As somebody who works at a company with a test like that for new hires, I can say this: 1) we pay a lot of money for that test 2) we ignore the results, except for throwing out people who like open source too much 3) our management are really hopelessly stereotypical suits
So, survey with sample size of one says, keep looking....
A google search on "Shimadzu HMD" turns up this page (http://www.shimadzu.co.jp/products/aero/hmd/) with an artist concept of the display, and this pessimistic note (http://wearables.blu.org/wear-hard-00/20005171.ht ml) about availability.
If I'm correctly decoding the URL of the pessimistic note, it's a year old.
When was the last time you looked at the blueprints of your car's engine, anyway ?
Dude, maybe all you do with your car is drive it, and maybe all you do with your computer is run applications, but some of us do development on our cars and computers. Adding a cruise control to a car is a lot easier if you have diagrams for the wiring and vacuum routing, and writing a driver is a lot easier if you have the OS source, even if you're not modifying anything that's already there.
What's particularly entertaining in this case is that first, the page loads perfectly fine in its entirety, and *THEN* the message comes up that the page can't possibly work, nu-huh, no way.
I believe this is a huge problem with Intro classes in any subject, but especially CS where most of its students already have experience with the subject.
Dude, I think you're missing the point here. If you already have experience in a subject X, "intro to X" is garaunteed to be a boring timewaster for you. "Intro to X" is for people who have not yet been introduced to X. If your school lacks more advanced courses, well, suffer. Or advocate for new courses, or take classes at your local community college, or all of the above. But don't complain that a course aimed at people who know nothing about programming is "pandering" to the know-nothings!
People seem to be missing the point here. Of course, if you are employed, the work you create for hire, to get your salary, is the property of your employer. What is annoying, is when your employer insists that work you do unpaid, on your own time, is theirs as well.
My employer does this, apparently for no reason since no one in HR could come up with any reasonable excuse for keeping that clause in the contract. I negotiated an exception when I hired on without much trouble.
Off topic:
You know how the library web filter debates are always full of the idea that "children might be psychologically damaged by accidentally finding some porn"? I never realized before that that's really not a specious argument or a euphemism to avoid talking about porn-snarfing 10-year-olds.
Much as all tech people seem to hate it, this is exactly the sort of situation where Apple's At Ease desktop does well: you have no confusing options, and you can't screw it up. Obviously this is not going to help your situation if you've already bought your hardware, but having set up my own grandfather a couple years ago with an old Mac IIci and AOL, At Ease on used mac hardware is an inexpensive solution I can recommend for others.
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What happens when the setae (natural or artificial) get dusty? How do you clean these things to keep them sticky?
As somebody who works at a company with a test like that for new hires, I can say this:
1) we pay a lot of money for that test
2) we ignore the results, except for throwing out people who like open source too much
3) our management are really hopelessly stereotypical suits
So, survey with sample size of one says, keep looking....
Me too!
If I'm correctly decoding the URL of the pessimistic note, it's a year old.
What's particularly entertaining in this case is that first, the page loads perfectly fine in its entirety, and *THEN* the message comes up that the page can't possibly work, nu-huh, no way.
Heh. Tweakers.
People seem to be missing the point here. Of course, if you are employed, the work you create for hire, to get your salary, is the property of your employer. What is annoying, is when your employer insists that work you do unpaid, on your own time, is theirs as well.
My employer does this, apparently for no reason since no one in HR could come up with any reasonable excuse for keeping that clause in the contract. I negotiated an exception when I hired on without much trouble.
I take it you've never been pregnant?
MEAT! I will have MEAT! NOW! NOW NOW NOW! Red, juicy! I WILL REND THE COW MYSELF!!
Oh, the carnage....
I feel ill. I think I might be damaged.
Haven't we seen this before, with flat denials by the USPS that they ever intended to provide e-mail of any sort?
Much as all tech people seem to hate it, this is exactly the sort of situation where Apple's At Ease desktop does well: you have no confusing options, and you can't screw it up. Obviously this is not going to help your situation if you've already bought your hardware, but having set up my own grandfather a couple years ago with an old Mac IIci and AOL, At Ease on used mac hardware is an inexpensive solution I can recommend for others.