I thought this the first time the photos were posted and with the new ones this time round: Look at the amount of rubbish that's left in the various buildings from when people were evacuated.
How much of that just won't be biodegradable? How about how much more stuff we've manufactured over the years?
What are future civilisations going to think when all they find of ours are plastic baby dolls?
(Laugh. It's a joke, that might just make you think.)
Over here in the UK (Scotland, at least) they offer Software Engineering Bachelor degrees, and some offer Masters too (Electronic & Software Engineering is pretty similar, but might offer a BEng or an MEng rather than a BSc, BSc(Hons), MSci or MSC).
Nice little derogatory comment about sorting algorithms though. There's a little more to it than that;)
I believe that they are pretty quick *when their system works*.
When their system fails, that's when their `enote' system really starts to screw you over. Their returns pages claimed that the damage was covered by the item's warranty, which is a lie (damage before receipt is the responsibility of the trader), and would not allow me to generate a return code for the item. The manufacturer confirmed that ebuyer should replace the item, as did trading standards.
Try and talk to a real person at ebuyer to sort the matter out? That's a laugh; you'll be on hold for the hours that I was, without a representative in sight, probably stuck in the queue behind all the other poor bastards trying to return items.
I'll be very wary of buying large items from online stores in future.
Although, be careful with eBuyer (I suppose the same can be said with many mail order companies).
They blatantly refused to replace an item I ordered which arrived damaged for 5 months, even with Trading Standards nagging them for 3 of those months.
They were great when all went to plan. Now I'll never order from them again.
Well, I don't know about writing it phonetically (if that makes sense...:) ), but if you were to write it literally as it's pronouned, it's more like "ga-rage". Makes perfect sense when you look at it like that, compared to the American "Garaj".
I haven't read through all of the piece you link to, but his distaste of the term Computer or Computing Science is slightly worrying, and scars the rest of what seems to be a fairly well written text.
What he doesn't seem to have grasped is that Computer Science essentially boils down to algorithmics, no matter which distinct field within Computer Science you are in (be it the study of systems & operating systems, real time systems, networks, graphics, or anything else. The only areas I see as fairly distinct from this are HCI research and databases. Software Engineering is inextricably linked to Computer Science, but is not a direct part of it).
Of course it is possible to come at Computer Science then from a mathematical background or a hacker background. The mathematician is interested in analysing the abstract concept of the algorithm, and the hacker is interested in implementing the abstract concept efficiently, and there are varying mindsets in between.
Computer Science is not quite as "thrown together" as he may think.
Well, yes, he was. He had a long collaboration with Atari, and it's strange that in the last few weeks I got a (boxed, new) copy of Temptest 2000 for my Jaguar.
I still have my STe too, so I could crank out Revenge of the Mutant Camels when I get home:)
Definately one use, if a little cumbersome at times (while also remembering a lot of phone cameras aren't that great just now, though they are getting better).
Sounds like something of a workaround to get behaviour similar to that of the old handheld scanners that used be around (I loved my monochrome 300dpi handheld, it was just something of a black art sometimes to try and keep the alignment good).
I can see why people might want to do this (panoramic photos suddenly springs to mind...), and if I hadn't been surprised by the uptake in camera phones, I might be jumping on the Slashdot bandwagon of "Who'll use it? I want a phone that only makes phone calls! I hate cell phones!!", but camera phones have *seriously* caught on, certainly here in the UK.
Lovely; that's exactly what I wanted to say. I work in excess of 70 hours a week (full time uni, part time job), and pen & paper is all that's required.
Thankyou. I can't stand these folks who think a Computing Science degree is meant to teach people how to program, they're obviously missing the whole point.
Ideally, a Computing Science degree is meant to teach people who want to learn something about Computing Science (and there's a hell of a lot of it out there, so even a degree is only the tip of the iceberg). If those same people are career motivated too, then well done them.
I never used it before my 3rd year at uni, where they introduced it as part of a UNIX crash course. The lecturer pointed out very carefully that if we were searching the web for help, we had to search for TeX, or something more specific like bibtex, because once a few years ago a student or two were pulled up for looking up dodgy materials, though they were actually just looking for help with TeX.
I did notice though that when I tried latex on Google, it returned links relevant to TeX, not anything of lower standards:)
Slashdot Mirror
If you're interested in Atari emulation, you might be interested in looking at Aranym (Atari running on any machine).
:)
They include a Live CD that boots a Linux distro and automatically runs aranym, which I've yet to burn and test
It's voluntary.
If you don't want to pay however much extra it might be, you don't have to participate; nobody's forcing you.
That is effectively the equivalent of what he was asking.
I don't always expect quality to get to the front page, but this? I was actually surprised at Slashdot for a brief moment.
The worry is more the emergency services, and elderly people.
The BBC news report I saw earlier on stated that BT planned on issuing mobile phones temporarily to people elderly living in sheltered housing.
I thought this the first time the photos were posted and with the new ones this time round: Look at the amount of rubbish that's left in the various buildings from when people were evacuated.
