People who don't know what CAD is aren't going to be buying AutoCAD (at least, they shouldn't be -- its expensive and they'll be sorely disappointed).
Automatic Computer Aided Design is a hell of a lot more descriptive than Visual Studio to the casual glance. Yes -- a studio where I work visually -- doing what?
I know its an IDE, but I also know that about NetBeans and Eclipse.
At least WinAmp (Windows Amplifier) sounds like it might have something to do with music.
yeah, because you must have stopped reading before you got to AutoCAD.
For all knows, Visual Studio is a 3d paint program with a name like that.
Of course, the key with commercial applications is, that the people who are going to need them are going to know about them even if their names are stupid.
Michelangelo was copy Greek style. In Greek style, large male gentiles were considered unbecoming; in fact it was the guys with the bigger ones that were made fun of back then.
Look it up; its amazing the amounts of stupid shit you learn in a liberal arts degree..
"IT" is to Computer Science as lube technition is to Mechanical Engineering. Someone with the cert to mind Cisco routers or diagnose your breaks isn't going to have the skills, probably, to build design a router or a hydraulic system -- and for those who DO have that education, doing that sort of day-to-day maintenance is a boring waste of time.
its the same in any field. A highly skilled artist isn't going to find designing a display of beans at the grocery store particularly stimulating.
No, it means having an always-accessable portfolio to show your skills without having to worry about making people believe you without proof, or "stealing" code from previous jobs.
It means "experience" for high school and college kids so that they can work on things other than the rather useless examples in the sheltered setting of academia.
At least, that's what it would mean if you leveraged it properly -- and that would mean further rent cheques from "real" jobs.
hell, maybe it means turning that side project into a real job that generates rent cheques -- even if those are the really, really rare exceptions.
I started reading Slashdot in 1999. In 1999 I was 14/15 years old and I didn't understand half the shit that was going on around here. I just turned 24 on Saturday, and can understand 98%-99% of the articles... and not because I'm a super bad-ass engineer.
It's cause its mostly a bunch of stupid crap, and it makes me sad. Yes, you definitely missed out on a lot.
I'm not predicting the death of Microsoft. They have other products, which are quite good. It is just Vista is allegedly a nightmare (don't use it, haven't used it, don't need it) and Windows 7 is shaping up to be a sterotypical govt boondoggle -- the Vietnam/Iraq of operating systems.
The deal with Novell, aiding the Linux port of Silverlight and also, if not helping, at least not opposing Mono, are probably their "back door" escape policy.
If Windows goes down in flames, then they can still push their wares on Linux -- at least on Novell/SuSE.
Of course, with a fully OSS Java coming shortly, that might put a boulder in that path as well.
Microsoft is not going to die, but it will have to significantly remake it self, like IBM or Madonna.
Windows 7 would probably have been pretty lame anyway, WITHOUT government-appointed ANYTHING "overseeing" it. I predict doom, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Murdoc's corporation, owns many dozens of news papers, magazines, TV and radio stations.
He just bought the Dow Jones Corporation, including the Wall Street Journal, for fsck's sake!
You would think that he has enough experience and market knowledge to know to to spend half a billion dollars on something targeted at 15 year olds who wear pants made for the opposite gender.
Kids change fads more often than they change their underwear some times. Eventually, some of those grow up, go to college, and want something a little more serious and less... dumb.
Yes, that would be anti-semitism by the new definition.
An anti-semite used to be someone who hated Jews. Now an anti-semite is someone hated BY Jews. YOu don't need to look much farther past Jimmy Carter to see what I mean.
Carter, who is hardly a skinhead, was recently lambasted for being an "anti-semite" for suggesting that maybe, just maybe, its not OK to use tanks to fight kids with rocks.
Apparently, if you don't support the murder of palestinians, you must clearly support the murder of Jews. If you're not 100% pro-israel, then you'll hear the bloody curdling screams of "racist nazi holocaust 911" until you relent.
There is really no way to win. Sucks, but there it is.
