It would be cool if that "i"m feeling lucky" button actually took you to a web page, but I tried it a couple of times and it seems its broken on my client. Every time I'd do a search for a "search engine" the page would just reload.
You're missing the point here. The role of the University is not to transform you into a wag whore by teaching you how to integrate the results of a Fortran bin packing algorithm with an MS Access database. Technology is fickle. 20 years ago Fortran was a contender. Today its only used for extreame math analysis of old hardware. Tomorrow, who knows in MS Access will still be around, and besides, anyone serious about a DB application will be using expensive software that Unis can't afford anyway liek Oracle 8i. At best, they could spend the whole CS budget on an Oracle DB that is obsolete in 5 years time.
The University teaches you how to learn. They teach you the basics that you need to know in order to be able to apply basic fundamentals to new problems. Once your out the door, its up to you to fill in the what you learn part, and thats a process that last a lot longer than four years.
Abstract, pull out the parameters of the problem at hand and apply implementation constraints and solve the problem. That's what I do just about every day.
If you expect students that are 100% productive starting day one on the job, recruit from a local technical school. What you gain in productivity for the first half a year you'll lose in the long term when the.Net initiative forces you to pay patent royalties and you either have to pay half your gross revenue to M$ or migrate your entire system to J2EE. "Virtual Machine? what's that?"...
One of the biggest obstacles for.Net has been acceptance. Despite all the marketing hype,.Net hasn't seen the wildly successful adoption of the.Net framework in the marketplace. I do R&D for a huge software company, and we are betting heavily on Java services. This is only one more reason to be wary of the.Net initiaitive. As such, M$ marketing is probably (or soon will be) tearing their hair out over this.
Just installed an HP printer and the following came up with the EULA. I wonder, if it ever turned out that they infringed on Open Source (e.g. GPL), if it would effect the entire license, making it null and void, i.e. letting me disassemble until my hearts content (clause 4).
8. U.S. Government Restricted Rights. The Software has been developed entirely at private expense. It is delivered and licensed, as defined in any applicable DFARS, FARS, or other equivalent federal agency regulation or contract clause, as either "commercial computer software" or "restricted computer software", whichever is applicable. You have only those rights provided for such Software by the applicable clause or regulation or by these License Terms.
And here the english->german->english bablefish translation in hopes of gaining clearer insight into just what exactly the author is trying to say to you, the reader.
Some months ago PGP creator Phil Carpenter a Reseller for the present graphic version of the software, which it originally laichte, produced by PGP corporation. Now Carpenter straight began, by its own website a modern command line coding product called FileCrypt, which has to sell its roots in an older version of PGP Confusingly enough, this software produced from a called company (Veridis) and does not say PGP on the box, because it does not permit-prove can. Network user, the PGP Inc.. 1997 acquired, holds the rights for silence to this name; when NaI away PGP to PGP corporation 2002 stretch, they held the command line version. Open PGP, for which Carpenter serves as technical advisors (as well as a Reseller), is to be sold contractually not capable, a command line version. (it is on the board of Veridis in addition.) But why you place Text-nur version of customs software anyway forwards if the Auftischversion GUI fied for years and matured costs less?
I find this quite amusing. I recently attended a talk in Montreal given by Kent Beck, one of the X-programming icons. One of the key elements of XP, as I understood his talk, is cutting down what he calls excess 'inventory' which include things such as excess documentation, architecture, etc. By keeping these iventory elements to a minimum, you get quicker feedback, because you have quicker results, which feeds back into the process and allows you to respond quickly to changing requirments.
Well, it also happens that JUnit was developed al la XP by Kent and one other guy (didn't pay attention to who, go look it up!) For a while I was thinking that this XP thing might actually be something, but after skimming through the first 5 chapeters of 'Planning XP' coupled with the statements concerning the JUnit API, I'm starting to think that XP really is just one big hot air balloon.
In his defense though, he did say that refactoring often was a GOOD idea. It's just that he didn't say that you should wait for someone else to do it for you.
Don't get excited guys. This is just Texas politics as usual. Doesn't it seem odd that the CITY OF HOUSTON chose a software product from a HOUSTON ENTREPRENEUR. This is how things is done down in 'good ole boy' Texas.
Think Ross Perot and his software billions.
Think G.W and the whole Enron fiasco.
While I won't comment on the merits of SimOffice, it may in fact be a viable windows alternative, this deal was as much motivated (if not more so) by Texas backroom dealing as it was by technical merit.
"Ned, I wouldn't worry too much about this contract. Seems to me I've already got my boys committed elsewhere. You be sure and thank Maisie for this fine pie."
IE wil NEVER block pop-up adds. Think of the economics involved. MS isnt just a software company. They are into other things, say MSN for example. For thows of you familiar with Hotmail, think of the millions of site references MS steal via hotmail. If the avaergae Joe you clicks on a link from a ligitamite email offer, the result is a new window, which is essentially two-framed, the controlling frame being held by the MSN. Now use the same logic for pop-ups.
