Bullshit. I designed processors in bdnet and bdsyn and tested them with machine language programs before switching over to VHDL as a part of a sophomore level CS curriculum. VHDL is CAKE, and should be for anybody worth their salt in CS. There's nothing mystical about circuits or logic. I'd like to know what school you attend to make sure that nobody else is bludgeoned by what you call a computer science degree.
Then again, what do I know? I have EE and CS degrees.
Let's say I'm the head of a huge company who doesn't want to release my source to anyone even though I've agreed to the contract. My software is wildly successful but I'm reaching the threshhold soon.
What do I do? I release version x.1 of the software. The codebase has changed. Perhaps something has been added, but the point is that it isn't the same software. My company was working on the new version anyway. As a matter of fact, it makes sense to only release so many copies of each version.
Clearchannel is a big boy. I seriously doubt they'd have decided to go through with this without consulting their legal team and the concert promoters and studios.
Besides, they have the labels by the balls anyway. Hard to hear music when the guy who owns the station refuses to play it.
When I went to Louisiana Tech, I took a 400 level art class with about a hundred students in it. I have never taken a class that was so easy to pass, yet I was (a) the only non-art student in the class, and (b) the only student in the entire class to receive an A. Apparently, the course was very rigorous and "unfair" to my fellow classmates who apparently had never
A childhood acquaintance of mine at Nicholls State had a very low GPA in Engineering Technology and decided to enter into Mass Communications. This guy was FUGLY, drooled like a maniac, and stuttered. STRAIGHT F'N A's, BUDDY!
Apparently all you need for most liberal arts degrees is a pulse on the day of graduation.
You'd definitely be afraid if the building you were in was built of a few thousand tons of TNT.
The problem here is that CS grads aren't being instructed to be programmers, they're instructed to be computer scientists.
It's akin to telling an English major to write novels. They've studied the aspects of a novel, studied different forms of novels, learned the ins and outs of the language the novels were written in... but write one themselves? Sure, writing essays REALLY qualifies one to be successful as a novelist.
Computer science is much the same way. You might think you understand a wide variety of concepts, but you're never putting them into practice other than very modest attempts. Programming is time consuming and students taking a full course load can't handle huge projects.
Here's something even more telling: how many freshman level engineering classes give students concrete and cable on the first day to build a bridge? Why? They aren't ready for it yet. It takes years of studying the discipline as a student and even more as a junior engineer before they're ready to take on such a task. Why then do professors on the first day of a freshman level computer science class have their students sit down to write "Hello World?"
This is a bad way to introduce students who are supposed to be professionals to the world of programming. It tells them right off the bat that they don't have to consider how the program runs, why variables and functions are declared the way they are, how much documentation and support they put in... they skip right through all the phases of software development and get right to programming. This is flat out wrong. Teach them how the system should work and then make them develop according to the system. Give them a framework to utilize, and hold them accountable for using it throughout their entire college careers. Once they learn that, then let them write their first programs.
Socialists? Socialists are the real sheep. "But we have such good intentions!" Good intentions get you immolated, starved to death, and hung on a cross (not necessarily in that order). Selfish intentions are what make the world go round. That's why they still rule mankind. Sure, you can create a utopia for maybe a generation, but after that, some really mean bastard will come along and screw your paradise up, and you will take it right up the ass because you don't have the power to do anything about it. You gave it all to the really mean bastard via inheritance through the nice guy everyone loves when you created your little paradise.
There were a few classics in the Batman show. The ones from the Superman show I enjoyed were Legacy and the one where Darkseid killed Turpin. Wild, crazy, and each time Superman almost triumphs, only for his humanity to show in the end.
