But for all the folks out there who simply have juvenile comments on the order of "Flash sucks"... well, I guess I just don't understand what you think you're contributing to the topic.
It's like this. When you describe dogshit, you don't say "I don't like the smell, although it is a very pretty shade of brown." and you don't say "I don't like the way it sticks to my shoes, although it is very good for growing plants" . You just say "Dammit, I fucking hate dogshit. This sucks."
Now I may be wrong, but it seeems to me that what he was saying wasn't "I don't like Flash because it's not open source and can be used to create really annoying ads, but it's great for stupid cartoons" and it wasn't "I don't like Flash because it isn't available for 64 bit linux"
Again, I may be wrong, but it appears to me that he was saying something more along the lines of "Flash is a lot like dogshit. It sucks and I hate it."
Does that mean that one of the big reasons why Linux is a strong competitor in the west is because it's free & the competitors aren't?
That's just not fair. You can't go saying things like that here. It's like dangling a marshmallow in front of a baby with a flamethrower. How the hell is anybody supposed to keep their karma with you saying things like that?
Why don't you just go moderate quietly over there?
I don't understand why they want to copy Excel so tightly. The 256 column limit is a real problem. I regularly use data sets that have more then 256 columns. I will adopt OO.o as my main office suite when that is overcome. Until then, quatro pro will have to do.
And scarcity is not what you think it means. There is only one Microsoft Windows and one Firefox. There may be COPIES, but that does not change the scarcity of the original.
Care to explain how you can trivially generate enough copies to give one to every man woman and child on earth and still claim that there is scarcity?
I don't know if Microsoft was ever really thought of as a respected company. But I think they definately represent what Google has the potential to become, only more so. I mean think of all the data that passes through Google every day. I for one hope they remain moral and ethical and don't decide to sell out.
They already did. They became a publicly traded corporation. As such, they are legally bound to act in the financial best interest of the shareholders. When the time comes that they have choose between the big money and those portions of their morals and ethics that extend beyond the law's requirements, they've already committed to their course.
Is this trustworthy computing? Your trusting Microsoft that the source they provide is the same source your running and the source they don't provide is simply irrelevant headers? I don't get it.
You've got it. That's Trusted Computing in a nutshell. Trusted isn't about a warm fuzzy feeling, it's a statement of what you've done. You run the stuff, you're trusting Microsoft.
Start with agencies that contract out your skills. Then move to those that hire ppl with your skills. Then move to businesses that will use your skills in their operations. That's the order that you'll find the most openings per contact. Use the yellow pages, not the want ads. Don't send resumes right away. Research the shit out of your prospective employers, pick the ones you like, learn about their business, learn who works there, who makes the decisions. Then you'll know enough to describe yourself differently for each prospect you speak to. Forget about your list of courses and languages. Figure out what problems they face and detail to them precisely how you're able to fix them and make everything ok. You use your education and experiences to back that up.
Lead in with a phone call, and get the name of everyone you speak to. Talk to the person who's the decision maker if you can, name drop the person who pointed you at them if you can't. Then you'll be sending your resume, and your cover letter to the right person. Follow up with another phone call to make sure they got it and read it. I'd call and hang up a few times to get a direct conversation before leaving a message if it doesn't mean leaving the follow up too long. Arrange a time to discuss things personally.
Then get in front of some of them and talk about them and their problems and how your're going to fix them. Be confident and start telling them what information they need to start giving you so you can fix things. Don't go into an interview like you're begging for a bone, start doing requirements gathering. Give them that warm, comfy, decision made, problem solved, one more task off my list kind of feeling.
Sorry, but if you had that hard a time finding a job with your skills, you're doing something wrong or you're not trying. Perhaps you should study up on resume writing and selling yourself.
When I leave a job, it's pretty much the same routine every time. Take 2 weeks off to relax (This is what passes for vacations in my world). Look through yellow pages. Make some phone calls. Pick a nice place to work. Go get the job.
Seriously, what the hell were you doing for 9 months with no job?!? Last time I went that long without a job, the Dead were still alive, I had hair down to my ass, no kids, and was hitching across the countryside smoking dope and getting into trouble.
Nope. At this point, I just sit in my recliner all day in my boxers writing code for my clients.
The dress code rocks, the coffees great, the hours can't be beat and polite people don't talk about how much they make.
And I give thanks for all of it to my CS degree. Oops, I don't have a degree. I know a lot of guys with CS degrees, but they all telemarket computers for HP!
