This table appears to be built for roleplaying games.. and trust me, you DON'T want to be dungeon master to a bunch of 15 drunk fellas whose level 20 characters have just been slaughtered by a couple of lucky kobold assassins.
How does it work in college? some subjects you enjoy, some others you don't like but you know they'll be useful, and some others you just loathe, but you have to complete them in order to graduate.
So what if they have to learn another programming language. I once had a full course on Prolog, which I hated, but I went through it, passed, and then forgot completely about Prolog.
This seems to me like just it. Pass the course on C#, maybe with the help of some nearby geek, for those who don't like programming too much, and then go on with your life. It's not like C# will be the only language they'll ever use after that.
Unless, of course, it's the ONLY mandatory programming course they have?
A customer of mine had to capture a massive amount of data. Estimates showed it would have taken a 2-person team 700 days to finish the job. Instead, we thought about the problem a little, and devised an automated solution that took a single person 5 days to implement, and then 3 days to process. So instead of 1400 person-days, it took 8.
I guess if companies DONT want that kind of efficiency, they can ditch their IT departments. Just dont whine then the companies that exploit IT to be more efficient kick the shit out of the IT-less ones.
only wimps order sushi. Real programmers will always order pizza; the empty pizza box is an icon of hacker culture, whereas the pizza slice oozing cheese all over the monitor will keep anyone away from your sacred workstation.
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I'll agree that the new KDE *THEME* seen on the screenshots looks a lot like WinXP, but keep in mind that it can be made to look like almost anything you want.
Also, I disagree with "every body knows that XP was just a pretty GUI". Compared to Windows2000, perhaps it was; but most consumers weren't using Win2k, but Win9x. And WinXP is insistently aimed at home users too, touting new, unheard-of features like STABILITY (whoaaaaaa) and stuff like that. WinXP mixes all that stuff.
Finally, WinXP's prettyness can be argued with; i think it looks childish and dumb, but that's just me..
This has absolutely nothing to do with Linux. The reason why "You're still better off in most cases to be using a Win/Mac machine" for multimedia, is the fact that application developers DONT WANT to target Linux. It's certainly not Linux's fault that, since Apple refuses to either port Quicktime to Linux or provide info so somebody else can implement compatibility, we have to go around hacking stuff like this.
Lack of (certain niche) applications certainly hurts Linux, but it's NOT the Linux community's fault. And I guess if the companies don't want to target their products for us Linux users, then too bad for them, it's lost business for them, not for me.
One of the best narrations of a cross-country trip (and it's even more than just that), is Phil Greenspun's Travels with Samantha. Great photos too; this sounds like a good/fun thing to do while traveling, plus if you're not already a good photographer, it's a great chance to improve.
Last word, my ass. The AdTI paper is so freaking biased and badly written, that we'll be ripping it apart for weeks to come. Unfortunately, it'll do little good until a) a serious and polite rebuttal, aimed at the same kind of people the original paper is aimed at, gets written, and b) it gets diffusion equal or superior to that of the AdTI document. The much maligned, "inflammatory" rebuttals that have been written and published in mostly-linux weblogs are little more than preaching to the choir.
Perhaps some of the big Open Source organizations can help? someone from the Free Software camp? the FSF perhaps?
Well, the "cheesy 70's photo" is actually a still taken from Wargames, which was released in 1983. On it you can see matthew broderick and ally sheedy. Yeah, everybody else has said it, so i will too : a great movie, even if the technology, which plays an integral part in it, didn't age so gracefully. To the masses it will look "70's" and "cheesy" but to those of us who were into computers back then, it's a real flashback.
after reading hominids you will realize that it purposefully leaves a lot of loose ends, since it quite likely sets the scene for something big bound to happen on the next two books on the series. So while by itself hominids might not seem like robert sawyer's best (a notion with which i disagree, so far i haven't read a rjs book i didnt like and i prefer not to rate them against each other), do keep in mind that its just the beginning of something that could be good.
