You can do something completely different and drop CS altogether, or you can try to find something else that you can fuse into your CS major and make it interesting again... for my part, I learned Chinese and Computer Science... so my PhD work will be on fusing the two into two subject that I love.
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I was referring to Netscape, not mozilla. Mozilla runs fine. Netscape 6.x blows. IMHO.
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The ability to crash spectacularly while downloading web pages at blazingly slow speeds.
They do force the student to sell though by threatening legal action against them. The student can't afford to pay, so they have to settle with the university. Drexel even has the students on a gag order not to disclose the details of the agreement.
I go to Drexel, btw. This topic has been a fairly big controversy in the Mathematics and CS department.
The basics. You get enough of a grounding in the basic tools of the trade. At school, you'll be taught how to think and analyze a problem so that you don't get someone killed. At your job, if the job is any good, you'll be trained in how the industry _really_ works and what the actual standards are, not some theoretical stuff. Nothing really beats real world OJT. That's why you see Phds who have never been outside of academia failing miserably in the corporate world. Don't get me wrong either. I'm not denigrating the value of school or book learning or even Phds (I plan to get one myself). That's where you develop the basics. That's where you get your grounding and everyone needs it. But don't come out of school (HS or College) and expect to change the world and wow everyone with your intellect. It ain't happening unless you're an Einstein or Feynman. To the rest of the world you're just another "greenie" who's about to get a whole lot of sense bitch-slapped into him.
In light of that, I think we've done a poor job of preparing our children for what to expect. I'm not talking about controlling teenage egos. History has shown that's an impossible feat. Even God couldn't prevent Adam + Eve from taking a bite. What I mean is that kids have a tough time adapting to the idea that the entire world isn't centered on them. I'm still young though, perhaps that's the way it's always seemed.
Somehow, it seems fitting that salon would have a story like this. How much venture capital did salon manage to piss away again? Much as I love reading some of the authors on salon (such as the talented Camille Paglia), in my mind, the site stands as a symbol of the.com's hubris and subsequent reality check as any other site on the net. Thankfully, they're still around and I genuinely hope that they eventually turn a profit. But until then, excuse me while I politely snicker...:-)
Oh yeah, and anyone who spends 700 fucking dollars on a chair deserves to go broke. IMHFO. For that price it had better massage my back, do my taxes, and wipe my ass automatically.:-)
I believe Drexel has one of the more extreme licensing "agreements". Basically by signing up to go to the school, you have agreed that "any work created using University resources" is owned by the University (sometimes, special arrangements can be made with the university, but they usually collect royalties...) This little clause doesn't seem too bad until you consider that if your computer is hooked up to the network, you are essentially using university resources... so if you develop a net application or even something that makes trivial use of the net, or if you collaboratively develop an app with other people while living on campus, the university technically can claim rights to your work. I have no doubt that the money grubbers here would try do it too.
I don't know how good I feel about the owner of a chain named "Budget Suites" attempting to put up a quick space station... The mental image I get in my head is 3 GIANT soda cans linked together with twine floating around the earth. =)
For the following reasons:
1) As stated, getting everyone to call spam by another name would be impossible.
2) They've probably discovered that it helps business. We have a SPAM (Luncheon Meat) can around the lab that we've named Mr. SPAM. We're geeks, sue us.
3) The executives at Hormel probably have half a brain.
It's obviously a blatant Microsoft attack on the opensource movement. Instead of caustic rhetoric from Craig Mundie, they have decided to contract the services of 1337 Visual Basic Script h/\X0rz to take out the root source (pun intended) of all that is evil in the OpenSource world.
/. is next. Then fsf.org. And so on, until the whole OpenSource movement falls at the feet of the mighty Microsoft.
I had an amusing thought that perhaps Mozilla is patterning it's release schedule after the one between Kernel 2.2 and 2.4 =)
In all seriousness though, I've been using.90 for a while now, and while there are bugs, it always seems to improve with each release. Mozilla has been in development for what, 2+ years now? Arguments about code bloat aside, I'd rather they do a good job on the bloated code than rush it out to satisfy a release schedule. Mozilla is one of the only browsers out there that does CSS to standard (Opera I think does as well, but I don't believe it's free).
Not that I'm ecstatic about the delays, but I want a browser that's a joy to use at the end.
I've heard "yi1 mei4" mentioned before... I think the "er3" might be an extra sound added by some accents. (People from Tianjin tend to add this to alot of words.. but if you travel to Beijing, they tend to leave it off.)
I don't know about leaving "ni3" off the beginning though... I said something to my girlfriend this morning and I left off the subject at the beginning and she just started laughing at me... it would've been perfectly fine in English though. =)
My comments were not racist. I have been studying Chinese for 4 years and I was offering my attempt at translation. I don't speak it very well, but I do try. I am the last person you wish to be accusing of racism towards Chinese people. My recommendation to you is to become informed on the language yourself before you begin crying racism. If you had an inkling of how the language is spoken, you would know that my comments were in no way racist and perhaps you could add to the conversation.
