Can anyone comment on Computer Science versus Computer Engineering as careers? There's a good deal of overlap, of course, but I'm interested in getting a feel for the viability of each as a career path.
Thorough, sure, but the likelihood of all of the patents being permanently anulled is extremely low, though a couple may be rejected.
As for the coverage of this, I was speaking generally. Nonetheless, reports have been overwhelmingly positive in tone and they really shouldn't be. The assertion that it's "'quite possible' that NTP won't see any settlement from RIM at all now" is categorically false, unless you take "quite" to mean "remotely".
The mainstream press hasn't picked up the truth of this matter. It seems crystal clear at this point that the judge will rule against RIM in the coming week or two.
Also, bear thee in mind that rejections by the patent office mean next to nothing, both in the trial and for the validity of the patents. Rejection just means that the patent office is challening the applicant to prove the merit of their patents, and 90% of the time they are subsequently reapproved. NTP only needs one valid patent for them to win, and they have around seven that are applicable, so the odds are monumentally in their favor. The patent rejection process and the trial process are entirely separate, too, so while RIM may try to point at the rejection and say they should be handed the case, the judge is going to tell them that it doesn't matter in the least.
Moreover, the judge seems to be pretty irritated with RIM all around. I'm told that the only time he was taking extensive notes was when the paperwork needed to obtain an injunction was being discussed, and the rest of the time he spent looking annoyed. This isn't solid evidence, of course, but it all points to RIM getting smacked, with victory extremely unlikely. For whatever reason, the non-financial press hasn't picked up on this, and RIM's stock is up today in spite of the pending bad news.
I think it's amusing that Taco addresses the role of Slashdot editors as if it was anything more than hitting a button. It's plain that they pay no attention to grammar, factual accuracy, spelling, or if the sites that are being linked to are clearly advertisements with no substance.
Maybe it's just my own perception, but it seems like the situation has been particularly bad lately. The editorial staff really needs to be cleaned up if Slashdot is going to be shifted towards the "quality" side of the quantity/quality equation, which has lately been converging to infinity if you get my drift.
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It's really the only webcomic I like.
Since this whole Slashdot article has become one big self-promotional circlejerk anyway, I may as well promote my own crude, unoriginal, and awful satire comic.
This is actually a pretty good concept. I have my doubts that there are many exploits that are being actively exploited that aren't known about at all, though, which seems to be what they're banking on.
In my own experience, legit IRC servers are the smaller ones, with close-knit communities. I helped serve Dorksnet, a smallish server, for about a year, and nearly all of the usage was simply for chatting. Generally, your small servers are formed by groups of friends for their own purposes, and the usage reflects that.
On big servers, it's essentially impossible to have a conversation anyway, because everyone is retarded.
This is basically the exact same thing as an I-PAC, which is made by Ultimarc. It's a bit cheaper too.
Besides, building the cabinet is the most fun part. I spent a good bit of my summer doing it: pictures here and here.
This is only useful if you dual boot. I guess this is more likely to happen than OSX coming to x86, so it would be a happy medium between having both a PC and a Mac and having a single computer.
Though it's easy enough to decry digital zoom as a gimmick, and in most cases it probably is, there are some (admittedly, highly specialized) implementations that produce really great results. Look at HQ4x ( http://www.hiend3d.com/hq4x.html )and its associated projects.
It's primarily for images which don't breach 256 colors, of course, and it works best on simple shapes, but it's realtime, and it looks fantastic.
200-800 dollars? Why the hell is audio software so expensive, anyway? I really doubt this software is more advanced than, say, Doom or Photoshop or what have you, and yet if they charge on the upper end of that spectrum, they're acting like it.
your name is Dick? My father, whose name is Dick, has had endless trouble with spam filters blocking all of the messages he sends where he uses his own name, or when clients send him email using his name. It seems most filters and firewalls don't distinguish between "Dick" and "dicks," and this is a problem for businesses, where context is so important.
I suppose the idea behind this, in theory, is that software like this could be used to control applications if a distinct enough waveform could be divined from the data extracted from your neural activity patterns. This implies that stronger impulses are easier to recognize. Therefore, I offer this idea to those studying brainwaves, in the form of a particularly strong and easily triggered neural action that could perhaps be recognized fairly easily, as well as a resultant onscreen action to which the impulse correlates directly:
Make porn pop up when I touch my cock ok nerds get to work
(And one for pretentious emofags, make livejournal.com open up in Firefox when you cut yourself)
It's worth checking out Their download store too if you haven't done so already. They're going to be offering their own bootlegs, interestingly. I imagine they're making a pretty huge profit margin compared to their per-CD profits on regular-old CD's.
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Can anyone comment on Computer Science versus Computer Engineering as careers? There's a good deal of overlap, of course, but I'm interested in getting a feel for the viability of each as a career path.
