If there is a single language that is not taught enough for real world experience, it's SQL. Just about any business programming job is going to involve storing and reporting on data. While a CS degree is going to give you a basic introduction to SQL, I feel that SQL should be introduced earlier and worked into more of the assignments you are asked to write.
Agreed, especially since you can do a whole lot of interesting things with a simple SQLite DB in your application.
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How much did you weigh and how quickly did you lose that weight? I lost about 50 lbs over 2 years, going from 260lbs to 210lbs, and I feel great. I feel healthy, I have vigour and a lust for life. I've started to do more things now than when I was chubby. I enjoy the foods I eat and I feel great going for a walk. I like the fact that I'm not constantly out of breath, I like the fact that I can bike for hours on end.. It's a great feeling and it's puzzling to me why you don't feel that way either.
I doubt that's the actual location for the dataset. I was able to access their site and they linked off to another place for the ASTER data, to here:
https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/~wist/api/imswelcome/
I cannot access the data however.
Woah, what? BC? It's still illegal here dude. It's just that they'd have to arrest about 60% of the population to get it stopped so they don't bother with the tokers. Hell, in UVic, they have pot smokers toking up at around 4:20 every friday (or wednesday? I forget)
This makes it sound like CE is just some new kid on the block. I mean I don't deny the popularity of the iPhone platform and the benefit of their app store, but common, CE is no flash in the pan for applications either. Not to mention Visual Studio makes it a BREEZE to develop for.
I call bullshit. I've tried to do just this and I cannot upload a compiled program to my ipod touch without getting some dinky ass digital cert from Apple.
You _can_ however, run the application in an emulator.
In other words, to get 1 kg of cocaine from Red Bull would cost $10 billion, not to mention the enormous expense of purification. And all this would only be worth $30,000. It would cost 340,000 times more for the Red Bull than the cocaine would be worth.
As you said, the numbers don't exactly add up. Not even close.
There ought to be a Google calculator function for this.
"$30000 worth of cocaine in Red Bulls"
$30,000 dollars worth of cocaine = $10,000,000,000 dollars worth of red bull
Look, if you talk about Vancouver without further information, isn't it right to assume you're talking about the _largest_ of the Vancouvers that exist?
Only thinking about towns in your own country is silly. I know I specify "London, Ontario" when I mean the London there, but plainly "London" when I'm talking about the one in the UK.
You have to make an environment that attracts the Justin McMurrys of the world, because that's where the magic happens
What an asshat. I threw up in my mouth a little when I read that. I can just see this guy thinking to himself "hah, he's doing platinum level support that we don't have to pay for!" Cue money signs in his eyes and a *ka-ching ka-ching* noise in the background.
If they form a monastery around the clock it may survive.
There's a book about that idea that I just finished reading. It was both challenging and interesting on many levels.
There is another book that probably predates that with a similar idea called A Canticle For Leibowitz. One of the books that has left a lasting impression on me.
Apple was the lynch pin, no one else is currently strong enough to stand up to the labels and block variable pricing. You can go to Amazon today and get tracks at $.99, but tomorrow anything you* would want will be at price parity with the iTunes Music Store.
ITMS is one incredibly large carrot on a stick for the music industry - it has a huge amount of sales. They're not in the industry to be stupid but to make money - they make money for nothing on ITMS. I mean, think about it. What is the record label doing when a song gets put on ITMS? The only answer I can think of is collecting the money.
Because a few vacation photos, over a hundred tourists, equates to the same thing.
But are they all collectively adding them together to create an aggregate view of your residence? I doubt a house is that entirely interesting to get a hundred tourists to snap a photo of it.
Because you already have several non-viloent ways of actually politely requesting they don't.
Like asking them to turn around and not take pictures...?
Because regardless how many little unspoken rules you've made about your life remain 'unbroken', none of the rest of us actually agreed to crap.
Look, just because you didn't agree to something doesn't mean it makes it any less valid. That's a pretty selfish view of the world.
Because I'd like to see where I'm going when I plan my tourist trip.
And a plain map doesn't allow you to do that? You need pictures? Seriously? Of a house Broughton? You're going to go to vacation to a house in Broughton?
Because it really isn't harming you.
Neither is some stranger decapitating someone you don't know but it's not something you'd like to happen regularly is it? Ok, maybe that's a bit of a argumentative fallacy but my point is, just because something is not harming me doesn't make it any less wrong.
Because no one really cares about your shit in your yard.
