*sigh*
There was a time when every right-thinking vi user would thump those who claimed that vi had modes, because it just isn't true. But the heresy is spreading, and has even gotten into some documentation.
There is *not* an insert mode in vi. Instead, insertion is a command. "i" does not change modes, but instead, is the command "at this point, insert everything until I end this command with escape."
OK, so the newer versions in which you can use arrow keys to manuever during an insertion make this a bit odd . . .
Why here? A very good question:) I'm an information junkie, and slashdot used to be a good source. For the last couple of years, though, slashdot has been at least a day behind the *print* version of the Wall Street Journal . . . also, once upon a time, the character here was a lot different, the discussion at a higher level, etc.--the average age/maturity seems to drop a year or two each year, and I doubt I'll be around at all much longer . . . usually when I end up posting a lot, it's while I'm either avoiding grading papers, or (as at the moment) waiting for my computer to be usable. Between some, uhh, creative symlinking to get through the day a couple of times, and then some serious hardware problems, my system got fubarred. I don't have X, and I'm trying to edit the new semester's syllabus--using vi on.lyx files . . . so, hopefull in a couple of hours, my machine works properly . . .
Anyway, the big thing to do is make sure that you take the courses that interest, and not let the associates requirements get in the away. Unlike the BA/BS, the AA/AS in and of itself doesn't do much (save for some entry level positions)--so worry about the education you want, not the degree.
hawk
Re:There was this hot coffee incident, you know
on
Gift Card Hacking
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· Score: 2
The award was ratchetted way down in the coffee incident, but it was still excessive. And yes, McDonalds *should* put a warning label on the coffee:
WARNING: Only a low grade moron would place this between her upper thighs and remove the lid in a moving vehicle!
But then again, I favor a "darwinian" defense in product liability cases . . .
hawk, esq., who doesn't see eye to eye with the tort lawyers
>When I go to enter my transactions into my
>account register (MS Money), the number on my
>receipt is often the
>ONLY way I can recall which card I charged >something to.
the solution, of course, is for the receipt to only display the last four digits, as many do.
I got a "rebate" check for $10 towards my credit card bill--identified by only the last 4 digits of the accdount . .
>I'm 17. I've been working in the IT field (a
>REAL, paying job) for two years now. Therefore
>when I'll be 1 week from being 20, I'll have 5
>years of experience as well
So did you drop out of school at 15, or our you in a state that allows high school students to work a 40 hour week during the year?
OK, there's a third possibility, that you're working part time--which means you will *not* have 5 years experience at the time you mention.
>And, this summer, I plan to start an Associates
>program in a field completely unrelated to
>computers(General broad sciences). From there, I
>don't know. But its something I feel I have to >do, for myself.
The bright side is that you've recognized this years before most people . . .
Do yourself a favor, and only do lip service to the Associate's requirements. Keep your eye on the 4 year prize. With a couple of exceptions, the four year school doesn't care about whether you get an AA or not, but just want the coursework (Cal State is one of the exceptions--but a friend of mine still managed to dodge the AS:).
Take courses that get you ahead on the 4 year program. If it's required for the AA, but not the 4 year, skip it (at least until you decide tos top with an AA).
> did this for ~2.5 years during high-school,
>full-time during the summers, and part-time
> during the school year. Additionally, I did >*contracted* programming jobs for small to
>medium-sized businesses on the side during the
>school year.
In other words, you had significantly less than a year of experience when you left high school.
hawk, who had a similar background, and wouldn't have overstated his experience in the manner of the above poster or the 19 year old with a year or so of experience at the top of the page.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you get your legal advice from slashdot, you get nonsense like the parent to this. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.
You just committed legal malpractice. That is not the law in the United States, though it may be state law in one or two cases.
This should not have been moderated up as insightful, but down as "just plain wrong" or "ignorant."
