Considering the mention of speed tests in the OP, I assume the OP knows of the site, but for those who don't, you can find out who is providing higher quality service in your area at DSLReports. No one offers exactly what they claim their bandwidth is, but with enough looking around, you can find out who comes damn close.
Well, I'm not going to argue against VB and I wouldn't have you do that either, but depending on what type of program it is, you might point out VB's weakness on lack of portability. You might think I'm about to jump on the Java bandwagon here, but I'm not. Assuming your superior knows C/C++ you might encourage him to check out wx-Devcpp. It as an interface simular to VisualBasic (and C# for that matter)but gives you the ability to take the code and move it to Linux and other OSes that use the GCC compiler.
I do work for one of the nation's (U.S.) largest insurance companies (read: paying money) and the major reason why they won't touch open source is liability. They want the ability to point to a vendor or software maker and say, "Their fault!" if something goes drastically wrong.
...to ammend this, Battle for Middle-earth is good because we both find ourselves saying, "Hey, can you send a little help my way?" It's a game where cooperation and communication can really play a big part in the end result.
My girlfriend and I play 'Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth' (and soon Middle-earth 2) and World of Warcraft together. She's DEFINATLY better than me at WoW and she picked up Middle-earth without trouble.
Northern Michigan University has been requiring laptops since 2000 and there are other universities that have required them before that.
I'll admit that the laptops at NMU are leased and students must lease a laptop as opposed to having their own, but the way in which the OP is written, it is misleading.
As already pointed out, P2P and I also have my computers (that's right, both of them) gene/protien folding while at work and sleep.
...not to mention that linux box does many things while I'm at work including, but limited to, backing up and compressing all my data, sending a "Message of the Day" (MOTheD... think `fortune`) to myself and co-workers over the lunch break and hosting a webpage for those who prefer not to get MOTheD by email.
I'm guessing that you're going to hear a lot of people saying VisualBasic. Personally, hate VB. You might take a look at wxWidgets. I've only toyed with it myself, like what I've seen. There is also wxDevCPP which gives you a VB style GUI.
...ok. Let's say some future administration thinks that Bush is a dink (which he likely is) and decides to turn over any decisions Bush already has or will make regarding the waste produced by nuclear power plants. We do have the technology to make such waste safe.
So with all the technology advancements that we've made since the 80s, I'm failing to see any kind of significant down side.
Let's see them get imports and exports without oil... MAYBE by 2020, but I think they'll use enough oil in the transition to no oil to make up for themselves. Then there is the question of if their oil useage on imports (external oil useage) goes up to maintain their internal no-oil status.
I'll second this and add, "...beware the preverbial 'THAT' professor." The one that will push back all your due dates and give you (quite literally) impossible assignments until nothing is due or everyone is failing respectivly and as a result, you pass for just showing up everyday.
I learned OOD the old fashoned way: C++. When I took the job I'm currently at they had me go through some mock developer training in which they put me in a position of a team lead. I can tell you right now that the best OOP programmers I had in my team had studied C++ first. Why? Pointers. C++ FORCES you to get all the astrisks and ampersands in the right place. Java certinly dosn't make you do that at ALL (note to nitpickers: Yes. 'References' not 'Pointers' *blinks* I don't care. Close enough.) and from what I remember of the little bit of C# I had, C# dosn't make you do that either.
I would suggest that you learn as MUCH C++ as you can over the holiday break. Bruce Eckel has an EXCELLENT excellent excellent book called "Thinking in C++" (he also has one called "Thinking in Java" that is very much the same, so if you take the Java course, DEFINATLY get that book).
Uh. Unless I've missed somthing, wouldn't this make using non-jumpless swtiches in A LOT of devices, illegal?
Here's hoping I don't have to turn on any computers with an AT power supply!
How about a new survey question of "How many keys does your keyboard have that you have NEVER used?
I just glanced down at my keyboard and MY anwser to this is zero. Between my hatred of reaching for the mouse, my video games and my programming I use EVERY key on the keyboard.
