"From the stories he told me it sounded like it was hell(stand around sort boxes, shitty pay, people that don't know what they're looking for, management that treated them like shit and treated their own employees more like potential theives than their customers). "
Holy shit, retail sales jobs suck, even if you're selling videogames? In fact, due to low margins and high competition, it actually sucks even more than usual retail jobs because you have to meet sales goals? No way!
Sorting boxes is shipping. You do that in a small store. People not knowing what they want, that's retail. You don't need to pass a test to shop (unfortunately). Shitty pay? Yea, the only money goes to the company first, SM second, and ASM third. Everything else is minimal overhead...
As for the shitty management and thieving, well, management is management. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. The thieving is called loss-prevention, because a 40$ controller walking out the door needs to have about 400$ of other controllers sold to make up the loss (usually): when a controller is stolen, you lose not just the profit, but also the cost of it. Of course they check their Christmas temps out, most of them rob the stores blind!
Essentialism is the practice of stating features of someone based on how they were born. In a lot of ways, it's like phrenology, except instead of bumps on your head, it's the colour of your skin, or your sex organs. Just because I'm black, I'm going to kill you and take your stereo. Just because I have tits and a vagina, I'm going to cry, be better and communications, and not take math in University.
Repeat after me: who we are is a complex mixture of nature and nurture. We do not have any definitive research on how much each plays a role in our development, nor have there been significant or breakthrough strides in figuring this information out.
I would consider the low math enrollment to be a social factor: how many times do teacher select males rather than females in a math class, every year from K to 12, and what kind of effect would this have on females going on to post-secondary math education? What about the other behaviours that we unconciously do towards people based on their genders? Where is the story that explores a gender swap, ala "Black Like Me"?
There is a reason gender studies needs to be a required social science in many curriculums: many people are so blindly ignorant and arrogant about gender, that they can say things, or have an intermediary interpret things to cause situations like this one.
"The odds of that happening by chance are estimated at 1 to 10^50."
That doesn't mean there was some divine intelligence behind it, only that it happened. Improbable is not the same as impossible.
The fact is, unless conditions that generated life occured, there would be no life to consider how improbable it was! Again: the fact we exist means something improbable happened, but does not imply divine intelligence behind it.
You could say that Earth is a strange anamoly that implies there is a divine intelligence, while I can say that if you roll a dice long enough, you'll eventually hit snake eyes for 100 times in a row.
People always seem to think that longshots like that imply purpose and will. That's bunk.
Do you know what that means to people around here? Static IPs, TOS that allows services to run, and other nicities (better support #s).
Besides, the price you pay doesn't reflect the cost: it reflects what people will pay. Businesses have no problem paying extra, and home users have no problem with having most of their virus problems taken care of for them. Just suck it up and pay the extra 20$. It's no big deal.
The true solution is much simpler. Treat consumer grade connections as consumer grade connections. Firewall off all ports below 1024. Deny outgoing connections to ports below 1024 except for 80 (all sites), 25 (only to ISP's mailserver), etc.
This will reduce greatly the ability of Windows worms to spread initially (since all the vulnerable services have listened originally below 1024), and also control other issues. If the consumer wants a business grade connection, charge them for one (an extra 20$ isn't unreasonable).
Most people don't want to learn or know how to stay secure, so don't let them be exposed to it. It's that simple.
The Dreamcast had lots of great games. In terms of AAA titles, given the time schedule we saw for other systems, I'd say it was only after mid 2003 that the Xbox had a better number of titles equal to the number of great titles on the Dreamcast (which, if launched at the same time as the Xbox, would've been announced as dead in Feb/March 2003).
As for Nintendo being last, I haven't seen too many Nokia, Microsoft, or Sony handhelds going around lately... Even with the GBA lineup being largely shitty licences and crappy 2/3rds 3D overhead views, there manage to be excellent games available (Wars series, Boktai series, SquareEnix games). I could see Nintendo living on its handhelds for a long time if it ever did get into 3rd in the console market (which, last time I checked, wasn't happening; Microsoft was lucky enough to be in 3rd due to the lackluster sales in Japan -- no surprise there, the Xbox has no Japanese titles worth a damn).
