From what I've read, and I'll grant you it's not that much Hmmm, it seems maybe I should have donemorereading prior to submission. Ignore what I said about it not being a wireless issue..
It might just about work in a country where there is no radio or TV broadcasting or mobile telephony to interfere with, and no panic about the effects of stray RF waves on the human body. I think you may be a little confused. Those are arguments against forms of wireless communication. Broadband over power uses existing power lines that supply the electricity to your establishment, nothing to do with wireless communication whatsoever.
From what I've read, and I'll grant you it's not that much, BPL is actually quite good and stable. Although I do question the speeds that they're claiming to be able to get. You might be able to get speeds like that in a very local network, and I've even heard of technologies that can provide 1 Gbps over power lines, but the moment you expand it into an ISP situation like they're describing I highly doubt they'll be able to provide that much bandwidth to every user.
Where are they teaching it actively again? I'm a student on computer science at the moment and all they teach in any depth is Java. The only reason I know c++ is my desire to learn it, despite the fact that various parts of my course have recently required a fairly in depth knowledge of c++.
My favorite lecturer quote, "Oh, I don't really do any coding at all".
Most routers include an update firmware feature. Surely when the shit hit's the fan and the big changeover is done, all the complaints from users and purchasers will force the companies to release new firmwares for their routers?
Woah, even I can't tell if I'm being sarcastic or not!
It's not tv owning, it's receiving a broadcast television signal. You can have a tv or monitor without a license so long as it is not used to receive broadcast television. Broadcast is everything including analogue tv, freeview, cable and satellite, but strangely not the iPlayer, unless it's a live feed which don't exist yet. This would not include owning/renting copies of dvd's, having a load of tv saved on your pc, or using the tv to play games on etc.
The tv licensing website is amazingly vague on this subject because they like to harass people into thinking they need to pay a tv license when they really don't, and, well, I guess the vast majority of tv users are required to have a tv license. But the problem is if you're one of these few that works their way around needing a tv license then it takes one heck of alot of effort to stop them hounding you with threatening letters in a big red font. I think to get them to stop this time I copied their exact layout and font and paraphrased the threats they were making to me right back at them. Funnily enough I haven't heard from them since.
Fair enough if they're replacing a faulty product with a faulty product. That would be against the terms of the warranty, and hence the time to sue. But you have to get to that stage instead of just going ballistic and suing them in the first place.
However, you cannot ALWAYS demand specific compensation until they start going against the terms of their warranty, and if in their warranty it says that THEY choose whether or not to give you a non-faulty replacement, then that's what you get. You can't bitch about it because by purchasing the item you agreed to their warranty.
Someone mod this guy up!! I'm fed up with this typical attitude of "omg let's sue them!!" There's no point if the situation can be resolved some other sensible way. Suing should be saved for when they start refusing to refund/replace the faulty product, not because the product doesn't quite work because they messed it up. Warranties exist for a reason!!
Aye but the thing about sound cards is that they're cheap and you most likely already have one. If it suits the purpose then why not? When you're attempting mischeif you don't necessarily have yours hands on that kind of equipment nor necessarily the means to purchase it. Reasonably priced is surprisingly unreasonable for us poor students.
My use was reverse engineering a device to cause a lecturer of mine a little more stress than normal, and in that case you can't exactly go asking them for specialist equipment. Starts ringing alarms bells...
A sound card is a cheap alternative to a digital and more importantly, recordable oscilloscope. By plugging the radio into the sound card, it allowed them to record the individual bit's being sent by the device to be analysed using a waveform viewer. If you were using a normal oscilloscope for that purpose the data flashes on the screen so fast it's impossible to be useful in any way, except possibly to read the carrier frequency of the signal, which is something your sound card would probably have alot of trouble doing because they're generally too slow.
It might be just me but if I happened to be in an emotional state, I really wouldn't want the UI to change.
I'm stressed cus I can't find this button, oh thank god there it is so I relax, hey presto the button has moved... ARGH!!!!
