As far as I can see, here in Europe you're supposed to get your general education in high school (at least the levels that give you access to University). I didn't dare to generalize, because I remembered that the UK schooling system is fundamentally different and the Frenchies do their thing too. (For example, a "Grand École is considered better than a University)
I guess this is a US-only problem. When I started my computer science degree at the University of Antwerp, it was pretty much only computer science. We had a few credits in economics, but that was really just general economics and that's it.
However, what are you expecting from studying CS? It's most likely not what you think it is. It's basically math, automata, algorithms, computability theory and stuff like that. If you plan to be a computer programmer and only that, you already have the skills required (even though, you probably make certain avoidable mistakes by if you don't know about computing theory).
If it is to have better chances to get a job interview, I can understand...
I don't regret having a computer science degree, it was very interesting, but it's not a course "how to become a better programmer".
Anyone considering computer science, should ponder the words of one of the greatest computer scientists of all times: "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes", Edsger Dijkstra.
People are making assumptions that planets outside of our solar system are composed of 118 elements, and that is all. This is a dumb assumption to make.
May I ask why it is a dumb assumption to make, that everything existing is composed of the matter we know? Many elements (like gold) are made in events like these: supernovas, as normal stellar fusion allows only elements up to iron to be synthesized within stars.
What do you suggest anything else is made of? Antimatter? Why? It's not impossible, but very improbable and on top of that it wouldn't change all that much except we'd better never get into direct contact with such material.
Also keep in mind that from the scientific point of view, anything we cannot observe is indistinguishable from not existing. That doesn't mean that unobservable object/thing/essence/whatever doesn't exist, but it makes no scientific sense to talk about it. If the object/thing/essence/whatever finally is observed, then we can talk. Our Universe is defined by what we can observe. So if there is something that is so far away that it hasn't reached us yet by electromagnetic radiation (basically, "what we can observe"), it doesn't exist in our universe.
You're probably using SIP at work daily without you even knowing it. All our office phones are Cisco 79nn phones with the SIP firmware. How do I know? I friggin set them up in conjunction with an asterisk sever. Sound quality is excellent.
The software phones are horrible. I agree, I've tried some and none really convinced me.
A big company like Google needs to get behind it, integrate it with is services and make a client that will become the defacto most popular software phone. I might see them do that if they really are serious about the Chromebooks. Skype won't run on it, with Microsoft owning it, it won't get implemented.
Of course, in the end the choice will be between Microsoft or Google, which to many slashdotters is not really a great choice either.
If it really were that easy, it would exist. Superficially, you have indeed described what is necessary to do the deed and you claim that the rest is just implementation details. Well it's those "details" that make it hard. Think echo cancellation, and stuff like that. We have SIP, which can technically of the audio part. I don't know all that much about SIP except being able to configure hard-phones and asterisk servers, but I guess one could provide video as a SIP extension.
There you go... My wife is the Apple user in the household, I'm not all that up to date about their technologies. They only need to make it cross-platform, so Apple users can communicate with the lesser lifeforms on this planet and they have a Skype killer.
Microsoft may be greedy and all, but that's very unlikely. Skype has been a consumer-oriented technology trying to upsell to companies (a bit like the anti virus companies of the day yonder). Expect this to be available to all Windows versions, except perhaps "Starter". However, expect it only to be available for Windows 7. Linux support will be lackluster (it wasn't already stellar in the first place) and be abandoned because of "lack of interest". The OS X version will be maintained but will always be feature wise behind and Apple will simply start a competing technology.
What I could see, is that it gets bundled with Microsoft Office or so... Under the guise of "collaboration" tool.
Obviously, it's easy peasy to create your own universe... I mean, it's as easy as saying "let there be light".... Ooops, damned, I did it again. *sigh*
Pray tell me where I can get the intelligent (or at least semi-intelligent) discussions we used to have on slashdot in the olden days? I partially blame the fact that slashdot has become less interesting because I learned so much from it. Once you assimilated some knowledge, it becomes less interesting even though it gets featured again on slashdot.
True, slashdot has changed, the audience most likely has changed too. I still wait for a place "better" than slashdot and I'll be glad to get some links.
Compared to so many other sites, the intellectual level here in slashdot is astonishingly high. Go read the comments on youtube or yahoo answers sometimes. If you hate the spelling and grammar mistakes here and people who can't discern college and collage, or weather and whether, then you'll puke your guts out on every other site out there.
