As Africa's most populous country, it's got millions of mobile subscribers. This is one prime market that's often overlooked as the West focuses on the BRIC markets...
As an Intern, I was tasked with fixing the CEOs laptop....in so doing, I had to format it. Well, I backed up everything except for his Outlook email file (.pst)...and he never used to store anything on the server. It's a wonder I wasn't fired.
Tablet PCs like the ipad could be a compromise...for genuine students who want to use their machines for note-taking, but don't want to distract anyone behind them. But then again, your average college student wouldn't be having a tablet..
Tablet PCs such as the ipad could be compromise...for genuine students who want to use their machines for note-taking, but don't want to distract anyone behind them. But then again, your average college student wouldn't be having a tablet...
Maybe tablets such as the ipad would be some kind of compromise, for students who genuinely need their machines for note taking but dont want to distract the people behind them. But then again, your average college student may not have a tablet...
Not to look down on the efforts made by Google to prevent attacks, but doesn't this pose a huge security risk? The payload from being able to hack into a users profile from this service would be huge...
"...a poorly crafted governance structure that concentrates authority at the top and leaves little power to others who might join the foundation."
Doesn't look like it captures the OSS development spirit, to me...
Giving a live example as an introduction, sort of like a case study, will make your presentation more interesting. They should see how they can relate the security / privacy issue to their specific context...even better is to hack something right there and then, before their very eyes!
Everyone loves a performance, so, be a performer.
...the FUNGAME MANIFESTO v1.1!! All the Science behind every fun game there ever was, distilled in a nice, just mix-with-water, logic! 101 best practices for every game developer idiot and game developer dummy!...fun games guaran-teeed!!!...then all the games get fun. Then it all gets boring....then one breaks out from the mold. And that's different. And it's fun. Fun is now redefined! Wowee!......And so the cycle continues..
I think the most destructive part about this affair is that, well, it's out in the open. So we may never know if it indeed worked because Slashdot Et Al have spread the word. So complicated yet so blown...as many here have said, nothing's stopping the bad guys from using it on the good ones now.
A workaround, for criminals, to this, I suppose is to make their existing operations a lot more secretive. No more E-Bay style auctioning or other easy and convenient routes of trade... to participate, you'd have to be privy to codewords and the like. And we're sort of back to square 1. Yes, the fun that was e-commerce dissipates but then again, that was never the main aim was it?
Now it's all about policy and bottom line. That's privatisation for you. It works wonders with inefficient utilities and such but this? By placing such restrictions, they are nipping the very root from which such institutions begin.
What's so wrong with FORTRAN? From the sound of things, it's like the guy committed a crime or something...if it was so 'destructive' or whatever then how come it got so popular? Or did it? Why did so many choose to use it? And for that matter, what IS 'constructive'? Maybe C++? And whatever that is, it wasn't influenced in any way by FORTRAN?
Just evolution, people... the TV scorning the radio as backward!?
I remember reading a book called 'The pattern in the stone' whose author was saying that computers can be made from different materials other than electricity, conductors, metals, silicon..etc. It's just a matter of implementing the different logic gates...Electricity is just the fastest, cleanest and most efficient and reliable way so that whys it's defacto. He also mentioned a water computer. He had infact, even made a whole automated tic-tac-toe computer game out of wood. All this had seemed a bit far-fetched then...
Webmaster is such an ambiguous and egotistic title which actually has no meaning...I mean webMASTER? What the..? Might as well make it webwizard, webking...
And what would a webmaster do anyway, master the web?!? Maybe this was relevant pre-1993 when only a handful knew what the 'web' is let alone to use it.
Maybe this job still has promise...the internet is awash with information which still must be navigated, maybe a research assistant or something. Then again there is always Google and Wikipedia.
I think the problem boils down to making the computer ready to perform (at least in theory) a trillion different tasks, flawlessly (again, in theory), and maybe even concurrently (theory once again)......and we still expect it all to be done within a few seconds of startup time. Yes, your TV comes on immediately, but compare the work done by your TV and your PC.
Why not give some mind-blowing tradeoffs...NO NEED to have a fullblown PC when I only want to do a, b, and c. My PC should emulate my pocket calculator in terms of features, and I should expect just those features and no more from it, but at such speeds too.
Then again, ramping up your hardware should solve all these problems....(in theory).
This was a question posed in a book I read a while ago, by some reknown mathematician...for all his accomplishments, he couldn't help but wonder...was any of it really helping to describe the universe better and broadening our knowledge of it (thus, a discovery), or was more of it simply a figment of his stretched imagination?
So Nullity may now 'officially' mean n/0 but what does it mean really? Is it just another term for, say, infinity or undefined?
