I call to complain that my service was flaky. Several times an hour the cable modem would just go out for 30 seconds then return. I call them and the guy says "well the problem isn't on our end it must be your network". I respond "Why do you say that?". He says "Well because your cable modem has been online and operational for the past 3 days with no disconnections". I say "Oh really? That's interesting... because its power has been unplugged for the past 20 minutes..."
...and I found theme extreamly easy. These two AP courses could most certainly be combined into a single couse and still be completed well within a single school year with ample time to review and practice for the exam.
Anyone with any kind of inherent talet for computers/programming could spend less than a month teaching themselves to program and still get a 5 (out of 5) on the exam after doing one practice exam and reviewing it for a day or two. I have seen non-computer-oriented people (some who don't even like math or science classes) ace the exam.
I do not intend to insult anyone who can not handle the test, I mearly wish to point out that the exam tests ONLY the very basics of "how to program" and simple data structures.
Where I work my boss is an alcoholic with a rage problem. Being a small company, he is the only person to report to other than respect-based program-to-programer approval seeking.
Design meetings generally follow this format: The boss man interupts an important programer/programmer technical discussion that was drawing to a close (approx 2 minutes remaining). He asks some questions about technology he has no hope in hell of ever understanding. He claims he understands it and says "so its kind of like..." and then proceeds to say something that indicates he has no understanding at all or that he wasn't even listening. We say "no" he gets mad b/c he is always right and decrees we do things his way because we are "idealist" scientists and he is a "practical man" and somehow therefore is right about the fastest way to write code. Argument insues for two hours over a medial issue. Boss man consumes three irish coffees and breaks two pencils. Boss man queries "So did I make it simpler?", we say "no not really". He breaks another pencil and leaves to starbucks to get another coffee to spike.
Needless to say there are a lot of broken pencils and spilled coffee cups in our alcohol reeking office.
All I can think of is "King of Pain" by Sting!
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There's a little black spot on the sun today It's the same old thing as yesterday There's a black hat caught in a high tree top There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain With the world turning circles running 'round my brain I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign But it's my destiny to be the king of pain
There's a little black spot on the sun today That's my soul up there It's the same old thing as yesterday That's my soul up there There's a black hat caught in a high tree top That's my soul up there There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop That's my soul up there
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain With the world turning circles running 'round my brain I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign But it's my destiny to be the king of pain
There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall That's my soul up there There's a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall That's my soul up there There's a blue whale beached by a springtime's ebb That's my soul up there There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web That's my soul up there
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain With the world turning circles running 'round my brain I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign But it's my destiny to be the king of pain
There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread
King of pain
There's a red fox torn by a huntsman's pack That's my soul up there There's a black-winged gull with a broken back That's my soul up there There's a little black spot on the sun today It's the same old thing as yesterday
I have stood here before in the pouring rain With the world turning circles running 'round my brain I guess I always thought you could end this reign But it's my destiny to be the king of pain
King of pain King of pain King of pain I'll always be king of pain
It says "they hope to make the new format as standard as MP3 has become for audio, and JPEG has become for 2D images". JPEG and Mp3 are well known media formats. All they were trying to say is that they want the format to be well adopted!
I couldn't get my sound blaster audigy to work at all. Even tho creative released drivers for linux I had to do all this funky recompiling, reinstalling, script editing and crazy stuff. I consider myself a talented programmer, but even after a week of linux tinkering I was TOTALLY lost getting my damn sound card to work! I popped a friends hard drive into my machine to fix something for him. Windows 98 and my spankin new (i guess 2002) sound card works perfectly fine. Granted there was no EAX or 5.1, but it worked enough:-)
Like it or not linux freaks, but this is a real problem if you want to go "mainstream"
Most of the time I use only my keyboard to operate my system, but other times I kick back and use primarily my mouse. I always found it to be so annoying to have to have to put my feet down just to be able to reach the CTRL key to select multiple files.
Just think, I could scroll the mouse wheel... select my grenedes.... and with one simple mouse click **KABOOM** eliminate multiple files at once!