Do you have a problem with case sensitive file names in Gnome or KDE? No, because the file picker does all the footwork anyways.
I do agree there are warts and leftovers that don't seem useful to have, but I'd argue that some of them (such as case sensitive filenames) can be solved in more meaningful names. Filenames themselves are a shitty representation, chosen only because it was easier (at the time) to have a string in a dentry to describe a set of inodes, rather than having a TRUE representation of the meta-data of the file. OS X.4, BeOS, HPFS -- all have extra attributes to handle this and make life easier. Reiser is moving this way, too. I think a more meaningful solution would be to have the system automatically catagorize all data via filesystem attributes (rather than file(1), even though it works very well), and have automatically generated sets of keywords (perhaps using technology similar to Google search).
Then, you could just tell your word process to open your CMPT thesis, instead of open/home/dylang/txt/school/cmpt801/thesis.pdf.
Wouldn't that be worth all the effort you'd otherwise spend? Especially with tab completion, case-sensitivity is a small issue that is better address by just trashing filenames as the primary method of dealing with data (IMO:)).
I do believe there are a few problems with you assertions:
"1) Make filenames and command flags case-insensitive. The few cycles you spend doing case comparisons will quickly pale in comparison to the time savings you experience in tech support situations where a touch typist accidentally hits space too soon and types "emacS.""
That problem is so much easier to fix than changing 20+ years of UNIX design.
UNIX is case sensitive for a reason. Do you think you can just go through all the source files, replace strcmp with strncasecmp, and have a system that works the way you want? No, you'd have to work things on multiple levels, regression test countless applications, etc. You could, for example, make internal shell commands case insensitive, but that's not the same thing.
Plus, by making the switches all case insensitive, you've suddenly halved the number of possible arguments for any program unless they use the GNU extension. POSIX args are 1 character only!
PS: "2) Several files that do not have extensions usually have some information about their default parser in line #1. Either parse it, or start using file extensions in *NIX."
This is done already. As long as the file is marked executable, the shell will properly lauch the parser. You can even add BINARY formats to the kernel. Check out this way to make all MONO programs run automagically:
if [ ! -e/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register ]; then/sbin/modprobe binfmt_misc
mount -t binfmt_misc none/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc fi
if [ -e/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register ]; then
echo ':CLR:M::MZ::/usr/local/bin/mono:' >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register else
echo "No binfmt_misc support"
exit 1 fi...
Honestly, most people who come up with "problems" in UNIX either fail to understand the reasons for certain design ideas, or aren't aware of pre-existing solutions to their problems. The init scripts and system startup sequence (in general) in UNIX is a much bigger problem, and one of the Gnome guys is making a great replacement for it.:)
I hope you've got some automated Perl setup for this. If you could automate the reporting of abuse, we could cut down on spam in a much more effective way than DDoSing websites.
Your body is part of your conciousness as much as your brain is, it's just that the nerves and related tissue in the rest of your body are at a much lower concentration level. If you are in-tune with your body, you can listen to it very well and know what's good. You won't have to fight with it, either. You'll know what foods are best for you (for example, junkfood may be tasty, but it doesn't leave you feeling as good as if you ate healthy). You'll know when you're tired, and be able to wake up naturally on time. Meditation and concentration are really good for this. The model of the human body as something to be conquered and medicalized is a pretty western viewpoint, and not as accurate as the more time-tested models that eastern philosophies (such as buddhism) teach.
So what you're saying is, you're unable to effectively communicate this without having several followup postings.
Why did you need to post 2 followups to explain context, when you could've written a more concise post originally?
In fact, why was your original post so much more "off the cuff" and poorly written compared to your posts?
Of your original post, only this section implies your intent/motive/need point: "How long until they combine this with the upcoming black box recorders in cars so my car can politely inform the officer that while I'm not speeding right now, I was going 15 over three miles back?"
And it's not strongly implied, nor is it worded in a way to suggest you think about context. Instead, followed with the "Drat! My car is gonna look really ugly covered in tinfoil." it implies you are wanting to avoid possible punishment for avoiding rules.
My original response is totally valid, considering the many points of ambiguity you left in the context of the original post. I find your comments about diabtribes and fucktard comments rather insulting and flippant considering the validity of my comment. If you actually look at the other replies, you'll they also interpret what you wrote the same way I did.
