And the RIAA will make you a rich man! You're essentially trying to control the distrubution of your class in digital form so that only "good" students can download it. Much the same way the RIAA tries to control distribution based on pay. Did anyone ever see Ferris Buhlers(sp) day off? Remember the part where the lecturer was pre-recorded and the students had tape recorders in their sted? Consider this as the same, sans the analog mediums (air, tape).
The price of a violin or a Piano is comparable to the price of tools for any profession. Have you seen the licensing fees for a copy of Rationale Rose? Visual Studio.NET? Have you ever seen how much a professional car mechanic spends on tools? I gaurantee you a professional car mechanic spends as much for his tools as a baby grand piano. And yet somehow, I don't know any software developers or car mechanics (even the ones who work on formula 1 cars) that have been as rich as Metallica or Michael Jackson. I don't know about you, but having my car working well is far more important to me than if I get the latest CD from Metallica so members of the band can engage in frat-boy like debauchery.
Student loans are not only cheap, they are exceptionally flexible. If you lose your job, you can fill out an unemployment form online and defer without question for 6 months. You can claim financial hardship (yes I have a job, but I have testicular AND breast cancer). You can adjust the term of the loan at will. Call them up and you can go from a 10 year payment plan to a 30 year plan in 10 minutes. You can even pay them less than interest! As long as you pay them and stay current, they will bend over backwards.
I personally have had to use options 1 & 3 -- having been laid-off 3 times in 3 years. A friend of mine used option 2. He didn't have cancer, he just claimed financial hardship after purchasing an all new machintosh home theatre -- they run a debt/income ratio check on you and your done. If you go back to school (9+ credits) they are deferred until you're done, and then you don't start paying again until 6 months after. Hell, someone I know has been living off student loans and staying marginally student/employed for 14 years (she's 31). Grades have no effect on your loan or rate either.
You will never get cheaper or easier money in your life. EVER! On the downside, your student loans are impervious to bankruptcy. Same person from above filed bankruptcy and they STILL keep loaning her money! She is up to 90k! You can't shake student loans. If you die and you haven't paid them everything, they will pull the gold fillings from your teeth and sell your body to science!
I can cite a much more painful example of how the "if you have nothing to hide... " mentality is flawed.
Rounding up 6 million Jews while fighting a massive war was a logistical problem for the Nazi's during WW2. So, where do you think they first went for information about who was a Jew? Census data. When European Jews were filling out census data before Hitler's rise I am sure they proudly checked "JEW!" -- having nothing to hide. Never did they imagine in their worst nightmares the horrors that would befall many of them because of it.
And, if your a US citizen we have McCarthyism and the Red-scare.
The language used will depend entirely on bussiness needs, existing infrastructure if anything, breakdown of in-house talent, maturity -- etc. I think you TRY to use a consistent platform/langauge unless it makes sense to do otherwise. Then, you rely on integration techniques like webservices to bridge the gaps.
In my current project, for example, we needed to monitor a directory and translate a doc file to an XML/jar file currently being accepted elsewhere. It would have been trivial to use pre-existing java code to do the job -- the directory monitor and an import interface already existed. 20 lines of code tops to do the job.
However, because it HAD to be a doc file, and MS integrates so well with itself, it was ASSUMED that.net would be the best choice to process those doc files and create the appropriate jar. So, A directory monitor in.net had to be written, then all the reprocessing done, then the jar file must be written,.. all stuff ready to go with our existing java code. And, to date we are still trying to figure out how to get a proper jar file and manifest written in.net.
So, which was better? In my opinion we could have gotten around the doc file problem in java just as easy as the jar file problem in.net. Difference was that mountains of java code already existed to do most of the work.
So, requirements to use.doc coupled with legacy java, mixed with off-the-cuff design decisions = "Do it in.net"
Like any lottery, the host of the lottery doesn't actually HAVE the prize. Be it cash, a fighter jet (like the pepsi give-away) or anything else. What they do is buy insurance on the event. So, for $15 everyone buys a ticket. Insurance against a win is $10, the other $5 goes to....
I think that would be a legitimate way to go.
My first bit of advice is to immediately try and shrug off any pride you have in your degree. I graduated last year with an MS in CS and NO ONE cares that you have one. At first I thought it was me, but I started hearing it from other fresh grads. I mean, you are right to have pride in your efforts -- my MS was a lot of work. But, I can't tell you how many frustrating times I have seen: "BS or HS degree or equivalent. Will substitute appropriate experience for education". Also, if you are trying to get a Intel grade security clearance, make sure none of your friends are foriegn nationals; if they are, stop talking to them. My GF is Polish and I was denied a clearance AND lost my job 'cause of it.
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It's about time books went digital, and google is in a great position to do it. But there is fear on behalf on content owners. For google to proceed forward (legally) they HAD to address that fear. Yes, yes, we will implement DRM and all of your content will be safe. The whole while, they knew it would be cracked. I don't think Google deceived themselves, they just placated content owners. Exactly like mac did with iTunes. As an aside, what do people think of taking images and fracturing them into single pixel lines for DRM purposes? The browser can nicely reconstruct the image, but you can't save it without doing a printscreen.
