Oh certainly you're not going to forget the book "Code Complete" are you? Then again, what books to read as programmers can be a whole other post,in fact I think it's come up.
Really, I have no problem with a "lousy start" policy of some sort, but to guarantee 50% while other students are giving and earning 100% annoys me to no end. How about simply this, guarantee that all quizzes and tests can be made up after hours (before/after class) that were taken in the first half of the semester for a maximum score of 80% of the total points awarded (gotta at least give a small late bloomer penalty)? Higher of the 2 scores will apply. Thoughts there?
Yeah this reminds me of the classic problem in lots of Comp. Sci. programs today, why bother to teach the nasty stuff like C++/Assembly/etc. when all anyone ever uses is Java,.NET and similar langauages anymore.
I've heard the argument both ways now, my thinking is what I've seen some universities do and offer 2 degrees, the Comp. Sci. sticks to the tougher stuff and the people graduate knowing how to build operating systems. Then you usually get a business computer programmming major of some sort that teaches the higher level languages. So you graduate people who can build business apps.
aIn either debate (the organic chemistry or Computer Science one) they all have their merits. I forsee in this debate 2 classes of doctors getting created, eventually you'll have the medical science students who took everything needed today, such as organic chemistry. Then the applied medical doctors who took what they needed in College (mostly useful stuff and not the organic chemistry component) then went straight to med school. Similar to the schism that's been going on in Comp Sci. for awhile now. The ramifications for both professions remains something I don't quite see however, I'd need to study more what it takes to be a doctor I think.
If ever running for political office, make all passwords 40 characters of nothing intelligble whatsoever...same with all secret questions usable to answer password, all zip codes, birthdates, etc. in these forms are something other than anything that has ever related to me...
Then just write it all down somewhere because there's no way I'll remember it all, keep it in my good friend Linda Tripp's office because she'll never do anything to betray me:-)
For what it's worth, it was more like BellSouth acquiring them. BellSouth was the big humongous company then and AT&T was this withered old hag of a battered long distance company. But they figured everyone knew the AT&T brand name better, so Ma Bell surfaced again out of that merger...
Gamers shall have the right to return games that don't work with their computers for a full refund.
Agree but make a provision for clearance, secondhand, and "as-is" stuff...
Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.
Now good luck enforcing that, QA departments can only get so much...
Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game's release.
Guess that's where we fix the above mentioned problem then:-)
Gamers shall have the right to expect that the minimum requirements for a game will mean that the game will play adequately on that computer.
Disagree, Minimum requirements should be just that, MINIMUM requirements to get the game barely functioning on the lowest detail settings, etc. Playing well is the job for the RECOMMENDED requirements.
Gamers shall have the right to re-download the latest versions of the games they own at any time.
I only sell my games by CD/DVD...call me a luddite but...
apparently feeling that the municipality is unprepared for the onerous costs of maintaining such a network, and would lack the expertise to do so.
Ptttht....if the telco really feels this way, I tell them "here, drop the lawsuit, and if we truly can't match par with your network, we'll sell the line to you guys and admit we were wrong."
Would the telco take them up on this? Shah right...
As far as canceling ID's go, why not? My suggestion to Slashdot for a feature would be just that, a feature that lets a user say "I've had it" and turns in and cancels their user number, that number will consequently be allowed re-assignment to the next Slashdot user that comes along, might give me a shot at a 2,3,4 or 5 digit user ID someday:-)
Actually if Slashdot was feeling capitalist, maybe detect if that ID is 2,3,4 or 5 digits and offer them for sale using a price that's dependent on the number itself (lower or "cool" numbers such as 666 or 1234 go for higher prices...)
And ya know what? I personally give AC's the benefit of the doubt and have my personal preferences set to give them +1.
That's a mixed bag really, IMHO I get 30% more informative/insightful/interesting/funny stuff I might not otherwise get, but I get 70% more crap. Sometimes I debate changing it back but never did...
