It's definitely a matter of opinion, but I think that Linus is a treasure simply because he's an exceptional programmer who also has used his interpersonal skills to accelerate the free software movement. To quote a LinuxWorld interview with Andrew Tridgell:
One of the most memorable parts of that evening was when my Linux NFS [Network File System] server died, to the point that the console seemed completely dead (the load of all those Doom WAD files obviously got to it). I was about to press reset when Linus stepped in and said he wanted to work out why it had crashed, so he could fix it. I then watched in complete amazement as Linus exploited a remote file truncation bug he knew about in the NFS server I was running which allowed him to peek into the proc filesystem on the apparently dead server and work out enough to find the bug. Up till then I had considered myself to be a pretty good programmer, and quite good at debugging system crashes, but that incident taught me that I would always be an also-ran who just isn't in the same league as people like Linus.
I think that Linus's achievements definitely make him a world treasure. But that's just my opinion, and you are most certainly entitled to your own.
Definitely try turning off as much eye candy as possible with your WM, whether it's GNOME, KDE, or ratpoison.
:)
Visual and audio effects mean processing time, and CPU time uses battery power. Also look into unloading modules that you aren't using, especially wireless network-related modules.
Alternatively, you could go the way of many/dotters and get a Mac. I'm a Unix geek who just got a used IBook and I love it.
One reason that you don't hear about the minor suits is that they're oftentimes settled out of court, it makes more sense for the doctors and insurance companies to shell out a amount of money for a settlement than to endure a drawn-out legal battle.
While I agree that doctors should have a way to protect themselves from patients who have a chronic case of filing malpractice suits, I wish that they had come up with a different answer. Why don't doctors put some money into lobbying for a loser pays legal system?
Being Tara Reid may not be all tea and cakes, but is being Jason Rubin any better? Honestly, I wish that I could get stumbling around drunk every night and still make as much as money as she does.
I don't know Mr. Rubin, but if he looks like any of the geeks at my school I'd much rather look at Tara Reid in ten years than Jason Rubin now.
Just because these stars are eventually going to watch their careers fade doesn't mean that we should pity them.
Why? Because he's very familiar with sucky usability and should be able to identify it when he sees it? Before I accept the assertion that his mistakes make him qualified I would want some evidence that he actually learned something from his earlier user interface endeavours.
Those are very interesting numbers. Where do you get these sort of figures? Do they just show up in the news every once in a while?
In addition to showing up in the news from time to time, I think that Apple bundles figures like that in the news releases that they give out to shareholders.
I'm not sure about the shareholder news releases though, I'm not a stockholder. I just heard about them in a comment on another story.
Back in the day, X-Com convinced me to upgrade the RAM on my 486DX so that I could play it. I really enjoyed that game, hopefully this game will be cool as well.:)
Now, if they would just release a version for OS X, my weekend would be complete.:)
Looks like I'm not on file, but my parents' house is. This is a cool feature, do you know where google gets the information to create their personal information database?
they don't want to have good researchers fail out because they couldn't grok their multiprocessor architecture course.
After mistaking a multiprocessor architecture class for a collaborative course on desiging buildings, I think I'll definitely read the course handbook more critically next semester.
Democratic Assembly member Carol Liu, D-Pasadena, chairwoman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, said Thursday she and others will introduce legislation intended to persuade publishers to provide more unbundled textbooks and explain changes in new editions, and encourage faculty to consider price when choosing books.
I really don't think that the government should be wasting it's time with something like this. For people who are interested in escaping the high prices of the bookstores there are already alternatives:
Ask your professor what books will be required, buy them at Amazon or Narnes & Boble.
Buy books from one of the book swapping services that are discussed in the article. If your institution doesn't have one, set one up and make a few bucks.:)
I really don't see a reason for the government to intervene here.
Sure you could do it, and there are jobs that would pay you comparably, but the IT field is so unstable right now that it doesn't seem terribly wise.
