I think the best viewing order is 4, 5, 6, the Wikipedia entries on the first three. That way you learn all the important fasts without having to sit through The Little Menace.
Alternatively I recommend 4, 5, 6, Backstroke of the West. BotW arguably is more entertaining than vanilla Episode 3.
Oops, forgot to conntect my point to yours. I wanted to say that this isn't always complacency but a "lesser of two evils" situation where "can't play games" is seen as more evil than "both free and regular use are artificially limited".
In some cases it is difficult. Some people take their gaming very seriously and they might be willing to put up with anything if it means they can play the latest games.
I will react to Vista by buying a PlayStation 2 (no typo) and maybe a Wii once the price is below 150 EUR, but I'm determined to avoid Vista. Most people aren't. And it's still tempting; console gaming inherently lacks the customizing aspect PC gaming allows for.
(At this point I would like to point out to any web designers who code to redirect users to country specific sites and languages based on their IP address, that if I ever find you I will hurt you, that's a promise. I live in Germany and travel a lot in the EU, but I speak English, I'm damned if I can ever get the page I'm looking for after a cookie clear. Seriously, do you think I'm too stupid to know the difference between.com and.de; that's why I typed one not the other, why on earth should you redirect me?)
Even worse, Google randomly sets my searches to "in German only", cookies be damned. Thank you, Google, for assuming that my request for sites related to prefix portage slang "/fix/your/edest" is best suited by searching only German sites.
You're kidding, right? With these schematics the terrists could develop their own cruise missile control systems. Intel has doomed the Western world! DOOMED!
I'm currently developing a device for situations where you can't dictate a text message to your phone. It has a small keypad and a rubber connector which fits snugly over the microphone end of the phone. You type in the message and the device then uses speech synthesis to generate a voice with which it then dictates the text message to the phone.
Depends. It definitely sucks for managing university-related text. Things like "I've got AI2 and PuIE, but let's meet in MZH E0 at 17." just don't go well.
I think though you are missing the larger point. History is not a science in which you can determine who is ultimately right and wrong. The people who survive and create the power structures thereafter are those who write the histories and those histories reflect their biases.
Point in case: Josef Mengele is known as an incredibly sadistic and evil man, even when compared to the rest of the Nazi regime. However, his research did make modern transplantation medicine possible - if Germany had won the war he'd be a hero and the less desirable facts about him would be marginalized.
How did Command and Conquer 2 put it? "He who controls the past controls the futire." Of course everyone tries to change history to fit his own perspective.
The current administration is not perceived as much more reasonable. Having people with less of a gung-ho attitude will not magically make everybody like you but it might stop your country giving them good reasons to hate you.
Perfection is impossible to attain, but there is a difference between being in a bad position and actively making it worse. In respect to the goodwill you had among the other nations of the world you've been doing the latter for the last couple years.
Heh. Over here in Germany people are still crying because we just got tuition. In Bremen you pay 500/semester (or you attend the International University, which is entirely private annd costs ~15k/year), unless you are poor enough to qualify for government subsidies. The rates are expected to increase, with some federal countries thinking of rates as high as 1.5k/semester, but the students are mad about 500 Euros already.
And yes, the "pay until you die" thing is what most people are mad about - in the worst case scenario you might leave university with more than 100k of debt, which is of course undesirable.
I think that the more people we have in the software industry with CS degrees, the better. I guess I had better qualify this with the statement that I have no real idea what CS degrees these days are like, I got mine back in '93. There was only 1 software engineering class, the rest was math, hardware/circuits, or programming. I hope that these days they have added more to the curriculum that deals with the process of developing software.
Here are my experiences. Note that I'm from Germany and my experiences might or might not be applicable to American universities. YMMV etc.
Firstly there's the distinction between CS (Diploma) and CS (Bachelor). The bachelor course is comparable to international bachelor courses and is met with utter contempt from diploma students like myself who see it as little more than a way to quickly produce standardized IT workers. The diploma is being phased out for the same reason I prefer it: It's hard to assess what a diploma student studied when he studied, because diploma students mostly get to choose what they learn. Apparently HR doesn't want to interview people anymore nowadays.
