I'm currently an undergrad software engineering intern at Lockheed Martin, and I get paid a little more than $18 an hour... and the experience is invaluable - pretty much from day 1, I've been doing the work of a professional software engineer, never doing stereotypical "intern work" like getting coffee and donuts.
Incidentally, if you're wondering how I got this job, my previous qualifications were a mediocre (3.3ish) GPA at a state university which has a good computer science and engineering program but is generally poorly regarded otherwise. I had a single brief interview over the phone which involved no technical questions. Smaller companies are more likely to want previous experience, since they can't afford to really train you on the job as well.
I agree with Artraze entirely that you have to choose a position that's right for you. If you get an internship at a large company, and you are unsatisfied with your assignment, they can probably move you to another project - remember, it's not like school - they want you to succeed because they are trying to develop you as an asset to the company.
Sure, nuclear terror is plenty frightening and cheap solar power would be great.
But what about the zombies?
Developing an effective plan to stave off a massive zombie invasion is the transcendent challenge of our time. We need to do this sooner rather than later, and we need to be prepared when it happens. Cyberspace, virtual reality, fusion power, even clean water - all of this will be for naught if we're all undead.
You're probably thinking by now (if you're still reading, that is), "Simple. Shoot them in the head." Well, if zombie movies and books are at all accurate - and I've seen nothing to lead me to believe otherwise - things will quickly spiral out of control and there will be more of them than we can handle before we know it.
Maybe if we could domesticate them... (this always works well in the movies)
Violating copyrights is not a civil right, and creating a government agency to enforce copyrights is not inherently unconstitutional and nor does it inherently violate our civil rights. There may be potential for civil rights abuse, but we don't have unlimited protection against search and seizure - property can already be seized in connection with criminal investigations.
As a Republican, I agree, but not necessarily for the same reasons. The big reason that Republicans should oppose this is that it creates more government bureaucracy - now I'm no crazy Ron Paul supporter who wants to get rid of every federal government institution, but really, this is not a good solution.
I've always thought that government should stay out of this whole issue - it's costing the big media companies money, so they should be investing their money into stopping it. There's a reason that retail stores have security guards - it's cheaper for them in the long run to deter theft than to call the cops every time that something gets taken.
Yet? Frictionless wheels would be entirely useless. Wheels only work because of friction; if there were no friction, the wheels would just slip on the surface and not roll anywhere.
It's true that we don't always have the three-pronged grounded plugs, but I've never seen a computer power supply that didn't have a grounding pin... strange.
I'm a CS major right now. I'll agree with many of the posters who have said that CS should require many classes in math and theory as opposed to strictly training in practical programming without regard to the mathematical basis which underlies it. However, I also think that we are required to take a lot of ridiculous classes as well. Right now, I'm taking "Writing for the Technical Professional-" a class which the university only requires of CS majors. It's all busy work- like I need a class to help me write a resume or business letters. So on the one hand, they set out classes in math and theory in order to give us an academic understanding of computer science, but on the other, they make us take mindless classes like tech writing in order to give us practical skills. This seems somewhat contradictory to me.
Oh, I know about unlocked phones, but it doesn't apply here, as there will not be an unlocked iPhone available. In Canada, Rogers has an exclusive agreement with Apple to use the iPhone just like AT&T (gotta get used to calling them that again) has here.
We do have SIM cards in our phones here in America, but providers can choose to lock their phones so that they won't work with a SIM card from another provider. It's not a technological issue, it's a business decision. And last time I checked, cell service carriers are enormously profitable.
I'm a CS major at a major research university in the US. We have a large computer science program, but software engineering is only offered as an optional "concentration" in the computer engineering major. As far as I can tell, most of the CS students are mostly interested in getting a career programming, whereas the computer engineering people tend to focus more on the integration of hardware and software- especially building robots and other autonomous systems. Our computer engineering program is very close to the electrical engineering program, so they take nearly all of the same courses.
In short, the gap between the academic programs of computer science and software engineering programs is far less than the theoretical gap between computer science and software engineering on paper. I agree that universities should provide more of a distinction between the two, and offer CS as a more academic study of the subject with software engineering being the more practical approach.
I'm currently in my second year as a CS student at one of the largest research universities in the country, and I'm pretty sure that we don't have anything like this, or at least not that's required of us. I think that this would be an excellent idea, but an alternative could also be requiring students to participate in an internship or coop program involving software development, which yields valuable real-world experience.
A quick sample from mine:
* joined the group I Remember when Facebook wasn't Creepy. 1:02pm
10 of your friends joined the group the new facebook scares me. 11:22am
* joined the group WFT is up with this NEW Facebook...I AM confused. 9:26am
* and * joined the group I hate Mini-feed, and consequently, facebook now. 7:50am
4 of your friends joined the group FACEBOOK PSEUDO WEBCAM..WTF IS THIS WORLD COMING TOO. 6:13am
4 of your friends joined the group Students against Facebook News Feed (Official Petition to Facebook). 4:57am
8 of your friends joined the group Facebook Got Way Too Intense For Me. 3:42am
* and * joined the group fuck you mini-feed. 9:13pm
I'm currently a student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. About a week or so ago, Google was here reportedly trying to sell university officials on the idea of using Gmail to replace our current e-mail system, which is awful. They were also handing out those damn Google pack CDs.
