The fact that you seem to believe that Microsoft is the end all and be-all is actually funny in a sad sort of way. Then again, being a good NEA member, you would spout the Union line.
unsupported claims
Microsoft has pumped tens of millions of dollars into your union.
and makes dubious inferences and another personal attack
Of course you are going to 'recommend' Microsoft Windows.
falls a long way short of being eloquent.
Just because you agree with someone's crude rant doesn't mean it's elegant.
Personally I'm more inclined to think the teacher is quite sincere. Ignorant, certainly, but there's no reason to put their attitude down to malice or even corruption.
After all to most people, including teachers, the most important thing is that it works with Windows/Office which means it has to be Windows/Office.
The ideals of Free and Open software are pretty much irrelevant to the vast majority of people. Why should they care that they could, if they wanted to, get the source code any more than we, as software developers, would care if we could get the schematics for the latest Intel chip. Where's the "Freedom" when it comes to hardware, beyond having drivers?
With all those 5-16 year olds from poor families hanging around with no school to go to you have the perfect cheap labour pool: time to reintroduce them to joys of working in the mills, down coal mines and up chimneys.
So far in the UK anti-terrorism legislation has been used to:
1. Spy on parents suspected of gaming the system in order to get their child into their preferred school. 2. Prevent Iclandic banks moving money around after they had collapsed. 3. Spy on a disabled couple in bed because social workers thought they might, possibly, perhaps, harm their child (for no better reason than that they are disabled).
So you'll understand if I don't believe any assurance that these powers won't be abused as well.
So far anti-terrorism laws in the UK have been used to:
1. Spy on parents thought to be "cheating" the system in order to get their child into a preferred school. 2. To prevent Icelandic banks from moving money around after they collapsed. 3. Spy on a disabled couple in bad on suspicion that they might, possibly, maybe, harm their child.
So forgive me if I have no confidence that if these laws get on the books that they won't be "re-purposed". If there's one thing Government has proven it's that they can't be trusted not to abuse any power they are given.
One might think that but you'd be wrong. University degrees have value *because recruiters value them*. I have a degree in Chemistry: utterly irrelevant to IT but it gets me past the mandatory "has he got a degree?" check that many companies apply.
Certifications are less valuable *because recruiters don't value them*. Partly that's because too many of them are from certificate mills: personally when interviewing I give no weight to Microsoft or Sun certifications because of previous experience with interviewees with high marks in the certifications who knew nothing about the topic. I had one guy with a Sun Java certification, he scored 100% and was very proud of his piece of paper, but he couldn't even write a hello world program that would compile.
Entry level jobs as a rule require degrees. Once you have experience you don't need a degree (except that some of the large firms require a degree regardless: mine's in Chemistry!).
Best route is, as a previous poster suggests, is to learn by yourself (networking is the thing!) join a small company and sysadmin for them. As long as you know more than the owner, can manage the boss, and know how to find out answers you don't know quickly you'll do well. Beware though it will be high pressure: it's a small business. I turned down a share in the company and a board position because I thought I'd be dead of a heart attack before I could cash in the shares. Seriously.
And the right thing to do as a customer in those cases is take your business elsewhere. I do it all the time: make me wait too long and I'll walk away. Especially if I can see your sales drones standing around chatting with each other when there's a queue of customers waiting to pay. In the case of large stores I take photos of the queues and the gossipping staff and email them to the store manager. I doubt it does much good but it makes me feel better.
If customers didn't tolerate bad service companies offering it would change or go bust.
The partners have agreed not to support the GPL'd version. There's nothing stopping someone from choosing to setup a business to support the GPL'd version.
It is legal, legitimate and fair. The story author needs to take a course in basic thinking.
There are no retail full versions of OSX. None. None at all.
You get a full version of OSX when you buy a Mac. And you can then buy an upgrade version at retail when a new version comes out. Upgrade. The only version available in a retail box. The only one.
The retail version is an upgrade only.
Clear now?
It's not as if this hasn't been pointed out countless times before on/.
Not so much stupid and greedy and a crook. These scams rely on the victim being both greedy and willing to undertake something that's at least borderline and often outright fraudulent.
