Why is it when this college kid breaks a law (spam), Slashdot is ready to fire him out of a cannon, but when a different college kid breaks a different law (DMCA, DVD CSS, Apple trade secret lawsuits, insert other offense here), they rush to his defense?
Because the members of slashdot are human. They bring thier own prejudices to thier opinions and decisions no matter how logical people think they are. There is an aspect of the crimes against DMCA, DVD, CSS, trade secrets benefits them so they are forgiveable where as the crimes against them are perform by low lifes that need to be wiped out. Boils down to a good old double standard.
This indicates that it is because they joined together ``for the purpose of reaffirming their intention of continuing intercollegiate football in such a way as to maintain the values of the game, while keeping it in fitting proportion to the main purposes of academic life.'' which happened in 1945. Wikipedia suggests that the Ivy part comes from some of the old buildings hav Ivy growing on them.
Anybody who is worth their salt can guide themselves just as well as a professor with 200+ students to deal with. If you are positive you want to do something for a long time (ie a career) then you should have the ability to learn about that career at your own pace given the materials available.
How can someone who is new to a subject pick the relavent and important[*] material which they should learn? The only way I can see is to learn everything and pick the subset which is important[*]. Strangley enough this is what lecturers/professors do when they teach.
I thought a patent had to be pretty explicit as to how something works
The language used in a patent can be pretty strange. They start with vauge description but then get more specific. That said lawyers like to keep it vauge so that the patent holder gains the maximum amount of coverage from the patent.
Its quite clear that people in the UK don't understand the concept of majors and minors.
Doing a minor is seen as a way to avoid the hard courses from your degree. The English education system (there is no such thing as the UK education system) acts like a funnel, the fields of study reduce and you specialise in one field for your degree. Some universities insist that you study three subjects in your first year but will generally ignore or perhaps lightly weight your marks for your first year when deciding on your degree classification.
because you really cant get a good education with out it being at least somewhat well rounded.
In Scottish universities you can do a 'well-rounded' degree by taking only first/second year courses. They are seen as having failed your degree since they usually mean that you were unable to complete courses from the honours level (third/fouth year).
How do we know that this hasn't already happened and that there isn't already a bathtub sized chunk of copper on it. That would probably screw up the results somewhat.
It is trivial since it is one of the simpliest data structures around which leads to queues, stacks etc and with slight modification gets you into graphs. It is less than ten lines of code in most languages that I know.
I would wager you could do many lines of good code without knowing the *terminology* "singly linked list" - especially if you are self taught and never had the need to research it.
Part of being a good programmer is knowing algorithms and datastrutures and where and how to apply them. If you don't know what a linked list is it is doubtful that you encountered much code.
I do, however believe a decent programmer will often have had to implement the logic without knowing what a "singly linked list" is.
I was once told 'If you're going to reinvent the wheel at least try to make it round on the first try'. Which implies knowing what already exists and how it works helps quite a lot in producing new things.
Re:Er... "20 Million users a week"??
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I doubt that. How many people are there in the UK?
Just under 60 million.
How many watch television on a weekly basis
Well around 98% of households have a TV set. So you could expect a large number of them.
I find it hard to believe that any reasonably fraction of that group is actually using Ceefax on so regular a basis.
Why? It is often faster than broadband in that you don't have to move from your seat in order to find things out. I use it most days as it has up to date TV listings. It is easy to get weather reports latest news etc and remember that it has been around for 30 years so it is much more familiar than the Internet for a large number of people.
The BBC recently ran a series of radio programmes called test tubes and tantrums. It documents some of the arguments scientists have had. It is quite interesting.
Slashdot Mirror
Because the members of slashdot are human. They bring thier own prejudices to thier opinions and decisions no matter how logical people think they are. There is an aspect of the crimes against DMCA, DVD, CSS, trade secrets benefits them so they are forgiveable where as the crimes against them are perform by low lifes that need to be wiped out. Boils down to a good old double standard.
Can I quote you in ten years?
This indicates that it is because they joined together ``for the purpose of reaffirming their intention of continuing intercollegiate football in such a way as to maintain the values of the game, while keeping it in fitting proportion to the main purposes of academic life.'' which happened in 1945. Wikipedia suggests that the Ivy part comes from some of the old buildings hav Ivy growing on them.
My mother used to tell me that thunder was angels moving furniture around.
<British Centric>
If he has a mate called Ant I vote we mame them just on the off chance.
</British Centric>
Wow, google gets used for everything these days.
This was the reason I didn't get into coupling it took old jokes and retold them.
Probably, but they were demonstrating products, I guess that no one makes an RF remote for MS media centre so they couldn't demo one.
How can someone who is new to a subject pick the relavent and important[*] material which they should learn? The only way I can see is to learn everything and pick the subset which is important[*]. Strangley enough this is what lecturers/professors do when they teach.
[*] Pick your own definition for important.
Does the skycar count?
It's called corn syrup.
Abilene IPv6 Map seems a reasonable size already.
The language used in a patent can be pretty strange. They start with vauge description but then get more specific. That said lawyers like to keep it vauge so that the patent holder gains the maximum amount of coverage from the patent.
It is possible that google use zeitgeist because summary is used in widespread use, using zeitgeist gives them a bit of branding.
Sometimes you have to chain several short perl scripts together :-)
Doing a minor is seen as a way to avoid the hard courses from your degree. The English education system (there is no such thing as the UK education system) acts like a funnel, the fields of study reduce and you specialise in one field for your degree. Some universities insist that you study three subjects in your first year but will generally ignore or perhaps lightly weight your marks for your first year when deciding on your degree classification.
because you really cant get a good education with out it being at least somewhat well rounded.
In Scottish universities you can do a 'well-rounded' degree by taking only first/second year courses. They are seen as having failed your degree since they usually mean that you were unable to complete courses from the honours level (third/fouth year).
This is meaningless without knowing your height and weight :-)
How do we know that this hasn't already happened and that there isn't already a bathtub sized chunk of copper on it. That would probably screw up the results somewhat.
I always thought that this was more appropriate
"In Computer Science, we stand on each others' feet." -- Brian K. Reid
It is trivial since it is one of the simpliest data structures around which leads to queues, stacks etc and with slight modification gets you into graphs. It is less than ten lines of code in most languages that I know.
I would wager you could do many lines of good code without knowing the *terminology* "singly linked list" - especially if you are self taught and never had the need to research it.
Part of being a good programmer is knowing algorithms and datastrutures and where and how to apply them. If you don't know what a linked list is it is doubtful that you encountered much code.
I do, however believe a decent programmer will often have had to implement the logic without knowing what a "singly linked list" is.
I was once told 'If you're going to reinvent the wheel at least try to make it round on the first try'. Which implies knowing what already exists and how it works helps quite a lot in producing new things.
Just under 60 million.
How many watch television on a weekly basis
Well around 98% of households have a TV set. So you could expect a large number of them.
I find it hard to believe that any reasonably fraction of that group is actually using Ceefax on so regular a basis.
Why? It is often faster than broadband in that you don't have to move from your seat in order to find things out. I use it most days as it has up to date TV listings. It is easy to get weather reports latest news etc and remember that it has been around for 30 years so it is much more familiar than the Internet for a large number of people.
The BBC recently ran a series of radio programmes called test tubes and tantrums. It documents some of the arguments scientists have had. It is quite interesting.
I would have thought it was more along the lines of
"In the land of the only-to-2-counting, the 3-counter is burnt at the stake for being a witch."
Well the sign does say 'Now wash your hands'
Just a nit pick. America was never part of the UK since the UKs inception was in January 1801 while American indepence was declared in 1776.