1) He doesn't have a CS degree and was lying.
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2) His college wreaked.
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3) He made it through college, but by cheating and/or just getting over 50%.
It's much easier to go from theory to practise than people make it out to be. I'm going into a second year CS programme and out of high school I thought it would be a waste of my time. It's true that you work on the theory, but this *theory* is invaluable in practical terms. Assuming the high school student refrains form the theoretical aspect of CS, the CS university student should have the upperhand every time.
You can have a baker with no formal education that was taught several recipes for making wonderful bread and a chemist that makes horrible bread. But the chemist will understand which chemicals in that bread make it taste the way it does, and he will be able to alter his recipe to make it better.
There are always exceptions, but in general I'd always take a CS university student over a high school one.
Yup...I too made that mistake...what? Only 20 something hours of *class* a week...no problem;) Soon you'll have your nose buried in so many math and computer books that C or Java might become your native tongue and higher mathematical concepts will be floating around your brain as you brush your teeth. Good luck buddy...we all need it!
Open source is great because, although this bug has been overlooked, somebody now has the opportunity to track it down and fix it in a few hours. Try that with closed source programs...you'd have to wait until the vendor shipped a patch.
If you want to look far enough into the future to the point where gasoline isn't the primary source of fuel for vehicles, I just can't see nitrogen as being a fuel source. The next leap in technology would be a car that required no "fuel" per say - for example, a solar powered car which would be fueled by the sun. The problem with any traditional fuel (and I'd count nitrogen in this category too) is that so much energy is wasted in preparing the fuel before it even gets into the vehicle. I mean, just look at gasoline...it has to be drilled out of the ocean, hauled to land, refined, distributed, sold, etc... that's a lot of wasted energy! On the other hand, sunlight is sunlight...until the sun burns out, we've got this untapped resource. We just have to learn how to use it to the best of our abilities.
-GL
Considering submachine guns are tools to kill somebody and break the law, and DeCSS is a tool to break copyright thus breaking the law, why is it that the U.S. law is so adimant about protecting the right to bear arms, but not so adimant about the right to bear code?
And you automatically assume quality television comes from the U.S. or that I'm American or live in America which I don't. what can you do when someone just repeatedly makes bad inferences and tries to mock somebody with these bad inferences.
Seriously...how many people really go on vacation and just HAVE to record a TV show. Chances are, if that TV show is any good, it'll be available where you are vacationing and then you can watch the show live. Although the people behind this service call it "revolutionary", I'm hesitant to even call it "evolutionary" because in the end this'll probably be one of those features that just doesn't pass the Darwin test!
Of course:) Bluetooth Spec 1.0 will be so unreliable and slow that we'll all need to upgrade to Bluetooth 2.0 devices...and the Bluetooth 2.0 Spec will be so superior it would be impossible to make it backwards-compatible with Bluetooth 1.0 devices:) We can all laugh now but 10 years from now our Bluetooth Linux webpads will be about as useful as an 8-track is in a DAT player.
I'd rather wait and get a wireless system that works than get one that doesn't. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to troubleshoot communication problems between two bluetooth devices? It's not like you can ensure they're physically connected the way your keyboard is to your computer case. Let's hope the delay is worthwhile!
I can't wait when a company announces a product and it is just assumed by everyone that it will run on Linux because it does and because that is what the market wants (the same way its assumed today that it will run on Windows). Maybe then, the actual software will be the story and not the fact that it runs on Linux!
You're absolutely right. But the SSL certificate also states the company who owns the web site. If it doesn't say "PayPal Inc." but instead some Romanian company's name, I'd really start to get suspicious. Of course, it takes 4 clicks of the mouse to see these certificate details from IE 5 and I guess this hassle outweighs the benefit of not having your credit card ripped off. It never fails to amaze me how lazy we are as humans!
Assuming these guys even had SSL certificates protecting www.paypai.com, people should have verified them. If people would start verifying the details in the SSL certificates (i.e. just look for the details in this case) nobody would be fooled. Just seeing the "lock" icon in the browser isn't an indication of security. Sadly, this is way over the heads of the common folk. Perhaps a dialog box should pop up that displays all the security details of a SSL-enabled site.
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Think about the pathetic situation that would happen if one shoe ran out of gas before the other! I wouldn't want to be in that person's shoes.
Actually, you can surf the web on cell phones using Bell's digital service. I've got the Qualcomm 2760 and I can get slashdot on it. Of course, attempting to read a single post 2 words per line can get annoying...not to mention trying to traverse a graphically-laid out website in text mode that's worse than Lynx! Yikes...I just use it for stock quotes and sports scores.
Yup. Although we haven't gotten into great depths about unsolvable problems, the fact that some problems exist which are unsolvable (and why) was discussed in second year CS at the University of Toronto. I don't think this comes really as much of a surprise to people in CS or well versed in technology.
