lol if you've been workong for 35 years and haven't retired yet, sorry your a poor ass computer janitor
Well, THIS janitor has been around this business for 40+ years, not because I'm working towards retirement, but because, like many, I'm working at something that continuously challenges me and fills me with joy when I do something I like.
You actually gain things from getting a diploma that are every bit as valuable as practical experience. You can actually learn things that are worth learning by enduring theoretical courses, and you will learn it better than if you self-train. I taught myself to code C and C++, I learned a lot of stuff by myself from reading books and coding at home and at work. When I finally went and got a MSc CS degree I did not think it was a waste of time, it was an overview of an entire universe of different ideas and ways of doing things I would never have come up with on my own or thought to explore in that kind of breadth and trust me, you cannot just get away with soaking up book knowledge and regurgitating it. They make you think hard about the stuff you are learning and you don't qualify unless you demonstrate a sound working knowledge of it. Most of the robotnicks are filtered out right there and those that aren't get bad grades. Doing a degree also deepened my understanding of things like operating systems, databases and the math that makes them work and it made me a better and more flexible programmer.
You gain more knowledge by doing the work and not always by sitting in a classroom with 30 - 100 people all trying to pay attention to an instructor that may or may not be more than 1 page ahead of the class in the (outdated by the time it's printed) textbook.
Your mileage may vary but in my 40 years of consulting I know that my experience has taught me more than any college course ever has. This includes concepts such as operating systems, compilers, databases, parallel programming, etc.
I deal with incredibly incompetent "engineers" from a certain populous Asian country who arrive here on H1-B's and cannot seem to "engineer" their way out of the box they were taught to be in. They all have degrees from some hometown "prestigious" university and they all claim to have "5+ years of experience" but in truth I doubt they have half that. There are exceptions but those exception usually actually have 5+ years of experience and have learned, FROM EXPERIENCE, to be better, competent engineers.
Which is precisely why people need to look at all of their options. It's not like we only had two candidates for POTUS. But, people are so brainwashed into believing they only have two options or they're wasting their vote that they won't vote for anyone else.
Yes, we only had two VIABLE candidates.
Jill Stein? Nutjob Gary Johnson? Moron (What's Aleppo? REALLY?!) Evan McMullin? Who? Darrell Castle? Who? Harambe? Sadly, the better choice but he's dead.
So until we get intelligent people to run for political office (which is an oxymoron to say the least... why would an intelligent person WANT to hold public office?) then we will be forever stuck with choosing the lesser evil.
1. update MakeMKV 2. rip movie AND ALL BONUS CONTENT (my favorite part of the BluRay) 3. ffmpeg to convert (x264, AC3) 4. Download subtitles (subscene.com) 5. Deploy to PLEX or NAS 6. Enjoy!
Learned this method after buying my 4th copy of Finding Nemo on DVD that my kids wore out in the DVD player. Now they can watch whatever movie they want, that I actually own on BluRay (or DVD) as many damn times as they want.
Well, apparently telling the truth is interfering with US elections, oh my (someone wasn't thinking when they put out this release).
Is it telling the truth when there are two involved parties with secrets and you reveal the secrets of only one side? Some would say that telling a selective truth is the same as lying.
I like to think that the "hackers" (whomever they really were) had an agenda to embarrass both the RNC and the DNC. With the DNC they were able to phish Podesta and publish embarrassing emails. With the RNC we had Trump... so... how bad could it have possibly been?
I have to second you on the choice of Ada. A most robust and controlled/secure development platform for general purpose use, I have been developing in Ada for as long as I have owned TAOCP (got my copy in the early 80's). Every one of the exercises were implementable in Ada.
As for reading the books... I've read through them over a dozen times in the past 30+ years... can't say I completely understand all of it but my comprehension grows every year.:D
I read something a while back that the NRA is removing the gender-specific categories for shooting competitions since the men and women were scoring so closely to each other that there was no discernible difference in performance by gender.
Not sure if they still are or what the current status is but it's a step in the right direction. For all those things where gender should be irrelevant... it will be.
We use perl at my (US-based) work for many mission-critical systems. Contact me with your email address and I'll point you in the right direction (as we are always looking for Perl people)
Not quite. It's retarded admins that use password authentication on public facing SSH services. I have had a public facing SSH server for over 5 years now and it ONLY permits key-based authentication. I have NEVER had an unauthorized login. But them I'm an unpublished no-name IT guy who only follows those "best practices" that the so-called experts keep railing on about but don't seem to follow themselves.
I am certain you can also have a secure Windows server that has a public facing connection on the internet... I've just never had the patience to try it.
I agree completely. As a casual MMO-gamer I find the work/reward system to be the most enjoyable part of WoW. The fact that there is always SO much to do in this huge landscape is what keeps me coming back.
