I work at the GM Plant in St. Catharines. The internal newsletter had photos and stats for the prototype hybrid Chevy S10 pickup they've built. At ~65% gasoline to energy conversion efficiency (as opposed to gasoline's ~15-30%) it's definitely a step in the right direction. They say hydrogen to energy conversion efficiency is even higher. The best part is they can use gasoline or, when the infrastructure is in place, hydrogen.
They're chucking out the entire powertrain. The big -electric-motor-in-place-of-combustion-engine keep-the-drivetrain-intact paradigm is out the window because they've figured out it's cheaper and more efficient (not to mention easier to engineer) to put four little(r) electric motors in the wheels and put banks and banks of fuel cells in the underbody.
It's closer than you think. GM is putting a lot of money behind hybrid vehicles. I must say I am very excited.
I've also heard mention of the excess energy from your car powering your home.
Nevermind that... Have you ever tried telling someone that you ARE employed by that they have security issues? Every member of the Primary domain all across North America (that's 100 000 users for those who are counting) has Administrator access to every user terminal on the network.
I've told them this is stupid. They won't listen to me because I'm just the student.
So I've stopped telling them about security issues I come across as they clearly don't give a damn. The classic quote in response to a file and print sharing hole that would let anyone retrieve all the real names and usernames on a domain controller was "Thanks but concentrate on BIOS updates."
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"In each such case, the submitting user grants OSDN the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable Open Source Initiative-approved license."
This paragraph basically just means that you are giving OSDN the right to reprint your works. Somehow I don't see this as a problem.
H2G2 has very similar terms and they make it very clear in the FAQ exactly why the provisions exist.
The quick summary:
You are giving permission to reprint your work(s)
You are giving permission for your work(s) to be edited before they are used
You are giving permission for to have your work(s) used as source(s) for other work(s)
The "comments are owned by you" just means the OSDN doesn't get sued if you say something that's libelous, infringes on copyright, etc., etc..
The BBC also (intelligently) says if you don't like it, don't post. I think that's just common sense.
You can drop IE into "standards compliant" mode if you give a proper DOCTYPE declaration (e.g. ) at the top of your documents. Whether or not the standards compliance mode is actually fully standards compliant is debatable but so far the only thing I've found in the standards that isn't in IE has to do with centering images. You can't do it the recommended way because it won't center. Then again Mozilla has the same problem, so...
That's not to say that Microsoft isn't playing Embrace and Extend because CSS styled scrollbars still render styled in standards compliance mode despite the fact that those definitions aren't in the CSS standard anywhere.
Personally I'd suggest you go to O'Reilly and Associates' Safari and preview any book that looks interesting. Previews give you a HUGE amount of information at 0 cost. If you subscribe at 5 points it's only $119.88 a year and you can swap out books you're finished with for new ones on a monthly basis but MAKE SURE you preview a bunch of books before you put them on your bookshelf as you will inevitably find a much cooler book two days later. I'm seriously considering sacrificing the money I set aside for a new hard drive to buy a year's subscription. O'Reilly books aren't the only ones you will find there, either which is nice.
You really can't separate The Matrix from the kung fu. The Wachowski brothers actually mentioned this in either Making The Matrix or some of the suplemental material on the DVD (I forget which at the moment). They always intended for The Matrix to be an action movie.
I like the Matrix because it has an interesting mix of philosophy and action. That's not to say that I didn't like Dark City because it's also an amazing movie.
MP3.com was taken over by Vivendi/Universal. They promptly changed the terms of service, slashed the payback for playback program, treated the artists like crap when they objected, and fired the founding board members.
Don't be surprised if, in the future, Vivendi uses MP3.com as an example of why free music downloads hurt "the industry".
Nobody's buying from MP3.com anymore because all the good independent artists got sick of getting screwed by Vivendi, pulled down their music and left. It happened to my favorite band (Galbatron, in case you're wondering...) so they switched to AmpCast. I know they were not alone.
I agree with a posting I saw on an earlier thread about this - it's high time for a not-for-profit record label.
The Copyright Act allows you to make copies of your music for personal use. You can't (legally) go to somebody's house and copy all of their audio CDs. Making a tape to play in your car is okay. Letting your friend make a tape to play in his car is not.
Sorry but what kind of loser do you have to be to be 30 years old and play N64 for 8 hours a day 6 days a week?
If what you've said here is accurate this guy slept, ate, and played video games. If you only take a break from doing one thing obsessively to eat and sleep, you have big problems no matter what that activity is.
