"The American newspaper (and the nightly newscast) is designed to appeal to a broad audience, with conflicting values and opinions, by virtue of its commitment to the goal of objectivity. Many newspapers, in their eagerness to demonstrate a sense of balance and impartiality, do not allow reporters to voice their opinions publicly, march in demonstrations, volunteer in political campaigns, wear political buttons, or attach bumper stickers to their cars."
If you ever have seen the documentary Spin or just really paid attention you know the mainstream media including the newspaper is as far away as you can get from "objective." It annoys me that they and the nightly news toot their own horn with that BS every chance they get -- and unfortunately they are fooling a few others.
If they want to pretend that they don't shape the news, fine, but I think that's a big reason why people are leaving in droves to get better news online.
or hell, if you teach them Lisp they'll be horribly screwed up for the rest of their lives but at least they'll understand how registers and OOP work.
I disagree. C/C++ were my first languages. Lisp, I learned later after reading a few Paul Graham essays.
But it is a wonderful language. The people who complain about the notation must have never tried it or are really dense. It's generally a simple language to learn (moreso if you use the scheme variant, there's also dylan) to get things done.
Plus the REPL (read-eval-print-loop) allows instant feedback unlike the C/C++ variants and later breed. It is also a typeless language (allowing for types but not necessary).
I have seen in that and other aspects for students to be able to concentrate on learning the finer points of programming (algorithms, etc) by being able to get real programs working early on rather than being bogged down in the minutae of many C-style languages.
In reality, he probably could have set up many of the computer (that are acting as email/websurfing terminals) as Ubuntu/Edubuntu boxes perhaps and the rest (since they are getting swiped clean anyway) have no A/V software and just install that one one central (preferably Linux, preferably new) computer running something like Clam A/V where all the internet traffic goes through. Install Firefox or Opera as the default browser, restrict privileges, and away you go! Oh, and a way to image them nightly/weekly as stuff still gets on those Windows boxes.
A/V slows down computers horribly, especially old ones. Off loading the task to one would have been much more efficient.
Anyway, good luck to him. I don't fault his inexperience, he's providing a free service and probably having a good time. It would be nice if there was someone to guide him though (hopefully he goes on some forums/mailing lists for help).
AoCP is excellent, but K&R is a overrated piece of shit. It's hard to learn from, for a decent book on C -- it should be "Pointers on C" by Kenneth Reek or something similiar.
K&R is fine once you actually know C, but to learn from it's a horribly terse non-self-explanatory PoS. I'm rather interested in how many people know the Unix Haters Handbook, as that is more worthwhile.
I disagree. Any security model is susceptible, but people should not be surprised that biometric information is duplicable -- as we are basically just results of DNA-copying ourselves.
This is like how any lock can be picked, eventually. The value is not in a lock that can't be picked, as that is an impossibility, but one that makes the level of entry significantly high so as to ward off any amateur attempts and possibly raise the suspicions of those watching -- i.e. some guy deciding the lock is too hard and bashes in a window (it doesn't stop the intrusion but alerts me something happened).
So I think biometric data can be a good thing. It significantly raises the barrier of entry -- most will try to find an easier way and other attempts may raise suspicions. The bad thing is assuming it's the be all, end all of security and never wrong.
Who cares about being cool, I'm not spending that type of money on a Mac for that.
I get or recommend it for family so I don't have to sit there and fix anything when I visit. Or take calls after work.
Sure, I could install Ubuntu (and do for people with PCs) but that leaves me with the headache of installing printers sometimes. And forget All-In-Ones. With a Mac, there are ready made solutions which most people want.
I can't the number of times I had to reinstall Windows XP on this damned machine over the years. On my 3 year old Mac? Never. And I never felt that was cruft on there slowing it down..... (and I was never afraid to install the random app...) That's pretty much how I know why people like Macs.
Nobody was able to hack into the systems on the first day of the contest when contestants were only allowed to attack the computers over the network, but on Thursday the rules were relaxed so that attackers could direct contest organizers using the computers to do things like visit Web sites or open e-mail messages.
Once an account is banned, the player has to purchase a new box of the game to start playing again.
Wow, that sounds like it's a racket on Blizzard's part. Sure, put the character in some sandbox island with other criminals (Australia?) until he gets out for good behavior but that banning sounds too extreme to be happening regularly.
No it's not. On the iPhone, the loss of tactile feedback is acceptable because with the limited realestate -- you could either have a fulltime keyboard that would not be used most of the time, or a screen that sometimes shows a keyboard when necessary. Almost nobody will type any serious length messages on the iPhone (or any other phone). It's an acceptable feedback.
