The department of CS here at the university I attend tried to switch the operating systems class over to using Java. What kind of crap is that? I can understand it from an algorithm/"know the technique and apply it anywhere" viewpoint, but come on. If you're gonna learn the guts of an OS, at least learn it in the language it'll most likely be written (C/C++).
If he leaves, will be create a new company called 0x0soft?
for those who don't get it, in C the macro NULL is defined as 0x0 (0 in hexidecimal notation) or something like that... either way, 0x0 is null on pcs... on macs I think that's a legitimate address
I use Winamp 3 on my laptop... I like the new interface with the new skins, as well as the playlist organization thing it does (can load multiple playlists).
I don't use it on my main computer yet because my keyboard's media controls won't work with it. That and it takes up about 30% cpu on an athlon 1500+ while playing non-minimized, compared to 1% with 2.7 or whatever other version I have.
Yes, and in the latter case, the piracy can actually help a software company. By getting used to their product now, a person may go to a company and then have said company purchase that product for use at their job, which allows the software company to gouge them at business prices.
Even if they are a little "aggressive" with their accounting I highly doubt they'll be in the type of trouble Enron is in. I don't think IBM is going away anytime soon, and they (the SEC) are just investigating the accounting for 1 division relating to 1 customer. I don't think there's much to worry about (famous last words?)
They are great if your classroom has wireless access. I could download the outlines posted by the profs and make my own notes on them while in class, rather then printing them out (my printer's ink cartridge has been empty for about a year now). Plus, if you're bored you can check your email or read/. (I did that alot)
Some profs seem to not like students having a laptop in class but I feel that if a student isn't interested in the lecture anyways, not having a laptop isn't going to force them to listen... they'll draw or read another textbook or just flat out leave anyways.
Yes but the average user doesn't have gigs and gigs of pr0n or mp3z or code or whatever. Heck, I'm only using about 14gb of a 60gb array and that includes some FreeBSD, Redhat, and Gentoo ISOs as well as some mp3s. My parents barely have 2gb on a 20gb drive, if that.
And if I had $20 for every hour I "wasted" coding for an awesome MUD all the while improving my algorithm design and coding skills, not only would I have an awesome job, but I'd be even more l33t then I am right now.
I had a real problem with the heat from my computer heating up the area around my desk, so I fabricated some simple directional ducts out of soda cans to direct the air away from behind my desk, and I've already noticed the results... mind you, this doesn't make the entire room cooler, just makes it seem cooler while I'm sitting at my desk.
You know, glancing at some of the highly moderated posts, nobody has seemed to mention why these companies would want to hire these people who mass-mail resumes. They're just as bad as spammers.
Mind you, I realize that this article says they have to keep a copy on hand by this law (no I didn't RFTA, sorry), but can't they just make it company policy to not accept mass-mailed resumes?
Yeah, kinda the same thing here... the university pub changed it's name from Locos to Wackadoos (which I think is a stupid name) sometime last year... you know what everybody but the incoming freshmen call it? Locos. Exactly.
"I know this all sounds like you're hiding yourself and doing this illegitimately, but the reason you have to do it is everybody tries to shut you down," Shiels said.
And this guy doesn't think that they have good reasons for this? It doesn't sound like he's doing it illegitimately, HE IS! Forging email addresses, maybe not quite misleading subjects but others clearly are guilty of that, abusing open relays overseas, disguising the mail's origins... it's fraud, pal. You'd think as a former cop he'd realize that.
"There's people who sit in their basements and have nothing better to do than get all upset about spam," Shiels said.
I'd love to know what he's basing this data on. I myself never respond to or even READ a piece of spam mail, because most often that mail will never get to them, or they won't care. Reminds me of Homer: "Facts schmacts... you can prove anything remotely true with facts." (or something like that)
"I realized I didn't like to sell anything that nobody wants or needs or despises," he said. "I started to realize people just hate this so much."
Notice he still hasn't realized WHY people hate it so much.
