Nothing wrong with Philosophy. The logic games you learn to play there will serve you well no matter what field you go into (and you can even go into the computer field with it)
Yeah, if everyone knew how easy it was to do DBA jobs and how much you got paid for them, then EVERYONE would want to be one. Except me, because I like being a code monkey more than being a DBA.
Democracies do get in the way of the chain of command, it is their job. I assume you are referring to the Harrington novels. If you look at it the REAL villians aren't democrats. The villians are either the corrupt democrats or the evil totalitarian rulers. He does a pretty good job of pointing out that evil people exist everywhere and that ANY goverment type can be "good" if "good" people are in charge, or "evil" if "evil" people are in charge.
You know there are more than two parties in this country. Granted, they don't have the pull that the big two do, but they are. If you don't like either of the big two candidates then vote for a third party one. It isn't throwing your vote away. If everyone I've ever heard say "I didn't like either of the candidates, but voted for X because Y was worse" had actually voted third party then maybe we'd actually have something different happen in Washington. If you keep electing the same scum bags then don't act surprised when they screw you over.
Well, if you had RTFA article you would have noticed that they had to pick the hardware that was compliant with SAP and Red Hat. They did both. So what was your argument again?
I thought most of the music from 3 was bad, but there were a few really good songs there. Most of them were from bands that were major yet but have since then made a break through.
Turn off autosave. The annoying save times really got to me too and after turning off autosave I only save when I want to now, which is much better. The save times still takes the same length, but it doesn't happen as often.
Obviously you've never actually seen a movie in HD at home, if you had then you would not be asking this. The step from DVD to one of the new formats will be even greater than the step from VHS to DVD was in terms of quality.
Well, that isn't exactly a fair comparison now is it? The PS2 at this point in time is old technology. After digging around some it appears that in the PS2 sold about 2 million units in 2000, the first year it was released (most of which were presales)in North America vs 9.9 million DVD players (not sure if that number includes the PS2s or not) sold that year, which is a much larger part of the market, but still not a huge part.
This still isn't a very good comparison though, since they were both DVD players and the DVD had been around for a couple of years before this, so let us look at the first year I can find records for DVD player sales
In the year of 1997 305,000 DVD players were sold.
So 305,000 vs 2 million, hrmmmmm seems like if this trend holds the having the BluRay in the PS3 will be quite a big deal.
Or if you get a PS3 then you've already got one of the formats, which is why I think Sony is going to win. They are going to have a HUGE user base for BluRay after the launch the PS3 and since they've already got a number of the big movie firms on their side it seems like it should be an easy choice.
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If you actually compare the Samsung with the XBR you'll see the difference. When I was looking for a new TV I went with the XBR because it had the best picture, bar none. That is the value of it.
Something I've run into over and over is that programmer simply don't know HOW to write secure code. They don't understand the different levels of permissions on objects and what not and how to hide things. So basically they need to start teaching college CS people to be more security conscious. And there DEFINATLY needs to be a push in the field to having people learn HOW to write secure code.
Actually that is what decided me at my current job. After contracting here for 6 months they finally made me an offer. I knew that if I wanted to I could go elsewhere and make more money, but I really love my boss here. So I decided to take a less money and actually like the job.
Love the narrow minded view points. The best IT people I've ever known didn't have CS degrees. CS degrees are just as worthless as certs are. They will both impress stupid HR folks, but that's it. I definatly suggest the testing of candidates, but not considering someone who doesn't have a CS degree is just retarded.
Sounds like the mindset of the place I used to work. It went something like this.
"Hey! If we write a whole bunch of spaghetti code that only we can read, and that breaks a lot, then people will see us doing stuff all the time and we will have job security."
The sad part is that it seems to have worked in that company instead of them getting fired for incompetence.
All the NDA's I've signed, to go along with the contracts, were related to not disclosing the information you were working on. I was completely free to tell people that I was not allowed to work for them for X number of years in a position that would be in competition against a former employer.
Only 2000 students? I think I had that many in one of my classes at school one time.
What is sad is that at the Univeristy I went to there were 20,000 undergrads, and the Philosophy department almost got shut down because they didn't even have 10 declared majors.
Besides, who needs a CS undergrad degree, if you want to learn to program, then grab a couple of books and learn, no need to sit in a class with a professor that hasn't ever worked in field try to teach you stuff you'll never use (bubble sort comes to mind).
But how much of that oil usage comes from using it in cars and what not? Putting a little nuclear reactor in a vehicle isn't really a viable idea yet, even though a pebble reactor would work. You simply don't want a car wreck throwing readioactive particles everywhere.
so that makes windows CD's either crippled (you can't connect w/o activating, and you can't activate w/o connecting first) or insecure by default.
You're reasoning is flawed. You can still use the computer for 90 days without activating windows. So you connect and activate it and start the patching process. As far as being insecure by default it is no different that any other system. The disk you just bought is NOT going to have the latest patches on it, no matter what OS you are running, so you still have to connect and get patches.
A good measure of windows security I'd suggest:
* Percentage of Linux machines in the world infected with spyware? 0.
* Percentage of Windows machines in the world infected with spyware? 80, maybe more.
Once again your logic is flawed. For a more accurate guestimate why not something like this: *Percentage of Linux machines in the world infected with spyware? 0 *Percentage of Windows machines in the world infected with spyware, where the person running it knows what they are doing?Also probably about 0
The difference between the *nix community and the Windows community is that MOST people running a *nix system actually know something about computers. Most people running a windows system don't. So for you're comparison to work you have to take equal demographics.
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Nothing wrong with Philosophy. The logic games you learn to play there will serve you well no matter what field you go into (and you can even go into the computer field with it)
Yeah, if everyone knew how easy it was to do DBA jobs and how much you got paid for them, then EVERYONE would want to be one. Except me, because I like being a code monkey more than being a DBA.
