As I was attempting to study for my Linear Algebra final this week, I was paging through a college humor/advice book at Barnes & Noble. It contained the following quote from a a commencement address that George W. Bush gave: "To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say: you too can be president!"
Like Led Zeppelin? Go to the link in your parent's post (http://www.sharingthegroove.org). You can get.torrents for Led Zeppelin shows. Guess what? It's 100% legal. Jimmy Page himself has said he has no objections to the taping of his music by those in the audience.
You mean if it's like a capillary? Then maybe, because you'd have cohesion helping it move up. Otherwise, vacuum pumps just simply cannot move water past a certain height (about 33 ft depending on atmospheric conditions).
This event truly sucks. Teams must provide a giant straw which reaches from the ground to Ratner's upper deck. The team who can suck up a litre of water the fastest wins. You provide the bucket.
Anyone know the distance of this? It might be impossible if it's greater than 33 ft.
Yay, another great product of this generation's education. I'm not saying I don't agree with your reasons not to use assembly. But I do disagree with your reasoning. It leads to bad, bloated code.
I should have probably added a caveat to the original post. I do not consider myself a "good" coder in comparison to others. I'm more of a networking guy even though I have been employed as a database oriented coder in the past. The point of the post was that the test don't test the right things (should have made that clearer, too). They test you more on being able to work with their stupid case study and their stupid apvector and apstring data types than your ability to analyze a problem and solve it.
Not to be picky, but they really don't care about messed up syntax. Granted, I think having the test on paper is stupid as well, but they do at least compensate for it, and if you read some of the comments on the graded free response examples, you'll see they mention how syntax counts for little.
OS Design? Fascinating, but ultimately irrelevant for 99% of coders. Implementing your own hashtables? Useful to gain an insight into how they work, but virtually any development platform people work in except raw C these days will provide highly tuned and optimized hashtable implementations. If anything you shouldn't roll your own, as it'll make your code less readable, more bloated and probably slower.
No offense, but people like you are the reason I'm glad I didn't major in CS. If you can't see the value of OS design and learning how hash tables work, stop, do not pass go, do not collect your diploma, it's utterly wasted on you. I'm amazed at how many CS graduates I've spoken with that have never heard the name Donald Knuth or at least borrowed a copy of The Art of Computer Programming. The fact that Computer Science is a MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE seems to elude most people who'd rather worry about how good of programmers they are than about knowing how the hell things work. None of the coding I learned came from a school, and frankly, I'm quite happy about that, as too many schools are all about the "latest and greatest" technology. The AP exam is a PERFECT example. Not sure if This Fool still has anything to do with AP CS, but his AP CS book was probably the worst computer related book I've ever read (littered with errors, for starters).
It seems no one cares how things work. The "black box" analogy was emphasized in AP Computer Science from Day 1 when I took it. The worst possible thing you can be telling budding Computer Scientists is that we don't care how it works, it just does. That's fine when you've proven your ability to perform and are working in an environment where it's literally impossible to know how everything works. It's not acceptable, however, when you know nothing and the sole purpose of a course is to teach you. OK, I've gotten myself quite angry over this post, so I'm ending it now.
Heh, the failing of the exams are that they are too damn easy. When I took them (A and AB), I literally put my head down and closed my eyes during the middle for 15 minutes, then got back up and started working again. Yes, I did get a 5.
I agree completely (with the parent). I have seemless support of X apps via Fink on Panther. Attempts on previous versions were not as successful. I had been running Debian PPC on my TiBook prior to Panther. Now I'm running Panther exclusively and love it.
Even though this is a Verizon location, the fact that it's Sprint equipment just makes it BEAUTIFUL in my eyes. Last time we had a problem with our Sprint OC-3, I called up the emergency number and got a voice prompt run around. Mind you, the POS interface was down/down with no sign of why it happened. Finally I got a "tech" who said the line was working normally. Then he said that he actually didn't know if it was up or down. At that point, I flipped out and told him to put a real tech on the line who could help me. Of course, that never happened, he instead forwarded it to their Layer 1/2 group. That whole experience left me with a horrible taste in my mouth. At a previous job, I had a mere T1 to Genuity. One time my boss needed a crossover cable and he took the one between the router and the firewall (can't make this crap up). Within mere minutes, Genuity called (this was the weekend mind you) and said "Ethernet0 is showing down, any idea why?" Let's see, Genuity is proactive with a T1, yet Sprint couldn't give a damn about an OC-3 POS line.
