We had a ball too at the McMADSAT smaller and less-official Maker Faire event in Glasgow on Saturday -- an unfortunate clash. http://mcmadsat.blogspot.com/
Women's rights to move around after dark are also a civil liberties issue. Women tend to be unhappy about walking alone late at night, where "late" can be quite early by men's standards. UK women tend to like having their route home covered by CCTV.
Yep, back in the day, who would have thought that on my personal machines I could run through so many fruit beginning with "P", but with PDAs and phones as well it is getting a bit exotic round here.
But then, no scheme is perfect. I used to service a small not-for-profit whose two PCs were called Black and White for the most obvious of (visible) reasons, and people would still stand between the two desks and ask which was which.
OK, the Women's Forum at the recent World Engineering Congress held in the big Convention Centre in Brasilia did manage to schedule its environment strand in the lecture theatre Aguas Claras (clear waters).
Yet another way for Microsoft to track what you are doing -- because of course the queries go to their database on their servers with their monitoring.
Reportedly this was one of the reasons for the CueCat's failure, although there were ways you could supposedly anonymize them. Anonymize your phone?
I think QR codes do not funnel through a single provider, although I guess one provider may dominate in certain segments of the market.
We can't tell you what you will enjoy, you will have to work that one out for yourself. Explore the options within your course. Plan your paid work to give you broader experience. If you are also interested in another area, look at taking a joint major or at least a good chunk of courses there. Taking a road less travelled can result in less competition, or at least give you an advantage over fellow travellers who just strayed onto it.
Talk to your academic staff -- it isn't that difficult really! Discuss doing a masters -- better qualified people don't get used for repetitive jobs.
[And some people only really latch on to coding when they find a language or paradigm that is a better fit with their way of thinking, your time may come.]
Are you at a university at the top of the international league tables, that enjoys treating its students badly -- "shape up or ship out"? If so, of course you will go with functional programming. No need to think about their best interests, especially not for those students who won't stay with computing.
If you care about your students on an ordinary Programming 101 where approximately 0% will go on to a job with Programmer in the title and many will not take programming next year or ever again, then you need to think harder about what serves your audience. That part who will stay in hands-on computing will mostly be in databases and/or web development.
Start with procedural or OOP programming? Well actually, start with something in which your students can easily produce professional-looking programs. Those happen to be OOP languages with good development frameworks. Dedicated nerds or students required to take just this one course will both benefit from a feeling of achievement.
My experience suggests introduce procedural concepts first, wearing the OOP lightly "We will program this button to...". In depth OOP can be introduced in System Analysis (if you are really lucky in your colleagues).
Do people favour people who look like themselves, or (more likely) favour people who look like the members of their family? Comparing the politician portraits with ones of the subjects' parents might be more to the point.
It does seem a bit odd... by now, we have transformer technology pretty well cracked. They work well in hostile environments with very little maintenance, what the heck was going on at CERN?
Rape trials are very difficult to make fair. Note that a "failed prosecution" does not equate to a false accusation, and that women who make malicious accusations may be prosecuted with their name published.
Publishing the name of the accused in a rape case may be asymmetric, but serial rapists are escaping conviction because their crimes are necessarily conducted in private and "beyond reasonable doubt" is very asymmetric -- with a single victim's word counting for very little. Other victims saying "me too" should at least make sure that the forensics are done thoroughly next time.
It is astonishing and sad that male victims of rape actually have an even lower rate of successful prosecutions than females.
You find the overhead of Linkification is small enough to make its one trick worthwhile? I have used the DragAndGo family of extensions for years. Just highlight a text URL, drag, and go straight there. But drag plenty of other things and get instant sensible actions. I nearly went insane until they updated for FF3.
If you are satisfied with the basic feature set and want something with the smallest possible footprint, then QuickDrag is for you.
If you want lots of features, such as directional dragging options [Ed: ie more choices], QuickDrag is not for you. You should try Drag de Go, Easy DragToGo (which appears to based off of Drag de Go), or other similar extensions.
Part of the first strike by either side is likely to be at satellites.
As tension heightens, civilians are likely to lose access to GPS info anyway, or at least find a large fudge factor has been added to the signals. Here's hoping that ships at sea still have some skills with sextants.
The Dead Sea effect is significant in some circumstances. One is if the future of an organization is uncertain and it looks likely that it will fold. Then staff look round for other possibilities and the most hireable move on, leaving a salty Dead Sea struggling to keep things going.
Another very important circumstance is a related situation where an individual's future with the organization is uncertain. If decisions about renewing short-term contracts are delayed, the people with the most options find somewhere else to go.
Yes, good management should be able to counter these problems-- but many places with rising salinity don't seem to notice what is happening.
