So I started to read the article and immediately thought "oh yeah, I remember when that came down". Then I read the part about the 30yr Anniversary. Damn I am getting old.
I think you are right. Get marketing students or business students involved. Same goes for graphics designers and webmasters. Get the people who are experts to perform the right tasks.
What was this game called?
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I remember there being a game for the commodore 64 that was a text-based adventure game.
Questions like: You are standing in a cave and it is dark. What do you do? Answer: Light torch. Response: You do not have a torch. etc....
don't think striking it rich by writing a simple but hugely entertaining video game was a road to riches for any Free Software developer... was it? Which is the downfall of Open Source, in a nutshell.
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw this article. I knew some knucklehead would bitch about the speed or the fact it does not work with his home-made Linux distribution. Thanks for the perspective.
I would have to say that this student will not have a problem finding a job after graduation.
CERN: Now Xiaohang, Sherry is going to show you around the place. She can answer any questions you might have about fringe benefits or dress codes or anything and I'll see you back upstairs when you're done, okay? Sherry, take good care of this young lady. She's one of the ten finest minds kin the country.
These days, everyone's talking about the Tata Nano. Nice car, if you've got $2,000 or $3,000 to throw around. But, for those of us whose name doesn't happen to be Rockefeller, finally there's some good news - a car with a sticker price of $179. That's right, $179. The name of the car?
Adobe. The sassy new Mexican import that's made out of clay. German engineering and Mexican know-how helped create the first car
to break the $200 barrier. At this price, you might not expect more than reliable transportation - but, brother, you get it! Extra features: like the custom contour seats, or the beverage-gripping dash. And the money you save isn't exactly small change!
I could not agree more. Last year I met Valerie Aurora http://valerieaurora.org/ at LuGradioLive. She is by far the smartest and most talented geek I have ever met. The fact that she was a woman was awesome. This experience changed my perception of female geeks forever. To take a line from Real Genius, "She's smarter than you and I put together."
I don't mean to troll, but I could care less about boot up times. What I care about is uptime!
With Windows, you are always having to reboot the system due to everything from software installs to changing a network connection.
On Linux, I never have to reboot. Basically my desktop stays on unless I am taking a long weekend. I understand that efficiency is good, however, a fast boot-up does not seem like news to me.
64-bit multiplication is 4 times faster on a 64-bit processor than on a 32-bit platform
Do a lot of that do ya?
Most applications do not utilize the additional address space. In fact, the relative speed increase you would get is negligible. The bottle neck is often the speed of the disk controller and IO throughput. It's like getting a 1GBit network card in hopes your download speed from the internet will be faster.
Back in my day, (insert old man yelling at kids), Linux was a great alternative when you had older, slower hardware.
However, those days have been over for a while. Linux with Gnome or KDE with Compiz is just as bloated, processor intensive and memory hogging as Windows. I have used Linux as my only Desktop OS for 6 Years and have noticed the hardware requirements go through the roof.
Sure you can configure a system with no window manager, or use TWM, or XFCE and get better performance, but if I remember correctly, you can configure windows to run without a lot of fancy bling too.
I agree that Linux is a better option that Windows. But using the speed argument doesn't carry the weight it used to.
The "it's free" and "no viruses" argument is still valid!
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You keep using that word "visible". I do not think it means what you think it mean.
So I started to read the article and immediately thought "oh yeah, I remember when that came down". Then I read the part about the 30yr Anniversary. Damn I am getting old.
I wonder what the computing power is of some of the larger botnets. They are not likely to be listed in the "Top500".
I think you are right. Get marketing students or business students involved. Same goes for graphics designers and webmasters. Get the people who are experts to perform the right tasks.
Questions like: You are standing in a cave and it is dark. What do you do? Answer: Light torch. Response: You do not have a torch. etc....
Anyone remember the name of those games?
Funny, I wonder if this works...
don't think striking it rich by writing a simple but hugely entertaining video game was a road to riches for any Free Software developer... was it? Which is the downfall of Open Source, in a nutshell.
I wonder if that same applies?
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw this article. I knew some knucklehead would bitch about the speed or the fact it does not work with his home-made Linux distribution. Thanks for the perspective.
Wacko.
That's pretty much how the God of my understanding would be.
Here here.
Thanks for the tip. I just got a jury duty letter and was avoiding it. I'll give it a shot.
Sadly, by the time I get to a computer I often lose some great coding ideas.
There are whistle blower laws in place to protect employees from having to perform illegal actions for fear of loosing their job.
I would have to say that this student will not have a problem finding a job after graduation.
CERN: Now Xiaohang, Sherry is going to show you around the place. She can answer any questions you might have about fringe benefits or dress codes or anything and I'll see you back upstairs when you're done, okay? Sherry, take good care of this young lady. She's one of the ten finest minds kin the country.
XIAOHANG: Someday I hope to be two of them.
These days, everyone's talking about the Tata Nano. Nice car, if you've got $2,000 or $3,000 to throw around. But, for those of us whose name doesn't happen to be Rockefeller, finally there's some good news - a car with a sticker price of $179. That's right, $179. The name of the car?
Adobe. The sassy new Mexican import that's made out of clay. German engineering and Mexican know-how helped create the first car to break the $200 barrier. At this price, you might not expect more than reliable transportation - but, brother, you get it! Extra features: like the custom contour seats, or the beverage-gripping dash. And the money you save isn't exactly small change!
Those sound engineers at your studio will have to eat at Olive Garden tonight instead of Buca De Beppo.
Olive Garden tonight instead of Buca De Beppo? Not much difference there. Kinda like McDonalds vs. Burger King.
I could not agree more. Last year I met Valerie Aurora http://valerieaurora.org/ at LuGradioLive. She is by far the smartest and most talented geek I have ever met. The fact that she was a woman was awesome. This experience changed my perception of female geeks forever. To take a line from Real Genius, "She's smarter than you and I put together."
Please do not feed this troll.
We use disney characters. Mickey, minnie, etc. After the PIXAR deal, we got a whole bunch of new characters. Sully, buzz, nemo, etc.
You sir get a star. http://haacked.com/images/haacked_com/WindowsLiveWriter/IConfigMapPathIsInaccessibleDueToItsProt_1446B/works-on-my-machine-starburst.png
I don't mean to troll, but I could care less about boot up times. What I care about is uptime!
With Windows, you are always having to reboot the system due to everything from software installs to changing a network connection.
On Linux, I never have to reboot. Basically my desktop stays on unless I am taking a long weekend. I understand that efficiency is good, however, a fast boot-up does not seem like news to me.
64-bit multiplication is 4 times faster on a 64-bit processor than on a 32-bit platform
Do a lot of that do ya? Most applications do not utilize the additional address space. In fact, the relative speed increase you would get is negligible. The bottle neck is often the speed of the disk controller and IO throughput. It's like getting a 1GBit network card in hopes your download speed from the internet will be faster.
I run 64-bit everywhere.
So you have a need for more than 4GB of RAM in your system?
http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54&swfSize=1 This is what converted me.
However, those days have been over for a while. Linux with Gnome or KDE with Compiz is just as bloated, processor intensive and memory hogging as Windows. I have used Linux as my only Desktop OS for 6 Years and have noticed the hardware requirements go through the roof.
Sure you can configure a system with no window manager, or use TWM, or XFCE and get better performance, but if I remember correctly, you can configure windows to run without a lot of fancy bling too.
I agree that Linux is a better option that Windows. But using the speed argument doesn't carry the weight it used to.
The "it's free" and "no viruses" argument is still valid!