My least used key? That would be F8 (which is too bad because it is one of the easy ones to find). Yes, I really use my scroll lock that often (for the winamp plugin MilkDrop and I've modded that keyboard light into a LED snake light).
I'm sure this has been pointed out elsewhere (or at least I hope it has), but it seems to me that the A B C D... keyboard layout shown would have users mostly using their left, and likely slower, hand.
I, just yesterday, ordered an iAudio X5 (no 'L'). The LOWEST review rating I could find ANYWHERE was 3 1/2 out of 5. Typical rating was 4 1/4 out of 5 with a median of EASILY 4 1/2 out of 5. Just from a random perusal of ratings (and my own personal opinion based on features alone) for the devices given in the list I'd say the X5 makes a better iPod Killer than anything suggested.
Reasons why I bought the X5:
- Hard Drive based (flash memory becomes corrupt and unusable MUCH faster than hard drives)
- Supports OGG
- FM Tuner
- Ability to schedule FM recording
'Bonus' features of the X5
- (and this one is huge) The ability to plug, via USB, the X5 DIRECTLY into my Digital camera (Canon A95) and copy all the pictures off. Excuse me, I need a towel.
- Supports FLAC (I'll be curious to see if it supports OGG+FLAC)
- Plays most DivX, XviD and other MPEG4 formats. Only gets 15fps (considered the minimum for animation), but can we say, "keeping my sanity at the Laundromat"?
- Alarm clock. Yea. I know me. I'll need this.
I talked to a co-worker earlier, who makes the same as myself, and there is something very sketchy going on because we're both at the 'Programmer' level (although that hardly describes what I'm doing) and word of mouth is that someone with a 4 year degree should be at the "Senior Programmer" level.
Time to get in touch with the Career Coach...
The person that who was in charge of my pay rate when I signed on was not the person who hired me and, right now, I suspect a communication failure.
I was never asked how much I felt I should be paid. It was pretty much a "take it or leave it" situation and after seven months of job hunting I wasn't ready to turn anything down.
You scare me very much. I certainly hope I'm not. I can be very matter-of-fact somtimes and I know that I've come across the wrong way more than once...
I'm somewhat locked in for a full year of work. However, I'm just about to hit the 6mo. mark and I plan on revamping my résumé somtime mid October so I can start Job hunting again sometime in early November.
Jumping jobs actually sounds like a great idea. It sounds like a good way to try out a lot of different things and get a better fix on what I would enjoy doing.
I have a 4yr. degree in Computer Sci. and I've found, for my age bracket and VERY much to my surprise, that I'm more knowledgeable than the majority of people employed with my company.
I'm posting a bit late, so this will likely be lost in the mess of people taking the opportunity to be funny and being generally unhelpful, but I was experiancing simular trouble with my parents. Albeit that was more annoying than aggrivating.
My solution was to teach them how to fend for themselves. I showed them Wikipedia for terminology they didn't know and also instead of showing them how to fix their problem, I showed them how to search google ("howto" "example" "help" "faq" and other keywords) for a solution to their problem and then made them fix it for themselves. My rule was that if they hadn't been reading HOWTO's for at least half an hour, they didn't need my help yet.
Of course, you have to do all this much more descretly than I was able to. I'd employ tricks like, "Oh, yea. I can take care of that, but I've been trying to finish this thing all morning. Go ahead and see what you can find out for us [those two words are surprisingly important] on google while I take half an hour to get this done."
Something a little more difficult is to get him to read, on a regular basis, pages like Slashdot. When I first started reading slashdot (although Digg might be better for the slightly less technically inclined) I had ABSOLUTLY NO IDEA what half the stuff was about. But as I started seeing the same words in more and more context, I figured it out and now it's been a couple of years since I've seen something that I had no clue on.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like I really WILL be having a Patrick Swayze Christmas this year!
Considering the mention of speed tests in the OP, I assume the OP knows of the site, but for those who don't, you can find out who is providing higher quality service in your area at DSLReports. No one offers exactly what they claim their bandwidth is, but with enough looking around, you can find out who comes damn close.