It's not the same thing. You obviously haven't seen the masses that congregate to see this man. We're talking about ALL the streets along the man's route through a city JAM-PACKED with people. We're talking about so many people gathering at a mass officiated by the Pope, that they don't fit in even the largest stadiums, so it has to be organized on some unused extension of land, in which several hundred thousand people gather to see this.
BTW, last time anyone compared the beatles to a religious figure (i think it was John, right? "we're more famous than jesus christ"), it was a mess. I even think they got kicked out of that country (the philippines, right?). So just because you've never seen the fervor with which people defend and idolize religious icons (be it john paul II or jesus christ,or mohammed, or allah or whoever), don't think it's the same as a few hundred girls longing after tom cruise.
I know how and when the internet started. So do you, and obviously you realized that, prior to 1994-1995, only the few of us who know stuff about computers had internet access; hell, most people outside the geek community didn't even know the internet existed; for them it was just a fantasy out of some bizarre sci-fi movie.
My point is that, by those days, a series of factors came together that began a massive migration of people from BBSes to using mostly internet services. While BBSes were still around for a while, we found that most people preferred accessing the internet, as for them the plethora of available information seemed more attractive than a BBS with a few files and barely anyone else on-line at the same time.
And that's referring to our BBS users; a lot of people who didn't have any contact with on-line communications (or computers, for that matter) became lured to "that thing called the internet" at that time. A lot of people bought modems those days; a lot of people got computers just to access the internet. BBSes never had that kind of pull, that kind of media hype.
In the end, while at around those dates the internet began getting pushed as the next big thing, BBSes have remained the province of hackers and "the computer whiz-kid" next door.
back then the sysops were real men and the users looked up to us in such admiration.
On-line games such as trade wars were great, where you'd plan group strategy through mail and then log in at stepped, agreed-upon times to carry it out.
Back then, on systems with 2+ lines, multi-person chats were the big thing.
QWK packets were fantastic for reading messages off-line and freeing up the bbs for someone else. I kinda miss them now.
Also, networks like FIDONet were an incredible mess to set up (have seen few things so complicated since then), but once they were up and running it was incredibly fun and satisfying to exchange messages with other local boards, as well as with the guys from other countries.
Yeah, only difference is Stallman isn't a dogmatic leader to 2 billion people (see here for statistics). You wouldn't believe how much power over the masses the Pope has. I've seen people flock to the streets and wait for 2-3 hours just to catch a glimpse of his holiness passing by (yes, 2 hours waiting for a 5-second sighting). And people absolutely refusing to compromise on ANY point the Pope has decided on, is totally frustrating.
Plus, RMS's views are definitely more open to debate than the Pope's (or the church's for that matter). No chance of me getting excomulgated for saying RMS is an asshole (which i don't think he is, but anyway).
"I was wondering how to tie a World Cup story into Slashdot. Congratulations to Senegal."
Well taco, given how topical a lot of stories are (and don't even get me started on Ask Slashdot), i guess you could just post match scores on the front page.
This is a good place to start a flamewar on slashdot's US-centered-ness, since it looks like the US is one of the few countries where the soccer world cup isn't a completely paralyzing event (what with matches airing at 1 and 3 AM central US time, i bet a lot of sports fans across the continent will show up at work late and half-asleep, if at all, for the next month).
At long last, and hopefully every single one of my sco-using customers will finally see a reason to migrate from that.
SCO has got to be the single ugliest, un-friendliest, most incomplete and failure-prone unix i've ever used. I was called in to solve problems even the dedicated admins couldn't, and they always turned out to be windows-like, unexplainable glitches that took lots of kludging around to fix.
the BSA spends millions each year conducting audits and scare campaigns against pirates (a lot of them "alleged", i guess). And still, piracy is rampant and increasing every day.
Gee, could this mean a) their tactics don't work, b) they're not doing their jobs as vigorously as they should?
you understand better than you think. Meaning, right, there's absolutely NO DAMN NEED to replace said equipment. It's obvious that this lawsuit is frivolous, an attempt from the spammer to annoy and harass the spamee or the guys who keep the spammer list into not messing with him. (either that, or the spammer's tech guy said all that stuff was needed and is just ripping off the spammer).
