Change is scary, but necessary.
Those times are long gone and consumers demand higher quality. Naturally in business, competition drives excellence. Furthermore, the physical layer of the Network stack is broken and who better to fix it then a competitive Engineering workforce rather than MBAs?
I understand that advertisers pay big bucks. However, I'm absolutely sick and overwhelmed by the amount of advertisement I encounter everyday. It's information overload at a conscious and subconscious level for most. Considering the relevance of the information to one's life, it's nothing but spam. It makes it harder for kids and adults alike to focus and pay attention to worthwhile information.
Does advertisement make the gaming experience better? It has no relevance, no matter how well you hide it. Advertisers' ultimate goal is to implant a self-serving everlasting memory into your brain. I understand the size of the economics behind this sector, but it's too inflated in every aspect.
I think this solution is ingenious. However, I don't see this being as good as the real thing yet. I think the pumping of the blood is beneficial in flushing clogs out of arteries . Continuous blood might be more susceptible to build up.
With that said this could drastically increase the life expectancy of the human race. I wonder whether artificially replacing organs is the next step forward. After all, isn't the brain the jewel that the organs protect?
I agree with the refactoring approach. Maybe we need to push and glorify refactoring bit more in the community. Then again most out there choose to creation over maintenance. How about this for an initiative? Theorist academicians at universities could guide students to refactor open source projects as a learning experience.
Exactly what I was thinking!
Here is an idea. When it comes to sport or any other competition, an neutral third party (referee) seems to do the trick. Of course the referee's integrity has got to be evaluated. If you can fit referees into the picture and reward them accordingly, you might have something.
Writing the code is putting ideas on paper. It's the planning, brainstorming and communication that brings out the power in pair programming. IMHO, pair programming is best practiced with 2 developers sitting behind one computer. One can only operate the keyboard obviously, however, you will find that the second person will be right there watching the code written and second it for assurance or suggest improvements. If the idea is not understood, second person can take over the keyboard momentarily.
Although I like Subversion, there is a learning curve. You might be able to forgo this by setting up the SVN server for all your students and going over the basic commands they will need. Subclipse plugin Eclipse can put a GUI interface to SVN. That is if you guys are using Eclipse for Java Dev.
Interesting points you all have made here, I've learned a lot. So the sales tax is supplement to the property tax to pick up the cost of quality of life the government provides for its residents. This supplement tab is partially picked up by visitors so that the residents to pay less. It sounds to me that this supplemental tax has absolutely nothing to do with actual sales. It can be applied as illogical and unrelated as drinking milkshakes as long as drinking milkshakes can be organized and accounted for by the government via other entities. Apart from the argument of this highly precise bill we have to pay, there is nothing logical about the ways you obtain funding for this bill.
Is this why you keep pay taxes on the same car every time it exchanges hands from one owner to the next? It just a clear cut opportunity to demand payment for government spending for your benefit. Now only if government was as honest, just, efficient and accurate with their finances as these hypothetical arguments make them out to be.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idle person with authority!
Before you even indulge in the technology, please think about the consequences of such actions and validate your claim/right to make such decisions on behalf of others. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Science in the past has repeatedly ignored this vital step; atomic bomb comes into mind. We invent destruction, ignoring what we all know to be harmful, we give blinding incomplete arguments in support of such creation. Once the damage has been done, we still do not confess our wrongs but rather satisfy our consciences with more illogical arguments full of IFs and BUTs.
The current copyright culture is quite disgusting.
I think that only the creator of the creation should have any copyright claims. The sale/lease of this claim should not be allowed.
When copyright is genuinely appropriate, the creator should be credited and be compensated in an appropriate manner for the use of their work. Once any information is public, it is public and copyright terms should always push for the sharing and the use of the information. The creator must not be bitter, stubborn or too egotistical to inhibit progress. If such is a concern, keep your creation private in your basement until you are ready and agree to share it with the public. Do not release your creation to inhibit the creation of the next person.
