The difficulty with this program's goals is that they are incorrectly equating the skills needed for a computer science degree with what the CURRENT job market needs are that can be satisfied with a CS degree. A college education educates. A trade school trains. This is a trade school pretending to give a BS CS diploma. I'm sure they could never get an ABET accedited Computer Engineering degree out of this nonsense.
NT is one of the only operating systems the FDA approves for class 2 (and higher, I think) medical devices. It's funny to say Windows NT bombs out all the time, but that's mostly because of driver issues. The fact remains that for embedded/turnkey applications, NT is about as stable an OS as you can get. It got that job by replacing OS/2 (in ATM software, etc) not by replacing a UNIX platform.
Mod me down if you want, but you know it'd be abusive, and this is totally on-topic.
Manalapan is basic the south, richer end of Palm Beach. Palm Beach County. The only thing in Manalapan is ~200 $4 million+ homes, all situated on a thin strip of land between Lake Worth (the lake) and the ocean. Basically the residents want to turn their town into a gated community. This policy would allow the police to identify traffic into and out of the community as desirable or not, just as any gated community. With the synergies of information from the PATRIOT act, they can easily identify who is a "worker" "resident" or potential thief (or worse, a real estate agent).
The police in Manalapan are already looking at what color the people are who are driving, but it's difficult to tell if brown people are working there, instead of (naturally) robbing houses. As far as I'm concerned, the residents of Manalapan are a bunch of well-back rich bastards with nothing better to do than whine and complain. This is just another in a long line of questionable governmental actions/decisions coming out of Manalapan.
As far as my credibility, I've lived most of my life in Jupiter, FL (about 20 miles north).
For those who don't know, a "well-back" is a derogotory term for a transplanted New Yorker/New Jerseyite.
He insists, though, that he has always honored requests for removal from his list, something now required by the new law.
"If someone is mad, all they need to do is unsubscribe," he said. "If you don't want to get it, I don't want to send it to you."
He admits in the article to "honoring unsubscribe requests." However, the article states that there is no way to prove that he is, or that the emails are actually from him.
Umm, 14-8 with a 3.84 ERA, the ace of the Braves rotation and a gold glove winner? Apparently MLB owners and managers know more about the worth of players than the writer of this article.
The author seems to have a single point--Unix machines have security built in at a ground level (primarily because the root user really is the only one with power to mess things up) and a bunch of fluff material to fill out the article. I figured this guy would look at the systems from a usability standpoint and realize that sometimes you need an OS that has to allow you to install things even if you are clueless, because you don't have a full time system admin. Maybe if he spent more time researching what people actually use computers for instead of using his security buzzword hammer (Social Engineering!) he might have actually put together an insightful article instead of a bunch of not well thought out drivel.
Perhaps SCO placed the alleged IP infringing code into the linux kernel themselves. Maybe the code contains a timebomb so as to cause a distributed denial of service attack against SCO, giving them more publicity. I wonder when the Underpants Gnomes are going to sue SCO for patent infringement for their unique business model...
One of my friends from the University of Florida has written a book about just this sort of thing called "That Gunk on Your Car."
Check it out...
That Gunk on Your Car
My favorite definition of irony
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Besides the obligatory Blackadder reference, which was already posted and was the first thing that came to my mind, my favorite definition comes from the book "An Incomplete Education." I'm not going to whore with an amazon referral link. I'm sure everyone knows how to look for it.
An excerpt:
"Unlike wit, its meaning, or rather bundle of meanings, has held fairly steady over time: Always it's implied that there are two sets of listeners keyed in to the same statement, story, or piece of information, and that one of them gets it--sees it for what it is, in all its poignancy or complexity or awfulness--and the other one doesn't. If you're in the former set, congratulations: The ability to recognize irony, expecially in writing (where there are no facial expressions or vocal inflections to help it, and you, along), has for centuries been regarded as one of the surest tests of intelligence and sophistication."
-- "An Incomplete Education", J. Jones & W. Wilson, (c) 1987
They go on to define the five types of irony: Socratic, dramatic/tragic, romantic, cosmic and verbal.
I'll summarize each of them, without referring directly to the text.
Socratic : asking pointless, naive questions while feigning ignorance to blast holes in the victim's belief system, dogma, etc.
Dramatic/tragic : The audience knows something that the character's on stage do not. Ex: Oedipus vows revenge on the murderer of his father, and everyone in the audience gasps. (In case you skipped fourth grade that week, Oedipus killed his father without realizing it...)