I agree- its ridiculuous to state that one species would naturally resort to genocide against the other given the proper technology; if anything, such a thing would occur before the advent of most of what we would consider technology- one species could eliminate the other as a matter of natural selection early on in that species' history. But in this case, the Gungans and Naboo lived in completely separate domains- i.e. the sea and the land. Also, the people of Naboo (Nabooans? Nabooites?) were supposed to be pacifists who just happened to have well-armed starfighters at their disposal.
Well, part of the brilliance of Wikipedia is that you yourself don't necessarily need to edit it or wikify it- others who come across the article or who are looking to edit pages to help out will contribute and edit.
However, usually when someone says that the page needs to be wikified, it just means adding a few square brackets around words to link them to other articles ([[something]])... Really, unless you're doing serious overhauling, you don't need to read all of the guidelines to write a simple article- especially stubs.
World of Warcraft may be beloved by many but it is not the genre-defining game for MMORPGs. That would probably have to be Everquest or possibly Ultima Online, classics without which WoW would not be possible.
Really, with a high powered telescope, I don't think it would be too much of a problem in many cases, and I'm sure that the warning system has a sophisticated tracking system, although I think it would be considerably more difficult for the idiots shining lasers into cockpits for the hell of it.
The F-16 theory actually is plausible too- it would probably be considerably easier to shine a laser into an airplane's cockpit from another airplane.
The University of Central Florida has won 2nd, 4th, and 7th at the International competition in past years. They claim that their record is unmatched- whether this is true or not is debatable, but the fact remains that U.S. teams have definitely placed highly in past years.
Also, they placed 2nd at the Southeast Regional this year to Georgia Tech's 1st, not Florida, which is the University of Florida.
This article reminded me of how no matter how advanced video games get in terms of graphics and plot, there's something to be said for the simple pleasure of shooting simulated ducks on the NES... Sometimes you just can't beat the classics.
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I'm currently an undergrad software engineering intern at Lockheed Martin, and I get paid a little more than $18 an hour... and the experience is invaluable - pretty much from day 1, I've been doing the work of a professional software engineer, never doing stereotypical "intern work" like getting coffee and donuts. Incidentally, if you're wondering how I got this job, my previous qualifications were a mediocre (3.3ish) GPA at a state university which has a good computer science and engineering program but is generally poorly regarded otherwise. I had a single brief interview over the phone which involved no technical questions. Smaller companies are more likely to want previous experience, since they can't afford to really train you on the job as well. I agree with Artraze entirely that you have to choose a position that's right for you. If you get an internship at a large company, and you are unsatisfied with your assignment, they can probably move you to another project - remember, it's not like school - they want you to succeed because they are trying to develop you as an asset to the company.
Sure, nuclear terror is plenty frightening and cheap solar power would be great.
But what about the zombies?
Developing an effective plan to stave off a massive zombie invasion is the transcendent challenge of our time. We need to do this sooner rather than later, and we need to be prepared when it happens. Cyberspace, virtual reality, fusion power, even clean water - all of this will be for naught if we're all undead.
You're probably thinking by now (if you're still reading, that is), "Simple. Shoot them in the head." Well, if zombie movies and books are at all accurate - and I've seen nothing to lead me to believe otherwise - things will quickly spiral out of control and there will be more of them than we can handle before we know it.
Maybe if we could domesticate them... (this always works well in the movies)
Violating copyrights is not a civil right, and creating a government agency to enforce copyrights is not inherently unconstitutional and nor does it inherently violate our civil rights. There may be potential for civil rights abuse, but we don't have unlimited protection against search and seizure - property can already be seized in connection with criminal investigations.
As a Republican, I agree, but not necessarily for the same reasons. The big reason that Republicans should oppose this is that it creates more government bureaucracy - now I'm no crazy Ron Paul supporter who wants to get rid of every federal government institution, but really, this is not a good solution. I've always thought that government should stay out of this whole issue - it's costing the big media companies money, so they should be investing their money into stopping it. There's a reason that retail stores have security guards - it's cheaper for them in the long run to deter theft than to call the cops every time that something gets taken.
Yet? Frictionless wheels would be entirely useless. Wheels only work because of friction; if there were no friction, the wheels would just slip on the surface and not roll anywhere.
Perhaps after we expand animal rights to be the same as human rights, we should start prosecuting animals for eating other animals. Seems only fair.
It's true that we don't always have the three-pronged grounded plugs, but I've never seen a computer power supply that didn't have a grounding pin... strange.
