I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but...
No it doesn't. On P2P I download the whole file once. I distribute bits if that file to x number of people. Now, if my share ratio is 50% surely that means I've distributed half of the file I have downloaded. Wouldn't it be more logical to say that I haven't actually distributed even a whole copy, never mind 10,000? If I copy a 100 page book and give 1000 people a single page have I suddenly copied and distributed 1000 copies of the book? No, the fact that 999 other people gave the others a page each as well isn't anything to do with me. I'm guilty of reproducing and distributing one copy, just like those other 999 people. Now, here's where it gets a bit gray. I've made a single unauthorized copy but I *have* distributed a small part of it to 1000 people. How much of the book do I need to distribute to a single person to actually make it illegal? How much before the person I've given it to no longer wants to go buy a copy, thus constituting a lost sale?
The number of people that got a small part should be irrelevant. What should be looked at are how many people actually got enough from a single person to constitute a reasonable amount for a lost sale. Now multiply that number by the sale value of the thing and we have a more reasonable cost.
Ok, I'll bite. Lets say I want to test the schools security without actually breaking in. I'd have a look and see what kind of set up they have (from an external view) and go mimic it on my own machine. Then I can poke around legally. Ok, I find that a service they're running has a security issue, I tell them so and viola! No prosecution for me!
Sure, I can't see any internal problems but why should I? Unless I break in (illegal) and poke around (illegal) it shouldn't worry me anyway since the outside fence is OK.
The fence example, why is it impossible to see a great big bloody whole without going in? Are you blind? Can you not feel a whole there? Taking it to computer speak, why can't you go get a copy of Fence 1.0 and check it out like that? It'll be the same sort of fence with the same whole.
The kid in this case broke into the network. The security was weak but it was there and he broke it. He could have done things a different way and alerted the IT dept to a potential problem but he chose to break in, poke around and then tell someone.
That said I hope he just gets a slap on the wrist for being stupid rather than a criminal record.
Wait, so if a companies business model is broken and they need something that they can't afford it's OK to rip someone else off now? Come on, stealing bread for human survival is a whole lot different from scraping information because it's cheaper than buying it.
A misconception about CS is that it's got much to do with programming. While most half decent CS degrees will require students to be able to code, it won't require that they be terribly good programmers because that's not what CS is about. CS *uses* programming as a tool. Yes, a competent CS graduate should damn well be able to know about efficiency, why it's important and how to achieve it, but they might not be very good at putting it in code. That sort of thing comes with experience so any good CS grad will improve with time and become better.
That said, there are an awful lot of bad CS degrees out there and it's getting harder to figure out who's a good but inexperienced CS graduate and who'd just a bad graduate.
What I was trying to say is that some pages are 99.9% compliant but the author forgot to put in that extra "\" at the end of an input field. I know I've done it before and unfortunately forgot to re-run it through a validator. The page rendered and behaved just fine in every browser I threw at it but in this case it would be thrown into the same box as pages that are not even trying
I wonder if they're throwing away every page that doesn't fully comply or if they're actually including the pages that almost comply but have a typo or missing doctype or missing closing tag. I'm guessing the former by the numbers which seems a little unfair to me.
I tend to use the Internet heavily for reference when I'm developing (trying to use a function but can't quite remember its return values? Hop onto Google!) so that would hinder me more than help.
We're talking about getting a foot in the door here, not getting a super-duper-fabulous job. Open source projects can and do help when it comes to landing that first job.
"Computer Scientist" is not a vocation. Sure, researchers can work *as* Computer Scientists but I've never seen it as a job description. If you want a vocational computer degree go for Software Engineering or something like that. A CS grad should be able to move into just about any sector of the computer industry, a bit like a biologist can go into lots of roles within biology.
Turning academic degrees into vocational degrees is, IMHO, stupid. I didn't go to a University and study CS to learn how to job X. I went so that I could gain a deeper understanding in an area that I find interesting. As a result I can understand lots of different things and train to do a particular job as I go along (hence the reason I'm now in a junior software dev position learning lots of stuff:-)
Agreed. I'm pretty certain that having a project in my spare time and being able to talk about the technologies and design decisions in said project clinched me my current (graduate level) job.
Like you, the project was for fun and to teach me something new. If anything, it shows interest in programming beyond what they taught you on the degree course.
If the OP can't think of anything to code it might not be because of a lack in programming interest but rather a lack of ideas. I know I tend to get a bit disinterested if I can't think of something fun to be doing.
