When they graduate, they would have experience with a useful language. And when they are 1st year, they can actually learn computer science (algorithms) instead of wasting time managing memory allocation and pointers.
At my school, we used a language invented there, which was like C++ but without pointers, etc. It had built in, easy-to-use stacks, queues, lists, etc. It wasn't perfect (Python might have been) but it was better than sprinkling *'s and &'s until things worked (which is what the students at C and C++ schools do).
If cars came with LED sign-boards on the front that said things like "MOVE OVER AND LET ME PASS" (but in reverse for the mirror-effect) whenever a button is pressed, perhaps fewer people would use tailgating to communicate that point.
Really, I hardly ever have tailgaters on me. But I don't drive slow in the passing lane. And I don't go slower than the damn speed limit on 1-lane roads.
My UPS seems able to power a CF lamp for longer than it can power my PC... but whatever.
In my lifetime, I've never experienced a power outage that lasted more than a day. But I'll grant that it does happen. Extremely infrequently.
Suppose a situation where POTS works and VoIP does not happens once every 15 years. POTS costs a person $600/year while a VoIP system costs a person $180/year.
Lets see, 15*($600 - $180) = $6,300 for ONE DAY of phone use.
I highly, HIGHLY doubt anyone would consider one day of phone availability to be worth $6,300.
Why would The Bible and a book on pedophilia be opposites? Mary was impregnated by god in her early teens. Since god is on the order of 15 billion years old, that's statutory rape by the laws of the United States.
I would love to see a listing of all the CSS and HTML that is fully-supported by both IE7 and Gecko. That would allow me to Write-It-Once and still stick to what the W3C says. I have no interest in CSS that only works in one of the Big Two browsers.
The measure of a good lossy codec is how well it approximates the source. If "brighter" sound is preferred over the original source, that should be accomplished via post-processing in the player, not in the codec itself.
Scenario 0: power line cut, phone line fine, IP link fine Your old-style phone still works. Your VoIP phone* still works
Scenario 1: phone line cut, power line fine Your old-style does NOT work. Your VoIP phone still works.
Scenario 3: phone fine, power fine, IP link cut Your old-style phone still works. Your VoIP phone does not work.
I really don't see how your old-style phone is significantly more reliable. Especially if you use DSL, your VoIP service is just as reliable as your old phone.
*anybody with half a brain would put their VOIP phone and their router on a $25 UPS.
Larger schools have more and better resources (both equipment and staff) available to motivated students. Average/lazy students might do better at smaller schools where they get individual attention basically forced on them. But self-motivated students will have far more opportunities to learn at a larger schools.
Want to get involved with a robotics team at a small school? It might be possible--if you're lucky. At a big school? Which team would you like to join?
I did a few tests and verified that I could not distinguish
I appreciate your test, but I would really like to see this test done scientifically (blind or double-blind). Humans are notorious for being bad at testing their own perceptions of anything.
When you say "musician" what do you mean? Someone who plays a distorted-out-the-ass electric guitar will not notice things a viola player would be sensitive to.
Are any of your "musician" friends the type who play in an orchestra?
I wonder if an Ohio location has anything to do with Ohio State University. OSU has a top-notch engineering program and is the second-largest school in the US (and bigger than anything in Canada). If there were a space port in Ohio, OSU engineering students would be lining up to volunteer (for free) to help with the space program.
That's gotta make the deal look juicy to the Canucks.
This may be new to you, but technology changes rapidly. "What's the best tool right now for X" can be asked quarterly and have different answers each time, in some cases.
Don't they teach Numerical Methods in Computer Science curricula anymore? That's a required course at Ohio State--for undergrads.
Of course, most students have a hard time with that class, and can't actually remember how to do anything after the course other than Monte-Carlo Integration. But you should at LEAST remember being exposed to Newtonian integration in your undergrad numerical methods class!
The only thing amazing about this code is that someone paid good-enough attention in class to be able to apply what he learned to his job.
The real genius here is Isaac Newton. 'course, that's not news to anyone.
I am responsible for admining this sort of censorware.
If your company blocks gaming sites, yet your job requires gaming sites, you should use the proper avenue to get permission to view gaming sites. In many orgs, our manager will need to tell your security department that you need the access.
If, on the other hand, you use proxy servers or other technology to willingly and knowingly circumvent your company's policy and security controls, you could wind up fired. Don't be a dumbass.
I am not a lawyer, but I highly doubt this blurb is accurate.
I can understand laws which requires retention for companies that log IMs. But they wouldn't pass a law requiring companies who do NOT log IMs to start doing so!
If you have finite security resources, you should use them in a way that can prevent attacks. That's called being reasonable.
Spending time and training on a program which would, at best, delay an attacker by 5 minutes on average is silly. There are always better uses for those resources.
In the security world, if someone says "it takes 2048 attempts to break" in a context like this, it is assumed that they mean "it takes, on average, 2048 attempts to break." I thought that implication was obvious, but apparently not!
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Pascal? How about Python or Ruby.
When they graduate, they would have experience with a useful language. And when they are 1st year, they can actually learn computer science (algorithms) instead of wasting time managing memory allocation and pointers.
At my school, we used a language invented there, which was like C++ but without pointers, etc. It had built in, easy-to-use stacks, queues, lists, etc. It wasn't perfect (Python might have been) but it was better than sprinkling *'s and &'s until things worked (which is what the students at C and C++ schools do).
Unless we get life off this rock, we will die here--along with life itself.
