IIRC, there's only been one crime punished where no body was found and no other evidence. Removing items from the house is fairly regular.
I wish the SFC article was more about the charge than presuming guilt - its plain to see: "estranged" (nee ex-wife), references to a missing persons website and the quote from the divorce lawyer.
Guilty until proven innocent is one of the corner stones to modern society, yet the media can take liberties with how they represent information.:(
(nb: i dont care who did it. but I do want reiserfs included in the stock kernel)
Since I've not seen a single myspace video... only youtube videos via myspace... it looks like the world is coming to an end because I've lost my grip on reality. (finally! yay - I'm diagnosed)
Or, you might find that myspace doesnt trump youtube, but that the original accessor site IS mysapce and that the videos are HOSTED by youtube.
Finding the google news portal, "the biggest news site on planet earth ever", or google.com as "the internet", might also be great articles.
It's a shame I got modded down as a troll because I pointed out the relance of the topic. Maybe American-focused stories should have a relance-to-the-rest-of-the-world modifier so I can happily ignore some of them.
The American education system has a large potential, but sadly, "grad school" and ivry league 2nd degrees are whats pushing it down... what I mean to say is, it's not exactly hard performing well at a US university when British A2 exams and the IB compete with it - 3 years earlier!
Having done my UG dissertation on image processing, i feel somewhat inclined to agree with the assertion papers are complex! Having read my fair share of SIGGRAPH papers... the simpler ones waffle on and on above novel uses for convolution filters, the more complex ones take you to a realm of mathematical uncertainty - they ask for great leaps of faith (specially those that over generalise the pseudo code and dont link to working programs!)
Computer imagary is a very large and wide ranging subject, and because of that a conference MUST specialize in trends to generate the worthwhile feedback and peer review we all crave (if you read paper after paper on unrelated domains, it doesnt make you an expert, nor is such an atmosphere likely to attract experts!)
Sadly a few ignorant people seem to believe that they can take something that is designed to be apolitical and get away with it.
I shall not use software that muddies the line between politics and free software. I may be a Republican hater, I may dispise floridans, and I may distrust the wars currently faught, but there is a THICK line between the software world and the political one.
Linus' objections to v3 of the GPL are because of unrelated polical FUD like this, and he's right - we should make sure a computer licence affects only computer users and uses and NOT transcend to being a restrictive licence of world politics. I envisage "no chinese" licences to start popping up in WoW mods to stop gold farmers... all downhill from here.
(Disclaimer on the GPLv3 comparison: Linus is almost entirely focused on DRM - which is bad, but I get what he's trying to say. he's just not realistic enough)
I saw "opensource" and then "microsoft" and giggled.
I am, however, a tea-giggler. So now there's spillage every where:(
OS can be too complex, granted, but thats because where the light is focused, in development, there is a harsh learning curve. OS tends to be for OS programmers. Companies like RH, Mandriva et al, are the beautifiers.
Mind you, I wish autoconf never existed.
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I didnt think I had a lot to learn about programming before I started uni... 3 years later, and I'm confident I didnt learn a single language aspect from any of my courses (with the exception of the new languages we were introduced to for assignments - such as ASML).
However, even from day one, I could see they were trying to teach us something else, and not just how to program. This wasnt clear or evident to anyone else who didnt know how to program in a compiled language, because the workload of simply understanding how to program really did washout the assignment goals. Our assignments - based on the BlueJ work (http://www.bluej.org) - taught us how to compartmentalize classes, and structures. They made us think of more inventive ways to decouple classes. Taught use to introduce and extend classes using aditional abstract datatypes rather than rewrite the base class.
Applying what I learned to Perl has not helped comprehensively, but it has increased my awareness of types and the structure of larger projects. Even a simple RPG can have a few hundred ADTs/structures.
What I feel is important for me to share, however, is that there is no final solution to programing and stepping into the complex. Sometimes it's easier and quicker to isolate peices of code for what they are - functionaly complete - and not get bogged down trying to improve something that doesnt really need it. Focus on the way things are coupled - whether you use a single big import/include/use statement, or dynamically link things. It pays off in the long run to have a better execution structure (Perl's POE anyone?!) than programmatic correctness in function-orientated areas.
