That's the sad fact; many of the kids being cranked out of schools today can't code their way out of a paper bag without a compiler/interpreter that does most of the dirty work for them. Thats because computer science curricula don't teach programming -- they teach computer science. Programming is a skill, not a science, and there are few school that teach it. Most good programmers learned how to program by doing it, not by sitting around talking philosophically about how it SHOULD work.
While the lengthening the yellow makes sense, I have to disagree with adding delays between red and green. Doing so causes more congestion and makes it much more difficult to sequence lights to avoid stop-and-go which wastes significant amounts of fuel.
That entire article remains silent on Youtube. I would think if they're going to put it on THE video site on the web, the article would mention it. Seems a bit silly to distribute to 10+ media sites with almost zero market penetration when you can distribute to one big site.
Some other banks use it too, the problem with it is since all bank websites are different, its too difficult to remember which ones use which security system. I regularly utilize 12 banking websites (all personal accounts). It typically takes me two to three tries to log into any of them because they all have different password requirements, and I certainly can't remember which ones use SafeKeys, which ones use SiteKeys, and which ones are just plain dumb.
Uh, computer science students typically get jobs in programming or software engineering. IT is a completely different field altogether.
IT is more about troubleshooting and fixing stuff, and CS is about development and engineering.
While I agree with you in concept...
Any reasonable students should KNOW that internet sources are frowned upon as accurate measures of information, unless that internet source can be independently verified.
This is the very reason why academic search engines are available that only search approved information such as peer reviewed journals.
So, suppose I support my favorite candidate on my blog. Those are contributions.
Then, what if I flame him on some other page that isn't readily accessible, do those count as negative contributions?
The fact that an MTU student was chosen leads me to believe that the RIAA isn't going to stop with the students. Perhaps they are hoping to receive a billion dollar judgement that the student will be unable to pay so that they may go after the university itself, citing that they allowed this sort of thing to go down on their networks, leaving the RIAA with a large amount of 'unrecoverable damages' Now, IANAL- but as a former MTU student, I have seen how much the school has "cooperated" with the RIAA. As early as 1998, I was removed from the dorm LAN due to my operation of an FTP server with an easily remembered password, which generated alot of traffic. By going after students early, MTU has opened themselves up to lawsuits due to making a pseudo-admission that they feel it is their responsibility to monitor the networks. Serves the 'U' right, in my opinion, for attempting to help the RIAA.
Well, as a student at MTU, I feel the need to speak up. Obviously, the student isn't going to be able to pay this, and I certainly hope they do not go after the university for it. The University cannot afford this kind of expense either, especially given the recent state budget cuts, causing tuition to increase by about 20% next year. With these massive tuition increases (about 5 times inflation) I can understand why people do not have money to buy CDs. I'm not trying to legitimize stealing, but $97 billion is a bit rediculous. Well, I guess thats all I can really say.
Or, even more importantly, those toy guns that everybody used to play with that made a lot of noise and had the little motor with a bent shaft and a weight in it to vibrate...its the same thing.
You know, thats precisely correct. If more people (like/. ers) would just decide for themselves instead of letting others decide for them the world would be a better place.
This applies to everything, not just movies. As an engineering student I think this is really important...if nobody ever deviated from the norm, nothing would ever get accomplished.
Well, what about fair use? I mean, couldn't the same argument be used on ebooks that is used on the mp3 format. If I own a CD, I am legally allowed to also keep copies of the mp3s of those songs around
Why can't I have copies of e-books for free if I've already bought the dead-tree version.
I'm not trying to get out of paying for anything here, I have no problem paying for dead-tree books, but why should I have to pay for something that I already own?
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I was wondering this myself. Lake Michigan is entirely U.S. territory. Does O'Hare count as a border or something?
While the lengthening the yellow makes sense, I have to disagree with adding delays between red and green. Doing so causes more congestion and makes it much more difficult to sequence lights to avoid stop-and-go which wastes significant amounts of fuel.
That entire article remains silent on Youtube. I would think if they're going to put it on THE video site on the web, the article would mention it. Seems a bit silly to distribute to 10+ media sites with almost zero market penetration when you can distribute to one big site.
Some other banks use it too, the problem with it is since all bank websites are different, its too difficult to remember which ones use which security system. I regularly utilize 12 banking websites (all personal accounts). It typically takes me two to three tries to log into any of them because they all have different password requirements, and I certainly can't remember which ones use SafeKeys, which ones use SiteKeys, and which ones are just plain dumb.
Uh, computer science students typically get jobs in programming or software engineering. IT is a completely different field altogether. IT is more about troubleshooting and fixing stuff, and CS is about development and engineering.
While I agree with you in concept... Any reasonable students should KNOW that internet sources are frowned upon as accurate measures of information, unless that internet source can be independently verified. This is the very reason why academic search engines are available that only search approved information such as peer reviewed journals.
Not only that, but they misspelled Dijkstra
So, suppose I support my favorite candidate on my blog. Those are contributions. Then, what if I flame him on some other page that isn't readily accessible, do those count as negative contributions?
Or, even more importantly, those toy guns that everybody used to play with that made a lot of noise and had the little motor with a bent shaft and a weight in it to vibrate...its the same thing.
This applies to everything, not just movies. As an engineering student I think this is really important...if nobody ever deviated from the norm, nothing would ever get accomplished.
Why can't I have copies of e-books for free if I've already bought the dead-tree version.
I'm not trying to get out of paying for anything here, I have no problem paying for dead-tree books, but why should I have to pay for something that I already own?
The key idea to remember though would be to ensure that the problems are real world esamples. They have to be something people could actually use.
Also, I prefer dead-tree books. However, dead-tree books that also include a CD-ROM with the full text on them are the best.
I seem to have a CD-ROM information fetish.