I would amend the programming languages to state that They should be taught basic (linear?) programming C style first such as algorightms, loops, control structures, and the like.
Then they should move into a developed OO language and learn OO. I'd say java just because I think it is easier to do the OOP part of coding in Java/C# due to the more simplified syntax, (lack of pure virtual vs the other possibilites), garbage collection, and no multiple inheritence(Java). These things can be very good, but many time you can loose youself in these issues. Finally getting out of the Language theory with a finisher course in C++ for advanced OOP and Patterns.
This is somewhat similar to what I took. I transfered into CS from Mechanical so I took the fortran / C++ "this is how to number crunch and do basic command line apps" class. Then I went into Java and learned oop. Then we did our Patterns in C++ (which was difficult to double up learning C++ and learning Patterns, but that's what you're there for).
Then again, I program professionally in Java but in one of my masters classes on Pattern Languages (very cool/interesting) we did it all with C++/STL/Generics (which is nice to know for Java now). This time around I got much of the stuff I missed in C++ the first time, however I still have issues with the syntax in C++, such as things being order dependent (when I'm not used to that).
Blast me for not being a C++ guru, but I think that the later languages like C# and Java are abit easier to do intermediate stuff in. I did find C++ awesome for OpenGL, but forgot it again after that.
What you end up eating on the atkins diet is basically what you would get in any other athletic diet except a carbo-loading runners diet which is really only good for those of us who are running triathalons and marathons on a regular basis. Which tho we may not admit it, is not all of us. I lost 100 lbs on the atkins diet. After about 2 weeks of endulging myself on rediculous meals (not quite as bad as bacon wrapped butter, but almost), I switched over to eating chicken breasts, steam broccoli, salmon, tuna, asparagus, etc... All of my meals were what you would see your average "body is my temple" freak eating except that I didn't chug protein powder by the gallon.
Exercise was a must on the diet also. Once my appetite came down to a normal level (read I could eat a "serving" and be full) Exercise helped me keep loosing weight at a good clip (5lbs a week so as I needed to eat more to keep from losing more than that).
So don't say that Atkin's != right. Once you hit stage 2-4, you start introducing the good grains back in such as wheat breads, whole grain rice, and fruits, and this is what you end up eating "For Life". The "Bad" part of Atkins, the part everyone says is the diet, is the part you're supposed to use to get yourself out of being obese. What's worse, being 20-50 lbs overweight for the rest of your life, or eating red meat and eggs for a few months before going on a eating plan that anyone would agree is healthy.
The problem with Atkins is that people are using it to lose 5lbs, and then going back to eating cheeseburgers and other crap food. If you do need to loose the weight, do yourself a favour, Start Exercising (it'll make you loose weight like a demon when combined with Atkins, and it's a viscous cycle, the more you exercise the better you feel and the more weight you lose so the more you exercise), and don't just drop the diet when you get to a weight you like. Follow the rest of the book. Don't hit phases 3 and 4 too early though. Seriously hit them when you truly are at your ideal weight or 5lbs over, as you'll gain weight finding the balance. If you come off of it, you'll gain back weight because you'll basically revert to the diet that had you fat before you started this whole thing. That's another point with Atkins. Tho it's a great motivator that you can lose weight so quickly, you don't get enought time to change your eating habits. If it took 2 years to do right, you'd change your habits, but most people probbably wouldn't do it. The real will power in Atkins comes in sticking to it once you're slim.
It's been analyzed, football is basically an anarobic exercise. You spend an average of 7 seconds on a given play, and 33 seconds between snaps. The play clock does not start until the ball is down. That means that ON EVERY SINGLE PLAY at least 33 seconds OF CLOCK runs down with nothign going on. I skip over that. I also skip over commercials. I play the punts and kickoffs in fastforward. Football != Soccer, in soccer the play does not stop.
Think of it another way. A teams offense runs an average of 80 plays a game. So you have 160 total plays. Times that by 7 seconds a play of actual movement, divide by 60 to get number of minutes. You arrive at 18.6 Minues of actual PLAY (read movement) in a given football game. It took me 30 minutes to watch it in fast forward because I messed up with the fast forward a few times, sometimes I watched commercials, sometimes I re-ran plays, and sometimes I paused it to go to the bathroom.
MLB.com offers a feature where you can watch JUST the pitches and plays of a baseball game. I hear you can watch an entire game in around 12 minutes.
Have you tried the 30 second skip on football? I managed to watch the entire Dolphins / Bills game in 30 minutes on Sunday. It was amazing, just like watching the cut tapes when I played college football (for game film they only record the plays, thus the "cut tape"). I left my apartment wondering if I had actually watched a game or not it went by so quickly. Definitly not good for my A.D.D.