I feel sorry for her husband and family but she's got what she deserved.
It's not very complex: it's just seriously over-written and any game or movie based on it will need what the books lacked: a competent writer and editor.
PS
Re your signature. There is no "1' in unary, so your sig should read "There are 0 types of people, those who know unary and me."
the game would have to make you take 1.5 steps back for every 2 steps forward, just when you were expecting to make some progress it would force you to go and play a prequel and of course the original developers will have to fail and hand over the work to someone you've never heard of before.
WOT is seriously overrated: it never deserved 13 novels (and still not complete). Turgid and I have the distinct feeling Jordan just couldn't see how to finish the story; hence the prequel, which with cynicism turned up to 11, makes me suspect he was only leading people on until he could escape.
If I knew today what I'd be letting myself in for when I first started reading WOT I'd never have picked up the book.
"no one can remove apps from your blackberry"...which apparently means...
"no restrictions on what you do with it"
Did you even read this while you were typing it? I can understand people being fan boys of shinies they chose and bought but being a fan boy for a corporate tool is kind of sad.
Given his lying, two-faced behaviour and U-turns when convenient during his election campaign it seems to me the USA has got it's own version of Tony Blair, just as the UK is getting rid of the original.
I suspect you've already seen his greatest achievement as president: to get elected.
Whilst I think it's a silly clause the Apple SDK license agreement for the iPhone has always prohibited developing a web browser for the iPhone so if the Opera team went ahead and wasted their time porting to the iPhone then it's their own stupid fault.
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The fact that you seem to believe that Microsoft is the end all and be-all is actually funny in a sad sort of way. Then again, being a good NEA member, you would spout the Union line.
unsupported claims
Microsoft has pumped tens of millions of dollars into your union.
and makes dubious inferences and another personal attack
Of course you are going to 'recommend' Microsoft Windows.
falls a long way short of being eloquent.
Just because you agree with someone's crude rant doesn't mean it's elegant.
Personally I'm more inclined to think the teacher is quite sincere. Ignorant, certainly, but there's no reason to put their attitude down to malice or even corruption.
After all to most people, including teachers, the most important thing is that it works with Windows/Office which means it has to be Windows/Office.
The ideals of Free and Open software are pretty much irrelevant to the vast majority of people. Why should they care that they could, if they wanted to, get the source code any more than we, as software developers, would care if we could get the schematics for the latest Intel chip. Where's the "Freedom" when it comes to hardware, beyond having drivers?
With all those 5-16 year olds from poor families hanging around with no school to go to you have the perfect cheap labour pool: time to reintroduce them to joys of working in the mills, down coal mines and up chimneys.
You are an idiot.
Slashdot told me there was as problem posting this. Hence the re-post.
It's all Slashdot's fault.
Or possibly it was the Police interfering with my hard-drive.
So far in the UK anti-terrorism legislation has been used to:
1. Spy on parents suspected of gaming the system in order to get their child into their preferred school.
2. Prevent Iclandic banks moving money around after they had collapsed.
3. Spy on a disabled couple in bed because social workers thought they might, possibly, perhaps, harm their child (for no better reason than that they are disabled).
So you'll understand if I don't believe any assurance that these powers won't be abused as well.
So far anti-terrorism laws in the UK have been used to:
1. Spy on parents thought to be "cheating" the system in order to get their child into a preferred school.
2. To prevent Icelandic banks from moving money around after they collapsed.
3. Spy on a disabled couple in bad on suspicion that they might, possibly, maybe, harm their child.
So forgive me if I have no confidence that if these laws get on the books that they won't be "re-purposed". If there's one thing Government has proven it's that they can't be trusted not to abuse any power they are given.
By Prof Penrose.
Your PhD should stand you in good stead for the math required.
One might think that but you'd be wrong. University degrees have value *because recruiters value them*. I have a degree in Chemistry: utterly irrelevant to IT but it gets me past the mandatory "has he got a degree?" check that many companies apply.
Certifications are less valuable *because recruiters don't value them*. Partly that's because too many of them are from certificate mills: personally when interviewing I give no weight to Microsoft or Sun certifications because of previous experience with interviewees with high marks in the certifications who knew nothing about the topic. I had one guy with a Sun Java certification, he scored 100% and was very proud of his piece of paper, but he couldn't even write a hello world program that would compile.
