It was a sad day when Yahoo! swallowed up my geocities account, now is an even sadder day. Maybe I'm just being over dramatic, but I think there is something fundamentally wrong with charging for services freely rendered for so long. Guess I'll just have to break down and get an account with an ISP. I can't stand webmail.
I am a senior CS major, and I can tell you for sure that MS's high prices, "rights management" techniques, unethical business practices, and buggy ass software has hurt them. My senior seminar class has been talking about this phenomina. In my class there is a large 'anti-microsoft' sentiment not only among students, but among professors.
This is not only true for the seniors, but a majorirty of the students in my CS classes stay away from MS products as much as a matter of principle, but also because they are not nearly as secure as other alternatives. In an upper level adminstration course we are taught to never use IIS, or ASP on any part of a network that will touch the outside world in anyway. Most projects I'm hearing about are involving Linux, BeOS, Solaris, Java, and JSP.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but if my college is any indication of how things are, MS products may be on the way out in many academic circles, and losing ground in the commercial world as current CS majors graduate, and start getting into decision making areas.
I know this is offtopic and feel free to mod it down, but has anyone else seen the MS Visual Studio.NET banners on OSDN pages. Not that I have anything against MS (well except that whole unethical business practice thing), but I know in general many/.'s are also MS bashers. Just thought it was ironic....well go back to reading more useful comments
As a student who has passed a whole lot of time in many mathmatics, physics, and computer science classes with my TI-89, I take exception to your notion that TI-89 games are "silly crap." I use my TI-89 to advance my programming skills thorough games. I also use it to gain attendance points. I, unfortunately, have been party to many boring professors, who's lack teaching ability, and adeptness at inducing sleep by lecture has forced me to find other ways to pass time in class. Maybe instead of complaining about the use of calculators for games you should encourage students to use their calculators to enhance their mathematics, programming, or scientific skills through creating games, algorithms, or some other activity. I don't know about your ability to bore students, but there are ways to teach that keep us deliquent geeks attentive. Try to reach them where they are. Give them a reason to pay attention.
I'm a senior CS major, and i've used differend IDEs for Java over the past four years. Jext is a very good enhanced text editor. A couple of nice Java IDEs are Forte, which is available at Sun, and Kawa, which you can find at download.com.
The U.S. government, the EPA, and all the other enviromentalist wackos on this planet have been trying to scare us into passing their political agenda over the last several decades by insisting that our use of CFC's is destroying the ozone layer. And that all the chemicals used in energy production cause global warming. I don't know about you, but where I am it's awfully damned cold outside, and the last few winters have been colder than those I remember in the last decade.
Did you know that when volconoes erupt they release 20-50 times more CFC's into the atomosphere than the United States has in the last 50 years. Over the 1000's and 1000000's of years of earth's history lots of volcanoes have erupted. Well we still have an ozone layer why's that? Because global warming is simply propaganda to further the cause of enviromentalist wackos.
Don't get me wrong I don't think we should be destroying the enviroment for the sake of business, industry, or any other cause. That would be poor management of the resources God gave us. But things have gone too far. The "powers that be" were happy when California deregulated the power industry, but the result of that has been horrible. No more power plants have been built in the last 10 years for the sake of enviromental protection. Power companies can not pass their costs onto the consumer, so in a state that has double in population in 10 years, but has not grown at all in power production you now have rolling blackouts.
Anyone one who would vote for man who said some of these things has more than just a few screws lose. I'm no big fan of Bush, but he's definately the lesser of two evils.
I don't know if this is Y2K related or not. I'm a tech support rep. at an ISP in Maryland, USA. Today is our first day back in the office since Jan 1. We've been getting a lot of calls where our customers with M$ products have complained of their setting for dial-up and mail getting spontaneously getting reset. It's really bizarre. I just hope that this doesn't continue. ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!!
