Fewer graduates means more demand for the rest of us.
Remember the good old days when you could post your resume on monster and have 100 emails and voicemails when you wake up at noon the next day? They'll come back sooner if these youngsters all drop CS.
How about finally somebody bought one of those ridiculous pieces of junk?
I think it's interesting technologically, but are Americans so lazy that they can't walk anymore?
In my neighborhood, we have locking communal mailboxes, instead of the ones next to the driveway. Mine is about 200 feet away, and I've seen my neighbors drive to the mailbox, then drive home. When you factor in starting the car, changing gear, etc. it's not any faster. They're just too lazy to walk.
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With the Riva128, back when I had a 3Dfx Voodoo (or Voodoo2).
They garbled texture maps to achieve a higher transfer rate and frame rate. Then they went legit for the TNT line.
I guess the belief "if you can't win, cheat" is still there at nvidia.
I wonder if ATi makes a good Linux driver...
And no problem has ever been solved by giving power to a government entity. We complain about them being inept, slow, inefficient, and bureaucratic for a reason.
An excellent similar idea that I saw in the book Earthweb (a pretty good read) was paying the recipient for his time.
A character had his email account set up (and it would take something more than our current email protocols to handle it) so that people on his allow list could send him email for free. He could also put people on a list requiring them to pay a given amount of money to send him an email. And anybody else got his default amount.
If a stranger had a legitimate reason to email him (like a job offer), he could refund the money. Not that it really matters if the employer is sending three $0.25 emails to candidates. But if a spammer had to pay a quarter per email, they'd go back to junk snail mail.
I might not believe in the scary monster from Redmond as much as some more zealous FSF and OSI lovers, but please! Do you actually think billg is paying SCO to do this?
That would open MS to so much litigation (and possibly more prosecution) if one person talked, or a crafty reporter found the paper trail or money trail linking the two.
If you're just going to make crap up, at least make it reasonable.
The dominant theory seems to be that SCO is trying to set itself up to be bought out by IBM or another.
Look at the scox stock price since they announced the suit.
Who the hell modded this as flamebait?
It's a joke! It might not be a very funny joke, but it's a joke.
Remember in the first one when Morpheus is talking to Neo about which pill to take? "Nobody can be told what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself." Oh yeah...
"It appears that Microsoft is tying the tie its applications (developer tools) to their operating system," Hentzen told us.
(I assume he means "trying to tie", quite the tongue twister).
I am just dumbfounded! I can't believe Microsoft might be trying to leverage its market share.
Next he'll tell us that they're more concerned with sales figures than with producing a quality product.
It's just unbelievable that somebody could think that way...
I wrote a gtk-- based Reverse Polish Notation calculator for my Linux based computers. It only has basic and some intermediate functionality, but it does what I need.
I love RPN and my HP 48GX. ghsiloP RPN calculator.
ghsiloP == g + reverse("Polish")
It's not a recursive name, but I like it.
You can blame marketing for some of it. The ads can make a bad movie sound good, but people still want movies like that.
I don't think what I said qualifies as "anti-populsm anger", since I never said anything negative about it. I just think most of the reason for movie quality is the consumer.
I don't agree with their taste in movies, but that's just my taste, not an absolute right vs. wrong.
That comment about Kangaroo Jack wasn't fair.
Don't blame the internet or even hollywood. Blame the people who went to see it. That movie was a success (as much as it might scare some of us), because for one reason or another lots of people bought tickets.
There have always been people making crap movies (and tv shows) and people who have what most of us would consider poor taste going out to watch them.
Hollywood isn't bringing down movie quality by only making crap like "The Core". Viewers are bringing down movie quality by watching crap like "The Core". Entertainment is an industry, they produce what sells.
No I'm comparing the whole process.
The last I heard of it up2date was not free from redhat, so there's nothing that ships with redhat that allows you to type a simple command and get upgrades from a trusted central location.
The entire package system of redhat sucks compared to debian or gentoo.