Yea, the whole "no fan" thing is pretty much irrelevant. Even 1U Cisco switches have fans. We were moving around one of our test network's Catalyst 6513s yesterday and I was kind of laughing at the fact that the damned thing has 15 fans on the side. Then again, the 12000s still win since they have AIR FILTERS on them. I was not aware of a Y2K problem on a 5K. I find that kind of fishy unless you're running REALLY old code. I mean, I have a 2926 as one of my personal switches (has a Cat5K SUP) and it's running super old code and it doesn't have Y2K problems that I know of.
Please don't take this as an insult, but you are quite naive to the ways of the Universities (note, I differentiate Universities who get all the money for research from universities who either don't do much research or are primarily liberal arts institutions). Universities are more political and bureaucratic in nature than many governments. That said, I love working for one as the atmosphere inside individual departments is very laid back and lax. However, once you have to deal with people outside your department, every word you say has to be carefully chosen and your sentences engineered, not written. The fact of the matter is that departments in Universities (and there are lots) are discrete, money making enterprises (whether they are truly "for-profit" or not, semantics makes no difference on reality). Departments are at the beck and call of those who will give them money (big business or government) and will sign NDAs if the need be.
Can't do research without money (for the most part). Can't get published unless you have credibility. Can't have credibility unless you have peer review. Can't have peer review unless you have peers. Can't have peers unless you're at a University from which you get funded.
"The last thing I want to do is deal with a bunch of people who want something." Major Major
Heh, your Catch-22 sig is very apt to this situation. In effect, the RIAA is saying the last thing they want to do is deal with someone who wants something. Lots of people in the US are willing to pay for music, in fact, are paying for music, but don't want to pay the crazy prices the RIAA demands.
Unfortunately, AMEX discontinued their one time number service as of April 15. It's a minor inconvenience, but AMEX holds you liable for Zero Dollars in the event of fraud.
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You must be new here. CD prices were indeed supposed to come down, but they really haven't changed.
80 degrees Fahrenheit is WAY too high for an ale. Good luck with all those off flavors.
FYI, Guinness is meant to be served pretty cold, 42.8 degrees Fahrenheit, in fact, which is around the temperature of most refridgerators.
As I was attempting to study for my Linear Algebra final this week, I was paging through a college humor/advice book at Barnes & Noble. It contained the following quote from a a commencement address that George W. Bush gave: "To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say: you too can be president!"
Like Led Zeppelin? Go to the link in your parent's post (http://www.sharingthegroove.org). You can get .torrents for Led Zeppelin shows. Guess what? It's 100% legal. Jimmy Page himself has said he has no objections to the taping of his music by those in the audience.
You mean if it's like a capillary? Then maybe, because you'd have cohesion helping it move up. Otherwise, vacuum pumps just simply cannot move water past a certain height (about 33 ft depending on atmospheric conditions).
This event truly sucks. Teams must provide a giant straw which reaches from the ground to Ratner's upper deck. The team who can suck up a litre of water the fastest wins. You provide the bucket.
Anyone know the distance of this? It might be impossible if it's greater than 33 ft.
Yay, another great product of this generation's education. I'm not saying I don't agree with your reasons not to use assembly. But I do disagree with your reasoning. It leads to bad, bloated code.
I've been programming Enterprise Java for 4 years
Sorry to hear that. When the judge sentenced you, did he tell you when you'd be eligible for parole?
I should have probably added a caveat to the original post. I do not consider myself a "good" coder in comparison to others. I'm more of a networking guy even though I have been employed as a database oriented coder in the past. The point of the post was that the test don't test the right things (should have made that clearer, too). They test you more on being able to work with their stupid case study and their stupid apvector and apstring data types than your ability to analyze a problem and solve it.
Not to be picky, but they really don't care about messed up syntax. Granted, I think having the test on paper is stupid as well, but they do at least compensate for it, and if you read some of the comments on the graded free response examples, you'll see they mention how syntax counts for little.
OS Design? Fascinating, but ultimately irrelevant for 99% of coders. Implementing your own hashtables? Useful to gain an insight into how they work, but virtually any development platform people work in except raw C these days will provide highly tuned and optimized hashtable implementations. If anything you shouldn't roll your own, as it'll make your code less readable, more bloated and probably slower.
