There are online courses, such as MIT's open courseware, and then there are online courses, such as UIUC's master of computer science. For courses that you take via Open Courseware, Kahn Academy or similar programs, I doubt your current or future employer will think much of it. For courses that you took towards a masters degree from an accredited brick-and-mortar university, on the other hand, should carry the same weight as if you attended them in person. Why? Because you are watching the same lecture that students physically present are watching.
I've been working towards my masters of science in computer science degree since 2007 (one class at a time takes forever). I started taking classes remotely at a remote television site at my employer. I later left that employer and got a job somewhere that didn't have access to those remote television sites, so I started taking the classes online. Since I started, I'm now at my third company, and all three have been more than willing to pay for my courses. In fact, that's probably the most telling point for whether anyone is going to take your courses seriously: is your company willing to pay for the classes. My advice is only take classes from a public or private university with a real physical campus, and only universities you would consider attending in person if you lived nearby.
Now, having taken courses remotely for several years, let me forewarn you about online learning:
-- Online classes are harder than in-person classes. "But you said it's the same class that other students are taking in person!" Yup, it is. But those students have the ability to ask a question in lecture. They get to be in the room as it's happening and can look at all the boards the prof is using. When you watch it online, you watch what the video-taper thought was most important. I can't tell you the number of times I've been staring at a slide when the prof says something like "I'm pointing at the most important aspect of this class. If you don't understand this, you won't do well. Now this other thing, don't worry about that." "Wait!" I scream at my monitor. "What are you pointing at!"
-- You get less attention than on-campus students. In the nine classes I've taken, I've had maybe 6 homeworks/exams returned to me. Most of those were from the same class. A guy I worked with got his MSEE from a California state school taking all courses online, and he always got his exams back, so it probably just depends on the university you attend.
-- Some classes will still insist on group projects. Yup, group projects suck, but they suck even more when you have no way of meeting the other students in your class. Online students are also typically students that have other lives, which is why they are taking classes online! Coordinating your schedule with theirs is challenging, as is the process of vetting a good project partner.
-- You may be required to physically show up to present a project. When I first started I had to take a prerequisite class that had a lab; a lab I had to drive 1 1/2 hours to attend in person, which wasn't so bad, but it would be three hours from where I live now. Take prerequisites from somewhere else if this isn't an option. My co-worker had to fly to California to take an exam. Both of these are the exception, not the rule, but be prepared for that possibility
Now going online also puts you in the driver's seat when it comes to choosing your institution. You get to pick from many more universities than are likely to be proximate to where you live. You can watch lectures multiple times, rewind to the part where the prof started speaking gibberish and watch it until you understand what the heck he's talking about. You can also choose a university where the courses are taught by professors and not TAs. I've had all of my classes taught by the professor.
If you choose to pursue a degree either in person or online, good luck!
However, you can't blame Christianity for any of that. Christianity didn't cause people to go off and kill each other. People decided to go off and kill each other in the name of Christianity. An action which simultaneously defiled themselves and Christianity. Christ would not have condoned such actions seeing as how he preached peace, love and forgiveness.
Most people forget that the central tenant of Christianity is forgiveness. Christianity teaches that Christ was sent to die for our sins so that we wouldn't have to pay that price. Rather, through his death we are all forgiven of everything wrong that we've ever done or will ever do; the only cost is admission, in the sense that we must ask for this forgiveness; humility, in that we must accept that we are forgiven through Christ's sacrifice; and devotion, in that having admitted and accepted forgiveness we rely on God to help us live the best life we can.
Speak for yourself. Those of us below 1000 are soooo above such childishness as to tout our low uid, especially when those uid's are clearly superior to yours.
Yes! Now to lie in wait for the next opportunity to strut and posture and assert my god like prowess!
Why? There is plenty of prior art on this. Other software (notably, the Gimp and probably photoshop) have this feature built into them. It's called 'Save a copy'. It saves the document in an alternate format while leaving the original document untouched. The Gimp even gives you a preview of the export document. The same feature is also often implemented as Export.
