The other thing I find annoying is that he puts the link up to Nissan but does not make it a hyperlink. Then he writes javascript show an alert when the user clicks the right mouse button so a user can't copy and paste the link (under Windows).
I have a BS in Computer Science and I'd say that I haven't learned any "underlying concepts" that I wouldn't have eventually learned on the job. I've learned the vast majority of what I know about programming simply through coding and thinking about problems. I found most CS classes to be pretty bad: the instructor isn't interested in teaching and generally acts like a jerk when you talk to him; the class is 95% male; the material is boring and repetitious. This may not be true for everybody, but it is true for me.
If I were to start over, I would take several classes in discrete logic and automa theory, but otherwise pursue a business or liberal arts degree. I'd then work during the summer to round out my programming skills. During college I'd focus on meeting interesting people and learning from them rather than studing computer science alone.
My advice would be to take the classes that interest you the most (and with the best professors), but make sure you just get enough programming done through internships and/or open source projects to know how to code.
I think the reason the us will do that is such laws don't seem fair. I don't think somebody should be fined $1000 for forgetting to flush the toilet -- chewed out perhaps, but not fined. Similarly with spitting on the sidewhat, such behavior should be socially unaceptable not legally. Punishment should fit the crime.
There are more ways to regulate behavior than simply making something illegal. You can try to get the behavior to be culturally unacceptable for example, or attempt to reduce the ill effects
of the behavior through other means. For example, in the Netherlands they had problems with people pissing in the streets. Their solution? Install public urinals on the sidewalk.
Damn, Katz articles contain so many things wrong with them that it would be possible to write forever detailing everything that is wrong with his views. Fortunately, most people already seem aware of that.
Can anybody cite a single interesting or important idea that's emerged from one of Katz's diatribes?
Does anybody really think that we are on the brink of a radical revolution?
Sure there is some rumbling from online forums over the DMCA and intellectual property law, but I read of hardly anybody really rumbling about ending representative democracy or killing our political system. If anything there seems to be a trend online at least away from corporate and private interests and towards public interests.
We have an economy that is doing incredibly well in the United States, and polls indicate that the bigest issue this campaign is what the government should do about health care. Many people want the government to become more involved in regulating the health care system. Such a situtation does not often precipitate a revolution.
Katz writes:
A few years ago, it would have seemed ludicrous to talk about the last days of politics.
It is still ludicrous to talk about the last days of politics.
I think in theory, the Crusoe software could optimize single threaded code for a system with multiple processors, but I seriously doubt this would work effectively because of the vast difference in scale. When working out an optimization for multiple pipelines, the software must only look at a relatively small number of lines of x86 assembly. The instructions it converts to a parallel form only have to be independent from each other for a small chunk of code. With a multiple processor code, in order to really boost performance, the instructions have to be independent for tens of thousands or more clock cycles due to the delay in communication the results of computations from one processor to the other. At least that's my initial impression of the difficulty.
Look at how slashdot mininterprets the poll information, the poll says that 63% of Americans believe that breaking up Microsoft is too extreme. I am not so sure that it is either, but in any case this is definately not the same as the slashdot headline that "Survey Says 63% of Americans Like MS the Way It Is." Hopefully other newspapers won't report it like this. (Of course with only 5% of the population paying close attention to the anti-trust trial, I don't think it matters too much).
A flat universe is by definition not a closed universe. This research indicates that the universe is flat and not going to come back together as you suggest. Of course, given that the abstract itself only states "...(W)e find that the overall fractional energy density of the universe, Omega, is constrained to be 0.85 Omega 1.25 at the 68% confidence level." It seems whether the universe is open or closed is not really determined. The research only determined that the universe is "closer" to be closed than our observations currently indicate.
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At least on my system Windows 98 seems really confused by the 27GB Maxtor I have. I made an Ext2, Fat32 and Fat32 logical drive on the extended partition. Win98 SE Fdisk reports it as being something like 20MB, and when I tried to partition it, it made the extended partition on top of another one. (The sectors overlapped). I tried setting the paritions up under linux but it misreads the size of it.
With GPL software, you can charge whatever you want for the software. The only non-profit requirement under GPL is that if you ship the binary code without the source for a product, you must be willing to ship the source code as well for only the extra shipping fee.
Personally, I don't have a problem with a site putting up banner ads or even charging for the download. I know that if a site charged, there would be another site willing to do it for free.
