Oh, and I forgot to mention I'm getting involved in embedded computing research, where embedded means "solar powered running on the backs of turtles".
I saw the writing on the wall years ago, and it said: if I can find another 10 people like you with 10 phone calls, you are worthless. I set out to defy that, and I hope I do.
'Cause you don't really wanna fuck... with me. Only nerd-boy that I trust... is me.
Psst... You're preaching to the born-and-bar-mitzvah'd.
I was a self-taught programmer before I even gained admission to university, being fluent in Object Pascal and C, very competent in C++, fairly competent in Scheme and Lisp, and having done some minor work in Java, Cg and x86 assembly. I used to code a hobby microkernel (which I abandoned to copy (with slight refinements) the much finer design of Plan 9 and pursue World Domination in several other pieces of software).
I learned Java just to take the AP Computer Science exam, which exempted me from CS121: Java for Lusers. That's why I'm in CS201 in my freshman year, which is actually a mandatory course for everyone in the CS major here. We build up from transistors and voltages to logic gates to memory and processors to assembly to C.
So you can wrench my Geek License from my cold, dead hands, motherfucker. Bring it on.
HOLY FUCK! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE OF GRAPHICS CARDS! THE IDF IS COMING!
For Allah's sake, hide the children and get to the bomb shelters! The IDF is coming!!! RUUUUNNNN!!!!!/me dies of a graphics card with "Never again!" inscribed in the silicon falling from the sky.
I'll grant your point about the iPhone (lack of native 3rd-party apps is a real dealbreaker), but on my Macbook Pro I can pretty much run any third-party application I like. Apple doesn't force me to use Safari, and I installed Firefox when I needed it.
And Apple doesn't insist that you buy your PC from them. They insist that you must buy your PC from them to get their operating system on your new PC. They have that right. M$, on the other hand, uses shady business deals to make sure that the default computer available anywhere in the world runs Windoze, forcing users to actively seek out non-Windows computers rather than buying a computer with a choice of (non-Apple) operating systems available.
One of these editors was an admin, another was on ArbCom. It was basically a group of people who would camp one specific subject and keep it edited to support the cultural status quo/their religion's position on the article. They did it through keeping information out of the article that would cast the subject in the disfavorable light it should have, and does in most of the non-english speaking world, and some of the english speaking world. Why do I get this awful feeling I know exactly which subject you're talking about?
You're right. Instead, I'm just getting a bunch of us Comp. Sci majors together to design and implement an encrypted peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol based on social aquaintences.
The real problem is that domestic employers try to gain the legal system so that they can avoid looking for qualified workers in the domestic labor market entirely and skip straight to hiring a foreign immigrant, thus lowering wages.
The laws governing H1-B visas state that US companies must make every attempt to fill jobs with an American worker, but all American companies ever do is bitch about our education system (yes it's godawful, so why aren't you fixing it?) and go straight to H1-B.
Why should people outside the USA care about it if the maker can't bother to market it to one of the most consumerist nations on the planet? Because idiotic consumerist Americans tell the rest of the world about their purchases via exported pop culture. Successfully marketing to us markets to that entire part of the First World that doesn't despise us and everything about us.
Admittedly, very few people have heard of the Trekstor Vibez, which really deserves to at least become the geek's DAP of choice. It mounts as a USB mass-storage device; supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg FLAC, FLAC, and WMA (with DRM); comes with a small cable for the headphone jack that lets you pipe your DAP music into any stereo with audio-in; and comes with firmware built from that of the Rio Karma.
But the company is German and doesn't market in the USA, so nobody gives a damn.
It makes sense for Linux to fork into two branches: one, a conservative one, aimed at upkeeping what already works, and the second, a wild-ass anarchist, aimed at forging new and innovative technologies. What nobody wants to ask is: can you really forge new and innovative ideas in a 16-year-old clone of a 30-year-old operating system whose primary purpose is to maintain old standards; support old, bloated features; and keep people's buggy and inelegant old software running with maximum performance possible?
So, can you really build a superhuman from a man with a pacemaker?
IMHO, you can't beat Mac OSX with an X-based interface. Apple had the chutzpah to go back and write their own, much better, window system, and they've reaped the benefits.
The lesson? Normally, the old New Jersey slogan of "Worse is Better" holds true, but when you have a niche or captive market you can make good money off the Right Thing.
That's true, but the responsibility absolutely should not lie with the Ubuntu community to fix issues that simply come from Dell refusing to do for Linux what they do for Windoze. The codec and DVD software exists, it's out there, and any company serious about selling Linux on desktops/laptops should probably just pay for those softwares (exactly like they do for Windoze) and package it in.
Last summer I did a basic install of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on an IBM Thinkpad T22, with nothing but the installation CD. It did everything I wanted with a great interface, so I don't see why a computer company can't just shell out for the proprietary software their users need.
You've drunk the anti-Mac Kool-Aid! I don't think even Steve Jobs will ever tell you Macs or Mac OSX are meant for business purposes. They lie very strictly on the side of "pleasure", and they're good at that.
So your actual complaint is that software built for a completely different desktop than Mac OSX is compatible with Mac OSX, but not nice looking enough?
You can make a PC record and edit audio and video. But a Mac lets you record, edit and add to a video in ten minutes, then have it up on YouTube in another 5.