Myself, I spent a lot of time with my friends playing video games when I was younger. Since there were only 2 controllers (NES anyone?), you had to take turns and there was a lot of interaction with other kids when you didn't have a controller in your hands.
If you go back even further, I remember playing Warlords on the Atari 2600 with my family probably once a month and playing games on the good ol' C64 with my aunts and uncles at my Grandparents house every Sunday.
That's not to say I didn't go outside and play on my swing set with my friends (*nostalgia for the swing set*) but whether online or offline, practically my whole life with the exception of school has been one big game.
Now I'm much more mature and I play Live Action Roleplaying games. Wait...
The amusing part of all of this for me is that Governments are supposed to work to benefit the people they represent. Too bad a lot of governments have forgotten that...
I don't know if you ever used Corel's Software but it sucked. All of it. I never had a version that didn't.
I had Corel Photopaint crash on me when I hit File=>New. It divided by zero. WTF? Of all the retarted errors you could possibly fail to trap that has to be the worst. What kind of programmer divides without checking it the program is dividing by zero?
My boss was having problems with Wordperfect 8 trying to get the formatting to work correctly. I eventually had to rewrite his default template to get his document to apply the formatting correctly.
This would probably be the result of people mistaking applications and OS Components. (It's an easy mistake to make with M$) When you start up XP for the first time you activate Windows Messenger. You can, of course, choose not to but they don't exactly go out of their way to make this clear. You don't have to activate Windows XP, only Office XP.
Personally I found it mildly annoying that I had to deltree the damn thing...
Simple for you, maybe; admittedly simple for me, as well. For the most part I was the one giving the assistance (Paul, you're missing a semicolon on line 63...) but not everybody in my course is going to become a programmer.
I'm in first year Engineering and next year more than 1/6 of my class will focus on something other than software so I don't think it's really fair to expect them to know everything there is to know, nor do I think that they need to learn more than the basic programming skills necessary to write a computer assisted model for a design.
Consulting with your peers and cheating are very very different and it's unfortunate that you aren't seeing that. Consulting with your peers would be along the lines of "Hey, I've debugged my program and figured out that this line is generating the wrong result. Can you help me figure out what's wrong with it?" which is perfectly valid. You write the name of the person who helped you with that line in your acknowledgements and there's no problem. It's not cheating and you still know how to program at the end of it - especially if you understand why the error occured and why changing what you changed fixed it.
According to our marking scheme a program that doesn't produce proper output or misses more than two design objectives will earn you an F.
As for using malloc(), I would bet you $50 that if you asked anybody that came out of my software class with a mark higher than a bare scraping pass what malloc() was for they'd be able to tell you.
How about battery performance? My Visor Platinum can run for weeks off of a pair of (rechargable Alkaline) AAA batteries. Pocket PCs suck the juice like there's no tomorrow (actually that's ironically close to the truth). I'd take a 40 MHz PalmOS device over a 200 MHz PocketPC any day, just for that reason.
Cuz remember programmers: in the real world you are fired if you consult with a co-worker;)
So how exactly does consulting with a fellow student (or co-worker) result in both parties having identical code? I have to say that this is the most ignorant comment I've seen attached to a slashdot story ever.
At my University they have the same code policy but they encourage you to work with others! Under no circumstances are you to copy their code line by line but you can certainly ask for their help or use a module or two. The only condition to all of this is that you credit them on the cover sheet of your assignment.
Sorry for the flame but I saw that comment and it made me quite irate.
Software Engineering study is designed to produce Software Engineers. In case people have missed something, Software Engineering is already an Engineering Discipline. It's separate and distinct from Computer Science.
Actually I'm planning on going into it in second year at McMaster University in Ontario.
I think you're missing the point. It's not about programming, it's about design. You can't be an Engineer unless you've been trained as an Engineer.
The test has nothing about programming. The test is about ethics, professionality, creativity, and competence. They aren't testing your abilites.
Look at the Professional Engineers of Ontario website.
Source code has nothing to do with it.
You cannot become a good Engineer by experience alone. You can't learn good design by looking at other peoples' source code. You need to be able to turn a critical eye on the structure of your program.
A well engineered program does the following, in the following order:
Input
Calculation
Output
That's it. All the subroutines follow the same model. You can't learn proper structure by experience alone.
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...that you've forwarded their e-mails to phonebusters they stop e-mailing you.
It worked for me, at least...
