i have to confirm this; maybe from another point of view
when i was 20 years old, studying informatics at a university, i have found my first real job
i have got a chance to work on real things, and see my algorithms being used by real people, not just producing some useless results to satisfy a lector
i have decided to follow this chance, quit university and i was working for cca one year with a lower salary then i could get if i would finish university (3 years later...)
after one year, i have been known in the company; after two years, i have been respected in the company, and after three years i started becoming a key person in some projects
of course, one could say that i had an advantage, i started with programming when i was 15, i have participated at some international competitions on high school level and got some medals but this fact was (maybe) considered only during the first meeting between myself and my first boss
i don't want to say that diploms and certifications are useless, i just think that they won't help you except for getting higher salary at the very beginning (unless you want to work in a public sector of course..)
company is not paying employees for the certificates they've got, but for their knowledge and ability to use it - and turn it into a profitable product certificates can make your life easier from the very beginning but after couple of months, it all gets down to what you are really capable of
i am doing quite a lot of work with oracle; several months ago i was considering to get an oracle certificate after some inquiries what do i need to know to get that, i have realized that i'm never going to make it
not because i'm stupid, but because i don't need to know all the things required -> i have the 'big picture' in my mind, i know how to read documentation, and i know how to use google
again; i don't want to say that the oracle certificate is a bad or useless thing i have just realized that i don't need to keep all the things in my head, i only need to know where to look for them, and how to use them
it was the same at university; i was supposed to learn things of which i never use everything if i would be supposed to learn how to use them, and where to find them if they are needed; that's a good thing but if i should memorize them to satisfy some so-called exams -> what is it all good for ?
do you really think that this is a matter of OS ? i'm sure that everybody capable of doing a simple shell scripting (or perl) is able to write similar virus for linux/unix
in the fact, it is just a program which sends itself via email as soon as you start it
or do you think that whoever wants to use linux/unix has to be more inteligent than clicking on every attachment ?
i'm not a microsoft fan, but this seems not to be a problem in their software, but rather in their users !
tcp/ip sometimes does not work at all yeah... all internet uses are used to the fact that sometimes they have to restart their download or hit F5 to reload the page, etc... but it does not mean that it is 'good enough'.. it only means that it is 'better then nothing'
as for the address range... yes of course, fancy stuff like NAT can route the packets, but takes the interconnectivity out - you can't connecto from everywhere to everywhere anymore yout local NAT is your god...
apache - have you ever tried to write an application using more then one thread ? do you know what it is all about ? to get all the threads working together rather then slowing down each other ? probably not, otherwise you would not say something like: 'Couldn't we have instead built on the existing code, which by now is extremely robust (if a little messy)...'
perl - who suggest you to use perl 6 ? noone so how you can be so cheeky and try to suggest to all those people having their fun with that development that they should do something 'more useful in your eyes' and continue development on perl 5 ?
'Browsing the Web is browsing the web, and it's pretty much the same for me now as it was back in 1998.' -> don't be so selfish and put the question differently: is the browsing the web for WEB BROWSER the same things as in 1998 ? NOT ! now it has to handle all the fancy stuff which wasn't being really used THAT time......
case 7 -> windows xp is only extension/bugfix/upgrade of windows 2000
if you want to talk about windows and rewrites - WHY they have written windows NT ? why couldn't they build SERVER operating system based on WINDOWS 3.11 or WIN95 ????
modified stereo and video, added ports to switch it on/off and receive status
mp3 are played from PC, winamp plus couple of useful plugins to do crossfading and volume normalization
i do watch tv through video recorder, video goes directly to beamer, audio through pc, pc is doing volume normalization (i don't know why by all ads in TV are much louder then the rest of the broadcasting)
one simple VB app which is controlling the devices, and starting playback as required - e.g. when i switch on video recorder, it stops mp3 playback and starts line-in playback, when i swicht video rec off, it starts mp3 playback again, when i press a magic key, it stops everything and does suspend-to-ram, etc...
i'm using mem-PIO device which has 24 ttl i/o ports to do external control/status checks
once something like this is working, you don't need that tax anymore
if everybody would be using e-signature and mail clients would ignore emails without it, spammer would need e-signature as well
for taxing purposes, this signature would have to be connected to a real person somehow - this means that also spammer would need e-signature connected to him
then it would be much easier to stop that spammer tracking down how he obtained e-signature
the tax itself is irrelevant - it is the question of linking an email to a person which is important
usualy you don't need to touch commandline, if you don't want to and you have chosen newbie distro
the *big* difference is - when windows corrupts, you go reinstall, os, all software, etc...
when linux corrupts - you can reinstall os, you don't need to reinstall most of the apps, and you can have a friend (or support for your distro) to fix the problem without reinstalling
the only reason why nobody is using commandline on windows is, that it can't do almost anything
i'm controling my devices at home via computer i have bought mem-PIO module (http://www.bmc-messsysteme.de/ger/pr-mem-pio.html ) which is attached to USB (i wanted to save my serial port) and has 3 programmable 8 bit i/o gates under windows, you can use active-x control provided by vendor under linux, you can ask me for a linux driver
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if you would use your hair dryer for 48 hours continuously, it would mean that you already have a brain damage; don't worry ;-)
cool down i've heard that it just counts the number of your eyes this is not changing that often, is it ?
i have to confirm this; maybe from another point of view
...)