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I checked out the link about L2, and I'm not getting why an object at L2 would be unserviceable. Could somebody clear this up for me?
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It was a sad day when Yahoo! swallowed up my geocities account, now is an even sadder day. Maybe I'm just being over dramatic, but I think there is something fundamentally wrong with charging for services freely rendered for so long. Guess I'll just have to break down and get an account with an ISP. I can't stand webmail.
I am a senior CS major, and I can tell you for sure that MS's high prices, "rights management" techniques, unethical business practices, and buggy ass software has hurt them. My senior seminar class has been talking about this phenomina. In my class there is a large 'anti-microsoft' sentiment not only among students, but among professors.
This is not only true for the seniors, but a majorirty of the students in my CS classes stay away from MS products as much as a matter of principle, but also because they are not nearly as secure as other alternatives. In an upper level adminstration course we are taught to never use IIS, or ASP on any part of a network that will touch the outside world in anyway. Most projects I'm hearing about are involving Linux, BeOS, Solaris, Java, and JSP.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but if my college is any indication of how things are, MS products may be on the way out in many academic circles, and losing ground in the commercial world as current CS majors graduate, and start getting into decision making areas.
I know this is offtopic and feel free to mod it down, but has anyone else seen the MS Visual Studio .NET banners on OSDN pages. Not that I have anything against MS (well except that whole unethical business practice thing), but I know in general many /.'s are also MS bashers. Just thought it was ironic....well go back to reading more useful comments
As a student who has passed a whole lot of time in many mathmatics, physics, and computer science classes with my TI-89, I take exception to your notion that TI-89 games are "silly crap." I use my TI-89 to advance my programming skills thorough games. I also use it to gain attendance points. I, unfortunately, have been party to many boring professors, who's lack teaching ability, and adeptness at inducing sleep by lecture has forced me to find other ways to pass time in class. Maybe instead of complaining about the use of calculators for games you should encourage students to use their calculators to enhance their mathematics, programming, or scientific skills through creating games, algorithms, or some other activity. I don't know about your ability to bore students, but there are ways to teach that keep us deliquent geeks attentive. Try to reach them where they are. Give them a reason to pay attention.
I'm a senior CS major, and i've used differend IDEs for Java over the past four years. Jext is a very good enhanced text editor. A couple of nice Java IDEs are Forte, which is available at Sun, and Kawa, which you can find at download.com.
The U.S. government, the EPA, and all the other enviromentalist wackos on this planet have been trying to scare us into passing their political agenda over the last several decades by insisting that our use of CFC's is destroying the ozone layer. And that all the chemicals used in energy production cause global warming. I don't know about you, but where I am it's awfully damned cold outside, and the last few winters have been colder than those I remember in the last decade.
Did you know that when volconoes erupt they release 20-50 times more CFC's into the atomosphere than the United States has in the last 50 years. Over the 1000's and 1000000's of years of earth's history lots of volcanoes have erupted. Well we still have an ozone layer why's that? Because global warming is simply propaganda to further the cause of enviromentalist wackos.
Don't get me wrong I don't think we should be destroying the enviroment for the sake of business, industry, or any other cause. That would be poor management of the resources God gave us. But things have gone too far. The "powers that be" were happy when California deregulated the power industry, but the result of that has been horrible. No more power plants have been built in the last 10 years for the sake of enviromental protection. Power companies can not pass their costs onto the consumer, so in a state that has double in population in 10 years, but has not grown at all in power production you now have rolling blackouts.
Anyone one who would vote for man who said some of these things has more than just a few screws lose. I'm no big fan of Bush, but he's definately the lesser of two evils.
I don't know if this is Y2K related or not. I'm a tech support rep. at an ISP in Maryland, USA. Today is our first day back in the office since Jan 1. We've been getting a lot of calls where our customers with M$ products have complained of their setting for dial-up and mail getting spontaneously getting reset. It's really bizarre. I just hope that this doesn't continue. ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!!