Like how US workers demand to be paid something for their work? How they demand not to work in places that are deathtraps? With all the horror stories of what it is like to make clothing, I can't imagine what it would be like to work in a Chinese factory whose products contained large amounts of caustic chemicals...
A friend of mine works for a network equipment manufacturer. He has essentially a company router for work from home. He was warned if he violated the company internet usage policy through the router, then he was just as responsible as if he accessed the offending material from work. I imagine that it was more likely FUD to keep him from connecting through the VPN and then looking at porn passed through the company's physical network and logs but the threat was still there.
A very important detail is they must make more money from the remaining 1/3 than they would have made selling it to the other 2/3 for it to be a sound decision. Good news for them and their customers is that with the cost of hardware to supply the other 2/3, it won't mean the PS4 owners will need to pay $1200 a console. The bad news for the customer is that it and/or the games will be more or you don't get to play at all...
if by validation you mean:
Being able to find old friends you haven't been able to contact in years.
Having a central pull information spot rather than the push model of spaming every email address you have with pics of the new baby, house, car, toaster.
A central and standardized organization spot for arranging informal gatherings with friends, like parties.
Or, you know, corporate bailouts that dwarf years of spending on those things in the blink of an eye to save the jobs of people who make and lose more in a day than the majority of the country will see in a lifetime of working.
Many people have cars. Many people who aren't reasoning at their fullest ability have cars (the clearest evidence being a morning commute). Most people who have cars have insurance. Since insurance will pay for a stolen car, and leaving the keys in the ignition will get my car stolen(ok maybe not my junker but someone's). Easy money is leaving the keys in the ignition.
And then you say even a moron knows they won't get paid for that. But the article says that using similar reasoning people are going to start KILLING themselves to cause a small fine and/or prison sentance on someone they dislike. Every law is subject to abuse, but really, lets not make a law protecting harrassment victims because someone might make a stupid decision because of it?
This is such an awful idea. If every game had a subscription fee then I would never buy another game again. I'd have to connect to the server every time I played, because you know they aren't going to trust me to host my subscription end date on my computer. Plus if I think I might play a game again, like the CDs I haven't tossed out of my old games that means I need to keep paying my subscription fees indefinitely. I never have played an MMO longer than a trial version because I don't want another tiny money siphon on my wallet. If I'm paying monthly for entertainment, I better get brand new content every month, that is why I pay subscriptions on cable, netflix, etc... I'm not paying netflix to watch one movie over and over again.
First Stroustrup complains Java is a major ill of CS curiculum, and then Sun says that Java solves all the problems of people who have C++ implementations. And for my next feat I will find an article with the Democrats blaming Bush for something.:-\
They can't produce quality products as cheaply, as reliably, and as quickly as they would like...
I think the ultimate aim is to make programming more of an engineering discipline, more mathematical or scientific; "craft" and "art" are both needed, but there ought to be a scientifically based core on which people can base their craft and art.
We all know that we get to choose two of the three, problem is companies want all three without any consessions.
Also, imposing rigor on software design increases time and in certain situations cost, while increasing reliability. While we are definitely heading in the right direction as a field; there is a long way to go before we ever get to any kind of discipline that is both as rigorous as other science or engineering disciplines and usable on the scale that people currently expect software to be at. Real customers by and large can't (although some cases won't) pay for rigorous development. Hell, the mentality has been creeping into consumer electronics as long as I've been alive. The current market drives us towards fast and cheap and only towards reliable if the customer is pissed.
Maybe I just started in the wrong spot. I loved it when I was much younger but started again from the begining and couldn't make it past the first DVD.
Lots and lots of paper, but that doesn't work any more because most reasonable things occur at the pace of the internet rather than the pace of paper. Which means if I have a reference book for a technology, then it is out of date long before I can even get it from a bookstore.
Or in the case of timecharging then my employers have to go back to supporting a paper based system for those workers who don't work in the company's buildings. That means alot of money spent on paper, transporting said paper, sending out regular interoffice post runs to all the remote sites (or spending more time using external carriers. We are currently moving away from paper paystubs at my company, because we have to "guess" our time for a day and a half of our pay periods. That is because it takes a week for our company to audit, print, and ship all the paper ones. Since we sell our time it is a big issue to have any inaccuracies in our time, which makes the guessing unacceptable. And all that is with an existing electronic timecharging system.
