In my school of Computer Sciences, which is part of the Natural Sciences Dept, along with Math, there was not a computer language course. We studied algorithms, Grammars, and set theory and and in the 2nd year were thrown to the lions ( EE School ) to learn Logic Design. The language used for our assignments was secondary. It was our job to learn the bells and whistles of whatever language it was used in the given class and concentrate in the ACTUAL assignment (a scheduler, device driver, a data base). At some point, we even made us program a virtual Motorola processor. We were doing VMWare! It was done in C. The point was for us to understand the complex human-logic and machine-logic dichotomy. In the last year we had a class that pitched programming languages against each other (compare/contrast) and we dove into functional programming(Haskell). Now, the question is whether or not Java has a place in the classroom to teach computer science, well, you don't teach English composition by learning how to use Microsoft Word, right? Java is just a tool and it won't teach how to implement an algorithm/interface/state machine. That being said, I know contractors that are so good with their tools and they have been building houses for so many years, they can actually design and build a house from scratch. They though would be the first to admit they can't build a suspension bridge. For that you have to go to school.
When I was going through my computer science degree at U.T Texas in 1996 I used to visit the library at least once a week. The LBJ library, the Perry Castaneda library and the fancy shmanzy UT Law School library with it's cushy leather plush chairs and Lexis Nexis terminal. But I wasn't going to the library looking for information. If I needed to know something I did not have time to go through th dumbass Dewey numbering looking for some book that may or may not be there. I would get my info from the net. So what was I doing at the library then? I was reading books at random. I would pick up a floor at random, then an aisle, then a shelf, and voila! I had a book in my hands. It was fun! It could be a book about Texas law, or Rain Forest fauna or Anthropology studies of the Andes people. The fact that I did not need that information and that I could seat at leisure there to browse and read with no goal in mind was the best. And get a kick of this, when I was done, I did not have to return the book to the shelf. They had someone hired to go around and pick up the books to put them back on the shelf. What a job! But you know, I did returned the books back to the shelf because I never checked out a book and I want it to be right there if I I wanted to keep reading it. The LBJ library had books in Spanish so It was a great place to seat in solitude reading Neruda or Ortega Gasset. If I felt otherwise (looking for company) I would go to the Fine Arts Library which enjoyed a bit more equitable male/female ratio and I was able to strike a conversation with a young student holding a catalog of Chagall or Gustav Klimt (grrrr). Perhaps I should have stayed longer in the basement plugged to the IBM's learning my memory blocks and processes and I would have obtained a more decent GPA. But I digress, during my college years I could not afford going to some arcane library to find out the best search algorithm for some abstract data type, yet, all and all, now that I don't live in a college town and the best book in my town's High School library is Calvin and Hobbes, I really miss college libraries.
Not only that but It will be some sort of challenge to see who can pull the prank twice. Lashing against those who exploit obvious security holes is an incentive, not at a deterrent. An engineer would just simply shrug off and say: "mm I need to fix that". A sales person will cry foul, wet his/her pants and demand punishment for the prankster.
I'm a scientist of some sort (computer scientist, for what is worth). I can tell you right from the start that our scientific observations, as such, from the apple falling from the tree to the super-collider, do not reveal the whole truth, or a single true, or the ultimate truth. Our findings and observations as scientists reveal segments and clues of a larger, much much larger puzzle. Being a true scientist is a humbling experience where the truth is accepted as a piece meal that helps you understand only I tingy and dismal part of the universe and satisfy your curiosity for a infinitesimal period of time. As such, religion is the lighting rod that draws from us, humans, the best and worst of our collective trades. We kill and save in the name of it. A true scientist, doesn't search for the truth only in those things that can be measure and quantified. She/He also search for it in the very personal experience of being a human being, with the same patience, kindness and perseverance shown in the Lab or the observatory. And that experiment/journey may or may not be Religious. Either, way, is valid, and a worthy cause.
Religion, like Evolution, is trying to chew more than they can swallow. Overzealous scientists and religious people must hold hands and tell each other. "We don't know all the facts on the origin of life and mankind" And chat their faiths and scientific theories, together, over a cup of tea.