I'm a CS major right now. I'll agree with many of the posters who have said that CS should require many classes in math and theory as opposed to strictly training in practical programming without regard to the mathematical basis which underlies it. However, I also think that we are required to take a lot of ridiculous classes as well. Right now, I'm taking "Writing for the Technical Professional-" a class which the university only requires of CS majors. It's all busy work- like I need a class to help me write a resume or business letters. So on the one hand, they set out classes in math and theory in order to give us an academic understanding of computer science, but on the other, they make us take mindless classes like tech writing in order to give us practical skills. This seems somewhat contradictory to me.
Oh, I know about unlocked phones, but it doesn't apply here, as there will not be an unlocked iPhone available. In Canada, Rogers has an exclusive agreement with Apple to use the iPhone just like AT&T (gotta get used to calling them that again) has here.
We do have SIM cards in our phones here in America, but providers can choose to lock their phones so that they won't work with a SIM card from another provider. It's not a technological issue, it's a business decision. And last time I checked, cell service carriers are enormously profitable.
I've always used Spamhole and I've never been disappointed. The interface is pretty simple, but it works, and frankly, that's all that matters.
I'm a CS major at a major research university in the US. We have a large computer science program, but software engineering is only offered as an optional "concentration" in the computer engineering major. As far as I can tell, most of the CS students are mostly interested in getting a career programming, whereas the computer engineering people tend to focus more on the integration of hardware and software- especially building robots and other autonomous systems. Our computer engineering program is very close to the electrical engineering program, so they take nearly all of the same courses. In short, the gap between the academic programs of computer science and software engineering programs is far less than the theoretical gap between computer science and software engineering on paper. I agree that universities should provide more of a distinction between the two, and offer CS as a more academic study of the subject with software engineering being the more practical approach.
I'm currently in my second year as a CS student at one of the largest research universities in the country, and I'm pretty sure that we don't have anything like this, or at least not that's required of us. I think that this would be an excellent idea, but an alternative could also be requiring students to participate in an internship or coop program involving software development, which yields valuable real-world experience.
A quick sample from mine: * joined the group I Remember when Facebook wasn't Creepy. 1:02pm 10 of your friends joined the group the new facebook scares me. 11:22am * joined the group WFT is up with this NEW Facebook...I AM confused. 9:26am * and * joined the group I hate Mini-feed, and consequently, facebook now. 7:50am 4 of your friends joined the group FACEBOOK PSEUDO WEBCAM..WTF IS THIS WORLD COMING TOO. 6:13am 4 of your friends joined the group Students against Facebook News Feed (Official Petition to Facebook). 4:57am 8 of your friends joined the group Facebook Got Way Too Intense For Me. 3:42am * and * joined the group fuck you mini-feed. 9:13pm
They cancelled SG-1, not Atlantis. But really, did that sound funny to you before you posted it? Honestly.
I agree- when was the last time a door-stop or paperweight needed repair?
Gamecube is a sixth-generation system. You forget about hardware predating NES. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game s_(sixth_generation_era)
I'm currently a student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. About a week or so ago, Google was here reportedly trying to sell university officials on the idea of using Gmail to replace our current e-mail system, which is awful. They were also handing out those damn Google pack CDs.
X-men? X-men nothing! What about "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ?
I agree- its ridiculuous to state that one species would naturally resort to genocide against the other given the proper technology; if anything, such a thing would occur before the advent of most of what we would consider technology- one species could eliminate the other as a matter of natural selection early on in that species' history. But in this case, the Gungans and Naboo lived in completely separate domains- i.e. the sea and the land. Also, the people of Naboo (Nabooans? Nabooites?) were supposed to be pacifists who just happened to have well-armed starfighters at their disposal.
Well, part of the brilliance of Wikipedia is that you yourself don't necessarily need to edit it or wikify it- others who come across the article or who are looking to edit pages to help out will contribute and edit. However, usually when someone says that the page needs to be wikified, it just means adding a few square brackets around words to link them to other articles ([[something]])... Really, unless you're doing serious overhauling, you don't need to read all of the guidelines to write a simple article- especially stubs.
World of Warcraft may be beloved by many but it is not the genre-defining game for MMORPGs. That would probably have to be Everquest or possibly Ultima Online, classics without which WoW would not be possible.
Really, with a high powered telescope, I don't think it would be too much of a problem in many cases, and I'm sure that the warning system has a sophisticated tracking system, although I think it would be considerably more difficult for the idiots shining lasers into cockpits for the hell of it. The F-16 theory actually is plausible too- it would probably be considerably easier to shine a laser into an airplane's cockpit from another airplane.
The University of Central Florida has won 2nd, 4th, and 7th at the International competition in past years. They claim that their record is unmatched- whether this is true or not is debatable, but the fact remains that U.S. teams have definitely placed highly in past years. Also, they placed 2nd at the Southeast Regional this year to Georgia Tech's 1st, not Florida, which is the University of Florida.
This article reminded me of how no matter how advanced video games get in terms of graphics and plot, there's something to be said for the simple pleasure of shooting simulated ducks on the NES... Sometimes you just can't beat the classics.