When people don't understand how to use contractions and instead write it the way it sounds (thanks, Hooked on Phonics!), what do you expect? How many people write "could of" instead of "could've," the contraction for "could have"? (You can substitute "should" and "would" in there as well.) How many people don't understand the proper use of "their," "there," and "they're"? How many people don't understand the difference between "its" and "it's," or "lose" and "loose"?
It's like people have said before my post. Blame the parents who's precious little snowflakes just absolutely can't be doing anything wrong. It must be the fault of the teachers for attempting to uphold standards.
Falsifying crowds? You really should be careful when you speak about that because both branches of the ruling party do it... and it became rather prevalent this past summer when the SEIU was bussed in to the town hall meetings. Instead of being true town hall meetings, restricted to those who live in that district (or state, in the case of a Senator), we find all kinds of people coming in from all over the place taking up the seats that SHOULD have been occupied by the constituents.
My late friend who was a native and life-long resident of New Orleans told me exactly the same thing. The Levee Authority (I don't remember the group's official name) would take the money the federal government would give them for maintenance and improvement and just squander it.
However, he also said that there were structural improvements, necessary maintenance items, and other revised data that the federal government and/or the Corps of Engineers either knew or should've known and failed to pass on the information about them to the Levee Authority as well.
There is enough blame to go around regarding who could've done what to prevent, or at least lessen the severity of, the aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina. I can only imagine that my late friend is doing a bit of a happy dance somewhere in this universe on some plane of existence because of this ruling.
Because they signed on the dotted line to uphold and defend the Constitution, they lose part of their free speech. The Uniform Code of Military Justice has clauses in it that make it a prohibit things like participating in rallies in uniform. The military is an extension of the government, therefore its members cannot "make statements." Official statements must come from the Public Relations officers. Anything else can and will be subject to censorship. Any ill spoken of the President is speaking ill of your commanding officer. It doesn't matter if you like him or not, he is your Commander-in-Chief. Don't put a bumper sticker (pro or anti) about a politician on your car if you're in the military either. Note that military service members are not prohibited from writing to their congresscritters. They are also allowed to vote. They are not permitted to run for office other than a local one (same goes for Reserve and Guard members). They are not permitted to campaign for a candidate at least while in uniform... I don't remember about out of uniform.
There shouldn't be a problem with personal blogs or social networking, as long as they don't identify themselves as members of the military and restrict any comments about the government and its officials, the military, and their locations when deployed.
If I want to hire someone who can solve problems I'm not going to hire a CS major.
I'll go for a physics or engineering major first who has shown he has the ability to code.
Actually, I would hire a CS major... depending on what my needs are. When I interview the more experienced candidates (I'm not the hiring manager... just one of the team members who interviews people to see what the letters "BS" on their resume actually mean), I give them an abstract problem and I want to see their problem-solving skills. Yes, there's a lot of technical work, but there's also some things about their gut instincts I like to see too. Do they know where to look? Do they even have an idea or two? Can they start with the most basic solutions before moving on to the more in-depth ones? That is what experience teachs you... that you should start with the simplest answers before going to the most complex.
As a fresh-out-of-school kid, I want to see if you're open to that concept. I'm also going to see if you can tell me what asymptotic notation is and how it applies to an algorithm or a series of algorithms... I need to know if you know what a pointer is... pass by value vs pass by reference... I'll have you write a code sample, or maybe just some pseudo-code, to solve a quick problem.
In my experience the kids who couldn't hack the more rigorous studies transferred into CS.
Or they're the kids who liked to "play" with computers but don't understand that they're just usable as a tool.
Not entirely... and again, it depends on the school where the degree was earned and when. I still remember the days of the CS students cursing at the terminals when logging in to the UNIX mainframes (AT&T 3B series of overgrown data switches) because they couldn't get the linked list program to work. Yes, the course taught C programming, but it also taught intermediate programming concepts like the beginnings of data structures and recursion. (Pascal and "structured programming" were the previous semester.) Come from a school whose curriculum goes into these things and I'll recommend you over someone coming from a "Java school" any day.
