"Computer Viri" the next crisis to be solved by:
1) Life sentences for hackers
2) Government licensing of programmers
3) Government clearinghouse for "clean" code
4) Government "certified" computers
5) Government approval of all software
6) Government "war on hackers"
7) International coalition invades Canada to eliminate "Weapons of Mass Software Destruction"
8) Registration, and safety inspections required on all computers.
9) Government licensing of computer users
10) Government security clearances required for a programmers license.
11) Mass burnings of computer programming books
12) Linching of suspected hackers
13) Psycological testing of applicants for programmer licenses to determine if they are predispositioned for violence or hacking
Gosh I could write a novel with this theme!!!
And a Movie
And a TV Series
And DVD Sales!!!!!!!
I'm a person, a human being.
I am not a noun.
I have a sex not a gender.
ARGH!
Gender and declination (masculine, feminine, neuter and 1st, 2nd, etc.) are an attributes of a noun in many reflexive languages (English is not a reflexive language, Latin is a reflexive language.).
So please start using the words correctly.
YES I KNOW THE DICTIONARY COMPANIES HAVE GIVEN UP AND LIST THE FIRST DEFINITION OF GENDER AS SEX!
I guess gender is a less emotionally loaded word than the word sex.
Loose control of the language and you will loose the arguement.
Is MS by doing this admitting that the "bad guys" already have the source code either by intrusions or the PRC gave it to them? So it doesn't matter who does the maintenance, evolution, replacement, advancement. By being irresponsible with the knowledge they can now claim that export control doesn't make sense because the knowledge has already been "exported".
IMHO, Bill Gates seems to care nothing about the country that gave him the freedom to build his empire. Comment about who trusts the Indians, I being a US citizen can go to Great Britian or Switzerland without a travel visa, an Indian citizen has to get a travel visa. I know that doesn't mean much or does it?
Oh and to mod this up:
The WMD are in Syria.
We have Bin-Laden and have cloned him.
John Kerry is the real Manchrian Candidate.
Clinton could have perevented 9/11.
The Dems screwed up the Dave and Brevard County voting to cast doubt on the election in case their guy lost.
Crop circles are indicators that God has a sense of humor.
The world was destroyed on 9-11-01 and we are just virtual objects on a huge distributed system matrix.
And what ever happened to the Eugenics War thread in STTOS and STNG? When was it supposed to have happened?
Bush is the mind manipulating mutant ("the Mule") in the Second Foundation.
Personal experience with power companies is that they don't care if they are causing interference.
They usually have one engineer/technician that works interference complaints.
Most cases are arching insulators.
They usually refuse to fix the cause until the line is taken down for routine maintenance even though the FCC rules demand harmful interferrence must cease immediately.
It really makes no difference if the persons being interferred with are hams or the government.
Harmful interference with a station in a licensed service must not occur and must cease immediately when notified. This is not just US Law but is in several International Treaties. IMHO --
Many of these power company "engineers" no longer come from a "ham" background and have a vested interest in seeing BPL work. Besides they are power and computer engineers not communications engineers. This issue is easy to solve by sending the FCC listening truck out and documenting whether and how much interference BPL causes. This must have already happened for the FCC to start slapping fines on the power company. Of course do the math - 10,000 per day the power company only needs 10,000 customers to make that up! Now when if the FCC will start throwing the CEO into jail at 6 months a violation maybe this stupid idea will be put to bed.
BTW the ARRL probably got involved because the power company tried to "stiff-arm" the hams.
After they were the first Americans in space.
We could bioengineer a Super Chimp.
Smart enough to fix the telescope and uses less food, water and oxygen than humans.
The capsules could be smaller. Maybe launched on converted MX missles.
Of course the Chimp gets on to us (discovers there is no reentry system) and escapes to breed a race of talking apes that take over the world.....
Oh well forget it.
Maybe the robots would be better.
Not really, look at what happens in Terminator....
