My laptop, running Win2K is up and running around 12-14 hours a day and I can't remember it ever crashing. I only got this laptop after moving jobs to a project management one. My previous job within the same company, using the exact same image of Win2K, involved a lot of development in Websphere using IBM's WSAD, and I'd see a crash/blue screen at least twice a day.
I'm fairly sure that if you left a Windows box up without ever touching it or running anything on it it'd work 100% of the time. It's all down to circumstances.
OK, the NYT is relevant to Americans, but hardly anyone else. They rarely cover non-US focused stories, unlike, for example, the BBC. The Googleweb already suffers enough from pulling back US related results as opposed to global results, and moving the NYT up will only worsen that.
And after all, if the NYT isn't that popular as an Internet source of information, as it seems it isn't, surely it's wrong/unethical for Google to be working with them on a way to fudge the results so that the NYT comes in higher in the unsponsored results that are meant to be bias free?
Hmm.. I disagree, but maybe that's the UK approach. In the majority of cases, I think people regard University (in the UK, anyway) as a springboard to a job, and all the University degree shows is that you can learn and deliver results under extreme circumstances, i.e. poverty, being drunk, stinky housemates.
When I review CV's, I want a team player and someone who'll fit in well with our existing members, and not someone who spent the 3 years of their life (when they're entitled to do little other than have fun and grow up) fiddling around with network routers..
I installed it the other day as well.. Well, I didn't. RealOnePlayer installed it itself while I was off getting lunch.. I came back to a few Windows open showing it had been installed. Imagine my joy at having a newer, fatter, more pointless version installed without my permission.
$200 copy of Windows (with no real production cost)?
Erm, hello?
Your 1st grade economics is astounding. The cost of a product encompasses the entire product lifecycle, from inception, through R&D, development, testing, deployment, marketing, packaging, sales force, legal and a hundred other departments.
Just because something doesn't have a physical value (i.e. you can't take it in to get money for scrap) doesn't mean there isn't a real value associated to it! In fact in most products, the component parts are the minority of the production cost, which is why companies patent things - it was the R&D that took the time and cost the most.
Personally, I've continually found Javascript development to be the bane of my life - it's almost nonsensical at times and difficult to debug. But that may just be my lack of skill!
Pretty much any client side language is difficult if you're trying to make it cross platform, but I think Java does a reasonably good job of it..
Oh - and I'm on of the people who put Java on their CV and can REALLY do it!:-)
If, as many Slashdot readers regularly bang on about, the Web is an open environment that everyone can take part it, why is there such eliteism in terms of "Oh, this isn't programmed quite right - therefore they suck".
Well of course they do, at programming anyway, most of these people aren't programmers, they're just interested in getting some information available for other people.
I imagine that a lot of the people commenting on here's perfect web would be just an open HTML tag then a close HTML tag. Perfect code, does exactly what it was asked to - shame it's no damned use!
I also did a CS course at university and in fact designed and wrote my university's automatic anti-plagiarism system as my final year project. So I know how strict they are on copying.
However, I now teach my company's Structured Programming course to new graduates starting here, and the first thing I try to hammer into them is that there is absolutely no point whatsoever in trying to do something yourself first - it's quicker, easier, and will probably be more reliable if you copy some existing work.
Obviously, this is entirely at odds with the University system, but re-use and sharing of code is an incredibly important issue in the "real world". In my opinion there's no room for code and knowledge hoarders in a large organisation (such as mine, with thousands of people employed in IT).
As far as I know, most University's are looking into this kind of thing. I developed one for the University of Leeds here in the UK in 1998/99 as my final year university project. Mine was specifically to find plagiarists in their Computer Science coursework (C++ and so on), and wasn't too difficult to do, but was effective and generally found 14-15% of the class the be cheating.
Of course, the deterrent of having such a system has ended up being much more effective than the system itself, if you make it widely known that 20-40 people are being warned/punished for plagiarism out of every group of 200 who submit coursework...
I know no-one'll care, but I wrote it in Perl and it's available to anyone who wants it...
Paul (pcardno@mmm.com)
Slashdot Mirror
"Try using the following command: mplayer -vo xv -fs=yes moviename."
Aha, very intuitive... Yikes!