Personally I think that kind of behavior merits physical violence, but that's just me.:)
hopefully as the HURD evolves, RMS will be able to migrate to that and stop his hypocritical use of the Linux kernel.
How two-sided his posture turned out to be, first using Linux to create the first complete GNU system some 8 years before he could have done the same with his own kernel, then turning violently on both Linus and the Linux community for not living up to his high moral standards.
Hope he goes the HURD way and stops trying to impose himself on Linux users.
Wonder what ever happened to the demon linux project, an attempt to build a complete linux-based system with BSD utilities, as opposed to GNU.
Ah hell, we can always go the BSD route for everything I guess.
he basically assessed my symptoms, which could indicate any one (or more) of CTS, dequervain's disease, or tennis elbow, then suggested a test to determine which one it really was (electro-miography). We treated things with systemic anti-inflammatory medication and lots of rest, which eased the symptoms somewhat.
I started having CTS symptoms about 4 years ago. I switched to an ergo keyboard (ms-natural clone) and that helped the problem a bit. At least it delayed further deterioration until about 4 months ago, when it got bad enough that I went to see a doctor.
So I can tell you an ergo keyboard won't solve the problem by itself, altough it does help. You need an integral approach to a comfortable workspace. When I started getting worse a few months ago, I changed my table for one in which the keyboard is a bit lower and that's been helping me a good deal.
OK let's see.. the matrix bested phantom menace for the visual effects oscar.. TPM was widely disappointing while the matrix was that year's big surprise... lucas gets constantly labeled as a media whore here on slashdot.. and yet taco still looks forward to a star wars-related mmorpg?
guess we can only hope it doesn't turn out to be another star wars computer game disappointment:)
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they're about as fast as an Athlon XP 2000+. Pity they're also about twice as expensive.
Those athlons really rock!
This table appears to be built for roleplaying games.. and trust me, you DON'T want to be dungeon master to a bunch of 15 drunk fellas whose level 20 characters have just been slaughtered by a couple of lucky kobold assassins.
How does it work in college? some subjects you enjoy, some others you don't like but you know they'll be useful, and some others you just loathe, but you have to complete them in order to graduate.
So what if they have to learn another programming language. I once had a full course on Prolog, which I hated, but I went through it, passed, and then forgot completely about Prolog.
This seems to me like just it. Pass the course on C#, maybe with the help of some nearby geek, for those who don't like programming too much, and then go on with your life. It's not like C# will be the only language they'll ever use after that.
Unless, of course, it's the ONLY mandatory programming course they have?
"How do you feel about the cost benefits of IT?"
as compared to what...
A customer of mine had to capture a massive amount of data. Estimates showed it would have taken a 2-person team 700 days to finish the job. Instead, we thought about the problem a little, and devised an automated solution that took a single person 5 days to implement, and then 3 days to process. So instead of 1400 person-days, it took 8.
I guess if companies DONT want that kind of efficiency, they can ditch their IT departments. Just dont whine then the companies that exploit IT to be more efficient kick the shit out of the IT-less ones.
1- have the slashdot community provide plans for a pressure-sensitive multi-point touchscreen
2- ??????????
3- profit!!
only wimps order sushi. Real programmers will always order pizza; the empty pizza box is an icon of hacker culture, whereas the pizza slice oozing cheese all over the monitor will keep anyone away from your sacred workstation.
I'll agree that the new KDE *THEME* seen on the screenshots looks a lot like WinXP, but keep in mind that it can be made to look like almost anything you want.
Also, I disagree with "every body knows that XP was just a pretty GUI". Compared to Windows2000, perhaps it was; but most consumers weren't using Win2k, but Win9x. And WinXP is insistently aimed at home users too, touting new, unheard-of features like STABILITY (whoaaaaaa) and stuff like that. WinXP mixes all that stuff.
Finally, WinXP's prettyness can be argued with; i think it looks childish and dumb, but that's just me..