Indeed, it's either an Alpha or a PPro. I tried googling for it, but didn't find any references. Which is odd, for some reason I remember them selling their old machines and making a big deal about it on their site. Never mind, it isn't important:-)
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Also, don't forget Hugo Boss designing the SS uniforms. Many companies in existence today did business with the Nazis. It's nor surprising.
And of course, both HP and Oracle didn't have people who remembered the failed attempts of the Pentium Pro, which was also a huge failure and didn't sell.
You do realize that the Pentium II and Pentium III and hence the whole Core2 series are direct successors of the Pentium Pro, right? The Pentium (I, MXX) has basically nothing to do with the Pentium Pro. For example, the Pentium was the last Intel chip with in-order execution until the Atom came out. Pentium Pro and decendants were out-of-order.
The Pentium Pro was a great chip and I ran a PPro 200 with 256Meg RAM running Windows 2000 until november 2002. It was a heck of a kickass workstation.
As someone whose tab gets taken up from their employer, I can assure you that if you "overuse" your phone abroad, they will have a stern talk with you. *sigh* Luckily, I didn't have to pay for the 250€++ roaming charges, but I had to promise to be more careful.
Besides, not everyone who travels often does so on for a business purpose. Self-employed people are also out of luck.
One persons "offensive" is another persons "risqué". I read the whole thing and the write seems to object to the denigration of women. Has this person even payed the old Duke 3D? Strippers and women impregnated by aliens were a main theme. I wouldn't expect anything else from a new "Duke".
Really? It's hard to get to see even a naked boobie there. Since he cites "Forever", I guess that's his prime concern. I'm pretty sure there is violence on youtube. I'd be way more concerned about that.
Doesn't youtube also have age verification? Set up an account for the kid and make clear it's a kid.
But of course, actually spending time with your kid and not letting it sit in front of the computer unsupervised is the only thing that would be correct.
You still can, if the OS has adequate memory management, your browser will be relegated to swap. After your game, the browser will be there and take a bit of time to load back into main memory, but it'll be quicker than a fresh start.
I replied to the other poster, go read there. You'll see what I mean. Samsung Galaxy S? That's in the same price class as the iPhone, so why don't get the real thing?
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As far as I can see, here in Europe you're supposed to get your general education in high school (at least the levels that give you access to University). I didn't dare to generalize, because I remembered that the UK schooling system is fundamentally different and the Frenchies do their thing too. (For example, a "Grand École is considered better than a University)
I guess this is a US-only problem. When I started my computer science degree at the University of Antwerp, it was pretty much only computer science. We had a few credits in economics, but that was really just general economics and that's it.
However, what are you expecting from studying CS? It's most likely not what you think it is. It's basically math, automata, algorithms, computability theory and stuff like that. If you plan to be a computer programmer and only that, you already have the skills required (even though, you probably make certain avoidable mistakes by if you don't know about computing theory).
If it is to have better chances to get a job interview, I can understand...
I don't regret having a computer science degree, it was very interesting, but it's not a course "how to become a better programmer".
Anyone considering computer science, should ponder the words of one of the greatest computer scientists of all times: "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes", Edsger Dijkstra.
Stop right there... You're doing a Ken Ham, and I'd like you to read this
May I ask why it is a dumb assumption to make, that everything existing is composed of the matter we know? Many elements (like gold) are made in events like these: supernovas, as normal stellar fusion allows only elements up to iron to be synthesized within stars.
What do you suggest anything else is made of? Antimatter? Why? It's not impossible, but very improbable and on top of that it wouldn't change all that much except we'd better never get into direct contact with such material.
Also keep in mind that from the scientific point of view, anything we cannot observe is indistinguishable from not existing. That doesn't mean that unobservable object/thing/essence/whatever doesn't exist, but it makes no scientific sense to talk about it. If the object/thing/essence/whatever finally is observed, then we can talk. Our Universe is defined by what we can observe. So if there is something that is so far away that it hasn't reached us yet by electromagnetic radiation (basically, "what we can observe"), it doesn't exist in our universe.
Cool... Thanks for clearing that up. I really don't know much about SIP as I (hopefully) made clear.
Google Talk has video and audio? I mean, I use Google Talk daily in Pidgin, but that's all text...
Finally a reason to get IPv6 to everyone ;-)
You're probably using SIP at work daily without you even knowing it. All our office phones are Cisco 79nn phones with the SIP firmware. How do I know? I friggin set them up in conjunction with an asterisk sever. Sound quality is excellent.
The software phones are horrible. I agree, I've tried some and none really convinced me.
A big company like Google needs to get behind it, integrate it with is services and make a client that will become the defacto most popular software phone. I might see them do that if they really are serious about the Chromebooks. Skype won't run on it, with Microsoft owning it, it won't get implemented.
