I'm a little bit curious how you would consider someone who wrote that he was proficient in only one language.
Java is pretty much the only language that I feel comfortable enough with to start off coding right away, but I've dabbled into lots of other languages and I'm of the oppinion that anyone with a proper programming background can pick up pretty much any language.
In this case, will it help to write a list of languages I've used (more than copying someone's script:) to show off that I have a broader background than only Java?
I'm a student at that university. Not at that department though so I don't know very much about the project.
However, I saw another demo that had a short explanation. It has three cameras on the side of the car that can spot a free slot. So, when you want to park you say that to the computer and then you drive slowly past the line of cars. When the computer finds a slot that it deems is large enough it tells you to get your hands/feet off the wheel and pedals. Then it proceeds to park.
It actually looked pretty userfriendly and nice. I don't know how small gaps it can manage though.
I definitely think that the same paper paper produced by students with differing talent would get the same grade. If you try to weigh in how much effort a student have put into a paper, you'd get a very uncertain process.
You would also get a very weird outcome. Namely that a student that works his ass off, but still can't produce papers of the same level as a student who cruises through school would get a higher grade. So, in essence the grade would be based on effort, not on quality, and that I think is absurd.
I'm not very familiar with the US school system, but we have something like accelerated classes (not as clear though, I believe) and I think what you're saying is a problem with them. A student that produces papers that are consistently of a higher quality than the papers from students in the remedial class may get a lower grade just because the other students in his class also are better.
Talk about taking obective judgment away.
IMO grades should show the quality of the work a student has produced, nothing else, and the standard against which the grades should be measured should be a global one, not a local one. (Then there's the question if grades are a good measurement, but that's another story.)
It's true that it's not a good measurement to say that something is more economical than an SUV.
However, I do think it shows how insanely uneconomical and how bad for the environment an SUV really is if it uses more gas than a freakin' *flying* vehicle!
ok, so this was a joke but really, what is the big deal about calling it pirate copying. It's been called that for ages and it's firmly set in the mind of the public. I would say it is so firmly set that none in their right mind would consider it to be associated with real pirating.
I say, get over it already. The naming battle is lost and it's just a waste of time and resources to fight it. Focus on the important issues instead.
As another poster pointed out, they claim to be the first without using a remote. However, that is not unique either:
http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/witas/eng.html
Granted, that's not a company but a university. I have no idea which one is the most advanced though.
If A wouldn't be punished then it would be really easy for someone with enough money to get anyone killed. He would only have to ask enough people to kill the guy he wants killed and finally someone who is short on cash and doesn't have a good sense of morals would accept.
I'm no lawyer so I won't try to give a legal explanation why A should be punished, but from a practical point of view it's quite obvious, don't you agree?
As an example just look at Bill Gates (just an example, Bill. No offense). What if he decided it would be much nicer without Linus, RMS and others and put out a reward for getting rid of them?
Your comment made me remember a documentary I saw about Douglas Adams. It mentioned how he was a total technology junkie and when he was at some remote island on vacation (not a popular semester resort, but some isolated one, in the pacific I think) he was amazed that he had better reception on his cell phone than he did in England.
So, the question is how many places in the world there are where there are no microwaves at all?
What I don't like is that when you open a new tab by clicking on a link and then closes that tab, it doesn't remember which tab you viewed last. Instead it closes the tab and shows the one furthest to the right in the tablist. I think Opera remembers the order you have watched the tabs if I'm not mistaken.
I have a Toshiba PocketPC and I think it's pretty good. I haven't used an iPaq so I can't really compare but I like the PocketPC recognition. You can type pretty much as you normally do and it has no problems with recognizing it. There's one thing I tend to get annoyed at though, when typing "round" characters, i.e. o, a, e, etc it quite often interpret those as either a space or a backspace (space is typed by drawing a line from left to right and backspace from right to left). Also, I've always had pretty light pressure when writing and thus the touch screen sometimes thinks I lift the pen when I don't intend to. All in all I'm happy with my PocketPC though.
Man, you're doing the same thing as you're accusing the parent of doing. I agree with you that the original poster can't possibly make a statement that's valid for every country in the world. But your comments about Sweden are way off. For example read this: http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/global/ haq.htm
I mostly agree with you. It's just that as you say Agent Smith *was* a very distinct character and I found him really repulsive and I get that feeling when I see him as Elrond. I have nothing against Weaving otherwise, he's a good enough actor. Still he's the character that is farthest from the images in my mind, but that is of course very different for different people.
It's not like it's anything new to base films on books, it has pretty much always been done.
These movies tend to be successes due to massive marketing (Yeah, yeah, marketing is evil and all that, but it's true nonetheless). There just are so many people who haven't read the books who will think it looks like a cool movie when watching the trailer (I presume the trailers won't suck) and won't care if it follows the book or not.
With some reservations I'm positive to movies based on famous books that succeed because it will make people interested in the books. So, the result is that more people will start reading, which is a good thing. On a side note: Kudos to Peter Jackson for making LotR close to my imagination. It's just the casting of Agent Smith as Elrond I have a problem with;)
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I'm a little bit curious how you would consider someone who wrote that he was proficient in only one language.
:) to show off that I have a broader background than only Java?
Java is pretty much the only language that I feel comfortable enough with to start off coding right away, but I've dabbled into lots of other languages and I'm of the oppinion that anyone with a proper programming background can pick up pretty much any language.
In this case, will it help to write a list of languages I've used (more than copying someone's script
I'm a student at that university. Not at that department though so I don't know very much about the project.
