I disagree completely. Israel has been the victim of many terror attacks because the Islamics hate them. This is not Israel's fault. Those who celebrate this attack (the Palestinians, Iraquis, etc.) are the enemies of the american people.
I agree 100%. In addition, I think it is important that the US immediately destroy all three of the Islamic holy sites. This refers to the one in Mecca, the dome of the rock (which is in Jerusalem), and I forget where the other one is.
The point, is these people need to understand that we are not going to tolerate this. These idiots only care about their religion. Fine. We'll destroy their holy sites.
They have stood up and declared themselves to be the enemy. Bad things will happen to them. The US troops are already on their way. If they thought the Israelis were treating them bad before, they haven't seen anything yet.
>>Or why not start at the other end of the abstraction stack? Start with cognitive pyschology, perception, human-computer interaction, and the identification of human needs -- then you figure out an approach that best meets people's needs, which would lead to how to choose the right software tools and approach for any particular case.
I already knew how to program pretty well in a couple of languages (Forth & C) when I started college. Instead of majoring in CS, I *did* study cognitive psychology, human factors, human computer interaction, etc. I have an advanced degree in Experimental Psychology and my area of emphasis was Human Factors. I went from there into a Human Factors internship, then learned development on several modern systems (and learned o-o) while I was working. Today, I'm a lead developer and I find that I have a much broader perspective than most of the people I work with.
Having never been through a CS program, I don't really know what they are like, but it seems like simply learning programming in a high level language like Java or VB would be a serious waste of time compared with (for example) a curriculum that combined some courses like Perception Psychology, Human Factors, programing in some basic, widely used language like C (my suggestion - teach C plus student's choice of an o-o language like Java or C++), language theory, assembly, something about the physics of how a computer/processor works, and a strong core of CS theory such as algorithyms, data structures, problem solving, etc.
I don't see why a CS shouldn't require some courses in Psychology and some courses in Physics in addition to a strong core of theory.
When this comes out, I'm going to write the software that allows the sacades to be tracked so that when you look away from an advertisement, I move the add banner so that you're still looking at it (but swap to a different ad.)
Donkey Kong was intended as a translation of "Subborn Gorilla". The person doing the translation used a thesarus and found "Donkey" as a synonym of "Stubborn" and "Kong" as a synonym of "Gorilla".
Seems like a reasonable translation for the idea they were trying to convey to me given that the person doing the naming was a non-english speaker.
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The sad thing is that to most of the public, this would be not be a joke. There are fools out there who would think this is a sound argument.
Wrong. Force is the only thing proven to work. We haven't had problems with Hitler or the Japanese since WW2. Force worked very well on them.
I disagree completely. Israel has been the victim of many terror attacks because the Islamics hate them. This is not Israel's fault. Those who celebrate this attack (the Palestinians, Iraquis, etc.) are the enemies of the american people.
I agree 100%. In addition, I think it is important that the US immediately destroy all three of the Islamic holy sites. This refers to the one in Mecca, the dome of the rock (which is in Jerusalem), and I forget where the other one is.
The point, is these people need to understand that we are not going to tolerate this. These idiots only care about their religion. Fine. We'll destroy their holy sites.
Its easy for Arafat to put on a "public face" while the people show the real feelings of the palestinians about their attack.
The Palestinians have claimed responsibility for this attack. They are celebrating in the streets. Check out this news story:
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http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/09/11/arafa
They have stood up and declared themselves to be the enemy. Bad things will happen to them. The US troops are already on their way. If they thought the Israelis were treating them bad before, they haven't seen anything yet.
>>Or why not start at the other end of the abstraction stack? Start with cognitive pyschology, perception, human-computer interaction, and the identification of human needs -- then you figure out an approach that best meets people's needs, which would lead to how to choose the right software tools and approach for any particular case. I already knew how to program pretty well in a couple of languages (Forth & C) when I started college. Instead of majoring in CS, I *did* study cognitive psychology, human factors, human computer interaction, etc. I have an advanced degree in Experimental Psychology and my area of emphasis was Human Factors. I went from there into a Human Factors internship, then learned development on several modern systems (and learned o-o) while I was working. Today, I'm a lead developer and I find that I have a much broader perspective than most of the people I work with. Having never been through a CS program, I don't really know what they are like, but it seems like simply learning programming in a high level language like Java or VB would be a serious waste of time compared with (for example) a curriculum that combined some courses like Perception Psychology, Human Factors, programing in some basic, widely used language like C (my suggestion - teach C plus student's choice of an o-o language like Java or C++), language theory, assembly, something about the physics of how a computer/processor works, and a strong core of CS theory such as algorithyms, data structures, problem solving, etc. I don't see why a CS shouldn't require some courses in Psychology and some courses in Physics in addition to a strong core of theory.
When this comes out, I'm going to write the software that allows the sacades to be tracked so that when you look away from an advertisement, I move the add banner so that you're still looking at it (but swap to a different ad.)
Donkey Kong was intended as a translation of "Subborn Gorilla". The person doing the translation used a thesarus and found "Donkey" as a synonym of "Stubborn" and "Kong" as a synonym of "Gorilla".
Seems like a reasonable translation for the idea they were trying to convey to me given that the person doing the naming was a non-english speaker.