This has absolutely nothing to do with Linux. The reason why "You're still better off in most cases to be using a Win/Mac machine" for multimedia, is the fact that application developers DONT WANT to target Linux. It's certainly not Linux's fault that, since Apple refuses to either port Quicktime to Linux or provide info so somebody else can implement compatibility, we have to go around hacking stuff like this.
Lack of (certain niche) applications certainly hurts Linux, but it's NOT the Linux community's fault. And I guess if the companies don't want to target their products for us Linux users, then too bad for them, it's lost business for them, not for me.
One of the best narrations of a cross-country trip (and it's even more than just that), is Phil Greenspun's Travels with Samantha. Great photos too; this sounds like a good/fun thing to do while traveling, plus if you're not already a good photographer, it's a great chance to improve.
Last word, my ass. The AdTI paper is so freaking biased and badly written, that we'll be ripping it apart for weeks to come. Unfortunately, it'll do little good until a) a serious and polite rebuttal, aimed at the same kind of people the original paper is aimed at, gets written, and b) it gets diffusion equal or superior to that of the AdTI document. The much maligned, "inflammatory" rebuttals that have been written and published in mostly-linux weblogs are little more than preaching to the choir.
Perhaps some of the big Open Source organizations can help? someone from the Free Software camp? the FSF perhaps?
Well, the "cheesy 70's photo" is actually a still taken from Wargames, which was released in 1983. On it you can see matthew broderick and ally sheedy. Yeah, everybody else has said it, so i will too : a great movie, even if the technology, which plays an integral part in it, didn't age so gracefully. To the masses it will look "70's" and "cheesy" but to those of us who were into computers back then, it's a real flashback.
after reading hominids you will realize that it purposefully leaves a lot of loose ends, since it quite likely sets the scene for something big bound to happen on the next two books on the series. So while by itself hominids might not seem like robert sawyer's best (a notion with which i disagree, so far i haven't read a rjs book i didnt like and i prefer not to rate them against each other), do keep in mind that its just the beginning of something that could be good.
It's not the same thing. You obviously haven't seen the masses that congregate to see this man. We're talking about ALL the streets along the man's route through a city JAM-PACKED with people. We're talking about so many people gathering at a mass officiated by the Pope, that they don't fit in even the largest stadiums, so it has to be organized on some unused extension of land, in which several hundred thousand people gather to see this.
BTW, last time anyone compared the beatles to a religious figure (i think it was John, right? "we're more famous than jesus christ"), it was a mess. I even think they got kicked out of that country (the philippines, right?). So just because you've never seen the fervor with which people defend and idolize religious icons (be it john paul II or jesus christ,or mohammed, or allah or whoever), don't think it's the same as a few hundred girls longing after tom cruise.
I know how and when the internet started. So do you, and obviously you realized that, prior to 1994-1995, only the few of us who know stuff about computers had internet access; hell, most people outside the geek community didn't even know the internet existed; for them it was just a fantasy out of some bizarre sci-fi movie.
My point is that, by those days, a series of factors came together that began a massive migration of people from BBSes to using mostly internet services. While BBSes were still around for a while, we found that most people preferred accessing the internet, as for them the plethora of available information seemed more attractive than a BBS with a few files and barely anyone else on-line at the same time.
And that's referring to our BBS users; a lot of people who didn't have any contact with on-line communications (or computers, for that matter) became lured to "that thing called the internet" at that time. A lot of people bought modems those days; a lot of people got computers just to access the internet. BBSes never had that kind of pull, that kind of media hype.
In the end, while at around those dates the internet began getting pushed as the next big thing, BBSes have remained the province of hackers and "the computer whiz-kid" next door.
back then the sysops were real men and the users looked up to us in such admiration.
On-line games such as trade wars were great, where you'd plan group strategy through mail and then log in at stepped, agreed-upon times to carry it out.
Back then, on systems with 2+ lines, multi-person chats were the big thing.
QWK packets were fantastic for reading messages off-line and freeing up the bbs for someone else. I kinda miss them now.
