Amazon et. al are great when you know exactly what you are looking for. But(way back when anyway) small independent bookstores are(were?) usually run by book nuts who really got a chance to know you and could be counted on to discuss books you have read/like/might like. Amazon's suggestion software is good, but not a perfect replacement. Not to mention some people enjoy the atmosphere of just wandering through rows and rows of books looking for a treasure.
It's still probably not worth erecting such stubborn laws to protect, but there is something to be said about the atmosphere of a small book store.
I'm sorry, anyone who uses "war" metaphors when it comes to downloading movies and compares not being able to download movies as worse than life in the former Soviet Union REALLY needs to get a grip. Which is worse, having to pay $10 to see the latest Hollywood claptrap or being forced to go fight in a bloody war when you are just a teenager and given less than a 50% chance to live? Which is worse, having to pay $10 for a Soundgarden cd or having someone in your family "disappeared" because they said something that could be misconstrued as being against the party?
GET A FUCKING GRIP!
I instantly lose respect for someone who tries to make this out to be the greatest injustice in the history of humanity. Maybe if you could frame the debate in less grandiose terms I could be bothered to listen to you, but until then grow up.
You have some good points, but to be fair when I(and probably you) was a kid the "SUV" with its huge bulky mass, very poor handling/braking distance, and gigantic blind spots that drivers pretend don't exist, were incredibly rare. Not to mention that the drivers of those smaller cars were not distracted by yapping on a cell phone while driving. Hell, even as an adult and an avid(and helmet wearing) cyclist, SUVs scare the shit out of me. The sooner they are banned the sooner kids can go play out on the street more safely.
You will, throughout your CS courses and professional/hobby work find out what you really like and you should gravitate towards that. If you are really skilled, then you should be able to pick up what you need to succeed.
That being said, here are the skills I think you should pick up. My only qualifications is that 2.5 years outside of undergrad I am earning $70k+ a year AFTER taxes and have had professional experience on 3 continents(Europe, NA and Asia). Here is the list in no particular order:
1. Pick up a 2nd major. Now of course there are "useful" majors such as science or business, and if that stuff interests you, great, but pick something outside of CS/IT that you REALLY enjoy and go for that. Even if it is film studies. For one, how many chances will you have after college to sit around a bar/coffee shop and discuss whether or not the feds in E.T. represent America's increasing xenophobia after being rattled by Japan in the first real post-war challenge to the US economy?
Secondly, having a 2nd major will catch the attention of recruiters who have to sift through piles of resumes that look the same and can really give you something to talk about at the start of your interview and allow you a pretty good segue into your tech qualifications.
Finally, a second major will allow you to look at problems from a different perspective and help your critical thinking skills, which are in much shorter supply in the IT industry than Java or Python coding experience IMO.
2. Learn another language. Again, there are "useful" languages such as Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Portugese etc., but if you are only learning a language for the money and not because you are interested in the people and culture, you are almost guaranteed to never become fluent. Even languages such as German can help you on the job. If you are working for a company and you and a rival company submit similar proposals for a German contract, and your documentation is in German and theirs English, who do you think is going to win? Plus, from my experience abroad, there is no better way to break the ice with someone in another country than to speak their language. I got a Software Engineering job offer in Connecticut with a small company totally based in Connecticut partially because of my Japanese language skills. The company has to go through a 3rd party to sell their software products in Japan, and they could have really used someone with both a knowledge of the technical side as well as the linguistic side to aid the translators and to double check their work.
3. Study/work abroad. (Shameless plug alert):I found an internship working at an R&D Lab in Japan by working with a group called IAESTE that finds and exchanges internships all around the world. I had to do a lot of work too, for instance I hosted our first intern from Argentina. But after work, there is a lot of drinking! Nothing more fun than a room full of drunk college students from the world over! The internship itself was an amazing experience in terms of both the technical and cultural aspects inside and outside the office. Not to mention I instantly stood out among my peers when it came time for job interviews. It also helped me land the job I have today, working as a software engineer in Germany. Oh yeah, and tons of fun and drinking, cannot stress that enough!
4. Related to the above: work an internship, at home and/or abroad. I also worked in a steel mill writing software, which was a unique experience in itself.
