, and a smith chart
(with clipping)
2. Animation using tweening (the user enters points on the screen with the mouse, which must be connected and shown as he draws them (the first a point of course), and when the user hits 'b', he draws a second shape, when the user hits 't' the shapes should tween back and forth until the user hits 'q');
3. Mesh Viewer: Read mesh data from a file (vertices, normals, and faces), draw the mesh to the screen, and enable mesh files to also be outputted to files
4. A 3d camera using 1. Euler angles 2. Quaternions 3. A small program demonstrating gimbal lock. Also part of this assignment was to derive the rotation matrix that glRotate uses (rotation about an arbitrary vector).
I guess it all would depend on
A) The school you attend
B) The instructor
I also go to a very small university (only 5000 students, and only 80 are cs majors), and our curriculum seems a lot harder than OU(yes I live in Oklahoma) which is a very large university.
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Not meaning to sound hostile or anything, and I am sorry about your room mate, but you post this stuff to gun sites and stuff too, I mean, they made the gun your friend killed himself with, I knew from the moment I saw one that they were "evil", and what about people that make beer, do you go to places where they talk about beer and pills and rant and rave about how your friend played doom and drank beer until he killed himself, I mean it is a depressant, it could only have helped. I'm really sorry about your friend, but I really hate people that find other things to blame when something sucks. Doom isn't evil, you're killing demons, you're the good guy... I am sorry about your loss though
But I've seen the movie, and I found it to be very informative. Just about every person I've ever met that was exceptionally intelligent, even if appearing totally normal on the outside, had something greatly odd and different about them. Usually, the smarter they are the stranger. I've found this to be true in many cases. It seems to me that, if you are blessed with high intellegence, you are at the same time getting something else taken away from you to make up for it, and it seemed like the movie portrayed just that kind of image about it, and the book makes him yet stranger.
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Then explain the huge lack of games for it.
Maybe it was designed to play games, I don't know, but the point is there are barely any on it.
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I never said that Linux was "BAD" at running video games, and I never quoted any benchmarks claiming windows was faster. You just add what you want to conversations I guess. Anyways, what I said was "Use operating systems for what they're good for". Linux has like Quake 3 and tux racer..wow, big line up. One company has died and you guys are crying. One windows company dies and no one gives a fuck. See my point? There are a ton of video games, and support for games on windows and that is not true on linux. BTW, I have XP as well, and it's never crashed on me, even while playing Diablo II.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? You agreed that windows "currently" is a better gaming platform. Ok, agreed. Next, I never said you shouldn't use linux, I have a dual-boot computer, I use Linux, just not for gaming. Like I said, if windows is better for something use windows, if linux is better at something use linux. This is the kind of blind fanatacism I'm talking about. Someone has to program the games too? Umm....people that use windows can't program? Jesus man, look past the end of your nose. You are one of the blind followers of Linux, that don't even know why you use it. You just accept it at face value that it's better because some other fanatic told you so. I love linux too, but you're the kind of fanatic that makes linux users look bad. Windows has a half a billion games, and linux has tux-racer and q3. Hate to break it to you, but most of the programs you use on linux are CLONES of programs already available on windows. When they are on an even keel, i'll take dual boot off my computer as well, but not until then
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If you want to play games, use windows, if you want to program, or run an apache server or whatever, go ahead and use linux. Is it really that hard to use windows? Even when linux sucks for something, you don't wnat to use windows, when it happens to be good about the operation in question?
Like anyone is going to want any "ancient" unices. Anything linux or anti- microsoft gets front page. Hey everyone, Microsoft just put windows 3.1 under the GPL! Let's go get it!!!!!
or prints things that aren't even stories, or are most likely hoaxes. This AOL/Redhat thing, the "microsoft e-mail" that said "don't forward this! I'm watching you"! Come on, I really and truly love reading Slashdot, but don't claim to be some kind of credible news source.Please.
