Not to mention, what's with the flamebait shot at the end of the summary? Headache-inducing Windows? First, anyone who can't get Windows to run decently should be turning in their geek card already. Second, those kind of cheap shots are the things which start flame wars, I'm not sure how it deserves to be in TFS.
Really? I can't get Windows to run, but have no problem with Linux. I've tried to dual boot, have all my drives partitioned, Linux installed and GRUB set up. No problem. I try to boot from the Windows installation CD... and it hangs near the beginning of the installation.
What am I supposed to do? I don't have a Windows Live CD to fix my issue. I can't go find another Windows distro that may work. Maybe Windows is less than tolerant of some of my hardware. Maybe it is just pissed off at the way my partitions are set up. Either way, Windows is Opaque to me, so I can't debug any installation issues.
Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS, rather than staying with the headache-inducing Windows."
And since when have Apple users been considered "normal" around here?
Or did you really mean 'orthogonal'
Apple users are definitely wacky. I bought a MacBook recently because of the stability, ease of administration, nice kernel, reasonable dev environment, etc.
Now I can't stand it. The Apple GUI is a piece of shit. They have gone to weird symbols in their GUI instead of nice buttons with labels.
Example: I needed to add a user. I bought up the little user management app and didn't see any add user button. After a short Google, I found that to add a user, you click the small plus sign at the bottom. Maybe I should have figured that out without Googling, but it sure didn't seem obvious at the time.
It seems like Apple is generally going for a pretty interface over a useful interface. That may impress some people but it drives me batshit. The only question now is whether to put KDE on top of OS X or put some Linux Distro on it.
I heard so many great reviews of Mac and now I'm looking at having paid too much money for a Linux notebook... sigh.
That's the most ridiculous thing that I've heard. According to new research, girls are doing as well in school as boys at science and math, but still do better at reading, history, etc.
Women are also better at personal relationships. Thus the lack of women in science may be due to their comparative advantages in the humanities.
Really though, the killer app of Linux is. Customization. For MS to get more marketshare, you need to be able to customize everything on it. From the kernel to the GUI.
M$ is not worried about market share. They have all that they need. What they are worried about it making the killer OS so that everyone (businesses included) says "Oooo. That's much better than XP. I guess I'll shell out the $200 to upgrade."
Sweden and Russia are pretty close geographically, last time I checked. I would think that Sweden would have a lot of use for intelligence as it relates to organized crime in Russia, military activities, industrial accidents that might not be reported through more conventional means for some time... Heck, there's a whole host of reasons that a country might want to keep tabs on a neighbor...especially a neighbor that has historically been a little reluctant to share lots of details with the outside world.
1. Slashdot will think that you should be able to use anything you damn well please as long as it's Open Source.
There is nothing wrong with standardization, but it shouldn't be taken too far. For instance, worked at a Java shop on a project that automated deployment of new software which occasionally meant deploying a new version of a JVM. Since much of the deployment code had to run on the server where Java was being deployed to... well Java wouldn't be an appropriate choice.
2. Yes, especially if the people who sign you paycheck tell you that's what you have to do.
Yes, everyone should in the end listen to the dude signing his paychecks. That misses the point entirely which is "what are the best business practices for a software company?"
3. Maybe. A lot depends on how well the team is managed.
Sure. If it is managed well, then the management types will for the most part stay out of the decision making process. The choices of programming technologies a company chooses should be chosen mostly by Software Architects not by Management. Managers (at least at most companies) are not qualified to choose languages.
At my current company, there is a standard process for certifying a new piece of computing technology (whether it be a 3rd party library or an entirely new language). This involves review by the architecture team as well as performance profiling and other analysis. In the end managers have to sign off on the price and the license, but they are guided heavily by technical experts.
While this doesn't stop spammers from setting up their own dubious TLDs and trying to lure people there, after a few publicized incidents of scams I think it would become fairly common knowledge that people should stick to trusting.com or the localized regional version thereof. If people don't automatically distrust or even blacklist the new TLDs, then what was the point in the first place?
Creation of new domains is like extortion. For example, Disney will have to pay for disney.fun, disney.kids, disney.parks, disney.film, etc. just to make sure that those don't turn into porn sites or worse.
