I've seen cab drivers, security guards, valets, waiters, line cooks, and just about any other type of lower-paying job I can think of with people studying some type of computer technology on the side with ambitions to get out... or just for fun.
Algorithms are good - learn that stuff, at least the basics.. then implement them in java. Then go and learn how to implement them in a few other languages, so you get a feel for what's common, and what's just unique to java.
you could hit up some of those automated online programming contests that are always running - they run hundreds and hundreds of problem sets and let you solve and submit code, of all kinds of difficulty levels - challenge yourself to solve those in various ways and you'll learn a lot along the way.
I think that was "The Siege" - Bruce Willis playing a general or something giving that speech as to why it was a bad idea to declare martial law and put the military in charge..... followed by "but if you do, we'll get the job done, but please understand the ramifications of the decision you are making" - something like that.
The thing I loved about that movie was that he wasn't really a good guy or a bad guy - he was sort of both... and perfectly demonstrated why you don't want the military
You are probably right though - Galactica probably used that quote too.
From all the interviews I've read with drone pilots, and their comments about what it's like, what their training is like, mindset, etc - while their personal risk, and the HR risk (and cost) to the military is definitely virtually zero - there is not less guilt involved. They all feel like they are really there - even more so than actually flying an aircraft in person.
A pilot flying over enemy territory taking out targets is following a very well calculated mission plan, backed by tons of ground and mission-control support.. and while some incidents may come up where he's really saving his own skin, it's most not top-gun style dogfights like people imagine. You fly in, handle the mission, whatever it is, and return home. You do it because it's your job, and it's what you've been trained to do.
Which is a process problem, right? If the process that is set up is to have coders blindly write code to spec, defined input/output and no other architecture requirements - then the fact that the entire product is a mess isn't that coder's fault - it's the fault of a process that didn't include proper architecture standards.... maybe.
It's not from sysinternals, but for tiny little utils, Spacemonger - the older version - not the new "installable" one - is absolutely fantastic for finding out where disk-space went..... can't live without it in any windows shop.
assuming the ssh session is the target - they don't need to break the encryption, they only need to get access to the windows box with putty running on it - which is a heck of a lot more likely than cracking SSH.
Reconnect. Leaving the sessions constantly open means if your workstation is compromised, you may have compromised the servers as well.... at least you've increased the risk profile of the servers.
Connect as needed - use proper key management and passwords, etc.
Exactly - wiring up an office building with Cat5 costs a fair bundle... and is fairly inflexible. Wireless is flexible, but too slow and leaks.
Give me a wireless signal that's easier to keep from leaking out of the room, and that operates closer to GigE, and it's an instant win all over the place... maybe not in your house, but in any business.
Absolutely - take a call center.. or any cube farm. No need to run ethernet cable everywhere... just some cheap well-placed sensors, and, unlike wifi, the leakage can be better controlled.
You'd have little sensors, just like little antennae in wifi... but, say a call-center floor. Instead of running Cat5 everywhere, you just put a few transmitters and receivers around... possibly built into the monitors, and everything "just works"
A a technical person - saying "Hey, if we have some devices communicating wirelessly, and we know about the protocols they are using to communicate, we can deduce a bunch of information about their approximate location just by watching how long it takes them to have certain conversations from different points of view.
Why should that be patentable? It is clever, but it's also somewhat obvious.
The Gates foundation is quite open that they are after getting the most bang for their buck - how can they have the largest impact on the human condition for their money.
For example, their work towards Malaria research. Malaria is a 3rd world disease. Nobody else is interested in curing it. The 3rd world doesn't have the resources to fight it. I'm willing to bet Gates' money ends up finding that cure (or vaccine) , and that would have a HUGE impact on a global scale.
I have no firsthand knowledge, obviously, of what's going on - but these are not stupid people we're talking about here - they put *HUGE* amounts of money into fighting fights nobody else was interested in - and it's not just a tax dodge or a money-making scheme... the more I look into it, the more legitimate it looks.
