How about "Breaching?" One syllable less than "Pirating." Still has that ocean theme, too, with the whole whales jumping out of water thing.
Still, I don't see what's wrong with calling it piracy. Last game I stole was a 36' Queenship. And by "game," I mean "boat." Oh, and I murdered the crew. Arrr!
But, the whole reason to GO to a University, is to get the skills/education to make more money when finished, than you would have if you had not gone.
Which is precisely why Universities shouldn't go corporate. Corporations at large are very bad at assessing the human capital needs of corporations even in the near future. The language du jour... is precisely that. What is in vogue today is not necessarily even important tomorrow. University should teach you how to learn more efficiently and give you a broad base of fundamental skills (such as theory and math) that will be important no matter what direction industry moves in. Being well rounded isn't fluff.
Besides, if your primary goal is to make more money, those additional courses are probably of equal value. There have been many studies over the years that have shown almost no correlation between programming capabilities and pay (for some older references, read Peopleware). Take a course in verbal communication. You will make more if you sell yourself. Your metaphors and anecdotes gained from your history class may get you a better job than your actual programming skills.
Can you still check your email, and faster than using, say, a crackberry? Still send text messages? Still check movie showtimes on Google?
For Pete's sake, it's not like you're going to run a torrent server on the thing. First, my current phone is 3G compatible, so this would be a degredation in download speed. Second, it isn't just about text messaging. I think part of the idea of the device is that you download stuff. You know, iTunes... And in that scenario, I expect people will notice the difference between EDGE and 3G.
While 500 bucks is more than mere pocket change to me, I'd consider buying an iPhone. Unfortunately, it's listed as EDGE, and not 3G. Santa Barbara goes to 3G in June, so the iPhone becomes somewhat obsolete the day it comes out here. And that's already the case for Bakersfield (I think they were the first in California to go 3G). I don't know what the rest of the country is like, but I think Apple really dropped the ball by not making their "Next Gen" phone work on the "Next Gen" network that goes live at the same time they debut the phone. I guess I'll wait for a competitor to 1up them or wait for version 2.
Incidentally, The toolbar doesn't work with Safari. I just did the checks on the various browsers myself. I got a kick out of the fact that the Safari ad didn't apply to Safari at all.
The city all along argued that his demotion and transfer was because of staffing needs not because of this situation.
But that is how every employment case (and probably any other legal case) works: We deny that we did things because of the motivation you say, and even if we did, that motivation is not illegal under this interpretation of the law, as illustrated by these totally unrelated cases and bad analogies.
The defense will poke as many holes in the case as they possibly can.
I went to high school with those guys, they're really not greedy people.
Yeah, Tim and Jon were always nice guys. What I want to know is why didn't Jon go to his ten year reunion? I would have loved to have seen him again. I'd bet good money Tim shows for his.
I mean, shoot, they're the only ones that really made it big.
I don't know what schools the poster was applying to, but all PhD students in the UCSB CS department are funded enough to net positive during their academic career (of course, it may mean living in campus housing or sharing a room). Even some MS students have funding enough to cover school.
Several companies exist around town that are willing to work around student hours, allowing anyone who is able to find work (sucks for student visas). I am sure that other University towns present similar options. In fact, it may be easier to find part time work as a student than a full time job in the ranks of the unemployed. You'll probably make less, but it should be enough to cover additional expenses you have.
This would totally blow away the image that Apple has tried to develop of "it just works." If you have to check the compatibility list first to see if it works, you've blown that market.
If Apple started making serious headway into PC sales, Dell might be willing to tailor their hardware to ensure mac osx compatibilty. Then the transition could be made. Right now, that motivation doesn't exist, and people buying cheap dells to install OSX on would likely get screwed by at least one piece of unsupported hardware.
Then again, someone could probably figure out a marketing solution to this problem: it's not like mom and dad are going to reinstall the OS anyway.
I am in a PhD program in CS (UCSB). I didn't take the CS GRE. I was told it wasn't necessary by the school I applied to.
As far as their policy on the "plain old" GRE, they didn't look at the math section -- they assume you got perfect or near perfect. They cared about the verbal section, requiring a score of over 600 -- so that you could, in theory, be an understandable TA. Of course, the average for native speakers is below the average of foreign students, which is why you always should try to email TAs that don't speak English with multiple choice questions. They usually understand written English quite well.
