The best way to get programming experience is thru practice. Either work on your own personal projects or contribute to a larger shared (OSS) project. That's the only way you're going to become a better programmer. Classes are merely an introduction to the ideas.
Programming classes are like piano lessons. You're not going to become a concert pianist thru basic lessons without lots and lots of outside practice on your own.
Parent is exactly right. Sony charges Publishers... while Microsoft charges the Users. Neither one are offering online services for *FREE*. It just depends who you think should pay for it.
They already have a degree equivalent to Masters of Creationism. It requires years of study and training and is already relevant to the field. It's called Priest (or as you noted, the PhD is Doctor of Divinity in some religious programs).
When Creationism starts yielding some research that is able to make independently testable and verifyable predictions, then we can treat it as a science rather than an art.
I've had a couple electrics including a $150 self-cleaning one. Even the $150 electric doesn't come close to a $2-3 Fusion blade for comfort or closeness. Plus the cost of the cleaning fluid refills ended up costing as much as new blade refills.
I didn't know they were from China until after I received the item. There's no way to verify where an item is going to come from just by using EBay and Paypal until after you receive it. Furthermore, they were using an account (that was probably hacked) that had high 100% feedback.
It's not just Tiffany or designer products. EBay is full of counterfeit stuff for everyday goods as well. 90% of the razor blades on EBay are fakes. If you buy Gillette Fusion refills there, you're likely to get something that looks nearly identical but will tear off half your face when you try to use them. I got ripped off for $70 -- and getting refunds through Paypal / EBay for counterfeit items is a joke when they want you to return the items with tracking to China where they'll just be used again to scam another consumer.
If you want a 1TB external drive, you can get an external 3.5" drive @ $100 that is faster for about $500 less than the LaCie @$599 -- or you could get 6 of them for the same price.
They both require an external power-adapter and both are about the same size (LaCie has two 2.5" drives which ends up about the same size and weight as a single 3.5" drive).
And you can't run a filesystem built specifically for flash on these drives, with Linux or otherwise, because they don't present a flash interface. They present an SATA interface.
The OS can simply query the rotational speed. Anything that responds with 0 is generally a flash drive. There's also no reason that an OS shouldn't allow you to put whatever filesystem you want on a drive when you format it if you have a flash-optimized fs already present in your OS. Some of the blame lies with OS's as well as the drives.
Ummm... I'm not an "Apple fanboi" for one. I actually bought the Android (before returning it because it turned out to be a "beta" product). And I was pretty peeved at the lack of a headphone adapter. The USB-mini connector is not a standard for headphones no matter what anyone of you say (I can't buy them at Best Buy or any other common electronics store at least). Plus it's just darn annoying that I can't recharge and use audio out at the same time (i.e. like if you wanted to play music thru car stereo while recharging). It's bad design and proprietary and just as much "DRM" as the iPod Shuffle headphones -- possibly more since you can actually plug in regular headphones into a shuffle and have it work (albeit with reduced functionality provided by the missing control buttons).
No, it'd be like buying a European car and then finding out the US standard tools you have won't work on it and that you have to buy metric tools to fix it. Then bitching and moaning that they should make all cars us inches and imperial standard measurements rather than metric measurements. It's a hardware difference. Not a lock-out.
Assuming said speculation was true it wouldn't be DRM, but it would be intentionally enforced hardware component lock-in. If you want to call it DRM, go ahead, but it is inaccurate. Either way it is annoying and likely actionable if someone had the legal muscle.
According to Apple's VP of iPod marketing, third parties will soon be selling a small cable with the controls on it that you can plug any headphones into. It's not even a "lockout". Basically they have an extra hardware feature on their headphones that isn't standard. To get these hardware features, you need to buy Apple headphones or a third party adapter with this hardware feature. Actually, you can still use any headphones but without the additional hardware buttons on the adapter or on Apple headphones you lose the control features. It's hardly DRM.
