Believe it or not, AOL is the best option for some people in some places
I was never arguing that it wasn't. I was mearly pointing out that even if a service can beat out AOL on all three fronts (faster, cheaper, and "better"), doesn't mean people'll just jump ship.
During AOL growing pains (during peak use hours it was damn near impossible to get on), my parents switched to another local dial-up service, but maintained their AOL account because they liked the content it provided. After I showed them they could get everything they needed without AOL, they still remained with it. Today, they have a cable modem and STILL connect to AOL over TCP/IP.
If folks can get a better, faster, cheaper online experience by ditching AOL, they'll do it in a heartbeat.
Then why do they continue to be the #1 service provider in the US?
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Obviously you and I did NOT see the same movie. I thought it was complete and utter garbage. There were a few moments I would have walked out had I not paid the full ticket price.
Reasons why RE sucked big hairy gonads: 1. The movie would just not end. Every time you figured the movie would end, they slapped on an extra 5 minutes of footage that help set up RE2.
2. Entirely too many characters are just thrown in and out of the movie, apparently, on a whim. Characters are apparently left for dead, only to reappear for a brief moment, before being killed in earnest. (This may be a problem with the genre in general, not this specific movie)
3. There's only so many times I can get hit with the shock scare of something popping out of a window before I start seeing it come from a mile away.
It wasted a complete waste, there is a brief couple moments of Milla nude, and a couple of the first death sequences are just plain gory fun. After the first 30 minutes though, you might as well tune out. Just my $.02.
If you were looking for an action movie, you went to the wrong theather, you might want to try Kiss of the Dragon.
... a loopy, quasi-religious narrative that posits... Dr. Ross and Dr. Sid exchange spirit mumbo-jumbo...
It's fairly obvious Katz has never played Final Fantasy, otherwise he'd know that almost all of the Final Fantasy games (most of Square's RPGs in general) are a bunch of spirit mumbo-jumbo.
And don't be too quick to judge the future of this type of movie Katz, this was mearly an experimental first step, there are bound to be slip ups along the way. My suggestion: go see the movie for yourself.
Having supported DocsOPEN in the past at a sizable law firm in the Northeast, I can honestly say that this could be the best solution. I'm not sure about the overhead costs of maintaining the actual document server, but from my experience, it's pretty userfriendly and only had slight problems teaching new users how to use the program. It also has features for checking out documents for edit to a disk or such. I highly reccommend checking it out.
Actually in real life CS has little to do with math these days.
I wasn't talking about real life, I'm talking about in a school environment. The question was about the differences in the degrees. I was merely trying to point out in a CS program, math still plays a large role (well, relatively speaking), and saying "If you're bad at math, go into CS" is a little erroneous. I've had friends drop out of CS because they couldn't hack the math.
If you aren't sure, get a CSc degree. If you aren't good at Math, get a CSc degree, a CEng degree is four years of math.
If you're not good at math I have to question dealing much with computers at all, but this statement is misleading. CS still has quite a bit of math requirements (I had to take 4 calculus cources, linear algebra, probability among other things).
I'm a CS major at Northeastern. My roommate is a CE major at Northeastern. CS classes tend to be more programming oriented, algorithms, software design, etc. CE classes are more hardware oriented, computer architechture, gate arrays, the physical junk.
So, the real question is what would you rather do: poke some code to make it work better on the hardware (CS), or make the neat new hardware to make software writing easier (CE).
I go to school at Northeastern. There the co-op program is mandatory for graduation. Unfortunately, the majority of first co-ops, as with those first jobs (i.e. MickyD's) are going to be grunt labor type jobs. My first co-op experience was as a Helpdesk operator at a law firm. You want to talk about boring... Anyway, all I can say try to develop things that semi-automate or shorten the amount of time you spend on your job. Then show your boss how productive you've become and ask if you can have more responsibilities. Repeat as necessary. Even if you don't get a raise, the experience will be worth every penny. Give it time, it's taken me 3 years off and on within the co-op program to make it to the level of semi-valued employee.
Maybe this will start a trend of flooding the patent office with challenges to frivolous patents, and may just put an end to failing Computer Companies that will only be able to survive from royalties/penalties of such patents (a la CMGI).
In order for new growth to occur, the giants need to be trimmed in order to let a little warmth fall on the saplings.
