Yea this Palladium crap really scares me, and I really enjoy using Windows. Sure I run a linux box, and it can be really great for a basic desktop, but I just enjoy how you can plug something into a Windows box and it just works. Does anyone know how soon MS plans to get the Palladium stuff in full swing? I love linux, but I need something that just works for a primary computer. Suddenly Apple is starting to look really good...
From what I got out of the article, he was saying that programmers should use a higher-level language when there is no need to use a lower-level one, not that programmers should forego learning low-level languages all together. In a way, I agree with him. A language is just a tool to get a job done. If you can write code that is more secure in one language easier than in another, use the easy language by all means. In essence, I think this is what the author was saying in his article.
No, satire just has to poke fun at society. It doesn't necessarily have to be laugh out loud funny, just humorus, person who obviously didn't pay attention in English class.
is which one will survive a flush down the toilet. Game Boys have been known to withstand a flush and still operate fine (its in some issue of EGM), but what about the camera?
movies (all types in general) have taught me one important lesson: if I ever defeat my nemesis, kill him while I have the chance. This is the one mistake that always comes back to bite heroes in the butt.
I must say, I enjoy using Mozilla 1.3 for my email. It marks and moves most of the spam that I get to my "junk" folder. As time goes on, and I mark more and more messages as spam it will only become better. Of important note is that I have been training this program since the day it was released for beta testing.
more pointless Apple news. This goes along with my theory that anything involving Apple gets instantly posted. (See this previous post) Also, without having any details of any kind, the author of this news post states that "this looks promising", when it could very well be a regression for the operating system. I dont' think it is really news that Apple is planning an update for their OS (du..duh!), when we have details then that will be news.
Don't bash Christianity...thats about the only sure thing we have in this world. If you can believe that life can form from a puddle all on its own, or that genes can mutate and turn into something that was better than before, then you surely must be able to admit that there is someone out there guiding and designing this.
more logical than what they have been saying about global warming being caused by "greenhouse gases" and whatnot. Plus, who really knows about temperature, its not exactly something that you can study for a week and reach a conclusion. You need years (probably thousands) to do things accurately. Plus, if you look back temperatures on earth over time (sorry no links at the moment) it appears to have a sinusodial appearance. Eh, I'm not worried about it.
The website for the device mentions watching TV and DVD on your monitor with this device. That seems illogical for 2 reasons. First, DVD only has 480 lines of resolution, not 1080 so you are really not getting anything more out of your DVD with this device. Second, you still need a HDTV decoder for the HDTV signal. These boxes run about $1000 right now. I don't think anyone is willing to pay that much money just to watch HDTV on their monitor. Chances are, if they are going to spend that kind of money on TV, they must be serious about things and will most likely go for a HDTV ready projection screen and the HDTV decoder box.
I'm a teenager and I use Linux...I don't think that any *nix system should be viewed as something that should not be touched by teens. Linux is a great system, and some reading (helpfiles or how-to's) anyone can learn how to use it effectively. Even if you don't want to do any reading, today's distros make it easy to get a basic system up and running without pain. I especially like the apt-get program I installed on my system. With one command I can install just about any program that I want. Windows and Mac OS X both don't offer this feature.
I think you missed the point of my post, it was sarcasm that was meant to prove the point that this is not really news for anyone, Wall Street Journal or/. When I read/. I expect to see something that is really cool, thought provoking, or related to deep technology. The fact that Apple has stopped selling an old brand that it carries is something that is logical. With, I'm sure, hundreds of story submissions daily and only 8 picked for front page, I don't think this was worthy of being picked. I'm sure there was some article that was more interesting that got passed over. I don't mind seeing interesting news about Apple posted on/., but anymore it seems like anything with the words Apple, Mac, or OS X gets instantly posted on the front page.
Ford no longer sells the 1998 model Taurus and has instead replaced it with the model year 2003 line. Anaylists were left baffled at this move. One remarked, "Who thougth Ford would make such a drastic move as this? Updating their models and not selling the older ones...I'm baffeled!" Similar trends have been noticed in just about every other freakin company on earth! So why is this front page/. news?
Yea thats nothing special....I am typing this right now on a PC from the same year (PII 400 with 128 mb of ram) running RedHat 8.0 with KDE blazin w/ transparent menus and all. Hardware is hardware dude,it all ages at the same rate. Plus, I have a friend who has 233 PC that is running XP with only 128 mb of ram. You see, if in 1998 the PC and the Mac were of equal power (lets just assume that for the sake of argument) then today, they are of the same power. Nothing has changed, software design is the same for both platforms (in a general sense, its not like Mac programs are dramatically less taxing on a system or something like that), so therefore a PC from 1998 and a Mac from 1998 both equally outdated.
since when is being a professor at an university a low paying position? Obviously this guy has some skill, not only does he have to know his CS stuff, but he has to be able to convey his knowledge to others.
Sorry, guess I didn't make myself clear, but this is the comment I was mainly writing about:
CS requires that people pay for software, and that is not the direction the economy is headed. The way it was written made it seem that CS would disappear because of a lack of funding. Plus, I think what you have said about it being hopeless to find a job in CS unless you live in India is not completely accurate either.
If there was no CS, there would be no software. Even if all software becomes OSS, there will have to be some way for programmers to make money. Otherwise there would be no CS majors, then there would be no one talented enough to make quality software. In today's technology driven society, it is an impossibilty that there will be no more CS people.
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Yea this Palladium crap really scares me, and I really enjoy using Windows. Sure I run a linux box, and it can be really great for a basic desktop, but I just enjoy how you can plug something into a Windows box and it just works. Does anyone know how soon MS plans to get the Palladium stuff in full swing? I love linux, but I need something that just works for a primary computer. Suddenly Apple is starting to look really good...
