Rather than concentrate on programming, try to get a job working in an industry that could benefit from automation. Learn how the business works, and then apply your CS skills to making it more efficient.
Many industries put up with vertical applications written by non-programmers that clearly show their house-of-cards design. Learn an industry as a regular non-CS operator, and then return with your combined CS and insider knowledge to revolutionize the way a business does its business.
As you go about your regular non-CS duties, you'll almost certainly see loads of opportunities for automation. This might be in manufacturing (eg. robotics) or in back-office work (eg. ERP). Just be careful not to show off your programming skills too early, or you may get pigeon-holed before you get the opportunity to see the whole picture and pick your targets.
I agree completely. I also review the stacks of resumes for my manager to filter them down to the best candidates, and anything with obvious spelling or grammatical errors goes right in the trash.
If you have to work hard to spell without errors, then you lack the knack to program without errors. Both require good memory, concentration, and attention to detail, and should leave one with plenty of neurons left over to commit to higher-level issues like design.
It's useful when you share your connection. I love having a Linux-based gateway running WonderShaper.
Now if only all the FPS games started tagging their UDP packets as interactive. For now I have to do it with an iptables rule. (The guy porting the Battlefield 1942 server to Linux just added this as an option, though.)
If you don't want to pay tax then *move* to Delaware. As long as you live in PA and take advantage of the services the state has to offer, it's your responsibility to pay your fair share of taxes.
If you want to fund a service, bill for it. Taxes are one way to do that, but they're a poor way, because they grossly lengthen the feedback paths between supply and demand, introducing huge amounts of noise that swamp the signal. This creates huge distortions in the system.
Internet taxes totally decouple the supplied service from the buyer. They're just a legal way to steal.
You shouldn't need to prove your medical condition to get drugs to treat it. Competent people should be treated like adults and allowed to make informed decisions about their own bodies, without government interference. (The incompetent shouldn't be allowed to leave home in the first place.)
I thought these suckers would blow up when spun at more than 50x for any length of time. I don't see a test for this on the Orange Book high-speed page.
Agreed. I had my boss get SpeakEasy instead of DirecTV DSL because of SpeakEasy's friendliness to Linux and servers. I'd get it myself in a heartbeat if I were within DSL range of my telco.
Alas, I have to put up with ATTBI for cable modem service. When it works (which in fairness is most of the time) it's great, but when something is broken, the "What's Linux?" front-line tech support is abominable.
and the US does it, too. And it's not limited to technology. Protection against all manner of goods is rampant in the US, with local producers often justifying it by pointing at foreign protectionism.
Of course, taking this reasoning to its logical conclusion, goods would never pass state, city, or neighborhood boundaries. Protectionism is always wrong and stupid.
A Libertarian would never pass any law to promote the internet, and would never let the government spend funding on such a venture. As such, if the world were in the hands of the libertarians, we wouldn't have had one at all until it became so obvious and cheap that companies would have put one together themselves.
But you would be free to spend the money you save in taxes on an internet. Or are you so cheap and so sure that the internet is a bad idea that you wouldn't invest?
And notice all the big commercial companies that are investing in development of free software.
The Internet didn't really take off until someone figured out a way to distribute pictures on it for the couch potatoes. And I'd estimate that a large fraction of those pictures are porn. Thank Larry Flynt, not Uncle Sam, for the Internet.
If one assumes that only gamers enter the store, then most of the people in the store will be adults. However, a recent trip to EB to browse the shelves suggests that more teens frequent retail shops. I suspect that this is because adults, with easier access to a credit card, are more likely to buy online. But this gives the image-conscious media the false impression that most of the market is what they can see standing at the shelves.
Just press Ctrl-A to select all then Shift F-9 to reveal codes and you'll know what's going on...
And your average user (or busy high-level executive) is going to study the codes in a lengthy document?
This "bug" is like telling people not to run/open email attachments even when they come from friends.
You don't do that?! My friends know not to send me executable content by email. Or they learn quickly how bad an idea that is.
And I protect my users by blocking as much executable content as I can identify at the mail gateway. I only wish I could block Word documents. Maybe word of this vulnerability will be the straw that authorizes me to do that.
With the risk of being accused of making a crass generalisation, I'd say that many, many Windows sysadmins are of the point-and-click Mickey Mouse variety
I've often said that Windows admins can't find the bathroom without an icon on the door.
