Somehow children in Canada and Scandinavia make it to school, too. Kids waiting for the bus in the dark wouldn't bother anyone living reasonably far north, but it'd be a hell of a talking point for overprotective mothers from New Jersey to Oregon.
I kinda wonder if the/. editors post stuff like this from time to time just to watch a million befuddled geeks try to haplessly wade through meaningless marketroid babble. It's probably like their foosball.
The real question, though is how aggregated interactive communities can help us embrace best-of-breed experiences and optimize e-business networks in the field of bricks-and-clicks vortals. Agile technologies are great and all, but will they leverage frictionless initiatives? Didn't think so.
I almost wonder if this isn't so much an effort to compete with VMware or Wine or whatever, but rather an effort to compete with Sun's N1 Grid computing. Sun boasts a lot about running different apps in different containers, etc., which is something Jonathan Schwartz likes to claim Linux can't do. It appears that now SuSE (and soon Fedora) *can* do that out of the box.
I don't think it's a girl thing, although that might be part of it. I frequently have people try to think of me as a tech writer, which I'm not, and I'm a guy. I find that more often, though, people think, "Hey, this person can write good documentation for the code they write" rather than, "Hey, let's stick this person in a room far away from any real coding." As you mentioned, hardcore coding/EE jobs help. The objective on your resume can help, too -- you just have to be insistent that coding (or management) is your goal, not the living hell that is tech writing.
Seriously. You'll stand out among a bunch of other CS weenies who probably barely even speak the language -- not to mention all of the H-1 visa holders. (Ever read/.? Case in point.) An English degree tells potential employers that you can a) communicate effectively, and b) research thoroughly; both are highly valued by the people who do the hiring. You'll be much more appealing than the hordes of MBA grads, whose major marketable skill is that they can say "ROI" a lot.
If English doesn't appeal to you, any degree in the humanities will look great, since most require language and research skills, and present you as a well-rounded renaissance person, not a single-minded code zombie. (Read: as someone who makes decisions, not as someone who is subject to them.) History is also particularly good.
Remember: CS majors stereotypically are introverted nerds who can't communicate with anyone who doesn't speak LISP. CS majors with MBAs are stereotypically suit-wearing nerd-wannabes who can't communicate with anyone who doesn't speak Marketroid. Anything you can do to prove that you're not either of those will help a lot.
Punching monkeys is fun, but I prefer to see if I can miss the monkey, and still get taken to the site. Sometimes it works, but sometimes you actually have to hit the damn dirty ape.
When you pay taxes for something, your out-of-pocket expenditure for it is less. We pay taxes to support massive petroleum subsidies, because cheap gas is important to us. Koreans pay taxes to support massive Internet subsidies. It simply represents a difference in whose pockets we want to line: already-wealthy oil barons, or already-wealthy Internet barons?
That's the first thing I thought of, too: TAANSTAAFL. Rather than paying the government to use the gas I've just purchased, we would pay the government to use the roads they built for us. Seems like a superior solution to me, if the privacy issues could be worked out of it.
In addition to SuSE having automatic updates, I also have found KMail no more difficult to set up than Outlook or Entourage. Moreover, doesn't antivir come standard with SuSE as well? I've sure got it on my desktop box.
If these little problems with SuSE -- a distro I know pretty well -- are indicative of general problems with the article, it seems to me a little more research wouldn't have hurt.
They also neglected to mention the incredible amount of software that comes with Linux. With a few rare exceptions, I can find everything I need on the SuSE install disks, and install it through YaST (which is far easier, IMHO, than trying to find it on the Internet, hoping that it's spyware-free, holding your breath and double-clicking a la Windows). In fact, I've been using SuSE 9.1 exclusively since it came out, and about the only things I've needed to download and install were icecast and the development libraries necessary to compile it -- hardly standard "mom and pop" fare.
It seems to me that people are so familiar with the Windows experience -- with all its quirks and flaws -- that they can't fathom an OS that isn't flawed in the same way. I don't need to install software on Linux, because it all comes packaged with it!