Problem with not storing with battery is that Lithium Ion may not be around in 25 years, being replaced by Fuel Cells, portable Fusion reactors or whatever you can imagine. Leaving a tech to figure out how to power this device up, of course I'd just ensure that the laptop can power up sans battery (and I DO hope AC power is around in 25 years) and I'd be in good shape anyways. I do remember some laptops however that refused to power up with no battery at all (plugged in of course) so be wary if you go that route...
I'd be curious to know whether or not a laptop could survive 25 years underground. I know he said welded shut, but rust and corrosion could still be issues.
Maybe blueprints on how to build a computer to read said media should be included on paper? Then again even there, it's the same issue...
Of course do take some comfort in that media useable in 1983 (25 years ago) can still be accessible with hardware available today in the second hand market, or even new hardware; certainly no new giant tape reels are being manufactured, but I do occasinally spot big tape reel reading equipment available on Ebay or some such place. I also recently spotted a USB drive for 5.25" disks which were around as far back as 1970, so take heart.
I'm a developer, I've worked on many an app that has stored credit cards, social security numbers, and other pieces of juicy data. I've always acted with integrity and you'll never find a credit card or social security number posted on the Internet of my own free will. Generally I take best efforts to secure this information. Using appropriate technology such as hashing, encryption, access controls and authentication as appropriate for the information, etc. Documenting as throughly as possible to make sure that nothing happens, and what to do to further protect things.
Despite all this, if my programming is ever compromised, am I now jail potential? I'm finding a new job...
While I was only looking to back up maybe 15-20GB subset of that data, floating the idea of DVD's for it, you do have a point there. I can probably do a decent backup with more external HD's and cheaper too in the long run. Thanks for the sanity check bud!
This might be going slightly offtopic but yeah I've noticed that with the increases in data size, an increase in backup awareness and redundancy has been percolating down even to the home users.
For example, recently I set up a mirrored drive system for my stepdad for his home photos (which are somewhere in the 200GB range as he is semi-professional) just in case one drive goes out. Also I've been looking at a cheap DVD Autoload backup option. Any ideas there from the Slashdot crowd?
So who's going to stop this guy first?
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Slashdot (good ol' Slashdot effect), or the RIAA?
I hope this guy plans on making a torrent with his stuff:-)
As always, bottom line you want a job in the U.S. go to Nursing school...I have a feeling with the demand for nurses as it is, short of the apocalypse coming, that job will always be in demand. Downside? Emptying bedpans from old ladies...
That labor report seems to indicate that all jobs it's reporting on are declining. Think it's in line with the general trand these days, ie we're in a recession. Nothing unusual here...
Thou wilt be charged what thou art willing to pay for it.
Quite simply Adobe, Microsoft and probably others have determined that Europe will pay that kind of money for their software where the United States won't pay that much, and have computed the optimal price point right there. Sad but true Europe.
Having said that, time to start an import/export business with cheap software in the United States going to Europe:-)
I've seen all sorts of people draw pretty pictures of capsules, shuttles, etc. they want to send to the moon, Mars, Alpha Centauri, whatever...at this point wake me up when one is launching. Thank you.
Don't feed the trolls, it only encourages them. Don't know who to give credit for that originally but it always holds true. Don't look at them or even acknowledge their presence, if they find out their life draining speech is worthless they move on. If anyone succeeds at doing this, let me know...
I was thinking of a big higher scale, my thinking though I have no stats to prove this is that trains are being looked at more seeing as it's a greater economy of scale. I figured train engineer school might be the best place in light of high fuel prices, thoughts?
Here in my neighborhood in Santa Ana, CA this isn't an option any more, there is not a single access point available that would not charge money for the pleasure of connecting. Only secure stuff and paid WiFi spots in reach of my laptop now.
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Oh certainly you're not going to forget the book "Code Complete" are you? Then again, what books to read as programmers can be a whole other post,in fact I think it's come up.