We didn't have any programming courses. We had typing and computer literacy. Until high school, I wanted to be a chemist but I changed my mind the first day we were handed our TI-82s and haven't looked back. I love to program, and although I was really bad at it in high school because I couldn't get any training that was where I got the bug. And my typing class has been invaluable, and I'm sure that is the case for more than just the two of us that have gone on to develop software. We learned on typewriters cause we couldn't afford to have that many computers. I think it made us better, but we spent alot of time on things like how to properly use whiteout that is really worthless for most modern offices.
To the GP,
Do you think it is a waste to have chemicals and equipment for chemistry students? Seriously how many of those kids are really going to use chemistry hands on? Now how many are going to have to touch a computer sometime? If you don't think the chemistry equipment is expensive, then why do you have lab partners? I know in my school it was because we couldn't afford enough equipment to go around, in fact some times we had several groups rotating through a particular apparatus.
Yep and that is how it is supposed to work. Except that you have users in the mix. Users that either make mistakes or rationalize actually doing stupid crap. Sure you fire them for the breach of security, but their replacement is going to end up having moments that are just as careless. Not everyone is going to have one in their lifetime, but you get enough users then you are going to have problems and government networks are used by alot of users.
There are processes and procedures but no process or procedure is 100%. Contractors need access to time-charging websites for their companies. IT folks need access to the internet to patch security flaws. Technical folks of all types need the internet for references, online documentation, online journals, etc. You can't just cut out internet for everyone working for the government. You also have government energy companies like TVA, government health agencies like the CDC. Both of which control sensitive information that could be used against this nation by weaponization of that information.
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Like how US workers demand to be paid something for their work? How they demand not to work in places that are deathtraps? With all the horror stories of what it is like to make clothing, I can't imagine what it would be like to work in a Chinese factory whose products contained large amounts of caustic chemicals...
A friend of mine works for a network equipment manufacturer. He has essentially a company router for work from home. He was warned if he violated the company internet usage policy through the router, then he was just as responsible as if he accessed the offending material from work. I imagine that it was more likely FUD to keep him from connecting through the VPN and then looking at porn passed through the company's physical network and logs but the threat was still there.
Didn't the EULA on XP say not to run medical equipment, ... , Nuclear Power Plants, life-critical devices in relatively straightforward terms?
A very important detail is they must make more money from the remaining 1/3 than they would have made selling it to the other 2/3 for it to be a sound decision. Good news for them and their customers is that with the cost of hardware to supply the other 2/3, it won't mean the PS4 owners will need to pay $1200 a console. The bad news for the customer is that it and/or the games will be more or you don't get to play at all...
if by validation you mean:
Being able to find old friends you haven't been able to contact in years.
Having a central pull information spot rather than the push model of spaming every email address you have with pics of the new baby, house, car, toaster.
A central and standardized organization spot for arranging informal gatherings with friends, like parties.
Or, you know, corporate bailouts that dwarf years of spending on those things in the blink of an eye to save the jobs of people who make and lose more in a day than the majority of the country will see in a lifetime of working.
Many people have cars. Many people who aren't reasoning at their fullest ability have cars (the clearest evidence being a morning commute). Most people who have cars have insurance. Since insurance will pay for a stolen car, and leaving the keys in the ignition will get my car stolen(ok maybe not my junker but someone's). Easy money is leaving the keys in the ignition.
And then you say even a moron knows they won't get paid for that. But the article says that using similar reasoning people are going to start KILLING themselves to cause a small fine and/or prison sentance on someone they dislike. Every law is subject to abuse, but really, lets not make a law protecting harrassment victims because someone might make a stupid decision because of it?
Since I have insurance I have every motivation to leave the keys in the ignition of my car when I go into a supermarket shopping, right?
So you absolutely refuse to play in the company golf tournament?
So, why stymie that process with a new bureaucracy that simply funds the big record labels?
...
Profit???
At the very least campaign contributions?
I've seen more watts over more distance all my life.
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/lightning/ltg_damage.html
You just don't want to stand between the source and the destination...
Make that Rasberry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratrechina_species_near_pubens
As long as they aren't these then they probably will be ok.
