Now if only I could start using it!
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Unfortunately, my employer is hell-bent on using SQL Server. What's worse, they're hell-bent on not spending any money, which leaves us with a SQL 2000 database running on a server that was "just okay" in 2002 serving ~100 users running CPU intensive reports and performing a few hundred thousand transactions a day..
Or at least it is at the BS level. The idea is to teach people how to break big problems down into little problems (functions and subroutines), how to efficiently handle data (data structures classes), how to communicate (networking classes), and how to understand what is actually going on at an arbitrary functional level (programming languages and compiler design). A person who has mastered these skills can easily learn accounting, legal jargon, and data center management. At the the higher end of the spectrum (MS, PhD), CS principles can be applied towards math solving and system modeling, which can be applied toward the hard sciences.
You're close to the mark, but the actual issue we're running into with CS is that it is a support science, and has little value when only applied toward itself, unlike physics, chemistry, biology, etc. So once you graduate with a CS degree, you have to learn whatever skill it is you're going to be supporting.
Hrm, it seems you're right on the drug czar thing, according to wikipedia. *shrug* i never heard of it before 2002. The last administration certainly increased the quantity of "czars" in this country by quite a bit, though.
I was blaming him for the Department of Homeland Security, various "Czars", and taxing the poor to ensure the welfare of the rich, which was the topic of this particular thread. All these things are the result of, or were exacerbated by, the previous administration. See great-great-grandparent post and great-grandparent post for details for details.
no, because it lets you easily split files back in the days before there were a lot of compression technologies to choose from. Also, it has checksums that help when you're trying to correct corrupt downloads via parity files (i think.. haven't used newsgroups in a while)
The Fed is a bastardized institution that benefits nobody, and has very little real power. If we had a central bank where loans were given directly to those that need them for modest interest rates, we wouldn't be in this situation. But, as usual, greed prevailed. Oh, and by the way, communism != socialism, no matter what Rush Limbaugh tells you.
yeah, we socialists were definitely the ones who decided to deregulate the banks and thus cause the collapse of the entire fucking world economy! Also, I love how you're telling someone seeking freedom you don't want him here because he doesn't share your views.
That actually makes a lot of sense... Remove the wildcards and you'll be able to get a much more accurate result for everyone else. You might suffer a bit when you're reccomending to people who like movies that are absolutely terrible, but you'd make up for it my not factoring that into the equation at all. This is, of course, assuming that only a few people actually watched those movies.
Okay... So what if I like apples. And I have a username that starts with S. Now we've already established that I can see how many other people like apples. Can I see how many other people like apples that have usernames that start with S? And then can I see how many other people like apples, and have usernames that start with 'Sp'? I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. I may just be a cynical bastard with a math education insufficient to understand the technique by which this works, but it sounds like the idea is to intentionally weaken the encryption.
Fair enough, but how is that better than just "anonymizing" data from a database through a one-way hash and then removing all directly identifiable info (client ID, etc)?
Abstractly, we accomplish this by enabling the encrypter to start the decryption process, leaving less work for the decrypter, much like the server leaves less work for the decrypter in a server-aided cryptosystem.
Umm... That doesn't ease my concerns about this already disturbing prospect..
Okay, maybe I'm a noob when it comes to encryption, but I was under the impression that if you were able to read the encrypted email, you were probably able to read the encrypted recipient address too. Is there something I'm missing here?
haha I know, and you're right. It's just hard to do when you see a "Java is actually faster than optimized assembly" thread (not that this is one, but you know what I'm talking about). To be honest I've been baiting the flames just so I can see a few of those. They make me smile:)
This is the point java fanboys never seem to get! The library code is fast because its compiled. The JIT code is still damn slow, and the initial load times are horrendous.
If only we could have those 2-week programming courses you give your Indian programmers before you let them loose on mission-critical projects, imagine what great programmers we could be!
Party-line Democrats - scared shitless of losing their contributions and having to live off the "meager" salaries provided them
Party-line Republicans - busy having building an army of peasants to wage a crusade against the blasphemers who dare speak against "The Free Market"
Libertarians - quivering in their pants over the upcoming circle jerk session
Socialists - praying to their agnostic, vague concept of god that this will happen and the country will have a modern health care system within our lifetimes
Christian conservatives - bitching that the money should be spent on abstinance-only education and overturning Roe vs. Wade instead
Labour democrats - freaked out that nobody will care about the unions if we have socialized health care
Communists - In Soviet Russia, healthcare gets you!
