Perhaps you didn't notice that you can post with just a name and nothing else.
So what if you get flamed on slashdot? There's nothing coming into your mailbox, so who cares? Personally, I feel that most of the "controversial" stuff that's posted by ACs isn't worth reading because the ACs often don't care about putting enough thought into their posts to avoid sounding like idiots.
Be an adult. Back up what you say with a name. Make the signal-to-noise ratio better.
(I do realize that there are uses for AC posting, such as insider tips and the like. Good ol' paranoia works as a reason, too, I guess.)
I don't appreciate having your words put in my mouth. Gawd knows where they've been... *ahem*
I like linux because it doesn't *force* simplicity on me. I think it'd be great if someone were to put out a distro simple enough for my mom to install and use. Because Linux is GPLed, there would be other, less-restrictive distros for me to play with. Everybody's happy.
() short hair and haven't shaved in a week or more () long hair and haven't shaved in a week or more
There's a difference between having a beard or goatee, and being a lazy slob.
I used to be a long-haired slob, but then I up and went corporate, so I became a short-haired clean-cut type. Then I left corporate america for a small business as the reclusive sysadmin, so now I'm a scraggly-haired-haven't-shaved-in-a-week guy wearing dockers and sneakers. With white socks, even. Yechh.
/me thinks it's time for my annual clothes shopping expedition.
True, direct neural-silicon interface is a bit more complicated than working out the physics of flight, but I don't think it will be a hundred years until we understand our noodles.
AI will probably help a lot with sorting out this kind of information, and the rate of progress will take off at an even steeper slope than what we've got now.
The real question isn't when, but why. I vacillate between excitement and dread when I think of where technology is going. The thought of augmenting my wetware with hardware gives me shivers, both good and bad. Even now, with super-fast, super-vast databases, I tingle with eagerness at the thought of all the information to be managed. At the same time, though, it bothers me that big brother can fairly accurately keep tabs on where I am and what I'm doing, in a general sense. "Hrm, he charged gasoline and several cases of beer in Boston on Friday, so he's probably visiting his friends for the weekend."
Yes, I could use cash, and I could move to a shack in Montana, but I *like* technology. It's who I am.
Ack. Perhaps I should reinvent myself. Heh. I may have to, if the Y2K-TEOTWAWKI folks are correct.
I will agree that the pressures are different (a lower grade vs. looking for another job), but your assumption about not learning history is incorrect. Just because something is not required reading for a class assignment doesn't mean that someone who is on top of things won't read it on his own.
Perhaps your CS classes are/were different than mine, and bully for you if they are more well-rounded. Mine were pretty dry theory, so almost all of the interesting bits and history I learned on my own.
I don't think most people here would agree that there are no benefits to attending university. I do think that there is a growing number of people who are challenging the notion that to be successful in the technology field, one has to get a degree from some school.
I'm officially a junior-and-a-half, after finishing my classes last Spring ('98). I started an (unofficial; went banging on doors until I got one) internship in the summer of '97, started getting paid in the fall, and worked there until fall of '98.
I moved from the internship which was really a part time job with a large IT department to a full-time sysadmin job at a medium-sized ISP. I kept telling myself that I'd finish school part-time, but now I'm starting to wonder if it's worth jumping through the hoops.
I now have a fair amount of real-world experience for someone of my age, which gives me a big leg-up on fresh-faced grads with little or no real experience. The only downside I can think of is that there are some employers who rely on the HR department to weed out non-grads. Is it worth spending more money and time that I could use on something else just so that I make it through those filters? Dunno. Depends on where I want to work, I suppose.
I did most of my gen-ed stuff, so I got all of the humanities and other crap that people say makes college worthwhile. I got about half of the CS requirements, so I have lots of basic theory and programming skills, and some advanced theory like DB admin and network engineering. One calc course, so my head was slightly stretched around new concepts.
The way I see it, all that's left is the dead-end knowledge. I'd actually have to take a COBOL course. Yech. a. The COBOL prof at my school hates CS majors (she's a BIS bigot) b. COBOL will be useful for only as long as there's outdated code to be fixed or migrated to a new system. Who wants to do that?
I may take some more classes that interest me, like philosophy or film classes. I'm leaning more and more toward just bagging the rest, though. On one hand, it's a waste of 2.5 years of credits, on the other, it's a gain of 1.5 years of doing something other than writing silly programs in dead computer languages.
Since I'm paying for my education, my parents don't really have any input other than that it's nice to finish what one's started. They have a point. Ack.
Slashdot Mirror
All you have to do is set your threshold to 1 and all of those nasty AC posts will magically disappear.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!
Perhaps you didn't notice that you can post with just a name and nothing else.
