my argument lacking? really? I had a course just like this in college. it was "sold" as Revolutionary and Republican America, 1770-1815. Spent most of the time dealing the various oppressed groups, very little about, what do they call it, actual history. it's funny, all you can say is "right wind hate". guess the truth hurts. eh?
Edward Siad, CAIR, the entire middle east studies dept. I have a close family friend who attends CU right now. the admin has turned a blind eye to ragin anti-semitism. but hey, if you were in CS, it probably was fine.
if yo look at colleges liek Columbia (rampant anti-semitism), Colorado (Ward Churchill), Haravrd ($50 million diversity crap), the all too obvious grade inflation, and the entire curriculum hijacked by the far left (everything is -studies now), the simple truth is that a college education isn't what it used to be. in fact, parents are spending 10's of thousand to have their children indoctrinated not educated. businesses are on to the game.
take for example history. a revolutionary american course is turned into women, indians, and the environment during the 1770's. war, yeah, but it was betweeen rapacious, sexist, hegemonic white males. the only losers were the aforementioned groups.
in a faculty meeting this past year, my principal showed us the resutls of a survey from businesses. the things they wanted most in high school (and college) grads are: reading, writing, self motivation, reliability, etc. college grads are spoiled little bitches. they expect a high paying, little effort job. they don't want to work, they don't want to pay their dues. you sysadmins who cut your teeth for years before you got you're first real job probably see tons of CS shit for brains come by and think they konw it all 'cause they have a fancy piece of paper.
I wouldn't say "it will never be as fast as a well designed and coded C++ application."
well designed and coded versus language are two entirely different concepts. any well written program will run better than a poorly written one. period. we tend to think of java as slow, but it's the gui (swing) that's slow. as for java itself, comparing two comparable algorithms, there is little difference. now, why would i choose java per se over c++. here's an example: in my AP Comp Sci class, we created a swing, multi-threaded client/server chat program. 3 classes, total LOC 200. no it wasn't "perfect", but it worked rather well. try that in c++, any toolkit. had all 25 kids in the class in concurrent chat session, while running the server on a win98, P2 w/64MB ram. that is just one example. we did many others. but where java loses X% performance, it makes up for in speed of development and security. as for binaries, one, processor speed is making a JVM a moot point, plus, gcj4.0 does a fairly nice job of creating native java binaries so i've read.
if microsoft is advertising pro and home as two distinct products, when in fact they are not, isn't this false advertising? it's like buying a ford with a V6 and finding that it's really a V8, just two cylinders turned off, and only a ford supplied wrench can open #7 and 8. forgetting linux for a moment, when apple sells Xserve 10 client, it's only 10 apple share clients. there's unlimited samba, ftp, etc., and they're not selling a "pro" version of os x. my guess is that if these features are already built into the OS, then a lawsuit is waiting to happen. i'm sure millions of users would like the features turned on since they're already there.
if I read this correctly, we shouldn't let a minority opinion dictate terms. fine. so when a majority of senators want to vote, 40 shouldn't let them dictate. okay. i'm with that.
dude, apparently I should have added the tag. you missed the point totally. I think it is comical that a group of people who ostensibly would vote into gov't politicians that basically promote socialism would be concerned about profits. hell, i'm all for capitalism. I'm a teacher, I think we should privatize schools as well. the socialist model they use know isn't working too well. but that isn't going to happen anytime in the near future, what with the federal takeover (NCLB) and all. i just noted the irony, that's all.
a trendy coffee and art cafe worried about their profits. what's the world coming to? pissed about people getting something for free on the dime of someone else? damn. i thought they were the socially conscious type. guess they're evil capitalists too. life's over.
ain't gonna happen. the minute apple becomes another PC they die. and besides, the processor is not the most important part of the computer anymore. anyone want to tell me the actual difference between a 2 and 3 Ghz pentium for most people. no, apple knows it is the whole experience, not just price. x86 will cuase so a headache so large they'll rue the day they ever do something stupid like that. and besides, who listens to dvorak?
while it seems stupid, we really should repeal old and archaic laws. our present situation, simply ignoring them, makes a mockery of the law. thus, we can simply say "it's a bad law, just like _________, and we shouldn't follow it..." versus actually repealing the bad law. a society of laws must follow the law, and more importantly, we must enforce the laws. taken to an extreme, what we're doing is anarchy.
I would gather though that there are small form factor PC's that will do that nicely as well. not that a mini couldn't, but don't you need two NIC's? where's the other one going, unless hopefully one day the airport extreme drivers become available. i think the mini is one of apple's greatest ideas. i have been using linux since 1998. seriously. just because i happen to love both doesn't mean they're peanut butter and jelly. besides, os x has easy interent sharing, remote access, and wireless support.
when I own a sub, i'll run linux on my mac. until then, i'll just run linux on x86 and os x on ppc. now, that being said, i would run linux on an older mac if i had one laying around. i did install ydl 3.01 on my dad's old 350mhz imac. it has in thin 512mb ram, and yes, linux ran much faster than os x, howeevr, it's my kids computer and lots of eduactional games don't run on linux. so os x it is. however, on newer hardware, especially since you can't get airport extreme to work, there's little(not no, just little) reason to run linux over os x.