I work at the GM Plant in St. Catharines. The internal newsletter had photos and stats for the prototype hybrid Chevy S10 pickup they've built. At ~65% gasoline to energy conversion efficiency (as opposed to gasoline's ~15-30%) it's definitely a step in the right direction. They say hydrogen to energy conversion efficiency is even higher. The best part is they can use gasoline or, when the infrastructure is in place, hydrogen.
They're chucking out the entire powertrain. The big -electric-motor-in-place-of-combustion-engine keep-the-drivetrain-intact paradigm is out the window because they've figured out it's cheaper and more efficient (not to mention easier to engineer) to put four little(r) electric motors in the wheels and put banks and banks of fuel cells in the underbody.
It's closer than you think. GM is putting a lot of money behind hybrid vehicles. I must say I am very excited.
I've also heard mention of the excess energy from your car powering your home.
Nevermind that... Have you ever tried telling someone that you ARE employed by that they have security issues? Every member of the Primary domain all across North America (that's 100 000 users for those who are counting) has Administrator access to every user terminal on the network.
I've told them this is stupid. They won't listen to me because I'm just the student.
So I've stopped telling them about security issues I come across as they clearly don't give a damn. The classic quote in response to a file and print sharing hole that would let anyone retrieve all the real names and usernames on a domain controller was "Thanks but concentrate on BIOS updates."
This paragraph basically just means that you are giving OSDN the right to reprint your works. Somehow I don't see this as a problem.
H2G2 has very similar terms and they make it very clear in the FAQ exactly why the provisions exist.
The quick summary:
The "comments are owned by you" just means the OSDN doesn't get sued if you say something that's libelous, infringes on copyright, etc., etc..
The BBC also (intelligently) says if you don't like it, don't post. I think that's just common sense.
You can drop IE into "standards compliant" mode if you give a proper DOCTYPE declaration (e.g. ) at the top of your documents. Whether or not the standards compliance mode is actually fully standards compliant is debatable but so far the only thing I've found in the standards that isn't in IE has to do with centering images. You can't do it the recommended way because it won't center. Then again Mozilla has the same problem, so...
That's not to say that Microsoft isn't playing Embrace and Extend because CSS styled scrollbars still render styled in standards compliance mode despite the fact that those definitions aren't in the CSS standard anywhere.
Personally I'd suggest you go to O'Reilly and Associates' Safari and preview any book that looks interesting. Previews give you a HUGE amount of information at 0 cost. If you subscribe at 5 points it's only $119.88 a year and you can swap out books you're finished with for new ones on a monthly basis but MAKE SURE you preview a bunch of books before you put them on your bookshelf as you will inevitably find a much cooler book two days later. I'm seriously considering sacrificing the money I set aside for a new hard drive to buy a year's subscription. O'Reilly books aren't the only ones you will find there, either which is nice.
You really can't separate The Matrix from the kung fu. The Wachowski brothers actually mentioned this in either Making The Matrix or some of the suplemental material on the DVD (I forget which at the moment). They always intended for The Matrix to be an action movie.
I like the Matrix because it has an interesting mix of philosophy and action. That's not to say that I didn't like Dark City because it's also an amazing movie.
MP3.com was taken over by Vivendi/Universal. They promptly changed the terms of service, slashed the payback for playback program, treated the artists like crap when they objected, and fired the founding board members.
Don't be surprised if, in the future, Vivendi uses MP3.com as an example of why free music downloads hurt "the industry".
Nobody's buying from MP3.com anymore because all the good independent artists got sick of getting screwed by Vivendi, pulled down their music and left. It happened to my favorite band (Galbatron, in case you're wondering...) so they switched to AmpCast. I know they were not alone.
I agree with a posting I saw on an earlier thread about this - it's high time for a not-for-profit record label.
In a book I was reading published in 1999 it said 33% of Americans didn't know if the Earth revolved around the sun or vice versa!
I don't know if that's an accurate statistic but if it is that truly makes me afraid.
There seems to be a point being missed here...
The Copyright Act allows you to make copies of your music for personal use. You can't (legally) go to somebody's house and copy all of their audio CDs. Making a tape to play in your car is okay. Letting your friend make a tape to play in his car is not.
Your ancestors? I'm guessing you mean descendants. I really doubt my dead great-grandfather cares about mitosis.
Needlessly redundant?
Sorry but what kind of loser do you have to be to be 30 years old and play N64 for 8 hours a day 6 days a week?
If what you've said here is accurate this guy slept, ate, and played video games. If you only take a break from doing one thing obsessively to eat and sleep, you have big problems no matter what that activity is.
