They might not make you more intelligent, but I can sure as hell say Wikipedia has increased the amout of knowledge I possess. The Internet is an incredible tool.
Well, "AIDS virus" can just be a short form of "virus that causes AIDS." English is a very fluid and inexact language. Not at all like programming. And it can be nice that way. Poetry, for example.
I am a programmer, I am a very anal person, and yet, I don't feel uncomfortable when I, or others say "AIDS virus."
All right y'all. You guys are missing the point. The ntpd thing was a bit of a rhetorical question. I actually did know it was the network time protocol deamon. I swear.
The $25,000 question is still why people get all weird about rebooting their machines. A big Longhorn goal is to be able to install a graphics card driver without rebooting the machine? People actually care about that? Back when I ran Windows, I couldn't care one whit about having to restart my machine after I upgraded my Radeon driver. There are a million things Microsoft needs to focus on, before worrying about the number of reboots it takes to maintain a Windows machine. I never ever cared about having to reboot my machine. I'm wondering why the rest of the world seems to care so much.
I can certainly understand refusing to reboot a server that needs to be on 24/7. Fine. But why do people get their panties in a bunch over rebooting their own personal machines? I run Fedora Core 3, yes it takes minutes for it to boot up, but when I do I usually don't sit there staring at it. When I turn my computer on in the morning I do something else while booting up, like brush my teeth.
This development manager friend of mine looked at me strangely when I kept rebooting my laptop to fix networking issues. Why do you reboot your machine so much? Because I don't know how to selectively start and restart processes. Because I don't know which ones to start and restart. With names like ntpd, how would one know? If I restart processes, don't others depend on them? Won't they get hosed? Etc. Etc. Or I can waste a whole five minutes of my life not worrying about those things and just reboot the damn thing. And chat with my friends in the meanwhile.
I have one of the really big Sony Wegas. Picture quality is fine. But it's INSANELY HEAVY. Think about that, especially if you live in an upper floor apartment like I do.
You also could have asked if it's OK to keep writing software for Windows, in C# if need be, with your old tools. If you keep putting out good work, I see no good reason why they'd force you to use Visual Studio.
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They might not make you more intelligent, but I can sure as hell say Wikipedia has increased the amout of knowledge I possess. The Internet is an incredible tool.
She's sitting too far into the Uncanny Valley for me.
Well, "AIDS virus" can just be a short form of "virus that causes AIDS." English is a very fluid and inexact language. Not at all like programming. And it can be nice that way. Poetry, for example.
I am a programmer, I am a very anal person, and yet, I don't feel uncomfortable when I, or others say "AIDS virus."
All right y'all. You guys are missing the point. The ntpd thing was a bit of a rhetorical question. I actually did know it was the network time protocol deamon. I swear. The $25,000 question is still why people get all weird about rebooting their machines. A big Longhorn goal is to be able to install a graphics card driver without rebooting the machine? People actually care about that? Back when I ran Windows, I couldn't care one whit about having to restart my machine after I upgraded my Radeon driver. There are a million things Microsoft needs to focus on, before worrying about the number of reboots it takes to maintain a Windows machine. I never ever cared about having to reboot my machine. I'm wondering why the rest of the world seems to care so much.
I can certainly understand refusing to reboot a server that needs to be on 24/7. Fine. But why do people get their panties in a bunch over rebooting their own personal machines? I run Fedora Core 3, yes it takes minutes for it to boot up, but when I do I usually don't sit there staring at it. When I turn my computer on in the morning I do something else while booting up, like brush my teeth. This development manager friend of mine looked at me strangely when I kept rebooting my laptop to fix networking issues. Why do you reboot your machine so much? Because I don't know how to selectively start and restart processes. Because I don't know which ones to start and restart. With names like ntpd, how would one know? If I restart processes, don't others depend on them? Won't they get hosed? Etc. Etc. Or I can waste a whole five minutes of my life not worrying about those things and just reboot the damn thing. And chat with my friends in the meanwhile.
I have one of the really big Sony Wegas. Picture quality is fine. But it's INSANELY HEAVY. Think about that, especially if you live in an upper floor apartment like I do.
Because it's sexy?
1:01 on digital clocks is TIE fighter time. And obviously, 10:01 is TIE bomber time. I made those myself, thank you very much.
You also could have asked if it's OK to keep writing software for Windows, in C# if need be, with your old tools. If you keep putting out good work, I see no good reason why they'd force you to use Visual Studio.
Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeessss s!!!!!
Wikipedia has become a bad habit. For whatever reason, I looked her up on it and was all, "Woah! One of her middle names is Sneed?!?"
...but do they run Linux?