Could you recommend a search site or two? I'd like to see if my name's online...
As to invisible friends - I started doing this a few years ago. Robert Dexx showed up and started doing all my net stuff for me.
As to my store club cards - I've got the cards, but I don't fill out the applications (this can be done if you tell the cashier that you don't have a card, but would really, really like one and could she activate it now so that you can get the points from your current purchase and don't worry you'll fill out the form and take it over to customer service right away.)
-Dexx "And ten billion sushi dinners cried out for vengeance." -Good Omens
Club cards at stores. Pretty much the same thing. Think about your ATM card. Or you credit card.
It shouldn't be too hard to map your purchases through all of those, especially for these large companies with tons of $$.
Hm.. now that I think about it, I forgot to fill out all my personal info on most of the store cards I have. I still get discount prices, but they don't have any of my personal info. Oops..
-Dexx "And ten billion sushi dinners cried out for vengeance." -Good Omens
I don't think those two concepts are incompatable. I think that it is possible that anonymous users can post in a responsable way. However, personal accountability and anonymous posting? Those are incompatible. Which is sometimes the whole reason to post anonymously.
Toys are nice, but what I really need is a new chair. Something nice and ergonomic. The piece of junk I'm currently using (complete with duct tape) just isn't holding out any more..
I'm currently typing in a room with all the lights off, using only my monitor and assorted power lights for light. The reason? Easier on the eyes.
During the day, I keep the curtains closed and wish they were heavier to block out more light. The window is positioned behind me and I get a constant reflection off of my monitor, making it difficult to spot snipers hiding in dark areas of half-life maps.
If these same kids had the opportunity to take computer science classes early on, they could find the challenge they needed in producing good software. Computer science education in high schools is terrible; it should be offered at multiple levels and even begun in middle school.
I'll have to agree with both points. Our high school was run on a network of Macs. Out of desperation, the computer geeks of the high school got our hands on a couple of old PCs and began doing whatever we could with them. (Now that I think about it, I think the administration gave us those just to keep us off the network.) As to computing classes - I didn't take any until I got to university. In high school I had a friend taking them and I was helping him with them. At the highest level he was learning to program in basic. Since I've come to university, I've learned that there are other schools which teach other languages such as Pascal and even some C/C++ to the students that want to learn.
It was tons of fun growing up as a computer geek in rural, redneck Alberta, Canada...
> Now, just out of curiosity, who out there DIDN'T have their SSN as their student ID in college? Our college uses a 4 digit code representing the date you started school here (ie: 1997) followed by a number assigned at registration depending on when you signed up. So students who signed up for school early in 1997 get something like 1997-0203 for the 203rd student in 1997.
They're changing this next year because it is too insecure. If a student is the only person in his year in a particular class and the prof posts marks by id number (as most do), it allows other students to see what the one got as a grade. They're changing it to be 8 randomly assigned numbers which are then associated with name and other details in the database. Only certain professors (heads of divisions), the business office, and the registrar's office have access to the database, and then only access to relevant information.
Compared to others out there, I think AUC just keeps sounding better. The T1 helps a bit though..
"GeoCities is now part of the Yahoo! family. Before you can use all of Yahoo!'s services you'll need to go through our re-registration process."
I do not have the option of not using Yahoo's services and just staying with Geocities. I must now join Yahoo in order to edit or, in my case, remove my Geocities page.
If anybody finds a way around this, could they email me here?
On a side note, when the internet originally came out, it strongly resembled the laissez-faire model of economics. Now it's starting to resemble a mixed market economy too much - the governemnt supports the big businesses who pay for election funds. Maybe socialism is next with the government regulating everything.. But, on the other hand, I haven't been to Australia lately..
Rational explanation for Anakin's mother not knowing who his father is that came up while a group of us were discussing the movie: she was out drinking and was too drunk to remember who the father is.
I think it's getting to the point where the child with the most dysfunctional family has two parents who love them, no abuse, no alcoholism, no drug problems, etc.
It's sad, but I think everything else is becoming normal.
In less than two weeks I'm going to recieve my BSc from a small "University College". They have a well - developed CS department which teaches fairly up to date info. It's not exactly a type one college, although there is a segment of the population which seems to wish it was.
However it's not a type two school either. The professors are knowlegable and the material is challenging. However, the relevance of what I've learned to my new job (whatever it may be) is questionable.
Our school has a very wide view when it comes to topics of study for CS. I've learned everything from architecture to operating system concepts. Because I attend a "University College", I get a nice blend of hands-on experience as well as theory.
The problem I've got is that the hands-on work is mostly basic coding and most of the time has little to do with the theory we're learning. Some of the coding we've done also has very little to do with current business trends.
Also, information on a broad range of topics (it's a liberal arts school) is poured into our heads and we have to memorize it all for an exam, then we're free to forget it. I am hard pressed to remember topics I covered last term because they're no longer applicable to what I'm doing now.
When I do get a job there'll have to be a period of orientation and training for me. This period will be shorter because, as some people have already mentioned, I've learned to learn. During this period, I'll learn what is needed to do my job, then I'll proceed to forget 90% of the information I accumulated while attending college.
In a field where somebody who was working in their garage or playing with code while I was learning can become a success overnight, taking time out to learn how to learn is a bit worrying.
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Could you recommend a search site or two? I'd like to see if my name's online...