For me, it was my letters of recommendation that made the difference.
The bottom line: Talk to the schools you wish to apply to. Play their game. Most schools have a staff member and a faculty member that will give you a complete picture.
Google uses yahoo finance as well (and, as others have pointed out, they have done so for quite a while). Clicking the link takes you to
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ticker&d=t
The second link is usually (found two instances where it wasn't so far) the same page, but without the google frame on top. Also, the query string order changes (the above is reversed -- google swaps the d=t and s=ticker, and the yahoo link has it as I typed it).
Also newsworthy (I guess): Type in your tracking numbers and get taken to the appropriate UPS or FedEx tracking page!
Or, type in a simple arithmetic statement and get the result.
Or, type in 10 pounds to kilograms and get the conversion.
The trailer credits list the Wachowski Brothers. Don't you take that as an indication that you are wrong?
Just fast forward to the end and you will see.
*spoiler warning (assuming the film is actually similar to the comic book)*
The timing on this trailer is a bit off... Let's see, delivering bombs via the rail system. I think I've read that somewhere recently. I hope they don't water down the plot, I'd rather they delayed the film than do that.
Nice try, Captain, but there's no way your disinformation is getting past my tinfoil.
Lead shielding works better than tinfoil. Inject some into your blood for ultimate protection. "Lead Poisoning" is a government lie to prevent this little known solution from becoming widely used.
Yes. If you *rewire the computer* while it's asleep, it may give you problems.:P
Unfortunately, a common use case for a laptop is:
1. Close the lid when not in use. 2. Take it with you.
It is easy to train people to unplug devices before closing the laptop when they are about to leave, but it is very difficult to train people to open a closed laptop, then unplug the devices, then reclose it just to take it with them.
That means that a lot of people are going to unplug things from their laptops when they are asleep.
And it is possible to poll the bus upon waking back up, so it isn't quite as scary as a rewire.
Besides, there are operating systems that allow such things (even allowing the number of processors to change while asleep), so it shouldn't be asking too much. Besides, apple should support common human behavior.
I've only met one CS professor from UCI, so I can't comment on the rest, but doesn't Michael Franz offer any undergrad courses? Some of his work is pretty cool. He's also a pretty charismatic presenter.
As far as testing out of redundant classes, you are mistaken. The UC by-laws allow you to challenge any course (with that catch that you can't challenge a course if you have already taken a course that lists it as a prerequisite -- which comes up when waivers are used). These by-laws apply to every UC school. It is quite possible that your department staff is unaware of these by-laws, but I know someone who used them to get out of a lot of classes at UCSB (he graduated with degrees in physics and CS in 3 years).
Ehh, Even apple has problems. Try unplugging a firewire hard drive while your computer is asleep. I've not done it, but I've seen the posts from people complaining about crashes in OSX as a consequence. I certainly have crashed my Powerbook unplugging a USB device while it was asleep. I haven't tried it in a while, so maybe it's been fixed in Tiger.
When a skateboarder falls on those books, they are rarely damaged. The laptop will probably not fare so well. Which means that generation 2 of this project will probably use laptops made of solid steel, which will up the weight back on par with the books.
But this is pointless. Only geeks carried around their full load of books, and yet we still managed to be the largest group with weight problems. Worse, some of us have fucked up posture from those heavy backpacks as well. Where's the upside?
Also, the arrogance associated with the US has nothing to do with calling yourselves "America".. it has mostly to do with Bush, Clinton, and Bush.
Not to put too fine a point on it...
You forgot about Reagan. He did a great boost to our image as arrogant bastards.
It does suck to be labelled as Arrogant. I think there was an Onion article with a title along the lines of "American foreign policy harming Americans' chances of getting laid abroad". I am not certain that we don't deserve the label. Much of our ignorance of things outside the US (and our pride in the US) stems from the greatness of the US. We can vacation thousands of miles from our homes, be immersed in a very different culture, with completely different geography, and still be in the US. We have respectable woodlands, wetlands, mountains, deserts, cities, etc. You name it, we got one.