My new passport has an RFID chip. In 5 trips round Europe and a bit beyond in the last year, I haven't seen anyone else at passport control messing with aluminium foil. I guess a few might have expensive anti-RFID bags/wallets to keep them in, but it doesn't look like it. My guess is that socially, most people won't worry about RFID everywhere.
So we could use magnetic coupling, wireless power, or just standardize our wired power connectors? Which method seems likely to win out in our current world?
Yep, this seems a key problem. This might work for a password I use every day but I have loads of other passwords of varying levels of security, some of which I use only every 6 months or so. The few that I have to write down, I can easily encode by simple text ciphering and hiding techniques -- how is someone going to find and crack them amongst the mess of text I normally carry? My collection of drawings labelled with the key parameters is likely to be much more useful to an evil-doer, even with some obfuscation.
One part of the original proposal was that it would be illegal to use any other identity for any purpose whatsoever. Wouldn't it add to Slashdot's ethos if UK posters had to submit every post under their full name?
Yes, things would have to get a whole lot worse before the OP is prevented from playing games. I certainly know a tetraplegic who both plays games and reads/. but he obviously isn't around today. I think he uses the KY mouth-operated joystick http://www.quadcontrol.com/joystick.htm, but OneSwitch.org seem to cater to a wider range of disabilities. GrpA is right that there is more support for "differently-abled" use of a PC, but playing console games is possible.
My nomination for what to do now is to practice your elctronics/soldering skills, as some of the stuff on sale is pretty expensive and could be home-built.
This seems a key comment. Professional societies tend to be dominated by those who have succeeded under the old system, so their recommended curricula do not usually leap forward into the future lightly clad, but trudge slowly forward carrying all the defensive content that can be loaded on to them. Thirty years ago the field of computing was absorbing mathematicians at a huge rate. It is very difficult to believe that the ACM now would be biased towards producing curricula that were too light on mathematical content. However, there could be useful modern additions.
The profile of contributors to this thread is interesting:
A dearth of course designers, or any senior teaching staff at all, to discuss factors influencing academic programme design.
No-one saying "I took CS, but have switched direction" -- hard to believe that no-one has switched, strange to think that they switched to something so different that they are not to be found on/. Were their CS courses so useless for other aspects of the field that they went a long way away from computing?
Nobody involved in programming sufficiently advanced topics that they admit to using an expert in the field instead of hacking algorithms together themselves. Though there appear to be a couple of posters coming from the other direction with specialist knowledge who could use a CS specialist if they could just establish effective communication.
So, yes, it has been interesting reading the comments here, and you have given me food for thought, but I regret the people who we are not hearing from.
Slashdot Mirror
You forgot the bit about the apprenticeship where your ideas are nicked by your supervisor/lead investigator and presented as his own.
We had a ball too at the McMADSAT smaller and less-official Maker Faire event in Glasgow on Saturday -- an unfortunate clash. http://mcmadsat.blogspot.com/
We definitely need more of these.
Look around you. The cost to an individual professional woman who has a baby is currently colossal.
Women's rights to move around after dark are also a civil liberties issue. Women tend to be unhappy about walking alone late at night, where "late" can be quite early by men's standards. UK women tend to like having their route home covered by CCTV.
On a laptop, you probably need Master Password Timeout as well
Yep, back in the day, who would have thought that on my personal machines I could run through so many fruit beginning with "P", but with PDAs and phones as well it is getting a bit exotic round here.
But then, no scheme is perfect. I used to service a small not-for-profit whose two PCs were called Black and White for the most obvious of (visible) reasons, and people would still stand between the two desks and ask which was which.
OK, the Women's Forum at the recent World Engineering Congress held in the big Convention Centre in Brasilia did manage to schedule its environment strand in the lecture theatre Aguas Claras (clear waters).
Yet another way for Microsoft to track what you are doing -- because of course the queries go to their database on their servers with their monitoring.
Reportedly this was one of the reasons for the CueCat's failure, although there were ways you could supposedly anonymize them. Anonymize your phone?
I think QR codes do not funnel through a single provider, although I guess one provider may dominate in certain segments of the market.
We can't tell you what you will enjoy, you will have to work that one out for yourself. Explore the options within your course. Plan your paid work to give you broader experience. If you are also interested in another area, look at taking a joint major or at least a good chunk of courses there. Taking a road less travelled can result in less competition, or at least give you an advantage over fellow travellers who just strayed onto it.
Talk to your academic staff -- it isn't that difficult really! Discuss doing a masters -- better qualified people don't get used for repetitive jobs.
[And some people only really latch on to coding when they find a language or paradigm that is a better fit with their way of thinking, your time may come.]
Do think about a wider variety of games (and other programs), for both boys and girls. I hope other people can add to my limited list.
Favorite Fox Sudoku. 123 Free Solitaire.
Kids can have fun with The Gimp, Picasa, Sketchup, Audacity (there must be a friendlier free program than Audacity....)
