Comment Re:A video game idea ? (Score 1) 99
You could always play Rex Ronan - Experimental Surgeon for the SNES although I highly do not recommend it.
I can't prove a negative.
However, do yourself a favor and read the 9/11 Commission reports.
Come back to me with a direct quote where Bush said Saddam was directly connected to 9/11.
In fact, I'm currently reading through an archive of Bush's speeches on 9/11, and there is not one mention of Saddam.
Lol. Not. It was a halo product all along. If I'm wrong, let's see some numbers. Put up or shut up.
...Right. So, Sun did not build their technology platform and market position around Java? I am not going to go dig through quarterly investor reports to placate your smug ignorance. If you think Java was not a big thing for Sun, I am not going to bother trying to convince you otherwise.
Keep on moving those goalposts shitfucker. Redhat buys into all of that GNU stuff, they buy into it 10x more than Sun ever did. And now Redhat is "hiding" things on their site out in the open in their "about us" page and their marketing magazines and employee blogs. Rrrright.
...yes! Yes, moron! They keep it out of their marketing materials! Holy fucking goddamn. They talk about free software and gnu when talking with developers but not when communicating to customers.
Besides this, Red Hat doesn't spend as much on development as Sun did. Red Hat spends money developing projects that benefit their core server market ONLY like KVM or the kernel or GCC. Core technologies. They don't waste money on things like OpenOffice. Red Hat is more focused. They profiteer off the community while Sun gave finished software to the community. Sun was a technology developer and Red Hat is more of a technology packager. Open source makes some sense if you use it as a technology springboard-- but open sourcing Java was worthless to Sun. Same with Solaris. It was utterly pointless. So, instead of using the community to build their product, they merely lost their product to the community. Thus, Sun "believed" in open source. Red Hat is more pragmatic. For everything they give, they sell a massive platform that they only develop a small part of. Red Hat has more flexibility than Sun because they don't own the Linux platform.
Fuck this, it's a waste of time. You're like a child.
No, I get what you are saying. Your problem is, it has zilch to do with the premise you promoted and I disputed - that Sun markets to 'freetards' and Redhat doesn't. You make up bullshit about the original point and you muddy the waters with random unsupported assertions and blatant opinion on tertiary points that you desperately want to focus on in order to avoid admitting defeat on your original claim.
What the fuck are you talking about? What was that in reference to? When the fuck did I say Sun sold to freetards? Where did you get that? I was talking about Netgear selling to freetards. I was only referencing Sun as an example of a company that was bitten by embracing open source wholeheartedly.
Sun was strangled by open source, but for entirely different reasons. You're arguing with yourself, you twat.
I am not arguing with you anymore. You're dense as shit.
What has been banned are bulbs over 100 W
Yep, I've been trying to buy 150W bulbs... 60W really are no use to me.
I'll look into the Halogen/Phillips/GE - thanks
Yes, Gen Ed requirements are a key component of regional accreditation. Regional accreditation is an expensive process due to the documentation required, along with some requirements for operational capital, physical plant, library/information resources, etc.
You're correct about the gen ed requirements and proprietary colleges; these colleges are often focused on career/vocational training and dispense with the typical liberal arts curriculum in favor of either less credits to degree overall or more practical courses in a specific subject area.
However, the creme does rise to the top eventually.
That's NOT creme.
Once you persevere from the more plebeian positions into the management/executive level, your body of work is far more important.
Which means the only body of work which is important is management work. Which means a developer's body of work is _never_ important. Great news for those of us with no interest in management.
Some earlier posters have touched on this, but a very major hurdle to Open Source higher education in the United States is accreditation by a regional accrediting body. These bodies are the ones that essentially say "your programs meet minimum standards" and having accreditation is what makes your degree able to transfer from one school to the next. There are already many private colleges (ITT Tech, Corinthian, Webster, etc), but they're not regionally accredited.
Regional accreditation is extremely important when it comes to transferability of college credit. Because all regional accreditors agree to fairly common standards for educational institutions (qualified faculty, etc), if I'm reviewing your transcript from an institution in California, and I'm an admissions officer in Massachusetts, I know that your education has met certain minimum standards.
Absent regional accreditation, I can't easily make that decision. I have to get syllabi for every course you've taken, along with the course catalog and evaluate each course manually to determine whether the content is equivalent.
Hmm... my CS curriculum must be pretty weird, then. In neither high school nor university have I taken any class that even suggested Visual Studio. I can and have used it on some of my assignments, but I've also used kate, gvim, netbeans, eclipse (OK, this one was for work; I prefer NB for my Java coding), and even Monodevelop (which is sadly inferior to VS, but gets the job done for C# and can even use VS project files). I think the only major code editor I've never used is Xcode, although I'm not personally a fan of emacs.
As for using a makefile... makefiles are easy; the basic knowledge required is the material of a single 50-minute lesson at worst. Learning the intricacies of GNU make vs. bmake vs. cmake vs. nmake is an irritating, but not difficult, exercise in use of a search engine. On the other hand, I've not found much where a makefile is actually the best possible way to do something. Sometimes it's the best solution easily available, but I'd really rather let my development tools take care fo that for me, so I can focus on writing and testing code.
As for high-cost, you do realize the "Express" editions of Visual Studio (which are basically the same as the normal editions, except each one provides support for only one language) are free of charge, don't you?
MS is a company with tons of spare cash, literally. Hitting them with a monetary penalty will make them laugh, and continue on their merry ways.
Perhaps a percentage-based fine? Such as a two-digit percentage of their global gross profit? Being hit with something like that, given their history of dubious practices likely to recur in future, could well see the stock price (and thus the value of assorted executives' portfolios) dipping noticeably.
Psst... cost of a private cervical smear test in the UK: £140 (about US$ 230).
Fox News, CNN, and The Onion are all equally credible. At least The Onion's whole purpose is to post outright lies, parodies, and so forth. The others just do it to support their respective political bents. Both Fox and CNN are guilty of cherry-picking facts in many cases, conflating news reports with op-eds, and in some cases, fabricating "news" reports.
If you want actual unbiased news, check out the Wall Street Journal. It may be a bit more dry but when it comes to dollars and cents, investors don't fool around and won't tolerate any bias. They want the real news and WSJ delivers.
I program, therefore I am.
