The problem is that most average people have never heard of mozilla. However, they HAVE heard of Netscape. It's much, much easier to convince someone who is having a hard time with IE to use Netscape than trying to explain that Netscape is Mozilla, but Mozilla is better, so they should use Mozilla. The whole time you're trying to explain, they end up giving you a funny look and scratching their heads.
In the end, getting someone to use Netscape instead of IE is much better than just confusing them and having them end up going back to IE because they don't understand.
Anyone starting school today... my advice is forget tech. If you feel it in your soul (like you should do it), fine, go to a tech school like DeVry, start making money and save it. Going to traditional 4 year programs for CS is an utter waste of time. Way too much change and like I said it's always about what you did in the last six months.
Going to DeVry is great if you want a pure IT job, as in being a systems administrator or something. It helps you get the actual certification you need (MCSE, etc.). But don't expect a great salary.
However, if you want to do any kind of computer science work, you either have to be really good and be able to prove it easily and quickly or you need the piece of paper that says you spent 4 years of your life at an accredited university (and jumped through all the required hoops). If you go to a crappy school, then of course it was a waste of time. It doesn't matter what you did in the last 6 months if you have no college degree and no experience. The experience is certainly the most important thing, but if you have no experience and no real degree, it's much harder to get your foot in the door anywhere. Most places won't even look at your resume more than once if they don't see a degree or a lot of experience (or both).
Not only did they cancel Wonderfalls short of a full season, they had already paid for the full season and the entire season had already been filmed. Until they bring it back, Fox can kiss my shiny metal ass!!
Not to mention that the author totally missed the point of the Geforce MX line of cards... that they were aimed at the lower end market.
that's Beatles... not VW Beetles...
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I thought this was going to be something about those silly VW Beetle commercials with iPods. I guess the new beetles don't look as much like Yellow Submarines as their ancestors.
You missed the point. It's not about storage space, it's about having to download 60MB instead of 6MB. Users' time is worth more than anything else and if it takes an hour versus 6 minutes to download something, I think they'll prefer the 6 minutes.
As for IE loading up quickly, that's because it's always in memory because it's part of the OS. This may be good if all you do is surf the web, but when you want to do anything else, IE is still resident in memory for no useful reason.
I've watched it all go downhill at my company. Though I've only been here for two years, it was slightly better when I got here and from what I've heard from my elder coworkers, it was much better 5 years ago.
People used to have time to do projects correctly, but when one person takes the quick & dirty approach, upper management starts expecting the full process to take the same amount of time as the shortcut. So, eventually, no one does anything completely right and they cut corners everywhere or else they'll lose their job.
Subsequently, the marketing people start making promises we can't keep and we're constantly working 60 hour weeks to try and keep up to the point where we start burning out and product schedules slip. We start losing customers, then revenue. So the layoffs begin because of lower profits.
So in the end, there's just one guy doing a half-assed job as fast as possible while the rest of us are either in mental institutions or unemployed.
From that, I would say do the quick & dirty approach if you want to keep your job.
At my high school, we started a computer club out of 4-5 friends who were all interested in computers. We never got to the point of having regular meetings, but we did set up a one-line BBS for a few months. We even got the money to buy a professional BBS program to run on the machine. Well, this all fell flat on its face after the year ended because the 4-5 of us became too busy with real work to have anything to do with it. We didn't advertise to other people. Our teacher sponsor really didn't care that much. The basic interest in computers at the school just wasn't there (which is why we didn't bother advertising).
However, this was about 7-8 years ago and a lot has changed since then. Many more people that age have grown up with computers in their homes and have at least some interest in them. So your chances are probably much better than mine were. Just make sure you have plenty of people who are willing to join in to begin with and find a teacher who actually cares.
If Apple had used Gecko instead, they would be reproducing work that is already done in Chimera. They obviously wanted something of their own that they could make a huge announcement about. They also wanted to make it as small and fast as possible. So the decision to use khtml makes sense.