How much of that just won't be biodegradable? How about how much more stuff we've manufactured over the years?
What are future civilisations going to think when all they find of ours are plastic baby dolls?
(Laugh. It's a joke, that might just make you think.)
How about the Atari Portfolio, of 1989?
Linkie.
Over here in the UK (Scotland, at least) they offer Software Engineering Bachelor degrees, and some offer Masters too (Electronic & Software Engineering is pretty similar, but might offer a BEng or an MEng rather than a BSc, BSc(Hons), MSci or MSC).
;)
Nice little derogatory comment about sorting algorithms though. There's a little more to it than that
No, there are often examples. Likewise, there often aren't examples.
Face it, a lot of man pages just aren't up to scratch.
I believe that they are pretty quick *when their system works*.
When their system fails, that's when their `enote' system really starts to screw you over. Their returns pages claimed that the damage was covered by the item's warranty, which is a lie (damage before receipt is the responsibility of the trader), and would not allow me to generate a return code for the item. The manufacturer confirmed that ebuyer should replace the item, as did trading standards.
Try and talk to a real person at ebuyer to sort the matter out? That's a laugh; you'll be on hold for the hours that I was, without a representative in sight, probably stuck in the queue behind all the other poor bastards trying to return items.
I'll be very wary of buying large items from online stores in future.
Although, be careful with eBuyer (I suppose the same can be said with many mail order companies).
They blatantly refused to replace an item I ordered which arrived damaged for 5 months, even with Trading Standards nagging them for 3 of those months.
They were great when all went to plan. Now I'll never order from them again.
Well, I don't know about writing it phonetically (if that makes sense... :) ), but if you were to write it literally as it's pronouned, it's more like "ga-rage". Makes perfect sense when you look at it like that, compared to the American "Garaj".
I haven't read through all of the piece you link to, but his distaste of the term Computer or Computing Science is slightly worrying, and scars the rest of what seems to be a fairly well written text.
What he doesn't seem to have grasped is that Computer Science essentially boils down to algorithmics, no matter which distinct field within Computer Science you are in (be it the study of systems & operating systems, real time systems, networks, graphics, or anything else. The only areas I see as fairly distinct from this are HCI research and databases. Software Engineering is inextricably linked to Computer Science, but is not a direct part of it).
Of course it is possible to come at Computer Science then from a mathematical background or a hacker background. The mathematician is interested in analysing the abstract concept of the algorithm, and the hacker is interested in implementing the abstract concept efficiently, and there are varying mindsets in between.
Computer Science is not quite as "thrown together" as he may think.
"http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98367&cid=839 8179"
Well, yes, he was. He had a long collaboration with Atari, and it's strange that in the last few weeks I got a (boxed, new) copy of Temptest 2000 for my Jaguar.
:)
I still have my STe too, so I could crank out Revenge of the Mutant Camels when I get home
Real diehards want a Gimp with a command-line interface. ;)
Definately one use, if a little cumbersome at times (while also remembering a lot of phone cameras aren't that great just now, though they are getting better).
Sounds like something of a workaround to get behaviour similar to that of the old handheld scanners that used be around (I loved my monochrome 300dpi handheld, it was just something of a black art sometimes to try and keep the alignment good).
I can see why people might want to do this (panoramic photos suddenly springs to mind...), and if I hadn't been surprised by the uptake in camera phones, I might be jumping on the Slashdot bandwagon of "Who'll use it? I want a phone that only makes phone calls! I hate cell phones!!", but camera phones have *seriously* caught on, certainly here in the UK.
An interesting point is that mobile phone usage whilst driving in the UK has recently been banned. Story.
Theoretically, the situation you describe above can now never happen in the UK.
True. But it's far, far closer than the blueprint analogy.
Lovely; that's exactly what I wanted to say. I work in excess of 70 hours a week (full time uni, part time job), and pen & paper is all that's required.
It's surprisingly efficient. Ultimately disposable, too.
Thankyou. I can't stand these folks who think a Computing Science degree is meant to teach people how to program, they're obviously missing the whole point.
Ideally, a Computing Science degree is meant to teach people who want to learn something about Computing Science (and there's a hell of a lot of it out there, so even a degree is only the tip of the iceberg). If those same people are career motivated too, then well done them.
"If people weren't in front of their computers 24/7 maybe they wouldn't be isolated and lonely.."
;)
Before computers, books were the domain of the isolated and the lonely, so you can't lay the blame on computers
Damn, that's the funniest thing I've read all night.
Either that, or fatigue's setting in. I'm not sure which.
Are you sure that isn't just Welsh? ;)
Indeed, LaTeX rocks.
:)
I never used it before my 3rd year at uni, where they introduced it as part of a UNIX crash course. The lecturer pointed out very carefully that if we were searching the web for help, we had to search for TeX, or something more specific like bibtex, because once a few years ago a student or two were pulled up for looking up dodgy materials, though they were actually just looking for help with TeX.
I did notice though that when I tried latex on Google, it returned links relevant to TeX, not anything of lower standards