Couldn't I run a 'process viewer' and see if any key logger programs are running? I suppose some hacker could modify an existing executable or rewrite a dll. However, I serious doubt your average script-kiddie is going to that much trouble. Asking the/. crowd about network security issues is like talking to Pat Buchanan about national defense -- someone might make a valid point, but more than likely most of the suggestions are overkill.
In fact, many universities have auctions. Try going to a big local state school's auction. You might google the college's domain for auctions or check the procurement department's web site. You can often buy a decent machine (if not a palette of them) for $20 bucks or less. It won't be top of the line, but you could certainly run XP/98/Linux, a compiler/IDE, a word processor of choice, or surf the web. Heck, sometimes they'll even have exotic hardware (Sun or SGI). You'll need to get a hard drive though (hard drives are removed to prevent information theft).
If I'm a developement shop who wants the largest possible user base for a product that cost me a fortune to make, it makes a big difference. Most modern games already require users to upgrade to the latest and greatest hardware, why alienate your user base even more?
In response to your question, MS should make DirectX 10 available for old versions of Windows because developers would like to sell their games to XP users while using a fully supported API. It's kind of like how all the VB6/VBA developers got upset over.NET. If MS wants us to use their products (i.e. buy server licenses) may be it should support their products a little better. Why should I make a long term commitment to a particular architecture if there's a chance it's going to make life miserable for me down the road?
First, who said Macs are 'easy' to use. It's easy to use if you want to write a memo or surf the web. If you use it as an internal server (or perform any industrial like function with it) it's like any other linux box, except that it has an annoying UI and crappy mouse. If anything, the proprietary everything and FreeBSD OS require much more specialized skills to repair.
I'm obviously not a patent lawyer. However, where does the line for potential litigation get drawn? Could a company like Bell Labs or some old CS researchers, who have clear prior art, claim some sort of rights to 'operating systems' in general or some type of key scheduling/memory managment algorithm? Could Edgar Codd claim rights to a relational database? If not, why not?
If my professors could teach as well as Feynman, I might have stayed awake. To often lectures are a necessary chore for most professors. What engineer|scientist|mathematician hasn't had an incomprehensible lecturer for a tough course? You'd be surprised how many people enjoy learning for its own sake.
I've listened to lectures from the teaching company. They're very good. The only question I'd have is at what level are these lectures being presented. Usually, these courses are introductory or of a survey nature at best.
I know this may not be quite what your looking for. I've found that it's pretty rare for professors to post advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate lectures online.
Yet, we still are dumbfounded by the fact that kids think science is uncool.:P
Actually, in a related note. It's not that String Theory is so bad, it's that the publication process in academia is backwards. More often than not, pedigree and politics play a large role in getting papers published. It's even worse when it comes to funding. Not to mention the fact that when the greatest scientist of the 20th century graduated from one of Europe's most prestigious colleges (with publications), he was unable to get accepted to grad school or find a job. Did I mention that the academic world initially reacted in silence to a young uppity patent clerk's unification of newton mechanics and E&M? They could have offered him a research assistantship at least. Yeah, but it's all string theory's fault.
You could write a web service or use XML-RPC and call it remotely as well. However, the call to the "command line" works too. Frankly, it might make sense to move the heavy image processing to a remote process anyway. You certainly wouldn't want a HTTP timeout error on your response because you server is overworked.
"If you've done you're best, that all that matters."
The problem may be that the poster grew up in an environment were praise and affection were based on achievements. Thus, driving the poster's desire to constantly succeed. I don't know. However, the poster needs to adopt the attitude that "doing her best is what's really important, and anybody who expects more is an ass."
How about piggy-backing a real mail server like Sendmail. If you configure your mail server properly, it should greatly reduce the number of problems you have in sending mail. Plus you can configure the queues in Sendmail to speed up the entire process and increase you chances of successfully sending out email. I know that's a really hazy explaination, but I haven't written an application that sends out mail in a while.