Regulation is inevitably perverted to serve the regulated. Deregulation serves to remove barriers to competitors.
A "corporation" is a fictional entity created by government to block liability of the shareholders. Why do we need that? Let's make the shareholders liable for the damages their property does, and maybe corporations will be a bit more careful about stepping on others.
Free to "dump toxins into the environment"? The reason that's bad is because the environment is shared. No one is proposing dumping stuff on one's neighbor. And if you dump stuff on your own land and it leeches into the water table and ends up polluting your neighbor's water source, then you're no longer dumping on your own land.
If someone messes up their own bed and the effect doesn't spread to yours, what right do you have to tell them how to live?
What makes you think that government ownership is better than private ownership? Government has been a poor steward of its land, because its use of its property has been politically motivated. That's inevitable for publically-held land. A private owner has different incentives. Moreover, there would be lots of private owners, not just one big public one, so a single bad judgement doesn't render most of a state ugly. (What, you thought we meant sell it all to one owner?!) You seem to imply that the only people who'd want to pay money for land are those who want to destroy it. Would no one care enough about it to spend money to preserve it?
I'm another qpopper/sendmail admin, and there's some pressure to deploy Exchange for calendaring. At this point the middle managers who want it have not succeeded in selling calendering as necessary to upper management, who favor non-MS solutions in their relative immunity to attack.
What if it is? The highest bidder will be the one who values it the most. How much do you value the parks? Enough that you're willing to organize a group with enough money to buy one? Or are you just another leech who wants someone else to pay for your causes?
The legalizing of drugs is like keeping computers without copy protection legal. In each case we are ensuring that the common people have access to a technology.
Libertarians still want to make people responsible for the abuse of that technology. If you hurt someone while under the influence, a libertarian will still send you to prison.
Value is what the consumer says it is, not the producer! Basic Austrian economics.
Producers of music are whining that if they don't get paid, they'll stop making music. That tells me that they're making music for the wrong (commercial) reasons. Open Source programmers write code to "scratch an itch", not because of the promise of future wealth. Musicians and other content producers should take a page from the OS book and get back to creating content for the love of it.
Are you saying that a fraudulent corporation will be better dealt with by a bloated government than a lean one targeted at fraud and force? How is bloat supposed to solve this problem?
The next thing you'll tell us is that more useless features in Windows is a Good Thing.
A smaller party can still have a significant effect even without hoping to win. Because the smaller party concentrates on issues rather than personalities, it tends to define the debates of the older parties. Furthermore, it will draw voters from the old parties who must then woo them back by appealing to the issues of the new party.
A recent example is the defeat of Georgia Congressman and Republican Bob Barr in his primary mainly due to efforts led by the Libertarian candidate.
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Many industries put up with vertical applications written by non-programmers that clearly show their house-of-cards design. Learn an industry as a regular non-CS operator, and then return with your combined CS and insider knowledge to revolutionize the way a business does its business.
As you go about your regular non-CS duties, you'll almost certainly see loads of opportunities for automation. This might be in manufacturing (eg. robotics) or in back-office work (eg. ERP). Just be careful not to show off your programming skills too early, or you may get pigeon-holed before you get the opportunity to see the whole picture and pick your targets.
If you have to work hard to spell without errors, then you lack the knack to program without errors. Both require good memory, concentration, and attention to detail, and should leave one with plenty of neurons left over to commit to higher-level issues like design.
Now if only all the FPS games started tagging their UDP packets as interactive. For now I have to do it with an iptables rule. (The guy porting the Battlefield 1942 server to Linux just added this as an option, though.)
Expect more kids to lose hands as the rising cost of proven motors drives them to switch to basement-brewed bombs.
If you want to fund a service, bill for it. Taxes are one way to do that, but they're a poor way, because they grossly lengthen the feedback paths between supply and demand, introducing huge amounts of noise that swamp the signal. This creates huge distortions in the system.
Internet taxes totally decouple the supplied service from the buyer. They're just a legal way to steal.
"The Search for Lost Data"
Get Symantec/Norton to underwrite it.
You shouldn't need to prove your medical condition to get drugs to treat it. Competent people should be treated like adults and allowed to make informed decisions about their own bodies, without government interference. (The incompetent shouldn't be allowed to leave home in the first place.)
