Just to clarify for those of you who don't live in France, Free is a local utility with low cost plans. Cheap mobile (I pay about $25/month for unlimited calls within France, unlimited calls to 40 countries, unlimited texts, and 3GB/month at 4G speeds). Cheap at-home triple play.
I'm going to graduate in less than two months. I'm not narcissitic at all. I know I reflect on myself too much to be absorbed in myself. I'm completely perfect.
But in all honesty, I've seen a number of my colleagues who think they're hot shit, who really aren't. They talk about how they're going to be hot-shot devs for some up-and-coming game company, but I'm betting they're going to be working 65 hours a week and burnout in a few years.
Me? I've got a pretty good job lined up with good benefits. I'm not expecting to travel at all, or be given rewards for doing a good job. I do expect that if I consistently do a good job and do better than expected of me that I'll be rewarded in some way. I'd much rather have a less super-star job and a relatively stress-free 40-45 hour work week. What does everyone else here think of that?
I'm a senior CS student at Rice University who studied abroad the first semester of my sophomore year. The hoops you have to jump through to study abroad are worth it.
You probably don't really need to take technical courses every semester: there may be a light one with courses you can put off. I had to take a 3 week summer course and adjust my schedule a bit, but I made it to Florence, Italy for a semester. If you absolutely cannot go abroad for a full semester, do a summer program or go after you graduate (I knew a kid who graduated, then still went abroad for the experience).
Decide what school you want to go to based on whether you want to experience the culture or drink. A lot of the schools built for studying abroad have people who just go abroad to drink. I was at one of those schools although I would've liked more cultural things and less drinking. It's up to you.
I took no technical courses while abroad. I actually fulfilled a number of university requirements (arts and social sciences).
Make sure you clear all the courses you're going to take with your advisor: they should know you might be taking a semester off of CS. Make sure that you also get any classes you want to transfer approved beforehand. Get signatures.
(It may actually be cheaper to go abroad if you're currently going to a private school. If you have scholarships, some of them may pay for you to go abroad)
If you can't find some time to go, you don't want it bad enough. Feel free to contact me if you have any more specific questions.
Compliment of the day to you and your entire
family how are you today? Hope all is well with you I hope this email meets you in a perfect condition. I am using this opportunity to thank you inform you that I have come upon a large repository of AI source code left to me by my brother, Prince Abdullah of Nigeria.
It is my desire to transfer this source of of my home country to a place where it will be safe, and I wish your association in this business matter. I've been recommended to you by Mr. Smith of New York. I would like to transfer the source to your FTP server as an escrow service. In recompense, I will offer you 10% of the code, which is LoC 150,000,000.
To complete this transaction which will be beneficial to both of us, please contact my secretary with the following information:
YOUR FTP SERVER ADDRESS.
YOUR USERNAME.
YOUR PASS WORD.
The name and contact address of MY SECRETARY is as follows below.
MR.Brwon Adebayor
14 Island Street Lagos Nigeria
E-MAIL brwonadebayor@yahoo.com
TEL +2348083322221
In the moment, I am very busy here in Paraguay because of the investment projects which myself and my new partner are having at hand IN PARAGUAY.Finally, remember that I have forwarded instruction to my SECRETARY MR.Brwon Adebayor, his E-mail, (brwonadebayor@yahoo.com) to assist you on your behalf to send the source code to you as soon as you contact him.
Please I will like you to accept this grant offer with good faith as this is from the bottom of my heart. You should contact my secretary for the claim of you'r 10% which i willingly offer to you immediately you receive this mail, Presently I am in Paraguay.
pls make sure that you inform me as soon as you collect the bank draft so that we can share the joy together. Thanks and God bless you and your family.
Best Regards,
MR. RICHARD WANG
PRESENTLY IN PARAGUAY
Why the heck is this tagged censorship? There's a law against insulting signs. Would this still be tagged censorship if it were the Conservative Party instead of Scientology?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending Scientology. I'm just saying, be fair.
As a Houstonite, I'd like to point out that KPRC is a shill station in the eyes of many other Houstonites. They frequently blow up minor stories into giant exposés. This was more than likely a demo of some super high tect product that HPD probably won't buy for a while, and they just brought it in as a cool toy.
What happens when you get a poisoned DNS cache? When something.unsafe modifies your hosts file? When the TLD's DNS is hacked?
