I was a student, and because I was computer science it was assumed that I wanted to fix people's computers.
Now I'm a professional software developer and the last thing I want to do is fix someone's computer when I get home after 8+ hours of looking at a monitor. Plus, I haven't used Windows since I started this job 6+ months ago - I don't know the latest problems in the Windows world! All I know is that I don't see them in Linux.
I spend all day in front of a monitor because that's what I'm paid to do. I use SuSE 9.2 with KDE because it's easier on the eyes than anything else I've tried. The extra comfort is worth the CPU cycles.
Why do most open source programmers always seem to have the tendency to go with oppressive dark UI colours? It's not cool and it's not pretty. It's along the lines of someone creating their first webpage, complete with black background and white text.
I spent a lot of time wishing they had taught me C after college. It comes as hell of a shock to someone that's learnt on Java. I spent quite some time cursing at the ever present segmentation fault during the first few weeks, and don't even get me started on pointers...
Comp sci courses need to be changed a bit. I went from writing some stupid diary or something in Java with a database backend to writing a production system in C with a database backend - only my lecturers had failed to point out that you need to design the database differently when you are doing 100,000+ inserts a day and very few selects. Real-world knowledge needs to at least make an appearance during education.
I'd be really shocked if they aren't making one hell of a lot of money on DVDs. Dunno how much they cost in America but here in the UK the average DVD costs £16-£20. For a season of a TV show you can be talking upwards of £60 (the exception being BBC DVDs, as the programs were paid for in the first place by the compulsory TV license).
It's maybe not so bad. The companies that piss off customers more and more will put themselves out of business. The smart companies will see the way the wind is blowing and make a killing at the expense of the chest-beating anti-piracy ones. Of course, governments will still listen to cries of woe about "pirates", despite record profits from the smart companies.
Oh yes it can. The typical BT helpline monkey is incapable of even providing the IP addresses of their DNS servers, never mind anything more complicated.
The US has been snatching people with no proof whatsoever - I believe in someone's guilt when they are declared guilty at a trial. Not because they were tortured for a couple of years with no charge,
As government bodies, the RIAA and MPAA and the rest would be absolute facists. It wouldn't be too long before mobs would drag them out of their offices and shoot them.
I'm really going to spend the next few months converting the back office system I'm responsible to a new database server when MySQL is handling things just fine.
Zealots are the #1 problem with the open source community. Who cares whether someone is using MySQL or PostgreSQL? AT least they aren't using MS SQL.
So to be competent you need to be able to work well for 80 hours a week? Nonsense! How good a programmer is barely even comes into it - it's how a person handles stress.
In any particular day I spend at least half of it talking on the phone and emailing (all work related), interacting with the sales team, going to meetings, and monitoring testing. Some days I'm lucky to get a line of code written.
MySQL is an excellent database server, as is Postgre. Maybe the fanboys should find something better to do with their time than hanging around Slashdot complaining about the database some other people use?
The way it is the developers get to focus on what they are good at, whether that's the kernel or applications. Integrating everything would make them lose focus and would serve no purpose other than to feed Stallman's ego.
Seriously, is there a more idiot-proof distro out there? A nice visual installer (as easy as Windows if you just click ok to the default settings), answer a few of the usual questions about timezones, keyboard locales, passwords and so forth and you end up at a nicely configured and non-threatening KDE desktop.
Auto-updating? Just set it up in YOU. And speaking of YaST, I have yet to find a better tool for managing a Linux system. While I personally prefer Apt to RPM for package management, the simple visual congig panels for just about everything in Linux more than make up for it.
Sounds like someone at Microsoft has had a rush of blood to the head. Someone should tell them that you can't own other people's work without permission.
The only proprietry software in SUSE (9.1 at least, not got 9.2 yet) is a few packages made by other companies that Novell have simply bundled with the professional version. Don't like them? Then don't use them! The only thing that's SUSE specific is YaST which Novell have already open sourced - bitch at the people that make your distro if you want YaST.
I'd have loved to do stuff like that for my grades when I was a student - I hated doing pointless programming like most assignments force a student to do.
If you object to a restaurant owner having a TV on, perhaps you should simply go somewhere else that doesn;t have one. God I hate wankers like you - self rightous little pricks that believe everyone should pander to you.
