Yea, I definetly agree there with you. I just got done reading the difference machine and what a horrible book it truely was. If Gibson was to throw this little shin dig, he'd coin it, "This is the imposibbly impossible possibility to make impossible a computing Hosaka Mitshui imposibly";)
I too am a fellow ghost who enjoys a good haunting of used book stores. I used to wear white sheets until one day I was mistaken for the other people who wear that attire and was lynched. Nowadays I just go into the stores either wearing one of those black trash bags with bones or casper painted on them. With this whole, internet thing, it is getting near impossible to go out and scare the used book people. Looks like, I'll have to start downloading gifs of ghosts and sticking them in my sigs when I go to buy my used books from now on. Kind of sad.
I disagree with his comment that programming should be more of a sport giving way to the younger crowd. Pllleeeeaaaassseeeee. I'm a young upstart and true I can debug and fix things faster than anyone in my department over 30, but I'm still in awe of their skills that they possess. IMHO Programming has a few facuets.
Wrap those up in a software package and you get a piece of art. Younger people are better at picking up the Mechanical aspect than the older people do, true. But, the mathematical/logical aspect comes with age as does the poetic style of programming, and the empircal computer knowledge.
Everyone here in my department who's over the age of 50 are the gurus when it comes to the code. They rely on us younger pups to debug their fresh math and engineering work. We come through and fix it up and then if it breaks we fix it. All along learning the deepest secrets the older wizards are "hunt and pecking" out with their keyboards.
So, until I'm around 50, I doubt I'm going to understand everything there is to know about the stuff they're working on here in my IS engineering department.
So, don't listen to people string all their "Owe, them youngins are too smart for me" crap. Better find a new job.
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Yea, well timelness is everything. Every time a brand new top selling book comes out, go ahead and try to find it at the nearest library. Try to find it not checked out. When the newest movie comes out, go ahead and try to find it on TV at the same time. Of course! You have to wait about a year while all your friends brag about seeing it in the theaters. Now take into effect the timelness of getting eminem's new CD before it comes out on shelf. All your friends are braging about having it, so you too go out and get a non-legit copy.
Again, timing is everything.
All I ever hear about programmers who abandon projects is whining about, "I have no time...Wahh. No time for anything. Wahhhh." Shut up! I'm sure you're still going to see the new star wars, scorpion king, and debbie does dallas. For real programmers there is no life outside of the box. Because they live there.
God! What's wrong with teachers these days. Out of everyone, you'd think that they'd be the king of geeks. Guess with the kind of salary they pay teachers, compared to the kind IT pays; there are no good technical teachers.
Yea, these teachers sound like nin-com-poops. Just give them a desktop with a few icons pointing to a word processor, web browser, and office suite. What else do they even want to use it for. Oh, and don't forget to put a sticky note on each screen saying, "It's alright the slashes go the other way. It's suppose to!" Freakin scared of options and complexity. No wonder our public education system sucks so bad. In college at the CS departments, most are like learn UNIX/Linux or fail out the deparment trying. I know that public schools aren't but come on! You click, the abi-word icon. "Click" it you moron. How different is that from Windows. "Click." I said "Click!". Oh, and no don't save that sh*t in fuc*ing doc format. Save it rtf. OMG, an open standard that all word processors can use! Who'd think. But I guess when they don't see that [start] bar at the bottom. They'll start to panic. What's this foot/gear looking thing? I better not click that. Where's a 1-800 number to call to be on the safe side. nin-com-poops
Dude, he wasn't given it. He is the reason that there's food on the tables of the employees of red hat. They gave it to him because he earned it honestly. Everything he's done up to this day has been honest. He's even turned down millions just because he didn't want his name associated with any one distro and stiffle competition.
Other then the fact the dude is a millionare. ???? How? How could that have happened? Well, he's so well know for the OS, that Red Hat gave him a ton of shares that neted him a cool few million. Then, he was hired by transmetta for a few million every year because of his skillz. Yes, that's skillz with a z =P
It's ironic seeing that advertisment with a hand handing over cash in the article with the M$ story. I bet that's exactly what the states saw when they dropped their display of modular windows.
M$ has every reason to be worried in every market. Just as a word is used so often, that it loses its copyright and becomes public domain so will OS's. It's bleeping edge apps that will be the only things without GPL equivalents.
I'm only 23 and all the people over here are pushing close to 60. They're all still programming and have been since the days of assembly and object code. They haven't gone anywhere and don't plan to until retirement. They're all still sharp as a tack and are learning all the latest programming languages just as fast if not faster than the younger crowd. A common misconception is that you have to "unlearn" everything you've learned when moving from one language to the next. Most of the time, though, that knowledge is transferable and you get the edge on competition. By the way, they're all still loving it! I feel great to see older technies that have not become obsolete.