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The other thing I find annoying is that he puts the link up to Nissan but does not make it a hyperlink. Then he writes javascript show an alert when the user clicks the right mouse button so a user can't copy and paste the link (under Windows).
It looks like the guy is a jerk.
In some companies, misspelling common words seems to be part of the culture.
CmdrTaco needs to recruit this kid.
I have a BS in Computer Science and I'd say that I haven't learned any "underlying concepts" that I wouldn't have eventually learned on the job. I've learned the vast majority of what I know about programming simply through coding and thinking about problems. I found most CS classes to be pretty bad: the instructor isn't interested in teaching and generally acts like a jerk when you talk to him; the class is 95% male; the material is boring and repetitious. This may not be true for everybody, but it is true for me.
If I were to start over, I would take several classes in discrete logic and automa theory, but otherwise pursue a business or liberal arts degree. I'd then work during the summer to round out my programming skills. During college I'd focus on meeting interesting people and learning from them rather than studing computer science alone.
My advice would be to take the classes that interest you the most (and with the best professors), but make sure you just get enough programming done through internships and/or open source projects to know how to code.
I think the reason the us will do that is such laws don't seem fair. I don't think somebody should be fined $1000 for forgetting to flush the toilet -- chewed out perhaps, but not fined. Similarly with spitting on the sidewhat, such behavior should be socially unaceptable not legally. Punishment should fit the crime.
There are more ways to regulate behavior than simply making something illegal. You can try to get the behavior to be culturally unacceptable for example, or attempt to reduce the ill effects
of the behavior through other means. For example, in the Netherlands they had problems with people pissing in the streets. Their solution? Install public urinals on the sidewalk.
Damn, Katz articles contain so many things wrong with them that it would be possible to write forever detailing everything that is wrong with his views. Fortunately, most people already seem aware of that.
Can anybody cite a single interesting or important idea that's emerged from one of Katz's diatribes?
Does anybody really think that we are on the brink of a radical revolution?
Sure there is some rumbling from online forums over the DMCA and intellectual property law, but I read of hardly anybody really rumbling about ending representative democracy or killing our political system. If anything there seems to be a trend online at least away from corporate and private interests and towards public interests.
We have an economy that is doing incredibly well in the United States, and polls indicate that the bigest issue this campaign is what the government should do about health care. Many people want the government to become more involved in regulating the health care system. Such a situtation does not often precipitate a revolution.
Katz writes:
A few years ago, it would have seemed ludicrous to talk about the last days of politics.
It is still ludicrous to talk about the last days of politics.
I think in theory, the Crusoe software could optimize single threaded code for a system with multiple processors, but I seriously doubt this would work effectively because of the vast difference in scale. When working out an optimization for multiple pipelines, the software must only look at a relatively small number of lines of x86 assembly. The instructions it converts to a parallel form only have to be independent from each other for a small chunk of code. With a multiple processor code, in order to really boost performance, the instructions have to be independent for tens of thousands or more clock cycles due to the delay in communication the results of computations from one processor to the other.
At least that's my initial impression of the difficulty.
Look at how slashdot mininterprets the poll information, the poll says that 63% of Americans believe that breaking up Microsoft is too extreme. I am not so sure that it is either, but in any case this is definately not the same as the slashdot headline that "Survey Says 63% of Americans Like MS the Way It Is." Hopefully other newspapers won't report it like this. (Of course with only 5% of the population paying close attention to the anti-trust trial, I don't think it matters too much).
A flat universe is by definition not a closed universe. This research indicates that the universe is flat and not going to come back together as you suggest. Of course, given that the abstract itself only states "...(W)e find that the overall fractional energy density of the universe, Omega, is constrained to be 0.85 Omega 1.25 at the 68% confidence level." It seems whether the universe is open or closed is not really determined. The research only determined that the universe is "closer" to be closed than our observations currently indicate.
At least on my system Windows 98 seems really confused by the 27GB Maxtor I have. I made an Ext2, Fat32 and Fat32 logical drive on the extended partition. Win98 SE Fdisk reports it as being something like 20MB, and when I tried to partition it, it made the extended partition on top of another one. (The sectors overlapped). I tried setting the paritions up under linux but it misreads the size of it.
With GPL software, you can charge whatever you want for the software. The only non-profit requirement under GPL is that if you ship the binary code without the source for a product, you must be willing to ship the source code as well for only the extra shipping fee.
Personally, I don't have a problem with a site putting up banner ads or even charging for the download. I know that if a site charged, there would be another site willing to do it for free.