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Now I'm a professional software developer and the last thing I want to do is fix someone's computer when I get home after 8+ hours of looking at a monitor. Plus, I haven't used Windows since I started this job 6+ months ago - I don't know the latest problems in the Windows world! All I know is that I don't see them in Linux.
I can't work out whether you are being funny or are truely clueless. Please clarify?
I spend all day in front of a monitor because that's what I'm paid to do. I use SuSE 9.2 with KDE because it's easier on the eyes than anything else I've tried. The extra comfort is worth the CPU cycles.
Why do most open source programmers always seem to have the tendency to go with oppressive dark UI colours? It's not cool and it's not pretty. It's along the lines of someone creating their first webpage, complete with black background and white text.
More frames per second because it's a more efficient OS? Most of the rabid gamers I know would run a Linux version of a game just for that.
Comp sci courses need to be changed a bit. I went from writing some stupid diary or something in Java with a database backend to writing a production system in C with a database backend - only my lecturers had failed to point out that you need to design the database differently when you are doing 100,000+ inserts a day and very few selects. Real-world knowledge needs to at least make an appearance during education.
I'd be really shocked if they aren't making one hell of a lot of money on DVDs. Dunno how much they cost in America but here in the UK the average DVD costs £16-£20. For a season of a TV show you can be talking upwards of £60 (the exception being BBC DVDs, as the programs were paid for in the first place by the compulsory TV license).
It's maybe not so bad. The companies that piss off customers more and more will put themselves out of business. The smart companies will see the way the wind is blowing and make a killing at the expense of the chest-beating anti-piracy ones. Of course, governments will still listen to cries of woe about "pirates", despite record profits from the smart companies.
The real reason people from the US complain about this is that Americans think they own space.
Oh yes it can. The typical BT helpline monkey is incapable of even providing the IP addresses of their DNS servers, never mind anything more complicated.
The US has been snatching people with no proof whatsoever - I believe in someone's guilt when they are declared guilty at a trial. Not because they were tortured for a couple of years with no charge,
As government bodies, the RIAA and MPAA and the rest would be absolute facists. It wouldn't be too long before mobs would drag them out of their offices and shoot them.
I was planning to buy an iPod shortly but now I don't think I'll bother. I don't want to fund Jobs delusions of Godhood.
Zealots are the #1 problem with the open source community. Who cares whether someone is using MySQL or PostgreSQL? AT least they aren't using MS SQL.
That sort of thing is designed for SMS, because of the low character limit.
I live in Ireland, you insensitive clod! It only stops raining one day a year and you want to take that away too? ;)
So to be competent you need to be able to work well for 80 hours a week? Nonsense! How good a programmer is barely even comes into it - it's how a person handles stress.
In any particular day I spend at least half of it talking on the phone and emailing (all work related), interacting with the sales team, going to meetings, and monitoring testing. Some days I'm lucky to get a line of code written.
MySQL is an excellent database server, as is Postgre. Maybe the fanboys should find something better to do with their time than hanging around Slashdot complaining about the database some other people use?
The way it is the developers get to focus on what they are good at, whether that's the kernel or applications. Integrating everything would make them lose focus and would serve no purpose other than to feed Stallman's ego.
Auto-updating? Just set it up in YOU. And speaking of YaST, I have yet to find a better tool for managing a Linux system. While I personally prefer Apt to RPM for package management, the simple visual congig panels for just about everything in Linux more than make up for it.
Sounds like someone at Microsoft has had a rush of blood to the head. Someone should tell them that you can't own other people's work without permission.
The only proprietry software in SUSE (9.1 at least, not got 9.2 yet) is a few packages made by other companies that Novell have simply bundled with the professional version. Don't like them? Then don't use them! The only thing that's SUSE specific is YaST which Novell have already open sourced - bitch at the people that make your distro if you want YaST.
I'd have loved to do stuff like that for my grades when I was a student - I hated doing pointless programming like most assignments force a student to do.
If you object to a restaurant owner having a TV on, perhaps you should simply go somewhere else that doesn;t have one. God I hate wankers like you - self rightous little pricks that believe everyone should pander to you.