where Open Source really shines. You have some interested part[y|ies] that have a desire to translate software package(s) to a desired lanuage(s), and with some helpful cooperation, it can be accomplished. Whereas in a commercial environment, such a decision to translate the closed source software is overlooked because the percentage of users is too small to justify the cost of paying translators and developers.
Unless you live in an area where there are already tech/IT jobs, be prepared to move, or work at Best Buy. CS doesn't go far. I have a BSEE and I didn't find work for 8 months after I graduated. Perhaps consider getting your Masters.
Do we really need a "history of..." story for something that's been around for just a couple years?
Here's a brief history of the iPod:
First, Apple designed the iPod. One day an engineer came in succinctly blitzed and designed the horrible "I-ain't-seen-this-shit-since-Intellivision" circle navigation wheel thingy. The hippie fruits at Apple all applauded.
Then they bought usage rights to some second-rate cheap ass songs that never got played on the radio anyway, and used them to promote the thing. Said no-name bands became more famous because of the constant never-ending barrage of commercials. "Honey, if I do say so myself, this Black Eyed Peas song is rather good! I absolutely hated it the first 48,000 times I heard it but now it's starting to grow on me!"
Then Apple deployed their proven strategy of making the device look better than it actually performs, thereby luring thoughtless dimwits and college freshmen with enormous piles of high interest credit cards that they somehow "needed" one for Christmas.
Then when people realized that the music they were downloading for free was somehow supporting terrorism, and they were probably going to be castrated in town square, they needed another method to fill up the bottomless hole that is the iPod (seriously, who the hell needs to have that many gigs of mp3s with them at all times?). But wait, Apple was here with a solution! You can download the songs for a low low price, and it's legal! Oh...and the artists still get fucked! Yay! The RIAA can rest easy. iTunes is here.
Firefox is more inheritly secure than IE. Firefox is easier to use than IE. Tabs are easier to manage than multiple windows. Not having a "SHOOT THE MONKEY LOL" flash ad pop up when I'm trying to read the news -- or highly sexual suggestive ad for "HOT GIRLS ON UR DESKTOP", for that matter, makes using the internet easier. Letting me know that a popup has been blocked is nice. Being able to just hit F3 to "Find next" intead of keeping a floating Find dialogue GUI covering up the text I'm actually looking for makes it easier to use. Things can be secure and easy to use, it's just not the case usually, in the case of closed source software. Companies that care about maximizing profits from their code don't benefit from tightened security. Deadlines must be met. Customers' mouths must be fed.
It depends on the age of your children (I hope, anyway) but get a big box from a local store. Or even go all out and *buy* a box from UPS or FedEx. Endless free-to-cheap entertainment.
The greatest toy a child can have is is or her own imagination. Remember to fuel it with plenty of books, though.
Obviously my conclusion should be taken as a grain of salt but it's a definite possibility. Microsoft very well could be screen scraping Google (or maybe even using their API, LOL) and crawling the urls it finds. It makes sense from a business case but I wonder if there are any legal issues there. I doubt it.
It's official: 14 year old AOL'ers are now known as "IT journalists."
Call me a literary pedantic, but I don't trust much journalism that includes "LOL".
Could you please point out what you're specifically talking about? Not that I don't believe you, I would just really love to read the source of this. (I have parents who actually believe that Fox is 'fair & balanced').
The plot, which hurtles across maps of the world Indiana Jones style, definitely take a back seat to the effects. The character interactions are all predictable.
Awesome! First "I, Robot" and now this! What ground-breaking, revolutionary film-making! Where do I sign up!? Tell me, does Nerd Captain and World of Nerdnerd have random product placement too?
Why are comments such as these moderated as "Insightful"? Merely because they have a dissenting opinion? Merely because they play devil's advocate and (badly) attempt to point out flaws in the parent post's truly insightful (read: OMGLINUXZEALOT) commentary?
Regardless of whether the parent post made good points or not, you cannot denounce them by making such a bullshit prefab rebuttal as "THAT'S COMPARING APPLES AND ORANGES U IDIOT LOL".