As long as you've got a human coming up with ideas to screw you over, you need a human to realize that someone is trying to screw you over.
One of the most important CPR facts is that it is only effective 5%-10% of the time! Many people who are trained in CPR and have actually had to perform it do not know this, and they suffer psychologically because they feel they performed it wrong and let/caused someone to die, when they probably did it right. Know this.
Why can't Dell just roll its own distro -- essentially do an Apple. Customize the OS to what their customers want (not what they think their customers want), but make it so that it's easy for power-users to toy around in. They'll know the ins and outs of it better than anyone else, so they can support it.
We have always been at war with Pthreads. We have never been at war with Windows threads.
The submitter is clearly nuts. Everyone knows that we have always been at war with Windows threads. Anyone who suggests we're at war with Pthreads is insane.
First off, isn't this a bit late? Most undergrad applications are due by Jan 1st, a rare few by Feb 1st. For this part of the year you should be smooth sailing -- most high school teachers will cut you more slack than any other student, so rest a bit. But, DO NOT take this to mean do no work. This means take a day or two off and go do something you like, if you can. If not, see if you can get involved in a senior project. At my "top rated public high school," seniors who had a majority of AP/IB classes could focus the last two months of their senior year (essentially after APs, IBs, etc) on any project that interested them. You wanna go for an EE? Do you have an interest in art? Try a mural somewhere at you school. If you've any experience in photography, see if you can do a portfolio on the last stretch -- senior year. A student typically had an advisor/sponsor on the project. That's something that can add to your resume for college: "Currently planning a project at my high school to blah blah blah."
What is an Ivy? From Wikipedia: "The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in the Northeastern United States." Yes, an athletic conference. So, MIT, CMU, and CalTech are not Ivys. So, if you're looking for an Ivy League school, how much research have you really done? Have you contacted professors at any of these schools. I know where I'm studying for my BSCS right now, email is the most common form of communication: you usually get a response within 6 hours. So, email some professors in the EE depts at the schools. Tell them you applied, say you'd like to ask them a few questions, and pick their brains.
Here's a hint: most "Ivys" have great graduate programs and average undergraduate programs. Find one that emphasizes its undergrad program. It's also not necessarily too late to go scramble to find a school (which may be the point of this thread)...Or study abroad for a year and apply next year. But in any case, pick something that has a good undergraduate program.
Oh, and one last thing: before you accept, visit every campus possible. Get a job now, and work your ass off to buy plane tickets if you have to. I wasn't even considering my current school until my mom convinced me to visit. It became my top choice, I applied, and two years later I can't stand the thought being anywhere else. Make sure there's a social life. You don't want to be stuck in your dorm or a study lounge on the 19th floor because not only do you not have time to do anything, but neither do your friends.
And now for some qualification: So, how did I learn this? I'm a 2nd year CS major at Rice University. I applied to Rice, CMU, Columbia, Brown, and American (in preferential order). I got into all but Columbia and Brown. I did a senior project, I even studied abroad last semester too and met a lot of people who were putting their first year of college off. I declined CMU because I felt that it was too restrictive (i.e. you can't move freely from one college to another), they were in some financial straits (but I'm not sure if they still are) compared to Rice, and in my opinion had a greater focus on grads instead of undergrads in CS. This may have all changed in the past two years, so make sure you check it all out again. I wasn't considering Rice until my mom (who never shut up about Texas schools) persuaded me to visit the Rice campus. I absolutely loved it. I met with a CS prof and spoke to him for half an hour or so. I met a dean of another department. Any questions? Just drop me an email.
I read the article yesterday. I almost submited it to/., but then I realized it has almost nothing to do with open source. The article primarily talks about the "wiki" style of intelligence the US gov't is trying to set up, instead of the "need-to-know" style. It talks about technical issues preventing that which could easily be solved among the/. crowd.
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Just to clarify for those of you who don't live in France, Free is a local utility with low cost plans. Cheap mobile (I pay about $25/month for unlimited calls within France, unlimited calls to 40 countries, unlimited texts, and 3GB/month at 4G speeds). Cheap at-home triple play.
I got Hulu so that I could cancel my cable subscription
A birdbath for ostriches and emus. Except, you need to leave it on the ground since they can't fly.
It's not fake. I work with them. They're demoing it at National Instruments week-long conference (NI Week) in Austin.
Sloppy editting? Maybe. Fake? Nope.