OK, so you have to add things to your toolbox... but you have the abstract concepts of how to do things already. You learned principles of good design. Guess what... when I need to hire someone, I can teach you the language-of-choice. I'm not going to have the time to teach you that putting images, links, animations, etc, in specific locations is good/bad.
Let's say I'm a hiring manager and conducting interviews for junior programmers.
If you get your degree from the first school, I'm only going to hire you if I
need a person who's going to write the code he's told to write. I'm never
going to assign stuff to you that requires you to do any kind of analysis.
If you get your degree from the school to which you transferred, you are far
more likely to get hired into a position with a lot of growth opportunities.
You will have not only know some of several languages, you will also
have a good background in abstract concepts.
The problem with most schools today is that they focus far too narrowly
on one topic instead of teaching the concepts necessary to handle what tasks
are placed in front of the graduates. There have been several articles about the
"Java schools" and how the graduates of them can barely program their way out of
a paper bag because they don't have the broader information necessary to do a
proper analysis. Sure, with modern languages you can often "ignore" things like
memory management and code optimization. Unfortunately, all too often I've seen
what happens when things are written by people who have no understanding of how to
apply basic concepts... when something should be a compiled application... when
something should be a simple shell script (mind you, the person who did this thinks
that a compiled program with calls to "system()" make this a "system program" and
doesn't even know how to write a shell script... I am going to have to clean up that
mess in the near future)... and even when to use what language.
No one language is the be-all and end-all of programming. Each language is a
tool. You don't normally use a screwdriver to hammer in a nail or as a chisel...
so why should you use C or C++ to write what is better written as a shell script?
Why would you use Java to write something that requries careful memory management?
(Yes, I know some people would just put the question mark after "Java"...:) )
Because it's all you know how to do? Guess what... either you're not getting the
job for which you just interviewed or I'm going to have to go hire someone else to
augment my team to do what you should've been able to do... which means when it
comes time for RIFs, you're name is going to go towards the top of the list because
you can only minimally contribute to the team.
There's a huge codebase out there that's using PHP against MySQL, and using PHP's original ereg regex syntax instead of the Perl-wannabe stuff. What are they thinking, when they set out to break this? When 5.3 rolls out through the distros a whole lot of MySQL backends will fail on the password thing. And when 6.0 rolls out millions of regexs will suddenly be failing. Needlessly.
Given the current state of the economy, this is how you can help keep PHP programmers employed... and why you have a test environment where you install new stuff like this before deploying it across your platforms... so you can find all of the pitfalls, traps, changes, etc, without causing your site to fall down and go boom.
That, and what about games designed around doing a lot of work, motion, etc, such as Wii Fit and Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)? People have been able to use these games as a way to make working out fun. Does that mean you'll get a tax rebate on these games and the controllers necessary for them?
The problem isn't necessarily with the site wanting to show the ads. Many people have slower internet connections. Some are still stuck using dial-up (don't get me started on this) and having to download these ad images wastes their bandwidth and time. Even those stuck with less-than-T1 speeds end up having sites take longer to load because of these ads. Thus, people want to block them... so sites don't take forever to load.
Then you come to the issue of how the ad placement and content messes up your website because you're not using Internet Explorer. These ads can screw up the page layout, making the user's experience with the website just out-and-out suck.
Agreed. If it was part of the EULA (there's that dreaded acronym again), then the users have no reason to complain about it. Though if nothing else, Microsoft might want to consider giving people who download and use this beta a discount on their "official release" copy.
I proceed from fear because I rightfully fear what the government can and will do in order to protect the incumbents and from the shiftiness of lawyers. You proceed from a lack of fear and a trust that people will just do what's right. Guess who's going to be right in the long run. It most certainly won't be you. Wasn't it Franklin Roosevelt who once said, "Everyone's rights can be taken away if you do it slowly enough"?
And yet you're missing out entirely on the whole thing. This law, if crafted correctly, could outlaw blogs that try to refute arguments given by politicians, etc, on the grounds that they are "harassment." Step back and look at the whole forest, not just the trees in front of you.
You obviously haven't been paying attention to some of the laws that have been passed or proposed recently... like the one some people have called, "The Incumbent Protection Act"... better known as McCain-Feingold. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6074 (item 6). Or the "Clean Elections" stuff going on in South Carolina... http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Jill-Kelso_-Clean-Elections-Act- (second-to-last paragraph). Everything else you speak of is already covered by various laws about harassment, libel, slander, and such.