Above all, don't worry about individual technologies. Stay abreast of the news and don't be afraid to dive into something new every few years at the minimum. Oh, and its college, have fun! You have the rest of your life to work your ass off, and you should still work your ass off in college, but the nice thing about college is that for most students, they are young enough to work their asses off AND still have enough energy to go out and party.
They will be pre-filled in for the Republican candidate. To save you the time of thinking that your vote will actually be counted towards the candidate you intend to vote for.
You are wrong. The limitation is in the pre Santa Rosa core chips from Intel, not the OS. Leopard is fully 64 bit whereas(at least for PPC, never read up much on Intel Tiger) Tiger is 64 bit for non-gui apps, but that isn't really the issue in this case.
The new macbooks and the macbook pros that came out before Leopard can both support up to 4 gb of RAM, and the macbook pros could do it in Tiger(Tiger doesn't run on the newest macbooks)
Which is where they went wrong with the name. If they would have had just one more "E" in the name, it could have been an anagram for "beer me" which is pretty much the ultimate use for a robot!
so you prove you're not just some maniac who wants to kill his wife's sisters.
But Homer Simpson DID get a gun, remember?
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I think some people may end up still holding them after the holidays though
Yeah, but most of them won't be out any significant amounts of money though, because they will simply return them the day after Christmas. Last year I went to Best Buy the day after Christmas because my mom bought me the wrong Simpsons season on DVD, so I had to wait in the return line. I noticed that almost everyone in front of me was returning ps3s. I bet that most of them were people who bought the ps3 to try to sell for a few grand on ebay, and when they didn't sell they went straight to best buy to recoup their $600. So most of the resellers probably consider it a no-risk investment on their part.
The sad thing is, Kurt Vonnegut was right over 50 years ago when he predicted what life would be like the "future". Of course he made some errors, such as MBAs are the rich ones instead of engineering PhDs, and the obligatory mid 50's "massive vaccum tube supercomputer", but in general he was right on. In "Player Piano" most of humanity is either in the army or in the "Recreation and Reclamation", ie masses of unskilled laborers who dig ditches and whatnot. Really seems to describe the current situation in the US today quite well.
They are telling you not to use XP as well. I decided to investigate this, and found a little nugget of typical Microsoftness from wikipedia:
Windows 2000 and Windows XP can read and write to FAT32 file systems of any size, but the format program on Windows XP can only create FAT32 file systems up to 32 GiB. The format program with Windows 2000, however, can in fact create FAT32 file systems larger than 32 GiB.
So they could do something in an older version of the OS that they cannot do in the newer?! Thats....Microsoft:P
As an aside, why are they even using FAT32 at all? There are better alternatives out there, and does Microsoft even use FAT32 for XP/Vista partitions anyway? I thought they used NTFS or some variant.
The major fuckup was going, but if the US was going to go, the second major fuckup was firing all members of the Bath party from their positions, even the ones who only became a member to get the job, and barring them from serving in the government. These were people with lots of experience in keeping things running in shitty conditions. It also let the Sunnis know we were there for petty, petty revenge and the Sunni insurgents interpreted that accordingly.
Whats even funnier is how Bush keeps on comparing Iraq to Japan and Germany after WWII, but in those places most of the government infrastructure was left by the military administrations. Leaving these people in place probably helped stave off even larger amounts of starvation, kept the police running etc. But Bush has never, ever been an empiricist. To him, the ONLY thing that matters is ideology. If something they did turns south, that simply means that the ideology wasn't pure enough, since to them the ideology is never wrong. This is why nobody likes Bush today, he refuses to ever admit that maybe his ideology isn't perfect, and instead of stopping bad ideas, he just delves into them further.
your name. I happen to have the last name that is the same as the stage name of a popular porn actress, and my first and middle name happen to coincide with the first and last name of a male porn star she frequently stars with. So 90%+ of the stuff that comes up when you search for my name on google is porn......
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Amazon et. al are great when you know exactly what you are looking for. But(way back when anyway) small independent bookstores are(were?) usually run by book nuts who really got a chance to know you and could be counted on to discuss books you have read/like/might like. Amazon's suggestion software is good, but not a perfect replacement. Not to mention some people enjoy the atmosphere of just wandering through rows and rows of books looking for a treasure.
It's still probably not worth erecting such stubborn laws to protect, but there is something to be said about the atmosphere of a small book store.
measure the purity of the powders that they use
Meaning they let the executives snort the primo cocaine off the hooker's pelvis.