?Provide them with URLs to Teen Second Life and Game Giveaway of the Day.
Are you at a university at the top of the international league tables, that enjoys treating its students badly -- "shape up or ship out"? If so, of course you will go with functional programming. No need to think about their best interests, especially not for those students who won't stay with computing.
If you care about your students on an ordinary Programming 101 where approximately 0% will go on to a job with Programmer in the title and many will not take programming next year or ever again, then you need to think harder about what serves your audience. That part who will stay in hands-on computing will mostly be in databases and/or web development.
Start with procedural or OOP programming? Well actually, start with something in which your students can easily produce professional-looking programs. Those happen to be OOP languages with good development frameworks. Dedicated nerds or students required to take just this one course will both benefit from a feeling of achievement.
My experience suggests introduce procedural concepts first, wearing the OOP lightly "We will program this button to...". In depth OOP can be introduced in System Analysis (if you are really lucky in your colleagues).
Do people favour people who look like themselves, or (more likely) favour people who look like the members of their family? Comparing the politician portraits with ones of the subjects' parents might be more to the point.
It does seem a bit odd... by now, we have transformer technology pretty well cracked. They work well in hostile environments with very little maintenance, what the heck was going on at CERN?
Rape trials are very difficult to make fair. Note that a "failed prosecution" does not equate to a false accusation, and that women who make malicious accusations may be prosecuted with their name published.
Publishing the name of the accused in a rape case may be asymmetric, but serial rapists are escaping conviction because their crimes are necessarily conducted in private and "beyond reasonable doubt" is very asymmetric -- with a single victim's word counting for very little. Other victims saying "me too" should at least make sure that the forensics are done thoroughly next time.
It is astonishing and sad that male victims of rape actually have an even lower rate of successful prosecutions than females.
You find the overhead of Linkification is small enough to make its one trick worthwhile? I have used the DragAndGo family of extensions for years. Just highlight a text URL, drag, and go straight there. But drag plenty of other things and get instant sensible actions. I nearly went insane until they updated for FF3.
From the QuickDrag website:
If you are satisfied with the basic feature set and want something with the smallest possible footprint, then QuickDrag is for you.
If you want lots of features, such as directional dragging options [Ed: ie more choices], QuickDrag is not for you. You should try Drag de Go, Easy DragToGo (which appears to based off of Drag de Go), or other similar extensions.
Part of the first strike by either side is likely to be at satellites.
As tension heightens, civilians are likely to lose access to GPS info anyway, or at least find a large fudge factor has been added to the signals. Here's hoping that ships at sea still have some skills with sextants.
The Dead Sea effect is significant in some circumstances. One is if the future of an organization is uncertain and it looks likely that it will fold. Then staff look round for other possibilities and the most hireable move on, leaving a salty Dead Sea struggling to keep things going.
Another very important circumstance is a related situation where an individual's future with the organization is uncertain. If decisions about renewing short-term contracts are delayed, the people with the most options find somewhere else to go.
Yes, good management should be able to counter these problems-- but many places with rising salinity don't seem to notice what is happening.
My new passport has an RFID chip. In 5 trips round Europe and a bit beyond in the last year, I haven't seen anyone else at passport control messing with aluminium foil. I guess a few might have expensive anti-RFID bags/wallets to keep them in, but it doesn't look like it. My guess is that socially, most people won't worry about RFID everywhere.
So we could use magnetic coupling, wireless power, or just standardize our wired power connectors? Which method seems likely to win out in our current world?
Yep, this seems a key problem. This might work for a password I use every day but I have loads of other passwords of varying levels of security, some of which I use only every 6 months or so. The few that I have to write down, I can easily encode by simple text ciphering and hiding techniques -- how is someone going to find and crack them amongst the mess of text I normally carry? My collection of drawings labelled with the key parameters is likely to be much more useful to an evil-doer, even with some obfuscation.
"She"? Good eyesight, or big chip on shoulder?
One part of the original proposal was that it would be illegal to use any other identity for any purpose whatsoever. Wouldn't it add to Slashdot's ethos if UK posters had to submit every post under their full name?
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Science Museum, London
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/galleries/E2221.a
Yes, things would have to get a whole lot worse before the OP is prevented from playing games. I certainly know a tetraplegic who both plays games and reads /. but he obviously isn't around today. I think he uses the KY mouth-operated joystick http://www.quadcontrol.com/joystick.htm, but OneSwitch.org seem to cater to a wider range of disabilities. GrpA is right that there is more support for "differently-abled" use of a PC, but playing console games is possible.
My nomination for what to do now is to practice your elctronics/soldering skills, as some of the stuff on sale is pretty expensive and could be home-built.
The profile of contributors to this thread is interesting:
So, yes, it has been interesting reading the comments here, and you have given me food for thought, but I regret the people who we are not hearing from.