Well, I'm not going to argue against VB and I wouldn't have you do that either, but depending on what type of program it is, you might point out VB's weakness on lack of portability. You might think I'm about to jump on the Java bandwagon here, but I'm not. Assuming your superior knows C/C++ you might encourage him to check out wx-Devcpp. It as an interface simular to VisualBasic (and C# for that matter)but gives you the ability to take the code and move it to Linux and other OSes that use the GCC compiler.
I do work for one of the nation's (U.S.) largest insurance companies (read: paying money) and the major reason why they won't touch open source is liability. They want the ability to point to a vendor or software maker and say, "Their fault!" if something goes drastically wrong.
I've done a lot of looking for an FTP client that lets me do everything I want and found it as an open source project called "FileZilla"
w nloads
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Also, check out the current and pas "project of the month" at sourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/potm/
and the most downloaded projects at sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/top/topalltime.php?type=do
...to ammend this, Battle for Middle-earth is good because we both find ourselves saying, "Hey, can you send a little help my way?" It's a game where cooperation and communication can really play a big part in the end result.
My girlfriend and I play 'Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth' (and soon Middle-earth 2) and World of Warcraft together. She's DEFINATLY better than me at WoW and she picked up Middle-earth without trouble.
I was thinking of the word 'state' as a synonym for country. yeeeeees. That's it. That's it exactly...
*hides*
Northern Michigan University has been requiring laptops since 2000 and there are other universities that have required them before that.
I'll admit that the laptops at NMU are leased and students must lease a laptop as opposed to having their own, but the way in which the OP is written, it is misleading.
As already pointed out, P2P and I also have my computers (that's right, both of them) gene/protien folding while at work and sleep.
...not to mention that linux box does many things while I'm at work including, but limited to, backing up and compressing all my data, sending a "Message of the Day" (MOTheD ... think `fortune`) to myself and co-workers over the lunch break and hosting a webpage for those who prefer not to get MOTheD by email.
I mentioned that I've got the X5 because they push out more power than an iPod. With that in mind, would you still recommend the SR-60 over the SR-80?
I'm guessing that you're going to hear a lot of people saying VisualBasic. Personally, hate VB. You might take a look at wxWidgets. I've only toyed with it myself, like what I've seen. There is also wxDevCPP which gives you a VB style GUI.
...ok. Let's say some future administration thinks that Bush is a dink (which he likely is) and decides to turn over any decisions Bush already has or will make regarding the waste produced by nuclear power plants. We do have the technology to make such waste safe. So with all the technology advancements that we've made since the 80s, I'm failing to see any kind of significant down side.
Let's see them get imports and exports without oil... MAYBE by 2020, but I think they'll use enough oil in the transition to no oil to make up for themselves. Then there is the question of if their oil useage on imports (external oil useage) goes up to maintain their internal no-oil status.
OH! Yes! I nearly forgot! Electronic copies are available for free!
http://mindview.net/Books/DownloadSitesI'll second this and add, "...beware the preverbial 'THAT' professor." The one that will push back all your due dates and give you (quite literally) impossible assignments until nothing is due or everyone is failing respectivly and as a result, you pass for just showing up everyday.
I learned OOD the old fashoned way: C++. When I took the job I'm currently at they had me go through some mock developer training in which they put me in a position of a team lead. I can tell you right now that the best OOP programmers I had in my team had studied C++ first. Why? Pointers. C++ FORCES you to get all the astrisks and ampersands in the right place. Java certinly dosn't make you do that at ALL (note to nitpickers: Yes. 'References' not 'Pointers' *blinks* I don't care. Close enough.) and from what I remember of the little bit of C# I had, C# dosn't make you do that either.
I would suggest that you learn as MUCH C++ as you can over the holiday break. Bruce Eckel has an EXCELLENT excellent excellent book called "Thinking in C++" (he also has one called "Thinking in Java" that is very much the same, so if you take the Java course, DEFINATLY get that book).
Uh. Unless I've missed somthing, wouldn't this make using non-jumpless swtiches in A LOT of devices, illegal? Here's hoping I don't have to turn on any computers with an AT power supply!
First an alternate link: http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/03/new-standard-ke yboards-53-keyer/
How about a new survey question of "How many keys does your keyboard have that you have NEVER used?
