"Not once have they made proper contact and opened a dialogue, or established a visible presence."
If you go study animals in the forest, you don't want those animals to see you. So you can observe their natural habits, and somehow I don't think you want to make proper contact with, say, mountain lions.
Even if they want to talk to us, they might just can't. We human are a lot smarter than those animals in the forests, we know many of them communicate, but we just can't exactly understand the messages.
Sometimes I prefer to read a very complicated emails off papers. However, the reason I printed them was that I also like to write and mark on them too.
Be careful with "Computer Science" degrees. They often more akin to a mathematics degree than training to be a programmer. That doesn't necessarily make CS a bad degree, but people tend to mistake CS degrees for professional training, which they usually are not.
The prof. I used to TA for always gave out the java classes as sample solutions for almost all the assignments. However, he also added methods that looked impressive but totally unnecessary and many times did nothing to the programs. There were always a couple students a term who turned in a code that had those methods in it. Most common excuse was that they asked some friends to do homework for them (which is as bad as decompiling, anyway).
In fact, ALL TWENTY-EIGHT CLAIMS have this stipulation -- that the system itself takes the order for which a review occurs. Does Epinions take the order, or merely send you to someone else? Does NexTag? Does PriceGrabber? Did you read the freaking patent AT ALL?
but there is nothing now to stop amazon lawers to use this patent as a reason to sue PriceGrabber or any website to allows the users to review something. It won't hold up in court but then again not many people have $$$ to go to court anyway.
My case, I let my blog readers review my blog entries, which mean I violate some claims in this patent (I have a form that users can fill in the reviews), but not all 28 of them. However, if I get sued by amazon, my choices are 1) find $1000000 and go to court and fight, 2) pay $10000 more or less license fee, 3) kill my blog. Since so far my blog gets me like $10 from adsense, the only thing I can do is to go with choice 3, even though I know I didn't infringe this patent.
The Kansas Board of Ed. today discovered a new object that, when NOT used properly, can effectively disprove ANY theores in science. They call it General Object for Disproving.
My employer wants a functional ERP system that interfaces with online ordering and inventory control. Somehow I don't see where a compiler is going to help me there. If I were an academic type, ok... I'd go along with that.
Well, you can apply type theory to your system to make sure that the information you're dealing with is really what you think it is. With type system in place, most errors will be dectected early. Adding oranges and apples is not a good thing:-)
or, you can use a finite automaton to keep track of the state your system is in.
or, when you have too many people requesting for limited resources, the algorithm used in register allocation might be what you need to schedule the accesses to those resources..
yeb, it's fun to come up with ideas, and not having to implement those ideas myself:-)
You don't need to go to CS school to understand fundamentals of programming. Then again, CS is not about programming. While talented programmers are good at programming, talented CS students don't need to be good at programming, but they are expected to be able to apply all the stuff they learned and make them work in real life.
Take the google guys, for example. Who care how well they write a program. It's the pagerank algorithm they came up that made them good CS students. Pagerank algorithm itself is just a simple fixpoint algorithm. You don't need to even be a talented programmer to implement it, but I don't think too many talented programmers can come up with algorithm like this on their own.
I was a CS student myself, have a good GPA, have good programming skill, but was not that talented at being a CS student. I found myself being awed many many times by the simple but very elegant algorithms that some CS people came up (it's interesting that many of them are simple fixpoint algorithms). The good part is, even though I couldn't come up with those algorithms myself, I now know about them, and I now can use them, too.
The point is, even if you are a very talented programmer, if you don't know about these algorithms, you can't use them. So, by going to school, you will come out even better programmer. If you have potential to be a talented CS student, going to CS school will get you started.
I live in Oregon and he is not far from my home, and we have this story on the local newspaper. Anyway, in the story he doesn't even have a cable or sat. He can only get 4 channels and his favorite channel is OPB (oregon public TV). The story also says that the built-in DVD player died just days before it started sending the signal. Maybe it just asked to be fixed:-)
I mean, look at Elle Woods, she was a dump girl before using a mac, a pink original iBook. After using a mac, she became the best student in Haward!! Should've got a Mac...
I mean, would it be cool when I cd and new xterm window comes up. I won't have to cd.. anymore, just kill the new window:-)
Seriously, this spartial thing was used in windows 95. I remember cloing the old window as soon as the new one comes up. I remember I didn't like it too. So the reason I don't like it is not because I'm KDE/Windows user, but because I don't like it.
I got myself Rio Karma instead of iPod and Iriver ihp120 because it's the only player that can play ogg and also capable of play gapless albums.
It's pretty ennoying to hear a 1 second gap between songs that were designed not to have gab between them.
it's the family member computer that has the problem, not his/her computer.
Maybe the auther is a poor student who needs to ask that family members (aka parents) for money (and never get it because $79 is not cheap and the problem can be fixed by getting that patch from microsoft for free).
Maybe he is living far away from those family members and asking them to buy computer hardware and install it is not an option.
btw, his article is quite good, esp for someone who doesn't know much about worm/virus etc.
My friend has it. It's very small very light and doesn't get too hot. Screen is very good, way better than my Dell inspiron 2100. My 2100 is small for a notebook, but it looks huge compare to Sharp.
I'm hoping that Sharp comes up with 12" SXGA+ screen. My dell is breaking apart and I'm gonna need new notebook soon
UI in OS world? no sir! VM, Scheduler, etc don't need UI.
The only UI in 'OS world' as make menuconfig and friends (at least in 'Linux OS world').
It's the end-user apps that need good UI.
So if you s/OS/Linux apps/g, then your post is correct.
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The study found that police are no more likely to catch offenders in areas with hundreds of cameras than in those with hardly any.
on another hand, if I want to do crime, I wouldn't want to do it in place that has hundreds of cameras.