Thorough, sure, but the likelihood of all of the patents being permanently anulled is extremely low, though a couple may be rejected. As for the coverage of this, I was speaking generally. Nonetheless, reports have been overwhelmingly positive in tone and they really shouldn't be. The assertion that it's "'quite possible' that NTP won't see any settlement from RIM at all now" is categorically false, unless you take "quite" to mean "remotely".
The mainstream press hasn't picked up the truth of this matter. It seems crystal clear at this point that the judge will rule against RIM in the coming week or two.
Also, bear thee in mind that rejections by the patent office mean next to nothing, both in the trial and for the validity of the patents. Rejection just means that the patent office is challening the applicant to prove the merit of their patents, and 90% of the time they are subsequently reapproved. NTP only needs one valid patent for them to win, and they have around seven that are applicable, so the odds are monumentally in their favor. The patent rejection process and the trial process are entirely separate, too, so while RIM may try to point at the rejection and say they should be handed the case, the judge is going to tell them that it doesn't matter in the least.
Moreover, the judge seems to be pretty irritated with RIM all around. I'm told that the only time he was taking extensive notes was when the paperwork needed to obtain an injunction was being discussed, and the rest of the time he spent looking annoyed. This isn't solid evidence, of course, but it all points to RIM getting smacked, with victory extremely unlikely. For whatever reason, the non-financial press hasn't picked up on this, and RIM's stock is up today in spite of the pending bad news.
I think it's amusing that Taco addresses the role of Slashdot editors as if it was anything more than hitting a button. It's plain that they pay no attention to grammar, factual accuracy, spelling, or if the sites that are being linked to are clearly advertisements with no substance. Maybe it's just my own perception, but it seems like the situation has been particularly bad lately. The editorial staff really needs to be cleaned up if Slashdot is going to be shifted towards the "quality" side of the quantity/quality equation, which has lately been converging to infinity if you get my drift.
You obviously have not read the comic.
It's really the only webcomic I like. Since this whole Slashdot article has become one big self-promotional circlejerk anyway, I may as well promote my own crude, unoriginal, and awful satire comic.
Pokey the Penguin has been grievously omitted.
This is actually a pretty good concept. I have my doubts that there are many exploits that are being actively exploited that aren't known about at all, though, which seems to be what they're banking on.
Leave it to a woman to get caught.
I'm not a mysogynist!
In my own experience, legit IRC servers are the smaller ones, with close-knit communities. I helped serve Dorksnet, a smallish server, for about a year, and nearly all of the usage was simply for chatting. Generally, your small servers are formed by groups of friends for their own purposes, and the usage reflects that.
On big servers, it's essentially impossible to have a conversation anyway, because everyone is retarded.
This is basically the exact same thing as an I-PAC, which is made by Ultimarc. It's a bit cheaper too. Besides, building the cabinet is the most fun part. I spent a good bit of my summer doing it: pictures here and here.
This is only useful if you dual boot. I guess this is more likely to happen than OSX coming to x86, so it would be a happy medium between having both a PC and a Mac and having a single computer.
I could do without Georgia anyway.
Though it's easy enough to decry digital zoom as a gimmick, and in most cases it probably is, there are some (admittedly, highly specialized) implementations that produce really great results. Look at HQ4x ( http://www.hiend3d.com/hq4x.html )and its associated projects. It's primarily for images which don't breach 256 colors, of course, and it works best on simple shapes, but it's realtime, and it looks fantastic.
200-800 dollars? Why the hell is audio software so expensive, anyway? I really doubt this software is more advanced than, say, Doom or Photoshop or what have you, and yet if they charge on the upper end of that spectrum, they're acting like it.
your name is Dick? My father, whose name is Dick, has had endless trouble with spam filters blocking all of the messages he sends where he uses his own name, or when clients send him email using his name. It seems most filters and firewalls don't distinguish between "Dick" and "dicks," and this is a problem for businesses, where context is so important.
I suppose the idea behind this, in theory, is that software like this could be used to control applications if a distinct enough waveform could be divined from the data extracted from your neural activity patterns. This implies that stronger impulses are easier to recognize. Therefore, I offer this idea to those studying brainwaves, in the form of a particularly strong and easily triggered neural action that could perhaps be recognized fairly easily, as well as a resultant onscreen action to which the impulse correlates directly:
Make porn pop up when I touch my cock ok nerds get to work
(And one for pretentious emofags, make livejournal.com open up in Firefox when you cut yourself)
Oh, actually, they already offer two: http://www.theymightbedownloads.com/do/catalogLive
Why is it that every single article on TMBG calls them a "quirky pop duo?"
Google reference
Somebody should buy these guys a thesaurus.
It's worth checking out Their download store too if you haven't done so already. They're going to be offering their own bootlegs, interestingly. I imagine they're making a pretty huge profit margin compared to their per-CD profits on regular-old CD's.