I don't care if I get modded down to troll or flamebait because I firmly believe what I am about to tell you. When will people realize that...
1. You were once an embryo too. If you cannot agree with this statement you need to repeat 5th grade health class.
2. Bringing life in this world is about much more than yourself, so it is not a choice, it is not something "telling you what to do with your body", it is about killing a living organism that happens to be the beginning stages of a human being, who would have grown up to have a family, friends, a real personality, who would experience love and life. An embryo is not a science experiment, and if you think it is a "choice", it is a choice only in the same way that a murderer chooses to kill a victim.
If you think it is OK to terminate embryos, I suggest you do some deep soul searching. If you do not believe in God, at least try to think beyond your own self interests and realize what it is you are doing.
I guess I got suckered into this troll of an article... yes the article itself is a troll, there isn't even a link to an article, but some of the comments on here make me sick.
First of all, like you said, using OO and Extreme Programming will be critical to designing good software. Also, shoot for a nice SOA architecture and use Ruby on Rails if possible. For the UI, use AJAX because if the browser never has to post back, the end users really like that. Store all of your data using XML, because its self-describing. Split your classes up into several tiers and make sure you have a tier called the Facade, that one is the most critical, plus it sounds really cool when you say it... Facade.
Finally, I read this book one time called the "Magical Man Month" (I think) that said no matter how far behind a project gets, you can always catch up by adding more developers to the project. So just remember that if the project starts to slip away.
Best of luck with your PhD, and let us know how it goes!
Where is really important. I remember when I went to college, I was only 15 (I was gifted) and they stuck me with a roommate, Chris. The school was so short on space we even had some dude named Laslo living in our closet. Then my professor, and his kiss-ass GA Kent, ended up being a total jerk and tried to trick me into designing a laser that could kill people from space. The only thing I really learned from college was how to trick vending machines into thinking dry ice is a quarter. So choose wisely.
But to your question...
As someone who does hiring, I can tell you it helps if they've heard of the school. It doesn't matter if they've only heard of your school because of football or basketball, but it lends credibility to your degree if they've heard of it before, however wrong that may be. One caveat, it probably doesn't help if they've heard of your school from a late night TV commercial or if your school's web address ends in.com.
Second, There are other factors to consider besides the location and name of a school.
Have you met the dean? Why not? Was he/she friendly and approachable?
Have you met the professors?
Will your classes be taught by professors or graduate students?
Is the program more engineering or math-based? (Both have their merits, but its a personal preference)
Will there be any research / capstone project opportunities your senior year?
How many students are in the program and how big are the classes?
What are the research interests of the professors? This will affect the topics / quality of the topics of the classes.
Is there a masters program (there should be) and is there a PhD program (may or may not be)?
But if you think about it, the highest moral system would actually push people into life of crime. There are lots of evil entities that need stealing from (nuclear weapons manufacturing, Bin Laden family in Saudi Arabia, Dick Cheney, Microsoft, RIAA,...) and lots of hungry children in Africa. It's not immoral to steal from crooks!
So who decides who is a crook and who is not? I guess you feel like you have a pretty good handle on that, or at least you just rattled off all the names you have been told are crooks. Congratulations, you have conformed.
Part of the problem is that in many places cybercrime pays much better than legitimate work, including security research.
Crime almost always "pays better" than so-called legitimate work (is crime really considered a profession?) Well I guess you could say it is a part of the problem, but the OTHER part of the problem is the risk of getting caught is too low. It is a risk/reward model. There are other factors in play here too, for example people's morality. Even if there were little risk and great reward, some people have a moral system that would still prohibit them from undertaking a life of crime.
Well, I know this is hours old by now, but just because you need a special device does not mean it is "DRM protected". By that measure you could say that 5.25 disks are DRM protected because you need to have a 5.25 drive to read them, right?
Of course I was kidding in the parent post because why would you want to copy an 8 track anyway, and does anyone still have them? Don't answer, I know you guys are out there somewhere.;)
I hear this sometimes and I'm always amazed. Either you're university has a poor CS program or what it taught wasn't what you considered to be important.
CS is not about implementation, nor is it about vendor-specific technologies. Its not about learning how to do something, it is about the ideas, answering the questions how something works, and why it works that way, hence the word "Science" it Computer Science.
I actually love my CS education (in fact I'm going back for more right now!) and it has everything to do with wanting to learn something that is out of the mainstream... something different, that I can't learn by reading brain dumps or taking a week-long class at my local training center.
I'll second that. And I would like to add a couple of my own thoughts, again from a Christian perspective...
1. Its not whether you believe in God or not, even Satan believes God is real.
2. God is not a punisher, but a redeemer through His son Jesus, who He sent to pay the price of our sin that it would be forgiven.