Above all else, Apple is a control freak... whether it's over their OS or their hardware or whatever runs on their OS, they want to have complete domination over it.
How does that improve Microsoft exactly? And what are these "brilliant ideas and concepts" that you speak of? You're living a pipe dream MAN!! (or smoking some ultra-crack)
... when Buffy the Vampire Layer makes the front page. I mean really, as previously stated, is this actually news that matters? I think not. Someone needs to do a major overhaul on the filtering system (also known as CmdrTaco)... I've lost all respect for him.
Lilo is soliciting money for HIM... and he doesn't own the network, he "administers it".... whatever that means. Basically he sits on his butt all day sending out global notices whining that is life sucks and everyone hates him and he needs more money. So there are three main points:
* None of this money is going to the network. * Lilo does not own the network. * Lilo is not providing any actual services.
If you give $5 to him, that's it, your $5 is gone... you get nothing for it. It doesn't improve the level of service. It just means that Lilo can go another 20 minutes wihout getting a real job.
And by no means am I saying that developing open source software is not a real job, the problem is that he is not developing a damn thing. He is just "administrating" (again, whatever that means) a bunch of servers owned by other people/companies/organizations. He could farm it out to other people, but he's a control freak and a power hungry person. Other people have volunteered to help, but he has refused them. As I see it, it's his own damn fault and he doesn't deserve a penny of the open source community's money.
Yoda hobbling around with his cane is probably his way of conserving energy. When he was hopping around like a monkey on crack during his fight with Dooku, he was using the force. He has a line in one of the movies where he explains to Luke that their power is not physical, it comes from channeling the force. If he can throw around giant boulders and huge pillars (as well as pull a good-sized starship out of the swamp), I would think he could throw himself around without breaking a sweat.
LinuxSecurity is the same company as EnGarde Secure Linux, but they didn't write the review, they just linked to it (as they should, it's good and free marketing for them). The review was done by Network Computing who is not affiliated with them.
I've never heard of "The Maha-Barata", but the other three you mentioned are three of the most boring and long winded stories I've ever heard or read.... especially Beowulf. At least Star Wars has some flow to it. Just because it was written/created within the last century doesn't make it not an epic.
And if you truly had no intention of offending the person you replied to, you failed miserably.
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In the end, getting someone to use Netscape instead of IE is much better than just confusing them and having them end up going back to IE because they don't understand.
Going to DeVry is great if you want a pure IT job, as in being a systems administrator or something. It helps you get the actual certification you need (MCSE, etc.). But don't expect a great salary.
However, if you want to do any kind of computer science work, you either have to be really good and be able to prove it easily and quickly or you need the piece of paper that says you spent 4 years of your life at an accredited university (and jumped through all the required hoops). If you go to a crappy school, then of course it was a waste of time. It doesn't matter what you did in the last 6 months if you have no college degree and no experience. The experience is certainly the most important thing, but if you have no experience and no real degree, it's much harder to get your foot in the door anywhere. Most places won't even look at your resume more than once if they don't see a degree or a lot of experience (or both).
Not only did they cancel Wonderfalls short of a full season, they had already paid for the full season and the entire season had already been filmed. Until they bring it back, Fox can kiss my shiny metal ass!!
That's why you get a 21 year old girlfriend who doesn't wear any underwear... then you don't have to wonder and you can see the skin all the time.
Not to mention that the author totally missed the point of the Geforce MX line of cards... that they were aimed at the lower end market.
I thought this was going to be something about those silly VW Beetle commercials with iPods. I guess the new beetles don't look as much like Yellow Submarines as their ancestors.
... and how often does a regular user actually defrag their disk? Pretty much never.
As for IE loading up quickly, that's because it's always in memory because it's part of the OS. This may be good if all you do is surf the web, but when you want to do anything else, IE is still resident in memory for no useful reason.