Cell phones don't try to talk to as many towers as they can. They generally have a relatively short list of towers that they are interested in at a time (active set). They may scan as many towers as they can hear at once, but then they'll only keep track of perhaps the top 3. Even then, they aren't in constant communication with them. Cell scanning doesn't require any involvement on the part of the tower itself. The tower will be generating a pilot signal. The pilot is sent at a known power level and uniquely identifies each cell tower. The phone will be scanning for these pilot signals and determining their signal quality based on the ones that it can receive/decode. During a call, a phone may be in communication with as many as 3 cell towers, and even then that's not terribly common.
You're going to have bigger problems with doppler at the plane speeds. But the most fundamental issue is going to be signal propagation.
Most modern cell towers are going to be using directional antennas. These antennas generally split a cell into 3 or more sectors. Each sector has its own antenna that dumps the majority of its power out directly in front of it with huge loss to signals along the (60, 300) degree range (i.e. to the side and behind). This is to reduce self interference with other cell towers behind the sector in question. It will also likely have significant loss to signals being emitted in an upwards direction, the direction that you would care about in a plane. This pretty much makes the question of whether or not the FAA will allow phones on planes moot. Who cares if they'll let you turn on your phone when you can't get a signal anyway?
"Why is it so hard to imagine that your God gave man the ability to do such things as a means to improve our lives?"
What a convenient, horrible argument to make. I can justify any action that I wish to take by using that same line of reasoning. The mentally retarded or physically handicaped used to be sterilized to prevent them from procriating. Why would we want to proliferate their obviously detrimental characteristics? God allowed us to do such things, so it must be God's will!
Having the ability to do something is not the same as saying that it is right, or God's will, to do it. We have free will. We can use that free will to follow the will of God or we can follow our own whims. In this case, I believe that we are following our own whims and not the will of God. Why? Because God believes that all life is sacred. When do you determine that a collection of cells ceases to be a collection of cells and becomes a life? Based on your description, I am not alive as I am merely a collection of cells. Heck, if we wanted to, we could argue that I'm really just a whole slew of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, etc. molecules that happen to be occupying roughly the same space.
There are many diseases that are devestating and stem cells seem to hold great potential for treating them. However, I, for one, would forego such treatments if I had to live with the idea that a life was created and then destroyed just so that I could be cured. Is there some way that stem cells can be harvested without creating clones or abortions? I don't think that anyone has definatively found the answer to that.
I am a Christian. I love God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) with all my heart. I guess that I'm one of those people that you don't understand. I've been a non-believer and I know how much easier life seems when there is noone to be accountable to. But the love of God is soooo much better than easy answers.
Very off subject, but I have always wondered, why on earth do people use wasd? It makes no sense. The natural position for your left hand on the keyboard centers your fingers on esdf. Also, there are more usable keys surounding esdf than wasd and esdf easier to find in-the-blind thanks to the nice home key bump on the f key. Am I missing something, or did this become the defactor standard because some game shipped with this as the default key mapping?
Something that you're missing is the distinction between the Old Testament and the new Testament, also know as the old covenant between God and his people and the new covenant between God and all people. In Genesis, we find that Adam and Eve fall away from God by disobeying the one law that he had laid out for them: Don't eat the fruit of the tree of good and evil (or the tree of knowledge of good and evil). God later gave Moses and his people a new set of rules, the ten commandments. There were also other rules laid out for the people in Exedous and Leviticus. Among these rules was the sacrificial ceremony where a goat, also known as a scape goat, would be sacrificed to God. It's blood would cover the sins of the people and they would be absolved, though the sacrifice would have to be repeated as it was a non-permanent absolution.
Fast forward to the New Testament and we now have a new player, Christ. Beginning a new covenant with God, Christ was sacrificed and paid the penalty for all of our sins; past, present and future. Why was Christ's sacrifice sufficient where the goat's was not? Christ is God and man. So why isn't everyone saved if Christ paid the penalty for all of our sins? In order to be saved, you must accept God's forgiveness through Christ. You must trust that Christ already paid the penalty for you.
evolution does not preclude God's act of Creation.
If you believe in evolution, then you must also believe that the beginning of Genesis is a nice story and nothing more. Genesis lays out a very specific time table and set of events. On day 6 God created man. If we accept the premise that Genesis isn't an actual account of the creation of the world, then that brings into question whether the Bible is fact, or just a collection of nice stories.