Cosmic : God mocks or sports with mortals. Like in "Clash of the Titans," where Zeus and Hera are playing games with the little clay figurines...
Romantic : Where the author reveals that the characters are fictions created and manipulated by him. (Sort of jumping back to the meta-level while in narrative). I wonder if the woman at the beginning of "Hitchhikers" (whose story it was not about) would qualify as this...
Verbal : Using juxtaposition or understatement to say something which (sometimes) may be vague enough to leave you wondering exactly what the intended meaning is. Ex: Calling a 500 pound athlete "Tiny" is irony, in and of itself. It would be "extra special ironic" if you were calling him "Tiny" when the prevailing rumor says that he has undersized genitalia. It would be even more ironic if "Tiny" called himself "Tiny" without knowing about the rumor.
Java keeps moving the target of what it does well. First it's going to replace windows. Then it was going to write once and run anywhere. Then it's really going to work in embedded systems. Now it's really for mission critical back end server stuff where a bunch of IT geeks are having to write code.
When an immature domain pops up, Java is immediately the language that people think of because it's merely adequate at everything.
What's next? Java is the language of choice of web services and ASP's? Java is the XML parser of choice?
No wonder the job market sucks. No one paying the bills trusts any of the technology.
The extant literature on recent advances in software engineering encompasses the task of taking real world problems and finding real world solutions. In order to produce a huge system from a tremendous amount of primary and countless derived requirements, some measure of problem space reduction and abstraction must be performed. UML provides some of those tools. There is a job description for specialists that revolves around implementing the latest in software technologies to bring to market projects that ten years ago seemed impossible to produce yet can now be accomplished with a staff of six in twelve months.
Instead of advertising or search engines to drive traffic to a site that has absolutely no content, let's scam slashdot into posting it as an article. Did the poster actually check out the site to see that there wasn't anything there?
It's an inside joke from "The Devil's Dictionary."
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum -- whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.
Just remember, if you think it's stupid, you mighty not be as smart as you think. You might not have gotten the joke.
I would say that a software engineer uses programming as a tool. Writing code is a small part of the process of producing high quality software. The entire programmer as "craftite" versus software engineer debate is going to be over quickly when the complexity of software reaches a point where, in order to compete, you have an across-the-board need to treat software development and its organization with an engineering mindset.
When you're writing it for free it doesn't matter how you do it, because the product doesn't fit in with any business need. You don't need to compete. Let see...we have cost, schedule and features. We don't care about cost, because we're doing it in our spare time. We don't care about schedule, because we have no market window because we're giving it away for free. We don't care about features because if there's not something there that people want, they will ask for it and we'll put it in later. If the product doesn't fit a need, or there's a better product out there, our product will drop off the face of the earth as if it never existed.
So my answer is that free software uses craftite programmers (or at least software engineers acting in a craftite capacity). Real software--the kind that people pay for--requires software engineering--competent professionals capable of providing engineering expertise for mission critical applications.
If I have a company producing circuit boards, I can hire 5 guys with no college background to do board layouts. They WILL refer to themselves as electrical engineers. All the real electrical engineers WILL laugh at them behind their backs. If you call yourself a software engineer, any REAL engineer will be able to tell the truth in a minute long conversation.
So, if you're not an engineer, but you want to say you are, don't hang around any real engineers.
The fact is that increased H1B's were lobbied to congress because of the threat of unionized engineers. The Boeing engineer strike of the early 90's was the trigger. The executives and VC's in Silicon Valley saw the handwriting on the wall, and decided to become "politically active."
BTW, I have worked for a company where we had 3 H1B visa workers who represented a skillset (computer vision and AI) that was not available in the market. They were paid the prevailing wage (close to 6 figures at the time). They were sponsored by the company, however, and not some outsource body shop. They were from China and Italy.
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The difficulty with this program's goals is that they are incorrectly equating the skills needed for a computer science degree with what the CURRENT job market needs are that can be satisfied with a CS degree. A college education educates. A trade school trains. This is a trade school pretending to give a BS CS diploma. I'm sure they could never get an ABET accedited Computer Engineering degree out of this nonsense.
NT is one of the only operating systems the FDA approves for class 2 (and higher, I think) medical devices. It's funny to say Windows NT bombs out all the time, but that's mostly because of driver issues. The fact remains that for embedded/turnkey applications, NT is about as stable an OS as you can get. It got that job by replacing OS/2 (in ATM software, etc) not by replacing a UNIX platform.