OK, so if we want to target one individual in a non-harassing, factual manner... and say this individual is an elected official who's making some really bad decisions, etc... you are then declaring what we have to say to be illegal, because the elected official would simply say, "You're harassing me on-line," and then this law would kick in.
Sorry, I don't buy that argument, just as I don't buy the whole thing about not using a candidate's past voting record within 90 days of an election. That's the kind of thing that you're SUPPOSED to be talking about.
The problem is that if Microsoft can't drive the bus, it won't get on. And if they're forced to get on, they'll be like the schoolyard bully and just do whatever they want to anyway while maintaining a modicum of compliance. They want to control where it goes. They don't want to let others dictate to them what should and shouldn't be done. In some aspects, this would make sense... but in the world of open documents, this is not the case.
Not true, since most of these so-called "conservative" Republicans are actually neo-cons, not true conservatives. They've completely abandoned the conservative principles of smaller, less intrusive government. While they want to try to (supposedly) get government out of business stuff, they're more than happy to stick it into your personal lives to the point that some people would practically tell you that if you don't sleep with a standard teddy bear, you're not American.
So betamax was better. But VHS won the format war anyway.
No, so Betamax had slightly higher image quality (they both sucked, FWIW), but VHS won the format war anyway.
The reason why VHS won the format war is a lot more simple than people want to believe... Porn. Sony refused to allow the porn industry use Betamax tapes for distribution, rentals, etc... and with the popularity of movie rental shops at the time, porn titles were being rented and sold quite frequently.
Yet the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is in charge of the Senate as it hears the Impeachment Trial, not the Vice President. Remember that in all other cases, the Vice President is, constitutionally, the President of the Senate and only casts a vote there in the event of a tie.
Ever written code for an OS or device driver? You use them there... frequently... as "get me the frack out of here because of a fatal error"...
Never mind that if done properly, there is nothing wrong with using a goto statement... just make sure that you only move in one direction... ideally "down" towards the end of the function, not somewhere else in the whole program.
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"Blame the parents who's precious little snowflakes just absolutely can't be doing anything wrong."
You don't say.
Mea culpa
That one honestly keeps slipping with me... but then again, if I was 100% correct 100% of the time, I wouldn't be able to learn or relearn something.
When people don't understand how to use contractions and instead write it the way it sounds (thanks, Hooked on Phonics!), what do you expect? How many people write "could of" instead of "could've," the contraction for "could have"? (You can substitute "should" and "would" in there as well.) How many people don't understand the proper use of "their," "there," and "they're"? How many people don't understand the difference between "its" and "it's," or "lose" and "loose"?
It's like people have said before my post. Blame the parents who's precious little snowflakes just absolutely can't be doing anything wrong. It must be the fault of the teachers for attempting to uphold standards.
Falsifying crowds? You really should be careful when you speak about that because both branches of the ruling party do it... and it became rather prevalent this past summer when the SEIU was bussed in to the town hall meetings. Instead of being true town hall meetings, restricted to those who live in that district (or state, in the case of a Senator), we find all kinds of people coming in from all over the place taking up the seats that SHOULD have been occupied by the constituents.
My late friend who was a native and life-long resident of New Orleans told me exactly the same thing. The Levee Authority (I don't remember the group's official name) would take the money the federal government would give them for maintenance and improvement and just squander it.
However, he also said that there were structural improvements, necessary maintenance items, and other revised data that the federal government and/or the Corps of Engineers either knew or should've known and failed to pass on the information about them to the Levee Authority as well.
There is enough blame to go around regarding who could've done what to prevent, or at least lessen the severity of, the aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina. I can only imagine that my late friend is doing a bit of a happy dance somewhere in this universe on some plane of existence because of this ruling.
Just like Paxfire, Nominum, Barefruit, and a few others.
Oddly enough, OpenDNS and Paxfire are both funded by the same venture capitalist.
Yeah, but how do you explain all the bad drivers in New Jersey?
Easy... New York City and Philadelphia.