We crushed Germany and Japan and still manage to sell them Coca-Cola. Until you see the enemy driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women, how else are you going to know they know they got their ass kicked?
I was medically disqualified from the service myself, even after several attempts to get a waiver (i'm allergic to dogs, they say i have asthma). I know a couple of guys who died, some that were wounded, some that got out more or less OK. My sister just married a long-time family friend last week. He's a marine and is going to Iraq in August, so don't think I don't care.
I'm also not trying to justify it. I'm just saying that if we were ACTUALLY FIGHTING A WAR instead of trying to play Team America: World Police,that NO ONE could beat the US. NO ONE. Not even China with their million infantry.
We have the best training, the best weapons and the best logistical support. We can, and have, fought multi-front wars. The problem is that since Korea, we haven't been ALLOWED to win because of stupid, douche-bag politicians.
This bullshit in Iraq and Afganistan is only slightly better than the Vietnam-style, take a hill then give it up just to retake it again next week.
In WW2, if Germans were using a 1000-year-old cathedral tower for observation or sniping, we blew it up. For some reason, we don't shoot at mosques.
In WW2, we carpet bombed cities, and eventually just nuked the Japanese. Now we use "smart bombs" and are affraid of "collateral damage."
on Iowa Jima, in the space of a week, the US Marines suffered over 26,000 casualties including almost 7000 dead. We have lost just over 4000 or so (i haven't been keeping up) in Iraq in 5 years, and people think that's an unacceptably high loss.
The problem in Iraq isn't military, its political, and its not in Iraq, its on the cable news.
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But lack of polar bears is good for seals. screw those polar bears and their radical bear agenda!
People who don't know what CAD is aren't going to be buying AutoCAD (at least, they shouldn't be -- its expensive and they'll be sorely disappointed).
Automatic Computer Aided Design is a hell of a lot more descriptive than Visual Studio to the casual glance. Yes -- a studio where I work visually -- doing what?
I know its an IDE, but I also know that about NetBeans and Eclipse.
At least WinAmp (Windows Amplifier) sounds like it might have something to do with music.
yeah, because you must have stopped reading before you got to AutoCAD.
For all knows, Visual Studio is a 3d paint program with a name like that.
Of course, the key with commercial applications is, that the people who are going to need them are going to know about them even if their names are stupid.
Well, twitter users are mostly a bunch of strangelets anyway...
Blame the CIA and the Catholic Church in one fell swoop? Now if that isn't a match made for UCB, then I don't know what is.
Which is somehow different from any other open source project how?
Michelangelo was copy Greek style. In Greek style, large male gentiles were considered unbecoming; in fact it was the guys with the bigger ones that were made fun of back then.
Look it up; its amazing the amounts of stupid shit you learn in a liberal arts degree..
"IT" is to Computer Science as lube technition is to Mechanical Engineering. Someone with the cert to mind Cisco routers or diagnose your breaks isn't going to have the skills, probably, to build design a router or a hydraulic system -- and for those who DO have that education, doing that sort of day-to-day maintenance is a boring waste of time.
its the same in any field. A highly skilled artist isn't going to find designing a display of beans at the grocery store particularly stimulating.
Well, its really more like cherry pie anyway... one would hope, anyway.
No, it means having an always-accessable portfolio to show your skills without having to worry about making people believe you without proof, or "stealing" code from previous jobs.
It means "experience" for high school and college kids so that they can work on things other than the rather useless examples in the sheltered setting of academia.
At least, that's what it would mean if you leveraged it properly -- and that would mean further rent cheques from "real" jobs.
hell, maybe it means turning that side project into a real job that generates rent cheques -- even if those are the really, really rare exceptions.
i dunno... no wifi, less space than ZFS. lame!
I started reading Slashdot in 1999. In 1999 I was 14/15 years old and I didn't understand half the shit that was going on around here. I just turned 24 on Saturday, and can understand 98%-99% of the articles... and not because I'm a super bad-ass engineer.
It's cause its mostly a bunch of stupid crap, and it makes me sad. Yes, you definitely missed out on a lot.