Being from the UK I'm suspecting more and more that speed cameras actually cause more accidents than they prevent. Drivers all start looking at their speedometers rather than the road and everyone slows down just before they hit the speed camera marks making it dangerous.
Also, sometimes speed cameras are placed in stupid places. One I drive by every day is just before a crossing so woe betide the poor sod who crosses just as someone's not paying attention to the road and staring at their speed instead.
Overtaking often requires you to speed up over 80, especially if the moron behind you decides to follow when it's not really safe/helpful to do so (hence making breaking to get out of the situation unwise).
I've written a couple of articles about places of interest in a notable city in England. They've been deleted each time as the "moderators" don't know the city and think the places are of little note. Talk to the residents and visitors though and it's a different story. While there are submissions worthy of deletion it should *not* be up to the elite, and quite often uninformed, few to judge this.
How about offering a back-up service for students work? Sure, you currently offer services that could be used as such but your average student has no idea how to do it. Offer a nice simple web interface that allows them to upload files that they really wouldn't want to lose.
As other posters have pointed out, you could also move into entertainment services and help for recent graduates.
I wouldn't ditch things like the svn/cvs, webspace and database access though. My CS department used to run their own services and having them on campus was great since I could go ask our helpdesk people if something went wrong or I needed extra space etc.
But did you not learn about the creation story in an RE class rather than a Science class? I can't see that *any* of my science teachers would even entertain the idea of teaching creationism in their class. Heck, I don't think our RE teacher would have condoned it.
IIRC even though Switzerland is not part of the EU they do still allow people from EU countries to come and work quite easily. It'd be kinda silly to be too preventative since they're surrounded. Citizens of Non-EU countries will probably run into more problems, just like they would in the rest of Europe.
Would that not fall under the whole reasonable exception part? Looks to me like the bill allows for QoS and so your VoIP connection could reasonably be prioritised. IANAL though so please correct me if I'm wrong
I would imagine that a foreign government official would be sent as a diplomat, through diplomatic channels. They're not even going to see any of the usual border guards, never mind have to explain themselves.
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I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but...
No it doesn't. On P2P I download the whole file once. I distribute bits if that file to x number of people. Now, if my share ratio is 50% surely that means I've distributed half of the file I have downloaded. Wouldn't it be more logical to say that I haven't actually distributed even a whole copy, never mind 10,000?
If I copy a 100 page book and give 1000 people a single page have I suddenly copied and distributed 1000 copies of the book? No, the fact that 999 other people gave the others a page each as well isn't anything to do with me. I'm guilty of reproducing and distributing one copy, just like those other 999 people.
Now, here's where it gets a bit gray. I've made a single unauthorized copy but I *have* distributed a small part of it to 1000 people. How much of the book do I need to distribute to a single person to actually make it illegal? How much before the person I've given it to no longer wants to go buy a copy, thus constituting a lost sale?
The number of people that got a small part should be irrelevant. What should be looked at are how many people actually got enough from a single person to constitute a reasonable amount for a lost sale. Now multiply that number by the sale value of the thing and we have a more reasonable cost.
Ok, I'll bite. Lets say I want to test the schools security without actually breaking in. I'd have a look and see what kind of set up they have (from an external view) and go mimic it on my own machine. Then I can poke around legally. Ok, I find that a service they're running has a security issue, I tell them so and viola! No prosecution for me!
Sure, I can't see any internal problems but why should I? Unless I break in (illegal) and poke around (illegal) it shouldn't worry me anyway since the outside fence is OK.
The fence example, why is it impossible to see a great big bloody whole without going in? Are you blind? Can you not feel a whole there? Taking it to computer speak, why can't you go get a copy of Fence 1.0 and check it out like that? It'll be the same sort of fence with the same whole.
The kid in this case broke into the network. The security was weak but it was there and he broke it. He could have done things a different way and alerted the IT dept to a potential problem but he chose to break in, poke around and then tell someone.
That said I hope he just gets a slap on the wrist for being stupid rather than a criminal record.
Bah, posting to undo bad moderation (sorry)
Wait, so if a companies business model is broken and they need something that they can't afford it's OK to rip someone else off now? Come on, stealing bread for human survival is a whole lot different from scraping information because it's cheaper than buying it.
A misconception about CS is that it's got much to do with programming. While most half decent CS degrees will require students to be able to code, it won't require that they be terribly good programmers because that's not what CS is about. CS *uses* programming as a tool. Yes, a competent CS graduate should damn well be able to know about efficiency, why it's important and how to achieve it, but they might not be very good at putting it in code. That sort of thing comes with experience so any good CS grad will improve with time and become better.
