I sorta liked SPARC. My assembly language class in college covered MIPS and SPARC programming, and while MIPS was simpler, the SPARC ISA was much more interesting.
It doesn't see a school bus in static 99.99% of the time, the percentage is a measure in the confidence measure of the ANN. Given certain images of static the program will say "I am 99.99% confident that is a school bus".
If whoever owns The Cosby Show was recalling all DVDs, and cancelling all syndication contracts, you might have a point. It is perfectly fine to revile Cosby, and this guy. It is perfectly fine not to associate with them. However the product of their previous work shouldn't be censored. Cosby's behavior doesn't taint the content of The Cosby Show, and this professors behavior doesn't taint the content of those lectures.
I don't think everyone needs to learn C, however I think it is important to try to understand at least the level below where you are working. If you are working in Java, learn how the Java runtime behaves. Learn how the Java compiler interacts with different code constructs to produce different bytecode. Learn how the Java libraries implement their various functions so that you understand their underlying behavior and possible performance implications. Most of my work these days is done in C#, and while 90% of the time I don't have to worry about all the underlying details, knowing them is invaluable the other 10% of the time.
While I did learn Assembly (MIPS and SPARC), C, and C++ in school rather than Java, I don't think those low level things actually had a significant impact on my job coming out of college. You don't need to understand how C allocates memory if you are not working in C. You do need to know how the environment you are working in allocates memory though, even if that behavior is hidden from superficial inspection.
His Robot Car class was much better, although still not quite up to the standard where I would pay for it.
Now the MITx Circuits class..... THAT is freakin awesome and very professionally done. I can't wait for the next set of course offerings from MIT and Harvard over that system.
What I would like to see is integration of online learning with things like this Techshop. I would love a 'Bioshop' which contains lots of medical/biological lab tools allowing people to learn lecture material online, and do lab work after of course passing some safety courses.
The problem of course, is that such a thing is fairly niche compared to Techshop, but I can dream.
Your problem (and most people's it seems) is that you think higher ed is supposed to be vocational training. That is what trade schools and community colleges should be for. Universities exist not only to train you in a particular field, but also to make you a well rounded educated person. Yes, that even involves some level of education in physical skills you may not possess (I certainly enjoyed my Archery class).
Unfortunately our society has grown to value the Bachelor's degree so much, that institutions of higher education are being pushed more and more into being really long, expensive, trade schools.
This is why I think this is a better model for things like computer science and engineering, rather than subjects in the humanities for instance. You can't automatically grade essays, but you can automatically grade software projects, which demonstrate an understanding of the subject matter.
I didn't care much for the AI class (I took the Machine Learning class at the same time, which I felt was far superior), however his Robot Car class was really good. It took the practical application aspect the Machine Learning class had, making it far more engaging.
I love Udacity, Coursera and MITx, the problem is I think I'm a little ADD, I sign up for just about everything and can't keep up given the limited time I can devote to them outside work.
Polygraphs are not generally used as 'lie detectors' but as interrogation tools. They are the flourish made by the magician with his left hand while he palms the coin with his right. Their purpose is to be a prop used to throw the person being interrogated off balance.
The US does not have an official language at the Federal level. If a state only wants to issue ballots in English, I believe they can, but they are also allowed to issue them in other languages if they want to. If Nevada wanted to they could provide you with options for every single written language in the world.
And people are absolute idiots if that pacifies them, because the everything works out exactly the same either way. Seriously, if you actually care about this sort of thing what Blizzard did is equivalent to saying "well it wasn't rape, it was surprise sex!"
That just isn't the way the human mind works. We get pleasure not just from a thing, but from the context of the thing as well
People can be given the same food, and if it is delivered in fast food boxes vs. fine diningware, they will tell you it either tastes so-so, or GREAT! Give people generic cola in it's generic container and they will tell you it isn't as good as Coke or Pepsi. Put that same cola in a Coke or Pepsi container and they can't tell the difference between it and Coke or Pepsi.
These are not delusions people have, we are not just being shallow, the exact same stuff really tastes better to our brains under different circumstances.
The same reasoning applies here, even if the end result is the same, being rewarded for playing less feels better, than being punished for playing more.
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The Egyptian symbolism is there presumably because it was brought by some of the people Jacob brought to the island
The Egyptian symbolism has nothing to do with Jacob for a couple reasons: First, as a Latin speaker, Jacob was born long after the height of Egypt (at the earliest around 400BC if they were speaking Old Latin) By even that earliest time very few, if any Egyptians could still write or understand hieroglyphics. Second, the same Egyptian glyphs and structures appear within the Source of Light, where Jacob has never been, and without the hieroglyph'd artifact stuck in the hole there would be no light, so it was obviously there long before Jacob.
