I would love to spend money at auction so that I could spend money to provide free Internet access on which I had to spend money to filter obscene content and face paying more money if those filters don't work. Sign me up!!
The monkey in the pictures had his own arms restrained within tubes so that he/she would be forced to use the mechanical arm in order to get the marshmallow, and the mechanical arm isn't oriented so that the monkey could possibly mistake it for his/her own arm. I can't help but wonder what the monkey's opinion of all this is. It's got to be more than a little confusing.
Your purchase will be on the radar of manufacturers. Not just the one that sells you the PC, but also the ones that make the graphics, wifi, and other peripherals. That means hardware and driver support because they know it's really in their financial best interest to do so.
The main point is that someone who passes this test either knows that it's illegal to share copyrighted materials that they aren't licensed to share or they have gone through some effort to remain ignorant, which would lead one to believe that they know that they are doing is wrong and want to remain ignorant about the details.
MS's stock has been headed down, and will continue to do so. Selling Yahoo stock for MS stock would be like abandoning a seemingly good row boat for a sinking yacht, and leaving the row boat in the path of the yacht to get smashed.
MS doesn't know what to do with Yahoo. If they did they could and would have done it without Yahoo a long time ago. If they do acquire them at some point it's going to become more of a mess than it already is and all of the value that it does have will be squandered.
Threads are good and bad. Same with Goto. I use both, but avoid using goto when it's not needed and avoid using threads when they don't make sense.
Most programming languages that people use directly have several branching statements that hide the Gotos to make them less likely to be harmful when dealing with common types of their uses.
The erlang language was created just to deal with threads, and makes them a lot more difficult to hurt yourself with.
When doing this you have to be ready for what you might find and how to handle it. It's likely that there's some stuff that his family would rather not know existed, like porn.
There may also be evidence of some illegal activity, which may implicate people besides himself. How might you handle that?
As far as actually doing the job, don't start with his accounts on sites. Start with his laptop and school accounts. You can ask the school for assistance and even if they have a policy against it if you ask they should make a backup and let a court decide if his parents get the data. If he's a minor this should probably be a sure thing.
On his laptop, make a backup of the harddrive image. Then always work with a copy. It's likely that if you can run a web browser with his config files it might remember his passwords for the sites you are interested in, which would save you a lot of work. If he's uber security minded you're in for some hard work.
With the sites he has accounts on you can try figuring out who else might have some sort of access already. If you found one MySpace friend on the private account you might persuade them to let you look at it through their account. Or maybe just give a summary of some stuff on it that they think might be of interest if they feel like some of it is secrets that should die with him.
As far as trying to crack passwords for accounts, I have no suggestions. Try to work around having to do this.
My grandmother has a digital camera with a motion sensor for taking pictures of birds and such in her yard.
It uses an SD card, and you can get SD cards with WiFi (eye-fi or something like that) that I think will upload the picts automatically. Maybe this type setup is what you're looking for.
The camera she has is in a green weather proof case and has a flash. It's not something that the bad guys can't steal, though.
If I remember correctly the IMIPAK seemed to turn victims into brown vomit puddles once they had been "told" that they were dead. I imagined that it turned their entire bodies into cancer or something, but I was a kid when I saw it.
It was a pretty creative weapon, and that was one of the few episodes that I saw:-)
Hope the new version is good and gets picked up.
It really depends on what kind of programming you want to do, and even then there are many other factors.
I wouldn't trade my CLA computer science experience for anything, but I would trade some of my other CLA experiences.
Theory is most important to me. It's what lets me figure out what's going on when something starts acting funky. I'm a firmware engineer and all my coworkers are electrical engineers who can produce code more quickly than me, but mine is smaller, easier to understand, and more easily tested than theirs.
Other colleges of liberal arts' CS departments may not be the same, and I did tend to do research rather than work on what I was supposed to so I learned stuff beyond what was taught, but it worked for me. I know plenty of sharp programmers who went to other types of schools and plenty of less bright people that went to my own school, so mileage is an lvalue. (look it up, if you don't know)
The only real down side was that it seemed fairly difficult to convince people that a CS major could do firmware. People around here seemed to think that was what electrical engineers were for, but I always thought they were supposed to design circuits.
In this particular case I think that the distinction is important. Saying that something is a better algorithm doesn't imply that it gives a better result(s) as all correct results are semantically the same. Algorithms are ranked on their resource usage.
Heuristics are ranked on the perceived goodness of their results. Algorithms must have the same correct results by definition.
I'd say that doing certain things with linux are more fun, but that's not really apparent before you try those things on linux and on alternatives.
What I really like is that it's really a good environment and target for programmers. The system just makes sense from the perspective of programmers, and the tools are almost always there. The system calls make more sense then what I've seen from windows, and most anything I'm curious about I can find pretty easily.
There's a compiler or interpreter for most any language I've ever been interested in using, and installing a new language isn't usually gonna screw something up later.
It's just so open and it makes sense to me. That's why I like to use it.
It is for students that know how to program well, and from looking at some of the projects from past years a lot of them are pretty good at getting things done. I admire their ability to step into a new project like that and make real non-trivial contributions in a relatively short amount of time.
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I would love to spend money at auction so that I could spend money to provide free Internet access on which I had to spend money to filter obscene content and face paying more money if those filters don't work. Sign me up!!
He/she might be thinking "I wish this @#$@ing robot arm thing would quit stuffing those @%#$ed marshmallows in my mouth!"