Because they signed on the dotted line to uphold and defend the Constitution, they lose part of their free speech. The Uniform Code of Military Justice has clauses in it that make it a prohibit things like participating in rallies in uniform. The military is an extension of the government, therefore its members cannot "make statements." Official statements must come from the Public Relations officers. Anything else can and will be subject to censorship. Any ill spoken of the President is speaking ill of your commanding officer. It doesn't matter if you like him or not, he is your Commander-in-Chief. Don't put a bumper sticker (pro or anti) about a politician on your car if you're in the military either. Note that military service members are not prohibited from writing to their congresscritters. They are also allowed to vote. They are not permitted to run for office other than a local one (same goes for Reserve and Guard members). They are not permitted to campaign for a candidate at least while in uniform... I don't remember about out of uniform.
There shouldn't be a problem with personal blogs or social networking, as long as they don't identify themselves as members of the military and restrict any comments about the government and its officials, the military, and their locations when deployed.
If I want to hire someone who can solve problems I'm not going to hire a CS major. I'll go for a physics or engineering major first who has shown he has the ability to code.
Actually, I would hire a CS major... depending on what my needs are. When I interview the more experienced candidates (I'm not the hiring manager... just one of the team members who interviews people to see what the letters "BS" on their resume actually mean), I give them an abstract problem and I want to see their problem-solving skills. Yes, there's a lot of technical work, but there's also some things about their gut instincts I like to see too. Do they know where to look? Do they even have an idea or two? Can they start with the most basic solutions before moving on to the more in-depth ones? That is what experience teachs you... that you should start with the simplest answers before going to the most complex.
As a fresh-out-of-school kid, I want to see if you're open to that concept. I'm also going to see if you can tell me what asymptotic notation is and how it applies to an algorithm or a series of algorithms... I need to know if you know what a pointer is... pass by value vs pass by reference... I'll have you write a code sample, or maybe just some pseudo-code, to solve a quick problem.
In my experience the kids who couldn't hack the more rigorous studies transferred into CS. Or they're the kids who liked to "play" with computers but don't understand that they're just usable as a tool.
Not entirely... and again, it depends on the school where the degree was earned and when. I still remember the days of the CS students cursing at the terminals when logging in to the UNIX mainframes (AT&T 3B series of overgrown data switches) because they couldn't get the linked list program to work. Yes, the course taught C programming, but it also taught intermediate programming concepts like the beginnings of data structures and recursion. (Pascal and "structured programming" were the previous semester.) Come from a school whose curriculum goes into these things and I'll recommend you over someone coming from a "Java school" any day.
OK, so you have to add things to your toolbox... but you have the abstract concepts of how to do things already. You learned principles of good design. Guess what... when I need to hire someone, I can teach you the language-of-choice. I'm not going to have the time to teach you that putting images, links, animations, etc, in specific locations is good/bad.
OK, let me put it to you this way:
Let's say I'm a hiring manager and conducting interviews for junior programmers.
If you get your degree from the first school, I'm only going to hire you if I need a person who's going to write the code he's told to write. I'm never going to assign stuff to you that requires you to do any kind of analysis.
If you get your degree from the school to which you transferred, you are far more likely to get hired into a position with a lot of growth opportunities. You will have not only know some of several languages, you will also have a good background in abstract concepts.
The problem with most schools today is that they focus far too narrowly on one topic instead of teaching the concepts necessary to handle what tasks are placed in front of the graduates. There have been several articles about the "Java schools" and how the graduates of them can barely program their way out of a paper bag because they don't have the broader information necessary to do a proper analysis. Sure, with modern languages you can often "ignore" things like memory management and code optimization. Unfortunately, all too often I've seen what happens when things are written by people who have no understanding of how to apply basic concepts... when something should be a compiled application... when something should be a simple shell script (mind you, the person who did this thinks that a compiled program with calls to "system()" make this a "system program" and doesn't even know how to write a shell script... I am going to have to clean up that mess in the near future)... and even when to use what language.