Try "Rome: Total War." For the first campaign, they mollycoddle you with power politics, but after that, it's pure military might. And it's very highly replayable.
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Somehow children in Canada and Scandinavia make it to school, too. Kids waiting for the bus in the dark wouldn't bother anyone living reasonably far north, but it'd be a hell of a talking point for overprotective mothers from New Jersey to Oregon.
D'oh!
+1, Embarassingly stupid
I swear, the people who consistently fail to get the jokes are even more annoying than the constant jokes.
Um, I don't think you have to pay them. At all.
/. editors don't. What's so surprising about that?
And never die, if you get my drift, no matter how outdated.
I kinda wonder if the /. editors post stuff like this from time to time just to watch a million befuddled geeks try to haplessly wade through meaningless marketroid babble. It's probably like their foosball.
The real question, though is how aggregated interactive communities can help us embrace best-of-breed experiences and optimize e-business networks in the field of bricks-and-clicks vortals. Agile technologies are great and all, but will they leverage frictionless initiatives? Didn't think so.
I almost wonder if this isn't so much an effort to compete with VMware or Wine or whatever, but rather an effort to compete with Sun's N1 Grid computing. Sun boasts a lot about running different apps in different containers, etc., which is something Jonathan Schwartz likes to claim Linux can't do. It appears that now SuSE (and soon Fedora) *can* do that out of the box.
I don't think it's a girl thing, although that might be part of it. I frequently have people try to think of me as a tech writer, which I'm not, and I'm a guy. I find that more often, though, people think, "Hey, this person can write good documentation for the code they write" rather than, "Hey, let's stick this person in a room far away from any real coding." As you mentioned, hardcore coding/EE jobs help. The objective on your resume can help, too -- you just have to be insistent that coding (or management) is your goal, not the living hell that is tech writing.
If English doesn't appeal to you, any degree in the humanities will look great, since most require language and research skills, and present you as a well-rounded renaissance person, not a single-minded code zombie. (Read: as someone who makes decisions, not as someone who is subject to them.) History is also particularly good.
Remember: CS majors stereotypically are introverted nerds who can't communicate with anyone who doesn't speak LISP. CS majors with MBAs are stereotypically suit-wearing nerd-wannabes who can't communicate with anyone who doesn't speak Marketroid. Anything you can do to prove that you're not either of those will help a lot.
Punching monkeys is fun, but I prefer to see if I can miss the monkey, and still get taken to the site. Sometimes it works, but sometimes you actually have to hit the damn dirty ape.
TANSTAAFL.
Why do you think there are so many cows?
Also, your link was broken (extra trailing /).
Seriously.
That's the first thing I thought of, too: TAANSTAAFL. Rather than paying the government to use the gas I've just purchased, we would pay the government to use the roads they built for us. Seems like a superior solution to me, if the privacy issues could be worked out of it.
If these little problems with SuSE -- a distro I know pretty well -- are indicative of general problems with the article, it seems to me a little more research wouldn't have hurt.
They also neglected to mention the incredible amount of software that comes with Linux. With a few rare exceptions, I can find everything I need on the SuSE install disks, and install it through YaST (which is far easier, IMHO, than trying to find it on the Internet, hoping that it's spyware-free, holding your breath and double-clicking a la Windows). In fact, I've been using SuSE 9.1 exclusively since it came out, and about the only things I've needed to download and install were icecast and the development libraries necessary to compile it -- hardly standard "mom and pop" fare.
It seems to me that people are so familiar with the Windows experience -- with all its quirks and flaws -- that they can't fathom an OS that isn't flawed in the same way. I don't need to install software on Linux, because it all comes packaged with it!
Try "Rome: Total War." For the first campaign, they mollycoddle you with power politics, but after that, it's pure military might. And it's very highly replayable.
Windows had a pre-existing monopoly. HP does not.
Also, HP is trying to patent this technology, which suggests that it will be limited to HP cameras.