It must have been quite an experience to be taught C++ by Stroustrup himself! But I imagine he may have spent half his time defending the mechanics of the language versus 'safer' implementations....but on the other hand, he seemed to have been somewhat an open-minded person judging from his interview with TechReview.
you have to admit, almost everything has been packaged in libraries and stuff already. I also appreciate the nitty-gritty of coding myself, but I find that more and more, it's going to become somewhat irrelevant doing everything all over again. If something's been done already, why re-do it? But yes, in an academic environment this shouldn't be the case. Students should have to get down to understanding it all in detail.
I think the internet ofcourse, fuels the progress (or not) of programming in general. It's like a java class I was in a while ago. One project pupils were asked to do was to make a 'hang-man' game. I thought that would be a real challenge for people...it turns out all it took was less than a minute of googling to get the exact source code from somewhere.
Actually, I like VB. I believe it's good for what it's for- RAD and if properly used (as applies to any tool). But too often its seen as some kind of panacea, at least in this part of the world, for IT education. It's probably the power of the Microsoft brand (if not the product(s) ) at work here...
...at a university I know, they start teaching you programming in...Visual Basic. I can imagine the effect that has on the poor confused heads here who never eventually grasp other languages (including VB).
Maybe if they started with something like Pascal or something...but thats just not 'modern' or cutting edge nowadays...
I think this is the case in many institutions leading to low quality coders.
...but as a kid I used to dabble in cells and wires and stuff....I made this game where you have a wire frame that's convoluted with bends and spirals, attached to cells and a bulb and then a looped wire with a holder. You have to pass the loop ever so carefully from one end to another without the bulb lighting up (the loop touches the wire and completes the circuit). Not an original idea (I saw something like this on TV) but I was amazed at how something that can be so much fun can be so simple to make!
Also, when I started programming (few years on) I managed to make a simple file splitting utility and a little later, a program for changing the colours of bitmap files, in Turbo Pascal, and I was so happy and proud at that, (of course, I later discovered freeware versions of both on the web that were quite superior to what I had made) but that really meant something to me.
...I'm pretty sure that growling huge man with bloodshot eyes and a huge dagger, running towards me and less than 10 metres away could be having only one thing in mind....
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As Africa's most populous country, it's got millions of mobile subscribers. This is one prime market that's often overlooked as the West focuses on the BRIC markets...
As an Intern, I was tasked with fixing the CEOs laptop....in so doing, I had to format it. Well, I backed up everything except for his Outlook email file (.pst)...and he never used to store anything on the server. It's a wonder I wasn't fired.
Tablet PCs like the ipad could be a compromise...for genuine students who want to use their machines for note-taking, but don't want to distract anyone behind them. But then again, your average college student wouldn't be having a tablet..
Tablet PCs such as the ipad could be compromise...for genuine students who want to use their machines for note-taking, but don't want to distract anyone behind them. But then again, your average college student wouldn't be having a tablet...
Maybe tablets such as the ipad would be some kind of compromise, for students who genuinely need their machines for note taking but dont want to distract the people behind them. But then again, your average college student may not have a tablet...
Not to look down on the efforts made by Google to prevent attacks, but doesn't this pose a huge security risk? The payload from being able to hack into a users profile from this service would be huge...
"...a poorly crafted governance structure that concentrates authority at the top and leaves little power to others who might join the foundation." Doesn't look like it captures the OSS development spirit, to me...
Giving a live example as an introduction, sort of like a case study, will make your presentation more interesting. They should see how they can relate the security / privacy issue to their specific context...even better is to hack something right there and then, before their very eyes! Everyone loves a performance, so, be a performer.
...the FUNGAME MANIFESTO v1.1!! All the Science behind every fun game there ever was, distilled in a nice, just mix-with-water, logic! 101 best practices for every game developer idiot and game developer dummy!...fun games guaran-teeed!!! ...then all the games get fun. Then it all gets boring. ...then one breaks out from the mold. And that's different. And it's fun. Fun is now redefined! Wowee!... ...And so the cycle continues..
...you're as happy, TV watching or not, as you affirm yourself to be. Or is it joy you are talking about?
I think the most destructive part about this affair is that, well, it's out in the open. So we may never know if it indeed worked because Slashdot Et Al have spread the word. So complicated yet so blown...as many here have said, nothing's stopping the bad guys from using it on the good ones now.
A workaround, for criminals, to this, I suppose is to make their existing operations a lot more secretive. No more E-Bay style auctioning or other easy and convenient routes of trade... to participate, you'd have to be privy to codewords and the like. And we're sort of back to square 1. Yes, the fun that was e-commerce dissipates but then again, that was never the main aim was it?
Just my 2 cents. :)
I said "works Wonders" not "works Wonderfully". That said, the Los Alamos issue is neither wonderous nor wonderful.
