Also, where does it say he was a full-time teacher?
This is the quote from his page: "Sure I was not a Professor (which I never said I was), but I taught several subjects there for over 5 years!"
The university curriculums (curriculi?) you're thinking of must be significantly less taxing than any I've ever experienced or heard of - teaching "several subjects" usually amounts to a full-time job.
When I read the GP, I had a mental image of a professor in glasses and a necktie being squished in a trash compactor until he finally said, "Okay, okay! I'll resign!" Figuratively, it's almost correct usage.
I can't believe how quickly these creatures have crawled from beneath the bridges and translated their near-unintelligble grunts to paper. Mods, please mark "Troll" to anyone who posts anything like: "He's a wuss, he backed down and quit."
or "He resigned, he didn't get fired. TFA != Story Title"
Half-truth: He resigned. Complete truth: He was forced to resign, and denounced by the university. The university said, "he only taught a few classes," when he'd been teaching full-time for 5 years!
This is BS, and censorship at its worst. I'm working on becoming a Computer Science professor, and this article makes me glad I don't live in Spain. Does anyone remember this from a few weeks ago? The RIAA wants just as much control over U.S. universities as the Spanish equivalent already has over theirs.
...IT departments have a rather apathetic and wasteful attitude about software and hardware. It's nice to hear that the successful companies will be required to be resourceful and wise in IT to be successful(if the author of the book is right, of course).
For a while there, I suspected that incompetent and wasteful IT was a necessary evil of working at medium- to large-sized organizations. Reading this review gives me new hope.
MOD PARENT UP!!!
The parent makes a very good point. Correctness is an often-overlooked quality that should exist in every piece of widely-accepted FOSS. I hope for the day that high muckety-mucks in the FOSS community actually start caring about correctness.
This won't happen until people treat their inboxes like their telephones. Even a decade ago, I felt like my privacy was invaded when I got phone spam. Therefore, I learned what it took to keep it to a minimum.
When the general public starts treating email as a legitimate communications channel, rather than a novelty, we will see significant falloff of spam.
This idea never occurred to me before, but it's definitely a novel plan. Nothing would motivate voting more than taking away representation from the apathetic.
I've competed in the ACM Programming Contest. It was rather disappointing to have my professors' hopes pinned upon me when I was provided an every-other-week practice time, no curriculum credit for competing (i.e. taking a full class-load and attempting to prepare for the contest), and nonexistent financial support when we needed to leave town to go to the regional competition. Luckily, a grad student was willing to share his money that the Graduate College, not the Computer Science Department, provided for him, for something called an "Activities Allowance." If it wasn't for that, I would've been on a water & sugar packets diet for three days while I was 1000 miles away from home.
Furthermore, when I got there, I spoke with some of the other competitors, from prestigious schools like UT - Austin, and discovered that some of the entrants had up to 6 credit hours of classes that were nothing but preparation for the ACM Programming Contest. How was I supposed to do well against that? I know that my University's athletes would have never felt that embarrased and unprepared at a competition.
Perhaps collegiate sports are to blame for our poor performance in the ACM Programming contest. It would be unthinkable that a football player or basketball player would have to pay for his/her meals out-of-pocket while travelling for an away game. It would be senseless to allow a collegiate athlete to compete if he/she hadn't been training and practicing 5 days a week for the past 6 months, yet we let our academic competitors pay their own way, and train in their spare time, on top of classes and, in some cases, jobs. Wake up, universities! Extract craniums from rectums, you so-called "institutes of higher education!"
When looking for experience, depth is often given much more weight than breadth.
I beg to differ. I'm considered the "Linux expert" at my workplace, but I wouldn't have been hired if it wasn't for my programming skills, MS experience, and comfortability in a very heterogenous environment. Computer software changes so rapidly that extensive ingrained experience with any tool is a liability, not an asset. It tends to indicate, more often than not, difficulty and opposition for anything different, no matter how the suitability compares between the old and new software.
You mean our schools might actually promote learning, sharing, innovation, and playing nice with others? Say it ain't so!
