Why don't they make it provide the safest route, by aggregating and using all the traffic accident data for which statistics are already kept. Avoid the high-risk intersections.
Most phones these days can detect when they're moving. Maybe the phones could refuse to allow texting if it's moving. Not a perfect solution, since you could be on a train, subway, etc.. but if anti-texting laws work as well as driving-while-intoxicated laws, then they probably won't work that well.
I recently took a week vacation in key largo, mostly scuba diving. I left my notebook at home and didn't have any internet access at the hotel.
I found that I wanted to research the area to decide where to visit; I wanted to learn about the various dive sites, shipwrecks, and historical landmarks in the keys.. Without the internet how could I do that? Wikipedia would have been perfect. Some hotels provide a book with this information (ours didn't), but those books are largely advertisements.
So I found myself wanting to be able to get online, to enhance the vacation. The trick would then be, avoiding my email:)
Why doesn't Apple just sell two ipods versions -- one made in "sweatshops" and one made by well-paid americans in the bay area.
Folks who don't want to support "sweatshops" can buy the "made in USA" version (for around $900 probably), and others can buy the $300 (sweatshop) version.
And they should make it visually easy to distinguish which version you have just by looking at it (just to keep us all honest).
Understand the primitives, wait(), notify(), synchronized. Then learn Java 1.5's java.util.concurrent package, so you won't have to use wait/notify yourself in most cases.
Most programmers don't understand the issues that come up with concurrent programming, and if you can learn them, it's yet another way to set yourself apart. They used to teach this in operating systems class, but these days, who knows.
I'd suggest checking out some of the fulltext search libraries if you want flexible, fast fulltext search. It may not be as easy as using the database's built-in support, but the extra effort may pay off in performance and extensibility. For starters, check out open source Apache Lucene, which has ports to several languages, including Python, C, and.NET (C# I believe), and the original in Java. It's easy to get up and running quickly, and designed well enough to be customizable later.
Indeed.com is a good step in the right direction. (disclaimer: I work there)
Indeed currently has 3.4 million jobs from the last 30 days. It lets you search jobs from thousands of sites in one place. And it has a cool job trends tool.
I have to post as a non-Anonymous Coward because I was in prison for several years and I think it would be cowardly to do otherwise.
You say these inmates could look up how to break the system, cheat the system, find out what is going on in other prisons, read about gangs, get information on other inmates using Google, etc.
I hate to break it to you, but they can do all this without using the Internet. How? Have people on the outside access the information (on the Internet or other places), print it out, and mail it in. And yes, I know, the geniuses in the prison mail room check incoming mail for "inappropriate" material. There are ways around this too. So then what, cut off their mail and contact with society?
Don't be so judgemental on people in prison. Bertrand Russell was in prison.
On the other hand, I think it was Winston Churchill who said if you want to see the scum of the earth, go to any prison and watch shift change.
I respect your desire to 'grow up' early -- to each his own.
However, some of us would *love* to do something like this summer founders program. To me, it was the most exciting thing I've read in a long time. It seemed too good to be true, until I remembered it was Paul Graham writing it.
Now I have to find 2-3 friends who feel the same way! Anyone in Austin (TX) feel the same? contact me, quickly, there's only 1 week left.
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Why don't they make it provide the safest route, by aggregating and using all the traffic accident data for which statistics are already kept. Avoid the high-risk intersections.
Most phones these days can detect when they're moving. Maybe the phones could refuse to allow texting if it's moving. Not a perfect solution, since you could be on a train, subway, etc.. but if anti-texting laws work as well as driving-while-intoxicated laws, then they probably won't work that well.
Time to use indeed.com to look for a job ...
If you want to see salaries, look at the data aggregated from job postings themselves:
lisp, c++, java, c#, python, ruby, smalltalk, cobol salaries
I recently took a week vacation in key largo, mostly scuba diving. I left my notebook at home and didn't have any internet access at the hotel.
:)
I found that I wanted to research the area to decide where to visit; I wanted to learn about the various dive sites, shipwrecks, and historical landmarks in the keys.. Without the internet how could I do that? Wikipedia would have been perfect. Some hotels provide a book with this information (ours didn't), but those books are largely advertisements.