By the way, since it was in the story, it's not off-topic, but mod me down anyways, I know you will
I have the Beginning Linux Programming, and the one that came with visual C++. They all seem to be rather well written books. My only complaint about Beginning Linux Programming, was that some of the chapters didn't totally pertain to "Linux Programming". The chapters on TCL, perl, ncurses, bash programming, and these chapters were great and very informative (also gnome, gtk, etc. etc.), but chpaters like HTML. Come on, that's total filler. If the professional book is anything like the first one, it'll probably be a really good and informative book, all except a few chapters
Is this really what you've come down to? Comparing a WAN to the Revolutionary War? What, is this like the Australian version of the Boston Tea Party?
Oh, Yeah, let's check out this single guy's page and see how much more Australians' appreciate freedom more than Americans'. Oh yeah, and while we're at it, why don't we go visit my friend Dr.Shitfinger from New York University's web page, and see how much more American's appreciate the cost of hookers in Afghanistan.
Let's move on down the list here, you find no reason one man can be a hundred or a thousand times richer than another. Hmmm. If the government doled out the same amount of money to everyone every month, and controlled the entire economy, wouldn't that be communist? Which you claim not to be? If everyone got the exact same thing, for not the same deeds, what would be the reason to do things like these Australian guys here are doing, when the crack smoking, herpes infested bum down the street gets the same for doing nothing. That would take away any incentive people had to do things. Our constitution does not mean we should all be the same. It means we all have the same rights. One man has the same oppurtunity to make a thousand times as much as the next guy, not that no matter what, they should be the same. That's stupid. These guys in Australia are doing a cool thing, but it's not becuase of people that think like you.
Everytime I buy a video game magazine, or go to babbages I get a free demo cd of some sort. AOL sends me 3000 a week. Who really cares if microsoft tries to advertise through the post office. I dislike Microsoft somewhat as well, but I assure you, my reasons are better than this.
I saw on the news the other day that in the midst of the recession, e-bay is booming. Now, I wonder what e-bay is doing that Amazon is not. The companies are rather similar.
Is this like how AOL/TW is buying Redhat or is this factual?
For that matter, hasn't it already been tried? Remember the suit about how Microsoft embeds I.E. into it's operating system and distributes it with pc's. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Slashdot Mirror
Nyquil. The Earth will be in too much of a coma to care about its fever.
I am also graduating with a degree in CS in may. I work as an intern at a government job. As of May 10, I become a full-fledged employee, and they are going to pay me as a GS-9 step 4, which is a little over 50,000 a year, plus some pretty good benefits. I get 2 days leave and 2 more days sick leave a month (it'll go up after a couple of years), a good dental, medical, vision, retirement, 401k plan I can opt into (it costs a little but not bad). After I've completed 30 months of training, I get raised to a GS-12 Step 1, which is a little closer to 70,000 a year. Of course, that is a government job. The contractors that work for us generally only pay their programmers $15.00 an hour or so right out of college. Perhaps you should try civil service. They alwasy seem to be in need of electrical engineers and computer scientists.
I think he was talking about keywords, not functions. free() is not a keyword in C or C++.
If you want a prebuilt binary like every other distro emerge --usepkg whatever after you copy it from the cd rom, get it from the mirror or whatever. It's really not that difficult. I've been using gentoo for only a week now, but lemme tell you, best linux distro I've ever used. emerge is an awesome tool, for those bitching about it being too techy, it has tools to dumb it down (like genkernel for configuring a kernel especially for your machine). I've compiled most everything I've put on here, but stuff I really couldn't give a crap about optimizing, I just use a prebuilt binary. Hell, if you wanted to, you could use a stage3 tarball (prebuilt binary) and binaries for everything, and have zero compile time (except for your kernel, which genkernel will handle for you if you like).
If, as you say, all programs are a protected form of free speech, and I decide to write a program that completley erases the contents of the hardrive of whoever runs it, and someone tries to sue me, then I can argue that I was just excercising my rights to free speech?
The wife, my best friend and I ended up staying awake until 1:30 AM, even though we all had to be awake to work at 6:00 AM. Been a long time since I did that over a game.
