Actually, if you explain to the employer why you took challenging classes and were forced to work hard to pull out the grades you did, it will carry more weight that a slacker who has a 4.0 in basket weaving. Atleast to an employer worth working for.
Exactly. If you do the first, you are in for some deep trouble. If you do too much of the last, you are also in for trouble. If all of their project is cited code, they are not in the wrong, however their grade should reflect their lack of effort.
The reuse of previous solutions should be ENCOURAGED. However, it must be fully documented as to the source. This is how the real world works. If someone has engineered a solution, it is almost always cheaper to utilize that solution and pay the licensing fees or purchase rights to the code.
If it was cited works, tell the professors to step out of acadamia and get in the REAL WORLD. The only way they have grounds is if it was stated or implied that all code should be the students work.
In my job, I try to produce as many common function code sections as possible. I then add these to a common database for others to use and modify to their needs. Re-inventing the wheel is not only stupid, it is in efficient. Engineers are lazy. Efficiency is king.
How about reducing the prices and/or allowing a realistic way to pay the ARTISTS instead of having to give a 95% cut to the artists' PIMPS? Maybe then people will actually feel bad about copying copyrighted materials.
1. no mindless "you can't do X while driving" laws.
Do you have a better option of legislating driver judgement?
2. a $10000 fine for any at fault accident, and a 90 day license suspension. You screw up, you pay.
Who determines who is at fault. Ever been screwed by someone pulling out with about 20 feet to spare, when you are going 55 in a 55? I have. I hit the car. I got the blame. It wasn't mine to take. Stopping without skidding I had no chance of missing the car. The passing lane was filled, the emergency lane was a ditch. So now I have to pay $10,000 and find some way to get around now that my license is suspended for 90 days. Umm.. No. I'm suprised you have a problem with the no cell phone blanket law but like an idea of this blanket law.
3. Mandatory driver retests every two years. Retests cover freeway driving (how to merge, how to use turn signals, no camping in the passing lane) and emergency procedures (lane change, spin recovery, etc.)
No problem with this. Who pays for the costs of the tests? I assume they would get amortized into your registration/licensing fees.
Obviously my reply wasn't intended to everyone. However, if you are currently taking a train and this causes you to take a car, something is very wrong. I am in the same situation as you, were public transportation is slower than driving. However, I have worked in Chicago where a 40 minutes train ride is better than a 70 minute drive.
Frankly, I like riding my bike better than either the car or public transportation if the distance is less than 30 miles each way. You arrive to work ready to kick some serious butt and you get home with no more stress from the things that went on at work.
And you know that these near misses are caused by cell phone distractions how?
Let me see, I believe I said "I have seen". I know that these were cell phone related because I saw the cell phone still held to the driver's (I use the term driver very loosely) head. Or the one that I heard this phrase as the driver was stepping out of their vehicle: "I gotta go, I just ran into someone." She then hung up the cell phone.
I am not a professional statistician, but I HAVE SEEN bad situations caused by cell phones while driving happen atleast six times that I can easily recall.
Your link cites FATALIES only. How many more fender-benders are caused by cell phone use? Who knows. I agree, more research is needed. IMHO using anything that distracts you from the task at hand (that task being safely guiding a potentially hazardous vehicle) is a case of bad judgement.
Nope. What you have now is another reason to take the train. We just need net access while on the train not the car. If this is the case, you can do two things:
Use public transportation which is more efficient (and many times faster) than your single car
Get work done while using public tranportation, actually saving you time by making the commute productive
Your logic is somewhat flawed:
Besides, people can't drive anyways. Perhaps if we give the bad drivers enough distractions, they'll qualify for a Darwin award.
Frankly I don't care if you kill yourself by driving while you are too tired, driving while you are distracted, or driving while you are drunk (all the same thing: driving without focus on the task). The problem is that the collateral damage is usually very HIGH to those around you when you are doing any of these things.
One African Country has a law that looks at the connection records of your cell phone after an accident. If you were in the car by yourself and your cell phone was operating, regardless of the cause of the accident, you are responsible. The logic is that if you were aware of the situation better, you could have kept the accident from occuring. While I don't fully agree with it, I have seen too many near misses and full accidents that were caused by cell phone distractions to think it isn't a problem.
See, it is all OK. We are getting bigger and bigger cars, so we are allowed to drive without thinking. When they bounce into each other, the large masses should protect us, right?
I only ask one thing. As you drive down the road in your new Ford Planet, talking on the cell phone, browsing the web, and getting 3 miles to the gallon, PLEASE try not to run over me as I choose to ride a bicycle to work, instead of traveling in my inhuman metal coffin.
Too often we only answer if we can do it, not that pesky should we do it question.
How is that a bad analogy? When you spend more money on fixing something to be what that extra money could buy in the first place IT IS STUPID. This is the same as if you bought a car or a computer or anything. You wind up just buying the one you should have bought in the first place, or dealing with the problems.
That's what I don't get. I always chuckle when I see a Geo Metro driving down the road that has been souped up with those stupid wider wheels, detailing, hydralics, custom interior, etc. For the money they spent to do that, they could have actually bought a car instead of fixing up a go-cart.
