one more 'me too' to add, I agree. CS is not writing software, it's solving problem using models, i.e. algorithm. It involves many fields of math too: arithmetic (basic ops), calculus (computational theory, modeling), logic (algorithms, flow control, AI), geometry (graphic calculations), etc...
But it all comes down to this: balance
I've seen CS graduates barely: knowing or WANTING TO KNOW how to use a computer. As a CS lab consultant, I've seen 3rd year students not knowing how to save their work to a floppy in a Wintel machine!!!
and of course we all know an MSCE that can't RTFM or think to solve a problem too!
Basically, you start with a great foundation (the general, the theory; CS degree) to learn how to think and get skills (the specific, the practical;: learn about OSes, prog. languages, programs/tools) to learn how to work. Unfortunelty, most of the time they don't show you skills/specifics in course, so teach yourself!
FYI, some of the most popular Canadian artists:
(from www.maplemusic.com):
Bryan Adams
Randy Bachman/Guess Who
Big Sugar
Big Wreck
Blue Rodeo
Buck 65
Cowboy Junkies
Crash Test Dummies
Danko Jones
Melanie Doane
Edwin & The Pressure
54-40
Nelly Furtado
Gob
Matthew Good
Headstones
I Mother Earth
Sass Jordan
Diana Krall
Chantal Kreviazuk
Avril Lavigne
Lighthouse
Amanda Marshall
Sarah McLachlan
Holly McNarland
Moist (defunct), see David Husher
Alanis Morissette
Bif Naked
Not By Choice
Our Lady Peace
Sam Roberts
RUSH
Sloan
Sum 41
Three Days Grace
The Tragically Hip
Treble Charger
Shania Twain
Wide Mouth Mason
Neil Young
At least check out: Rush, Tragically Hip, Neil Young (you know), Sam Roberts, Sum 41 (for the kids)...
And we all know that working for the gov'mt
(at least in Canada) is quite the opposite.
It's actually TOO boring I heard! I mean, if you work for the government, it pays well, you have some job security (it's not like a company that will go out of business), lite workload, many, many breaks.... mmmh, maybe it's time I start looking to work there....
err, no, Linux is GNU.
GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix, therefore Linux
is not Unix. It's Unix-like. Unix is either BSD based OR SYSV based. Linux takes from both.
from article:
Computer virus and Internet worm attacks, such as Nimba, Code Red, Slammer, SoBigF, and MSBlast have infected computers globally....Existing firewalls do little to protect against such attacks. Once a few systems are compromised, they proceed to infect other machines, which in turn quickly spread throughout a network.
Maybe I'm misinformed but I thought that a worm like MSBlast and Co. attacks thru SMB/CIFS protocols by the 13x familily of ports. Any self-respecting netadmin blocks those from external access. Am I right or wrong on this?
Granted some of those attack thru legit ports like 80, but a firewall is not TOTALLY useless against ALL worms!
Maybe I should RTFA, but I don't see the relation
with MS in just the above comments.
As for the analogy, I guess it would be more accurate to say that they know that Pintos randomly explodes and then use that fact to cause accidents (i.e. leave it on the side of a busy street). Then who is really responsible?
OK guys please change your IPs, you are causing me routing problems. You see, I own the whole
192.168/16 block ok? I didn't pay 10k $ to my ISP
for nothing!
I'm also in a deal to get the 10/8 block for
only a million dollars!
Still, I wonder why our webserver didn't get any
external hits since we changed ISPs...
I too was lucky enough to see it last night.
I thought it was very good. It explores more into the characters. It has many twists. Every new scene pops 10 new questions in your mind. It explains more then the first one (the story goes deeper), but it also raised much more questions. Stunts where excellent, great car chase, awesome fight scenes. I'll definitely have to whatch it again to understand some parts I missed. Congratulations to them, they did a great job, I loved it. Can't wait for revolutions.