It's amazing to me how rarely we see "academic" software like Unix & Linux in our schools. I'm fortunate enough to be assisting in setting up a private school's computer network, all Linux, baby!
I don't understand how the parent can belive that Prof. Dannenberg's attacks against the RIAA's behavior over the past century is irrelevant - I find it to be the most relevant. This argument isn't a logical argument, it's a political argument, where emotion and sentimentality have a large part to play.
He points out that the RIAA's moral high-ground position is invalid - the RIAA is a leading cause of impoverished musicians. It is inane to expect him to put forth more effort to "protect the musicians' rights" than the RIAA is willing to do themselves. Prof. Dannenberg has little to gain or lose by assisting the RIAA, yet the RIAA itself has everything at stake. This is senseless - how can the RIAA expect the general public to pity the musician and pay the RIAA, when the RIAA has shown time and time again how much they don't care about the musicians?
The RIAA's behavior certainly seems to be more like a protection racket than an organization to provide services to recording artists.
I remember back in the day, when there was a boycotton tuna. Now, it was my understanding that boycotts actually do something to indicate that consumers want a change in the moral practices of a business.
Now, considering what we know of boycotts, it would lead me to believe that saying "fsck you, RIAA!" and downloading music illegally is exactly the wrong thing to do if we want to bring down the RIAA, or get them to change their ways, e.g. price fixing, promoting crap music, etc. If the RIAA promotes crap music, why are you downloading it illegally and listening to it? Quit supporting the RIAA by doing without the music that is backed by the RIAA. Quit going to RIAA-backed concerts, quit buying RIAA-backed CDs, and quit downloading RIAA-backed music! Just like people did without their tuna in the '80s, you can suck it up and do without your Metallica. It is not unreasonable to expect the masses to get pissed and start demonstrating a little activism.
Actually, twos-complement
makes darn sure that you don't ever have an NaN value in an integer. Since most hardware represents signed values using twos complement, I'd say that NaN would be right out.
That'd be tritium, an isotope of hydrogen with two neutrons, making three particles at the nucleus -- two neutrons and one proton (hence the 'tri' in tritium). The fact that it's radioactive makes it an interesting point in the area of nuclear fusion.
... Microsoft was hoping that the reviewers would've hunted down all the useless latent features and ignored the fact that it's WinXP with a different color scheme and a few new pretties.
While reading through the comments on this article, I had a revelation. There was a group of people a few hundred years ago that were so pissed off with getting shafted by "The Man" that they decided dignity was more important than tea, and tossed all the tea into Boston Harbor. Eventually, this whole thing led to "The Man" getting his 4$$ kicked on out of the colonies, where people could buy and sell tea any damn way they wanted.
Now, consider the state of software, and compare to the American Revolution. Surely there existed people who said, "Man, this Tea Tax sucks! We ought to do something about it!" I find it my ethical responsibility to be that person in the present day.
Of course, before you all start swaying and humming "Battle Hymn of the Republic," remember, there were some unpleasant things about the American Revolution, just as there will be unpleasant things about any sort of Software Revolution. First, there was fighting, war, death, cold winters, and cable TV outages. Furthermore, those poor colonials had to do without their tea!
Likewise, we must do without some of our well-deserved conveniences if we wish to liberate such things for the rest of society. We must also realize that there were colonials that really didn't mind getting bent over a chair every time they bought tea, and said to the "Man, this sucks" crowd, "Hey, I really don't care, getting the shaft is easier than fighting." Similarly, we will have the people that will let Microsoft/SCO/Adobe/Novell/etc. rape their privacy, pocketbooks, and intellects because it's "easier." However, the "rape me" colonists, along with the feather-wearing tea-into-harbor-dumping red-coat-shooting zealots, all became Americans at the end of the war (either that, or they bought a ticket back to England). Similarly, when our war is won, the "rape me" software users will have the "easy" software that protects them as well. However, that war won't be won unless someone does the fighting.