Really, I have no problem with a "lousy start" policy of some sort, but to guarantee 50% while other students are giving and earning 100% annoys me to no end. How about simply this, guarantee that all quizzes and tests can be made up after hours (before/after class) that were taken in the first half of the semester for a maximum score of 80% of the total points awarded (gotta at least give a small late bloomer penalty)? Higher of the 2 scores will apply. Thoughts there?
My take is they're not looking for the exact same traits as that would be a humongous task. I figure we do something like this:
Simple Mendelian Genetics here, nothing more.
Yeah this reminds me of the classic problem in lots of Comp. Sci. programs today, why bother to teach the nasty stuff like C++/Assembly/etc. when all anyone ever uses is Java, .NET and similar langauages anymore.
I've heard the argument both ways now, my thinking is what I've seen some universities do and offer 2 degrees, the Comp. Sci. sticks to the tougher stuff and the people graduate knowing how to build operating systems. Then you usually get a business computer programmming major of some sort that teaches the higher level languages. So you graduate people who can build business apps.
aIn either debate (the organic chemistry or Computer Science one) they all have their merits. I forsee in this debate 2 classes of doctors getting created, eventually you'll have the medical science students who took everything needed today, such as organic chemistry. Then the applied medical doctors who took what they needed in College (mostly useful stuff and not the organic chemistry component) then went straight to med school. Similar to the schism that's been going on in Comp Sci. for awhile now. The ramifications for both professions remains something I don't quite see however, I'd need to study more what it takes to be a doctor I think.
If ever running for political office, make all passwords 40 characters of nothing intelligble whatsoever...same with all secret questions usable to answer password, all zip codes, birthdates, etc. in these forms are something other than anything that has ever related to me...
Then just write it all down somewhere because there's no way I'll remember it all, keep it in my good friend Linda Tripp's office because she'll never do anything to betray me :-)
For what it's worth, it was more like BellSouth acquiring them. BellSouth was the big humongous company then and AT&T was this withered old hag of a battered long distance company. But they figured everyone knew the AT&T brand name better, so Ma Bell surfaced again out of that merger...
Absolutely nothing but my 25mm Bushmaster :-)
Maybe I'll hire a few personnel with M-16 smaller caliber stuff in case I just want to kill you but leave your boat afloat....
Hmmm....some of this I'm gonna rebut here...
Gamers shall have the right to return games that don't work with their computers for a full refund.
Agree but make a provision for clearance, secondhand, and "as-is" stuff...
Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.
Now good luck enforcing that, QA departments can only get so much...
Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game's release.
Guess that's where we fix the above mentioned problem then :-)
Gamers shall have the right to expect that the minimum requirements for a game will mean that the game will play adequately on that computer.
Disagree, Minimum requirements should be just that, MINIMUM requirements to get the game barely functioning on the lowest detail settings, etc. Playing well is the job for the RECOMMENDED requirements.
Gamers shall have the right to re-download the latest versions of the games they own at any time.
I only sell my games by CD/DVD...call me a luddite but...
apparently feeling that the municipality is unprepared for the onerous costs of maintaining such a network, and would lack the expertise to do so.
Ptttht....if the telco really feels this way, I tell them "here, drop the lawsuit, and if we truly can't match par with your network, we'll sell the line to you guys and admit we were wrong."
Would the telco take them up on this? Shah right...
As far as canceling ID's go, why not? My suggestion to Slashdot for a feature would be just that, a feature that lets a user say "I've had it" and turns in and cancels their user number, that number will consequently be allowed re-assignment to the next Slashdot user that comes along, might give me a shot at a 2,3,4 or 5 digit user ID someday :-)
Actually if Slashdot was feeling capitalist, maybe detect if that ID is 2,3,4 or 5 digits and offer them for sale using a price that's dependent on the number itself (lower or "cool" numbers such as 666 or 1234 go for higher prices...)
And ya know what? I personally give AC's the benefit of the doubt and have my personal preferences set to give them +1.
That's a mixed bag really, IMHO I get 30% more informative/insightful/interesting/funny stuff I might not otherwise get, but I get 70% more crap. Sometimes I debate changing it back but never did...