Have a bad day at work where you feel you have been "grinding" for 8-10 hours and accomplished nothing? Hit a raid or daily and, poof, you just did something useful with your day (emotionally at least by comparison).
Some days I just like to sit around and fish for that damn turtle mount... doesn't matter that I haven't gotten it yet. It was the same for the TLPD. Until you happen upon it by chance and you get really excited because you haven't actually seen it in 2 years of playing the game.
So, personally, I love the new content. Have always enjoyed the background music for many of the zones (even bought the soundtrack a few years back). The back stories are engaging and the characters/NPC's you meet are often hilarious.
And speaking of grinding... go for Insane in the Membrane and THEN complain to me about grinding... sure, it's easier now that the Shen'dralar are gone... not.
I wonder if Larry and Sergei, both jews, would take issue with a video revealing just how insidious jewish activity is in global politics, the nature of jewish control over the US economy and political space and the belief held by jews that it is jewish destiny to dominate the world militarily. I wonder how they would react to a documentary showing just how much contempt jews have for all non-jews.
If you want an extremist religion that encourages its adherent to hold all others in contempt, judaism is the real place to look. Rabbis have come straight out and said that it is moral for jews to kill healthy non-jews in order to harvest organs. Here are a few links for starters:
I would love for you to educate me on how Jews are insidiously infiltrating and controlling world politics considering the number of stone-age countries with outright mandates on Israel's destruction.
Please explain to me how Jews control the US economy (have you seen the US economy? whomever is in control is doing a crappy job).
I would love for you to explain to me how you came to the conclusion that is it the Jewish destiny to dominate the world militarily (seeing as Jews make up a tiny fraction of the world population)...
I can recall maybe one or two extremist Jews that resorted to violence to make their point. I never hear of Jewish suicide bombers killing dozens of innocent non-Jews because their "leaders" told them that they would be rewarded in the afterlife or that their religious doctrine says it's OK to commit mass murder...
Speaking as a Jew... I only have contempt for idiots like you and religious zealots who can only speak the language of violence. Obviously why you are posting anonymously (or trolling).
Valve's ability to make available popular titles through Steam in many markets and their near non-existent DRM probably contributes to the decline in piracy of Valve titles. Sure you need to be logged into a Steam account to run them but some of those Steam games are actually free to play anyways.
I bought CS:GO yesterday and will continue to buy my games from Steam. Assuming that Valve follows through on their promise to make Linux ports of their games and I'll even support their efforts by buying extra copies for friends and family.
I have been running a small business since 2001 and have only ever used open source software for just this reason. No restrictive licenses equals no legal fees for software piracy.
I think, however, that Microsft and the BSA should be MORE aggressive in their pursuit of these heinous villains of industry. Maybe it will drive more businesses towards using F/OSS tools and ditch their shackles. Something very Marxian about it....
He means, and this is my assumption, that running Java applications on the desktop via the JVM is no less secure than running natively compiled code on the desktop. Perhaps a better definition of where the security "holes" are located and/or transported would be a more enlightening discourse (applets? browser JVM integration? JNLP?)
For what it's worth that is not a Java problem... it's an "idiot programmer for Dell writing bad code in Java" problem by requiring a specific version with no upgrade path. I have a number of Java applications that were written using the 1.4 JDK that will run without problem on the current 1.7 JRE.
Personally I cannot see the author's point. I wiped my 10G drive and installed everything from the Mandrake 7.2 distro (both CD's) and that took up maybe 10% of the entire disk. This leaves me ~9G of space for my own stuff (data, photos, etc).
I wanted to pull pictures off of my digital camera and was doing an 'rpm -ivh gphoto...' and I was told by the package manager that the mdk version was already installed (sans icon tho). I see this as incredibly convenient considering I'm on a 56K dialup and don't want to download large files for packages.
My fiancee (who used to use Windows) is now an avid Linux user. Installation and configuration were no more difficult than installing Windows. I see the article as yet another "moron with a mouthpiece" - (i.e. it LOOKS too complicated and I'm not even going to expend any mental effort whatsoever investigating it).
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lol if you've been workong for 35 years and haven't retired yet, sorry your a poor ass computer janitor
Well, THIS janitor has been around this business for 40+ years, not because I'm working towards retirement, but because, like many, I'm working at something that continuously challenges me and fills me with joy when I do something I like.
Now get off my virtual lawn!
