Keep trying. At 16, I managed to get a job as in intern with a major tech corp, and with that on my resume, and now at 18, I'm the lead webmaster (Not just HTML, mind you - PHP, Perl, and a plethora of SQL databases) and lead graphics artist for another tech corp here. It is possible - you just have to impress them.
Offer to work for sub-par pay - meaning on an hourly basis. It sucks, but it's a foot in the door. Show them what you can do. There WILL be someone who will want to hire you. You just have to find them. Getting a job at a tech firm isn't that easy, particularly entry-level, so you have to be willing to work for less. But once you do, it's on your resume, and other companies will be a lot more open if they see you have experience in the corporate field.
You spend half a dozen hours a day, or a dozen a day in summer, in front of the screen, you learn a thing or two.
Not true. My brother has been doing this for the past two years, and he still has to ask me to how to do even the most elementary things - like, change his homepage. He's a smart kid - he just has no urge to do anything on his computer but play games. As a result, he has learned almost nil about his system.
Agreed - if there's one thing I have learned, it's that I don't know everything I need to know, and older people with more experience do have lots to offer. I was simply noting that not all kids are as stupid or lazy as we're made out to be. By no means do I consider myself to know all I need to, but I have a willingness to learn, and the drive to work as hard as is necessary to make good with what I can do.
It's an age old battle - age vs. beauty, so to speak - and it doesn't look like it will let up soon. Scary enough, I find myself looking in disdain at those younger than myself, and find that I try to justify those feelings, when in reality, from an objective standpoint, they have every bit of potential that me and my peers do. I see myself becoming one of the people who laugh at me, and somehow, it seems different. But it's really not.
I'm 18, and I'm a half owner of my corporation, and CTO. I handle all the tech stuff, and my 18 year old partner handles the legal, financial, and PR aspects.
Being young doesn't make you a "punk" or ingorant - you just have to work to make something of that knowledge you've amassed. I've figured that out.
Kida aren't as stupid as you think. There are plently of 15-18 year olds that have the capacity to offer great things to the world, but unfortunately, they're shut up behind the label of "nerd" or "loser". Granted there are those "nerds" and "losers" who are the fulfillment of their stereotype, but there are also those who are going places.
Kids aren't as stupid, ignorant, or self-absorbed as you may think they are. At least not all of us. Before you decide to go bashing person X cause he's under 20, maybe try to understand him first.
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There's a signifigant difference between random and irrational. Random means you'll get a totall random value every time you look at it. Irrational means there's no pattern to it, while the number is most definately set and unchanging.
We recently wrote a PHP-based parser for our client database, where each client could access the tree from their level up. It contains several tens of thousands of records, and would return a full set in a fraction of a second. Our boss asked us if we could slow it down at all - he wanted it to look to our clients as though we had to do some serious number crunching to get those results.
Approximately the first 137k is the virus's executable code. If you'll look towards the end of the file, you'll find the document there in plain text for you to read.
I forget the exact number, but of you strip off the first X bytes with a hex editor, you can open the document regularly.
You're missing the point. The numbers mean jack. It's the performance that counts. What you're failing to realize is that 333MHz on dedicated hardware running games that are designed to specifically run on that hardware will perform VERY nicely. PC processors have to be faster because they have more overhead involved in producing the same output. Why do you think you have to have a system that's ludicrously more powerful than a console in order to emulate that console? Because the PC isn't designed to run those games. It's designed to run lots of software meeting varying specs. Software that's written for an explicit set of hardware is very efficient, as opposed to software that has to run on umpteem billion hardware configurations.
If they can get the desired performance out of a 333, I'm all for it. Saves me $200 at Best Buy.
THOSE are what's gonna sell the Cube. Kids can play Pokemon on their Gameboy color. There's not really much power needed for that type of game. Sure, you could get rid of the yellow rat's pointy edges, but do they care? No, they just wanna catch him. I don't think that the Pokemon franchise is based on graphics or gameplay - it's based on marketing.
Samus kicking Ridley's posterior - now that's a different matter. Link getting medieval on some moblin - now THAT's entertainment.
And if you do feel the need to blow up small electric rodents, there's always SSB.
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Keep trying. At 16, I managed to get a job as in intern with a major tech corp, and with that on my resume, and now at 18, I'm the lead webmaster (Not just HTML, mind you - PHP, Perl, and a plethora of SQL databases) and lead graphics artist for another tech corp here. It is possible - you just have to impress them.
Offer to work for sub-par pay - meaning on an hourly basis. It sucks, but it's a foot in the door. Show them what you can do. There WILL be someone who will want to hire you. You just have to find them. Getting a job at a tech firm isn't that easy, particularly entry-level, so you have to be willing to work for less. But once you do, it's on your resume, and other companies will be a lot more open if they see you have experience in the corporate field.
Good Luck!
You spend half a dozen hours a day, or a dozen a day in summer, in front of the screen, you learn a thing or two.
Not true. My brother has been doing this for the past two years, and he still has to ask me to how to do even the most elementary things - like, change his homepage. He's a smart kid - he just has no urge to do anything on his computer but play games. As a result, he has learned almost nil about his system.