Economically, we thrive: about 70% of Americans own their own home now. Then, there's the joke about Michael Jackson (a poor black boy can grow up to be a rich white woman)... or the current President (anyone can be elected President with no qualifications whatsoever). The American dream is a powerful bit of propoganda. It also helps blind us to the outside world much of the time. We can help ourselves by focusing on ourselves, and that actually works quite frequently.
Some of our lack of cultural understanding comes from our own lack of history. We have amazing historical sites that are 200 years old! Mabye even 250! We just don't get exposed to history older than that. Our education system covers US history spread throughout our years, while we lump the rest of world history into one or two years. The rest, we get from Hollywood (which I am certain is 100% accurate). Our borders haven't been under much dispute due to international politics in a long time (see America, ancient history).
However, I actually fail to see how having an idiot as a President gets us labelled as Arrogant. I don't believe that all of the presidents that gave us the arrogant label were idiots any more than most other foreign leaders. Seriously, how does "Gas the Kurds" come across as less idiotic than our domestic politics at the time? Sure we let down a few environmental regulations, but we didn't outright gas our own people.
OK, so being an American, I can't actually point out any other examples of stupid international leaders because, like most Americans, I can basically ignore most of the rest of the world unless it involves oil.
When most Americans do notice things going on in the rest of the world, it is usually something tragic, like the recent Tsunami, or the unfortunate events in London. In those instances, Americans generally do quite a bit to lend a helping hand. (And yes, we seem to ignore many tragic events, like devastating earthquakes in South America, or... something else I simply didn't hear about because my news sources didn't cover it).
Even more impressive than our arrogance is our incredible sense of apathy. We can hardly motivate ourselves to learn about our own domestic politics, how can anyone expect us to learn about international politics?
NB: The above text has no purpose other than to alleviate my boredom.
Umm... If he isn't willing to trust his normal data to such a system, why on Earth would he trust data as important as King's Quest data to such a system? This is *precisely* why people still use mainframes. Didn't you read the brochure?
Actually, in the US, it is quite common to pronounce "organize" with a 'z' sound (and we spell it as such). In fact, I don't think I've heard it pronounced with an 's'. It's hard to force myself to say it that way. But your point for houzez stands well.
IE is on the downfall thanks to Firefox, and doesn't really bring Microsoft any revenue anyway
You are ignoring the impacts IE has had on Microsoft's bottom line due to its interoperability with things like ASP and ASP.Net. NMCI, the second largest network (to the internet) is nearly 100% Microsoft. Every single desktop computer is a Dell. Most of the servers are Compaqs (er... HP). Every single one of those runs Windows. The way IE ties in is that many of the applications that run on NMCI are not desktop applications, they are ASP and ASP.Net web applications. These were chosen because of their "ease of development" and because they were an "industry standard" (two terms which mean absolutely nothing semantically, but everything financially). Both of those factors have to do with features that IE has that other browsers do not. The specific features are the ability to render said web applications consistently (circular reasoning, but consistent).
Anyway, since all of NMCI runs windows and IE, all defense contractors who develop software develop on windows and IE (J2EE support exists, but lags in terms of market share -- and many of the J2EE apps render correctly for IE only anyway).
Now admittedly, I haven't worked on an NMCI project in almost a year, so things could have changed. But with the largest single client on the planet, Microsoft isn't doing too bad. And NMCI isn't the only enterprise using IE only for their internal web applications. So IE helps by helping developers choose the appropriate Microsoft development tools (among them SQL Server), which positively impact microsoft's bottom line.
Incidentally, for a while, the only real "feature" that was in common use that broke on other browsers was IE's CSS extension that allowed text to be rendered rotated at 90 degrees. Most of the menu systems for web apps also worked on IE and not on Mozilla, but at least there were work arounds for developers who cared whether their shit ran on other platforms. It's a silly oversight for the CSS standard not to have that capability (it is frequently necessary for large HTML tables to display the column headers rendered at 90 degrees). Has this been fixed?
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But cheaters never win... teacher said so.
How about "Breaching?" One syllable less than "Pirating." Still has that ocean theme, too, with the whole whales jumping out of water thing.
Still, I don't see what's wrong with calling it piracy. Last game I stole was a 36' Queenship. And by "game," I mean "boat." Oh, and I murdered the crew. Arrr!
