People who write code whilst ignorant of the basics of closures, inheritance and data structures, unaware of the dangers of exponential complexity, and untutored in the subtleties of search and sort are the reason so many programs make me want to commit acts of depraved indifference to human life.
And those are all topics which were covered within the first three semesters when I started out on a CS degree path in college.
I later decided the program was too intensive to leave me any time to pursue my other academic interests, so switched my focus and majored in Music, but still took a CS course here and there.
I'm not a coder and I don't claim to be one, but I understand concepts of data structures and exponential complexity. I'm sure there's plenty of people with BS degress in ComSci that don't. Is it their fault for not paying attention in class, or is it the school's fault for not teaching these concepts adequately and concentrating on Java syntax instead?
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Employee morale is an important component of office productivity.
How high do you think morale is going to be once you install the closed-circuit cameras to spy on them all day and replace their powerful web-enabled computers with Brother P-Touch label makers???
If you're a professional athlete, or a politician, or yes, a terrorist, there SHOULD be a plethora of information about you available at the fingertips of those that need to know.
If you're an average person though, no one WANTS to dig through your dirty laundry. Don't kid yourself about how interesting you really are.
You couldn't use NES carts in Super NES, nor SNES in N64, etc.
You could use Sega Master System carts on the Genesis if you had the adapter, but then again the adapter was pretty much just a full-featured SMS that you plug into the cartridge port.
Also, many of the first-generation consoles (first-and-a-half? I'm talking Atari 5200, 7800, Colecovision, etc...) were backwards compatible with 2600 VCS cartridges.
For a PS3 to be backwards compatible, it would need to contain the chipsets of the PS1 and the PS2.
Not necessarily... they could use an emulation layer in hardware to allow backwards compatibility with the PS2 and PS1 chipsets while moving in a more modern direction architecturally...
Consider that modern Pentium-class processors are for intents and purposes RISC chips internally, but they can still run all the CISC instructions used by legacy software.
How many Microsoft interns will ever become Microsoft vice presidents, though?
Judging by the MS interns I've known, it's more likely that they'll get a high-paying entry level job at graduation, spend a couple years writing sloppy entry-level code for projects that get cancelled before reaching beta testing, and eventually get disillusioned and stop caring.
You REALLY have to buy into the Microsoft religion to follow a career path to upper management.
They better not change the definition of planet.
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Someone will have to go back and re-code the stage names in Gyruss if the planetary scheme changes!
So PCI Express is software-compatible with PCI, but the slot designs of the two are incompatible?
I don't like that, because it means I won't be able to plug old but still useful PCI cards into the PCIX slots on my new mobo.
What I'd like to see is something like the transition from the 8-bit to 16-bit ISA slots, where the older cards could be used in the newer slots with no problem, but you wouldn't be able to accidentally put a newer card into the old slot (unless you filed some of the edges off).
You're omitting the important steps of writing to the media at the transmitting end, and reading off of the media at the receiving end. The contest rules specifically state that the endpoints of the transfer are user-process-space buffers.
Also, there's the time need for traveling between each of the computer centers and the airport, going through security screening, waiting for the media to come out on the baggage carousel (I don't think you want to bring 27 hard drives onto the plane as carry-on)...
this might actually make some students attend a college other than Cornell.
Anyone who is taking "capacity to l33ch" into consideration when choosing a college is not someone I'd want diluting the value of my Cornell degree anyway.
then again students don't have a lot of money to start with.
I know I didn't when I was a student, but that never stopped Cornell from charging us a fee for anything and everything. Too bad I wasn't one of the rich kids who could just call up Mommy and Daddy and have another $5000 deposited in my bursar account...
Do you think part of the difference in resulting code quality is due to the developers' motivation for working on the project -- that perhaps closed-source programmers are more likely to be doing it just to earn a salary, while open-source programmers are more interested in the art of coding itself?
Leave the video to dating services, where the messenger is the message.
In the world of punditry and commentary (which is very well represented among a certain class of bloggers), there also the messenger is the message.