Now it's all about policy and bottom line. That's privatisation for you. It works wonders with inefficient utilities and such but this? By placing such restrictions, they are nipping the very root from which such institutions begin.
What's so wrong with FORTRAN? From the sound of things, it's like the guy committed a crime or something...if it was so 'destructive' or whatever then how come it got so popular? Or did it? Why did so many choose to use it?
And for that matter, what IS 'constructive'? Maybe C++? And whatever that is, it wasn't influenced in any way by FORTRAN?
Just evolution, people... the TV scorning the radio as backward!?
I remember reading a book called 'The pattern in the stone' whose author was saying that computers can be made from different materials other than electricity, conductors, metals, silicon..etc. It's just a matter of implementing the different logic gates ...Electricity is just the fastest, cleanest and most efficient and reliable way so that whys it's defacto. He also mentioned a water computer. He had infact, even made a whole automated tic-tac-toe computer game out of wood. All this had seemed a bit far-fetched then...
Webmaster is such an ambiguous and egotistic title which actually has no meaning...I mean webMASTER? What the..? Might as well make it webwizard, webking...
And what would a webmaster do anyway, master the web?!? Maybe this was relevant pre-1993 when only a handful knew what the 'web' is let alone to use it.
Maybe this job still has promise...the internet is awash with information which still must be navigated, maybe a research assistant or something. Then again there is always Google and Wikipedia.
I think the problem boils down to making the computer ready to perform (at least in theory) a trillion different tasks, flawlessly (again, in theory), and maybe even concurrently (theory once again)......and we still expect it all to be done within a few seconds of startup time. Yes, your TV comes on immediately, but compare the work done by your TV and your PC.
Why not give some mind-blowing tradeoffs...NO NEED to have a fullblown PC when I only want to do a, b, and c. My PC should emulate my pocket calculator in terms of features, and I should expect just those features and no more from it, but at such speeds too.
Then again, ramping up your hardware should solve all these problems....(in theory).
...to get my new cellphone with the new network that uses this awesome technology!
Only to realise that the extremely high frequency is ionizing my head, and to make and receive my calls I use up all of 1 hundredth of its power.
That is progress indeed.
This was a question posed in a book I read a while ago, by some reknown mathematician...for all his accomplishments, he couldn't help but wonder...was any of it really helping to describe the universe better and broadening our knowledge of it (thus, a discovery), or was more of it simply a figment of his stretched imagination?
So Nullity may now 'officially' mean n/0 but what does it mean really? Is it just another term for, say, infinity or undefined?
It must have been quite an experience to be taught C++ by Stroustrup himself! But I imagine he may have spent half his time defending the mechanics of the language versus 'safer' implementations....but on the other hand, he seemed to have been somewhat an open-minded person judging from his interview with TechReview.
you have to admit, almost everything has been packaged in libraries and stuff already. I also appreciate the nitty-gritty of coding myself, but I find that more and more, it's going to become somewhat irrelevant doing everything all over again. If something's been done already, why re-do it? But yes, in an academic environment this shouldn't be the case. Students should have to get down to understanding it all in detail.
I think the internet ofcourse, fuels the progress (or not) of programming in general. It's like a java class I was in a while ago. One project pupils were asked to do was to make a 'hang-man' game. I thought that would be a real challenge for people...it turns out all it took was less than a minute of googling to get the exact source code from somewhere.
Actually, I like VB. I believe it's good for what it's for- RAD and if properly used (as applies to any tool). But too often its seen as some kind of panacea, at least in this part of the world, for IT education. It's probably the power of the Microsoft brand (if not the product(s) ) at work here...
...at a university I know, they start teaching you programming in...Visual Basic. I can imagine the effect that has on the poor confused heads here who never eventually grasp other languages (including VB).
Maybe if they started with something like Pascal or something...but thats just not 'modern' or cutting edge nowadays...
I think this is the case in many institutions leading to low quality coders.
...but as a kid I used to dabble in cells and wires and stuff....I made this game where you have a wire frame that's convoluted with bends and spirals, attached to cells and a bulb and then a looped wire with a holder. You have to pass the loop ever so carefully from one end to another without the bulb lighting up (the loop touches the wire and completes the circuit). Not an original idea (I saw something like this on TV) but I was amazed at how something that can be so much fun can be so simple to make!
Also, when I started programming (few years on) I managed to make a simple file splitting utility and a little later, a program for changing the colours of bitmap files, in Turbo Pascal, and I was so happy and proud at that, (of course, I later discovered freeware versions of both on the web that were quite superior to what I had made) but that really meant something to me.
...I'm pretty sure that growling huge man with bloodshot eyes and a huge dagger, running towards me and less than 10 metres away could be having only one thing in mind....