I have to admit that I really laughed at this section of the article: Physical injury is even a possibility. "You're dealing with a lot of heat," Blevins said. "I've had friends get third-degree burns working on their systems." I mean, come on! If you are taking all of these cooling precautions wouldn't it be somewhat logical the the chips might get just a little warm?
I found it interesting that Dennis Miller's show with Dave Grohl (drummer for Nirvana and Foo Fighter lead) talked about building a studio in a room and recording a record by themselves. Guess what? It was recognized by the Grammys.
I would love to see the direct link of artist to fan grow as the slavery err, I mean recording industry withers.
Engineering becomes art when you are using fixed tools to do something that hasn't been done before. Just as painting a picture uses a fixed set of tools (certain colors and brushes) to create something that hasn't existed before.
I am a Electrical and Computer Engineer. What I found most interesting attending an Engineering College, was the diversity and great creativity of the better engineering students. Many played music, were great artists, or very accoplished writers. Any type of engineering is an art. You have a fixed set of tools and must create something from those limitations. Programing IS art, when done right. This is the same with a brilliant bridge design or an elegant circuit design. All of these are forms of artistic expresion, IMHO.
It would be hard to compute and accurate average. There are many people who only read/. for the articles... (I won't go there.)...they never post anything. Do you just throw out the 0's?
This is the age old argument with computer hardware. "Our company went out of business because when we had the Model 5, but the Model 6 was on the drawing boards, everyone said they would wait. When the Model 6 came out, Model 7 was on the drawing boards. We wound up designing a bunch of really cool widgets and no one bought them, because they kept waiting for the better widget."
To me, using ANY alphabet to WRITE seems stupid for text input. I can type at more than twice my writing speed, and I enjoy it more. The only things I want paper for are drawing diagrams for something. This is easliy done with a $80 Wacom drawing tablet that attached to the USB port.
The main advantage of a system like this is because of the stigma people place on keyboard inside meeting, etc. Writing on a pad is not as much of a distraction for those attending. I say screw the distraction and use my Visor with a Stowaway keyboard for syncing when I get back to my Thinkpad.
I am curious how it will do in the marketplace, it seems slightly better than a toy to me.
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This app is just a licensed version of DateBk3 or DateBk4. Noting is keeping a Palm owner from purchasing this app.
Actually, if you explain to the employer why you took challenging classes and were forced to work hard to pull out the grades you did, it will carry more weight that a slacker who has a 4.0 in basket weaving. Atleast to an employer worth working for.
Exactly. If you do the first, you are in for some deep trouble. If you do too much of the last, you are also in for trouble. If all of their project is cited code, they are not in the wrong, however their grade should reflect their lack of effort.
The reuse of previous solutions should be ENCOURAGED. However, it must be fully documented as to the source. This is how the real world works. If someone has engineered a solution, it is almost always cheaper to utilize that solution and pay the licensing fees or purchase rights to the code.
If it was cited works, tell the professors to step out of acadamia and get in the REAL WORLD. The only way they have grounds is if it was stated or implied that all code should be the students work.
In my job, I try to produce as many common function code sections as possible. I then add these to a common database for others to use and modify to their needs. Re-inventing the wheel is not only stupid, it is in efficient. Engineers are lazy. Efficiency is king.
I have had that happen. I mean, I am sitting there and just thinks. Dang. I wish I had a moth.
Am I the only one?
The Handspring game face would be great for this. You get the joystick and buttons almost like Atari!
How about reducing the prices and/or allowing a realistic way to pay the ARTISTS instead of having to give a 95% cut to the artists' PIMPS? Maybe then people will actually feel bad about copying copyrighted materials.
Can we confuse then in double and triple negatives? What if we say that it isn't not an anti-copy encription?
1. no mindless "you can't do X while driving" laws.
Do you have a better option of legislating driver judgement?
2. a $10000 fine for any at fault accident, and a 90 day license suspension. You screw up, you pay.
Who determines who is at fault. Ever been screwed by someone pulling out with about 20 feet to spare, when you are going 55 in a 55? I have. I hit the car. I got the blame. It wasn't mine to take. Stopping without skidding I had no chance of missing the car. The passing lane was filled, the emergency lane was a ditch. So now I have to pay $10,000 and find some way to get around now that my license is suspended for 90 days. Umm.. No. I'm suprised you have a problem with the no cell phone blanket law but like an idea of this blanket law.
3. Mandatory driver retests every two years. Retests cover freeway driving (how to merge, how to use turn signals, no camping in the passing lane) and emergency procedures (lane change, spin recovery, etc.)
No problem with this. Who pays for the costs of the tests? I assume they would get amortized into your registration/licensing fees.
Obviously my reply wasn't intended to everyone. However, if you are currently taking a train and this causes you to take a car, something is very wrong. I am in the same situation as you, were public transportation is slower than driving. However, I have worked in Chicago where a 40 minutes train ride is better than a 70 minute drive.
Frankly, I like riding my bike better than either the car or public transportation if the distance is less than 30 miles each way. You arrive to work ready to kick some serious butt and you get home with no more stress from the things that went on at work.