The fact of the matter is that there is no particular reason for the Egyptian stuff. The writers obviously thought it would be all mysterious and mystical, with no depth of thought as to how it would be explained.
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Except what you typically do at a computer isn't reading. You are typically looking away a lot, gazing at images, or gazing away from the monitor. Reading is something different. Reading is sitting there entirely engrossed in what you are reading never really looking away for extended periods of time. For that type of reading something like a Kindle is IMO far better.
I have a Safari Books Online subscription, and I'll occasionally try to read extensively at my computer. Most of the time I end up just pulling out my Kindle DX and bringing up the mobile version of their site to read it on there. There is a level of distraction trying to read at my computer, and there is a level of discomfort reading on a high contrast black on white screen. Contrary to the low contrast "problem" people like to complain about with the Kindle. I find the images low contrast but still with crisp letters and very easy to read.
I have to agree with a few other posters, nothing makes me more productive than listening to techno while I program (Specifically the DI.fm Eurodance channel). It almost feels like my thought processes get structured on top of the beat, using it is a foundation for the flow of my work. It is only really useful when I am actually writing the code though, when I am working on high level design I tend to turn it off. Weird thing is, I don't even really like techno. It isn't something I listen to at home, and I don't like the club scene. When I'm working though, nothing is better.
This is one of the features I've been looking forward to in 2010, and while it is nice in the beta, I hope they can improve upon it before release. I think the most irksome thing, is that while the windows can float, they are still linked to the main interface. So for example, if I've pulled a code window out to my right monitor, and bring something up above Visual Studio in my left monitor, as soon as I click the code window VS in my left monitor comes to the front. If I minimize VS, the ripped away code window goes away as well. Furthermore, you have only basic sizing control of the torn away window, you can't individually minimize it. I have no idea if these things are even something they could do with the new WPF UI architecture, but they would be nice.
No, it doesn't. The "intent to cause harm" is in the legal parlance for this case, commiting a tort offense (a civil offense that you can be sued for). The way the law reads, the PUNISHMENT is increased because she "trespassed" on the MySpace systems while committing a tortuous offense (inflicting extreme emotional distress on Meghan). The excarbating tort isn't what makes it a crime though, and if she were convicted of accessing MySpace systems after supplying false information without the whole Meghan affair included in the case, she would still be looking at 1 year in Federal prison. Go ahead, go read the indictment, and look up the referenced portions of the U.S. Code if you want to know what she has actually been charged with.
Understand that now? If she is convicted of this, that will essentially mean that if you give a site false information when registering, and then access their site, you are immediately guilty of criminal computer trespass under Federal laws, and face up to a year in prison. You don't have to cyberbully anyone.
To clarify that. It is not just the nature of the attack but the nature of the victim, a minor and the perpetrator an adult. It is clear that the adult did intend to cause harm to a minor with out any regard for the consequences or the pain and suffering caused to the minor.
No, this is NOT clear from the facts of the case. The fact that people think it is, is merely a result of ignorance, and the media never reporting the whole story at once. For example did you know that Lori Drew didn't actually compose most of the messages to Meghan? Nope, the authorities decided not to charge her, but it was an 18-year old temp worker for Lori Drew who actually performed the correspondance. Does that excuse Lori Drew's behavior? No, but you suddenly have to ask yourself, did Lori Drew tell Ashley Grills to terminate the "relationship" with Meghan in such a harsh way, or was the method of termination entirely up to Grills?
Furthermore the entire "intended to cause harm" argument is based on the idea that Lori Drew could somehow know that Meghan suffered from clinical depression, and there is no reason to think she did. The only people in this case who knew that were Meghan's parents. And must I point out again that it was not the messages from "Josh" that drove Meghan to kill herself, but rather the argument she had with her mother when she tried to confide in her that would seem to be the proximate cause (for those unfamiliar with the actual timeline and think the message saying "The world would be a better place without you" just pushed Meghan over the edge: "Josh" became more and more hostile, Meghan eventually showed her mother the messages, Meghan's mother became angry because of the language Meghan used in her replies to "Josh", Meghan screamed at her mother that she was supposed to be on her side, then ran up to her room and immediately killed herself) Shall we prosecute her mother for causing Meghan extreme emotional disturbance? After all, between Lori Drew, and Meghan's mother, only her mother could actually know that the depressed state her daughter was in could actually lead to suicide. (No, I don't actually support charging the mother, but I don't support criminal prosecution of Lori Drew either.)