Rather than saying, "oops, I meant to say.." (hey, it happens to everyone on message boards), you instead insult me. That's rude, and I don't appreciate it. Obviously you're smart enough to understand netiquette and such, which means you're also smart enough to post a reply which isn't rude.
Now, is that because you thought of it on the spot, or because you didn't preview your comment before you posted it?
The fact is, most people speed regardless of context. You may find elaborate ways to rationalize it, say when I call you on it in a post on Slashdot... most people speed first and ask questions later. They also do stupid things like failing to signal, and causing other problems because most humans are not cut out to make decisions in a large-scale, co-operative approach. When you're working on a big software or engineering project, is everyone given equal power over which way the project goes?
Taking people out of the driving equation will make road safety a reality more so than anything else. If you want SiR, go to the race track.
Driving is a co-operative thing. Traffic has properties of fluid and properties of dynamic packets on a switched network, each with discrete start and end points. By not following a set of pre-ordained rules that all fellow traffic drivers share, you are fucking shit up.
I hope you learn how to drive co-operatively with others thanks to technology like this, because fucktards like you cause congestion and impede the normal flow of traffic.
From the manpage:
-pedantic Issue all the warnings demanded by strict ISO C and ISO C++; reject all programs that use forbidden extensions, and some other programs that do not follow ISO C and ISO C++. For ISO C, follows the version of the ISO C standard specified by any -std option used.
-- That seems to be exactly what I described it as doing.
Now, you choosing to make standards un-conformance into a warning rather than an error is something else. (Old) C defines the default return type to be int, but C++ has it as undefined. Forcing it to a warning is not the way to solve that problem; you should've fixed the code, which is why g++ defaults to making the type checking as errors, instead of warnings.
Sounds silly to me. I know you can get transfer credits and waivers for certain things, but you can't just write a final and pass a class. Not at the university level, not here.
I sure hope the class you skipped wasn't English, because, " I would of had to take" makes absolutely no sense. Yes, it sounds similar to the contraction of "would have," but syntactically means something completely different. It's this kind of attention to detail that separates programmer grunts from truly excellent computer scientists.
If you just want to program, there are plenty of technical colleges to teach you how to make a DLL file. University is there to teach you why you should make a DLL file. This is something you just can't skip by writing a final.
The problem with that way of thinking is that you miss out on the things you perhaps don't know, or don't know in depth. By going through a good CS program, even if you feel like you should just "skip to the end," you get a better breadth of knowledge in a subject. Plus, you learn all the things that aren't computer related -- interaction with professors, time management, the ability to perform independant research and learning, being able to properly solicit requirements from a customer, etc.
For myself, I just play games in the lecture halls (if it's a particulary boring one), but I've never taken a class where I didn't learn things which I had only previously heard of, and then gone on to implement them in some way.
I think far fewer of you would've failed if you had actually taken lower level classes. I find that the only people who say they don't need to take school are those who haven't taken classes.
"It's the hardest CS course at the University (and this is my first semester in college), so it's expected."
How the hell do you get into a 400 level class without meeting the course pre-reqs? In my University, each class has some dependancies that build up to quite the tree if you want to take a 400 level class. I'm planning on taking CMPT 432 next year, but to get there I've had to do CMPT 111, 115, 214, 215, 250, 332 + MATH 110. Because of the time required for these classes, it's been a few years to get to this point. So how'd you jump into a 400 level class in your first year?
While this may seem like some random posting to Slashdot, those folks from Stanford have been active on the LKML plenty of times, asking about conditions their tools have found, and whether they are bugs or not.
They've directly led to many of those bugs or design choices being discussed and changed, for the better in every case. I wouldn't belittle such work easily, because they have (in their way) contributed a lot to everyone's favourite OS;)
We NEVER compile code without using -Wall and -pedantic!
dylang@shadowgate:~/.tmp$ gcc -Wall -pedantic -c foo.c foo.c: In function `main': foo.c:6: warning: `return' with no value, in function returning non-void foo.c:8: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
It compiles, but you are TOLD about your mistakes!
http://forum.lik-sang.com/other/psp-release/psp- re lease8.jpg
That's not a little extended speaker below the D-pad. That's the analog stick. First handheld to ever have an analog stick (the 8-way DPAD on the NGPC doesn't count), and you shirk it for that!