Recording Industry: *Knock* *Knock* Open up it's the RIAA!
France: Don't shoot! We surrender!
Recording Industry: Ummm. We're just some lawyers. We don't have guns.
France: That's okay. We surrender. We're comfortable with that. You can have anything you want. Just ask.
Recording Industry: Well...
First, what's stopping Vince Siemer from just not going back to New Zealand?
Second, is anyone else just a little bit concerned with the secret nature by which the New Zealand courts work? Hearings are not open to the public and are not allowed to be recorded. I know it isn't the US, but transparency is an important part of justice.
I read through the document and it isn't clear to me that the agreement seeks to outlaw file sharing of non-copyrighted material. I'd be interested to hear someone point to the particular verbiage that indicates that.
As to the outlawing region free DVD players, on the last page, it refers to "remedies against circumvention of technological protection measures". Now depending on your view many of those circumventions of technological protections have already been outlawed by the DMCA. This agreement would seek to bind all parties to that standard.
I personally think that some of the language is okay, but that it just goes to far. For those of you who have problems with this trade agreement, I would encourage you to call the US Trade Representative office at (202) 395-3230. Ask for Sean Spicer or Christina Lucas.
I taught programming as an adjunct at SUNY Geneseo, mostly to science students to fulfill their computer science requirement (note that I didn't say programming).
The first class that I taught was a survey of Computer Science for non-majors. It was fun for me as a professor to prepare the lectures. It allowed me to come up with creative metaphors to describe networking, operating systems, and even complexity theory. But I don't honestly think that it did any of them any good in their own scientific disciplines.
The other class that I taught was Introduction to Programming in C. Most of the students were under the impression that you showed up to class, listened to lecture and passed the tests. They didn't wanted to take the time to get the programming assignments to work. Still, I really believe that the ones who worked at it got a great benefit out of it. When they move on to doing serious research, they'll be better off.
I'll go one better, though. I think that it would be even better if not just programming, but software engineering were required. I have a friend who is finishing up his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering who calls me up frequently because he has had to write a lot of code during his Ph.D. and can't manage it. It would be great if he had learned at least a little bitter about Object Oriented Design, Refactoring, Automated Regression Testing... but if they won't go for a programming course, how will they go for software engineering.
1) Learn how to manage conflicts.
They are guaranteed to come up.
2) Communicate technical ideas well to non-technical people.
Will your manager understand the technical details of your job? What about his manager?
3) Lean to present well.
What better way to impress many people at once?
4) General Problem Solving Skills.
A competent technical interviewer is likely to test you on this and be more interested in your performance than he is in you remembering the exact syntax in some language or some details of some library (although you should know those things to some degree).
5) Be generally eloquent and friendly
The social aspects of work are often ignored
According to the article:
Well, if you just cut your lawn with a gas mower, congratulations, you just put out more pollution in one hour than these cars do in 2,000 miles of driving.
But also:
The PZEV cars don't get any better mileage than conventional versions.
This is quite telling. If the PZEV cars get the same fuel efficiency as conventional vehicles, then they are consuming the same amount of carbon and putting the same amount of CO2 into the atmosphere.
So how can they be less polluting than a lawn mower? The article must NOT be including CO2 as a pollutant (the same view the Bush administration took of the Clean Air Act). So these vehicles probably emit less sulfur and nitrogen compounds and particulates, but the same amount of CO2.
This may be a bit picky, but the work being done here is not computer engineering but rather computer science. Computer engineering generally refers to engineering techniques for building computers and computer systems (including parts of electrical engineering, materials science, algorithms, etc.) whereas computer science is the study of algorithms.
This work is not designing computing systems but rather using algorithms to model the building blocks of biology.
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Not to mention, what's with the flamebait shot at the end of the summary? Headache-inducing Windows? First, anyone who can't get Windows to run decently should be turning in their geek card already. Second, those kind of cheap shots are the things which start flame wars, I'm not sure how it deserves to be in TFS.