Humans are a better choice after all considering the Dr. Frankenstein effect.
FACT: NASA entombed in chaf laden concrete the pieces of the Challenger and wants to do the same with Columbia. They claim it is out of respect but the result is the pieces can be used for research.
OPINION: If you look back you'll probably discover we're probably about right on the curve for failures of new concept aircraft and spacecraft. Next failure should be about STS257.
RUMOR PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT: Columbia was destroyed by an environmental regulation...the foam that damaged the wings leading edge, was made weaker and didn't stick as well because the formula and propellant was changed to be more environmentally friendly.
Spam is not illegal in every jurisdiction.
Engaging in deceptive consumer practices (i.e. hidden, abscure contract clauses) is not illegal in every jurisdiction.
Writing a contract in legalize is probably required in New York or California, optional in Colorado, and discouraged in Texas.
Hiding contract provisions again is probably legal and enforcable in many jurisdictions.
So to answer the question about RealPlayer and spam (now I know who sold my hotmail address) you need to specify what jurisdiction does RealPlayer operate under and do the users agree to operate under those laws. But still this practice RealPlayer engages in should be considered unethical and just not good business practice.
IMHO: A series of reasonably sized dialogs asking you to agree to each of the terms (with explainations of what will happen when you agree to each term) would be ethical.
Fact: countries that have enacted strick gun control have indeed seen an increase in violent crime.
But really more important than facts are rights:
What basic right does a free man have?
What basic right guarentees all other rights?
Ask the Tenamen Square marters if freedom of speech was a good guarentee of their human rights against the Army!
The framers of the US Constitution were just restating this "I am free if and only if I can bear arms".
History (Cromwell) and Cornwallis had taught them this.
I know this may sound stupid but really our faith is not in the weapon but in God who gives us the knowledge to build it and the character and wisdom to use it.
At the risk of being off topic, lets have some fun with these storylines.
How did the Klingons "acquire" their brow ridges?
How come the current series, ENTERPRISE, has more advanced medical technology than TOS?
In the Journey Home, how come a Klingon vessel (an iti biti destroyer at that) has info about extinct Terran whales?
TOS and TNG had Earth destroy itself in The Eugenics Wars, it hasn't happened yet, do you think it is still possible?
What happened to Muslims they are distinctly absent in TOS, TNG, DS9, VGR and E? Were they the first to fall to Kahn in the Eugenics Wars?
And honestly, do you think the restless soul of a starship Captain would settle for reliving a day in the country or would really want to relive his victories (over his enemies not women) and celebrations over and over again?
Or spend time with his son?
Or correct some past wrong?
Although he did save the day again, did they not make Kirk's existence in the Nexus and in some ways his death too shallow?
Let me guess how they figured this:
We fish the oceans - that's 67%.
They only had to makeup uses for the remaining 33%. Here's my guesses.
Farming - 10%
Cities - 2%
Managed forests - 10%
Airports, Roadways and Railroads - 1%
Nuclear power plants -.00001%
(ok, include the urainium strip mines.001%)
Gee I made it over 90% without even trying.
Don't know if this is really true but I have heard that:
Everyone alive could be given an acre in Texas
and we wouldn't fill it up much less the rest of the world's land.
China is communist (big news), China censors its people (more big news), so why is it a surprise that they would try to control the internet. Everyone that does business with them will eventually be asked to giveup something.
We need to know about what Boeing is giving up in order to sell 747s to the PRC.
Yahoo had to cut a deal and allow itself to be censored.
What did GM giveup to get all their tool line made in China?
Cisco sold them the routers that facillitates the censorship. What did they giveup and why did the Clinton Administration allow it.
I read somewhere that there is only 4 internet pipelines in and out of the PRC all controlled by the government's computer communes.
Thousands of government workers monitoring usage and censoring sites. If I'm wrong, show me where I can find out the truth about this. Thanks.
I haven't read it but would like to know if it is worth reading.