Skip the degree, go build stuff instead. The nice thing about a portfolio is that you can tell it it's a fucking idiot and it will still give you a good reference:D
Mod this guy down. If you're a CS graduate, rather than self-taught, you're more likely to be a money-chasing hack than a programmer by nature. 10 years ago, this would not have been the case, but between the dot-com bubble and all the money spent training people to be in IT to deal with the Y2K bug that wasn't, it sure seems that way to me at this point.
I'm self taught, and have led development for numerous large projects. The amount of time I spent trying to hammer a clue into the CS grads I was given to work with... ugh. I'll trade a dozen of em for a self-taught pasty-faced goth-geek who knows what he's doing any day of the week.
You deserve to be flamed because you DIDN'T EVEN CHECK before you started calling things "unsupported".
Let me take a peek at my system here and recall my experience attempting to install Linux on it...
When a person explicitly claims that they are recalling the last time they tried to install an operating system, that generally makes it clear to any person with the capacity to read that the poster didn't go check to see if everything was supported. I don't recall reading anything int the "slashdot terms and conditions" stating I'm obliged to go looking for the latest and greatest when I'm putting up a post about my most recent experience.
Oh, and since you've posted that you had this stuff working 3 years ago, it's abundantly clear that not only are you a flamer with no class at all, you're also a liar and a shit disturber. I went looking at Hercules' website and checked the ALSA pages the last time I tried to get the thing working, and it sure as hell wasn't 3 years ago.
I'd suggest you go Get Fucked. Pay if you must. You sound like you desparately need it.
$1200 or something like that. How much did you pay for yours? And I never said that Windows was better than Linux... I said that drivers are not one of those areas that people should be bragging about.
If I thought Windows was better, I wouldn't be spending time learning how to develop J2EE and setting up Resin/JBoss/Postgres on Linux on my shitboxes when ASP scripts and stored procedures are what feed my kid.
I sure as hell wouldn't chuck a linux install to my sister and tell her to go to town on her computer though.
Last tried middle of last year. Glad to see things have been coming along, perhaps I'll give it another go. If you weren't such a jerk off, your corrections might have been moderated up enough that people would have read them. Since you act like such a tool, likely no one will read any of that by the time the moderators get through with you. Hopefully someone else will correct any errors in my post.
So, again, how are people spoiled by windows driver support?
Let me take a peek at my system here and recall my experience attempting to install Linux on it...
1) A7V133 motherboard with onboard Promise IDE RAID.
Promise RAID unsupported. Half my hard drives gone.
2) Asus V7100 Geforce2 MX with TV input/output.
TV Input unsupported. TV Output unsupported. Guess I'll have to buy a DVD player and throw my DivX collection away
3) S3 Virge PCI running secondary monitor.
Supposedly it's supported, but I never managed to get it to work, and I spent almost a week working on it nightly. No more multi-monitor support.
4) Hercules Gametheater XP 5.1 sound card.
All inputs unsupported. Optical output unsupported. Stereo support only. No support for pass-through of Dolby streams. No support for integrated USB hub functionality. Guess I better sell my speakers, no point in having hardware Dolby decoding for a stereo PCM stream
5) Sidewinder joystick.
Unsupported.
6) Sidewinder gamepads.
Unsupported
7) Innovage Digicam/Webcam.
Unsupported
8) SiPix Digital Camera
Unsupported
I have Debian installed on several different "plain-jane" boxes around the house, and have experimented with Red Hat, Mandrake, Gentoo and TurboLinux among others. I'm not a guru or anything, but I'm not a n00b either.
I use linux on several boxes around the house, and with all the security vulnerabilities cropping up lately I would love to use it on my main box. But the only way that's going to happen is if I buy a new one, because MOST of the hardware in my current machine isn't supported.
Tell me again how great linux driver support is.
My Win2K Advanced Server install supports all my hardware, and it hasn't been down since I switched back from WinXP Pro 3 months ago.
And it's running, among other things, IIS, SQL Server 2000, PostgreSQL 8.x and JBoss 4.0.1. All while sitting in the DMZ, directly connected to the internet, never been hacked.
I'll eventually buy a new main box to do my work and play on. And I'll hopefully stick linux on it. But this machine is very functional for me, and it will likely NEVER be supported by linux to any appreciable level.