While I will concede that I don't understand everything I've read in the Bible, and yes, I've read much of it, I do believe that it is true as written. The world, and everything in it, were created in six days by God. So yes, I do feel that a belief in evolution, that is, evolution as the explenation of human's origins, does preclude one from a faith in the Jewish or Christian God.
As for teaching intelligent design in school, I don't have any confidence that the school system could get it right. Not because the teachers are incapable, but just because those people against it won't let it be taught correctly.
Personally, I'd be happy if schools would at least teach that evolution isn't fact, just a theory. It's an opening into which they can then consider other possibilities. Yeah, I think it would be great if everyone in the world believed in God and creationism, but God gave us free will, and some freely choose not to believe.
There are something like 6 mobile phone companies (plus virtual operators) all competing for the same 7 million people
Well, we have Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular. Am I missing someone? That's at least 4 nation wide carriers. We also have much smaller local regional cellular carriers.
The way all these carriers compete is on call cost and service.
Ditto. But our carriers also compete on who can get what handset.
It is very cheap to make calls in Hong Kong, free SMS, voicemail, call forwarding. Free calls within the network for designated numbers (Girl Friend to BF for instance)
Ok, in the US we can one up you. On Verizon (and perhaps others?), all in network calls are free. Most, if not all, carriers have some sort of "family plan" where you can call anyone on your plan for free. These have dubious value, though, if the majority of calls don't go to people in your "family."
you pay to both make AND receive calls on your mobile phone.
The same is true in the US.
You haven't convinced me that HK is really any different than the US, at least as far as carriers go. The difference is culture. The bulk of the US isn't nearly as gadget driven as many of the Asian countries. Money is usually diverted into other investments such as cars and homes. Gadgets fall lower on the list. The gadget driven crowd, generally the 15-30 year olds, have less disposable income and are therefor able to pay less for their products, hence subsidized phones from the carriers.
Personally, I find it hard to justify you're HKD$4000 ($500 USD) fo a phone when that is more than what I paid for my last PC. Still, there are some people that do, and I say more power to 'em.
There is a difference between knowing and believing:
True. I'm just following in the age old tradition of equivalating belief in God as a fact. i.e. the Nicene Creed: We believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
Which really means that I believe and know to be true that there is one God, the Father Almighty.
everything is subjective except for this argument, which is absolute.
You can't argue that truth is subjective because you've just argued against your own point. We have to conclude then, that there is absolute truth. Why is there absolute truth? I believe it is because God has created such a world. Man screwed it up at the beginning (as we have with seemingly everything since) and it is only because of the sacrifice of Christ Jesus that we have hope.
I fear for the generation of children that grow up and learn to speak English from a Japanese programmer.
Robot: "Pleasant sentiment, young not adults!" Children: "Satisfy early time in day, converyer of learn!" Robot: "English will be shown language through class. We have learn verb later."
As this was an experiment, it is likely that they merely sent pseudo-random data. Probably even just the same blocks of data repeatedly. You don't need a large data set to generate traffic for testing purposes, just something that is easily verifiable.
Even fixing his syntax flaw won't fix the problem. If we assume that 'turdSandwich' is code for Kerry, Kerry still won't get votes by fixing the ==. All of Kerry's votes are going to someone with the code name 'turnSandwich'.
That's funny. "Blow The Gunk Out of the Cartridge" is known as "Deposit Corrosive Agents On Metal Contacts" in my house.
Until recently, I was a devoted to cleaning my nintendo cartridge via a quick injection of air, err, blowing on the cartridges. Then I read a knowledge base article at Nintendo. It said that when you blow on the cartridge you're actually making the problem worse by coating with metal leads with fine particles of spit. Mmmm. Spit.
Makes sense when you think about it. The layer of spit may temporarily make the electrons flow, but a combination of moisture, electricity and metal leads to corrosion. Suddenly Mario explodes into hundreds of tiny blocks on the screen.
I recently pulled out my old NES, which I hadn't played since probably '94. None of my games worked, so I sat down and cleaned the contacts using a cleaning kit that I bought back in the day. I then cleaned all of my games. You've got to clean both or else there's no point. The result? My Nintendo works better now than I can ever remember it working!
Rock on cleaning agents. Now usefull for more than just sniffing punks.
Spoken like a true urbanite. I grew up in a small town, moved to a college town, and now live in the suburbs near a big city. I hate the city. I'd love to go back to at least a college sized town. I've never gotten the draw of the city. So what if I can get chinese food at 2 AM. Now that I'm out of my college years I can count on one hand how many times I've been up at that hour.