Yes, what Lori Drew did was disgusting, and I would probably spit in her face if I met her. However it was not, nor should it be criminal. The attempt to shoehorn it into a crime in this case is a disgusting miscarraige of justice. What people ultimately have to realize though is that this case is far more complicated than the paragraph long blog entries, or 10 second sound bites you hear on the news.
But a payroll system isn't simply about tech.
It is about accounting, the obligation of contracts, state and federal laws.
You validate everything because a single misplaced decimal point could send you into multi-million dollar litigation.
I didn't realize that COBOL was the only language developers could use to become experienced with payroll systems. I realize my error now, silly me, assuming they might hire experienced developers who have worked on payroll or accounting systems, yet don't have COBOL experience. Such developers simply cannot exist.
The problem is not lack of Programmers. The problem is managers who think a developer needs many years of experience with a specific language or technology to be able to work with it. I am sure many programmers would be willing to work on their COBOL systems, but without the required "10 years of experience with COBOL" on their resume, they would never be hired.
Only, you are wrong, the act of causing severe emotional distress on the girl is only relevant in this case as to sentencing. Even without that, this is still technically a felony with a jail time of 1 year. The fact that a tort offense (the causing of severe emotional distress, which in and off itself is not criminal, but rather a civil offense) also occured increases the possible jail time to 5 years.
So ya'll can go put your tinfoil hats right back on. This is still a big deal, and a total miscarraige of justice if this woman is convicted on these charges
I've only glanced at TFA, but it seems they are not taking issue with them quoting, but rather with them quoting misleadingly, i.e. without attribution. Without reference to the source, or even worse, without referencing the fact that you are quoting something else. For instance look at the example Cadenhead uses. It has a link to the article, followed by a quote from the article. But there is no indication that the quote is a quote! It is essentially being passed off as original commentary on the content of the article, even if that isn't what the author intended.
The funny thing about your comment is, whether or not "Troy" has been found is entirely debatable. It isn't like the site has signs. Whether the archaeological site now typically called Troy is the Troy of Greek myth, is completely unknown.
Of course, even if it is that Troy, it doesn't change the mythical nature of the narrative, unless you believe in the Greek Gods, as they are rather prime players in the story....
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I sorta liked SPARC. My assembly language class in college covered MIPS and SPARC programming, and while MIPS was simpler, the SPARC ISA was much more interesting.
It doesn't see a school bus in static 99.99% of the time, the percentage is a measure in the confidence measure of the ANN. Given certain images of static the program will say "I am 99.99% confident that is a school bus".
If whoever owns The Cosby Show was recalling all DVDs, and cancelling all syndication contracts, you might have a point. It is perfectly fine to revile Cosby, and this guy. It is perfectly fine not to associate with them. However the product of their previous work shouldn't be censored. Cosby's behavior doesn't taint the content of The Cosby Show, and this professors behavior doesn't taint the content of those lectures.
My uncle worked for a business (can't remember what it was) that used Logo, that was his job, to write Logo programs for the company.
I don't think everyone needs to learn C, however I think it is important to try to understand at least the level below where you are working. If you are working in Java, learn how the Java runtime behaves. Learn how the Java compiler interacts with different code constructs to produce different bytecode. Learn how the Java libraries implement their various functions so that you understand their underlying behavior and possible performance implications. Most of my work these days is done in C#, and while 90% of the time I don't have to worry about all the underlying details, knowing them is invaluable the other 10% of the time.
While I did learn Assembly (MIPS and SPARC), C, and C++ in school rather than Java, I don't think those low level things actually had a significant impact on my job coming out of college. You don't need to understand how C allocates memory if you are not working in C. You do need to know how the environment you are working in allocates memory though, even if that behavior is hidden from superficial inspection.
His Robot Car class was much better, although still not quite up to the standard where I would pay for it. Now the MITx Circuits class..... THAT is freakin awesome and very professionally done. I can't wait for the next set of course offerings from MIT and Harvard over that system.
What I would like to see is integration of online learning with things like this Techshop. I would love a 'Bioshop' which contains lots of medical/biological lab tools allowing people to learn lecture material online, and do lab work after of course passing some safety courses. The problem of course, is that such a thing is fairly niche compared to Techshop, but I can dream.
