I read this post a couple of years ago. Why is it just now making Slashdot? According to the wayback machine, this essay must have been written in May of 2006.
Somebody "patch" Windows Solitaire to have encryption software come up with a secret keypress (similar to how Pinball has a hidden game in it). The software will embed encrypted files in random JPEG files downloaded from I Can Haz Cheezburger and put in My Pictures.
That would meet most of this essay's criteria.
I am 23 right now - too old to start learning an instrument again.
I'm 23 right now, too. I've taught myself guitar and bass guitar (no, I'm not the greatest, but I can make music). Right now, I'm taking fiddle lessons to play local folk music. By Christmas, I want to start learning to play the accordion.
I'm trying to learn the local French dialect, as a way of preserving my heritage. I also wouldn't mind trying to learn some other foreign languages like Spanish or Japanese if I had the time.
In my opinion***, the same skills that it takes for you to understand that x++; means "add 1 to the current value of x and save it as x" and that Bonjour means "Good Day" will allow you to say that a filled in cirlce with a line coming out of it on a bar line means that you need to hold these keys down on the instrument and blow this much air for this length of time.
As someone above said, it takes practice. Whether learning the hot new scripting language, that weird foreign language that will help you in your job, or a musical instrument that makes you look like a nerd, it all takes practice.
*** I have no way of proving it, but I've heard someone really smart say something about it before, so I'm going to take the idea and run with it.
LSU is teaching.NET now? I've gone through ULM and it is Java-Heavy. But I've noticed a water-down of the curriculum there, too. They did some changing around with their courses and caught a class of students without a Senior Level Architecuture class and combining assembly language and computer organization along with teaching computer organization to that group twice.
It's sad that institutions are watering down the curriculum for an increase in students that should really be somewhere else.
I thought about that too. It makes a lot more sense now, because the reasons they gave for firing him sounds like B.S. Read for yourself in the article/. did.
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I'd like to see how those 20-something will use their up-to-date skills when faced with my 80% cobol environment.
I've taught myself RPG (III and IV), and there's a COBOL compiler on the same machine. Give me a little time and I'll handle it just fine ;)
I read this post a couple of years ago. Why is it just now making Slashdot? According to the wayback machine, this essay must have been written in May of 2006.
Somebody "patch" Windows Solitaire to have encryption software come up with a secret keypress (similar to how Pinball has a hidden game in it). The software will embed encrypted files in random JPEG files downloaded from I Can Haz Cheezburger and put in My Pictures. That would meet most of this essay's criteria.
Thank you for this. A few phrases of this post are going to be on my wall by this afternoon.
It is already being done.
I am 23 right now - too old to start learning an instrument again.
I'm 23 right now, too. I've taught myself guitar and bass guitar (no, I'm not the greatest, but I can make music). Right now, I'm taking fiddle lessons to play local folk music. By Christmas, I want to start learning to play the accordion.
I'm trying to learn the local French dialect, as a way of preserving my heritage. I also wouldn't mind trying to learn some other foreign languages like Spanish or Japanese if I had the time.
In my opinion***, the same skills that it takes for you to understand that x++; means "add 1 to the current value of x and save it as x" and that Bonjour means "Good Day" will allow you to say that a filled in cirlce with a line coming out of it on a bar line means that you need to hold these keys down on the instrument and blow this much air for this length of time.
As someone above said, it takes practice. Whether learning the hot new scripting language, that weird foreign language that will help you in your job, or a musical instrument that makes you look like a nerd, it all takes practice.
*** I have no way of proving it, but I've heard someone really smart say something about it before, so I'm going to take the idea and run with it.
I think that is what a local restaurant has done.
LSU is teaching .NET now? I've gone through ULM and it is Java-Heavy. But I've noticed a water-down of the curriculum there, too. They did some changing around with their courses and caught a class of students without a Senior Level Architecuture class and combining assembly language and computer organization along with teaching computer organization to that group twice.
It's sad that institutions are watering down the curriculum for an increase in students that should really be somewhere else.
I thought about that too. It makes a lot more sense now, because the reasons they gave for firing him sounds like B.S. Read for yourself in the article /. did.