Here, they have everyone sign into the Academic Computing labs (the labs in engineering are unmonitored). Then they assign you to a particular computer. This is so they can give the logs to law enforcement personel/so forth.
Ironically, they don't have you log in with a unique username/password or swipe or anything in that nature. No offense to many of the students here, but they complain that most of the system is too hard to use as it is anyway, many would probably complain.
Also ironic, the system doesn't use static IPs... Which makes it a real bitch to trace through the logs anyways.
I'm quite familiar with automata and turing machines (I'm a Senior in computer science, perhaps all too familiar on friday nights when I should be out ).
That's the way to write out programs that has any graphics. You could abstract away with this. Perhaps you could make a great language with it. I'm still not convinced that it's practical though. Especially when he mentions Verification and Validation testing. This is often done with a text based script. Now I suppose that you could have a graphic that says "Pump every number, including the ones that aren't supposed to go in here in, and tell me what it looks like," but traditionally that's done with test scripts and other such text realm goodness. Also, I can look at a whole page of text at one time, it's hard for my field of vision to look at a gigantic picture of a program. I suppose that graphical language could be ok if you're talking about making flow charts and such, but still, is it more practical than text?
Random icons never quite give me the view of what the program is doing that text does. It's hard to conceptualize pipes and filters without text. Now, we want to program without it... Hrmm, how far from the damn machine language do we need to get? People seem to think that having fast machines is an excuse for writing sloppier code. I want professional programmers writing my code, who know what they are doing, and know what will happen. Just because nobody actually wants to know how to operate a computer doesn't mean that I should accomodate them. If you want to be a professional programmer, learn how to be one. I've never seen a program builder that I've liked. I'll tinker with this, but better pour some brown sugar on it.
Which are conjectured to merely have separated the 2 teams so you could tell them apart. You have to do that to run a drill... Pretty common, and some pretty outlandish drills are pretty common. I wouldn't wager that we are betting that this is the martian army, china, or even a mountain militia.
A lot of the "high skill" tech jobs out there are easily replaceable. There are only a very few that the industry actually utilizes that, at least on paper, it doesn't look better to hire the cheapest guy on the block. If you have ever read the mythical man month, you would know that replacing you DOES cost the company more money in the long run, but the premise of that book is that management doesn't understand that.
Unless you truly specialize in some area that isn't in the realm of widespread knowledge, there are a lot of people who can hash out web pages and perl scripts in a snap these days.
Most of the people that I know are complete idiots.
Additionally, the most useful thing that I saw most kids do with computers in school was play oregon trail, and since they had to load it off the a: drive, and most of the people that I know can't even seem to do that right, they didn't learn much about computers either.
I have seen very few programming courses in school.
Kids need to learn to write reports with notecards and learn to spell before computers do it for them.
I am sick and tired of people saying that we need to throw computers at an educational system that is failing, especially when it's not always the school system... perhaps it's the fact that kids today have minds rotted on teletubies and motivations that are all fucked up by the fact that they have always had whatever they want.
Perhaps we should show kids that if they work hard, and make something of themselves, then they will be self fulfilled. I think that the dream of most kids these days is to marry rich, or make big bucks having someone else invest their money.
When being a "pro at computers" means you're the fastest solitaire in the west, and being a "hacker" translates to what we refer to as a script kiddie and being a computer security professional means you load norton antivirus and buy a hardware firewall that someone else installs and configures... well...
As for the college scene, activism is futile because government doesn't care.
As for the rich, they'll always have everything. The world is full of haves and have nots. There are haves that lose everything and have nots that become rich... cool eh? I came to college with a Mac LC (I'm a senior now, graduating a year ahead). I know people who dropped out who came with PII laptops (they were the shit then). In fact, many more than those that didn't come with a computer. Having a computer doesn't mean that you'll learn anything about it. I'm a computer science major... graduating early. I got most of what I have by working for it, ironically, as a sysadmin (and I had a lot of expertise already when I came into college, ironically, that is the one place that my parent's having a computer DID help me.) Not everyone is really going to go home and learn to program on their parent's computer. Is it sad that the opportunity isn't there? Yes, but what percentage of people would REALLY benefit in a measurable way? Besides, you can learn programming on a 486... probably better than on a P4. I mean, I started on a TI 99 4/A, and I turned out ok. And you can go grab a P 133 for about $10 these days.
