Former Police front-man, Sting, once said something along the lines of, "Hearing someone say they don't like your music is like hearing someone your girlfriend is ugly." Pride in ones work can be a great thing. I think developers who code from the Artist mindset, as opposed to the Accountant mindset, are especially vulnerable to criticism of their code.
I used to take the Bic tube pens and pop the ends out and flip the tube.
When my parents got personalised pencils (proceeds benefited the school) there was an option to get the name printed so that the name appeared right side up in the left hand.
I'm coming at this from the perspective of a father of a forth grader and a sixth grader. Our school system has a CIO and it is very tech savvy. Campus computers do use Group Policies and Wi-Fi is WEP encrypted, etc...
I find people in this thread are focusing on the technical and possibly legal issues surrounding putting laptops in schools. This is Slashdot, of course. I'm not convinced children learn better with them; or if they do, how overly dependent they could become to the technology. Teachers are already distracted enough with non-academic distractions like No Child Left Behind, discipline, or unreasonable parents. If you add an hour of computers, that's an hour not spent on geography, math or science. And at the age of my children, I want my school to focus on the basics.
I want my children to know how to make change in their head, balance a checkbook with a pencil, use a paper planner, use a dictionary, point to any nation on a map, and the list goes on. All of these things are everyday skills which are made much easier with technology; but, if the technology fails due to an outage or error, I want my kids to still manage without it.
Technology makes for a wonderful carreer. I've make a good living working as a computer programmer.
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- attributed to Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist (1930 -2002)
I'm somewhat dumbfounded too. My mother's side of the family comes from a small fishing village near Halifax. I've visited Cape Breton from time to time. The scenery is so spectacular and pristine. I worry about the ecological damage from rockets.
As far as support, I'm sure detractors said the same thing about some swamp land in Florida.
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I decided in University that there two types of people who got high marks: Lazy people who got good marks effortlessly and those to worked really hard.
Hmm, smells like trolling flame bait. None the less...
As new facts emerge, some will inevitable conflict with current the theories that explain evolution. The theory that suggests natural selection drives evolution in small, slow steps is failing out of favor. It is being replaced with one that suggests natural selection drives evolution in bigger steps spread out over time. One of the first examples was an observation of a pack of leopards who had a significant mutation in their spot patterns. The theories that explain evolution are, no pun intended, constantly evolving. That evolution occurs is hard to dispute, How evolution occurs is hard to explain.
I do believe in God. I also believe that the multiple creation accounts in Genesis are the result of the exiled Levitical priests writing down their best explain of the timeless question of where it all came from. While I give them high marks for piety, they were horribly unprepared to understand the infinite grandeur and depth of God's mysteries - not that modern man is that much better. Over the years, we've rejected all kinds of things those priests would have accepted as fact: Flat/Round Earth, Heliocentric/Geocentric, The Firmament, Spontaneous Generation and the list goes on. We humans will never completely understand how God works. But, because we'll never understand an infinite God doesn't mean we shouldn't make the attempt. I believe God created Evolution. [I so want that on a bumper sticker]
The flip side is just as important perhaps even more so. Just because we accept theories which conflict with passages of Scripture doesn't invalidate the whole of Scripture. We accept Kosher as a hygiene system. The priest didn't know about bacteria or trichinosis, but they did know that keeping Kosher kept you healthy. The Bible is above all else a splendidly moral document. It reminds us to love God and our neighbours. It also reminds us that we are all fallible. Even those who wrote down the creation stories passed down to them from their mentors. As a scientific journal, the Bible is not so good.
Too many people reject Science because it conflicts with their God.
Too many people reject God because it conflicts with their Science.
I say that anyone who rejects God doesn't understand Science and anyone who rejects Science doesn't understand God.
The one that bothers me is last four digits of social. In a privacy obsessed world, we've basically taken a nine digit key and reduced it to a four digit key.
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I really hope that your comment is a troll. Andreas Katsulas is a Shakespearian actor. Few actors, past and present, are able to capitalise on the grandeur of that training as dramatically as he did.
JMS should allow G'Kar to die, or more specifically, rest in the noble peace that stoic noble heroes deserve.
