Until someone who incites terror has the ability to travel through the internet and shoot me in the face through my computer screen, I will doubt that the internet is an "Achilles' heel" to the world.
Especially if you're getting a Computer Engineering degree, or some variation upon that. One of the reasons that I got hired in my current job is that I had a wide range of skills due to my experience in computer science, web development, programming, and electrical engineering. They're a smaller company that provides voice and data (wiring/network) solutions, but also web hosting, computer repairs, and anything else an IT department might need to do. So I do a little bit of everything.
Here's what my dad always said about college: an electrician and an electrical engineer both have the knowledge to wire your home, but only one of them you'd want working on designing a nuclear power plant.
IMHO, writing pseudocode is the easiest step in writing good code. This is where the problem solution looks the clearest and what you wrote down made sense. I don't want to write a program in natural language. If my coding could have been written in pseudocode when I was in college, I would have received more A's, and my programs would have worked. In school, they taugh something like a seven step process to coding, where pseudocode was step number three. Anyway, most people, including myself, just sat down at the command prompt and started typing away without even thinking about the problem beforehand... that leads to some bad code right there.
I guess you haven't introduced her to Sims/Sims2. The last round of upgrading, I got a P4 2.4GHz with an 800MHz FSB, 1GB of 3200 memory, 2 60GB HDs, SoundBlaster Audigy, and a GeForce FX 5600. All because it made Sims run faster!
I hear about it all the time from people I know who work at best buy, getting rebates on things that means they make money by buying the products. The best buy employees I know should be classified as devil employees. It gets close to stealing from the company. These people encourage open item returns when people have complaints so that they can buy that linksys router or whatever at a discount that the customer couldn't set up. It's pretty rediculous. Of course some of those people spend their entire paycheck from week to week in the store, so there's not as much to complain about, but it's a little fishy.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln's PrairieFire is a lot more open to public viewing. When they initially opened up, there was even an open house and tours given of the facility. The location was only about 3-4 blocks from campus. They even let a student-run engineering publication write a story about it and get up right next to it and everything. I know it wasn't super awesome or anything, but it was impressive for Nebraska.
Has anybody here tried to develop software to run bluetooth hardware? It's enough to make you cry! Has the SIG done anything to try and make developing applications easier?
He mentioned in his FAQ that he's a good writer. While in school, I managed to collect all of Tannenbaum's books due to the fact that they were required materials for the course I took. Only he could make Structured Computer Organization and Operating Systems: Design and Implementation interenesting. Wait, no he can't. Nobody can do that.
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Check out this one as well. I got them both from the local library (amazing that they had them right away) and Beginning PHP5 was a more complete book. I still liked Learning PHP5, but I felt there were things left out. I know the review says that it doesn't go too deep, but I prefer the practical examples in Beginning PHP5.
Now when they can make a 5.1 megapixel camera for under $150 maybe I will be happy when I get a DIGITAL CAMERA in my digital camera.
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You know, power isn't everything. Sometimes part of the fun is not being godlike. In PC FPS games, you're pretty much guaranteed to be able to snipe people, instantly, with a machine gun, from two hundred yards away. And you know, I don't care. It's not interesting.
In Halo, it's a lot tougher. "Fire for effect" becomes a reality. Sometimes you're not really trying to hit anything, because you can't, you're too far away - you're just trying to keep their heads down.
Apparently you've never played Halo with the guys that lived on my dorm floor. They've got that game so down pat, just like half the Halo players in this world. It's been out for so long that a lot of people have mastered this game beyond belief. More so than in any other game in my opinion.
Does anyone else think that uClinux looks like a dirty word? But seriously folks, has anyone tried this out on anything? I need to hear someone who's used it on Slashdot.
Great! We will finally be able to see the hydrogen/coldfusion powered, flying, anti-gravity, invisible, faster than light, self-regenerating, space car controlled by androids with AI in our lifetime!
I'm glad that I read this at work. We were about to order about 40 off lease laptops with this problem, but instead the company that we buy from will have to deal the with the it. This saves many valuable man hours of me filling out a form and waiting for the replacements to come in. P.s. anyone want to purchase and off-lease Dell Latitude C600? Think of all the possiblilities for you insurance fraud pros out there.
I work in a place where we work on various average user computers. I notice that some people don't have patches that were available in 2002. Most people will not care that there is a new security update available when they haven't been getting them for years anyway. And it won't matter to me if I have to wait three more days to fix a security hole that has been around for a few years anyway.
Yes, but does Microsoft Really NEED China? I don't think they do. I think with the average consumer (read: American), new features created from research in another country isn't going to matter in their operating system, other software on their computer, or the internet.
Some reasons that tobacco companies used to be sued was the fact that tobacco smoke was harmful to people and a) said it wasn't b) lied about it when the knew it was. Gun manufacturers are sued because of their policies that allow their guns to get into the hand of people who shouldn't legally own guns.
The reason this seems silly is because the MPAA is suing the chip manufactures that don't have ENOUGH security features. This is like putting your stuff in storage and then suing the storage place after a robbery because they didn't have a good enough lock on the door.
If you read Dan Brown's Deception Point, you would know that a robot like this (but even smaller) could lead to the deadliest of circumstances. Let's just say that I'm sure the special ops people already have something like this.
I just randomly enter in letters, numbers, and special characters by punching/slapping the keyboard. Then I click a link that says "forgot your password?" or e-mail the administrator to say that I've forgotten my password. That way, it's sufficiently random, and I waste someone's time who I don't like.
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Until someone who incites terror has the ability to travel through the internet and shoot me in the face through my computer screen, I will doubt that the internet is an "Achilles' heel" to the world.