I dunno... the college I just graduated from essentially told me that I just have to write my name on a form and I'm in to their masters and/or PhD CSprogram . I wanted to get my masters first then work on my phd (masters as kind of a half-way point) and the faculty advisor guy I was talking to seemed very excited.
The only hard part for me is gonna be deciding on what I wanna do for a thesis. I was told by a professor (almost exact words) "If you can't decide then you're not ready." But what he didn't realize is that I have so many fields of interest it's very difficult to narrow it down.
Anyways, enough of my ramblings... I guess it just depends on which college you're at. Job market seems to really suck ass right now (believe me I know first hand) but as I was planning on going to grad school in the first place, I guess it'll (hopefully) work it self out. I hope.
However, the radar can rarely (if ever?) tell for certain if a rotation in a storm is actually a tornado or if it is on the ground
Actually to be entirely technical only when a funnel cloud touches down on the ground is it called a tornado... prior to that it's called a funnel cloud
You're missing the point of the statistic... it's 1 catastropic failure per 62.5 flights. That's, what, 7 people per flight? So 14 lost. 14 out of 875 or so flying (rough math), which is 1.6%. At 1 death per 62.5, which would be 3.07%, which is too high, I agree, if that were the actual statistic.
Of course, my math may be way off, but we still hafta count the people who were on more then one flight, since they take that risk more then once, they still are a person who is flying on the shuttle.
I still have my doubts about this SQL-type file system... One would figure that the file system should be fast, and to me, a sql server running in the background to translate all this stuff seems slow... horrendously slow in fact. At least I hope they strip it down so it runs fast and efficient... or something.
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The department of CS here at the university I attend tried to switch the operating systems class over to using Java. What kind of crap is that? I can understand it from an algorithm/"know the technique and apply it anywhere" viewpoint, but come on. If you're gonna learn the guts of an OS, at least learn it in the language it'll most likely be written (C/C++).
If he leaves, will be create a new company called 0x0soft?
for those who don't get it, in C the macro NULL is defined as 0x0 (0 in hexidecimal notation) or something like that... either way, 0x0 is null on pcs... on macs I think that's a legitimate address
I use Winamp 3 on my laptop... I like the new interface with the new skins, as well as the playlist organization thing it does (can load multiple playlists).
I don't use it on my main computer yet because my keyboard's media controls won't work with it. That and it takes up about 30% cpu on an athlon 1500+ while playing non-minimized, compared to 1% with 2.7 or whatever other version I have.
Yes, and in the latter case, the piracy can actually help a software company. By getting used to their product now, a person may go to a company and then have said company purchase that product for use at their job, which allows the software company to gouge them at business prices.
Even if they are a little "aggressive" with their accounting I highly doubt they'll be in the type of trouble Enron is in. I don't think IBM is going away anytime soon, and they (the SEC) are just investigating the accounting for 1 division relating to 1 customer. I don't think there's much to worry about (famous last words?)
They are great if your classroom has wireless access. I could download the outlines posted by the profs and make my own notes on them while in class, rather then printing them out (my printer's ink cartridge has been empty for about a year now). Plus, if you're bored you can check your email or read /. (I did that alot)
Some profs seem to not like students having a laptop in class but I feel that if a student isn't interested in the lecture anyways, not having a laptop isn't going to force them to listen... they'll draw or read another textbook or just flat out leave anyways.
Yes, but DRM sucks.
Yes but the average user doesn't have gigs and gigs of pr0n or mp3z or code or whatever. Heck, I'm only using about 14gb of a 60gb array and that includes some FreeBSD, Redhat, and Gentoo ISOs as well as some mp3s. My parents barely have 2gb on a 20gb drive, if that.
And if I had $20 for every hour I "wasted" coding for an awesome MUD all the while improving my algorithm design and coding skills, not only would I have an awesome job, but I'd be even more l33t then I am right now.
I had a real problem with the heat from my computer heating up the area around my desk, so I fabricated some simple directional ducts out of soda cans to direct the air away from behind my desk, and I've already noticed the results... mind you, this doesn't make the entire room cooler, just makes it seem cooler while I'm sitting at my desk.