So I found myself wanting to be able to get online, to enhance the vacation. The trick would then be, avoiding my email
I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Yes, sir.
Are you listening?
Yes, I am.
Probability.
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If they're not careful, they'll end up making Gran Turismo more expensive than actually racing a real car on a real track.
I guess there's still the little side-benefit that you don't die every time you crash at 155mph.
And why the hell can't the washingtonpost.com link to it?
Why doesn't Apple just sell two ipods versions -- one made in "sweatshops" and one made by well-paid americans in the bay area.
Folks who don't want to support "sweatshops" can buy the "made in USA" version (for around $900 probably), and others can buy the $300 (sweatshop) version.
And they should make it visually easy to distinguish which version you have just by looking at it (just to keep us all honest).
Read this book: Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns by Doug Lea. It's a bit dry, but well worth the read. Even if you're not programming in Java, the concepts, problems, and solutions are similar. Java just offers some abstraction.
Understand the primitives, wait(), notify(), synchronized. Then learn Java 1.5's java.util.concurrent package, so you won't have to use wait/notify yourself in most cases.
Most programmers don't understand the issues that come up with concurrent programming, and if you can learn them, it's yet another way to set yourself apart. They used to teach this in operating systems class, but these days, who knows.
I'd suggest checking out some of the fulltext search libraries if you want flexible, fast fulltext search. It may not be as easy as using the database's built-in support, but the extra effort may pay off in performance and extensibility. For starters, check out open source Apache Lucene, which has ports to several languages, including Python, C, and .NET (C# I believe), and the original in Java. It's easy to get up and running quickly, and designed well enough to be customizable later.
Here's a job RSS feed that may suit you :)
All hacker jobs
Indeed.com will send you fresh job postings from around the web just about any way you can imagine:
Indeed.com is a good step in the right direction. (disclaimer: I work there)
Indeed currently has 3.4 million jobs from the last 30 days. It lets you search jobs from thousands of sites in one place. And it has a cool job trends tool.
Oh yea, and it has a site for Canadian jobs, too.
You can do all this on these "vertical" search engines:
For jobs, indeed.com
For real estate, trulia.com
If you want to see the relative demand for yourself, check the job postings themselves:
.net, c#, java, j2ee, c++, and perl.
This job trends graph shows how many job postings from 2005 contain each of the terms:
It also lets you enter any other terms to see how many job postings contained them..
In between your music searches, search for a job on indeed, using their toolbar button.
"... get a job, sir." -- the big lebowski
Compare for yourself using indeed.com for Canada and the U.S..
These numbers only reflect the number of job postings (as opposed to actual jobs), but it's one indicator.
Or you can use indeed.com, which lets you search all jobs within the last 30 days from almost a thousand job sites (including computerjobs.com).
You don't even have to visit the site to check for new jobs -- it has RSS feeds and email alerts for new jobs that match your search criteria.
Or if you're really ambitious, use their free XML API and do whatever you want with the data.
Talk about coming out of left field
sorry.. I couldn't resist
You say these inmates could look up how to break the system, cheat the system, find out what is going on in other prisons, read about gangs, get information on other inmates using Google, etc.
I hate to break it to you, but they can do all this without using the Internet. How? Have people on the outside access the information (on the Internet or other places), print it out, and mail it in. And yes, I know, the geniuses in the prison mail room check incoming mail for "inappropriate" material. There are ways around this too. So then what, cut off their mail and contact with society?
Don't be so judgemental on people in prison. Bertrand Russell was in prison.
On the other hand, I think it was Winston Churchill who said if you want to see the scum of the earth, go to any prison and watch shift change.
I respect your desire to 'grow up' early -- to each his own.
However, some of us would *love* to do something like this summer founders program. To me, it was the most exciting thing I've read in a long time. It seemed too good to be true, until I remembered it was Paul Graham writing it.
Now I have to find 2-3 friends who feel the same way! Anyone in Austin (TX) feel the same? contact me, quickly, there's only 1 week left.
Someone's even hiring to surf slashdot!