Especially if you're getting a Computer Engineering degree, or some variation upon that. One of the reasons that I got hired in my current job is that I had a wide range of skills due to my experience in computer science, web development, programming, and electrical engineering. They're a smaller company that provides voice and data (wiring/network) solutions, but also web hosting, computer repairs, and anything else an IT department might need to do. So I do a little bit of everything.
Here's what my dad always said about college: an electrician and an electrical engineer both have the knowledge to wire your home, but only one of them you'd want working on designing a nuclear power plant.
IMHO, writing pseudocode is the easiest step in writing good code. This is where the problem solution looks the clearest and what you wrote down made sense. I don't want to write a program in natural language. If my coding could have been written in pseudocode when I was in college, I would have received more A's, and my programs would have worked. In school, they taugh something like a seven step process to coding, where pseudocode was step number three. Anyway, most people, including myself, just sat down at the command prompt and started typing away without even thinking about the problem beforehand... that leads to some bad code right there.
I guess you haven't introduced her to Sims/Sims2. The last round of upgrading, I got a P4 2.4GHz with an 800MHz FSB, 1GB of 3200 memory, 2 60GB HDs, SoundBlaster Audigy, and a GeForce FX 5600. All because it made Sims run faster!
I hear about it all the time from people I know who work at best buy, getting rebates on things that means they make money by buying the products. The best buy employees I know should be classified as devil employees. It gets close to stealing from the company. These people encourage open item returns when people have complaints so that they can buy that linksys router or whatever at a discount that the customer couldn't set up. It's pretty rediculous. Of course some of those people spend their entire paycheck from week to week in the store, so there's not as much to complain about, but it's a little fishy.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln's PrairieFire is a lot more open to public viewing. When they initially opened up, there was even an open house and tours given of the facility. The location was only about 3-4 blocks from campus. They even let a student-run engineering publication write a story about it and get up right next to it and everything. I know it wasn't super awesome or anything, but it was impressive for Nebraska.
Has anybody here tried to develop software to run bluetooth hardware? It's enough to make you cry! Has the SIG done anything to try and make developing applications easier?
He mentioned in his FAQ that he's a good writer. While in school, I managed to collect all of Tannenbaum's books due to the fact that they were required materials for the course I took. Only he could make Structured Computer Organization and Operating Systems: Design and Implementation interenesting. Wait, no he can't. Nobody can do that.
Check out this one as well. I got them both from the local library (amazing that they had them right away) and Beginning PHP5 was a more complete book. I still liked Learning PHP5, but I felt there were things left out. I know the review says that it doesn't go too deep, but I prefer the practical examples in Beginning PHP5.
Tomorrow's world? I pity people now who have segways.
Holy crap you have my exact job. Please don't tell my bosses that you can do all that stuff because I suck at it.
My backup plan has always been rock star. Don't tell my bosses that either or else they'll laugh at me.
Now when they can make a 5.1 megapixel camera for under $150 maybe I will be happy when I get a DIGITAL CAMERA in my digital camera.
You know, power isn't everything. Sometimes part of the fun is not being godlike. In PC FPS games, you're pretty much guaranteed to be able to snipe people, instantly, with a machine gun, from two hundred yards away. And you know, I don't care. It's not interesting.
In Halo, it's a lot tougher. "Fire for effect" becomes a reality. Sometimes you're not really trying to hit anything, because you can't, you're too far away - you're just trying to keep their heads down.
Apparently you've never played Halo with the guys that lived on my dorm floor. They've got that game so down pat, just like half the Halo players in this world. It's been out for so long that a lot of people have mastered this game beyond belief. More so than in any other game in my opinion.
Does anyone else think that uClinux looks like a dirty word? But seriously folks, has anyone tried this out on anything? I need to hear someone who's used it on Slashdot.
Great! We will finally be able to see the hydrogen/coldfusion powered, flying, anti-gravity, invisible, faster than light, self-regenerating, space car controlled by androids with AI in our lifetime!
I'm glad that I read this at work. We were about to order about 40 off lease laptops with this problem, but instead the company that we buy from will have to deal the with the it. This saves many valuable man hours of me filling out a form and waiting for the replacements to come in. P.s. anyone want to purchase and off-lease Dell Latitude C600? Think of all the possiblilities for you insurance fraud pros out there.
you are awesome, I've been trying to figure out how to tab between tabs on the keyboard, but i'm too lazy to read the help files. Thanks.
I work in a place where we work on various average user computers. I notice that some people don't have patches that were available in 2002. Most people will not care that there is a new security update available when they haven't been getting them for years anyway. And it won't matter to me if I have to wait three more days to fix a security hole that has been around for a few years anyway.
Yes, but does Microsoft Really NEED China? I don't think they do. I think with the average consumer (read: American), new features created from research in another country isn't going to matter in their operating system, other software on their computer, or the internet.
Some reasons that tobacco companies used to be sued was the fact that tobacco smoke was harmful to people and a) said it wasn't b) lied about it when the knew it was. Gun manufacturers are sued because of their policies that allow their guns to get into the hand of people who shouldn't legally own guns.
The reason this seems silly is because the MPAA is suing the chip manufactures that don't have ENOUGH security features. This is like putting your stuff in storage and then suing the storage place after a robbery because they didn't have a good enough lock on the door.
If you read Dan Brown's Deception Point, you would know that a robot like this (but even smaller) could lead to the deadliest of circumstances. Let's just say that I'm sure the special ops people already have something like this.
Who is going to tell all the word processors of the world the new spellings?
The first thing it will be used for is the pornography industry.
I just randomly enter in letters, numbers, and special characters by punching/slapping the keyboard. Then I click a link that says "forgot your password?" or e-mail the administrator to say that I've forgotten my password. That way, it's sufficiently random, and I waste someone's time who I don't like.
Free lunch. To all those naysayers, there is such a thing as a free lunch.