As a science type, I encourage you to not turn off your brain to astrology, Feng Shui, crystal power, and other crap.
I don't have the time to actively research and test every hokey theory out there. I rely on trust as part of my belief in Science, that I can read the research of other scientists that have done peer-reviewed experiments and use that as a basis for my belief. Most of the subjects the grandparent mentioned have been shown to have no scientific validity so I will not give them much credit until someone can demonstrate otherwise.
Instead, test it formally, with double blinds, hoping that it works (so you don't subconsciously suppress data)
BTW, hoping that something will work can result in the suppression of (contrary) data just as easily as hoping that something will fail. The best way to read scientific data is as objectively as possible, without a predetermined hope to which way the results will happen.
I found that some things are very real and they are surrounded with mysticism so that is the way to learn them- but there is still something real in there-- that could be dug out.
You may believe certain forms of mysticism to be true. They may even have a bit of "truth" to them -- it is certainly possible for there to be truths that can not be explained by science. However, that does not mean than any of these truths in mysticism (or religion) are Scientific by any means. It is completely possible to arrive at a truth or even to develop a technology by way other than the Scientific Method.
The main difference between Science and Religion is the ability for what we believe (the "Truth" as it is) can change with observation.
Science is "believe it when you see it" and Religion is "believe it, then you will see it".
Heck, Science can even be Religion. The original farming technology of ancient cultures wasn't developed by peer reviewed double-blind scientific experiments but it was through rigorous observation and research that the ancient temple priests were able to predicted the best days for planting from the position of the stars even if it was presented to the general population as religious edicts.
And asking if someone believes for religious purposes that humans and dinosaurs coexisted despite scientific evidence to the contrary. is an opinion question.
I see way more grammar nitpicking on slashdot than I did on book forums.
Could that be because here there's more need for it?
There's a tendency for computer programmers to be picky about grammar. Especially after having the experience of a major system crashing on them for the lack of a semicolon.
One thing about flash in general is that in order to rewrite a small amount of data, you need to (at the low level) erase and rewrite a relatively large amount of data.
The technical term for small write requests actually causing large writes is "Write Amplification". This is one reason the Intel SSD drives are so fast. They have a Write Amplification (WA) factor of 1.1 (done by combining small writes) while many other drives have a WA as high as 20. They also use an "intelligent" wear-leveling algorithm that can reduce spurious writing by nearly a factor of 3.
WHEREAS, the University of Oklahoma is a publicly funded institution which should be open to all ideas
Hey, I think that U. Oklahoma should teach intelligent design / creationism in a science class. Preferably in the same class as free energy, structure-altered water, astrology / geocentrism, and other similar "sciences" *.
After all, since they're publicly funded, they should be "open to all ideas"... even the ones that are provably stupid. (* of course, the actual class would be teaching logical methods and showing how to debunk these pseudo-sciences).
It might not make the most economic sense *TODAY* without tax credits but putting the money into the technology being developed for battery and hybrids will make cheaper more efficient cars available in the future. The main cost right now is the battery pack but with more mainstream production as well as further research, this should come down in cost (higher capacity / cheaper batteries in future cars).
I would still like to see you point out just one real-world production-ready C compiler where NULL is not internally represented by 0 and then try out those cases by myself. First of all, I'm not aware of any NULL!=0 (internal representation) compilers and I'm pretty sure if you found one, I could in turn find lots of real-world code that would break on it (either from the code or the compiler failing to follow standards)..
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The best way to get programming experience is thru practice. Either work on your own personal projects or contribute to a larger shared (OSS) project. That's the only way you're going to become a better programmer. Classes are merely an introduction to the ideas.
Programming classes are like piano lessons. You're not going to become a concert pianist thru basic lessons without lots and lots of outside practice on your own.
Parent is exactly right. Sony charges Publishers... while Microsoft charges the Users. Neither one are offering online services for *FREE*. It just depends who you think should pay for it.