I agree, the IT field definitely isn't as booming as it once was. However, with the costs of malpractice insurance being what they are these days, I can understand reconsidering a career as an MD. If I were you, I'd try to leverage your experience in medicine and your interest in CS/IT by working for a biotech company, they're an industry that's been doing well lately and they can always use an MD to assist in running clinical trials.
I actually thought about this as I posted, some people are bound to get burned by this. The only way around it that I can see is by differentiating yourself from the pack by doing one of a two things:
Know someone on the inside of a company who will hire you
Develop a unique skillset in a computer-related field, such as bioinformatics
Work your ass off looking for jobs, for example I've seen a lot of full-time positions scroll by on jobs.perl.org.
While there are managers who definitely don't know how to objectively judge quality of software vs. quantity of software, there are counter-examples to your superprogramming friend. I'm sure that while many people on Slashdot know talented supergeeks with amazing technical skills, everyone knows at least one or two dweebs with no skill at all who just got into IT because it sounded like a good career decision in the late 90's.
In my opinion, the CS/IT world is going through a much-needed purging of some talentless dweebs from the workforce. Competition with overseas workers is simply part of that. I'm not saying that outsourcing programming jobs to India is always a good thing, just that it's not always a bad thing.
Some people are naturally going to say that this a low number because their employer bills them out at such-and-such price. Others are going to say that this is high because they sure as hell don't make six figures as a programmer. In college as a grad student I would make anywhere from $50-$100 an hour, but consulting work is always billed at a higher rate than a salaried worker.
"Politicians are bemoaning the lack of political interest in the populace. Here's a clue: we get disillusioned really quickly when you simply pay court every N years, then do whatever you want in-between election years. Perhaps if (as originally planned) you were the voice of the people, it might be a bit different."
Politicans may bemoan the lack of interest in politics from the general public, but would they really trade all of the money they get from special interest groups for a more active public? I think not.
One more thing: the Certificate Discovery Protocol (CDP) that you link to appears some setup on the server-side before it works: you need to be running a CDP server on port UDP 1460 to respond to requests from this protocol. So, you could theoretically implement this after you find out where all your SSL servers are.:)
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One of the most memorable parts of that evening was when my Linux NFS [Network File System] server died, to the point that the console seemed completely dead (the load of all those Doom WAD files obviously got to it). I was about to press reset when Linus stepped in and said he wanted to work out why it had crashed, so he could fix it. I then watched in complete amazement as Linus exploited a remote file truncation bug he knew about in the NFS server I was running which allowed him to peek into the proc filesystem on the apparently dead server and work out enough to find the bug. Up till then I had considered myself to be a pretty good programmer, and quite good at debugging system crashes, but that incident taught me that I would always be an also-ran who just isn't in the same league as people like Linus.
I think that Linus's achievements definitely make him a world treasure. But that's just my opinion, and you are most certainly entitled to your own.
:)
Visual and audio effects mean processing time, and CPU time uses battery power. Also look into unloading modules that you aren't using, especially wireless network-related modules.
Alternatively, you could go the way of many /dotters and get a Mac. I'm a Unix geek who just got a used IBook and I love it.
One reason that you don't hear about the minor suits is that they're oftentimes settled out of court, it makes more sense for the doctors and insurance companies to shell out a amount of money for a settlement than to endure a drawn-out legal battle.
While I agree that doctors should have a way to protect themselves from patients who have a chronic case of filing malpractice suits, I wish that they had come up with a different answer. Why don't doctors put some money into lobbying for a loser pays legal system?
Just because these stars are eventually going to watch their careers fade doesn't mean that we should pity them.
Why? Because he's very familiar with sucky usability and should be able to identify it when he sees it? Before I accept the assertion that his mistakes make him qualified I would want some evidence that he actually learned something from his earlier user interface endeavours.
In addition to showing up in the news from time to time, I think that Apple bundles figures like that in the news releases that they give out to shareholders.
I'm not sure about the shareholder news releases though, I'm not a stockholder. I just heard about them in a comment on another story.