From what I got out of the article, he was saying that programmers should use a higher-level language when there is no need to use a lower-level one, not that programmers should forego learning low-level languages all together. In a way, I agree with him. A language is just a tool to get a job done. If you can write code that is more secure in one language easier than in another, use the easy language by all means. In essence, I think this is what the author was saying in his article.
being slashdoted doesn't help either. :-P
This is true, but I never claimed to be able to spell, just know what satire is :)
No, satire just has to poke fun at society. It doesn't necessarily have to be laugh out loud funny, just humorus, person who obviously didn't pay attention in English class.
is which one will survive a flush down the toilet. Game Boys have been known to withstand a flush and still operate fine (its in some issue of EGM), but what about the camera?
movies (all types in general) have taught me one important lesson: if I ever defeat my nemesis, kill him while I have the chance. This is the one mistake that always comes back to bite heroes in the butt.
see...the mere fact that they try to mod me down proves my point!!!! :)
I must say, I enjoy using Mozilla 1.3 for my email. It marks and moves most of the spam that I get to my "junk" folder. As time goes on, and I mark more and more messages as spam it will only become better. Of important note is that I have been training this program since the day it was released for beta testing.
Yea...somehow I don't think streaming ASCII text is going to enhance Shakespeare for me.
more pointless Apple news. This goes along with my theory that anything involving Apple gets instantly posted. (See this previous post) Also, without having any details of any kind, the author of this news post states that "this looks promising", when it could very well be a regression for the operating system. I dont' think it is really news that Apple is planning an update for their OS (du..duh!), when we have details then that will be news.
Don't bash Christianity...thats about the only sure thing we have in this world. If you can believe that life can form from a puddle all on its own, or that genes can mutate and turn into something that was better than before, then you surely must be able to admit that there is someone out there guiding and designing this.
And you believe everything your told don't you? If no one ever questions anything then we will never find the truth.
more logical than what they have been saying about global warming being caused by "greenhouse gases" and whatnot. Plus, who really knows about temperature, its not exactly something that you can study for a week and reach a conclusion. You need years (probably thousands) to do things accurately. Plus, if you look back temperatures on earth over time (sorry no links at the moment) it appears to have a sinusodial appearance. Eh, I'm not worried about it.
You think, with OS X being based on Unix, Apple would just release quicktime for us on linux and make this easy for us. :-P
Yea...what is really damaging is that for you to get a true HDTV signal you still need a HDTV signal decoder, which can set you back about $1000.
The website for the device mentions watching TV and DVD on your monitor with this device. That seems illogical for 2 reasons. First, DVD only has 480 lines of resolution, not 1080 so you are really not getting anything more out of your DVD with this device. Second, you still need a HDTV decoder for the HDTV signal. These boxes run about $1000 right now. I don't think anyone is willing to pay that much money just to watch HDTV on their monitor. Chances are, if they are going to spend that kind of money on TV, they must be serious about things and will most likely go for a HDTV ready projection screen and the HDTV decoder box.
I'm a teenager and I use Linux...I don't think that any *nix system should be viewed as something that should not be touched by teens. Linux is a great system, and some reading (helpfiles or how-to's) anyone can learn how to use it effectively. Even if you don't want to do any reading, today's distros make it easy to get a basic system up and running without pain. I especially like the apt-get program I installed on my system. With one command I can install just about any program that I want. Windows and Mac OS X both don't offer this feature.
I think you missed the point of my post, it was sarcasm that was meant to prove the point that this is not really news for anyone, Wall Street Journal or /. When I read /. I expect to see something that is really cool, thought provoking, or related to deep technology. The fact that Apple has stopped selling an old brand that it carries is something that is logical. With, I'm sure, hundreds of story submissions daily and only 8 picked for front page, I don't think this was worthy of being picked. I'm sure there was some article that was more interesting that got passed over. I don't mind seeing interesting news about Apple posted on /., but anymore it seems like anything with the words Apple, Mac, or OS X gets instantly posted on the front page.
it supposed to be a joke and you get the idea...freak
Ford no longer sells the 1998 model Taurus and has instead replaced it with the model year 2003 line. Anaylists were left baffled at this move. One remarked, "Who thougth Ford would make such a drastic move as this? Updating their models and not selling the older ones...I'm baffeled!" Similar trends have been noticed in just about every other freakin company on earth! So why is this front page /. news?
Yea thats nothing special....I am typing this right now on a PC from the same year (PII 400 with 128 mb of ram) running RedHat 8.0 with KDE blazin w/ transparent menus and all. Hardware is hardware dude,it all ages at the same rate. Plus, I have a friend who has 233 PC that is running XP with only 128 mb of ram. You see, if in 1998 the PC and the Mac were of equal power (lets just assume that for the sake of argument) then today, they are of the same power. Nothing has changed, software design is the same for both platforms (in a general sense, its not like Mac programs are dramatically less taxing on a system or something like that), so therefore a PC from 1998 and a Mac from 1998 both equally outdated.
since when is being a professor at an university a low paying position? Obviously this guy has some skill, not only does he have to know his CS stuff, but he has to be able to convey his knowledge to others.
Sorry, guess I didn't make myself clear, but this is the comment I was mainly writing about:
CS requires that people pay for software, and that is not the direction the economy is headed.
The way it was written made it seem that CS would disappear because of a lack of funding. Plus, I think what you have said about it being hopeless to find a job in CS unless you live in India is not completely accurate either.
If there was no CS, there would be no software. Even if all software becomes OSS, there will have to be some way for programmers to make money. Otherwise there would be no CS majors, then there would be no one talented enough to make quality software. In today's technology driven society, it is an impossibilty that there will be no more CS people.