But on the iPhone, I'm getting visual feedback of hitting the correct keys. On a computer/laptop -- I don't want to have to look down at the keys to know what I'm hitting -- I want to feel it. It's much faster
Oh but you say, what about watching the letters come out on the screen. Fine, except when I'm hitting key combinations that don't show up on the screen right away (Ctrl+C, etc).
Loss of tactile feedback is only acceptable on devices I don't expect to write full length documents.
Now I had seen Digg get flooded with Obama spam, which was fair enough because that site had politics. But now it's being rammed down my throat here too with a trickle of stories.
Screw it. I don't think he's the second coming and disagree with his solutions. But can't we keep at least this site apolitical, more or less?
This story is just a stupid, thin veil of promoting yet another candidate -- the actual issue of social networking is bullshit and has already played out in this election.
Of course, one of the responsibilities of a programmer is to use the right tool for the job and C++ is not it in this case. (I acknowledge that some don't have the luxury to choose.)
I think to make programming too different from natural human thought processes will result in less manageable code and probably less performance & profit for effort.
Is it not possible that someone at Samsung came up with the idea before Seagate, but just didn't patent it? Or we could go by the saying: "Ideas are cheap." Just because you dreamed up an invention, why should you get some of the money for all the work put into implementation, marketing, manufacturing, etc?
Patents used to be for specific implementations, not the ideas behind it wholesale as no one back then seriously thought you should have a monopoly or could even own an entire idea.
Think about leaders that you've disagreed with, too, but followed because you had faith in where they were going.
Less faith, more reason people! Who gives a shit what someone's pastor says -- that's the type of retarded non-sequitor distractions discussed seriously by the those partisan hacks on either side. Listen to the person and his policies. The reason we are in trouble is that we think it's a popularity contest where we have to feel warm and fuzzy inside about the choice we made.
Get real, none of the major mainstream (officially sanctioned) candidates are talking about the elephant in the room: cutting spending. Especially Obama -- who is heavily invested into the entitlement/welfare state in a major way -- just listen to his recent victory speeches promising all types of programs which == spending. None of the other are really any better.
America is broke. We need to cut spending. No ones wants to be the one to cut spending or agree to have their thing cut. We are screwed unless something happens -- and none of the 3 current frontrunners are offering the solution.
If you read into that properly, it probably means at the time of purchasing a new computer. Why would he be forced into Vista otherwise on his existing computer?
Microsoft won't let XP be offered forever on new computers (but maybe until the next major OS release, we see how it goes). But it will undoubtedly be supported for at least the greater part of another decade (regardless of MS's current projections).
Option 3: A eBook you pay for but one that you can copy, share, pass around to others, back up to other media, etc.
But instead I'm getting your option 1 from distributors. Or I can get Option 2 w/o ads from Pirate Bay. Even iTunes these days are selling open format higher quality mp3s for a premium (so I heard). What use is the dream of digital books (no space wasting library) if it is cancels out the benefits with encumbered DRM bullshit?
I'm mostly looking at Textbook publishers. Those are the ones going to be in the biggest shit: the only reason they can begin to charge so much is that people NEED those books to pass school/college. No other genre has this benefit and hence most books are priced much lower. I know many people who download movies simply because they hate paying for the thing and being wapped over the head with FBI warnings, having their DVD players hijacked with no skip commercials, etcetera when they can get a superior product online for free.
As to your point: not every model can live in the advertising world. Some subjects are too esoteric or the audience is too small. I don't mind -- I don't mind paying and supporting something: I DO HATE however being treated like a criminal AFTER I paid and seeing the freeloaders having something significantly better.
Mod parent up. I remember some VR headsets/"glasses" being released in the late '90s as well and it sucked (remember Gameboy VR too?). Just because a company releases something does not mean the solution is good or even really works well at all.
So I guess I would just explain my perspective. Because many businesses offer free wi-fi and many people (say college aged kids) don't mind sharing bandwidth -- I can only go by the fact that their signal is completely open and unprotected that I may make free use of it -- afterall that signal is broadcasting from beyond their boundaries in many cases to my device (laptop, iphone, whatever). This is what makes hotspots free and available and anybody who sees that open signal can only deduce that since that signal is open/free to them and that it is okay to use. They can't read minds.
I personally don't -- because of liability reasons. So I give my routers a user_name/password to accept under some encryption scheme. Now, if others were to try to hack into this to get free internet (through, say, packet sniffing) I would consider that stealing because they are obviously trying to gain access into something that was plainly restricted to them against my (the owner's) wishes.
Slashdot Mirror
"The American newspaper (and the nightly newscast) is designed to appeal to a broad audience, with conflicting values and opinions, by virtue of its commitment to the goal of objectivity. Many newspapers, in their eagerness to demonstrate a sense of balance and impartiality, do not allow reporters to voice their opinions publicly, march in demonstrations, volunteer in political campaigns, wear political buttons, or attach bumper stickers to their cars."
