Having the theory that you mentioned is so much more important than actual API/Language/system knowledge because all these systems are built from it.
"A real computer scientist tinkers around with technology at home during his (or her)'s free time"
Exactly. Colleges are not there to give someone the right job skills for today. They teach you how to think, learn and provide the tools needed to master any related technology. I spent more time messing around with various technologies from Windows, Linux and OS X than I did doing homework and it has paid off big time.
Going to college is a two way street. They teach you the primitive skills and it is up to you to hone there skills as you please on your own time.
If the above poster wasted his time, maybe real estate is a better option. That bubble is going to crash soon too.
The executive produces a better golf handicap which in turn proves to other wealthy golfers that this company can be trusted as a partner on competitive gold tournaments between wealthy executives. Anyone can code. Not many people can keep their average under 80.
This is further proof that women are not good at math/science and have no place in these fields. Since analytical skills, like problem solving, come from your frontal lobes, it should be obvious women have absolutely no ability to do this. I mean, have you ever seen a women understand sarcasm? Anything my old man found funny my mother thought was just mean. Just about every women I've come across is like this. They simply do not have the capacitance to solve math problems or understand sarcasm, except for in extremely rare cases. This new discovery should remind women of their place in the world, and that place is cleaning the bathroom and satisfying in the bedroom. Leave the problem solving and sarcasm to us men, all-right lil' ladies?
I fail to understand how Anakin will have a purpose in any of these. The 6 Star Wars movies are founded on the rise-fall-rise of a man with great potential and making films after he dies destroys the main theme of the Star Wars movies. Then again, they would probably make a boat load of money and people probably want to see them too, so why not? I don't care one way or another really but being a fan of all six Star Wars (really) I cannot see where these would fit into the story we've been told. I do however like the idea for a casual TV show that focuses on other characters not as epic that chronicles other pieces of the struggle.
If I just got a dime for every misuse of to/too on Slashdot I'd be rich. The best part about the parents post was he was commenting on reading books...being literate, etc. Ah, the irony.
Heh, I remember having to load like 4 discs just to run Apple Works. I think Carmen Sandiago and Oregon Trail only used 1 disc though, but maybe 2 for Carmen Sandiago. We did have a modem though. That was cool.
My (former now) school starts people off with C++ and pretty much stays there. I think they have 3 courses on C++, with one of them focusing on STL more so and another on writing advanced data structures. Other than that, there is no other programming instruction in terms of teaching a language for credit. Generally you have to learn another language for a particular class (ML, Lisp, Prologue, Java, Ruby all come to mind for different classes) but I don't recall any classes using pascal for anything really.
In a compiler course I took, we studied a pascal compilers implementation of "Case" statements, using jump tables, etc on a 68k micro processor if I recall.
OOP doesn't really need to be taught with a language, although it can be nice to supplement. In general, OOP is a paradigm that is language independent (mainly) and can be studied on its principals. It also helps to study it on a low level, from a compiler view point because you really learn what different types of dispatch are doing, how inheritance really works, and v-table implementation, etc. Well, it's nice if you like to take the box off and see how something actually works to get an idea of how you should use it, if that makes any sense.
Rather, bad taste. They most likely had great intentions, but they were mislead. Certainly, they are teenagers who notoriously make poor decisions at times, so maybe this could be swept under the rug. It should, anyways, be obvious these kids probably should be in school and most likely go to college. I also wouldn't be surprised if they were able to get their teachers, office, etc, to fairly easily give them passwords, etc.
" If investors do not agree with this policy, then they should not by Google shares."
Then Google should not make their shares "public". Investors become owners to an extent and since they are public now, people interested in making money through investments will buy in to this company and expect profits. Google would have to make their stock a private investment to maintain the goals they have unilaterally.
So long as Google can at least make some money there, they're going to try and market it. Remember, this still is a publicly traded company and by selling their sole they give up many moral decisions on the behalf of their investors. Their investors do after all, own the company. Although Google has a pledge to be a moral company, and they still can and will in many ways, they have to really try and make more money any somewhat decently way.
The people of China deserve this and for that matter they deserve to be able to search the internet free of censorship. But right now maybe they can't. You have to start somewhere and let democracy grow from the natural benefits it affords many people and ultimately (in theory) provides to everyone.
"Now that we can build ourselves, we'll never end!"
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"And to invest each of the ghosts with a personality, and even make them chase differently, that's just genius."
Definitely. The way the different ghosts chase you are basically axioms in modern video game AI. You have a chaser, a cut-off, a predictor and a completely random type of enemy. The idea being someone cuts off your back door, another your front door, another guessing your escape route and finally one making up for standard deviation. It's really brilliant and keeps the game-play unique and challenging.
No way! Dell practically copies Apple's every move! I don't know where to start. Read As The Apple Turns sometime. If Apple does it, Dell will most likely release a copy-cat that misses the point and has terrible usability. Dell-DJ? Dells laughable music store? Lets put color on our Dell cases!
