It's kind of funny that until you commented on it, I didn't even realize that it was a spelling mistake. I read it and just understood it to mean turning them loose on the job market.
Relatively few schools will let you major in "partying" these days.
It falls under the code word "Business".
LOL That was sure right at my school. The business department scheduled all of their classes Monday through Thursday, so that the students would have Friday free for "interviews". Yeah, guess who started partying one day earlier than the rest of campus. It also sucked that I guess the college of engineering figured that engineering students don't stay up late or anything, so we'll stick them with 8:00 classes M-F all the time.
I'm going to quote the partnt on this because it's from an AC and is not represented very well.
I cant stree that enough and make no mistake about it that the people in Hardware are the future systems engineers. They never get laid off and are highly sought after. You can practicly name your salry expect around ~100k @ 5 - 7 years and live where ever you want. Long hours every once in a while but if you didn't have so many meetings with higher ups than you would'nt have the face time.
In case you didn't under stand: Hardware, Hardware, Hardware.
In one of the replies further down, someone says to ignore this and to go for what you enjoy. While that is generally good career advice, and would apply equally well to switching to theater or biology or whatever else you like, that doesn't answer the question that this topic is asking. It is specifically asking for real world conditions on which of the two(supposedly both liked by the poster) fields--hardware or software--are more in demand. This post by the AC that hardware folks are more in demand is pretty much correct. This is not to put down the software side in any way; it's just that they are flooding the market, so there is more demand for the hardware guys.
Our university had a degree that I started with called Computer Science and Engineering(CSE), that was a mixture of hardware and software. It covered system design and architecture and logic operations and such and many programming courses. When I got into the programming courses I found I really didn't like them. I switched to Electrical Engineering where I could go more into depth with semiconductors and digital logic in hardware.
It occurs to me as I read your post that someone who is confused by TigerDirect and Apple's Tiger is probably wondering why TigerDirect doesn't sell, you know, actual live Tigers... direct.
I haven't seen any places that sell tigers direct to the customer, but I can recommend you to Instant Monkeys Online! They're far less dangerous than tigers.
The Instant monkeys page is part of Temple ov thee lemur, which has a collection of humorous websites they have developed, including such classics as microsith.com and Project E.U.N.U.C.H.
This seems to be a far more efficient protocol. The pidgeon one requires OCRing the packets, I'm sure you could use SD cards or similar to get better bandwidth and accuracy.
At the risk of asking you to violate your Slashdot user agreement by reading the article, I might mention that they do refer to the pigeons carrying 1.3gigabits on flash cards.
Strange. A similar thing is happening in the Dutch language.
In standard Dutch it's: "kleiner dan" (smaller than), but the current teen generation says: "kleiner als" (smaller as).
Oh, that sounds a lot like a very irritating turn of (incorrect) phrase I hear sometimes from native English speakers.
It comes up when referring to something being less than expected or maybe not as far as expected. People will use the phrase, "Is that all the farther you have to go?" or "Is that all the more you have to do?"
Correct phrases would be "Is that as far as you have to go?" or "Is that all you have to do?" I don't hear it very often, but boy it sounds awful when I do hear it.
This is probably my biggest irritation in people's use of language, followed closely by use of the non-word irregardless. Third place is people using the word "mute" instead of "moot" to refer to something that is no longer of importance, as in "a mute point".
When I first read the title of this article, I thought they were referring to sales figures or their market share. I figured the PSP would do at least a little better, but that line seems harsh.
This almost seems like one of those "right hand/left hand" things. When being ordered to turn over documents, they will point to their original priviledge log that includes everything and the kitchen sink so they won't have to disclose anything. Then when it comes to debating the merits of "the priviledge log", they will point to and debate the later, much-reduced version. Then they can proclaim loudly about they have so few things marked priviledged and IBM is the one with the long list and is trying to "hide" stuff from us!
You skillfully missed the point. Usability-wise, it would make sense to have the power cable and the USB or FireWire cable that connects to the CPU in the back, and the rest of the ports in the front.
Well, yes and no. Remember that most of the appeal of this as well as for the Mac Mini itself is about the aesthetics. Many people would probably want the flat clean front of the device that wouldn't be showing a bunch of ports and sockets. For those who aren't as concerned with the clean appearance and want the ports on the front with the requisite cables and such showing on the front, they probably wouldn't mind turning it that way and having the power cord run around to the back.
With this configuration, at least people can choose if they want the pretty form or the practical form.
This announcement is for Hynix only. The writer of the summary adds the following misinformation, "Micron and Infineon have also been fined for their role in the scheme." Infineon did plead guilty and settle for a fine, but Micron and Samsung are the two manufacturers that haven't settled yet.