I do a lot of community service... I care... I care out the ass. I would love to see tech education... but most schools that have computers just say "look we have computers, wet dream come true eh?" and then leave it at that. I can learn most of what the typical high school student learns on a computer better from a teacher who is well motivated.
Saint Nicholas actually lived and walked around, and at christmastime is said to have given money and food to prostitutes (not solicitting them, by the way). Anyways, he was a good guy, and the tradition kept building into... whatever it is today.
I think that tex would be the best format as such. I would rather see it be tex than HTML, and certainly rather see it be tex than doc. You don't want to give a company control over the format, especially not for a hardware setup. DOC is WAYYY to volatile. It also seems a bit bulky. As for HTML, also kind of bulky, good at what it's used for, but certainly not a replacement for tex.
BTW, I wouldn't think of it as a replacement for the DOC format, I would think of it as doing things right from the start. Doc is good for what it does, but what I think you are describing is MUCH more suited to tex.
I think that more people cling to the GPL because of linux than the other way around. I don't see a lot of people screaming towards the HURD project, which is a pretty good concept.
I think that more people attack the BSD license because of what certain advocates say, rather than the licenses actual content. I am a BSD user. Anybody who has seen my car knows this.
I think that a lot of BeOS would get incorporated into Linux, but it would take time, especially considering the parts that are fundamentally incompatible, but that is beyond the scope of this discussion.
And BeOS isn't going GPL. Why don't we talk about if Solaris or SysV or HURD, oh wait, that is GPL, go GPL instead.
What would happen if every linux project switched to the BSD license? Would everyone leave linux and switch to BSD?
(BTW, I also have a Linux box that I use the hell out of)
Tis called a joke. Still, people will replace old equipment. It happens, we upgrade. It's not going to be a ONE DAY THE EARTH CAME CRASHING DOWN change, people are going to upgrade their equipment to cope with just the bandwidth. These other problems will be thought of as secondary, but taken care of in the upgrade, so why worry?
Nice theory, no details, so I have a pretty good idea of what they are talking about. You analyze the numbers and use the patterns that numbers form to seek similar patterns in foward moves. Of course, the article makes it sound a lot dumber than that...
Yeah, if every coffee maker in the world gets it's own IP address, is hosting a website about it's personal stats, and can be turned off and on via the web... We're kinda fucked. The big question being, who really wants this shit? A lot of stuff will be on tiny intranets, so I doubt that we really have much to worry about. I imagine that your coffee maker and fridge will post to a household webserver, that way you can get aggregate data which is much more managable, and also much more meaningful/useful anyways.
Now you will recieve spam for expensive coffee beans every time you make a few pots! Enjoy!
I believe, that the calls that he was pointing out are the ones like
"Netscape won't load and fucking pages, why does your service suck so badly?"
"Are you connected to the Internet, Sir?"
"Fuck yes, do I sound dumb?"
"And I assume that this is on a separate phone line?"
(PAUSE) "CLICK."
Not the ones like,
"I've noticed a steady decrease in throughput... Perhaps it's line noise, but I don't know how to test for that, can you help me?"
"Lemmie go pull out my testing equipment!"
Evolution would be dumping the intel instruction set and architecture for superior technology. They're just patenting an implementation, which is ass silly, but not truly stiffling to the industry.
We had some win2k boxen at work that had problems, maybe they fixed it. We had imaging problems at first too, perhaps they are related. I'm just telling you my experience.
Ever try to run a DOS executable under windows 2K? It isn't pretty. With performance that crappy, I am pretty sure that it will eventually be nixed out.
Wine is not an emulator. The acronym is true because it DOES NOT EMULATE. If it did, you could run the binaries on computers that are not x86. Wine is a set of routines that allows you to load windows executables into memory, which has nothing to do with emulation. In addition to this, it points windows environment features to systematic equivalents on the host machine, which is still not emulation.
The whole concept of using it as a porting framework came a while after wine came out. The idea being that if you can do it in real time, you can just use libraries that do it head off, which is a pretty simple (conceptually) thing to do too.
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Here, they have everyone sign into the Academic Computing labs (the labs in engineering are unmonitored). Then they assign you to a particular computer. This is so they can give the logs to law enforcement personel/so forth.
Ironically, they don't have you log in with a unique username/password or swipe or anything in that nature. No offense to many of the students here, but they complain that most of the system is too hard to use as it is anyway, many would probably complain.