Really? I can't get Windows to run, but have no problem with Linux. I've tried to dual boot, have all my drives partitioned, Linux installed and GRUB set up. No problem. I try to boot from the Windows installation CD ... and it hangs near the beginning of the installation.
What am I supposed to do? I don't have a Windows Live CD to fix my issue. I can't go find another Windows distro that may work. Maybe Windows is less than tolerant of some of my hardware. Maybe it is just pissed off at the way my partitions are set up. Either way, Windows is Opaque to me, so I can't debug any installation issues.
Oh well, I don't really NEED Windows anyway.
And since when have Apple users been considered "normal" around here?
Or did you really mean 'orthogonal'
Apple users are definitely wacky. I bought a MacBook recently because of the stability, ease of administration, nice kernel, reasonable dev environment, etc.
Now I can't stand it. The Apple GUI is a piece of shit. They have gone to weird symbols in their GUI instead of nice buttons with labels.
Example: I needed to add a user. I bought up the little user management app and didn't see any add user button. After a short Google, I found that to add a user, you click the small plus sign at the bottom. Maybe I should have figured that out without Googling, but it sure didn't seem obvious at the time.
It seems like Apple is generally going for a pretty interface over a useful interface. That may impress some people but it drives me batshit. The only question now is whether to put KDE on top of OS X or put some Linux Distro on it.
I heard so many great reviews of Mac and now I'm looking at having paid too much money for a Linux notebook ... sigh.
That's the most ridiculous thing that I've heard. According to new research, girls are doing as well in school as boys at science and math, but still do better at reading, history, etc.
Women are also better at personal relationships. Thus the lack of women in science may be due to their comparative advantages in the humanities.
have a read...
Really though, the killer app of Linux is. Customization. For MS to get more marketshare, you need to be able to customize everything on it. From the kernel to the GUI.
M$ is not worried about market share. They have all that they need. What they are worried about it making the killer OS so that everyone (businesses included) says "Oooo. That's much better than XP. I guess I'll shell out the $200 to upgrade."
What other features would you suggest to Microsoft if they are to have a hope for recovery? A Linux kernel.
You are joking, but I have a bet going with a good friend of mine that MS will ship a UNIX or Linux kernel within 20 years.
It just makes too much sense. They get many bug fixes for free and don't have to do kernel maintenance.
Sweden and Russia are pretty close geographically, last time I checked. I would think that Sweden would have a lot of use for intelligence as it relates to organized crime in Russia, military activities, industrial accidents that might not be reported through more conventional means for some time... Heck, there's a whole host of reasons that a country might want to keep tabs on a neighbor...especially a neighbor that has historically been a little reluctant to share lots of details with the outside world.
Don't forget all of the Russian ddos attacks and botnets.
It is so refreshing to see a political party focused on electronic freedom and sane intellectual property laws.
Help the Pirate Party fight this and other crazy technology laws by donating
1. Slashdot will think that you should be able to use anything you damn well please as long as it's Open Source.
There is nothing wrong with standardization, but it shouldn't be taken too far. For instance, worked at a Java shop on a project that automated deployment of new software which occasionally meant deploying a new version of a JVM. Since much of the deployment code had to run on the server where Java was being deployed to ... well Java wouldn't be an appropriate choice.
2. Yes, especially if the people who sign you paycheck tell you that's what you have to do.
Yes, everyone should in the end listen to the dude signing his paychecks. That misses the point entirely which is "what are the best business practices for a software company?"
3. Maybe. A lot depends on how well the team is managed.
Sure. If it is managed well, then the management types will for the most part stay out of the decision making process. The choices of programming technologies a company chooses should be chosen mostly by Software Architects not by Management. Managers (at least at most companies) are not qualified to choose languages.
At my current company, there is a standard process for certifying a new piece of computing technology (whether it be a 3rd party library or an entirely new language). This involves review by the architecture team as well as performance profiling and other analysis. In the end managers have to sign off on the price and the license, but they are guided heavily by technical experts.
Creation of new domains is like extortion. For example, Disney will have to pay for disney.fun, disney.kids, disney.parks, disney.film, etc. just to make sure that those don't turn into porn sites or worse.
