I have 8 points on my license right now. If I get caught for a significant speeding charge, I could easily get a little jail time.
Then again, if I'm speeding and I have that many points, I haven't learned anything and should be removed from society for, say, a week.
Seven years for causing a server to go down? Yes, there is significant monetary cost to straightening out the system, but no one was physically hurt or even placed in danger. Why should we release a pedophile so that a @#$% spammer can get a jail cell?
Slap a big fine on him and move on. As despicable as spam is, there are more important things to worry about.
In my CS classes (not too long ago) we used the MS VC++ compiler, but not to do API programming. The advantage of the Microsoft compiler is that the debugging tools are very powerfull, at least in comparison to doing it by hand (change the state of a variable, print the variable to standard error, compile, run, repeat). Out of a dozen mini-projects, only one or two actually used any of the forms, buttons or other flashy stuff.
More interestingly, the professor graded the programs for functionality by making you run the programs through an interface he had running on (Penguin fetishers rejoice) a Linux system. So we still had to learn about makefiles and such.
I worry more about in other majors *cough*CIS*coagh who learn to program by draggin objects onto form and tacking a little code to the back. They far outnumbered my CS brethren and will go out into the world with C++ on their resume. Is that good?
I wrote to some one at AIWA and actually got a response on the CDC-MP3:
7/10/00
Dear Mr. Reinhold: Production of the CDC-MP3 was delayed, but commenced within the last week. Units should be shipping to retailers by the end of the month.
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Well, you CAN go to jail for speeding.
I have 8 points on my license right now. If I get caught for a significant speeding charge, I could easily get a little jail time.
Then again, if I'm speeding and I have that many points, I haven't learned anything and should be removed from society for, say, a week.
Seven years for causing a server to go down? Yes, there is significant monetary cost to straightening out the system, but no one was physically hurt or even placed in danger. Why should we release a pedophile so that a @#$% spammer can get a jail cell?
Slap a big fine on him and move on. As despicable as spam is, there are more important things to worry about.
In my CS classes (not too long ago) we used the MS VC++ compiler, but not to do API programming. The advantage of the Microsoft compiler is that the debugging tools are very powerfull, at least in comparison to doing it by hand (change the state of a variable, print the variable to standard error, compile, run, repeat). Out of a dozen mini-projects, only one or two actually used any of the forms, buttons or other flashy stuff. More interestingly, the professor graded the programs for functionality by making you run the programs through an interface he had running on (Penguin fetishers rejoice) a Linux system. So we still had to learn about makefiles and such. I worry more about in other majors *cough*CIS*coagh who learn to program by draggin objects onto form and tacking a little code to the back. They far outnumbered my CS brethren and will go out into the world with C++ on their resume. Is that good?
7/10/00
Dear Mr. Reinhold: Production of the CDC-MP3 was delayed, but commenced within the last week. Units should be shipping to retailers by the end of the month.
Regards,
Terry Shea
Griffin Public Relations (for AIWA AMERICA)