MS stopped being a consumer technology developer long ago. Now all they have to do is just lead the lemmings.
So whats the deal with all the book reviews lately? Anyone else suspect that these posts are direct marketing ploys....
On another note, who are the morons that need a Java API book. Why waste your time flipping through pages to find a class definition when you can 'click' on the class name from and alphabetical list from Sun.
Can someone explain to me why writing tests first is a GOOD idea? Sure you get the requirements down, but thats what planning is for anyway.
What gets me is, what about the bugs in the test code? It seems to me that you run into a brick wall awful quickly when you start spending as much time debugging the test code as you spend debugging productive code.
Doesn't this seem a little ironic. M$ software is historically flawed whenn it comes to security. The way M$ resolves these flaws is with patches. The problem is that the language in the EULAs is turning people away from installing the patches. The end result is that M$ software sucurity as an internet entity, over time, becomes inherently more insecure because of the increasing number of discovered exploits and the decreasing rate of patch compliance.
Its not a technical problem to be solved here, rather a litigious one. Sony distributes these walkmans to reviewers and makes them sign a release that they won't tamper with the cd player. When they collect the CD player, they know if the wires have been cut, smashed with a hammer, etc. If its broke, its a breach of contract and an open and shut legal dispute. Effective answer to a (potentially) pervasive problem.
I agree with u mr t0ny,linux isnt very approachable, but its not a commercial product. There are no marketing whores pushing it as the next best thing since britney spears. But the reality is,lets face it, if it was a commercial product and had the marketing power M$ had, who do u think would win,the free OS or the 1 that cost M$ dollars.
In other news,the reason u have no mod points on ur post is that since u are obviously a linux basher, u are thereforea M$ supporter, why else would u post on this site?
I'll one up you on irony. I also have a hotmail account and will be sending one when I leave work today. Now here's the kicker, my last name IS Tunney and it IN my hotmail UID.
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It would be cool if that "i"m feeling lucky" button actually took you to a web page, but I tried it a couple of times and it seems its broken on my client. Every time I'd do a search for a "search engine" the page would just reload.
Anyone else remember back to when every other article on Slashdot WASN'T a Wired kick-back and the discussion was actually worth reading?
You're missing the point here. The role of the University is not to transform you into a wag whore by teaching you how to integrate the results of a Fortran bin packing algorithm with an MS Access database. Technology is fickle. 20 years ago Fortran was a contender. Today its only used for extreame math analysis of old hardware. Tomorrow, who knows in MS Access will still be around, and besides, anyone serious about a DB application will be using expensive software that Unis can't afford anyway liek Oracle 8i. At best, they could spend the whole CS budget on an Oracle DB that is obsolete in 5 years time.
.Net initiative forces you to pay patent royalties and you either have to pay half your gross revenue to M$ or migrate your entire system to J2EE. "Virtual Machine? what's that?"...
The University teaches you how to learn. They teach you the basics that you need to know in order to be able to apply basic fundamentals to new problems. Once your out the door, its up to you to fill in the what you learn part, and thats a process that last a lot longer than four years.
Abstract, pull out the parameters of the problem at hand and apply implementation constraints and solve the problem. That's what I do just about every day.
If you expect students that are 100% productive starting day one on the job, recruit from a local technical school. What you gain in productivity for the first half a year you'll lose in the long term when the
This is exactly the argument the ABAP developers down the hall have been searching for! Down with OOP!
One of the biggest obstacles for
Just installed an HP printer and the following came up with the EULA. I wonder, if it ever turned out that they infringed on Open Source (e.g. GPL), if it would effect the entire license, making it null and void, i.e. letting me disassemble until my hearts content (clause 4).
8. U.S. Government Restricted Rights. The Software has been developed entirely at private expense. It is delivered and licensed, as defined in any applicable DFARS, FARS, or other equivalent federal agency regulation or contract clause, as either "commercial computer software" or "restricted computer software", whichever is applicable. You have only those rights provided for such Software by the applicable clause or regulation or by these License Terms.
And here the english->german->english bablefish translation in hopes of gaining clearer insight into just what exactly the author is trying to say to you, the reader.
Some months ago PGP creator Phil Carpenter a Reseller for the present graphic version of the software, which it originally laichte, produced by PGP corporation. Now Carpenter straight began, by its own website a modern command line coding product called FileCrypt, which has to sell its roots in an older version of PGP Confusingly enough, this software produced from a called company (Veridis) and does not say PGP on the box, because it does not permit-prove can. Network user, the PGP Inc.. 1997 acquired, holds the rights for silence to this name; when NaI away PGP to PGP corporation 2002 stretch, they held the command line version. Open PGP, for which Carpenter serves as technical advisors (as well as a Reseller), is to be sold contractually not capable, a command line version. (it is on the board of Veridis in addition.) But why you place Text-nur version of customs software anyway forwards if the Auftischversion GUI fied for years and matured costs less?