What college admission exams? I know Caltech offers a exam for transfers (IIRC). However, most schools don't have admission exams in the US. Are you in Europe? The SATs only need a little high school math and relatively simple verbal skills. Also, most schools ignore SAT scores for transfers. I'm really not trying to be picky. I'm just curious.
You know at first I thought there were a bunch of grammar-nazi retards posting on Slashdot. Finally, I realized all of the stupid, nitpicky posts came from one person. Grammar checking is like arithmetic. Even good mathematicians make arithmetical mistakes (except Von Nuemann, whose native tongue was probably binary).
Here's, what stands out in my mind when I see competitions like this:
1. Effort. Effort is everything. Do you think MEs at MIT, Caltech, or CMU are inferior? The reality is that efficent gas mileage is a solvable problem. Our dependence of foriegn oil is a solvable problem. If some HS students from Indiana can come up with solutions so could the US gov't.
2. Ivy league (or the nerd ivy league) schools are more hype than people want to admit. Good engineers learn by doing. I wish they had more of these competitions. Given the opportunity more students could excel.
3. Frankly, we need an energy crisis. That's probably the only way anything is going to get solved. Unless somethings on fire, we tend to ignore it.
4. The results of the competitions are skewed. The best students at West Idaho State don't have the same internship or research opportunities that the students at MIT have. So naturally, the best students want to do something. They end up taking the competition more seriously. Which would you rather do, an internship at Ford or NASA or compete in a gas mileage contest?
Microsoft won't always be the biggest dog in town. IBM tried to stave of the competition with an IBM PC. So, I'm not shocked at Microsoft's R&D. The only real difference is that Microsoft is facing multiple threats. They've got competition in information retrieval, maturing web services (i.e. a future with NetPCs), the OSS server market, consumer electronics (i.e. the holy grail of the inevitable set-top), and now robotics. I will say however, that I find some of the work at Microsoft Research pretty facinating.
What growth is he looking at? Where is CONSUMER robotics going to grow? I'm actually very interested? I could see a lot of increased industrial applications. I could even see some business applications. However, I don't see what a robot could do in my home in the near future. Can any robotics people enlighten me?
I read the WSJ article yesterday and I didn't see any real motivation on his part for turning down the money. In the article, there was a little blurb about "content for the people" and that's about it. Yeah, the article's projections (of his potential profits) are high, but he could probably rake in a little bit of dough for a couple of banners. Heck, Drudge does the same thing and I don't consider him a sell out. Oh, by the way, don't look at the right side of your screen when you read Slashdot. Yeah, scroll past the top part too. Yeah, Slashdot doesn't sell out >VA Linux>ThinkGeek>.
The key is content. Frankly, people don't mind the occaisional ad if there some content. Heck, most people enjoy the commercials during the Superbowl.
Incidentally, did anyone notice Craig's List recently expanded the number of cities that they cover? I just went there today and saw a bunch of extra cities that I could peruse.
I immediately thought about intellegence. I'm sure somebody like to know what Osama bin Laden is eating for breakfast.
I really don't know a lot about photography (or optics), but I would imagine that the only reason you can't 'see at a long distance' is due to a fuzziness of resolution. At what 'resolution' could you read my license plate from space? What role does the atmosphere play in distorting (bending) the image as it travels through the air?
Sounds like it's as much a management problem as it is a employee problem. You could have developers identify who is giving the better bug reports and remove their strict quotas (or at least weight their bugs a little differently). Heck, that probably would be a good way to find developers.
Good advice. I've got one question about the referrals. Do you just bluntly ask for 3 referrals? I understand that you have to do good work and have a good relationship with the customer. However, is it that simple? I may try it myself.
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Couldn't I run a 'process viewer' and see if any key logger programs are running? I suppose some hacker could modify an existing executable or rewrite a dll. However, I serious doubt your average script-kiddie is going to that much trouble. Asking the /. crowd about network security issues is like talking to Pat Buchanan about national defense -- someone might make a valid point, but more than likely most of the suggestions are overkill.