The great Linus said in his book, "Just for fun" that when you have a monopoly on a way to bring in water and start charging a crap load for it, someone else is going to invent a newer and cheaper way to bring that water in without having to use yours. Same thing is happening here. CDs were first priced high with a fixed rate because the industry needed to pay for their new equipment. Well, now they still kept the prices high. We all know that. But look at DVDs. They have dropped to around 10 to 20 bucks for old to newest dvds. That's a full fledged movie on them bad boys! Not just some crummy toons. That's why I have embraced paying for my DVDs but haven't bought a CD ever! They definetly need to drop the prices! They doubled them when their production cost dropped by over half! Now they're just peeved that they can't mantain there strangle hold on the market. It's just funny that according the "the market" a new music albumn which cost the recording artist a few grand (at most!) should cost as much as a DVD of a multimillion dollar budgeted film such as Lord of the Rings.
Yea, but some of us people are particularily keen to eye candy and plain text can be drabe for people with high speed connections and fast computers.
Admit it, if we gave in to the god of efficiency we'd be using links/lynx with no X and there'd be no need for broad band/a computer with more than a 486.
However, since a lot of us do have spare gigahertz cycles lying around and paid our $50+ for broad band, might as well put it to good use to make the internet more of a multimedia wonder that its become by having it be appeasing more to the eye than plain jane mono text.
I have seen lots of educational sites use flash in a very informative and educational way that HTML just couldn't justify.
I used Mandrake at first and loved their release of 6.2. However, as they progressed past 6.2, they kept sticking in beta software. They ended up fixing previous bugs by upgrading the software but would introduce new bugs by placing in new betas that would lock up/crash my system. Therefore, I've moved to red hat.
If they'd stop sticking in some many buggy packages I might actually go back. This might be the problem of their money troubles.
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Yea, I definetly agree there with you. I just got done reading the difference machine and what a horrible book it truely was. If Gibson was to throw this little shin dig, he'd coin it, "This is the imposibbly impossible possibility to make impossible a computing Hosaka Mitshui imposibly" ;)
I work for Boeing and they were questioned about the look by the military. Boeing had this to say, "The JSF was made to fight battles not go to prom"
I too am a fellow ghost who enjoys a good haunting of used book stores. I used to wear white sheets until one day I was mistaken for the other people who wear that attire and was lynched. Nowadays I just go into the stores either wearing one of those black trash bags with bones or casper painted on them. With this whole, internet thing, it is getting near impossible to go out and scare the used book people. Looks like, I'll have to start downloading gifs of ghosts and sticking them in my sigs when I go to buy my used books from now on. Kind of sad.
I disagree with his comment that programming should be more of a sport giving way to the younger crowd. Pllleeeeaaaassseeeee. I'm a young upstart and true I can debug and fix things faster than anyone in my department over 30, but I'm still in awe of their skills that they possess. IMHO Programming has a few facuets.
1.)Mechanical aspect
2.)Poetic aspect
3.)Mathematical aspect
4.)Emperial computer knowledge
Wrap those up in a software package and you get a piece of art. Younger people are better at picking up the Mechanical aspect than the older people do, true. But, the mathematical/logical aspect comes with age as does the poetic style of programming, and the empircal computer knowledge.
Everyone here in my department who's over the age of 50 are the gurus when it comes to the code. They rely on us younger pups to debug their fresh math and engineering work. We come through and fix it up and then if it breaks we fix it. All along learning the deepest secrets the older wizards are "hunt and pecking" out with their keyboards.
So, until I'm around 50, I doubt I'm going to understand everything there is to know about the stuff they're working on here in my IS engineering department.
So, don't listen to people string all their "Owe, them youngins are too smart for me" crap. Better find a new job.
Owwwwww! She is HOT!
Yea, well timelness is everything. Every time a brand new top selling book comes out, go ahead and try to find it at the nearest library. Try to find it not checked out.
When the newest movie comes out, go ahead and try to find it on TV at the same time. Of course! You have to wait about a year while all your friends brag about seeing it in the theaters.
Now take into effect the timelness of getting eminem's new CD before it comes out on shelf. All your friends are braging about having it, so you too go out and get a non-legit copy.
Again, timing is everything.
Ah good. I enjoy it when Slashdoters help their servers out =P
All I ever hear about programmers who abandon projects is whining about, "I have no time...Wahh. No time for anything. Wahhhh."