If you ever have seen the documentary Spin or just really paid attention you know the mainstream media including the newspaper is as far away as you can get from "objective." It annoys me that they and the nightly news toot their own horn with that BS every chance they get -- and unfortunately they are fooling a few others.
If they want to pretend that they don't shape the news, fine, but I think that's a big reason why people are leaving in droves to get better news online.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,437087,00.html
I also like this story:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/07/wwii-veteran-nazi-interrogators-denounced-bushs-torture-techniques/
I disagree. C/C++ were my first languages. Lisp, I learned later after reading a few Paul Graham essays.
But it is a wonderful language. The people who complain about the notation must have never tried it or are really dense. It's generally a simple language to learn (moreso if you use the scheme variant, there's also dylan) to get things done.
Plus the REPL (read-eval-print-loop) allows instant feedback unlike the C/C++ variants and later breed. It is also a typeless language (allowing for types but not necessary).
I have seen in that and other aspects for students to be able to concentrate on learning the finer points of programming (algorithms, etc) by being able to get real programs working early on rather than being bogged down in the minutae of many C-style languages.
In reality, he probably could have set up many of the computer (that are acting as email/websurfing terminals) as Ubuntu/Edubuntu boxes perhaps and the rest (since they are getting swiped clean anyway) have no A/V software and just install that one one central (preferably Linux, preferably new) computer running something like Clam A/V where all the internet traffic goes through. Install Firefox or Opera as the default browser, restrict privileges, and away you go! Oh, and a way to image them nightly/weekly as stuff still gets on those Windows boxes.
A/V slows down computers horribly, especially old ones. Off loading the task to one would have been much more efficient.
Anyway, good luck to him. I don't fault his inexperience, he's providing a free service and probably having a good time. It would be nice if there was someone to guide him though (hopefully he goes on some forums/mailing lists for help).
AoCP is excellent, but K&R is a overrated piece of shit. It's hard to learn from, for a decent book on C -- it should be "Pointers on C" by Kenneth Reek or something similiar.
K&R is fine once you actually know C, but to learn from it's a horribly terse non-self-explanatory PoS. I'm rather interested in how many people know the Unix Haters Handbook, as that is more worthwhile.
C++ education needs to improve.
The best way to go about it is to stop teaching it. That would be a major improvement right there.
Kindle in the future by securing such an avenue for niche content.
I disagree. Any security model is susceptible, but people should not be surprised that biometric information is duplicable -- as we are basically just results of DNA-copying ourselves.
This is like how any lock can be picked, eventually. The value is not in a lock that can't be picked, as that is an impossibility, but one that makes the level of entry significantly high so as to ward off any amateur attempts and possibly raise the suspicions of those watching -- i.e. some guy deciding the lock is too hard and bashes in a window (it doesn't stop the intrusion but alerts me something happened).
So I think biometric data can be a good thing. It significantly raises the barrier of entry -- most will try to find an easier way and other attempts may raise suspicions. The bad thing is assuming it's the be all, end all of security and never wrong.
Some external harddrives use them (and usually take USB as well). It should cut down on the CPU usage if you do large file transfers.
anymore? I know the drives are built better but that comes with the price premium.
Less CPU usage? (Although with multiple cores, I assume something like that too becomes less and less important.)
Who cares about being cool, I'm not spending that type of money on a Mac for that.
I get or recommend it for family so I don't have to sit there and fix anything when I visit. Or take calls after work.
Sure, I could install Ubuntu (and do for people with PCs) but that leaves me with the headache of installing printers sometimes. And forget All-In-Ones. With a Mac, there are ready made solutions which most people want.
I can't the number of times I had to reinstall Windows XP on this damned machine over the years. On my 3 year old Mac? Never. And I never felt that was cruft on there slowing it down..... (and I was never afraid to install the random app...) That's pretty much how I know why people like Macs.
Pretty much says it all.
Wow, that sounds like it's a racket on Blizzard's part. Sure, put the character in some sandbox island with other criminals (Australia?) until he gets out for good behavior but that banning sounds too extreme to be happening regularly.
No it's not. On the iPhone, the loss of tactile feedback is acceptable because with the limited realestate -- you could either have a fulltime keyboard that would not be used most of the time, or a screen that sometimes shows a keyboard when necessary. Almost nobody will type any serious length messages on the iPhone (or any other phone). It's an acceptable feedback.