Practice. Practice. Practice. Don't worry about things too much. Starting again, even twice, is not a failure. *You* learn the better ways with time. Don't be afaid to write down absolute crap on paper - even if its block diagrams, code fragments or unrolled loops. You need total awareness of your task (aka design spec) until you see the 'best way' and produce tight code.
(nowadays, lmost everything I begin requires a little thought, but the moment I start writing code, I'm doing it correctly, making use of language features and code conventions. experience... you'll get there in time!)
My belief, from reading lwn, kerneltrap and the lkml regularly, as well as being a student developer, is that Linus is really testing the waters with his 'stance'. Each and every time I read what he says, I see that he doesnt quite "get it".
I'm not a Linus fan by heart, but I'm almost always siding with him and many of the key issues published (thankfully LWN's JC et al tend to shed light in both directions). For some reason what he says about the 2nd GPL v3 draft is *NOT* what I'd expect him to say... It doesnt fit with his history and character.
Maybe his time at Transmeta has clouded is judgement? Assuming it hasn't... while assuming Dave J doesn't push RH specific stuff (bait)... then I think this shows a slightly more important, and definately touchier subject:
Linus' opinion is becoming irrelevant.
Starting, commanding, and I happily leading a movement is a fantastic achievement; but when he is trying to get in the way of, what *I* can see as a majority developer-view, it saddens me. I hope Linus' opinion is still strong, and still has the same conviction as always after this ordeal, but for some reason, I don't envisage this actually happening (atleast, not in the real world).
So what does it mean if Linus' opinion is less relevant, or even, irrelevant? Does it means BIG patches that nobody really wants will make it into the kernel? Well, yes, Ingo M has shown us that - his forward thinking has, time and time again, proven to be fantastic. Linus' was simply a thick goo you had to nagiviate slowly, before hand.
I would like to see the *development* future of the Linux kernel in the hands of one maintainer. This is how things are better done, decisively. But, I would like the see the future of the linux *presence* split between those who are the real movement makers... AC, IM, RLM, RR et al. Linus, by his own admission, doesnt have to listen to the community - he delegates that role, and by his delegation, I believe he has fallen out of touch with the true spirit that surrounds him. Only some focused steps into the kernel maintainership will help to truely balance political decisions like this...
I think in the mean time its important not to comprimise. When we start comprimising we'll start seeing DVDs out there fore $10 with DRM all over them (you can't stop and industry trend easily)... then they'll release the HD version with DRM for $15... $20 and you get DVD with out crippleware, but not 1080 def. for $25 you get the "bonus no DRM 1080 def" dvd...
but wait.
I can already get that. NOW! For much less.
They're making markets of cash out of the restriction of what we already have. Look at Sony trying to stop the resale of games so they get more sales! Valve with Steam have prevented the resale of their games... My game is no longer the game I brought - its now the game I'm allowed to use.
All the restrictive IP method (licening and DRM) destroy the secondhand market that people dont seem to know exist. Without carboots, town markets and fairs - what kind of local economy would we have?
You may have missed the point that a lot of copyfighers are trying to preserve.
We dont want to licence or pay a "little extra" for something we own. $5 for a movie is a movie. If you dont own that movie, how can you justify paying for it?
A few years back I went to one of the local networking and linux expos in birmingham. it was mightly impressive. Everytime a i saw a peice of software with a tiered licencing system I told them out right (often quite loudly) that they could not justify the difference in price simply because some coder has added a counter and exclusion. This is cripple ware.
I dont want to start a fight but every time I read about DRM I see how companies are just trying to push us into a less libral model that we already have.
I got very frustrated when I called MS to complain that I wasnt able to put my copy of XP from my dead laptop on to my newly built system. I brought that goddamn laptop, and paid their price once already. Sadly I didnt buy the software - no, I licenced it for a use on that one laptop. What a waste.