Argh. Shows the danger of actually previewing--you hit the wrong button. *sigh* If only lynx would read its cookie file, instead of dumping and forgetting, I wouldn't have to fight netscape like this.
anyway, FWIW, Math and/or physics are much better preparation for graduate work in economics, as well. Also, the people who do best in law school are not the english majors (who are convinced that their writing skills [which all too frequently aren't up to standard, anyway] will carry the day), but the folks with engineering, math, and hard science degrees.
hawk, with degrees in subjects all over the place.
>On the upside, eitherway you will be unlikely to serve on a jury, lawyers don't like
>engineers/scientists as you are trained to think methodically/logically/rationaly. They like to
> sway your emotions despite the fact that FACTS are supposed to rule a case. Thats not
>to say you will not get called up for jury duty just that when you are,
>you are more likely to be dismissed(based on my own personal experience).
It's not your education or training. With a statement like that, a lawyer doesn't need to spend a peremptory challenge, as you'll be dismissed for cause for your bias . . .
Guess what, folks: the school does *not* turn a profit on each student. There are few, if *any* schools in which tuition actually covers the costs. The subsidy you receive tends to vary from small but noticable (private schools with small endowments), to almost all (many state schools).
There are cases where schools are not up to the enrollment for which they are desigened, and indeed need the revenue from the empty seats, but this is the exception, not the rule (but I did get a full law school scholarship out of this, as the school needed my test scores and near certain passage on the bar exam:).
Also, summer programs tend to be revenue positive--the buildings and maintenance are already paid for by the regular programs, and the faculty benefits are already paid. But guess what the extra revenue does . . .
>For me, it was never a problem with motivation or
>social skills. It was a problem that the
>university I attended (LaSalle University)
>offered NO challenge to me on any level, in any
>course.
Quite bluntly, if you couldn't find a challenge at a Christian Brothers' school, you either weren't looking very hard, or got *very* bad advice.
What faculty did you talk to about finding more challenging material? What did you do to go deeper into the material? What projects did you involve yourself in outside of class? Who did you talk to about taking upper division courses early.
The Christian Brothers are second only to the Jesuits as educators. It's *tough* to not get challenged around them . . .
Yes. You're describin getting an education, rather than a certificate from a vocational school.
It's not just a particular set of skills that employers want, but the education itself (and for some entry positions, it's a measure of whether the person is willing to do what it takes).
It is likely that it doesn't even matter whether he gets a degree in CS or English, but that he completes an education. It is common to go to graduate school without a degree in the same subject--and in many cases, it's beneficial. (I never took economics at an undergraduate level).
Finally, if he's serious about the master's degee later, no serious graduate program will take a one year degree calling itself a bachelor's seriously. It's just not going to happen.
>Unfortunately, he wasn't an admin and he didn't
>get permission to crack the passwords. So when
>the admin found out that Schwartz was running
>Crack he informed the security guys at Intel.
In other words, intel security was a lot better than this wannabe suspected . . .
And I mean that filing a lawsuit to do that would be an abuse of the legal system and subect to serious sanctions.
If they have *any* expectation of using *any* of the technology in the future, it is far from obvious that licensing it is in the best interests of the store.
>There might even be a shareholder lawsuit in
>that.
Give it up. The sanctions against you for filing that *frivolous* and bad faith suit won't put enough into Be's/Palm's cofferes to bring the OS back.
The bare statement, "We believe that the long term prospects are better if we don't do that" are sufficient to win the cas. It's called the "business judgment rule."
Of course, the case would never get that far before being dismissed with sanctions . . .
1st--this is by far the most thoughtful thing I've seen on slashdot in a very long time.
Second:
>Or we can look at the books which portray the US
>as a corrupt, decaying empire. Heinlein's
> _TMIAHM_ or Pournelle's _High Justice_ or
>Falkenberg's Legion series.
At the time they were written, that was pretty close to an objective position. Pournelle in particular simply extrapolated from then-current social trends. However, he was anything but anti-american--within a couple of years of his "fall of the west" works, he was once of the science people in the Reagan administration. He was part of the faction within the administration pushing for SDI *not* so much as an actual defense, but *because* they saw (correctly, in hindsight) it leading to the bankruptcy of the Soviet system as they triedto keep up. (Nixon wrote some similar things in the early 80's about the arms race, but I don't think he actually *avocated* the policy).