Myself, I spent a lot of time with my friends playing video games when I was younger. Since there were only 2 controllers (NES anyone?), you had to take turns and there was a lot of interaction with other kids when you didn't have a controller in your hands.
If you go back even further, I remember playing Warlords on the Atari 2600 with my family probably once a month and playing games on the good ol' C64 with my aunts and uncles at my Grandparents house every Sunday.
That's not to say I didn't go outside and play on my swing set with my friends (*nostalgia for the swing set*) but whether online or offline, practically my whole life with the exception of school has been one big game.
Now I'm much more mature and I play Live Action Roleplaying games. Wait...
The amusing part of all of this for me is that Governments are supposed to work to benefit the people they represent. Too bad a lot of governments have forgotten that...
I don't know if you ever used Corel's Software but it sucked. All of it. I never had a version that didn't.
I had Corel Photopaint crash on me when I hit File=>New. It divided by zero. WTF? Of all the retarted errors you could possibly fail to trap that has to be the worst. What kind of programmer divides without checking it the program is dividing by zero?
My boss was having problems with Wordperfect 8 trying to get the formatting to work correctly. I eventually had to rewrite his default template to get his document to apply the formatting correctly.
At least M$ Office works mostly.
This would probably be the result of people mistaking applications and OS Components. (It's an easy mistake to make with M$) When you start up XP for the first time you activate Windows Messenger. You can, of course, choose not to but they don't exactly go out of their way to make this clear. You don't have to activate Windows XP, only Office XP.
Personally I found it mildly annoying that I had to deltree the damn thing...
And speaking of people missing the patently obvious...
You can turn it off with two clicks.
I did mean to put the emphasis on students rather than co-workers since that's what the article is about.
Simple for you, maybe; admittedly simple for me, as well. For the most part I was the one giving the assistance (Paul, you're missing a semicolon on line 63...) but not everybody in my course is going to become a programmer.
I'm in first year Engineering and next year more than 1/6 of my class will focus on something other than software so I don't think it's really fair to expect them to know everything there is to know, nor do I think that they need to learn more than the basic programming skills necessary to write a computer assisted model for a design.
Consulting with your peers and cheating are very very different and it's unfortunate that you aren't seeing that. Consulting with your peers would be along the lines of "Hey, I've debugged my program and figured out that this line is generating the wrong result. Can you help me figure out what's wrong with it?" which is perfectly valid. You write the name of the person who helped you with that line in your acknowledgements and there's no problem. It's not cheating and you still know how to program at the end of it - especially if you understand why the error occured and why changing what you changed fixed it.
According to our marking scheme a program that doesn't produce proper output or misses more than two design objectives will earn you an F.
As for using malloc(), I would bet you $50 that if you asked anybody that came out of my software class with a mark higher than a bare scraping pass what malloc() was for they'd be able to tell you.
Y'know that warning that comes up about once a day about low power? Yeah. All handhelds have batteries, genius.
The major difference being that I can change the batteries in my Visor, they only cost $1 apiece, and they're rechargable up to 200 uses.
How about battery performance? My Visor Platinum can run for weeks off of a pair of (rechargable Alkaline) AAA batteries. Pocket PCs suck the juice like there's no tomorrow (actually that's ironically close to the truth). I'd take a 40 MHz PalmOS device over a 200 MHz PocketPC any day, just for that reason.
So how exactly does consulting with a fellow student (or co-worker) result in both parties having identical code? I have to say that this is the most ignorant comment I've seen attached to a slashdot story ever.
At my University they have the same code policy but they encourage you to work with others! Under no circumstances are you to copy their code line by line but you can certainly ask for their help or use a module or two. The only condition to all of this is that you credit them on the cover sheet of your assignment.
Sorry for the flame but I saw that comment and it made me quite irate.
Software Engineering study is designed to produce Software Engineers. In case people have missed something, Software Engineering is already an Engineering Discipline. It's separate and distinct from Computer Science.
Actually I'm planning on going into it in second year at McMaster University in Ontario.
I think you're missing the point. It's not about programming, it's about design. You can't be an Engineer unless you've been trained as an Engineer.
The test has nothing about programming. The test is about ethics, professionality, creativity, and competence. They aren't testing your abilites.
Look at the Professional Engineers of Ontario website.
Source code has nothing to do with it.
You cannot become a good Engineer by experience alone. You can't learn good design by looking at other peoples' source code. You need to be able to turn a critical eye on the structure of your program.
A well engineered program does the following, in the following order:
Input
Calculation
Output
That's it. All the subroutines follow the same model. You can't learn proper structure by experience alone.