Well, you can actually plow through at least a year of college with the AP tests in high school. I'm judging this on Penn State credits, YMMV:
AP Calc I/II: 8 credits
AP Physics: 8 credits(if you didn't keep your old lab notes you may have to do the labs over again)
AP Chemistry: 4(same as physics)
AP Bio: 4 credits
AP History: 6 credits
AP English Lit.: 3 credits
That is 33 credits, easily equal to a year of college(there may be CS tests, but my school didn't offer them when I was in high school). If you take courses over the summer as well, you can get done in 2 years. Though whether or not you will have your sanity at the end is another question altogether.
I looked at the CS requirements, a whopping 12 credits of math(or maths for those of you outside the US). I had that many math credits at the end of my freshman year at Penn State, and had to take much more. The theories behind CS is math, and if they want to do anything but be a code monkey, they will need more than "Introduction to Calculus", most CS geeks took that in high school...
If you want to get through your undergrad program really quick, take the AP tests, don't go to some fly-by-night college....
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..
There was a gigantic court room, called the SCOstar, was set up in space, threatening those who live in peace on the planets below. The court room, and all space around it are owned by a group of people called, "The Lawyers", and their enigmatic leader, Darth McBride.
However, in a small planet, a new rebel leader was born, his name was Linus Tuxwalker, and he had the power of source.
After much training he joined a rebel force who found a weakness in the "SCOstar". However, before they could launch, the lawyers came down and sued the rebels for slander against lawyers, and sued them under the DMCA for illegally reverse-engineering the SCOstar....all was not well with the universe...
I wonder if it would be possible to mod the playstation to run off an sd card or a compact flash card. The cd is probably one of the bigger, if not the biggest power consumers. However, you can now fit cds onto flash cards, which take up considerably less power than a cd reader.
Though it would probably require some considerable hacking to get the card to spoof the cd....
One might incorrectly assume the electrical tape is just for use with the cat 5 cable, when in fact it's primary use is for tying up your wife to keep her from hurting you while you drill cable holes through the living room wall:)
Make sure to save a little bit for some "fun" with the wife afterwards:P
That would allow the voting machine manufacturer to release the source, but not allow anyone to make a derivative work of it? In the general software world, it's kind of hard because you can't always tell where code came from, but in the realm of electronic voting, there are only a few players, and if you require them all to release their source, it would not be hard to spot someone who created a derivative work. Diebold can protect it's trade secrets and at the same time, the community could evaluate the source.
That of course still leaves the option of procedural fiddling(changing the vote counts after capturing etc) open, but it requires a lot more effort and a much larger chance of getting caught.
Just shows you how little you know about manufacturing, new does not necessarily imply quality just like old doesn't mean it's of poor quality.
At the mill I worked at our oldest major piece of equipment is about 80 or 90 years old. No real reason to upgrade it, it does it's job. The area of the mill that I worked at, the machines were about 40 years old, controlled by a 10 year old VAX who communicated with even older PLCs to do the real-time work, and yet the steel we produce is among the highest quality in the world...
Slow down there cowboy.
I never said you should be forced to patent something, if you want to, fine, it's your idea, you can do whatever you want with it. That is my whole argument, which you just sidestepped to fly off the handle.
In your sort algorithm example, you shouldn't be able to patent "A sort that finishes in O(log n) time", you would have to patent a specific algorithm for that sort. And if you can't implement that algorithm, guess what, nobody is going to license your patent because it's useless. So I'm not sure what your point is.
Mod parent up!
There is an old saying in the English language, "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater"
I remember when some of the windows source code was leaked, so many/.rs were looking for GPL code in it, and yet when it comes time for Linux to lift ideas from Microsoft,/.rs get really mad because they don't think Microsoft should be allowed to own it's ideas. You can't have it both ways. And before i get flamed, yes I know a license for code is different from a patent, but guess what, in software, the most valuable part of the software is the ideas, the algorithms. It's usually not very hard to implement the ideas(though that doesn't mean it isn't often screwed up). Open source has created a lot of new ideas, and will continue to create new ideas. These should be embraced, if you hate patens so much, don't use the stuff in the patents. Of course the system still needs reform, it should not be expensive to challenge a patent, and obvious ideas should not be patented, the system isn't perfect, see the above saying.