I'm sorry, anyone who uses "war" metaphors when it comes to downloading movies and compares not being able to download movies as worse than life in the former Soviet Union REALLY needs to get a grip. Which is worse, having to pay $10 to see the latest Hollywood claptrap or being forced to go fight in a bloody war when you are just a teenager and given less than a 50% chance to live? Which is worse, having to pay $10 for a Soundgarden cd or having someone in your family "disappeared" because they said something that could be misconstrued as being against the party?
GET A FUCKING GRIP!
I instantly lose respect for someone who tries to make this out to be the greatest injustice in the history of humanity. Maybe if you could frame the debate in less grandiose terms I could be bothered to listen to you, but until then grow up.
You have some good points, but to be fair when I(and probably you) was a kid the "SUV" with its huge bulky mass, very poor handling/braking distance, and gigantic blind spots that drivers pretend don't exist, were incredibly rare. Not to mention that the drivers of those smaller cars were not distracted by yapping on a cell phone while driving. Hell, even as an adult and an avid(and helmet wearing) cyclist, SUVs scare the shit out of me. The sooner they are banned the sooner kids can go play out on the street more safely.
You mean all that sex I have been having with trees was for naught?
You will, throughout your CS courses and professional/hobby work find out what you really like and you should gravitate towards that. If you are really skilled, then you should be able to pick up what you need to succeed.
That being said, here are the skills I think you should pick up. My only qualifications is that 2.5 years outside of undergrad I am earning $70k+ a year AFTER taxes and have had professional experience on 3 continents(Europe, NA and Asia). Here is the list in no particular order:
1. Pick up a 2nd major. Now of course there are "useful" majors such as science or business, and if that stuff interests you, great, but pick something outside of CS/IT that you REALLY enjoy and go for that. Even if it is film studies. For one, how many chances will you have after college to sit around a bar/coffee shop and discuss whether or not the feds in E.T. represent America's increasing xenophobia after being rattled by Japan in the first real post-war challenge to the US economy?
Secondly, having a 2nd major will catch the attention of recruiters who have to sift through piles of resumes that look the same and can really give you something to talk about at the start of your interview and allow you a pretty good segue into your tech qualifications.
Finally, a second major will allow you to look at problems from a different perspective and help your critical thinking skills, which are in much shorter supply in the IT industry than Java or Python coding experience IMO.
2. Learn another language. Again, there are "useful" languages such as Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Portugese etc., but if you are only learning a language for the money and not because you are interested in the people and culture, you are almost guaranteed to never become fluent. Even languages such as German can help you on the job. If you are working for a company and you and a rival company submit similar proposals for a German contract, and your documentation is in German and theirs English, who do you think is going to win? Plus, from my experience abroad, there is no better way to break the ice with someone in another country than to speak their language. I got a Software Engineering job offer in Connecticut with a small company totally based in Connecticut partially because of my Japanese language skills. The company has to go through a 3rd party to sell their software products in Japan, and they could have really used someone with both a knowledge of the technical side as well as the linguistic side to aid the translators and to double check their work.
3. Study/work abroad. (Shameless plug alert):I found an internship working at an R&D Lab in Japan by working with a group called IAESTE that finds and exchanges internships all around the world. I had to do a lot of work too, for instance I hosted our first intern from Argentina. But after work, there is a lot of drinking! Nothing more fun than a room full of drunk college students from the world over! The internship itself was an amazing experience in terms of both the technical and cultural aspects inside and outside the office. Not to mention I instantly stood out among my peers when it came time for job interviews. It also helped me land the job I have today, working as a software engineer in Germany. Oh yeah, and tons of fun and drinking, cannot stress that enough!
4. Related to the above: work an internship, at home and/or abroad. I also worked in a steel mill writing software, which was a unique experience in itself.
Above all, don't worry about individual technologies. Stay abreast of the news and don't be afraid to dive into something new every few years at the minimum. Oh, and its college, have fun! You have the rest of your life to work your ass off, and you should still work your ass off in college, but the nice thing about college is that for most students, they are young enough to work their asses off AND still have enough energy to go out and party.
They will be pre-filled in for the Republican candidate. To save you the time of thinking that your vote will actually be counted towards the candidate you intend to vote for.