As to invisible friends - I started doing this a few years ago. Robert Dexx showed up and started doing all my net stuff for me.
As to my store club cards - I've got the cards, but I don't fill out the applications (this can be done if you tell the cashier that you don't have a card, but would really, really like one and could she activate it now so that you can get the points from your current purchase and don't worry you'll fill out the form and take it over to customer service right away.)
-Dexx
"And ten billion sushi dinners cried out for vengeance." -Good Omens
Club cards at stores. Pretty much the same thing. Think about your ATM card. Or you credit card.
It shouldn't be too hard to map your purchases through all of those, especially for these large companies with tons of $$.
Hm.. now that I think about it, I forgot to fill out all my personal info on most of the store cards I have. I still get discount prices, but they don't have any of my personal info. Oops..
-Dexx
"And ten billion sushi dinners cried out for vengeance." -Good Omens
I don't think those two concepts are incompatable. I think that it is possible that anonymous users can post in a responsable way. However, personal accountability and anonymous posting? Those are incompatible. Which is sometimes the whole reason to post anonymously.
-Dexx
Reality is for the insanity impaired.
Toys are nice, but what I really need is a new chair. Something nice and ergonomic. The piece of junk I'm currently using (complete with duct tape) just isn't holding out any more..
I'm currently typing in a room with all the lights off, using only my monitor and assorted power lights for light. The reason? Easier on the eyes.
During the day, I keep the curtains closed and wish they were heavier to block out more light. The window is positioned behind me and I get a constant reflection off of my monitor, making it difficult to spot snipers hiding in dark areas of half-life maps.
If these same kids had the opportunity to take computer science classes early on, they could find the challenge they needed in producing good software. Computer science education in high schools is terrible; it should be offered at multiple levels and even begun in middle school.
I'll have to agree with both points. Our high school was run on a network of Macs. Out of desperation, the computer geeks of the high school got our hands on a couple of old PCs and began doing whatever we could with them. (Now that I think about it, I think the administration gave us those just to keep us off the network.)
As to computing classes - I didn't take any until I got to university. In high school I had a friend taking them and I was helping him with them. At the highest level he was learning to program in basic. Since I've come to university, I've learned that there are other schools which teach other languages such as Pascal and even some C/C++ to the students that want to learn.
It was tons of fun growing up as a computer geek in rural, redneck Alberta, Canada...
> Now, just out of curiosity, who out there DIDN'T have their SSN as their student ID in college?
Our college uses a 4 digit code representing the date you started school here (ie: 1997) followed by a number assigned at registration depending on when you signed up. So students who signed up for school early in 1997 get something like 1997-0203 for the 203rd student in 1997.
They're changing this next year because it is too insecure. If a student is the only person in his year in a particular class and the prof posts marks by id number (as most do), it allows other students to see what the one got as a grade.
They're changing it to be 8 randomly assigned numbers which are then associated with name and other details in the database. Only certain professors (heads of divisions), the business office, and the registrar's office have access to the database, and then only access to relevant information.
Compared to others out there, I think AUC just keeps sounding better. The T1 helps a bit though..
-Dexx
"GeoCities is now part of the Yahoo! family. Before you can use all of Yahoo!'s services you'll
need to go through our re-registration process."
I do not have the option of not using Yahoo's services and just staying with Geocities. I must now join Yahoo in order to edit or, in my case, remove my Geocities page.
If anybody finds a way around this, could they email me here?
On a side note, when the internet originally came out, it strongly resembled the laissez-faire model of economics. Now it's starting to resemble a mixed market economy too much - the governemnt supports the big businesses who pay for election funds. Maybe socialism is next with the government regulating everything.. But, on the other hand, I haven't been to Australia lately..
Rational explanation for Anakin's mother not knowing who his father is that came up while a group of us were discussing the movie: she was out drinking and was too drunk to remember who the father is.
-Dexx
I think it's getting to the point where the child with the most dysfunctional family has two parents who love them, no abuse, no alcoholism, no drug problems, etc.
It's sad, but I think everything else is becoming normal.
In less than two weeks I'm going to recieve my BSc from a small "University College". They have a well - developed CS department which teaches fairly up to date info. It's not exactly a type one college, although there is a segment of the population which seems to wish it was.
However it's not a type two school either. The professors are knowlegable and the material is challenging. However, the relevance of what I've learned to my new job (whatever it may be) is questionable.
Our school has a very wide view when it comes to topics of study for CS. I've learned everything from architecture to operating system concepts. Because I attend a "University College", I get a nice blend of hands-on experience as well as theory.
The problem I've got is that the hands-on work is mostly basic coding and most of the time has little to do with the theory we're learning. Some of the coding we've done also has very little to do with current business trends.
Also, information on a broad range of topics (it's a liberal arts school) is poured into our heads and we have to memorize it all for an exam, then we're free to forget it. I am hard pressed to remember topics I covered last term because they're no longer applicable to what I'm doing now.
When I do get a job there'll have to be a period of orientation and training for me. This period will be shorter because, as some people have already mentioned, I've learned to learn. During this period, I'll learn what is needed to do my job, then I'll proceed to forget 90% of the information I accumulated while attending college.
In a field where somebody who was working in their garage or playing with code while I was learning can become a success overnight, taking time out to learn how to learn is a bit worrying.