I loved (past tense) my job in defense... I worked for an army contractor writing 6DOF missile simulations. Great company, great benefits, interesting and intellectually challenging work. The only reason I left was to get a job at a NASA subcontractor; working on space hardware was a childhood dream. The right job requisition came up and a friend suggested me for the position... basically, I couldn't say no.
"Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been **missing** it, Bob...":P
64 bits will take the world by a storm. At work (I'm an engineer) all of our computers are being swapped for 64 bit machines because - guess what - big engineering problems need lots of RAM.
Think video games. There are a lot of analogs between video games and computer simulation. I give video games 5 years before someone puts out a game that utilizes 64 bit features (including 4 or more gigs of ram), and wouldn't be suprised if it came sooner.
Sure, your word processor doesn't need 64 bits. But games will.
Have to disagree with you bud, the data for the 'mod' (which it wasn't) was in the data files for the game. It was distributed on the CD. It was therefore part of the game. It has the potential to be accessed, one way or another.
Speed (specifically RAM consumption on an older machine). DSL is decent but QNX is tiny. The difference on a real old-school pentium is noticeable, and I can keep my GUI with QNX.
Remember kiddies, right tool for the job. Most of the time its Linux. Sometimes it is not.
In high school I loved 2 things - computer programming and aerospace. I studied Von Braun, I read about the Saturn V, I built homemade rocket engines behind the shed. At night I programmed on the computer - various things, but a lot of them aerospace-y simulators. When college approached, I didn't know which I loved more, space or computers. I picked Aerospace.
I'm glad I did. Now, I spend 20+ hours a week at my job writing simulations and tools in various languages to help me solve engineering problems. Aerospace isn't unique in this respect, this happens all the time in other areas of engineering too. Programming is a tool. Think of it as a tool, not an end. (The only real downside is dealing with the legacy code... Fortran! AAAARGH!)
However, aerospace does have one unique attribute to it - you can get into the defense sector, which is difficult nigh unto impossible to outsource. The job security is very nice. Working for NASA (as a contractor) is similar... so long as you are funded:) a little more risk there (if you aren't a civil servant).
Get a 4-year degree with a piece of paper. It really does mean something, even if you go on to do nothing with it. For example, if you want in to a game school, get a degree in CS or math or something halfway relevant and then do it.
If your sector of work ever fails, that degree shows a potential employer in another field a few things: first that you stuck something out for four years (which, in a volatile game industry, you may not have the chance to do, or may not choose to do in order to 'get ahead'). Secondly it gives you a well-rounded foundation. You learn as much in class as you do out of class in the social interactions between your classmates and the dynamics of the university, even if you live off campus.
In short, an accredited piece of paper means a lot, and not just in your field. Go for it!
That's all fine and good if you like being Amazon's bitch, and putting local retailers out of business.
1. I fail to see how spending money at **another online bookstore** is **not** putting a local retailer out of business, which is what GP suggested.
2. The college bookstore is subsidized by eFollet and the university and run by students at minimum wage (I know, I have friends that worked there when I lived on campus). They don't need my support to stay in business.
3. Saving that $50 allowed me spend money recently at local businesses that I ordinarily would not have frequented. For example, on Sunday we went out to a local family-friendly sports restaurant to catch our favorite football team playing.
So, in short, by being careful with your money on making purchases you can save money and support local retailers with other purchases. Which is one reason my wife does most of our shopping (groceries, sundries, basic home supplies) at Wal Mart.
Not if you want a used copy of Chung's Computational Fluid Dynamics, for instance. Their price (new) is as high as the local college bookstore! Compare used at Amazon, 71.99, I got the book in under a week and saved $50+ off the bookstore price.
I can't say I've had Amazon spam problems - but then again I do have a good spam filter so I might not ever see it.
No. "Free software" has been a term of art for over two decades, meaning software that is distributed under terms respecting the four freedoms.
Now that is funny, because I recall in the late 80's getting books from my local library telling me how to obtain 'free software' (for a nominal S&H fee) which was **not** open source, merely people who had the good nature to release software for free. Get off your high horse, RMS doesn't have an exclusive lock on the word 'free'.
Depending on the time of year it wouldn't have to do that... you could have it do loops around the north or south pole at a much higher latitude and still get sunshine 24/7 (or damn near close) and not have to travel as fast as they would near the equator to keep up with the sun.
If you read the other entries, it is less an info piece and more of a fluff piece for c/net to blow their own horn when you get to the end. How do articles like this get posted to Slashdot?
None that I was aware of, but I don't think that was GP's point. He was quoting the "Passwords are never stored in plaintext. At least they shouldn't be, unless you're building the world's most insecure system using the world's most naïve programmers." from the article. Which was at one time true for Windows (? or were they referring solely to apps?) but was also at one time true for Linux.
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I loved (past tense) my job in defense... I worked for an army contractor writing 6DOF missile simulations. Great company, great benefits, interesting and intellectually challenging work. The only reason I left was to get a job at a NASA subcontractor; working on space hardware was a childhood dream. The right job requisition came up and a friend suggested me for the position... basically, I couldn't say no.
:P
"Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been **missing** it, Bob..."
64 bits will take the world by a storm. At work (I'm an engineer) all of our computers are being swapped for 64 bit machines because - guess what - big engineering problems need lots of RAM.
Think video games. There are a lot of analogs between video games and computer simulation. I give video games 5 years before someone puts out a game that utilizes 64 bit features (including 4 or more gigs of ram), and wouldn't be suprised if it came sooner.
Sure, your word processor doesn't need 64 bits. But games will.