Under a repressive system, Pournelle's works would have been repressed. Instead, the patriot's harsh criticism became part of th esolution.
Slashdot Mirror
:)
hawk
hawk, who just realized to his horror that his fingers, too, have known vi since before the average slashdotter was born . . .
There was a time when every right-thinking vi user would thump those who claimed that vi had modes, because it just isn't true. But the heresy is spreading, and has even gotten into some documentation.
There is *not* an insert mode in vi. Instead, insertion is a command. "i" does not change modes, but instead, is the command "at this point, insert everything until I end this command with escape."
OK, so the newer versions in which you can use arrow keys to manuever during an insertion make this a bit odd . . .
hawk, in curmudgeon mode
hawk, who really hope he's being sarcastic and not accurate in suggesting that emacs has file systems . . .
Anyway, the big thing to do is make sure that you take the courses that interest, and not let the associates requirements get in the away. Unlike the BA/BS, the AA/AS in and of itself doesn't do much (save for some entry level positions)--so worry about the education you want, not the degree.
hawk
WARNING: Only a low grade moron would place this between her upper thighs and remove the lid in a moving vehicle!
But then again, I favor a "darwinian" defense in product liability cases . . .
hawk, esq., who doesn't see eye to eye with the tort lawyers
>account register (MS Money), the number on my
>receipt is often the
>ONLY way I can recall which card I charged >something to.
the solution, of course, is for the receipt to only display the last four digits, as many do.
I got a "rebate" check for $10 towards my credit card bill--identified by only the last 4 digits of the accdount . .
hawk
>REAL, paying job) for two years now. Therefore
>when I'll be 1 week from being 20, I'll have 5
>years of experience as well
So did you drop out of school at 15, or our you in a state that allows high school students to work a 40 hour week during the year?
OK, there's a third possibility, that you're working part time--which means you will *not* have 5 years experience at the time you mention.
hawk
>program in a field completely unrelated to
>computers(General broad sciences). From there, I
>don't know. But its something I feel I have to >do, for myself.
The bright side is that you've recognized this years before most people . . .
Do yourself a favor, and only do lip service to the Associate's requirements. Keep your eye on the 4 year prize. With a couple of exceptions, the four year school doesn't care about whether you get an AA or not, but just want the coursework (Cal State is one of the exceptions--but a friend of mine still managed to dodge the AS
Take courses that get you ahead on the 4 year program. If it's required for the AA, but not the 4 year, skip it (at least until you decide tos top with an AA).
hawk of many degrees
>full-time during the summers, and part-time
> during the school year. Additionally, I did >*contracted* programming jobs for small to
>medium-sized businesses on the side during the
>school year.
In other words, you had significantly less than a year of experience when you left high school.
hawk, who had a similar background, and wouldn't have overstated his experience in the manner of the above poster or the 19 year old with a year or so of experience at the top of the page.
hawk
You just committed legal malpractice. That is not the law in the United States, though it may be state law in one or two cases.
This should not have been moderated up as insightful, but down as "just plain wrong" or "ignorant."
hawk, exq.
>writing on them" that are in my wallet too.
Mine too, but not as much as those pieces of plastic in my wallet . . .
>Especially in large organisations, it pays to have a few extra letters after your name.
yep.
hawk, j.d., ph.d., esq.
>busywork, you haven't worked on interesting
>enough real-world ones.
What nonsense. It means you were given inadequate school projects.
hawk, who declines assigning projects if they're just busywork.
anyway, FWIW, Math and/or physics are much better preparation for graduate work in economics, as well. Also, the people who do best in law school are not the english majors (who are convinced that their writing skills [which all too frequently aren't up to standard, anyway] will carry the day), but the folks with engineering, math, and hard science degrees.
hawk, with degrees in subjects all over the place.
>that the best preparation for an advanced
>(Masters, PhD) CS degree is to start with a
>Bachelors in Mathematics.