In fact, many universities have auctions. Try going to a big local state school's auction. You might google the college's domain for auctions or check the procurement department's web site. You can often buy a decent machine (if not a palette of them) for $20 bucks or less. It won't be top of the line, but you could certainly run XP/98/Linux, a compiler/IDE, a word processor of choice, or surf the web. Heck, sometimes they'll even have exotic hardware (Sun or SGI). You'll need to get a hard drive though (hard drives are removed to prevent information theft).
If I'm a developement shop who wants the largest possible user base for a product that cost me a fortune to make, it makes a big difference. Most modern games already require users to upgrade to the latest and greatest hardware, why alienate your user base even more?
.NET. If MS wants us to use their products (i.e. buy server licenses) may be it should support their products a little better. Why should I make a long term commitment to a particular architecture if there's a chance it's going to make life miserable for me down the road?
In response to your question, MS should make DirectX 10 available for old versions of Windows because developers would like to sell their games to XP users while using a fully supported API. It's kind of like how all the VB6/VBA developers got upset over
First, who said Macs are 'easy' to use. It's easy to use if you want to write a memo or surf the web. If you use it as an internal server (or perform any industrial like function with it) it's like any other linux box, except that it has an annoying UI and crappy mouse. If anything, the proprietary everything and FreeBSD OS require much more specialized skills to repair.
I'm obviously not a patent lawyer. However, where does the line for potential litigation get drawn? Could a company like Bell Labs or some old CS researchers, who have clear prior art, claim some sort of rights to 'operating systems' in general or some type of key scheduling/memory managment algorithm? Could Edgar Codd claim rights to a relational database? If not, why not?
If my professors could teach as well as Feynman, I might have stayed awake. To often lectures are a necessary chore for most professors. What engineer|scientist|mathematician hasn't had an incomprehensible lecturer for a tough course? You'd be surprised how many people enjoy learning for its own sake.
It's not free, but you might enjoy this anyway.
Understanding the Human Body: An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology
I've listened to lectures from the teaching company. They're very good. The only question I'd have is at what level are these lectures being presented. Usually, these courses are introductory or of a survey nature at best.
Also, these courses are free as well:
an introductory anatomy class from Berkeley
video lectures from "The neuronal basis of conciousness" course at Caltech
I know this may not be quite what your looking for. I've found that it's pretty rare for professors to post advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate lectures online.
What do you do now? Are you still in physics?
Actually that's math!
Yet, we still are dumbfounded by the fact that kids think science is uncool. :P
Actually, in a related note. It's not that String Theory is so bad, it's that the publication process in academia is backwards. More often than not, pedigree and politics play a large role in getting papers published. It's even worse when it comes to funding. Not to mention the fact that when the greatest scientist of the 20th century graduated from one of Europe's most prestigious colleges (with publications), he was unable to get accepted to grad school or find a job. Did I mention that the academic world initially reacted in silence to a young uppity patent clerk's unification of newton mechanics and E&M? They could have offered him a research assistantship at least. Yeah, but it's all string theory's fault.
You could write a web service or use XML-RPC and call it remotely as well. However, the call to the "command line" works too. Frankly, it might make sense to move the heavy image processing to a remote process anyway. You certainly wouldn't want a HTTP timeout error on your response because you server is overworked.
"If you've done you're best, that all that matters."
The problem may be that the poster grew up in an environment were praise and affection were based on achievements. Thus, driving the poster's desire to constantly succeed. I don't know. However, the poster needs to adopt the attitude that "doing her best is what's really important, and anybody who expects more is an ass."
How about piggy-backing a real mail server like Sendmail. If you configure your mail server properly, it should greatly reduce the number of problems you have in sending mail. Plus you can configure the queues in Sendmail to speed up the entire process and increase you chances of successfully sending out email. I know that's a really hazy explaination, but I haven't written an application that sends out mail in a while.