I hate stereotypes. I consider myself to be a very adept programmer, and I don't match the stereotype at all. I'm an ex construction worker/jet mechanic/auto mechanic/tire sorter/furniture mover, I'm a 6 foot tall, 250 pound tatooed guy. I mean, most of the programmers I know don't meet the sterotype of small, glasses, pocket protector, introverted, nerdy, geeky, feeble, poindexter type stereotypes you hear everywhere. I've been married twice and had children by multiple women, hang out with friends, and still have time to program. I think the reason lots of programmers get so good at it is they have had a life like mine, and don't want to go back to it, so their drive to be successful is greater. Nothing like slinging 6000 tires a day at a goodyear factory to get you motivated to do something better. Also, kids can be a great source of inspiration. Any father would want to give his kids better things than I could just four years ago. I loved programming when I did all of those jobs, but thought the prospect would never be open to someone like me to do it professionally, being that I had kids, failed to go straight out of high school, and had too many other responsibilities to handle to do that. But I managed to work a full time job, get sole custody of two of my three children (third wasn't born yet) upon divorce, take care of kids on my own and go to school and make time for them as I did it. I also got remarried and had another, and am still going strong. Some of the best programmers I've met don't meet the stereotype at all, although there are those out there that do.
I don't know what university you go to, but I wish it were as easy here. Computer Graphics I (using c++ and OpenGL), takes a minimum of calc II and linear algebra to even get in the class. The first half is all math (matrices and vectors basically), and the second half is programming. Our programming assignments for the semester were as follows (the last one being due tommorow).
1. Draw an electorstatic graph, and a smith chart (with clipping)
2. Animation using tweening (the user enters points on the screen with the mouse, which must be connected and shown as he draws them (the first a point of course), and when the user hits 'b', he draws a second shape, when the user hits 't' the shapes should tween back and forth until the user hits 'q');
3. Mesh Viewer: Read mesh data from a file (vertices, normals, and faces), draw the mesh to the screen, and enable mesh files to also be outputted to files
4. A 3d camera using 1. Euler angles 2. Quaternions 3. A small program demonstrating gimbal lock. Also part of this assignment was to derive the rotation matrix that glRotate uses (rotation about an arbitrary vector).
I guess it all would depend on
A) The school you attend
B) The instructor
I also go to a very small university (only 5000 students, and only 80 are cs majors), and our curriculum seems a lot harder than OU(yes I live in Oklahoma) which is a very large university.
Not meaning to sound hostile or anything, and I am sorry about your room mate, but you post this stuff to gun sites and stuff too, I mean, they made the gun your friend killed himself with, I knew from the moment I saw one that they were "evil", and what about people that make beer, do you go to places where they talk about beer and pills and rant and rave about how your friend played doom and drank beer until he killed himself, I mean it is a depressant, it could only have helped. I'm really sorry about your friend, but I really hate people that find other things to blame when something sucks. Doom isn't evil, you're killing demons, you're the good guy... I am sorry about your loss though
But I've seen the movie, and I found it to be very informative. Just about every person I've ever met that was exceptionally intelligent, even if appearing totally normal on the outside, had something greatly odd and different about them. Usually, the smarter they are the stranger. I've found this to be true in many cases. It seems to me that, if you are blessed with high intellegence, you are at the same time getting something else taken away from you to make up for it, and it seemed like the movie portrayed just that kind of image about it, and the book makes him yet stranger.
Then explain the huge lack of games for it.
Maybe it was designed to play games, I don't know, but the point is there are barely any on it.
