As a CS major, I often worry how many jobs will be available for me once I graduate. However, I have a hard time believing that all tech jobs are going to India. What types of projects does the typical Indian firm get? Do they mainly do websites/server programming (PHP, MySQL, Java) or do they get asked to write full applications or do complex scientific work? Upon graduation I hope to work in a job that does the latter and I hope they still exist in America.
At my university, parts of the Intro to CS class was taught using JS. Already knowing the basics of programming coming into the class, none of it posed a challenge to me, but I felt sorry for the students who knew no programming. Most of them had a hard time with functions and knowing how to pass variables to them or get them to return a variable. Our final project for the class was to write a very basic "virual pest" (think tamogachi) in JS. Most had a hard time with this. A term later, we have started learning C++. I don't like using JS to write "programs" because it is very poor at reporting error messages. I think a much better choice for a first language would have been php, as, like the reviewer felt, JS has very little real world "programming" applications, but PHP could be insanely useful in real life, plus it's not overly difficult to learn and it follows much of the syntax of C/C++.
That is why monopolies are bad. People complain about MS, but at least if you get really pissed at them you can download linux for free or buy a Mac. With broadband, at least in my home town, you are stuck. We can only get broadband over cable from Comcast because the central office is too far for DSL. So I'm stuck with Comcast's TOS for as long as I want speeds faster than 56k.
How can you absolutely be sure that this virus was created by spammers? It could have been someone how uses linux and is pissed at SCO, or it could have been some Windows user who hates linux and sco. Maybe it was even some crazy mac user who hates, windows, linux, and sco and decided to punish them all in one swift blow. The point is, that you will never have any idea who actually created this virus. It could have been anybody on earth, associated with any operating system and any ideal. So, lets stop speculating about who created it and find ways to make things like this go away (ie: fix windows).
This game features gameplay elements never before seen in any other racing game! You can choose from a list
of the worst cars of all time! Just think of all the fun you will have! Watch out! Don't let that Pontiac idle for too long or it might catch on fire! Better watch your back-side in your Pinto, or you might blow up! Is your Citroen SM riding a little low? Better check the suspension for leaks. All of these great features and more! Including a pong graphics engine revitalized from the 1980s with graphics so stunning, you might just soil yourself, and a physics engine written by a a two year old. If it's service recalling, repair making, engine on fire fun that you are looking for, look no further!
Ok, so the domains mikeroesoft.org,.info,.biz, and.us are open. If I have been reading things correctly and I register these, then I get a free Xbox and certification?
"it remains a tool for me, rather than a 'content delivery and licensing kiosk' like many of our Windows friends are ending up with."
I think I would be careful about just assuming that Apple will never end up being a content delivery and licensing kiosk. Right now, Apple has a closer relationship to the music companies than any of the large PC companies. Windows has a very large selection of software, so it will always be possible to find software that doesn't follow this type of marketing. Although there is a lot of software for OS X, there is still not as much as windows, plus most apple users just stick w/ the default apps anyway.
An interesting quote from the article: "Ethics specialists argue that LaPierre is breaching an unspoken contract of honesty between journalist and listener."
If there really was a contract between journalists and the listener (or reader), why wouldn't they do more work to uncover the governments and corporation's lies? It really isn't too difficult to do, and in times like these I think that the American government needs to be as informed as possible.
I don't know if the problems with the iBooks count as lemons, which I would define as random mishaps without any patterns. What they have here is a defect in the design of their system. I can understand this happening, as you put is shit happens. However, what apple should have done is fess up to the problem and replaced the faulty parts through a recall or something of that sort.
"This isn't the first time that Apple has come through for me, I'm sure it won't be the last, but they've cemented me as a Customer For Life."
What I wonder is that if Apple really came through for you, would you have had so many problems with your computer as you did? I think its great that they fixed ur comp outside of warranty because of a screw up on their part, but I also think that when you buy something it should last, especially something as important as a computer.
"I'll replace the sob every 11 mos. if I have to."
My question is, is it really worth it? Personally, if had to go through the hassel of replacing one of my computers every 11 months I would forsake whatever company I bought it from forever. Right now I'm using one of the cheapest laptops that I could find 4 years ago, and it is still chugging along fine. The only problem I have ever had with this sucker was having some keys on the keyboard stop responding. The problem was fixed in a week under warranty. Seriously, I would look into a different brand.
I'll agree with you here. I run Windows XP and some other MS software and I like being able to choose what I run. I use iTunes for my music and I'm typing this in Firebird. I judge products based on their merits, not the company that makes them. If I like an os, I use it. If a browser strikes me as being useful, then that is what I run. I don't feel like I have to stick with one company and use just their products.
