wow, way to pass the blame there.
You blame your situation on your parents in one sentence and say you wish you could change things the next. If you want to do something, do it. If not, don't use your parents as an excuse.
Adobe, Macromedia, etc are able to be present here because Apple provides a consistent, and documented environment that developers can use. This isn't quite as easy with the miriad of Linux distros (as the article said), and even less so when you throw in the other *nixes. So, it may not be "standard" *nix but at least it has _a_ standard - all the way down to hardware.
This class happened to be for programming internationalized applications, and it was a pilot class using Visual Studio.NET. I brought it up because installing XP should pretty much be a no brainer compared to using a command line on UNIX systems (and particularly for students so far into the major), and these students couldn't even do that. Glad you're proud of working on UNIX systems and mainframes. Maybe you should think before you bash...
I can attest to that. Last year in a 500 level CS class, we were given a lab of PC's that needed to be reinstalled from scratch. Rather than have one person spend a week doing it, the professor decided to have each person do their one machine. I was appalled at the number of students who had gotten to a 500 level class who didn't understand what "formatting a drive" meant, or needed help installing windows XP.
I'm torn as to whether that made me feel better about my degree or not.
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"If you could give me somekind of pointer on how to ascend to Your Highness, I would be forever grateful."
Highness* doAscention()
{
Highness* overlord;
if( user.name == "TripMaster Monkey" )
{
overlord = new Highness();
}
else
{
overlord = NULL;
}
return overlord;
}
Just add this function. I await the commencement of your gratitude.
wow, way to pass the blame there. You blame your situation on your parents in one sentence and say you wish you could change things the next. If you want to do something, do it. If not, don't use your parents as an excuse.
Who's bicycle? I can't handle these approximations, I need names...
Wouldn't this just be Microsofts (proprietary) implementation of CORBA?
Adobe, Macromedia, etc are able to be present here because Apple provides a consistent, and documented environment that developers can use. This isn't quite as easy with the miriad of Linux distros (as the article said), and even less so when you throw in the other *nixes. So, it may not be "standard" *nix but at least it has _a_ standard - all the way down to hardware.
This class happened to be for programming internationalized applications, and it was a pilot class using Visual Studio .NET. I brought it up because installing XP should pretty much be a no brainer compared to using a command line on UNIX systems (and particularly for students so far into the major), and these students couldn't even do that. Glad you're proud of working on UNIX systems and mainframes. Maybe you should think before you bash...
I can attest to that. Last year in a 500 level CS class, we were given a lab of PC's that needed to be reinstalled from scratch. Rather than have one person spend a week doing it, the professor decided to have each person do their one machine. I was appalled at the number of students who had gotten to a 500 level class who didn't understand what "formatting a drive" meant, or needed help installing windows XP. I'm torn as to whether that made me feel better about my degree or not.