I want to own my own house. Even now I dont own certain parts of my car, computer, and from what I've been told, OS.
I've always been a good coder. This has made my degree (i just graduated:D:D:D) quite boring in almost every respect.
I dont think I learned anything. Most of my friend have never programmed before - or those that did used VB or called HTML a programming language. Scriptkiddies at the least.
Both the scripkiddies and the never-before programmers had the same thing in common - they did know how to learn. They didnt know how to use help or documentation. Javadoc was mostly inaccessible unless it was generated. Refering to the online version was something they didnt think about - they wanted all the programs, skel code and teaching material in one place. Their mentality was that if it wasnt where their teacher put it, it wasnt right, too hard, and nothing something to invest time in. People like doing the bare minimum.
To teach java, my uni used BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org./ It's quite nice! It's an integrated "IDE" (text editor honstly) with a visual class generator/explorer/maker. It makes understanding object relationships and inheritance easy. People dont get bogged down with the other principals they're learning, such as commandlines, SQL and ER.
SQL annoyed the hell out of me because I knew it, and I knew how to do most things, it was the whole sqlplus command line experience on an unfamiliar terminal with poor codepage (charmap) support. I couldnt use backspace. It wasnt daunting to me, but it was to others. We all shared in common the annoyance that backspace wasnt going to work.
In the end I noticed that most of my friend didnt understand what they were being taught in BlueJ. BlueJ has a lot of documentation. It introduces concepts such as hiding and coupling strength really well - but its quite a lot to ask in terms of reading something you dont understand. I feel a commandline input at the time would have really annoyed people.
In the end most people didnt care about their introduction to Java and it serious stunted their work with ASML, C and their software engineering exercises. They didnt see the need to understand and take in what was there. Those that can program will wiz through the BlueJ material and go "oh yeh, that!" "of course" "duh, everyone knows that?"... I learned a few things such as guiding principals and terminology.
The second half of our introduction to Java was applet coding. Very simple applets. Applets are annoying simply because they're GUIs. Before we did linear least fit algorithms and quadratic solutions as our assements. Applets have layout managers and for people to understand other peoples screen sizes and resolutions, and why absolute positioning is bad, it take a lot of time. A simple input and process applet that exports to a javascript skel is a good idea here. You can combine the whole commandline editor progress - a bit of nano or notepad - with the uploading via commandline to a webserver.
The idea with splitting the programming and concepts up into BlueJ and commandline-applet thing was so we didnt get shocked when we saw the code to the applet. We knew the basics and what to expect. We built on what we knew.
Its important people understand different environments. One of the things I find hardest in any kind of programming is setting up an environment - i want to compile now!
Have everything in one location, all the evironment options setup and the skeleton source files availible. One zip file is all it takes.
Matt
My editor of choice is ConTEXT. My IDE is VS:( Its good:(. Netbeans and Ecclipse are overly complicated. I dont know where to start!
i know its not totally legal, but look at the dvds and tshirts I have... I've definately spend £150 on anime in the last 3 years of loving it. All because of the internet, LANs and some Naruto AMV I watched that totally threw anime for me: its not just for kids.
Even the justice league's pretty complicated. Their technobable is far more realistic and believable than 24's "Jack, I've opened you a socket through to the DOD computer I hacked"...
I took it back to Woolworths the week I brought it. It skipped badly on my Sony Vaio - my computer is my audio rig, and with the speaks I had hooked up at the time, I certainly wanted it to stay that way.
Just last week I saw the Sarah McLachlan DVD and thought, "stupid drm" and not about the artist. I will force myself to see her in a better light now, but if she's not touring near me, I can't exactly give her the money I want to (by buying her material) because although she's going the right away about things _now_, her cds on the shelf are still DRMed.
In the end I was forced to I download Afterglow. I became a pirate because I couldnt experience the music on my, and on my creative zen.
For an artist I discovered via napster a long time ago, this sure does suck. Are they trying to lock me out of the market, or really fence us into a no-rip-no-choice era? Either way I see it, when I can't use WhateverAMP and my mp3 player, they've lost me as a customer.