Why not write about your experience in a place where thousands of geeks across the world could be disgusted by Apple's slimy business practices?
:)
If you do get fuckoffgodaddy.com, at least remember not to register it through them. :)
He's in Canada you insensitive clod, the cost of living and income levels are way lower there.
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Totally Sweet.
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Back in the day, X-Com convinced me to upgrade the RAM on my 486DX so that I could play it. I really enjoyed that game, hopefully this game will be cool as well.
Now, if they would just release a version for OS X, my weekend would be complete.
Looks like I'm not on file, but my parents' house is. This is a cool feature, do you know where google gets the information to create their personal information database?
they don't want to have good researchers fail out because they couldn't grok their multiprocessor architecture course.
After mistaking a multiprocessor architecture class for a collaborative course on desiging buildings, I think I'll definitely read the course handbook more critically next semester.
Did you just imply that there are lots of Chinese people who will find value in child porn?
That'll teach 'em! Since you won't refund my money, I'm going to buy a replacement XBox and give you MORE money. How do you like dem apples?
Seriously though, selling the subscription doesn't sounds like such a bad idea, if the subscription isn't tied somehow to your hardware.
Democratic Assembly member Carol Liu, D-Pasadena, chairwoman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, said Thursday she and others will introduce legislation intended to persuade publishers to provide more unbundled textbooks and explain changes in new editions, and encourage faculty to consider price when choosing books.
I really don't think that the government should be wasting it's time with something like this. For people who are interested in escaping the high prices of the bookstores there are already alternatives:
I really don't see a reason for the government to intervene here.
Sure you could do it, and there are jobs that would pay you comparably, but the IT field is so unstable right now that it doesn't seem terribly wise.
:)
I agree, the IT field definitely isn't as booming as it once was. However, with the costs of malpractice insurance being what they are these days, I can understand reconsidering a career as an MD. If I were you, I'd try to leverage your experience in medicine and your interest in CS/IT by working for a biotech company, they're an industry that's been doing well lately and they can always use an MD to assist in running clinical trials.
Good luck.
Anyways, good luck in law school.
While there are managers who definitely don't know how to objectively judge quality of software vs. quantity of software, there are counter-examples to your superprogramming friend. I'm sure that while many people on Slashdot know talented supergeeks with amazing technical skills, everyone knows at least one or two dweebs with no skill at all who just got into IT because it sounded like a good career decision in the late 90's.
In my opinion, the CS/IT world is going through a much-needed purging of some talentless dweebs from the workforce. Competition with overseas workers is simply part of that. I'm not saying that outsourcing programming jobs to India is always a good thing, just that it's not always a bad thing.
Some people are naturally going to say that this a low number because their employer bills them out at such-and-such price. Others are going to say that this is high because they sure as hell don't make six figures as a programmer. In college as a grad student I would make anywhere from $50-$100 an hour, but consulting work is always billed at a higher rate than a salaried worker.
Straight from the article:
:)
For months, SCO has encouraged users to take advantage of the promotional price, but there haven't been many takers.
"We haven't published the exact number yet," McBride said. "It's not in the dozens, but it's, you know, we've had some that have started to sign up."
This makes it sound like absolutely nobody has taken SCO up on their offer. Is there anyone here on Slashdot that will admit to it?
"Politicians are bemoaning the lack of political interest in the populace. Here's a clue: we get disillusioned really quickly when you simply pay court every N years, then do whatever you want in-between election years. Perhaps if (as originally planned) you were the voice of the people, it might be a bit different."
Politicans may bemoan the lack of interest in politics from the general public, but would they really trade all of the money they get from special interest groups for a more active public? I think not.
"I urge you all to think strongly consider it. Who's watching out for us if we don't all chip in?"
:)
Hopefully you are.
One more thing: the Certificate Discovery Protocol (CDP) that you link to appears some setup on the server-side before it works: you need to be running a CDP server on port UDP 1460 to respond to requests from this protocol. So, you could theoretically implement this after you find out where all your SSL servers are. :)