You actually gain things from getting a diploma that are every bit as valuable as practical experience. You can actually learn things that are worth learning by enduring theoretical courses, and you will learn it better than if you self-train. I taught myself to code C and C++, I learned a lot of stuff by myself from reading books and coding at home and at work. When I finally went and got a MSc CS degree I did not think it was a waste of time, it was an overview of an entire universe of different ideas and ways of doing things I would never have come up with on my own or thought to explore in that kind of breadth and trust me, you cannot just get away with soaking up book knowledge and regurgitating it. They make you think hard about the stuff you are learning and you don't qualify unless you demonstrate a sound working knowledge of it. Most of the robotnicks are filtered out right there and those that aren't get bad grades. Doing a degree also deepened my understanding of things like operating systems, databases and the math that makes them work and it made me a better and more flexible programmer.
You gain more knowledge by doing the work and not always by sitting in a classroom with 30 - 100 people all trying to pay attention to an instructor that may or may not be more than 1 page ahead of the class in the (outdated by the time it's printed) textbook.
Your mileage may vary but in my 40 years of consulting I know that my experience has taught me more than any college course ever has. This includes concepts such as operating systems, compilers, databases, parallel programming, etc.
I deal with incredibly incompetent "engineers" from a certain populous Asian country who arrive here on H1-B's and cannot seem to "engineer" their way out of the box they were taught to be in. They all have degrees from some hometown "prestigious" university and they all claim to have "5+ years of experience" but in truth I doubt they have half that. There are exceptions but those exception usually actually have 5+ years of experience and have learned, FROM EXPERIENCE, to be better, competent engineers.
Which is precisely why people need to look at all of their options. It's not like we only had two candidates for POTUS. But, people are so brainwashed into believing they only have two options or they're wasting their vote that they won't vote for anyone else.
Yes, we only had two VIABLE candidates.
Jill Stein? Nutjob
Gary Johnson? Moron (What's Aleppo? REALLY?!)
Evan McMullin? Who?
Darrell Castle? Who?
Harambe? Sadly, the better choice but he's dead.
So until we get intelligent people to run for political office (which is an oxymoron to say the least ... why would an intelligent person WANT to hold public office?) then we will be forever stuck with choosing the lesser evil.
1. update MakeMKV
2. rip movie AND ALL BONUS CONTENT (my favorite part of the BluRay)
3. ffmpeg to convert (x264, AC3)
4. Download subtitles (subscene.com)
5. Deploy to PLEX or NAS
6. Enjoy!
Learned this method after buying my 4th copy of Finding Nemo on DVD that my kids wore out in the DVD player. Now they can watch whatever movie they want, that I actually own on BluRay (or DVD) as many damn times as they want.
Well, apparently telling the truth is interfering with US elections, oh my (someone wasn't thinking when they put out this release).
Is it telling the truth when there are two involved parties with secrets and you reveal the secrets of only one side? Some would say that telling a selective truth is the same as lying.
I like to think that the "hackers" (whomever they really were) had an agenda to embarrass both the RNC and the DNC. With the DNC they were able to phish Podesta and publish embarrassing emails. With the RNC we had Trump ... so ... how bad could it have possibly been?
I have to second you on the choice of Ada. A most robust and controlled/secure development platform for general purpose use, I have been developing in Ada for as long as I have owned TAOCP (got my copy in the early 80's). Every one of the exercises were implementable in Ada.
As for reading the books ... I've read through them over a dozen times in the past 30+ years ... can't say I completely understand all of it but my comprehension grows every year. :D
Yes. Yes there is ... and obviously you, youngster, are not on it. ;P
I read something a while back that the NRA is removing the gender-specific categories for shooting competitions since the men and women were scoring so closely to each other that there was no discernible difference in performance by gender.
Not sure if they still are or what the current status is but it's a step in the right direction. For all those things where gender should be irrelevant ... it will be.
Yup. Missed that too. :D
your a moran
Just an FYI ... it is bad form to call someone a "moron" and misspell the word "moron" ...
Hey now! I would LOVE to name my kid Golgarth! That sounds like an awesome name and it DOES sound Viking.
"This is my son, Golgarth. His sister's name is LaTanya"
That could work.
We use perl at my (US-based) work for many mission-critical systems. Contact me with your email address and I'll point you in the right direction (as we are always looking for Perl people)
Not quite. It's retarded admins that use password authentication on public facing SSH services. I have had a public facing SSH server for over 5 years now and it ONLY permits key-based authentication. I have NEVER had an unauthorized login. But them I'm an unpublished no-name IT guy who only follows those "best practices" that the so-called experts keep railing on about but don't seem to follow themselves.
I am certain you can also have a secure Windows server that has a public facing connection on the internet ... I've just never had the patience to try it.
I agree completely. As a casual MMO-gamer I find the work/reward system to be the most enjoyable part of WoW. The fact that there is always SO much to do in this huge landscape is what keeps me coming back.
Have a bad day at work where you feel you have been "grinding" for 8-10 hours and accomplished nothing? Hit a raid or daily and, poof, you just did something useful with your day (emotionally at least by comparison).