I don't read Instapundit because I want to read some text written by god-knows-who: I read because I ask myself "What does Glenn Reynolds think about this subject?"
Actually, no one's telling you you HAVE to switch from blogging to "vlogging" ($1 to Jeff Jarvis), just saying that the potential of audio and video are there if you (or any other blogger) have a use for it.
I wonder if the same people who think vlogs have no practical uses and the text blogging is much better would have been as staunch in defending newspapers against the introduction of the television newscast?
Am I concluding that prohibition is designed specifically to benefit government at the expense of the people? You bet I am.
Since you're so smart, maybe you can tell me how spending millions and millions of dollars into the War On Drugs and then spending millions more on the incarceration of people convicted of drug crimes translates into "revenue" for the government?
Face it, there's no profit to be made in law enforcement.
I will give $10 to everyone in a Slashdot thread about music copyright infringement if it can last 24 hours from the story being posted without a single poster mentioning "Backstreet Boys", "N'Sync", or "Brittany/Brittney/Britney Spears".
What good is a $50K/year job if you don't get any free time to enjoy the money?
There's only 168 hours in a week. Take out 100 hours of work, 6 hours of sleep a night, plus time for showering, getting dressed, and eating meals, and that's your entire life. Where's the fun?
A lot of people here probably earn about $50K/yr for 40-50 hour-a-week jobs. Would you be willing to work twice the hours for the same amount of pay?
Businesses are required by law to maintain certain documents, eg tax records. If your employer fails to supply you with a W2 or other record of how much your salary was in the previous year, they can't simply claim "It's our normal business practice not to keep payroll documentation."
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People who write code whilst ignorant of the basics of closures, inheritance and data structures, unaware of the dangers of exponential complexity, and untutored in the subtleties of search and sort are the reason so many programs make me want to commit acts of depraved indifference to human life.
And those are all topics which were covered within the first three semesters when I started out on a CS degree path in college.
I later decided the program was too intensive to leave me any time to pursue my other academic interests, so switched my focus and majored in Music, but still took a CS course here and there.
I'm not a coder and I don't claim to be one, but I understand concepts of data structures and exponential complexity. I'm sure there's plenty of people with BS degress in ComSci that don't. Is it their fault for not paying attention in class, or is it the school's fault for not teaching these concepts adequately and concentrating on Java syntax instead?
Employee morale is an important component of office productivity.
How high do you think morale is going to be once you install the closed-circuit cameras to spy on them all day and replace their powerful web-enabled computers with Brother P-Touch label makers???
If you're a professional athlete, or a politician, or yes, a terrorist, there SHOULD be a plethora of information about you available at the fingertips of those that need to know.
If you're an average person though, no one WANTS to dig through your dirty laundry. Don't kid yourself about how interesting you really are.
Alternate solutions exist that do not involve privacy invasion.
Such as...?
You couldn't use NES carts in Super NES, nor SNES in N64, etc.
You could use Sega Master System carts on the Genesis if you had the adapter, but then again the adapter was pretty much just a full-featured SMS that you plug into the cartridge port.
Also, many of the first-generation consoles (first-and-a-half? I'm talking Atari 5200, 7800, Colecovision, etc...) were backwards compatible with 2600 VCS cartridges.
For a PS3 to be backwards compatible, it would need to contain the chipsets of the PS1 and the PS2.
Not necessarily... they could use an emulation layer in hardware to allow backwards compatibility with the PS2 and PS1 chipsets while moving in a more modern direction architecturally...
Consider that modern Pentium-class processors are for intents and purposes RISC chips internally, but they can still run all the CISC instructions used by legacy software.
Oh, how I wish my Tandy Coco III had more than 16K of RAM!
"I, Internerd" was my favorite Isaac Asimov/Douglas Coupland collaborative short story.
Mmmm.... more ale...
How many Microsoft interns will ever become Microsoft vice presidents, though?
Judging by the MS interns I've known, it's more likely that they'll get a high-paying entry level job at graduation, spend a couple years writing sloppy entry-level code for projects that get cancelled before reaching beta testing, and eventually get disillusioned and stop caring.