Our PC's are not ready to share CPU cycles with this little programs. We need an intelligent OS that understand our priorities and doesn't gives the OS equivalent to the finger: The hourglass.
The closed a few months ago. I took my i-mac (egg shape) for repair there and they actually ordered the part and repaired (for $300 Dlls! and 65 dollars up front just for diagnostics). The 2nd time around I took there my HP pavillion PIII laptop with a broken adapter jack and they turned me away ( it was a laptop ). I took the laptop to a momNpop shop in Bound Brook NJ and they guy actually opened the laptop, replace the jack piece with a soldering gun! He charged $240 and paid them gladly since I really thought that laptop was a goner. I arrived home to discover some keyboard keys won't work! He must have bent some cable somewhere while putting the thing back together. I just snapped a usb keyboard and considered the matter closed ( I just used that laptop to rip dvd's to divx ) I would never buy an HP laptop. The main reason I stayed away from CompuUSA to anything but repairs was their service people. Teenagers who could not tell the difference between ATA and SATA. Going to CompuUSA felt like going to Blockbuster, just crappy all over. We know that the cheapest home router you'll get them at best-buy or Fry anyway. A video card? Get one online.
If the email was about having an opinion of plastic over paper pepsi over coke she would not have been fired. Read Carl Sagan. Today's scientist get punished for been pro-active on their positions on global warming or, in this case, against creationism. I can see Microsoft punishing their product manager for publicly endorse the iPhone. But this is not a gadget, this is the a director of science being pro-active in the current threat to introduce dogma into our publicly funded education institutions. Her employer, is not private, hence, the controversy arises, who is UT representing??? Darwin?? Newton?? Dianetics?? Heavens's Gate?? Koresh??. Hoke'm Horns...Not!
This is the most compelling story In my view that marks the the schism between 2 generations. I will call it the web generation vs. the Gen-Xers. Being a generation X I wasn't even aware of the term "sock puppet". We just live in a different context. As far as the Drew Family. In a few hours the will have their own Wikipedia home to move in. http://hitsusa.com/blog/317/megan-meier-suicide/
I was taking my wallet out to pay 400 Dlls for a digital camera and the teenager suddenly pulled out a yellow sticker. I asked: What is that? He replied: Is for restocking. I looked at the print and warned that if the sticker was torn, there was a 25 dollar charge for returns.
Right there I realize what kind of customer Best Buy was taking me for. I just turned and walk away. Everybody should.
Is not like you are supporting Xorg or, god forbid, ext2 fs. It just ssh! I know it will take me a split second to install putty but, (chewbacca defense) COME ON!!!!!
Convert C9 hex to decimal and or it with E2. 5 seconds. What? Can you at least explain what does that mean? oookay, Describe a connectionless protocol, any protocol. Your are not into math and CS? You know, owning a blackberry and downloading videos doesn't make you "fluent" with IT technology. Sorry. Thanks for your time.
Customer: Hey, you sold me a used car as new! Sales: All cars are "used", this one only has 8K miles and passed a rigorous inspection, this car is new. Customer: No! NEW means "NEW" this car was sold already once, is not NEW! Sales: "You know, words do evolve in meaning over time. Trying to win an argument through etymological fallacy only proves your level of desperation."
I had a fanless PC once. It was the egg-shaped i-mac. I could hear my own breath while running i-tunes. Yet, I would cringe with exasperation at the sound of the hard 8Gig drive spinning-up and down..wrrrr! bzzzt wrrrrr! In regard of the fit-pc: What was so hard about putting a slot for an SD CARD? Sell the box without HD and add an option for an SD card loaded with your favorite distro. wrrrrrr!
Let me explain to you: Motherboard A: Out-of-the box -> A splash screen and a message saying: "No Boot Device Found" Motherboard B: Out-of-the box -> Browse the web for SPECS, pin-outs, etc or connect to your IS for support. Now you get it? It makes more functional. It is not replacing your OS.
Please keep it professional your crappy editing poisons rss aggregators. Most of us where mislead by the posting by the excerpt: "flying model". I guess anything that can be propelled by a rocket or a slingshot into the air is a "flying model" The headline should read "rocket shaped like an X-Wing" sheesh!
