Sorry, he's not a self-starter. A formal education in computer science theory is one thing, but you say he wants to learn "some introductory programming skills". That's exactly the sort of thing he could pick up on his own, by following a tutorial or example online. There's no need for a course -- unless, of course, he's not a self-starter and needs to framework of a course for actually give him assignments that he does. There's nothing wrong with that, but you're not describing him correctly. If he is a self-starter, then you need to ask him what he's done to learn anything on his own.
Now there's a brilliant idea! Posting my personal contact information on slashdot. Should I leave you my pager number too, to make sure I don't get any sleep for the next two weeks?
I agree about the price and size, but power?! I get 2,000 shots out of my D70's battery between charges. Yes, that's two thousand. Show me a digicam that can come even close. Shoot, show me a digicam which can get over 500 between charges.
RTFM -- in it, he describes his technique for getting permission, as it is indeed illegal in Washington to record telephone conversations without the consent of both parties.
Because of your high prices I have not bought anything from you for two years. I use your bookstore to find books which are interesting, then go to Amazon.co.uk to place the order. DVDs are obtained in a similar way by browsing your DVD section, then walking back home to my computer. I am sure that I am not the only person who does this.
Thanks for sending me an email. I'm taking a short break today, Wednesday 8/30. In my absence, please talk to KaraM about the MxTK project, JuhnA for workflow issues, or HiuS for general questions.
Before anyone wonders why the 42-watt CF emits less light than the 40-watt, notice that there is a difference in the emitted color spectrum, and the 42-watt bulb emits a more natural color spectrum.
You use 150-watt lamps? Try this 42-watt CF. Or perhaps you'd like to get even more light than your current lamp, and still save energy with this 40-watt CF. Just because the article focuses on the 60-watt replacements doesn't mean the others aren't out there -- they just use more electricity, just like a 75 watt incandescent uses more electricity than a 60 watt.
Why is it that authors of these articles can never understand the simple fact that the reason I go to Craig's List is precisely because I'm not being bombarded with ads and junk and a horrible cluttered layout? Doesn't anyone remember how refreshing Google was when it first started (and still is to a certain extent, except the other companies have de-cluttered their pages)? Yahoo was a horrible experiment gone wrong in seeing how much crap could be jammed into a portal!
Sure, if craig's list had ads, they'd make some more money, but a lot of people, myself included, wouldn't visit as often or at all, and therefore the article's total sum of potential earnings is an over-estimate.
The implied statement is that "the webpage calls 100 different services, and yet still renders in about the same amount of time that a plain ole HTML file would render." And that is a good thing, because it means the many service calls don't take long to complete.
Blockbuster gets me my next movie the instant I return my old one. You see, I'm a blockbuster subscriber because I went with their in-store option. I have tried Netflix on two separate ocaisions in the past, and you know what I learned? That I rarely feel like watching the same DVD I wanted to watch 48 hours ago. If I feel like watching a movie RIGHT NOW, I go to the store, hand in the one I currently have, and get the one I want. I know that Netflix has a huge selection, much bigger than I find in the local Blockbuster, but I also know that just because I read an article online about an obscure movie and put it on my Netflix Queue, I don't feel like watching it when it finally arrives because I'd forgotten why I wanted it, and because now I'm in the mood for brainless action instead of an intelligent foreign film.
>The original poster said four minutes! Not a year, not a month, not a day but four minutes!
Time moves differently in different areas. People are still driving cars which are 15 years old. My computer is barely 5, and I already want a new one. Computers have a much shorter lifecycle than cars.
> Why was your SO so stupid to drive a brand new car with out first opening the hood and setting the valve clearance!
It isn't that you need to set the valve clearance. That's an incorrect analogy. What about the Ford (or any car) driver who drives for 20,000 miles when the engine suddenly dies? The moron never did any maintenance to the car, they never changed the oil, and the car died. At least with Windows, the maintenance (patches) are free, whereas with a car, you have to pay for oil changes.
The real problem is that Windows is like buying a car with NO oil -- once you fill it up with oil (patch the system) for the first time, you're good to go until the next oil change (updates).