No one language is the be-all and end-all of programming. Each language is a tool. You don't normally use a screwdriver to hammer in a nail or as a chisel... so why should you use C or C++ to write what is better written as a shell script? Why would you use Java to write something that requries careful memory management? (Yes, I know some people would just put the question mark after "Java"... :) )
Because it's all you know how to do? Guess what... either you're not getting the
job for which you just interviewed or I'm going to have to go hire someone else to
augment my team to do what you should've been able to do... which means when it
comes time for RIFs, you're name is going to go towards the top of the list because
you can only minimally contribute to the team.
There's a huge codebase out there that's using PHP against MySQL, and using PHP's original ereg regex syntax instead of the Perl-wannabe stuff. What are they thinking, when they set out to break this? When 5.3 rolls out through the distros a whole lot of MySQL backends will fail on the password thing. And when 6.0 rolls out millions of regexs will suddenly be failing. Needlessly.
Given the current state of the economy, this is how you can help keep PHP programmers employed... and why you have a test environment where you install new stuff like this before deploying it across your platforms... so you can find all of the pitfalls, traps, changes, etc, without causing your site to fall down and go boom.
That, and what about games designed around doing a lot of work, motion, etc, such as Wii Fit and Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)? People have been able to use these games as a way to make working out fun. Does that mean you'll get a tax rebate on these games and the controllers necessary for them?
Then you come to the issue of how the ad placement and content messes up your website because you're not using Internet Explorer. These ads can screw up the page layout, making the user's experience with the website just out-and-out suck.
Agreed. If it was part of the EULA (there's that dreaded acronym again), then the users have no reason to complain about it. Though if nothing else, Microsoft might want to consider giving people who download and use this beta a discount on their "official release" copy.
I proceed from fear because I rightfully fear what the government can and will do in order to protect the incumbents and from the shiftiness of lawyers. You proceed from a lack of fear and a trust that people will just do what's right. Guess who's going to be right in the long run. It most certainly won't be you. Wasn't it Franklin Roosevelt who once said, "Everyone's rights can be taken away if you do it slowly enough"?
And yet you're missing out entirely on the whole thing. This law, if crafted correctly, could outlaw blogs that try to refute arguments given by politicians, etc, on the grounds that they are "harassment." Step back and look at the whole forest, not just the trees in front of you.
You obviously haven't been paying attention to some of the laws that have been passed or proposed recently... like the one some people have called, "The Incumbent Protection Act"... better known as McCain-Feingold. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6074 (item 6). Or the "Clean Elections" stuff going on in South Carolina... http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Jill-Kelso_-Clean-Elections-Act- (second-to-last paragraph). Everything else you speak of is already covered by various laws about harassment, libel, slander, and such.
Sorry, I don't buy that argument, just as I don't buy the whole thing about not using a candidate's past voting record within 90 days of an election. That's the kind of thing that you're SUPPOSED to be talking about.
The problem is that if Microsoft can't drive the bus, it won't get on. And if they're forced to get on, they'll be like the schoolyard bully and just do whatever they want to anyway while maintaining a modicum of compliance. They want to control where it goes. They don't want to let others dictate to them what should and shouldn't be done. In some aspects, this would make sense... but in the world of open documents, this is not the case.
Not true, since most of these so-called "conservative" Republicans are actually neo-cons, not true conservatives. They've completely abandoned the conservative principles of smaller, less intrusive government. While they want to try to (supposedly) get government out of business stuff, they're more than happy to stick it into your personal lives to the point that some people would practically tell you that if you don't sleep with a standard teddy bear, you're not American.
On Fedora 10, I just did "yum install kde-plasma-ihatethecashew" ...
No, so Betamax had slightly higher image quality (they both sucked, FWIW), but VHS won the format war anyway.
The reason why VHS won the format war is a lot more simple than people want to believe... Porn. Sony refused to allow the porn industry use Betamax tapes for distribution, rentals, etc... and with the popularity of movie rental shops at the time, porn titles were being rented and sold quite frequently.
Yet the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is in charge of the Senate as it hears the Impeachment Trial, not the Vice President. Remember that in all other cases, the Vice President is, constitutionally, the President of the Senate and only casts a vote there in the event of a tie.
You proceed from a false assumption... that Microsoft ever really had a QA team in the first place.
Never mind that if done properly, there is nothing wrong with using a goto statement... just make sure that you only move in one direction... ideally "down" towards the end of the function, not somewhere else in the whole program.