A rail gun would also be nice for those occasions when you want to eliminate an entire column of files as well:-)
"four spyware programs they looked for"
What a crappy experiment... 19 out 20 of my friends computers that I have looked at or used have OBVIOUS AND VISIBLE spyware and that 1 missing is a programmer as well.
Clearly this was a poorly conducted experiment and these stats are very off.
www.ratemyteachers.com and www.ratemyprofessors. com are still around.
They are based on the same system (operated by the same people) and they have a pretty decent system for regulating comments and reviews.
My major complaint with both of the fact that ANYONE can annonymously mark a comment as inappropreiate which allows anyone to "deface" the site.
Also if a school's administration isn't careful just anyone (READ students) can become the admin of their www.ratemy*.com account very easily by writing a simple e-mail.
i cant spell and i didnt type this comment in ms word first... sorry:-P
It seems to me that reguardless of the site causing the traffic,/. already has the name regonition for this and that/. editors should expand the terms "The Slash Dot Effect" and "to be Slash Dotted" to be public use words for all sites. BUT slashdot should retain the right to be called "The Original Slashdot Effect" or something along those lines. This way reguardless of the future of slashdot.org or the internet, the/. legacy will live on!
"to Google" is now an official word meaning "to search the internet", do not let them coin "to Googlize" or anything silly like that!
Am I the only one who has never had a single problem with IE?
It has a decent feature set, it renders fairly complex sites very quickly and it supports the largest range of web pages.
My only major greivence with it is the ease at which you can mistakenly install an Active X control (which is being addressed with XP service pack 2). Security flaws aren't even a big deal because I do windows updates weekly. Not to mention Microsoft is going to offer automatic windows updates in the near future.
To be quite honest with you, the biggest shortcoming with IE is that it hasn't been fully developed as far as integration with Windows. So much more than the file system and web pages could benifit from the whole browser paradigm (for example, enhanced FTP support), but explorer and IE have a sense of disconnectedness that makes me open a new instance of IE even when I am at a windows explorer window and that bothers me.
I must say... that sucked... like an idiot I read all 101 of them, and 75% of them are either inaccurate or illogical, and the remaining 25% are poorly formed/thought-out.
When people vote they should enter a code word. Then they could go home, go online on their personal machines and enter their code word to ensure their vote was cast accurately.
Is it just me, or does it seem that a 2nd week computer science student could write the front end for an eVoting machine in a matter of 15 to 20 minutes?
A team of professional programmers could develop a voting system that includes proper security and transmits the votes to a database online is less than a week!
While I am not a huge proponent of open source software, it would obviously need to eliminate security through obscurity.
Then the only tough part is making sure that client machines are not altered to sway votes. See the first paragraph for my solution.
With the huge quantity of visitors that/. gets, I think it would be a primary goal of a site redesign (or refactoring or whatever) to reduce the average page size.
Maybe you could minimize page size by storing the HTML for a comment as a prefab in a javascript method and then much of the page could be generated at the client side. Instead of repeatedly sending a common block of HTML code you could call a function to write that block to the document. Name the function witha single character and you will probably save a k or 2 or large pages. Multiply by the number of visitors;-) That would be an interesting compression method. Also when the pages are published you should remove all non-signifigant whitespace.
Parents, once you're past making the huge mistake of actually letting the kids have computers in their rooms You must be joking me. That is like saying "It is a huge mistake to let a child play with a hammer". Of course they could easily smash their thumb, but if they were taught how to use it properly then they would be capable of building great new things. (OK granted that analogy was pretty lame, hammers do not contain explicit material) Kids should begin early learning how to use a computer. There is an alarming number of people in the world incapable of using a search engine or utilizing basic productivity software. The internet is an important part of the learning process! Encourage your kids to use the internet for good and not evil, install some parental control device if you want to be a hard ass, but for shit's sake.... teach the kid to build something.