However, I saw another demo that had a short explanation. It has three cameras on the side of the car that can spot a free slot. So, when you want to park you say that to the computer and then you drive slowly past the line of cars. When the computer finds a slot that it deems is large enough it tells you to get your hands/feet off the wheel and pedals. Then it proceeds to park.
It actually looked pretty userfriendly and nice. I don't know how small gaps it can manage though.
And the bots that built the bots were built by bots...
hmm, I see a problem here.
I definitely think that the same paper paper produced by students with differing talent would get the same grade.
If you try to weigh in how much effort a student have put into a paper, you'd get a very uncertain process.
You would also get a very weird outcome. Namely that a student that works his ass off, but still can't produce papers of the same level as a student who cruises through school would get a higher grade. So, in essence the grade would be based on effort, not on quality, and that I think is absurd.
I'm not very familiar with the US school system, but we have something like accelerated classes (not as clear though, I believe) and I think what you're saying is a problem with them. A student that produces papers that are consistently of a higher quality than the papers from students in the remedial class may get a lower grade just because the other students in his class also are better.
Talk about taking obective judgment away.
IMO grades should show the quality of the work a student has produced, nothing else, and the standard against which the grades should be measured should be a global one, not a local one.
(Then there's the question if grades are a good measurement, but that's another story.)
It's true that it's not a good measurement to say that something is more economical than an SUV.
However, I do think it shows how insanely uneconomical and how bad for the environment an SUV really is if it uses more gas than a freakin' *flying* vehicle!
ok, so this was a joke but really, what is the big deal about calling it pirate copying. It's been called that for ages and it's firmly set in the mind of the public. I would say it is so firmly set that none in their right mind would consider it to be associated with real pirating.
I say, get over it already. The naming battle is lost and it's just a waste of time and resources to fight it. Focus on the important issues instead.
Great, replying two times to my own post. The address should be:
http://www.oxenhielm.com
Oh, and here is Elin's take on the story:
http://www.ozenhielm.com/
From the weblog:
The fact is, though, that Zhou was an advisor for Oxenhielm's masters degree. She is neither her professor nor her current advisor.
http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/witas/eng.html
Granted, that's not a company but a university. I have no idea which one is the most advanced though.
eh, did you read the article? Your link is to the same project as in the article...
If A wouldn't be punished then it would be really easy for someone with enough money to get anyone killed. He would only have to ask enough people to kill the guy he wants killed and finally someone who is short on cash and doesn't have a good sense of morals would accept.
I'm no lawyer so I won't try to give a legal explanation why A should be punished, but from a practical point of view it's quite obvious, don't you agree?
As an example just look at Bill Gates (just an example, Bill. No offense). What if he decided it would be much nicer without Linus, RMS and others and put out a reward for getting rid of them?
Your comment made me remember a documentary I saw about Douglas Adams. It mentioned how he was a total technology junkie and when he was at some remote island on vacation (not a popular semester resort, but some isolated one, in the pacific I think) he was amazed that he had better reception on his cell phone than he did in England.
So, the question is how many places in the world there are where there are no microwaves at all?
What I don't like is that when you open a new tab by clicking on a link and then closes that tab, it doesn't remember which tab you viewed last. Instead it closes the tab and shows the one furthest to the right in the tablist. I think Opera remembers the order you have watched the tabs if I'm not mistaken.
Not exactly on topic, but how does MAC OS stack up to windows and kde? Could anyone who has it share some opinions?
ehm, where have you been?
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?op=stories&autho r=4
I have a Toshiba PocketPC and I think it's pretty good. I haven't used an iPaq so I can't really compare but I like the PocketPC recognition. You can type pretty much as you normally do and it has no problems with recognizing it. There's one thing I tend to get annoyed at though, when typing "round" characters, i.e. o, a, e, etc it quite often interpret those as either a space or a backspace (space is typed by drawing a line from left to right and backspace from right to left).
Also, I've always had pretty light pressure when writing and thus the touch screen sometimes thinks I lift the pen when I don't intend to. All in all I'm happy with my PocketPC though.
And they say Nintendo doesn't aim for the adult crowd...
Why is pine a security risk? I don't mean to troll or anything, I'm just curious.
for the X-box and other game systems
Btw, I missed that too at first.
Man, you're doing the same thing as you're accusing the parent of doing. I agree with you that the original poster can't possibly make a statement that's valid for every country in the world. But your comments about Sweden are way off. For example read this:/ haq.htm
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/global
I mostly agree with you. It's just that as you say Agent Smith *was* a very distinct character and I found him really repulsive and I get that feeling when I see him as Elrond. I have nothing against Weaving otherwise, he's a good enough actor. Still he's the character that is farthest from the images in my mind, but that is of course very different for different people.
It's not like it's anything new to base films on books, it has pretty much always been done.
;)
These movies tend to be successes due to massive marketing (Yeah, yeah, marketing is evil and all that, but it's true nonetheless). There just are so many people who haven't read the books who will think it looks like a cool movie when watching the trailer (I presume the trailers won't suck) and won't care if it follows the book or not.
With some reservations I'm positive to movies based on famous books that succeed because it will make people interested in the books. So, the result is that more people will start reading, which is a good thing.
On a side note: Kudos to Peter Jackson for making LotR close to my imagination. It's just the casting of Agent Smith as Elrond I have a problem with
I would rather have a bender robot with a small refrigerator inside that hatch he has. That should keep the beer cool and nice during the day.
Then again, R2D2's bleeps are probably nicer to listen to than Bender's neverending sarcastic comments. And he'd probably drink all the bear himself.
doh, you bet me to it by one minute. Now I'll get moderated to oblivion.