Recording Industry: *Knock* *Knock* Open up it's the RIAA!
France: Don't shoot! We surrender!
Recording Industry: Ummm. We're just some lawyers. We don't have guns.
France: That's okay. We surrender. We're comfortable with that. You can have anything you want. Just ask.
Recording Industry: Well...
First, what's stopping Vince Siemer from just not going back to New Zealand?
Second, is anyone else just a little bit concerned with the secret nature by which the New Zealand courts work? Hearings are not open to the public and are not allowed to be recorded. I know it isn't the US, but transparency is an important part of justice.
I read through the document and it isn't clear to me that the agreement seeks to outlaw file sharing of non-copyrighted material. I'd be interested to hear someone point to the particular verbiage that indicates that.
As to the outlawing region free DVD players, on the last page, it refers to "remedies against circumvention of technological protection measures". Now depending on your view many of those circumventions of technological protections have already been outlawed by the DMCA. This agreement would seek to bind all parties to that standard.
I personally think that some of the language is okay, but that it just goes to far. For those of you who have problems with this trade agreement, I would encourage you to call the US Trade Representative office at (202) 395-3230. Ask for Sean Spicer or Christina Lucas.
Long live Captain Murphy of Radio Free Sealab!
I taught programming as an adjunct at SUNY Geneseo, mostly to science students to fulfill their computer science requirement (note that I didn't say programming).
... but if they won't go for a programming course, how will they go for software engineering.
The first class that I taught was a survey of Computer Science for non-majors. It was fun for me as a professor to prepare the lectures. It allowed me to come up with creative metaphors to describe networking, operating systems, and even complexity theory. But I don't honestly think that it did any of them any good in their own scientific disciplines.
The other class that I taught was Introduction to Programming in C. Most of the students were under the impression that you showed up to class, listened to lecture and passed the tests. They didn't wanted to take the time to get the programming assignments to work. Still, I really believe that the ones who worked at it got a great benefit out of it. When they move on to doing serious research, they'll be better off.
I'll go one better, though. I think that it would be even better if not just programming, but software engineering were required. I have a friend who is finishing up his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering who calls me up frequently because he has had to write a lot of code during his Ph.D. and can't manage it. It would be great if he had learned at least a little bitter about Object Oriented Design, Refactoring, Automated Regression Testing
Don't know, but they are about to lose me as a customer...
I just called mine and told them to fund the rover.
Get their info here.
Car accidents found to be serious health risks.
C'mon, people. *Yawn* There have been dozens of studies showing this in fruit flies nematodes, and other simple organisms. Move along.
In Soviet France, published book buys you!
Probably sit around all the time and look at pr0n and let Dick Cheney run the country.
1) Learn how to manage conflicts. They are guaranteed to come up. 2) Communicate technical ideas well to non-technical people. Will your manager understand the technical details of your job? What about his manager? 3) Lean to present well. What better way to impress many people at once? 4) General Problem Solving Skills. A competent technical interviewer is likely to test you on this and be more interested in your performance than he is in you remembering the exact syntax in some language or some details of some library (although you should know those things to some degree). 5) Be generally eloquent and friendly The social aspects of work are often ignored
Google Docs and Spreadsheets. They take up no hard drive space beyond what I'm already using for Firefox.
But also:
The PZEV cars don't get any better mileage than conventional versions.
This is quite telling. If the PZEV cars get the same fuel efficiency as conventional vehicles, then they are consuming the same amount of carbon and putting the same amount of CO2 into the atmosphere.
So how can they be less polluting than a lawn mower? The article must NOT be including CO2 as a pollutant (the same view the Bush administration took of the Clean Air Act). So these vehicles probably emit less sulfur and nitrogen compounds and particulates, but the same amount of CO2.
This may be a bit picky, but the work being done here is not computer engineering but rather computer science. Computer engineering generally refers to engineering techniques for building computers and computer systems (including parts of electrical engineering, materials science, algorithms, etc.) whereas computer science is the study of algorithms. This work is not designing computing systems but rather using algorithms to model the building blocks of biology.
Do the bosses at Cat know that csh is related to C in the same way that JavaScript is related to Java?