(please no "yes slashdot is going down hill replies" - strictly on topic)
I don't see what's so political about choosing one science over another if it's a 'viable theory'. That is, if you choose to demonstrate your knowledge on a particular topic, a topic that's covered by the scientific community, you should surely be able to do so?
The question is whether or not there is a scoring cap in popular scientific theories, compared to the more 'traditional' this-is-a-model-of-space people used to do.
Because the world is learning at an ever faster rate, and because science is becoming more and more divisible by speciality, it's hard to say what is above anyones learning curve any more. I dont mean to introduce ID as a subject, but "science" is no longer just science- it's a popular form. Almost like art.
Science will always have big theories and little ones - and over time most of those big theories will be carved and diced until the holes in it are so gaping big, they call it "the old theory" - empiric or "simplified".
E=mc2 is an old theory. It's a very old one. We call it the simplified version. It doesnt work for very big masses for small ones... Einstein has gone out of fashion.
Yet we all know of and about E=mc2 beause it is pop-science. See?
Popular doesn't make it bad (or wrong) science. Popular encourages a field.
Maybe its me, and a couple of years of university education, IEEE zines and the medical journals im inundated with, but I could not help but feel the article 'talk the talk' but didnt really do anything.
There were no facts or figures, and there were certainly no references to the broad statements (either insitu of as an epi).
I dont think Laura did much more than get her weekly salary. Maybe she was thinking more about her August holiday than her readers? I know I would be.
I've talked to many programmers in my life, most of these are via IRC and related meets. We all share common likes and dislikes of Linux and FOSS.
However, when I've spoken to home-professional.NET, Access and VB programmers whom I've met through girl friends and my father's friends, I've noticed a trend: they don't quite seem to "get it". Linux, the GNU and the ubiquity of such tools as Perl, that is. They seem to think that Microsoft is the only way to go in 'the real world'.
Is this the same position people take within Microsoft as well? Do Microsoft programmers believe their server software is the most widely used and only one to use (I'm refering to the actual dominance of apache/php/perl/MySQL)? Do you yourself, with an interest in something completely 'radical' such as Linux, see the same issues?
Many unis are migrating to a single login system. While i personally think its a stupid idea, security wise, it does mean more freedmon.
For example, JANET unis in the UK using RoamNet, can login via a different domain, ie: username@domain, rather than just the plain user name, at via any RoamNet access point in the UK.
All of this is controlled via a number of different connectivities. Most noticibly unis are investing in Shibboleth (link: http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ ), uportal, and similar things.
People keep saying Novell is dead. I keep on telling them that Netware is little more than glorified policies, and it's questions like this that reenforce my view.
Netware is a great product for controlling users. Netware is a great product (fantastic, in fact) for application role outs over a network, on demand Netware is also a fantastic 'suite' of programs.
Sometimes it's easier to user what your vendor supplies than it is to craft your own. I say this, am I am 'the' () foremost interoperativity bloke, hacking qmail, imap courier, apache and sqmail into a bespoke single login system. The problem with my usual apporach, is although it's exactly what I want, it takes time. My time is better spent on other issues, and therefore, I rely on vendors to do the best they can.
Has anyone seem Mandrake/Madrivalyswhatever's server install? Advx, their high-performance apache install is fantastic.
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IIRC, there's only been one crime punished where no body was found and no other evidence. Removing items from the house is fairly regular.
:(
I wish the SFC article was more about the charge than presuming guilt - its plain to see: "estranged" (nee ex-wife), references to a missing persons website and the quote from the divorce lawyer.
Guilty until proven innocent is one of the corner stones to modern society, yet the media can take liberties with how they represent information.
(nb: i dont care who did it. but I do want reiserfs included in the stock kernel)
(this post is intentionally left blank to avoid being a troll)
NB. Irrelevent opinional post.