Some of the games I own today have that classic game feel. Crazy Taxi, Gauntlet Legends, Pong, Zombie Revenge, Mr. Driller, heck, even SF3 all have some qualities about them that make me think back to the older games. They're simple, don't take a whole lot of time to get into, but take practice to master. The rest of my next-gen collection is rounded out with rpgs and tons of fighting games. For my money, fighting games are the best out there for 2 player fun. You can play one for months and feel like you're great, only to play against a truly great player and get destroyed. But it's all about skill and strategy, so you learn from your mistakes and become a better player. I just can't wait until Vampire Chronicles, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Network Edition, and Street Fighter 3: Third Strike come out for the Dreamcast.:)
Ya know, there's this wacky technology called tv-out that allows you to use a television as your monitor when you want to. Now here's the kicker, you can also put your sound through your tv, so you can get the full video game experience without tons of consoles taking up space. I can crank up a variety of emulators, switch to my tv, and play as if I were using the real thing. I'd MUCH rather use my playstation pads to play neo geo games than pc gamepads or NeoGeo fighting sticks.
It's not even the best game with Tetris in its name. Tetris Attack (Panel De Pon) is so much more fun to play than Tetris that it isn't even funny. I just wish the company with the rights to the game would have been more careful; the only next-gen system coming out with a new one right now is the N64, under the guise of Pokemon Puzzle League.
ISOs hard to find? You have got to be kidding. Multiple thousands of people trade psx isos every day on the irc networks, and thousands more download them as readily as they used to download warez on ftps. Anyone with a school ethernet hookup, no conscience, and a cd burner can be in psx piracy heaven.
Let's say Microsoft does indeed release Office for Linux. You think they're going to stop there? Most likely they'll require it to be used with their own window manager, which will be an extremely accurate clone of the Windows desktop. Then they'll release visual progamming tools for Linux that work only with their own window manager, prompting users to take notice. With the advent of IE for Linux, as well as perhaps better plug and play support, easier installation of hardware, etc. they'll slowly but surely eat away at Linux until it's indirectly one of their own products, and anything else would just be too much of a pain in the ass to use for the spoiled masses.
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Bullshit. I designed processors in bdnet and bdsyn and tested them with machine language programs before switching over to VHDL as a part of a sophomore level CS curriculum. VHDL is CAKE, and should be for anybody worth their salt in CS. There's nothing mystical about circuits or logic. I'd like to know what school you attend to make sure that nobody else is bludgeoned by what you call a computer science degree.
Then again, what do I know? I have EE and CS degrees.
Let's say I'm the head of a huge company who doesn't want to release my source to anyone even though I've agreed to the contract. My software is wildly successful but I'm reaching the threshhold soon.
What do I do? I release version x.1 of the software. The codebase has changed. Perhaps something has been added, but the point is that it isn't the same software. My company was working on the new version anyway. As a matter of fact, it makes sense to only release so many copies of each version.
Clearchannel is a big boy. I seriously doubt they'd have decided to go through with this without consulting their legal team and the concert promoters and studios.
Besides, they have the labels by the balls anyway. Hard to hear music when the guy who owns the station refuses to play it.
When I went to Louisiana Tech, I took a 400 level art class with about a hundred students in it. I have never taken a class that was so easy to pass, yet I was (a) the only non-art student in the class, and (b) the only student in the entire class to receive an A. Apparently, the course was very rigorous and "unfair" to my fellow classmates who apparently had never
A childhood acquaintance of mine at Nicholls State had a very low GPA in Engineering Technology and decided to enter into Mass Communications. This guy was FUGLY, drooled like a maniac, and stuttered. STRAIGHT F'N A's, BUDDY!
Apparently all you need for most liberal arts degrees is a pulse on the day of graduation.
You'd definitely be afraid if the building you were in was built of a few thousand tons of TNT.
The problem here is that CS grads aren't being instructed to be programmers, they're instructed to be computer scientists.
It's akin to telling an English major to write novels. They've studied the aspects of a novel, studied different forms of novels, learned the ins and outs of the language the novels were written in... but write one themselves? Sure, writing essays REALLY qualifies one to be successful as a novelist.
