I developed a killer app using it. Just not an IM app. My Honors thesis presented the experimental results of using my general-purpose distributed computing architecture. All nodes communicate via Jabber.
Don't go to law school. You've already demonstrated that you aren't willing or able to do any footwork of your own when it comes to research (you only know things you've read on Slashdot, and you posted and Ask Slashdot for more information), which is a strong counterindication to being a successful law student. Save yourself the hassle and cost of applying and the cost of attending for that first year.
This reminds me of programming competition trips in college. We'd always have an inverter or two running. On one trip, we thought about running an access point in the full-size van and playing Counter-Strike or something on the trip. We were going to call it a Vehicle-Area Network, or VAN.
That's about when our Bender instincts kicked in: "I'm going to make my own VAN...with blackjack, and hookers! Ah, forget the VAN! In fact, screw the whole thing!"
First off, that won't restart X. It will kill the X server. It's up to init to respawn it. As far as I know, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is an XFree86-specific command, as well. It sure doesn't work on SGI's X server, and I don't remember it working anywhere else, either.
I'm sure you could trace this back to an early XFree86 developer who wanted to be able to kill the damn thing when it locks up during development, without having to waste time getting to a terminal, looking up the PID, and executing the kill command. Not to mention that a locked X server could mean no way to get to another VT and too much CPU load or even network traffic to get in via telnet.
I differentiate myself from the pack by being better than the rest of those no-talent hacks (hi guys, wave to the camera!)...;-D But seriously, it's not that simple. Developing a unique skillset in a way that will get you jobs means either A) working in that field for 5 years (see 'bootstrap') or 2) going back to school.
Since school of any note is going to put me into debt, I am unwilling to take any risks about it - it's an investment, and if I can make it pay off I'll do it, otherwise I won't. That's why I refused to get a M.S. Not only is it a horrible disease, but it's also a waste of time and money.
To those who are still trucking - things will eventually get better, and the job market will be skill-based rather than experience-based. It's just that nobody is willing to take that 'risk' right now. Chin up, hone your skills, and make money at what you can. I'm just not as patient as you are.:)
...the CS/IT world is going through a much-needed purging of some talentless dweebs from the workforce.
The problem is that it leaves many of the extremely talented hackers out of the work force, as well. I am an extremely talented programmer, and yet I have had little to no luck finding a "real" job since May, 2003, when I received a CS degree summa cum laude, blah blah blah. It's a damn good thing I earned enough scholarship money to receive excess checks instead of loan statements. I've been programming for over 12 years, and I don't mean Visual Basic. I mean I won science fairs for artificial intelligence code I wrote in C back in 9th grade, won programming competitions throughout college, was begged to go to CS graduate school by the entire CS department at my college, and was known as "one of the geniuses" while there. My Honors thesis project does general-purpose heterogeneous distributed programming better than all the stuff you see being proposed in the past several months. Additionally, I am balanced, unlike a lot of geeks, and have good people and networking skills. And yet, I'm working 70 hours a week doing IT for a bank and earn an average of $10/hour. I'm applying to law school right now (I got bored when I couldn't find a job and took the LSAT in October, and the 5% of people who did better than I did on it probably didn't have to go to the bathroom throughout the first half of the test.:P) because of this.
As I see it, the problem is that all those incompetent motherfuckers who got hired with music degrees and whatnot for $50k back in 1998-99 to pretend to write code are now unemployed with 2 years of "experience". I have 12 years of real experience, but due to not being paid for enough of it, nobody gives a shit. And nobody cares about the "experience" I am getting working IT at the bank, either. I'm lumped into the same bunch with everyone else who has 5 years of experience: "incompetent motherfucker who got into this because it was high pay for no work". It's not racial profiling, but it sure inspires me to premeditate a lot of hate crimes.
Isn't Chaucer considered one of the most important transitions into Modern English? His writing gets grammatically closer to Modern English than to Old English, for sure, and spelling in Middle English probably made more sense, phonetically, than it does in Modern English.:)
Even the most reasonable of job requirements are bullshit at this point. Jobs that require 8 years of Java experience, while Java was announced to the public 7 years and 9 months prior to the recruiter contacting me about the position to waste my time.