What college admission exams? I know Caltech offers a exam for transfers (IIRC). However, most schools don't have admission exams in the US. Are you in Europe? The SATs only need a little high school math and relatively simple verbal skills. Also, most schools ignore SAT scores for transfers. I'm really not trying to be picky. I'm just curious.
What does flushing a toliet have to do with confusing homophones?
It may not be funny to you, but to someone watching you it's hilarious.
You know at first I thought there were a bunch of grammar-nazi retards posting on Slashdot. Finally, I realized all of the stupid, nitpicky posts came from one person. Grammar checking is like arithmetic. Even good mathematicians make arithmetical mistakes (except Von Nuemann, whose native tongue was probably binary).
Here's, what stands out in my mind when I see competitions like this:
1. Effort. Effort is everything. Do you think MEs at MIT, Caltech, or CMU are inferior? The reality is that efficent gas mileage is a solvable problem. Our dependence of foriegn oil is a solvable problem. If some HS students from Indiana can come up with solutions so could the US gov't.
2. Ivy league (or the nerd ivy league) schools are more hype than people want to admit. Good engineers learn by doing. I wish they had more of these competitions. Given the opportunity more students could excel.
3. Frankly, we need an energy crisis. That's probably the only way anything is going to get solved. Unless somethings on fire, we tend to ignore it.
4. The results of the competitions are skewed. The best students at West Idaho State don't have the same internship or research opportunities that the students at MIT have. So naturally, the best students want to do something. They end up taking the competition more seriously. Which would you rather do, an internship at Ford or NASA or compete in a gas mileage contest?
Microsoft won't always be the biggest dog in town. IBM tried to stave of the competition with an IBM PC. So, I'm not shocked at Microsoft's R&D. The only real difference is that Microsoft is facing multiple threats. They've got competition in information retrieval, maturing web services (i.e. a future with NetPCs), the OSS server market, consumer electronics (i.e. the holy grail of the inevitable set-top), and now robotics. I will say however, that I find some of the work at Microsoft Research pretty facinating.
What growth is he looking at? Where is CONSUMER robotics going to grow? I'm actually very interested? I could see a lot of increased industrial applications. I could even see some business applications. However, I don't see what a robot could do in my home in the near future. Can any robotics people enlighten me?
I read the WSJ article yesterday and I didn't see any real motivation on his part for turning down the money. In the article, there was a little blurb about "content for the people" and that's about it. Yeah, the article's projections (of his potential profits) are high, but he could probably rake in a little bit of dough for a couple of banners. Heck, Drudge does the same thing and I don't consider him a sell out. Oh, by the way, don't look at the right side of your screen when you read Slashdot. Yeah, scroll past the top part too. Yeah, Slashdot doesn't sell out >VA Linux>ThinkGeek>.
The key is content. Frankly, people don't mind the occaisional ad if there some content. Heck, most people enjoy the commercials during the Superbowl.
Incidentally, did anyone notice Craig's List recently expanded the number of cities that they cover? I just went there today and saw a bunch of extra cities that I could peruse.
So Costco is Walmart before Walmart went bad. I guess free-market capitalism works -- sometimes.
I immediately thought about intellegence. I'm sure somebody like to know what Osama bin Laden is eating for breakfast.
I really don't know a lot about photography (or optics), but I would imagine that the only reason you can't 'see at a long distance' is due to a fuzziness of resolution. At what 'resolution' could you read my license plate from space? What role does the atmosphere play in distorting (bending) the image as it travels through the air?
Sounds like it's as much a management problem as it is a employee problem. You could have developers identify who is giving the better bug reports and remove their strict quotas (or at least weight their bugs a little differently). Heck, that probably would be a good way to find developers.
Good advice. I've got one question about the referrals. Do you just bluntly ask for 3 referrals? I understand that you have to do good work and have a good relationship with the customer. However, is it that simple? I may try it myself.