Fine-grained control: Connect muscles in series. Using feedback, trigger increasingly more of them as more contraction is needed.
Lifespan: Include a huge number of the strings in parallel. Using feedback, determine when one is wearing out, and start using a 2nd (at the same time) to slowly take over for it as it ages. With enough of these in parallel, a robotic arm could last a terribly long time.
Slashdot is more of a discussion site than a news site. This article inspires discussion. It is nothing to get bent out of shape about. Sounds like somebody has a cause of the Mundays...
This is key to component-based software design. At Ohio State, the software engineering classes are taught using a langugage/methodology called RESOLVE, in which each component of the software (function, object, whatever) is defined mathematically (completely and precisely). Multiple components are created in different ways that all do the exact same thing, but in different ways.
This allows you to, in an automated way, substitute in and out components while testing, so you can find exactly what works fastest on the data you will be working with.
The first versions of all components are usually the slowest, but they allow you to get a prototype at least running with short development time, and optimization and testing is really easy.
It is a great philosophy, as far as engineering goes. Too bad it hasn't caught on yet.
Wrong. OpenBSDs strength is partially because of their testing and code review policy, but ALSO because of design issues (like kernel memory management).
Certain types of security flaws are much harder to exploit when the OS addresses memory in unpredictable ways.
Other design principles, which encourage access log review, aid to the security of the system without having anything to do with code review.
I'm more optimistic than you are. I think the overall standard of living is going to increase more slowly while the developing countries catch up. I don' think this will impact me so much, though, because I am investing heavily in the companies that benefit from globalization. That way I don't have to learn any new languages. Heh.
"Not that I like or shop at Walmart. I pretty much despise them."
You know, if you don't shop at walmart, you are getting ripped off twice. Your taxes are paying for their employee's benefits. Other companies pay for benefits for their employees, and you pay for that by higher prices.
Since you pay for walmart employee benefits anyway, don't let them screw you more: shop there.
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Actually, I think the best strategy is to get into the most lucrative career you can, live cheap, invest heavily, and retire while in your 30's. Then, for the rest if your life, you really can do whatever the hell you want. It's what I'm trying to do. At the rate I'm investing (100% stocks) it looks like it will happen.
Follow your interests to pick a career/job? Are you a HS guidance counselor?
Terrible advice. Follow the market. Let your interests influence the decision.
I kinda like computers and really like girls. But, due to market forces, I didn't make enough money to retire in a reasonable time when I was a bikini inspector. So I followed the market and became a coder. Now I have financial security and its not THAT much wors than being a BI. The paperwork's a bitch in both.
Also, making sure the poor get health care is a good way to reduce the chances YOU will get sick because of some disease they are culturing. Even a selfish, inconsiderate asshole has good reason to support some level of universal health care.
Personally, I think the US should require and pay for basic medical care for all citizens. Even if that means visiting nurse practitioners instead of physicians. But I don't think it is economically possible to make every type of health care available to every citizen... Just the basics.
Also, my profs graded more on documentation than comments, in some cases.
If your documentation layed out the proper structure for good code, they knew you 'got it.'
In fact, in many of my classes, they let us pick what languages we used to do the labs. The conceptual part mattered more. And the highest-level comments in code should be the same regardless of language.
"Computer Science" is in a world-wide state of identity crisis. Half the people want it to be a real science, and half want it to be programming training. All schools face this disconnect between professors, I think.
My advice to new students wanting to get into programming would be to find a reputable engineering school with a "software engineering" major.
This isn't very common, yet, so a "computer science" degree has to make due in most cases. But a CS degree only gives you half of what you need to be good at producing software. You have to take personal initiative to get the other half. A CS grad has to prove himself to me more than an engineering grad would. They could have equal skills, but the CS guy didn't get all the skills he needs at school.
Not all schools are the same. It seems that at my school, most professors made a point out of creating test/lab assignments that were significantly different from the examples in the book.
I would say the people that graduated with me ranged from smart to brilliant.
I'm from a very high-ranked CS+E program, though.
Also, I never would have learned formal logic, set theory, statistics, interdisciplinary engineering skills, and many other EXTREMELY important things if I had skipped out on college.