Your problem (and most people's it seems) is that you think higher ed is supposed to be vocational training. That is what trade schools and community colleges should be for. Universities exist not only to train you in a particular field, but also to make you a well rounded educated person. Yes, that even involves some level of education in physical skills you may not possess (I certainly enjoyed my Archery class). Unfortunately our society has grown to value the Bachelor's degree so much, that institutions of higher education are being pushed more and more into being really long, expensive, trade schools.
This is why I think this is a better model for things like computer science and engineering, rather than subjects in the humanities for instance. You can't automatically grade essays, but you can automatically grade software projects, which demonstrate an understanding of the subject matter.
I didn't care much for the AI class (I took the Machine Learning class at the same time, which I felt was far superior), however his Robot Car class was really good. It took the practical application aspect the Machine Learning class had, making it far more engaging. I love Udacity, Coursera and MITx, the problem is I think I'm a little ADD, I sign up for just about everything and can't keep up given the limited time I can devote to them outside work.
Polygraphs are not generally used as 'lie detectors' but as interrogation tools. They are the flourish made by the magician with his left hand while he palms the coin with his right. Their purpose is to be a prop used to throw the person being interrogated off balance.
The US does not have an official language at the Federal level. If a state only wants to issue ballots in English, I believe they can, but they are also allowed to issue them in other languages if they want to. If Nevada wanted to they could provide you with options for every single written language in the world.
That just isn't the way the human mind works. We get pleasure not just from a thing, but from the context of the thing as well
People can be given the same food, and if it is delivered in fast food boxes vs. fine diningware, they will tell you it either tastes so-so, or GREAT! Give people generic cola in it's generic container and they will tell you it isn't as good as Coke or Pepsi. Put that same cola in a Coke or Pepsi container and they can't tell the difference between it and Coke or Pepsi.
These are not delusions people have, we are not just being shallow, the exact same stuff really tastes better to our brains under different circumstances.
The same reasoning applies here, even if the end result is the same, being rewarded for playing less feels better, than being punished for playing more.
The Egyptian symbolism is there presumably because it was brought by some of the people Jacob brought to the island
The Egyptian symbolism has nothing to do with Jacob for a couple reasons: First, as a Latin speaker, Jacob was born long after the height of Egypt (at the earliest around 400BC if they were speaking Old Latin) By even that earliest time very few, if any Egyptians could still write or understand hieroglyphics. Second, the same Egyptian glyphs and structures appear within the Source of Light, where Jacob has never been, and without the hieroglyph'd artifact stuck in the hole there would be no light, so it was obviously there long before Jacob.
The fact of the matter is that there is no particular reason for the Egyptian stuff. The writers obviously thought it would be all mysterious and mystical, with no depth of thought as to how it would be explained.
Except what you typically do at a computer isn't reading. You are typically looking away a lot, gazing at images, or gazing away from the monitor. Reading is something different. Reading is sitting there entirely engrossed in what you are reading never really looking away for extended periods of time. For that type of reading something like a Kindle is IMO far better. I have a Safari Books Online subscription, and I'll occasionally try to read extensively at my computer. Most of the time I end up just pulling out my Kindle DX and bringing up the mobile version of their site to read it on there. There is a level of distraction trying to read at my computer, and there is a level of discomfort reading on a high contrast black on white screen. Contrary to the low contrast "problem" people like to complain about with the Kindle. I find the images low contrast but still with crisp letters and very easy to read.
I have to agree with a few other posters, nothing makes me more productive than listening to techno while I program (Specifically the DI.fm Eurodance channel). It almost feels like my thought processes get structured on top of the beat, using it is a foundation for the flow of my work. It is only really useful when I am actually writing the code though, when I am working on high level design I tend to turn it off. Weird thing is, I don't even really like techno. It isn't something I listen to at home, and I don't like the club scene. When I'm working though, nothing is better.
This is one of the features I've been looking forward to in 2010, and while it is nice in the beta, I hope they can improve upon it before release. I think the most irksome thing, is that while the windows can float, they are still linked to the main interface. So for example, if I've pulled a code window out to my right monitor, and bring something up above Visual Studio in my left monitor, as soon as I click the code window VS in my left monitor comes to the front. If I minimize VS, the ripped away code window goes away as well. Furthermore, you have only basic sizing control of the torn away window, you can't individually minimize it. I have no idea if these things are even something they could do with the new WPF UI architecture, but they would be nice.