I do, isn't that enough? I don't want my yard to be immortalized on Google. It might change in the future, or, maybe I haven't cut it in a while due to unforseen circumstances and it's gone a bit wild.. I don't want everyone to see that forever
Because the world really isn't about you. Or me.
Frankly it's perfectly acceptable to me that these people requested Google street view not take pictures of their house. I mean, it's neat and all but I'm not actually going to Broughton - I can get a map and that's fine, I don't need a street view to understand where I'm going.
[...]If you've got an ATI card that works well with Windows but not with Linux, and both OSes provide most of the features you want, then use Windows (assuming the cost of Windows is below the cost of that nVidia card).
I think the problem with that statement is that a lot of people pirate windows - which means it's practically free for them anyway. What they don't realise is that windows is not supposed to be free, and thus the cost of them owning it is ignored.
I'm curious how you think they can reverse engineer the hardware for all ATI boards? The fact of the matter is that ATI has been completely closed with their hardware and barely even offer a proper binary for using it. There's not a whole lot people in the Linux community can do, otherwise they would have done it already...
What your Linux recommending friends failed to realize was that you have an ATI card, and Linux doesn't play nice with it; they should not have recommended Linux for your setup. It's sad but true. However, I do recommend you try out Linux on something at least. It's an eye-opening experience that you can actually have control over your desktop - for free.
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Oh my god!!! I might actually use the full potential of the bandwidth I'm paying for!!! What a fucking crime! I should get punished severely!
Notoriety..?
"Oh, that guy, he's the one designed that prosthetic limb worm... You know, the virus that made prosthetic limbs wiggle around?"
If there is a single language that is not taught enough for real world experience, it's SQL. Just about any business programming job is going to involve storing and reporting on data. While a CS degree is going to give you a basic introduction to SQL, I feel that SQL should be introduced earlier and worked into more of the assignments you are asked to write.
Agreed, especially since you can do a whole lot of interesting things with a simple SQLite DB in your application.
Mod parent up!
How much did you weigh and how quickly did you lose that weight? I lost about 50 lbs over 2 years, going from 260lbs to 210lbs, and I feel great. I feel healthy, I have vigour and a lust for life. I've started to do more things now than when I was chubby. I enjoy the foods I eat and I feel great going for a walk. I like the fact that I'm not constantly out of breath, I like the fact that I can bike for hours on end.. It's a great feeling and it's puzzling to me why you don't feel that way either.
"10x Less"? Is that like "twice as cold"?
Couldn't it reasonably be assumed he's saying "a factor of ten less" i.e. {current_cost}*0.1 ?
I doubt that's the actual location for the dataset. I was able to access their site and they linked off to another place for the ASTER data, to here:
https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/~wist/api/imswelcome/
I cannot access the data however.
It would be even more metal if it was set to metal the whole time!!! RAAAWWWK!!!
Woah, what? BC? It's still illegal here dude. It's just that they'd have to arrest about 60% of the population to get it stopped so they don't bother with the tokers. Hell, in UVic, they have pot smokers toking up at around 4:20 every friday (or wednesday? I forget)
[...] such a high-profile organization [...]
Anyone else see something wrong with that statement? I mean, c'mon, "High profile"... What the fuck guys? This is a fucking cult here.
This makes it sound like CE is just some new kid on the block. I mean I don't deny the popularity of the iPhone platform and the benefit of their app store, but common, CE is no flash in the pan for applications either. Not to mention Visual Studio makes it a BREEZE to develop for.
It may be a BREEZE but it smells like a FART. ;)
I call bullshit. I've tried to do just this and I cannot upload a compiled program to my ipod touch without getting some dinky ass digital cert from Apple.
You _can_ however, run the application in an emulator.
Should be easy enough to calculate:
Pure cocaine sells for, let's say, $30,000 per kg. To get a kilogram of cocaine from RedBull would take 2.5 billion liters, or roughly 7 billion 12 oz cans. A 24-case of Red Bull seems to cost about $34.80, or $1.45 per can.
In other words, to get 1 kg of cocaine from Red Bull would cost $10 billion, not to mention the enormous expense of purification. And all this would only be worth $30,000. It would cost 340,000 times more for the Red Bull than the cocaine would be worth.
As you said, the numbers don't exactly add up. Not even close.
There ought to be a Google calculator function for this.
"$30000 worth of cocaine in Red Bulls"
$30,000 dollars worth of cocaine = $10,000,000,000 dollars worth of red bull
Undoubtedly job#1 will be to convert all those WMVs to ...what?