That all may be valid - but the point from the Foundation is that health will have the single largest impact on improving things in the long run - not population control.
Curing disease is not "artifiically increasing the lifespan of overpopulation".
A cure would take time to take effect... and I think you underestimate the effect of diseaseon the poorest nations. Not only do people not work, but the fact that they feel doomed to die means they don't even *try*.
The human population is exploding in nations where disease is rampant and living conditions, and the economy, sucks.
In nations where healthcare is under control (yes, even the US) - it's not. There is proven cause and effect here - it's basic survival.
One note on larger displays - studies have shown that using a larger display to display the same information (same resolution) definitively improved employee productivity - the theory being that, even though everyone had good vision, the larger display was easier on the mind to read. I believe they were contrasting 17" monitors over 36" monitors or something similar.
This is tangenital to what us nerds want - which is large displays with super high res so we can display more stuff without switching windows.
One good virus outbreak that takes the entire enterprise down for 36 hours and not fully back up to speed for about a week tends to open up the management coffers to stricter IT policies to prevent such things from happening in the future.
Nobody makes it quite as easy - but are there not many online payment processors who provide web-based APIs for you to integrate your site with? It requires slightly more sophistication - and all the anti-fraud and whatnot measures that paypal does would have to be handled by you (well, or you would accept transactions at your own risk, deal with chargebacks directly, etc...)
He'll be in a pressure suit...... and it's not like a sudden shockwave goes through your body when you hit mach 1. You don't really "pop" the sound barrier.
It is? Perhaps it's just smart financial strategy? It's called taking profits. Their SEC requires them, along with pretty much every other insider, to file their stock selling plans ahead of time. They can't just buy & sell google stock like you and I can at a whim.
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I think they have to catch you at a port of entry to do that....
I've seen cab drivers, security guards, valets, waiters, line cooks, and just about any other type of lower-paying job I can think of with people studying some type of computer technology on the side with ambitions to get out... or just for fun.
This is probably way more common than you think.
What's your end goal?
Algorithms are good - learn that stuff, at least the basics.. then implement them in java. Then go and learn how to implement them in a few other languages, so you get a feel for what's common, and what's just unique to java.
you could hit up some of those automated online programming contests that are always running - they run hundreds and hundreds of problem sets and let you solve and submit code, of all kinds of difficulty levels - challenge yourself to solve those in various ways and you'll learn a lot along the way.
I'd say something is wrong with your display...... ClearType *can't* work on a CRT.. apples and oranges.
What make/model of monitor do you have?
I think that was "The Siege" - Bruce Willis playing a general or something giving that speech as to why it was a bad idea to declare martial law and put the military in charge..... followed by "but if you do, we'll get the job done, but please understand the ramifications of the decision you are making" - something like that.
The thing I loved about that movie was that he wasn't really a good guy or a bad guy - he was sort of both... and perfectly demonstrated why you don't want the military
You are probably right though - Galactica probably used that quote too.
From all the interviews I've read with drone pilots, and their comments about what it's like, what their training is like, mindset, etc - while their personal risk, and the HR risk (and cost) to the military is definitely virtually zero - there is not less guilt involved.
They all feel like they are really there - even more so than actually flying an aircraft in person.
A pilot flying over enemy territory taking out targets is following a very well calculated mission plan, backed by tons of ground and mission-control support.. and while some incidents may come up where he's really saving his own skin, it's most not top-gun style dogfights like people imagine. You fly in, handle the mission, whatever it is, and return home. You do it because it's your job, and it's what you've been trained to do.
Which is a process problem, right? If the process that is set up is to have coders blindly write code to spec, defined input/output and no other architecture requirements - then the fact that the entire product is a mess isn't that coder's fault - it's the fault of a process that didn't include proper architecture standards.... maybe.
It's not from sysinternals, but for tiny little utils, Spacemonger - the older version - not the new "installable" one - is absolutely fantastic for finding out where disk-space went..... can't live without it in any windows shop.
