Drop out. I dropped out of VT CS and it was the best move I ever made.
The professors are so out of touch (with a very few exceptions. Barnette, you rock.), they might as well be teaching ENIAC programming. Calculus is totally useless to real world CS, in all but a very few specific applications.
A typically worthless part of the package for those of us who do learn on our own, unlike the graduates that never take the time to really develop any skills past what is required to complete the assignment at hand.
A lot of the time, my coworkers come up to my office and see what I am doing, and ask me what it has to do with anything we are working on. Sometimes it doesn't, not right away. Then in a few weeks when I pull off something amazing, they never can figure out how I do it.
There are two types of people, the ones that work for themselves, the ones that work constantly to increase the stock in their "personal toolbox" and the kind that just figure out how to do the job at hand. IMO, the former has a much better chance at really getting things done, and usually higher education is a total waste of time for those types. Me included.
They don't want your junk anymore than you do. A local thrift shop is a much better place, they can sell it for a couple dollars to people that actually want it.
The way cheating is handled in chess.net is that an account is marked as an abused after a couple instances of cheating. Of course people can and do create new accounts, but it is at least something.
My vote for best audio in a C64 game is Frantic Freddy. I just hooked up my old C64 today, and after a little coaxing, I got frantic freddy to load up. That music still sounds just as good today as it ever did.
It's really what got me hooked on classic rock. A 5th of Beethoven, Kodachrome, it's all great stuff. I hope that c64audio.com site has the MIDIs:).
I'd have to say a close second is some of the audio in Jeff Minter's games. The bach intro to Sheep in Space is excellent.
The supreme court said that it wasn't the government's business what people put into their body, so consumption of anything could not be made illegal.
So the legislature passed a tax act on marijuana, since Du Pont really really didn't want to have to compete with something like hemp fibers in his new synthetic marketplace. Read the link below for the full story: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/h istory/c onspiracy.htm
That is a good idea really, insurance by the mile would save me lots of money. The only problem is implementing it in a way that doesn't involve giving big brother abilities to the government or coporations.
Since you are a lawyer, maybe you could run for office?:)
I do see this whole temperance tripe, et al, causing one of the largest underground movements of all time in the cause of Freedom. Some will get nailed for sure but they can't put everyone in jail.
Flash Forward to 2000 or so:
86,000,000 adults in the USA admit to having used an illegal drug at some point in their life.
1 in 3 young black males are on probation or are under some sort of government supervision.
Millions of people are jailed each year because they excercised their right to choose what goes into their body.
The prison industry is booming, with new facility contstruction at all time highs. Corporation are convincing legislators to let them use prison labor at below minimum wages. Asset forfieture is commonly used to make money for police departments. Assets that are seized cannot be recovered without lengthy legal proceedings even if the person hasn't been charged with a crime.
Yep, they can't arrest everyone. They sure can profit from arresting a lot of people though.
I hope nobody mods you down as troll or flamebait for that. There is a lot of truth to that. Napster had a nearly indefensible position. For the court to rule in favor of Napster would require total reform of all copyright laws. Generally these things are better done in small chunks.
One good thing that Napster did do was save the basic protocols of the Internet. Can you imagine what the RIAA would be doing if it was just a big pure IRC network? There would be so much anti-IRC propaganda spread around that anyone who used IRC would be instantly suspect. Things like that. I don't think the Napster case was all bad, but the arguments they were making were pretty hard to defend, and may have hurt us overall in the fight for digital copyright reform.
Dan, I've thought a lot about our recent disagreements and such. I'll quit accusing you of being a MS puppet. I'm sorry. We will just have to agree to disagree on the whole.NET thing.
I'll keep you on my foes list, but don't take it personally, I just want to be reminded that it is you posting by that little red dot, so I don't go off on another redundant rant.
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Drop out. I dropped out of VT CS and it was the best move I ever made.
The professors are so out of touch (with a very few exceptions. Barnette, you rock.), they might as well be teaching ENIAC programming. Calculus is totally useless to real world CS, in all but a very few specific applications.
A typically worthless part of the package for those of us who do learn on our own, unlike the graduates that never take the time to really develop any skills past what is required to complete the assignment at hand.
A lot of the time, my coworkers come up to my office and see what I am doing, and ask me what it has to do with anything we are working on. Sometimes it doesn't, not right away. Then in a few weeks when I pull off something amazing, they never can figure out how I do it.
There are two types of people, the ones that work for themselves, the ones that work constantly to increase the stock in their "personal toolbox" and the kind that just figure out how to do the job at hand. IMO, the former has a much better chance at really getting things done, and usually higher education is a total waste of time for those types. Me included.
Are you insane? Do you think for a minute about the implications of what you say are?
Besides the fact that this is indeed a reductio ad absurdum argument... which everyone seems to take literally.