So cut the criticism about evolution and tell me if the book fairly presents the agendas and beliefs of the people that postulated evolution. A person's beliefs and agenda can greatly determine the person's life's work. Does it answer why they seemed driven to eliminate God from the physical world? Did their theories lead to political systems (Socialism, Communism, Facism, Nazism) and the harm they did? Please talk about the evidence they cited when formulating their theories, was it flawed, false or unreliable?
I do have one question: the reviewer says
"Also, by the 1860s more was known about the fossil record than had been known in 1844, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to doubt that progression had occurred during geological time. Darwin was therefore able to draw on a more ample arsenal of scientific facts; indeed, he had made significant contributions to that arsenal himself." Huh? I don't think we can assume alot was accomplished between 1844 and 1860. Maybe maybe not. Communications was not like today. Findings took years to get published in the 19th century. No internet, no phones, beginnings of telegraphy, crude photography, very slow transportation, wars and conflicts made scientific collaboration and validation a very hard and long process. Please don't say the evidence doesn't matter, IT DOES SO MATTER. It is the basis of the scientific method.
Real Programmers do I/O in FORTRAN.
Real Programmers do database in FORTRAN.
Real Programmers do real time in FORTRAN.
Real Programmers do Dew.
Regular in the morning, Code Red at other times.
Oh and forget the Twinkies, peanuts or pistachios are better brain food.;)
I'd be suprised if he had been allowed to answer questions. It's just plain old SOP that release of information from government agencies must go through the agencies' procedures.
This means that the garbage man isn't able to tell me how he drives the truck and works the trash compactor without a policy statement from the mayor's office saying what to tell me.
Is there still a bank secrets law that keeps bankers from saying how much cash reserve they have to maintain, etc? Maybe there's secrecy laws for patent offices? And their probably secret too.
Belgium, Hmm... haven't you looked lately. You're really in the United States of Europe aka EU. What's printed on your money? Just try to buy and sell using non-EU approved units and measures. "You will be assimulated" seems to be the EU motto. Is there a EU Internet Tax yet? They floated that balloon here and it got shot down (freedom of speech wise not right to bear wise). Wonder what the common language will be? Well one thing to remember is that if you believe your rights come from a piece of paper, then all they have to do is rewrite or burn the paper then YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS.
Forgive the comments of a lowly CS graduate student but I've been working as a developer for 4 years now so here goes:
The reason that there is not a language that supports all these requirements is that the desired attributes work against each other.
An intuitive and easy to use IDE can restrict your programming to predetermined paths and may result in bulky non-elegant solutions. This works against the desired OO requirements - multiple inheritance, abstract classes etc. A simplified GUI design will likely result in Screens and Reports that are boring and don't meet the customers desires. I've also seen this result in very busy screens presenting too much informaton and choices to the user. Portable means you give up (or it becomes very hard to use) all those capabilities the customer may be expecting ("I really do want the report in EXCEL!" - means you may have to license EXCEL on the server, learn how the API works, and write special business objects, plus know what version the client expects...). Operator and to some extent function overloading works against good structure and may make the code not maintainable.
We use JAVA with SilverStream for our IDE and Middleware. It does both Forms and Pages. We use ORACLE for the database. Initially we thought SilverStream would save us development time but we found we had to build the database directly using SQL PLUS because of syncronization of the code database with the data database schema didn't always work. However it works perfectly with Sybase. We had to write alot of code behind each event because the simple actions were just that, too simple. We had to write report generating modules because the Dynamically generated HTML pages didn't satisfy our customers. This caused us to compromise on the cross platform requirement. They insisted on WORD compatable formats (RTF) or non-mutable (I know its not a word) PDF formats. We have just now found a spell checker to integrate into our apps. However go ahead and check out SilverStream. Despite its draw backs I believe it is the best cross platform development environment. By the way I don't have any stock or interest in SilverStream other than that of a developer. Anybody else think JAVA with SilverStream might meet the Boss's requirements? Anybody have experience with other IDEs (WebSphere etc.)?
