Oh boy, another crazy left winger on slashdot. Why shouldn't the man who puts up the capital (and therefore takes all the risk) be the one that reap the rewards? If the risk-taker doesn't get any rewards why should he take the risk in the first place?
How the hell did this get moderated as insightful with this crap at the bottom?
"The Economist is practically the propaganda arm of capitalist elite "free trader" psychopaths."
Calling the economist conservative is absurd. For example in the feb 26th - march 4th 2005 edition there are TWO articles about gays in the military both positive. That can hardly be described as "conservative" stance on that issue. I could go on and on but I will not waste my time on leftwingers like you.
Havn't Steve Jobs been going on and on about the digital hub for the last several years? Nice to see that Microsoft is using their good old R&D-lab called Apple again.
Yeah, I'm 25 also and I'm so bored with all the flame wars, at slashdot and other places. The last thing you said about cracking open a beer sounds really good.:)
Perhaps they can come with a chip fast enough to run emacs.:)
Jokes aside, competition benefits us all. Never understood why some people feels so strongly about the what company manufactures their cpu:s. Guess I'm getting old.
"Mr. Genovese requested that $20 be sent to a PayPal account and when the payment cleared, the investigator was given access to an Internet address where he could download a file with the source code."
$20 seems a bit much for the windows source code. I think $9.99 would have been more accurate.
I don't care if mathematics is called a sport or not. But I would pay money to see a math-channel on cable that had documentaries on famous mathematicians and that showed lecutures from the greatest now living professors.
I persume the students at GWU pay tution (as many US students do). Do they really want their money to go to a commercial company distributing music over the Internet? Shouldn't that money go into making their education the best that their money could buy?
I think that if GWU have a problem with illegal downloading of music they should use traffic shaping instead.
This message was brought to you from a drunk fart from Old Europe.
I'm planning to gradute with a "magister"(*) in computer science and a bachelor in mathematics. This is from a swedish university so some things are not the same as for you americans.:)
Every autumn there is a new bunch of cs-students that either hate mathematics or at least think it's worthless or can't figure out what it has to do with computers. They usually don't believe you when you tell them that cs is more or less mathematics. There are the odd ones that actually know what they are getting them self into, but most don't.
There was even a guy in my class the first year that asked the professor "when we were going to be using Photoshop". Needless to say almost a lot of those who don't like mathematics drop out after one or maximum two years. We were about 90 the first year, maybe 50 the second and now in the third year I think we are about 25.
One fault my university does is that they try to ease the new students in to CS by not having any really hard courses in the first year. The only slightly challenging CS-course the first year is "algorithms and datastructures". Well there used to be two math courses that since then has been merged into one since they were to "hard".
The univeristy should start the program really tough so the people that won't make it anyway drop out as soon as possible.
Anyway, the problem this creates is that students are fooled into thinking they can pass three (bachelor) or four years (magister) of computer science when they in fact can't.
Enough ranting now.. back to mathematics.
All courses here are 5 points (not sure how that translates into the american system but it's 7,5 ETCS points I think)
math courses: --------------- Calculus I (derivates, antiderivates, single variable) Calculus II (two variables) Numerical analysis Statistics and probability Discrete Mathematics I ( elementry discrete math) Discrete Mathematics II (graphy theory, permutations) Linear Algebra I (matricies, vectors) Linear Algebra II (linear transformations) Abstract Algebra (groups, rings etc) Logic Operations analysis
There are also the mixed math/cs courses:
Automata theory (PDA, turing machines) Complexity analysis I Complexity analysis II
CS-courses that I feel has been the best so for are operating systems and the compiler course and of course automata theory. Nothing is more enlighting that making a turing machine on paper.
I say embrace your inner geek and get knee-deep in maths. It will surely impress the nurses.:D
(*) This is a swedish degree roughly equivalent with a masters.
"NVIDIA indicated (in the reviewers guide with which we were supplied) that we should use a 480W power supply in conjunction with the 6800 Ultra. "
This is crazy! I thought it was bad enough when I had to get a 380W power supply for my P4 and Radeon 9800. It's insane to require people to first pay a lot of money for a new videocard AND then you have to buy a new power supply also.
Nvidia won't be getting me as a customer that's for sure.
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Oh boy, another crazy left winger on slashdot. Why shouldn't the man who puts up the capital (and therefore takes all the risk) be the one that reap the rewards? If the risk-taker doesn't get any rewards why should he take the risk in the first place?
How the hell did this get moderated as insightful with this crap at the bottom?
"The Economist is practically the propaganda arm of capitalist elite "free trader" psychopaths."
Calling the economist conservative is absurd. For example in the feb 26th - march 4th 2005 edition there are TWO articles about gays in the military both positive. That can hardly be described as "conservative" stance on that issue. I could go on and on but I will not waste my time on leftwingers like you.
"but unlike some nations (cough), you see that cash put to work"
as I swede I just say : HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
did anyone care to ask Jeeves what he thinks of this?