I'm not going to explain it to you. You will just have to grow some brain cells and figure this out out for yourself.
No, but you can sue the plantiff if they harass you using lawsuits, and if you harass them by filing a harassment suit, they could countersue also. :)
This will not happen. Period. Read the GPL.
They don't want your junk anymore than you do. A local thrift shop is a much better place, they can sell it for a couple dollars to people that actually want it.
I regularly telnet and ssh over my satellite connection. It just takes some getting used to. If you are good with vi and bash, it's not too bad.
Oh well, watch that karma fly!
Anyway, if you want to be anonymous and be able to post at 1, just follow this following easy as shit recipe:
1. Go over to satan, uh I mean hotmail.com. Create a fake passport with total bullshit info.
2. Create an account on Slashdot using your new-super-cool hotmail email address.
3. Log in.
4. Tell everyone to shut up about the whole AC thing, AC isn't needed to be anonymous, this is the Internet for fuck's sake.
This is just as anonymous as the AC option, for all intents and purposes. It takes like 5 minutes to set up.
You forgot:
:)
At least 3 posts with a list of predictions about what posts will be posted
and:
At least one post replying to the prediction posts correcting the missing prediction of prediction posts.
Oh, and I hear Alan Thicke is dead, or something.
Then everyone would bitch and whine, like they did when Linux released a kernel three days after the last.
So what? Under the original proposal of flooding the spammers SMTP server, you are flooding your own, if they do direct connections! :)
unless you run a web server on your localhost, for whatever reason.
The way cheating is handled in chess.net is that an account is marked as an abused after a couple instances of cheating. Of course people can and do create new accounts, but it is at least something.
My vote for best audio in a C64 game is Frantic Freddy. I just hooked up my old C64 today, and after a little coaxing, I got frantic freddy to load up. That music still sounds just as good today as it ever did.
:).
It's really what got me hooked on classic rock. A 5th of Beethoven, Kodachrome, it's all great stuff. I hope that c64audio.com site has the MIDIs
I'd have to say a close second is some of the audio in Jeff Minter's games. The bach intro to Sheep in Space is excellent.
Personally, I say it's worth the loss of liberty to do it full-scale, with satellite tracking.
Those who would give up essential Liberty for by-the-mile insurance.... hehe
"Mesa OpenGL replicant!"
:)
Sorry
That's how the war on drugs started in the US.
h istory/c onspiracy.htm
The supreme court said that it wasn't the government's business what people put into their body, so consumption of anything could not be made illegal.
So the legislature passed a tax act on marijuana, since Du Pont really really didn't want to have to compete with something like hemp fibers in his new synthetic marketplace.
Read the link below for the full story:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/
That is a good idea really, insurance by the mile would save me lots of money. The only problem is implementing it in a way that doesn't involve giving big brother abilities to the government or coporations.
:)
Since you are a lawyer, maybe you could run for office?
Dude, it's a TV show.
Actually, I do know about the sound card issues, I just forgot, it's been a while. :)
Or they could just put it all on a bootable CD running open source DOS.
I do see this whole temperance tripe, et al, causing one of the largest underground movements of all time in the cause of Freedom. Some will get nailed for sure but they can't put everyone in jail.
Flash Forward to 2000 or so:
86,000,000 adults in the USA admit to having used an illegal drug at some point in their life.
1 in 3 young black males are on probation or are under some sort of government supervision.
Millions of people are jailed each year because they excercised their right to choose what goes into their body.
The prison industry is booming, with new facility contstruction at all time highs. Corporation are convincing legislators to let them use prison labor at below minimum wages. Asset forfieture is commonly used to make money for police departments. Assets that are seized cannot be recovered without lengthy legal proceedings even if the person hasn't been charged with a crime.
Yep, they can't arrest everyone. They sure can profit from arresting a lot of people though.
I hope nobody mods you down as troll or flamebait for that. There is a lot of truth to that. Napster had a nearly indefensible position. For the court to rule in favor of Napster would require total reform of all copyright laws. Generally these things are better done in small chunks.
One good thing that Napster did do was save the basic protocols of the Internet. Can you imagine what the RIAA would be doing if it was just a big pure IRC network? There would be so much anti-IRC propaganda spread around that anyone who used IRC would be instantly suspect. Things like that. I don't think the Napster case was all bad, but the arguments they were making were pretty hard to defend, and may have hurt us overall in the fight for digital copyright reform.
Dan, I've thought a lot about our recent disagreements and such. I'll quit accusing you of being a MS puppet. I'm sorry. We will just have to agree to disagree on the whole .NET thing.
I'll keep you on my foes list, but don't take it personally, I just want to be reminded that it is you posting by that little red dot, so I don't go off on another redundant rant.
You really shouldn't fax your tax returns to random people on the net. Besides, there would be no way to tell if they were falsified or not.