Beyond that, just because small towns don't have all of the commerce of a city, that doesn't mean that there's nothing to do in them. Most evenings I go home and sit around with the wife talking. I'm too tired to go out and do anything. If I do, we go for a walk in the park. What part of that requires me to be in a city?
Unless you have specialized hardware, as most cell phones do, most of your processing power will go to voice coding. Why? Because the vocoders on cell phones were designed to be run through a DSP. GSM, for example, will generally use a DSP for its AMR encode/decode.
Encryption could just as easily be designed to run on a DSP.
Yes, they are, at least in the US. Companies pay a hefty fee to license a part of the RF spectrum allocated to cell phones from the US government. In order to transmit in that licensed subset of the spectrum, you must own a license. This device would clearly be in violation of those laws.
There are some frequency ranges that you are able to transmit in without a license. A small part of the 900 MHz band and 2.4 GHz are available for public use, among others. Better cordless phones and your 802.11b and g cards are at 2.4 GHz, for example.
You're right, it doesn't cost any money to use in comercial apps, but after just finishing writing a comercial app using it, I feel that I can justifiably say, "You get what you pay for".
I ported a Qt application to wxWindows because we couldn't afford to buy any more Qt licenses for more developers. Not much had been written in Qt, so it didn't seem like it would be a big deal. But man can I tell you that moving from Qt, where things just worked, to wxWindows was a pain.
Things as simple as changing the mouse cursor didn't always work (yes, I submitted a bug report along with a fix). wxWindows enforces a particular widget hierarchy which also implies a line of communication (you always communicate up the widget stack through events, and down the widget stack through methods).
The documentation was not always correct. And so far as being cross platform, a large number of widgets have comments along with them such as, "On Windows, feature X and Y are supported. Using GTK, only Feature X is supported.".
Extending widgets is not as simple as it should be. I needed a toggle button with an image, so I derived a class from the toggle button class and added a handler for the paint event only to find that no paint event is generated or handled for the toggle button! How the hell it paints itself is beyond me, but placing the same paint handling code into a frame derived class worked fine. This kind of inconsistency drives a developer up a wall!
Other anoyances include wxWindows changing the colors of my mouse pointers (if I wanted the foreground to be black, I would have made it black!) and the limitation of two color mouse pointers. I had full color mouse pointers in Qt so there should be some way of doing it in wxWindows.
That being said, I did like some of the features of wxWindows. The event handler stack is a neat implementation and I ended up using it heavily. It was easy to add my own event types, though this is another case where some of the documentation is just flat out wrong.
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I've been working towards my masters of science in computer science degree since 2007 (one class at a time takes forever). I started taking classes remotely at a remote television site at my employer. I later left that employer and got a job somewhere that didn't have access to those remote television sites, so I started taking the classes online. Since I started, I'm now at my third company, and all three have been more than willing to pay for my courses. In fact, that's probably the most telling point for whether anyone is going to take your courses seriously: is your company willing to pay for the classes. My advice is only take classes from a public or private university with a real physical campus, and only universities you would consider attending in person if you lived nearby.
Now, having taken courses remotely for several years, let me forewarn you about online learning:
Now going online also puts you in the driver's seat when it comes to choosing your institution. You get to pick from many more universities than are likely to be proximate to where you live. You can watch lectures multiple times, rewind to the part where the prof started speaking gibberish and watch it until you understand what the heck he's talking about. You can also choose a university where the courses are taught by professors and not TAs. I've had all of my classes taught by the professor. If you choose to pursue a degree either in person or online, good luck!
Armadillo Aerospace is providing the RRL with rockets for their planes, so yes, they are rockets. http://armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=358
You've pretty much summed up the plot to Richard Bachman's (aka Stephen King) The Long Walk
However, you can't blame Christianity for any of that. Christianity didn't cause people to go off and kill each other. People decided to go off and kill each other in the name of Christianity. An action which simultaneously defiled themselves and Christianity. Christ would not have condoned such actions seeing as how he preached peace, love and forgiveness.