Also, networks like FIDONet were an incredible mess to set up (have seen few things so complicated since then), but once they were up and running it was incredibly fun and satisfying to exchange messages with other local boards, as well as with the guys from other countries.
And then the internet came and killed it all!
heheh
Yeah, only difference is Stallman isn't a dogmatic leader to 2 billion people (see here for statistics). You wouldn't believe how much power over the masses the Pope has. I've seen people flock to the streets and wait for 2-3 hours just to catch a glimpse of his holiness passing by (yes, 2 hours waiting for a 5-second sighting). And people absolutely refusing to compromise on ANY point the Pope has decided on, is totally frustrating.
Plus, RMS's views are definitely more open to debate than the Pope's (or the church's for that matter). No chance of me getting excomulgated for saying RMS is an asshole (which i don't think he is, but anyway).
"I was wondering how to tie a World Cup story into Slashdot. Congratulations to Senegal."
Well taco, given how topical a lot of stories are (and don't even get me started on Ask Slashdot), i guess you could just post match scores on the front page.
This is a good place to start a flamewar on slashdot's US-centered-ness, since it looks like the US is one of the few countries where the soccer world cup isn't a completely paralyzing event (what with matches airing at 1 and 3 AM central US time, i bet a lot of sports fans across the continent will show up at work late and half-asleep, if at all, for the next month).
At long last, and hopefully every single one of my sco-using customers will finally see a reason to migrate from that.
SCO has got to be the single ugliest, un-friendliest, most incomplete and failure-prone unix i've ever used. I was called in to solve problems even the dedicated admins couldn't, and they always turned out to be windows-like, unexplainable glitches that took lots of kludging around to fix.
the BSA spends millions each year conducting audits and scare campaigns against pirates (a lot of them "alleged", i guess). And still, piracy is rampant and increasing every day.
Gee, could this mean a) their tactics don't work, b) they're not doing their jobs as vigorously as they should?
you understand better than you think. Meaning, right, there's absolutely NO DAMN NEED to replace said equipment. It's obvious that this lawsuit is frivolous, an attempt from the spammer to annoy and harass the spamee or the guys who keep the spammer list into not messing with him. (either that, or the spammer's tech guy said all that stuff was needed and is just ripping off the spammer).
:)
Personally I think that kind of behavior merits physical violence, but that's just me.
hopefully as the HURD evolves, RMS will be able to migrate to that and stop his hypocritical use of the Linux kernel.
How two-sided his posture turned out to be, first using Linux to create the first complete GNU system some 8 years before he could have done the same with his own kernel, then turning violently on both Linus and the Linux community for not living up to his high moral standards.
Hope he goes the HURD way and stops trying to impose himself on Linux users.
Wonder what ever happened to the demon linux project, an attempt to build a complete linux-based system with BSD utilities, as opposed to GNU.
Ah hell, we can always go the BSD route for everything I guess.
he basically assessed my symptoms, which could indicate any one (or more) of CTS, dequervain's disease, or tennis elbow, then suggested a test to determine which one it really was (electro-miography). We treated things with systemic anti-inflammatory medication and lots of rest, which eased the symptoms somewhat.
I started having CTS symptoms about 4 years ago. I switched to an ergo keyboard (ms-natural clone) and that helped the problem a bit. At least it delayed further deterioration until about 4 months ago, when it got bad enough that I went to see a doctor.
So I can tell you an ergo keyboard won't solve the problem by itself, altough it does help. You need an integral approach to a comfortable workspace. When I started getting worse a few months ago, I changed my table for one in which the keyboard is a bit lower and that's been helping me a good deal.
yes, so one of your sims could become osama or the unabomber and blow the crap out of the city!
OK let's see.. the matrix bested phantom menace for the visual effects oscar.. TPM was widely disappointing while the matrix was that year's big surprise... lucas gets constantly labeled as a media whore here on slashdot.. and yet taco still looks forward to a star wars-related mmorpg?
:)
guess we can only hope it doesn't turn out to be another star wars computer game disappointment