And really, Mike Dell, albiet extremly succesful financially, has no where the legacy Jobs will have. Jobs has more than enough money and has been involved with so much of what is important with modern computing. That whole PC revolution thing, GUI revolution thing, NeXT and revitilizing Apple Computer with products like the iPod, iTunes Music Store, iMac, etc.
OK great, I have a program I need you to write really quickly. Basically, I have a list of places I'll be delivering packages (millions of them actually) and since the quicker I get these delivered the more money we'll make. With gas being so expensive we want to know what's the one way we can deliver all these packages using the least amount of gas. So essentially, I need a program that will take all my locations, where I'm starting and tell me what stops to sequentially make. Most of all, this program needs to be fast. Can you do this for me?
"..where work is considdered something you need to do in order to get to the fun part. I'm not saying we can't have entertainment, but I notice a lot of people who simply hate working."
Ummm...yeah! I don't know about you but I can think of about 100 things I would rather be doing than working!
And honestly, I disagree with you. Americans work some of the longest hours in the world and often start early and leave late. Usually both parents are working and the kids are left with daycare or even worse, become latchkey kids. This is more the problem with society than anything. The fact that kids, who cannot be expected to make good decisions all too often, are left alone to get into trouble while their parents (or parent often) are at work late.
As for kids having cell phones, I don't see the big deal. Most kids will end up having their own computers now, their own TV's now, etc. It's what happens with technology. When I was a kid, maybe 1 or 2 kids on the block had a PC in their house. I was happy trying to program my Odyssey II.
Hell, when my dad was a kid they had a family RADIO!
What school do you go to? I'm not sure about other places, but where I am graduating from this year in CS, I have been barraged with theory, problem solving and lots of creative thinking over the last few years.
My school requires more math than some other schools because they treat a CS degree more like engineering so as such they try and teach a lot of critical thinking things. So although that sucks in one part, it's nice in another in that you get used to solving problems in unfamiliar domains and using your head in general.
I don't even think we teach Java for credit. I know you have to take some basic programming in C++, but in other classes I've been expected to pick up a different language if we were going to be using it for problems, etc.
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Having the theory that you mentioned is so much more important than actual API/Language/system knowledge because all these systems are built from it.
"A real computer scientist tinkers around with technology at home during his (or her)'s free time"
Exactly. Colleges are not there to give someone the right job skills for today. They teach you how to think, learn and provide the tools needed to master any related technology. I spent more time messing around with various technologies from Windows, Linux and OS X than I did doing homework and it has paid off big time.
Going to college is a two way street. They teach you the primitive skills and it is up to you to hone there skills as you please on your own time.
If the above poster wasted his time, maybe real estate is a better option. That bubble is going to crash soon too.
The executive produces a better golf handicap which in turn proves to other wealthy golfers that this company can be trusted as a partner on competitive gold tournaments between wealthy executives. Anyone can code. Not many people can keep their average under 80.
This is further proof that women are not good at math/science and have no place in these fields. Since analytical skills, like problem solving, come from your frontal lobes, it should be obvious women have absolutely no ability to do this. I mean, have you ever seen a women understand sarcasm? Anything my old man found funny my mother thought was just mean. Just about every women I've come across is like this. They simply do not have the capacitance to solve math problems or understand sarcasm, except for in extremely rare cases. This new discovery should remind women of their place in the world, and that place is cleaning the bathroom and satisfying in the bedroom. Leave the problem solving and sarcasm to us men, all-right lil' ladies?
Guns don't kill people...I do.
I fail to understand how Anakin will have a purpose in any of these. The 6 Star Wars movies are founded on the rise-fall-rise of a man with great potential and making films after he dies destroys the main theme of the Star Wars movies. Then again, they would probably make a boat load of money and people probably want to see them too, so why not? I don't care one way or another really but being a fan of all six Star Wars (really) I cannot see where these would fit into the story we've been told. I do however like the idea for a casual TV show that focuses on other characters not as epic that chronicles other pieces of the struggle.
"unfortunately, the average user is still clueless and continues to both click on, and buy things from these emails :/"
This is precisely why capitalism works, don't you see!
It's completely optional, really.
If I just got a dime for every misuse of to/too on Slashdot I'd be rich. The best part about the parents post was he was commenting on reading books...being literate, etc. Ah, the irony.
Heh, I remember having to load like 4 discs just to run Apple Works. I think Carmen Sandiago and Oregon Trail only used 1 disc though, but maybe 2 for Carmen Sandiago. We did have a modem though. That was cool.
My (former now) school starts people off with C++ and pretty much stays there. I think they have 3 courses on C++, with one of them focusing on STL more so and another on writing advanced data structures. Other than that, there is no other programming instruction in terms of teaching a language for credit. Generally you have to learn another language for a particular class (ML, Lisp, Prologue, Java, Ruby all come to mind for different classes) but I don't recall any classes using pascal for anything really.