If the cameras help reducing crime rate, then they work.
"Not once have they made proper contact and opened a dialogue, or established a visible presence."
If you go study animals in the forest, you don't want those animals to see you. So you can observe their natural habits, and somehow I don't think you want to make proper contact with, say, mountain lions.
Even if they want to talk to us, they might just can't. We human are a lot smarter than those animals in the forests, we know many of them communicate, but we just can't exactly understand the messages.
Sometimes I prefer to read a very complicated emails off papers. However, the reason I printed them was that I also like to write and mark on them too.
someone please write a worm that sets power-setting to maximum. The world will be a better place in no time...:-)
Be careful with "Computer Science" degrees. They often more akin to a mathematics degree than training to be a programmer. That doesn't necessarily make CS a bad degree, but people tend to mistake CS degrees for professional training, which they usually are not.
and that's a very good thing.
In Oregon, they don't grow corn, the grow grass and sell grass seeds.
if you have to ask for the purpose, you probably won't understand it anyway :-)
for linux users maybe, but we all should be happy for him that he gets to do thing he likes.
The prof. I used to TA for always gave out the java classes as sample solutions for almost all the assignments. However, he also added methods that looked impressive but totally unnecessary and many times did nothing to the programs. There were always a couple students a term who turned in a code that had those methods in it. Most common excuse was that they asked some friends to do homework for them (which is as bad as decompiling, anyway).
...and the second is not available to everyone
unless it costs less than a couple hundred bucks, it won't be available to anyone.
but there is nothing now to stop amazon lawers to use this patent as a reason to sue PriceGrabber or any website to allows the users to review something. It won't hold up in court but then again not many people have $$$ to go to court anyway.
My case, I let my blog readers review my blog entries, which mean I violate some claims in this patent (I have a form that users can fill in the reviews), but not all 28 of them. However, if I get sued by amazon, my choices are 1) find $1000000 and go to court and fight, 2) pay $10000 more or less license fee, 3) kill my blog. Since so far my blog gets me like $10 from adsense, the only thing I can do is to go with choice 3, even though I know I didn't infringe this patent.
The Kansas Board of Ed. today discovered a new object that, when NOT used properly, can effectively disprove ANY theores in science. They call it General Object for Disproving.
Well, you can apply type theory to your system to make sure that the information you're dealing with is really what you think it is. With type system in place, most errors will be dectected early. Adding oranges and apples is not a good thing :-)
or, you can use a finite automaton to keep track of the state your system is in.
or, when you have too many people requesting for limited resources, the algorithm used in register allocation might be what you need to schedule the accesses to those resources..
yeb, it's fun to come up with ideas, and not having to implement those ideas myself :-)
You don't need to go to CS school to understand fundamentals of programming. Then again, CS is not about programming. While talented programmers are good at programming, talented CS students don't need to be good at programming, but they are expected to be able to apply all the stuff they learned and make them work in real life.
Take the google guys, for example. Who care how well they write a program. It's the pagerank algorithm they came up that made them good CS students. Pagerank algorithm itself is just a simple fixpoint algorithm. You don't need to even be a talented programmer to implement it, but I don't think too many talented programmers can come up with algorithm like this on their own.
I was a CS student myself, have a good GPA, have good programming skill, but was not that talented at being a CS student. I found myself being awed many many times by the simple but very elegant algorithms that some CS people came up (it's interesting that many of them are simple fixpoint algorithms). The good part is, even though I couldn't come up with those algorithms myself, I now know about them, and I now can use them, too.
The point is, even if you are a very talented programmer, if you don't know about these algorithms, you can't use them. So, by going to school, you will come out even better programmer. If you have potential to be a talented CS student, going to CS school will get you started.
sounds like open source programmers :-)
.. it will come naturally...
I live in Oregon and he is not far from my home, and we have this story on the local newspaper. Anyway, in the story he doesn't even have a cable or sat. He can only get 4 channels and his favorite channel is OPB (oregon public TV). The story also says that the built-in DVD player died just days before it started sending the signal. Maybe it just asked to be fixed :-)
ps..I have a Dell
Intel IA-32 Optimization Manual says that self-modifying code is not recommeded. It's bad for the branch prediction, pipeline, etc.
I mean, would it be cool when I cd and new xterm window comes up. I won't have to cd .. anymore, just kill the new window :-)
Seriously, this spartial thing was used in windows 95. I remember cloing the old window as soon as the new one comes up. I remember I didn't like it too. So the reason I don't like it is not because I'm KDE/Windows user, but because I don't like it.
drive about an hour down south and you get HP.
I got myself Rio Karma instead of iPod and Iriver ihp120 because it's the only player that can play ogg and also capable of play gapless albums. It's pretty ennoying to hear a 1 second gap between songs that were designed not to have gab between them.
it's the family member computer that has the problem, not his/her computer.
Maybe the auther is a poor student who needs to ask that family members (aka parents) for money (and never get it because $79 is not cheap and the problem can be fixed by getting that patch from microsoft for free).
Maybe he is living far away from those family members and asking them to buy computer hardware and install it is not an option.
btw, his article is quite good, esp for someone who doesn't know much about worm/virus etc.
My friend has it. It's very small very light and doesn't get too hot. Screen is very good, way better than my Dell inspiron 2100. My 2100 is small for a notebook, but it looks huge compare to Sharp. I'm hoping that Sharp comes up with 12" SXGA+ screen. My dell is breaking apart and I'm gonna need new notebook soon
UI in OS world? no sir! VM, Scheduler, etc don't need UI. The only UI in 'OS world' as make menuconfig and friends (at least in 'Linux OS world'). It's the end-user apps that need good UI. So if you s/OS/Linux apps/g, then your post is correct.