The root page which includes the above two recipes, among others: OpenSSL Certificate Cookbook
Yeah, who's ready to wait in that line?!
I thought these suckers would blow up when spun at more than 50x for any length of time. I don't see a test for this on the Orange Book high-speed page.
Agreed. I had my boss get SpeakEasy instead of DirecTV DSL because of SpeakEasy's friendliness to Linux and servers. I'd get it myself in a heartbeat if I were within DSL range of my telco.
Alas, I have to put up with ATTBI for cable modem service. When it works (which in fairness is most of the time) it's great, but when something is broken, the "What's Linux?" front-line tech support is abominable.
Of course, taking this reasoning to its logical conclusion, goods would never pass state, city, or neighborhood boundaries. Protectionism is always wrong and stupid.
But you would be free to spend the money you save in taxes on an internet. Or are you so cheap and so sure that the internet is a bad idea that you wouldn't invest?
And notice all the big commercial companies that are investing in development of free software.
The Internet didn't really take off until someone figured out a way to distribute pictures on it for the couch potatoes. And I'd estimate that a large fraction of those pictures are porn. Thank Larry Flynt, not Uncle Sam, for the Internet.
Check out Tux Games. Lots of native games. I'm sure others can list lots more, some free.
If one assumes that only gamers enter the store, then most of the people in the store will be adults. However, a recent trip to EB to browse the shelves suggests that more teens frequent retail shops. I suspect that this is because adults, with easier access to a credit card, are more likely to buy online. But this gives the image-conscious media the false impression that most of the market is what they can see standing at the shelves.
And your average user (or busy high-level executive) is going to study the codes in a lengthy document?
This "bug" is like telling people not to run/open email attachments even when they come from friends.
You don't do that?! My friends know not to send me executable content by email. Or they learn quickly how bad an idea that is.
And I protect my users by blocking as much executable content as I can identify at the mail gateway. I only wish I could block Word documents. Maybe word of this vulnerability will be the straw that authorizes me to do that.
With the risk of being accused of making a crass generalisation, I'd say that many, many Windows sysadmins are of the point-and-click Mickey Mouse variety
I've often said that Windows admins can't find the bathroom without an icon on the door.
A "corporation" is a fictional entity created by government to block liability of the shareholders. Why do we need that? Let's make the shareholders liable for the damages their property does, and maybe corporations will be a bit more careful about stepping on others.
Free to "dump toxins into the environment"? The reason that's bad is because the environment is shared. No one is proposing dumping stuff on one's neighbor. And if you dump stuff on your own land and it leeches into the water table and ends up polluting your neighbor's water source, then you're no longer dumping on your own land.
If someone messes up their own bed and the effect doesn't spread to yours, what right do you have to tell them how to live?
What makes you think that government ownership is better than private ownership? Government has been a poor steward of its land, because its use of its property has been politically motivated. That's inevitable for publically-held land. A private owner has different incentives. Moreover, there would be lots of private owners, not just one big public one, so a single bad judgement doesn't render most of a state ugly. (What, you thought we meant sell it all to one owner?!) You seem to imply that the only people who'd want to pay money for land are those who want to destroy it. Would no one care enough about it to spend money to preserve it?
In researching the issue, I did find a Mozilla project to create a calendar server, but it's still in its infancy.
What if it is? The highest bidder will be the one who values it the most. How much do you value the parks? Enough that you're willing to organize a group with enough money to buy one? Or are you just another leech who wants someone else to pay for your causes?
Put your money where your mouth is!
Libertarians still want to make people responsible for the abuse of that technology. If you hurt someone while under the influence, a libertarian will still send you to prison.
Observe how the Libertarian candidate in Georgia just knocked Bob Barr out of his seat.
Value is what the consumer says it is, not the producer! Basic Austrian economics.
Producers of music are whining that if they don't get paid, they'll stop making music. That tells me that they're making music for the wrong (commercial) reasons. Open Source programmers write code to "scratch an itch", not because of the promise of future wealth. Musicians and other content producers should take a page from the OS book and get back to creating content for the love of it.
The next thing you'll tell us is that more useless features in Windows is a Good Thing.
A recent example is the defeat of Georgia Congressman and Republican Bob Barr in his primary mainly due to efforts led by the Libertarian candidate.