I'm disturbed by the fact the Verizon forced to put their own router, not a bridge, a router, inside my house to connect my pc's with. Does that mean they can see every packet going between 2 computers inside my house? I went ahead and plugged my own linksys NAT Firewall to their router but one system's VPN won't work across 2 routers so I had to connect it directly to their router. Does anyone know if Verizon can peek inside my house network traffic?
People got tired of having to pry the foot out of the boot each time you wanted to take the combat boots off. Good med training though, for the wars to come.
gcc ncurses development library version 4 (should work on newer version) glibc 2.1 and above A fast computer (because libmpeg3 is a high quality decoder) 8MB RAM
It looks scummy when you get the crown jewels (the kernel) slap a few patches and libs and then say that you can't afford to share your "work". On the other side, you will always look bold and sophisticated when you start revealing your own jewels.
The only time I would feel the pain would be Friday 4:00 PM, some system call to a Windows makes causes my module to crap-out. The build daemon sending emails to the whole chain and their dogs and my manager wishing me good luck on the his way to the door.
Would it be better with Linux?
Who knows.
But the the nagging may drive nails up your self esteem.
The article is plagued with incorrect semantics and definitions(CS Discipline). It's sad and troublesome to witness Slashdot plastering (posting?) this article. It talks against the editors and the site in general.
If you like Con scheduler apply the patch and STFU. The Desktop user experience is subjective. A scheduler design has little to with hour glasses and smooth scrolling. The scheduler is blind to weather you are handling a http request or pushing a msg into the sound driver.
Should it be?
Monolithic design anyone?
Poor product integration? oops! Linux is not a product. Kolivas nails the price the PC architecture has paid by de-coupling software and hardware. Hardware on steroids and the half ass software that goes with it.
But I deride those who whine about poor desktop experience and demand the OS community to do something about.
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In my school of Computer Sciences, which is part of the Natural Sciences Dept, along with Math, there was not a computer language course. We studied algorithms, Grammars, and set theory and and in the 2nd year were thrown to the lions ( EE School ) to learn Logic Design. The language used for our assignments was secondary. It was our job to learn the bells and whistles of whatever language it was used in the given class and concentrate in the ACTUAL assignment (a scheduler, device driver, a data base). At some point, we even made us program a virtual Motorola processor. We were doing VMWare! It was done in C. The point was for us to understand the complex human-logic and machine-logic dichotomy. In the last year we had a class that pitched programming languages against each other (compare/contrast) and we dove into functional programming(Haskell). Now, the question is whether or not Java has a place in the classroom to teach computer science, well, you don't teach English composition by learning how to use Microsoft Word, right? Java is just a tool and it won't teach how to implement an algorithm/interface/state machine. That being said, I know contractors that are so good with their tools and they have been building houses for so many years, they can actually design and build a house from scratch. They though would be the first to admit they can't build a suspension bridge. For that you have to go to school.
When I was going through my computer science degree at U.T Texas in 1996 I used to visit the library at least once a week. The LBJ library, the Perry Castaneda library and the fancy shmanzy UT Law School library with it's cushy leather plush chairs and Lexis Nexis terminal. But I wasn't going to the library looking for information. If I needed to know something I did not have time to go through th dumbass Dewey numbering looking for some book that may or may not be there. I would get my info from the net. So what was I doing at the library then? I was reading books at random. I would pick up a floor at random, then an aisle, then a shelf, and voila! I had a book in my hands. It was fun! It could be a book about Texas law, or Rain Forest fauna or Anthropology studies of the Andes people. The fact that I did not need that information and that I could seat at leisure there to browse and read with no goal in mind was the best. And get a kick of this, when I was done, I did not have to return the book to the shelf. They had someone hired to go around and pick up the books to put them back on the shelf. What a job! But you know, I did returned the books back to the shelf because I never checked out a book and I want it to be right there if I I wanted to keep reading it. The LBJ library had books in Spanish so It was a great place to seat in solitude reading Neruda or Ortega Gasset. If I felt otherwise (looking for company) I would go to the Fine Arts Library which enjoyed a bit more equitable male/female ratio and I was able to strike a conversation with a young student holding a catalog of Chagall or Gustav Klimt (grrrr). Perhaps I should have stayed longer in the basement plugged to the IBM's learning my memory blocks and processes and I would have obtained a more decent GPA. But I digress, during my college years I could not afford going to some arcane library to find out the best search algorithm for some abstract data type, yet, all and all, now that I don't live in a college town and the best book in my town's High School library is Calvin and Hobbes, I really miss college libraries.