This thing is going to fail because it goes from 2/3 to 1/3 charge in 2 hours, not because it doesn't have a joystick. Sheesh.
I think you also underestimate the Sony fanbois who don't know what gaming is about. They'll carry the PSP for good couple of years. Sony might have something better by then. They've shown they have no problem pumping and dumping stuff to distract people (PS2 vs. Dreamcast).
/^\s*Content-(Disposition|Type).*name\s*=\s*"?(.+\.(ad[ep]|asd|ba[st]|c[ho]m|cmd|cpl|crt|dbx|dll |e xe|hlp|hta|in[fs]|isp|lnk|js|jse|lnk|ocx|md[etw]|m s[cipt]|nws|ocx|ops|pcd|pi|pif|prf|reg|scf |scr|s ct|sh[bms]|swf|uue|vb|vb[esx]|vxd|wab|ws[cfh]))"?\ s*$/ REJECT Files attached to emails that contain or end in "$3" are prohibited on this server as they may contain viruses. The fil e named "$2" was rejected.
This covers more executable types and is a bit more permissive in the matches to the content line.
The N-Gage has prefix search, several phone numbers for each entry (completely customizable with thumbnail and full picture, too), speakerphone (no side talking required!), no analog service (GSM rocks, baby!), good battery life, caller ID-based ring tones (which can be a recording with the mic, a midi, an mp3, etc), a "recent calls" button away (hit dial from the main telephone screen), an alarm clock/PDA calendar, and speed dial.
Unlike your complaints, the reception and battery life icons are big and easy to see on the top of the screen, you can customize the labels on your phone details, and it uses USB (which makes the MMC inside a removeable drive) or bluetooth for transfering data onto it, which means no losing any covers or having wires.
Best of all, the damn thing is super cheap because Nokia's trying to give them away:D
Considering the Motorola V600 (the closest in terms of features; quad-band GSM instead of tri-band, no removeable storeage, and a shitty VGA camera) is 600$, I'm glad I paid 250$ for my N-Gage.
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"When was the last time you saw a "bugged" movie? "
Lots of movies have bugs...
Even this one..
It happens all the time!
"From the stories he told me it sounded like it was hell(stand around sort boxes, shitty pay, people that don't know what they're looking for, management that treated them like shit and treated their own employees more like potential theives than their customers). "
Holy shit, retail sales jobs suck, even if you're selling videogames? In fact, due to low margins and high competition, it actually sucks even more than usual retail jobs because you have to meet sales goals? No way!
Sorting boxes is shipping. You do that in a small store. People not knowing what they want, that's retail. You don't need to pass a test to shop (unfortunately). Shitty pay? Yea, the only money goes to the company first, SM second, and ASM third. Everything else is minimal overhead...
As for the shitty management and thieving, well, management is management. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. The thieving is called loss-prevention, because a 40$ controller walking out the door needs to have about 400$ of other controllers sold to make up the loss (usually): when a controller is stolen, you lose not just the profit, but also the cost of it. Of course they check their Christmas temps out, most of them rob the stores blind!
Essentialism is the practice of stating features of someone based on how they were born. In a lot of ways, it's like phrenology, except instead of bumps on your head, it's the colour of your skin, or your sex organs. Just because I'm black, I'm going to kill you and take your stereo. Just because I have tits and a vagina, I'm going to cry, be better and communications, and not take math in University.
Repeat after me: who we are is a complex mixture of nature and nurture. We do not have any definitive research on how much each plays a role in our development, nor have there been significant or breakthrough strides in figuring this information out.
I would consider the low math enrollment to be a social factor: how many times do teacher select males rather than females in a math class, every year from K to 12, and what kind of effect would this have on females going on to post-secondary math education? What about the other behaviours that we unconciously do towards people based on their genders? Where is the story that explores a gender swap, ala "Black Like Me"?
There is a reason gender studies needs to be a required social science in many curriculums: many people are so blindly ignorant and arrogant about gender, that they can say things, or have an intermediary interpret things to cause situations like this one.