Yes, there are patent abuses, but once again, the anti-patent crowd seems to accuse Microsoft of FUD quite often, then they use these stories to throw in their own FUD....
And of course, this is an unpopular idea, so it will get modded as a troll or flamebait, but who cares anymore....
People are still doing some interesting things with Doom/Doom II and Quake. Since they are open source they can adapt when new technologies come out. Plus the whole map/mod community has done a lot of interesting things with them.
Can anybody who wee this as a good thing explain why? Apple will probably sue the pants of codeweawers like they usualy do when someone touch their DRM crap. No, I as a Linux user want open formats.
Because, you know, now that iTunes works under Linux, all your old music programs will cease to work and will never work again. Gah, fucking anti-DRM zealots. If you don't like, it don't use it! You act as if this is being forced on you, like music is a constitutional right. If you don't like what the RIAA is doing, don't listen to RIAA music, it's that simple. Contrary to popular belief, you don't have an inherent right to music, just like the RIAA has no right to sales. Listen to non RIAA bands, or go out and make your own music.....
Well, if you are willing to spend $2500-$3000 plus tax, you can build a decent mac gaming rig. Plus it will fly with everything else too. Mac's real problem in gaming is a lack of cards, and the few that are available are very overpriced.
Heh, well the stock config on a g5 has a terrible video card(alas I have one) FX 5200 with a whopping 64 megs of video ram. You can upgrade it, but it won't be cheap, and you really only have 3 different cards to choose from, an 9600 XT 128, a 9800 pro 128, or a 6800 Ultra which will run you about $450 or 500 or so as a built to order option, $600 if purchased seperately.
The new iMac, which is supposed to be the consumer machine, will be announced later this month. Whether or not they will have a respectable video card is still up in the air.
of the staff in this game. When I was in Japan, I was just amazed at how interested the people actually seemed in their job, versus McDonald's in the US where not nearly as many people seem to be enthused to work at a McDonalds(and after 3 years there, I know why)
Damn, do I miss Japanese curry....
Yay off-topic!
the terror level has just been raised to "Orange" high at the same time that Tom Ridge announced that after the election he will reteire due to financial difficulties. I guess $175,000 a year of tax payer money just doesn't buy a lot now a days.
watching a game on television/their computer a replacement for going to the game? If possible, I would much prefer to go to a game rather than watch it on TV. Being able to watch a game on TV has no bearing on whether or not I will buy a ticket. The atmosphere is just so much different. Plus, you can decide what you want to watch, you aren't forced to watch what the camera is pointing at. This is just another one fo those "enablers", it enables them to do all sorts of stupid shit to cover up the fact that they just can't sell tickets.
There is a reason people don't go to Buffalo games in November and December, it's fucking freezing! Do they seriously expect someone to say, "Well, it's so cold out that really don't want to go to the game, but since I can't watch it on TV, I will go anyhow"? My best guess is that they will just not watch the game, or go to a bar or something to watch it, where people pay even less attention to the commercials....
Yeah, but since when has science ever played a role in consumer reports like this? It's just a fluff article designed to take advantage of a recent trend...
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Well, you can actually plow through at least a year of college with the AP tests in high school. I'm judging this on Penn State credits, YMMV:
AP Calc I/II: 8 credits
AP Physics: 8 credits(if you didn't keep your old lab notes you may have to do the labs over again)
AP Chemistry: 4(same as physics)
AP Bio: 4 credits
AP History: 6 credits
AP English Lit.: 3 credits
That is 33 credits, easily equal to a year of college(there may be CS tests, but my school didn't offer them when I was in high school). If you take courses over the summer as well, you can get done in 2 years. Though whether or not you will have your sanity at the end is another question altogether.