More like WTF are you on man?? If a compiler is able to work out what a variable is, what piece of code does what, which bit's of text are going to be displayed, then another spell checking program can be written to recognise this too!! It would be tricky, and there are many circumstances where it could be circumvented but why not still use it to prevent a possible spelling error, and the circumstances where it cannot tell what the word is, so what. Those circumstances you learn to spell but there's nothing wrong with another program to help prevent it!
This is a good idea, and one that can be implemented. Just because it's hard to do it right, and would need to be done seperately for different languages doesn't change the fact it would still be useful and help prevent errors.
"because the jurors wouldn't understand the complex issues at stake". If judges are equally deficient in understanding, then really - what's the point of removing an ancient right to trial by jury? The difference I see is that if the judge does not understand the term, he can stop and ask for it to be explained. Whereas a jury, if not unable to do this, could be less likely to. If the jury, consisting of (let's face it) common people, might not understand it, a supposedly much smarter judge will have more of a chance to understand it. It is also alot easier to teach one person to understand than a whole jury. Then again, this could also be considered as being alot easier to convince one person that your viewpoint is correct, and therefore could detriment the case, hence the point of a jury.
This is so right!! I'm currently a CS student at Edinburgh UK, have been for four years now. I managed to fail first year twice, and dya know why? Cus of a mixture of two things. One they couldn't teach for shit and I lost interest!! And two, the material was sooooo boring!! I've been programming bits and pieces since I was twelve so I go to uni to be taught what an integer is, and how to use a for loop. Cmon!! Stupidity.
Fair enough some people have not got that experience, and what I say to that is read a book and do the exercises. Take deital and deital for example, read the chapter do the exercises, that gives the fucking lecturers time to introduce us to cool interesting sides of programming instead of all this bollocks theory!!
The maths in the course is also far too theoretical. I can start to see how it can be used in real life, but it's taken me a while because they give absolutely no examples whatsoever!! The teachers rattle away about the simplest of concepts in such a complicated manner that it just goes straight over your head.
From the boredom I've now switched to a CS & EE joint degree, simply from the boredom of the CS. I need this CS degree because it will get me alot further than not having it, and put simply, they need to get the stick out of their ass and suddenly start teaching us stuff we need to know.
And don't get me started on the goddamn lecturers they choose. Some 20 something phd student that didn't find programming entertaining enough to actually go out and do it, and instead chose to do a phd in maths. Yeah, a phd in maths is really going to be good at teaching me to program. And I quote my lecturer as of last week when we all had to point out the error in her code: "Oh I don't really do any programming, I just study maths." This from the woman teaching me how to program!! No thanks!!
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From what I've read, and I'll grant you it's not that much, BPL is actually quite good and stable. Although I do question the speeds that they're claiming to be able to get. You might be able to get speeds like that in a very local network, and I've even heard of technologies that can provide 1 Gbps over power lines, but the moment you expand it into an ISP situation like they're describing I highly doubt they'll be able to provide that much bandwidth to every user.
Where are they teaching it actively again? I'm a student on computer science at the moment and all they teach in any depth is Java. The only reason I know c++ is my desire to learn it, despite the fact that various parts of my course have recently required a fairly in depth knowledge of c++.
My favorite lecturer quote, "Oh, I don't really do any coding at all".
Most routers include an update firmware feature. Surely when the shit hit's the fan and the big changeover is done, all the complaints from users and purchasers will force the companies to release new firmwares for their routers?
Woah, even I can't tell if I'm being sarcastic or not!
It's not tv owning, it's receiving a broadcast television signal. You can have a tv or monitor without a license so long as it is not used to receive broadcast television. Broadcast is everything including analogue tv, freeview, cable and satellite, but strangely not the iPlayer, unless it's a live feed which don't exist yet. This would not include owning/renting copies of dvd's, having a load of tv saved on your pc, or using the tv to play games on etc. The tv licensing website is amazingly vague on this subject because they like to harass people into thinking they need to pay a tv license when they really don't, and, well, I guess the vast majority of tv users are required to have a tv license. But the problem is if you're one of these few that works their way around needing a tv license then it takes one heck of alot of effort to stop them hounding you with threatening letters in a big red font. I think to get them to stop this time I copied their exact layout and font and paraphrased the threats they were making to me right back at them. Funnily enough I haven't heard from them since.
