Brother, Linux don't run "easily" on a netwinder, and the sumbitch was -desinged- to run Linux...lord knows it don't run "easily" on the morass of incompatible standards known as the "peecee".
Is linux: Powerful? Yes. Extensible? Yes. Hackable? Yes. Free? Yes. Easy? What color is the sky in -your- world?
Hiring agencies aren't hindering step between you and geek nirvana. Quite the opposite: their job is to make sure you get as much salad as possible when you finally land the geek job of your dreams.
These guys are slimy sales goons: the suit's suit. But these suits work for the geek, rather than vice versa. Give 'em a list of buzzwords, and step back while their perfectly oiled hair and shiny shoes makes an assault upon any number of potential employers. Their job is to sell -you- and your skills to companies, for as much money as they can(they work on comission, and are paid by the company. If someone wants -you- to pony up the cash, run screaming).
So, while the suits run interference with HR for you, all you have to do is talk to the guys who you'll work for and with at the interview. If you don't like 'em, you don't have to work for 'em, and if they don't like you, the headhunter will let you know why the company passed.
The average recruiter -is- technically iliterate, so you'll have to speak in buzzwords to sell your skillset. Lots of times they'll miss, but they will eventually come up with a potential position you really like. And then they will smile with perfect teeth at the HR goons, rolling up your salary into the big numbers, while you sneak in to talk shop with the IT manager.
x86 sux...I'd rather not perpetuate the intellectual monopoly x86 has. It's cheap, but that's -all- it has going for it.
ARM is cheap, fast, and easy on power consumption. Alpha is the fastest slab of silicon money can buy. You can buy generic system boards for -both- architectures. We already have a low-end workstation/PC platform for MacOS X: the Macintosh.
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Linux? -EASILY-?
Bwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaah-hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Brother, Linux don't run "easily" on a netwinder, and the sumbitch was -desinged- to run Linux...lord knows it don't run "easily" on the morass of incompatible standards known as the "peecee".
Is linux:
Powerful? Yes.
Extensible? Yes.
Hackable? Yes.
Free? Yes.
Easy? What color is the sky in -your- world?
"Using the force to score chicks"
Darth JarJar
Hiring agencies aren't hindering step between you and geek nirvana. Quite the opposite: their job is to make sure you get as much salad as possible when you finally land the geek job of your dreams.
These guys are slimy sales goons: the suit's suit. But these suits work for the geek, rather than vice versa. Give 'em a list of buzzwords, and step back while their perfectly oiled hair and shiny shoes makes an assault upon any number of potential employers. Their job is to sell -you- and your skills to companies, for as much money as they can(they work on comission, and are paid by the company. If someone wants -you- to pony up the cash, run screaming).
So, while the suits run interference with HR for you, all you have to do is talk to the guys who you'll work for and with at the interview. If you don't like 'em, you don't have to work for 'em, and if they don't like you, the headhunter will let you know why the company passed.
The average recruiter -is- technically iliterate, so you'll have to speak in buzzwords to sell your skillset. Lots of times they'll miss, but they will eventually come up with a potential position you really like. And then they will smile with perfect teeth at the HR goons, rolling up your salary into the big numbers, while you sneak in to talk shop with the IT manager.
Darth JarJar!
x86 sux...I'd rather not perpetuate the intellectual monopoly x86 has. It's cheap, but that's -all- it has going for it.
ARM is cheap, fast, and easy on power consumption. Alpha is the fastest slab of silicon money can buy. You can buy generic system boards for -both- architectures. We already have a low-end workstation/PC platform for MacOS X: the Macintosh.
Darth Binks
Meesa gonna bring you to da darkside, yah!
"How much has Apple donated to *BSD projects?"
However much it cost them to develop Darwin. I'd rather they keep donating man-hours to open source projects rather than money.
Darth Binks
How wude!