Since I've not seen a single myspace video... only youtube videos via myspace... it looks like the world is coming to an end because I've lost my grip on reality. (finally! yay - I'm diagnosed)
Or, you might find that myspace doesnt trump youtube, but that the original accessor site IS mysapce and that the videos are HOSTED by youtube.
Finding the google news portal, "the biggest news site on planet earth ever", or google.com as "the internet", might also be great articles.
Matt
It's a shame I got modded down as a troll because I pointed out the relance of the topic. Maybe American-focused stories should have a relance-to-the-rest-of-the-world modifier so I can happily ignore some of them.
The American education system has a large potential, but sadly, "grad school" and ivry league 2nd degrees are whats pushing it down... what I mean to say is, it's not exactly hard performing well at a US university when British A2 exams and the IB compete with it - 3 years earlier!
I'm starting my MSc this week.
Matt
Having done my UG dissertation on image processing, i feel somewhat inclined to agree with the assertion papers are complex! Having read my fair share of SIGGRAPH papers... the simpler ones waffle on and on above novel uses for convolution filters, the more complex ones take you to a realm of mathematical uncertainty - they ask for great leaps of faith (specially those that over generalise the pseudo code and dont link to working programs!)
Computer imagary is a very large and wide ranging subject, and because of that a conference MUST specialize in trends to generate the worthwhile feedback and peer review we all crave (if you read paper after paper on unrelated domains, it doesnt make you an expert, nor is such an atmosphere likely to attract experts!)
Matt
Sadly a few ignorant people seem to believe that they can take something that is designed to be apolitical and get away with it.
I shall not use software that muddies the line between politics and free software. I may be a Republican hater, I may dispise floridans, and I may distrust the wars currently faught, but there is a THICK line between the software world and the political one.
Linus' objections to v3 of the GPL are because of unrelated polical FUD like this, and he's right - we should make sure a computer licence affects only computer users and uses and NOT transcend to being a restrictive licence of world politics. I envisage "no chinese" licences to start popping up in WoW mods to stop gold farmers... all downhill from here.
(Disclaimer on the GPLv3 comparison: Linus is almost entirely focused on DRM - which is bad, but I get what he's trying to say. he's just not realistic enough)
Matt
I saw "opensource" and then "microsoft" and giggled.
:(
I am, however, a tea-giggler. So now there's spillage every where
OS can be too complex, granted, but thats because where the light is focused, in development, there is a harsh learning curve. OS tends to be for OS programmers. Companies like RH, Mandriva et al, are the beautifiers.
Mind you, I wish autoconf never existed.
I didnt think I had a lot to learn about programming before I started uni... 3 years later, and I'm confident I didnt learn a single language aspect from any of my courses (with the exception of the new languages we were introduced to for assignments - such as ASML).
However, even from day one, I could see they were trying to teach us something else, and not just how to program. This wasnt clear or evident to anyone else who didnt know how to program in a compiled language, because the workload of simply understanding how to program really did washout the assignment goals. Our assignments - based on the BlueJ work (http://www.bluej.org) - taught us how to compartmentalize classes, and structures. They made us think of more inventive ways to decouple classes. Taught use to introduce and extend classes using aditional abstract datatypes rather than rewrite the base class.
Applying what I learned to Perl has not helped comprehensively, but it has increased my awareness of types and the structure of larger projects. Even a simple RPG can have a few hundred ADTs/structures.
What I feel is important for me to share, however, is that there is no final solution to programing and stepping into the complex. Sometimes it's easier and quicker to isolate peices of code for what they are - functionaly complete - and not get bogged down trying to improve something that doesnt really need it. Focus on the way things are coupled - whether you use a single big import/include/use statement, or dynamically link things. It pays off in the long run to have a better execution structure (Perl's POE anyone?!) than programmatic correctness in function-orientated areas.
Practice. Practice. Practice. Don't worry about things too much. Starting again, even twice, is not a failure. *You* learn the better ways with time. Don't be afaid to write down absolute crap on paper - even if its block diagrams, code fragments or unrolled loops. You need total awareness of your task (aka design spec) until you see the 'best way' and produce tight code.
