This is very tangential to the subject, but I'll ask anyway. America fought a two-fronted war very successfully in WWII. How come the "two-fronted war" is so obviously dumb when Germany did it? I think it's as much 20/20 hindsight as anything else.
As the article said, Firefox's market share is rising, the latest numbers have them up to 4%, eroding Internet Explorers commanding 92%. And they rose an entire percentage point in one month. This article on zdnet is from the 15th:
I think they've done it the only way possible, better features and publicity. I hope they take the time Microsoft is giving them to get even further ahead of the competition.
He's actually built a bright future for himself once he gets out of prison;) There will be no shortage of people who want him to work for them. Lucky for him he won't be in for long.
Webword's post makes a lot of good points. But even outside of those things applicable in the business world, I got a lot out of college. We were required to take 13 hours of science, I ended up taking a lot more, but with a semester of physics, 2 of chemistry, and 2 more of astronomy, and all their associated labs, you really get an understanding of how the world works. It's neat stuff, and it's just another thing I got on the way to my CS degree.
I'm also of the opinion that the BS degree is the best way to go. I learned a lot in school beyond multiple inheritance:)
Getting a degree shows your employer that you can put up with bullshit, that you can suck it up and succeed in an antiquated system full of egos and morons...a system not unlike the business world.
but you never know, maybe I'm just rationalizing all that money I spent;)
In my experience, getting a CS degree at a traditional university in 3 years would still be quite a challenge. I decided on CS with 60 general credits that included calc I and calc II. It took me 2.5 years averaging 16 hours a semester and 6 hours a summer to finish. The problems you run into are long strings of prerequisites and availability of classes.
I'm sorry, but stooping to there level just makes you one of them. You may continue to think of yourself as a "nice guy" but from this perspective you're pulling the same crap.
Yeah, I thought the same thing myself. Some people just prefer to program though. And there are definately some people that CANNOT manage. Perhaps he just knows his limitations, or really enjoys writing the code.
I'm so damn disorganized, I don't know how I would manage a project...yes I do, badly.
Well, not exactly. What started the Big Bang? How did everything begin? What, or who is the unmoved-mover? The uncaused-cause?
I don't know either...I'm just saying there is an agument within science for a super natural being or "god." I liked the guys origonal post, but I still think the bible's a lot of bunk:)
Well, I disagree. I think 3+ semesters of one given language is essential to deep understanding of a lot of what Computer Science is. Certainly a paradigms class teaching the strength of other tools out there is required in any cirriculum, but you have to have something you know to compare it to in order to see the benefits of the other tools out there.
Also, we don't want to be like a tech school, the University is not supposed to teach you everything there is to know, it's supposed to send you off with the ability to learn whatever you need to learn. And teaching students several new languages each semester moves the emphasis to new syntaxes and away from new perspectives.
Don't the characters seem to have too many personality quirks, like the doctor's weird brand of medicine? Sounds like they are trying too hard...but we'll see. I like 2 out of the last 3 serieses *shrug*
I find XP intreguing, particularly because it emphasizes code review and testing. In my experience, those are exactly the two steps that get set to low priority when (inevitably) the project gets behind.
However, I don't see the practicality of always working in pairs. For example, I have found the most time consuming tasks are interfacing with a third party tool and creating an easy to use wrapper for the rest of the team to use. My question is how can a pair of programmers work on a task like this? There's just one class, you need to understand the whole tool to use it correctly and write the code. Comments?
This is not totally surprising given that radioactive sources in nature are generally low level and the documented cases of surprisingly fast evolution. For example, a species of white moths in england turned grey over a short (5 year) period at the beginning of the industrial revolution as a dull grey became a safer trait with the increase of polution and industrialization. A faster rate of mutation helps explain evolution that is uncharacteristically fast.
As to my comments about some of Katz's critics, surely you don't deny that our subculture suffers from a leaning toward egotism?
Tolerating and leaving unopposed the incorrect and dangerous views...
