The best and the brightest will use the language and the environment that is best suited for the task. Nobody is going to write a device driver in VB and no one should waste time is going to writing some simple gui front in for an ODBC connection to an Acess DB in ANSI C.
This is interesting. The route you are describing is not neccessarily the one everyone takes. After obtaining my Ph.D. I started working at a government research laboratory with a starting salary of $41K and that was 1987. My pay quickly increased and was well-paid in the government. You don't have to be poor to pursue your academic passion. Post-doctoral fellowships pretty much equate to servitude which is fine if that is all you know. While in school I was perfectly happy being poor because I never had a real job before. You don't have to remain that way though. You are worth more than some would want you to know.
The argument was to get something useful you have to pay for it. Paying your ISP for internet access does not have anything to do with paying for a useful distribution or getting that distribution for free online. That argument would be like saying. There is free food at a festival downtown and arguing well it isn't really free because I have to pay for the gas in my car to drive down there.
Am I missing something in this thread or have folks been under a rock ? Perhaps all APIs aren't supported by these compilers but most are and in time they probably all will. I have tried JET and even though my benchmarking was only cursory I was seeing performance comparable with compiled c++.
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A little physics awnsers this. No ! If the surface is optically rough as resulting from these little microcraters then internal specular reflection will only occur for wavelengths smaller than the crater size. Diffraction will occur as you get to sizes on the order of the crater size and just plane old specular reflection from a rough surface will occur for wavelengths larger than the crater size. This is a simple explanation but it captures the idea of how this kind of thing works. If the material already has a fairly high intrinsic absorptivity then multiple internal reflection will cause the effective reflectivity to be extremely low. Longer wavelengths will have a tendancy to not even see the little craters and probably give a higher reflectivity. There are things that make the problem more complex. There are most likely a distribution of crater sizes that interact differently with the incident light and the intrinsic absorptivity of the material is most likely dispersive (dependent on the wavelength of the incident radiation).
There are many programmers (if not most) that have never had or been exposed to any formal instruction in topics such as data structures and algorithms or object-oriented design. That is the reason you see these comments that software development does not resemble other forms of engineering. Poor design of any engineered system won't resemble anything reflecting good engineering design practices wheather it is hardware or software. I think of the circuit analogy when developing software. My classes are my device families and instances are devices and my program wires them all up. I want something that functions elegantly that can be maintained and extended.
Depending on how established you are as a programmer you can always consider consulting. A good rep allows you to pick the projects that you want. If you are on the path to establishing yourself and you find that your projects are just not setting you on fire you will have to get your motivation out of a job well-done. You may have to build a portfolio outside of your job (like you have time to do that). Either way, the motivation is going to have to come from within.
The COBOL requirement could be just for nostalgia. It would be even better if the students had to walk a stack of freshly generated punch cards down to the card reader at the university computer center.
The last box I bought I considered the specifications carefully, found 3 to 4 similar machines at Frys and then went and bought the one with the best eye-candy running. I am a techie too. That 80 % is probably a low number.
yea, I always write down just the year on my big idea notes. Not the day or month, but I make sure the year figures prominently on the front page of my notes.
IANAL but, I don't have to be a business to buy anything in California and I don't have to register a fictitious business name in Sacramento Co. to sell anything either. You can sell your house, your car, your Michael Jackson albums all without registering with the state as a business.
master debater ? How about accomplished debater, excellent debater or even damn good debater but master debater now that a clever troll embedded in a.sig
Not to troll but I am going to anyway. I really long for the days when people took courses at universities in electrical, mechanical, chemical engineering, math, computer science and such. Just how useful will coursework in Anime be in say 10 years.
I guess I thought the same thing about rap music in the 80s and it is still around.
Actually no. A real geek is happy with the CLI which needs no new fonts. You have all you want at the command line and the look real nice. Any new fonts can only improve a apps running under X or some fancy KDE/Gnome GUI junk. Too much eye candy for a purist geek.
Your history as a reapeat offender has led some to label you as having an computer crime addiction that led you to your last sentence. How do you respond to such a characterization and do you feel that if an addiction was/is present that you will take measures to recover from it so to speak ?
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The argument was to get something useful you have to pay for it. Paying your ISP for internet access does not have anything to do with paying for a useful distribution or getting that distribution for free online. That argument would be like saying. There is free food at a festival downtown and arguing well it isn't really free because I have to pay for the gas in my car to drive down there.
I understand the point you are making though.
I guess I thought the same thing about rap music in the 80s and it is still around.
Now ! It's called J#.
People who think they know everything really piss off those of us who actually do.