You also can't (or couldn't the last time I was unfortunate enough to use RH--May '02) run a few simple commands and upgrade a box to the latest release. Debian and gentoo do it just fine.
And apt-get does not query a server to get info. It's either stored in the deb or in a db (maybe in/var/lib/apt), I'd check, but I converted to gentoo for the athlon-xp optimizations.
With debian and gentoo the package format and package manager are highly coordinated.
An rpm doesn't include a list of all rpms it requires, just libs, and neither does the rpm database.
The ebuilds in/usr/portage contain all depenencies. I forget whether debian includes them in apt's database or in the actual deb file, but apt-get install has never failed me.
Having some other person be able to run the server that redhat should give access to for free doesn't help. That server is pretty useless unless it's housing the latest packages all tested for integration, like debian and gentoo. And who's running it? I feel pretty safe getting files from debian.org or gentoo.org, but some_guys_home-grown_redhat.com doesn't inspire confidence in me.
Rpm was never designed for upgrading. Redhat's idea of an upgrade is buy the next version and install it.
A debian box can do an entire upgrade (including glibc) without having to reinstall or even reboot. The only thing that requires a reboot is a kernel upgrade, so you can run the new kernel.
I'd suspect that gentoo can act similarly. And I'll find out when the next major revision of glibc comes out.
I'm in Phoenix, so I have an hour and a half of March left. Then the 24 hours of prank hell.
And cuz it's still March, I didn't think about the April fools joke aspect...it scared me...I almost downloaded a BSD iso as the only true way to escape RPM.:)
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Fewer graduates means more demand for the rest of us.
Remember the good old days when you could post your resume on monster and have 100 emails and voicemails when you wake up at noon the next day? They'll come back sooner if these youngsters all drop CS.
How about finally somebody bought one of those ridiculous pieces of junk?
I think it's interesting technologically, but are Americans so lazy that they can't walk anymore?
In my neighborhood, we have locking communal mailboxes, instead of the ones next to the driveway. Mine is about 200 feet away, and I've seen my neighbors drive to the mailbox, then drive home. When you factor in starting the car, changing gear, etc. it's not any faster. They're just too lazy to walk.
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And they traded on the Street outside the Wall on lower Manhattan Island, which is how the NYSE and it's trading in eighths started.
With the Riva128, back when I had a 3Dfx Voodoo (or Voodoo2).
They garbled texture maps to achieve a higher transfer rate and frame rate. Then they went legit for the TNT line.
I guess the belief "if you can't win, cheat" is still there at nvidia.
I wonder if ATi makes a good Linux driver...
I've heard people say that before.
What's the true story?
And no problem has ever been solved by giving power to a government entity. We complain about them being inept, slow, inefficient, and bureaucratic for a reason.
An excellent similar idea that I saw in the book Earthweb (a pretty good read) was paying the recipient for his time.
A character had his email account set up (and it would take something more than our current email protocols to handle it) so that people on his allow list could send him email for free. He could also put people on a list requiring them to pay a given amount of money to send him an email. And anybody else got his default amount.
If a stranger had a legitimate reason to email him (like a job offer), he could refund the money. Not that it really matters if the employer is sending three $0.25 emails to candidates. But if a spammer had to pay a quarter per email, they'd go back to junk snail mail.
Good point. And a good laugh. :)
I still think that paying another company to kill itself is beyond even them.
I might not believe in the scary monster from Redmond as much as some more zealous FSF and OSI lovers, but please! Do you actually think billg is paying SCO to do this?
That would open MS to so much litigation (and possibly more prosecution) if one person talked, or a crafty reporter found the paper trail or money trail linking the two.
If you're just going to make crap up, at least make it reasonable.
That was the rambus business strategy. Why not try it in software?
The dominant theory seems to be that SCO is trying to set itself up to be bought out by IBM or another.
Look at the scox stock price since they announced the suit.
Who the hell modded this as flamebait?
It's a joke! It might not be a very funny joke, but it's a joke.
Remember in the first one when Morpheus is talking to Neo about which pill to take? "Nobody can be told what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself." Oh yeah...