An actual european correct me if I'm wrong. In England (At least) Bank Holidays are the catchall term for national holidays. Basically they call any day like MLK or Memorial, the 4th, etc a Bank Holiday. Probbably because the banks took holidays on these days. It's also when kids are off of school .
Just because the Uranium resources are dying doesn't mean it's better in the long short run (100 years) than using fossil fuels. Fossil Fuels : Nuclear Power:: Heating your house with bacon fat : Heating your house with natural gas
Yes, but if your friends actually like each other also, then you have a problem again. All of my occourances of Sobig have come from friends of mine because my friends are on other friend's email lists. The only ones that I got from people I didn't know were from a large car rental agency, and from a small engineering sales firm. The car rental emails stopped quickly because the admins were on the job. I don't think the engineering firm even knows what's going on yet.
I reccomend Washington University. I had a blast playing football there. They have a decent engineering school. There are others, UoC, Carnagie Mellon, Basically the entire UAA is good at football and good at engineering. But also know that over the course of my football career I spent 3500+ hours in on football. While this may not be as much as a D1 player, it's still alot.
Does this take into account schools who have undergraduate degrees that don't require you to have a graduate degree to get a job? For instance Engineers tend to not go for Ph D's as often where you need a doctorate to be anything in Psychology (Generally speaking and just an example).
And I do see CalTech, UoC, and MIT in there, but I also see Wabash. It is an interesting statistic, but like all statistics you need to examine it closely.
Washington University, #9 (And making me look smarter all the time), has (> 5000) undergrads, and (> 5000) (grads / doctors / researchers). It's not a big school.
I live in an industrial / loft district downtown. I'm no where near the loudest thing down there. Besides, it's only loud when it goes above 3000 rpms. thats why they put baffles in them, so they're quiet till you hit the throttle. And when I'm anywhere where I might wake people up, I either idle the whole time or walk the bike. Idle is almost always enough with the baffles.
You can hear it just fine when it's behind you, next to you, or infront of you. Sound spreads out, it doesn't travel in straight lines. My friend with a convertible could hear me 1/2 mile up the highway at crusinig speeds when he has his top up.
Yeah, I noticed that on my new motorcycle. With stock pipes and a windshield I could hear the clutch engage when I stopped, even at highway speeds the noise from the cars around me was much louder than the wind or the bike.
Of course I realized this was a safety hazard (to me) so I put on loud ass pipes so that even the most insulated SUV can tell I'm coming. Loud Pipes Save Lives man.
This is stopping friction. Your Tires are Rolling across the pavement when you're driving, and thus not really subject to that. The friction during driving comes from your bearings in the engine, air friction, etc, it's all internal to the car. This increase in stopping friction will really only effect stopping and cornering, to their improvement.
So what if they make money. They get bulk deals. They're not going to offer a product like this at a LOSS to themselves. Thing is that it's a gamble. Can you afford to pay repair costs or buy a new laptop 1 year later? Can your family afford to live without you if you're the sole provider if you die? Life insurance companies also make money off the Insurance they sell, it's why they are in business. Does that mean that you shouldn't buy Life Insurance?
Bankruptcy does not clear you of being liable for monies owed due to a civil judgement. Ie if you loose a civil case like these and you owe say $100,000 to the RIAA, declaring bankruptcy doesn't get rid of the fact that you still must pay the RIAA $100,000.
Bankruptcy covers DEBTS, not JUDGEMENTS. Why do you think OJ still has no money, he could have just declared bankruptcy. But now the goldmans get every cent that he earns. He gets around this because his NFL pension is not subject to this judgement and he uses his pension to rent everything he has. If he BOUGHT a chair, the goldmans would come by and take the chair, so he just rents the chair and thus it isn't his.
The differnce is that land lines don't really move from city to city very easily. Whereas you can take your phone from St. Louis and use it just as easily (usually) in NYC or LA. Cellphones do mess with the model of land lines more like routers, but with cellphones the infrastructure is there to route the calls to anywhere on the network, but for land lines I'll bet it's much more difficult but then again IANASBCTNE (I am not a SBC Telephony Network Engineer)
JBoss is an open sourced Enterprise Java Server, simialar to BEA Weblogic or IBM's WebSphere. JBoss isn't truly certified as J2EE compliant yet because as a free software package they're not forking over the dough to Sun for the compliance testing.
yes, but those people are boring, and a book about them is also boring. It's funny he-he, not ha-ha.
Think Ishtar [a very bad movie about bad musicians] or the Poochie episode [a bad episode about a bad character]. Cryptonomicon was okay if you cut out the 12 page dissertation on masturbation cycles. He just went on too long about some things, like he was trying to strech the book out. If the fat was trimmed it would have been a better book. And I usually favour the un-edited versions.
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I would amend the programming languages to state that They should be taught basic (linear?) programming C style first such as algorightms, loops, control structures, and the like.