You are wrong. The limitation is in the pre Santa Rosa core chips from Intel, not the OS. Leopard is fully 64 bit whereas(at least for PPC, never read up much on Intel Tiger) Tiger is 64 bit for non-gui apps, but that isn't really the issue in this case.
The new macbooks and the macbook pros that came out before Leopard can both support up to 4 gb of RAM, and the macbook pros could do it in Tiger(Tiger doesn't run on the newest macbooks)
to fetching you a beer
Which is where they went wrong with the name. If they would have had just one more "E" in the name, it could have been an anagram for "beer me" which is pretty much the ultimate use for a robot!
I cannot be the only one that REALLY does not want to see Cheney's "intimate moments".....
so you prove you're not just some maniac who wants to kill his wife's sisters.
But Homer Simpson DID get a gun, remember?
I think some people may end up still holding them after the holidays though
Yeah, but most of them won't be out any significant amounts of money though, because they will simply return them the day after Christmas. Last year I went to Best Buy the day after Christmas because my mom bought me the wrong Simpsons season on DVD, so I had to wait in the return line. I noticed that almost everyone in front of me was returning ps3s. I bet that most of them were people who bought the ps3 to try to sell for a few grand on ebay, and when they didn't sell they went straight to best buy to recoup their $600. So most of the resellers probably consider it a no-risk investment on their part.
You can always join the army.....
The sad thing is, Kurt Vonnegut was right over 50 years ago when he predicted what life would be like the "future". Of course he made some errors, such as MBAs are the rich ones instead of engineering PhDs, and the obligatory mid 50's "massive vaccum tube supercomputer", but in general he was right on. In "Player Piano" most of humanity is either in the army or in the "Recreation and Reclamation", ie masses of unskilled laborers who dig ditches and whatnot. Really seems to describe the current situation in the US today quite well.
with the Academic Games?
So you can watch the resale value of it plummet as it is superseded both by new technologies and new trends in MMOs?
They are telling you not to use XP as well. I decided to investigate this, and found a little nugget of typical Microsoftness from wikipedia:
:P
Windows 2000 and Windows XP can read and write to FAT32 file systems of any size, but the format program on Windows XP can only create FAT32 file systems up to 32 GiB. The format program with Windows 2000, however, can in fact create FAT32 file systems larger than 32 GiB.
So they could do something in an older version of the OS that they cannot do in the newer?! Thats....Microsoft
As an aside, why are they even using FAT32 at all? There are better alternatives out there, and does Microsoft even use FAT32 for XP/Vista partitions anyway? I thought they used NTFS or some variant.
smashing a house when it died?
The people who registered "fluke.com" agree!
Meh, Greenpeace is a bunch of rich kids who like to gripe and love to trash anything thats popular, truth be damned.
I wonder if there is an "Environmentalists against Greenpeace" group? I would like to join.
So I have a box full of pingpong balls and .50 calibre lead shot.
Sounds like the cops are going to be paying a visit to your fraternity house before the night is through.....
The major fuckup was going, but if the US was going to go, the second major fuckup was firing all members of the Bath party from their positions, even the ones who only became a member to get the job, and barring them from serving in the government. These were people with lots of experience in keeping things running in shitty conditions. It also let the Sunnis know we were there for petty, petty revenge and the Sunni insurgents interpreted that accordingly.
Whats even funnier is how Bush keeps on comparing Iraq to Japan and Germany after WWII, but in those places most of the government infrastructure was left by the military administrations. Leaving these people in place probably helped stave off even larger amounts of starvation, kept the police running etc. But Bush has never, ever been an empiricist. To him, the ONLY thing that matters is ideology. If something they did turns south, that simply means that the ideology wasn't pure enough, since to them the ideology is never wrong. This is why nobody likes Bush today, he refuses to ever admit that maybe his ideology isn't perfect, and instead of stopping bad ideas, he just delves into them further.
Wait a minute, thats EXACTLY what a freedom hater liberal would say!!
Freedom hater!!
Freedom hater!!
stomach. He wouldn't have to worry about Putin arresting him at all. Kissing on the other hand.....
your name. I happen to have the last name that is the same as the stage name of a popular porn actress, and my first and middle name happen to coincide with the first and last name of a male porn star she frequently stars with. So 90%+ of the stuff that comes up when you search for my name on google is porn......
Hate to break it to you, but you do know that computers were around before 2002, right?