What you are advocating is worse than genocide. It's... lifeocide?
You have insane priorities if the two government programs you point out as excessive are two of the cheapest and potentially most beneficial.
Good. You shouldn't have been in the left lane (except to pass) anyway. How did you get your license without knowing that?
If cars came with LED sign-boards on the front that said things like "MOVE OVER AND LET ME PASS" (but in reverse for the mirror-effect) whenever a button is pressed, perhaps fewer people would use tailgating to communicate that point.
Really, I hardly ever have tailgaters on me. But I don't drive slow in the passing lane. And I don't go slower than the damn speed limit on 1-lane roads.
Sorry, I guess I wasn't specific enough.
I don't want a book. I just want an abridged version of http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ with all the unsupported parts cut out.
My UPS seems able to power a CF lamp for longer than it can power my PC... but whatever.
In my lifetime, I've never experienced a power outage that lasted more than a day. But I'll grant that it does happen. Extremely infrequently.
Suppose a situation where POTS works and VoIP does not happens once every 15 years. POTS costs a person $600/year while a VoIP system costs a person $180/year.
Lets see, 15*($600 - $180) = $6,300 for ONE DAY of phone use.
I highly, HIGHLY doubt anyone would consider one day of phone availability to be worth $6,300.
Why would The Bible and a book on pedophilia be opposites? Mary was impregnated by god in her early teens. Since god is on the order of 15 billion years old, that's statutory rape by the laws of the United States.
I would love to see a listing of all the CSS and HTML that is fully-supported by both IE7 and Gecko. That would allow me to Write-It-Once and still stick to what the W3C says. I have no interest in CSS that only works in one of the Big Two browsers.
The measure of a good lossy codec is how well it approximates the source. If "brighter" sound is preferred over the original source, that should be accomplished via post-processing in the player, not in the codec itself.
Scenario 0: power line cut, phone line fine, IP link fine
Your old-style phone still works. Your VoIP phone* still works
Scenario 1: phone line cut, power line fine
Your old-style does NOT work. Your VoIP phone still works.
Scenario 3: phone fine, power fine, IP link cut
Your old-style phone still works. Your VoIP phone does not work.
I really don't see how your old-style phone is significantly more reliable. Especially if you use DSL, your VoIP service is just as reliable as your old phone.
*anybody with half a brain would put their VOIP phone and their router on a $25 UPS.
Larger schools have more and better resources (both equipment and staff) available to motivated students. Average/lazy students might do better at smaller schools where they get individual attention basically forced on them. But self-motivated students will have far more opportunities to learn at a larger schools.
Want to get involved with a robotics team at a small school? It might be possible--if you're lucky. At a big school? Which team would you like to join?
I appreciate your test, but I would really like to see this test done scientifically (blind or double-blind). Humans are notorious for being bad at testing their own perceptions of anything.
When you say "musician" what do you mean? Someone who plays a distorted-out-the-ass electric guitar will not notice things a viola player would be sensitive to.
Are any of your "musician" friends the type who play in an orchestra?
I wonder if an Ohio location has anything to do with Ohio State University. OSU has a top-notch engineering program and is the second-largest school in the US (and bigger than anything in Canada). If there were a space port in Ohio, OSU engineering students would be lining up to volunteer (for free) to help with the space program.
That's gotta make the deal look juicy to the Canucks.
This may be new to you, but technology changes rapidly. "What's the best tool right now for X" can be asked quarterly and have different answers each time, in some cases.
secretary: "Excuse me, sir, could you show me your badge, please?"
intruder: "Oops, must have left it in my car" (starts walking out of the building)
secretary: "I need to take you to see the security guard."
intruder: "Thanks, but I don't need that--just need to go get my badge." (walks out)
what are you proposing happens? is your secretary going to tackle the stranger in the doorway? get real.
Don't they teach Numerical Methods in Computer Science curricula anymore? That's a required course at Ohio State--for undergrads.
Of course, most students have a hard time with that class, and can't actually remember how to do anything after the course other than Monte-Carlo Integration. But you should at LEAST remember being exposed to Newtonian integration in your undergrad numerical methods class!
The only thing amazing about this code is that someone paid good-enough attention in class to be able to apply what he learned to his job.
The real genius here is Isaac Newton. 'course, that's not news to anyone.
heh. html just made you its bitch.
I am responsible for admining this sort of censorware.
If your company blocks gaming sites, yet your job requires gaming sites, you should use the proper avenue to get permission to view gaming sites. In many orgs, our manager will need to tell your security department that you need the access.
If, on the other hand, you use proxy servers or other technology to willingly and knowingly circumvent your company's policy and security controls, you could wind up fired. Don't be a dumbass.
You fail at sample size!!!!
I am not a lawyer, but I highly doubt this blurb is accurate.
I can understand laws which requires retention for companies that log IMs. But they wouldn't pass a law requiring companies who do NOT log IMs to start doing so!
Odd you keep misreading me.
If you have finite security resources, you should use them in a way that can prevent attacks. That's called being reasonable.
Spending time and training on a program which would, at best, delay an attacker by 5 minutes on average is silly. There are always better uses for those resources.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
An economically-efficient government could provide the same social services while charging less tax.
I think an ideal government would be slow to change laws and efficient with spending.
In the security world, if someone says "it takes 2048 attempts to break" in a context like this, it is assumed that they mean "it takes, on average, 2048 attempts to break." I thought that implication was obvious, but apparently not!