They already have a degree equivalent to Masters of Creationism. It requires years of study and training and is already relevant to the field. It's called Priest (or as you noted, the PhD is Doctor of Divinity in some religious programs).
When Creationism starts yielding some research that is able to make independently testable and verifyable predictions, then we can treat it as a science rather than an art.
get an electric shaver
I've had a couple electrics including a $150 self-cleaning one. Even the $150 electric doesn't come close to a $2-3 Fusion blade for comfort or closeness. Plus the cost of the cleaning fluid refills ended up costing as much as new blade refills.
I didn't know they were from China until after I received the item. There's no way to verify where an item is going to come from just by using EBay and Paypal until after you receive it. Furthermore, they were using an account (that was probably hacked) that had high 100% feedback.
It's not just Tiffany or designer products. EBay is full of counterfeit stuff for everyday goods as well. 90% of the razor blades on EBay are fakes. If you buy Gillette Fusion refills there, you're likely to get something that looks nearly identical but will tear off half your face when you try to use them. I got ripped off for $70 -- and getting refunds through Paypal / EBay for counterfeit items is a joke when they want you to return the items with tracking to China where they'll just be used again to scam another consumer.
If you want a 1TB external drive, you can get an external 3.5" drive @ $100 that is faster for about $500 less than the LaCie @$599 -- or you could get 6 of them for the same price.
They both require an external power-adapter and both are about the same size (LaCie has two 2.5" drives which ends up about the same size and weight as a single 3.5" drive).
And you can't run a filesystem built specifically for flash on these drives, with Linux or otherwise, because they don't present a flash interface. They present an SATA interface.
The OS can simply query the rotational speed. Anything that responds with 0 is generally a flash drive. There's also no reason that an OS shouldn't allow you to put whatever filesystem you want on a drive when you format it if you have a flash-optimized fs already present in your OS. Some of the blame lies with OS's as well as the drives.
The functionality isn't what's important, it's the community that is.
Yup, critical mass is extremely important. It's the reason we're stuck with eBay and Paypal even though BOTH PRETTY MUCH SUCK.
Ummm... I'm not an "Apple fanboi" for one. I actually bought the Android (before returning it because it turned out to be a "beta" product). And I was pretty peeved at the lack of a headphone adapter. The USB-mini connector is not a standard for headphones no matter what anyone of you say (I can't buy them at Best Buy or any other common electronics store at least). Plus it's just darn annoying that I can't recharge and use audio out at the same time (i.e. like if you wanted to play music thru car stereo while recharging). It's bad design and proprietary and just as much "DRM" as the iPod Shuffle headphones -- possibly more since you can actually plug in regular headphones into a shuffle and have it work (albeit with reduced functionality provided by the missing control buttons).
In computer terms, punctuation is merely part of the grammar of a language.
No, it'd be like buying a European car and then finding out the US standard tools you have won't work on it and that you have to buy metric tools to fix it. Then bitching and moaning that they should make all cars us inches and imperial standard measurements rather than metric measurements. It's a hardware difference. Not a lock-out.
You want to turn this economy around? Cut taxes to 20%, max. Reduce regulations on small businesses \ cut the red tape.
The historic upper bracket tax rates in the past have been as high as 94% and were above 90% for the entire 50's. They were above 70% for the 60's and 70's. All three decades were considered relatively prosperous times for Americans with quite a bit of growth in the economy and industry.
Taxes right now are significantly lower than the average rates over the past 100 years and our gov't is *A LOT* bigger than it ever was.
BTW, Where is the outrage for the "DRM" of Google using a weird USB headphone adapter on Android phones?
Assuming said speculation was true it wouldn't be DRM, but it would be intentionally enforced hardware component lock-in. If you want to call it DRM, go ahead, but it is inaccurate. Either way it is annoying and likely actionable if someone had the legal muscle.