Yeah, and if you've seen "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" you're aware that enough training in mysterious martial arts will let you fly.
*shrug*
Agreed - if there's one thing I have learned, it's that I don't know everything I need to know, and older people with more experience do have lots to offer. I was simply noting that not all kids are as stupid or lazy as we're made out to be. By no means do I consider myself to know all I need to, but I have a willingness to learn, and the drive to work as hard as is necessary to make good with what I can do.
It's an age old battle - age vs. beauty, so to speak - and it doesn't look like it will let up soon. Scary enough, I find myself looking in disdain at those younger than myself, and find that I try to justify those feelings, when in reality, from an objective standpoint, they have every bit of potential that me and my peers do. I see myself becoming one of the people who laugh at me, and somehow, it seems different. But it's really not.
I'm 18, and I'm a half owner of my corporation, and CTO. I handle all the tech stuff, and my 18 year old partner handles the legal, financial, and PR aspects.
Being young doesn't make you a "punk" or ingorant - you just have to work to make something of that knowledge you've amassed. I've figured that out.
Kida aren't as stupid as you think. There are plently of 15-18 year olds that have the capacity to offer great things to the world, but unfortunately, they're shut up behind the label of "nerd" or "loser". Granted there are those "nerds" and "losers" who are the fulfillment of their stereotype, but there are also those who are going places.
Kids aren't as stupid, ignorant, or self-absorbed as you may think they are. At least not all of us. Before you decide to go bashing person X cause he's under 20, maybe try to understand him first.
Geeks can build some cool stuff with scavanged parts, like a nuclear reactor.
When Bruno Bauer inherited Zebra, a retired 2-trillion-watt pulsed-power machine...
Man, I wish my rich uncle would die and leave me a 2-trillion-watt pulsed-power machine!
Kick at the tires?
Heck, I didn't even get in the showroom.
...there's a reason why "beta tests" are limited to a certain number of users.
I think you just found out why.
Would this be more like a "gamma test"?
You know, you'd think they'd know better than to post a "please don't break it" story.
That's like telling a kid not to do something. They're gonna do it just because you didn't want them to!
And you've been with Slashdot for how long?!
...cause if they don't free him, Katz is gonna continue writing these articles.
Please, for the love of God, let him go!
No, it just takes a script kiddie with "Worm Toolkit v1.2" to create one.
Did you see those screenshots?
I'm not too terribly in favor of staring at a penguin's hindquarters all day.
Reminds me of a certain goat-flavored website.
At last check, 344 articles pending review. I'd say not. Bad editing? Maybe.
...warez sites are for Windows!
There's a signifigant difference between random and irrational. Random means you'll get a totall random value every time you look at it. Irrational means there's no pattern to it, while the number is most definately set and unchanging.
...that's a suprise. I had almost reached the point where I believed Microsoft could buy as many appeals as they wanted.
Chalk one up for the remaining shreds of sanity in the justice system.
Yeah, but chances are, you've not going to be sitting 12 inches away from this thing. You're gonna be sitting a good ways back.
At 8,096x3,840, those desktop icons are gonna be really small...
Does this by any chance use VisuaLABS GroutFree(tm) technology?
Wow!
We recently wrote a PHP-based parser for our client database, where each client could access the tree from their level up. It contains several tens of thousands of records, and would return a full set in a fraction of a second. Our boss asked us if we could slow it down at all - he wanted it to look to our clients as though we had to do some serious number crunching to get those results.
Approximately the first 137k is the virus's executable code. If you'll look towards the end of the file, you'll find the document there in plain text for you to read.
I forget the exact number, but of you strip off the first X bytes with a hex editor, you can open the document regularly.
Trollish as you may be, I'll respond.
You're missing the point. The numbers mean jack. It's the performance that counts. What you're failing to realize is that 333MHz on dedicated hardware running games that are designed to specifically run on that hardware will perform VERY nicely. PC processors have to be faster because they have more overhead involved in producing the same output. Why do you think you have to have a system that's ludicrously more powerful than a console in order to emulate that console? Because the PC isn't designed to run those games. It's designed to run lots of software meeting varying specs. Software that's written for an explicit set of hardware is very efficient, as opposed to software that has to run on umpteem billion hardware configurations.
If they can get the desired performance out of a 333, I'm all for it. Saves me $200 at Best Buy.
Think first, post later.
College student who's also a fairly well-paid webmaster and graphics designer.
Power to the geeks!
Legend of Zelda
Metriod
SSB
THOSE are what's gonna sell the Cube. Kids can play Pokemon on their Gameboy color. There's not really much power needed for that type of game. Sure, you could get rid of the yellow rat's pointy edges, but do they care? No, they just wanna catch him. I don't think that the Pokemon franchise is based on graphics or gameplay - it's based on marketing.
Samus kicking Ridley's posterior - now that's a different matter. Link getting medieval on some moblin - now THAT's entertainment.
And if you do feel the need to blow up small electric rodents, there's always SSB.