Not all public education is bad. I paid only $1800/semester(that includes free book rental) for my public college. Over the past 15 years of them teaching CIS, they had 100% of their graduates from CIS found a job in their field within a year and with an average starting wage of $78k. It's a smaller department, but they do well. Something like 20 students per semester. I even got to enjoy a few alumni guest speakers from Microsoft, some large world wide insurance company, and one that works with banks and the government to use heuristics to discover money laundering. Many of our alumni go onto top companies.
~$3.6k/year was a decent trade.
Heck, my state's primary college would have only cost me $2k/semester, and they're so well known for genetics/law/CS/Computer-engineering that large portions of my in-state tuition was paid for by bio-engineering patents and second-semester freshmen computer engineers get contacted by Intel/AMD/IBM. Actually, my state uni has listed many years in top 10 world wide in several research and engineering fields.
Strangely enough, I read it as "radically". I had to read it a second time, because of the other posts, to see the mistake.
I also have a very hard time proof-reading my own posts before I submit because I read almost entirely based on context. Since I know my own context perfectly, I have an extremely hard time seeing word mistakes.
I also get this weird issue where I may think one word, but I type out a different word, but with similar meaning. Stupid brain.
Wear Leveling. Any time you modify a sector, the entire block must be read out, modified with the changed sector, and written to a *new* block.
It's not as much of an issue of needing free blocks to "fill up" the drive, but you need free blocks to even modify data. The more free blocks, the faster the drive runs during writes.
GC can work without the OS, but it works MUCH better with help.
SSDs are copy-on-modify. If you change a block of data, the SSD will write the new data to a zero'd block(if available), remap the sector from the old block to the new one, and flag the old block for clean-up. This is not the same as the OS saying "This file is no longer in use, remove it". This form of GC only applies when the OS tell the drive to change a sector. The drive has no way of knowing if the sector is no-longer used.
Exactly. Not saying a Tech school can't put out good students, but they are less likely.
Whipping up an app in 1-6 weeks is one thing, but making a program that can scale and is designed with the foresight of possible issues before they crop up is a whole another.
I'm not saying all techs are like this or all colleges put out better students, but I find a lot of tech classes are typically much much more dumbed down in my experience.
Our state tech schools wanted to allow Computer Information System's credits to transfer from their 2 year degrees to the state college's 4 year. Their SQL classes taught access and excel with no concept of relational data or DB theory or set based processing.
In the end, they got to transfer their credits and skip strait to the "advanced" 4-year database class. They got their way, but I wonder how many student's failed the advanced DB class.
I work with DBs and I'm sick of seeing SQL queries that run 100 times slower than they should because too many people don't understand set theory.
Actually had to recently re-write a query for a report in our product because larger customers couldn't get the report to finish in a reasonable time, some over a day. Engineering designed the report to be cursor based instead of set based. I am in another dept, so the report had to be re-written from scratch, but it now runs about 10,000 times faster.
ATI has better drivers and better cards than nVidia for the Windows platform. Too bad they haven't invested much into Linux:*(
My $300 6950 out would out-perform a similar $300 card from nVidia, and consume less power and run A LOT cooler. Instead, I OC'd it 100mhz and unlocked a bunch of shaders. Now it smears the floor with another $300 nVidia card. System has been perfectly stable. My friends with nVidia on the other hand, they still have black screen bugs back from 3 generations ago on their new 470s. They say their next cards are going to be AMD/ATI after many loyal years to nVidia and empty promises of bug fixes.
meh, the grass is always greener on the other side.
Personally, I'm biased against nVidia because they market like Intel. They make a great product, but I loath them for ethical reasons.
One of the largest student information systems out there communicates over the internet unencrypted and that includes everything from address to SSNs. I do lots of student data imports from thousands of schools and I have had it many times where I had to tell schools that they shouldn't be putting SSNs/etc out on FTP. Many times I would bug them to switch to sFTP and even helped them configure their firewalls for sFTP. That's not even my job but I feel I should help them.
I'm curious why slowness should be even considered as useful. Even without a hash, brute forcing a 10char password would take at 1bil comb/sec would take over a century.
Even if they made hashing 10xs faster, it wouldn't accomplish much.
The real question is how easily can a collision be found.
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Not all public education is bad. I paid only $1800/semester(that includes free book rental) for my public college. Over the past 15 years of them teaching CIS, they had 100% of their graduates from CIS found a job in their field within a year and with an average starting wage of $78k. It's a smaller department, but they do well. Something like 20 students per semester. I even got to enjoy a few alumni guest speakers from Microsoft, some large world wide insurance company, and one that works with banks and the government to use heuristics to discover money laundering. Many of our alumni go onto top companies.
~$3.6k/year was a decent trade.
Heck, my state's primary college would have only cost me $2k/semester, and they're so well known for genetics/law/CS/Computer-engineering that large portions of my in-state tuition was paid for by bio-engineering patents and second-semester freshmen computer engineers get contacted by Intel/AMD/IBM. Actually, my state uni has listed many years in top 10 world wide in several research and engineering fields.
We still need a few people skilling in "everything else", so we have someone to tell us how the system should work :-)
I guess those skilled few will turn into "engineers" for their field and they will let us programmers know what we need to do.