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1) He doesn't have a CS degree and was lying. or 2) His college wreaked. or 3) He made it through college, but by cheating and/or just getting over 50%. It's much easier to go from theory to practise than people make it out to be. I'm going into a second year CS programme and out of high school I thought it would be a waste of my time. It's true that you work on the theory, but this *theory* is invaluable in practical terms. Assuming the high school student refrains form the theoretical aspect of CS, the CS university student should have the upperhand every time. You can have a baker with no formal education that was taught several recipes for making wonderful bread and a chemist that makes horrible bread. But the chemist will understand which chemicals in that bread make it taste the way it does, and he will be able to alter his recipe to make it better. There are always exceptions, but in general I'd always take a CS university student over a high school one.
Yup...I too made that mistake...what? Only 20 something hours of *class* a week...no problem;) Soon you'll have your nose buried in so many math and computer books that C or Java might become your native tongue and higher mathematical concepts will be floating around your brain as you brush your teeth. Good luck buddy...we all need it!
Open source is great because, although this bug has been overlooked, somebody now has the opportunity to track it down and fix it in a few hours. Try that with closed source programs...you'd have to wait until the vendor shipped a patch.
Your comment is so funny because it is so true. I say a class action suit is in order. Proceeds go towards funding the DeCSS defense!
If you want to look far enough into the future to the point where gasoline isn't the primary source of fuel for vehicles, I just can't see nitrogen as being a fuel source. The next leap in technology would be a car that required no "fuel" per say - for example, a solar powered car which would be fueled by the sun. The problem with any traditional fuel (and I'd count nitrogen in this category too) is that so much energy is wasted in preparing the fuel before it even gets into the vehicle. I mean, just look at gasoline...it has to be drilled out of the ocean, hauled to land, refined, distributed, sold, etc... that's a lot of wasted energy! On the other hand, sunlight is sunlight...until the sun burns out, we've got this untapped resource. We just have to learn how to use it to the best of our abilities. -GL
Considering submachine guns are tools to kill somebody and break the law, and DeCSS is a tool to break copyright thus breaking the law, why is it that the U.S. law is so adimant about protecting the right to bear arms, but not so adimant about the right to bear code?
And you automatically assume quality television comes from the U.S. or that I'm American or live in America which I don't. what can you do when someone just repeatedly makes bad inferences and tries to mock somebody with these bad inferences.
Seriously...how many people really go on vacation and just HAVE to record a TV show. Chances are, if that TV show is any good, it'll be available where you are vacationing and then you can watch the show live. Although the people behind this service call it "revolutionary", I'm hesitant to even call it "evolutionary" because in the end this'll probably be one of those features that just doesn't pass the Darwin test!
Of course:) Bluetooth Spec 1.0 will be so unreliable and slow that we'll all need to upgrade to Bluetooth 2.0 devices...and the Bluetooth 2.0 Spec will be so superior it would be impossible to make it backwards-compatible with Bluetooth 1.0 devices:) We can all laugh now but 10 years from now our Bluetooth Linux webpads will be about as useful as an 8-track is in a DAT player.
I'd rather wait and get a wireless system that works than get one that doesn't. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to troubleshoot communication problems between two bluetooth devices? It's not like you can ensure they're physically connected the way your keyboard is to your computer case. Let's hope the delay is worthwhile!
I can't wait when a company announces a product and it is just assumed by everyone that it will run on Linux because it does and because that is what the market wants (the same way its assumed today that it will run on Windows). Maybe then, the actual software will be the story and not the fact that it runs on Linux!
You're absolutely right. But the SSL certificate also states the company who owns the web site. If it doesn't say "PayPal Inc." but instead some Romanian company's name, I'd really start to get suspicious. Of course, it takes 4 clicks of the mouse to see these certificate details from IE 5 and I guess this hassle outweighs the benefit of not having your credit card ripped off. It never fails to amaze me how lazy we are as humans!
Assuming these guys even had SSL certificates protecting www.paypai.com, people should have verified them. If people would start verifying the details in the SSL certificates (i.e. just look for the details in this case) nobody would be fooled. Just seeing the "lock" icon in the browser isn't an indication of security. Sadly, this is way over the heads of the common folk. Perhaps a dialog box should pop up that displays all the security details of a SSL-enabled site.
Think about the pathetic situation that would happen if one shoe ran out of gas before the other! I wouldn't want to be in that person's shoes.
Check it out...I'd like your comments both positive and negative: MP3 Luddites.
Actually, you can surf the web on cell phones using Bell's digital service. I've got the Qualcomm 2760 and I can get slashdot on it. Of course, attempting to read a single post 2 words per line can get annoying...not to mention trying to traverse a graphically-laid out website in text mode that's worse than Lynx! Yikes...I just use it for stock quotes and sports scores.
Yup. Although we haven't gotten into great depths about unsolvable problems, the fact that some problems exist which are unsolvable (and why) was discussed in second year CS at the University of Toronto. I don't think this comes really as much of a surprise to people in CS or well versed in technology.