But on the iPhone, I'm getting visual feedback of hitting the correct keys. On a computer/laptop -- I don't want to have to look down at the keys to know what I'm hitting -- I want to feel it. It's much faster
Oh but you say, what about watching the letters come out on the screen. Fine, except when I'm hitting key combinations that don't show up on the screen right away (Ctrl+C, etc).
Loss of tactile feedback is only acceptable on devices I don't expect to write full length documents.
Now I had seen Digg get flooded with Obama spam, which was fair enough because that site had politics. But now it's being rammed down my throat here too with a trickle of stories.
Screw it. I don't think he's the second coming and disagree with his solutions. But can't we keep at least this site apolitical, more or less?
This story is just a stupid, thin veil of promoting yet another candidate -- the actual issue of social networking is bullshit and has already played out in this election.
Of course, one of the responsibilities of a programmer is to use the right tool for the job and C++ is not it in this case. (I acknowledge that some don't have the luxury to choose.)
Human brains are not like brains and are not serial oriented:
http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2007/03/why_the_brain_is_not_like_a_co.php
But our conscious mind might be.
For the same reason a programmer should learn anything -- to understand what is going on in the background.
Patents used to be for specific implementations, not the ideas behind it wholesale as no one back then seriously thought you should have a monopoly or could even own an entire idea.
What is propaganda about it? Read his plan and listen to his speeches. Spend. Spend. Spend.
Less faith, more reason people! Who gives a shit what someone's pastor says -- that's the type of retarded non-sequitor distractions discussed seriously by the those partisan hacks on either side. Listen to the person and his policies. The reason we are in trouble is that we think it's a popularity contest where we have to feel warm and fuzzy inside about the choice we made.
Get real, none of the major mainstream (officially sanctioned) candidates are talking about the elephant in the room: cutting spending. Especially Obama -- who is heavily invested into the entitlement/welfare state in a major way -- just listen to his recent victory speeches promising all types of programs which == spending. None of the other are really any better.
America is broke. We need to cut spending. No ones wants to be the one to cut spending or agree to have their thing cut. We are screwed unless something happens -- and none of the 3 current frontrunners are offering the solution.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7461407498377956300
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2588860308084209137
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Walker_(U.S._Comptroller_General)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hale-stewart/the-us-is-choking-on-de_b_91088.html
Fuck faith. Are you a goddamned lemming needing a leader to follow? Think for yourself.
If you read into that properly, it probably means at the time of purchasing a new computer. Why would he be forced into Vista otherwise on his existing computer?
Microsoft won't let XP be offered forever on new computers (but maybe until the next major OS release, we see how it goes). But it will undoubtedly be supported for at least the greater part of another decade (regardless of MS's current projections).
I prefer:
Option 3: A eBook you pay for but one that you can copy, share, pass around to others, back up to other media, etc.
But instead I'm getting your option 1 from distributors. Or I can get Option 2 w/o ads from Pirate Bay. Even iTunes these days are selling open format higher quality mp3s for a premium (so I heard). What use is the dream of digital books (no space wasting library) if it is cancels out the benefits with encumbered DRM bullshit?
I'm mostly looking at Textbook publishers. Those are the ones going to be in the biggest shit: the only reason they can begin to charge so much is that people NEED those books to pass school/college. No other genre has this benefit and hence most books are priced much lower. I know many people who download movies simply because they hate paying for the thing and being wapped over the head with FBI warnings, having their DVD players hijacked with no skip commercials, etcetera when they can get a superior product online for free.
As to your point: not every model can live in the advertising world. Some subjects are too esoteric or the audience is too small. I don't mind -- I don't mind paying and supporting something: I DO HATE however being treated like a criminal AFTER I paid and seeing the freeloaders having something significantly better.
You're wrong. Some buggy whip manufacturers didn't have to change, some made a successful dive into S&M products.
Mod parent up. I remember some VR headsets/"glasses" being released in the late '90s as well and it sucked (remember Gameboy VR too?). Just because a company releases something does not mean the solution is good or even really works well at all.
I cannot think of any fitting analogies.
So I guess I would just explain my perspective. Because many businesses offer free wi-fi and many people (say college aged kids) don't mind sharing bandwidth -- I can only go by the fact that their signal is completely open and unprotected that I may make free use of it -- afterall that signal is broadcasting from beyond their boundaries in many cases to my device (laptop, iphone, whatever). This is what makes hotspots free and available and anybody who sees that open signal can only deduce that since that signal is open/free to them and that it is okay to use. They can't read minds.
I personally don't -- because of liability reasons. So I give my routers a user_name/password to accept under some encryption scheme. Now, if others were to try to hack into this to get free internet (through, say, packet sniffing) I would consider that stealing because they are obviously trying to gain access into something that was plainly restricted to them against my (the owner's) wishes.