With the slicing, they produced chips, and with the destruction of humanity by dicing, they produced a smooth dip.
Chips and dip -- the only way to go!
"The odds of that happening by chance are estimated at 1 to 10^50."
That doesn't mean there was some divine intelligence behind it, only that it happened. Improbable is not the same as impossible.
The fact is, unless conditions that generated life occured, there would be no life to consider how improbable it was! Again: the fact we exist means something improbable happened, but does not imply divine intelligence behind it.
You could say that Earth is a strange anamoly that implies there is a divine intelligence, while I can say that if you roll a dice long enough, you'll eventually hit snake eyes for 100 times in a row.
People always seem to think that longshots like that imply purpose and will. That's bunk.
Do you know what that means to people around here? Static IPs, TOS that allows services to run, and other nicities (better support #s).
Besides, the price you pay doesn't reflect the cost: it reflects what people will pay. Businesses have no problem paying extra, and home users have no problem with having most of their virus problems taken care of for them. Just suck it up and pay the extra 20$. It's no big deal.
The true solution is much simpler. Treat consumer grade connections as consumer grade connections. Firewall off all ports below 1024. Deny outgoing connections to ports below 1024 except for 80 (all sites), 25 (only to ISP's mailserver), etc.
This will reduce greatly the ability of Windows worms to spread initially (since all the vulnerable services have listened originally below 1024), and also control other issues. If the consumer wants a business grade connection, charge them for one (an extra 20$ isn't unreasonable).
Most people don't want to learn or know how to stay secure, so don't let them be exposed to it. It's that simple.
The Dreamcast had lots of great games. In terms of AAA titles, given the time schedule we saw for other systems, I'd say it was only after mid 2003 that the Xbox had a better number of titles equal to the number of great titles on the Dreamcast (which, if launched at the same time as the Xbox, would've been announced as dead in Feb/March 2003).
As for Nintendo being last, I haven't seen too many Nokia, Microsoft, or Sony handhelds going around lately... Even with the GBA lineup being largely shitty licences and crappy 2/3rds 3D overhead views, there manage to be excellent games available (Wars series, Boktai series, SquareEnix games). I could see Nintendo living on its handhelds for a long time if it ever did get into 3rd in the console market (which, last time I checked, wasn't happening; Microsoft was lucky enough to be in 3rd due to the lackluster sales in Japan -- no surprise there, the Xbox has no Japanese titles worth a damn).
Do you have a problem with case sensitive file names in Gnome or KDE? No, because the file picker does all the footwork anyways.
/home/dylang/txt/school/cmpt801/thesis.pdf.
:)).
I do agree there are warts and leftovers that don't seem useful to have, but I'd argue that some of them (such as case sensitive filenames) can be solved in more meaningful names. Filenames themselves are a shitty representation, chosen only because it was easier (at the time) to have a string in a dentry to describe a set of inodes, rather than having a TRUE representation of the meta-data of the file. OS X.4, BeOS, HPFS -- all have extra attributes to handle this and make life easier. Reiser is moving this way, too. I think a more meaningful solution would be to have the system automatically catagorize all data via filesystem attributes (rather than file(1), even though it works very well), and have automatically generated sets of keywords (perhaps using technology similar to Google search).
Then, you could just tell your word process to open your CMPT thesis, instead of open
Wouldn't that be worth all the effort you'd otherwise spend? Especially with tab completion, case-sensitivity is a small issue that is better address by just trashing filenames as the primary method of dealing with data (IMO
I do believe there are a few problems with you assertions:
/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register ]; then /sbin/modprobe binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register ]; then /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register ...
:)
"1) Make filenames and command flags case-insensitive. The few cycles you spend doing case comparisons will quickly pale in comparison to the time savings you experience in tech support situations where a touch typist accidentally hits space too soon and types "emacS.""
That problem is so much easier to fix than changing 20+ years of UNIX design.
UNIX is case sensitive for a reason. Do you think you can just go through all the source files, replace strcmp with strncasecmp, and have a system that works the way you want? No, you'd have to work things on multiple levels, regression test countless applications, etc. You could, for example, make internal shell commands case insensitive, but that's not the same thing.
