Flowcharting is a mainstay of structured imperative design. It's used as a means of converting unstructured flow into a structured flow, and of doing top-down design.
Frankly, it's one hell of a lot more useful than UML. Anyone can pick up a flow chart and understand it. It takes an understanding of OO to understand basic UML. Then there's the candy sprinkles on top.
You make a good point about etymology. If you know esperanto, you've been exposed to the rudiments of a number of different european languages as a result. But I have to ask whether you wouldn't have gained more general knowledge by studying an ancient root language such as latin or koine greek.
it's ludicrous to think that the nobel committee would give the award to an avowed creationist. it really doesn't matter that he invented the process. to give this man a nobel would bring the prize into disrepute.
"Cheating" is a *good* thing. Why would you deprive future software engineers of what might be their *only* opportunity to work as a team in a realistic simulation of a workplace environment before their graduation?
If you wanted to make things more realistic, you would let everyone google for their test answers, give 'A's to your friends, and randomly pick fat people to fail.
Imagine your own picocell, inside your house. Now your cell is your wireless, and you can use it with your IP telephony service. Likewise when visitors come to your house, their calls can be routed over IP.
Imagine everyone has picocells. Now you don't use cell minutes, you don't pay line charges, you just communicate at will, whenever you're in range.
I must observe that my experience is opposite. Windows XP is horrific. The best of the bunch is Windows 2000 Professional, but even that is subject to terrible lags, lockups, and cpu-spinning overheads that I just don't see in a Linux/X11 environment. Admittedly, I don't use KDE or Gnome, and I use kernels with real-time/low-latency patches.
They don't give Nobel prizes for Computer Science or Mathematics or Linguistics. It has something to do with the relationship between Euler and Nobel's wife.
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You get +1 insightful for realizing that the 3d millenium obsoletes linguistic monoculture.
You get -1 troll for calling the previous poster a prick.
Re:How lucky we are that technology was invented!
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> And the Massachusetts Institute of > Technology--don't forget the Massachusetts > Institute of Technology! Now, I ask you, what > would it be without technology?
So the new material allows cells to be manufactured such that they pay for themselves in about 15 months, instead of 25 years. Sounds like a deal. I'm guessing they'll be mainstream within months of availability, and the whole power grid crisis will be over -- if they can ramp the mfg capacity for large cells.
If the code was public domain, they should not be removing it. That opens you up to manipulation by threats. It's much better to just use the public domain code, and get a summary judgement, no lawyers.
It helps indies because now only the indies will be sending out screeners. The majors have "banned" them, i.e., will not be sending them out. Thus indies will get a lot more academy exposure, and win more awards.
where i work, we had a mean boss who made us fill weather ballons with hydrogen from mobile fermenters. so we told ahmed chilabi that they were actually portable biological weapon labs, hehehe. you should have seen his face when the americans killed his children:)))) rotflmao.
Nah, that's an easy problem to solve: Just use a circular hash to create a highly redundant virtual presence service.
The hard part is dealing with NAT-to-NAT connections. That requires a spectrum of solutions, each of which buys you some incremental share of the problematic cases. It's an asymptotic business, and you always have to fall-back to volunteer superservers -- for connection brokering, if nothing else.
Wrong. Yahoo users enjoy a panoply of services, which provide myriad advertising revenue-generating opportunities for Yahoo. IM is just one of the features of the Yahoo suite, albiet the major "gateway drug".
Yahoo's IM client software stinks on ICE, whereas Trillian Pro rocks. Trillian is actually doing Yahoo a huge favor by bringing them more IM clients, who will then go on to be Address Book, Calendar, Mail, Personals, Finance, News, Sports, etc. users as well, thus producing page views, thus producing dollars for Yahoo shareholders.
If Yahoo were attempting to block Trillian, I would, as a Yahoo shareholder, be enormously pissed at their incompetence. However, it seems more likely to me that they are just upgrading their protocol, and Slashdot sensationalism is creating a FUD cloud.
Methinks you've been watching too much TV. The function of the police is not to protect you. That is your responsibility. The function of the police is to whack people down.
Agreed. It is very clear now that @Stake is willing to sell its paying customers down the river of security vulnerability in order to curry favor with it's well-heeled sugar daddy.
I can't imagine that they will be getting a lot of independent contracts after this, but perhaps that won't matter, if MS is funnelling business their way.
If you take a look at the board membership of the publically traded companies in the U.S., you will very quickly come to see that the interests of the media corporations coincide with those of the corporations which are outside of the media sector: The set of persons who occupy the boards of the publically traded companies is quite small, and a few notables occupy seats on a large number of boards. It is the interests of this elite few that dictate the policies of the bulk of the publically traded corporations in the U.S., and they are fully capable of coordinating the policies and efforts of their various companies to any self-interested purpose.
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Flowcharting is a mainstay of structured imperative
design. It's used as a means of converting
unstructured flow into a structured flow, and of
doing top-down design.
Frankly, it's one hell of a lot more useful than
UML. Anyone can pick up a flow chart and understand it.
It takes an understanding of OO to understand basic
UML. Then there's the candy sprinkles on top.
You make a good point about etymology. If you
know esperanto, you've been exposed to the
rudiments of a number of different european
languages as a result. But I have to ask
whether you wouldn't have gained more general
knowledge by studying an ancient root language
such as latin or koine greek.
it's ludicrous to think that the nobel committee
would give the award to an avowed creationist.
it really doesn't matter that he invented
the process. to give this man a nobel would
bring the prize into disrepute.