"What is the Matrix?"
Is it something you can show me, or do I have to experience it for myself?
From The Register article:
"It appears that Microsoft is tying the tie its applications (developer tools) to their operating system," Hentzen told us.
(I assume he means "trying to tie", quite the tongue twister).
I am just dumbfounded! I can't believe Microsoft might be trying to leverage its market share.
Next he'll tell us that they're more concerned with sales figures than with producing a quality product.
It's just unbelievable that somebody could think that way...
(Is there such as thing as too much sarcasm?)
Who cares about 'Spiderman', I'm a much bigger fan of Spider-Man?
The WWN leads the world in stories about WWII German astronauts returning to Earth.
Why is it funny that I compared my Porsche to a Sentra?
Who wins?
I wrote a gtk-- based Reverse Polish Notation calculator for my Linux based computers. It only has basic and some intermediate functionality, but it does what I need.
I love RPN and my HP 48GX.
ghsiloP RPN calculator.
ghsiloP == g + reverse("Polish")
It's not a recursive name, but I like it.
You can blame marketing for some of it. The ads can make a bad movie sound good, but people still want movies like that.
I don't think what I said qualifies as "anti-populsm anger", since I never said anything negative about it. I just think most of the reason for movie quality is the consumer.
I don't agree with their taste in movies, but that's just my taste, not an absolute right vs. wrong.
My Porsche 944 Turbo has mid 13s, and it's street legal, and it's comfier, and it corners well, and it was cheaper, etc.
But if somebody wants to destroy a Sentra to give me a laugh, okay.
True. Have you noticed "fun for the whole family" now means "anyone over 10 will hate this"?
That comment about Kangaroo Jack wasn't fair.
Don't blame the internet or even hollywood. Blame the people who went to see it. That movie was a success (as much as it might scare some of us), because for one reason or another lots of people bought tickets.
There have always been people making crap movies (and tv shows) and people who have what most of us would consider poor taste going out to watch them.
Hollywood isn't bringing down movie quality by only making crap like "The Core". Viewers are bringing down movie quality by watching crap like "The Core". Entertainment is an industry, they produce what sells.
If you mean slashdot time, I think it just assumes EDT.
But my life doesn't revolve around slashdot, so I used my PC clock to determine the time.
No I'm comparing the whole process. /var/lib/apt), I'd check, but I converted to gentoo for the athlon-xp optimizations.
The last I heard of it up2date was not free from redhat, so there's nothing that ships with redhat that allows you to type a simple command and get upgrades from a trusted central location.
The entire package system of redhat sucks compared to debian or gentoo.
You also can't (or couldn't the last time I was unfortunate enough to use RH--May '02) run a few simple commands and upgrade a box to the latest release. Debian and gentoo do it just fine.
And apt-get does not query a server to get info. It's either stored in the deb or in a db (maybe in
With debian and gentoo the package format and package manager are highly coordinated. /usr/portage contain all depenencies. I forget whether debian includes them in apt's database or in the actual deb file, but apt-get install has never failed me.
An rpm doesn't include a list of all rpms it requires, just libs, and neither does the rpm database.
The ebuilds in
Having some other person be able to run the server that redhat should give access to for free doesn't help. That server is pretty useless unless it's housing the latest packages all tested for integration, like debian and gentoo. And who's running it? I feel pretty safe getting files from debian.org or gentoo.org, but some_guys_home-grown_redhat.com doesn't inspire confidence in me.
Rpm was never designed for upgrading. Redhat's idea of an upgrade is buy the next version and install it.
A debian box can do an entire upgrade (including glibc) without having to reinstall or even reboot. The only thing that requires a reboot is a kernel upgrade, so you can run the new kernel.
I'd suspect that gentoo can act similarly. And I'll find out when the next major revision of glibc comes out.
I'm in Phoenix, so I have an hour and a half of March left. Then the 24 hours of prank hell. :)
And cuz it's still March, I didn't think about the April fools joke aspect...it scared me...I almost downloaded a BSD iso as the only true way to escape RPM.