Linux has to get a lot better at handling the Chinese character set and input methods before that happens... unless I'm missing something... I've been able to get characters to display in my browsers, and even somewhat in everybuddy. I had marginal success with using MULE in Emacs, but it can be a pain to setup.
Eh, well, if anyone's interested in the actual translations of "You've got mail!", I'll give it a shot... those of you more fluent than I am, post corrections because I actually am interested in a mandarin translation that doesn't involve innuendoes of censorship. =)
1) ni3 you3 xin4 jian4. (this is for traditional postal mail)
2) ni3 you3 dian4 zi3 han2 jian4. (literal translation of email... but I've only heard my girlfriend and her family use "e-mail"...we call it Chinglish)
so... I guess another way to say it would be
3) ni3 you3 e-mail. =)
Yay, I get to be sliced, diced, and analyzed even MORE closely now by people who want me to buy more stuff.
I wonder how far off it is to the day when advertisers take genetic fingerprints to identify what particular products people are inclined to buy? Ofcourse, it'll all be anonymous like this technology... no names will be used in the analysis of my buying habits so my privacy will be completely secure with my remote control that transmits my channel clicking habits, my mouse that records my hand motions, my keyboard that returns my typing rate, along with the manufacturer of all my electronics, my age, gender, household income, pets, dogs, the color of my carpet, the food I eat, how long I brush my teeth for, whether or not when I lost my virginity, who my friends are, how tall I am, how much I weigh, how often I jerk off, the porn I download, how many rants I post on/., my political affiliation, do I work, etc...etc...just so I'll buy that fucking 10 CD set from Tower Records. But my name will never be mentioned.
"Well and thoughtfully said, sir. Without any rancor or sarcasm, I humbly bow my head in defeat. You are right. Such a system is necessary, and the world would be a more dangerous place without it. The primary (and some say only legitimate) reason for a government to exist is to protect it's citizens from physical harm. SIGINT is an obviously necessary part of that. We must simply strive to make sure it is only used for the protection of life and liberty, not for petty economic espionage as the EU member states are claiming."
I agree with you about economic espionage. I think it's just another sign that America is being controlled more and more by big business than by leaders who genuinely have the people in mind when creating legislation and plans.
So, the question is, how can a system like Echelon be made palatable to those of us who love and adore freedom? How can we be sure that it is only being used for the protection of human life? The unfortunate thing is that this involves certain levels of trust and responsibility, and I dare say that those do not exist in our government right now.
Americans especially have a high (and healthy) distrust of government, and Europeans are pretty pissed off at our government, and I can't say that I blame them. Look at how angry we were with China's espionage activities!
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You can do something completely different and drop CS altogether, or you can try to find something else that you can fuse into your CS major and make it interesting again... for my part, I learned Chinese and Computer Science... so my PhD work will be on fusing the two into two subject that I love.
I was referring to Netscape, not mozilla. Mozilla runs fine. Netscape 6.x blows. IMHO.
The ability to crash spectacularly while downloading web pages at blazingly slow speeds.
They do force the student to sell though by threatening legal action against them. The student can't afford to pay, so they have to settle with the university. Drexel even has the students on a gag order not to disclose the details of the agreement.
I go to Drexel, btw. This topic has been a fairly big controversy in the Mathematics and CS department.
The backdoor they're talking about is less a programmatic backdoor than a numeric or algorithmic backdoor.
In light of that, I think we've done a poor job of preparing our children for what to expect. I'm not talking about controlling teenage egos. History has shown that's an impossible feat. Even God couldn't prevent Adam + Eve from taking a bite. What I mean is that kids have a tough time adapting to the idea that the entire world isn't centered on them. I'm still young though, perhaps that's the way it's always seemed.
Oh yeah, and anyone who spends 700 fucking dollars on a chair deserves to go broke. IMHFO. For that price it had better massage my back, do my taxes, and wipe my ass automatically. :-)
I dunno... he might actually _want_ the large hand feeling around... :-)
Well, that just assumes you take the pill orally. :-)
Would we have to pay royalties in order to have sex? For making use of the genetic material?
They'll simply buy out the winning team and divvy them up.
I believe Drexel has one of the more extreme licensing "agreements". Basically by signing up to go to the school, you have agreed that "any work created using University resources" is owned by the University (sometimes, special arrangements can be made with the university, but they usually collect royalties...) This little clause doesn't seem too bad until you consider that if your computer is hooked up to the network, you are essentially using university resources... so if you develop a net application or even something that makes trivial use of the net, or if you collaboratively develop an app with other people while living on campus, the university technically can claim rights to your work. I have no doubt that the money grubbers here would try do it too.
