Infact, my guess is his webserver would be a good place to put the branding irons right about now. I can just see all these machines with a 'M' scorched into the side of them. That will keep the laptop rustlers away.
Yeah, I have had this also. ATnT is the worst for telemarketing. I have had where I tried to get the information that they aer required to give and was hungup on before I could ask to be put on the do-not-call list, not just once, twice. Both times I called ATnT and talked with someone who said it won't happen again, you are added to the DNC list and everything.
How are you supposed to stop these guys if they won't give you their name/company information? What do you do, call the FCC and complain? Yeah, I had someone call and I don't know who it is, tell them not to call again please? Yeah, that will go over real well.
I have heard of a prof that once required his own textbook to be used for the class. However, he also paid each student like < $2 that he got from each book sold.
Not such a bad thing I guess. But unless the prof was considered the authority in the field, I would rather a prof teach from someone else's book just to get more diversity in he class. You draw from the prof's experience and the experience of the book writer.
Qt is by a for profit company, TrollTech. They have written a sizeable chunk of code and get to choose the license. If you wrote the code you would get to choose the license.
I think TrollTech was brilliant in many ways with their license. You can either use their code for free, but you have to release your code. This works great to allow people to write code for kicks and popularizes their toolkit so it is used more often. Then their for profit license where people can choose to pay for the license and not have to open their app's code.
The only thing I dislike about TrollTech's license is that their windows and mac implementations are not offered under their open license.:-( If they were I think there would be no stopping Qt from taking off. I would actually pick it up and write some more than trivial apps if it were open on windows and mac, besides just linux.
Granted the moc and such is a terrible idea, but a C++ programming env that is so crossplatform is a great thing.
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Myself, I would avoid anything other than odbc/jdbc or another generic library for databases. Programming for a specific database is a bad plan in my view. There is a reason we use SQL to communicate with databases, why mess that up with using libpqxx or using native mysql calls? What you save in speed (assuming it is faster since it is native) you lose in portability.
That will get you up and running. With a few edits to/var/postgres/ config files and you are doing well. For all that you get for basically free a number of other features that are well beyond mysql.
Postgres works wonderfully for setting up a quick database. If you are more concerned for performance, then worry about the mysql/postgres debate. If you want a simple to setup database postgres does it for me.
If the work is not graded, there's no incentive to do the work. So don't grade the work. You'll eliminate students doing the work that way, and you can focus on actually hitting the bar students, rather than ranking them.
Of course, with education having little to do with education, I doubt this is possible.:(
Um, yeah. Brilliant. I had a prof in college that would give high marks on anything. You could probably turn in a blank paper and he would give you a good mark. Every student in the department knew this, however, he was the only prof to teach compiler design too. By the middle of the semester we (the students in the compiler class) had the prof removed and another prof brought in.
We learned nothing the first half of the semester, the second half with a prof that was challenging and required results we learned far more that in a full semester.
[offtopic] In your sig, the filename should be "-rf *", the 'f' is for force, it will help to take care of anyone who removes that 'w' bit from their files when they have archived something. [/offtopic]
This CD installs software, not just software, but a device driver? If you are not running as Administrator (or without admin rights), does this still work?
If so, what kind of idiot designs and OS that allows device drivers to be installed by a luser? That is brain dead.
Lets see, not to put down the "scientists" who have discovered why cookies crumble, but do you really think this group is the one that will discover the cure for AIDS if they had not been working on cookie discoveries?
With that in mind, I assume all of your resources are going to find a cure for AIDS? But wait! This gets better, AIDS is not the number one killer in the US. So, maybe we should say, "Hey scientists... Cancer! We still have cancer!" Or maybe something else.
I love on slashdot how everytime someone works on something that the slashbot doesn't think is noble enough of a cause they come up with what cause they should have been working on.
Maybe you should stop reading slashdot and go find a cure for AIDS...
Have you such a short memory? I believe less than two weeks ago we had an article posted here on how cities have their own weather patterns. So, yes, the other stuff we have created do affect weather patterns.
