I graduated in 2003 with a Comp Sci degree, and I'm am one of the few of my friends that is in a career where things I learned in my classes are actually applied at my job. There is outsourcing I won't deny that, but as the article says it's not as bad as everyone assumes it to be. I was scared at first after graduating and going month after month without a job offer, mostly due to my entry level experience, but I did get several offers later on. If you apply yourself well in your Comp Sci classes, get good grades, and have a good understanding of the concepts then you shouldn't need to worry that much about landing a Comp Sci related job.
Marge: Should the Simpsons get a horse? Comic Book Guy: Excuse me, I believe this family already had a horse, and the expense forced Homer to work at the Kwik-E-Mart with hilarious consequences. Homer: Does anyone care what this guy thinks? Crowd: No! (CBG sulks away)/and I'm friggin sick of that Pony BS too
If the players are only going to be outputing at full resolution through HDMI and not component as well as I've read in some previous articles, then I'll be waiting for players that will. Even most new TVs only come with one HDMI port (if they have one at all), and I'm already using that for another device.
So why not get rid of that stupid Microsoft Gates Borg icon? Surely his actions in the past 2 years warrant such a move by the Slashdot staff. Throwing huge piles of cash at multitudes of organizations in Africa that help with disease and poverty more than makes up for any gripes you may have against his business practices. If only more of the world's wealthiest would follow suit.
...but nobody has explained to me where the big bang gases came from that created the universe.
Why does everything need to have a beginning and an end? Why can't this matter or energy have always existed and always will exist? I don't find that so hard to swallow.
Process for selecting Myths to Bust
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I'm sure plenty of people are interested in how myths are selected for each show. Who gets to pick the myths to bust? Do you rely mostly on fan submissions about myths, or do you come up with the myths yourselves?
I just did some quick searching and found only this on laser weaponry in the Geneva Convention:
"Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons prohibits the use of laser weapons specifically designed to cause permanent blindness to the naked eye (or to the eye with corrective eyesight devices). Countries that are party to the Convention and Protocols will not transfer such weapons to any country or other entity."
So I guess to conform to the Geneva Convention, the lasers will just require the same stickers that they put on childrens water guns: "Point Away From Face"
Obviously you haven't read anything about this mission at all. The goal of this mission is to blast debris out from inside of the comet so that we can understand what it is actually composed of. Notice how the spacecraft launches a projectile at the comet, and then slows down to stay out of the way so that it can scan the particles that spew out of the crater?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure we don't have the means currently to deflect a large comet or asteroid like they did in Armageddon or something like that. Perhaps the impact data from this experiment will help us in a similar situation as in the movies sometime in the future.
Perhaps if you only have 3 or 4 IE windows open at the same time I would agree with you. But when I do online shopping or something where I'm going to be looking at multiple pages on the same site, or perhaps I always want a tab with Slashdot open in it, tabs become much more convenient. Once you get used to them they are far easier to manage. I prefer a single instance in my taskbar with 10+ tabs open rather than 10+ instances in my taskar.
Do a google search for "windows 2000 sp5". You will see countless articles describing how MS announced back in 2004 that SP5 is going to be scrapped and an update rollup will be released instead. This is NOT SP5.
I have no idea why this is considered such a great deal either. Perhaps in the UK this is a good find, but not around where I live (MYC Metro area). I have Optimum Online cable modem service at my house which I pay $50 a month for. That gets me 10Mbit/s downstream and 1Mbit/s upstream. $50 = about 26 pounds or so. As the poster above me states, this "great" deal of 40 pounds equates to about $75! I am unaware of any bandwidth cap on Optimum, though I'm sure if you're downloading like a madman they'll probably send you a letter. Great deal indeed.
If you're computers are in a Windows domain, why not have all domain computers run the spyware program automatically? Pretty sure this could be scheduled utilizing some sort of domain policy. I know spybot has many command line switches, so you could run it everyday without the user noticing.