And you know that these near misses are caused by cell phone distractions how?
Let me see, I believe I said "I have seen". I know that these were cell phone related because I saw the cell phone still held to the driver's (I use the term driver very loosely) head. Or the one that I heard this phrase as the driver was stepping out of their vehicle: "I gotta go, I just ran into someone." She then hung up the cell phone.
I am not a professional statistician, but I HAVE SEEN bad situations caused by cell phones while driving happen atleast six times that I can easily recall.
Your link cites FATALIES only. How many more fender-benders are caused by cell phone use? Who knows. I agree, more research is needed. IMHO using anything that distracts you from the task at hand (that task being safely guiding a potentially hazardous vehicle) is a case of bad judgement.
Your logic is somewhat flawed:
Besides, people can't drive anyways. Perhaps if we give the bad drivers enough distractions, they'll qualify for a Darwin award.
Frankly I don't care if you kill yourself by driving while you are too tired, driving while you are distracted, or driving while you are drunk (all the same thing: driving without focus on the task). The problem is that the collateral damage is usually very HIGH to those around you when you are doing any of these things.
One African Country has a law that looks at the connection records of your cell phone after an accident. If you were in the car by yourself and your cell phone was operating, regardless of the cause of the accident, you are responsible. The logic is that if you were aware of the situation better, you could have kept the accident from occuring. While I don't fully agree with it, I have seen too many near misses and full accidents that were caused by cell phone distractions to think it isn't a problem.
See, it is all OK. We are getting bigger and bigger cars, so we are allowed to drive without thinking. When they bounce into each other, the large masses should protect us, right? I only ask one thing. As you drive down the road in your new Ford Planet, talking on the cell phone, browsing the web, and getting 3 miles to the gallon, PLEASE try not to run over me as I choose to ride a bicycle to work, instead of traveling in my inhuman metal coffin. Too often we only answer if we can do it, not that pesky should we do it question.
It is light enough that I guess they could have been bouncing it by leaning back and forth real fast...
How is that a bad analogy? When you spend more money on fixing something to be what that extra money could buy in the first place IT IS STUPID. This is the same as if you bought a car or a computer or anything. You wind up just buying the one you should have bought in the first place, or dealing with the problems.
Buy quality or buy twice.
That's what I don't get. I always chuckle when I see a Geo Metro driving down the road that has been souped up with those stupid wider wheels, detailing, hydralics, custom interior, etc. For the money they spent to do that, they could have actually bought a car instead of fixing up a go-cart.
I have to admit that I really laughed at this section of the article: Physical injury is even a possibility. "You're dealing with a lot of heat," Blevins said. "I've had friends get third-degree burns working on their systems." I mean, come on! If you are taking all of these cooling precautions wouldn't it be somewhat logical the the chips might get just a little warm?
I found it interesting that Dennis Miller's show with Dave Grohl (drummer for Nirvana and Foo Fighter lead) talked about building a studio in a room and recording a record by themselves. Guess what? It was recognized by the Grammys.
I would love to see the direct link of artist to fan grow as the slavery err, I mean recording industry withers.
Engineering becomes art when you are using fixed tools to do something that hasn't been done before. Just as painting a picture uses a fixed set of tools (certain colors and brushes) to create something that hasn't existed before.
I am a Electrical and Computer Engineer. What I found most interesting attending an Engineering College, was the diversity and great creativity of the better engineering students. Many played music, were great artists, or very accoplished writers. Any type of engineering is an art. You have a fixed set of tools and must create something from those limitations. Programing IS art, when done right. This is the same with a brilliant bridge design or an elegant circuit design. All of these are forms of artistic expresion, IMHO.
It would be hard to compute and accurate average. There are many people who only read /. for the articles... (I won't go there.) ...they never post anything. Do you just throw out the 0's?
Do we have to control the modular parts with a modular program? .NET Bots...
NOOOOOOoooooooooooooo!
Wakes up in cold sweat
This is the age old argument with computer hardware. "Our company went out of business because when we had the Model 5, but the Model 6 was on the drawing boards, everyone said they would wait. When the Model 6 came out, Model 7 was on the drawing boards. We wound up designing a bunch of really cool widgets and no one bought them, because they kept waiting for the better widget."
I was going to post a deeply thought out response to a story today, but I keep falling asleep reading them and forgetting what I was going to say.
"Does anyone at your work tell you that you have a case of the mondays?"
"No... No, Man. I beleive someone would get their ass kicked saying something like that."
To me, using ANY alphabet to WRITE seems stupid for text input. I can type at more than twice my writing speed, and I enjoy it more. The only things I want paper for are drawing diagrams for something. This is easliy done with a $80 Wacom drawing tablet that attached to the USB port.
The main advantage of a system like this is because of the stigma people place on keyboard inside meeting, etc. Writing on a pad is not as much of a distraction for those attending. I say screw the distraction and use my Visor with a Stowaway keyboard for syncing when I get back to my Thinkpad.
I am curious how it will do in the marketplace, it seems slightly better than a toy to me.