Not only that but It will be some sort of challenge to see who can pull the prank twice. Lashing against those who exploit obvious security holes is an incentive, not at a deterrent. An engineer would just simply shrug off and say: "mm I need to fix that". A sales person will cry foul, wet his/her pants and demand punishment for the prankster.
I'm a scientist of some sort (computer scientist, for what is worth). I can tell you right from the start that our scientific observations, as such, from the apple falling from the tree to the super-collider, do not reveal the whole truth, or a single true, or the ultimate truth. Our findings and observations as scientists reveal segments and clues of a larger, much much larger puzzle. Being a true scientist is a humbling experience where the truth is accepted as a piece meal that helps you understand only I tingy and dismal part of the universe and satisfy your curiosity for a infinitesimal period of time. As such, religion is the lighting rod that draws from us, humans, the best and worst of our collective trades. We kill and save in the name of it. A true scientist, doesn't search for the truth only in those things that can be measure and quantified. She/He also search for it in the very personal experience of being a human being, with the same patience, kindness and perseverance shown in the Lab or the observatory. And that experiment/journey may or may not be Religious. Either, way, is valid, and a worthy cause.
Religion, like Evolution, is trying to chew more than they can swallow.
Overzealous scientists and religious people must hold hands and tell each other.
"We don't know all the facts on the origin of life and mankind"
And chat their faiths and scientific theories,
together,
over a cup of tea.
Our PC's are not ready to share CPU cycles with this little programs. We need an intelligent OS that understand our priorities and doesn't gives the OS equivalent to the finger: The hourglass.
The closed a few months ago. I took my i-mac (egg shape) for repair there and they actually ordered the part and repaired (for $300 Dlls! and 65 dollars up front just for diagnostics). The 2nd time around I took there my HP pavillion PIII laptop with a broken adapter jack and they turned me away ( it was a laptop ). I took the laptop to a momNpop shop in Bound Brook NJ and they guy actually opened the laptop, replace the jack piece with a soldering gun! He charged $240 and paid them gladly since I really thought that laptop was a goner. I arrived home to discover some keyboard keys won't work! He must have bent some cable somewhere while putting the thing back together. I just snapped a usb keyboard and considered the matter closed ( I just used that laptop to rip dvd's to divx ) I would never buy an HP laptop. The main reason I stayed away from CompuUSA to anything but repairs was their service people. Teenagers who could not tell the difference between ATA and SATA. Going to CompuUSA felt like going to Blockbuster, just crappy all over. We know that the cheapest home router you'll get them at best-buy or Fry anyway. A video card? Get one online.
If the email was about having an opinion of plastic over paper pepsi over coke she would not have been fired. Read Carl Sagan. Today's scientist get punished for been pro-active on their positions on global warming or, in this case, against creationism. I can see Microsoft punishing their product manager for publicly endorse the iPhone. But this is not a gadget, this is the a director of science being pro-active in the current threat to introduce dogma into our publicly funded education institutions. Her employer, is not private, hence, the controversy arises, who is UT representing??? Darwin?? Newton?? Dianetics?? Heavens's Gate?? Koresh??.
Hoke'm Horns...Not!
This is the most compelling story In my view that marks the the schism between 2 generations. I will call it the web generation vs. the Gen-Xers. Being a generation X I wasn't even aware of the term "sock puppet". We just live in a different context. As far as the Drew Family. In a few hours the will have their own Wikipedia home to move in.
http://hitsusa.com/blog/317/megan-meier-suicide/
I was taking my wallet out to pay 400 Dlls for a digital camera and the teenager suddenly pulled out a yellow sticker. I asked: What is that? He replied: Is for restocking. I looked at the print and warned that if the sticker was torn, there was a 25 dollar charge for returns. Right there I realize what kind of customer Best Buy was taking me for. I just turned and walk away. Everybody should.