Have to disagree with you bud, the data for the 'mod' (which it wasn't) was in the data files for the game. It was distributed on the CD. It was therefore part of the game. It has the potential to be accessed, one way or another.
Speed (specifically RAM consumption on an older machine). DSL is decent but QNX is tiny. The difference on a real old-school pentium is noticeable, and I can keep my GUI with QNX.
Remember kiddies, right tool for the job. Most of the time its Linux. Sometimes it is not.
Specialize. All there is to it.
... Fortran! AAAARGH!)
... so long as you are funded :) a little more risk there (if you aren't a civil servant).
In high school I loved 2 things - computer programming and aerospace. I studied Von Braun, I read about the Saturn V, I built homemade rocket engines behind the shed. At night I programmed on the computer - various things, but a lot of them aerospace-y simulators. When college approached, I didn't know which I loved more, space or computers. I picked Aerospace.
I'm glad I did. Now, I spend 20+ hours a week at my job writing simulations and tools in various languages to help me solve engineering problems. Aerospace isn't unique in this respect, this happens all the time in other areas of engineering too. Programming is a tool. Think of it as a tool, not an end. (The only real downside is dealing with the legacy code
However, aerospace does have one unique attribute to it - you can get into the defense sector, which is difficult nigh unto impossible to outsource. The job security is very nice. Working for NASA (as a contractor) is similar
Yeah, and let's not look a few icons over at Calc...
With the default behavior of hiding the extension, XP leaves non-technically proficient users vulnerable to this.
I fail to see how a 'non-techinically proficient user' would notice the appropriate extension...
obviously I didn't take English as an elective :)
:P)
I took theater, philosophy and psychology, and then engineering electives. (Damn. Firefox highlighted three words in the last sentence
rock. Thanks man. But now I get it watch to bitch at me when it sees my user names aren't in the dictionary, don't I? :)
I'm an engineer, not an english major :P ... which is good, cause it keeps the English majors employed :)
and Firefox doesn't point out spelling errors in text boxes, for some reason.
Get a 4-year degree with a piece of paper. It really does mean something, even if you go on to do nothing with it. For example, if you want in to a game school, get a degree in CS or math or something halfway relevant and then do it.
If your sector of work ever fails, that degree shows a potential employer in another field a few things: first that you stuck something out for four years (which, in a volatile game industry, you may not have the chance to do, or may not choose to do in order to 'get ahead'). Secondly it gives you a well-rounded foundation. You learn as much in class as you do out of class in the social interactions between your classmates and the dynamics of the university, even if you live off campus.
In short, an accredited piece of paper means a lot, and not just in your field. Go for it!
That's all fine and good if you like being Amazon's bitch, and putting local retailers out of business.
1. I fail to see how spending money at **another online bookstore** is **not** putting a local retailer out of business, which is what GP suggested.
2. The college bookstore is subsidized by eFollet and the university and run by students at minimum wage (I know, I have friends that worked there when I lived on campus). They don't need my support to stay in business.
3. Saving that $50 allowed me spend money recently at local businesses that I ordinarily would not have frequented. For example, on Sunday we went out to a local family-friendly sports restaurant to catch our favorite football team playing.
So, in short, by being careful with your money on making purchases you can save money and support local retailers with other purchases. Which is one reason my wife does most of our shopping (groceries, sundries, basic home supplies) at Wal Mart.
Then take the 'moral high ground' and don't visit the site ... period.
Not if you want a used copy of Chung's Computational Fluid Dynamics, for instance. Their price (new) is as high as the local college bookstore! Compare used at Amazon, 71.99, I got the book in under a week and saved $50+ off the bookstore price.
I can't say I've had Amazon spam problems - but then again I do have a good spam filter so I might not ever see it.
so if someone wanted to start digging into BSD, which one would you recommend?
I've been using Linux for 8 years off and on and use it daily at work, I consider myself pretty knowledgeable although no superuser.
Islamic Jihad Union? We're the Jihad Union of Islam! Islamic Jihad Union? Cawk.
Wankers.
A tube is a tube. Granted a Dobsonian tube is bigger than the others. No reason you can't equatorial mount it if you are bent on doing so.
No. "Free software" has been a term of art for over two decades, meaning software that is distributed under terms respecting the four freedoms.
Now that is funny, because I recall in the late 80's getting books from my local library telling me how to obtain 'free software' (for a nominal S&H fee) which was **not** open source, merely people who had the good nature to release software for free. Get off your high horse, RMS doesn't have an exclusive lock on the word 'free'.
Windows Forms? no... but prettymuch everything else does. I use it as a scripting language to write tools, not pretty GUI's :)
Microsoft's free C++ compiler has been able to target x64 for quite some time ... it isn't open source, but is free as in beer.
:)
C# programs even work in Linux, without a recompile, using Mono
Depending on the time of year it wouldn't have to do that... you could have it do loops around the north or south pole at a much higher latitude and still get sunshine 24/7 (or damn near close) and not have to travel as fast as they would near the equator to keep up with the sun.
Your new science intrigues me. Tell me again how sheeps bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes?
If you read the other entries, it is less an info piece and more of a fluff piece for c/net to blow their own horn when you get to the end. How do articles like this get posted to Slashdot?
/. entry? :)
you think the mods made it to the
None that I was aware of, but I don't think that was GP's point. He was quoting the "Passwords are never stored in plaintext. At least they shouldn't be, unless you're building the world's most insecure system using the world's most naïve programmers." from the article. Which was at one time true for Windows (? or were they referring solely to apps?) but was also at one time true for Linux.
before /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd held (scrambled) passwords, visible to any user on the machine.