If you disagree with the parent's comment, I urge you to take a 10 minute ride on a packed bus full of highschool kids and then re-evaluate your conclusion.
Funny, if most of us/.'ers were to ride on a packed bus full of highschool kids, we could evaluate social withdraw, individual sickness, and group judgement and relate it all to our own behavior. If I had mod-points today, you'd get either funny or insightful, just for that.
Because if a company spends money on it, they know it has to be good, plus tech support and such, and don't give me that crap about forums. Part sarcastic, part serious, but some companies think this way.
While the studies don't surprise me either, a lot of psychology is finding out and documenting real results, rather than going off on the basis of cultural cliches. I certainly wouldn't deem this overly newsworthly, the study is valid and meaningful, rather than what the assumptions of the masses were.
Don't take me as a jerk just looking to shut you down, but cheap isn't always talking about low in price, it can be referencing quality or usefulness/respect, I'm sure this device has its uses, but overall, it seems like it'll be another gimmick that shows up on infomercials at 3:30 AM... (as I look at my clock)
Personally, I think C++ would be overall best-choice, but it really depends on the situation. If security was in question, I might opt for manual memory managment, but if performance was not a big issue, then certainly garbage collection can be included. As a student, when I programmed, I always used garbage collection, becasue I was lazy and there were no real security issues, even as a researcher, I was more worried about sheer functionality then security, but now in the real-world, where your code is going to be right there with people you don't trust, I am careful with what I do and am paranoid about security, and therefore, won't let a machine take care of it for me. It's all situational...
This is funny, like grammar school, when the brightest student makes a mistake and some idiot corrects him or her, the idiot starts gloating. So what if Einstein made mistakes, everyone makes mistakes, it's part of life, if we gloat about other's mistakes, we just end up looking even stupider.
Yessa. But on an otherwise unrelated note, I heard there was this Target store that was opening up at 7:30 AM this morning, and they only had four of the damn things, and the store decided not to tell anyone in line of this fact, as a matter of fact, when the line was up to around 10 people, they explictly told the employees not to tell them this, and this was at 10:30 at night. They also didn't offer any sort of rain cheque or anything, if you weren't the first in line, you didn't get one, go Target! Thankfully, I just heard about it from someone who works there, and didn't experience it myself...
Yep, it's like day-one of your intro to CS class: "Computer science has little to do with computers and is anything but a science." Then a bunch of the kiddies who are hearing that for the first time stare at each other and say after class "Woah, that guy's a nut job, I'm going into ECE."
Hey, I've got a Prism chipset and it works like a charm, right out of the box, it's one of Linksys's WPC's, version three to be exact, which runs either Prism2.5 or Prism3 chipset, and that's the wireless card that I use when I want something to work out of the box. Other than that, ndiswrapper is relatively simple to use, and supports the widely-used Broadcom chipset under most platforms. But if you're looking for something that'll "just work" I suggest looking for a card with an older Prism chipset, it should work right out of the box for your friend...
I really wish I could have caught this one sooner, unit testing is a great idea if you want a generic, vanilla way of testing a program or function, I'll grant it that, it is extremely useful, in a vanilla and pretty standard way. However, I'd really like to point out that there's no better form of debugging than sitting down with a few friends (or an associate of some kind, if this is in a work environment) and reading over the source, and you'll learn more from this method, also. I honestly think that unit testing has, in fact, taken over debugging as the battlefront aganst bugs in code, but no step should be left out, the program should be tested, debugged, and eventually evaluated by a group of other professionals, I just thinkt his step is essential.
If I could, I'd mod you up, that's exactly what I was thinking as I read the article, and I really think that'd be cool, it'd give these kids in pop-culture these days something to talk about that I could relate to...
The good people at Slashdot should get a patent on jackassery and really find a good way to eliminate "first post" trolls... like make it one person's soul job to delete "first post" posts. I just so happen to be looking for a good part time job.
...we were just the phone people, we couldn't go to the people's dorms/frats/sorority houses, which was crap, because most of the people on the phones new bettern than the damn people who did go out to fix the problem, we just couldn't do it over the phone.
It was never EVER my goal to be a good phone support person, they told me after a month on the phones I would be moved to the back and I'd be able to program for the school, well, I lasted two months mocking the perfect phone tech support person, then I started becomming rude, this incident was from about eight months into the whole thing, and I quit three weeks later because they couln't uphold their promises and I thought I wasn't providing satisfactory assistance. However, THEY (my student manager, the faculty manager, and the CIO) all said I was doing a great job and that's why they kept me on the phones. I told them that wasn't the reason, and that they had no intentions at all of hooking me up with the two open student programming posistions that had been available the past ten months and they made up a few lines of crap like business people do and I just told them that the job's not for me, you'll find someone else. Since then I've gotten a job working for a few firms downtown that allow me to do what I want and are fun to work for. Guess it just comes down to working for your school sucks.
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Ohhh makign funn of sepllign on slasdot... you so 1337!!