I'm more interested in a dicussion of the topic rather than the source (Yet I post in a discussion about the source). Further, I have no problem with those attacking his ideas and have done so myself. Hell, rip those to shreds. It's attacking the man that I find "unattractive", "childish" and "arrogent". Posts that offer nothing more than "I already knew that, Katz is a moron." don't seem to further anything. As for the rest of the cited sentence above, I might suggest that you suffer from a flair for the dramatic;)
Fantastic point, I want less people to email me and IM me. I want to keep my addresses and handles in as few hands as possible, that way I have to wade through less junk. And your point can be extended to cell phones and pagers. I saw a 12 year old at the mall with a cell phone last week, I'm assuming she thought it was cool and grown up, but I thought kids went to the mall to be with the friends and get away from their parents? And a pager, that's just a glorified leash!
Things like this bring the world closer together, but the problem is there are less places to hide;)
Point taken, but you can do some really clever stuff with steganography to suppliment your crytography. For example, sending an encryped picture of some blueprints when the true information is not the picture itself, but hidden within the picture. Steganography is like the art of being one step ahead of your enemy, about being just a little bit more clever than he is by obfuscating the real data. But again, your point is well taken, doing that dependably over the long haul seems like it would be difficult at best.
I'm surprised by your diatribe regarding his use of the word "rise." If you reread the first paragraph it really sounds to me like he's just predicting the rise of Steganography.
As for Katz's rare responses to posts, I really don't blame him. It seems like it would be very difficult to have discourse in an environment like this because his critics can be, shall we say, "childish." The last line of you post was an interesting perspective though: "This is the revolution, Katz -- the ability to utilize technology to subvert the cultural hegemonies of traditional authorship" There is merit to that.
But I must say I agree with the original poster that Katz gets a bad rap. Granted, some articles are better than others, but I believe this audience is a little too quick to chop him down with their "intellectual superiority" routine. I really find that one-ups-manship quality to be a very unattractive one.
Like you I started playing early, but eventually lost interest for various reasons. But about a year ago some friends of mine at work all got the bug and bought some cards. We do sealed deck environments (where everyone gets a small number of starter packs or boosters and must construct a deck from those cards alone), and have been playing at lunch and after work ever since. The rules are much better/clearer now, they use a stack and everything "makes sense" after you get used to it. I honestly think the current set and its first expansion ("Invasion" and "Planeshift") is the best set I've ever played. The sets have themes and just make for great play, and tons of combinations.
Well, that's actually pretty inaccurate. The current prices (less than $4 for 12 cards) have been standard for more than 3 years. Additionally, if you buy online by the box, you can get a substantial discount. Plus the popularity of sealed deck environments makes it much cheaper to play magic as a hobby.
And I think anyone who has played magic since its inception would agree that the cards in the first set (alpha and beta) and the cards in the second set (arabian knights) are still clearly the most powerful cards - (black lotus, timewalk, ancestral recall, lightning bolt, moxes, sink hole, et al and Jazam Djinn, Ernham Djinn, and Kurd Ape from arabians). Cards released now with similar powers have far greater costs.
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I don't think CBS is "surprised" by its success...
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Networks don't just put any old show in their best time slots. Anything after Survivor 2 is going to get more than its share of viewers, after all, CBS had enough faith in Survivor 2 to put it up against Friends. They must have felt CSI had alot of potential because it is the show they use to keep people watching.
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This is very tangential to the subject, but I'll ask anyway. America fought a two-fronted war very successfully in WWII. How come the "two-fronted war" is so obviously dumb when Germany did it? I think it's as much 20/20 hindsight as anything else.
Nonetheless, that was an amusing post.
-dynamo
As the article said, Firefox's market share is rising, the latest numbers have them up to 4%, eroding Internet Explorers commanding 92%. And they rose an entire percentage point in one month. This article on zdnet is from the 15th:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5491439.html
I think they've done it the only way possible, better features and publicity. I hope they take the time Microsoft is giving them to get even further ahead of the competition.
-dynamo
Yes! Another excuse for the ADD generation!
-dynamo
He's actually built a bright future for himself once he gets out of prison ;) There will be no shortage of people who want him to work for them. Lucky for him he won't be in for long.
Yeah, but the down side of buying an Aztek, is that you have to drive an Aztek.
So what? This is the 4th time they've had a massive layoff like this, it happens when a popular game falls off (pokemon in this case).
They flux between 300 and 600 employees.