I never said I hated math. In fact, I actually loved it when I had a use for it: economics. ( I actually have as many math units as my wife who teaches math. including 3 semesters of calc, linear algebra, finite math, and stats and probability. of course that was 15 years ago. math is not like riding a bike!!) The moment I "discovered" that the point of diminishing returns, i.e the inflection point, was also the second derivative=0 of the marginal revenue curve (I think I got that right!!) suddenly microecon was easy. The ancient Greeks valued geometry and astronomy as keys toi understanding the universe. Math is vital, but the incessant "everyone takes algebra" is counter-productive. I don't see how we're different. I completely agree that we don't think anymore. I fear the diminished role of the humanities has been a terrible decision.
teaching. it allows you to teach a whole other subject, which helps when you want a job. for example, i don't have a minor in math, but accumulated liek 24 units of math via math and econ (stats and enometrics cross linked to math classes) in college (almost 20 years ago, so don't ask me any tough quesitons!!) and it helped me get my first job teaching. well, actually the first job offer. well, actually, the first job someone wanted me for. my degree is econ, and i teach history, however, histroy jobs are few and far between. (so i applied for a math job, gotta pay back those student loans. anywyas, i applied for a math job, and the AP wanted to hire me, but since she didn't know what i'd be teaching, told me i was first on the list. so, i apply for a histroy job and get offered the next day. I accedt, and two days later the math job calls, but i laready accepted...)
On an unrelated note, it's a little sad that college has become nothing but vocational training.
the state of education has deteriorated to a terrible degree. we should be focusing on humanities, history, philosophy, etc. sure math and science are important, but they should never supplant reading and writing. and they do. we have all sold the idea that educaiton==money but in reality training+skills == money. education==citizen. and somewhere we've forgotten that.
that's a good point. there's few movies where we know not only the outcome per se, but the results of the next few movies. unless you count friday the 13th part 94, in which jason goes on a killing spree and appears to be dead at the end, but just when you think he's dead, his hand moves, a loud sound follows, then a black screen. maybe i just had too high of expectations when i saw parts 1 and 2.
perhaps this isn't the forum for dissing star wars, but can we be honest for a moment. the first movie, circa 1977 was one the greatest films of all time. a true masterpiece. the later two were really good as well. now, the prequels, or whatever they're called, are all about comptuer wizardry and natalie portman's tits. okay, i don't mind that, but the stories kinda blow. the acting is lame, and without the effects, what have you got? nah, i'll take the first three, of course i'm old enough to have seen the original in a theatre when it originally came out.
holy crap. email addresses are strings. strings are objects in java. fill an arraylist or vector with strings. serialize it. bingo. object data. associate it with a particular action, open the application, and go. if that works, then here's my patent idea:
since this is just a combination of already established comptuer science methodolgies (object serialization, etc.) I propose the following:
user goes to mexican restaurant
user eats spicy burrito
user consumes spciy sauce
user drinks strong coffee afterwards
user takes huge shit
clearly the user serialized his data (i.e. the burrito), put it into a container (his stomach), then treated his data as an object by running it through drinking application (coffee) then running through another application (colon) and receiving final confirmation. toilet bowl full of shit.
My guess is that he's not going on a world tour soon. I'd figure if Lars Ulrich was a senator or something, fine. I just think it's rather strange that he's fighting for an industry that helps him not at all, and certainly, pn any other issue, is his enemy. He's basically fighting to protect an indutry that promotes everything he's opposed to. I don't understand it. And it can't be a principal thing. There's gotta be more than he's a hobbyist musician. Maybe that's it. He fights for them, they give him a record deal.
orin hatch, very conseravtive senator fronting for an industry which in no way helps his state, which is overwhelmingly liberal. yeah, money talks, but why hatch? sure he's on the judiciary committee, but doesn't this really fit into trade and commerce, or maybe communications. he's on neither committee. isn't there some irony here.
How will businesses respond to this squabble over what to them will appear to be two kids pissing. If we want F/OSS to gain market share, credibiltiy, and even parity, we need to put such idoelogically pure trivialities aside. I understand the need for "free" software, but if you are a firm contemplating OO.org, and you see this, what are you going to think? They will not migrate if they think they're dealing with a bunch of children.
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my argument lacking? really? I had a course just like this in college. it was "sold" as Revolutionary and Republican America, 1770-1815. Spent most of the time dealing the various oppressed groups, very little about, what do they call it, actual history. it's funny, all you can say is "right wind hate". guess the truth hurts. eh?