I interviewed with Google about a year ago. I had a contact at the company, so I sent him my resume. That in turn got my a phone screen with the HR department. Once I passed that, I got a technical phone interview with one of their developers. Apparently I didn't do too well with that one, since they asked me for a second one. After the second technical phone interview, I got an offer for a real interview -- one day fly out, one day interviewing, one day house-hunting (since Google does not pay for a separate house hunting trip to the Bay area, nor for temporary housing), and one day for flying back home. The interview itself was very similar to the interview process at Microsoft, and at the end of the day I interviewed with the fifth and sixth Google employees. I mentioned to them that I liked AI so they brought in the guy who implemented the Google spelling checker to talk with me, and we discussed its implementation. In the end, they said they wanted more experience, and I didn't get the job, but it was fun anyway. And I spent my house-hunting day skiing in Lake Tahoe:)
Would cars know how well they're being taken care of, and what their actual stopping distance is?
They wouldn't have to know. Your tires go bald over time. It is really easy for learning algorithms to adjust to a gradual change -- the car thinks, "hey, last time in these conditions I stopped in 25 feet, but this time it took me 26. Let's increase the safety distance by an extra foot just to be safe." Then as your tires become even more bald, "hey, last time it took me 26 feet to stop. Let's increase the safety distance by another foot." Similarly, once you get new tires: "hey, last time it took me 100 feet to stop. This time it took me 25. We can probably start following other cars a little closer now"
And presumably they would know the road conditions, either by detecting the conditions themselves, or getting the information from nearby cars ("5 of my 7 neighbors are saying there's ice on the road"), or from roadside wireless information stations (similar to those "tune your radio to 1610 for winter traffic information" signs you see)
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Sorry, he's not a self-starter. A formal education in computer science theory is one thing, but you say he wants to learn "some introductory programming skills". That's exactly the sort of thing he could pick up on his own, by following a tutorial or example online. There's no need for a course -- unless, of course, he's not a self-starter and needs to framework of a course for actually give him assignments that he does. There's nothing wrong with that, but you're not describing him correctly. If he is a self-starter, then you need to ask him what he's done to learn anything on his own.
Now there's a brilliant idea! Posting my personal contact information on slashdot. Should I leave you my pager number too, to make sure I don't get any sleep for the next two weeks?
I agree about the price and size, but power?! I get 2,000 shots out of my D70's battery between charges. Yes, that's two thousand. Show me a digicam that can come even close. Shoot, show me a digicam which can get over 500 between charges.
RTFM -- in it, he describes his technique for getting permission, as it is indeed illegal in Washington to record telephone conversations without the consent of both parties.
Dear local English bookstore,
Because of your high prices I have not bought anything from you for two years. I use your bookstore to find books which are interesting, then go to Amazon.co.uk to place the order. DVDs are obtained in a similar way by browsing your DVD section, then walking back home to my computer. I am sure that I am not the only person who does this.
Furchin
London, England
PS: I think ultimately things balance out.
Thanks for sending me an email. I'm taking a short break today, Wednesday 8/30. In my absence, please talk to KaraM about the MxTK project, JuhnA for workflow issues, or HiuS for general questions.
Before anyone wonders why the 42-watt CF emits less light than the 40-watt, notice that there is a difference in the emitted color spectrum, and the 42-watt bulb emits a more natural color spectrum.
You use 150-watt lamps? Try this 42-watt CF. Or perhaps you'd like to get even more light than your current lamp, and still save energy with this 40-watt CF. Just because the article focuses on the 60-watt replacements doesn't mean the others aren't out there -- they just use more electricity, just like a 75 watt incandescent uses more electricity than a 60 watt.
Why is it that authors of these articles can never understand the simple fact that the reason I go to Craig's List is precisely because I'm not being bombarded with ads and junk and a horrible cluttered layout? Doesn't anyone remember how refreshing Google was when it first started (and still is to a certain extent, except the other companies have de-cluttered their pages)? Yahoo was a horrible experiment gone wrong in seeing how much crap could be jammed into a portal!