Well, while the results published in the article may be useless in a scientific sense, if you had read the author's reply in the comments for the article, the results would prove to be somewhat useful. Here are his words:
"For better or worse, tons of people code exactly like that. In my industry (IT consulting), virtually everyone does! It's absolutely routine to be given a programming task, a language, and an unrealistic deadline. You're expected to learn what you can from on-line help, whatever tutorials you can scrounge up on the net, and O'Reilly books, and cobble together code that works."
After reading this, I can understand what approach he was taking.
"Even if C did still enjoy its traditional performance advantage, there are very few cases (I'm hard pressed to come up with a single example from my work) where performance should be the sole criterion when picking a programming language."
I'm guess that in programming 3D game engines or any part of a video game for that matter, this would be one of the largest, if not the main, consideration.
Well, it looks like the RIAA goes from one scare tactic to the next. Dressing and acting like cops will obviously be enough to scare barely english speaking immigrants into giving up their goods. Personally, what I would do is just run and if the RIAA stormtroopers chased me or physically took me down, I would be the one sueing RIAA. All I have to say to the ex-PDs who have this job is: what a waste of good talent. They roam around the streets confiscating crappy spanish DVDs and CDs (that probably wouldn't sell for more than $5 or just clog up storage rooms) from dealers like they were selling crack to children, all to make the RIAA fat cats another nickle. All the while, these men and women could be using their talents to persue real crack dealers and do some real good in this world, instead of making the rich richer. Hopefully, anyone working in this position will seriously consider finding a better job and doing humanity some good.
I've always wondered why certain research programs (like Folding@home or SETI@home) don't use this type of code. My GPU sees more free time than my CPU plus it would probably get the work done faster. Also, imagine the speed increase of utilizing both the GPU and the CPU to their fullest potential. Now thats some fast folding!
Whenever I hear about people getting paid to play games I always think about people who have game review websites or magazines. I have often wished to be someone in that position, but then I realize that they have to play crappy games like the "Mary Kate and Ashley" games as well as all the other ones, and I don't. So in the end, I guess I win.
Is how many people, when they write about OS X credit Apple with coming up with the secure design or other features. If anyone should be credited, it should be the people who develop FreeBSD, because that is the real reason why OS X is secure.
We really can't change the market with boycots, there just arent enough of us, not compared to the main population of people who use windows "becuase everyone usese windows"
Here are my thoughts on this subject. Even though normal, non-geeky people my continue to use windows, I don't see how that will affect the rest of the computer world. If you think about it, the geeks are the one who will impliment this technology. They are the ones who will keep their bosses up to date and tell them the upside and downsides to these new technologies. If all the geeks took a stand and refused to impliment this technology then none of it would ever be implimented. If you think about this in a buisness sense, your typical manager or CEO will not keep up with technology and won't know about Cisco's new routers w/ TC technology. What he will know is what you tell him and what he will probably really care about is the bottom line which would mean replacing every router and piece of hardware just to be compatible with some new technology that he probably won't understand anyway.
"I for one enjoyed TTT ALOT. Sure, there were deviations from the book, but they were necessary to keep the story going."
The only thing that really bothered me about what was changed in TTT was Faramir's character. In the book he was a very noble person who wasn't even interested in taking the ring which makes his fathers greater love for Boromir all the more ironic. So far, I haven't heard a good reason for why this was changed for the movie. I think they probably could have kept his character the same and still had everything work out correctly.
Surely, for an innocent term such as this, freedom of speech must apply. I think if I was a business in LA I would violate this law as often as possible, maybe by even hanging a banner from my office talking about master/slave hard drives. Stuff like this really pisses me off. I think America needs to give this political correctness stuff a break.
The government keeps trying to pass acts like this one and take away more and more rights saying its to combat terrorism. What I wonder, is how large is the terrorist threat against us? I'm sure most of what we know about the terrorists has been fed to us by the government. Perhaps it's possible that 9/11 was just a once in a lifetime type of threat. Also, I find it hard to believe that there is a significanly larger threat against us now than there was before 9/11. A large country like the USA that tries to keep a hand in the business of many countries around the world must have a large amount of threats against it at any time. Even if there was a large threat, these type of intrusive policies wouldn't be justified, but they would be even worse if there wasn't a large threat.