Actually, the lower cargo area is pressurized, otherwise "fluffy the dog" couldn't survive. The lower compartment is neither well heated nor well ventilated nor well lit; so "fluffy" usually does not enjoy the flight. The reason for pressurizing the lower compartment is not for the benefit of all the "fluffies" in the world, but to limit the number of rigid angles the pressure container has to maintain. By keeping the pressure container as cylindrical as possible, it reduces the amount of strong material required to maintain an irregular shape thus it lowers the overall aircraft weight. Pretty much everything in the main fusilage between the nose cone radar and the rear APU is inside the pressure container. The notable exception to that rule is the landing gear.
I remember the first assignment in college co-op job was to figure out how to delete a unix file with a name that began with a hyphen. I also remember getting into an argument with a guy who couldn't accept that you could have a file name with control characters.
I think Squid is better prior art. A key feature is that the "firewall" implements a full TCP/IP stack and the decisions are made the application level.
Please don't perpetuate the lie that Saddam and Al-Qaeda are linked.
Saddam was the only "terrorist" in Iraq. He hated other terrorists because they threatened his absolute control over Iraq. Bin Laden hated Hussein for invading Kuwait and wanted to lead the forces that evicted him.
Peter Bergen is a respected journalist who actually spoke with Bin Laden. Read the Interview.
Giving an estimate is really giving an expectation. I try to answer the estimate and share my confidence level of that estimate. Plus I try list any caveats that might impact the estimate. If I tell a boss something will take about a week, but I don't have much confidence in that estimate because I don't understand what the user is looking for, that much better than guessing two weeks and finishing in one. I find bosses to be far more understanding of missed deadlines if they have a reasonable expection of missing a deadline.
I used a 1989 vintage computerized stage lighting control console used a big capacitor soldered to the back of the PCB to hold the settings in RAM while the unit was switched off. Typically, the capacitor could hold a show for about three to four weeks and every time it was switched on, the capcitor would recharge. It still had a "modern" 720k floppy disk just in case.
When I was working for an airline, there was a joke running around that Airbus's next airliner would be piloted by a one man, one dog crew. The man was there to feed the dog. The dog was there to bite the man if he tried to touch anything.
Patterns! Yes, I knew I forgetting something. Patterns are language agnostic. That said, there is no shortage of great examples in Java. As with the parent poster, I came to Java by was of 'C' and 'C++' and learned AWK, Perl (starting with version 3)
In the early days of Java, I remember a Sun representative calling Java: "C++--"
Initially, I'm inclined to agree. Swapping out a language to fix problems isn't fixing the problem. It's like those companies that move all the boxes the org-chart every so often trying to solve the problems of their company - those boxes at the top. The problem is poor development processes.
There are two kinds of Software Development Processes: 1) Manager centric and 2) Developer centric.
All the stuff we do at our company for Sarbanes-Oxley is classic Manager Centric SDP. It's about tracking the track every inch of code, who changed what, who had business authorization to put it in. Developers loose productivity over this, it's tedious, it doesn't improve quality, it doesn't prevent errors, but it does keep the auditors happy which does keep management happy.
The SDP's that benefits developers are things like Agile Programming. Among the cornerstones of Agile are Test Driven Development and frequent iterations. These are the processes that focus on preventing bugs in the first place.
I once worked for A Company that wanted all of #1 and none of #2. They got what the deserved. You need a measure of both with a dash of flexibility.
Software development processes have almost nothing to do with the choice of language. That said, it's been my observation that there are lots of really smart people working on Java to improve the development process. Eclipse is amazing with code completion, on-the-fly error tracking and refactoring. JUnit (comes with eclipse) is a benchmark Test Driven Development system. If you must switch languages, invest in the training to make those tools productive!
Restraining geeks breeding? Non-sense! I am the son of a musically inclined Metalurgy who got his PhD from MIT with several patents crediting him as the inventor. I am a musically inclined Computer-Science major who married a musically inclined Math major. My wife is the daughter of a Music Educator with perfect pitch. We have a musically inclined, hyperlexic child who is the school spelling bee champ.
I course geeks are going to breed! It's been going on for generations.