Here's my two cents:
- PC/Windows is currently the most popular non-console platform, I don't know what's the status of the Apple/MacOS platform, but I susptect that it's not as big.
- Linux is an Operating System made for a different purpose then games
Fact is, games, at least the most popular, are hardware hungry, Linux is not dssigned to let user applications have it's way with the hardware, and for good reasons: stability and security, which Windows lacks in comparison, but is better for games. Linux is for long run stability, Windows is for short term performance. Still Windows is crap and is unfortunatly the best solution for non-console games.
I think what we need is a NEW OS, DESIGNED just for games. It should be more stable the Windows, have better hardware access/performance then Linux and of course have decent security. This "gaming OS" should be able to play current Windows based games for compatibility, but should give better performance/stability if they are developped natively for this OS.
what about mgetty+voice, is that the same? It seems to add voicemail and ansering machine capabilities. Here's a link to debians package(search "mgetty voice" in google for more):
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/comm/mgetty-vo ice.html
My SGI Indies don't, nor do my Indigos. I realized I'm pretty much f*&^ed if some goes deadly wrong which requires to boot from installation media, since I also don't have CD-ROM drives on those workstations.
Of course my PCs do, except my latest. Since they're all networked I just don't see the point of having a 20 year old piece of technology on my Athlon 1800.
Sorry about the bragging, I'm just so proud of my puppies...
Slashdot Mirror
Give a whole new meaning to 'a running process'.
for the curious, num's 'value' is "nan" if you print it.
one more 'me too' to add, I agree. CS is not writing software, it's solving problem using models, i.e. algorithm. It involves many fields of math too: arithmetic (basic ops), calculus (computational theory, modeling), logic (algorithms, flow control, AI), geometry (graphic calculations), etc...
But it all comes down to this: balance
I've seen CS graduates barely: knowing or WANTING TO KNOW how to use a computer. As a CS lab consultant, I've seen 3rd year students not knowing how to save their work to a floppy in a Wintel machine!!! and of course we all know an MSCE that can't RTFM or think to solve a problem too!
Basically, you start with a great foundation (the general, the theory; CS degree) to learn how to think and get skills (the specific, the practical;: learn about OSes, prog. languages, programs/tools) to learn how to work. Unfortunelty, most of the time they don't show you skills/specifics in course, so teach yourself!
hmmm, so the maximum theoritical bit/dot density is:
(4800 dpi x 4800 dpi x 8 in x 11.5 in ) / (1ki x 1 ki 1 ki) ~= 2 Gi per page
Much closer!
I've got to add tho, comparing security based on web search result not very precise.
try Windows Vunerability to be more precise. It yields 16,600 hits
You are comparing a company to Linux. Compare platform to platform instead.
This covers all products all platforms, not just Linux, *BSD etc...
It's Didn't. Not many slashdotters would admit it tho.
Who you gonna call?
Gnomebusters!
Actually, I prefer Gnome myself, KDE is too MS Windows-like. But combining KDE and Gnome, isn't what RedHat's Bluecurve is all about?
note: IDRTFA
you're right, that's another quite popular. I'm sure I missed other POPULAR bands too. They are tons of other less popular bands too...
they where previously mentioned, but your right tho.
FYI, some of the most popular Canadian artists: (from www.maplemusic.com):
Bryan Adams
Randy Bachman/Guess Who
Big Sugar
Big Wreck
Blue Rodeo
Buck 65
Cowboy Junkies
Crash Test Dummies
Danko Jones
Melanie Doane
Edwin & The Pressure
54-40
Nelly Furtado
Gob
Matthew Good
Headstones
I Mother Earth
Sass Jordan
Diana Krall
Chantal Kreviazuk
Avril Lavigne
Lighthouse
Amanda Marshall
Sarah McLachlan
Holly McNarland
Moist (defunct), see David Husher
Alanis Morissette
Bif Naked
Not By Choice
Our Lady Peace
Sam Roberts
RUSH
Sloan
Sum 41
Three Days Grace
The Tragically Hip
Treble Charger
Shania Twain
Wide Mouth Mason
Neil Young
At least check out: Rush, Tragically Hip, Neil Young (you know), Sam Roberts, Sum 41 (for the kids)...