I'm not predicting the death of Microsoft. They have other products, which are quite good. It is just Vista is allegedly a nightmare (don't use it, haven't used it, don't need it) and Windows 7 is shaping up to be a sterotypical govt boondoggle -- the Vietnam/Iraq of operating systems.
The deal with Novell, aiding the Linux port of Silverlight and also, if not helping, at least not opposing Mono, are probably their "back door" escape policy.
If Windows goes down in flames, then they can still push their wares on Linux -- at least on Novell/SuSE.
Of course, with a fully OSS Java coming shortly, that might put a boulder in that path as well.
Microsoft is not going to die, but it will have to significantly remake it self, like IBM or Madonna.
So, you're saying that Windows Vista is the ultimate in "New Coke" plans?
Windows 7 would probably have been pretty lame anyway, WITHOUT government-appointed ANYTHING "overseeing" it. I predict doom, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Murdoc's corporation, owns many dozens of news papers, magazines, TV and radio stations.
He just bought the Dow Jones Corporation, including the Wall Street Journal, for fsck's sake!
You would think that he has enough experience and market knowledge to know to to spend half a billion dollars on something targeted at 15 year olds who wear pants made for the opposite gender.
Kids change fads more often than they change their underwear some times. Eventually, some of those grow up, go to college, and want something a little more serious and less... dumb.
Then they abandon myspace.
Oh well. Better luck next time, dude!
"Science is the work of the devil!"
I believe the saying goes, don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. "Safe" doesn't sell National Geographic, let alone Wired.
Yes, that would be anti-semitism by the new definition.
An anti-semite used to be someone who hated Jews. Now an anti-semite is someone hated BY Jews. YOu don't need to look much farther past Jimmy Carter to see what I mean.
Carter, who is hardly a skinhead, was recently lambasted for being an "anti-semite" for suggesting that maybe, just maybe, its not OK to use tanks to fight kids with rocks.
Apparently, if you don't support the murder of palestinians, you must clearly support the murder of Jews. If you're not 100% pro-israel, then you'll hear the bloody curdling screams of "racist nazi holocaust 911" until you relent.
There is really no way to win. Sucks, but there it is.
We crushed Germany and Japan and still manage to sell them Coca-Cola. Until you see the enemy driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women, how else are you going to know they know they got their ass kicked?
I was medically disqualified from the service myself, even after several attempts to get a waiver (i'm allergic to dogs, they say i have asthma). I know a couple of guys who died, some that were wounded, some that got out more or less OK. My sister just married a long-time family friend last week. He's a marine and is going to Iraq in August, so don't think I don't care.
I'm also not trying to justify it. I'm just saying that if we were ACTUALLY FIGHTING A WAR instead of trying to play Team America: World Police,that NO ONE could beat the US. NO ONE. Not even China with their million infantry.
We have the best training, the best weapons and the best logistical support. We can, and have, fought multi-front wars. The problem is that since Korea, we haven't been ALLOWED to win because of stupid, douche-bag politicians.
This bullshit in Iraq and Afganistan is only slightly better than the Vietnam-style, take a hill then give it up just to retake it again next week.
Frankly, that would have just made your post even more unintelligible
In WW2, if Germans were using a 1000-year-old cathedral tower for observation or sniping, we blew it up. For some reason, we don't shoot at mosques.
In WW2, we carpet bombed cities, and eventually just nuked the Japanese. Now we use "smart bombs" and are affraid of "collateral damage."
on Iowa Jima, in the space of a week, the US Marines suffered over 26,000 casualties including almost 7000 dead. We have lost just over 4000 or so (i haven't been keeping up) in Iraq in 5 years, and people think that's an unacceptably high loss.
The problem in Iraq isn't military, its political, and its not in Iraq, its on the cable news.
So long as you don't try and reformat with ReiserFS -- I hear that's a little dangerous.
I've not extensively used OS X, no. I think its ugly, plus i'm not cool and trendy enough to not be called gay for using it.
I like real BSD anyway.