The standard courses that all diploma students (as well as the bachelor ones) go through during the first four semesters involve programming in Java, a bit of Unix theory (involving a bit of C++), a bit of math, some theory, the basics of either robotics, economics or design and a two-semester software project that emulates the writing of commercial software, complete with nebulous, ever-changing customer demands. Everything from then (5th through 8th semester) is more or less free choice; the only requirements are that you collect enough ECTS points in all required fields (theory, practice, application, free studies and another four-semester project). Then you write a paper (9th semester) and you're done.
The bachelor (and later master) courses differ by being much more strict about what you're allowed to study and when.
Essentially, things like hardware design are entirely optional and the emphasis on math is only found in the theory courses, which (thank $DEITY) only make up for 12 of 120 ECTS points of the second four semesters (in the first four semesters the math and theory courses are compulsory). The emphasis is more on high-level stuff and languages are introduced as neccessary - although there is a trend to standardize on Java, even in AI. There are no formal classes on technical writing, but it tends to be covered in seminars and at the beginning you have a compulsory course on "working scientifically", which actually is a course on correct citation style.
While the software project doesn't really count as a software engineering course you do encounter stuff like UML, Gantt charts and the like.
Apparently things aren't too different, after all.
I'm a German CS student and while I'm mot going to be done for another two years I'd like to know whether the same nonsense is happening in Europe (and, more specifically, Germany). It'd be bad to enter the free market and spend the next two months trying to figure out what the hell the current name-du-jour for a Java developer is or why the hell they're offering me a job as an architect for the salary of a helpdesk technician (of course later I'd find out that "System Information Architect" is the current name for "Helpdesk Callcenter Phone Monkey").
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someone finally poured hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants.
She was shocked, I hear. Petrified.
Of course the correct verb would be "to riff".
I think the best viewing order is 4, 5, 6, the Wikipedia entries on the first three. That way you learn all the important fasts without having to sit through The Little Menace.
Alternatively I recommend 4, 5, 6, Backstroke of the West. BotW arguably is more entertaining than vanilla Episode 3.
Oops, forgot to conntect my point to yours. I wanted to say that this isn't always complacency but a "lesser of two evils" situation where "can't play games" is seen as more evil than "both free and regular use are artificially limited".
In some cases it is difficult. Some people take their gaming very seriously and they might be willing to put up with anything if it means they can play the latest games.
I will react to Vista by buying a PlayStation 2 (no typo) and maybe a Wii once the price is below 150 EUR, but I'm determined to avoid Vista. Most people aren't. And it's still tempting; console gaming inherently lacks the customizing aspect PC gaming allows for.
(At this point I would like to point out to any web designers who code to redirect users to country specific sites and languages based on their IP address, that if I ever find you I will hurt you, that's a promise. I live in Germany and travel a lot in the EU, but I speak English, I'm damned if I can ever get the page I'm looking for after a cookie clear. Seriously, do you think I'm too stupid to know the difference between .com and .de; that's why I typed one not the other, why on earth should you redirect me?)
Even worse, Google randomly sets my searches to "in German only", cookies be damned. Thank you, Google, for assuming that my request for sites related to prefix portage slang "/fix/your/edest" is best suited by searching only German sites.
Yes, we should demand that the electricity is WPA2 encrypted!
...I want the MOS 6581!
You're kidding, right? With these schematics the terrists could develop their own cruise missile control systems. Intel has doomed the Western world! DOOMED!
They tried it, but the QA people felt pretty stupid shouting "DEE DIT DIT DIT DEE DEE DEE DEE DIT DIT DEE DEE" into their phones.
I'm currently developing a device for situations where you can't dictate a text message to your phone. It has a small keypad and a rubber connector which fits snugly over the microphone end of the phone. You type in the message and the device then uses speech synthesis to generate a voice with which it then dictates the text message to the phone.
Sometimes I'm so smart it hurts.
Depends. It definitely sucks for managing university-related text. Things like "I've got AI2 and PuIE, but let's meet in MZH E0 at 17." just don't go well.
But there's no way to pronounce "hi2u whr u? im at statn wtng fr trn". Obviously calling people does not do.
I think though you are missing the larger point. History is not a science in which you can determine who is ultimately right and wrong. The people who survive and create the power structures thereafter are those who write the histories and those histories reflect their biases.