People used to have time to do projects correctly, but when one person takes the quick & dirty approach, upper management starts expecting the full process to take the same amount of time as the shortcut. So, eventually, no one does anything completely right and they cut corners everywhere or else they'll lose their job.
Subsequently, the marketing people start making promises we can't keep and we're constantly working 60 hour weeks to try and keep up to the point where we start burning out and product schedules slip. We start losing customers, then revenue. So the layoffs begin because of lower profits.
So in the end, there's just one guy doing a half-assed job as fast as possible while the rest of us are either in mental institutions or unemployed.
From that, I would say do the quick & dirty approach if you want to keep your job.
However, this was about 7-8 years ago and a lot has changed since then. Many more people that age have grown up with computers in their homes and have at least some interest in them. So your chances are probably much better than mine were. Just make sure you have plenty of people who are willing to join in to begin with and find a teacher who actually cares.
They only have to sell one to make a profit since it cost them nothing to develop.
What a horrible show. I hope it rots in hell. Ok, I don't hate it that much, but I think this gets filed under "who gives a rat's ass?"
Mostly drawing pictures, writing essays, making posters, and maybe a little bit of programming.
And you think that business execs do any more than that?
If Apple had used Gecko instead, they would be reproducing work that is already done in Chimera. They obviously wanted something of their own that they could make a huge announcement about. They also wanted to make it as small and fast as possible. So the decision to use khtml makes sense.
Above all else, Apple is a control freak... whether it's over their OS or their hardware or whatever runs on their OS, they want to have complete domination over it.
... think of the possibilities!!
... more like America On LSD
How does that improve Microsoft exactly? And what are these "brilliant ideas and concepts" that you speak of? You're living a pipe dream MAN!! (or smoking some ultra-crack)
... when Buffy the Vampire Layer makes the front page. I mean really, as previously stated, is this actually news that matters? I think not. Someone needs to do a major overhaul on the filtering system (also known as CmdrTaco)... I've lost all respect for him.
Lilo is soliciting money for HIM... and he doesn't own the network, he "administers it".... whatever that means. Basically he sits on his butt all day sending out global notices whining that is life sucks and everyone hates him and he needs more money. So there are three main points:
* None of this money is going to the network.
* Lilo does not own the network.
* Lilo is not providing any actual services.
If you give $5 to him, that's it, your $5 is gone... you get nothing for it. It doesn't improve the level of service. It just means that Lilo can go another 20 minutes wihout getting a real job.
And by no means am I saying that developing open source software is not a real job, the problem is that he is not developing a damn thing. He is just "administrating" (again, whatever that means) a bunch of servers owned by other people/companies/organizations. He could farm it out to other people, but he's a control freak and a power hungry person. Other people have volunteered to help, but he has refused them. As I see it, it's his own damn fault and he doesn't deserve a penny of the open source community's money.
...or is it to battle the insane bandwidth sucked up by thousands of students downloading full DVD quality porn?
Yoda hobbling around with his cane is probably his way of conserving energy. When he was hopping around like a monkey on crack during his fight with Dooku, he was using the force. He has a line in one of the movies where he explains to Luke that their power is not physical, it comes from channeling the force. If he can throw around giant boulders and huge pillars (as well as pull a good-sized starship out of the swamp), I would think he could throw himself around without breaking a sweat.
LinuxSecurity is the same company as EnGarde Secure Linux, but they didn't write the review, they just linked to it (as they should, it's good and free marketing for them). The review was done by Network Computing who is not affiliated with them.
I've never heard of "The Maha-Barata", but the other three you mentioned are three of the most boring and long winded stories I've ever heard or read.... especially Beowulf. At least Star Wars has some flow to it. Just because it was written/created within the last century doesn't make it not an epic.
And if you truly had no intention of offending the person you replied to, you failed miserably.
I seriously doubt he ever got laid... even by his wife... did you see his picture in the article?