Copying excerts for the purpose of review and criticism is FAIR USE, legal and doesn't require permission. However proper credit must be given for recognition and protection of the author(in case the aledged author did not make the original writing and wants to trace where the slander came from). But it is good manners and ethics to ask first.
I recently took a quiz in a Digital Logic class of about 15 students. We all made exactly the same mistake. Turns out that the prof didn't fully explain the methodology for finding the solution and we all went down the wrong path. Guess we all should be brought up on cheating charges.
I also took celestial mechanics as an undergrad. We had 4 students. 1 A and 3 C's. You think the prof thought we were cheating? No, there was one smart person and the rest of us were average. The prof was not interested in raising us to the smart person's level. If we had studied together and cooperated we probably would have done better.
This originality thing can go tooo far.
It results in committees with no subject matter experts on them. "The experts have screwed this up so why get them involved."
OK. For all problems that have a discrete set of answers there is one solution or group of solutions that is/are the best solution(s). Why not learn the best solution. If a group of students turn in the best solution then their programs will look very similar. You can't assume they were cheating unless you have corroborating evidence. Well maybe the academics are afraid we'll stiffle the next Einstein (who by the way probably got alot of good ideas for things needing improvement from working in the patent office. Did he cheat then?)
If the prof is bad, and the book is hopeless you have to look elsewhere for help. First I look for another book. Is it cheating if I find a way to solve the problem in another book? Second I check on-line. Third I'll ask the TA. So if the TA tells everyone the same way to solve the problem we all get hauled in for cheating. Real learning is about methodologies and learning which to apply to the problem. I wish the teachers and books would outline the method prior to solving the problem.
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"Computer Viri" the next crisis to be solved by:
1) Life sentences for hackers
2) Government licensing of programmers
3) Government clearinghouse for "clean" code
4) Government "certified" computers
5) Government approval of all software
6) Government "war on hackers"
7) International coalition invades Canada to eliminate "Weapons of Mass Software Destruction"
8) Registration, and safety inspections required on all computers.
9) Government licensing of computer users
10) Government security clearances required for a programmers license.
11) Mass burnings of computer programming books
12) Linching of suspected hackers
13) Psycological testing of applicants for programmer licenses to determine if they are predispositioned for violence or hacking
Gosh I could write a novel with this theme!!!
And a Movie
And a TV Series
And DVD Sales!!!!!!!
I'm a person, a human being.
I am not a noun.
I have a sex not a gender.
ARGH!
Gender and declination (masculine, feminine, neuter and 1st, 2nd, etc.) are an attributes of a noun in many reflexive languages (English is not a reflexive language, Latin is a reflexive language.).
So please start using the words correctly.
YES I KNOW THE DICTIONARY COMPANIES HAVE GIVEN UP AND LIST THE FIRST DEFINITION OF GENDER AS SEX!
I guess gender is a less emotionally loaded word than the word sex.
Loose control of the language and you will loose the arguement.
Is MS by doing this admitting that the "bad guys" already have the source code either by intrusions or the PRC gave it to them?
So it doesn't matter who does the maintenance, evolution, replacement, advancement.
By being irresponsible with the knowledge they can now claim that export control doesn't make sense because the knowledge has already been "exported".
IMHO, Bill Gates seems to care nothing about the country that gave him the freedom to build his empire.
Comment about who trusts the Indians, I being a US citizen can go to Great Britian or Switzerland without a travel visa, an Indian citizen has to get a travel visa. I know that doesn't mean much or does it? Oh and to mod this up:
The WMD are in Syria.
We have Bin-Laden and have cloned him.
John Kerry is the real Manchrian Candidate.
Clinton could have perevented 9/11.
The Dems screwed up the Dave and Brevard County voting to cast doubt on the election in case their guy lost.
Crop circles are indicators that God has a sense of humor.