Plus, by making the switches all case insensitive, you've suddenly halved the number of possible arguments for any program unless they use the GNU extension. POSIX args are 1 character only!
PS: "2) Several files that do not have extensions usually have some information about their default parser in line #1. Either parse it, or start using file extensions in *NIX."
This is done already. As long as the file is marked executable, the shell will properly lauch the parser. You can even add BINARY formats to the kernel. Check out this way to make all MONO programs run automagically:
if [ ! -e
mount -t binfmt_misc none
fi
if [ -e
echo ':CLR:M::MZ::/usr/local/bin/mono:' >
else
echo "No binfmt_misc support"
exit 1
fi
Honestly, most people who come up with "problems" in UNIX either fail to understand the reasons for certain design ideas, or aren't aware of pre-existing solutions to their problems. The init scripts and system startup sequence (in general) in UNIX is a much bigger problem, and one of the Gnome guys is making a great replacement for it.
I hope you've got some automated Perl setup for this. If you could automate the reporting of abuse, we could cut down on spam in a much more effective way than DDoSing websites.
Your body is part of your conciousness as much as your brain is, it's just that the nerves and related tissue in the rest of your body are at a much lower concentration level. If you are in-tune with your body, you can listen to it very well and know what's good. You won't have to fight with it, either. You'll know what foods are best for you (for example, junkfood may be tasty, but it doesn't leave you feeling as good as if you ate healthy). You'll know when you're tired, and be able to wake up naturally on time. Meditation and concentration are really good for this. The model of the human body as something to be conquered and medicalized is a pretty western viewpoint, and not as accurate as the more time-tested models that eastern philosophies (such as buddhism) teach.
So what you're saying is, you're unable to effectively communicate this without having several followup postings.
.." (hey, it happens to everyone on message boards), you instead insult me. That's rude, and I don't appreciate it. Obviously you're smart enough to understand netiquette and such, which means you're also smart enough to post a reply which isn't rude.
Why did you need to post 2 followups to explain context, when you could've written a more concise post originally?
In fact, why was your original post so much more "off the cuff" and poorly written compared to your posts?
Of your original post, only this section implies your intent/motive/need point: "How long until they combine this with the upcoming black box recorders in cars so my car can politely inform the officer that while I'm not speeding right now, I was going 15 over three miles back?"
And it's not strongly implied, nor is it worded in a way to suggest you think about context. Instead, followed with the "Drat! My car is gonna look really ugly covered in tinfoil." it implies you are wanting to avoid possible punishment for avoiding rules.
My original response is totally valid, considering the many points of ambiguity you left in the context of the original post. I find your comments about diabtribes and fucktard comments rather insulting and flippant considering the validity of my comment. If you actually look at the other replies, you'll they also interpret what you wrote the same way I did.
Rather than saying, "oops, I meant to say
Now, is that because you thought of it on the spot, or because you didn't preview your comment before you posted it?
The fact is, most people speed regardless of context. You may find elaborate ways to rationalize it, say when I call you on it in a post on Slashdot... most people speed first and ask questions later. They also do stupid things like failing to signal, and causing other problems because most humans are not cut out to make decisions in a large-scale, co-operative approach. When you're working on a big software or engineering project, is everyone given equal power over which way the project goes?
Taking people out of the driving equation will make road safety a reality more so than anything else. If you want SiR, go to the race track.
Driving is a co-operative thing. Traffic has properties of fluid and properties of dynamic packets on a switched network, each with discrete start and end points. By not following a set of pre-ordained rules that all fellow traffic drivers share, you are fucking shit up.
I hope you learn how to drive co-operatively with others thanks to technology like this, because fucktards like you cause congestion and impede the normal flow of traffic.
See also: traffic waves.
From the manpage:
-pedantic
Issue all the warnings demanded by strict ISO C and ISO C++; reject all programs that use forbidden extensions, and some other programs that do not follow ISO C and ISO C++. For ISO C, follows the version of the ISO C standard specified by any -std option used.
-- That seems to be exactly what I described it as doing.
Now, you choosing to make standards un-conformance into a warning rather than an error is something else. (Old) C defines the default return type to be int, but C++ has it as undefined. Forcing it to a warning is not the way to solve that problem; you should've fixed the code, which is why g++ defaults to making the type checking as errors, instead of warnings.