It is good that you try to do good deeds and be kind to people, but doing good deeds really has nothing to do with whether God loves you or not, because He already does.
And why is it considered a desirable effect that someone can forensically recover data that the owner indended to destroy? If SSD really does not allow data to be recovered like this, then in general thats good, IMO. Not just for legal reasons, but for any reason of privacy.
If you are concerned about protecting against data loss there are other more effective ways like implementing RAID and maintaining off-site backups.
In the past 30 years, we've advanced more than we have in 300 years.
Electricity, Automobiles, Telephone, Radio, TV, Computers, Flight, Space flight, not to mention countless medical advancements. All of those were advancements made earlier than the past 30 years.
What revolutionary advancements have been made in the past 30 years?
I would argue that we have made very little advancement in the past 30 years versus even the past 60 years. Most of the advancement in the past 30 years has only been incremental.
Offtopic I know, but I just got a chuckle out of your comment about the last 30 years versus the last 300.
"a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do"
I'm guessing you didn't make it to Operating Systems before you dropped out of Computer Science.
...are Death Blow and Cry, Cry Again.
Although the ending sort of falls apart at the end of Cry, Cry Again... there is this lone dancer who appears to be injured.
In September I start on a CS-type degree course.
CS-type or CS? There is a difference (see below).
Apart from all of the coding that I will do, what can I do in the coming months to maximize what I get out of this?
If it is a CS course, you probably will do some "coding" but not alot. Computer Science is about much more than writing code. In the majority of my classes we wrote no code at all, because its about learning the ideas and concepts and not the specific implementations (it is assumed you can figure out how to write code). So my advice to you is to dig deeper than just simply learning how to write code.
Maybe they could change the TK punish system so instead of subtracting 6 points, it makes you watch a 30 second advertisement. Now that would be a punishment.
However, I was able to convince DISH Network to let me keep the local channels for $5/month and drop all of the rest.
That's nothing, I was able to "convince" DISH Network to give me their America's Top 120 package for $37.99/month. Now that I've done that I'm going to try to see if I can get them to give me the Top 180 package for $47.99/month.
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I don't care if I get modded down to troll or flamebait because I firmly believe what I am about to tell you. When will people realize that...
1. You were once an embryo too. If you cannot agree with this statement you need to repeat 5th grade health class.
2. Bringing life in this world is about much more than yourself, so it is not a choice, it is not something "telling you what to do with your body", it is about killing a living organism that happens to be the beginning stages of a human being, who would have grown up to have a family, friends, a real personality, who would experience love and life. An embryo is not a science experiment, and if you think it is a "choice", it is a choice only in the same way that a murderer chooses to kill a victim.
If you think it is OK to terminate embryos, I suggest you do some deep soul searching. If you do not believe in God, at least try to think beyond your own self interests and realize what it is you are doing.
I guess I got suckered into this troll of an article... yes the article itself is a troll, there isn't even a link to an article, but some of the comments on here make me sick.
I think my UID says I've been here awhile.
You're going "old timer" with a 6-digit UID?
Won't be long now until a real old timer comes along and tells you to get off their lawn.
... the Datacenter pimps you
First of all, like you said, using OO and Extreme Programming will be critical to designing good software. Also, shoot for a nice SOA architecture and use Ruby on Rails if possible. For the UI, use AJAX because if the browser never has to post back, the end users really like that. Store all of your data using XML, because its self-describing. Split your classes up into several tiers and make sure you have a tier called the Facade, that one is the most critical, plus it sounds really cool when you say it... Facade.
Finally, I read this book one time called the "Magical Man Month" (I think) that said no matter how far behind a project gets, you can always catch up by adding more developers to the project. So just remember that if the project starts to slip away.
Best of luck with your PhD, and let us know how it goes!
Where is really important. I remember when I went to college, I was only 15 (I was gifted) and they stuck me with a roommate, Chris. The school was so short on space we even had some dude named Laslo living in our closet. Then my professor, and his kiss-ass GA Kent, ended up being a total jerk and tried to trick me into designing a laser that could kill people from space. The only thing I really learned from college was how to trick vending machines into thinking dry ice is a quarter. So choose wisely.
.com.
But to your question...
As someone who does hiring, I can tell you it helps if they've heard of the school. It doesn't matter if they've only heard of your school because of football or basketball, but it lends credibility to your degree if they've heard of it before, however wrong that may be. One caveat, it probably doesn't help if they've heard of your school from a late night TV commercial or if your school's web address ends in
Second, There are other factors to consider besides the location and name of a school.
Have you met the dean? Why not? Was he/she friendly and approachable?
Have you met the professors?
Will your classes be taught by professors or graduate students?
Is the program more engineering or math-based? (Both have their merits, but its a personal preference)
Will there be any research / capstone project opportunities your senior year?