Let's see, three unnecessary follow up quotes to detail the reference. Let's check them out, shall we?
by El (94934) on Thursday April 21, @11:29AM (#12303932) You use that word a lot... I do not think it means what you think it means!
Mm, good intentions, but a C+ for accuracy.
by Drooling Iguana (61479) on Thursday April 21, @12:06PM (#12304287) [obligatory follow-up quote] You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [/obligatory follow-up quote]
OK, we've got good use of sarcastic non-standard HTML tags, and the accurate text of the quote. It looks like Drooling Iguana stands a chance to go the distance here, folks.
by carlcmc (322350) on Thursday April 21, @01:03PM (#12304910) I do not think that you know what the word means... oh whoops, that was appropos wasn't it:-)
Uh, did this one get run through Babelfish and back or something? I'm going to have to give this about a 1.6 for technique.
I dunno, what's more likely to fail in the middle of watching a movie... that shiny disc, or my cable connection? (Hint: I have Comcast. It craps out all the time.) Perhaps some of us would rather know we can finish watching a movie before we start.
More likely to fail in the middle? (Hint: My cable connection doesn't stop playing from scratches and smudges all over it.)
By the way, I'm not actually in favor of the streaming method because of the repeating charge of a pay-per-view type of system; I was just pointing out that reliability doesn't seem like a point in the disc's favor.
Funniest movie trailer I've ever seen. It's for the movie "Comedian", starring Jerry Seinfeld. It's filming in a sound studio where that guy who does all the movie trailer voice-overs is recording one for "Comedian". They keep rejecting his cheesy starting lines like "In a world..." NO! "In a land..." No. "In a time..."
This is pure paranoia. The author obviously meant to write "optical drives compatible with both formats".
And I can't believe his tin-foil hat rant about forcing scary DRM on hard drives is rated higher than your down to earth realism. Come on, people, it's just a case of a non tech-savvy reporter--not a big conspiracy. Not to say that there aren't (S)COnspiracies out there, but this isn't one of them.
The only thing "Interesting" about your post is that you have categorized an entire concept as bad because of the specific bad implementation you have to deal with. I'm sorry that the admins in your situation have set up a bad system. It sounds like they have overloaded the client to server ratio, so there's not enough guts to run all the thin clients well. If you keep up enough servers with load balancing and such, you can keep that from happening, but it does take some competent people to do that.
That's pretty much what I want too. In Boise, we have CableOne and then Qwest for DSL. Qwest has started offering naked DSL now, but of course they make it as hard as possible to find out about it or sign up for it. Also, their website will tell you the price for (naked DSL + MSN expensive internet service) or for (DSL/phone line required + no ISP). Nowhere will they tell you how much just the DSL connection is.
I actually called Qwest when DSL became available at my house to switch from the $50 a month CableOne bill I have to live with. I confirmed multiple times with the sales person(yes, I wrote down his name) the $28 price for their 1.5Mbit naked DSL with no phone line, and I would find my own ISP. I went ahead and placed the order and went through the signup procedure with them. The next day I was talking with my coworker who had told me about them offering naked DSL, and he said that the $28 price was if you already had a phone line. That wasn't what I had been told, so I called Qwest back to confirm. Sure enough, while telling me the $28 price, the sales guy had filled out my order with the $35 price for not having a phone line.
I demanded to talk to a manager and told him about what had happened--being lied to by the sales person and having him place the order while misinforming me of what it was for. I gave him the name of the sales guy I had worked with. I cancelled the order on principle and said he needs to deal with that situation either from an ethics or education perspective with their sales staff, so they don't continue this stuff with potential customers. I'm still really pissed off at Qwest for that. By having the cost of the line at $35 and then having to get an ISP for about $10-12, it would barely be any cheaper than my CableOne service, and I'm not going to deal with a company that lies to me about the services I'm signing up for.
The bridge between Windows and Linux is cross-platform apps, like Firefox and OpenOffice. Get everyone using these apps, and then point out to them that "hey, you could actually use the exact same apps on linux, why are you paying for windows?"
You could go a different route and it's almost transparent to switch. At my company, we're switching out a lot of people's systems to Red Hat with Crossover Office, so they continue to use Outlook and the other MS Office apps. So now instead of paying for Windows and Office, we're just paying for Office. We may continue to push toward phasing out the Office part too, but for now, that's the easy switch.
This could be any two operating systems or programs that are supposed to be functionally equivalent but just work in different ways. They are like two paths through a very dense forest that diverge in a V shape. For an inexperienced new user, either path is equally easy to learn and progress on. For someone who has gone very far down one path or the other and learned it in more detail and become very proficient with it, it is a very challenging thing to "switch" and make your way to the other path. The route to the other path(at a proficiency level you would like) is through very dense woods and is a difficult journey to unlearn all of the ways you already know to do things.
