While I don't necessarily disagree with your post, I have to wonder if there is really anything wrong with his method.
My parents gave me free reign over what I did with the computer. In fact, when we got our first real computer, it was _mine_, not the family's. The freedom afforded to me by having complete, unmonitored access to a computer has been one of the most beneficial things that has ever happened to me. Because of this I expanded my horizons by joining political discussions, discussing literature, and seeing the world from the eyes of many other, older people.
I'm now almost 22 and have been using computers without supervision since I was 11 years old. I am about to finish my CS degree, and I'm already employed writing software for Iomega. ( note that this is NOT iomega ware:P)I have gotten this far purely on my ability with technology, but my ability to communicate with others and make rational decisions.
Why? Because I was free to do whatever in the hell I wanted to do with the computer, whenever I wanted to do it. I never had to ask permission to get online (BBSes at the time) nor did I have to worry about my parents not understanding what I was doing and freaking out about it. My explorations of the systems out there, and my own system were not held to the superficial.
The only understanding we had was that they thought I was intelligent enought understand the repercussions of the things I did. Something that _all_ humans, regardless of age are supposed to understand. Spending time with your child is a great thing, and if you are a parent it should be your single largest priority. I have to wonder though, when you monitor a child as you are seeming to advocate, are you not really just making all their decisions for them? How does this make them more able to make correct decisions on their own, when you are _not_ around?
I love having hot women around, regardless of the function. And if they're hawking technology, woo - watch out! Am I the only one that watched C-Net for Sophie Formica?
I would venture to say that there are VERY FEW oil rigs that far off shore. The most common distance is not more than 30 miles from the shoreline, keeping with the edge of the continental shelf.
The technology that goes into keeping a rig stable at depths much more than are encountered at those distances are incredible, and oil companies will avoid using them at all costs.
GPL allows linking (dynamic and static) to libraries that are not GPL compliant if they are considered a part of the OS. Hence, an application in windows that uses WIN32 API has no problems. Qt is not part of the OS on any system, not even Corel Linux.
So it is not okay for one to link against the QT libraries, because they're not part of your system - but it's okay for them to link against, say, the Metro-X libraries? I fail to see how the X Server is in any way shape or form part of the OS, yet it is okay to link against a decidely PROPRIETARY program.
I know exactly what you mean. I attended a couple of classes at UH, and was not at all impressed. I've since transferred to SFA (Nacogdoches, TX) and have been much more satisfied the the curriculum, and quality of education.
I think that a lot of the larger schools take the easy route because there are just too many students for them to keep up with, whereas SFA has less than 200 CS students - which means if you have questions, a professor will be available.
Since when does the MFC source code come with the MSDN docs? I have well over 1gb of this MSDN CRAP installed on my hard drive, yet still can't get a decent answer as to why the IWebbrowser control is SUCH A FUCKING USELESS PIECE OF SHIT. Let alone how it's written.
Yes, you heard it right. Hidden away in the woods of deep East Texas lies the 24th and 63rd fastest growing tech cities in the country, Tyler and Longview.
Scoff if you will, but when you realized that you're making 60-70k a year in an area with a mean income of closer to 25k, you're living pretty nicely.
Couple this with the abundance of lakes in the area, cheap, CHEAP land, and even cheaper living expenses with access to Dallas, Houston, and Shreveport, you've got it made!
Nope, it doesn't convince me. The law only makes is possible for record companies to sign their artists on a work for hire basis. It's up to the individual artist to agree to those provisions. I don't see anything wrong with that. No one could force them to sign such a contract. Well hey - the next time you're in line for a recording contract, make sure you let them know what you don't want. And then watch as they laugh at you. Artists don't really have a whole lot of choice when they get signed, if it ever happens at all. But I'm sure you know all about that sitting in front of your computer, never having dealt with anything like this. I hope you enjoy your ignorance, and that some day a law like this really screws you over.. because hey, you don't have to take it after all!
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I do. While I can use gcc on the command line, and I love my bash shell, I have found that KDevelop can easily cut my development time in half. man was great fifteen years ago, but the QT and KDE docs, and the documentation browser itself in KDevelop is just incredible. The class browser and hierarchy viewer make jumping to sections of code a hell of a lot easier. The built in debugging is SO MUCH BETTER than DDD or GDB.
