I am completely a "bottom feeder". It isn't like I'm made of money, and saving 20+% on groceries by buying only store brands and only things on sale is a big deal to me. The fact that stores still put $15/lb steaks in their displays shows me that there are clearly people who are not bottom feeders. If the stores bitch about this diversity, then that just shows what greedy assholes they are.
As Linux gains popularity, it's advocates are unleashing unto the world the same FUD and marketing shenanigans that Microsoft unleashed against Linux just a few years ago. RMS invented Open Source (of course!), Linux is the fastest, most complete, and best Opterating System for all tasks big and small, portability doesn't matter if Linux is the target platform, there are no ethical dillemas in Free Software, as it is the One True Way, and its critics are Enemies Of The State.
There are so many buzzwords that *each* take weeks to learn that there must be a way to boil it down to core concepts. For example, SQL has always be there and useful, for example, and will probably be around long after all the object-oriented xml fashion show has ended.
"Should I be held accountable for the poor performance of the other students?"
*DOES NOT COMPUTE* The No Child Left Behind Enforcement Officers will be by shortly to remove your lunch money and make you feel rotten for being human.
Why is it that so many programmers are assholes? Linux people pissing on BSD. BSD pissing on Linux. Linux pissing on Solaris. Solaris pissing on Linux. GNU pissing on everyone. Damn, it is pathetic.
Look for "Software Tax" towards the end. While open source in general is not driven by Communist ideals, I do wonder about RMS himself. Even the the GPL shows this, where "GPL compatibility" means the resulting code is only GPL. It's the great assimilation license--the GPL community takes ownership of it. This leaves programmers to wonder whether being GPL compatible is really a good thing, because it could open a whole set of issues that might not be desireable.
I think it is. My karma just went 'excellent' and that damned script thing went away. I'm glad, too, because the images just kept getting worse and worse leaving me to guess WTF I'm supposed to type in. Is it an 'L' or an 'I' with a line crossing it?!? Is it a 'R' or a 'P' with a line crossing it?!? If Slashdot keeps up these script deals, I wonder if that would be a sign of 'jumping the shark', where 'fighting terrorism' trumps making the website useful.
I don't mind the minigames in themselves, if they can be toyed with or skipped, but sometimes they are the only way to get something interesting in the game...AAAARRRGGH!
First off, it was so popular that Square followed a formula and all the rest have been pretty much the same.
This is what is making me tired of Final Fantasy. No matter how stunningly gorgeous the design of each game is, spending dozens of hours in the same overall battle system gets really old.
I didn't even finish FF X-2, where I eventually stopped caring about gaining enough experience to beat the last bosses. Money grew on trees in that game, so experience was the only thing that mattered. Even the dresspheres got old once I realized getting the best magic was either difficult to do repeatably or just too so freaking long that it wasn't worth the days required.
Yeah, VI was tons of fun, and VII had a really neat and dark story, but the most recent ones just haven't kept up enough innovation. VIII was a beautifully done game, but the characters were empty. I haven't played IX or XI, but X and X-2 were also beautifully done but again had a main character that wasn't interesting enough to clinch it.
Probably the biggest problem of all is that the most recent games have impossible side quests without GameFaqs or other cheats. If that doesn't suck out the last figments of the player's passion for gaming, the player is probably already dead from the magic systems.
You will retire poor, with only an obselete 32 GPU graphics card to show for it. I hope you enjoy your shared room at the understaffed nursing home, because that's all Medicare/Medicaid will cover. When you are no longer a profit center for the nursing home, then, that leaves just the card, which will likely be thrown out with your hospital gown.
Actually, web sites that cannot stand Slashdotting are badly designed. Ace's Hardware survived a Slashdotting using a single ~500MHz UltraSPARC II server, running Java no less.
I think people just don't realize how powerful even an ancient CPU is at pushing data, when it isn't running GNOME. Think about it, whole companies ran data centers on systems less powerful than a $400 PC not twenty years ago.
For the same reason Ulrich Drepper is wrong. An Ultra 1 is super cheap, now, and it gives a programmer the chance to test code on a big-endian 64-bit architecture. Are there lines of code with endian dependencies? Are there lines of code that assume 32-bit CPUs?
The same goes for testing on Linux, as well as NetBSD, Solaris, etc. Does the code really use POSIX intelligently? Is the program abstracted well from the kernel services?
This whole article is just a Red Hat employee tooting his company's horn. His advice is inappropriate, in that it promotes bad programming, just as Windows fanboys writing to Win32 can shoot themselves in their feet so often.
Uh, the POV Ray finalists look as good as any of the ones at the site you linked to. The 'modern renderings' look very much like a high-end video game: a little too crisp here, a little too plastic looking there, etc.
Because someone losing their job over something they wrote on their own time is not funny; especially when you work in a building that has the First Amendment carved on the front of it (FTA).
The First Amendment is trumped by Rich Alumni who send their Rich Spoiled Brats to the university, paying (I mean wasting) tons of money on tuition, housing, and, eventually, big alumni donations.
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Resetting your DSL/cable modem or re-dialing in to get a new IP address probably wouldn't hurt, either.
I am completely a "bottom feeder". It isn't like I'm made of money, and saving 20+% on groceries by buying only store brands and only things on sale is a big deal to me. The fact that stores still put $15/lb steaks in their displays shows me that there are clearly people who are not bottom feeders. If the stores bitch about this diversity, then that just shows what greedy assholes they are.
but you can save a bunch of money getting airfare+hotel together on the travel sites now
Go away you gnome! You completely ruined my experience watching that race around the world!
It's best to just let them loose on /.
Yeah, let's leave them to loathe the world and get fat off of twinkies and coke.
