Agreed. It's worth noting, too, that after a while the reputation of your college doesn't matter so much. You may have gone to Wattsamatta U, but if you've got brains and your work is good, you typically wind up doing just fine.
And even if he weren't a member of one of the more powerful families in the US, he probably would have done pretty well for himself having those names under his belt.
Whether or not he actually learned anything of value, though, is a matter we must pass over in silence.
A college degree is an education, and that should be of paramount concern. It's also nice to be in a place you'd enjoy living, etc.
But then there's reputation. You might get the same education at CMU and MIT, but if you're looking for jobs, all other things being equal, someone's gonna pick the MIT grad because it'd a bigger name. I realize it's variable across fields and with individuals, but names mean something to a lot of people, particularly when they're not really qualified to judge on merits.
You have a wonderfully shallow understanding of economics, and I'd be willing to bet it's accompanied by an equally firm belief that you're highly knowledgeable.
Yeah! fuck them and their selfish drive for independence from a government that's brutally repressed them for years so it can exploit the oil and gas reserves in the province.
All of which are mentioned at Distrowatch. I'm possibly including a couple projects that aren't actually Linux in there, but if there's 20-30 such items in that list, that's still 300 Linux distros. That's not competition; that's just a couple hundred collections of guys who decided to make their own distro cause they didn't like some quirk or another of how other distros are set up. That's just fragmentation with no benefit to the consumer, just a sea of incompatible layouts, setups, and package management formats.
Choice is great. But having a couple great, consistent, stable choices is better than having several hundred ones ranging from excellent to shitty. Variety for its own sake is pointless, from a practical standpoint at least.
Uh, no. In the case of linux, fragmentation is the result of lots of people producing more or less the same product with incompatibility because the barrier to entry is relatively low.
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Agreed. It's worth noting, too, that after a while the reputation of your college doesn't matter so much. You may have gone to Wattsamatta U, but if you've got brains and your work is good, you typically wind up doing just fine.
And even if he weren't a member of one of the more powerful families in the US, he probably would have done pretty well for himself having those names under his belt.
Whether or not he actually learned anything of value, though, is a matter we must pass over in silence.
A college degree is an education, and that should be of paramount concern. It's also nice to be in a place you'd enjoy living, etc.
But then there's reputation. You might get the same education at CMU and MIT, but if you're looking for jobs, all other things being equal, someone's gonna pick the MIT grad because it'd a bigger name. I realize it's variable across fields and with individuals, but names mean something to a lot of people, particularly when they're not really qualified to judge on merits.
Yes, but on the other hand, eat a dick.
The great thing about that response is it makes at least twice as much sense as anything you write, and it's far shorter.
Goddammit, we have to remember what matters!
And several billion dollars.
And unrestrained access to all of the personal information about everyone that can be gotten by whatever means.
It'll probably still suck then, too.
Yes. Absolutely. Past my bedtime.
When you have to go for the "but thanks for playing little kid" move, you've already lost.
Hmm. Interesting point. But on the other hand, eat a dick.
You have a wonderfully shallow understanding of economics, and I'd be willing to bet it's accompanied by an equally firm belief that you're highly knowledgeable.
Yeah! fuck them and their selfish drive for independence from a government that's brutally repressed them for years so it can exploit the oil and gas reserves in the province.
The fundamentals of our economy are sound.
Literally - our economy is based completely on acoustical signals.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/29/0249226&from=rss
It's a week ago, though, and this doesn't include Nokia, so I can see how you'd get confused.
How do you know that? That's what they say, but how do you know that?
Was the program under some kind of oversight outside of the executive branch? No. Are the details of the program publicly available? No.
You don't actually know how the NSA program compares to the Chinese one. You just hope that's the way it is.
Jesus Christ, are you a fuckwit.
That's not intended as an argument, and it shouldn't be construed in any other way except to say, "holy fuck, you are a fuckwit."
Jimmy Carter was a far, far better president than George W. Bush, on every single level.
It's what you do with it.
Also, you might want to consider some kind of memory protection if you're gonna be doing a lot of swapping. Leads to viruses, you see.
Yes, another person mentioned the perl module.
There's also RPy, a python interface. Works pretty well.
It's not a 404 page that's getting hijacked. It's DNS resolution failures.
It's a pretty big difference.
That's the point of the myth: Apollo granted her the gift of prophesy, then cursed her by making it so nobody would ever believe her predictions.
Fuck your netbook, and fuck you.
Spoiled fucking slutbag fucks.
Yes. That is a perfectly correct response.
You forgot Ubuntu.
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All of which are mentioned at Distrowatch. I'm possibly including a couple projects that aren't actually Linux in there, but if there's 20-30 such items in that list, that's still 300 Linux distros. That's not competition; that's just a couple hundred collections of guys who decided to make their own distro cause they didn't like some quirk or another of how other distros are set up. That's just fragmentation with no benefit to the consumer, just a sea of incompatible layouts, setups, and package management formats.
Choice is great. But having a couple great, consistent, stable choices is better than having several hundred ones ranging from excellent to shitty. Variety for its own sake is pointless, from a practical standpoint at least.
Come on. If your job is that stressful, fucking find a new one. Or, sack up and learn to cope.
In 99% of cases, if you freak out and do stupid shit, it's cause you're weak, not because the workplace really is that bad.
Uh, no. In the case of linux, fragmentation is the result of lots of people producing more or less the same product with incompatibility because the barrier to entry is relatively low.