I'll type this slow and clear, for you to comprehend.
Windows:Linux -/-> Car:Bicycle. A more proper analogy would be Windows:Linux -> Ford:Mercedes. Read: They are both cars (operating systems) but they have not-so-moot architectural and design differences).
Stop modding up knee-jerk reaction posts just because someone takes the goddamn obligatory stance of devil's advocate. I'm all for dissent, but at try least be somewhat coherent in your statements, you dumb shit.
Oh, and by the way: I've been playing Doom 3 in Linux since the first week it was released (via Cedega, and soon, natively, as someone else pointed out), and I've burned not just data DVDs but also a home movie, and a backup of a DVD I own, just to prove a point that it can be done. Simply because you run Redhat 7 on some shitty Compaq in your closet to make yourself feel "3r33t" doesn't mean Linux is not cutting-edge. Mercedes aren't cutting-edge either, if the only one you own is a 1988 that hasn't ran since Hector was a pup (oh, snap there's my GOOD analogy again).
Yes, you're interpreting how Linux uses memory wrong...memory *wants* to be used. Linux will use up all the memory it can and then dip into swap as a last resort. Windows, OTOH, will dynamically increase the swap partition, rather than attempt to free unused RAM. So you've got a constant thrashing issue. The story on swappiness in the 2.6 kernel series here on slashdot has some very good information about memory management in the Linux kernel.
ATI 3d support is spotty at best. Nvidia support is excellent. Their cards perform just as good (if not better, in some cases) in Linux as they do in Windows. I have been gaming with Linux and Nvidia exclusively for about three years (including all the recent titles, such as RtCW, Q3, UT2K3, UT2K4, and ET) and it performs very well. Pair up a big nVidia with a 64bit Athlon, and you've got an excellent gaming rig.
So, the answer: The optimal hardware is the same, no matter what the operating system (although you would require less RAM on Linux, for example, if you use a slim window manager, as compared to XP, etc, etc, ymmv, and all that rot.)
I haven't seen any official announcements from id, but from Todd's email, I take it as that there will be one version of Doom 3 to buy (much like UT2K4) and the Linux binaries will be probably be available as free downloads on the internet, much as they did for RtCW and Quake3. The boxed versions of Quake3 were not id products; they were Loki products, iirc.
A Pentium II/Voodoo machine can't hardly run Quake3, which is a game that came out in 1998 (or was it late 97?). I think your troll is rather cute, but be honest, for id to make Doom 3 playable on a box such as an AMD 1800+ and a GeForce4 MX440, that's the complete opposite of a "marketing guide by the ultra-evil conspiracy between iD/nVidia/Dell".
On the topic of said troll, what the hell does Dell have to do with anything?
Yes, they are. Todd Hollenshead, acting CEO of id said in an email shortly after the announcement of the release date, of OSX and Linux:
"Mac and Linux: Unfortunately I don't have dates for either of these. However, Linux binaries will be available very soon after the PC game hits store shelves. There are no plans for boxed Linux games. More remains to be done for the OSX version of DOOM 3 and that will take some time. We won't release the OSX version until it's just as polished as the PC version. The date for OSX DOOM 3 remains "when it's done", but I can confirm that it's definitely coming. "
"Also, I think that any program whose audience is intended to be children, should not be allowed to have commercials."
Ahahahahaha, yeah, that'll happen!
The toy industry makes 100% (my guess) of its money from TV advertising.
(1) is perfectly correct. (2) is perfectly correct, because it is the assembly of "it is". (3) is completely off. See parent post.
p.s. I love the fact that I get modded down as -1. Anyone that understands basic third-grade English should be just as annoyed by horribly grammar as I am.
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27% of the general populous is not "the people", nor is it a mandate.
where Open Source really shines. You have some interested part[y|ies] that have a desire to translate software package(s) to a desired lanuage(s), and with some helpful cooperation, it can be accomplished. Whereas in a commercial environment, such a decision to translate the closed source software is overlooked because the percentage of users is too small to justify the cost of paying translators and developers.