You know, glancing at some of the highly moderated posts, nobody has seemed to mention why these companies would want to hire these people who mass-mail resumes. They're just as bad as spammers.
Mind you, I realize that this article says they have to keep a copy on hand by this law (no I didn't RFTA, sorry), but can't they just make it company policy to not accept mass-mailed resumes?
Then why don't they call it Conflagrationbird
Yeah, kinda the same thing here... the university pub changed it's name from Locos to Wackadoos (which I think is a stupid name) sometime last year... you know what everybody but the incoming freshmen call it? Locos. Exactly.
Penny Arcade did a comic along those lines.
I'm afraid to admit I live in Florida... BUT maybe I've been here longer then this idiot has (22 years this Saturday!)
"I know this all sounds like you're hiding yourself and doing this illegitimately, but the reason you have to do it is everybody tries to shut you down," Shiels said.
And this guy doesn't think that they have good reasons for this? It doesn't sound like he's doing it illegitimately, HE IS! Forging email addresses, maybe not quite misleading subjects but others clearly are guilty of that, abusing open relays overseas, disguising the mail's origins... it's fraud, pal. You'd think as a former cop he'd realize that.
"There's people who sit in their basements and have nothing better to do than get all upset about spam," Shiels said.
I'd love to know what he's basing this data on. I myself never respond to or even READ a piece of spam mail, because most often that mail will never get to them, or they won't care. Reminds me of Homer: "Facts schmacts... you can prove anything remotely true with facts." (or something like that)
"I realized I didn't like to sell anything that nobody wants or needs or despises," he said. "I started to realize people just hate this so much."
Notice he still hasn't realized WHY people hate it so much.
I dunno... the college I just graduated from essentially told me that I just have to write my name on a form and I'm in to their masters and/or PhD CSprogram . I wanted to get my masters first then work on my phd (masters as kind of a half-way point) and the faculty advisor guy I was talking to seemed very excited.
The only hard part for me is gonna be deciding on what I wanna do for a thesis. I was told by a professor (almost exact words) "If you can't decide then you're not ready." But what he didn't realize is that I have so many fields of interest it's very difficult to narrow it down.
Anyways, enough of my ramblings... I guess it just depends on which college you're at. Job market seems to really suck ass right now (believe me I know first hand) but as I was planning on going to grad school in the first place, I guess it'll (hopefully) work it self out. I hope.
However, the radar can rarely (if ever?) tell for certain if a rotation in a storm is actually a tornado or if it is on the ground
Actually to be entirely technical only when a funnel cloud touches down on the ground is it called a tornado... prior to that it's called a funnel cloud
You're missing the point of the statistic... it's 1 catastropic failure per 62.5 flights. That's, what, 7 people per flight? So 14 lost. 14 out of 875 or so flying (rough math), which is 1.6%. At 1 death per 62.5, which would be 3.07%, which is too high, I agree, if that were the actual statistic.
Of course, my math may be way off, but we still hafta count the people who were on more then one flight, since they take that risk more then once, they still are a person who is flying on the shuttle.
I still have my doubts about this SQL-type file system... One would figure that the file system should be fast, and to me, a sql server running in the background to translate all this stuff seems slow... horrendously slow in fact. At least I hope they strip it down so it runs fast and efficient... or something.
I dunno, I guess maybe I'm missing something
Damn you stole my idea... oh well, I can always patent the giraffe I guess
If you've ever seen a dragster accelerate up close, you can extrapolate the violence yourself
Make sure you wear earplugs or some other kind of ear protection device, or the violence on your ears will be experienced first hand...
And on a side note, when those things launch off the line, the earth shakes... no exageration
Actually I've heard the song and it isn't bad... but then again, I like techno/electronica music anyways.
Darth: "Luke, I am your father..."
Luke: "Wait, do you mean my priest, or my dad?"
Sounds to me like it's just like a trackball, but for scrolling