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These are the same idiots that decided to teach Java to CS students as a first language. Why do you think?
Close. I thought it involved politics, but you still manage to meet expectations by hating on something that Jews do.
Cut and proud, ya goy.
Oh, and I forgot to mention I'm getting involved in embedded computing research, where embedded means "solar powered running on the backs of turtles".
I saw the writing on the wall years ago, and it said: if I can find another 10 people like you with 10 phone calls, you are worthless. I set out to defy that, and I hope I do.
'Cause you don't really wanna fuck... with me. Only nerd-boy that I trust... is me.
Psst... You're preaching to the born-and-bar-mitzvah'd.
I was a self-taught programmer before I even gained admission to university, being fluent in Object Pascal and C, very competent in C++, fairly competent in Scheme and Lisp, and having done some minor work in Java, Cg and x86 assembly. I used to code a hobby microkernel (which I abandoned to copy (with slight refinements) the much finer design of Plan 9 and pursue World Domination in several other pieces of software).
I learned Java just to take the AP Computer Science exam, which exempted me from CS121: Java for Lusers. That's why I'm in CS201 in my freshman year, which is actually a mandatory course for everyone in the CS major here. We build up from transistors and voltages to logic gates to memory and processors to assembly to C.
So you can wrench my Geek License from my cold, dead hands, motherfucker. Bring it on.
HOLY FUCK! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE OF GRAPHICS CARDS! THE IDF IS COMING!
/me dies of a graphics card with "Never again!" inscribed in the silicon falling from the sky.
For Allah's sake, hide the children and get to the bomb shelters! The IDF is coming!!! RUUUUNNNN!!!!!
Funny how last week's lectures in CS201, Architecture and Assembly Language, told us pretty much how floating-point numbers work.
They made my brain hurt with all the special cases.
I'll grant your point about the iPhone (lack of native 3rd-party apps is a real dealbreaker), but on my Macbook Pro I can pretty much run any third-party application I like. Apple doesn't force me to use Safari, and I installed Firefox when I needed it.
And Apple doesn't insist that you buy your PC from them. They insist that you must buy your PC from them to get their operating system on your new PC. They have that right. M$, on the other hand, uses shady business deals to make sure that the default computer available anywhere in the world runs Windoze, forcing users to actively seek out non-Windows computers rather than buying a computer with a choice of (non-Apple) operating systems available.
Seriously, what are you talking about?
You're right. Instead, I'm just getting a bunch of us Comp. Sci majors together to design and implement an encrypted peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol based on social aquaintences.
Now if only our Comp. Sci. department could work on ways to protect UMass students from the MAFIAA.
Like way can't we run our file-sharing over something like Tor, obscuring the source, destination and content of our packets?
The real problem is that domestic employers try to gain the legal system so that they can avoid looking for qualified workers in the domestic labor market entirely and skip straight to hiring a foreign immigrant, thus lowering wages.
The laws governing H1-B visas state that US companies must make every attempt to fill jobs with an American worker, but all American companies ever do is bitch about our education system (yes it's godawful, so why aren't you fixing it?) and go straight to H1-B.
Admittedly, very few people have heard of the Trekstor Vibez, which really deserves to at least become the geek's DAP of choice. It mounts as a USB mass-storage device; supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg FLAC, FLAC, and WMA (with DRM); comes with a small cable for the headphone jack that lets you pipe your DAP music into any stereo with audio-in; and comes with firmware built from that of the Rio Karma.
But the company is German and doesn't market in the USA, so nobody gives a damn.
Ex-Mosad guy who strangles people with iPod cords? Dude, you're so paranoid even the Shin Bet will feel no need to touch you!
So, can you really build a superhuman from a man with a pacemaker?
IMHO, you can't beat Mac OSX with an X-based interface. Apple had the chutzpah to go back and write their own, much better, window system, and they've reaped the benefits.
The lesson? Normally, the old New Jersey slogan of "Worse is Better" holds true, but when you have a niche or captive market you can make good money off the Right Thing.
That's true, but the responsibility absolutely should not lie with the Ubuntu community to fix issues that simply come from Dell refusing to do for Linux what they do for Windoze. The codec and DVD software exists, it's out there, and any company serious about selling Linux on desktops/laptops should probably just pay for those softwares (exactly like they do for Windoze) and package it in.
Last summer I did a basic install of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on an IBM Thinkpad T22, with nothing but the installation CD. It did everything I wanted with a great interface, so I don't see why a computer company can't just shell out for the proprietary software their users need.
You've drunk the anti-Mac Kool-Aid! I don't think even Steve Jobs will ever tell you Macs or Mac OSX are meant for business purposes. They lie very strictly on the side of "pleasure", and they're good at that.
Which is still significantly to the left of the actual position of the New York Times. Not by much, but noticeably so.
And how is telling someone to shut up liberal? That's normally Bill O'Reilly's shtick.
So your actual complaint is that software built for a completely different desktop than Mac OSX is compatible with Mac OSX, but not nice looking enough?
You can make a PC record and edit audio and video. But a Mac lets you record, edit and add to a video in ten minutes, then have it up on YouTube in another 5.
Shut up about the politics. The New York Times qualifies as liberal-side-of-centrist at most.
And all of us Apple users would just have to have the latest, coolest spin-dances for our iWasher.
Actually, "idiot" is, in fact, the plural form of the word "idiah".