Basically, in order to get a good job right now, you must already have the exact same position at another company at higher pay. This is why there is a seeming abundance of available jobs - nobody wants to move even at the same pay, because job stability has suddenly become a major issue in this particular field.
In high school, we put a girl up to getting her blinker fluid topped off at a service station. She went and asked about it, and the next day was quite irate with us. But that didn't stop us - within a week, we sent the same girl to go have the summer air taken out of her tires, to be replaced with winter air. Apparently she went back to the same shop to have them take care of this for her.
That's the difference between a natural blonde and a dyed blonde.
Heh. Summer-fallowing, in verb form, is the act of turning dirt black. When a field is laid to fallow for a year to let it rest from growing crops all the time, you plow it up frequently, essentially to keep things aired out. The moister soil underneath the surface is darker, so freshly-tilled soil is indeed darker. Very astute of you.
And without computers, I would never have had to explain that to you, because I'd be tilling soil so you could eat wheat products and you'd be...well, what did people do before computers other than farm?;-D
I hate the computer. Without the invention of the computer, I wouldn't have a dead-end job while waiting for the economy to recover right now. I'd be turning dirt black like my proud ancestors.
I didn't exercise my Mile-High Club privileges with any of them, if that's what you're hinting at. They were just cute Dutch girls who know how to smile about their work, rather than frown and bitch at you like Northworst's have done to me on flights in that same trip. The worst was when the flight from Amsterdam back to Minneapolis (on a NWA DC-10) didn't have immigration cards in English, only in Dutch and a few in French. The flight nonattendants didn't even try to help us fill them out, so I had to pull a Phenomenon stunt and learn enough Dutch in 3 hours to get myself back into the USA.
Not to mention that my Canadian-citizen travel companion was welcomed back through customs in Minneapolis with a hearty "Welcome home!" from a NWA employee who clearly didn't know Canada wasn't part of the USA.
All this being the case, there are worse airlines than NWA, for sure. Amtrak Air, Usually Transatlantic, and Fort Berthold Community College Airlines are a few that I can name.;-D
At least you have options. I lived in North Dakota for 21 years, and Northworst essentially has a monopoly there. I had to drive 2 hours to get on a damn DC-9 to Minneapolis (another of NWA's hubs, along with Detroit and Memphis) and take a transfer from there. While in college, I was prone to drive the 4 1/2 hours to Minneapolis and fly Frontier or Sun Country from there.
That said, I flew a Northworst/KLM combination flight to Athens and back. KLM is no comparison to Northworst - wonderful service; attractive, friendly stewardesses; better seats; and more. If you have to spend 2 hours on Northworst to get 10 hours on KLM, do it.
But for domestic flights that go over or near Denver en route, I now prefer Frontier. Especially with their revamped fleet of Airbuses. I recently flew with them on a plane that had only been in service for 2 weeks since it was brand new, replete with DirecTV in every seat-back. (I didn't pay the $5 because I had a book, but I watched the moving map a lot.) A little more expensive than other 'budget' airlines, but worth it in terms of service and comfort.
The US Bill of Rights does not "allow" you any rights. It recognizes specific rights that are never to be taken away. You aren't given rights - either you have them already or they have been taken away from you.
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You mean terabyte. From tera, meaning "shitloads", and byte. A terrabyte is much larger, and is the quantity of data required to describe the entire Earth.
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That's a silly thing to wonder. The idiot who wastes his time making the watches wouldn't get a turn at the wheel of the rover. Tell me which one you would choose.:P
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I've never met a lawyer who recommends becoming one.
I developed a killer app using it. Just not an IM app. My Honors thesis presented the experimental results of using my general-purpose distributed computing architecture. All nodes communicate via Jabber.