Where in the D&D universe is the Balkins?
Why do you want to move here? If you really want to move we can switch places. :D
Thanks to Nakamura I have way coolest watch of all my friends. Pimpin ain't easy
Thanks for all the ass Nakamura.
Lame, no wifi, less space than a Nomad
Havn't Steve Jobs been going on and on about the digital hub for the last several years? Nice to see that Microsoft is using their good old R&D-lab called Apple again.
Yeah, I'm 25 also and I'm so bored with all the flame wars, at slashdot and other places. The last thing you said about cracking open a beer sounds really good. :)
Perhaps they can come with a chip fast enough to run emacs. :)
Jokes aside, competition benefits us all. Never understood why some people feels so strongly about the what company manufactures their cpu:s. Guess I'm getting old.
The question about software patents is really not something people are concerned with as at least 3500 of their countrymen are dead in the tsunamis.
Why should anyone go see that horribly bad movie?
From the article :
"Mr. Genovese requested that $20 be sent to a PayPal account and when the payment cleared, the investigator was given access to an Internet address where he could download a file with the source code."
$20 seems a bit much for the windows source code. I think $9.99 would have been more accurate.
West Virginia
:D
Kerry 45
Bush 54
Nader 1
Yeah.. he leads with -9 percent.
I remeber back in the old days when everyone used either E or Windowmaker or Afterstep.
:D
Thos were the good old days with OctoberX.
I don't care if mathematics is called a sport or not. But I would pay money to see a math-channel on cable that had documentaries on famous mathematicians and that showed lecutures from the greatest now living professors.
P = NP
I persume the students at GWU pay tution (as many US students do). Do they really want their money to go to a commercial company distributing music over the Internet? Shouldn't that money go into making their education the best that their money could buy?
I think that if GWU have a problem with illegal downloading of music they should use traffic shaping instead.
This message was brought to you from a drunk fart from Old Europe.
I apologize for my spelling mistakes.
From the article :
"And thanks to a 10-year technology pact, Sun's servers will be certified to run Windows."
Windows running on UltraSPARC?
The poster didn't even read the article. The words EU och european union isn't even mentioned.
OSCE is not the EU.
That is slashdot for you, makes you wonder why I'm still reading this site after so many years.
Well. I presume they all use frequence hopping and that would make it quite diffucult to jam the signal.
You should add Galois to that list of geniuses that died when they were young.
I'm planning to gradute with a "magister"(*) in computer science and a bachelor in mathematics. :)
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:D
This is from a swedish university so some things are not the same as for you americans.
Every autumn there is a new bunch of cs-students that either hate mathematics or at least think it's worthless or can't figure out what it has to do with computers. They usually don't believe you when you tell them that cs is more or less mathematics. There are the odd ones that actually know what they are getting them self into, but most don't.
There was even a guy in my class the first year that asked the professor "when we were going to be using Photoshop".
Needless to say almost a lot of those who don't like mathematics drop out after one or maximum two years.
We were about 90 the first year, maybe 50 the second and now in the third year I think we are about 25.
One fault my university does is that they try to ease the new students in to CS by not having any really hard courses in the first year. The only slightly challenging CS-course the first year is "algorithms and datastructures". Well there used to be two math courses that since then has been merged into one since they were to "hard".
The univeristy should start the program really tough so the people that won't make it anyway drop out as soon as possible.
Anyway, the problem this creates is that students are fooled into thinking they can pass three (bachelor) or four years (magister) of computer science when they in fact can't.
Enough ranting now.. back to mathematics.
All courses here are 5 points (not sure how that translates into the american system but it's 7,5 ETCS points I think)
math courses
---------------
Calculus I (derivates, antiderivates, single variable)
Calculus II (two variables)
Numerical analysis
Statistics and probability
Discrete Mathematics I ( elementry discrete math)
Discrete Mathematics II (graphy theory, permutations)
Linear Algebra I (matricies, vectors)
Linear Algebra II (linear transformations)
Abstract Algebra (groups, rings etc)
Logic
Operations analysis
There are also the mixed math/cs courses
Automata theory (PDA, turing machines)
Complexity analysis I
Complexity analysis II
CS-courses that I feel has been the best so for are operating systems and the compiler course and of course automata theory. Nothing is more enlighting that making a turing machine on paper.
I say embrace your inner geek and get knee-deep in maths. It will surely impress the nurses.
(*) This is a swedish degree roughly equivalent with a masters.
"NVIDIA indicated (in the reviewers guide with which we were supplied) that we should use a 480W power supply in conjunction with the 6800 Ultra. "
This is crazy! I thought it was bad enough when I had to get a 380W power supply for my P4 and Radeon 9800. It's insane to require people to first pay a lot of money for a new videocard AND then you have to buy a new power supply also.
Nvidia won't be getting me as a customer that's for sure.
I thought you hade read up on PIP since the last time. ;)