No offense, but people like you are the reason I'm glad I didn't major in CS. If you can't see the value of OS design and learning how hash tables work, stop, do not pass go, do not collect your diploma, it's utterly wasted on you. I'm amazed at how many CS graduates I've spoken with that have never heard the name Donald Knuth or at least borrowed a copy of The Art of Computer Programming. The fact that Computer Science is a MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE seems to elude most people who'd rather worry about how good of programmers they are than about knowing how the hell things work. None of the coding I learned came from a school, and frankly, I'm quite happy about that, as too many schools are all about the "latest and greatest" technology. The AP exam is a PERFECT example. Not sure if This Fool still has anything to do with AP CS, but his AP CS book was probably the worst computer related book I've ever read (littered with errors, for starters).
It seems no one cares how things work. The "black box" analogy was emphasized in AP Computer Science from Day 1 when I took it. The worst possible thing you can be telling budding Computer Scientists is that we don't care how it works, it just does. That's fine when you've proven your ability to perform and are working in an environment where it's literally impossible to know how everything works. It's not acceptable, however, when you know nothing and the sole purpose of a course is to teach you. OK, I've gotten myself quite angry over this post, so I'm ending it now.
Heh, the failing of the exams are that they are too damn easy. When I took them (A and AB), I literally put my head down and closed my eyes during the middle for 15 minutes, then got back up and started working again. Yes, I did get a 5.
Will someone please mod this Funny rather than Insightful? Jeez.
I agree completely (with the parent). I have seemless support of X apps via Fink on Panther. Attempts on previous versions were not as successful. I had been running Debian PPC on my TiBook prior to Panther. Now I'm running Panther exclusively and love it.
Is that Piece Of Shit... or Packet Over SONET...
LOL. Well, if it were anyone other than Sprint, it'd be Packet Over SONET. Since it's Sprint, I guess POS has a two-fold meaning.
Even though this is a Verizon location, the fact that it's Sprint equipment just makes it BEAUTIFUL in my eyes. Last time we had a problem with our Sprint OC-3, I called up the emergency number and got a voice prompt run around. Mind you, the POS interface was down/down with no sign of why it happened. Finally I got a "tech" who said the line was working normally. Then he said that he actually didn't know if it was up or down. At that point, I flipped out and told him to put a real tech on the line who could help me. Of course, that never happened, he instead forwarded it to their Layer 1/2 group. That whole experience left me with a horrible taste in my mouth. At a previous job, I had a mere T1 to Genuity. One time my boss needed a crossover cable and he took the one between the router and the firewall (can't make this crap up). Within mere minutes, Genuity called (this was the weekend mind you) and said "Ethernet0 is showing down, any idea why?" Let's see, Genuity is proactive with a T1, yet Sprint couldn't give a damn about an OC-3 POS line.
Apparently you haven't heard it enough.
Yea, the whole "no fan" thing is pretty much irrelevant. Even 1U Cisco switches have fans. We were moving around one of our test network's Catalyst 6513s yesterday and I was kind of laughing at the fact that the damned thing has 15 fans on the side. Then again, the 12000s still win since they have AIR FILTERS on them. I was not aware of a Y2K problem on a 5K. I find that kind of fishy unless you're running REALLY old code. I mean, I have a 2926 as one of my personal switches (has a Cat5K SUP) and it's running super old code and it doesn't have Y2K problems that I know of.
Please don't take this as an insult, but you are quite naive to the ways of the Universities (note, I differentiate U niversities who get all the money for research from u niversities who either don't do much research or are primarily liberal arts institutions). Universities are more political and bureaucratic in nature than many governments. That said, I love working for one as the atmosphere inside individual departments is very laid back and lax. However, once you have to deal with people outside your department, every word you say has to be carefully chosen and your sentences engineered, not written. The fact of the matter is that departments in Universities (and there are lots) are discrete, money making enterprises (whether they are truly "for-profit" or not, semantics makes no difference on reality). Departments are at the beck and call of those who will give them money (big business or government) and will sign NDAs if the need be.
Can't do research without money (for the most part). Can't get published unless you have credibility. Can't have credibility unless you have peer review. Can't have peer review unless you have peers. Can't have peers unless you're at a University from which you get funded.
Dylan is crap? Ok, you lose credibility. Run along now, big people are talking.
Dark Side of the Moon
Kind of Blue
I could go on.
Major Major
Heh, your Catch-22 sig is very apt to this situation. In effect, the RIAA is saying the last thing they want to do is deal with someone who wants something. Lots of people in the US are willing to pay for music, in fact, are paying for music, but don't want to pay the crazy prices the RIAA demands.
Unfortunately, AMEX discontinued their one time number service as of April 15. It's a minor inconvenience, but AMEX holds you liable for Zero Dollars in the event of fraud.