No, it doesn't. The "intent to cause harm" is in the legal parlance for this case, commiting a tort offense (a civil offense that you can be sued for). The way the law reads, the PUNISHMENT is increased because she "trespassed" on the MySpace systems while committing a tortuous offense (inflicting extreme emotional distress on Meghan). The excarbating tort isn't what makes it a crime though, and if she were convicted of accessing MySpace systems after supplying false information without the whole Meghan affair included in the case, she would still be looking at 1 year in Federal prison. Go ahead, go read the indictment, and look up the referenced portions of the U.S. Code if you want to know what she has actually been charged with.
Understand that now? If she is convicted of this, that will essentially mean that if you give a site false information when registering, and then access their site, you are immediately guilty of criminal computer trespass under Federal laws, and face up to a year in prison. You don't have to cyberbully anyone.
To clarify that. It is not just the nature of the attack but the nature of the victim, a minor and the perpetrator an adult. It is clear that the adult did intend to cause harm to a minor with out any regard for the consequences or the pain and suffering caused to the minor.
No, this is NOT clear from the facts of the case. The fact that people think it is, is merely a result of ignorance, and the media never reporting the whole story at once. For example did you know that Lori Drew didn't actually compose most of the messages to Meghan? Nope, the authorities decided not to charge her, but it was an 18-year old temp worker for Lori Drew who actually performed the correspondance. Does that excuse Lori Drew's behavior? No, but you suddenly have to ask yourself, did Lori Drew tell Ashley Grills to terminate the "relationship" with Meghan in such a harsh way, or was the method of termination entirely up to Grills?
Furthermore the entire "intended to cause harm" argument is based on the idea that Lori Drew could somehow know that Meghan suffered from clinical depression, and there is no reason to think she did. The only people in this case who knew that were Meghan's parents. And must I point out again that it was not the messages from "Josh" that drove Meghan to kill herself, but rather the argument she had with her mother when she tried to confide in her that would seem to be the proximate cause (for those unfamiliar with the actual timeline and think the message saying "The world would be a better place without you" just pushed Meghan over the edge: "Josh" became more and more hostile, Meghan eventually showed her mother the messages, Meghan's mother became angry because of the language Meghan used in her replies to "Josh", Meghan screamed at her mother that she was supposed to be on her side, then ran up to her room and immediately killed herself) Shall we prosecute her mother for causing Meghan extreme emotional disturbance? After all, between Lori Drew, and Meghan's mother, only her mother could actually know that the depressed state her daughter was in could actually lead to suicide. (No, I don't actually support charging the mother, but I don't support criminal prosecution of Lori Drew either.)
Yes, what Lori Drew did was disgusting, and I would probably spit in her face if I met her. However it was not, nor should it be criminal. The attempt to shoehorn it into a crime in this case is a disgusting miscarraige of justice. What people ultimately have to realize though is that this case is far more complicated than the paragraph long blog entries, or 10 second sound bites you hear on the news.
But a payroll system isn't simply about tech. It is about accounting, the obligation of contracts, state and federal laws. You validate everything because a single misplaced decimal point could send you into multi-million dollar litigation.
I didn't realize that COBOL was the only language developers could use to become experienced with payroll systems. I realize my error now, silly me, assuming they might hire experienced developers who have worked on payroll or accounting systems, yet don't have COBOL experience. Such developers simply cannot exist.
The problem is not lack of Programmers. The problem is managers who think a developer needs many years of experience with a specific language or technology to be able to work with it. I am sure many programmers would be willing to work on their COBOL systems, but without the required "10 years of experience with COBOL" on their resume, they would never be hired.
Only, you are wrong, the act of causing severe emotional distress on the girl is only relevant in this case as to sentencing. Even without that, this is still technically a felony with a jail time of 1 year. The fact that a tort offense (the causing of severe emotional distress, which in and off itself is not criminal, but rather a civil offense) also occured increases the possible jail time to 5 years.
So ya'll can go put your tinfoil hats right back on. This is still a big deal, and a total miscarraige of justice if this woman is convicted on these charges
I've only glanced at TFA, but it seems they are not taking issue with them quoting, but rather with them quoting misleadingly, i.e. without attribution. Without reference to the source, or even worse, without referencing the fact that you are quoting something else. For instance look at the example Cadenhead uses. It has a link to the article, followed by a quote from the article. But there is no indication that the quote is a quote! It is essentially being passed off as original commentary on the content of the article, even if that isn't what the author intended.
Of course, even if it is that Troy, it doesn't change the mythical nature of the narrative, unless you believe in the Greek Gods, as they are rather prime players in the story....