I find this quite amusing. I recently attended a talk in Montreal given by Kent Beck, one of the X-programming icons. One of the key elements of XP, as I understood his talk, is cutting down what he calls excess 'inventory' which include things such as excess documentation, architecture, etc. By keeping these iventory elements to a minimum, you get quicker feedback, because you have quicker results, which feeds back into the process and allows you to respond quickly to changing requirments.
Well, it also happens that JUnit was developed al la XP by Kent and one other guy (didn't pay attention to who, go look it up!) For a while I was thinking that this XP thing might actually be something, but after skimming through the first 5 chapeters of 'Planning XP' coupled with the statements concerning the JUnit API, I'm starting to think that XP really is just one big hot air balloon.
In his defense though, he did say that refactoring often was a GOOD idea. It's just that he didn't say that you should wait for someone else to do it for you.
My 2 cents.
Don't get excited guys. This is just Texas politics as usual. Doesn't it seem odd that the CITY OF HOUSTON chose a software product from a HOUSTON ENTREPRENEUR. This is how things is done down in 'good ole boy' Texas.
Think Ross Perot and his software billions.
Think G.W and the whole Enron fiasco.
While I won't comment on the merits of SimOffice, it may in fact be a viable windows alternative, this deal was as much motivated (if not more so) by Texas backroom dealing as it was by technical merit.
"Ned, I wouldn't worry too much about this contract. Seems to me I've already got my boys committed elsewhere. You be sure and thank Maisie for this fine pie."
if I don't have one of those proprietary power cables adapter thingies!
GUI?? Yu mean Sun is still keeping that corpse on life support?
IE wil NEVER block pop-up adds. Think of the economics involved. MS isnt just a software company. They are into other things, say MSN for example. For thows of you familiar with Hotmail, think of the millions of site references MS steal via hotmail. If the avaergae Joe you clicks on a link from a ligitamite email offer, the result is a new window, which is essentially two-framed, the controlling frame being held by the MSN. Now use the same logic for pop-ups.
MS stopped being a consumer technology developer long ago. Now all they have to do is just lead the lemmings.
So whats the deal with all the book reviews lately? Anyone else suspect that these posts are direct marketing ploys....
On another note, who are the morons that need a Java API book. Why waste your time flipping through pages to find a class definition when you can 'click' on the class name from and alphabetical list from Sun.
Who are these people that buy this trash!?!?
'formats they are demanding' == ogg?
Reality check people, no is demanding ogg...or at least very few.
Can someone explain to me why writing tests first is a GOOD idea? Sure you get the requirements down, but thats what planning is for anyway.
What gets me is, what about the bugs in the test code? It seems to me that you run into a brick wall awful quickly when you start spending as much time debugging the test code as you spend debugging productive code.
If she was black and a nobody. She'd be behind bars.
All men are created equal, only, some are more equal than others.
Doesn't this seem a little ironic. M$ software is historically flawed whenn it comes to security. The way M$ resolves these flaws is with patches. The problem is that the language in the EULAs is turning people away from installing the patches. The end result is that M$ software sucurity as an internet entity, over time, becomes inherently more insecure because of the increasing number of discovered exploits and the decreasing rate of patch compliance.
The important thing to notice here is that this trojan existed a matter of days before being picked up. That's open source at work.
Thanks for the tip Steve!
Its not a technical problem to be solved here, rather a litigious one. Sony distributes these walkmans to reviewers and makes them sign a release that they won't tamper with the cd player. When they collect the CD player, they know if the wires have been cut, smashed with a hammer, etc. If its broke, its a breach of contract and an open and shut legal dispute. Effective answer to a (potentially) pervasive problem.
I agree with u mr t0ny,linux isnt very approachable, but its not a commercial product. There are no marketing whores pushing it as the next best thing since britney spears. But the reality is,lets face it, if it was a commercial product and had the marketing power M$ had, who do u think would win,the free OS or the 1 that cost M$ dollars.
In other news,the reason u have no mod points on ur post is that since u are obviously a linux basher, u are thereforea M$ supporter, why else would u post on this site?
When this guy talks about us all being enslaved by word, did he mean MS Word?....
What I don't get about Physics is, years after my last U-Grad Physics course I STILL havn't found that frictionless frozen pond.
I'll one up you on irony. I also have a hotmail account and will be sending one when I leave work today. Now here's the kicker, my last name IS Tunney and it IN my hotmail UID.
Cheers,
A Tunney
According to CNN.com, the EU seems to be using the Japanese Yen as currency....
Cheers,
me
p.s. Uh, I think they ment Euro...i.e.