I never said that Linux was "BAD" at running video games, and I never quoted any benchmarks claiming windows was faster. You just add what you want to conversations I guess. Anyways, what I said was "Use operating systems for what they're good for". Linux has like Quake 3 and tux racer..wow, big line up. One company has died and you guys are crying. One windows company dies and no one gives a fuck. See my point? There are a ton of video games, and support for games on windows and that is not true on linux. BTW, I have XP as well, and it's never crashed on me, even while playing Diablo II.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? You agreed that windows "currently" is a better gaming platform. Ok, agreed. Next, I never said you shouldn't use linux, I have a dual-boot computer, I use Linux, just not for gaming. Like I said, if windows is better for something use windows, if linux is better at something use linux. This is the kind of blind fanatacism I'm talking about. Someone has to program the games too? Umm....people that use windows can't program? Jesus man, look past the end of your nose. You are one of the blind followers of Linux, that don't even know why you use it. You just accept it at face value that it's better because some other fanatic told you so. I love linux too, but you're the kind of fanatic that makes linux users look bad. Windows has a half a billion games, and linux has tux-racer and q3. Hate to break it to you, but most of the programs you use on linux are CLONES of programs already available on windows. When they are on an even keel, i'll take dual boot off my computer as well, but not until then
Dumbass
If you want to play games, use windows, if you want to program, or run an apache server or whatever, go ahead and use linux. Is it really that hard to use windows? Even when linux sucks for something, you don't wnat to use windows, when it happens to be good about the operation in question?
Like anyone is going to want any "ancient" unices. Anything linux or anti- microsoft gets front page. Hey everyone, Microsoft just put windows 3.1 under the GPL! Let's go get it!!!!!
or prints things that aren't even stories, or are most likely hoaxes. This AOL/Redhat thing, the "microsoft e-mail" that said "don't forward this! I'm watching you"! Come on, I really and truly love reading Slashdot, but don't claim to be some kind of credible news source.Please.
By the way, since it was in the story, it's not off-topic, but mod me down anyways, I know you will
That scientists will exaggerate a teensy bit sometimes to get funding? I don't know if I would buy this outright.
I have the Beginning Linux Programming, and the one that came with visual C++. They all seem to be rather well written books. My only complaint about Beginning Linux Programming, was that some of the chapters didn't totally pertain to "Linux Programming". The chapters on TCL, perl, ncurses, bash programming, and these chapters were great and very informative (also gnome, gtk, etc. etc.), but chpaters like HTML. Come on, that's total filler. If the professional book is anything like the first one, it'll probably be a really good and informative book, all except a few chapters
Or is slashdot owned by VA linux. Do you expect them to advertise for Microsoft?
You better step off, or I'll choke you with my IDE cable
Is this really what you've come down to? Comparing a WAN to the Revolutionary War? What, is this like the Australian version of the Boston Tea Party?
Oh, Yeah, let's check out this single guy's page and see how much more Australians' appreciate freedom more than Americans'. Oh yeah, and while we're at it, why don't we go visit my friend Dr.Shitfinger from New York University's web page, and see how much more American's appreciate the cost of hookers in Afghanistan.
Let's move on down the list here, you find no reason one man can be a hundred or a thousand times richer than another. Hmmm. If the government doled out the same amount of money to everyone every month, and controlled the entire economy, wouldn't that be communist? Which you claim not to be? If everyone got the exact same thing, for not the same deeds, what would be the reason to do things like these Australian guys here are doing, when the crack smoking, herpes infested bum down the street gets the same for doing nothing. That would take away any incentive people had to do things. Our constitution does not mean we should all be the same. It means we all have the same rights. One man has the same oppurtunity to make a thousand times as much as the next guy, not that no matter what, they should be the same. That's stupid. These guys in Australia are doing a cool thing, but it's not becuase of people that think like you.
Everytime I buy a video game magazine, or go to babbages I get a free demo cd of some sort. AOL sends me 3000 a week. Who really cares if microsoft tries to advertise through the post office. I dislike Microsoft somewhat as well, but I assure you, my reasons are better than this.
I saw on the news the other day that in the midst of the recession, e-bay is booming. Now, I wonder what e-bay is doing that Amazon is not. The companies are rather similar.
Is this like how AOL/TW is buying Redhat or is this factual?
For that matter, hasn't it already been tried? Remember the suit about how Microsoft embeds I.E. into it's operating system and distributes it with pc's. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'll believe it when I see it.