Some days I just like to sit around and fish for that damn turtle mount ... doesn't matter that I haven't gotten it yet. It was the same for the TLPD. Until you happen upon it by chance and you get really excited because you haven't actually seen it in 2 years of playing the game.
So, personally, I love the new content. Have always enjoyed the background music for many of the zones (even bought the soundtrack a few years back). The back stories are engaging and the characters/NPC's you meet are often hilarious.
And speaking of grinding ... go for Insane in the Membrane and THEN complain to me about grinding... sure, it's easier now that the Shen'dralar are gone ... not.
I wonder if Larry and Sergei, both jews, would take issue with a video revealing just how insidious jewish activity is in global politics, the nature of jewish control over the US economy and political space and the belief held by jews that it is jewish destiny to dominate the world militarily. I wonder how they would react to a documentary showing just how much contempt jews have for all non-jews.
If you want an extremist religion that encourages its adherent to hold all others in contempt, judaism is the real place to look. Rabbis have come straight out and said that it is moral for jews to kill healthy non-jews in order to harvest organs. Here are a few links for starters:
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2012/05/rabbis-who-endorsed-the-murder-of-non-jewish-babies-wont-be-prosecuted-ag-says-345.html
http://coteret.com/2009/11/09/settler-rabbi-publishes-the-complete-guide-to-killing-non-jews/
Wow... where to begin?
I would love for you to educate me on how Jews are insidiously infiltrating and controlling world politics considering the number of stone-age countries with outright mandates on Israel's destruction.
Please explain to me how Jews control the US economy (have you seen the US economy? whomever is in control is doing a crappy job).
I would love for you to explain to me how you came to the conclusion that is it the Jewish destiny to dominate the world militarily (seeing as Jews make up a tiny fraction of the world population)...
I can recall maybe one or two extremist Jews that resorted to violence to make their point. I never hear of Jewish suicide bombers killing dozens of innocent non-Jews because their "leaders" told them that they would be rewarded in the afterlife or that their religious doctrine says it's OK to commit mass murder...
Speaking as a Jew ... I only have contempt for idiots like you and religious zealots who can only speak the language of violence. Obviously why you are posting anonymously (or trolling).
IS it just me or does the logo (when rotated 45 degrees) resemble a HazMat sign?
http://www.compliancesigns.com/nfpadiamonds.shtml
Valve's ability to make available popular titles through Steam in many markets and their near non-existent DRM probably contributes to the decline in piracy of Valve titles. Sure you need to be logged into a Steam account to run them but some of those Steam games are actually free to play anyways.
I bought CS:GO yesterday and will continue to buy my games from Steam. Assuming that Valve follows through on their promise to make Linux ports of their games and I'll even support their efforts by buying extra copies for friends and family.
I have been running a small business since 2001 and have only ever used open source software for just this reason. No restrictive licenses equals no legal fees for software piracy.
I think, however, that Microsft and the BSA should be MORE aggressive in their pursuit of these heinous villains of industry. Maybe it will drive more businesses towards using F/OSS tools and ditch their shackles. Something very Marxian about it ....
I have 8 kids ... I don't think that being a computer programmer is why I'm sleep deprived ...
Hell! I would LOVE to ONLY get 7h of sleep ... I think 6h is a more realistic target.
Just as I was feeling nostalgic for OMNI magazine and it's "How to tell if you are an alien" questionnaire...
He means, and this is my assumption, that running Java applications on the desktop via the JVM is no less secure than running natively compiled code on the desktop. Perhaps a better definition of where the security "holes" are located and/or transported would be a more enlightening discourse (applets? browser JVM integration? JNLP?)
For what it's worth that is not a Java problem ... it's an "idiot programmer for Dell writing bad code in Java" problem by requiring a specific version with no upgrade path. I have a number of Java applications that were written using the 1.4 JDK that will run without problem on the current 1.7 JRE.
Especially when you misspell "responses" :P
Personally I cannot see the author's point. I wiped my 10G drive and installed everything from the Mandrake 7.2 distro (both CD's) and that took up maybe 10% of the entire disk. This leaves me ~9G of space for my own stuff (data, photos, etc).
I wanted to pull pictures off of my digital camera and was doing an 'rpm -ivh gphoto...' and I was told by the package manager that the mdk version was already installed (sans icon tho). I see this as incredibly convenient considering I'm on a 56K dialup and don't want to download large files for packages.
My fiancee (who used to use Windows) is now an avid Linux user. Installation and configuration were no more difficult than installing Windows. I see the article as yet another "moron with a mouthpiece" - (i.e. it LOOKS too complicated and I'm not even going to expend any mental effort whatsoever investigating it).
My $0.02