And people who didn't go to college and don't think those skills are important are the worst kind if ignorant: not aware of how ignorant they are.
My point is: Just because your school was a degree-mill doesn't mean every one is. I definitely look for a BS (minimum) when screening for new hires. But I try to take school reputation into account, too.
If I'm a volunteer, independent developer, and I want to implement something that has nothing to do with stability, who are you to say "no! you must hunt down stability bugs!"
That's not the way open source works.
I agree that stability is more important than new features. But you seem to be forgetting that not everyone wants to or knows how to fix the stability issues.
Also, I can't remember the last time Firefox on XP crashed on me.
I'm not convinced "price gouging" is happening in the US. Sure, it's happening with the oil producers in the middle east, but our laws don't apply there.
Last year, when trying to kill time in DC (I'm from Ohio), I decided to head out to a bar. I noticed a bachaelorette party going into a particular bar and decided that's wehre I'd spend my evening (seemed like an easy decision). I handed over my credit card and opened a tab.
I kept trying to get the attention of some of those girls, but none of them so much as returned my glances. So I struck up a conversation with the friendly guy next to me.
Turns out the girls were ignoring me because it was a gay bar!
Now, if someone looks through my credit card history, they're going to think I'm into men.
So all I can say is, these secret warrants suck! And if you're FBI and monitoring my internet use and credit card history--I'm not gay! Really! I just hope your software is good enough to corelate this post with that Visa log.
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If you admin most of your systems over SSH, you want a text editor that doesn't rely on a mouse.
Also, common sysadmin tasks, like deleting entire lines at a time, are super-quick with vi.
If you want to open a file, jump to line 22, delete that line, save the file, and exit, you can do that with seven key presses in vi. That rules.
For coding, though, I NEED a visual editor that can do code collapsing and other gui-only features.
Solutions.
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Fine-grained control: Connect muscles in series. Using feedback, trigger increasingly more of them as more contraction is needed.
Lifespan: Include a huge number of the strings in parallel. Using feedback, determine when one is wearing out, and start using a 2nd (at the same time) to slowly take over for it as it ages. With enough of these in parallel, a robotic arm could last a terribly long time.
You have obviously never designed robots
Silly "computer scientists." Engineers rule.
Slashdot is more of a discussion site than a news site. This article inspires discussion. It is nothing to get bent out of shape about. Sounds like somebody has a cause of the Mundays...
This is key to component-based software design. At Ohio State, the software engineering classes are taught using a langugage/methodology called RESOLVE, in which each component of the software (function, object, whatever) is defined mathematically (completely and precisely). Multiple components are created in different ways that all do the exact same thing, but in different ways.
This allows you to, in an automated way, substitute in and out components while testing, so you can find exactly what works fastest on the data you will be working with.
The first versions of all components are usually the slowest, but they allow you to get a prototype at least running with short development time, and optimization and testing is really easy.
It is a great philosophy, as far as engineering goes. Too bad it hasn't caught on yet.
Wrong. OpenBSDs strength is partially because of their testing and code review policy, but ALSO because of design issues (like kernel memory management).
Certain types of security flaws are much harder to exploit when the OS addresses memory in unpredictable ways.
Other design principles, which encourage access log review, aid to the security of the system without having anything to do with code review.
The Law of Conservation of Popups?
I'm more optimistic than you are. I think the overall standard of living is going to increase more slowly while the developing countries catch up. I don' think this will impact me so much, though, because I am investing heavily in the companies that benefit from globalization. That way I don't have to learn any new languages. Heh.
ur ignorant: These weapons are usually designed to deliver the energy in an extremely short length of time.
"The world is, a dangerous place."
Is that comma meant to indicate a Shatner-esque pause?
"Any sensors that need to see around the shield could retract back quickly upon detecting a really freaking bright light source."
Ha! Lets see... speed of light (in a vacuum) vs speed of electric motor...
That's fine. But you need to keep in mind that you are living on the losing side of globaliztion. This is a force you will never be able to stop.
"Not that I like or shop at Walmart. I pretty much despise them."
You know, if you don't shop at walmart, you are getting ripped off twice. Your taxes are paying for their employee's benefits. Other companies pay for benefits for their employees, and you pay for that by higher prices.