The world was destroyed on 9-11-01 and we are just virtual objects on a huge distributed system matrix.
And what ever happened to the Eugenics War thread in STTOS and STNG? When was it supposed to have happened?
Bush is the mind manipulating mutant ("the Mule") in the Second Foundation.
Personal experience with power companies is that they don't care if they are causing interference.
They usually have one engineer/technician that works interference complaints.
Most cases are arching insulators.
They usually refuse to fix the cause until the line is taken down for routine maintenance even though the FCC rules demand harmful interferrence must cease immediately.
It really makes no difference if the persons being interferred with are hams or the government.
Harmful interference with a station in a licensed service must not occur and must cease immediately when notified.
This is not just US Law but is in several International Treaties.
IMHO -- Many of these power company "engineers" no longer come from a "ham" background and have a vested interest in seeing BPL work. Besides they are power and computer engineers not communications engineers.
This issue is easy to solve by sending the FCC listening truck out and documenting whether and how much interference BPL causes. This must have already happened for the FCC to start slapping fines on the power company.
Of course do the math - 10,000 per day the power company only needs 10,000 customers to make that up! Now when if the FCC will start throwing the CEO into jail at 6 months a violation maybe this stupid idea will be put to bed.
BTW the ARRL probably got involved because the power company tried to "stiff-arm" the hams.
Do anyone remember the Helex Shortened Dipole.
The helexes were made with circuit boards soldered to the ends of 18 inch length dipoles.
Circa 1973.
After they were the first Americans in space.
We could bioengineer a Super Chimp.
Smart enough to fix the telescope and uses less food, water and oxygen than humans.
The capsules could be smaller. Maybe launched on converted MX missles.
Of course the Chimp gets on to us (discovers there is no reentry system) and escapes to breed a race of talking apes that take over the world..... Oh well forget it.
Maybe the robots would be better.
Not really, look at what happens in Terminator....
Humans are a better choice after all considering the Dr. Frankenstein effect.
FACT: NASA entombed in chaf laden concrete the pieces of the Challenger and wants to do the same with Columbia. They claim it is out of respect but the result is the pieces can be used for research.
OPINION: If you look back you'll probably discover we're probably about right on the curve for failures of new concept aircraft and spacecraft. Next failure should be about STS257.
RUMOR PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT: Columbia was destroyed by an environmental regulation...the foam that damaged the wings leading edge, was made weaker and didn't stick as well because the formula and propellant was changed to be more environmentally friendly.
This is more like 666.
Spam is not illegal in every jurisdiction.
Engaging in deceptive consumer practices (i.e. hidden, abscure contract clauses) is not illegal in every jurisdiction.
Writing a contract in legalize is probably required in New York or California, optional in Colorado, and discouraged in Texas.
Hiding contract provisions again is probably legal and enforcable in many jurisdictions.
So to answer the question about RealPlayer and spam (now I know who sold my hotmail address) you need to specify what jurisdiction does RealPlayer operate under and do the users agree to operate under those laws.
But still this practice RealPlayer engages in should be considered unethical and just not good business practice.
IMHO: A series of reasonably sized dialogs asking you to agree to each of the terms (with explainations of what will happen when you agree to each term) would be ethical.
Fact: countries that have enacted strick gun control have indeed seen an increase in violent crime.
But really more important than facts are rights:
What basic right does a free man have?
What basic right guarentees all other rights?
Ask the Tenamen Square marters if freedom of speech was a good guarentee of their human rights against the Army!
The framers of the US Constitution were just restating this "I am free if and only if I can bear arms".
History (Cromwell) and Cornwallis had taught them this.
I know this may sound stupid but really our faith is not in the weapon but in God who gives us the knowledge to build it and the character and wisdom to use it.
new-guy-in-the-red-shirt = phaserfodder
At the risk of being off topic, lets have some fun with these storylines.
How did the Klingons "acquire" their brow ridges?
How come the current series, ENTERPRISE, has more advanced medical technology than TOS?