For me, I was a high school senior. Here's my story of Myth #8:
This isn't the exact photo, but this photo is pretty close. But in my newspaper next to the "Y" shaped smoke plume that is burned into my memories was another photo of Christie Mcauliffe's family in the VIP viewing stands crying and hugging. My uncle was a television news photographer from Boston and was sent to cover the home-town school teacher. He was at the VIP stands and knows that the famous photo was actually taken before the accident. Those were tears of joy. He remembers NASA representatives escorting the family out of the stands, away from the media before anyone else figured what happened. No one in the VIP stands knew what happened until several minutes later.
Hmm - Let me think. Samuel A. Alito likely to join the bench. Past rulings like Eminent Domain. Corporations claim, and get, constitutional rights as if they were people.
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Former Police front-man, Sting, once said something along the lines of, "Hearing someone say they don't like your music is like hearing someone your girlfriend is ugly." Pride in ones work can be a great thing. I think developers who code from the Artist mindset, as opposed to the Accountant mindset, are especially vulnerable to criticism of their code.
I used to take the Bic tube pens and pop the ends out and flip the tube. When my parents got personalised pencils (proceeds benefited the school) there was an option to get the name printed so that the name appeared right side up in the left hand.
I find people in this thread are focusing on the technical and possibly legal issues surrounding putting laptops in schools. This is Slashdot, of course. I'm not convinced children learn better with them; or if they do, how overly dependent they could become to the technology. Teachers are already distracted enough with non-academic distractions like No Child Left Behind, discipline, or unreasonable parents. If you add an hour of computers, that's an hour not spent on geography, math or science. And at the age of my children, I want my school to focus on the basics.
I want my children to know how to make change in their head, balance a checkbook with a pencil, use a paper planner, use a dictionary, point to any nation on a map, and the list goes on. All of these things are everyday skills which are made much easier with technology; but, if the technology fails due to an outage or error, I want my kids to still manage without it.
Technology makes for a wonderful carreer. I've make a good living working as a computer programmer.
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- attributed to Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist (1930 -2002)
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Nor Disney cartoon ducks without pants.
In the pilot episode (originally on Showtime), Jackson's offworld girlfriend was naked when turned into a Go'uld.
By the way, if anyone from the staff, crew or cast reads this: Thanks for ten wonderful years.
As far as support, I'm sure detractors said the same thing about some swamp land in Florida.
I decided in University that there two types of people who got high marks: Lazy people who got good marks effortlessly and those to worked really hard.
As new facts emerge, some will inevitable conflict with current the theories that explain evolution. The theory that suggests natural selection drives evolution in small, slow steps is failing out of favor. It is being replaced with one that suggests natural selection drives evolution in bigger steps spread out over time. One of the first examples was an observation of a pack of leopards who had a significant mutation in their spot patterns. The theories that explain evolution are, no pun intended, constantly evolving. That evolution occurs is hard to dispute, How evolution occurs is hard to explain.
I do believe in God. I also believe that the multiple creation accounts in Genesis are the result of the exiled Levitical priests writing down their best explain of the timeless question of where it all came from. While I give them high marks for piety, they were horribly unprepared to understand the infinite grandeur and depth of God's mysteries - not that modern man is that much better. Over the years, we've rejected all kinds of things those priests would have accepted as fact: Flat/Round Earth, Heliocentric/Geocentric, The Firmament, Spontaneous Generation and the list goes on. We humans will never completely understand how God works. But, because we'll never understand an infinite God doesn't mean we shouldn't make the attempt. I believe God created Evolution. [I so want that on a bumper sticker]
The flip side is just as important perhaps even more so. Just because we accept theories which conflict with passages of Scripture doesn't invalidate the whole of Scripture. We accept Kosher as a hygiene system. The priest didn't know about bacteria or trichinosis, but they did know that keeping Kosher kept you healthy. The Bible is above all else a splendidly moral document. It reminds us to love God and our neighbours. It also reminds us that we are all fallible. Even those who wrote down the creation stories passed down to them from their mentors. As a scientific journal, the Bible is not so good.
Too many people reject Science because it conflicts with their God.
Too many people reject God because it conflicts with their Science.
I say that anyone who rejects God doesn't understand Science and anyone who rejects Science doesn't understand God.