Shut up! I'm sure you're still going to see the new star wars, scorpion king, and debbie does dallas.
For real programmers there is no life outside of the box. Because they live there.
God! What's wrong with teachers these days. Out of everyone, you'd think that they'd be the king of geeks. Guess with the kind of salary they pay teachers, compared to the kind IT pays; there are no good technical teachers.
Yea, these teachers sound like nin-com-poops. Just give them a desktop with a few icons pointing to a word processor, web browser, and office suite. What else do they even want to use it for. Oh, and don't forget to put a sticky note on each screen saying, "It's alright the slashes go the other way. It's suppose to!"
Freakin scared of options and complexity. No wonder our public education system sucks so bad. In college at the CS departments, most are like learn UNIX/Linux or fail out the deparment trying. I know that public schools aren't but come on! You click, the abi-word icon. "Click" it you moron. How different is that from Windows. "Click." I said "Click!". Oh, and no don't save that sh*t in fuc*ing doc format. Save it rtf. OMG, an open standard that all word processors can use! Who'd think.
But I guess when they don't see that [start] bar at the bottom. They'll start to panic. What's this foot/gear looking thing? I better not click that. Where's a 1-800 number to call to be on the safe side.
nin-com-poops
Dude, he wasn't given it. He is the reason that there's food on the tables of the employees of red hat. They gave it to him because he earned it honestly. Everything he's done up to this day has been honest. He's even turned down millions just because he didn't want his name associated with any one distro and stiffle competition.
Other then the fact the dude is a millionare. ???? How? How could that have happened? Well, he's so well know for the OS, that Red Hat gave him a ton of shares that neted him a cool few million. Then, he was hired by transmetta for a few million every year because of his skillz. Yes, that's skillz with a z =P
It's ironic seeing that advertisment with a hand handing over cash in the article with the M$ story. I bet that's exactly what the states saw when they dropped their display of modular windows.
M$ has every reason to be worried in every market. Just as a word is used so often, that it loses its copyright and becomes public domain so will OS's. It's bleeping edge apps that will be the only things without GPL equivalents.
I'm only 23 and all the people over here are pushing close to 60. They're all still programming and have been since the days of assembly and object code. They haven't gone anywhere and don't plan to until retirement. They're all still sharp as a tack and are learning all the latest programming languages just as fast if not faster than the younger crowd. A common misconception is that you have to "unlearn" everything you've learned when moving from one language to the next. Most of the time, though, that knowledge is transferable and you get the edge on competition. By the way, they're all still loving it! I feel great to see older technies that have not become obsolete.
The great Linus said in his book, "Just for fun" that when you have a monopoly on a way to bring in water and start charging a crap load for it, someone else is going to invent a newer and cheaper way to bring that water in without having to use yours. Same thing is happening here. CDs were first priced high with a fixed rate because the industry needed to pay for their new equipment. Well, now they still kept the prices high. We all know that. But look at DVDs. They have dropped to around 10 to 20 bucks for old to newest dvds. That's a full fledged movie on them bad boys! Not just some crummy toons. That's why I have embraced paying for my DVDs but haven't bought a CD ever! They definetly need to drop the prices! They doubled them when their production cost dropped by over half! Now they're just peeved that they can't mantain there strangle hold on the market. It's just funny that according the "the market" a new music albumn which cost the recording artist a few grand (at most!) should cost as much as a DVD of a multimillion dollar budgeted film such as Lord of the Rings.
Where would we be today if it wasn't for http://www.newgrounds.com
That's what I thought.
Yea, but some of us people are particularily keen to eye candy and plain text can be drabe for people with high speed connections and fast computers. Admit it, if we gave in to the god of efficiency we'd be using links/lynx with no X and there'd be no need for broad band/a computer with more than a 486. However, since a lot of us do have spare gigahertz cycles lying around and paid our $50+ for broad band, might as well put it to good use to make the internet more of a multimedia wonder that its become by having it be appeasing more to the eye than plain jane mono text. I have seen lots of educational sites use flash in a very informative and educational way that HTML just couldn't justify.
Change your phone number to that of people you don't like. Then those people will get those annoying calls while eating dinner instead of you!
Did you hear that M$ rep on the article, "Tremindious customer resistance." Sounding more like a borg to me. Customer resistance is futile.
I used Mandrake at first and loved their release of 6.2. However, as they progressed past 6.2, they kept sticking in beta software. They ended up fixing previous bugs by upgrading the software but would introduce new bugs by placing in new betas that would lock up/crash my system. Therefore, I've moved to red hat. If they'd stop sticking in some many buggy packages I might actually go back. This might be the problem of their money troubles.