I don't think that IT is for people who couldn't make it in CS. That being said, CS is a stronger degree and looks better on a resume. It's also potentially more interesting if that's your thing. With a little experience and a CS degree you could do an IT job if you wanted to... but you could also be a developer, QA, or product manager.
As for 9-5 programming in a cubicle all day... I'm QA, but the developers I work with sure seem to have a good time and they are all happy people with plenty of free time. I can't speak for all offices, but the office I work in is nice. We have a relaxed dress code and a lot of people wear tshirt and jeans every day (I'm one of them) and the office itself is very open, clean, and sunny. Work isn't as stressful as school, generally. At work you will have reasonable expectations and a plan to follow and a lot of it should be straightforward. And you have people in QA, like me, to help you find your mistakes. It's not always like Office Space.
Respect those rights in other rights-having beings. I guess needless to say, you are for the death penalty. Also, your rule apparently has a special exception for humans, just for being human... otherwise someone with sufficient disabilities who doesn't qualify, unless they are "attached" to someone. The same thing applied to your language argument. In the end you are saying it's OK, except for humans, and it's not for humans just because they are humans.
The reason why you've made that argument even though it isn't logically sound is because you are trying to create rules and criteria that support your existing beliefs and ideas.
I had to search just to see if anyone mentioned AZ here. I really hate those cameras. I don't get snapped, but I hate seeing them and then self consciously checking my speed when I am simply driving normally at the same speed as the rest of the traffic. Why do we have to constantly worry that we are being criminals?
This has been my experience with most Chinese people who study and work in America. They are still very, very proud of their country and while defend it's actions even with full knowledge about what's happened.
I think it's the same mental process at work that fueled the reluctance of the American people to stand up and do anything even when crimes of the Bush administration became completely known and accepted facts.
A huge pet peeve of mine is when some idiot says something about vegetables feeling pain. It's one of the most idiotic things you can say. There is no mechanism for it. No nerves, nor any nervous system (such as a brain) to interpret anything as "painful". It's not like they are there somewhere and we just haven't noticed them under the microscope. You can get metaphysical about it, but I'll just believe you are even more stupid.
Obviously there is an order to things. It's more cruel to rip the legs off your pet dog (or eat a dog... China...) than it is to rip the legs off of a spider. It's more cruel to kill a cow than it is to kill a chicken. When you get down to things like ants, it's hard to view it as cruel. When you get up to things like octopuses, elephants, dolphins, cats, dogs, primates, or even ravens which all show complex thought... it's hard not to call it cruel. The question is where do you personally draw the line...? What level of cruelty are you comfortable with? Do you draw the line at insects, or do you draw the line at pigs?
In general, you may disagree that meat is murder... but it's hard to disagree that meat is animal cruelty. You either support that or you don't. How much do you need to eat a burger, anyway? Is your meal so important that it supercedes an animal's right to life? Who are *you* anyway? To me, it's arrogance and ego as well as a lack of empathy, thought, and logic.
But don't go around trying to claim plants feel pain. It's unscientific. It's stupid.
Most people who order these are just trying to create the "Ultimate PC!" to put inside their amazing new case mod.
A key indicator is that they have to get top of the line on everything.
If you were using it for work, you would gear it more towards what you are actually trying to do.
Most people who aren't involved in sound engineering or multimedia have no use for an overpriced soundcard and get by with the standard (which is still pretty decent), for example.
Could be... I had to learn LaTeX about 5 minutes after I started studying CS.
It was really good for creating legible formulas. I think Microsoft has a Formula Editor but it still looks pretty poor compared to LaTeX. I started to do all of my math and science homeworks in LaTeX because it actually ended up being more convenient (I also didn't need to copy and paste from Character Map).
There are a few programs out there (at least for Mac OS X) that let you just type in a formula in LaTeX format real quick and get a small little PDF or PNG that you can embed here and there.
My lab named our machines after Turing Award winners. Any time we got a new one, we had a fun time deciding who to name it after. I was always championing the ones with the most bizarre names, but others were more in favor of those whose research actually was related to our own (if only tangentially).
It could be makeup, hairstyle, lighting, and being shot in PAL video (which has a much lower color saturation than NTSC or most high def stuff).
Or maybe it's all our preservatives in our food now that keep us looking so fresh.
I do agree, though I thought Troughton as well was in his 60s. I think his hair always looked like a mod Beatles wig on an old man to me, and so made his face look that much older out of contrast.
Wow... and here I thought governments had a responsibility to do stuff like protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority... protect fundamental civil rights... stuff like that.
What do you think about banning anti-miscegenation laws? (Since you brought up marriage as an example.) The Supreme Court ruled on it in Loving v. Virginia. At the time, the percentage of people opposed to inter-racial marriage was higher than the percentage of people now who oppose same-sex marriage.