Funny that I'm reading this now... I was aimlessly looking for PCMCIA graphics cards just a few days ago and found
http://www.vtbook.com/
I think it's probably mostly software-based, but still pretty cool and relevent to you bringing up Expresscards...
Were you playing it on a cell phone?
Because if a company spends money on it, they know it has to be good, plus tech support and such, and don't give me that crap about forums. Part sarcastic, part serious, but some companies think this way.
Or maybe the robotic Richard Simmons...
You'll send the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths that shoot bees when the bark?
While the studies don't surprise me either, a lot of psychology is finding out and documenting real results, rather than going off on the basis of cultural cliches. I certainly wouldn't deem this overly newsworthly, the study is valid and meaningful, rather than what the assumptions of the masses were.
It's funny because I would have modded you funny if you said
/.ers don't like change... er, wait...
1. Use Google
2. ???
3. Profit!
Just stick to the boring, simple, oldies, we
Don't take me as a jerk just looking to shut you down, but cheap isn't always talking about low in price, it can be referencing quality or usefulness/respect, I'm sure this device has its uses, but overall, it seems like it'll be another gimmick that shows up on infomercials at 3:30 AM... (as I look at my clock)
Personally, I think C++ would be overall best-choice, but it really depends on the situation. If security was in question, I might opt for manual memory managment, but if performance was not a big issue, then certainly garbage collection can be included. As a student, when I programmed, I always used garbage collection, becasue I was lazy and there were no real security issues, even as a researcher, I was more worried about sheer functionality then security, but now in the real-world, where your code is going to be right there with people you don't trust, I am careful with what I do and am paranoid about security, and therefore, won't let a machine take care of it for me. It's all situational...
I agree, and not as AC, this is good stuff... hilarious find (or buy...?). Mod me up and then, if you have nay points left, mod the parent ;).
*Zips up* Holy crap! There is a lot of porn in Google base!
This is funny, like grammar school, when the brightest student makes a mistake and some idiot corrects him or her, the idiot starts gloating. So what if Einstein made mistakes, everyone makes mistakes, it's part of life, if we gloat about other's mistakes, we just end up looking even stupider.
Yep, it's like day-one of your intro to CS class: "Computer science has little to do with computers and is anything but a science." Then a bunch of the kiddies who are hearing that for the first time stare at each other and say after class "Woah, that guy's a nut job, I'm going into ECE."
And the final 80% of the time is spent celebrating finishing 160% of the problem... or that's what you think by the time you're done celebrating
Terrorism is not a natural diaster.
Hey, I've got a Prism chipset and it works like a charm, right out of the box, it's one of Linksys's WPC's, version three to be exact, which runs either Prism2.5 or Prism3 chipset, and that's the wireless card that I use when I want something to work out of the box. Other than that, ndiswrapper is relatively simple to use, and supports the widely-used Broadcom chipset under most platforms. But if you're looking for something that'll "just work" I suggest looking for a card with an older Prism chipset, it should work right out of the box for your friend...
I really wish I could have caught this one sooner, unit testing is a great idea if you want a generic, vanilla way of testing a program or function, I'll grant it that, it is extremely useful, in a vanilla and pretty standard way. However, I'd really like to point out that there's no better form of debugging than sitting down with a few friends (or an associate of some kind, if this is in a work environment) and reading over the source, and you'll learn more from this method, also. I honestly think that unit testing has, in fact, taken over debugging as the battlefront aganst bugs in code, but no step should be left out, the program should be tested, debugged, and eventually evaluated by a group of other professionals, I just thinkt his step is essential.
If I could, I'd mod you up, that's exactly what I was thinking as I read the article, and I really think that'd be cool, it'd give these kids in pop-culture these days something to talk about that I could relate to...
Why, thank you, sir, may I have another?
The good people at Slashdot should get a patent on jackassery and really find a good way to eliminate "first post" trolls... like make it one person's soul job to delete "first post" posts. I just so happen to be looking for a good part time job.
...we were just the phone people, we couldn't go to the people's dorms/frats/sorority houses, which was crap, because most of the people on the phones new bettern than the damn people who did go out to fix the problem, we just couldn't do it over the phone.
It was never EVER my goal to be a good phone support person, they told me after a month on the phones I would be moved to the back and I'd be able to program for the school, well, I lasted two months mocking the perfect phone tech support person, then I started becomming rude, this incident was from about eight months into the whole thing, and I quit three weeks later because they couln't uphold their promises and I thought I wasn't providing satisfactory assistance. However, THEY (my student manager, the faculty manager, and the CIO) all said I was doing a great job and that's why they kept me on the phones. I told them that wasn't the reason, and that they had no intentions at all of hooking me up with the two open student programming posistions that had been available the past ten months and they made up a few lines of crap like business people do and I just told them that the job's not for me, you'll find someone else. Since then I've gotten a job working for a few firms downtown that allow me to do what I want and are fun to work for. Guess it just comes down to working for your school sucks.