Yea, I read about that too!
Strange this is, this is a dupe by the SAME EDITOR of the SAME STORY in 4 days time! Wow!
Zonk, are you trying to out Taco the big Taco?
Sounds silly to me. I know you can get transfer credits and waivers for certain things, but you can't just write a final and pass a class. Not at the university level, not here.
I sure hope the class you skipped wasn't English, because, " I would of had to take" makes absolutely no sense. Yes, it sounds similar to the contraction of "would have," but syntactically means something completely different. It's this kind of attention to detail that separates programmer grunts from truly excellent computer scientists.
If you just want to program, there are plenty of technical colleges to teach you how to make a DLL file. University is there to teach you why you should make a DLL file. This is something you just can't skip by writing a final.
The problem with that way of thinking is that you miss out on the things you perhaps don't know, or don't know in depth. By going through a good CS program, even if you feel like you should just "skip to the end," you get a better breadth of knowledge in a subject. Plus, you learn all the things that aren't computer related -- interaction with professors, time management, the ability to perform independant research and learning, being able to properly solicit requirements from a customer, etc.
For myself, I just play games in the lecture halls (if it's a particulary boring one), but I've never taken a class where I didn't learn things which I had only previously heard of, and then gone on to implement them in some way.
I think far fewer of you would've failed if you had actually taken lower level classes. I find that the only people who say they don't need to take school are those who haven't taken classes.
"It's the hardest CS course at the University (and this is my first semester in college), so it's expected."
How the hell do you get into a 400 level class without meeting the course pre-reqs? In my University, each class has some dependancies that build up to quite the tree if you want to take a 400 level class. I'm planning on taking CMPT 432 next year, but to get there I've had to do CMPT 111, 115, 214, 215, 250, 332 + MATH 110. Because of the time required for these classes, it's been a few years to get to this point. So how'd you jump into a 400 level class in your first year?
While this may seem like some random posting to Slashdot, those folks from Stanford have been active on the LKML plenty of times, asking about conditions their tools have found, and whether they are bugs or not.
;)
They've directly led to many of those bugs or design choices being discussed and changed, for the better in every case. I wouldn't belittle such work easily, because they have (in their way) contributed a lot to everyone's favourite OS
We NEVER compile code without using -Wall and -pedantic!
dylang@shadowgate:~/.tmp$ gcc -Wall -pedantic -c foo.c
foo.c: In function `main':
foo.c:6: warning: `return' with no value, in function returning non-void
foo.c:8: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
It compiles, but you are TOLD about your mistakes!
The PSP has a perfectly fine analog joystick.
- re lease8.jpg
http://forum.lik-sang.com/other/psp-release/psp
That's not a little extended speaker below the D-pad. That's the analog stick. First handheld to ever have an analog stick (the 8-way DPAD on the NGPC doesn't count), and you shirk it for that!
This thing is going to fail because it goes from 2/3 to 1/3 charge in 2 hours, not because it doesn't have a joystick. Sheesh.
I think you also underestimate the Sony fanbois who don't know what gaming is about. They'll carry the PSP for good couple of years. Sony might have something better by then. They've shown they have no problem pumping and dumping stuff to distract people (PS2 vs. Dreamcast).
An N-Gage.
:D
The N-Gage has prefix search, several phone numbers for each entry (completely customizable with thumbnail and full picture, too), speakerphone (no side talking required!), no analog service (GSM rocks, baby!), good battery life, caller ID-based ring tones (which can be a recording with the mic, a midi, an mp3, etc), a "recent calls" button away (hit dial from the main telephone screen), an alarm clock/PDA calendar, and speed dial.
Unlike your complaints, the reception and battery life icons are big and easy to see on the top of the screen, you can customize the labels on your phone details, and it uses USB (which makes the MMC inside a removeable drive) or bluetooth for transfering data onto it, which means no losing any covers or having wires.
Best of all, the damn thing is super cheap because Nokia's trying to give them away
Considering the Motorola V600 (the closest in terms of features; quad-band GSM instead of tri-band, no removeable storeage, and a shitty VGA camera) is 600$, I'm glad I paid 250$ for my N-Gage.