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I call to complain that my service was flaky. Several times an hour the cable modem would just go out for 30 seconds then return. I call them and the guy says "well the problem isn't on our end it must be your network". I respond "Why do you say that?". He says "Well because your cable modem has been online and operational for the past 3 days with no disconnections". I say "Oh really? That's interesting... because its power has been unplugged for the past 20 minutes..."
o poo, I read FTC and connected it to FCC. I realized just as I pressed submit that I am an idiot... my bad
Not FTC, SEC = Securites and Exchange Commission
...and I found theme extreamly easy. These two AP courses could most certainly be combined into a single couse and still be completed well within a single school year with ample time to review and practice for the exam.
Anyone with any kind of inherent talet for computers/programming could spend less than a month teaching themselves to program and still get a 5 (out of 5) on the exam after doing one practice exam and reviewing it for a day or two. I have seen non-computer-oriented people (some who don't even like math or science classes) ace the exam.
I do not intend to insult anyone who can not handle the test, I mearly wish to point out that the exam tests ONLY the very basics of "how to program" and simple data structures.
Where I work my boss is an alcoholic with a rage problem. Being a small company, he is the only person to report to other than respect-based program-to-programer approval seeking.
Design meetings generally follow this format:
The boss man interupts an important programer/programmer technical discussion that was drawing to a close (approx 2 minutes remaining). He asks some questions about technology he has no hope in hell of ever understanding. He claims he understands it and says "so its kind of like..." and then proceeds to say something that indicates he has no understanding at all or that he wasn't even listening. We say "no" he gets mad b/c he is always right and decrees we do things his way because we are "idealist" scientists and he is a "practical man" and somehow therefore is right about the fastest way to write code. Argument insues for two hours over a medial issue. Boss man consumes three irish coffees and breaks two pencils. Boss man queries "So did I make it simpler?", we say "no not really". He breaks another pencil and leaves to starbucks to get another coffee to spike.
Needless to say there are a lot of broken pencils and spilled coffee cups in our alcohol reeking office.
MAN! that dorm is BUSTED!
There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain
There's a little black spot on the sun today
That's my soul up there
It's the same old thing as yesterday
That's my soul up there
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
That's my soul up there
There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop
That's my soul up there
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain
There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall
That's my soul up there
There's a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall
That's my soul up there
There's a blue whale beached by a springtime's ebb
That's my soul up there
There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web
That's my soul up there
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain
There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out
There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt
There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed
There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread
King of pain
There's a red fox torn by a huntsman's pack
That's my soul up there
There's a black-winged gull with a broken back
That's my soul up there
There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday
I have stood here before in the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I always thought you could end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain
King of pain
King of pain
King of pain
I'll always be king of pain
Who cares if the formats are lossy?
It says "they hope to make the new format as standard as MP3 has become for audio, and JPEG has become for 2D images". JPEG and Mp3 are well known media formats. All they were trying to say is that they want the format to be well adopted!
I couldn't get my sound blaster audigy to work at all. Even tho creative released drivers for linux I had to do all this funky recompiling, reinstalling, script editing and crazy stuff. I consider myself a talented programmer, but even after a week of linux tinkering I was TOTALLY lost getting my damn sound card to work! I popped a friends hard drive into my machine to fix something for him. Windows 98 and my spankin new (i guess 2002) sound card works perfectly fine. Granted there was no EAX or 5.1, but it worked enough :-)
Like it or not linux freaks, but this is a real problem if you want to go "mainstream"
Most of the time I use only my keyboard to operate my system, but other times I kick back and use primarily my mouse. I always found it to be so annoying to have to have to put my feet down just to be able to reach the CTRL key to select multiple files.
:-)
Just think, I could scroll the mouse wheel... select my grenedes.... and with one simple mouse click **KABOOM** eliminate multiple files at once!
A rail gun would also be nice for those occasions when you want to eliminate an entire column of files as well
"four spyware programs they looked for" What a crappy experiment... 19 out 20 of my friends computers that I have looked at or used have OBVIOUS AND VISIBLE spyware and that 1 missing is a programmer as well. Clearly this was a poorly conducted experiment and these stats are very off.
www.ratemyteachers.com. com
:-P
and
www.ratemyprofessors
are still around.
