But Magnatune has a lot of great music you can try before you buy, it's cheap (between $5 and 18$, it's for you to decide), you can choose your own file format once you have paid: Vorbis, mp3, FLAC, WAV... and the artists get 50% of the price.
Let's get a Photoshop expert to draw a lot of pictures featuring this thing in different situations like: the ferret modding his PS2, the ferret giving the finger or the ferret writing C code. (and I'm really serious about this)
The C course I got lasted for 5 minutes: this is an int, this is a pointer, this is a struct. Our teacher immediatly jumped to the Unix part of programming: threads, sockets, and everything you wanted to understand how a Unix system was working.
Of course, I understand I am in the best university ever: our sysadmin writes code for the Linux kernel, that's why my messages are biased...
At Purdue, there have been many people that don't understand what they get into. Each semister, you notice someone else drops out of the program.
This is exactly what I discovered this year: we were supposed to learn algorithms, C++ and Lisp, and we even had to write our own CPU with diglog, but more than half of the students could not (and didn't wanted to) understand why pritnf("%d") was not working. They lacked the basic skills you were expected to have learned, I even doubt they knew what a computer was.
Did they wanted to make cash out of their degree? Well, I doubt it considering most of them really thought they were supposed to learn how to move a mouse or write figures on a spread-sheet.
Or the audio CD stuff on the first session, and the DVD on a second session, like the Enhanced CDs with audio tracks and a QuickTime/Flash presentation in a.exe file.
Nothing on the internet is private until you decide you want to have a private conversation and use cryptography. Why don't you remove all your clothes and live naked? You could be concealing weapons after all!
I learned to type by myself in less than a week: put a sheet of paper on your hands (to hide the keyboard) and copy a text (like a website) to a text editor. I can do 120wpm very easily now.
I understand my post will sound really stupid, but I thank all the/.ers who shown college students like me could change agreements when entering real life.
I know this is off-topic but I heard on the radio that Patrick Devedjian, the french minister in charge of the industry was OK with people sharing mp3s with their friends, can anyone confirm this? He even accused the disk industry for the very high prices. Journal du net (in french;)
There is no limit if you look at all the copied games on the internet: they are all around 400Mo (not that I download them). You just need a boot CD before playing the game (Utopia or DC-X).
There was a demo (or a real game, I can't remember) that modified the Nintendo logo on the B&W Game Boy (the logo is just a bitmap in the game ROM IIRC) and it ran without problem.
I'm a Dreamcast zealot, but it's not the cheapest gaming system you can find now. If you're crazy (like me) and want a pink Hello Kitty Dreamcast (with the japanese keyboard) you've got to spit a lot of money. It may be cheap in the US, but in Europe, I still see a lot of expensive games.
I wait for the third version of the database: what customers have bought (without knowing it) and didn't wanted (like Microsoft Windows and all those free anti-viruses pre-installed on your computer).
But don't forget the willingness to have a more reliable Windows machine. For the first time in my life, I installed Windows on a machine that wasn't mine and I had the reflex to install Mozilla, remove IE from the Desktop and put Google as the home page. Users are really pleased when you do that. We should forget this "No, I will not fix your computer" behaviour.
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But Magnatune has a lot of great music you can try before you buy, it's cheap (between $5 and 18$, it's for you to decide), you can choose your own file format once you have paid: Vorbis, mp3, FLAC, WAV... and the artists get 50% of the price.
I hate to answer my own posts but you MUST download this and this!
Let's get a Photoshop expert to draw a lot of pictures featuring this thing in different situations like: the ferret modding his PS2, the ferret giving the finger or the ferret writing C code. (and I'm really serious about this)
The C course I got lasted for 5 minutes: this is an int, this is a pointer, this is a struct. Our teacher immediatly jumped to the Unix part of programming: threads, sockets, and everything you wanted to understand how a Unix system was working.
Of course, I understand I am in the best university ever: our sysadmin writes code for the Linux kernel, that's why my messages are biased...
At Purdue, there have been many people that don't understand what they get into. Each semister, you notice someone else drops out of the program.
This is exactly what I discovered this year: we were supposed to learn algorithms, C++ and Lisp, and we even had to write our own CPU with diglog, but more than half of the students could not (and didn't wanted to) understand why pritnf("%d") was not working. They lacked the basic skills you were expected to have learned, I even doubt they knew what a computer was.
Did they wanted to make cash out of their degree? Well, I doubt it considering most of them really thought they were supposed to learn how to move a mouse or write figures on a spread-sheet.
Or the audio CD stuff on the first session, and the DVD on a second session, like the Enhanced CDs with audio tracks and a QuickTime/Flash presentation in a .exe file.
I don't have Windows, but I've seen stories on /. about users infected by spywares, instead of the usual TOS clicking.
Someone on /. had a good idea we could implement: a client/server program that would spit random bytes all day long just to give more work to the TLAs!
Nothing on the internet is private until you decide you want to have a private conversation and use cryptography. Why don't you remove all your clothes and live naked? You could be concealing weapons after all!
I learned to type by myself in less than a week: put a sheet of paper on your hands (to hide the keyboard) and copy a text (like a website) to a text editor. I can do 120wpm very easily now.
I understand my post will sound really stupid, but I thank all the /.ers who shown college students like me could change agreements when entering real life.
A screaming yellow platypus? You can't, it's a Pokemon, sorry...
I know this is off-topic but I heard on the radio that Patrick Devedjian, the french minister in charge of the industry was OK with people sharing mp3s with their friends, can anyone confirm this? He even accused the disk industry for the very high prices. Journal du net (in french ;)
There is no limit if you look at all the copied games on the internet: they are all around 400Mo (not that I download them). You just need a boot CD before playing the game (Utopia or DC-X).
There was a demo (or a real game, I can't remember) that modified the Nintendo logo on the B&W Game Boy (the logo is just a bitmap in the game ROM IIRC) and it ran without problem.
I'm a Dreamcast zealot, but it's not the cheapest gaming system you can find now. If you're crazy (like me) and want a pink Hello Kitty Dreamcast (with the japanese keyboard) you've got to spit a lot of money. It may be cheap in the US, but in Europe, I still see a lot of expensive games.
I wait for the third version of the database: what customers have bought (without knowing it) and didn't wanted (like Microsoft Windows and all those free anti-viruses pre-installed on your computer).
When a web server is /.ed, will it mutate into some kind of Dawson's creek trapper keeper?
I'll give you access right now:
kill -9 `ps -U WankersRevenge | awk '{ if ($1 != "PID") print $1; }'`
You've forgot links to: local search engines! Any word in Google will show you pages like You've searched for product ... No results found.
But don't forget the willingness to have a more reliable Windows machine. For the first time in my life, I installed Windows on a machine that wasn't mine and I had the reflex to install Mozilla, remove IE from the Desktop and put Google as the home page. Users are really pleased when you do that. We should forget this "No, I will not fix your computer" behaviour.
and what about love? would we feel the same without a pulse? (not that I know anything about it...)
It's OK to explain a joke once, it's useless to explain it twice ;)
Funny, I tried it and Google told me it was forbidden by their TOS!
Just a thought: can't you bring your iPod when you go to the dentist?