Oh, no, 7000 jobs lost, someone call the Po-Po!
7000 jobs is a very, very small portion of the actual number of programming jobs out there. There will always be a job for the best programmers, and if you're not that, why aren't you working harder!?
Many windows gui programs can be started from a command line and using command line switches. Many can operate on input from the standard input as well.
I didn't really mean "useless," except in the sense of, "I'm not really considering this tech until it gives me a new monitor, because all I really want is a new monitor." =)
Let me know when I can pick up my paper thin ultra-high contrast 1280x1024 flat-(literally)-panel monitor. Until then: cool, but useless.
Well . . . maybe I'd accept electronic notebook paper, failing the monitor. Inkball . . . with real ink!
This mod is a good example of how small games that aren't too ambitious are a good starting point for developers without much experience. There was a slashdot article some time ago about short games (linking to an article of the same topic on Gamasutra).
However, I feel obliged to mention that the gameplay is, though cool for a time, overly simplistic and would not hold up very well in a longer game. Can this be adjusted? I don't know. I personally believe that Eclipse's gameplay is something of a gimmick, using the physics, that works very well in its frame, but would not scale.
(Any SAMU devs reading this: please don't take it to mean your game sucks; I was awed that mere students could pull this off. I mean all of the criticism as constructively as it can be meant.)
I admit that I've often had similar complaints to his about Linux, but also, his bitterness kind of seems to have a source. From the article:
De Raadt says BSD could have become the world's most popular open source operating system, except that a lawsuit over BSD scared away developers, who went off to work on Linux and stayed there even after BSD was deemed legal. "It's really very sad," he says. "It is taking a long time for the Linux code base to get where BSD was ten years ago."
He sounds like he just wishes that BSD was as popular as Linux, and because it isn't, he's a little pissed off.
PS: Yes, this article was in its entirety flamebait. De Raadt makes no comment on the kinds of users Linux has, only (accurate) comments about the kind of coding it's built by.
Actually, even though it's interesting that the cat is "officially" out of the bag, people have known roughly the kinds of things that Google does to rank websites for some time now. There are businesses in "search engine optimization" that basically do nothing but try to increase a site's pagerank by optimizing links within the site and the content of a site to target a certain search word.
One friend of mine is in the same business and managed to acheive a top ten spot for the search "first time homebuyer," although I no longer see his website there. I think he probably got knocked off the top because he also used "search engine spamming" techniques to reach that point . . . like creating thousands of pointless little websites that all linked to his main site. Get this: he also told me that the difference in income between the seventh and eighth spots on "first time homebuyer," a relatively unpopular search, affected his income to the tune of $20,000 PER MONTH! Google is powerful . ..
You mean so they can experience the joy of having to edit text configuration files in order to get even their onboard NIC to work? Hmmm . . . no thanks . . . good thing we can turn Windows update off. Viruses are a risk of lossiness, Linux is a reality of the same.
Although I still consider slashdot to be a reputable news site, this assertion is rapidly losing ground with me.
The fact that it still has any ground with you at all is a demonstration of not minor blindness to the way this site is operated. It is a news site, yes, but reputable it is not.
My mother also owned one such that I used as a child (I didn't have a computer, but I loved the idea thereof, and I could almost pretend that a typewriter was one until I got to grade 7 and my 'rents gave me an old 80386 -- that was 1995).
=/ Bad news. The article won't have any medical claims because there are none to be made. ?=(
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Hey, have you ever tried jumping off a cliff without a parachute? It's really fun! I'll show you, as long as you go first. C'mon, man, you shouldn't be so stubborn about things you haven't tried!
I would say that it's probably not that important whether we can hear stars very well. It's even less important whether we can hear (potentially non-existent) aliens.
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Oh, no, 7000 jobs lost, someone call the Po-Po! 7000 jobs is a very, very small portion of the actual number of programming jobs out there. There will always be a job for the best programmers, and if you're not that, why aren't you working harder!?
Many windows gui programs can be started from a command line and using command line switches. Many can operate on input from the standard input as well.
That's my prayer! Cheap monitors that don't use much power and are more visible and higher contrast!
I didn't really mean "useless," except in the sense of, "I'm not really considering this tech until it gives me a new monitor, because all I really want is a new monitor." =)
Let me know when I can pick up my paper thin ultra-high contrast 1280x1024 flat-(literally)-panel monitor. Until then: cool, but useless. Well . . . maybe I'd accept electronic notebook paper, failing the monitor. Inkball . . . with real ink!
This mod is a good example of how small games that aren't too ambitious are a good starting point for developers without much experience. There was a slashdot article some time ago about short games (linking to an article of the same topic on Gamasutra). However, I feel obliged to mention that the gameplay is, though cool for a time, overly simplistic and would not hold up very well in a longer game. Can this be adjusted? I don't know. I personally believe that Eclipse's gameplay is something of a gimmick, using the physics, that works very well in its frame, but would not scale. (Any SAMU devs reading this: please don't take it to mean your game sucks; I was awed that mere students could pull this off. I mean all of the criticism as constructively as it can be meant.)
It seems like people will reach for any conspiracy rather than accepting that which forces them to update their view about reality.
I admit that I've often had similar complaints to his about Linux, but also, his bitterness kind of seems to have a source. From the article:
De Raadt says BSD could have become the world's most popular open source operating system, except that a lawsuit over BSD scared away developers, who went off to work on Linux and stayed there even after BSD was deemed legal. "It's really very sad," he says. "It is taking a long time for the Linux code base to get where BSD was ten years ago."
He sounds like he just wishes that BSD was as popular as Linux, and because it isn't, he's a little pissed off.
PS: Yes, this article was in its entirety flamebait. De Raadt makes no comment on the kinds of users Linux has, only (accurate) comments about the kind of coding it's built by.
One friend of mine is in the same business and managed to acheive a top ten spot for the search "first time homebuyer," although I no longer see his website there. I think he probably got knocked off the top because he also used "search engine spamming" techniques to reach that point . . . like creating thousands of pointless little websites that all linked to his main site. Get this: he also told me that the difference in income between the seventh and eighth spots on "first time homebuyer," a relatively unpopular search, affected his income to the tune of $20,000 PER MONTH! Google is powerful . . .
You mean so they can experience the joy of having to edit text configuration files in order to get even their onboard NIC to work? Hmmm . . . no thanks . . . good thing we can turn Windows update off. Viruses are a risk of lossiness, Linux is a reality of the same.
Although I still consider slashdot to be a reputable news site, this assertion is rapidly losing ground with me. The fact that it still has any ground with you at all is a demonstration of not minor blindness to the way this site is operated. It is a news site, yes, but reputable it is not.
Does the Dvorak keyboard not have a "shift" key then?
My mother also owned one such that I used as a child (I didn't have a computer, but I loved the idea thereof, and I could almost pretend that a typewriter was one until I got to grade 7 and my 'rents gave me an old 80386 -- that was 1995).
=/ Bad news. The article won't have any medical claims because there are none to be made. ?=(
Hey, have you ever tried jumping off a cliff without a parachute? It's really fun! I'll show you, as long as you go first. C'mon, man, you shouldn't be so stubborn about things you haven't tried!
I would say that it's probably not that important whether we can hear stars very well. It's even less important whether we can hear (potentially non-existent) aliens.