*bracing for the "I'm British, you insensitive clod!" replies*
The wisest conversion between RGB and CMYK is going to be using a printer driver, IMHO, anyway, since the printer manufacturer (most likely) will have the most knowledge about how the inks interact, both with the paper and with each other. The problem with CMYK representation is that is is very specific to the media you're using. However, since the most common media for viewing digital image data still is the computer monitor, with its RGB array of pixels, the conversion between RGB and CMY(K) in this case is (or at least, should be) pretty trivial.
However, I do see your point about the conversions back & forth. It's hard, because I'm a software engineer specializing in digital imaging technology, to explain to artsy folks that CMYK is not gaining much of anything over RGB in terms of image quality or convenience in manipulation. I've heard a few zealots in my day crying "CMYK!" and I can't help but ask, "Why?"
Before you do that, do your homework. CMYK is not "basically the negative of RGB".
Why don't you do your homework, like understanding the word 'basically'? RGB is additive, where increases in color value lead you to white, whereas CMY(k) is subtractive, e.g. increases in color value lead to black. They are, essentially, opposites. If you look at a color cube, Cyan opposes Red, Magenta opposes Green, and Yellow opposes Blue.
And by the way, the Key in CMYK was actually invented to save the more expensive color inks.
That's one reason for the K channel in CMYK. The important reason, in regards to printing, is because mixing the C, M, and Y inks usually doesn't yield a 'true' black.
Personally, I dislike, even hate, tabbed messaging windows. It's wonderful for browsing, but horrible for IMing. I don't want to, if I'm in another window doing real work, have to alt-tab, and then use the mouse or execute another keyboard command to bring up the appropriate IM conversation - I'd wind up giving messages to the wrong people and getting everything all screwed up.
So, all that being said, they should make certain that tabbed IM conversations can be disabled. Surely I'm not the only one that feels this way.
Why do I so often hear tons of noise about the Star Wars story beyond XI? It was my understanding that the story was about Anakin Skywalker - his origins, growth, corruption, and, finally, redemption. What more is to be told?
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When I read the GP, I had a mental image of a professor in glasses and a necktie being squished in a trash compactor until he finally said, "Okay, okay! I'll resign!" Figuratively, it's almost correct usage.
I can't believe how quickly these creatures have crawled from beneath the bridges and translated their near-unintelligble grunts to paper.
Mods, please mark "Troll" to anyone who posts anything like:
"He's a wuss, he backed down and quit."
or
"He resigned, he didn't get fired. TFA != Story Title"
Half-truth: He resigned.
Complete truth: He was forced to resign, and denounced by the university. The university said, "he only taught a few classes," when he'd been teaching full-time for 5 years!
This is BS, and censorship at its worst. I'm working on becoming a Computer Science professor, and this article makes me glad I don't live in Spain. Does anyone remember this from a few weeks ago? The RIAA wants just as much control over U.S. universities as the Spanish equivalent already has over theirs.
I think the problem is that most people don't understand what a true beta release is.
The parent and GP are probably accustomed to software being called beta, but it's really alpha, or possibly even pre-alpha.
FYI:
Alpha = Feature-complete, but known to be unstable
Beta = Feature-complete, few (or no) known bugs, stable enough to be usable
Microsoft - I can't believe it's not beta!
...IT departments have a rather apathetic and wasteful attitude about software and hardware. It's nice to hear that the successful companies will be required to be resourceful and wise in IT to be successful(if the author of the book is right, of course).
For a while there, I suspected that incompetent and wasteful IT was a necessary evil of working at medium- to large-sized organizations. Reading this review gives me new hope.
MOD PARENT UP!!! The parent makes a very good point. Correctness is an often-overlooked quality that should exist in every piece of widely-accepted FOSS. I hope for the day that high muckety-mucks in the FOSS community actually start caring about correctness.
This won't happen until people treat their inboxes like their telephones. Even a decade ago, I felt like my privacy was invaded when I got phone spam. Therefore, I learned what it took to keep it to a minimum.
When the general public starts treating email as a legitimate communications channel, rather than a novelty, we will see significant falloff of spam.
... on a Windows box. Their site is already getting slow. Makes me pretty uninterested in getting a certification from them.
MOD PARENT UP!!!
