it's not uncommon for senior technical positions to be well-paying and not require a degree
Yeah, but junior technical positions (anything above help desk do require a degree. While you can possibly rise above it, the odds are you'll burn out or go broke or get laied off long before
The world does not need more helpdesk admins and CCNEs. A good admin *has* to know how to program, to know architecture and network protocols don't hurt either. A good sysadmin is much harder to find than a decent java database monkey. Years ago microsoft was getting that done with VB. They still haven't got a decent server down to point and click
here we have zoology and english majors who realized they didn't want to run a pooper scooper or collect welfare/teach the rest of their lives but stuck it out. They're my bosses because I decided CS wasn't for me and went back to construction till I got poor. Now I'm getting fat sitting at a desk and spending my fat checks paying down cc debt that I could have spent on a club membership and annual trips to rio if I'd applied myself.
I don't agree with #1 at all. Why should microsoft have to make it easier for others to interoperate with their systems? I understand the idea that because they are a monopoly that they aren't on the same playing field, but microsoft is a natural monopoly (inherited from IBM who was restricted by anti-trust laws in the 80s) not a state enforced one like the phone company or to a lesser extent cable company. They didn't use government sponsorship or tax money (directly) or public land, etc. to acheive the monopoly. So, while I can see ATT/TCI or AOL/TW being required to share their cables, I don't agree with microsoft, and besides, the quicker we are rid of samba the better. I think jeremy allison and tridge would be glad to be put out of work because NFS or some other non-microsoft protocol became prevalent.
Giving MS ownership of a protocol at the price of publishing it is a good deal...for Microsoft
George Bush isn't the one who visited the Microsoft campus last year.. it was Gore, twice. This case was over a long time ago, whoever got elected. Clinton just wasn't able to reel in the Silicon Valley group and their DoJ allies because he was preoccupied with problems of his own. If you think he was anti-trust, you might want to count the number of oil companies, phone companies, power companies, defense contractors, and media companies before and after his term.
consumers are also known as people, and some people may wish to work in fields that microsoft also chooses to. And anti-trust laws are about fair market competition not lower sales tax amounts.
so you have a trial, you reach a verdict, you plea bargain (bribe) a lenient settlement. Some of the original complainants dislike the settlement and the general public cries foul, so the settlement is dismissed.
Microsoft is out the price of the bribe. In a year or two when people bring up punishing Microsoft, they gently remind us that there was a settlement, even though may not have liked it. We'll remember that in fact there was, and a few might remember grumbling over it. On or two rareties will also remember with pride that the state attorneys general petitioned and "overthrew it" and assume a harsher penanlty had been meted out. But only Microsoft will know that there was never was a replacement for the one that wasn't really a penalty anyway.
right before Judge Jackson's ruling alot of cheap PCs came bundled with Corel Word Perfect Office 2000. Of course this disappeared quickly when either Microsoft invested heavily in Corel, or won its choice of appellate -- they happened about the same time.
Bill gates was quoted as saying the settlement was "fair and reasonable" -- If you heard any other convicted criminal say that their sentence was "fair and reasonable" wouldn't you wonder if it really was? And this is not a civil suit.
why does it need to be submitted as a legal brief? All that is is some abbreviations and the signature of a state-certified bar association member.
If the judge refuses to accept evidence in plain english because it was not submitted by a specific group (of which he happens to be a member) he should be put against the wall for at least two reasons when the revolution comes.
This doesn't sound like a credible source for technical information:
"We'd get products and then find an anomaly. You can put in a workaround but the only way to fix it is through silicon," said Steve Andler, Toshiba's vice president of marketing.
that would be right, except that in the past 30 years, the accuracy of estimates for large buildings has become increasingly inaccurate. 30 years ago a skyscraper was much more likely to be completed (closer to) on time and within budget. Software development now is plagued by the same thing as other fields -- increasing imcompetence in management, lower work ethic in labor, and lower skill levels all around. We're entering a dark age
I remember arguing vehemently as a kid that there were 9 star wars books out there and eventually they'd all become movies. I had a habit in those days of saying "I bet you a million dollars..." whatever. After seeing the Phantom Menace, I realized that I owe some people a lot of money.
chewy and r2 got way more callbacks than jar-jar and the haley-joel clone's career didn't turn out any better than luke (who was typecast, plain and simple)
It has nothing to do with the DMCA (see Alan's post above.) The law in question is the PATRIOT law, which is an acronym which I can't remember what it stands for, but was passed just this week -- even mentioned on slashdot, I believe
your arguement might be valid, except that you only consider certain views -- conservative, christian, anti-abortion, or pro-right-to-bear-arms -- opposed to the ones you hold as unacceptable.
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how about setting your path
/usr/local/bin/staroffice
.xinitrc?
export PATH=$PATH:$OPENOFFICEDIR/bin
or creating a link
ln -s $OPENOFFICEDIR/bin/soffice
or have it start automatically in your
or use an icon for your desktop?
it's not uncommon for senior technical positions to be well-paying and not require a degree
Yeah, but junior technical positions (anything above help desk do require a degree. While you can possibly rise above it, the odds are you'll burn out or go broke or get laied off long before
No no no no no no no!