I saw this very well when showing my wife OpenOffice.org. If you haven't used a spreadsheet much before or have just used it for entering data and creating simple graphs with the mouse-driven chart wizards and such, it's no big deal to switch. My wife, however, uses Excel extensively on a very expert level at work. She's pulling reports from database servers to import and creating scripts and formulas to calculate data for pricing and inventory levels and credits and debits on customer accounts.
I'll bet Calc in OO.o can do all of that stuff, but it's just done differently. The formulas that she knows and can do in her sleep in Excel are named differently or formatted differently in Calc and just barf when she types them into Calc as she is used to using them. That is the frustrating side when you are faced with unlearning skills that have made you efficient and spending hours doing what you know could be done in 5 minutes on a system you know.
I did find one other nitpick of his that I really agree with--the help menu complaints(#66). I do think there is a lot of improvement needed in that area. In particular, the "Ubuntu Quick Guide" could be a lot better. His suggestion is pretty much right on.
What new users are looking for in a quick guide is a match of function-->program name. When users want to do something, like open a picture or rip songs from a CD, how can they find out the name of the program that does that? The quick help guide could cover some of those basics and be a lot more useful.
OK, he is admittedly a nitpicking ass, but he did get a few good ones in there. One of them has bothered me ever since I first discovered it. It isn't an Ubuntu thing. It's aparently a Unix web browser interface thing. Here's his quote: "Clicking once in the address field does not do what people want 99 percent of the time, which is selecting the address so it can be replaced by typing a new one."
Exactly! So why did *whoever* come up with such an irritating default behavior. Does the OS X interface do this too? We use Mozilla on our Solaris systems at work, and it has that same annoying problem. He's exactly right that the huge majority of the time, you want the whole address selected so you can type in a new URL, so that should be the single click action.
If you can convince me that one all-inclusive menu for my 5 very different open applications is a good (and not confusing) way of doing things, I will be thoroughly impressed.
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It's kind of funny that until you commented on it, I didn't even realize that it was a spelling mistake. I read it and just understood it to mean turning them loose on the job market.
Our university had a degree that I started with called Computer Science and Engineering(CSE), that was a mixture of hardware and software. It covered system design and architecture and logic operations and such and many programming courses. When I got into the programming courses I found I really didn't like them. I switched to Electrical Engineering where I could go more into depth with semiconductors and digital logic in hardware.
The Instant monkeys page is part of Temple ov thee lemur, which has a collection of humorous websites they have developed, including such classics as microsith.com and Project E.U.N.U.C.H.
And if you want to get a technology banned, it just takes some cleverly placed editorial elipses in the story.
"egg-size fusion generators could someday find uses in spacecraft thrusters, medical treatments and scanners that search for bombs."
"egg-size fusion generators could someday find uses in[...]bombs."
It comes up when referring to something being less than expected or maybe not as far as expected. People will use the phrase, "Is that all the farther you have to go?" or "Is that all the more you have to do?"
Correct phrases would be "Is that as far as you have to go?" or "Is that all you have to do?" I don't hear it very often, but boy it sounds awful when I do hear it.
This is probably my biggest irritation in people's use of language, followed closely by use of the non-word irregardless. Third place is people using the word "mute" instead of "moot" to refer to something that is no longer of importance, as in "a mute point".
"Dude, I just fragged that guy with my BFG!"
"BFG? Wasn't that in Doom?"
"Well what do you expect? I fired at him in 1995."
When I first read the title of this article, I thought they were referring to sales figures or their market share. I figured the PSP would do at least a little better, but that line seems harsh.
This almost seems like one of those "right hand/left hand" things. When being ordered to turn over documents, they will point to their original priviledge log that includes everything and the kitchen sink so they won't have to disclose anything. Then when it comes to debating the merits of "the priviledge log", they will point to and debate the later, much-reduced version. Then they can proclaim loudly about they have so few things marked priviledged and IBM is the one with the long list and is trying to "hide" stuff from us!
With this configuration, at least people can choose if they want the pretty form or the practical form.
This announcement is for Hynix only. The writer of the summary adds the following misinformation, "Micron and Infineon have also been fined for their role in the scheme." Infineon did plead guilty and settle for a fine, but Micron and Samsung are the two manufacturers that haven't settled yet.
Mm, good intentions, but a C+ for accuracy.
OK, we've got good use of sarcastic non-standard HTML tags, and the accurate text of the quote. It looks like Drooling Iguana stands a chance to go the distance here, folks.