Then they should move into a developed OO language and learn OO. I'd say java just because I think it is easier to do the OOP part of coding in Java/C# due to the more simplified syntax, (lack of pure virtual vs the other possibilites), garbage collection, and no multiple inheritence(Java). These things can be very good, but many time you can loose youself in these issues. Finally getting out of the Language theory with a finisher course in C++ for advanced OOP and Patterns.
This is somewhat similar to what I took. I transfered into CS from Mechanical so I took the fortran / C++ "this is how to number crunch and do basic command line apps" class. Then I went into Java and learned oop. Then we did our Patterns in C++ (which was difficult to double up learning C++ and learning Patterns, but that's what you're there for).
Then again, I program professionally in Java but in one of my masters classes on Pattern Languages (very cool/interesting) we did it all with C++/STL/Generics (which is nice to know for Java now). This time around I got much of the stuff I missed in C++ the first time, however I still have issues with the syntax in C++, such as things being order dependent (when I'm not used to that).
Blast me for not being a C++ guru, but I think that the later languages like C# and Java are abit easier to do intermediate stuff in. I did find C++ awesome for OpenGL, but forgot it again after that.
What you end up eating on the atkins diet is basically what you would get in any other athletic diet except a carbo-loading runners diet which is really only good for those of us who are running triathalons and marathons on a regular basis. Which tho we may not admit it, is not all of us. I lost 100 lbs on the atkins diet. After about 2 weeks of endulging myself on rediculous meals (not quite as bad as bacon wrapped butter, but almost), I switched over to eating chicken breasts, steam broccoli, salmon, tuna, asparagus, etc... All of my meals were what you would see your average "body is my temple" freak eating except that I didn't chug protein powder by the gallon.
Exercise was a must on the diet also. Once my appetite came down to a normal level (read I could eat a "serving" and be full) Exercise helped me keep loosing weight at a good clip (5lbs a week so as I needed to eat more to keep from losing more than that).
So don't say that Atkin's != right. Once you hit stage 2-4, you start introducing the good grains back in such as wheat breads, whole grain rice, and fruits, and this is what you end up eating "For Life". The "Bad" part of Atkins, the part everyone says is the diet, is the part you're supposed to use to get yourself out of being obese. What's worse, being 20-50 lbs overweight for the rest of your life, or eating red meat and eggs for a few months before going on a eating plan that anyone would agree is healthy.
The problem with Atkins is that people are using it to lose 5lbs, and then going back to eating cheeseburgers and other crap food. If you do need to loose the weight, do yourself a favour, Start Exercising (it'll make you loose weight like a demon when combined with Atkins, and it's a viscous cycle, the more you exercise the better you feel and the more weight you lose so the more you exercise), and don't just drop the diet when you get to a weight you like. Follow the rest of the book. Don't hit phases 3 and 4 too early though. Seriously hit them when you truly are at your ideal weight or 5lbs over, as you'll gain weight finding the balance. If you come off of it, you'll gain back weight because you'll basically revert to the diet that had you fat before you started this whole thing. That's another point with Atkins. Tho it's a great motivator that you can lose weight so quickly, you don't get enought time to change your eating habits. If it took 2 years to do right, you'd change your habits, but most people probbably wouldn't do it. The real will power in Atkins comes in sticking to it once you're slim.
Skipping commercials alows more time for downloading / viewing porn.
At that price, yes.
It's been analyzed, football is basically an anarobic exercise. You spend an average of 7 seconds on a given play, and 33 seconds between snaps. The play clock does not start until the ball is down. That means that ON EVERY SINGLE PLAY at least 33 seconds OF CLOCK runs down with nothign going on. I skip over that. I also skip over commercials. I play the punts and kickoffs in fastforward. Football != Soccer, in soccer the play does not stop.
Think of it another way. A teams offense runs an average of 80 plays a game. So you have 160 total plays. Times that by 7 seconds a play of actual movement, divide by 60 to get number of minutes. You arrive at 18.6 Minues of actual PLAY (read movement) in a given football game. It took me 30 minutes to watch it in fast forward because I messed up with the fast forward a few times, sometimes I watched commercials, sometimes I re-ran plays, and sometimes I paused it to go to the bathroom.
MLB.com offers a feature where you can watch JUST the pitches and plays of a baseball game. I hear you can watch an entire game in around 12 minutes.
You still have a VCR?
What happens when you want to put on mood music? you have to go over and turn off the TV.
Have you tried the 30 second skip on football? I managed to watch the entire Dolphins / Bills game in 30 minutes on Sunday. It was amazing, just like watching the cut tapes when I played college football (for game film they only record the plays, thus the "cut tape"). I left my apartment wondering if I had actually watched a game or not it went by so quickly. Definitly not good for my A.D.D.