Check out Groundwork - it's what you are after (cacti + nagios + other stuff, bundled, web managed)
assuming the ssh session is the target - they don't need to break the encryption, they only need to get access to the windows box with putty running on it - which is a heck of a lot more likely than cracking SSH.
Reconnect. Leaving the sessions constantly open means if your workstation is compromised, you may have compromised the servers as well.... at least you've increased the risk profile of the servers.
Connect as needed - use proper key management and passwords, etc.
Exactly - wiring up an office building with Cat5 costs a fair bundle... and is fairly inflexible. Wireless is flexible, but too slow and leaks.
Give me a wireless signal that's easier to keep from leaking out of the room, and that operates closer to GigE, and it's an instant win all over the place... maybe not in your house, but in any business.
Absolutely - take a call center.. or any cube farm. No need to run ethernet cable everywhere... just some cheap well-placed sensors, and, unlike wifi, the leakage can be better controlled.
So the advantages would be
1) less leakage to other areas
2) speed
You'd have little sensors, just like little antennae in wifi... but, say a call-center floor. Instead of running Cat5 everywhere, you just put a few transmitters and receivers around... possibly built into the monitors, and everything "just works"
This is another example of why patents are bad.
A a technical person - saying "Hey, if we have some devices communicating wirelessly, and we know about the protocols they are using to communicate, we can deduce a bunch of information about their approximate location just by watching how long it takes them to have certain conversations from different points of view.
Why should that be patentable? It is clever, but it's also somewhat obvious.
No.
They went to Iraq for oil and insanity.
The went to Afghanistan because the taliban were harbouring and supporting Bin Laden, who openly declared war on the US, and took credit for 9/11.
The first had no global support, the second, surely did.
The Gates foundation is quite open that they are after getting the most bang for their buck - how can they have the largest impact on the human condition for their money.
For example, their work towards Malaria research. Malaria is a 3rd world disease. Nobody else is interested in curing it. The 3rd world doesn't have the resources to fight it. I'm willing to bet Gates' money ends up finding that cure (or vaccine) , and that would have a HUGE impact on a global scale.
I have no firsthand knowledge, obviously, of what's going on - but these are not stupid people we're talking about here - they put *HUGE* amounts of money into fighting fights nobody else was interested in - and it's not just a tax dodge or a money-making scheme... the more I look into it, the more legitimate it looks.
That all may be valid - but the point from the Foundation is that health will have the single largest impact on improving things in the long run - not population control.
Curing disease is not "artifiically increasing the lifespan of overpopulation".
A cure would take time to take effect... and I think you underestimate the effect of diseaseon the poorest nations. Not only do people not work, but the fact that they feel doomed to die means they don't even *try*.
The human population is exploding in nations where disease is rampant and living conditions, and the economy, sucks.
In nations where healthcare is under control (yes, even the US) - it's not. There is proven cause and effect here - it's basic survival.
One note on larger displays - studies have shown that using a larger display to display the same information (same resolution) definitively improved employee productivity - the theory being that, even though everyone had good vision, the larger display was easier on the mind to read. I believe they were contrasting 17" monitors over 36" monitors or something similar.
This is tangenital to what us nerds want - which is large displays with super high res so we can display more stuff without switching windows.
I find it funny, and say "Just hollywood"
And the truth is, the truth would scare them.
One good virus outbreak that takes the entire enterprise down for 36 hours and not fully back up to speed for about a week tends to open up the management coffers to stricter IT policies to prevent such things from happening in the future.
Nobody makes it quite as easy - but are there not many online payment processors who provide web-based APIs for you to integrate your site with? It requires slightly more sophistication - and all the anti-fraud and whatnot measures that paypal does would have to be handled by you (well, or you would accept transactions at your own risk, deal with chargebacks directly, etc...)
He'll be in a pressure suit...... and it's not like a sudden shockwave goes through your body when you hit mach 1. You don't really "pop" the sound barrier.
It is? Perhaps it's just smart financial strategy? It's called taking profits. Their SEC requires them, along with pretty much every other insider, to file their stock selling plans ahead of time. They can't just buy & sell google stock like you and I can at a whim.