(nowadays, lmost everything I begin requires a little thought, but the moment I start writing code, I'm doing it correctly, making use of language features and code conventions. experience... you'll get there in time!)
Matt
A good protest for a mass defacement, but the title is missleading.
While MacOS X (appparently), they didnt "target" NASA computers.
Matt
My belief, from reading lwn, kerneltrap and the lkml regularly, as well as being a student developer, is that Linus is really testing the waters with his 'stance'. Each and every time I read what he says, I see that he doesnt quite "get it".
I'm not a Linus fan by heart, but I'm almost always siding with him and many of the key issues published (thankfully LWN's JC et al tend to shed light in both directions). For some reason what he says about the 2nd GPL v3 draft is *NOT* what I'd expect him to say... It doesnt fit with his history and character.
Maybe his time at Transmeta has clouded is judgement? Assuming it hasn't... while assuming Dave J doesn't push RH specific stuff (bait)... then I think this shows a slightly more important, and definately touchier subject:
Linus' opinion is becoming irrelevant.
Starting, commanding, and I happily leading a movement is a fantastic achievement; but when he is trying to get in the way of, what *I* can see as a majority developer-view, it saddens me. I hope Linus' opinion is still strong, and still has the same conviction as always after this ordeal, but for some reason, I don't envisage this actually happening (atleast, not in the real world).
So what does it mean if Linus' opinion is less relevant, or even, irrelevant? Does it means BIG patches that nobody really wants will make it into the kernel? Well, yes, Ingo M has shown us that - his forward thinking has, time and time again, proven to be fantastic. Linus' was simply a thick goo you had to nagiviate slowly, before hand.
I would like to see the *development* future of the Linux kernel in the hands of one maintainer. This is how things are better done, decisively. But, I would like the see the future of the linux *presence* split between those who are the real movement makers... AC, IM, RLM, RR et al. Linus, by his own admission, doesnt have to listen to the community - he delegates that role, and by his delegation, I believe he has fallen out of touch with the true spirit that surrounds him. Only some focused steps into the kernel maintainership will help to truely balance political decisions like this...
Matt
I think in the mean time its important not to comprimise. When we start comprimising we'll start seeing DVDs out there fore $10 with DRM all over them (you can't stop and industry trend easily)... then they'll release the HD version with DRM for $15... $20 and you get DVD with out crippleware, but not 1080 def. for $25 you get the "bonus no DRM 1080 def" dvd...
but wait.
I can already get that. NOW! For much less.
They're making markets of cash out of the restriction of what we already have. Look at Sony trying to stop the resale of games so they get more sales! Valve with Steam have prevented the resale of their games... My game is no longer the game I brought - its now the game I'm allowed to use.
All the restrictive IP method (licening and DRM) destroy the secondhand market that people dont seem to know exist. Without carboots, town markets and fairs - what kind of local economy would we have?
(btw, im not ecomomist!)
Matt
You may have missed the point that a lot of copyfighers are trying to preserve.
We dont want to licence or pay a "little extra" for something we own. $5 for a movie is a movie. If you dont own that movie, how can you justify paying for it?
A few years back I went to one of the local networking and linux expos in birmingham. it was mightly impressive. Everytime a i saw a peice of software with a tiered licencing system I told them out right (often quite loudly) that they could not justify the difference in price simply because some coder has added a counter and exclusion. This is cripple ware.
I dont want to start a fight but every time I read about DRM I see how companies are just trying to push us into a less libral model that we already have.
I got very frustrated when I called MS to complain that I wasnt able to put my copy of XP from my dead laptop on to my newly built system. I brought that goddamn laptop, and paid their price once already. Sadly I didnt buy the software - no, I licenced it for a use on that one laptop. What a waste.
I want to own my own house. Even now I dont own certain parts of my car, computer, and from what I've been told, OS.
Matt
I've always been a good coder. This has made my degree (i just graduated :D :D :D) quite boring in almost every respect.
:( Its good :(. Netbeans and Ecclipse are overly complicated. I dont know where to start!