Uh, did this one get run through Babelfish and back or something? I'm going to have to give this about a 1.6 for technique.
And the winner is El(94934)!
By the way, I'm not actually in favor of the streaming method because of the repeating charge of a pay-per-view type of system; I was just pointing out that reliability doesn't seem like a point in the disc's favor.
The only thing "Interesting" about your post is that you have categorized an entire concept as bad because of the specific bad implementation you have to deal with. I'm sorry that the admins in your situation have set up a bad system. It sounds like they have overloaded the client to server ratio, so there's not enough guts to run all the thin clients well. If you keep up enough servers with load balancing and such, you can keep that from happening, but it does take some competent people to do that.
That's pretty much what I want too. In Boise, we have CableOne and then Qwest for DSL. Qwest has started offering naked DSL now, but of course they make it as hard as possible to find out about it or sign up for it. Also, their website will tell you the price for (naked DSL + MSN expensive internet service) or for (DSL/phone line required + no ISP). Nowhere will they tell you how much just the DSL connection is.
I actually called Qwest when DSL became available at my house to switch from the $50 a month CableOne bill I have to live with. I confirmed multiple times with the sales person(yes, I wrote down his name) the $28 price for their 1.5Mbit naked DSL with no phone line, and I would find my own ISP. I went ahead and placed the order and went through the signup procedure with them. The next day I was talking with my coworker who had told me about them offering naked DSL, and he said that the $28 price was if you already had a phone line. That wasn't what I had been told, so I called Qwest back to confirm. Sure enough, while telling me the $28 price, the sales guy had filled out my order with the $35 price for not having a phone line.
I demanded to talk to a manager and told him about what had happened--being lied to by the sales person and having him place the order while misinforming me of what it was for. I gave him the name of the sales guy I had worked with. I cancelled the order on principle and said he needs to deal with that situation either from an ethics or education perspective with their sales staff, so they don't continue this stuff with potential customers. I'm still really pissed off at Qwest for that. By having the cost of the line at $35 and then having to get an ISP for about $10-12, it would barely be any cheaper than my CableOne service, and I'm not going to deal with a company that lies to me about the services I'm signing up for.
I view this scenario with the following analogy:
This could be any two operating systems or programs that are supposed to be functionally equivalent but just work in different ways. They are like two paths through a very dense forest that diverge in a V shape. For an inexperienced new user, either path is equally easy to learn and progress on. For someone who has gone very far down one path or the other and learned it in more detail and become very proficient with it, it is a very challenging thing to "switch" and make your way to the other path. The route to the other path(at a proficiency level you would like) is through very dense woods and is a difficult journey to unlearn all of the ways you already know to do things.
I saw this very well when showing my wife OpenOffice.org. If you haven't used a spreadsheet much before or have just used it for entering data and creating simple graphs with the mouse-driven chart wizards and such, it's no big deal to switch. My wife, however, uses Excel extensively on a very expert level at work. She's pulling reports from database servers to import and creating scripts and formulas to calculate data for pricing and inventory levels and credits and debits on customer accounts.
I'll bet Calc in OO.o can do all of that stuff, but it's just done differently. The formulas that she knows and can do in her sleep in Excel are named differently or formatted differently in Calc and just barf when she types them into Calc as she is used to using them. That is the frustrating side when you are faced with unlearning skills that have made you efficient and spending hours doing what you know could be done in 5 minutes on a system you know.
I did find one other nitpick of his that I really agree with--the help menu complaints(#66). I do think there is a lot of improvement needed in that area. In particular, the "Ubuntu Quick Guide" could be a lot better. His suggestion is pretty much right on.
What new users are looking for in a quick guide is a match of function-->program name. When users want to do something, like open a picture or rip songs from a CD, how can they find out the name of the program that does that? The quick help guide could cover some of those basics and be a lot more useful.
OK, he is admittedly a nitpicking ass, but he did get a few good ones in there. One of them has bothered me ever since I first discovered it. It isn't an Ubuntu thing. It's aparently a Unix web browser interface thing. Here's his quote:
"Clicking once in the address field does not do what people want 99 percent of the time, which is selecting the address so it can be replaced by typing a new one."
Exactly! So why did *whoever* come up with such an irritating default behavior. Does the OS X interface do this too? We use Mozilla on our Solaris systems at work, and it has that same annoying problem. He's exactly right that the huge majority of the time, you want the whole address selected so you can type in a new URL, so that should be the single click action.
If you can convince me that one all-inclusive menu for my 5 very different open applications is a good (and not confusing) way of doing things, I will be thoroughly impressed.