But, the whole reason to GO to a University, is to get the skills/education to make more money when finished, than you would have if you had not gone.
... is precisely that. What is in vogue today is not necessarily even important tomorrow. University should teach you how to learn more efficiently and give you a broad base of fundamental skills (such as theory and math) that will be important no matter what direction industry moves in. Being well rounded isn't fluff.
Which is precisely why Universities shouldn't go corporate. Corporations at large are very bad at assessing the human capital needs of corporations even in the near future. The language du jour
Besides, if your primary goal is to make more money, those additional courses are probably of equal value. There have been many studies over the years that have shown almost no correlation between programming capabilities and pay (for some older references, read Peopleware). Take a course in verbal communication. You will make more if you sell yourself. Your metaphors and anecdotes gained from your history class may get you a better job than your actual programming skills.
For Pete's sake, it's not like you're going to run a torrent server on the thing. First, my current phone is 3G compatible, so this would be a degredation in download speed. Second, it isn't just about text messaging. I think part of the idea of the device is that you download stuff. You know, iTunes... And in that scenario, I expect people will notice the difference between EDGE and 3G.
While 500 bucks is more than mere pocket change to me, I'd consider buying an iPhone. Unfortunately, it's listed as EDGE, and not 3G. Santa Barbara goes to 3G in June, so the iPhone becomes somewhat obsolete the day it comes out here. And that's already the case for Bakersfield (I think they were the first in California to go 3G). I don't know what the rest of the country is like, but I think Apple really dropped the ball by not making their "Next Gen" phone work on the "Next Gen" network that goes live at the same time they debut the phone. I guess I'll wait for a competitor to 1up them or wait for version 2.
Incidentally, The toolbar doesn't work with Safari. I just did the checks on the various browsers myself. I got a kick out of the fact that the Safari ad didn't apply to Safari at all.
But that is how every employment case (and probably any other legal case) works: We deny that we did things because of the motivation you say, and even if we did, that motivation is not illegal under this interpretation of the law, as illustrated by these totally unrelated cases and bad analogies.
The defense will poke as many holes in the case as they possibly can.
I went to high school with those guys, they're really not greedy people.
Yeah, Tim and Jon were always nice guys. What I want to know is why didn't Jon go to his ten year reunion? I would have loved to have seen him again. I'd bet good money Tim shows for his.
I mean, shoot, they're the only ones that really made it big.
In other news, my sister stole my Etc. album.
I don't know what schools the poster was applying to, but all PhD students in the UCSB CS department are funded enough to net positive during their academic career (of course, it may mean living in campus housing or sharing a room). Even some MS students have funding enough to cover school.
Several companies exist around town that are willing to work around student hours, allowing anyone who is able to find work (sucks for student visas). I am sure that other University towns present similar options. In fact, it may be easier to find part time work as a student than a full time job in the ranks of the unemployed. You'll probably make less, but it should be enough to cover additional expenses you have.
This would totally blow away the image that Apple has tried to develop of "it just works." If you have to check the compatibility list first to see if it works, you've blown that market.
If Apple started making serious headway into PC sales, Dell might be willing to tailor their hardware to ensure mac osx compatibilty. Then the transition could be made. Right now, that motivation doesn't exist, and people buying cheap dells to install OSX on would likely get screwed by at least one piece of unsupported hardware.
Then again, someone could probably figure out a marketing solution to this problem: it's not like mom and dad are going to reinstall the OS anyway.
I am in a PhD program in CS (UCSB). I didn't take the CS GRE. I was told it wasn't necessary by the school I applied to.
As far as their policy on the "plain old" GRE, they didn't look at the math section -- they assume you got perfect or near perfect. They cared about the verbal section, requiring a score of over 600 -- so that you could, in theory, be an understandable TA. Of course, the average for native speakers is below the average of foreign students, which is why you always should try to email TAs that don't speak English with multiple choice questions. They usually understand written English quite well.
For me, it was my letters of recommendation that made the difference.
The bottom line: Talk to the schools you wish to apply to. Play their game. Most schools have a staff member and a faculty member that will give you a complete picture.
Google uses yahoo finance as well (and, as others have pointed out, they have done so for quite a while). Clicking the link takes you to
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ticker&d=t
The second link is usually (found two instances where it wasn't so far) the same page, but without the google frame on top. Also, the query string order changes (the above is reversed -- google swaps the d=t and s=ticker, and the yahoo link has it as I typed it).