The world does not need more helpdesk admins and CCNEs. A good admin *has* to know how to program, to know architecture and network protocols don't hurt either. A good sysadmin is much harder to find than a decent java database monkey. Years ago microsoft was getting that done with VB. They still haven't got a decent server down to point and click
here we have zoology and english majors who realized they didn't want to run a pooper scooper or collect welfare/teach the rest of their lives but stuck it out. They're my bosses because I decided CS wasn't for me and went back to construction till I got poor. Now I'm getting fat sitting at a desk and spending my fat checks paying down cc debt that I could have spent on a club membership and annual trips to rio if I'd applied myself.
no, as compared to the the clinton administration. It's just different faces, its the same government, and the same cameras.
I don't agree with #1 at all. Why should microsoft have to make it easier for others to interoperate with their systems? I understand the idea that because they are a monopoly that they aren't on the same playing field, but microsoft is a natural monopoly (inherited from IBM who was restricted by anti-trust laws in the 80s) not a state enforced one like the phone company or to a lesser extent cable company. They didn't use government sponsorship or tax money (directly) or public land, etc. to acheive the monopoly. So, while I can see ATT/TCI or AOL/TW being required to share their cables, I don't agree with microsoft, and besides, the quicker we are rid of samba the better. I think jeremy allison and tridge would be glad to be put out of work because NFS or some other non-microsoft protocol became prevalent.
Giving MS ownership of a protocol at the price of publishing it is a good deal...for Microsoft
George Bush isn't the one who visited the Microsoft campus last year.. it was Gore, twice. This case was over a long time ago, whoever got elected. Clinton just wasn't able to reel in the Silicon Valley group and their DoJ allies because he was preoccupied with problems of his own. If you think he was anti-trust, you might want to count the number of oil companies, phone companies, power companies, defense contractors, and media companies before and after his term.
consumers are also known as people, and some people may wish to work in fields that microsoft also chooses to. And anti-trust laws are about fair market competition not lower sales tax amounts.
so you have a trial, you reach a verdict, you plea bargain (bribe) a lenient settlement. Some of the original complainants dislike the settlement and the general public cries foul, so the settlement is dismissed.
Microsoft is out the price of the bribe. In a year or two when people bring up punishing Microsoft, they gently remind us that there was a settlement, even though may not have liked it. We'll remember that in fact there was, and a few might remember grumbling over it. On or two rareties will also remember with pride that the state attorneys general petitioned and "overthrew it" and assume a harsher penanlty had been meted out. But only Microsoft will know that there was never was a replacement for the one that wasn't really a penalty anyway.
right before Judge Jackson's ruling alot of cheap PCs came bundled with Corel Word Perfect Office 2000. Of course this disappeared quickly when either Microsoft invested heavily in Corel, or won its choice of appellate -- they happened about the same time.
Bill gates was quoted as saying the settlement was "fair and reasonable" -- If you heard any other convicted criminal say that their sentence was "fair and reasonable" wouldn't you wonder if it really was? And this is not a civil suit.
this judge specifically was hand picked by microsoft for either his stupidity or willful deafness or obedience to his superiors.
and do you think he's heard of RMS or Linus or Linux either?
why does it need to be submitted as a legal brief? All that is is some abbreviations and the signature of a state-certified bar association member.
If the judge refuses to accept evidence in plain english because it was not submitted by a specific group (of which he happens to be a member) he should be put against the wall for at least two reasons when the revolution comes.
Transmeta has about $262 million in cash, but it expects to burn through $20 million in the current quarter.
at that rate, if their business doesn't pick up, they'll be out of business in 6 years!
This doesn't sound like a credible source for technical information:
"We'd get products and then find an anomaly. You can put in a workaround but the only way to fix it is through silicon," said Steve Andler, Toshiba's vice president of marketing.
and developers got sick of the bloat and confusion that was MS Visual Studio, and flocked to Linux.
c'mon they didn't even say enterprise... or is that word licensed by Sun?
that's not graphics, its clip art
that would be right, except that in the past 30 years, the accuracy of estimates for large buildings has become increasingly inaccurate. 30 years ago a skyscraper was much more likely to be completed (closer to) on time and within budget. Software development now is plagued by the same thing as other fields -- increasing imcompetence in management, lower work ethic in labor, and lower skill levels all around. We're entering a dark age
In my experience (college dropout) the most valuable thing you learn as a student is how to estimate time of completion---
I can get this lab done in 10 -- 1 hour segments in class or put it off two weeks and get it all done in 8 hours the night before it's due.
I remember arguing vehemently as a kid that there were 9 star wars books out there and eventually they'd all become movies. I had a habit in those days of saying "I bet you a million dollars..." whatever. After seeing the Phantom Menace, I realized that I owe some people a lot of money.
what do you mean acting took a back seat?
chewy and r2 got way more callbacks than jar-jar and the haley-joel clone's career didn't turn out any better than luke (who was typecast, plain and simple)
It has nothing to do with the DMCA (see Alan's post above.) The law in question is the PATRIOT law, which is an acronym which I can't remember what it stands for, but was passed just this week -- even mentioned on slashdot, I believe
your arguement might be valid, except that you only consider certain views -- conservative, christian, anti-abortion, or pro-right-to-bear-arms -- opposed to the ones you hold as unacceptable.
I thought it was funny.