In the Journey Home, how come a Klingon vessel (an iti biti destroyer at that) has info about extinct Terran whales?
TOS and TNG had Earth destroy itself in The Eugenics Wars, it hasn't happened yet, do you think it is still possible?
What happened to Muslims they are distinctly absent in TOS, TNG, DS9, VGR and E?
Were they the first to fall to Kahn in the Eugenics Wars?
And honestly, do you think the restless soul of a starship Captain would settle for reliving a day in the country or would really want to relive his victories (over his enemies not women) and celebrations over and over again?
Or spend time with his son?
Or correct some past wrong?
Although he did save the day again, did they not make Kirk's existence in the Nexus and in some ways his death too shallow?
Let me guess how they figured this: .00001% .001%)
We fish the oceans - that's 67%.
They only had to makeup uses for the remaining 33%. Here's my guesses.
Farming - 10%
Cities - 2%
Managed forests - 10%
Airports, Roadways and Railroads - 1%
Nuclear power plants -
(ok, include the urainium strip mines
Gee I made it over 90% without even trying.
Don't know if this is really true but I have heard that:
Everyone alive could be given an acre in Texas and we wouldn't fill it up much less the rest of the world's land.
The party loosens restrictions in order to draw out the people with "reactionary" tendencies.
China is communist (big news), China censors its people (more big news), so why is it a surprise that they would try to control the internet.
Everyone that does business with them will eventually be asked to giveup something.
We need to know about what Boeing is giving up in order to sell 747s to the PRC.
Yahoo had to cut a deal and allow itself to be censored.
What did GM giveup to get all their tool line made in China?
Cisco sold them the routers that facillitates the censorship. What did they giveup and why did the Clinton Administration allow it.
I read somewhere that there is only 4 internet pipelines in and out of the PRC all controlled by the government's computer communes.
Thousands of government workers monitoring usage and censoring sites. If I'm wrong, show me where I can find out the truth about this. Thanks.
I haven't read it but would like to know if it is worth reading.
So cut the criticism about evolution and tell me if the book fairly presents the agendas and beliefs of the people that postulated evolution.
A person's beliefs and agenda can greatly determine the person's life's work.
Does it answer why they seemed driven to eliminate God from the physical world?
Did their theories lead to political systems (Socialism, Communism, Facism, Nazism) and the harm they did?
Please talk about the evidence they cited when formulating their theories, was it flawed, false or unreliable?
I do have one question: the reviewer says "Also, by the 1860s more was known about the fossil record than had been known in 1844, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to doubt that progression had occurred during geological time. Darwin was therefore able to draw on a more ample arsenal of scientific facts; indeed, he had made significant contributions to that arsenal himself." Huh? I don't think we can assume alot was accomplished between 1844 and 1860. Maybe maybe not.
Communications was not like today.
Findings took years to get published in the 19th century. No internet, no phones, beginnings of telegraphy, crude photography, very slow transportation, wars and conflicts made scientific collaboration and validation a very hard and long process.
Please don't say the evidence doesn't matter, IT DOES SO MATTER. It is the basis of the scientific method.
Keeps the bait out of the dairy case.
Real Programmers do I/O in FORTRAN.
Real Programmers do database in FORTRAN.
Real Programmers do real time in FORTRAN.
Real Programmers do Dew.
Regular in the morning, Code Red at other times.
Oh and forget the Twinkies,
peanuts or pistachios are better brain food.;)
I'd be suprised if he had been allowed to answer questions. It's just plain old SOP that release of information from government agencies must go through the agencies' procedures. This means that the garbage man isn't able to tell me how he drives the truck and works the trash compactor without a policy statement from the mayor's office saying what to tell me. Is there still a bank secrets law that keeps bankers from saying how much cash reserve they have to maintain, etc? Maybe there's secrecy laws for patent offices? And their probably secret too.
Belgium, Hmm... haven't you looked lately.