Ghostbusters Rule!!
And we all know that working for the gov'mt (at least in Canada) is quite the opposite. It's actually TOO boring I heard! I mean, if you work for the government, it pays well, you have some job security (it's not like a company that will go out of business), lite workload, many, many breaks.... mmmh, maybe it's time I start looking to work there....
err, no, Linux is GNU. GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix, therefore Linux is not Unix. It's Unix-like. Unix is either BSD based OR SYSV based. Linux takes from both.
from article: Computer virus and Internet worm attacks, such as Nimba, Code Red, Slammer, SoBigF, and MSBlast have infected computers globally....Existing firewalls do little to protect against such attacks. Once a few systems are compromised, they proceed to infect other machines, which in turn quickly spread throughout a network.
Maybe I'm misinformed but I thought that a worm like MSBlast and Co. attacks thru SMB/CIFS protocols by the 13x familily of ports. Any self-respecting netadmin blocks those from external access. Am I right or wrong on this? Granted some of those attack thru legit ports like 80, but a firewall is not TOTALLY useless against ALL worms!
Maybe I should RTFA, but I don't see the relation with MS in just the above comments.
As for the analogy, I guess it would be more accurate to say that they know that Pintos randomly explodes and then use that fact to cause accidents (i.e. leave it on the side of a busy street). Then who is really responsible?
OK guys please change your IPs, you are causing me routing problems. You see, I own the whole 192.168/16 block ok? I didn't pay 10k $ to my ISP for nothing!
I'm also in a deal to get the 10/8 block for only a million dollars!
Still, I wonder why our webserver didn't get any external hits since we changed ISPs...
It's already here.
They always seem to be quite ahead in the game.
I'm suprised that among all slashdotters, nobody mentionned this. I think it's probably Silly Putty (TM) with more intense properties.
my 2 cents
No soup for you!!
It's not a flaw, it's a feature. And Neo IS the exploit.
I too was lucky enough to see it last night. I thought it was very good. It explores more into the characters. It has many twists. Every new scene pops 10 new questions in your mind. It explains more then the first one (the story goes deeper), but it also raised much more questions. Stunts where excellent, great car chase, awesome fight scenes. I'll definitely have to whatch it again to understand some parts I missed. Congratulations to them, they did a great job, I loved it. Can't wait for revolutions.
Here's my two cents:
- PC/Windows is currently the most popular non-console platform, I don't know what's the status of the Apple/MacOS platform, but I susptect that it's not as big.
- Linux is an Operating System made for a different purpose then games
Fact is, games, at least the most popular, are hardware hungry, Linux is not dssigned to let user applications have it's way with the hardware, and for good reasons: stability and security, which Windows lacks in comparison, but is better for games. Linux is for long run stability, Windows is for short term performance. Still Windows is crap and is unfortunatly the best solution for non-console games.
I think what we need is a NEW OS, DESIGNED just for games. It should be more stable the Windows, have better hardware access/performance then Linux and of course have decent security. This "gaming OS" should be able to play current Windows based games for compatibility, but should give better performance/stability if they are developped natively for this OS.
what about mgetty+voice, is that the same? It seems to add voicemail and ansering machine capabilities. Here's a link to debians package(search "mgetty voice" in google for more): http://packages.debian.org/unstable/comm/mgetty-vo ice.html
My SGI Indies don't, nor do my Indigos. I realized I'm pretty much f*&^ed if some goes deadly wrong which requires to boot from installation media, since I also don't have CD-ROM drives on those workstations. Of course my PCs do, except my latest. Since they're all networked I just don't see the point of having a 20 year old piece of technology on my Athlon 1800. Sorry about the bragging, I'm just so proud of my puppies...