This is such an awful idea. If every game had a subscription fee then I would never buy another game again. I'd have to connect to the server every time I played, because you know they aren't going to trust me to host my subscription end date on my computer. Plus if I think I might play a game again, like the CDs I haven't tossed out of my old games that means I need to keep paying my subscription fees indefinitely. I never have played an MMO longer than a trial version because I don't want another tiny money siphon on my wallet. If I'm paying monthly for entertainment, I better get brand new content every month, that is why I pay subscriptions on cable, netflix, etc... I'm not paying netflix to watch one movie over and over again.
First Stroustrup complains Java is a major ill of CS curiculum, and then Sun says that Java solves all the problems of people who have C++ implementations. And for my next feat I will find an article with the Democrats blaming Bush for something. :-\
They can't produce quality products as cheaply, as reliably, and as quickly as they would like...
I think the ultimate aim is to make programming more of an engineering discipline, more mathematical or scientific; "craft" and "art" are both needed, but there ought to be a scientifically based core on which people can base their craft and art.
We all know that we get to choose two of the three, problem is companies want all three without any consessions.
Also, imposing rigor on software design increases time and in certain situations cost, while increasing reliability. While we are definitely heading in the right direction as a field; there is a long way to go before we ever get to any kind of discipline that is both as rigorous as other science or engineering disciplines and usable on the scale that people currently expect software to be at. Real customers by and large can't (although some cases won't) pay for rigorous development. Hell, the mentality has been creeping into consumer electronics as long as I've been alive. The current market drives us towards fast and cheap and only towards reliable if the customer is pissed.
Testing those is hell. But we did get upto 4 shells read before the drive failed from all the sand.
Maybe I just started in the wrong spot. I loved it when I was much younger but started again from the begining and couldn't make it past the first DVD.
Your Xbox was just doing you a favor.
Lots and lots of paper, but that doesn't work any more because most reasonable things occur at the pace of the internet rather than the pace of paper. Which means if I have a reference book for a technology, then it is out of date long before I can even get it from a bookstore.
Or in the case of timecharging then my employers have to go back to supporting a paper based system for those workers who don't work in the company's buildings. That means alot of money spent on paper, transporting said paper, sending out regular interoffice post runs to all the remote sites (or spending more time using external carriers. We are currently moving away from paper paystubs at my company, because we have to "guess" our time for a day and a half of our pay periods. That is because it takes a week for our company to audit, print, and ship all the paper ones. Since we sell our time it is a big issue to have any inaccuracies in our time, which makes the guessing unacceptable. And all that is with an existing electronic timecharging system.
We didn't have any programming courses. We had typing and computer literacy. Until high school, I wanted to be a chemist but I changed my mind the first day we were handed our TI-82s and haven't looked back. I love to program, and although I was really bad at it in high school because I couldn't get any training that was where I got the bug. And my typing class has been invaluable, and I'm sure that is the case for more than just the two of us that have gone on to develop software. We learned on typewriters cause we couldn't afford to have that many computers. I think it made us better, but we spent alot of time on things like how to properly use whiteout that is really worthless for most modern offices.
To the GP,
Do you think it is a waste to have chemicals and equipment for chemistry students? Seriously how many of those kids are really going to use chemistry hands on? Now how many are going to have to touch a computer sometime? If you don't think the chemistry equipment is expensive, then why do you have lab partners? I know in my school it was because we couldn't afford enough equipment to go around, in fact some times we had several groups rotating through a particular apparatus.
Yep and that is how it is supposed to work. Except that you have users in the mix. Users that either make mistakes or rationalize actually doing stupid crap. Sure you fire them for the breach of security, but their replacement is going to end up having moments that are just as careless. Not everyone is going to have one in their lifetime, but you get enough users then you are going to have problems and government networks are used by alot of users.
There are processes and procedures but no process or procedure is 100%. Contractors need access to time-charging websites for their companies. IT folks need access to the internet to patch security flaws. Technical folks of all types need the internet for references, online documentation, online journals, etc. You can't just cut out internet for everyone working for the government. You also have government energy companies like TVA, government health agencies like the CDC. Both of which control sensitive information that could be used against this nation by weaponization of that information.
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I really don't want to know.