I'm not rewriting the rules here, but you get a general sense of my argument hopefully. Today all copyrights and patents serve is big lazy business who absolutely had nothing to do with the creation in the first place.
Yes, go for it of course. Boundaries and trends are there to be pushed and shaped. Nothing is set in stone and you need pave the road for the future people in your present situation to come.
Yes, relevant experience is important. Everyone wants x years of experience. Well, how do you get that experience if no one is hiring at entry-level?
You like to program, want to get into it. You are certain that you will be able to get the job done only if someone gives you a chance. Someone taking a chance on you is exactly what you need. To get to that point, you have to start programming.
Read object oriented programming principles, a book on JAVA would do to get an idea on things. Pick a project you are interested in. For me, it was to build a site from ground up. This exposed me to the whole picture of web development and how it all tied together.
Database modeling and administration
Back-end programming
Front-end JavaScript GUI development
Session handling
Communications between the different layers
Encoding
Validation
Web Server Administration/Configuration
Granted I didn't become an expert of any of those technologies, it did however give me an understanding of the priceless big picture, a taste of programming. Thereupon, with confidence I applied for positions. With such exposure you can have a better idea in which direction you want to go in.
You might not be able to go for hardcore software engineering jobs at first, but there are jobs for all levels in the field. Slowly with time, education and experience, you can as you did with your first job determine your future.
Start programming for a project of your own and/or open-source.
Programming has its ups and downs as with any other profession. Programming gives you an element of autonomy. Casual clothes, Flexible work schedule, working remotely, and best of all good pay are usually among many other pros. Programming heavy logic will work your brain to the limit, so it is fatiguing. You will face the computer screen quite often and it is mostly a anti-social job. Therefore it is vital that you compliment this with exercise and social activities to balance things out. Often, you will be asked to do things by business but how you do it often will be up to you. Therefore, creativity at the workplace is a fuzzy thing. But in time with technical skills you can move to management or architecture and design.
Stick to Newtonian physics. If you show the students in practice and application how something they are familiar with works with the knowledge/theories you have talked about, I think you will strike their curiosity, enthusiasm and understanding. This always works for me as a learner. Measuring pendulum motion is boring. Tie it to something they can relate to. Once they experience and observe this connection, the light bulb will go off for many and the possibilities are endless in their mind.
Lastly, it always helps if you bring a element of mild competition into it by structuring the projects into games.
What about bottle rockets?
LOL. This conversation has clearly become one big venting session for all that have dealt with that jerk of a Josh. When venting however, don't let it overtake logic and rational. Let's not hate good programmers:)
This pisses me off. No good reason to tax this but to just further profits. Give me a logical reason why software should be taxed. Why does the government deserve a piece of the action? I'm not against taxes, it's just got to be logical.
Either this is a naive dumb solution to a real problem or it's a bureaucratic means to reject any undesirable stereotypes with citizenship from the above 35 nations. Why not just use the passport scans upon entry? Perhaps the systems are not integrated or the time is not sufficient to cross check your identity against the massive data we've collected about you:)
Apart from creating a few jobs, what good can this bring? Please answer!
which no-one ever does, but just in case you get modded insightful by a mod who didn't either
I'm particularly interested in the headline and the great summary. It's nostalgic to see Tech Giants conducting behavioral interdisciplinary studies to apply to the information industry. Furthermore, the subtle taste of a public showdown with a lot undertone and hushes is a bit all too familiar and all too ironic (Microsoft behaving like an oligarchical government.)
Frankly, you are just too damn pissed off that you read 12 pages of that shit.:_o)
Slashdot Mirror
Change is scary, but necessary. Those times are long gone and consumers demand higher quality. Naturally in business, competition drives excellence. Furthermore, the physical layer of the Network stack is broken and who better to fix it then a competitive Engineering workforce rather than MBAs?