Most people forget that the central tenant of Christianity is forgiveness. Christianity teaches that Christ was sent to die for our sins so that we wouldn't have to pay that price. Rather, through his death we are all forgiven of everything wrong that we've ever done or will ever do; the only cost is admission, in the sense that we must ask for this forgiveness; humility, in that we must accept that we are forgiven through Christ's sacrifice; and devotion, in that having admitted and accepted forgiveness we rely on God to help us live the best life we can.
Speak for yourself. Those of us below 1000 are soooo above such childishness as to tout our low uid, especially when those uid's are clearly superior to yours.
Yes! Now to lie in wait for the next opportunity to strut and posture and assert my god like prowess!
... I just want to know whether they're paranoid.
Why? There is plenty of prior art on this. Other software (notably, the Gimp and probably photoshop) have this feature built into them. It's called 'Save a copy'. It saves the document in an alternate format while leaving the original document untouched. The Gimp even gives you a preview of the export document. The same feature is also often implemented as Export.
Actually, you're wrong.
Cell phones don't try to talk to as many towers as they can. They generally have a relatively short list of towers that they are interested in at a time (active set). They may scan as many towers as they can hear at once, but then they'll only keep track of perhaps the top 3. Even then, they aren't in constant communication with them. Cell scanning doesn't require any involvement on the part of the tower itself. The tower will be generating a pilot signal. The pilot is sent at a known power level and uniquely identifies each cell tower. The phone will be scanning for these pilot signals and determining their signal quality based on the ones that it can receive/decode. During a call, a phone may be in communication with as many as 3 cell towers, and even then that's not terribly common.
You're going to have bigger problems with doppler at the plane speeds. But the most fundamental issue is going to be signal propagation.
Most modern cell towers are going to be using directional antennas. These antennas generally split a cell into 3 or more sectors. Each sector has its own antenna that dumps the majority of its power out directly in front of it with huge loss to signals along the (60, 300) degree range (i.e. to the side and behind). This is to reduce self interference with other cell towers behind the sector in question. It will also likely have significant loss to signals being emitted in an upwards direction, the direction that you would care about in a plane. This pretty much makes the question of whether or not the FAA will allow phones on planes moot. Who cares if they'll let you turn on your phone when you can't get a signal anyway?
"Why is it so hard to imagine that your God gave man the ability to do such things as a means to improve our lives?"
What a convenient, horrible argument to make. I can justify any action that I wish to take by using that same line of reasoning. The mentally retarded or physically handicaped used to be sterilized to prevent them from procriating. Why would we want to proliferate their obviously detrimental characteristics? God allowed us to do such things, so it must be God's will!
Having the ability to do something is not the same as saying that it is right, or God's will, to do it. We have free will. We can use that free will to follow the will of God or we can follow our own whims. In this case, I believe that we are following our own whims and not the will of God. Why? Because God believes that all life is sacred. When do you determine that a collection of cells ceases to be a collection of cells and becomes a life? Based on your description, I am not alive as I am merely a collection of cells. Heck, if we wanted to, we could argue that I'm really just a whole slew of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, etc. molecules that happen to be occupying roughly the same space.
There are many diseases that are devestating and stem cells seem to hold great potential for treating them. However, I, for one, would forego such treatments if I had to live with the idea that a life was created and then destroyed just so that I could be cured. Is there some way that stem cells can be harvested without creating clones or abortions? I don't think that anyone has definatively found the answer to that.
I am a Christian. I love God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) with all my heart. I guess that I'm one of those people that you don't understand. I've been a non-believer and I know how much easier life seems when there is noone to be accountable to. But the love of God is soooo much better than easy answers.
Very off subject, but I have always wondered, why on earth do people use wasd? It makes no sense. The natural position for your left hand on the keyboard centers your fingers on esdf. Also, there are more usable keys surounding esdf than wasd and esdf easier to find in-the-blind thanks to the nice home key bump on the f key. Am I missing something, or did this become the defactor standard because some game shipped with this as the default key mapping?
Something that you're missing is the distinction between the Old Testament and the new Testament, also know as the old covenant between God and his people and the new covenant between God and all people. In Genesis, we find that Adam and Eve fall away from God by disobeying the one law that he had laid out for them: Don't eat the fruit of the tree of good and evil (or the tree of knowledge of good and evil). God later gave Moses and his people a new set of rules, the ten commandments. There were also other rules laid out for the people in Exedous and Leviticus. Among these rules was the sacrificial ceremony where a goat, also known as a scape goat, would be sacrificed to God. It's blood would cover the sins of the people and they would be absolved, though the sacrifice would have to be repeated as it was a non-permanent absolution.