Since you pay for walmart employee benefits anyway, don't let them screw you more: shop there.
Actually, I think the best strategy is to get into the most lucrative career you can, live cheap, invest heavily, and retire while in your 30's. Then, for the rest if your life, you really can do whatever the hell you want. It's what I'm trying to do. At the rate I'm investing (100% stocks) it looks like it will happen.
Follow your interests to pick a career/job? Are you a HS guidance counselor?
Terrible advice. Follow the market. Let your interests influence the decision.
I kinda like computers and really like girls. But, due to market forces, I didn't make enough money to retire in a reasonable time when I was a bikini inspector. So I followed the market and became a coder. Now I have financial security and its not THAT much wors than being a BI. The paperwork's a bitch in both.
Also, making sure the poor get health care is a good way to reduce the chances YOU will get sick because of some disease they are culturing. Even a selfish, inconsiderate asshole has good reason to support some level of universal health care.
Personally, I think the US should require and pay for basic medical care for all citizens. Even if that means visiting nurse practitioners instead of physicians. But I don't think it is economically possible to make every type of health care available to every citizen... Just the basics.
Or were you dressed like Austin Powers?
Who honks at bums? I've never heard of such a thing. Maybe you had a sign on your back.
Also, my profs graded more on documentation than comments, in some cases.
If your documentation layed out the proper structure for good code, they knew you 'got it.'
In fact, in many of my classes, they let us pick what languages we used to do the labs. The conceptual part mattered more. And the highest-level comments in code should be the same regardless of language.
"Computer Science" is in a world-wide state of identity crisis. Half the people want it to be a real science, and half want it to be programming training. All schools face this disconnect between professors, I think.
My advice to new students wanting to get into programming would be to find a reputable engineering school with a "software engineering" major.
This isn't very common, yet, so a "computer science" degree has to make due in most cases. But a CS degree only gives you half of what you need to be good at producing software. You have to take personal initiative to get the other half. A CS grad has to prove himself to me more than an engineering grad would. They could have equal skills, but the CS guy didn't get all the skills he needs at school.
Sorry bout your dumb lab partners. Don't cheat!
Not all schools are the same. It seems that at my school, most professors made a point out of creating test/lab assignments that were significantly different from the examples in the book.
I would say the people that graduated with me ranged from smart to brilliant.
I'm from a very high-ranked CS+E program, though.
Also, I never would have learned formal logic, set theory, statistics, interdisciplinary engineering skills, and many other EXTREMELY important things if I had skipped out on college.
And people who didn't go to college and don't think those skills are important are the worst kind if ignorant: not aware of how ignorant they are.
My point is: Just because your school was a degree-mill doesn't mean every one is. I definitely look for a BS (minimum) when screening for new hires. But I try to take school reputation into account, too.
Are you sure?
If I'm a volunteer, independent developer, and I want to implement something that has nothing to do with stability, who are you to say "no! you must hunt down stability bugs!"
That's not the way open source works.
I agree that stability is more important than new features. But you seem to be forgetting that not everyone wants to or knows how to fix the stability issues.
Also, I can't remember the last time Firefox on XP crashed on me.
I'm not convinced "price gouging" is happening in the US. Sure, it's happening with the oil producers in the middle east, but our laws don't apply there.
Suppose I hold a public office? Or work in a school?
That's serious blackmail material.
Last year, when trying to kill time in DC (I'm from Ohio), I decided to head out to a bar. I noticed a bachaelorette party going into a particular bar and decided that's wehre I'd spend my evening (seemed like an easy decision). I handed over my credit card and opened a tab.
I kept trying to get the attention of some of those girls, but none of them so much as returned my glances. So I struck up a conversation with the friendly guy next to me.
Turns out the girls were ignoring me because it was a gay bar!
Now, if someone looks through my credit card history, they're going to think I'm into men.
So all I can say is, these secret warrants suck! And if you're FBI and monitoring my internet use and credit card history--I'm not gay! Really! I just hope your software is good enough to corelate this post with that Visa log.
Was the rendering of malformed HTML the choice of Berners-Lee or the choice of the browser implementers?