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As a CS major, I often worry how many jobs will be available for me once I graduate. However, I have a hard time believing that all tech jobs are going to India. What types of projects does the typical Indian firm get? Do they mainly do websites/server programming (PHP, MySQL, Java) or do they get asked to write full applications or do complex scientific work? Upon graduation I hope to work in a job that does the latter and I hope they still exist in America.
At my university, parts of the Intro to CS class was taught using JS. Already knowing the basics of programming coming into the class, none of it posed a challenge to me, but I felt sorry for the students who knew no programming. Most of them had a hard time with functions and knowing how to pass variables to them or get them to return a variable. Our final project for the class was to write a very basic "virual pest" (think tamogachi) in JS. Most had a hard time with this. A term later, we have started learning C++. I don't like using JS to write "programs" because it is very poor at reporting error messages. I think a much better choice for a first language would have been php, as, like the reviewer felt, JS has very little real world "programming" applications, but PHP could be insanely useful in real life, plus it's not overly difficult to learn and it follows much of the syntax of C/C++.
Maybe Mario is just pissed because he has to live in the mountains of Austria without a shirt.
I've been knock, knock, knocking on port 80, but no one is answering!
That is why monopolies are bad. People complain about MS, but at least if you get really pissed at them you can download linux for free or buy a Mac. With broadband, at least in my home town, you are stuck. We can only get broadband over cable from Comcast because the central office is too far for DSL. So I'm stuck with Comcast's TOS for as long as I want speeds faster than 56k.
How can you absolutely be sure that this virus was created by spammers? It could have been someone how uses linux and is pissed at SCO, or it could have been some Windows user who hates linux and sco. Maybe it was even some crazy mac user who hates, windows, linux, and sco and decided to punish them all in one swift blow. The point is, that you will never have any idea who actually created this virus. It could have been anybody on earth, associated with any operating system and any ideal. So, lets stop speculating about who created it and find ways to make things like this go away (ie: fix windows).
This game features gameplay elements never before seen in any other racing game! You can choose from a list of the worst cars of all time! Just think of all the fun you will have! Watch out! Don't let that Pontiac idle for too long or it might catch on fire! Better watch your back-side in your Pinto, or you might blow up! Is your Citroen SM riding a little low? Better check the suspension for leaks. All of these great features and more! Including a pong graphics engine revitalized from the 1980s with graphics so stunning, you might just soil yourself, and a physics engine written by a a two year old. If it's service recalling, repair making, engine on fire fun that you are looking for, look no further!
Ok, so the domains mikeroesoft.org, .info, .biz, and .us are open. If I have been reading things correctly and I register these, then I get a free Xbox and certification?
"it remains a tool for me, rather than a 'content delivery and licensing kiosk' like many of our Windows friends are ending up with."
I think I would be careful about just assuming that Apple will never end up being a content delivery and licensing kiosk. Right now, Apple has a closer relationship to the music companies than any of the large PC companies. Windows has a very large selection of software, so it will always be possible to find software that doesn't follow this type of marketing. Although there is a lot of software for OS X, there is still not as much as windows, plus most apple users just stick w/ the default apps anyway.
An interesting quote from the article: "Ethics specialists argue that LaPierre is breaching an unspoken contract of honesty between journalist and listener."
If there really was a contract between journalists and the listener (or reader), why wouldn't they do more work to uncover the governments and corporation's lies? It really isn't too difficult to do, and in times like these I think that the American government needs to be as informed as possible.
I don't know if the problems with the iBooks count as lemons, which I would define as random mishaps without any patterns. What they have here is a defect in the design of their system. I can understand this happening, as you put is shit happens. However, what apple should have done is fess up to the problem and replaced the faulty parts through a recall or something of that sort.
"This isn't the first time that Apple has come through for me, I'm sure it won't be the last, but they've cemented me as a Customer For Life."
What I wonder is that if Apple really came through for you, would you have had so many problems with your computer as you did? I think its great that they fixed ur comp outside of warranty because of a screw up on their part, but I also think that when you buy something it should last, especially something as important as a computer.
"I'll replace the sob every 11 mos. if I have to."
My question is, is it really worth it? Personally, if had to go through the hassel of replacing one of my computers every 11 months I would forsake whatever company I bought it from forever. Right now I'm using one of the cheapest laptops that I could find 4 years ago, and it is still chugging along fine. The only problem I have ever had with this sucker was having some keys on the keyboard stop responding. The problem was fixed in a week under warranty. Seriously, I would look into a different brand.