Entry level jobs as a rule require degrees. Once you have experience you don't need a degree (except that some of the large firms require a degree regardless: mine's in Chemistry!).
Best route is, as a previous poster suggests, is to learn by yourself (networking is the thing!) join a small company and sysadmin for them. As long as you know more than the owner, can manage the boss, and know how to find out answers you don't know quickly you'll do well. Beware though it will be high pressure: it's a small business. I turned down a share in the company and a board position because I thought I'd be dead of a heart attack before I could cash in the shares. Seriously.
Whatever you do when dealing with Dell tech support you're going to have to jump through all the hoops on their checklist. So just do it.
That's the idiot customer's solution, the smart customer's solution is to take your business elsewhere.
And the right thing to do as a customer in those cases is take your business elsewhere. I do it all the time: make me wait too long and I'll walk away. Especially if I can see your sales drones standing around chatting with each other when there's a queue of customers waiting to pay. In the case of large stores I take photos of the queues and the gossipping staff and email them to the store manager. I doubt it does much good but it makes me feel better.
If customers didn't tolerate bad service companies offering it would change or go bust.
The partners have agreed not to support the GPL'd version. There's nothing stopping someone from choosing to setup a business to support the GPL'd version.
It is legal, legitimate and fair. The story author needs to take a course in basic thinking.
And if you tried to play Super Monkey Ball in a NES (assuming it existed) it would be excruciatingly terrible and hard to play.
So your point is that games not designed for the platform they're run on makes for a poor experience?
Water is wet and the sun rises in the east.
There is NO DRM in OSX that stops you doing this.
What stops you is 1) old-fashioned BIOS in most PCs. (Macs use EFI) 2) lack of drivers.
Copyright, copyright, copyright, copyright.
It's the RIGHT to make COPIES.
There are no retail full versions of OSX. None. None at all.
/.
You get a full version of OSX when you buy a Mac. And you can then buy an upgrade version at retail when a new version comes out. Upgrade. The only version available in a retail box. The only one.
The retail version is an upgrade only.
Clear now?
It's not as if this hasn't been pointed out countless times before on
The ninties called and they want their thinking back.
Not so much stupid and greedy and a crook. These scams rely on the victim being both greedy and willing to undertake something that's at least borderline and often outright fraudulent.
I feel sorry for her husband and family but she's got what she deserved.
Hehehe. Exactly, nicely put.
It's not very complex: it's just seriously over-written and any game or movie based on it will need what the books lacked: a competent writer and editor.
PS
Re your signature. There is no "1' in unary, so your sig should read "There are 0 types of people, those who know unary and me."
the game would have to make you take 1.5 steps back for every 2 steps forward, just when you were expecting to make some progress it would force you to go and play a prequel and of course the original developers will have to fail and hand over the work to someone you've never heard of before.
WOT is seriously overrated: it never deserved 13 novels (and still not complete). Turgid and I have the distinct feeling Jordan just couldn't see how to finish the story; hence the prequel, which with cynicism turned up to 11, makes me suspect he was only leading people on until he could escape.
If I knew today what I'd be letting myself in for when I first started reading WOT I'd never have picked up the book.
He didn't produce the first, the most successful or even a particularly good online game: so why would he be "king"?
"strong control of devices by central IT policy"
...which apparently means...
"no one can remove apps from your blackberry"
"no restrictions on what you do with it"
Did you even read this while you were typing it? I can understand people being fan boys of shinies they chose and bought but being a fan boy for a corporate tool is kind of sad.
Given his lying, two-faced behaviour and U-turns when convenient during his election campaign it seems to me the USA has got it's own version of Tony Blair, just as the UK is getting rid of the original.
I suspect you've already seen his greatest achievement as president: to get elected.
So what you're saying is that we should tolerate fuckwits like you who comment on stuff they know nothing about?
I think not.
Whilst I think it's a silly clause the Apple SDK license agreement for the iPhone has always prohibited developing a web browser for the iPhone so if the Opera team went ahead and wasted their time porting to the iPhone then it's their own stupid fault.