take a nathans bun length dog, cut small slits, press slices of garlic in, grill, place on bun with appropriate condiments (no ketchup please) consume.
It'd be a shame to call it quits before you've really begun the game. The complexities you'll encounter once you really start working will make whatever you've done in school look like a two line gw-basic program written on an ibm pc-at. The joy of working in cs projects transitions from the drugery of fixing minutae to solving larger, systemic problems. I urge you to take your good gpa, get a job, and really give it a chance.
Ok, I'll admit it, I'm a programmer. Mostly a windows one. When I write a new feature for an application, I juggle priorities. The code must be:
written expediently (it must take a rational ammount of time for me to complete the work. I'm not Knuth, and I can't go on sabatical to do a treatise for this one feature)
functional (it must work)
maintainable - easy to change/fix and well documented or at least understandable
fast (enough)
last and least, it must be (somewhat) small.
Like most programmers, I pick a balance between these, but the thing I weigh least, is bloat. Small, tight, efficient (space and speed) code can be written, but programmers with speed and size as priorities often make misguided micro-optimizations that hinder priorities 1 and 3, and quite often 2. I find users prefer a program that crashes least.
That's trusting the fox to run the henhouse. News agencies routinely regurgitate corprate press releases as news, Movie studios curry favor and manipulate journalists to generate the quotes they need to sell their movies:
Leprecaun IV
"The best movie ever" -- Studio Shill Press
And some studio's go as far as inventing their own journalists.
Get real, I know some journalists have ethics, but I also know that there is always someone willing to trade in their ethics for job stability.
I've had IDSL (144k dsl) in the phoenix metro area for about a year now. Installation was a royal pain, because you deal with three companies: USWest, Covad (they actually install and service your account) and the ISP who resells covad's service.
On two occasions I had to meet USWest and Covad reps at my house to get them to figure things out.
Total installation time was upwards of four months. Costs are about 100 a months (YMMV), luckily my employer foots that bill.
The other problem with the service is high latency. Covad has improved their routing, but at one point I tracert'd from home to work (30 miles away), and saw it hop all the way out to Atlanta, Mae east, back through Chicago, etc. I ended up with ping times of 250 or more for a local site.
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take a nathans bun length dog, cut small slits, press slices of garlic in, grill, place on bun with appropriate condiments (no ketchup please)
consume.
doesn't my ICQ number count?
It'd be a shame to call it quits before you've really begun the game. The complexities you'll encounter once you really start working will make whatever you've done in school look like a two line gw-basic program written on an ibm pc-at. The joy of working in cs projects transitions from the drugery of fixing minutae to solving larger, systemic problems. I urge you to take your good gpa, get a job, and really give it a chance.
- written expediently (it must take a rational ammount of time for me to complete the work. I'm not Knuth, and I can't go on sabatical to do a treatise for this one feature)
- functional (it must work)
- maintainable - easy to change/fix and well documented or at least understandable
- fast (enough)
- last and least, it must be (somewhat) small.
Like most programmers, I pick a balance between these, but the thing I weigh least, is bloat. Small, tight, efficient (space and speed) code can be written, but programmers with speed and size as priorities often make misguided micro-optimizations that hinder priorities 1 and 3, and quite often 2. I find users prefer a program that crashes least.That's trusting the fox to run the henhouse. News agencies routinely regurgitate corprate press releases as news, Movie studios curry favor and manipulate journalists to generate the quotes they need to sell their movies:
Leprecaun IV
"The best movie ever" -- Studio Shill Press
And some studio's go as far as inventing their own journalists.
Get real, I know some journalists have ethics, but I also know that there is always someone willing to trade in their ethics for job stability.
Prior Art: good point, how about an early Compaq luggable (~30 lbs.), running visicalc?
I've had IDSL (144k dsl) in the phoenix metro area for about a year now. Installation was a royal pain, because you deal with three companies: USWest, Covad (they actually install and service your account) and the ISP who resells covad's service. On two occasions I had to meet USWest and Covad reps at my house to get them to figure things out. Total installation time was upwards of four months. Costs are about 100 a months (YMMV), luckily my employer foots that bill. The other problem with the service is high latency. Covad has improved their routing, but at one point I tracert'd from home to work (30 miles away), and saw it hop all the way out to Atlanta, Mae east, back through Chicago, etc. I ended up with ping times of 250 or more for a local site.
The press release notes that their changes modify the kernel for maximum security.