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when i was 20 years old, studying informatics at a university, i have found my first real job
i have got a chance to work on real things, and see my algorithms being used by real people, not just producing some useless results to satisfy a lector
i have decided to follow this chance, quit university and i was working for cca one year with a lower salary then i could get if i would finish university (3 years later
after one year, i have been known in the company; after two years, i have been respected in the company, and after three years i started becoming a key person in some projects
of course, one could say that i had an advantage, i started with programming when i was 15, i have participated at some international competitions on high school level and got some medals
but this fact was (maybe) considered only during the first meeting between myself and my first boss
i don't want to say that diploms and certifications are useless, i just think that they won't help you except for getting higher salary at the very beginning (unless you want to work in a public sector of course
company is not paying employees for the certificates they've got, but for their knowledge and ability to use it - and turn it into a profitable product
certificates can make your life easier from the very beginning but after couple of months, it all gets down to what you are really capable of
i am doing quite a lot of work with oracle; several months ago i was considering to get an oracle certificate
after some inquiries what do i need to know to get that, i have realized that i'm never going to make it
not because i'm stupid, but because i don't need to know all the things required -> i have the 'big picture' in my mind, i know how to read documentation, and i know how to use google
again; i don't want to say that the oracle certificate is a bad or useless thing
i have just realized that i don't need to keep all the things in my head, i only need to know where to look for them, and how to use them
it was the same at university; i was supposed to learn things of which i never use everything
if i would be supposed to learn how to use them, and where to find them if they are needed; that's a good thing
but if i should memorize them to satisfy some so-called exams -> what is it all good for ?
do you really think that this is a matter of OS ?
i'm sure that everybody capable of doing a simple shell scripting (or perl) is able to write similar virus for linux/unix
in the fact, it is just a program which sends itself via email as soon as you start it
or do you think that whoever wants to use linux/unix has to be more inteligent than clicking on every attachment ?
i'm not a microsoft fan, but this seems not to be a problem in their software, but rather in their users !
tcp/ip sometimes does not work at all ... all internet uses are used to the fact that sometimes they have to restart their download or hit F5 to reload the page, etc ... .. it only means that it is 'better then nothing'
... yes of course, fancy stuff like NAT can route the packets, but takes the interconnectivity out - you can't connecto from everywhere to everywhere anymore ...
......
yeah
but it does not mean that it is 'good enough'
as for the address range
yout local NAT is your god
apache - have you ever tried to write an application using more then one thread ? do you know what it is all about ? to get all the threads working together rather then slowing down each other ? probably not, otherwise you would not say something like: 'Couldn't we have instead built on the existing code, which by now is extremely robust (if a little messy)...'
perl - who suggest you to use perl 6 ? noone
so how you can be so cheeky and try to suggest to all those people having their fun with that development that they should do something 'more useful in your eyes' and continue development on perl 5 ?
'Browsing the Web is browsing the web, and it's pretty much the same for me now as it was back in 1998.' -> don't be so selfish and put the question differently:
is the browsing the web for WEB BROWSER the same things as in 1998 ? NOT ! now it has to handle all the fancy stuff which wasn't being really used THAT time
case 7 -> windows xp is only extension/bugfix/upgrade of windows 2000
if you want to talk about windows and rewrites - WHY they have written windows NT ? why couldn't they build SERVER operating system based on WINDOWS 3.11 or WIN95 ????
this will put phrase 'my computer has died' into a completely new light ;-)
> IT could mean a miraculous day for computer users everywhere.
...
imagine a new m$ [office] worm spreading 1000 times faster
modified stereo and video, added ports to switch it on/off and receive status mp3 are played from PC, winamp plus couple of useful plugins to do crossfading and volume normalization i do watch tv through video recorder, video goes directly to beamer, audio through pc, pc is doing volume normalization (i don't know why by all ads in TV are much louder then the rest of the broadcasting) one simple VB app which is controlling the devices, and starting playback as required - e.g. when i switch on video recorder, it stops mp3 playback and starts line-in playback, when i swicht video rec off, it starts mp3 playback again, when i press a magic key, it stops everything and does suspend-to-ram, etc ...
i'm using mem-PIO device which has 24 ttl i/o ports to do external control/status checks
do you really want your microsoft windows to be talking on you ?
once something like this is working, you don't need that tax anymore if everybody would be using e-signature and mail clients would ignore emails without it, spammer would need e-signature as well for taxing purposes, this signature would have to be connected to a real person somehow - this means that also spammer would need e-signature connected to him then it would be much easier to stop that spammer tracking down how he obtained e-signature the tax itself is irrelevant - it is the question of linking an email to a person which is important
usualy you don't need to touch commandline, if you don't want to and you have chosen newbie distro
...
the *big* difference is - when windows corrupts, you go reinstall, os, all software, etc
when linux corrupts - you can reinstall os, you don't need to reinstall most of the apps, and you can have a friend (or support for your distro) to fix the problem without reinstalling
the only reason why nobody is using commandline on windows is, that it can't do almost anything
do you remember first generation of CRT ?
i'm controling my devices at home via computerl ) which is attached to USB (i wanted to save my serial port) and has 3 programmable 8 bit i/o gates
i have bought mem-PIO module (http://www.bmc-messsysteme.de/ger/pr-mem-pio.htm
under windows, you can use active-x control provided by vendor
under linux, you can ask me for a linux driver