Oh, I get it! You spell "Microsoft" with a "$" replacing the "s" because Microsoft likes money! Then you write some shallow technical-sounding drivel around it to legitimize your flagrant adolescent fanboyism as Slashdot's trademark pseudo-intellectual circle-jerk! Clever!
You're a bitter fool. Just because you've given up hope in the IT field, don't drag this potentially good programmer down with you.
To the OP:
First of all, congratulations for being interested in programming. You're lucky that - with the right amount of smarts and work - you can make good money at a great job.
Second, most of the jobs outsourced are the crappy jobs writing bank software in COBOL. It usually isn't profitable to outsource the development of the more interesting "flag ship" applications. Don't worry about outsourcing. There's a good article on outsourcing in Joel Spolsky's compiliation "The Best Software Writing I". The article itself is available for free online, just search for an index of the book.
Third, at 16, I wrote customer database software, billing $25/hr. I got the job because I had a good connection (not because I was a superb programmer - though the code worked, it wasn't a pretty sight). It is possible.
The latest VB apps (VB.Net) aren't executed an operating system, they run on the.NET runtime, which is largely cross-platform through projects like Mono.
"Parole juste Wii" doesn't make any sense. I like where you're going, but translated back into English, it would be like saying "Fair word yes (Wii)." A better French translation would be "Dites (or 'dire') seulement 'Wii'."
Fuck the decietful asswipes who use gigabits for measuring storage and call 10^9 bytes a gigabyte (instead of 2^30). 16 Gb sounds like something until you realize that it's 2 GB.
You can not mathematically prove a physical principle. Einstein once said something to the extent of "All the evidence in the world can not prove a physics theory, but a single reproductable experiment can disprove one."
Give them a challenge. Something that will interest them and let them know if Comp Sci is something they want to continue studying it in university. Try C out.
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Slashdot: blah blah blah MICRO$OFT blah blah blah
Oh, I get it! You spell "Microsoft" with a "$" replacing the "s" because Microsoft likes money! Then you write some shallow technical-sounding drivel around it to legitimize your flagrant adolescent fanboyism as Slashdot's trademark pseudo-intellectual circle-jerk! Clever!
Way to summarize what Joel Spolsky wrote years ago.
You're a bitter fool. Just because you've given up hope in the IT field, don't drag this potentially good programmer down with you. To the OP: First of all, congratulations for being interested in programming. You're lucky that - with the right amount of smarts and work - you can make good money at a great job. Second, most of the jobs outsourced are the crappy jobs writing bank software in COBOL. It usually isn't profitable to outsource the development of the more interesting "flag ship" applications. Don't worry about outsourcing. There's a good article on outsourcing in Joel Spolsky's compiliation "The Best Software Writing I". The article itself is available for free online, just search for an index of the book. Third, at 16, I wrote customer database software, billing $25/hr. I got the job because I had a good connection (not because I was a superb programmer - though the code worked, it wasn't a pretty sight). It is possible.
But does it run Linux?
I know, it's like "LOL i liek round bubblez."
The latest VB apps (VB.Net) aren't executed an operating system, they run on the .NET runtime, which is largely cross-platform through projects like Mono.
"Parole juste Wii" doesn't make any sense. I like where you're going, but translated back into English, it would be like saying "Fair word yes (Wii)." A better French translation would be "Dites (or 'dire') seulement 'Wii'."
Why is it that whenever I see an article about the DS, I see this terrible old prototype render from 2003?
What, has feeding people gone out of style?
Fuck the decietful asswipes who use gigabits for measuring storage and call 10^9 bytes a gigabyte (instead of 2^30). 16 Gb sounds like something until you realize that it's 2 GB.
Russell & Whitehead proved that 1 + 1 = 2
EDIT: stupid HTML formatting. Parent should read "(a constant < 1)".
But innovation is directly proportional to research. In other words, innovation = (a constant 1) * research projects.
You can not mathematically prove a physical principle. Einstein once said something to the extent of "All the evidence in the world can not prove a physics theory, but a single reproductable experiment can disprove one."
Source that violent crimes for majors and minors have been going down since (about) the time video games became really popular.
"Unix hardware"?
The animators at Loony Tunes envisioned this years ago.
You can make an engine that allows the user to choose whether to use D3D or OpenGL. Like the Half-Life and Far Cry engines.
Give them a challenge. Something that will interest them and let them know if Comp Sci is something they want to continue studying it in university. Try C out.
What's up with that? credibility--;
Haven't you ever heard a girl jump before?
Save the waste water in a bucket and feed it back into the garbage pail. Save water.
Reminds me of Half-Life . . .
People in Canada. Woot!