"Synchronicity" is a term invented by Carl Jung and made popular by a pop-music band with a singer whose irritating high voice keeps listeners awake when his dreary pretension threatens to put them to sleep.
Unless he is addressing the famous Ro-o-o-o-oxanne, Mr Shuttleworth may mean "synchronization" or "synchrony".
Television's purpose is to sell, not to entertain.
To make advertising pay, corporations need viewers to sit in front of the stupevision. "Entertainment" just has to keep you in your seat. If that means T&A shows, the "wide world of sports", live car accidents and one cartoon making fun of other cartoons, then so be it.
Whatever is cheapest to produce and easiest to recycle week after week to keep viewers in their seats is what stays on television.
There was a decision to use the old scheduler on the Desktop version of Heron. It is causing problems. Try the Server version.
I find that it's as wise to wait for stability in an Ubuntu release as it is with an MS Windows release. The difference is that stability comes to Ubuntu faster. (o:
I will give Heron a month or two to settle down and then switch.
Ubuntu does more right than any other Linux distribution ever has.
It has been brought to my attention that you understand my business better than I do.
As you know, Slashdot is full of people who have far more opinions than money and far more enthusiasm for offering their opinions than for doing any real work.
Of course, I have no reason to believe that you are one of these foolish, idle creatures that can be seen pontificating on Web sites every minute of every day while able-minded people are accomplishing things.
Congratulations on having brilliant, instantaneous insights into my own affairs that I can only begin to understand after spending more than half my life in the computer industry and running one of the most successful electronics companies in the world.
I've instructed my assistants to alert me to any future guidance that you have time to offer.
There is no reason why people shouldn't be able to create software, share the source, and give it away. If Microsoft's software isn't significantly better, they lose the market. That's life with competition, Master Gates.
Just as there is apparently no reason why Microsoft and other large corporations shouldn't be able to move jobs to countries where the labour is so much cheaper that your local employees can't compete.
(or kan't) run Gnome... Kant runs Gnome, as explained in his Critique Of Pure Usability.
Kant uses BitTorrent because he asserts that one should download such that the protocol for one's download may scale to serve all downloaders simultaneously.
Anyway, for the cost of any of these small notebooks, you can buy a used IBM Thinkpad X31 or X32 and have an Intel Pentium M (Banias/Dothan) CPU, top-quality components, and Thinkpad fit and finish.
And it's from his basement that he shouts, "I'm a Comics Theoretician And Critic, damn it!" when his parents yell, "What are you doing with you life?!"
Of course, in addition to the "long hours, fixed pay, poor conditions, incompetent management, threat of outsourcing, and mental cruelty", they likely also had you sign an employment agreement in which you agreed that anything that you code at any time of the day or night, intentionally or accidentally, whether at work, at home, on vacation or on recreational drugs, belongs to the employer. This probably extended to anything that your cat typed when walking across the keyboard.
No smart person will have anything to do with software industry for long.
How are folks out there determining when you've backed the wrong horse, and getting back on track?" If you see this as a "race", you aren't gleaning your own requirements correctly. The smart decision is always the open, well-architected solution. Well-architected so that you can build a stable product, and open so you can convert easily if there's a major shift in technology.
Unless of course you like CS I guess? Some of us aren't in it for the money Money isn't the point of my comment.
Well, not everyone works in the countries losing the jobs Everyone works in a country that is subject to economics.
Or your job could entail working on and contributing to open source software I did say, "unless you're a member of a certain kind of company". There aren't many of them and the number of such jobs is a small percentage.
For the majority of prospective students, a CS degree is no longer a smart choice in the game of life. Those who want long-term stability in a profession will likely choose another field.
- you may have a high salary but when you divide it by how many hours you work, you could be making more money per hour and having fun doing something else
- companies send the jobs to somewhere in the world where employees are cheap, executives who do the cutting get gigantic bonuses on top of gigantic salaries
- companies talk about hiring "superstar" programmers when what they really need are good processes and tools to help people communicate and design good products; few organizations invest in people, many waste time trying to find Code Messiahs
- hiring good managers is much more than just promoting "technical" people into management
- open-source is cool and changing the way people think, but unless your a member of a certain kind of company, you'll need a day-job too (o:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has reportedly responded to the fine announced by the EU by issuing a request for candidates and establishing a vote-soliciation group to replace all elected officials in the European Union with pro-Microsoft officials.
If successful, it's believed that Ballmer's plan is to rename the European Union to "Microsoft EU Professional".
In a separate communication, Ballmer told EU officials that Microsoft would send them free MSDN DVDs if they withdraw the fine. "If you choose not to accept our offer," wrote Ballmer, "we reserve the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that software customers in Europe are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our monopoly."
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"Synchronicity" is a term invented by Carl Jung and made popular by a pop-music band with a singer whose irritating high voice keeps listeners awake when his dreary pretension threatens to put them to sleep.
Unless he is addressing the famous Ro-o-o-o-oxanne, Mr Shuttleworth may mean "synchronization" or "synchrony".
Television's purpose is to sell, not to entertain.
To make advertising pay, corporations need viewers to sit in front of the stupevision. "Entertainment" just has to keep you in your seat. If that means T&A shows, the "wide world of sports", live car accidents and one cartoon making fun of other cartoons, then so be it.
Whatever is cheapest to produce and easiest to recycle week after week to keep viewers in their seats is what stays on television.