Fast forward to the New Testament and we now have a new player, Christ. Beginning a new covenant with God, Christ was sacrificed and paid the penalty for all of our sins; past, present and future. Why was Christ's sacrifice sufficient where the goat's was not? Christ is God and man. So why isn't everyone saved if Christ paid the penalty for all of our sins? In order to be saved, you must accept God's forgiveness through Christ. You must trust that Christ already paid the penalty for you.
1st Corinthians
evolution does not preclude God's act of Creation.
If you believe in evolution, then you must also believe that the beginning of Genesis is a nice story and nothing more. Genesis lays out a very specific time table and set of events. On day 6 God created man. If we accept the premise that Genesis isn't an actual account of the creation of the world, then that brings into question whether the Bible is fact, or just a collection of nice stories.
While I will concede that I don't understand everything I've read in the Bible, and yes, I've read much of it, I do believe that it is true as written. The world, and everything in it, were created in six days by God. So yes, I do feel that a belief in evolution, that is, evolution as the explenation of human's origins, does preclude one from a faith in the Jewish or Christian God.
As for teaching intelligent design in school, I don't have any confidence that the school system could get it right. Not because the teachers are incapable, but just because those people against it won't let it be taught correctly.
Personally, I'd be happy if schools would at least teach that evolution isn't fact, just a theory. It's an opening into which they can then consider other possibilities. Yeah, I think it would be great if everyone in the world believed in God and creationism, but God gave us free will, and some freely choose not to believe.
There are something like 6 mobile phone companies (plus virtual operators) all competing for the same 7 million people
Well, we have Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular. Am I missing someone? That's at least 4 nation wide carriers. We also have much smaller local regional cellular carriers.
The way all these carriers compete is on call cost and service.
Ditto. But our carriers also compete on who can get what handset.
It is very cheap to make calls in Hong Kong, free SMS, voicemail, call forwarding. Free calls within the network for designated numbers (Girl Friend to BF for instance)
Ok, in the US we can one up you. On Verizon (and perhaps others?), all in network calls are free. Most, if not all, carriers have some sort of "family plan" where you can call anyone on your plan for free. These have dubious value, though, if the majority of calls don't go to people in your "family."
you pay to both make AND receive calls on your mobile phone.
The same is true in the US.
You haven't convinced me that HK is really any different than the US, at least as far as carriers go. The difference is culture. The bulk of the US isn't nearly as gadget driven as many of the Asian countries. Money is usually diverted into other investments such as cars and homes. Gadgets fall lower on the list. The gadget driven crowd, generally the 15-30 year olds, have less disposable income and are therefor able to pay less for their products, hence subsidized phones from the carriers.
Personally, I find it hard to justify you're HKD$4000 ($500 USD) fo a phone when that is more than what I paid for my last PC. Still, there are some people that do, and I say more power to 'em.
There is a difference between knowing and believing:
True. I'm just following in the age old tradition of equivalating belief in God as a fact. i.e. the Nicene Creed: We believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
Which really means that I believe and know to be true that there is one God, the Father Almighty.
Or, to summarize what you just said:
everything is subjective except for this argument, which is absolute.
You can't argue that truth is subjective because you've just argued against your own point. We have to conclude then, that there is absolute truth. Why is there absolute truth? I believe it is because God has created such a world. Man screwed it up at the beginning (as we have with seemingly everything since) and it is only because of the sacrifice of Christ Jesus that we have hope.
I believe in the absolute truth of hope.
I fear for the generation of children that grow up and learn to speak English from a Japanese programmer.
Robot: "Pleasant sentiment, young not adults!"
Children: "Satisfy early time in day, converyer of learn!"
Robot: "English will be shown language through class. We have learn verb later."
shiver
As this was an experiment, it is likely that they merely sent pseudo-random data. Probably even just the same blocks of data repeatedly. You don't need a large data set to generate traffic for testing purposes, just something that is easily verifiable.