I guess none of us are safe or have any real protections... we just need to always make sure popular opinion is on our side. In your twisted view of how government works, I mean.
The same argument could be made about most Americans who consider themselves to be Christians, by the more orthodox Christians of the world.
The Bible has enough rules and guidelines in it to define an entire culture and way of life... but all Christians pick and choose... even the most strict Christian is unable to follow all those rules.
So I'd say the Muslims you are considering "not actually Muslim" are as much Muslim as most Christians are Christian.
Yeah I just remember that Matlab in the CS labs had the image processing toolkit and what-not. I could load in an image very easily and have a nice 3-D matrix of all the pixels. And then I could also display the image within Matlab very easily when I was done tinkering with the image. I also could load in a WAV file very easily, though I'm not sure if that used the same toolkit or not. The options were what made it easy. I could specify the file format and stuff and not have to worry about it.
The Matlab in the general university labs didn't have this add-on stuff so it pretty much sucked then.
All the Matlab code I ever wrote was for a multimedia class, like audio compression, implementing Philips' algorithm they use in their HDTVs to make low-def TV look sharper, face recognition, and creating a frame of video from elements of the previous frame.
In the course of doing practical stuff, there were some neat looking effects I ended up creating that I've thought about applying on some images.
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I don't think that IT is for people who couldn't make it in CS. That being said, CS is a stronger degree and looks better on a resume. It's also potentially more interesting if that's your thing. With a little experience and a CS degree you could do an IT job if you wanted to... but you could also be a developer, QA, or product manager.
As for 9-5 programming in a cubicle all day... I'm QA, but the developers I work with sure seem to have a good time and they are all happy people with plenty of free time. I can't speak for all offices, but the office I work in is nice. We have a relaxed dress code and a lot of people wear tshirt and jeans every day (I'm one of them) and the office itself is very open, clean, and sunny. Work isn't as stressful as school, generally. At work you will have reasonable expectations and a plan to follow and a lot of it should be straightforward. And you have people in QA, like me, to help you find your mistakes. It's not always like Office Space.
For something that's allegedly rare, I sure know a lot of Chinese people who ate dog when they used to live in China.
Ok... so...
Respect those rights in other rights-having beings. I guess needless to say, you are for the death penalty. Also, your rule apparently has a special exception for humans, just for being human... otherwise someone with sufficient disabilities who doesn't qualify, unless they are "attached" to someone. The same thing applied to your language argument. In the end you are saying it's OK, except for humans, and it's not for humans just because they are humans.
The reason why you've made that argument even though it isn't logically sound is because you are trying to create rules and criteria that support your existing beliefs and ideas.
I had to search just to see if anyone mentioned AZ here. I really hate those cameras. I don't get snapped, but I hate seeing them and then self consciously checking my speed when I am simply driving normally at the same speed as the rest of the traffic. Why do we have to constantly worry that we are being criminals?
This has been my experience with most Chinese people who study and work in America. They are still very, very proud of their country and while defend it's actions even with full knowledge about what's happened.
I think it's the same mental process at work that fueled the reluctance of the American people to stand up and do anything even when crimes of the Bush administration became completely known and accepted facts.
A huge pet peeve of mine is when some idiot says something about vegetables feeling pain. It's one of the most idiotic things you can say. There is no mechanism for it. No nerves, nor any nervous system (such as a brain) to interpret anything as "painful". It's not like they are there somewhere and we just haven't noticed them under the microscope. You can get metaphysical about it, but I'll just believe you are even more stupid.
Obviously there is an order to things. It's more cruel to rip the legs off your pet dog (or eat a dog... China...) than it is to rip the legs off of a spider. It's more cruel to kill a cow than it is to kill a chicken. When you get down to things like ants, it's hard to view it as cruel. When you get up to things like octopuses, elephants, dolphins, cats, dogs, primates, or even ravens which all show complex thought... it's hard not to call it cruel. The question is where do you personally draw the line...? What level of cruelty are you comfortable with? Do you draw the line at insects, or do you draw the line at pigs?
In general, you may disagree that meat is murder... but it's hard to disagree that meat is animal cruelty. You either support that or you don't. How much do you need to eat a burger, anyway? Is your meal so important that it supercedes an animal's right to life? Who are *you* anyway? To me, it's arrogance and ego as well as a lack of empathy, thought, and logic.
But don't go around trying to claim plants feel pain. It's unscientific. It's stupid.
Most people who order these are just trying to create the "Ultimate PC!" to put inside their amazing new case mod.
A key indicator is that they have to get top of the line on everything.
If you were using it for work, you would gear it more towards what you are actually trying to do.