Unless you live in an area where there are already tech/IT jobs, be prepared to move, or work at Best Buy. CS doesn't go far. I have a BSEE and I didn't find work for 8 months after I graduated. Perhaps consider getting your Masters.
Here's a brief history of the iPod:
First, Apple designed the iPod. One day an engineer came in succinctly blitzed and designed the horrible "I-ain't-seen-this-shit-since-Intellivision" circle navigation wheel thingy. The hippie fruits at Apple all applauded.
Then they bought usage rights to some second-rate cheap ass songs that never got played on the radio anyway, and used them to promote the thing. Said no-name bands became more famous because of the constant never-ending barrage of commercials. "Honey, if I do say so myself, this Black Eyed Peas song is rather good! I absolutely hated it the first 48,000 times I heard it but now it's starting to grow on me!"
Then Apple deployed their proven strategy of making the device look better than it actually performs, thereby luring thoughtless dimwits and college freshmen with enormous piles of high interest credit cards that they somehow "needed" one for Christmas.
Then when people realized that the music they were downloading for free was somehow supporting terrorism, and they were probably going to be castrated in town square, they needed another method to fill up the bottomless hole that is the iPod (seriously, who the hell needs to have that many gigs of mp3s with them at all times?). But wait, Apple was here with a solution! You can download the songs for a low low price, and it's legal! Oh...and the artists still get fucked! Yay! The RIAA can rest easy. iTunes is here.
And a legend was born.
Switch providers.
p.s., I'm in NE Ohio -- somewhat "Northeast", too.
It's a noun when I'm making fun of you.
"obsoleet"(n): Stop reading my post. I am a retard. Synonyms: lolz, d00d, and OMGWTFBBQ.
Firefox is more inheritly secure than IE. Firefox is easier to use than IE. Tabs are easier to manage than multiple windows. Not having a "SHOOT THE MONKEY LOL" flash ad pop up when I'm trying to read the news -- or highly sexual suggestive ad for "HOT GIRLS ON UR DESKTOP", for that matter, makes using the internet easier. Letting me know that a popup has been blocked is nice. Being able to just hit F3 to "Find next" intead of keeping a floating Find dialogue GUI covering up the text I'm actually looking for makes it easier to use. Things can be secure and easy to use, it's just not the case usually, in the case of closed source software. Companies that care about maximizing profits from their code don't benefit from tightened security. Deadlines must be met. Customers' mouths must be fed.
It depends on the age of your children (I hope, anyway) but get a big box from a local store. Or even go all out and *buy* a box from UPS or FedEx. Endless free-to-cheap entertainment.
The greatest toy a child can have is is or her own imagination. Remember to fuel it with plenty of books, though.
Obviously my conclusion should be taken as a grain of salt but it's a definite possibility. Microsoft very well could be screen scraping Google (or maybe even using their API, LOL) and crawling the urls it finds. It makes sense from a business case but I wonder if there are any legal issues there. I doubt it.
It's official: 14 year old AOL'ers are now known as "IT journalists."
Call me a literary pedantic, but I don't trust much journalism that includes "LOL".
Could you please point out what you're specifically talking about? Not that I don't believe you, I would just really love to read the source of this. (I have parents who actually believe that Fox is 'fair & balanced').
-1 troll.
Emacs didn't win shit.
And, last I checked, awk and sed can't do bioinformatics. Or any of the other trillion uses perl is used for.
The plot, which hurtles across maps of the world Indiana Jones style, definitely take a back seat to the effects. The character interactions are all predictable.
Awesome! First "I, Robot" and now this! What ground-breaking, revolutionary film-making! Where do I sign up!?
Tell me, does Nerd Captain and World of Nerdnerd have random product placement too?
Regardless of whether the parent post made good points or not, you cannot denounce them by making such a bullshit prefab rebuttal as "THAT'S COMPARING APPLES AND ORANGES U IDIOT LOL".
