I've never been to Uni, so I'm not exactly in a position to say what the relative merits of one course over the other is. What I will say, from the point of view of someone who reads job descriptions a fair amount, is that most recruiters seem to list a good CS degree as requirement for most programming roles. Whether that's because it's what they actually want, or because that's what they think they want, I couldn't say for certain.
From talking to a friend who works in management, and with various other friends with CS and Software Engineering backgrounds, we've come to the conclusion that whilst companies habitually ask for Computer Science degrees, it's not usually what they want or need.
So basically figure out what it is you actually want to do, then find out what qualifications companies are asking for from people who want to fill those kinds of role.
You're one of the lucky ones then, Uni is a foot in the door for most people. People with exceptional talent will always succeed, not everyone is that fortunate. Some of us are just competent.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only original left. A couple of the others survived into the C15th, most the rest were gone before the fall of the Roman Empire. I think the statue of Zeus just managed to survive beyond that...then got dismantled by the Christians.
I'm curious to know how this is news. Waiting for your legal department to give you the OK before doing something is just covering your arse. If the legal department says that they can't release it, then that would be news.
I believe they began switching them to IP; I seem to recall they were doing it using VPN tunnelling over the internet. It raised quite a few "wtf?" style comments.
I believe Hanlon's Razor might be appropriate here. For those that don't know it, or more likely just don't know what it's called, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity".
I run the internet presence for a society I belong to, people in administrative positions all have society e-mail accounts, essentially giving them an "official" e-mail address. Trying to get them to actually use them is nigh on impossible, they all just use their personal or work addresses. The number of times I get e-mails from people with.gov.uk addresses is slightly worrying, mind you.
The simple fact is it doesn't occur to most people that they can have more than one e-mail account and they should be selective about which account they use for what tasks.
It's easy to assume malice. Especially when you're dealing with politicians.
The reason why it's a bad thing is because recordings of police carrying out their duty have before entirely changed the reporting angle for a story.
A protest in the UK was once recorded by members of the protest; the police decided to charge the protest and make a number of arrests. The initial reporting was more or less portraying the protesters as the "bad guys". After the footage was passed to them, the reporting more or less did a complete 180; it showed the police had clearly over reacted.
The police are a public service, everything they do is open to public scrutiny.
I very much doubt that law was intended to stop the kind of recording that happened in this instance.
...I'm really hoping that's satire and that you are, in fact, aware that "all possible integers" is an infinitely sized set (unless you place a boundary on it).
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I seem to recall the Library of Congress has an exemption from the anti-circumvention clause(s) of the DMCA.
The British Library was after similar exemptions from copyright law, no idea if they got them.
I've never been to Uni, so I'm not exactly in a position to say what the relative merits of one course over the other is. What I will say, from the point of view of someone who reads job descriptions a fair amount, is that most recruiters seem to list a good CS degree as requirement for most programming roles. Whether that's because it's what they actually want, or because that's what they think they want, I couldn't say for certain.
From talking to a friend who works in management, and with various other friends with CS and Software Engineering backgrounds, we've come to the conclusion that whilst companies habitually ask for Computer Science degrees, it's not usually what they want or need.
So basically figure out what it is you actually want to do, then find out what qualifications companies are asking for from people who want to fill those kinds of role.
You're one of the lucky ones then, Uni is a foot in the door for most people. People with exceptional talent will always succeed, not everyone is that fortunate. Some of us are just competent.
I think someone needs to read Hanlon's Razor. Although I think I prefer Ingham's "Cock-up theory" myself.
True, it was more of an after though. Unfortunately I'd already pressed "Submit" when it occurred to me.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only original left. A couple of the others survived into the C15th, most the rest were gone before the fall of the Roman Empire. I think the statue of Zeus just managed to survive beyond that...then got dismantled by the Christians.
As an aside, the original "Seven Wonders of the World" included the Mausoleum of Maussollos.
Mausoleum.
I wish we had things like that in the UK. I also wish I wasn't nearly 30 and thus could go to them if we did have them.
All of this reminds me that I need to renew my explosives certificate.
I'm curious to know how this is news. Waiting for your legal department to give you the OK before doing something is just covering your arse. If the legal department says that they can't release it, then that would be news.
I believe they began switching them to IP; I seem to recall they were doing it using VPN tunnelling over the internet. It raised quite a few "wtf?" style comments.
They've also used X.25 before now.
I believe Hanlon's Razor might be appropriate here. For those that don't know it, or more likely just don't know what it's called, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity".
I run the internet presence for a society I belong to, people in administrative positions all have society e-mail accounts, essentially giving them an "official" e-mail address. Trying to get them to actually use them is nigh on impossible, they all just use their personal or work addresses. The number of times I get e-mails from people with .gov.uk addresses is slightly worrying, mind you.
The simple fact is it doesn't occur to most people that they can have more than one e-mail account and they should be selective about which account they use for what tasks.
It's easy to assume malice. Especially when you're dealing with politicians.
The reason why it's a bad thing is because recordings of police carrying out their duty have before entirely changed the reporting angle for a story.
A protest in the UK was once recorded by members of the protest; the police decided to charge the protest and make a number of arrests. The initial reporting was more or less portraying the protesters as the "bad guys". After the footage was passed to them, the reporting more or less did a complete 180; it showed the police had clearly over reacted.
The police are a public service, everything they do is open to public scrutiny.
I very much doubt that law was intended to stop the kind of recording that happened in this instance.
Much like America, in fact.
That's a rather good idea; I'd sure as hell be using it, if it existed.
But we're terribly polite and don't like to offend anyone.
Well, except America. And the French.
...I'm really hoping that's satire and that you are, in fact, aware that "all possible integers" is an infinitely sized set (unless you place a boundary on it).
Regardless, when is the last time a major bank failed?
Barings Bank.
Why did it take 28 years? My guess would be that she was good at her job, so no-one felt the need to verify her qualifications.
Which just goes to show that the presence of, or absence of, qualifications tells you diddly-squat about someone's actual abilities.
C and derived languages programmers, we use it quite a lot.
Oh and anyone who actually knows how to use it in a sentence; admittedly that's not many people now days.
I seem to remember some (many?) Universities do claim the copyright on all works created by students whilst they're enrolled at the University.
Which, of course, means that IBM doesn't have to pay them any money, because he's from Kashyyyk :)
(Although arguably he doesn't live anywhere, except possible the Millennium Falcon.)
Microsoft makes Virtual PC, which is a competitor to VMWare's products. Not much of a competitor admitidly.
My speculation would be that no-one wants to sit and read a 6,000 page specification. 700 pages is far more palletable.
It's a crap way of judging the relative merits of specifications, but human nature will out.
...I just copied them all to read.
Now I have an empty inbox and a read mail folder with 25,656 mails in it.
One of these days I should get round to sorting the read mail.