Most people who aren't involved in sound engineering or multimedia have no use for an overpriced soundcard and get by with the standard (which is still pretty decent), for example.
What I'd really like is to see a gallery of these super PC's from 5 or 10 years ago.
A $10,000 system with 2 GB of RAM and a RAID set up (these things ALWAYS need RAID !!) with 50 GB of storage...
Or a $10,000 system featuring dual 3dfx voodoo cards in SLI configuration and blah blah blah.
Then we laugh and realize we can do better than that today for a few hundred dollars.
Those systems are all over-priced and a HUGE waste of money when you consider how soon it will be obsolete.
Whoever ordered the system in this article is an idiot.
Could be... I had to learn LaTeX about 5 minutes after I started studying CS.
It was really good for creating legible formulas. I think Microsoft has a Formula Editor but it still looks pretty poor compared to LaTeX. I started to do all of my math and science homeworks in LaTeX because it actually ended up being more convenient (I also didn't need to copy and paste from Character Map).
There are a few programs out there (at least for Mac OS X) that let you just type in a formula in LaTeX format real quick and get a small little PDF or PNG that you can embed here and there.
That's not so bad though if you pronounce LaTeX correctly. ("Lay-tech")
This was a film, not one of the TV episodes.
And Monty Python's Meaning of Life came out in 1983 when I was 2 years old. It's not like I saw it in the theater, either. :-P
Your excuses are no excuse. Assuming your computer has a DVD drive and a screen, I recommend renting it if you have a sense of humor.
I was going for the conversation in Monty Python's Meaning of Life where they order a conversation... per the post above mine.
Slashdot has failed me. Maxwell leather demon rock hand jive.
I never thought a Monty Python reference, no matter how subtle, would go by unnoticed on Slashdot.
This is sad.
Do all x86 manufacturers have an 'i' in them?
My lab named our machines after Turing Award winners. Any time we got a new one, we had a fun time deciding who to name it after. I was always championing the ones with the most bizarre names, but others were more in favor of those whose research actually was related to our own (if only tangentially).
Slap him upside the head for me. Thanks.
You know... some things are just so stupid they shouldn't actually need any debunking.
It could be makeup, hairstyle, lighting, and being shot in PAL video (which has a much lower color saturation than NTSC or most high def stuff).
Or maybe it's all our preservatives in our food now that keep us looking so fresh.
I do agree, though I thought Troughton as well was in his 60s. I think his hair always looked like a mod Beatles wig on an old man to me, and so made his face look that much older out of contrast.
Wow... and here I thought governments had a responsibility to do stuff like protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority... protect fundamental civil rights... stuff like that.
What do you think about banning anti-miscegenation laws? (Since you brought up marriage as an example.) The Supreme Court ruled on it in Loving v. Virginia. At the time, the percentage of people opposed to inter-racial marriage was higher than the percentage of people now who oppose same-sex marriage.
I guess none of us are safe or have any real protections... we just need to always make sure popular opinion is on our side. In your twisted view of how government works, I mean.
On your OT remark:
Hatred of: good or neutral thing = bigot and bad thing
Hatred of: bigots and bad things = also bigots and bad things?
Nay... hatred of bigots and bad things = sane.
Not intolerant to not tolerate intolerance.
Duh.
The same argument could be made about most Americans who consider themselves to be Christians, by the more orthodox Christians of the world.
The Bible has enough rules and guidelines in it to define an entire culture and way of life... but all Christians pick and choose... even the most strict Christian is unable to follow all those rules.
So I'd say the Muslims you are considering "not actually Muslim" are as much Muslim as most Christians are Christian.
I don't know... I didn't get my degree in EE or anything, but I was able to guess what "spice" was from the context.
So I say it's no excuse.
Yeah I just remember that Matlab in the CS labs had the image processing toolkit and what-not. I could load in an image very easily and have a nice 3-D matrix of all the pixels. And then I could also display the image within Matlab very easily when I was done tinkering with the image. I also could load in a WAV file very easily, though I'm not sure if that used the same toolkit or not. The options were what made it easy. I could specify the file format and stuff and not have to worry about it.
The Matlab in the general university labs didn't have this add-on stuff so it pretty much sucked then.
...I never buy DRM infested music.
You have to consider all factors when buying a computer, or anything.
I will still stick to Macs because they have the best OS.
And I will continue to not buy DRM infested music.
Will it do the audio and image stuff too?
All the Matlab code I ever wrote was for a multimedia class, like audio compression, implementing Philips' algorithm they use in their HDTVs to make low-def TV look sharper, face recognition, and creating a frame of video from elements of the previous frame.
In the course of doing practical stuff, there were some neat looking effects I ended up creating that I've thought about applying on some images.