This idea never occurred to me before, but it's definitely a novel plan. Nothing would motivate voting more than taking away representation from the apathetic.
Are you referring to your own subject?
I've competed in the ACM Programming Contest. It was rather disappointing to have my professors' hopes pinned upon me when I was provided an every-other-week practice time, no curriculum credit for competing (i.e. taking a full class-load and attempting to prepare for the contest), and nonexistent financial support when we needed to leave town to go to the regional competition. Luckily, a grad student was willing to share his money that the Graduate College, not the Computer Science Department, provided for him, for something called an "Activities Allowance." If it wasn't for that, I would've been on a water & sugar packets diet for three days while I was 1000 miles away from home.
Furthermore, when I got there, I spoke with some of the other competitors, from prestigious schools like UT - Austin, and discovered that some of the entrants had up to 6 credit hours of classes that were nothing but preparation for the ACM Programming Contest. How was I supposed to do well against that? I know that my University's athletes would have never felt that embarrased and unprepared at a competition.
Perhaps collegiate sports are to blame for our poor performance in the ACM Programming contest. It would be unthinkable that a football player or basketball player would have to pay for his/her meals out-of-pocket while travelling for an away game. It would be senseless to allow a collegiate athlete to compete if he/she hadn't been training and practicing 5 days a week for the past 6 months, yet we let our academic competitors pay their own way, and train in their spare time, on top of classes and, in some cases, jobs. Wake up, universities! Extract craniums from rectums, you so-called "institutes of higher education!"
When looking for experience, depth is often given much more weight than breadth.
I beg to differ. I'm considered the "Linux expert" at my workplace, but I wouldn't have been hired if it wasn't for my programming skills, MS experience, and comfortability in a very heterogenous environment. Computer software changes so rapidly that extensive ingrained experience with any tool is a liability, not an asset. It tends to indicate, more often than not, difficulty and opposition for anything different, no matter how the suitability compares between the old and new software.
You mean our schools might actually promote learning, sharing, innovation, and playing nice with others? Say it ain't so!
It's amazing to me how rarely we see "academic" software like Unix & Linux in our schools. I'm fortunate enough to be assisting in setting up a private school's computer network, all Linux, baby!
I don't understand how the parent can belive that Prof. Dannenberg's attacks against the RIAA's behavior over the past century is irrelevant - I find it to be the most relevant. This argument isn't a logical argument, it's a political argument, where emotion and sentimentality have a large part to play.
He points out that the RIAA's moral high-ground position is invalid - the RIAA is a leading cause of impoverished musicians. It is inane to expect him to put forth more effort to "protect the musicians' rights" than the RIAA is willing to do themselves. Prof. Dannenberg has little to gain or lose by assisting the RIAA, yet the RIAA itself has everything at stake. This is senseless - how can the RIAA expect the general public to pity the musician and pay the RIAA, when the RIAA has shown time and time again how much they don't care about the musicians?
The RIAA's behavior certainly seems to be more like a protection racket than an organization to provide services to recording artists.
From: Bill
Subject: Re: Longhorn
Hey Steve,
Has the research team figured out why the *nix machines don't have to reboot all the time?
Bill
I remember back in the day, when there was a boycott on tuna. Now, it was my understanding that boycotts actually do something to indicate that consumers want a change in the moral practices of a business.
Now, considering what we know of boycotts, it would lead me to believe that saying "fsck you, RIAA!" and downloading music illegally is exactly the wrong thing to do if we want to bring down the RIAA, or get them to change their ways, e.g. price fixing, promoting crap music, etc. If the RIAA promotes crap music, why are you downloading it illegally and listening to it? Quit supporting the RIAA by doing without the music that is backed by the RIAA. Quit going to RIAA-backed concerts, quit buying RIAA-backed CDs, and quit downloading RIAA-backed music! Just like people did without their tuna in the '80s, you can suck it up and do without your Metallica. It is not unreasonable to expect the masses to get pissed and start demonstrating a little activism.
Actually, twos-complement makes darn sure that you don't ever have an NaN value in an integer. Since most hardware represents signed values using twos complement, I'd say that NaN would be right out.