Computer science is much the same way. You might think you understand a wide variety of concepts, but you're never putting them into practice other than very modest attempts. Programming is time consuming and students taking a full course load can't handle huge projects.
Here's something even more telling: how many freshman level engineering classes give students concrete and cable on the first day to build a bridge? Why? They aren't ready for it yet. It takes years of studying the discipline as a student and even more as a junior engineer before they're ready to take on such a task. Why then do professors on the first day of a freshman level computer science class have their students sit down to write "Hello World?"
This is a bad way to introduce students who are supposed to be professionals to the world of programming. It tells them right off the bat that they don't have to consider how the program runs, why variables and functions are declared the way they are, how much documentation and support they put in... they skip right through all the phases of software development and get right to programming. This is flat out wrong. Teach them how the system should work and then make them develop according to the system. Give them a framework to utilize, and hold them accountable for using it throughout their entire college careers. Once they learn that, then let them write their first programs.
Socialists? Socialists are the real sheep. "But we have such good intentions!" Good intentions get you immolated, starved to death, and hung on a cross (not necessarily in that order). Selfish intentions are what make the world go round. That's why they still rule mankind. Sure, you can create a utopia for maybe a generation, but after that, some really mean bastard will come along and screw your paradise up, and you will take it right up the ass because you don't have the power to do anything about it. You gave it all to the really mean bastard via inheritance through the nice guy everyone loves when you created your little paradise.
Wrong yourself. Clinton won a plurality, not a majority.
There were a few classics in the Batman show. The ones from the Superman show I enjoyed were Legacy and the one where Darkseid killed Turpin. Wild, crazy, and each time Superman almost triumphs, only for his humanity to show in the end.
Some of the games I own today have that classic game feel. Crazy Taxi, Gauntlet Legends, Pong, Zombie Revenge, Mr. Driller, heck, even SF3 all have some qualities about them that make me think back to the older games. They're simple, don't take a whole lot of time to get into, but take practice to master. The rest of my next-gen collection is rounded out with rpgs and tons of fighting games. For my money, fighting games are the best out there for 2 player fun. You can play one for months and feel like you're great, only to play against a truly great player and get destroyed. But it's all about skill and strategy, so you learn from your mistakes and become a better player. I just can't wait until Vampire Chronicles, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Network Edition, and Street Fighter 3: Third Strike come out for the Dreamcast. :)
Ya know, there's this wacky technology called tv-out that allows you to use a television as your monitor when you want to. Now here's the kicker, you can also put your sound through your tv, so you can get the full video game experience without tons of consoles taking up space. I can crank up a variety of emulators, switch to my tv, and play as if I were using the real thing. I'd MUCH rather use my playstation pads to play neo geo games than pc gamepads or NeoGeo fighting sticks.
It's not even the best game with Tetris in its name. Tetris Attack (Panel De Pon) is so much more fun to play than Tetris that it isn't even funny. I just wish the company with the rights to the game would have been more careful; the only next-gen system coming out with a new one right now is the N64, under the guise of Pokemon Puzzle League.
No. A queue is first-in/first-out, as is a line. A stack is first-in/last-out.
ISOs hard to find? You have got to be kidding. Multiple thousands of people trade psx isos every day on the irc networks, and thousands more download them as readily as they used to download warez on ftps. Anyone with a school ethernet hookup, no conscience, and a cd burner can be in psx piracy heaven.
Let's say Microsoft does indeed release Office for Linux. You think they're going to stop there? Most likely they'll require it to be used with their own window manager, which will be an extremely accurate clone of the Windows desktop. Then they'll release visual progamming tools for Linux that work only with their own window manager, prompting users to take notice. With the advent of IE for Linux, as well as perhaps better plug and play support, easier installation of hardware, etc. they'll slowly but surely eat away at Linux until it's indirectly one of their own products, and anything else would just be too much of a pain in the ass to use for the spoiled masses.