The one that bothers me is last four digits of social. In a privacy obsessed world, we've basically taken a nine digit key and reduced it to a four digit key.
I really hope that your comment is a troll. Andreas Katsulas is a Shakespearian actor. Few actors, past and present, are able to capitalise on the grandeur of that training as dramatically as he did. JMS should allow G'Kar to die, or more specifically, rest in the noble peace that stoic noble heroes deserve.
Actually, the lower cargo area is pressurized, otherwise "fluffy the dog" couldn't survive. The lower compartment is neither well heated nor well ventilated nor well lit; so "fluffy" usually does not enjoy the flight. The reason for pressurizing the lower compartment is not for the benefit of all the "fluffies" in the world, but to limit the number of rigid angles the pressure container has to maintain. By keeping the pressure container as cylindrical as possible, it reduces the amount of strong material required to maintain an irregular shape thus it lowers the overall aircraft weight. Pretty much everything in the main fusilage between the nose cone radar and the rear APU is inside the pressure container. The notable exception to that rule is the landing gear.
It was rm - -name
I think Squid is better prior art. A key feature is that the "firewall" implements a full TCP/IP stack and the decisions are made the application level.
Saddam was the only "terrorist" in Iraq. He hated other terrorists because they threatened his absolute control over Iraq. Bin Laden hated Hussein for invading Kuwait and wanted to lead the forces that evicted him.
Peter Bergen is a respected journalist who actually spoke with Bin Laden. Read the Interview.
Giving an estimate is really giving an expectation. I try to answer the estimate and share my confidence level of that estimate. Plus I try list any caveats that might impact the estimate. If I tell a boss something will take about a week, but I don't have much confidence in that estimate because I don't understand what the user is looking for, that much better than guessing two weeks and finishing in one. I find bosses to be far more understanding of missed deadlines if they have a reasonable expection of missing a deadline.
I used a 1989 vintage computerized stage lighting control console used a big capacitor soldered to the back of the PCB to hold the settings in RAM while the unit was switched off. Typically, the capacitor could hold a show for about three to four weeks and every time it was switched on, the capcitor would recharge. It still had a "modern" 720k floppy disk just in case.
I guess it's here.
Patterns! Yes, I knew I forgetting something. Patterns are language agnostic. That said, there is no shortage of great examples in Java. As with the parent poster, I came to Java by was of 'C' and 'C++' and learned AWK, Perl (starting with version 3)
In the early days of Java, I remember a Sun representative calling Java: "C++--"
There are two kinds of Software Development Processes: 1) Manager centric and 2) Developer centric.
All the stuff we do at our company for Sarbanes-Oxley is classic Manager Centric SDP. It's about tracking the track every inch of code, who changed what, who had business authorization to put it in. Developers loose productivity over this, it's tedious, it doesn't improve quality, it doesn't prevent errors, but it does keep the auditors happy which does keep management happy.
The SDP's that benefits developers are things like Agile Programming. Among the cornerstones of Agile are Test Driven Development and frequent iterations. These are the processes that focus on preventing bugs in the first place.
I once worked for A Company that wanted all of #1 and none of #2. They got what the deserved. You need a measure of both with a dash of flexibility.
Software development processes have almost nothing to do with the choice of language. That said, it's been my observation that there are lots of really smart people working on Java to improve the development process. Eclipse is amazing with code completion, on-the-fly error tracking and refactoring. JUnit (comes with eclipse) is a benchmark Test Driven Development system. If you must switch languages, invest in the training to make those tools productive!
I course geeks are going to breed! It's been going on for generations.
This isn't the exact photo, but this photo is pretty close. But in my newspaper next to the "Y" shaped smoke plume that is burned into my memories was another photo of Christie Mcauliffe's family in the VIP viewing stands crying and hugging. My uncle was a television news photographer from Boston and was sent to cover the home-town school teacher. He was at the VIP stands and knows that the famous photo was actually taken before the accident. Those were tears of joy. He remembers NASA representatives escorting the family out of the stands, away from the media before anyone else figured what happened. No one in the VIP stands knew what happened until several minutes later.
Yes, I think they might uphold such a claim.
The formula for Coca-Cola is one the more famous Trade Secrets.