You're looking at a lot less than that after taxes. If you're lucky you're looking at 3,200.
Democracies do get in the way of the chain of command, it is their job. I assume you are referring to the Harrington novels. If you look at it the REAL villians aren't democrats. The villians are either the corrupt democrats or the evil totalitarian rulers. He does a pretty good job of pointing out that evil people exist everywhere and that ANY goverment type can be "good" if "good" people are in charge, or "evil" if "evil" people are in charge.
Yeah, they all came to Memphis. Thanks man, we appreciate it.
You know there are more than two parties in this country. Granted, they don't have the pull that the big two do, but they are. If you don't like either of the big two candidates then vote for a third party one. It isn't throwing your vote away. If everyone I've ever heard say "I didn't like either of the candidates, but voted for X because Y was worse" had actually voted third party then maybe we'd actually have something different happen in Washington. If you keep electing the same scum bags then don't act surprised when they screw you over.
I will be sure to mention this next Thursday along with my huge list of other complaints.
Well, if you had RTFA article you would have noticed that they had to pick the hardware that was compliant with SAP and Red Hat. They did both. So what was your argument again?
I thought most of the music from 3 was bad, but there were a few really good songs there. Most of them were from bands that were major yet but have since then made a break through.
Turn off autosave. The annoying save times really got to me too and after turning off autosave I only save when I want to now, which is much better. The save times still takes the same length, but it doesn't happen as often.
In my experience just about everything is much easier than a physics degree.
Obviously you've never actually seen a movie in HD at home, if you had then you would not be asking this. The step from DVD to one of the new formats will be even greater than the step from VHS to DVD was in terms of quality.
Well, that isn't exactly a fair comparison now is it? The PS2 at this point in time is old technology. After digging around some it appears that in the PS2 sold about 2 million units in 2000, the first year it was released (most of which were presales)in North America vs 9.9 million DVD players (not sure if that number includes the PS2s or not) sold that year, which is a much larger part of the market, but still not a huge part.
This still isn't a very good comparison though, since they were both DVD players and the DVD had been around for a couple of years before this, so let us look at the first year I can find records for DVD player sales
In the year of 1997 305,000 DVD players were sold.
So 305,000 vs 2 million, hrmmmmm seems like if this trend holds the having the BluRay in the PS3 will be quite a big deal.
Or if you get a PS3 then you've already got one of the formats, which is why I think Sony is going to win. They are going to have a HUGE user base for BluRay after the launch the PS3 and since they've already got a number of the big movie firms on their side it seems like it should be an easy choice.
If you actually compare the Samsung with the XBR you'll see the difference. When I was looking for a new TV I went with the XBR because it had the best picture, bar none. That is the value of it.
Something I've run into over and over is that programmer simply don't know HOW to write secure code. They don't understand the different levels of permissions on objects and what not and how to hide things. So basically they need to start teaching college CS people to be more security conscious. And there DEFINATLY needs to be a push in the field to having people learn HOW to write secure code.
Actually that is what decided me at my current job. After contracting here for 6 months they finally made me an offer. I knew that if I wanted to I could go elsewhere and make more money, but I really love my boss here. So I decided to take a less money and actually like the job.
Love the narrow minded view points. The best IT people I've ever known didn't have CS degrees. CS degrees are just as worthless as certs are. They will both impress stupid HR folks, but that's it. I definatly suggest the testing of candidates, but not considering someone who doesn't have a CS degree is just retarded.
Sounds like the mindset of the place I used to work. It went something like this.
"Hey! If we write a whole bunch of spaghetti code that only we can read, and that breaks a lot, then people will see us doing stuff all the time and we will have job security."
The sad part is that it seems to have worked in that company instead of them getting fired for incompetence.
All the NDA's I've signed, to go along with the contracts, were related to not disclosing the information you were working on. I was completely free to tell people that I was not allowed to work for them for X number of years in a position that would be in competition against a former employer.
Only 2000 students? I think I had that many in one of my classes at school one time.
What is sad is that at the Univeristy I went to there were 20,000 undergrads, and the Philosophy department almost got shut down because they didn't even have 10 declared majors.
Besides, who needs a CS undergrad degree, if you want to learn to program, then grab a couple of books and learn, no need to sit in a class with a professor that hasn't ever worked in field try to teach you stuff you'll never use (bubble sort comes to mind).
Why bother connection to any server that isn't on a local machine anyways when you are sending out that amount of mail?
But how much of that oil usage comes from using it in cars and what not? Putting a little nuclear reactor in a vehicle isn't really a viable idea yet, even though a pebble reactor would work. You simply don't want a car wreck throwing readioactive particles everywhere.
sex but not too much sex
Excuse me for asking, but what the hell is too much sex? Can such a thing exist?
so that makes windows CD's either crippled (you can't connect w/o activating, and you can't activate w/o connecting first) or insecure by default.
You're reasoning is flawed. You can still use the computer for 90 days without activating windows. So you connect and activate it and start the patching process. As far as being insecure by default it is no different that any other system. The disk you just bought is NOT going to have the latest patches on it, no matter what OS you are running, so you still have to connect and get patches.
A good measure of windows security I'd suggest:
* Percentage of Linux machines in the world infected with spyware? 0.
* Percentage of Windows machines in the world infected with spyware? 80, maybe more.
Once again your logic is flawed. For a more accurate guestimate why not something like this:
*Percentage of Linux machines in the world infected with spyware? 0
*Percentage of Windows machines in the world infected with spyware, where the person running it knows what they are doing?Also probably about 0
The difference between the *nix community and the Windows community is that MOST people running a *nix system actually know something about computers. Most people running a windows system don't. So for you're comparison to work you have to take equal demographics.