"Cheating" is a *good* thing. Why would you
deprive future software engineers of what might
be their *only* opportunity to work as a team
in a realistic simulation of a workplace environment
before their graduation?
If you wanted to make things more realistic, you
would let everyone google for their test answers,
give 'A's to your friends, and randomly pick
fat people to fail.
Imagine your own picocell, inside your house.
Now your cell is your wireless, and you can use
it with your IP telephony service. Likewise when
visitors come to your house, their calls can be
routed over IP.
Imagine everyone has picocells. Now you don't use
cell minutes, you don't pay line charges, you just
communicate at will, whenever you're in range.
You really ought to just go to prison, because
you'll have more freedom, and you won't have to
deal with money and guns.
I must observe that my experience is opposite.
Windows XP is horrific. The best of the bunch
is Windows 2000 Professional, but even that is
subject to terrible lags, lockups, and cpu-spinning
overheads that I just don't see in a Linux/X11
environment. Admittedly, I don't use KDE or Gnome,
and I use kernels with real-time/low-latency
patches.
> Sorry, but your link, which points to an American
> university, fails to take into account the
> majority of the English-speaking world.
Which would be Indian.
Milunovich was pumping sun past $120/share
4 years ago. Now its around $4, and he's
talking it down. Looks like a buying opportunity
to me.
They don't give Nobel prizes for Computer Science
or Mathematics or Linguistics. It has something
to do with the relationship between Euler and
Nobel's wife.
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an Office 2020 competitive-upgrade, and install it."
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"Fine, then open it in a window."
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"Mom, just uninstall 2020 and put back the old version if you're having trouble. It works fine for me. I had to open your mail in a window..."
"Window is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. You are not licensed to use this trademark."
"Revise: I had to open your mail on-screen, but otherwise it seems to be compatible with Office 18."
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"Revise: But I will switch back to 2018 right way.
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You get +1 insightful for realizing that the 3d
millenium obsoletes linguistic monoculture.
You get -1 troll for calling the previous poster
a prick.
> And the Massachusetts Institute of
> Technology--don't forget the Massachusetts
> Institute of Technology! Now, I ask you, what
> would it be without technology?
The Massachusetts Institute of.
Init in Python is a non-starter.
We don't do Python.
So the new material allows cells to be manufactured
such that they pay for themselves in about 15
months, instead of 25 years. Sounds like a deal.
I'm guessing they'll be mainstream within months
of availability, and the whole power grid crisis
will be over -- if they can ramp the mfg capacity
for large cells.
I'd happily pay $1500 for a net-zero power bill.
If the code was public domain, they should not
be removing it. That opens you up to manipulation
by threats. It's much better to just use the
public domain code, and get a summary judgement,
no lawyers.
It helps indies because now only the indies
will be sending out screeners. The majors
have "banned" them, i.e., will not be sending
them out. Thus indies will get a lot more
academy exposure, and win more awards.
Reductio ad microsoftum?
This is a whole new kind of argument, I think.
There should be a way to give "philsophically
innovative on the scale of millenia of human
though" mod points.
Once you sign a contract with the devil, you are
evil too.
"mainstream talent"
ooh, nice oxymoron there;)
where i work, we had a mean boss who made us :)))) rotflmao.
fill weather ballons with hydrogen from mobile
fermenters. so we told ahmed chilabi that they
were actually portable biological weapon labs,
hehehe. you should have seen his face when
the americans killed his children
Nah, that's an easy problem to solve: Just use a
circular hash to create a highly redundant virtual
presence service.
The hard part is dealing with NAT-to-NAT connections.
That requires a spectrum of solutions, each
of which buys you some incremental share of
the problematic cases. It's an asymptotic
business, and you always have to fall-back
to volunteer superservers -- for connection
brokering, if nothing else.
Thing is, I'm a Yahoo shareholder, so when they
do stupid crap, *I* suffer the consequences.
Wrong. Yahoo users enjoy a panoply of services,
which provide myriad advertising revenue-generating
opportunities for Yahoo. IM is just one of the
features of the Yahoo suite, albiet the major
"gateway drug".
Yahoo's IM client software stinks on ICE, whereas
Trillian Pro rocks. Trillian is actually doing
Yahoo a huge favor by bringing them more IM clients,
who will then go on to be Address Book, Calendar,
Mail, Personals, Finance, News, Sports, etc. users
as well, thus producing page views, thus producing
dollars for Yahoo shareholders.
If Yahoo were attempting to block Trillian, I would,
as a Yahoo shareholder, be enormously pissed at
their incompetence. However, it seems more likely
to me that they are just upgrading their protocol,
and Slashdot sensationalism is creating a FUD cloud.
Anyhow, Trillian works for me now.
Methinks you've been watching too much TV.
The function of the police is not to protect
you. That is your responsibility. The function
of the police is to whack people down.
Agreed. It is very clear now that @Stake is
willing to sell its paying customers down the
river of security vulnerability in order to
curry favor with it's well-heeled sugar daddy.
I can't imagine that they will be getting a lot
of independent contracts after this, but perhaps
that won't matter, if MS is funnelling business
their way.
If you take a look at the board membership of the
publically traded companies in the U.S., you will
very quickly come to see that the interests of the
media corporations coincide with those of the
corporations which are outside of the media sector:
The set of persons who occupy the boards of the
publically traded companies is quite small, and
a few notables occupy seats on a large number of
boards. It is the interests of this elite few
that dictate the policies of the bulk of the
publically traded corporations in the U.S., and
they are fully capable of coordinating the
policies and efforts of their various companies
to any self-interested purpose.