Just because you haven't had any trouble with getting your hardware to work doesn't mean there's not a problem for others, y'know.
Firewires market is video. Firewire kicks ass at video, and that market isn't likely to be moving to USB any time soon, especially with Firewire 800 on the way.
I guess the RIAA has Slashdotted their site to protect their copyrighted silence.
Are you kidding? Don't you know how much bloody bandwidth high quality silence takes? This isn't that el-cheapo "kinda quiet but I think I heard someone cough" silence we're talking about. You need a lot of bandwidth to serve that kind of high quality silence to a large audience, and I can just tell this is one of those "wild haired misunderstood musical genius" kind of guys who spend all their time in their moms basement dedicated to their unique vision. How's he supposed to afford that kind of bandwidth?
Not everything is the RIAAs fault you know. Some of it is Microsofts.
1) Democracy is a political system. Capitalism and Socialism are economic system. If the population wants to live in a socialist economic system, democracy should be bringing it to them.
2) Personally, I wouldn't live in your country for any price, and I've had some pretty lucrative offers.
Oh, and I don't think an extra $275 a month is that insignificant. Go ask your financial adviser how much earlier you'd get to retire if you stuck that much extra money into your retirement savings each month and see if you disagree.
My first (and last) year of university I got in a car accident and couldn't attend the first 3 months of my 2nd semester classes. But I'd already paid for residence, so rather than dropping out and getting next to nothing back, I just lived there, ate in the meal hall and recovered without ever going to class.
At the end of the semester, just for fun I got drunk and went and wrote my Calculus exam.
Got an F in everything except calculus. My 94% score on the exam was enough to pass the semester.
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But for all the folks out there who simply have juvenile comments on the order of "Flash sucks"... well, I guess I just don't understand what you think you're contributing to the topic.
;)
It's like this. When you describe dogshit, you don't say "I don't like the smell, although it is a very pretty shade of brown." and you don't say "I don't like the way it sticks to my shoes, although it is very good for growing plants" . You just say "Dammit, I fucking hate dogshit. This sucks."
Now I may be wrong, but it seeems to me that what he was saying wasn't "I don't like Flash because it's not open source and can be used to create really annoying ads, but it's great for stupid cartoons" and it wasn't "I don't like Flash because it isn't available for 64 bit linux"
Again, I may be wrong, but it appears to me that he was saying something more along the lines of "Flash is a lot like dogshit. It sucks and I hate it."
Hope I was able to clear that up for ya!
Oh, b.t.w... VB sucks too!
What if the US were to up and decide it wanted to invade a sovereign nation and occupy it for an undetermined amount of time?
Not again!
Does that mean that one of the big reasons why Linux is a strong competitor in the west is because it's free & the competitors aren't?
That's just not fair. You can't go saying things like that here. It's like dangling a marshmallow in front of a baby with a flamethrower. How the hell is anybody supposed to keep their karma with you saying things like that?
Why don't you just go moderate quietly over there?
If your design is good, the code tells you what it does better than comments.
Comments shouldn't be telling you what the code is doing, they should tell you why it's doing it.
I don't understand why they want to copy Excel so tightly. The 256 column limit is a real problem. I regularly use data sets that have more then 256 columns. I will adopt OO.o as my main office suite when that is overcome. Until then, quatro pro will have to do.
Try normalizing your data.
And scarcity is not what you think it means. There is only one Microsoft Windows and one Firefox. There may be COPIES, but that does not change the scarcity of the original.
Care to explain how you can trivially generate enough copies to give one to every man woman and child on earth and still claim that there is scarcity?
I don't know if Microsoft was ever really thought of as a respected company. But I think they definately represent what Google has the potential to become, only more so. I mean think of all the data that passes through Google every day. I for one hope they remain moral and ethical and don't decide to sell out.
They already did. They became a publicly traded corporation. As such, they are legally bound to act in the financial best interest of the shareholders. When the time comes that they have choose between the big money and those portions of their morals and ethics that extend beyond the law's requirements, they've already committed to their course.
And even that is assuming that there is a candidate brave enough to stand for social rights
Check out the Libertarian Party.
If that's not a case of chasing a mouse with a flamethrower, I don't know what is.
Is this trustworthy computing? Your trusting Microsoft that the source they provide is the same source your running and the source they don't provide is simply irrelevant headers? I don't get it.
