I've heard that one before, and it holds a kernel of truth to it--for the people who came in with a clue already. At least in my own experience, that is, in a middling CS department. They try to teach the "whys" separate from the "hows", in that they expect students to muddle along in Java before learning why they're doing something--and by the time they teach the "whys", the disconnect is too great for most students. (I came in with eight years of programming experience and had taught classes in high school. I didn't have all the "whys" down pat, but I'd figured out enough of them to find their instruction useful. I've had many classmates who are utterly lost and have been since day one. Yet they keep getting passed...)
And in any case--a university used to be about turning out academics. It's not anymore. It is essentially the equivalent of a high school diploma forty years ago and nothing more. If the CS department as we know it wants to survive, they'd better be turning out competent tradesmen as well. The "academics" are the masters' and Ph.D. students. (And that's not a knock against academics. I'm going to be doing a Ph.D. program starting next year.)
Yeah. Mine would be one of them. I think there are three kids in my academic class who I would hire or want to work with, simply based on competence (barring professionalism, etc. from the equation).
Obama has a pretty good chance of catching a bullet, too, and I certainly don't want Biden either (I want Biden far less than I would want Obama).
The Bush administration has been pretty good for me and my family (I'm still in college). I can't really complain. We're not "rich," but we do OK (low six figures a year, with a few thousand of his money in my tuition--mostly mine, though) and thanks to my father having a bit more economics acumen than most, he's actually making money in this market. So--yeah, it has worked out pretty well.:)
Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but a four-year degree today is, in a lot of ways, the high school diploma of forty years ago. A bachelor's in CS had better come out with the ability to immediately practice his trade or he won't get a job. And my university, among others, is absolutely woeful at actually preparing students for such. I came in knowing more than all but a few students in my class will leave knowing.
But you don't seem to understand--I want a phone that works, not a phone I have to fuck with. "Freedom" is all well and good, but I'm not restricted by what I already have. Why should I bother with what you're trying to push?
What benefit is there? If you have to say "freedom" in your answer, you have completely fucking failed.
ATI is definitely leading per-watt, but are you sure on performance? I was under the impression that the balls-out pricey nVidia cards were still holding some edge.
The GPU problems nVidia's having are ugly, though, and they're keeping me from buying anything but ATI for the foreseeable future.
Your drooling over Gentoo kind of ignores the fact that the Gentoo developers are a bunch of screaming morons and can't seem to get straight which one's their ass and which one's their elbow.
As-is, I wouldn't even use Gentoo on a desktop. (How long has Nethack been masked because of their stupid-ass games policy?)
In other words, you're pretty much just cheap, and have no problem with screwing content creators to continue your shitty, miserly existence. Good to know!
Yes, the current distribution model is retarded. It forces you to buy a bundle of things you may not want (wanting only THAT song that haunts you day and night) instead of exactly what you want. I stopped buying disks because of that.
Mono supports native interop, but only with platform-native code. It might be possible to compile it with winelib, but that's a very half-assed guess as I've never really looked at the Paint.NET source code.
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I'm sure there will be easier low-hanging fruit for you lot. I'll shoot back. ;-)
I've heard that one before, and it holds a kernel of truth to it--for the people who came in with a clue already. At least in my own experience, that is, in a middling CS department. They try to teach the "whys" separate from the "hows", in that they expect students to muddle along in Java before learning why they're doing something--and by the time they teach the "whys", the disconnect is too great for most students. (I came in with eight years of programming experience and had taught classes in high school. I didn't have all the "whys" down pat, but I'd figured out enough of them to find their instruction useful. I've had many classmates who are utterly lost and have been since day one. Yet they keep getting passed...)
And in any case--a university used to be about turning out academics. It's not anymore. It is essentially the equivalent of a high school diploma forty years ago and nothing more. If the CS department as we know it wants to survive, they'd better be turning out competent tradesmen as well. The "academics" are the masters' and Ph.D. students. (And that's not a knock against academics. I'm going to be doing a Ph.D. program starting next year.)