Did anyone else see the humor in this appearing twice in Google Reader?
I'm going to graduate in less than two months. I'm not narcissitic at all. I know I reflect on myself too much to be absorbed in myself. I'm completely perfect.
But in all honesty, I've seen a number of my colleagues who think they're hot shit, who really aren't. They talk about how they're going to be hot-shot devs for some up-and-coming game company, but I'm betting they're going to be working 65 hours a week and burnout in a few years.
Me? I've got a pretty good job lined up with good benefits. I'm not expecting to travel at all, or be given rewards for doing a good job. I do expect that if I consistently do a good job and do better than expected of me that I'll be rewarded in some way. I'd much rather have a less super-star job and a relatively stress-free 40-45 hour work week. What does everyone else here think of that?
P.S. I hope someone got the reflective joke...
Some older Palms have Wifi with decent browsers. I'm fairly sure they support Javascript. They'd be nice and cheap, but their battery life is limited.
I'm a senior CS student at Rice University who studied abroad the first semester of my sophomore year. The hoops you have to jump through to study abroad are worth it.
You probably don't really need to take technical courses every semester: there may be a light one with courses you can put off. I had to take a 3 week summer course and adjust my schedule a bit, but I made it to Florence, Italy for a semester. If you absolutely cannot go abroad for a full semester, do a summer program or go after you graduate (I knew a kid who graduated, then still went abroad for the experience).
Decide what school you want to go to based on whether you want to experience the culture or drink. A lot of the schools built for studying abroad have people who just go abroad to drink. I was at one of those schools although I would've liked more cultural things and less drinking. It's up to you.
I took no technical courses while abroad. I actually fulfilled a number of university requirements (arts and social sciences).
Make sure you clear all the courses you're going to take with your advisor: they should know you might be taking a semester off of CS. Make sure that you also get any classes you want to transfer approved beforehand. Get signatures.
(It may actually be cheaper to go abroad if you're currently going to a private school. If you have scholarships, some of them may pay for you to go abroad)
If you can't find some time to go, you don't want it bad enough. Feel free to contact me if you have any more specific questions.
Start cranking out Ackermann values.
Dear Friend,
Compliment of the day to you and your entire family how are you today? Hope all is well with you I hope this email meets you in a perfect condition. I am using this opportunity to thank you inform you that I have come upon a large repository of AI source code left to me by my brother, Prince Abdullah of Nigeria.
It is my desire to transfer this source of of my home country to a place where it will be safe, and I wish your association in this business matter. I've been recommended to you by Mr. Smith of New York. I would like to transfer the source to your FTP server as an escrow service. In recompense, I will offer you 10% of the code, which is LoC 150,000,000.
To complete this transaction which will be beneficial to both of us, please contact my secretary with the following information:
The name and contact address of MY SECRETARY is as follows below.
MR.Brwon Adebayor
14 Island Street Lagos Nigeria
E-MAIL brwonadebayor@yahoo.com
TEL +2348083322221
In the moment, I am very busy here in Paraguay because of the investment projects which myself and my new partner are having at hand IN PARAGUAY.Finally, remember that I have forwarded instruction to my SECRETARY MR.Brwon Adebayor, his E-mail, (brwonadebayor@yahoo.com) to assist you on your behalf to send the source code to you as soon as you contact him.
Please I will like you to accept this grant offer with good faith as this is from the bottom of my heart. You should contact my secretary for the claim of you'r 10% which i willingly offer to you immediately you receive this mail, Presently I am in Paraguay.
pls make sure that you inform me as soon as you collect the bank draft so that we can share the joy together. Thanks and God bless you and your family.
Best Regards,
MR. RICHARD WANG
PRESENTLY IN PARAGUAY
Why the heck is this tagged censorship? There's a law against insulting signs. Would this still be tagged censorship if it were the Conservative Party instead of Scientology?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending Scientology. I'm just saying, be fair.
As a Houstonite, I'd like to point out that KPRC is a shill station in the eyes of many other Houstonites. They frequently blow up minor stories into giant exposés. This was more than likely a demo of some super high tect product that HPD probably won't buy for a while, and they just brought it in as a cool toy.
I'm sorry, but this isn't true. While many plans are pre-paid, most aren't. Texting usually costs 0.15 or 0.20 each.