I'll type this slow and clear, for you to comprehend.
Windows:Linux -/-> Car:Bicycle. A more proper analogy would be Windows:Linux -> Ford:Mercedes. Read: They are both cars (operating systems) but they have not-so-moot architectural and design differences).
Stop modding up knee-jerk reaction posts just because someone takes the goddamn obligatory stance of devil's advocate. I'm all for dissent, but at try least be somewhat coherent in your statements, you dumb shit.
Oh, and by the way: I've been playing Doom 3 in Linux since the first week it was released (via Cedega, and soon, natively, as someone else pointed out), and I've burned not just data DVDs but also a home movie, and a backup of a DVD I own, just to prove a point that it can be done. Simply because you run Redhat 7 on some shitty Compaq in your closet to make yourself feel "3r33t" doesn't mean Linux is not cutting-edge. Mercedes aren't cutting-edge either, if the only one you own is a 1988 that hasn't ran since Hector was a pup (oh, snap there's my GOOD analogy again).
Mod me as a troll. I LOVE IT.
Sort of like tobacco?.
I was going to mod you up, but could your spelling be any worse? Seriously, read a book.
Maybe the car companies should get government funding to develop more energy-concious cars?
Or, at the very least, stop getting funding from Big Oil.
Yes, you're interpreting how Linux uses memory wrong...memory *wants* to be used. Linux will use up all the memory it can and then dip into swap as a last resort. Windows, OTOH, will dynamically increase the swap partition, rather than attempt to free unused RAM. So you've got a constant thrashing issue. The story on swappiness in the 2.6 kernel series here on slashdot has some very good information about memory management in the Linux kernel.
Here's the long and short answer:
ATI 3d support is spotty at best. Nvidia support is excellent. Their cards perform just as good (if not better, in some cases) in Linux as they do in Windows. I have been gaming with Linux and Nvidia exclusively for about three years (including all the recent titles, such as RtCW, Q3, UT2K3, UT2K4, and ET) and it performs very well. Pair up a big nVidia with a 64bit Athlon, and you've got an excellent gaming rig.
So, the answer: The optimal hardware is the same, no matter what the operating system (although you would require less RAM on Linux, for example, if you use a slim window manager, as compared to XP, etc, etc, ymmv, and all that rot.)
I haven't seen any official announcements from id, but from Todd's email, I take it as that there will be one version of Doom 3 to buy (much like UT2K4) and the Linux binaries will be probably be available as free downloads on the internet, much as they did for RtCW and Quake3. The boxed versions of Quake3 were not id products; they were Loki products, iirc.
What?
A Pentium II/Voodoo machine can't hardly run Quake3, which is a game that came out in 1998 (or was it late 97?). I think your troll is rather cute, but be honest, for id to make Doom 3 playable on a box such as an AMD 1800+ and a GeForce4 MX440, that's the complete opposite of a "marketing guide by the ultra-evil conspiracy between iD/nVidia/Dell".
On the topic of said troll, what the hell does Dell have to do with anything?
Yes, they are.
Todd Hollenshead, acting CEO of id said in an email shortly after the announcement of the release date, of OSX and Linux:
"Mac and Linux: Unfortunately I don't have dates for either of these. However, Linux binaries will be
available very soon after the PC game hits store shelves. There are no plans for boxed Linux games.
More remains to be done for the OSX version of DOOM 3 and that will take some time. We won't release
the OSX version until it's just as polished as the PC version. The date for OSX DOOM 3 remains "when it's
done", but I can confirm that it's definitely coming. "
"Also, I think that any program whose audience is intended to be children, should not be allowed to have commercials." Ahahahahaha, yeah, that'll happen! The toy industry makes 100% (my guess) of its money from TV advertising.
You're completely off.
(1) is perfectly correct.
(2) is perfectly correct, because it is the assembly of "it is".
(3) is completely off. See parent post.
p.s. I love the fact that I get modded down as -1. Anyone that understands basic third-grade English should be just as annoyed by horribly grammar as I am.