I have heard the voice of Linus, I am smitten. =)
You just know that some freaky moron is going to put those things on his nutz, sterilize himself, and then sue the pants of the manufacturer... =)
I don't know how good I feel about the owner of a chain named "Budget Suites" attempting to put up a quick space station... The mental image I get in my head is 3 GIANT soda cans linked together with twine floating around the earth. =)
For the following reasons: 1) As stated, getting everyone to call spam by another name would be impossible. 2) They've probably discovered that it helps business. We have a SPAM (Luncheon Meat) can around the lab that we've named Mr. SPAM. We're geeks, sue us. 3) The executives at Hormel probably have half a brain.
It's obviously a blatant Microsoft attack on the opensource movement. Instead of caustic rhetoric from Craig Mundie, they have decided to contract the services of 1337 Visual Basic Script h/\X0rz to take out the root source (pun intended) of all that is evil in the OpenSource world.
/. is next. Then fsf.org. And so on, until the whole OpenSource movement falls at the feet of the mighty Microsoft.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I had an amusing thought that perhaps Mozilla is patterning it's release schedule after the one between Kernel 2.2 and 2.4 =)
.90 for a while now, and while there are bugs, it always seems to improve with each release. Mozilla has been in development for what, 2+ years now? Arguments about code bloat aside, I'd rather they do a good job on the bloated code than rush it out to satisfy a release schedule. Mozilla is one of the only browsers out there that does CSS to standard (Opera I think does as well, but I don't believe it's free).
In all seriousness though, I've been using
Not that I'm ecstatic about the delays, but I want a browser that's a joy to use at the end.
Must be a slow newsday...
Oh well, here's the obligatory reference to SP:
BLAME CANADA! =)
But I haven't thought up a witty way to put it in the context of a Mars takeover by Canada...
I've heard "yi1 mei4" mentioned before... I think the "er3" might be an extra sound added by some accents. (People from Tianjin tend to add this to alot of words.. but if you travel to Beijing, they tend to leave it off.)
I don't know about leaving "ni3" off the beginning though... I said something to my girlfriend this morning and I left off the subject at the beginning and she just started laughing at me... it would've been perfectly fine in English though. =)
Thanks for posting though!
My comments were not racist. I have been studying Chinese for 4 years and I was offering my attempt at translation. I don't speak it very well, but I do try. I am the last person you wish to be accusing of racism towards Chinese people. My recommendation to you is to become informed on the language yourself before you begin crying racism. If you had an inkling of how the language is spoken, you would know that my comments were in no way racist and perhaps you could add to the conversation.
Linux has to get a lot better at handling the Chinese character set and input methods before that happens... unless I'm missing something... I've been able to get characters to display in my browsers, and even somewhat in everybuddy. I had marginal success with using MULE in Emacs, but it can be a pain to setup.
Eh, well, if anyone's interested in the actual translations of "You've got mail!", I'll give it a shot... those of you more fluent than I am, post corrections because I actually am interested in a mandarin translation that doesn't involve innuendoes of censorship. =)
1) ni3 you3 xin4 jian4. (this is for traditional postal mail)
2) ni3 you3 dian4 zi3 han2 jian4. (literal translation of email... but I've only heard my girlfriend and her family use "e-mail"...we call it Chinglish)
so... I guess another way to say it would be
3) ni3 you3 e-mail. =)
Yay, I get to be sliced, diced, and analyzed even MORE closely now by people who want me to buy more stuff.
/., my political affiliation, do I work, etc...etc...just so I'll buy that fucking 10 CD set from Tower Records. But my name will never be mentioned.
I wonder how far off it is to the day when advertisers take genetic fingerprints to identify what particular products people are inclined to buy? Ofcourse, it'll all be anonymous like this technology... no names will be used in the analysis of my buying habits so my privacy will be completely secure with my remote control that transmits my channel clicking habits, my mouse that records my hand motions, my keyboard that returns my typing rate, along with the manufacturer of all my electronics, my age, gender, household income, pets, dogs, the color of my carpet, the food I eat, how long I brush my teeth for, whether or not when I lost my virginity, who my friends are, how tall I am, how much I weigh, how often I jerk off, the porn I download, how many rants I post on
Thanks but no thanks.
I agree with you about economic espionage. I think it's just another sign that America is being controlled more and more by big business than by leaders who genuinely have the people in mind when creating legislation and plans.
So, the question is, how can a system like Echelon be made palatable to those of us who love and adore freedom? How can we be sure that it is only being used for the protection of human life? The unfortunate thing is that this involves certain levels of trust and responsibility, and I dare say that those do not exist in our government right now.
Americans especially have a high (and healthy) distrust of government, and Europeans are pretty pissed off at our government, and I can't say that I blame them. Look at how angry we were with China's espionage activities!