An actual european correct me if I'm wrong. In England (At least) Bank Holidays are the catchall term for national holidays. Basically they call any day like MLK or Memorial, the 4th, etc a Bank Holiday. Probbably because the banks took holidays on these days. It's also when kids are off of school .
Just because the Uranium resources are dying doesn't mean it's better in the long short run (100 years) than using fossil fuels. Fossil Fuels : Nuclear Power :: Heating your house with bacon fat : Heating your house with natural gas
what part of obligatory automatic updates will doom the net?
Yes, but if your friends actually like each other also, then you have a problem again. All of my occourances of Sobig have come from friends of mine because my friends are on other friend's email lists. The only ones that I got from people I didn't know were from a large car rental agency, and from a small engineering sales firm. The car rental emails stopped quickly because the admins were on the job. I don't think the engineering firm even knows what's going on yet.
I reccomend Washington University. I had a blast playing football there. They have a decent engineering school. There are others, UoC, Carnagie Mellon, Basically the entire UAA is good at football and good at engineering. But also know that over the course of my football career I spent 3500+ hours in on football. While this may not be as much as a D1 player, it's still alot.
Does this take into account schools who have undergraduate degrees that don't require you to have a graduate degree to get a job? For instance Engineers tend to not go for Ph D's as often where you need a doctorate to be anything in Psychology (Generally speaking and just an example).
And I do see CalTech, UoC, and MIT in there, but I also see Wabash. It is an interesting statistic, but like all statistics you need to examine it closely.
Washington University, #9 (And making me look smarter all the time), has (> 5000) undergrads, and (> 5000) (grads / doctors / researchers). It's not a big school.
I live in an industrial / loft district downtown. I'm no where near the loudest thing down there. Besides, it's only loud when it goes above 3000 rpms. thats why they put baffles in them, so they're quiet till you hit the throttle. And when I'm anywhere where I might wake people up, I either idle the whole time or walk the bike. Idle is almost always enough with the baffles.
You can hear it just fine when it's behind you, next to you, or infront of you. Sound spreads out, it doesn't travel in straight lines. My friend with a convertible could hear me 1/2 mile up the highway at crusinig speeds when he has his top up.
Yeah, I noticed that on my new motorcycle. With stock pipes and a windshield I could hear the clutch engage when I stopped, even at highway speeds the noise from the cars around me was much louder than the wind or the bike.
Of course I realized this was a safety hazard (to me) so I put on loud ass pipes so that even the most insulated SUV can tell I'm coming. Loud Pipes Save Lives man.
This is stopping friction. Your Tires are Rolling across the pavement when you're driving, and thus not really subject to that. The friction during driving comes from your bearings in the engine, air friction, etc, it's all internal to the car. This increase in stopping friction will really only effect stopping and cornering, to their improvement.
So what if they make money. They get bulk deals. They're not going to offer a product like this at a LOSS to themselves. Thing is that it's a gamble. Can you afford to pay repair costs or buy a new laptop 1 year later? Can your family afford to live without you if you're the sole provider if you die? Life insurance companies also make money off the Insurance they sell, it's why they are in business. Does that mean that you shouldn't buy Life Insurance?
You would have to do somthing like mortgage your house. Granted, if the judgement was large enough this would be a better move for you.
Bankruptcy does not clear you of being liable for monies owed due to a civil judgement. Ie if you loose a civil case like these and you owe say $100,000 to the RIAA, declaring bankruptcy doesn't get rid of the fact that you still must pay the RIAA $100,000.
Bankruptcy covers DEBTS, not JUDGEMENTS. Why do you think OJ still has no money, he could have just declared bankruptcy. But now the goldmans get every cent that he earns. He gets around this because his NFL pension is not subject to this judgement and he uses his pension to rent everything he has. If he BOUGHT a chair, the goldmans would come by and take the chair, so he just rents the chair and thus it isn't his.
The differnce is that land lines don't really move from city to city very easily. Whereas you can take your phone from St. Louis and use it just as easily (usually) in NYC or LA. Cellphones do mess with the model of land lines more like routers, but with cellphones the infrastructure is there to route the calls to anywhere on the network, but for land lines I'll bet it's much more difficult but then again IANASBCTNE (I am not a SBC Telephony Network Engineer)
JBoss is an open sourced Enterprise Java Server, simialar to BEA Weblogic or IBM's WebSphere. JBoss isn't truly certified as J2EE compliant yet because as a free software package they're not forking over the dough to Sun for the compliance testing.
yes, but those people are boring, and a book about them is also boring. It's funny he-he, not ha-ha.
Think Ishtar [a very bad movie about bad musicians] or the Poochie episode [a bad episode about a bad character]. Cryptonomicon was okay if you cut out the 12 page dissertation on masturbation cycles. He just went on too long about some things, like he was trying to strech the book out. If the fat was trimmed it would have been a better book. And I usually favour the un-edited versions.