Vaporware of the year... The 2.6 kernel. All the talk was that it was going to come out this year; and that was as far back as march of LAST year. I definately understand pushing it off -- alot is riding on it (or will). Then again, maybe longhorn has it beat
I completely recommend the cannon rebel 2000. new, the rebel is about in your price range. Used, it's easily in your range. The rebel series has served me well, and they use the EOS lenses -- which there are about n^n lenses out there that are compatible. The other great news is that those same EOS lenses are also completely compatible with the Digital Rebel should you ever go that route. Dear santa: All I want for Christmas is a shiiny new Digital Rebel. Can the elves make me one?
The improvement in performance over commandline is insane! Very little is spent on display output and this cannot be understate. I remeber once having to stuff a database with testing information -- some random numbers and strings. 1 million records on a machine twice my speed took almost a day (yes, it was access 97). It was using printf("%d\r",count); after every iteration. When I did the same thing, I did it with only printf every 10k iterations. It completed in just under 3 hours!
This tool seems like a stripped down version of NS2. With NS2 you can roll your own protocol and implement it using their reasonably powerfull scripting language (oTcl.. pronounce Oh - tickle) or create your own C++ code to do the job. They have every wired protocol I can think of implemented, 95 percent of wireless ones (including some satellite) and it also comes with NAM; a GUI to show you the nodes and flow and such. Runs on *nix and windows with cygwin
Something that is little understood about how a judge rules in a patent proceeding is it's perceived effect on 'society'. To use this example, lets say negotiations cannot be settled and an injunction against MS is sought.
Ok, essentially what is then being asked of the court is to take everything has developed by MS and deem it illegal for the masses to use. No one could LEGALLY use windows or office or IE. A judge would never rule this way realizing that the very ruling being written was on a windows PC.
Instead, the judge would ENFORCE a settlement on the parties of say, $10B. Chump change to MS to keep the status quo (last count MS had $40B in cash on hand).
So really, money talks and bullshit definately walks! Because of MS's ubiquitous pressence, any patent infringement case won by the 'little guy' can only end in a cash settlement. Eactly as MS would have it.
And PS. They can still appeal any ruling they don't like; stalling it for decades.
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And the RIAA will make you a rich man! You're essentially trying to control the distrubution of your class in digital form so that only "good" students can download it. Much the same way the RIAA tries to control distribution based on pay. Did anyone ever see Ferris Buhlers(sp) day off? Remember the part where the lecturer was pre-recorded and the students had tape recorders in their sted? Consider this as the same, sans the analog mediums (air, tape).
The price of a violin or a Piano is comparable to the price of tools for any profession. Have you seen the licensing fees for a copy of Rationale Rose? Visual Studio .NET? Have you ever seen how much a professional car mechanic spends on tools? I gaurantee you a professional car mechanic spends as much for his tools as a baby grand piano. And yet somehow, I don't know any software developers or car mechanics (even the ones who work on formula 1 cars) that have been as rich as Metallica or Michael Jackson. I don't know about you, but having my car working well is far more important to me than if I get the latest CD from Metallica so members of the band can engage in frat-boy like debauchery.
Student loans are not only cheap, they are exceptionally flexible. If you lose your job, you can fill out an unemployment form online and defer without question for 6 months. You can claim financial hardship (yes I have a job, but I have testicular AND breast cancer). You can adjust the term of the loan at will. Call them up and you can go from a 10 year payment plan to a 30 year plan in 10 minutes. You can even pay them less than interest! As long as you pay them and stay current, they will bend over backwards.
I personally have had to use options 1 & 3 -- having been laid-off 3 times in 3 years. A friend of mine used option 2. He didn't have cancer, he just claimed financial hardship after purchasing an all new machintosh home theatre -- they run a debt/income ratio check on you and your done. If you go back to school (9+ credits) they are deferred until you're done, and then you don't start paying again until 6 months after. Hell, someone I know has been living off student loans and staying marginally student/employed for 14 years (she's 31). Grades have no effect on your loan or rate either.
You will never get cheaper or easier money in your life. EVER! On the downside, your student loans are impervious to bankruptcy. Same person from above filed bankruptcy and they STILL keep loaning her money! She is up to 90k! You can't shake student loans. If you die and you haven't paid them everything, they will pull the gold fillings from your teeth and sell your body to science!
I can cite a much more painful example of how the "if you have nothing to hide... " mentality is flawed.
Rounding up 6 million Jews while fighting a massive war was a logistical problem for the Nazi's during WW2. So, where do you think they first went for information about who was a Jew? Census data. When European Jews were filling out census data before Hitler's rise I am sure they proudly checked "JEW!" -- having nothing to hide. Never did they imagine in their worst nightmares the horrors that would befall many of them because of it.