Spybot command line switches
It does not interact with WU, but it does have an up-to-date install for all XP updates pre-SP2. They are currently working on it for Windows 2000 and 2003 as well. Check it out: www.autopatcher.com
If the machine has T.V. Media installed on it, remove it before installing SP2. XP will crash on loading if you have done this. Here's the MSKB article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=885 523&product=windowsxpsp2
We have had SP2 deployed to over 150 machines at my organization, and have had only 2 instances of problems after installing SP2, and both were caused by the T.V. Media issue. It is fixable if you encounter this (see article), but time consuming; over an hour to fix it.
Earlier this week I finished work on a ResNet scanning CD for the college that I work for. The CD autoruns, scans for viruses using Stinger, changes some proxy settings, and on Windows XP systems, it installs SP2. I neglected to include a spyware scanning program. All the copies of the CD are already made, and ready to be deployed to students on Tuesday. I'm thinking I should probably create some additional CDs that autorun SpyBot or something.
Anyone else in my situation? What have you done, or wish you had done?
People think that VoIP is cheap compared to normal telephony. Average people spend around USD 200 per year on land line telephony. While VoIP might seam "free" you still have to pay around USD 300 for an ADSL connection.
VoIP services such as Vonage are targeted towards people who already have a broadband connection, so that really isn't a factor for many people.
While it is technically feasible to install a VoIP client on a PC, it is not exactly the ideal device for a telephone. Also - remember that people usually have several phones in the house. To overcome this you would need VoIP "telephones" which look like a normal telephone. These are reletive expensive compared to normal phones, and requires a dedicated power supply.
Devices such as the Cisco ATA-186 and the Motorola VT1000 enable customers to hook their normal phones up to the VoIP device, or hook their home phone wiring directly into the device.
In order to receive incoming calls you need to have you VoIP device turned on all the time and connected to the Internet.
Kind of like what a cable or dsl modem does.
A normal landline telephone is usually available 99.98 % of the time. If your ADSL reaches 99.7% you should consider yourself lucky. Furthermore normal phones work during power outages. In some countries this is a regulatory requirement for emergency services.
Very valid point, however not always the case. During the August 2003 blackout even my normal phone was out. Only my cell phone worked. You can however buy a battery backup for your cable/dsl modem and VoIP device to keep them up and running. As long as your provider has emergency power at their location, you should be covered in that situation.
It would be nice if it was possible to make "free" VoIP calls. In most of the world however, it is the calling party who pays for the call. This means that a VoIP call terminated at a Spanish GSM phone will be charged backwards: The spanish GSM operator charges the VoIP "operator" for "terminating" the call, and the VoIP operator subsequently charges the VoIP "customer". The world has more than 1 billion GSM subscribers. In order to be able to call these you need the billing infrastructure in place even for VoIP. This requirement makes VoIP just as expensive to produce as traditional telephony.
Check out the pricing plans and international rates on the Vonage website. I think you'll see that the costs are a lot lower.
The world is moving voice calls to mobile phones. So far it has not been shown that VoIP is technically or economically feasible on mobile phones?
I'm sure will see wireless internet access much more widespread in the years to come. That's the biggest hurdle for making wireless VoIP phones.
I couldn't agree more. I was working for Vonage earlier this year. Most of the people in my training class were from technical schools that weren't very good. Very few people there actually had a BA/BS in Comp Sci or other computer related degree. I only lasted there for about 2 1/2 full working days after the training was over. It just wasn't worth it dealing with cursing customers and only getting paid around $12/hr. At least I learned a thing or two about VoIP from the training. Since then, I have been infinitly more patient when calling my ISP tech support. They need all the friendly callers they can get.
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I graduated in 2003 with a Comp Sci degree, and I'm am one of the few of my friends that is in a career where things I learned in my classes are actually applied at my job. There is outsourcing I won't deny that, but as the article says it's not as bad as everyone assumes it to be. I was scared at first after graduating and going month after month without a job offer, mostly due to my entry level experience, but I did get several offers later on. If you apply yourself well in your Comp Sci classes, get good grades, and have a good understanding of the concepts then you shouldn't need to worry that much about landing a Comp Sci related job.