What happens when you get a poisoned DNS cache? When something .unsafe modifies your hosts file? When the TLD's DNS is hacked?
As long as you've got a human coming up with ideas to screw you over, you need a human to realize that someone is trying to screw you over.
One of the most important CPR facts is that it is only effective 5%-10% of the time! Many people who are trained in CPR and have actually had to perform it do not know this, and they suffer psychologically because they feel they performed it wrong and let/caused someone to die, when they probably did it right. Know this.
Why can't Dell just roll its own distro -- essentially do an Apple. Customize the OS to what their customers want (not what they think their customers want), but make it so that it's easy for power-users to toy around in. They'll know the ins and outs of it better than anyone else, so they can support it.
- Mike
Funny how a virus will still corrupt your data.
We have always been at war with Pthreads. We have never been at war with Windows threads.
The submitter is clearly nuts. Everyone knows that we have always been at war with Windows threads. Anyone who suggests we're at war with Pthreads is insane.
First off, isn't this a bit late? Most undergrad applications are due by Jan 1st, a rare few by Feb 1st. For this part of the year you should be smooth sailing -- most high school teachers will cut you more slack than any other student, so rest a bit. But, DO NOT take this to mean do no work. This means take a day or two off and go do something you like, if you can. If not, see if you can get involved in a senior project. At my "top rated public high school," seniors who had a majority of AP/IB classes could focus the last two months of their senior year (essentially after APs, IBs, etc) on any project that interested them. You wanna go for an EE? Do you have an interest in art? Try a mural somewhere at you school. If you've any experience in photography, see if you can do a portfolio on the last stretch -- senior year. A student typically had an advisor/sponsor on the project. That's something that can add to your resume for college: "Currently planning a project at my high school to blah blah blah."
What is an Ivy? From Wikipedia: "The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in the Northeastern United States." Yes, an athletic conference. So, MIT, CMU, and CalTech are not Ivys. So, if you're looking for an Ivy League school, how much research have you really done? Have you contacted professors at any of these schools. I know where I'm studying for my BSCS right now, email is the most common form of communication: you usually get a response within 6 hours. So, email some professors in the EE depts at the schools. Tell them you applied, say you'd like to ask them a few questions, and pick their brains.
Here's a hint: most "Ivys" have great graduate programs and average undergraduate programs. Find one that emphasizes its undergrad program. It's also not necessarily too late to go scramble to find a school (which may be the point of this thread)...Or study abroad for a year and apply next year. But in any case, pick something that has a good undergraduate program.
Oh, and one last thing: before you accept, visit every campus possible. Get a job now, and work your ass off to buy plane tickets if you have to. I wasn't even considering my current school until my mom convinced me to visit. It became my top choice, I applied, and two years later I can't stand the thought being anywhere else. Make sure there's a social life. You don't want to be stuck in your dorm or a study lounge on the 19th floor because not only do you not have time to do anything, but neither do your friends.
And now for some qualification: So, how did I learn this? I'm a 2nd year CS major at Rice University. I applied to Rice, CMU, Columbia, Brown, and American (in preferential order). I got into all but Columbia and Brown. I did a senior project, I even studied abroad last semester too and met a lot of people who were putting their first year of college off. I declined CMU because I felt that it was too restrictive (i.e. you can't move freely from one college to another), they were in some financial straits (but I'm not sure if they still are) compared to Rice, and in my opinion had a greater focus on grads instead of undergrads in CS. This may have all changed in the past two years, so make sure you check it all out again. I wasn't considering Rice until my mom (who never shut up about Texas schools) persuaded me to visit the Rice campus. I absolutely loved it. I met with a CS prof and spoke to him for half an hour or so. I met a dean of another department. Any questions? Just drop me an email.
They should look at ALIENTP. I proposed it (and eventually developed and tested it) 2 1/2 years ago. Vint Cerf is SO behind the times.
Siging is good for the deaf, but the blind have trouble using cell phone because they all react to input graphically instead of audibly.
People drop their CS major when they realize computer science is the science of computing, not the science of computers...
Duke Nukem Forever II.
I read the article yesterday. I almost submited it to /., but then I realized it has almost nothing to do with open source. The article primarily talks about the "wiki" style of intelligence the US gov't is trying to set up, instead of the "need-to-know" style. It talks about technical issues preventing that which could easily be solved among the /. crowd.
Did the satellite tell anyone it noticed anything? That's important too.