I dont think I learned anything. Most of my friend have never programmed before - or those that did used VB or called HTML a programming language. Scriptkiddies at the least.
Both the scripkiddies and the never-before programmers had the same thing in common - they did know how to learn. They didnt know how to use help or documentation. Javadoc was mostly inaccessible unless it was generated. Refering to the online version was something they didnt think about - they wanted all the programs, skel code and teaching material in one place. Their mentality was that if it wasnt where their teacher put it, it wasnt right, too hard, and nothing something to invest time in. People like doing the bare minimum.
To teach java, my uni used BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org./ It's quite nice! It's an integrated "IDE" (text editor honstly) with a visual class generator/explorer/maker. It makes understanding object relationships and inheritance easy. People dont get bogged down with the other principals they're learning, such as commandlines, SQL and ER.
SQL annoyed the hell out of me because I knew it, and I knew how to do most things, it was the whole sqlplus command line experience on an unfamiliar terminal with poor codepage (charmap) support. I couldnt use backspace. It wasnt daunting to me, but it was to others. We all shared in common the annoyance that backspace wasnt going to work.
In the end I noticed that most of my friend didnt understand what they were being taught in BlueJ. BlueJ has a lot of documentation. It introduces concepts such as hiding and coupling strength really well - but its quite a lot to ask in terms of reading something you dont understand. I feel a commandline input at the time would have really annoyed people.
In the end most people didnt care about their introduction to Java and it serious stunted their work with ASML, C and their software engineering exercises. They didnt see the need to understand and take in what was there. Those that can program will wiz through the BlueJ material and go "oh yeh, that!" "of course" "duh, everyone knows that?"... I learned a few things such as guiding principals and terminology.
The second half of our introduction to Java was applet coding. Very simple applets. Applets are annoying simply because they're GUIs. Before we did linear least fit algorithms and quadratic solutions as our assements. Applets have layout managers and for people to understand other peoples screen sizes and resolutions, and why absolute positioning is bad, it take a lot of time. A simple input and process applet that exports to a javascript skel is a good idea here. You can combine the whole commandline editor progress - a bit of nano or notepad - with the uploading via commandline to a webserver.
The idea with splitting the programming and concepts up into BlueJ and commandline-applet thing was so we didnt get shocked when we saw the code to the applet. We knew the basics and what to expect. We built on what we knew.
Its important people understand different environments. One of the things I find hardest in any kind of programming is setting up an environment - i want to compile now!
Have everything in one location, all the evironment options setup and the skeleton source files availible. One zip file is all it takes.
Matt
My editor of choice is ConTEXT. My IDE is VS
Wednesday, must be a bleach day.
i know its not totally legal, but look at the dvds and tshirts I have... I've definately spend £150 on anime in the last 3 years of loving it. All because of the internet, LANs and some Naruto AMV I watched that totally threw anime for me: its not just for kids.
Even the justice league's pretty complicated. Their technobable is far more realistic and believable than 24's "Jack, I've opened you a socket through to the DOD computer I hacked"...
Matt
I voted with my wallet last night. I'm now the proud owner of Sarah's mp3s :D
:P
I've got a warm, radient *ahem* afterglow about me now
Matt
Brilliant.
Please mod up, useful info!
Matt
I took it back to Woolworths the week I brought it. It skipped badly on my Sony Vaio - my computer is my audio rig, and with the speaks I had hooked up at the time, I certainly wanted it to stay that way.
Just last week I saw the Sarah McLachlan DVD and thought, "stupid drm" and not about the artist. I will force myself to see her in a better light now, but if she's not touring near me, I can't exactly give her the money I want to (by buying her material) because although she's going the right away about things _now_, her cds on the shelf are still DRMed.
In the end I was forced to I download Afterglow. I became a pirate because I couldnt experience the music on my, and on my creative zen.
For an artist I discovered via napster a long time ago, this sure does suck. Are they trying to lock me out of the market, or really fence us into a no-rip-no-choice era? Either way I see it, when I can't use WhateverAMP and my mp3 player, they've lost me as a customer.