I just glanced down at my keyboard and MY anwser to this is zero. Between my hatred of reaching for the mouse, my video games and my programming I use EVERY key on the keyboard. My least used key? That would be F8 (which is too bad because it is one of the easy ones to find). Yes, I really use my scroll lock that often (for the winamp plugin MilkDrop and I've modded that keyboard light into a LED snake light).
I'm sure this has been pointed out elsewhere (or at least I hope it has), but it seems to me that the A B C D ... keyboard layout shown would have users mostly using their left, and likely slower, hand.
Correction: Typical rating was 4 1/2 NOT 4 1/4
I, just yesterday, ordered an iAudio X5 (no 'L'). The LOWEST review rating I could find ANYWHERE was 3 1/2 out of 5. Typical rating was 4 1/4 out of 5 with a median of EASILY 4 1/2 out of 5. Just from a random perusal of ratings (and my own personal opinion based on features alone) for the devices given in the list I'd say the X5 makes a better iPod Killer than anything suggested. Reasons why I bought the X5: - Hard Drive based (flash memory becomes corrupt and unusable MUCH faster than hard drives) - Supports OGG - FM Tuner - Ability to schedule FM recording 'Bonus' features of the X5 - (and this one is huge) The ability to plug, via USB, the X5 DIRECTLY into my Digital camera (Canon A95) and copy all the pictures off. Excuse me, I need a towel. - Supports FLAC (I'll be curious to see if it supports OGG+FLAC) - Plays most DivX, XviD and other MPEG4 formats. Only gets 15fps (considered the minimum for animation), but can we say, "keeping my sanity at the Laundromat"? - Alarm clock. Yea. I know me. I'll need this.
I talked to a co-worker earlier, who makes the same as myself, and there is something very sketchy going on because we're both at the 'Programmer' level (although that hardly describes what I'm doing) and word of mouth is that someone with a 4 year degree should be at the "Senior Programmer" level. Time to get in touch with the Career Coach... The person that who was in charge of my pay rate when I signed on was not the person who hired me and, right now, I suspect a communication failure. I was never asked how much I felt I should be paid. It was pretty much a "take it or leave it" situation and after seven months of job hunting I wasn't ready to turn anything down.
You scare me very much. I certainly hope I'm not. I can be very matter-of-fact somtimes and I know that I've come across the wrong way more than once...
I'm somewhat locked in for a full year of work. However, I'm just about to hit the 6mo. mark and I plan on revamping my résumé somtime mid October so I can start Job hunting again sometime in early November.
Jumping jobs actually sounds like a great idea. It sounds like a good way to try out a lot of different things and get a better fix on what I would enjoy doing.
I really appriciate this input!
I'm making $24,600/yr.
I have a 4yr. degree in Computer Sci. and I've found, for my age bracket and VERY much to my surprise, that I'm more knowledgeable than the majority of people employed with my company.
I'm barely scraping by.
I'm posting a bit late, so this will likely be lost in the mess of people taking the opportunity to be funny and being generally unhelpful, but I was experiancing simular trouble with my parents. Albeit that was more annoying than aggrivating. My solution was to teach them how to fend for themselves. I showed them Wikipedia for terminology they didn't know and also instead of showing them how to fix their problem, I showed them how to search google ("howto" "example" "help" "faq" and other keywords) for a solution to their problem and then made them fix it for themselves. My rule was that if they hadn't been reading HOWTO's for at least half an hour, they didn't need my help yet. Of course, you have to do all this much more descretly than I was able to. I'd employ tricks like, "Oh, yea. I can take care of that, but I've been trying to finish this thing all morning. Go ahead and see what you can find out for us [those two words are surprisingly important] on google while I take half an hour to get this done." Something a little more difficult is to get him to read, on a regular basis, pages like Slashdot. When I first started reading slashdot (although Digg might be better for the slightly less technically inclined) I had ABSOLUTLY NO IDEA what half the stuff was about. But as I started seeing the same words in more and more context, I figured it out and now it's been a couple of years since I've seen something that I had no clue on.