>engineers/scientists as you are trained to think methodically/logically/rationaly. They like to
> sway your emotions despite the fact that FACTS are supposed to rule a case. Thats not
>to say you will not get called up for jury duty just that when you are,
>you are more likely to be dismissed(based on my own personal experience).
It's not your education or training. With a statement like that, a lawyer doesn't need to spend a peremptory challenge, as you'll be dismissed for cause for your bias . . .
hawk, esq.
I keep seeing things like this, over and over.
Guess what, folks: the school does *not* turn a profit on each student. There are few, if *any* schools in which tuition actually covers the costs. The subsidy you receive tends to vary from small but noticable (private schools with small endowments), to almost all (many state schools).
There are cases where schools are not up to the enrollment for which they are desigened, and indeed need the revenue from the empty seats, but this is the exception, not the rule (but I did get a full law school scholarship out of this, as the school needed my test scores and near certain passage on the bar exam
Also, summer programs tend to be revenue positive--the buildings and maintenance are already paid for by the regular programs, and the faculty benefits are already paid. But guess what the extra revenue does . . .
hawk
>social skills. It was a problem that the
>university I attended (LaSalle University)
>offered NO challenge to me on any level, in any
>course.
Quite bluntly, if you couldn't find a challenge at a Christian Brothers' school, you either weren't looking very hard, or got *very* bad advice.
What faculty did you talk to about finding more challenging material? What did you do to go deeper into the material? What projects did you involve yourself in outside of class? Who did you talk to about taking upper division courses early.
The Christian Brothers are second only to the Jesuits as educators. It's *tough* to not get challenged around them . . .
hawk
For last year's commencement, we invited several "pioneering alumni"--folks who came shortly after the campus was created, and are now retired.
A few were seated in the row behind me. One commented that he'd learned more in the first year out of school than in the four years put together.
I turned around and asked, "but how much of that would you have learned *without* those four years?"
He grinned, and replied, "Exactly."
It's not the facts, it's the thinking. The general liberal education is more important than the details in your major.
hawk
It's not just a particular set of skills that employers want, but the education itself (and for some entry positions, it's a measure of whether the person is willing to do what it takes).
It is likely that it doesn't even matter whether he gets a degree in CS or English, but that he completes an education. It is common to go to graduate school without a degree in the same subject--and in many cases, it's beneficial. (I never took economics at an undergraduate level).
Finally, if he's serious about the master's degee later, no serious graduate program will take a one year degree calling itself a bachelor's seriously. It's just not going to happen.
hawk, professor
>get permission to crack the passwords. So when
>the admin found out that Schwartz was running
>Crack he informed the security guys at Intel.
In other words, intel security was a lot better than this wannabe suspected . . .
hawk
If they have *any* expectation of using *any* of the technology in the future, it is far from obvious that licensing it is in the best interests of the store.
hawk, esq.
especially consideing the, what, $200 million that they turned down from apple five years ago . . . with the delusion they were worth twice that . . .
hawk
>that.
Give it up. The sanctions against you for filing that *frivolous* and bad faith suit won't put enough into Be's/Palm's cofferes to bring the OS back.
The bare statement, "We believe that the long term prospects are better if we don't do that" are sufficient to win the cas. It's called the "business judgment rule."
Of course, the case would never get that far before being dismissed with sanctions . . .
hawk, esq.
Second:
>Or we can look at the books which portray the US
>as a corrupt, decaying empire. Heinlein's
> _TMIAHM_ or Pournelle's _High Justice_ or
>Falkenberg's Legion series.
At the time they were written, that was pretty close to an objective position. Pournelle in particular simply extrapolated from then-current social trends. However, he was anything but anti-american--within a couple of years of his "fall of the west" works, he was once of the science people in the Reagan administration. He was part of the faction within the administration pushing for SDI *not* so much as an actual defense, but *because* they saw (correctly, in hindsight) it leading to the bankruptcy of the Soviet system as they triedto keep up. (Nixon wrote some similar things in the early 80's about the arms race, but I don't think he actually *avocated* the policy).
Under a repressive system, Pournelle's works would have been repressed. Instead, the patriot's harsh criticism became part of th esolution.
hawk