In the end, if you're not a programmer or an engineer, you're a pioneer in your field, at some point to probably be replaced with an automated system.
Once programmers and engineers are automated, we will have SKYNET.
Strangely enough, I read it as "radically". I had to read it a second time, because of the other posts, to see the mistake.
I also have a very hard time proof-reading my own posts before I submit because I read almost entirely based on context. Since I know my own context perfectly, I have an extremely hard time seeing word mistakes.
I also get this weird issue where I may think one word, but I type out a different word, but with similar meaning. Stupid brain.
Everyone knows the wind would have blown the tracks over. Of course it's Photoshopped.
On a magnitude scale, you would have reached atoms in the known universe not too long after 2^256. 2^16384 is thousands of magnitudes more than that.
Wear Leveling. Any time you modify a sector, the entire block must be read out, modified with the changed sector, and written to a *new* block.
It's not as much of an issue of needing free blocks to "fill up" the drive, but you need free blocks to even modify data. The more free blocks, the faster the drive runs during writes.
"if the original was being modified as he took the copy."
:P
Quantum! Only a true scientist can read SSDs
GC can work without the OS, but it works MUCH better with help.
SSDs are copy-on-modify. If you change a block of data, the SSD will write the new data to a zero'd block(if available), remap the sector from the old block to the new one, and flag the old block for clean-up. This is not the same as the OS saying "This file is no longer in use, remove it". This form of GC only applies when the OS tell the drive to change a sector. The drive has no way of knowing if the sector is no-longer used.
We told you so! *inx isn't more secure, its user base is smarter :-)
Plugins work great on the internet, but ActiveX is more of an intranet thing.
I have yet to see a plugin for FireFox/Chrome/etc that allow tight intranet integration.
Kind of a functionality requirement.
Exactly. Not saying a Tech school can't put out good students, but they are less likely.
Whipping up an app in 1-6 weeks is one thing, but making a program that can scale and is designed with the foresight of possible issues before they crop up is a whole another.
I'm not saying all techs are like this or all colleges put out better students, but I find a lot of tech classes are typically much much more dumbed down in my experience.
In a counter anecdotal story with tech schools.
Our state tech schools wanted to allow Computer Information System's credits to transfer from their 2 year degrees to the state college's 4 year. Their SQL classes taught access and excel with no concept of relational data or DB theory or set based processing.
In the end, they got to transfer their credits and skip strait to the "advanced" 4-year database class. They got their way, but I wonder how many student's failed the advanced DB class.
I work with DBs and I'm sick of seeing SQL queries that run 100 times slower than they should because too many people don't understand set theory.
Actually had to recently re-write a query for a report in our product because larger customers couldn't get the report to finish in a reasonable time, some over a day. Engineering designed the report to be cursor based instead of set based. I am in another dept, so the report had to be re-written from scratch, but it now runs about 10,000 times faster.
These people would have failed my intro DB class.
That's been my experience.
Try an Antec 900 for a case. About $100, but hard to beat for it's price. My videocard went from 90c to 40c, but I to had a crappy case.
Other than the lack of tool-less setup, it is an excellent case.
WindowsKey->Type("Network Connections")->enter
:P
There, now you can config your NIC
ATI has better drivers and better cards than nVidia for the Windows platform. Too bad they haven't invested much into Linux :*(
My $300 6950 out would out-perform a similar $300 card from nVidia, and consume less power and run A LOT cooler. Instead, I OC'd it 100mhz and unlocked a bunch of shaders. Now it smears the floor with another $300 nVidia card. System has been perfectly stable. My friends with nVidia on the other hand, they still have black screen bugs back from 3 generations ago on their new 470s. They say their next cards are going to be AMD/ATI after many loyal years to nVidia and empty promises of bug fixes.
meh, the grass is always greener on the other side.
Personally, I'm biased against nVidia because they market like Intel. They make a great product, but I loath them for ethical reasons.
One of the largest student information systems out there communicates over the internet unencrypted and that includes everything from address to SSNs. I do lots of student data imports from thousands of schools and I have had it many times where I had to tell schools that they shouldn't be putting SSNs/etc out on FTP. Many times I would bug them to switch to sFTP and even helped them configure their firewalls for sFTP. That's not even my job but I feel I should help them.
They drink your sweet sweet freedom tears.
I thought using someone else's account was "terrorism".
Also, even if you handed over your user/pass, if you said you didn't want them logging on and they did, wouldn't that be a criminal hacking charge?
Someone recently got 5 years of prison for using the user/pass for his wife's email account that she had on a post-it next to the computer.
<quote><p>What the hell is an "accurate estimate"?</p></quote>
<p>The opposite of a made-up fact.</p></quote>
+9001 points. You just made my day.
The $45/month is something you would have paid anyway, the extra $50 you pay on top of that $45 for TV is optional
HTML6 and the tag haven't been approved yet, so he didn't know.
I'm curious why slowness should be even considered as useful. Even without a hash, brute forcing a 10char password would take at 1bil comb/sec would take over a century.
Even if they made hashing 10xs faster, it wouldn't accomplish much.
The real question is how easily can a collision be found.
With that logic, killing cancer patients is good money
I agree.
I get 12 copies of Popular Mechanics for $12/year. $1/copy seems pretty good to have a magazine printed and mailed to me.
That is a lot of PFSense boxes