You REALLY have to buy into the Microsoft religion to follow a career path to upper management.
Someone will have to go back and re-code the stage names in Gyruss if the planetary scheme changes!
So they're alleging, they're not actually accusing because they have no idea!
'Alleged' doesn't mean that proof doesn't exist. It means that proof has not been presented and evaluated in a court of law.
(btw, ianal)
So PCI Express is software-compatible with PCI, but the slot designs of the two are incompatible?
I don't like that, because it means I won't be able to plug old but still useful PCI cards into the PCIX slots on my new mobo.
What I'd like to see is something like the transition from the 8-bit to 16-bit ISA slots, where the older cards could be used in the newer slots with no problem, but you wouldn't be able to accidentally put a newer card into the old slot (unless you filed some of the edges off).
You're omitting the important steps of writing to the media at the transmitting end, and reading off of the media at the receiving end. The contest rules specifically state that the endpoints of the transfer are user-process-space buffers.
Also, there's the time need for traveling between each of the computer centers and the airport, going through security screening, waiting for the media to come out on the baggage carousel (I don't think you want to bring 27 hard drives onto the plane as carry-on)...
this might actually make some students attend a college other than Cornell.
Anyone who is taking "capacity to l33ch" into consideration when choosing a college is not someone I'd want diluting the value of my Cornell degree anyway.
then again students don't have a lot of money to start with.
I know I didn't when I was a student, but that never stopped Cornell from charging us a fee for anything and everything. Too bad I wasn't one of the rich kids who could just call up Mommy and Daddy and have another $5000 deposited in my bursar account...
They will be when DRM becomes mandatory.
IF. Not when, IF.
Don't be such a fatalist.
Do you think part of the difference in resulting code quality is due to the developers' motivation for working on the project -- that perhaps closed-source programmers are more likely to be doing it just to earn a salary, while open-source programmers are more interested in the art of coding itself?
Video blogs will never catch on for the same reason people hate voicemail after using email.
"Television will never catch on for the same reason people hate the telephone after using the postal service."
???
Leave the video to dating services, where the messenger is the message.
In the world of punditry and commentary (which is very well represented among a certain class of bloggers), there also the messenger is the message.
I don't read Instapundit because I want to read some text written by god-knows-who: I read because I ask myself "What does Glenn Reynolds think about this subject?"
Actually, no one's telling you you HAVE to switch from blogging to "vlogging" ($1 to Jeff Jarvis), just saying that the potential of audio and video are there if you (or any other blogger) have a use for it.
I wonder if the same people who think vlogs have no practical uses and the text blogging is much better would have been as staunch in defending newspapers against the introduction of the television newscast?
big corporates get the same treatment that your local drug dealer gets its called equality i know thats a hard concept for some to grasp
Other concepts that some people have a hard time grasping include "capitalization", "punctuation", and "sentences".
Am I concluding that prohibition is designed specifically to benefit government at the expense of the people? You bet I am.
Since you're so smart, maybe you can tell me how spending millions and millions of dollars into the War On Drugs and then spending millions more on the incarceration of people convicted of drug crimes translates into "revenue" for the government?
Face it, there's no profit to be made in law enforcement.
I will give $10 to everyone in a Slashdot thread about music copyright infringement if it can last 24 hours from the story being posted without a single poster mentioning "Backstreet Boys", "N'Sync", or "Brittany/Brittney/Britney Spears".
Jeez guys, give it a rest...
What good is a $50K/year job if you don't get any free time to enjoy the money?
There's only 168 hours in a week. Take out 100 hours of work, 6 hours of sleep a night, plus time for showering, getting dressed, and eating meals, and that's your entire life. Where's the fun?
A lot of people here probably earn about $50K/yr for 40-50 hour-a-week jobs. Would you be willing to work twice the hours for the same amount of pay?
Businesses are required by law to maintain certain documents, eg tax records. If your employer fails to supply you with a W2 or other record of how much your salary was in the previous year, they can't simply claim "It's our normal business practice not to keep payroll documentation."