So what if you get flamed on slashdot? There's nothing coming into your mailbox, so who cares? Personally, I feel that most of the "controversial" stuff that's posted by ACs isn't worth reading because the ACs often don't care about putting enough thought into their posts to avoid sounding like idiots.
Be an adult. Back up what you say with a name. Make the signal-to-noise ratio better.
(I do realize that there are uses for AC posting, such as insider tips and the like. Good ol' paranoia works as a reason, too, I guess.)
I don't appreciate having your words put in my mouth. Gawd knows where they've been... *ahem*
I like linux because it doesn't *force* simplicity on me. I think it'd be great if someone were to put out a distro simple enough for my mom to install and use. Because Linux is GPLed, there would be other, less-restrictive distros for me to play with. Everybody's happy.
Trying to join the slashdot team and keep getting server errors when I try to do anything other than view static html pages.
*grumble*
() short hair and haven't shaved in a week or more
() long hair and haven't shaved in a week or more
There's a difference between having a beard or goatee, and being a lazy slob.
I used to be a long-haired slob, but then I up and went corporate, so I became a short-haired clean-cut type. Then I left corporate america for a small business as the reclusive sysadmin, so now I'm a scraggly-haired-haven't-shaved-in-a-week guy wearing dockers and sneakers. With white socks, even. Yechh.
/me thinks it's time for my annual clothes shopping expedition.
...for more than a few seconds, anyhow.
True, direct neural-silicon interface is a bit more complicated than working out the physics of flight, but I don't think it will be a hundred years until we understand our noodles.
AI will probably help a lot with sorting out this kind of information, and the rate of progress will take off at an even steeper slope than what we've got now.
The real question isn't when, but why. I vacillate between excitement and dread when I think of where technology is going. The thought of augmenting my wetware with hardware gives me shivers, both good and bad. Even now, with super-fast, super-vast databases, I tingle with eagerness at the thought of all the information to be managed. At the same time, though, it bothers me that big brother can fairly accurately keep tabs on where I am and what I'm doing, in a general sense. "Hrm, he charged gasoline and several cases of beer in Boston on Friday, so he's probably visiting his friends for the weekend."
Yes, I could use cash, and I could move to a shack in Montana, but I *like* technology. It's who I am.
Ack. Perhaps I should reinvent myself. Heh. I may have to, if the Y2K-TEOTWAWKI folks are correct.
I will agree that the pressures are different (a lower grade vs. looking for another job), but your assumption about not learning history is incorrect. Just because something is not required reading for a class assignment doesn't mean that someone who is on top of things won't read it on his own.
Perhaps your CS classes are/were different than mine, and bully for you if they are more well-rounded. Mine were pretty dry theory, so almost all of the interesting bits and history I learned on my own.
I don't think most people here would agree that there are no benefits to attending university. I do think that there is a growing number of people who are challenging the notion that to be successful in the technology field, one has to get a degree from some school.
I'm officially a junior-and-a-half, after finishing my classes last Spring ('98). I started an (unofficial; went banging on doors until I got one) internship in the summer of '97, started getting paid in the fall, and worked there until fall of '98.
I moved from the internship which was really a part time job with a large IT department to a full-time sysadmin job at a medium-sized ISP. I kept telling myself that I'd finish school part-time, but now I'm starting to wonder if it's worth jumping through the hoops.
I now have a fair amount of real-world experience for someone of my age, which gives me a big leg-up on fresh-faced grads with little or no real experience. The only downside I can think of is that there are some employers who rely on the HR department to weed out non-grads. Is it worth spending more money and time that I could use on something else just so that I make it through those filters? Dunno. Depends on where I want to work, I suppose.
I did most of my gen-ed stuff, so I got all of the humanities and other crap that people say makes college worthwhile. I got about half of the CS requirements, so I have lots of basic theory and programming skills, and some advanced theory like DB admin and network engineering. One calc course, so my head was slightly stretched around new concepts.
The way I see it, all that's left is the dead-end knowledge. I'd actually have to take a COBOL course. Yech. a. The COBOL prof at my school hates CS majors (she's a BIS bigot) b. COBOL will be useful for only as long as there's outdated code to be fixed or migrated to a new system. Who wants to do that?
I may take some more classes that interest me, like philosophy or film classes. I'm leaning more and more toward just bagging the rest, though. On one hand, it's a waste of 2.5 years of credits, on the other, it's a gain of 1.5 years of doing something other than writing silly programs in dead computer languages.
Since I'm paying for my education, my parents don't really have any input other than that it's nice to finish what one's started. They have a point. Ack.
Anybody else agonized over a similar decision?
That's pretty funny.
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Wonder how long until MS finds out about it?
Do MS-drones read
Linux 1998 Timeline by HeUnique on Thursday December 24th@05:12 23
http://slashdot.org/articles/98/12/24/0511211.shtm l
Look familiar? Why, yes, it's the same bloody article!