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Webword's post makes a lot of good points. But even outside of those things applicable in the business world, I got a lot out of college. We were required to take 13 hours of science, I ended up taking a lot more, but with a semester of physics, 2 of chemistry, and 2 more of astronomy, and all their associated labs, you really get an understanding of how the world works. It's neat stuff, and it's just another thing I got on the way to my CS degree.
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I'm also of the opinion that the BS degree is the best way to go. I learned a lot in school beyond multiple inheritance :)
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Getting a degree shows your employer that you can put up with bullshit, that you can suck it up and succeed in an antiquated system full of egos and morons...a system not unlike the business world.
but you never know, maybe I'm just rationalizing all that money I spent
dynamo
In my experience, getting a CS degree at a traditional university in 3 years would still be quite a challenge. I decided on CS with 60 general credits that included calc I and calc II. It took me 2.5 years averaging 16 hours a semester and 6 hours a summer to finish. The problems you run into are long strings of prerequisites and availability of classes.
dynamo
I'm sorry, but stooping to there level just makes you one of them. You may continue to think of yourself as a "nice guy" but from this perspective you're pulling the same crap.
I'm so damn disorganized, I don't know how I would manage a project...yes I do, badly.
dynamo
I don't know either...I'm just saying there is an agument within science for a super natural being or "god." I liked the guys origonal post, but I still think the bible's a lot of bunk :)
dynamo
Also, we don't want to be like a tech school, the University is not supposed to teach you everything there is to know, it's supposed to send you off with the ability to learn whatever you need to learn. And teaching students several new languages each semester moves the emphasis to new syntaxes and away from new perspectives.
dynamo
I was thinking though, technically most mail that I get falls under the category of "unexpected" :)
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However, I don't see the practicality of always working in pairs. For example, I have found the most time consuming tasks are interfacing with a third party tool and creating an easy to use wrapper for the rest of the team to use. My question is how can a pair of programmers work on a task like this? There's just one class, you need to understand the whole tool to use it correctly and write the code. Comments?
dynamo
dynamo
Tolerating and leaving unopposed the incorrect and dangerous views...
I'm more interested in a dicussion of the topic rather than the source (Yet I post in a discussion about the source). Further, I have no problem with those attacking his ideas and have done so myself. Hell, rip those to shreds. It's attacking the man that I find "unattractive", "childish" and "arrogent". Posts that offer nothing more than "I already knew that, Katz is a moron." don't seem to further anything. As for the rest of the cited sentence above, I might suggest that you suffer from a flair for the dramatic ;)
dynamo
Things like this bring the world closer together, but the problem is there are less places to hide ;)
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The only "extreme classification" here is your labeling of Katz as Toohey. ;)
THAT was a stretch.
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As for Katz's rare responses to posts, I really don't blame him. It seems like it would be very difficult to have discourse in an environment like this because his critics can be, shall we say, "childish." The last line of you post was an interesting perspective though: "This is the revolution, Katz -- the ability to utilize technology to subvert the cultural hegemonies of traditional authorship" There is merit to that.
But I must say I agree with the original poster that Katz gets a bad rap. Granted, some articles are better than others, but I believe this audience is a little too quick to chop him down with their "intellectual superiority" routine. I really find that one-ups-manship quality to be a very unattractive one.
dynamo
Like you I started playing early, but eventually lost interest for various reasons. But about a year ago some friends of mine at work all got the bug and bought some cards. We do sealed deck environments (where everyone gets a small number of starter packs or boosters and must construct a deck from those cards alone), and have been playing at lunch and after work ever since. The rules are much better/clearer now, they use a stack and everything "makes sense" after you get used to it. I honestly think the current set and its first expansion ("Invasion" and "Planeshift") is the best set I've ever played. The sets have themes and just make for great play, and tons of combinations.
dynamo
And I think anyone who has played magic since its inception would agree that the cards in the first set (alpha and beta) and the cards in the second set (arabian knights) are still clearly the most powerful cards - (black lotus, timewalk, ancestral recall, lightning bolt, moxes, sink hole, et al and Jazam Djinn, Ernham Djinn, and Kurd Ape from arabians). Cards released now with similar powers have far greater costs.
dynamo
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