You're really in the United States of Europe aka EU.
What's printed on your money?
Just try to buy and sell using non-EU approved units and measures.
"You will be assimulated" seems to be the EU motto.
Is there a EU Internet Tax yet? They floated that balloon here and it got shot down (freedom of speech wise not right to bear wise).
Wonder what the common language will be?
Well one thing to remember is that if you believe your rights come from a piece of paper, then all they have to do is rewrite or burn the paper then YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS.
"When I ask for deomgraphics I want complete demographics, do you understand?"
"But 2 year olds don't buy stock."
"I did."
Forgive the comments of a lowly CS graduate student but I've been working as a developer for 4 years now so here goes:
The reason that there is not a language that supports all these requirements is that the desired attributes work against each other. An intuitive and easy to use IDE can restrict your programming to predetermined paths and may result in bulky non-elegant solutions. This works against the desired OO requirements - multiple inheritance, abstract classes etc. A simplified GUI design will likely result in Screens and Reports that are boring and don't meet the customers desires. I've also seen this result in very busy screens presenting too much informaton and choices to the user. Portable means you give up (or it becomes very hard to use) all those capabilities the customer may be expecting ("I really do want the report in EXCEL!" - means you may have to license EXCEL on the server, learn how the API works, and write special business objects, plus know what version the client expects...). Operator and to some extent function overloading works against good structure and may make the code not maintainable.
We use JAVA with SilverStream for our IDE and Middleware. It does both Forms and Pages. We use ORACLE for the database. Initially we thought SilverStream would save us development time but we found we had to build the database directly using SQL PLUS because of syncronization of the code database with the data database schema didn't always work. However it works perfectly with Sybase. We had to write alot of code behind each event because the simple actions were just that, too simple. We had to write report generating modules because the Dynamically generated HTML pages didn't satisfy our customers. This caused us to compromise on the cross platform requirement. They insisted on WORD compatable formats (RTF) or non-mutable (I know its not a word) PDF formats. We have just now found a spell checker to integrate into our apps. However go ahead and check out SilverStream. Despite its draw backs I believe it is the best cross platform development environment. By the way I don't have any stock or interest in SilverStream other than that of a developer. Anybody else think JAVA with SilverStream might meet the Boss's requirements? Anybody have experience with other IDEs (WebSphere etc.)?
Copying excerts for the purpose of review and criticism is FAIR USE, legal and doesn't require permission. However proper credit must be given for recognition and protection of the author(in case the aledged author did not make the original writing and wants to trace where the slander came from). But it is good manners and ethics to ask first.
I recently took a quiz in a Digital Logic class of about 15 students. We all made exactly the same mistake. Turns out that the prof didn't fully explain the methodology for finding the solution and we all went down the wrong path. Guess we all should be brought up on cheating charges.
I also took celestial mechanics as an undergrad. We had 4 students. 1 A and 3 C's. You think the prof thought we were cheating? No, there was one smart person and the rest of us were average. The prof was not interested in raising us to the smart person's level. If we had studied together and cooperated we probably would have done better.
This originality thing can go tooo far. It results in committees with no subject matter experts on them. "The experts have screwed this up so why get them involved."
OK. For all problems that have a discrete set of answers there is one solution or group of solutions that is/are the best solution(s). Why not learn the best solution. If a group of students turn in the best solution then their programs will look very similar. You can't assume they were cheating unless you have corroborating evidence. Well maybe the academics are afraid we'll stiffle the next Einstein (who by the way probably got alot of good ideas for things needing improvement from working in the patent office. Did he cheat then?)
If the prof is bad, and the book is hopeless you have to look elsewhere for help. First I look for another book. Is it cheating if I find a way to solve the problem in another book? Second I check on-line. Third I'll ask the TA. So if the TA tells everyone the same way to solve the problem we all get hauled in for cheating. Real learning is about methodologies and learning which to apply to the problem. I wish the teachers and books would outline the method prior to solving the problem.