Also ironic, the system doesn't use static IPs... Which makes it a real bitch to trace through the logs anyways.
I'm quite familiar with automata and turing machines (I'm a Senior in computer science, perhaps all too familiar on friday nights when I should be out ).
That's the way to write out programs that has any graphics. You could abstract away with this. Perhaps you could make a great language with it. I'm still not convinced that it's practical though. Especially when he mentions Verification and Validation testing. This is often done with a text based script. Now I suppose that you could have a graphic that says "Pump every number, including the ones that aren't supposed to go in here in, and tell me what it looks like," but traditionally that's done with test scripts and other such text realm goodness. Also, I can look at a whole page of text at one time, it's hard for my field of vision to look at a gigantic picture of a program. I suppose that graphical language could be ok if you're talking about making flow charts and such, but still, is it more practical than text?
Random icons never quite give me the view of what the program is doing that text does. It's hard to conceptualize pipes and filters without text. Now, we want to program without it... Hrmm, how far from the damn machine language do we need to get? People seem to think that having fast machines is an excuse for writing sloppier code. I want professional programmers writing my code, who know what they are doing, and know what will happen. Just because nobody actually wants to know how to operate a computer doesn't mean that I should accomodate them. If you want to be a professional programmer, learn how to be one. I've never seen a program builder that I've liked. I'll tinker with this, but better pour some brown sugar on it.
-Gristled Young Man
Which are conjectured to merely have separated the 2 teams so you could tell them apart. You have to do that to run a drill... Pretty common, and some pretty outlandish drills are pretty common. I wouldn't wager that we are betting that this is the martian army, china, or even a mountain militia.
A lot of the "high skill" tech jobs out there are easily replaceable. There are only a very few that the industry actually utilizes that, at least on paper, it doesn't look better to hire the cheapest guy on the block. If you have ever read the mythical man month, you would know that replacing you DOES cost the company more money in the long run, but the premise of that book is that management doesn't understand that.
Unless you truly specialize in some area that isn't in the realm of widespread knowledge, there are a lot of people who can hash out web pages and perl scripts in a snap these days.
Most of the people that I know are complete idiots.
Additionally, the most useful thing that I saw most kids do with computers in school was play oregon trail, and since they had to load it off the a: drive, and most of the people that I know can't even seem to do that right, they didn't learn much about computers either.
I have seen very few programming courses in school.
Kids need to learn to write reports with notecards and learn to spell before computers do it for them.
I am sick and tired of people saying that we need to throw computers at an educational system that is failing, especially when it's not always the school system... perhaps it's the fact that kids today have minds rotted on teletubies and motivations that are all fucked up by the fact that they have always had whatever they want.
Perhaps we should show kids that if they work hard, and make something of themselves, then they will be self fulfilled. I think that the dream of most kids these days is to marry rich, or make big bucks having someone else invest their money.
When being a "pro at computers" means you're the fastest solitaire in the west, and being a "hacker" translates to what we refer to as a script kiddie and being a computer security professional means you load norton antivirus and buy a hardware firewall that someone else installs and configures... well...
As for the college scene, activism is futile because government doesn't care.
As for the rich, they'll always have everything. The world is full of haves and have nots. There are haves that lose everything and have nots that become rich... cool eh? I came to college with a Mac LC (I'm a senior now, graduating a year ahead). I know people who dropped out who came with PII laptops (they were the shit then). In fact, many more than those that didn't come with a computer. Having a computer doesn't mean that you'll learn anything about it. I'm a computer science major... graduating early. I got most of what I have by working for it, ironically, as a sysadmin (and I had a lot of expertise already when I came into college, ironically, that is the one place that my parent's having a computer DID help me.) Not everyone is really going to go home and learn to program on their parent's computer. Is it sad that the opportunity isn't there? Yes, but what percentage of people would REALLY benefit in a measurable way? Besides, you can learn programming on a 486... probably better than on a P4. I mean, I started on a TI 99 4/A, and I turned out ok. And you can go grab a P 133 for about $10 these days.
I do a lot of community service... I care... I care out the ass. I would love to see tech education... but most schools that have computers just say "look we have computers, wet dream come true eh?" and then leave it at that. I can learn most of what the typical high school student learns on a computer better from a teacher who is well motivated.
When are these kids going to learn? They should be taking down DALnet, not Undernet.
he should have used diff at the command line...