Also newsworthy (I guess): Type in your tracking numbers and get taken to the appropriate UPS or FedEx tracking page!
Or, type in a simple arithmetic statement and get the result.
Or, type in 10 pounds to kilograms and get the conversion.
The trailer credits list the Wachowski Brothers. Don't you take that as an indication that you are wrong?
Just fast forward to the end and you will see.
*spoiler warning (assuming the film is actually similar to the comic book)*
The timing on this trailer is a bit off... Let's see, delivering bombs via the rail system. I think I've read that somewhere recently. I hope they don't water down the plot, I'd rather they delayed the film than do that.
Nice try, Captain, but there's no way your disinformation is getting past my tinfoil.
Lead shielding works better than tinfoil. Inject some into your blood for ultimate protection. "Lead Poisoning" is a government lie to prevent this little known solution from becoming widely used.
Think about it.
But, when using tinfoil: Shiney side out!
Yes. If you *rewire the computer* while it's asleep, it may give you problems. :P
Unfortunately, a common use case for a laptop is:
1. Close the lid when not in use.
2. Take it with you.
It is easy to train people to unplug devices before closing the laptop when they are about to leave, but it is very difficult to train people to open a closed laptop, then unplug the devices, then reclose it just to take it with them.
That means that a lot of people are going to unplug things from their laptops when they are asleep.
And it is possible to poll the bus upon waking back up, so it isn't quite as scary as a rewire.
Besides, there are operating systems that allow such things (even allowing the number of processors to change while asleep), so it shouldn't be asking too much. Besides, apple should support common human behavior.
I've only met one CS professor from UCI, so I can't comment on the rest, but doesn't Michael Franz offer any undergrad courses? Some of his work is pretty cool. He's also a pretty charismatic presenter.
As far as testing out of redundant classes, you are mistaken. The UC by-laws allow you to challenge any course (with that catch that you can't challenge a course if you have already taken a course that lists it as a prerequisite -- which comes up when waivers are used). These by-laws apply to every UC school. It is quite possible that your department staff is unaware of these by-laws, but I know someone who used them to get out of a lot of classes at UCSB (he graduated with degrees in physics and CS in 3 years).
Ehh, Even apple has problems. Try unplugging a firewire hard drive while your computer is asleep. I've not done it, but I've seen the posts from people complaining about crashes in OSX as a consequence. I certainly have crashed my Powerbook unplugging a USB device while it was asleep. I haven't tried it in a while, so maybe it's been fixed in Tiger.
Thanks for doing the google search for me. I was thinking, "Shit, that's bigger than the population of many states."
It actually sounds close to the number of families that don't own homes in the US (renters), but that figure was from a while ago.
So, why does [history] matter?
:)
History TA's are cuter than physics TA's
That is only a temporary problem...
When a skateboarder falls on those books, they are rarely damaged. The laptop will probably not fare so well. Which means that generation 2 of this project will probably use laptops made of solid steel, which will up the weight back on par with the books.
But this is pointless. Only geeks carried around their full load of books, and yet we still managed to be the largest group with weight problems. Worse, some of us have fucked up posture from those heavy backpacks as well. Where's the upside?
Also, the arrogance associated with the US has nothing to do with calling yourselves "America".. it has mostly to do with Bush, Clinton, and Bush.
...
... something else I simply didn't hear about because my news sources didn't cover it).
Not to put too fine a point on it
You forgot about Reagan. He did a great boost to our image as arrogant bastards.
It does suck to be labelled as Arrogant. I think there was an Onion article with a title along the lines of "American foreign policy harming Americans' chances of getting laid abroad". I am not certain that we don't deserve the label. Much of our ignorance of things outside the US (and our pride in the US) stems from the greatness of the US. We can vacation thousands of miles from our homes, be immersed in a very different culture, with completely different geography, and still be in the US. We have respectable woodlands, wetlands, mountains, deserts, cities, etc. You name it, we got one.
Economically, we thrive: about 70% of Americans own their own home now. Then, there's the joke about Michael Jackson (a poor black boy can grow up to be a rich white woman)... or the current President (anyone can be elected President with no qualifications whatsoever). The American dream is a powerful bit of propoganda. It also helps blind us to the outside world much of the time. We can help ourselves by focusing on ourselves, and that actually works quite frequently.