However, it's got faults. The editor pretty much SUCKS, but I do like the sytax-highlighting, but the tabbing and such is pretty bad.
Keep this in mind, just because it looks is DevStudio doesn't mean it's bad. Take off the blinders there, and keep this in mind as well - there's a generation of programmers out there that just love IDEs, get used to it.
A patent is not a shield for protection, but a weapon to attack with.
I sat in a four hour meeting with a patent lawyer just yesterday. A patent gives you no other explicit protection from infringment other than the right to STOP someone from using the patented item.
In his EXACT words "I am an arms dealer, and patents are land-mines you want to litter in your competitiion's path".
This is how the law is written, how it is used, and how it will stay until a complete overhaul of the system is done.
Regardless of what we think about it (I despise software patents, but that's osmething else) this is HOW IT WORKS.
I don't mean to step on anyone's toes, but there seems to be a serious misconception here about how patents are "supposed" to be used. I can tell you it's not as a shield.
>While games can run well in Linux, Quake 3 >included, they can not look nearly as good as in >Windows.
I beg to differ. Q3 looks THE SAME under linux as it does under 98. So does Kingpin for that matter. Perhaps you are just unable to grasp detail level settings?
>As for Voodoo cards running games decently, I >don't give a fuck. If the operating system can >only make games run good on 3dfx cards, then >it's a shit operating system for gaming. 3dfx is >going down the drain. But even if it weren't, it >would still be shit.
THe operating system has NO PART in determining the cards that are, or aren't supported. That is up to the manufacturers, who to this point have been less then accomidating with their specs. nVidia has opened up a bit now, as have ATI and Matrox. If you understood any more than "Click here to start!" perhaps you would already know this.
>My system is no slouch.
That's because you believe in the "Upgrade every two weeks" mantra. I laugh at you.
>I am no newbie.
Wow, you're right here. You're an IDIOT. There's a big difference in the two.
>I have never seen a decent game both look and >run nearly as good in Linux as it does in >Windows (or even Mac for that matter - and >that's just sad!), Quake 3 and Kingpin included.
Well, if you had ever run anything other than windows perhaps I would give you some credit. But I'm not that nice.
I've read a lot of posts, and I've gotten a lot of hateful e-mails from fools like yourself who would call me a linux bigot. And I'm sick of it. I don't go around spouting GARBAGE like these posts, and then claim to be pure of spirit as you would like to think you are. I don't ever hold my OS above any other, and in fact I run 4 of them on this system, and use all of them more or less daily. I KNOW what runs better on my system, and I use it preferentially. That is Linux. I have q3, Civ:CTP, Kingpin, and all those shitty "minesweeper" type of games on it. I never have a hiccup, and the performance on my old "shitty" banshee is more than good enough. I can't say the same about nt, win2k, or even win98 for that matter! The only advantage to any of those is 3dnow! crap in the banshee drivers under win98, and you know what? That only gives me 5fps MAX.
So why don't you go grow up, and perhaps try and expand your seemingly limitless knowledge. Try new things, maybe you'll be surprised.
Or will mommy and daddy get mad if you mess with their new computer?
If you have the ZAxisMapping setup correctly as outlined in the setup for imwheel, then it will work. I'm currenly using it under the newest XFree 3.5, and it works fine.
Hmm, I'm running RH6/alpha on a Personal workstation 433, and I got M8 to compile, and it's currently chugging away on M9. What distro/version are you using?
What really bugs me about it are processes that WON'T DIE. This happens especially often with explorer.exe. A directory window freezes, so you pop up the task manager to kill it - and windows tells you that it can't kill the process!
What a bunch of BS. You can manage to reset explorer, but when this happens to other programs the only solution is to reboot to kill it off. What a piece of shit.
I you have seen this thing, or know anything about it - you will know what I mean. I went on a field trip to the Lockheed Martin facility in Fort Worth with the Comp. Sci. club here at school, and that thing is simply awesome. While I'm not a big fan of the military, this thing is a sight to behold.
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While I don't necessarily disagree with your post, I have to wonder if there is really anything wrong with his method.
:P)I have gotten this far purely on my ability with technology, but my ability to communicate with others and make rational decisions.