Fair enough, I stand corrected and am a better person for it. Thanks. :)
Don't go to law school. You've already demonstrated that you aren't willing or able to do any footwork of your own when it comes to research (you only know things you've read on Slashdot, and you posted and Ask Slashdot for more information), which is a strong counterindication to being a successful law student. Save yourself the hassle and cost of applying and the cost of attending for that first year.
This reminds me of programming competition trips in college. We'd always have an inverter or two running. On one trip, we thought about running an access point in the full-size van and playing Counter-Strike or something on the trip. We were going to call it a Vehicle-Area Network, or VAN.
That's about when our Bender instincts kicked in: "I'm going to make my own VAN...with blackjack, and hookers! Ah, forget the VAN! In fact, screw the whole thing!"
First off, that won't restart X. It will kill the X server. It's up to init to respawn it. As far as I know, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is an XFree86-specific command, as well. It sure doesn't work on SGI's X server, and I don't remember it working anywhere else, either.
I'm sure you could trace this back to an early XFree86 developer who wanted to be able to kill the damn thing when it locks up during development, without having to waste time getting to a terminal, looking up the PID, and executing the kill command. Not to mention that a locked X server could mean no way to get to another VT and too much CPU load or even network traffic to get in via telnet.
"Not fair! You changed the outcome of the race by observing it!"
I differentiate myself from the pack by being better than the rest of those no-talent hacks (hi guys, wave to the camera!)... ;-D But seriously, it's not that simple. Developing a unique skillset in a way that will get you jobs means either A) working in that field for 5 years (see 'bootstrap') or 2) going back to school.
:)
Since school of any note is going to put me into debt, I am unwilling to take any risks about it - it's an investment, and if I can make it pay off I'll do it, otherwise I won't. That's why I refused to get a M.S. Not only is it a horrible disease, but it's also a waste of time and money.
To those who are still trucking - things will eventually get better, and the job market will be skill-based rather than experience-based. It's just that nobody is willing to take that 'risk' right now. Chin up, hone your skills, and make money at what you can. I'm just not as patient as you are.
Cheers to that. I hope never to quit what I love, but I will be one hell of a kickass technology lawyer when I get out. :)
Plain text means plain text, dammit. That should read "...everyone else who has < 5 years of experience:".
...the CS/IT world is going through a much-needed purging of some talentless dweebs from the workforce.
:P) because of this.
The problem is that it leaves many of the extremely talented hackers out of the work force, as well. I am an extremely talented programmer, and yet I have had little to no luck finding a "real" job since May, 2003, when I received a CS degree summa cum laude, blah blah blah. It's a damn good thing I earned enough scholarship money to receive excess checks instead of loan statements. I've been programming for over 12 years, and I don't mean Visual Basic. I mean I won science fairs for artificial intelligence code I wrote in C back in 9th grade, won programming competitions throughout college, was begged to go to CS graduate school by the entire CS department at my college, and was known as "one of the geniuses" while there. My Honors thesis project does general-purpose heterogeneous distributed programming better than all the stuff you see being proposed in the past several months. Additionally, I am balanced, unlike a lot of geeks, and have good people and networking skills. And yet, I'm working 70 hours a week doing IT for a bank and earn an average of $10/hour. I'm applying to law school right now (I got bored when I couldn't find a job and took the LSAT in October, and the 5% of people who did better than I did on it probably didn't have to go to the bathroom throughout the first half of the test.
As I see it, the problem is that all those incompetent motherfuckers who got hired with music degrees and whatnot for $50k back in 1998-99 to pretend to write code are now unemployed with 2 years of "experience". I have 12 years of real experience, but due to not being paid for enough of it, nobody gives a shit. And nobody cares about the "experience" I am getting working IT at the bank, either. I'm lumped into the same bunch with everyone else who has 5 years of experience: "incompetent motherfucker who got into this because it was high pay for no work". It's not racial profiling, but it sure inspires me to premeditate a lot of hate crimes.