You actually thought those "jokes" were entertaining? I'm glad I don't know you!
Marge: Should the Simpsons get a horse? /and I'm friggin sick of that Pony BS too
Comic Book Guy: Excuse me, I believe this family already had a horse, and the expense forced Homer to work at the Kwik-E-Mart with hilarious consequences.
Homer: Does anyone care what this guy thinks?
Crowd: No! (CBG sulks away)
I found the ask.com cover story for Jeeves disappearance. I'm not buying it!
h tml
http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/about/jeeveshasretired.
http://blog.ask.com/2006/02/thanks_jeeves.html
Last I heard was that Jeeves was so upset about being dropped that he clocked an ask.com board member on the head with a pipe in the ballroom.
If the players are only going to be outputing at full resolution through HDMI and not component as well as I've read in some previous articles, then I'll be waiting for players that will. Even most new TVs only come with one HDMI port (if they have one at all), and I'm already using that for another device.
So why not get rid of that stupid Microsoft Gates Borg icon? Surely his actions in the past 2 years warrant such a move by the Slashdot staff. Throwing huge piles of cash at multitudes of organizations in Africa that help with disease and poverty more than makes up for any gripes you may have against his business practices. If only more of the world's wealthiest would follow suit.
Homer doesn't know of him; how much more lay can you get?
Hawking: "Your theory of a donut-shaped universe is intriguing, Homer. I may have to steal it."
Homer: "Wow, I can't believe someone I never heard of is hanging out with a guy like me."
...but nobody has explained to me where the big bang gases came from that created the universe.
Why does everything need to have a beginning and an end? Why can't this matter or energy have always existed and always will exist? I don't find that so hard to swallow.
I'm sure plenty of people are interested in how myths are selected for each show. Who gets to pick the myths to bust? Do you rely mostly on fan submissions about myths, or do you come up with the myths yourselves?
I just did some quick searching and found only this on laser weaponry in the Geneva Convention:
"Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons prohibits the use of laser weapons specifically designed to cause permanent blindness to the naked eye (or to the eye with corrective eyesight devices). Countries that are party to the Convention and Protocols will not transfer such weapons to any country or other entity."
So I guess to conform to the Geneva Convention, the lasers will just require the same stickers that they put on childrens water guns: "Point Away From Face"
http://www.thestreet.com/_tscs/tech/hardware/10237 939.html
I knew this looked familiar: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/2 8/1834222&tid=191&tid=14
Obviously you haven't read anything about this mission at all. The goal of this mission is to blast debris out from inside of the comet so that we can understand what it is actually composed of. Notice how the spacecraft launches a projectile at the comet, and then slows down to stay out of the way so that it can scan the particles that spew out of the crater?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure we don't have the means currently to deflect a large comet or asteroid like they did in Armageddon or something like that. Perhaps the impact data from this experiment will help us in a similar situation as in the movies sometime in the future.
Perhaps if you only have 3 or 4 IE windows open at the same time I would agree with you. But when I do online shopping or something where I'm going to be looking at multiple pages on the same site, or perhaps I always want a tab with Slashdot open in it, tabs become much more convenient. Once you get used to them they are far easier to manage. I prefer a single instance in my taskbar with 10+ tabs open rather than 10+ instances in my taskar.
Heh, wrong thread dude. /me points to the article above this one on the main page
Do a google search for "windows 2000 sp5". You will see countless articles describing how MS announced back in 2004 that SP5 is going to be scrapped and an update rollup will be released instead. This is NOT SP5.
I think Lucas will have one of his "brilliant" ideas again and edit the hell out of the movie before it goes to DVD and turn it into a PG movie.
Come on, the young Anakin in the end of Episode III? I still want to but that DVD in the microwave just for that!
I have no idea why this is considered such a great deal either. Perhaps in the UK this is a good find, but not around where I live (MYC Metro area). I have Optimum Online cable modem service at my house which I pay $50 a month for. That gets me 10Mbit/s downstream and 1Mbit/s upstream. $50 = about 26 pounds or so. As the poster above me states, this "great" deal of 40 pounds equates to about $75! I am unaware of any bandwidth cap on Optimum, though I'm sure if you're downloading like a madman they'll probably send you a letter. Great deal indeed.