My parents gave me free reign over what I did with the computer. In fact, when we got our first real computer, it was _mine_, not the family's. The freedom afforded to me by having complete, unmonitored access to a computer has been one of the most beneficial things that has ever happened to me. Because of this I expanded my horizons by joining political discussions, discussing literature, and seeing the world from the eyes of many other, older people.
I'm now almost 22 and have been using computers without supervision since I was 11 years old. I am about to finish my CS degree, and I'm already employed writing software for Iomega. ( note that this is NOT iomega ware
Why? Because I was free to do whatever in the hell I wanted to do with the computer, whenever I wanted to do it. I never had to ask permission to get online (BBSes at the time) nor did I have to worry about my parents not understanding what I was doing and freaking out about it. My explorations of the systems out there, and my own system were not held to the superficial.
The only understanding we had was that they thought I was intelligent enought understand the repercussions of the things I did. Something that _all_ humans, regardless of age are supposed to understand. Spending time with your child is a great thing, and if you are a parent it should be your single largest priority. I have to wonder though, when you monitor a child as you are seeming to advocate, are you not really just making all their decisions for them? How does this make them more able to make correct decisions on their own, when you are _not_ around?
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I love having hot women around, regardless of the function.
And if they're hawking technology, woo - watch out!
Am I the only one that watched C-Net for Sophie Formica?
I would venture to say that there are VERY FEW oil rigs that far off shore. The most common distance is not more than 30 miles from the shoreline, keeping with the edge of the continental shelf.
The technology that goes into keeping a rig stable at depths much more than are encountered at those distances are incredible, and oil companies will avoid using them at all costs.
GPL allows linking (dynamic and static) to libraries that are not GPL compliant if they are considered a part of the OS. Hence, an application in windows that uses WIN32 API has no problems. Qt is not part of the OS on any system, not even Corel Linux.
So it is not okay for one to link against the QT libraries, because they're not part of your system - but it's okay for them to link against, say, the Metro-X libraries? I fail to see how the X Server is in any way shape or form part of the OS, yet it is okay to link against a decidely PROPRIETARY program.
I know exactly what you mean. I attended a couple of classes at UH, and was not at all impressed. I've since transferred to SFA (Nacogdoches, TX) and have been much more satisfied the the curriculum, and quality of education.
I think that a lot of the larger schools take the easy route because there are just too many students for them to keep up with, whereas SFA has less than 200 CS students - which means if you have questions, a professor will be available.
That, and I got a sweet job with Iomega here.
Since when does the MFC source code come with the MSDN docs? I have well over 1gb of this MSDN CRAP installed on my hard drive, yet still can't get a decent answer as to why the IWebbrowser control is SUCH A FUCKING USELESS PIECE OF SHIT. Let alone how it's written.
Yes, you heard it right.
Hidden away in the woods of deep East Texas lies the 24th and 63rd fastest growing tech cities in the country, Tyler and Longview.
Scoff if you will, but when you realized that you're making 60-70k a year in an area with a mean income of closer to 25k, you're living pretty nicely.
Couple this with the abundance of lakes in the area, cheap, CHEAP land, and even cheaper living expenses with access to Dallas, Houston, and Shreveport, you've got it made!
And yet, somehow, your point of view is superior?
If you don't like the article then don't read it. It's that simple, I promise you.
Nope, it doesn't convince me. The law only makes is possible for record companies to sign their artists on a work for hire basis. It's up to the individual artist to agree to those provisions. I don't see anything wrong with that. No one could force them to sign such a contract. Well hey - the next time you're in line for a recording contract, make sure you let them know what you don't want. And then watch as they laugh at you. Artists don't really have a whole lot of choice when they get signed, if it ever happens at all. But I'm sure you know all about that sitting in front of your computer, never having dealt with anything like this. I hope you enjoy your ignorance, and that some day a law like this really screws you over.. because hey, you don't have to take it after all!
MIKE TYSON'S PUNCH OUT! It starts you at mike.
I do. While I can use gcc on the command line, and I love my bash shell, I have found that KDevelop can easily cut my development time in half. man was great fifteen years ago, but the QT and KDE docs, and the documentation browser itself in KDevelop is just incredible. The class browser and hierarchy viewer make jumping to sections of code a hell of a lot easier. The built in debugging is SO MUCH BETTER than DDD or GDB.
However, it's got faults. The editor pretty much SUCKS, but I do like the sytax-highlighting, but the tabbing and such is pretty bad.