I looked at the CS requirements, a whopping 12 credits of math(or maths for those of you outside the US). I had that many math credits at the end of my freshman year at Penn State, and had to take much more. The theories behind CS is math, and if they want to do anything but be a code monkey, they will need more than "Introduction to Calculus", most CS geeks took that in high school...
If you want to get through your undergrad program really quick, take the AP tests, don't go to some fly-by-night college....
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..
There was a gigantic court room, called the SCOstar, was set up in space, threatening those who live in peace on the planets below. The court room, and all space around it are owned by a group of people called, "The Lawyers", and their enigmatic leader, Darth McBride.
However, in a small planet, a new rebel leader was born, his name was Linus Tuxwalker, and he had the power of source.
After much training he joined a rebel force who found a weakness in the "SCOstar". However, before they could launch, the lawyers came down and sued the rebels for slander against lawyers, and sued them under the DMCA for illegally reverse-engineering the SCOstar....all was not well with the universe...
I wonder if it would be possible to mod the playstation to run off an sd card or a compact flash card. The cd is probably one of the bigger, if not the biggest power consumers. However, you can now fit cds onto flash cards, which take up considerably less power than a cd reader.
Though it would probably require some considerable hacking to get the card to spoof the cd....
One might incorrectly assume the electrical tape is just for use with the cat 5 cable, when in fact it's primary use is for tying up your wife to keep her from hurting you while you drill cable holes through the living room wall :) :P
Make sure to save a little bit for some "fun" with the wife afterwards
That would allow the voting machine manufacturer to release the source, but not allow anyone to make a derivative work of it? In the general software world, it's kind of hard because you can't always tell where code came from, but in the realm of electronic voting, there are only a few players, and if you require them all to release their source, it would not be hard to spot someone who created a derivative work. Diebold can protect it's trade secrets and at the same time, the community could evaluate the source.
That of course still leaves the option of procedural fiddling(changing the vote counts after capturing etc) open, but it requires a lot more effort and a much larger chance of getting caught.
Just shows you how little you know about manufacturing, new does not necessarily imply quality just like old doesn't mean it's of poor quality.
At the mill I worked at our oldest major piece of equipment is about 80 or 90 years old. No real reason to upgrade it, it does it's job. The area of the mill that I worked at, the machines were about 40 years old, controlled by a 10 year old VAX who communicated with even older PLCs to do the real-time work, and yet the steel we produce is among the highest quality in the world...
wasn't it about 2 years ago or so that there was speculation that MS wanted to buy Sega? I guess that didn't pan out, so they are going down the line.
Slow down there cowboy.
I never said you should be forced to patent something, if you want to, fine, it's your idea, you can do whatever you want with it. That is my whole argument, which you just sidestepped to fly off the handle.
In your sort algorithm example, you shouldn't be able to patent "A sort that finishes in O(log n) time", you would have to patent a specific algorithm for that sort. And if you can't implement that algorithm, guess what, nobody is going to license your patent because it's useless. So I'm not sure what your point is.
just go with space bears!
Either that or find a way to spur bear evolution so that they become super intelligent overlords
Mod parent up! /.rs were looking for GPL code in it, and yet when it comes time for Linux to lift ideas from Microsoft, /.rs get really mad because they don't think Microsoft should be allowed to own it's ideas. You can't have it both ways. And before i get flamed, yes I know a license for code is different from a patent, but guess what, in software, the most valuable part of the software is the ideas, the algorithms. It's usually not very hard to implement the ideas(though that doesn't mean it isn't often screwed up). Open source has created a lot of new ideas, and will continue to create new ideas. These should be embraced, if you hate patens so much, don't use the stuff in the patents. Of course the system still needs reform, it should not be expensive to challenge a patent, and obvious ideas should not be patented, the system isn't perfect, see the above saying.