Yeah. Mine would be one of them. I think there are three kids in my academic class who I would hire or want to work with, simply based on competence (barring professionalism, etc. from the equation).
Obama has a pretty good chance of catching a bullet, too, and I certainly don't want Biden either (I want Biden far less than I would want Obama).
The Bush administration has been pretty good for me and my family (I'm still in college). I can't really complain. We're not "rich," but we do OK (low six figures a year, with a few thousand of his money in my tuition--mostly mine, though) and thanks to my father having a bit more economics acumen than most, he's actually making money in this market. So--yeah, it has worked out pretty well. :)
(You bet I vote selfishly. Altruism is a joke.)
Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but a four-year degree today is, in a lot of ways, the high school diploma of forty years ago. A bachelor's in CS had better come out with the ability to immediately practice his trade or he won't get a job. And my university, among others, is absolutely woeful at actually preparing students for such. I came in knowing more than all but a few students in my class will leave knowing.
There's nothing compelling about Obama, and a lot that's unpleasant, disappointing, and distasteful.
He's come closest to making me vote Democrat in my life, but--neg. I would rather trust the devil I know (McCain) over the devil I don't.
But I'm an old white man!
(Not actually old. Still white, still male. And not interested in the Obamessiah. Also not AC.)
Negatory. ActiveX was built to interact with the user's computer; such is generally not possible with Silverlight.
But you don't seem to understand--I want a phone that works, not a phone I have to fuck with. "Freedom" is all well and good, but I'm not restricted by what I already have. Why should I bother with what you're trying to push?
What benefit is there? If you have to say "freedom" in your answer, you have completely fucking failed.
So we should buy phones that don't do what we need them to in hopes that later somebody else adds the features we need?
Interesting philosophy. And by "interesting," I mean "dumb."
So...you're telling me that the phone doesn't work. It might work at some magical future date, but it doesn't work now.
Gotcha.
But I want a phone that works, too... :(
Entirely predictable and yet still laugh-out-loud funny. Well played, sir.
Alright, that's what I thought. I was under the impression that the GTX280 was faster, though not by a lot. Other than that, no disagreement here. :)
MS-PL is entirely open source and OSI-compliant, you tool.
ATI is definitely leading per-watt, but are you sure on performance? I was under the impression that the balls-out pricey nVidia cards were still holding some edge.
The GPU problems nVidia's having are ugly, though, and they're keeping me from buying anything but ATI for the foreseeable future.
If they used ads, you'd whine about the ads and try to block them, too.
If you honestly believe you are not ethically obligated to compensate a creator if you enjoy their work, that's an awfully sad way to live one's life.
Your drooling over Gentoo kind of ignores the fact that the Gentoo developers are a bunch of screaming morons and can't seem to get straight which one's their ass and which one's their elbow.
As-is, I wouldn't even use Gentoo on a desktop. (How long has Nethack been masked because of their stupid-ass games policy?)
In other words, you're pretty much just cheap, and have no problem with screwing content creators to continue your shitty, miserly existence. Good to know!
They are being asked to pay--that's the point. They're declining to pay, but choosing to watch. This is not a hard concept to understand.
iTunes Plus has quite a bit of no-DRM stuff. Other than that, not offhand, no.
Amazon Music Store has no DRM. It also has no "plastic." So why aren't you buying there?
Yes, the current distribution model is retarded. It forces you to buy a bundle of things you may not want (wanting only THAT song that haunts you day and night) instead of exactly what you want. I stopped buying disks because of that.
iTunes Music Store.
No DRM? Amazon Music Store.
So you're done pirating then, right?
How is this concept so very very very hard for certain people to understand.
"I'm going to take it and derive enjoyment from it, but it's not good so I won't pay for it."
It's hard to understand because it doesn't make sense if you've got a shred of ethics.
Mono supports native interop, but only with platform-native code. It might be possible to compile it with winelib, but that's a very half-assed guess as I've never really looked at the Paint.NET source code.