You are on a team that has been assigned a rather complex project to be coded in C. Would you rather have someone on your team that knows C really well and has written some nifty utilities, or someone who has never even used C (or any language except MIX on a virtual machine:) but has studied design patterns and algorithm analysis.
Personally, I'd rather have the academic, because the guys who just know C really well are a dime a dozen.
Well, actually they are a lot more expensive than that, but they are common:)
20/20 means "Can see at 20 feet as well as a 'normal' person can see at 20 feet." So, 30/30 vision would mean "Can see at 30 feet as well as a 'normal' person can see at 30 feet." i.e.; "normal" vision.
Someone with better than normal vision has 20/x vision, where x < 20. For example, Chuck Yeager in his prime apparently had 20/10 vision... he could see at 20 feet as well as a 'normal' person can see at 10 feet!
My users are nurses... they've got important work to do and right now.
They'd rather have a green screen than a blue screen.
Text is text. Books are books even without fancy pictures. People with real work to do need certain information. A lot of it can be done more simply and efficiently with plain text, one thing at a time, no crashes:)
Let's just say that my boss still wanted to migrate to Outlook after the Melissa virus...
All anyone ever does around here is reinstall and reboot and I tie it all together with my kixtart script and duct tape. More than half of the PCs here are replacements for those silly old unix text terminals. They happily run a crappy terminal emulator that someone paid too much for, but they have the added bonus of being really easy to break. You can also install pretty screensavers, and cool internet programs to soak up bandwidth, like Napster and RealPlayer.
Meanwhile the Unix servers that do the majority of the actual work sit there and hum.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
If I were the new Applications division...
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of Microsoft, I would port everything to a fork of FreeBSD, hack it all together (wow! it's already more stable!), throw money at companies and developers (IBM haha) to get all the drivers and interfaces working right, and completely drive the Windows OS division out of business...
I mean, they have an obligation to maximize profit for the shareholders, right?
...and the press constantly dissed it despite the fact that you believe it makes the best software and will dominate the future of the industry
You know as well as I do that the press has always been Microsoft's bitch.
I support Windows 9x(for a job, not in the abstract) all day long. I had to reboot my workstation three times today because the bloated POS support software I'm using soaks up all the free memory (and Windows lets it). As someone posted earlier today, it's like Unix after a really bad car accident, missing some limbs with severe brain damage... and Unix isn't even that great. And that's just the base you built your tower of cards on. Drive letters, indeed. Sniff.
Even overlooking the fact of your illegal business practices you make junk software. You may be the richest (like McDonald's), but your product is nothing like homemade (like McDonald's).
Frankly if I shot my mouth of about how much I could code to a bunch of developers and how l33t I was only to turn out not to be able to write a BubbleSort or create a Hash Function I'd expect to be laughed out of town and I would deserve it.
Begging the question, "Why on Earth would you want to write a bubble sort?"
The bubble sort is the Daikatana of sorting algorithms.
"Computer, move that window to the left. No not that window. Computer, move the Netscape window to the left. A little more. Computer, a little more. Ah-Ah-Choo!!! Damn! Computer, where is my Netscape window?"
"Computer, find all files starting with a capital letter and ending with dot empeg that were modified after January third, two thousand eight. What the hell? Computer, find all files starting with a capital letter and ending with dot em pee ee jee, that were modified after January third, two thousand eight. What the hell? Where's my goddamn keyboard? I can type eighty words per minute for Pete's sake..."
"What? No sir, I'm not looking at movies. Did I say empeg? I meant ex el ess... Yes, sir, I'll keep it down."
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They want to make a free component architecture.
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How was he disturbing the peace?
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What reason do you have to think it will be unsecured? Just curious.
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But an application can anti-alias the fonts in it's own display... Look at the gimp.
A good, fast, dynamic anti-aliasing canvas library that existing apps could easily link against is a possible solution.
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Oh come on, you think they're going to port to a different platform and toolkit at the same time?
Of course it will be Motif. But don't worry, you can always use the "Notif" theme for GTK and everything will match.
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Those all cost $$$ and apparently the japs don't want to pay.
Processors get smaller and faster all the time, no one could imagine Unix on a laptop 20 years ago... don't be so shortsighted.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Dark Phoenix... man that brings back memories.
I still get goosebumps just thinking about it.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
The bitch is that everywhere in the EU is drastically expensive to buy any computer hardware.