Edward Siad, CAIR, the entire middle east studies dept. I have a close family friend who attends CU right now. the admin has turned a blind eye to ragin anti-semitism. but hey, if you were in CS, it probably was fine.
if yo look at colleges liek Columbia (rampant anti-semitism), Colorado (Ward Churchill), Haravrd ($50 million diversity crap), the all too obvious grade inflation, and the entire curriculum hijacked by the far left (everything is -studies now), the simple truth is that a college education isn't what it used to be. in fact, parents are spending 10's of thousand to have their children indoctrinated not educated. businesses are on to the game.
take for example history. a revolutionary american course is turned into women, indians, and the environment during the 1770's. war, yeah, but it was betweeen rapacious, sexist, hegemonic white males. the only losers were the aforementioned groups.
in a faculty meeting this past year, my principal showed us the resutls of a survey from businesses. the things they wanted most in high school (and college) grads are: reading, writing, self motivation, reliability, etc. college grads are spoiled little bitches. they expect a high paying, little effort job. they don't want to work, they don't want to pay their dues. you sysadmins who cut your teeth for years before you got you're first real job probably see tons of CS shit for brains come by and think they konw it all 'cause they have a fancy piece of paper.
I wouldn't say "it will never be as fast as a well designed and coded C++ application."
well designed and coded versus language are two entirely different concepts. any well written program will run better than a poorly written one. period. we tend to think of java as slow, but it's the gui (swing) that's slow. as for java itself, comparing two comparable algorithms, there is little difference. now, why would i choose java per se over c++. here's an example: in my AP Comp Sci class, we created a swing, multi-threaded client/server chat program. 3 classes, total LOC 200. no it wasn't "perfect", but it worked rather well. try that in c++, any toolkit. had all 25 kids in the class in concurrent chat session, while running the server on a win98, P2 w/64MB ram. that is just one example. we did many others. but where java loses X% performance, it makes up for in speed of development and security. as for binaries, one, processor speed is making a JVM a moot point, plus, gcj4.0 does a fairly nice job of creating native java binaries so i've read.
if microsoft is advertising pro and home as two distinct products, when in fact they are not, isn't this false advertising? it's like buying a ford with a V6 and finding that it's really a V8, just two cylinders turned off, and only a ford supplied wrench can open #7 and 8. forgetting linux for a moment, when apple sells Xserve 10 client, it's only 10 apple share clients. there's unlimited samba, ftp, etc., and they're not selling a "pro" version of os x. my guess is that if these features are already built into the OS, then a lawsuit is waiting to happen. i'm sure millions of users would like the features turned on since they're already there.
if I read this correctly, we shouldn't let a minority opinion dictate terms. fine. so when a majority of senators want to vote, 40 shouldn't let them dictate. okay. i'm with that.
dude, apparently I should have added the tag. you missed the point totally. I think it is comical that a group of people who ostensibly would vote into gov't politicians that basically promote socialism would be concerned about profits. hell, i'm all for capitalism. I'm a teacher, I think we should privatize schools as well. the socialist model they use know isn't working too well. but that isn't going to happen anytime in the near future, what with the federal takeover (NCLB) and all. i just noted the irony, that's all.
a trendy coffee and art cafe worried about their profits. what's the world coming to? pissed about people getting something for free on the dime of someone else? damn. i thought they were the socially conscious type. guess they're evil capitalists too. life's over.
are your sitemeter hits and your TTLB ecosystem status. i'm currently a marauding marsupial.
my passion is screwing up people's computers with viruses, spyware, and trojans. You're software has helped me immensely.
thanks.
ain't gonna happen. the minute apple becomes another PC they die. and besides, the processor is not the most important part of the computer anymore. anyone want to tell me the actual difference between a 2 and 3 Ghz pentium for most people. no, apple knows it is the whole experience, not just price. x86 will cuase so a headache so large they'll rue the day they ever do something stupid like that. and besides, who listens to dvorak?
while it seems stupid, we really should repeal old and archaic laws. our present situation, simply ignoring them, makes a mockery of the law. thus, we can simply say "it's a bad law, just like _________, and we shouldn't follow it..." versus actually repealing the bad law. a society of laws must follow the law, and more importantly, we must enforce the laws. taken to an extreme, what we're doing is anarchy.