As Linux gains popularity, it's advocates are unleashing unto the world the same FUD and marketing shenanigans that Microsoft unleashed against Linux just a few years ago. RMS invented Open Source (of course!), Linux is the fastest, most complete, and best Opterating System for all tasks big and small, portability doesn't matter if Linux is the target platform, there are no ethical dillemas in Free Software, as it is the One True Way, and its critics are Enemies Of The State.
The true story is that Microsoft has admitted defeat, and the directories will be named "0wned Computer" and "0wned Documents".
Hey, honesty is the best policy, right?
HCI: Let's put the file uploads on the same page as everything else.
Programmer: HTTP multipart forms makes that awkward...
HCI: I don't care if your life is a living hell, do it!
Programmer: I quit.
There are so many buzzwords that *each* take weeks to learn that there must be a way to boil it down to core concepts. For example, SQL has always be there and useful, for example, and will probably be around long after all the object-oriented xml fashion show has ended.
"Should I be held accountable for the poor performance of the other students?"
*DOES NOT COMPUTE* The No Child Left Behind Enforcement Officers will be by shortly to remove your lunch money and make you feel rotten for being human.
Why is it that so many programmers are assholes? Linux people pissing on BSD. BSD pissing on Linux. Linux pissing on Solaris. Solaris pissing on Linux. GNU pissing on everyone. Damn, it is pathetic.
Holy shit, this FSF doublethink is mind boggling. The GPL restricts freedoms for the users of code. The public domain does not.
Even Free Software, which is driven by philosophy, isn't at all related to Communism.
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
Look for "Software Tax" towards the end. While open source in general is not driven by Communist ideals, I do wonder about RMS himself. Even the the GPL shows this, where "GPL compatibility" means the resulting code is only GPL. It's the great assimilation license--the GPL community takes ownership of it. This leaves programmers to wonder whether being GPL compatible is really a good thing, because it could open a whole set of issues that might not be desireable.
"Is it time for Windows to be abandon the business market?"
Yes. Yes it is.
I think it is. My karma just went 'excellent' and that damned script thing went away. I'm glad, too, because the images just kept getting worse and worse leaving me to guess WTF I'm supposed to type in. Is it an 'L' or an 'I' with a line crossing it?!? Is it a 'R' or a 'P' with a line crossing it?!? If Slashdot keeps up these script deals, I wonder if that would be a sign of 'jumping the shark', where 'fighting terrorism' trumps making the website useful.
I don't mind the minigames in themselves, if they can be toyed with or skipped, but sometimes they are the only way to get something interesting in the game...AAAARRRGGH!
First off, it was so popular that Square followed a formula and all the rest have been pretty much the same.
This is what is making me tired of Final Fantasy. No matter how stunningly gorgeous the design of each game is, spending dozens of hours in the same overall battle system gets really old.
I didn't even finish FF X-2, where I eventually stopped caring about gaining enough experience to beat the last bosses. Money grew on trees in that game, so experience was the only thing that mattered. Even the dresspheres got old once I realized getting the best magic was either difficult to do repeatably or just too so freaking long that it wasn't worth the days required.
Yeah, VI was tons of fun, and VII had a really neat and dark story, but the most recent ones just haven't kept up enough innovation. VIII was a beautifully done game, but the characters were empty. I haven't played IX or XI, but X and X-2 were also beautifully done but again had a main character that wasn't interesting enough to clinch it.
Probably the biggest problem of all is that the most recent games have impossible side quests without GameFaqs or other cheats. If that doesn't suck out the last figments of the player's passion for gaming, the player is probably already dead from the magic systems.
You will retire poor, with only an obselete 32 GPU graphics card to show for it. I hope you enjoy your shared room at the understaffed nursing home, because that's all Medicare/Medicaid will cover. When you are no longer a profit center for the nursing home, then, that leaves just the card, which will likely be thrown out with your hospital gown.
You can't unburn Goatse from our minds.
You should know that when your mom says it, she's just being nice to you.
Actually, web sites that cannot stand Slashdotting are badly designed. Ace's Hardware survived a Slashdotting using a single ~500MHz UltraSPARC II server, running Java no less.
I think people just don't realize how powerful even an ancient CPU is at pushing data, when it isn't running GNOME. Think about it, whole companies ran data centers on systems less powerful than a $400 PC not twenty years ago.
why even bother using such old hardware?
For the same reason Ulrich Drepper is wrong. An Ultra 1 is super cheap, now, and it gives a programmer the chance to test code on a big-endian 64-bit architecture. Are there lines of code with endian dependencies? Are there lines of code that assume 32-bit CPUs?
The same goes for testing on Linux, as well as NetBSD, Solaris, etc. Does the code really use POSIX intelligently? Is the program abstracted well from the kernel services?
This whole article is just a Red Hat employee tooting his company's horn. His advice is inappropriate, in that it promotes bad programming, just as Windows fanboys writing to Win32 can shoot themselves in their feet so often.
Anonymous Coward's worst crime of all is posting pictures of himself in various compromising situations! (AARRRGHHH, my eyes burn!)
Uh, the POV Ray finalists look as good as any of the ones at the site you linked to. The 'modern renderings' look very much like a high-end video game: a little too crisp here, a little too plastic looking there, etc.
Because someone losing their job over something they wrote on their own time is not funny; especially when you work in a building that has the First Amendment carved on the front of it (FTA).
The First Amendment is trumped by Rich Alumni who send their Rich Spoiled Brats to the university, paying (I mean wasting) tons of money on tuition, housing, and, eventually, big alumni donations.
This is Slashdot. Did you mean 'atrophy key'?