In my workplace we use (at great expense, license-wise) Unix System V to run our d-base servers. When I was hired on, I asked about this, and was promptly told "We won't use open source solutions because they don't come with any sort of garauntees or support. We pay extra for these licenses because what we are essentially buying is a garauntee of uptime. We don't have the time or the manpower to fool with some attention-intensive open source thing."
I have found this to be the prevalent corporate mindset, at least in the circles I work in. Anyone else have similar experience?
According to a joint study by both Yale and Harvard, video games are VERY beneficial to children who play them. It seems that all thos hours sitting in front of the screen have SCIENTIFICALLY VERIFIABLE benefits, namely, that sitting in front of a computer/tv all day long builds important LOOKING skills.;-)
Is it just me or has the Enlightenment wm been doing the same thing for quite a while now? (small preview of each desktop floating in a dock, pager, whatever)
Hooray! Finally, the world will be able to solve its problems in a forthright and logical fashion, namely, the leaders of the conflicting countries duking it out in an arena. Everyone wins! Bin Laden gets to play online from the comfort of his anonymous hut. (shack, hovel, whatever.) And Bush wouldn't have to go any further than the nearest QuakeCon or Frag3 convention to find our nation's next Audy Murphy or Alvin York. Now, the REAL conflict begins:
Should our leaders decide the fate of our nations with Q3 or UT? *grins* I for one would proudly take up "arms" in the GLF (geek liberation front) and battle online for our country. But, hey, then I'd be some kind of patriotic hero instead of a geek, huh?:-D
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I have been using Deitel & Deitel's The Complete C++ Training Course Third Edition reference for at least 5 years, both as a student and later as a professional. I must say, this is *the* definitive C++ reference. It's easy enough that I learned C++ from reading it way back when, but it's comprehensive enough that I still refer to it sometimes when I forget some esoteric bit of syntax. I think there's a newer version out now, but I don't have any experience with it.
While I have yet to find *any* device that can test everything, this spiffy little gizmo from Elston Systems has saved my bacon once or twice when I thought I had a dead motherboard. It doesn't catch all the stuff all the time, but I've found it to be pretty useful. Plus, *grins* as a geek it's fun to leave it in my case and have the hex display shining mysterious stuff through my window.
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In my workplace we use (at great expense, license-wise) Unix System V to run our d-base servers. When I was hired on, I asked about this, and was promptly told "We won't use open source solutions because they don't come with any sort of garauntees or support. We pay extra for these licenses because what we are essentially buying is a garauntee of uptime. We don't have the time or the manpower to fool with some attention-intensive open source thing." I have found this to be the prevalent corporate mindset, at least in the circles I work in. Anyone else have similar experience?
According to a joint study by both Yale and Harvard, video games are VERY beneficial to children who play them. It seems that all thos hours sitting in front of the screen have SCIENTIFICALLY VERIFIABLE benefits, namely, that sitting in front of a computer/tv all day long builds important LOOKING skills. ;-)
Is it just me or has the Enlightenment wm been doing the same thing for quite a while now? (small preview of each desktop floating in a dock, pager, whatever)
Hooray! Finally, the world will be able to solve its problems in a forthright and logical fashion, namely, the leaders of the conflicting countries duking it out in an arena. Everyone wins! Bin Laden gets to play online from the comfort of his anonymous hut. (shack, hovel, whatever.) And Bush wouldn't have to go any further than the nearest QuakeCon or Frag3 convention to find our nation's next Audy Murphy or Alvin York. Now, the REAL conflict begins: Should our leaders decide the fate of our nations with Q3 or UT? *grins* I for one would proudly take up "arms" in the GLF (geek liberation front) and battle online for our country. But, hey, then I'd be some kind of patriotic hero instead of a geek, huh? :-D
I have been using Deitel & Deitel's The Complete C++ Training Course Third Edition reference for at least 5 years, both as a student and later as a professional. I must say, this is *the* definitive C++ reference. It's easy enough that I learned C++ from reading it way back when, but it's comprehensive enough that I still refer to it sometimes when I forget some esoteric bit of syntax. I think there's a newer version out now, but I don't have any experience with it.
While I have yet to find *any* device that can test everything, this spiffy little gizmo from Elston Systems has saved my bacon once or twice when I thought I had a dead motherboard. It doesn't catch all the stuff all the time, but I've found it to be pretty useful. Plus, *grins* as a geek it's fun to leave it in my case and have the hex display shining mysterious stuff through my window.