That said, there are an awful lot of bad CS degrees out there and it's getting harder to figure out who's a good but inexperienced CS graduate and who'd just a bad graduate.
Subtle and inoffensive like someone berating your choice of clothes before they say anything else every time you go to speak to them.
Respect other peoples choices. If standard code breaks their web browser on your site and they complain *then* give them advice.
What I was trying to say is that some pages are 99.9% compliant but the author forgot to put in that extra "\" at the end of an input field. I know I've done it before and unfortunately forgot to re-run it through a validator. The page rendered and behaved just fine in every browser I threw at it but in this case it would be thrown into the same box as pages that are not even trying
I wonder if they're throwing away every page that doesn't fully comply or if they're actually including the pages that almost comply but have a typo or missing doctype or missing closing tag. I'm guessing the former by the numbers which seems a little unfair to me.
I tend to use the Internet heavily for reference when I'm developing (trying to use a function but can't quite remember its return values? Hop onto Google!) so that would hinder me more than help.
We're talking about getting a foot in the door here, not getting a super-duper-fabulous job. Open source projects can and do help when it comes to landing that first job.
"Computer Scientist" is not a vocation. Sure, researchers can work *as* Computer Scientists but I've never seen it as a job description. If you want a vocational computer degree go for Software Engineering or something like that. A CS grad should be able to move into just about any sector of the computer industry, a bit like a biologist can go into lots of roles within biology.
Turning academic degrees into vocational degrees is, IMHO, stupid. I didn't go to a University and study CS to learn how to job X. I went so that I could gain a deeper understanding in an area that I find interesting. As a result I can understand lots of different things and train to do a particular job as I go along (hence the reason I'm now in a junior software dev position learning lots of stuff :-)
Agreed. I'm pretty certain that having a project in my spare time and being able to talk about the technologies and design decisions in said project clinched me my current (graduate level) job.
Like you, the project was for fun and to teach me something new. If anything, it shows interest in programming beyond what they taught you on the degree course.
If the OP can't think of anything to code it might not be because of a lack in programming interest but rather a lack of ideas. I know I tend to get a bit disinterested if I can't think of something fun to be doing.
Being from the UK I'm suspecting more and more that speed cameras actually cause more accidents than they prevent. Drivers all start looking at their speedometers rather than the road and everyone slows down just before they hit the speed camera marks making it dangerous.
Also, sometimes speed cameras are placed in stupid places. One I drive by every day is just before a crossing so woe betide the poor sod who crosses just as someone's not paying attention to the road and staring at their speed instead.
Overtaking often requires you to speed up over 80, especially if the moron behind you decides to follow when it's not really safe/helpful to do so (hence making breaking to get out of the situation unwise).
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Umm....you're forgetting something:
9 Sleep + 5 "left over" + the 4 tv hours = 6
Looks like you and the GP actually agree :-)
I've written a couple of articles about places of interest in a notable city in England. They've been deleted each time as the "moderators" don't know the city and think the places are of little note. Talk to the residents and visitors though and it's a different story. While there are submissions worthy of deletion it should *not* be up to the elite, and quite often uninformed, few to judge this.
No. If you can't imagine a way to avoid that scenario you need some extra schooling.
How about offering a back-up service for students work? Sure, you currently offer services that could be used as such but your average student has no idea how to do it. Offer a nice simple web interface that allows them to upload files that they really wouldn't want to lose.
As other posters have pointed out, you could also move into entertainment services and help for recent graduates.
I wouldn't ditch things like the svn/cvs, webspace and database access though. My CS department used to run their own services and having them on campus was great since I could go ask our helpdesk people if something went wrong or I needed extra space etc.
But did you not learn about the creation story in an RE class rather than a Science class? I can't see that *any* of my science teachers would even entertain the idea of teaching creationism in their class. Heck, I don't think our RE teacher would have condoned it.
Oops, yes :)
Actually professors don't need a PhD
IIRC even though Switzerland is not part of the EU they do still allow people from EU countries to come and work quite easily. It'd be kinda silly to be too preventative since they're surrounded. Citizens of Non-EU countries will probably run into more problems, just like they would in the rest of Europe.
Would that not fall under the whole reasonable exception part? Looks to me like the bill allows for QoS and so your VoIP connection could reasonably be prioritised. IANAL though so please correct me if I'm wrong
I would imagine that a foreign government official would be sent as a diplomat, through diplomatic channels. They're not even going to see any of the usual border guards, never mind have to explain themselves.