Keep this in mind, just because it looks is DevStudio doesn't mean it's bad. Take off the blinders there, and keep this in mind as well - there's a generation of programmers out there that just love IDEs, get used to it.
That's the point. Nothingness is surely more peaceful than a daily battle with a bottle of booze.
I did beat it once without the extra men..
:)
granted I was 13 and there's not much else to do.
A patent is not a shield for protection, but a weapon to attack with.
I sat in a four hour meeting with a patent lawyer just yesterday. A patent gives you no other explicit protection from infringment other than the right to STOP someone from using the patented item.
In his EXACT words "I am an arms dealer, and patents are land-mines you want to litter in your competitiion's path".
This is how the law is written, how it is used, and how it will stay until a complete overhaul of the system is done.
Regardless of what we think about it (I despise software patents, but that's osmething else) this is HOW IT WORKS.
I don't mean to step on anyone's toes, but there seems to be a serious misconception here about how patents are "supposed" to be used. I can tell you it's not as a shield.
See above.
Those macs are good for something.
j/k
>While games can run well in Linux, Quake 3 >included, they can not look nearly as good as in >Windows.
I beg to differ. Q3 looks THE SAME under linux as it does under 98. So does Kingpin for that matter. Perhaps you are just unable to grasp detail level settings?
>As for Voodoo cards running games decently, I >don't give a fuck. If the operating system can >only make games run good on 3dfx cards, then >it's a shit operating system for gaming. 3dfx is >going down the drain. But even if it weren't, it >would still be shit.
THe operating system has NO PART in determining the cards that are, or aren't supported. That is up to the manufacturers, who to this point have been less then accomidating with their specs. nVidia has opened up a bit now, as have ATI and Matrox. If you understood any more than "Click here to start!" perhaps you would already know this.
>My system is no slouch.
That's because you believe in the "Upgrade every two weeks" mantra. I laugh at you.
>I am no newbie.
Wow, you're right here. You're an IDIOT. There's a big difference in the two.
>I have never seen a decent game both look and >run nearly as good in Linux as it does in >Windows (or even Mac for that matter - and >that's just sad!), Quake 3 and Kingpin included.
Well, if you had ever run anything other than windows perhaps I would give you some credit.
But I'm not that nice.
I've read a lot of posts, and I've gotten a lot of hateful e-mails from fools like yourself who would call me a linux bigot. And I'm sick of it. I don't go around spouting GARBAGE like these posts, and then claim to be pure of spirit as you would like to think you are. I don't ever hold my OS above any other, and in fact I run 4 of them on this system, and use all of them more or less daily. I KNOW what runs better on my system, and I use it preferentially. That is Linux. I have q3, Civ:CTP, Kingpin, and all those shitty "minesweeper" type of games on it. I never have a hiccup, and the performance on my old "shitty" banshee is more than good enough. I can't say the same about nt, win2k, or even win98 for that matter! The only advantage to any of those is 3dnow! crap in the banshee drivers under win98, and you know what? That only gives me 5fps MAX.
So why don't you go grow up, and perhaps try and expand your seemingly limitless knowledge. Try new things, maybe you'll be surprised.
Or will mommy and daddy get mad if you mess with their new computer?
If you have the ZAxisMapping setup correctly as outlined in the setup for imwheel, then it will work. I'm currenly using it under the newest XFree 3.5, and it works fine.
Hmm, I'm running RH6/alpha on a Personal workstation 433, and I got M8 to compile, and it's currently chugging away on M9. What distro/version are you using?
Their JVM kicks your ass.
AFAIK there were no laws regarding abortion prior to the trial, and they performed on a regular basis by midwives.
What really bugs me about it are processes that WON'T DIE.
This happens especially often with explorer.exe. A directory window freezes, so you pop up the task manager to kill it - and windows tells you that it can't kill the process!
What a bunch of BS. You can manage to reset explorer, but when this happens to other programs the only solution is to reboot to kill it off. What a piece of shit.
You forget to mention that the RAPES were alleged against the ADULT SECURITY GUARDS and POLICE. Ahem.
I you have seen this thing, or know anything about it - you will know what I mean. I went on a field trip to the Lockheed Martin facility in Fort Worth with the Comp. Sci. club here at school, and that thing is simply awesome. While I'm not a big fan of the military, this thing is a sight to behold.