Even fixing his syntax flaw won't fix the problem. If we assume that 'turdSandwich' is code for Kerry, Kerry still won't get votes by fixing the ==. All of Kerry's votes are going to someone with the code name 'turnSandwich'.
That's funny. "Blow The Gunk Out of the Cartridge" is known as "Deposit Corrosive Agents On Metal Contacts" in my house.
Until recently, I was a devoted to cleaning my nintendo cartridge via a quick injection of air, err, blowing on the cartridges. Then I read a knowledge base article at Nintendo. It said that when you blow on the cartridge you're actually making the problem worse by coating with metal leads with fine particles of spit. Mmmm. Spit.
Makes sense when you think about it. The layer of spit may temporarily make the electrons flow, but a combination of moisture, electricity and metal leads to corrosion. Suddenly Mario explodes into hundreds of tiny blocks on the screen.
I recently pulled out my old NES, which I hadn't played since probably '94. None of my games worked, so I sat down and cleaned the contacts using a cleaning kit that I bought back in the day. I then cleaned all of my games. You've got to clean both or else there's no point. The result? My Nintendo works better now than I can ever remember it working!
Rock on cleaning agents. Now usefull for more than just sniffing punks.
Spoken like a true urbanite. I grew up in a small town, moved to a college town, and now live in the suburbs near a big city. I hate the city. I'd love to go back to at least a college sized town. I've never gotten the draw of the city. So what if I can get chinese food at 2 AM. Now that I'm out of my college years I can count on one hand how many times I've been up at that hour.
Beyond that, just because small towns don't have all of the commerce of a city, that doesn't mean that there's nothing to do in them. Most evenings I go home and sit around with the wife talking. I'm too tired to go out and do anything. If I do, we go for a walk in the park. What part of that requires me to be in a city?
Different strokes for different folks.
You're right. POV Ray, the renderer, is actually 13 years old; my 10th aniversary keychain says 1991-2001.
Sounds like a neat way to shut down your competitors site.
Hey, you guys are selling WAY more than we are, I think that I'll hire someone to send out spam on your behalf.
Unless you have specialized hardware, as most cell phones do, most of your processing power will go to voice coding. Why? Because the vocoders on cell phones were designed to be run through a DSP. GSM, for example, will generally use a DSP for its AMR encode/decode.
Encryption could just as easily be designed to run on a DSP.
aren't devices like these illegal anyways?
Yes, they are, at least in the US. Companies pay a hefty fee to license a part of the RF spectrum allocated to cell phones from the US government. In order to transmit in that licensed subset of the spectrum, you must own a license. This device would clearly be in violation of those laws.
There are some frequency ranges that you are able to transmit in without a license. A small part of the 900 MHz band and 2.4 GHz are available for public use, among others. Better cordless phones and your 802.11b and g cards are at 2.4 GHz, for example.
You're right, it doesn't cost any money to use in comercial apps, but after just finishing writing a comercial app using it, I feel that I can justifiably say, "You get what you pay for".
I ported a Qt application to wxWindows because we couldn't afford to buy any more Qt licenses for more developers. Not much had been written in Qt, so it didn't seem like it would be a big deal. But man can I tell you that moving from Qt, where things just worked, to wxWindows was a pain.
Things as simple as changing the mouse cursor didn't always work (yes, I submitted a bug report along with a fix). wxWindows enforces a particular widget hierarchy which also implies a line of communication (you always communicate up the widget stack through events, and down the widget stack through methods).
The documentation was not always correct. And so far as being cross platform, a large number of widgets have comments along with them such as, "On Windows, feature X and Y are supported. Using GTK, only Feature X is supported.".
Extending widgets is not as simple as it should be. I needed a toggle button with an image, so I derived a class from the toggle button class and added a handler for the paint event only to find that no paint event is generated or handled for the toggle button! How the hell it paints itself is beyond me, but placing the same paint handling code into a frame derived class worked fine. This kind of inconsistency drives a developer up a wall!
Other anoyances include wxWindows changing the colors of my mouse pointers (if I wanted the foreground to be black, I would have made it black!) and the limitation of two color mouse pointers. I had full color mouse pointers in Qt so there should be some way of doing it in wxWindows.
That being said, I did like some of the features of wxWindows. The event handler stack is a neat implementation and I ended up using it heavily. It was easy to add my own event types, though this is another case where some of the documentation is just flat out wrong.