According to Apple's VP of iPod marketing, third parties will soon be selling a small cable with the controls on it that you can plug any headphones into. It's not even a "lockout". Basically they have an extra hardware feature on their headphones that isn't standard. To get these hardware features, you need to buy Apple headphones or a third party adapter with this hardware feature. Actually, you can still use any headphones but without the additional hardware buttons on the adapter or on Apple headphones you lose the control features. It's hardly DRM.
As a science type, I encourage you to not turn off your brain to astrology, Feng Shui, crystal power, and other crap.
I don't have the time to actively research and test every hokey theory out there. I rely on trust as part of my belief in Science, that I can read the research of other scientists that have done peer-reviewed experiments and use that as a basis for my belief. Most of the subjects the grandparent mentioned have been shown to have no scientific validity so I will not give them much credit until someone can demonstrate otherwise.
Instead, test it formally, with double blinds, hoping that it works (so you don't subconsciously suppress data)
BTW, hoping that something will work can result in the suppression of (contrary) data just as easily as hoping that something will fail. The best way to read scientific data is as objectively as possible, without a predetermined hope to which way the results will happen.
I found that some things are very real and they are surrounded with mysticism so that is the way to learn them- but there is still something real in there-- that could be dug out.
You may believe certain forms of mysticism to be true. They may even have a bit of "truth" to them -- it is certainly possible for there to be truths that can not be explained by science. However, that does not mean than any of these truths in mysticism (or religion) are Scientific by any means. It is completely possible to arrive at a truth or even to develop a technology by way other than the Scientific Method.
The main difference between Science and Religion is the ability for what we believe (the "Truth" as it is) can change with observation.
Science is "believe it when you see it" and Religion is "believe it, then you will see it".
Heck, Science can even be Religion. The original farming technology of ancient cultures wasn't developed by peer reviewed double-blind scientific experiments but it was through rigorous observation and research that the ancient temple priests were able to predicted the best days for planting from the position of the stars even if it was presented to the general population as religious edicts.
And asking if someone believes for religious purposes that humans and dinosaurs coexisted despite scientific evidence to the contrary. is an opinion question.
There... fixed it for you.
Could that be because here there's more need for it?
There's a tendency for computer programmers to be picky about grammar. Especially after having the experience of a major system crashing on them for the lack of a semicolon.
Just like the parent says: the actual article is a work of fiction and speculation with no hard facts on future products.... merely "what if's".
You forgot to mention that it has a built-in BluRay player. For your old DVD collection, it's a very nice upscaling DVD player as well.
One thing about flash in general is that in order to rewrite a small amount of data, you need to (at the low level) erase and rewrite a relatively large amount of data.
The technical term for small write requests actually causing large writes is "Write Amplification". This is one reason the Intel SSD drives are so fast. They have a Write Amplification (WA) factor of 1.1 (done by combining small writes) while many other drives have a WA as high as 20. They also use an "intelligent" wear-leveling algorithm that can reduce spurious writing by nearly a factor of 3.
WHEREAS, the University of Oklahoma is a publicly funded institution which should be open to all ideas
Hey, I think that U. Oklahoma should teach intelligent design / creationism in a science class. Preferably in the same class as free energy, structure-altered water, astrology / geocentrism, and other similar "sciences" *.
After all, since they're publicly funded, they should be "open to all ideas"... even the ones that are provably stupid. (* of course, the actual class would be teaching logical methods and showing how to debunk these pseudo-sciences).
1m1j is much much worse than 2g1c.
It might not make the most economic sense *TODAY* without tax credits but putting the money into the technology being developed for battery and hybrids will make cheaper more efficient cars available in the future. The main cost right now is the battery pack but with more mainstream production as well as further research, this should come down in cost (higher capacity / cheaper batteries in future cars).
I would still like to see you point out just one real-world production-ready C compiler where NULL is not internally represented by 0 and then try out those cases by myself. First of all, I'm not aware of any NULL!=0 (internal representation) compilers and I'm pretty sure if you found one, I could in turn find lots of real-world code that would break on it (either from the code or the compiler failing to follow standards)..