I'll agree with you here. I run Windows XP and some other MS software and I like being able to choose what I run. I use iTunes for my music and I'm typing this in Firebird. I judge products based on their merits, not the company that makes them. If I like an os, I use it. If a browser strikes me as being useful, then that is what I run. I don't feel like I have to stick with one company and use just their products.
Well, while the results published in the article may be useless in a scientific sense, if you had read the author's reply in the comments for the article, the results would prove to be somewhat useful. Here are his words:
"For better or worse, tons of people code exactly like that. In my industry (IT consulting), virtually everyone does! It's absolutely routine to be given a programming task, a language, and an unrealistic deadline. You're expected to learn what you can from on-line help, whatever tutorials you can scrounge up on the net, and O'Reilly books, and cobble together code that works."
After reading this, I can understand what approach he was taking.
"Even if C did still enjoy its traditional performance advantage, there are very few cases (I'm hard pressed to come up with a single example from my work) where performance should be the sole criterion when picking a programming language."
I'm guess that in programming 3D game engines or any part of a video game for that matter, this would be one of the largest, if not the main, consideration.
Well, it looks like the RIAA goes from one scare tactic to the next. Dressing and acting like cops will obviously be enough to scare barely english speaking immigrants into giving up their goods. Personally, what I would do is just run and if the RIAA stormtroopers chased me or physically took me down, I would be the one sueing RIAA. All I have to say to the ex-PDs who have this job is: what a waste of good talent. They roam around the streets confiscating crappy spanish DVDs and CDs (that probably wouldn't sell for more than $5 or just clog up storage rooms) from dealers like they were selling crack to children, all to make the RIAA fat cats another nickle. All the while, these men and women could be using their talents to persue real crack dealers and do some real good in this world, instead of making the rich richer. Hopefully, anyone working in this position will seriously consider finding a better job and doing humanity some good.
I've always wondered why certain research programs (like Folding@home or SETI@home) don't use this type of code. My GPU sees more free time than my CPU plus it would probably get the work done faster. Also, imagine the speed increase of utilizing both the GPU and the CPU to their fullest potential. Now thats some fast folding!
Whenever I hear about people getting paid to play games I always think about people who have game review websites or magazines. I have often wished to be someone in that position, but then I realize that they have to play crappy games like the "Mary Kate and Ashley" games as well as all the other ones, and I don't. So in the end, I guess I win.
Is how many people, when they write about OS X credit Apple with coming up with the secure design or other features. If anyone should be credited, it should be the people who develop FreeBSD, because that is the real reason why OS X is secure.
This article reminded me of this quote:
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon traveling at 60 MPH."
We really can't change the market with boycots, there just arent enough of us, not compared to the main population of people who use windows "becuase everyone usese windows"
Here are my thoughts on this subject. Even though normal, non-geeky people my continue to use windows, I don't see how that will affect the rest of the computer world. If you think about it, the geeks are the one who will impliment this technology. They are the ones who will keep their bosses up to date and tell them the upside and downsides to these new technologies. If all the geeks took a stand and refused to impliment this technology then none of it would ever be implimented. If you think about this in a buisness sense, your typical manager or CEO will not keep up with technology and won't know about Cisco's new routers w/ TC technology. What he will know is what you tell him and what he will probably really care about is the bottom line which would mean replacing every router and piece of hardware just to be compatible with some new technology that he probably won't understand anyway.
"I for one enjoyed TTT ALOT. Sure, there were deviations from the book, but they were necessary to keep the story going."
The only thing that really bothered me about what was changed in TTT was Faramir's character. In the book he was a very noble person who wasn't even interested in taking the ring which makes his fathers greater love for Boromir all the more ironic. So far, I haven't heard a good reason for why this was changed for the movie. I think they probably could have kept his character the same and still had everything work out correctly.
Surely, for an innocent term such as this, freedom of speech must apply. I think if I was a business in LA I would violate this law as often as possible, maybe by even hanging a banner from my office talking about master/slave hard drives. Stuff like this really pisses me off. I think America needs to give this political correctness stuff a break.
The government keeps trying to pass acts like this one and take away more and more rights saying its to combat terrorism. What I wonder, is how large is the terrorist threat against us? I'm sure most of what we know about the terrorists has been fed to us by the government. Perhaps it's possible that 9/11 was just a once in a lifetime type of threat. Also, I find it hard to believe that there is a significanly larger threat against us now than there was before 9/11. A large country like the USA that tries to keep a hand in the business of many countries around the world must have a large amount of threats against it at any time. Even if there was a large threat, these type of intrusive policies wouldn't be justified, but they would be even worse if there wasn't a large threat.