Saint Nicholas actually lived and walked around, and at christmastime is said to have given money and food to prostitutes (not solicitting them, by the way). Anyways, he was a good guy, and the tradition kept building into... whatever it is today.
Yeah, instead of carpal tunnel sydrome, you'll have tennis elbow or a broken arm. What wonderful improvements on keyboards *GRIN*
I think that tex would be the best format as such. I would rather see it be tex than HTML, and certainly rather see it be tex than doc. You don't want to give a company control over the format, especially not for a hardware setup. DOC is WAYYY to volatile. It also seems a bit bulky. As for HTML, also kind of bulky, good at what it's used for, but certainly not a replacement for tex.
BTW, I wouldn't think of it as a replacement for the DOC format, I would think of it as doing things right from the start. Doc is good for what it does, but what I think you are describing is MUCH more suited to tex.
At the risk of being attacked brutally...
I think that more people cling to the GPL because of linux than the other way around. I don't see a lot of people screaming towards the HURD project, which is a pretty good concept.
I think that more people attack the BSD license because of what certain advocates say, rather than the licenses actual content. I am a BSD user. Anybody who has seen my car knows this.
I think that a lot of BeOS would get incorporated into Linux, but it would take time, especially considering the parts that are fundamentally incompatible, but that is beyond the scope of this discussion.
And BeOS isn't going GPL. Why don't we talk about if Solaris or SysV or HURD, oh wait, that is GPL, go GPL instead.
What would happen if every linux project switched to the BSD license? Would everyone leave linux and switch to BSD?
(BTW, I also have a Linux box that I use the hell out of)
Who the hell thought that we could /. ebay!
Yeah, but what about when I overclock, will the bond hold *GRIN*
(tis a joke, s'ok to laugh).
I'm gonna drink me a BUSCH because BUSH WON!! Decided in florida, the state that looks like, uhh, nevermind.
Tis called a joke. Still, people will replace old equipment. It happens, we upgrade. It's not going to be a ONE DAY THE EARTH CAME CRASHING DOWN change, people are going to upgrade their equipment to cope with just the bandwidth. These other problems will be thought of as secondary, but taken care of in the upgrade, so why worry?
Nice theory, no details, so I have a pretty good idea of what they are talking about. You analyze the numbers and use the patterns that numbers form to seek similar patterns in foward moves. Of course, the article makes it sound a lot dumber than that...
Yeah, if every coffee maker in the world gets it's own IP address, is hosting a website about it's personal stats, and can be turned off and on via the web... We're kinda fucked. The big question being, who really wants this shit? A lot of stuff will be on tiny intranets, so I doubt that we really have much to worry about. I imagine that your coffee maker and fridge will post to a household webserver, that way you can get aggregate data which is much more managable, and also much more meaningful/useful anyways.
Now you will recieve spam for expensive coffee beans every time you make a few pots! Enjoy!
I believe, that the calls that he was pointing out are the ones like
"Netscape won't load and fucking pages, why does your service suck so badly?"
"Are you connected to the Internet, Sir?"
"Fuck yes, do I sound dumb?"
"And I assume that this is on a separate phone line?"
(PAUSE) "CLICK."
Not the ones like,
"I've noticed a steady decrease in throughput... Perhaps it's line noise, but I don't know how to test for that, can you help me?"
"Lemmie go pull out my testing equipment!"
Evolution would be dumping the intel instruction set and architecture for superior technology. They're just patenting an implementation, which is ass silly, but not truly stiffling to the industry.
We had some win2k boxen at work that had problems, maybe they fixed it. We had imaging problems at first too, perhaps they are related. I'm just telling you my experience.
Ever try to run a DOS executable under windows 2K? It isn't pretty. With performance that crappy, I am pretty sure that it will eventually be nixed out.
Wine is not an emulator. The acronym is true because it DOES NOT EMULATE. If it did, you could run the binaries on computers that are not x86. Wine is a set of routines that allows you to load windows executables into memory, which has nothing to do with emulation. In addition to this, it points windows environment features to systematic equivalents on the host machine, which is still not emulation.
The whole concept of using it as a porting framework came a while after wine came out. The idea being that if you can do it in real time, you can just use libraries that do it head off, which is a pretty simple (conceptually) thing to do too.
Look at the change in temperature since they got /.ed. What a sadistic bunch of people...
1) I have already seen a model of such a device that can be bought, and had, and used, relatively cheaply.
2) I believe that they meant approximately 1 hour.