They are based on the same system (operated by the same people) and they have a pretty decent system for regulating comments and reviews.
My major complaint with both of the fact that ANYONE can annonymously mark a comment as inappropreiate which allows anyone to "deface" the site.
Also if a school's administration isn't careful just anyone (READ students) can become the admin of their www.ratemy*.com account very easily by writing a simple e-mail.
i cant spell and i didnt type this comment in ms word first... sorry
-SniperBoB-
It seems to me that reguardless of the site causing the traffic, /. already has the name regonition for this and that /. editors should expand the terms "The Slash Dot Effect" and "to be Slash Dotted" to be public use words for all sites. BUT slashdot should retain the right to be called "The Original Slashdot Effect" or something along those lines. This way reguardless of the future of slashdot.org or the internet, the /. legacy will live on!
"to Google" is now an official word meaning "to search the internet", do not let them coin "to Googlize" or anything silly like that!
... where Cartman gets one million dollars and buys an amusement park? He doesn't let anyone in, the best marketting strategy in history ;-)
im thinking of selling the "ex-box", its a crushed cardboard box. it used 2 be a box, but now its an ex-box can i get my free stuff now?
Am I the only one who has never had a single problem with IE?
It has a decent feature set, it renders fairly complex sites very quickly and it supports the largest range of web pages.
My only major greivence with it is the ease at which you can mistakenly install an Active X control (which is being addressed with XP service pack 2). Security flaws aren't even a big deal because I do windows updates weekly. Not to mention Microsoft is going to offer automatic windows updates in the near future.
To be quite honest with you, the biggest shortcoming with IE is that it hasn't been fully developed as far as integration with Windows. So much more than the file system and web pages could benifit from the whole browser paradigm (for example, enhanced FTP support), but explorer and IE have a sense of disconnectedness that makes me open a new instance of IE even when I am at a windows explorer window and that bothers me.
What actions are being taken to ensure that I won't be spammed in my sleep?
But, I thought pretty girls were above the law...
I must say... that sucked... like an idiot I read all 101 of them, and 75% of them are either inaccurate or illogical, and the remaining 25% are poorly formed/thought-out.
I am not sure about Finland and Sweden, but in the USA wouldn't the name "Lindows" be protected as a parody?
When people vote they should enter a code word. Then they could go home, go online on their personal machines and enter their code word to ensure their vote was cast accurately. Is it just me, or does it seem that a 2nd week computer science student could write the front end for an eVoting machine in a matter of 15 to 20 minutes? A team of professional programmers could develop a voting system that includes proper security and transmits the votes to a database online is less than a week! While I am not a huge proponent of open source software, it would obviously need to eliminate security through obscurity. Then the only tough part is making sure that client machines are not altered to sway votes. See the first paragraph for my solution.
Ah yes, everything makes more sense when it is in color.... wait... what?
we should refer to the slave drive as the bitch drive.. thats nice and PC right?
With the huge quantity of visitors that /. gets, I think it would be a primary goal of a site redesign (or refactoring or whatever) to reduce the average page size.
;-) That would be an interesting compression method.
Maybe you could minimize page size by storing the HTML for a comment as a prefab in a javascript method and then much of the page could be generated at the client side. Instead of repeatedly sending a common block of HTML code you could call a function to write that block to the document. Name the function witha single character and you will probably save a k or 2 or large pages. Multiply by the number of visitors
Also when the pages are published you should remove all non-signifigant whitespace.
Parents, once you're past making the huge mistake of actually letting the kids have computers in their rooms
You must be joking me. That is like saying "It is a huge mistake to let a child play with a hammer". Of course they could easily smash their thumb, but if they were taught how to use it properly then they would be capable of building great new things. (OK granted that analogy was pretty lame, hammers do not contain explicit material)
Kids should begin early learning how to use a computer. There is an alarming number of people in the world incapable of using a search engine or utilizing basic productivity software. The internet is an important part of the learning process! Encourage your kids to use the internet for good and not evil, install some parental control device if you want to be a hard ass, but for shit's sake.... teach the kid to build something.