I understand that advertisers pay big bucks. However, I'm absolutely sick and overwhelmed by the amount of advertisement I encounter everyday. It's information overload at a conscious and subconscious level for most. Considering the relevance of the information to one's life, it's nothing but spam. It makes it harder for kids and adults alike to focus and pay attention to worthwhile information. Does advertisement make the gaming experience better? It has no relevance, no matter how well you hide it. Advertisers' ultimate goal is to implant a self-serving everlasting memory into your brain. I understand the size of the economics behind this sector, but it's too inflated in every aspect.
I think this solution is ingenious. However, I don't see this being as good as the real thing yet. I think the pumping of the blood is beneficial in flushing clogs out of arteries . Continuous blood might be more susceptible to build up. With that said this could drastically increase the life expectancy of the human race. I wonder whether artificially replacing organs is the next step forward. After all, isn't the brain the jewel that the organs protect?
I agree with the refactoring approach. Maybe we need to push and glorify refactoring bit more in the community. Then again most out there choose to creation over maintenance. How about this for an initiative? Theorist academicians at universities could guide students to refactor open source projects as a learning experience.
single = susceptible to corporate manipulation
Exactly what I was thinking! Here is an idea. When it comes to sport or any other competition, an neutral third party (referee) seems to do the trick. Of course the referee's integrity has got to be evaluated. If you can fit referees into the picture and reward them accordingly, you might have something.
Writing the code is putting ideas on paper. It's the planning, brainstorming and communication that brings out the power in pair programming. IMHO, pair programming is best practiced with 2 developers sitting behind one computer. One can only operate the keyboard obviously, however, you will find that the second person will be right there watching the code written and second it for assurance or suggest improvements. If the idea is not understood, second person can take over the keyboard momentarily.
Although I like Subversion, there is a learning curve. You might be able to forgo this by setting up the SVN server for all your students and going over the basic commands they will need. Subclipse plugin Eclipse can put a GUI interface to SVN. That is if you guys are using Eclipse for Java Dev.
Interesting points you all have made here, I've learned a lot. So the sales tax is supplement to the property tax to pick up the cost of quality of life the government provides for its residents. This supplement tab is partially picked up by visitors so that the residents to pay less. It sounds to me that this supplemental tax has absolutely nothing to do with actual sales. It can be applied as illogical and unrelated as drinking milkshakes as long as drinking milkshakes can be organized and accounted for by the government via other entities. Apart from the argument of this highly precise bill we have to pay, there is nothing logical about the ways you obtain funding for this bill. Is this why you keep pay taxes on the same car every time it exchanges hands from one owner to the next? It just a clear cut opportunity to demand payment for government spending for your benefit. Now only if government was as honest, just, efficient and accurate with their finances as these hypothetical arguments make them out to be. Nothing is more dangerous than an idle person with authority!
I agree. This is admirable response by Amazon. Even legal thievery has its limits. NC is laying claims beyond their jurisdiction in my opinion.
Nederlands is lelijk hoor.
Before you even indulge in the technology, please think about the consequences of such actions and validate your claim/right to make such decisions on behalf of others. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Science in the past has repeatedly ignored this vital step; atomic bomb comes into mind. We invent destruction, ignoring what we all know to be harmful, we give blinding incomplete arguments in support of such creation. Once the damage has been done, we still do not confess our wrongs but rather satisfy our consciences with more illogical arguments full of IFs and BUTs.
Memories are so much cooler than their images
The current copyright culture is quite disgusting. I think that only the creator of the creation should have any copyright claims. The sale/lease of this claim should not be allowed. When copyright is genuinely appropriate, the creator should be credited and be compensated in an appropriate manner for the use of their work. Once any information is public, it is public and copyright terms should always push for the sharing and the use of the information. The creator must not be bitter, stubborn or too egotistical to inhibit progress. If such is a concern, keep your creation private in your basement until you are ready and agree to share it with the public. Do not release your creation to inhibit the creation of the next person. I'm not rewriting the rules here, but you get a general sense of my argument hopefully. Today all copyrights and patents serve is big lazy business who absolutely had nothing to do with the creation in the first place.