Point in case: Josef Mengele is known as an incredibly sadistic and evil man, even when compared to the rest of the Nazi regime. However, his research did make modern transplantation medicine possible - if Germany had won the war he'd be a hero and the less desirable facts about him would be marginalized.
How did Command and Conquer 2 put it? "He who controls the past controls the futire." Of course everyone tries to change history to fit his own perspective.
What if you accidentally drop a small capacitor in through the ventilation slit? Is it still illegal then?
Probably yes.
You affiliated asian-looking people with the American election system. Be glad that China hasn't demanded a formal excuse yet. ;)
How about the second World War? "Austrian painter kills sixty million people."
The attack of the bacon robots is near!
The current administration is not perceived as much more reasonable. Having people with less of a gung-ho attitude will not magically make everybody like you but it might stop your country giving them good reasons to hate you.
Perfection is impossible to attain, but there is a difference between being in a bad position and actively making it worse. In respect to the goodwill you had among the other nations of the world you've been doing the latter for the last couple years.
Dear Mr. Fizax,
I want to hire you as a Highly Paid Code Monkey. Immediately.
Sincerely,
J. Random HR Guy,
Randomco
Heh. Over here in Germany people are still crying because we just got tuition. In Bremen you pay 500/semester (or you attend the International University, which is entirely private annd costs ~15k/year), unless you are poor enough to qualify for government subsidies. The rates are expected to increase, with some federal countries thinking of rates as high as 1.5k/semester, but the students are mad about 500 Euros already.
And yes, the "pay until you die" thing is what most people are mad about - in the worst case scenario you might leave university with more than 100k of debt, which is of course undesirable.
Also if you want to become a taxi driver.
I think that the more people we have in the software industry with CS degrees, the better. I guess I had better qualify this with the statement that I have no real idea what CS degrees these days are like, I got mine back in '93. There was only 1 software engineering class, the rest was math, hardware/circuits, or programming. I hope that these days they have added more to the curriculum that deals with the process of developing software.
Here are my experiences. Note that I'm from Germany and my experiences might or might not be applicable to American universities. YMMV etc.
Firstly there's the distinction between CS (Diploma) and CS (Bachelor). The bachelor course is comparable to international bachelor courses and is met with utter contempt from diploma students like myself who see it as little more than a way to quickly produce standardized IT workers. The diploma is being phased out for the same reason I prefer it: It's hard to assess what a diploma student studied when he studied, because diploma students mostly get to choose what they learn. Apparently HR doesn't want to interview people anymore nowadays.
The standard courses that all diploma students (as well as the bachelor ones) go through during the first four semesters involve programming in Java, a bit of Unix theory (involving a bit of C++), a bit of math, some theory, the basics of either robotics, economics or design and a two-semester software project that emulates the writing of commercial software, complete with nebulous, ever-changing customer demands. Everything from then (5th through 8th semester) is more or less free choice; the only requirements are that you collect enough ECTS points in all required fields (theory, practice, application, free studies and another four-semester project). Then you write a paper (9th semester) and you're done.
The bachelor (and later master) courses differ by being much more strict about what you're allowed to study and when.
Essentially, things like hardware design are entirely optional and the emphasis on math is only found in the theory courses, which (thank $DEITY) only make up for 12 of 120 ECTS points of the second four semesters (in the first four semesters the math and theory courses are compulsory). The emphasis is more on high-level stuff and languages are introduced as neccessary - although there is a trend to standardize on Java, even in AI. There are no formal classes on technical writing, but it tends to be covered in seminars and at the beginning you have a compulsory course on "working scientifically", which actually is a course on correct citation style.
While the software project doesn't really count as a software engineering course you do encounter stuff like UML, Gantt charts and the like.
Apparently things aren't too different, after all.
I'm a German CS student and while I'm mot going to be done for another two years I'd like to know whether the same nonsense is happening in Europe (and, more specifically, Germany). It'd be bad to enter the free market and spend the next two months trying to figure out what the hell the current name-du-jour for a Java developer is or why the hell they're offering me a job as an architect for the salary of a helpdesk technician (of course later I'd find out that "System Information Architect" is the current name for "Helpdesk Callcenter Phone Monkey").
Others may think I'm a CS student but I know I'm an Information Collection and Processing Engineer of the Computer Science Department of My Life.