In a compiler course I took, we studied a pascal compilers implementation of "Case" statements, using jump tables, etc on a 68k micro processor if I recall.
OOP doesn't really need to be taught with a language, although it can be nice to supplement. In general, OOP is a paradigm that is language independent (mainly) and can be studied on its principals. It also helps to study it on a low level, from a compiler view point because you really learn what different types of dispatch are doing, how inheritance really works, and v-table implementation, etc. Well, it's nice if you like to take the box off and see how something actually works to get an idea of how you should use it, if that makes any sense.
Rather, bad taste. They most likely had great intentions, but they were mislead. Certainly, they are teenagers who notoriously make poor decisions at times, so maybe this could be swept under the rug. It should, anyways, be obvious these kids probably should be in school and most likely go to college. I also wouldn't be surprised if they were able to get their teachers, office, etc, to fairly easily give them passwords, etc.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I guess I missed the vote when they were elected.
Oh well, at least they're completely flagrant about it.
and yo ass is broken!
Oh jeez, what the hell?!
" If investors do not agree with this policy, then they should not by Google shares."
Then Google should not make their shares "public". Investors become owners to an extent and since they are public now, people interested in making money through investments will buy in to this company and expect profits. Google would have to make their stock a private investment to maintain the goals they have unilaterally.
"soul"
[read slashdot enough and you forget how to spell i gues]
So long as Google can at least make some money there, they're going to try and market it. Remember, this still is a publicly traded company and by selling their sole they give up many moral decisions on the behalf of their investors. Their investors do after all, own the company. Although Google has a pledge to be a moral company, and they still can and will in many ways, they have to really try and make more money any somewhat decently way.
The people of China deserve this and for that matter they deserve to be able to search the internet free of censorship. But right now maybe they can't. You have to start somewhere and let democracy grow from the natural benefits it affords many people and ultimately (in theory) provides to everyone.
"Now that we can build ourselves, we'll never end!"
"And to invest each of the ghosts with a personality, and even make them chase differently, that's just genius."
Definitely. The way the different ghosts chase you are basically axioms in modern video game AI. You have a chaser, a cut-off, a predictor and a completely random type of enemy. The idea being someone cuts off your back door, another your front door, another guessing your escape route and finally one making up for standard deviation. It's really brilliant and keeps the game-play unique and challenging.
No way! Dell practically copies Apple's every move! I don't know where to start. Read As The Apple Turns sometime. If Apple does it, Dell will most likely release a copy-cat that misses the point and has terrible usability. Dell-DJ? Dells laughable music store? Lets put color on our Dell cases!
And really, Mike Dell, albiet extremly succesful financially, has no where the legacy Jobs will have. Jobs has more than enough money and has been involved with so much of what is important with modern computing. That whole PC revolution thing, GUI revolution thing, NeXT and revitilizing Apple Computer with products like the iPod, iTunes Music Store, iMac, etc.
"Can't post a story about Dell without mentioning Apple?"
Can't Dell create a product that isn't a poor-mans Apple?
Besides, we all know Mike Dell has constant Steve envy.
OK great, I have a program I need you to write really quickly. Basically, I have a list of places I'll be delivering packages (millions of them actually) and since the quicker I get these delivered the more money we'll make. With gas being so expensive we want to know what's the one way we can deliver all these packages using the least amount of gas. So essentially, I need a program that will take all my locations, where I'm starting and tell me what stops to sequentially make. Most of all, this program needs to be fast. Can you do this for me?
"..where work is considdered something you need to do in order to get to the fun part. I'm not saying we can't have entertainment, but I notice a lot of people who simply hate working."
Ummm...yeah! I don't know about you but I can think of about 100 things I would rather be doing than working!
And honestly, I disagree with you. Americans work some of the longest hours in the world and often start early and leave late. Usually both parents are working and the kids are left with daycare or even worse, become latchkey kids. This is more the problem with society than anything. The fact that kids, who cannot be expected to make good decisions all too often, are left alone to get into trouble while their parents (or parent often) are at work late.
As for kids having cell phones, I don't see the big deal. Most kids will end up having their own computers now, their own TV's now, etc. It's what happens with technology. When I was a kid, maybe 1 or 2 kids on the block had a PC in their house. I was happy trying to program my Odyssey II.
Hell, when my dad was a kid they had a family RADIO!
What school do you go to? I'm not sure about other places, but where I am graduating from this year in CS, I have been barraged with theory, problem solving and lots of creative thinking over the last few years.
My school requires more math than some other schools because they treat a CS degree more like engineering so as such they try and teach a lot of critical thinking things. So although that sucks in one part, it's nice in another in that you get used to solving problems in unfamiliar domains and using your head in general.
I don't even think we teach Java for credit. I know you have to take some basic programming in C++, but in other classes I've been expected to pick up a different language if we were going to be using it for problems, etc.
That's a blowout.