Sure, if craig's list had ads, they'd make some more money, but a lot of people, myself included, wouldn't visit as often or at all, and therefore the article's total sum of potential earnings is an over-estimate.
You don't think Microsoft has interns?
Neither -- it's the day it ships.
The implied statement is that "the webpage calls 100 different services, and yet still renders in about the same amount of time that a plain ole HTML file would render." And that is a good thing, because it means the many service calls don't take long to complete.
Plus both are prone to break-ins.
Apparently the server was hosting one of slashdot's earlier stories today....
MBA's want the magic glowy box to do their thinking for them.
If I had to pick between a magic glowy box and an MBA to show signs of intelligence, I'm definitely going with the magic glowy box.
Blockbuster gets me my next movie the instant I return my old one. You see, I'm a blockbuster subscriber because I went with their in-store option. I have tried Netflix on two separate ocaisions in the past, and you know what I learned? That I rarely feel like watching the same DVD I wanted to watch 48 hours ago. If I feel like watching a movie RIGHT NOW, I go to the store, hand in the one I currently have, and get the one I want. I know that Netflix has a huge selection, much bigger than I find in the local Blockbuster, but I also know that just because I read an article online about an obscure movie and put it on my Netflix Queue, I don't feel like watching it when it finally arrives because I'd forgotten why I wanted it, and because now I'm in the mood for brainless action instead of an intelligent foreign film.
>The original poster said four minutes! Not a year, not a month, not a day but four minutes!
Time moves differently in different areas. People are still driving cars which are 15 years old. My computer is barely 5, and I already want a new one. Computers have a much shorter lifecycle than cars.
*hands you a puffs*
> Why was your SO so stupid to drive a brand new car with out first opening the hood and setting the valve clearance!
It isn't that you need to set the valve clearance. That's an incorrect analogy. What about the Ford (or any car) driver who drives for 20,000 miles when the engine suddenly dies? The moron never did any maintenance to the car, they never changed the oil, and the car died. At least with Windows, the maintenance (patches) are free, whereas with a car, you have to pay for oil changes.
The real problem is that Windows is like buying a car with NO oil -- once you fill it up with oil (patch the system) for the first time, you're good to go until the next oil change (updates).
If it hurts children, it's probably safest to assume that it hurts adults too, until proven otherwise.
... And by Lindsay Lohan no less!
I interviewed with Google about a year ago. I had a contact at the company, so I sent him my resume. That in turn got my a phone screen with the HR department. Once I passed that, I got a technical phone interview with one of their developers. Apparently I didn't do too well with that one, since they asked me for a second one. After the second technical phone interview, I got an offer for a real interview -- one day fly out, one day interviewing, one day house-hunting (since Google does not pay for a separate house hunting trip to the Bay area, nor for temporary housing), and one day for flying back home. The interview itself was very similar to the interview process at Microsoft, and at the end of the day I interviewed with the fifth and sixth Google employees. I mentioned to them that I liked AI so they brought in the guy who implemented the Google spelling checker to talk with me, and we discussed its implementation. In the end, they said they wanted more experience, and I didn't get the job, but it was fun anyway. And I spent my house-hunting day skiing in Lake Tahoe :)
And remember to never, ever post a "how you did it" comment on slashdot.
Would cars know how well they're being taken care of, and what their actual stopping distance is?
They wouldn't have to know. Your tires go bald over time. It is really easy for learning algorithms to adjust to a gradual change -- the car thinks, "hey, last time in these conditions I stopped in 25 feet, but this time it took me 26. Let's increase the safety distance by an extra foot just to be safe." Then as your tires become even more bald, "hey, last time it took me 26 feet to stop. Let's increase the safety distance by another foot." Similarly, once you get new tires: "hey, last time it took me 100 feet to stop. This time it took me 25. We can probably start following other cars a little closer now"
And presumably they would know the road conditions, either by detecting the conditions themselves, or getting the information from nearby cars ("5 of my 7 neighbors are saying there's ice on the road"), or from roadside wireless information stations (similar to those "tune your radio to 1610 for winter traffic information" signs you see)
No, but if they sold 5,000 nintendos to walmart, we would.