Mod me down if you want, but you know it'd be abusive, and this is totally on-topic.
BTW, I am Jewish. There's no West Bank style security fence surrounding PB County keeping out the non-Jews, the last I heard.
Manalapan is basic the south, richer end of Palm Beach. Palm Beach County. The only thing in Manalapan is ~200 $4 million+ homes, all situated on a thin strip of land between Lake Worth (the lake) and the ocean. Basically the residents want to turn their town into a gated community. This policy would allow the police to identify traffic into and out of the community as desirable or not, just as any gated community. With the synergies of information from the PATRIOT act, they can easily identify who is a "worker" "resident" or potential thief (or worse, a real estate agent).
The police in Manalapan are already looking at what color the people are who are driving, but it's difficult to tell if brown people are working there, instead of (naturally) robbing houses. As far as I'm concerned, the residents of Manalapan are a bunch of well-back rich bastards with nothing better to do than whine and complain. This is just another in a long line of questionable governmental actions/decisions coming out of Manalapan.
As far as my credibility, I've lived most of my life in Jupiter, FL (about 20 miles north).
For those who don't know, a "well-back" is a derogotory term for a transplanted New Yorker/New Jerseyite.
For instance --
Well, back in New Jersey, we got good deli...
I hope the following issues were considered:
Does it come preformatted?
How long does it take to perform a defragment?
I think the hard drive metaphor for storage is starting to reach its limits...
78 years later, Analysis complete. 78% defragmentd. Would you like to defragment now?
It's probably due to global warming and all those toxic chemicals in the ground that seeped into the earth's core.
From the article:
He insists, though, that he has always honored requests for removal from his list, something now required by the new law. "If someone is mad, all they need to do is unsubscribe," he said. "If you don't want to get it, I don't want to send it to you."
He admits in the article to "honoring unsubscribe requests." However, the article states that there is no way to prove that he is, or that the emails are actually from him.
Umm, 14-8 with a 3.84 ERA, the ace of the Braves rotation and a gold glove winner? Apparently MLB owners and managers know more about the worth of players than the writer of this article.
Software is already easier to edit than with Powerpoint.
I can do it with notepad.
The author seems to have a single point--Unix machines have security built in at a ground level (primarily because the root user really is the only one with power to mess things up) and a bunch of fluff material to fill out the article. I figured this guy would look at the systems from a usability standpoint and realize that sometimes you need an OS that has to allow you to install things even if you are clueless, because you don't have a full time system admin. Maybe if he spent more time researching what people actually use computers for instead of using his security buzzword hammer (Social Engineering!) he might have actually put together an insightful article instead of a bunch of not well thought out drivel.
Perhaps SCO placed the alleged IP infringing code into the linux kernel themselves. Maybe the code contains a timebomb so as to cause a distributed denial of service attack against SCO, giving them more publicity. I wonder when the Underpants Gnomes are going to sue SCO for patent infringement for their unique business model...
So much for trying to be funny...
I would figure that if these 33733t haxor d00dz knew what they were doing, they'd remove the spyware phone home portion when they cracked it.
One of my friends from the University of Florida has written a book about just this sort of thing called "That Gunk on Your Car."
Check it out...
That Gunk on Your Car
Besides the obligatory Blackadder reference, which was already posted and was the first thing that came to my mind, my favorite definition comes from the book "An Incomplete Education." I'm not going to whore with an amazon referral link. I'm sure everyone knows how to look for it.
An excerpt:
"Unlike wit, its meaning, or rather bundle of meanings, has held fairly steady over time: Always it's implied that there are two sets of listeners keyed in to the same statement, story, or piece of information, and that one of them gets it--sees it for what it is, in all its poignancy or complexity or awfulness--and the other one doesn't. If you're in the former set, congratulations: The ability to recognize irony, expecially in writing (where there are no facial expressions or vocal inflections to help it, and you, along), has for centuries been regarded as one of the surest tests of intelligence and sophistication."
-- "An Incomplete Education", J. Jones & W. Wilson, (c) 1987
They go on to define the five types of irony: Socratic, dramatic/tragic, romantic, cosmic and verbal.
I'll summarize each of them, without referring directly to the text.
Socratic : asking pointless, naive questions while feigning ignorance to blast holes in the victim's belief system, dogma, etc.
Dramatic/tragic : The audience knows something that the character's on stage do not.