Don't get me wrong about this, I think alternative energy sources are pretty cool, and even plan on putting up a wind mill on the land my wife and I are building on next year.
However, my prediction is that even if we removed all the oil, coal, and nuclear based power schemes all these clean energy sources will be derided by environmental types as unclean and somehow harmful to the environement.
The extremists that run those organizations will stop at nothing less than the extinction of the human race.
Where do you call home? And what do you use for power?
My wife and I are looking into wind in our location (west Michigan) as that seems like it is the best bang for our buck. Solar is an option, but we are a bit north to consider it seriously except for "toy" purposes.
Now you say that you are living off the grid, is that completely off the grid (no inverter?). Also, from what I have read there is the option of doing all DC within the home, yet you need to get specific appliances to deal with DC only, is that something you have done?
Also, batteries: Where did you buy yours (assuming you are completely off grid you probably have these)? We have a "Batteries Plus" locally, but they only had low amp hour 24v batteries, and the price seemed fairly prohibitive.
Now, if you do actually have grid connection, does your power company actually buy your excess power? If they do, how is that done? Do they buy the excess power at the same rate as if you use it? Like, if I generated a lot of power to sell during the day, then had to buy power at night, is it a kwh balance, or what?
Example:
ToD / Generated / Used / sold / bought Daylight / 10kwh / 5kwh / 5kwh / 0kwh Night / 0kwh / 5 kwh / 0kwh / 5 kwh
Would I come out even in such a simple senario, or would I have to pay for electricity?
Anyways, if you have any answers, I'd love to hear them.
Not just that, but according to the article I read about this, they are shooting for only 10% effeciency. That means more sq. feet (sq. metric length unit for those out of the US) requirements. Area is already a major limiting factor with solar now.
One thing you never hear about with solar energy also is that the panel absorb a certain amount of heat that would normally be absorbed by the earth. Will this cause issues on a large scale?
Similar with wind generators, the energy taken from the wind is also removing energy that would be dispursed further down the line. Again, small scale doesn't seem to matter much.
However, a single combustion engine isn't a major issue either. So, while I think alternative energies are a wonderful and exciting thing, keep in mind, everything has environmental impact.
Hmmm, I think one method that might be a good idea, but probably pretty close to impossible would be watermarking code when it is check out. While it would not prevent the release of code, it could provide a route to determining who released it.
This might not be the best plan, but consider this: If when a file is checked out the source repository some how "marks" the file as you being the one to check it out. This mark could be introducing a typo into comments, or changing a certain tab to 8 spaces (probably too easy to get around with an "indent" type or program). The repository would have to keep track of the "watermarks" on a per user basis, but that wouldn't be terribley difficult I would think.
Again, this wouldn't work for full preventing leaks, it would help to trace who leaked the code.
This depends. Sometimes upgrading to a new machine is actually better. The older machine probably is missing many of the low power consumption advantages that now exist. Old monitors are terrible. Older printers are also drinking power too. So, make sure using an old part isn't just wasting electricity.
My boss came to my desk and said he had to talk to me. So, I followed and in there was his boos also. I figured I was about to get laid off, since there had already been two rounds of layoffs before. So, pretty much I said when I sat down, "I'm getting laid off, right?" They nod, "We hope to have work again within a month though." I say, "Sounds good, I hope to be employed elseware within a month." The say that the layoff goes into effect at the end of the week, which it was a tuesday. I head back to my desk, call my wife. I then tell my boss I am taking vacation for the rest of the week.
Hind sight says not to take vacation for the rest of the week as it might influence their references quality, but I was still working within about a month and half. So all wasn't too bad.
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Agreed. I thought the same thing.
More importantly, how do they taste?
Infact, my guess is his webserver would be a good place to put the branding irons right about now. I can just see all these machines with a 'M' scorched into the side of them. That will keep the laptop rustlers away.
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Mozilla gives me an "unknown certificate authority" warning here? Any reason for that?
Yeah, I have had this also. ATnT is the worst for telemarketing. I have had where I tried to get the information that they aer required to give and was hungup on before I could ask to be put on the do-not-call list, not just once, twice. Both times I called ATnT and talked with someone who said it won't happen again, you are added to the DNC list and everything.