If you're computers are in a Windows domain, why not have all domain computers run the spyware program automatically? Pretty sure this could be scheduled utilizing some sort of domain policy. I know spybot has many command line switches, so you could run it everyday without the user noticing. Spybot command line switches
It does not interact with WU, but it does have an up-to-date install for all XP updates pre-SP2. They are currently working on it for Windows 2000 and 2003 as well. Check it out: www.autopatcher.com
If the machine has T.V. Media installed on it, remove it before installing SP2. XP will crash on loading if you have done this. Here's the MSKB article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=885 523&product=windowsxpsp2
We have had SP2 deployed to over 150 machines at my organization, and have had only 2 instances of problems after installing SP2, and both were caused by the T.V. Media issue. It is fixable if you encounter this (see article), but time consuming; over an hour to fix it.
Earlier this week I finished work on a ResNet scanning CD for the college that I work for. The CD autoruns, scans for viruses using Stinger, changes some proxy settings, and on Windows XP systems, it installs SP2. I neglected to include a spyware scanning program. All the copies of the CD are already made, and ready to be deployed to students on Tuesday. I'm thinking I should probably create some additional CDs that autorun SpyBot or something.
Anyone else in my situation? What have you done, or wish you had done?
People think that VoIP is cheap compared to normal telephony. Average people spend around USD 200 per year on land line telephony. While VoIP might seam "free" you still have to pay around USD 300 for an ADSL connection.
VoIP services such as Vonage are targeted towards people who already have a broadband connection, so that really isn't a factor for many people.
While it is technically feasible to install a VoIP client on a PC, it is not exactly the ideal device for a telephone. Also - remember that people usually have several phones in the house. To overcome this you would need VoIP "telephones" which look like a normal telephone. These are reletive expensive compared to normal phones, and requires a dedicated power supply.
Devices such as the Cisco ATA-186 and the Motorola VT1000 enable customers to hook their normal phones up to the VoIP device, or hook their home phone wiring directly into the device.
In order to receive incoming calls you need to have you VoIP device turned on all the time and connected to the Internet.
Kind of like what a cable or dsl modem does.
A normal landline telephone is usually available 99.98 % of the time. If your ADSL reaches 99.7% you should consider yourself lucky. Furthermore normal phones work during power outages. In some countries this is a regulatory requirement for emergency services.
Very valid point, however not always the case. During the August 2003 blackout even my normal phone was out. Only my cell phone worked. You can however buy a battery backup for your cable/dsl modem and VoIP device to keep them up and running. As long as your provider has emergency power at their location, you should be covered in that situation.
It would be nice if it was possible to make "free" VoIP calls. In most of the world however, it is the calling party who pays for the call. This means that a VoIP call terminated at a Spanish GSM phone will be charged backwards: The spanish GSM operator charges the VoIP "operator" for "terminating" the call, and the VoIP operator subsequently charges the VoIP "customer". The world has more than 1 billion GSM subscribers. In order to be able to call these you need the billing infrastructure in place even for VoIP. This requirement makes VoIP just as expensive to produce as traditional telephony.
Check out the pricing plans and international rates on the Vonage website. I think you'll see that the costs are a lot lower.
The world is moving voice calls to mobile phones. So far it has not been shown that VoIP is technically or economically feasible on mobile phones?
I'm sure will see wireless internet access much more widespread in the years to come. That's the biggest hurdle for making wireless VoIP phones.
I couldn't agree more. I was working for Vonage earlier this year. Most of the people in my training class were from technical schools that weren't very good. Very few people there actually had a BA/BS in Comp Sci or other computer related degree. I only lasted there for about 2 1/2 full working days after the training was over. It just wasn't worth it dealing with cursing customers and only getting paid around $12/hr. At least I learned a thing or two about VoIP from the training. Since then, I have been infinitly more patient when calling my ISP tech support. They need all the friendly callers they can get.