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Unfortunately, my employer is hell-bent on using SQL Server. What's worse, they're hell-bent on not spending any money, which leaves us with a SQL 2000 database running on a server that was "just okay" in 2002 serving ~100 users running CPU intensive reports and performing a few hundred thousand transactions a day..
Or at least it is at the BS level. The idea is to teach people how to break big problems down into little problems (functions and subroutines), how to efficiently handle data (data structures classes), how to communicate (networking classes), and how to understand what is actually going on at an arbitrary functional level (programming languages and compiler design). A person who has mastered these skills can easily learn accounting, legal jargon, and data center management. At the the higher end of the spectrum (MS, PhD), CS principles can be applied towards math solving and system modeling, which can be applied toward the hard sciences.
You're close to the mark, but the actual issue we're running into with CS is that it is a support science, and has little value when only applied toward itself, unlike physics, chemistry, biology, etc. So once you graduate with a CS degree, you have to learn whatever skill it is you're going to be supporting.
Hrm, it seems you're right on the drug czar thing, according to wikipedia. *shrug* i never heard of it before 2002. The last administration certainly increased the quantity of "czars" in this country by quite a bit, though.
I was blaming him for the Department of Homeland Security, various "Czars", and taxing the poor to ensure the welfare of the rich, which was the topic of this particular thread. All these things are the result of, or were exacerbated by, the previous administration. See great-great-grandparent post and great-grandparent post for details for details.
no, because it lets you easily split files back in the days before there were a lot of compression technologies to choose from. Also, it has checksums that help when you're trying to correct corrupt downloads via parity files (i think.. haven't used newsgroups in a while)
um.. those things are all the fault of the previous "conservative" administration. dumbass.
The Fed is a bastardized institution that benefits nobody, and has very little real power. If we had a central bank where loans were given directly to those that need them for modest interest rates, we wouldn't be in this situation. But, as usual, greed prevailed. Oh, and by the way, communism != socialism, no matter what Rush Limbaugh tells you.
yeah, we socialists were definitely the ones who decided to deregulate the banks and thus cause the collapse of the entire fucking world economy! Also, I love how you're telling someone seeking freedom you don't want him here because he doesn't share your views.
the only western country smart enough to decriminalize weed, and a staunch supporter of free speech.
That actually makes a lot of sense... Remove the wildcards and you'll be able to get a much more accurate result for everyone else. You might suffer a bit when you're reccomending to people who like movies that are absolutely terrible, but you'd make up for it my not factoring that into the equation at all. This is, of course, assuming that only a few people actually watched those movies.
how the flying fuck did this get modded off-topic? its a direct quote from TFA.
Once you figure out why you're not interested, you can then address that problem and the coders block will fix itself.
So what you're saying is I need to quit my job?
Maybe its legal as long as he closes his eyes?
Okay... So what if I like apples. And I have a username that starts with S. Now we've already established that I can see how many other people like apples. Can I see how many other people like apples that have usernames that start with S? And then can I see how many other people like apples, and have usernames that start with 'Sp'? I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. I may just be a cynical bastard with a math education insufficient to understand the technique by which this works, but it sounds like the idea is to intentionally weaken the encryption.
Fair enough, but how is that better than just "anonymizing" data from a database through a one-way hash and then removing all directly identifiable info (client ID, etc)?
Abstractly, we accomplish this by enabling the encrypter to start the decryption process, leaving less work for the decrypter, much like the server leaves less work for the decrypter in a server-aided cryptosystem.
Umm... That doesn't ease my concerns about this already disturbing prospect..
Okay, maybe I'm a noob when it comes to encryption, but I was under the impression that if you were able to read the encrypted email, you were probably able to read the encrypted recipient address too. Is there something I'm missing here?
haha I know, and you're right. It's just hard to do when you see a "Java is actually faster than optimized assembly" thread (not that this is one, but you know what I'm talking about). To be honest I've been baiting the flames just so I can see a few of those. They make me smile :)
I love how the java lovers mod every negative thing said about java as "Flamebait".
This is the point java fanboys never seem to get! The library code is fast because its compiled. The JIT code is still damn slow, and the initial load times are horrendous.
Never mind that 1ml is MUCH smaller than 1 fl. oz.
We'll have to nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
They're like roaches.. They can withstand a nuclear apocalypse..
If only we could have those 2-week programming courses you give your Indian programmers before you let them loose on mission-critical projects, imagine what great programmers we could be!
those mod points would be used for insightful, just to be clear