The monkey in the pictures had his own arms restrained within tubes so that he/she would be forced to use the mechanical arm in order to get the marshmallow, and the mechanical arm isn't oriented so that the monkey could possibly mistake it for his/her own arm. I can't help but wonder what the monkey's opinion of all this is. It's got to be more than a little confusing.
Your purchase will be on the radar of manufacturers. Not just the one that sells you the PC, but also the ones that make the graphics, wifi, and other peripherals. That means hardware and driver support because they know it's really in their financial best interest to do so.
That's what I was thinking.
The main point is that someone who passes this test either knows that it's illegal to share copyrighted materials that they aren't licensed to share or they have gone through some effort to remain ignorant, which would lead one to believe that they know that they are doing is wrong and want to remain ignorant about the details.
MS's stock has been headed down, and will continue to do so. Selling Yahoo stock for MS stock would be like abandoning a seemingly good row boat for a sinking yacht, and leaving the row boat in the path of the yacht to get smashed. MS doesn't know what to do with Yahoo. If they did they could and would have done it without Yahoo a long time ago. If they do acquire them at some point it's going to become more of a mess than it already is and all of the value that it does have will be squandered.
Threads are good and bad. Same with Goto. I use both, but avoid using goto when it's not needed and avoid using threads when they don't make sense. Most programming languages that people use directly have several branching statements that hide the Gotos to make them less likely to be harmful when dealing with common types of their uses. The erlang language was created just to deal with threads, and makes them a lot more difficult to hurt yourself with.
How does this affect my life?
George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer -- the real axis of evil!
When doing this you have to be ready for what you might find and how to handle it. It's likely that there's some stuff that his family would rather not know existed, like porn. There may also be evidence of some illegal activity, which may implicate people besides himself. How might you handle that? As far as actually doing the job, don't start with his accounts on sites. Start with his laptop and school accounts. You can ask the school for assistance and even if they have a policy against it if you ask they should make a backup and let a court decide if his parents get the data. If he's a minor this should probably be a sure thing. On his laptop, make a backup of the harddrive image. Then always work with a copy. It's likely that if you can run a web browser with his config files it might remember his passwords for the sites you are interested in, which would save you a lot of work. If he's uber security minded you're in for some hard work. With the sites he has accounts on you can try figuring out who else might have some sort of access already. If you found one MySpace friend on the private account you might persuade them to let you look at it through their account. Or maybe just give a summary of some stuff on it that they think might be of interest if they feel like some of it is secrets that should die with him. As far as trying to crack passwords for accounts, I have no suggestions. Try to work around having to do this.
Anytime I find a job tedious and repetitive I write a program to do it. Hope that helps!
My grandmother has a digital camera with a motion sensor for taking pictures of birds and such in her yard. It uses an SD card, and you can get SD cards with WiFi (eye-fi or something like that) that I think will upload the picts automatically. Maybe this type setup is what you're looking for. The camera she has is in a green weather proof case and has a flash. It's not something that the bad guys can't steal, though.
More than just the humans were counted in the 7. The computer made out of Plexiglas was one of the 7.
If I remember correctly the IMIPAK seemed to turn victims into brown vomit puddles once they had been "told" that they were dead. I imagined that it turned their entire bodies into cancer or something, but I was a kid when I saw it. It was a pretty creative weapon, and that was one of the few episodes that I saw :-)
Hope the new version is good and gets picked up.
It really depends on what kind of programming you want to do, and even then there are many other factors. I wouldn't trade my CLA computer science experience for anything, but I would trade some of my other CLA experiences. Theory is most important to me. It's what lets me figure out what's going on when something starts acting funky. I'm a firmware engineer and all my coworkers are electrical engineers who can produce code more quickly than me, but mine is smaller, easier to understand, and more easily tested than theirs. Other colleges of liberal arts' CS departments may not be the same, and I did tend to do research rather than work on what I was supposed to so I learned stuff beyond what was taught, but it worked for me. I know plenty of sharp programmers who went to other types of schools and plenty of less bright people that went to my own school, so mileage is an lvalue. (look it up, if you don't know) The only real down side was that it seemed fairly difficult to convince people that a CS major could do firmware. People around here seemed to think that was what electrical engineers were for, but I always thought they were supposed to design circuits.
In this particular case I think that the distinction is important. Saying that something is a better algorithm doesn't imply that it gives a better result(s) as all correct results are semantically the same. Algorithms are ranked on their resource usage. Heuristics are ranked on the perceived goodness of their results. Algorithms must have the same correct results by definition.
Aren't these heuristics and not algorithms?
I'd say software (and documentation) testing (QA) would be very good for you. Another would be tech support.
Yipes. I've never really looked at memmove's code before. Thanks for pointing that out.
I don't think that this problem is very likely since to my knowledge few applications ever flip the direction flag.
I'd say that doing certain things with linux are more fun, but that's not really apparent before you try those things on linux and on alternatives. What I really like is that it's really a good environment and target for programmers. The system just makes sense from the perspective of programmers, and the tools are almost always there. The system calls make more sense then what I've seen from windows, and most anything I'm curious about I can find pretty easily. There's a compiler or interpreter for most any language I've ever been interested in using, and installing a new language isn't usually gonna screw something up later. It's just so open and it makes sense to me. That's why I like to use it.
It is for students that know how to program well, and from looking at some of the projects from past years a lot of them are pretty good at getting things done. I admire their ability to step into a new project like that and make real non-trivial contributions in a relatively short amount of time.
It'd be a more appropriate name if it was a monolithic kernel.
And that's why I hate when GCC complains when I'm using an unsigned char as an array index on an AVR.