Matt
(please no "yes slashdot is going down hill replies" - strictly on topic)
I don't see what's so political about choosing one science over another if it's a 'viable theory'. That is, if you choose to demonstrate your knowledge on a particular topic, a topic that's covered by the scientific community, you should surely be able to do so?
The question is whether or not there is a scoring cap in popular scientific theories, compared to the more 'traditional' this-is-a-model-of-space people used to do.
Because the world is learning at an ever faster rate, and because science is becoming more and more divisible by speciality, it's hard to say what is above anyones learning curve any more. I dont mean to introduce ID as a subject, but "science" is no longer just science- it's a popular form. Almost like art.
Science will always have big theories and little ones - and over time most of those big theories will be carved and diced until the holes in it are so gaping big, they call it "the old theory" - empiric or "simplified".
E=mc2 is an old theory. It's a very old one. We call it the simplified version. It doesnt work for very big masses for small ones... Einstein has gone out of fashion.
Yet we all know of and about E=mc2 beause it is pop-science. See?
Popular doesn't make it bad (or wrong) science. Popular encourages a field.
I'm a scientist and engineer.
Matt
Maybe its me, and a couple of years of university education, IEEE zines and the medical journals im inundated with, but I could not help but feel the article 'talk the talk' but didnt really do anything.
There were no facts or figures, and there were certainly no references to the broad statements (either insitu of as an epi).
I dont think Laura did much more than get her weekly salary. Maybe she was thinking more about her August holiday than her readers? I know I would be.
Matt
I've talked to many programmers in my life, most of these are via IRC and related meets. We all share common likes and dislikes of Linux and FOSS.
.NET, Access and VB programmers whom I've met through girl friends and my father's friends, I've noticed a trend: they don't quite seem to "get it". Linux, the GNU and the ubiquity of such tools as Perl, that is. They seem to think that Microsoft is the only way to go in 'the real world'.
However, when I've spoken to home-professional
Is this the same position people take within Microsoft as well? Do Microsoft programmers believe their server software is the most widely used and only one to use (I'm refering to the actual dominance of apache/php/perl/MySQL)? Do you yourself, with an interest in something completely 'radical' such as Linux, see the same issues?
Thanks,
Matt
Many unis are migrating to a single login system. While i personally think its a stupid idea, security wise, it does mean more freedmon.
For example, JANET unis in the UK using RoamNet, can login via a different domain, ie: username@domain, rather than just the plain user name, at via any RoamNet access point in the UK.
All of this is controlled via a number of different connectivities. Most noticibly unis are investing in Shibboleth (link: http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ ), uportal, and similar things.
Get ahead of the game!
Matt
They dont like you calling it that. There's not SATA 2 standard as yet.
It's instead, SATA 3Gb/s. Most motherboard manufacturers jumped the gun however and invented their version.
Matt
At last, a working reason to be up late!
"Uh, mom! I didnt see you there! Uh yes, I'm watching a documentary about cold fusion"
Matt
People keep saying Novell is dead. I keep on telling them that Netware is little more than glorified policies, and it's questions like this that reenforce my view.
Netware is a great product for controlling users. Netware is a great product (fantastic, in fact) for application role outs over a network, on demand
Netware is also a fantastic 'suite' of programs.
Check out,
http://www.liv.ac.uk/csd/mobile/netstore.html
My uni, clearly, uses Novell.
Sometimes it's easier to user what your vendor supplies than it is to craft your own. I say this, am I am 'the' () foremost interoperativity bloke, hacking qmail, imap courier, apache and sqmail into a bespoke single login system. The problem with my usual apporach, is although it's exactly what I want, it takes time. My time is better spent on other issues, and therefore, I rely on vendors to do the best they can.
Has anyone seem Mandrake/Madrivalyswhatever's server install? Advx, their high-performance apache install is fantastic.
http://www.advx.org/
It does what I would have made myself, but I didnt, and thus, I used my time wisely.
Matt