Ex: Oedipus vows revenge on the murderer of his father, and everyone in the audience gasps. (In case you skipped fourth grade that week, Oedipus killed his father without realizing it...)
Cosmic : God mocks or sports with mortals. Like in "Clash of the Titans," where Zeus and Hera are playing games with the little clay figurines...
Romantic : Where the author reveals that the characters are fictions created and manipulated by him. (Sort of jumping back to the meta-level while in narrative). I wonder if the woman at the beginning of "Hitchhikers" (whose story it was not about) would qualify as this...
Verbal : Using juxtaposition or understatement to say something which (sometimes) may be vague enough to leave you wondering exactly what the intended meaning is.
Ex: Calling a 500 pound athlete "Tiny" is irony, in and of itself. It would be "extra special ironic" if you were calling him "Tiny" when the prevailing rumor says that he has undersized genitalia. It would be even more ironic if "Tiny" called himself "Tiny" without knowing about the rumor.
Java keeps moving the target of what it does well. First it's going to replace windows. Then it was going to write once and run anywhere. Then it's really going to work in embedded systems. Now it's really for mission critical back end server stuff where a bunch of IT geeks are having to write code.
When an immature domain pops up, Java is immediately the language that people think of because it's merely adequate at everything.
What's next? Java is the language of choice of web services and ASP's? Java is the XML parser of choice?
No wonder the job market sucks. No one paying the bills trusts any of the technology.
Just my rant,
Larry
Surely someone has figured out a way to link together a mixed network of Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advances into a Beowulf cluster.
Oh well. I thought they were selling something cool, like Minas Tirith or Minas Morgul.
I want to surf the web on my wireless handheld and have it recharge.
The extant literature on recent advances in software engineering encompasses the task of taking real world problems and finding real world solutions. In order to produce a huge system from a tremendous amount of primary and countless derived requirements, some measure of problem space reduction and abstraction must be performed. UML provides some of those tools. There is a job description for specialists that revolves around implementing the latest in software technologies to bring to market projects that ten years ago seemed impossible to produce yet can now be accomplished with a staff of six in twelve months.
The job description is "Software Architect."
Instead of advertising or search engines to drive traffic to a site that has absolutely no content, let's scam slashdot into posting it as an article. Did the poster actually check out the site to see that there wasn't anything there?
It's an inside joke from "The Devil's Dictionary."
CARTESIAN, adj.
Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum -- whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.
Just remember, if you think it's stupid, you mighty not be as smart as you think. You might not have gotten the joke.
Sure, the review sounds great, but the Third Edition Unix System Administration Handbook by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass and Hein is the book to get.
I would say that a software engineer uses programming as a tool. Writing code is a small part of the process of producing high quality software. The entire programmer as "craftite" versus software engineer debate is going to be over quickly when the complexity of software reaches a point where, in order to compete, you have an across-the-board need to treat software development and its organization with an engineering mindset.
When you're writing it for free it doesn't matter how you do it, because the product doesn't fit in with any business need. You don't need to compete. Let see...we have cost, schedule and features. We don't care about cost, because we're doing it in our spare time. We don't care about schedule, because we have no market window because we're giving it away for free. We don't care about features because if there's not something there that people want, they will ask for it and we'll put it in later. If the product doesn't fit a need, or there's a better product out there, our product will drop off the face of the earth as if it never existed.
So my answer is that free software uses craftite programmers (or at least software engineers acting in a craftite capacity). Real software--the kind that people pay for--requires software engineering--competent professionals capable of providing engineering expertise for mission critical applications.
If I have a company producing circuit boards, I can hire 5 guys with no college background to do board layouts. They WILL refer to themselves as electrical engineers. All the real electrical engineers WILL laugh at them behind their backs. If you call yourself a software engineer, any REAL engineer will be able to tell the truth in a minute long conversation.
So, if you're not an engineer, but you want to say you are, don't hang around any real engineers.
The fact is that increased H1B's were lobbied to congress because of the threat of unionized engineers. The Boeing engineer strike of the early 90's was the trigger. The executives and VC's in Silicon Valley saw the handwriting on the wall, and decided to become "politically active."
BTW, I have worked for a company where we had 3 H1B visa workers who represented a skillset (computer vision and AI) that was not available in the market. They were paid the prevailing wage (close to 6 figures at the time). They were sponsored by the company, however, and not some outsource body shop. They were from China and Italy.