Of course, in the end the choice will be between Microsoft or Google, which to many slashdotters is not really a great choice either.
If it really were that easy, it would exist. Superficially, you have indeed described what is necessary to do the deed and you claim that the rest is just implementation details. Well it's those "details" that make it hard. Think echo cancellation, and stuff like that. We have SIP, which can technically of the audio part. I don't know all that much about SIP except being able to configure hard-phones and asterisk servers, but I guess one could provide video as a SIP extension.
There you go... My wife is the Apple user in the household, I'm not all that up to date about their technologies. They only need to make it cross-platform, so Apple users can communicate with the lesser lifeforms on this planet and they have a Skype killer.
Microsoft may be greedy and all, but that's very unlikely. Skype has been a consumer-oriented technology trying to upsell to companies (a bit like the anti virus companies of the day yonder). Expect this to be available to all Windows versions, except perhaps "Starter". However, expect it only to be available for Windows 7. Linux support will be lackluster (it wasn't already stellar in the first place) and be abandoned because of "lack of interest". The OS X version will be maintained but will always be feature wise behind and Apple will simply start a competing technology.
What I could see, is that it gets bundled with Microsoft Office or so... Under the guise of "collaboration" tool.
Obviously, it's easy peasy to create your own universe... I mean, it's as easy as saying "let there be light".... Ooops, damned, I did it again. *sigh*
Pray tell me where I can get the intelligent (or at least semi-intelligent) discussions we used to have on slashdot in the olden days? I partially blame the fact that slashdot has become less interesting because I learned so much from it. Once you assimilated some knowledge, it becomes less interesting even though it gets featured again on slashdot.
True, slashdot has changed, the audience most likely has changed too. I still wait for a place "better" than slashdot and I'll be glad to get some links.
Compared to so many other sites, the intellectual level here in slashdot is astonishingly high. Go read the comments on youtube or yahoo answers sometimes. If you hate the spelling and grammar mistakes here and people who can't discern college and collage, or weather and whether, then you'll puke your guts out on every other site out there.
Indeed, it's either an Alpha or a PPro. I tried googling for it, but didn't find any references. Which is odd, for some reason I remember them selling their old machines and making a big deal about it on their site. Never mind, it isn't important :-)
Also, don't forget Hugo Boss designing the SS uniforms. Many companies in existence today did business with the Nazis. It's nor surprising.
Yes, "think of the first incantation of Xeon" is the apt comparison. Didn't Slashdot start off on a Pentium Pro running on Maldas bedroom?
You do realize that the Pentium II and Pentium III and hence the whole Core2 series are direct successors of the Pentium Pro, right? The Pentium (I, MXX) has basically nothing to do with the Pentium Pro. For example, the Pentium was the last Intel chip with in-order execution until the Atom came out. Pentium Pro and decendants were out-of-order.
The Pentium Pro was a great chip and I ran a PPro 200 with 256Meg RAM running Windows 2000 until november 2002. It was a heck of a kickass workstation.
As someone whose tab gets taken up from their employer, I can assure you that if you "overuse" your phone abroad, they will have a stern talk with you. *sigh* Luckily, I didn't have to pay for the 250€++ roaming charges, but I had to promise to be more careful.
Besides, not everyone who travels often does so on for a business purpose. Self-employed people are also out of luck.
Sure, but think back of Duke 3D? That wasn't denigrating women? So back then it wasn't a big deal, but now it is?
One persons "offensive" is another persons "risqué". I read the whole thing and the write seems to object to the denigration of women. Has this person even payed the old Duke 3D? Strippers and women impregnated by aliens were a main theme. I wouldn't expect anything else from a new "Duke".
I always wonder why the current year is simply not displayed. I mean, that's not hard and never involves any editing ever again.
Really? It's hard to get to see even a naked boobie there. Since he cites "Forever", I guess that's his prime concern. I'm pretty sure there is violence on youtube. I'd be way more concerned about that.
Doesn't youtube also have age verification? Set up an account for the kid and make clear it's a kid.
But of course, actually spending time with your kid and not letting it sit in front of the computer unsupervised is the only thing that would be correct.
"fast" should have been "old". My bad for missing that while proofreading.
You still can, if the OS has adequate memory management, your browser will be relegated to swap. After your game, the browser will be there and take a bit of time to load back into main memory, but it'll be quicker than a fresh start.
I replied to the other poster, go read there. You'll see what I mean. Samsung Galaxy S? That's in the same price class as the iPhone, so why don't get the real thing?