No, Microsoft became successful because the american public by and large wouldn't know good software if it jumped up and bit them on the ass.
And you know, just because you paid more for something, doesn't mean it's any better.
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I was never arguing that it wasn't. I was mearly pointing out that even if a service can beat out AOL on all three fronts (faster, cheaper, and "better"), doesn't mean people'll just jump ship.
During AOL growing pains (during peak use hours it was damn near impossible to get on), my parents switched to another local dial-up service, but maintained their AOL account because they liked the content it provided. After I showed them they could get everything they needed without AOL, they still remained with it. Today, they have a cable modem and STILL connect to AOL over TCP/IP.
Then why do they continue to be the #1 service provider in the US?
Obviously you and I did NOT see the same movie. I thought it was complete and utter garbage. There were a few moments I would have walked out had I not paid the full ticket price.
Reasons why RE sucked big hairy gonads:
1. The movie would just not end. Every time you figured the movie would end, they slapped on an extra 5 minutes of footage that help set up RE2.
2. Entirely too many characters are just thrown in and out of the movie, apparently, on a whim. Characters are apparently left for dead, only to reappear for a brief moment, before being killed in earnest. (This may be a problem with the genre in general, not this specific movie)
3. There's only so many times I can get hit with the shock scare of something popping out of a window before I start seeing it come from a mile away.
It wasted a complete waste, there is a brief couple moments of Milla nude, and a couple of the first death sequences are just plain gory fun. After the first 30 minutes though, you might as well tune out. Just my $.02.
If you were looking for an action movie, you went to the wrong theather, you might want to try Kiss of the Dragon.
It's fairly obvious Katz has never played Final Fantasy, otherwise he'd know that almost all of the Final Fantasy games (most of Square's RPGs in general) are a bunch of spirit mumbo-jumbo.
And don't be too quick to judge the future of this type of movie Katz, this was mearly an experimental first step, there are bound to be slip ups along the way. My suggestion: go see the movie for yourself.
Having supported DocsOPEN in the past at a sizable law firm in the Northeast, I can honestly say that this could be the best solution. I'm not sure about the overhead costs of maintaining the actual document server, but from my experience, it's pretty userfriendly and only had slight problems teaching new users how to use the program. It also has features for checking out documents for edit to a disk or such. I highly reccommend checking it out.
Actually in real life CS has little to do with math these days.
I wasn't talking about real life, I'm talking about in a school environment. The question was about the differences in the degrees. I was merely trying to point out in a CS program, math still plays a large role (well, relatively speaking), and saying "If you're bad at math, go into CS" is a little erroneous. I've had friends drop out of CS because they couldn't hack the math.
If you aren't sure, get a CSc degree. If you aren't good at Math, get a CSc degree, a CEng degree is four years of math.
If you're not good at math I have to question dealing much with computers at all, but this statement is misleading. CS still has quite a bit of math requirements (I had to take 4 calculus cources, linear algebra, probability among other things).
I'm a CS major at Northeastern. My roommate is a CE major at Northeastern. CS classes tend to be more programming oriented, algorithms, software design, etc. CE classes are more hardware oriented, computer architechture, gate arrays, the physical junk. So, the real question is what would you rather do: poke some code to make it work better on the hardware (CS), or make the neat new hardware to make software writing easier (CE).
I go to school at Northeastern. There the co-op program is mandatory for graduation. Unfortunately, the majority of first co-ops, as with those first jobs (i.e. MickyD's) are going to be grunt labor type jobs. My first co-op experience was as a Helpdesk operator at a law firm. You want to talk about boring... Anyway, all I can say try to develop things that semi-automate or shorten the amount of time you spend on your job. Then show your boss how productive you've become and ask if you can have more responsibilities. Repeat as necessary. Even if you don't get a raise, the experience will be worth every penny. Give it time, it's taken me 3 years off and on within the co-op program to make it to the level of semi-valued employee.
Maybe this will start a trend of flooding the patent office with challenges to frivolous patents, and may just put an end to failing Computer Companies that will only be able to survive from royalties/penalties of such patents (a la CMGI).
In order for new growth to occur, the giants need to be trimmed in order to let a little warmth fall on the saplings.
No, Microsoft became successful because the american public by and large wouldn't know good software if it jumped up and bit them on the ass. And you know, just because you paid more for something, doesn't mean it's any better.