OGM, AVI, MPG, really, anything with an open format that plays in _everything_. WMV is a pain in the ass.
Look, if you talk about Vancouver without further information, isn't it right to assume you're talking about the _largest_ of the Vancouvers that exist?
Only thinking about towns in your own country is silly. I know I specify "London, Ontario" when I mean the London there, but plainly "London" when I'm talking about the one in the UK.
Some people here would fuck anything that moves. What's your point?
Actually, I consider mobility to be a deal breaker. It makes it easier for them to get away.
All of you are really creepy.
Isn't it implicitly assumed that I _don't_ want ads to show up, just by the very fact I've got Adblock Plus installed and on?
What an asshat. I threw up in my mouth a little when I read that. I can just see this guy thinking to himself "hah, he's doing platinum level support that we don't have to pay for!" Cue money signs in his eyes and a *ka-ching ka-ching* noise in the background.
If they form a monastery around the clock it may survive.
There's a book about that idea that I just finished reading. It was both challenging and interesting on many levels.
There is another book that probably predates that with a similar idea called A Canticle For Leibowitz. One of the books that has left a lasting impression on me.
Apple was the lynch pin, no one else is currently strong enough to stand up to the labels and block variable pricing. You can go to Amazon today and get tracks at $.99, but tomorrow anything you* would want will be at price parity with the iTunes Music Store.
*You = the average person
Sounds like a monopoly to me.
ITMS is one incredibly large carrot on a stick for the music industry - it has a huge amount of sales. They're not in the industry to be stupid but to make money - they make money for nothing on ITMS. I mean, think about it. What is the record label doing when a song gets put on ITMS? The only answer I can think of is collecting the money.
Because a few vacation photos, over a hundred tourists, equates to the same thing.
But are they all collectively adding them together to create an aggregate view of your residence? I doubt a house is that entirely interesting to get a hundred tourists to snap a photo of it.
Because you already have several non-viloent ways of actually politely requesting they don't.
Like asking them to turn around and not take pictures...?
Because regardless how many little unspoken rules you've made about your life remain 'unbroken', none of the rest of us actually agreed to crap.
Look, just because you didn't agree to something doesn't mean it makes it any less valid. That's a pretty selfish view of the world.
Because I'd like to see where I'm going when I plan my tourist trip.
And a plain map doesn't allow you to do that? You need pictures? Seriously? Of a house Broughton? You're going to go to vacation to a house in Broughton?
Because it really isn't harming you.
Neither is some stranger decapitating someone you don't know but it's not something you'd like to happen regularly is it? Ok, maybe that's a bit of a argumentative fallacy but my point is, just because something is not harming me doesn't make it any less wrong.
Because no one really cares about your shit in your yard.
I do, isn't that enough? I don't want my yard to be immortalized on Google. It might change in the future, or, maybe I haven't cut it in a while due to unforseen circumstances and it's gone a bit wild.. I don't want everyone to see that forever
Because the world really isn't about you. Or me.
Frankly it's perfectly acceptable to me that these people requested Google street view not take pictures of their house. I mean, it's neat and all but I'm not actually going to Broughton - I can get a map and that's fine, I don't need a street view to understand where I'm going.
So, compare that with Bushisms: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm
Where Bush seems consistently confused, and wilfully ignorant of foreign policy, Obama seems more like he's "slipping up" occasionally.
Giving a gift is tarnishing America's image? Seriously?
With Bush, it was more the wilful, and blissful, ignorance of politics external to the US than giving a cheapo gift
[...]If you've got an ATI card that works well with Windows but not with Linux, and both OSes provide most of the features you want, then use Windows (assuming the cost of Windows is below the cost of that nVidia card).
I think the problem with that statement is that a lot of people pirate windows - which means it's practically free for them anyway. What they don't realise is that windows is not supposed to be free, and thus the cost of them owning it is ignored.
I'm curious how you think they can reverse engineer the hardware for all ATI boards? The fact of the matter is that ATI has been completely closed with their hardware and barely even offer a proper binary for using it. There's not a whole lot people in the Linux community can do, otherwise they would have done it already...
What your Linux recommending friends failed to realize was that you have an ATI card, and Linux doesn't play nice with it; they should not have recommended Linux for your setup. It's sad but true. However, I do recommend you try out Linux on something at least. It's an eye-opening experience that you can actually have control over your desktop - for free.