Some of our lack of cultural understanding comes from our own lack of history. We have amazing historical sites that are 200 years old! Mabye even 250! We just don't get exposed to history older than that. Our education system covers US history spread throughout our years, while we lump the rest of world history into one or two years. The rest, we get from Hollywood (which I am certain is 100% accurate). Our borders haven't been under much dispute due to international politics in a long time (see America, ancient history).
However, I actually fail to see how having an idiot as a President gets us labelled as Arrogant. I don't believe that all of the presidents that gave us the arrogant label were idiots any more than most other foreign leaders. Seriously, how does "Gas the Kurds" come across as less idiotic than our domestic politics at the time? Sure we let down a few environmental regulations, but we didn't outright gas our own people.
OK, so being an American, I can't actually point out any other examples of stupid international leaders because, like most Americans, I can basically ignore most of the rest of the world unless it involves oil.
When most Americans do notice things going on in the rest of the world, it is usually something tragic, like the recent Tsunami, or the unfortunate events in London. In those instances, Americans generally do quite a bit to lend a helping hand. (And yes, we seem to ignore many tragic events, like devastating earthquakes in South America, or
Even more impressive than our arrogance is our incredible sense of apathy. We can hardly motivate ourselves to learn about our own domestic politics, how can anyone expect us to learn about international politics?
NB: The above text has no purpose other than to alleviate my boredom.
Umm... If he isn't willing to trust his normal data to such a system, why on Earth would he trust data as important as King's Quest data to such a system? This is *precisely* why people still use mainframes. Didn't you read the brochure?
Seriously, that's just crazy talk.
Exhaustive enumeration is a valid logical representation of a set of rules.
Think Unicode. For the majority of characters, there is no way to deduce the encoding other than to look it up. Sometimes there is no other way.
Given enough space, English rules can be presented with logic and order.
Oh, you also want concise? Shit.
Your example is fine.
Those ugly panels require no code to create (they can be created in a GUI builder) and much code to fix.
Many of the default components render correctly (even if they are ugly) in IE and possibly not at all in other browsers (except Opera, by design).
Actually, in the US, it is quite common to pronounce "organize" with a 'z' sound (and we spell it as such). In fact, I don't think I've heard it pronounced with an 's'. It's hard to force myself to say it that way. But your point for houzez stands well.
IE is on the downfall thanks to Firefox, and doesn't really bring Microsoft any revenue anyway
You are ignoring the impacts IE has had on Microsoft's bottom line due to its interoperability with things like ASP and ASP.Net. NMCI, the second largest network (to the internet) is nearly 100% Microsoft. Every single desktop computer is a Dell. Most of the servers are Compaqs (er... HP). Every single one of those runs Windows. The way IE ties in is that many of the applications that run on NMCI are not desktop applications, they are ASP and ASP.Net web applications. These were chosen because of their "ease of development" and because they were an "industry standard" (two terms which mean absolutely nothing semantically, but everything financially). Both of those factors have to do with features that IE has that other browsers do not. The specific features are the ability to render said web applications consistently (circular reasoning, but consistent).
Anyway, since all of NMCI runs windows and IE, all defense contractors who develop software develop on windows and IE (J2EE support exists, but lags in terms of market share -- and many of the J2EE apps render correctly for IE only anyway).
Now admittedly, I haven't worked on an NMCI project in almost a year, so things could have changed. But with the largest single client on the planet, Microsoft isn't doing too bad. And NMCI isn't the only enterprise using IE only for their internal web applications. So IE helps by helping developers choose the appropriate Microsoft development tools (among them SQL Server), which positively impact microsoft's bottom line.
Incidentally, for a while, the only real "feature" that was in common use that broke on other browsers was IE's CSS extension that allowed text to be rendered rotated at 90 degrees. Most of the menu systems for web apps also worked on IE and not on Mozilla, but at least there were work arounds for developers who cared whether their shit ran on other platforms. It's a silly oversight for the CSS standard not to have that capability (it is frequently necessary for large HTML tables to display the column headers rendered at 90 degrees). Has this been fixed?