How are you supposed to stop these guys if they won't give you their name/company information? What do you do, call the FCC and complain? Yeah, I had someone call and I don't know who it is, tell them not to call again please? Yeah, that will go over real well.
I have heard of a prof that once required his own textbook to be used for the class. However, he also paid each student like < $2 that he got from each book sold.
Not such a bad thing I guess. But unless the prof was considered the authority in the field, I would rather a prof teach from someone else's book just to get more diversity in he class. You draw from the prof's experience and the experience of the book writer.
Do not answer a foolo according to his folly, lest you become like him. If you like Proverbs ofcourse.
Or a slightly more modern version: Don't argue with an idiot, he will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Troll?
:-( If they were I think there would be no stopping Qt from taking off. I would actually pick it up and write some more than trivial apps if it were open on windows and mac, besides just linux.
Qt is by a for profit company, TrollTech. They have written a sizeable chunk of code and get to choose the license. If you wrote the code you would get to choose the license.
I think TrollTech was brilliant in many ways with their license. You can either use their code for free, but you have to release your code. This works great to allow people to write code for kicks and popularizes their toolkit so it is used more often. Then their for profit license where people can choose to pay for the license and not have to open their app's code.
The only thing I dislike about TrollTech's license is that their windows and mac implementations are not offered under their open license.
Granted the moc and such is a terrible idea, but a C++ programming env that is so crossplatform is a great thing.
I find your lack of faith... Amusing.
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You mean like odbc? Or do you mean like libpqxx?
Myself, I would avoid anything other than odbc/jdbc or another generic library for databases. Programming for a specific database is a bad plan in my view. There is a reason we use SQL to communicate with databases, why mess that up with using libpqxx or using native mysql calls? What you save in speed (assuming it is faster since it is native) you lose in portability.
Agreed.
/var/postgres/ /var/postgres
/var/postgres/ config files and you are doing well. For all that you get for basically free a number of other features that are well beyond mysql.
Between postgres and mysql, I definitely like postgres more. How easy can you get?
% initdb -D
% postmaster -D
% createdb adatabase
% psql adatabase
That will get you up and running. With a few edits to
Postgres works wonderfully for setting up a quick database. If you are more concerned for performance, then worry about the mysql/postgres debate. If you want a simple to setup database postgres does it for me.
Well, as of now (2:52) you are not slashdotted. One knows you well deserve it though. :-P
If the work is not graded, there's no incentive to do the work. So don't grade the work. You'll eliminate students doing the work that way, and you can focus on actually hitting the bar students, rather than ranking them.
:(
Of course, with education having little to do with education, I doubt this is possible.
Um, yeah. Brilliant. I had a prof in college that would give high marks on anything. You could probably turn in a blank paper and he would give you a good mark. Every student in the department knew this, however, he was the only prof to teach compiler design too. By the middle of the semester we (the students in the compiler class) had the prof removed and another prof brought in.
We learned nothing the first half of the semester, the second half with a prof that was challenging and required results we learned far more that in a full semester.
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In your sig, the filename should be "-rf *", the 'f' is for force, it will help to take care of anyone who removes that 'w' bit from their files when they have archived something.
[/offtopic]
Let me get this straight...
This CD installs software, not just software, but a device driver? If you are not running as Administrator (or without admin rights), does this still work?
If so, what kind of idiot designs and OS that allows device drivers to be installed by a luser? That is brain dead.
Are you one of those London Taxi drivers? How do you know that?
Lets see, not to put down the "scientists" who have discovered why cookies crumble, but do you really think this group is the one that will discover the cure for AIDS if they had not been working on cookie discoveries?
With that in mind, I assume all of your resources are going to find a cure for AIDS? But wait! This gets better, AIDS is not the number one killer in the US. So, maybe we should say, "Hey scientists... Cancer! We still have cancer!" Or maybe something else.
I love on slashdot how everytime someone works on something that the slashbot doesn't think is noble enough of a cause they come up with what cause they should have been working on.