Problem with not storing with battery is that Lithium Ion may not be around in 25 years, being replaced by Fuel Cells, portable Fusion reactors or whatever you can imagine. Leaving a tech to figure out how to power this device up, of course I'd just ensure that the laptop can power up sans battery (and I DO hope AC power is around in 25 years) and I'd be in good shape anyways. I do remember some laptops however that refused to power up with no battery at all (plugged in of course) so be wary if you go that route...
I'd be curious to know whether or not a laptop could survive 25 years underground. I know he said welded shut, but rust and corrosion could still be issues.
Maybe blueprints on how to build a computer to read said media should be included on paper? Then again even there, it's the same issue...
Of course do take some comfort in that media useable in 1983 (25 years ago) can still be accessible with hardware available today in the second hand market, or even new hardware; certainly no new giant tape reels are being manufactured, but I do occasinally spot big tape reel reading equipment available on Ebay or some such place. I also recently spotted a USB drive for 5.25" disks which were around as far back as 1970, so take heart.
Forgive me for not RTFA in advance but...
I'm a developer, I've worked on many an app that has stored credit cards, social security numbers, and other pieces of juicy data. I've always acted with integrity and you'll never find a credit card or social security number posted on the Internet of my own free will. Generally I take best efforts to secure this information. Using appropriate technology such as hashing, encryption, access controls and authentication as appropriate for the information, etc. Documenting as throughly as possible to make sure that nothing happens, and what to do to further protect things.
Despite all this, if my programming is ever compromised, am I now jail potential? I'm finding a new job...
While I was only looking to back up maybe 15-20GB subset of that data, floating the idea of DVD's for it, you do have a point there. I can probably do a decent backup with more external HD's and cheaper too in the long run. Thanks for the sanity check bud!
This might be going slightly offtopic but yeah I've noticed that with the increases in data size, an increase in backup awareness and redundancy has been percolating down even to the home users.
For example, recently I set up a mirrored drive system for my stepdad for his home photos (which are somewhere in the 200GB range as he is semi-professional) just in case one drive goes out. Also I've been looking at a cheap DVD Autoload backup option. Any ideas there from the Slashdot crowd?
Slashdot (good ol' Slashdot effect), or the RIAA?
:-)
I hope this guy plans on making a torrent with his stuff
As always, bottom line you want a job in the U.S. go to Nursing school...I have a feeling with the demand for nurses as it is, short of the apocalypse coming, that job will always be in demand. Downside? Emptying bedpans from old ladies...
That labor report seems to indicate that all jobs it's reporting on are declining. Think it's in line with the general trand these days, ie we're in a recession. Nothing unusual here...
Thou wilt be charged what thou art willing to pay for it.
Quite simply Adobe, Microsoft and probably others have determined that Europe will pay that kind of money for their software where the United States won't pay that much, and have computed the optimal price point right there. Sad but true Europe.
Having said that, time to start an import/export business with cheap software in the United States going to Europe :-)
I've seen all sorts of people draw pretty pictures of capsules, shuttles, etc. they want to send to the moon, Mars, Alpha Centauri, whatever...at this point wake me up when one is launching. Thank you.
Don't feed the trolls, it only encourages them. Don't know who to give credit for that originally but it always holds true. Don't look at them or even acknowledge their presence, if they find out their life draining speech is worthless they move on. If anyone succeeds at doing this, let me know...
I was thinking of a big higher scale, my thinking though I have no stats to prove this is that trains are being looked at more seeing as it's a greater economy of scale. I figured train engineer school might be the best place in light of high fuel prices, thoughts?
My Sig says it all for what I'd get for a TLD :-)
Just more reasons to secure my wifi :-)
Here in my neighborhood in Santa Ana, CA this isn't an option any more, there is not a single access point available that would not charge money for the pleasure of connecting. Only secure stuff and paid WiFi spots in reach of my laptop now.