That'd be tritium, an isotope of hydrogen with two neutrons, making three particles at the nucleus -- two neutrons and one proton (hence the 'tri' in tritium). The fact that it's radioactive makes it an interesting point in the area of nuclear fusion.
Better shut this down, too.
... Microsoft was hoping that the reviewers would've hunted down all the useless latent features and ignored the fact that it's WinXP with a different color scheme and a few new pretties.
While reading through the comments on this article, I had a revelation. There was a group of people a few hundred years ago that were so pissed off with getting shafted by "The Man" that they decided dignity was more important than tea, and tossed all the tea into Boston Harbor. Eventually, this whole thing led to "The Man" getting his 4$$ kicked on out of the colonies, where people could buy and sell tea any damn way they wanted.
Now, consider the state of software, and compare to the American Revolution. Surely there existed people who said, "Man, this Tea Tax sucks! We ought to do something about it!" I find it my ethical responsibility to be that person in the present day.
Of course, before you all start swaying and humming "Battle Hymn of the Republic," remember, there were some unpleasant things about the American Revolution, just as there will be unpleasant things about any sort of Software Revolution. First, there was fighting, war, death, cold winters, and cable TV outages. Furthermore, those poor colonials had to do without their tea!
Likewise, we must do without some of our well-deserved conveniences if we wish to liberate such things for the rest of society. We must also realize that there were colonials that really didn't mind getting bent over a chair every time they bought tea, and said to the "Man, this sucks" crowd, "Hey, I really don't care, getting the shaft is easier than fighting." Similarly, we will have the people that will let Microsoft/SCO/Adobe/Novell/etc. rape their privacy, pocketbooks, and intellects because it's "easier." However, the "rape me" colonists, along with the feather-wearing tea-into-harbor-dumping red-coat-shooting zealots, all became Americans at the end of the war (either that, or they bought a ticket back to England). Similarly, when our war is won, the "rape me" software users will have the "easy" software that protects them as well. However, that war won't be won unless someone does the fighting.
*bracing for the "I'm British, you insensitive clod!" replies*
The wisest conversion between RGB and CMYK is going to be using a printer driver, IMHO, anyway, since the printer manufacturer (most likely) will have the most knowledge about how the inks interact, both with the paper and with each other. The problem with CMYK representation is that is is very specific to the media you're using. However, since the most common media for viewing digital image data still is the computer monitor, with its RGB array of pixels, the conversion between RGB and CMY(K) in this case is (or at least, should be) pretty trivial.
However, I do see your point about the conversions back & forth. It's hard, because I'm a software engineer specializing in digital imaging technology, to explain to artsy folks that CMYK is not gaining much of anything over RGB in terms of image quality or convenience in manipulation. I've heard a few zealots in my day crying "CMYK!" and I can't help but ask, "Why?"
Before you do that, do your homework. CMYK is not "basically the negative of RGB".
Why don't you do your homework, like understanding the word 'basically'? RGB is additive, where increases in color value lead you to white, whereas CMY(k) is subtractive, e.g. increases in color value lead to black. They are, essentially, opposites. If you look at a color cube, Cyan opposes Red, Magenta opposes Green, and Yellow opposes Blue.
And by the way, the Key in CMYK was actually invented to save the more expensive color inks.
That's one reason for the K channel in CMYK. The important reason, in regards to printing, is because mixing the C, M, and Y inks usually doesn't yield a 'true' black.
Personally, I dislike, even hate, tabbed messaging windows. It's wonderful for browsing, but horrible for IMing. I don't want to, if I'm in another window doing real work, have to alt-tab, and then use the mouse or execute another keyboard command to bring up the appropriate IM conversation - I'd wind up giving messages to the wrong people and getting everything all screwed up.
So, all that being said, they should make certain that tabbed IM conversations can be disabled. Surely I'm not the only one that feels this way.
Why do I so often hear tons of noise about the Star Wars story beyond XI? It was my understanding that the story was about Anakin Skywalker - his origins, growth, corruption, and, finally, redemption. What more is to be told?