Maybe you should stop reading slashdot and go find a cure for AIDS...
Have you such a short memory? I believe less than two weeks ago we had an article posted here on how cities have their own weather patterns. So, yes, the other stuff we have created do affect weather patterns.
Don't get me wrong about this, I think alternative energy sources are pretty cool, and even plan on putting up a wind mill on the land my wife and I are building on next year.
However, my prediction is that even if we removed all the oil, coal, and nuclear based power schemes all these clean energy sources will be derided by environmental types as unclean and somehow harmful to the environement.
The extremists that run those organizations will stop at nothing less than the extinction of the human race.
Where do you call home? And what do you use for power?
My wife and I are looking into wind in our location (west Michigan) as that seems like it is the best bang for our buck. Solar is an option, but we are a bit north to consider it seriously except for "toy" purposes.
Now you say that you are living off the grid, is that completely off the grid (no inverter?). Also, from what I have read there is the option of doing all DC within the home, yet you need to get specific appliances to deal with DC only, is that something you have done?
Also, batteries: Where did you buy yours (assuming you are completely off grid you probably have these)? We have a "Batteries Plus" locally, but they only had low amp hour 24v batteries, and the price seemed fairly prohibitive.
Now, if you do actually have grid connection, does your power company actually buy your excess power? If they do, how is that done? Do they buy the excess power at the same rate as if you use it? Like, if I generated a lot of power to sell during the day, then had to buy power at night, is it a kwh balance, or what?
Example:
ToD / Generated / Used / sold / bought
Daylight / 10kwh / 5kwh / 5kwh / 0kwh
Night / 0kwh / 5 kwh / 0kwh / 5 kwh
Would I come out even in such a simple senario, or would I have to pay for electricity?
Anyways, if you have any answers, I'd love to hear them.
Not just that, but according to the article I read about this, they are shooting for only 10% effeciency. That means more sq. feet (sq. metric length unit for those out of the US) requirements. Area is already a major limiting factor with solar now.
One thing you never hear about with solar energy also is that the panel absorb a certain amount of heat that would normally be absorbed by the earth. Will this cause issues on a large scale?
Similar with wind generators, the energy taken from the wind is also removing energy that would be dispursed further down the line. Again, small scale doesn't seem to matter much.
However, a single combustion engine isn't a major issue either. So, while I think alternative energies are a wonderful and exciting thing, keep in mind, everything has environmental impact.
Hmmm, I think one method that might be a good idea, but probably pretty close to impossible would be watermarking code when it is check out. While it would not prevent the release of code, it could provide a route to determining who released it.
This might not be the best plan, but consider this: If when a file is checked out the source repository some how "marks" the file as you being the one to check it out. This mark could be introducing a typo into comments, or changing a certain tab to 8 spaces (probably too easy to get around with an "indent" type or program). The repository would have to keep track of the "watermarks" on a per user basis, but that wouldn't be terribley difficult I would think.
Again, this wouldn't work for full preventing leaks, it would help to trace who leaked the code.
This depends. Sometimes upgrading to a new machine is actually better. The older machine probably is missing many of the low power consumption advantages that now exist. Old monitors are terrible. Older printers are also drinking power too. So, make sure using an old part isn't just wasting electricity.
Not quite the same, but my response was this:
My boss came to my desk and said he had to talk to me. So, I followed and in there was his boos also. I figured I was about to get laid off, since there had already been two rounds of layoffs before. So, pretty much I said when I sat down, "I'm getting laid off, right?" They nod, "We hope to have work again within a month though." I say, "Sounds good, I hope to be employed elseware within a month." The say that the layoff goes into effect at the end of the week, which it was a tuesday. I head back to my desk, call my wife. I then tell my boss I am taking vacation for the rest of the week.
Hind sight says not to take vacation for the rest of the week as it might influence their references quality, but I was still working within about a month and half. So all wasn't too bad.
Not as I do.
They will hit "CIA", "FBI" before either of those. Then of course "NSA" might make them all disappear around then too. ;-)