Fair enough if they're replacing a faulty product with a faulty product. That would be against the terms of the warranty, and hence the time to sue. But you have to get to that stage instead of just going ballistic and suing them in the first place.
However, you cannot ALWAYS demand specific compensation until they start going against the terms of their warranty, and if in their warranty it says that THEY choose whether or not to give you a non-faulty replacement, then that's what you get. You can't bitch about it because by purchasing the item you agreed to their warranty.
Someone mod this guy up!! I'm fed up with this typical attitude of "omg let's sue them!!" There's no point if the situation can be resolved some other sensible way. Suing should be saved for when they start refusing to refund/replace the faulty product, not because the product doesn't quite work because they messed it up. Warranties exist for a reason!!
Aye but the thing about sound cards is that they're cheap and you most likely already have one. If it suits the purpose then why not? When you're attempting mischeif you don't necessarily have yours hands on that kind of equipment nor necessarily the means to purchase it. Reasonably priced is surprisingly unreasonable for us poor students.
My use was reverse engineering a device to cause a lecturer of mine a little more stress than normal, and in that case you can't exactly go asking them for specialist equipment. Starts ringing alarms bells...
A sound card is a cheap alternative to a digital and more importantly, recordable oscilloscope. By plugging the radio into the sound card, it allowed them to record the individual bit's being sent by the device to be analysed using a waveform viewer. If you were using a normal oscilloscope for that purpose the data flashes on the screen so fast it's impossible to be useful in any way, except possibly to read the carrier frequency of the signal, which is something your sound card would probably have alot of trouble doing because they're generally too slow.
It might be just me but if I happened to be in an emotional state, I really wouldn't want the UI to change. I'm stressed cus I can't find this button, oh thank god there it is so I relax, hey presto the button has moved... ARGH!!!!
Ah I see Apple are still using the HCF function in their assembly code
More like WTF are you on man?? If a compiler is able to work out what a variable is, what piece of code does what, which bit's of text are going to be displayed, then another spell checking program can be written to recognise this too!! It would be tricky, and there are many circumstances where it could be circumvented but why not still use it to prevent a possible spelling error, and the circumstances where it cannot tell what the word is, so what. Those circumstances you learn to spell but there's nothing wrong with another program to help prevent it!
This is a good idea, and one that can be implemented. Just because it's hard to do it right, and would need to be done seperately for different languages doesn't change the fact it would still be useful and help prevent errors.
Finally... An alternative to one handed typing...
This is so right!! I'm currently a CS student at Edinburgh UK, have been for four years now. I managed to fail first year twice, and dya know why? Cus of a mixture of two things. One they couldn't teach for shit and I lost interest!! And two, the material was sooooo boring!! I've been programming bits and pieces since I was twelve so I go to uni to be taught what an integer is, and how to use a for loop. Cmon!! Stupidity. Fair enough some people have not got that experience, and what I say to that is read a book and do the exercises. Take deital and deital for example, read the chapter do the exercises, that gives the fucking lecturers time to introduce us to cool interesting sides of programming instead of all this bollocks theory!! The maths in the course is also far too theoretical. I can start to see how it can be used in real life, but it's taken me a while because they give absolutely no examples whatsoever!! The teachers rattle away about the simplest of concepts in such a complicated manner that it just goes straight over your head. From the boredom I've now switched to a CS & EE joint degree, simply from the boredom of the CS. I need this CS degree because it will get me alot further than not having it, and put simply, they need to get the stick out of their ass and suddenly start teaching us stuff we need to know. And don't get me started on the goddamn lecturers they choose. Some 20 something phd student that didn't find programming entertaining enough to actually go out and do it, and instead chose to do a phd in maths. Yeah, a phd in maths is really going to be good at teaching me to program. And I quote my lecturer as of last week when we all had to point out the error in her code: "Oh I don't really do any programming, I just study maths." This from the woman teaching me how to program!! No thanks!!