You've got it. That's Trusted Computing in a nutshell. Trusted isn't about a warm fuzzy feeling, it's a statement of what you've done. You run the stuff, you're trusting Microsoft.
Want me to micromanage your life? Ok...
Start with agencies that contract out your skills. Then move to those that hire ppl with your skills. Then move to businesses that will use your skills in their operations. That's the order that you'll find the most openings per contact. Use the yellow pages, not the want ads. Don't send resumes right away. Research the shit out of your prospective employers, pick the ones you like, learn about their business, learn who works there, who makes the decisions. Then you'll know enough to describe yourself differently for each prospect you speak to. Forget about your list of courses and languages. Figure out what problems they face and detail to them precisely how you're able to fix them and make everything ok. You use your education and experiences to back that up.
Lead in with a phone call, and get the name of everyone you speak to. Talk to the person who's the decision maker if you can, name drop the person who pointed you at them if you can't. Then you'll be sending your resume, and your cover letter to the right person. Follow up with another phone call to make sure they got it and read it. I'd call and hang up a few times to get a direct conversation before leaving a message if it doesn't mean leaving the follow up too long. Arrange a time to discuss things personally.
Then get in front of some of them and talk about them and their problems and how your're going to fix them. Be confident and start telling them what information they need to start giving you so you can fix things. Don't go into an interview like you're begging for a bone, start doing requirements gathering. Give them that warm, comfy, decision made, problem solved, one more task off my list kind of feeling.
Like I said, just go get a job.
Sorry, but if you had that hard a time finding a job with your skills, you're doing something wrong or you're not trying. Perhaps you should study up on resume writing and selling yourself. When I leave a job, it's pretty much the same routine every time. Take 2 weeks off to relax (This is what passes for vacations in my world). Look through yellow pages. Make some phone calls. Pick a nice place to work. Go get the job. Seriously, what the hell were you doing for 9 months with no job?!? Last time I went that long without a job, the Dead were still alive, I had hair down to my ass, no kids, and was hitching across the countryside smoking dope and getting into trouble.
Nope. At this point, I just sit in my recliner all day in my boxers writing code for my clients. The dress code rocks, the coffees great, the hours can't be beat and polite people don't talk about how much they make. And I give thanks for all of it to my CS degree. Oops, I don't have a degree. I know a lot of guys with CS degrees, but they all telemarket computers for HP! Skip the degree, go build stuff instead. The nice thing about a portfolio is that you can tell it it's a fucking idiot and it will still give you a good reference :D
Mod this guy down. If you're a CS graduate, rather than self-taught, you're more likely to be a money-chasing hack than a programmer by nature. 10 years ago, this would not have been the case, but between the dot-com bubble and all the money spent training people to be in IT to deal with the Y2K bug that wasn't, it sure seems that way to me at this point.
I'm self taught, and have led development for numerous large projects. The amount of time I spent trying to hammer a clue into the CS grads I was given to work with... ugh. I'll trade a dozen of em for a self-taught pasty-faced goth-geek who knows what he's doing any day of the week.
You deserve to be flamed because you DIDN'T EVEN CHECK before you started calling things "unsupported".
Let me take a peek at my system here and recall my experience attempting to install Linux on it...
When a person explicitly claims that they are recalling the last time they tried to install an operating system, that generally makes it clear to any person with the capacity to read that the poster didn't go check to see if everything was supported. I don't recall reading anything int the "slashdot terms and conditions" stating I'm obliged to go looking for the latest and greatest when I'm putting up a post about my most recent experience.
Oh, and since you've posted that you had this stuff working 3 years ago, it's abundantly clear that not only are you a flamer with no class at all, you're also a liar and a shit disturber. I went looking at Hercules' website and checked the ALSA pages the last time I tried to get the thing working, and it sure as hell wasn't 3 years ago.
I'd suggest you go Get Fucked. Pay if you must. You sound like you desparately need it.
$1200 or something like that. How much did you pay for yours? And I never said that Windows was better than Linux... I said that drivers are not one of those areas that people should be bragging about.
If I thought Windows was better, I wouldn't be spending time learning how to develop J2EE and setting up Resin/JBoss/Postgres on Linux on my shitboxes when ASP scripts and stored procedures are what feed my kid.
I sure as hell wouldn't chuck a linux install to my sister and tell her to go to town on her computer though.