In my pants
Perhaps I too should adopt a beta suffix. Maybe then I'd get so many on my nuts as Gmail does.
Yes, go for it of course. Boundaries and trends are there to be pushed and shaped. Nothing is set in stone and you need pave the road for the future people in your present situation to come.
Yes, relevant experience is important. Everyone wants x years of experience. Well, how do you get that experience if no one is hiring at entry-level?
You like to program, want to get into it. You are certain that you will be able to get the job done only if someone gives you a chance. Someone taking a chance on you is exactly what you need. To get to that point, you have to start programming.
Read object oriented programming principles, a book on JAVA would do to get an idea on things. Pick a project you are interested in. For me, it was to build a site from ground up. This exposed me to the whole picture of web development and how it all tied together.
Database modeling and administration
Back-end programming
Front-end JavaScript GUI development
Session handling
Communications between the different layers
Encoding
Validation
Web Server Administration/Configuration
Granted I didn't become an expert of any of those technologies, it did however give me an understanding of the priceless big picture, a taste of programming. Thereupon, with confidence I applied for positions. With such exposure you can have a better idea in which direction you want to go in.
You might not be able to go for hardcore software engineering jobs at first, but there are jobs for all levels in the field. Slowly with time, education and experience, you can as you did with your first job determine your future.
Start programming for a project of your own and/or open-source.
Programming has its ups and downs as with any other profession. Programming gives you an element of autonomy. Casual clothes, Flexible work schedule, working remotely, and best of all good pay are usually among many other pros. Programming heavy logic will work your brain to the limit, so it is fatiguing. You will face the computer screen quite often and it is mostly a anti-social job. Therefore it is vital that you compliment this with exercise and social activities to balance things out. Often, you will be asked to do things by business but how you do it often will be up to you. Therefore, creativity at the workplace is a fuzzy thing. But in time with technical skills you can move to management or architecture and design.
Sincerely wishing you much success.
Stick to Newtonian physics. If you show the students in practice and application how something they are familiar with works with the knowledge/theories you have talked about, I think you will strike their curiosity, enthusiasm and understanding. This always works for me as a learner. Measuring pendulum motion is boring. Tie it to something they can relate to. Once they experience and observe this connection, the light bulb will go off for many and the possibilities are endless in their mind. Lastly, it always helps if you bring a element of mild competition into it by structuring the projects into games. What about bottle rockets?
LOL. This conversation has clearly become one big venting session for all that have dealt with that jerk of a Josh. When venting however, don't let it overtake logic and rational. Let's not hate good programmers :)
This pisses me off. No good reason to tax this but to just further profits. Give me a logical reason why software should be taxed. Why does the government deserve a piece of the action? I'm not against taxes, it's just got to be logical.
You know it's just an excuse to unblock Youtube at work :)
Either this is a naive dumb solution to a real problem or it's a bureaucratic means to reject any undesirable stereotypes with citizenship from the above 35 nations. Why not just use the passport scans upon entry? Perhaps the systems are not integrated or the time is not sufficient to cross check your identity against the massive data we've collected about you :)
Apart from creating a few jobs, what good can this bring? Please answer!
which no-one ever does, but just in case you get modded insightful by a mod who didn't either
I'm particularly interested in the headline and the great summary. It's nostalgic to see Tech Giants conducting behavioral interdisciplinary studies to apply to the information industry. Furthermore, the subtle taste of a public showdown with a lot undertone and hushes is a bit all too familiar and all too ironic (Microsoft behaving like an oligarchical government.) Frankly, you are just too damn pissed off that you read 12 pages of that shit. :_o)
... and i can almost guarantee I wont get a +5 insightful.
Did the city teach you to use reverse psychology?
Aye! Where to next captain? :)