My laptop, running Win2K is up and running around 12-14 hours a day and I can't remember it ever crashing. I only got this laptop after moving jobs to a project management one. My previous job within the same company, using the exact same image of Win2K, involved a lot of development in Websphere using IBM's WSAD, and I'd see a crash/blue screen at least twice a day.
I'm fairly sure that if you left a Windows box up without ever touching it or running anything on it it'd work 100% of the time. It's all down to circumstances.
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Guns don't kill people, rappers do!
Or you could just use Firefox and right click on the result and select "Open in new Tab", which negates the "target='_blank'" attribute...
That's what I always do, anyway!
I believe that clear beer cans are also known as bottles... :-)
OK, the NYT is relevant to Americans, but hardly anyone else. They rarely cover non-US focused stories, unlike, for example, the BBC. The Googleweb already suffers enough from pulling back US related results as opposed to global results, and moving the NYT up will only worsen that.
And after all, if the NYT isn't that popular as an Internet source of information, as it seems it isn't, surely it's wrong/unethical for Google to be working with them on a way to fudge the results so that the NYT comes in higher in the unsponsored results that are meant to be bias free?
Hmm.. I disagree, but maybe that's the UK approach. In the majority of cases, I think people regard University (in the UK, anyway) as a springboard to a job, and all the University degree shows is that you can learn and deliver results under extreme circumstances, i.e. poverty, being drunk, stinky housemates.
When I review CV's, I want a team player and someone who'll fit in well with our existing members, and not someone who spent the 3 years of their life (when they're entitled to do little other than have fun and grow up) fiddling around with network routers..
I installed it the other day as well.. Well, I didn't. RealOnePlayer installed it itself while I was off getting lunch.. I came back to a few Windows open showing it had been installed. Imagine my joy at having a newer, fatter, more pointless version installed without my permission.
Oh cheer up! At least maybe it'll make people think about the homeless problem...
$200 copy of Windows (with no real production cost)?
Erm, hello?
Your 1st grade economics is astounding. The cost of a product encompasses the entire product lifecycle, from inception, through R&D, development, testing, deployment, marketing, packaging, sales force, legal and a hundred other departments.
Just because something doesn't have a physical value (i.e. you can't take it in to get money for scrap) doesn't mean there isn't a real value associated to it! In fact in most products, the component parts are the minority of the production cost, which is why companies patent things - it was the R&D that took the time and cost the most.
P.
Personally, I've continually found Javascript development to be the bane of my life - it's almost nonsensical at times and difficult to debug. But that may just be my lack of skill!
:-)
Pretty much any client side language is difficult if you're trying to make it cross platform, but I think Java does a reasonably good job of it..
Oh - and I'm on of the people who put Java on their CV and can REALLY do it!
And why exactly should they learn to program?
If, as many Slashdot readers regularly bang on about, the Web is an open environment that everyone can take part it, why is there such eliteism in terms of "Oh, this isn't programmed quite right - therefore they suck".
Well of course they do, at programming anyway, most of these people aren't programmers, they're just interested in getting some information available for other people.
I imagine that a lot of the people commenting on here's perfect web would be just an open HTML tag then a close HTML tag. Perfect code, does exactly what it was asked to - shame it's no damned use!
Paul.
I also did a CS course at university and in fact designed and wrote my university's automatic anti-plagiarism system as my final year project. So I know how strict they are on copying.
However, I now teach my company's Structured Programming course to new graduates starting here, and the first thing I try to hammer into them is that there is absolutely no point whatsoever in trying to do something yourself first - it's quicker, easier, and will probably be more reliable if you copy some existing work.
Obviously, this is entirely at odds with the University system, but re-use and sharing of code is an incredibly important issue in the "real world". In my opinion there's no room for code and knowledge hoarders in a large organisation (such as mine, with thousands of people employed in IT).
Paul
pcardno@mmm.com
As far as I know, most University's are looking into this kind of thing. I developed one for the University of Leeds here in the UK in 1998/99 as my final year university project. Mine was specifically to find plagiarists in their Computer Science coursework (C++ and so on), and wasn't too difficult to do, but was effective and generally found 14-15% of the class the be cheating.
Of course, the deterrent of having such a system has ended up being much more effective than the system itself, if you make it widely known that 20-40 people are being warned/punished for plagiarism out of every group of 200 who submit coursework... I know no-one'll care, but I wrote it in Perl and it's available to anyone who wants it...
Paul (pcardno@mmm.com)