Is not like you are supporting Xorg or, god forbid, ext2 fs. It just ssh! I know it will take me a split second to install putty but, (chewbacca defense) COME ON!!!!!
Convert C9 hex to decimal and or it with E2. 5 seconds. What?
Can you at least explain what does that mean?
oookay,
Describe a connectionless protocol, any protocol.
Your are not into math and CS?
You know, owning a blackberry and downloading videos doesn't
make you "fluent" with IT technology.
Sorry. Thanks for your time.
Customer: Hey, you sold me a used car as new!
Sales: All cars are "used", this one only has 8K miles and passed a rigorous inspection, this car is new.
Customer: No! NEW means "NEW" this car was sold already once, is not NEW!
Sales: "You know, words do evolve in meaning over time. Trying to win an argument through etymological fallacy only proves your level of desperation."
I had a fanless PC once. It was the egg-shaped i-mac.
I could hear my own breath while running i-tunes.
Yet, I would cringe with exasperation at the sound of the
hard 8Gig drive spinning-up and down..wrrrr! bzzzt wrrrrr!
In regard of the fit-pc:
What was so hard about putting a slot for an SD CARD?
Sell the box without HD and add an option for an SD card
loaded with your favorite distro.
wrrrrrr!
Let me explain to you:
Motherboard A: Out-of-the box -> A splash screen and a message saying: "No Boot Device Found"
Motherboard B: Out-of-the box -> Browse the web for SPECS, pin-outs, etc or connect to your IS for support.
Now you get it? It makes more functional. It is not replacing your OS.
Please keep it professional your crappy editing poisons rss aggregators.
Most of us where mislead by the posting by the excerpt: "flying model".
I guess anything that can be propelled by a rocket or a slingshot into the air is
a "flying model"
The headline should read "rocket shaped like an X-Wing"
sheesh!
NTT Docomo stole the mobile ninjutsu moves from the Konoha Village. Superior infrastructure leads to superior economy. Dattebayo!
here is a picture for you
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I'm disturbed by the fact the Verizon forced to put their own router, not a bridge, a router, inside my house to connect my pc's with. Does that mean they can see every packet going between 2 computers inside my house? I went ahead and plugged my own linksys NAT Firewall to their router but one system's VPN won't work across 2 routers so I had to connect it directly to their router. Does anyone know if Verizon can peek inside my house network traffic?
People got tired of having to pry the foot out of the boot each time you wanted to take the combat boots off. Good med training though, for the wars to come.
Requirement for compiling:
gcc
ncurses development library version 4 (should work on newer version)
glibc 2.1 and above
A fast computer (because libmpeg3 is a high quality decoder)
8MB RAM
http://lienmp3.sourceforge.net/
The best non-bloat app ever!
It looks scummy when you get the crown jewels (the kernel) slap a few patches and libs and then say that you can't afford to share your "work".
On the other side, you will always look bold and sophisticated when you start revealing your own jewels.
The only time I would feel the pain would be Friday 4:00 PM, some system call to a Windows makes causes my module to crap-out. The build daemon sending emails to the whole chain and their dogs and my manager wishing me good luck on the his way to the door.
Would it be better with Linux?
Who knows.
But the the nagging may drive nails up your self esteem.
The article is plagued with incorrect semantics and definitions(CS Discipline).
It's sad and troublesome to witness Slashdot plastering (posting?) this article.
It talks against the editors and the site in general.
If you like Con scheduler apply the patch and STFU. The Desktop user experience is subjective. A scheduler design has little to with hour glasses and smooth scrolling. The scheduler is blind to weather you are handling a http request or pushing a msg into the sound driver.
Should it be?
Monolithic design anyone?
Poor product integration? oops! Linux is not a product. Kolivas nails the price the PC architecture
has paid by de-coupling software and hardware. Hardware on steroids and the half ass software that goes with it.
But I deride those who whine about poor desktop experience and demand the OS community to do something about.
In Spanish we have a phrase for it:
"Quieren mamar y dar topes"