How many students are in the program and how big are the classes?
What are the research interests of the professors? This will affect the topics / quality of the topics of the classes.
Is there a masters program (there should be) and is there a PhD program (may or may not be)?
Part of the problem is that in many places cybercrime pays much better than legitimate work, including security research.
Crime almost always "pays better" than so-called legitimate work (is crime really considered a profession?) Well I guess you could say it is a part of the problem, but the OTHER part of the problem is the risk of getting caught is too low. It is a risk/reward model. There are other factors in play here too, for example people's morality. Even if there were little risk and great reward, some people have a moral system that would still prohibit them from undertaking a life of crime.
Well, I know this is hours old by now, but just because you need a special device does not mean it is "DRM protected". By that measure you could say that 5.25 disks are DRM protected because you need to have a 5.25 drive to read them, right?
;)
Of course I was kidding in the parent post because why would you want to copy an 8 track anyway, and does anyone still have them? Don't answer, I know you guys are out there somewhere.
because I buy all my music on 8 track. And its DRM-free to boot!
Mainly I'm just pissed off that I received a poor education in CS, and I know my story isn't unusual in the field.
I guess you are pissed off at yourself then for choosing to spend the time and money on a poor CS education. Best of luck in your further studies.
I hear this sometimes and I'm always amazed. Either you're university has a poor CS program or what it taught wasn't what you considered to be important.
CS is not about implementation, nor is it about vendor-specific technologies. Its not about learning how to do something, it is about the ideas, answering the questions how something works, and why it works that way, hence the word "Science" it Computer Science.
I actually love my CS education (in fact I'm going back for more right now!) and it has everything to do with wanting to learn something that is out of the mainstream... something different, that I can't learn by reading brain dumps or taking a week-long class at my local training center.
I'll second that. And I would like to add a couple of my own thoughts, again from a Christian perspective...
1. Its not whether you believe in God or not, even Satan believes God is real.
2. God is not a punisher, but a redeemer through His son Jesus, who He sent to pay the price of our sin that it would be forgiven.
It is good that you try to do good deeds and be kind to people, but doing good deeds really has nothing to do with whether God loves you or not, because He already does.
And why is it considered a desirable effect that someone can forensically recover data that the owner indended to destroy? If SSD really does not allow data to be recovered like this, then in general thats good, IMO. Not just for legal reasons, but for any reason of privacy.
If you are concerned about protecting against data loss there are other more effective ways like implementing RAID and maintaining off-site backups.
In the past 30 years, we've advanced more than we have in 300 years.
Electricity, Automobiles, Telephone, Radio, TV, Computers, Flight, Space flight, not to mention countless medical advancements. All of those were advancements made earlier than the past 30 years.
What revolutionary advancements have been made in the past 30 years?
I would argue that we have made very little advancement in the past 30 years versus even the past 60 years. Most of the advancement in the past 30 years has only been incremental.
Offtopic I know, but I just got a chuckle out of your comment about the last 30 years versus the last 300.
"a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do"
I'm guessing you didn't make it to Operating Systems before you dropped out of Computer Science.
being cool just got more expensive in Canada.
...are Death Blow and Cry, Cry Again. Although the ending sort of falls apart at the end of Cry, Cry Again... there is this lone dancer who appears to be injured.
Technology doesn't "fix" anything by itself.
CS-type or CS? There is a difference (see below).
Apart from all of the coding that I will do, what can I do in the coming months to maximize what I get out of this?
If it is a CS course, you probably will do some "coding" but not alot. Computer Science is about much more than writing code. In the majority of my classes we wrote no code at all, because its about learning the ideas and concepts and not the specific implementations (it is assumed you can figure out how to write code). So my advice to you is to dig deeper than just simply learning how to write code.
Take the EGLY.OB example (heh, it's up 6% right now).
... So what you're saying is ...
THIS ST()CK is READY TO POP!!!
EGLY.OB IS ABOUT TO BLOW YOUR MINDS!
WATCH OUT HERE IT COMES!
DONT BE LEFT OUT!
Maybe they could change the TK punish system so instead of subtracting 6 points, it makes you watch a 30 second advertisement. Now that would be a punishment.
"According to CNN, The U.S. Commerce Department has lost 1,137 laptop computers since 2001"
Are they sure? Maybe they miscounted...
bada-bing!
OK, sorry about that.
all your cash are belong to us
However, I was able to convince DISH Network to let me keep the local channels for $5/month and drop all of the rest.
That's nothing, I was able to "convince" DISH Network to give me their America's Top 120 package for $37.99/month. Now that I've done that I'm going to try to see if I can get them to give me the Top 180 package for $47.99/month.
Now if someone could just teach the residents of Florida how to drive...