There is an old saying in the English language, "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater"
I remember when some of the windows source code was leaked, so many
Yes, there are patent abuses, but once again, the anti-patent crowd seems to accuse Microsoft of FUD quite often, then they use these stories to throw in their own FUD....
And of course, this is an unpopular idea, so it will get modded as a troll or flamebait, but who cares anymore....
I do believe you mean Fujitsu not Fujitso....
People are still doing some interesting things with Doom/Doom II and Quake. Since they are open source they can adapt when new technologies come out. Plus the whole map/mod community has done a lot of interesting things with them.
Are they going to have to tweak the Duke Nukem Forever engine to take advantage of alll these features?
Can anybody who wee this as a good thing explain why? Apple will probably sue the pants of codeweawers like they usualy do when someone touch their DRM crap. No, I as a Linux user want open formats.
Because, you know, now that iTunes works under Linux, all your old music programs will cease to work and will never work again. Gah, fucking anti-DRM zealots. If you don't like, it don't use it! You act as if this is being forced on you, like music is a constitutional right. If you don't like what the RIAA is doing, don't listen to RIAA music, it's that simple.
Contrary to popular belief, you don't have an inherent right to music, just like the RIAA has no right to sales. Listen to non RIAA bands, or go out and make your own music.....
It's amazing, every time John Carmack sneezed it made it into /., but there isn't a story on the official release of Doom 3
Fascinating......
I'll post as a logged in subscriber, I'm not going to renew the subscription after the 503s....
Watch the karma burn!
Yet another somebody predicting the doom of the iPod...next?
I am predicting Doom ON the iPod next. One can dream....
Like his mother? IIRC, he wrote these viruses to increase revenue for his mother's computer consulting business....
Well, if you are willing to spend $2500-$3000 plus tax, you can build a decent mac gaming rig. Plus it will fly with everything else too. Mac's real problem in gaming is a lack of cards, and the few that are available are very overpriced.
Heh, well the stock config on a g5 has a terrible video card(alas I have one) FX 5200 with a whopping 64 megs of video ram. You can upgrade it, but it won't be cheap, and you really only have 3 different cards to choose from, an 9600 XT 128, a 9800 pro 128, or a 6800 Ultra which will run you about $450 or 500 or so as a built to order option, $600 if purchased seperately.
The new iMac, which is supposed to be the consumer machine, will be announced later this month. Whether or not they will have a respectable video card is still up in the air.
of the staff in this game. When I was in Japan, I was just amazed at how interested the people actually seemed in their job, versus McDonald's in the US where not nearly as many people seem to be enthused to work at a McDonalds(and after 3 years there, I know why)
Damn, do I miss Japanese curry....
Yay off-topic!
the terror level has just been raised to "Orange" high at the same time that Tom Ridge announced that after the election he will reteire due to financial difficulties. I guess $175,000 a year of tax payer money just doesn't buy a lot now a days.
watching a game on television/their computer a replacement for going to the game? If possible, I would much prefer to go to a game rather than watch it on TV. Being able to watch a game on TV has no bearing on whether or not I will buy a ticket. The atmosphere is just so much different. Plus, you can decide what you want to watch, you aren't forced to watch what the camera is pointing at. This is just another one fo those "enablers", it enables them to do all sorts of stupid shit to cover up the fact that they just can't sell tickets.
There is a reason people don't go to Buffalo games in November and December, it's fucking freezing! Do they seriously expect someone to say, "Well, it's so cold out that really don't want to go to the game, but since I can't watch it on TV, I will go anyhow"? My best guess is that they will just not watch the game, or go to a bar or something to watch it, where people pay even less attention to the commercials....
Yeah, but since when has science ever played a role in consumer reports like this? It's just a fluff article designed to take advantage of a recent trend...