Last tried middle of last year. Glad to see things have been coming along, perhaps I'll give it another go. If you weren't such a jerk off, your corrections might have been moderated up enough that people would have read them. Since you act like such a tool, likely no one will read any of that by the time the moderators get through with you. Hopefully someone else will correct any errors in my post.
Will de-listing do anything to stop their crap?
Sure will spell the end of their credibility.
The message: Microsoft cannot compete unless they have an unfair advantage.
Devils Advocate: If the WINE crowd are making use of Windows patches, etc in their efforts to compete with Windows, who has the unfair advantage?
So, again, how are people spoiled by windows driver support?
Let me take a peek at my system here and recall my experience attempting to install Linux on it...
1) A7V133 motherboard with onboard Promise IDE RAID.
Promise RAID unsupported. Half my hard drives gone.
2) Asus V7100 Geforce2 MX with TV input/output.
TV Input unsupported. TV Output unsupported. Guess I'll have to buy a DVD player and throw my DivX collection away
3) S3 Virge PCI running secondary monitor.
Supposedly it's supported, but I never managed to get it to work, and I spent almost a week working on it nightly. No more multi-monitor support.
4) Hercules Gametheater XP 5.1 sound card.
All inputs unsupported. Optical output unsupported. Stereo support only. No support for pass-through of Dolby streams. No support for integrated USB hub functionality. Guess I better sell my speakers, no point in having hardware Dolby decoding for a stereo PCM stream
5) Sidewinder joystick.
Unsupported.
6) Sidewinder gamepads.
Unsupported
7) Innovage Digicam/Webcam.
Unsupported
8) SiPix Digital Camera
Unsupported
I have Debian installed on several different "plain-jane" boxes around the house, and have experimented with Red Hat, Mandrake, Gentoo and TurboLinux among others. I'm not a guru or anything, but I'm not a n00b either.
I use linux on several boxes around the house, and with all the security vulnerabilities cropping up lately I would love to use it on my main box. But the only way that's going to happen is if I buy a new one, because MOST of the hardware in my current machine isn't supported.
Tell me again how great linux driver support is.
My Win2K Advanced Server install supports all my hardware, and it hasn't been down since I switched back from WinXP Pro 3 months ago.
And it's running, among other things, IIS, SQL Server 2000, PostgreSQL 8.x and JBoss 4.0.1. All while sitting in the DMZ, directly connected to the internet, never been hacked.
I'll eventually buy a new main box to do my work and play on. And I'll hopefully stick linux on it. But this machine is very functional for me, and it will likely NEVER be supported by linux to any appreciable level.
Just because you haven't had any trouble with getting your hardware to work doesn't mean there's not a problem for others, y'know.
Don't quote that fool. I feel stupider just for having read the first half of his rant.
Are you on glue?
Firewires market is video. Firewire kicks ass at video, and that market isn't likely to be moving to USB any time soon, especially with Firewire 800 on the way.
I guess the RIAA has Slashdotted their site to protect their copyrighted silence.
Are you kidding? Don't you know how much bloody bandwidth high quality silence takes? This isn't that el-cheapo "kinda quiet but I think I heard someone cough" silence we're talking about. You need a lot of bandwidth to serve that kind of high quality silence to a large audience, and I can just tell this is one of those "wild haired misunderstood musical genius" kind of guys who spend all their time in their moms basement dedicated to their unique vision. How's he supposed to afford that kind of bandwidth?
Not everything is the RIAAs fault you know. Some of it is Microsofts.
I think your post neglected the important points:
1) Democracy is a political system. Capitalism and Socialism are economic system. If the population wants to live in a socialist economic system, democracy should be bringing it to them.
2) Personally, I wouldn't live in your country for any price, and I've had some pretty lucrative offers.
Oh, and I don't think an extra $275 a month is that insignificant. Go ask your financial adviser how much earlier you'd get to retire if you stuck that much extra money into your retirement savings each month and see if you disagree.
My first (and last) year of university I got in a car accident and couldn't attend the first 3 months of my 2nd semester classes. But I'd already paid for residence, so rather than dropping out and getting next to nothing back, I just lived there, ate in the meal hall and recovered without ever going to class.
At the end of the semester, just for fun I got drunk and went and wrote my Calculus exam.
Got an F in everything except calculus. My 94% score on the exam was enough to pass the semester.
Morale of the story: Drink and derive
Can someone explain what is the value of such a potential "title"?
It tells people you're not American. With the current situation in the US with regards to IP legislation, that's worth a bundle.