And, if your a US citizen we have McCarthyism and the Red-scare.
EVERYONE has something to hide!
The language used will depend entirely on bussiness needs, existing infrastructure if anything, breakdown of in-house talent, maturity -- etc. I think you TRY to use a consistent platform/langauge unless it makes sense to do otherwise. Then, you rely on integration techniques like webservices to bridge the gaps.
.net would be the best choice to process those doc files and create the appropriate jar. So, A directory monitor in .net had to be written, then all the reprocessing done, then the jar file must be written, .. all stuff ready to go with our existing java code. And, to date we are still trying to figure out how to get a proper jar file and manifest written in .net.
.net. Difference was that mountains of java code already existed to do most of the work.
.doc coupled with legacy java, mixed with off-the-cuff design decisions = "Do it in .net"
In my current project, for example, we needed to monitor a directory and translate a doc file to an XML/jar file currently being accepted elsewhere. It would have been trivial to use pre-existing java code to do the job -- the directory monitor and an import interface already existed. 20 lines of code tops to do the job.
However, because it HAD to be a doc file, and MS integrates so well with itself, it was ASSUMED that
So, which was better? In my opinion we could have gotten around the doc file problem in java just as easy as the jar file problem in
So, requirements to use
This is thinly veiled Skype. They even have a similar pricing model.
Like any lottery, the host of the lottery doesn't actually HAVE the prize. Be it cash, a fighter jet (like the pepsi give-away) or anything else. What they do is buy insurance on the event. So, for $15 everyone buys a ticket. Insurance against a win is $10, the other $5 goes to.... I think that would be a legitimate way to go.
My first bit of advice is to immediately try and shrug off any pride you have in your degree. I graduated last year with an MS in CS and NO ONE cares that you have one. At first I thought it was me, but I started hearing it from other fresh grads. I mean, you are right to have pride in your efforts -- my MS was a lot of work. But, I can't tell you how many frustrating times I have seen: "BS or HS degree or equivalent. Will substitute appropriate experience for education". Also, if you are trying to get a Intel grade security clearance, make sure none of your friends are foriegn nationals; if they are, stop talking to them. My GF is Polish and I was denied a clearance AND lost my job 'cause of it.
It's about time books went digital, and google is in a great position to do it. But there is fear on behalf on content owners. For google to proceed forward (legally) they HAD to address that fear. Yes, yes, we will implement DRM and all of your content will be safe. The whole while, they knew it would be cracked. I don't think Google deceived themselves, they just placated content owners. Exactly like mac did with iTunes. As an aside, what do people think of taking images and fracturing them into single pixel lines for DRM purposes? The browser can nicely reconstruct the image, but you can't save it without doing a printscreen.
Google me!
Vaporware of the year... The 2.6 kernel. All the talk was that it was going to come out this year; and that was as far back as march of LAST year. I definately understand pushing it off -- alot is riding on it (or will). Then again, maybe longhorn has it beat
I completely recommend the cannon rebel 2000. new, the rebel is about in your price range. Used, it's easily in your range. The rebel series has served me well, and they use the EOS lenses -- which there are about n^n lenses out there that are compatible. The other great news is that those same EOS lenses are also completely compatible with the Digital Rebel should you ever go that route. Dear santa: All I want for Christmas is a shiiny new Digital Rebel. Can the elves make me one?
The improvement in performance over commandline is insane! Very little is spent on display output and this cannot be understate. I remeber once having to stuff a database with testing information -- some random numbers and strings. 1 million records on a machine twice my speed took almost a day (yes, it was access 97). It was using printf("%d\r",count); after every iteration. When I did the same thing, I did it with only printf every 10k iterations. It completed in just under 3 hours!
This tool seems like a stripped down version of NS2. With NS2 you can roll your own protocol and implement it using their reasonably powerfull scripting language (oTcl .. pronounce Oh - tickle) or create your own C++ code to do the job. They have every wired protocol I can think of implemented, 95 percent of wireless ones (including some satellite) and it also comes with NAM; a GUI to show you the nodes and flow and such. Runs on *nix and windows with cygwin
Something that is little understood about how a judge rules in a patent proceeding is it's perceived effect on 'society'. To use this example, lets say negotiations cannot be settled and an injunction against MS is sought.
Ok, essentially what is then being asked of the court is to take everything has developed by MS and deem it illegal for the masses to use. No one could LEGALLY use windows or office or IE. A judge would never rule this way realizing that the very ruling being written was on a windows PC.
Instead, the judge would ENFORCE a settlement on the parties of say, $10B. Chump change to MS to keep the status quo (last count MS had $40B in cash on hand).
So really, money talks and bullshit definately walks! Because of MS's ubiquitous pressence, any patent infringement case won by the 'little guy' can only end in a cash settlement. Eactly as MS would have it.
And PS. They can still appeal any ruling they don't like; stalling it for decades.