Really? Can't you just order one from Dell or whatever and pay extra shipping? Or is the tax/tariff that high?
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And what would you do with it? Chop down trees?
Oh wait, I know, go to Indonesia and hunt for real dragons! Hmmm, I wonder if I can take a broadsword carry-on...
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Did you see a message something like this?
Create a normal user and log in through that account. Do not IRC as root. Banned for your own protection.
:^)
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Think about this though.
You are on a team that has been assigned a rather complex project to be coded in C. Would you rather have someone on your team that knows C really well and has written some nifty utilities, or someone who has never even used C (or any language except MIX on a virtual machine :) but has studied design patterns and algorithm analysis.
Personally, I'd rather have the academic, because the guys who just know C really well are a dime a dozen.
Well, actually they are a lot more expensive than that, but they are common :)
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
C'mon people, this is guy is funny. Don't get bent out of shape... just let sleeping trolls lie.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
20/20 means "Can see at 20 feet as well as a 'normal' person can see at 20 feet." So, 30/30 vision would mean "Can see at 30 feet as well as a 'normal' person can see at 30 feet." i.e.; "normal" vision.
Someone with better than normal vision has 20/x vision, where x < 20. For example, Chuck Yeager in his prime apparently had 20/10 vision... he could see at 20 feet as well as a 'normal' person can see at 10 feet!
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
They suck really good.
I suppose there is a market for ahem that kind of robot.
You set me up, you bitch.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Actually, lampreys attach themselves to live fish and suck on them until they're dead.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
My users are nurses... they've got important work to do and right now.
They'd rather have a green screen than a blue screen.
Text is text. Books are books even without fancy pictures. People with real work to do need certain information. A lot of it can be done more simply and efficiently with plain text, one thing at a time, no crashes :)
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I might as well.
Let's just say that my boss still wanted to migrate to Outlook after the Melissa virus...
All anyone ever does around here is reinstall and reboot and I tie it all together with my kixtart script and duct tape. More than half of the PCs here are replacements for those silly old unix text terminals. They happily run a crappy terminal emulator that someone paid too much for, but they have the added bonus of being really easy to break. You can also install pretty screensavers, and cool internet programs to soak up bandwidth, like Napster and RealPlayer.
Meanwhile the Unix servers that do the majority of the actual work sit there and hum.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I mean, they have an obligation to maximize profit for the shareholders, right?
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
You know as well as I do that the press has always been Microsoft's bitch.
I support Windows 9x(for a job, not in the abstract) all day long. I had to reboot my workstation three times today because the bloated POS support software I'm using soaks up all the free memory (and Windows lets it). As someone posted earlier today, it's like Unix after a really bad car accident, missing some limbs with severe brain damage... and Unix isn't even that great. And that's just the base you built your tower of cards on. Drive letters, indeed. Sniff.
Even overlooking the fact of your illegal business practices you make junk software. You may be the richest (like McDonald's), but your product is nothing like homemade (like McDonald's).
Wake up geek.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Frankly if I shot my mouth of about how much I could code to a bunch of developers and how l33t I was only to turn out not to be able to write a BubbleSort or create a Hash Function I'd expect to be laughed out of town and I would deserve it.
Begging the question, "Why on Earth would you want to write a bubble sort?"
The bubble sort is the Daikatana of sorting algorithms.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I got some choice spam last week that had blank To: and From: headers!
I couldn't believe it made it to me...
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you have to swap in the newly compile System.map file so lilo and your system don't have hissy fits.
Really? Hmmm... I just always delete the System.map files and run lilo... seems to work just fine.
I always wondered what they were for :^)
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"Computer, move that window to the left. No not that window. Computer, move the Netscape window to the left. A little more. Computer, a little more. Ah-Ah-Choo!!! Damn! Computer, where is my Netscape window?"
"Computer, find all files starting with a capital letter and ending with dot empeg that were modified after January third, two thousand eight. What the hell? Computer, find all files starting with a capital letter and ending with dot em pee ee jee, that were modified after January third, two thousand eight. What the hell? Where's my goddamn keyboard? I can type eighty words per minute for Pete's sake..."
"What? No sir, I'm not looking at movies. Did I say empeg? I meant ex el ess... Yes, sir, I'll keep it down."
Whisper, "Computer..."
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Terminals can also underline which can be a satisfatory replacement for italics.
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No. You just need a lot of virtual consoles...
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