Isn't Chaucer considered one of the most important transitions into Modern English? His writing gets grammatically closer to Modern English than to Old English, for sure, and spelling in Middle English probably made more sense, phonetically, than it does in Modern English. :)
Even the most reasonable of job requirements are bullshit at this point. Jobs that require 8 years of Java experience, while Java was announced to the public 7 years and 9 months prior to the recruiter contacting me about the position to waste my time.
Basically, in order to get a good job right now, you must already have the exact same position at another company at higher pay. This is why there is a seeming abundance of available jobs - nobody wants to move even at the same pay, because job stability has suddenly become a major issue in this particular field.
In high school, we put a girl up to getting her blinker fluid topped off at a service station. She went and asked about it, and the next day was quite irate with us. But that didn't stop us - within a week, we sent the same girl to go have the summer air taken out of her tires, to be replaced with winter air. Apparently she went back to the same shop to have them take care of this for her.
That's the difference between a natural blonde and a dyed blonde.
Heh. Summer-fallowing, in verb form, is the act of turning dirt black. When a field is laid to fallow for a year to let it rest from growing crops all the time, you plow it up frequently, essentially to keep things aired out. The moister soil underneath the surface is darker, so freshly-tilled soil is indeed darker. Very astute of you.
;-D
And without computers, I would never have had to explain that to you, because I'd be tilling soil so you could eat wheat products and you'd be...well, what did people do before computers other than farm?
I hate the computer. Without the invention of the computer, I wouldn't have a dead-end job while waiting for the economy to recover right now. I'd be turning dirt black like my proud ancestors.
I didn't exercise my Mile-High Club privileges with any of them, if that's what you're hinting at. They were just cute Dutch girls who know how to smile about their work, rather than frown and bitch at you like Northworst's have done to me on flights in that same trip. The worst was when the flight from Amsterdam back to Minneapolis (on a NWA DC-10) didn't have immigration cards in English, only in Dutch and a few in French. The flight nonattendants didn't even try to help us fill them out, so I had to pull a Phenomenon stunt and learn enough Dutch in 3 hours to get myself back into the USA.
;-D
Not to mention that my Canadian-citizen travel companion was welcomed back through customs in Minneapolis with a hearty "Welcome home!" from a NWA employee who clearly didn't know Canada wasn't part of the USA.
All this being the case, there are worse airlines than NWA, for sure. Amtrak Air, Usually Transatlantic, and Fort Berthold Community College Airlines are a few that I can name.
At least you have options. I lived in North Dakota for 21 years, and Northworst essentially has a monopoly there. I had to drive 2 hours to get on a damn DC-9 to Minneapolis (another of NWA's hubs, along with Detroit and Memphis) and take a transfer from there. While in college, I was prone to drive the 4 1/2 hours to Minneapolis and fly Frontier or Sun Country from there.
That said, I flew a Northworst/KLM combination flight to Athens and back. KLM is no comparison to Northworst - wonderful service; attractive, friendly stewardesses; better seats; and more. If you have to spend 2 hours on Northworst to get 10 hours on KLM, do it.
But for domestic flights that go over or near Denver en route, I now prefer Frontier. Especially with their revamped fleet of Airbuses. I recently flew with them on a plane that had only been in service for 2 weeks since it was brand new, replete with DirecTV in every seat-back. (I didn't pay the $5 because I had a book, but I watched the moving map a lot.) A little more expensive than other 'budget' airlines, but worth it in terms of service and comfort.
The US Bill of Rights does not "allow" you any rights. It recognizes specific rights that are never to be taken away. You aren't given rights - either you have them already or they have been taken away from you.
terrabyte
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You mean terabyte. From tera, meaning "shitloads", and byte. A terrabyte is much larger, and is the quantity of data required to describe the entire Earth.
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Hell, I thought Authentidate was a dating service that guaranteed the gender of your potential date.
Classic Fry response. :)
That's a silly thing to wonder. The idiot who wastes his time making the watches wouldn't get a turn at the wheel of the rover. Tell me which one you would choose. :P
Dear MacGyver,
Enclosed are a paper clip, a drinking straw, and a rubber band. Please save my dog.
Peter Griffin
Hey sexy mama, wanna kill all humans?