This is not a perfect book, but reading it will make you think:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimination_of_Television
http://www.amazon.com/Arguments-Elimination-Television-Jerry-Mander/dp/0688082742/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210859168&sr=8-1
MAC: Hello, I'm a Mac.
PC: [surrounded by noisy children] Hello, I'm a PC. Ha ha ha!
MAC: PC, it's good to see you laughing. Who are all your friends?
PC: [children are poking and pinching PC] Oh them? Ouch! Ha ha ha! They are Script Kiddies! Ouch! Ha ha ha!
MAC: Script Kiddies? What do they do?
PC: Now that VBA, the Enterprise Virus Development Platform, will soon be available on Office for Mac, you are about to find out. Ouch! Ha ha ha!
"You don't win a war by jacking off for your country. You win a war by making the other bastard jack off for ~his~ country!"
- Headcount has increased from 35,000 to 80,000 Chair count has fluctuated wildly and now stands at 52,000.
There was a decision to use the old scheduler on the Desktop version of Heron. It is causing problems. Try the Server version.
I find that it's as wise to wait for stability in an Ubuntu release as it is with an MS Windows release. The difference is that stability comes to Ubuntu faster. (o:
I will give Heron a month or two to settle down and then switch.
Ubuntu does more right than any other Linux distribution ever has.
From The Desk Of Steve Jobs, Apple Inc
Dear Slashdot Member 122034 ("Animats"),
It has been brought to my attention that you understand my business better than I do.
As you know, Slashdot is full of people who have far more opinions than money and far more enthusiasm for offering their opinions than for doing any real work.
Of course, I have no reason to believe that you are one of these foolish, idle creatures that can be seen pontificating on Web sites every minute of every day while able-minded people are accomplishing things.
Congratulations on having brilliant, instantaneous insights into my own affairs that I can only begin to understand after spending more than half my life in the computer industry and running one of the most successful electronics companies in the world.
I've instructed my assistants to alert me to any future guidance that you have time to offer.
Sincerely,
Steve Jobs
Captain: Scotteeee! What... are... all... these... little files everwhere?!
Scot: Och, they arrre Finderrr Trrribbles, Captain!
Spock: It is illogical for the Finder to leave these little creatures everywhere. [DS_STORE screams as Spock touches it.]
McCoy: They don't seem to like pointed-eared Vulcans with external USB storage, do they?
There is no reason why people shouldn't be able to create software, share the source, and give it away. If Microsoft's software isn't significantly better, they lose the market. That's life with competition, Master Gates.
Just as there is apparently no reason why Microsoft and other large corporations shouldn't be able to move jobs to countries where the labour is so much cheaper that your local employees can't compete.
Kant uses BitTorrent because he asserts that one should download such that the protocol for one's download may scale to serve all downloaders simultaneously.
Unless it has a math co-processor slot. Heh heh.
Anyway, for the cost of any of these small notebooks, you can buy a used IBM Thinkpad X31 or X32 and have an Intel Pentium M (Banias/Dothan) CPU, top-quality components, and Thinkpad fit and finish.
is the sound made by a /.er who looks up from his Zaurus for a moment and notices there are girls in the room.
Please see the definition of Luddite and try to think more clearly in future.
Compile it yourself. It is easy to do. And because it's open-source, it's ~possible~ to do.
Because we waste all our time on /. fragging Microsoft.
And it's from his basement that he shouts, "I'm a Comics Theoretician And Critic, damn it!" when his parents yell, "What are you doing with you life?!"
Of course, in addition to the "long hours, fixed pay, poor conditions, incompetent management, threat of outsourcing, and mental cruelty", they likely also had you sign an employment agreement in which you agreed that anything that you code at any time of the day or night, intentionally or accidentally, whether at work, at home, on vacation or on recreational drugs, belongs to the employer. This probably extended to anything that your cat typed when walking across the keyboard.
No smart person will have anything to do with software industry for long.
Well done, Sir.
Sorry, just kidding. There is no such person.
For the majority of prospective students, a CS degree is no longer a smart choice in the game of life. Those who want long-term stability in a profession will likely choose another field.
- you may have a high salary but when you divide it by how many hours you work, you could be making more money per hour and having fun doing something else
- companies send the jobs to somewhere in the world where employees are cheap, executives who do the cutting get gigantic bonuses on top of gigantic salaries
- companies talk about hiring "superstar" programmers when what they really need are good processes and tools to help people communicate and design good products; few organizations invest in people, many waste time trying to find Code Messiahs
- hiring good managers is much more than just promoting "technical" people into management
- open-source is cool and changing the way people think, but unless your a member of a certain kind of company, you'll need a day-job too (o:
Yes, but according to TFSubmission, it's an "exceedingly well-designed and written" manual.
It all depends on what Dickensian weasel words are worth to you.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has reportedly responded to the fine announced by the EU by issuing a request for candidates and establishing a vote-soliciation group to replace all elected officials in the European Union with pro-Microsoft officials.
If successful, it's believed that Ballmer's plan is to rename the European Union to "Microsoft EU Professional".
In a separate communication, Ballmer told EU officials that Microsoft would send them free MSDN DVDs if they withdraw the fine. "If you choose not to accept our offer," wrote Ballmer, "we reserve the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that software customers in Europe are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our monopoly."