I would gather though that there are small form factor PC's that will do that nicely as well. not that a mini couldn't, but don't you need two NIC's? where's the other one going, unless hopefully one day the airport extreme drivers become available. i think the mini is one of apple's greatest ideas. i have been using linux since 1998. seriously. just because i happen to love both doesn't mean they're peanut butter and jelly. besides, os x has easy interent sharing, remote access, and wireless support.
when I own a sub, i'll run linux on my mac. until then, i'll just run linux on x86 and os x on ppc. now, that being said, i would run linux on an older mac if i had one laying around. i did install ydl 3.01 on my dad's old 350mhz imac. it has in thin 512mb ram, and yes, linux ran much faster than os x, howeevr, it's my kids computer and lots of eduactional games don't run on linux. so os x it is. however, on newer hardware, especially since you can't get airport extreme to work, there's little(not no, just little) reason to run linux over os x.
I never said I hated math. In fact, I actually loved it when I had a use for it: economics. ( I actually have as many math units as my wife who teaches math. including 3 semesters of calc, linear algebra, finite math, and stats and probability. of course that was 15 years ago. math is not like riding a bike!!) The moment I "discovered" that the point of diminishing returns, i.e the inflection point, was also the second derivative=0 of the marginal revenue curve (I think I got that right!!) suddenly microecon was easy. The ancient Greeks valued geometry and astronomy as keys toi understanding the universe. Math is vital, but the incessant "everyone takes algebra" is counter-productive. I don't see how we're different. I completely agree that we don't think anymore. I fear the diminished role of the humanities has been a terrible decision.
How much does any minor matter?
teaching. it allows you to teach a whole other subject, which helps when you want a job. for example, i don't have a minor in math, but accumulated liek 24 units of math via math and econ (stats and enometrics cross linked to math classes) in college (almost 20 years ago, so don't ask me any tough quesitons!!) and it helped me get my first job teaching. well, actually the first job offer. well, actually, the first job someone wanted me for. my degree is econ, and i teach history, however, histroy jobs are few and far between. (so i applied for a math job, gotta pay back those student loans. anywyas, i applied for a math job, and the AP wanted to hire me, but since she didn't know what i'd be teaching, told me i was first on the list. so, i apply for a histroy job and get offered the next day. I accedt, and two days later the math job calls, but i laready accepted...)
On an unrelated note, it's a little sad that college has become nothing but vocational training.
the state of education has deteriorated to a terrible degree. we should be focusing on humanities, history, philosophy, etc. sure math and science are important, but they should never supplant reading and writing. and they do. we have all sold the idea that educaiton==money but in reality training+skills == money. education==citizen. and somewhere we've forgotten that.
that's a good point. there's few movies where we know not only the outcome per se, but the results of the next few movies. unless you count friday the 13th part 94, in which jason goes on a killing spree and appears to be dead at the end, but just when you think he's dead, his hand moves, a loud sound follows, then a black screen. maybe i just had too high of expectations when i saw parts 1 and 2.
perhaps this isn't the forum for dissing star wars, but can we be honest for a moment. the first movie, circa 1977 was one the greatest films of all time. a true masterpiece. the later two were really good as well. now, the prequels, or whatever they're called, are all about comptuer wizardry and natalie portman's tits. okay, i don't mind that, but the stories kinda blow. the acting is lame, and without the effects, what have you got? nah, i'll take the first three, of course i'm old enough to have seen the original in a theatre when it originally came out.
i totally agree. as I've described to my classes, we don't have two political parties. it's not black and white. it's two shades of gray.
since this is just a combination of already established comptuer science methodolgies (object serialization, etc.) I propose the following:
- user goes to mexican restaurant
- user eats spicy burrito
- user consumes spciy sauce
- user drinks strong coffee afterwards
- user takes huge shit
clearly the user serialized his data (i.e. the burrito), put it into a container (his stomach), then treated his data as an object by running it through drinking application (coffee) then running through another application (colon) and receiving final confirmation. toilet bowl full of shit.so, who's with me?
who are the bloggers gonna make fun of now? i mean, we all have a blast fisking them on a weekly basis. oh well, we still have howard dean.
My guess is that he's not going on a world tour soon. I'd figure if Lars Ulrich was a senator or something, fine. I just think it's rather strange that he's fighting for an industry that helps him not at all, and certainly, pn any other issue, is his enemy. He's basically fighting to protect an indutry that promotes everything he's opposed to. I don't understand it. And it can't be a principal thing. There's gotta be more than he's a hobbyist musician. Maybe that's it. He fights for them, they give him a record deal.
orin hatch, very conseravtive senator fronting for an industry which in no way helps his state, which is overwhelmingly liberal. yeah, money talks, but why hatch? sure he's on the judiciary committee, but doesn't this really fit into trade and commerce, or maybe communications. he's on neither committee. isn't there some irony here.
How will businesses respond to this squabble over what to them will appear to be two kids pissing. If we want F/OSS to gain market share, credibiltiy, and even parity, we need to put such idoelogically pure trivialities aside. I understand the need for "free" software, but if you are a firm contemplating OO.org, and you see this, what are you going to think? They will not migrate if they think they're dealing with a bunch of children.
who's pitching and who's catching.