For the most part, the math part of CS is completely useless unless you're doing something in a field which specifically requires it, i.e. fluid dynamics.
You talking about calculus or basic computability theory?
I rather like that I could authoritatively tell my boss that no, I could not scale up a particular matching problem, one I was solving with brute force, up to to the larger data set of about 10000 times more data, because it was NP-complete -- specifically, that it looked like maximal clique.
You don't always need to apply theory to a problem -- sometimes you just have to recognize it.
> Might sound like a flame, but in my experience CS degrees are looked at as lower than EE.
That's because undergraduate CS is traditionally a blow-off crap curriculum. Intro to algorithms, data structures, a little assembly, C, Java, programming assignments. Maybe one Scheme course. There's schools that have solid CS curriculums, and any accredited graduate level CS is usually pretty heavy duty, but undergrad CS is little better than a high school diploma.
EE on the other hand is freaking hard while still training all the basics of logic and design. Someone who can stick through EE and get a degree in that has some proven smarts and determination.
If you love technology, go sell it, make enough on commission to buy a bunch of it, and your zeal and knowledge will really be an asset. Computer science is for people who love math. Really weird and abstract math, like category theory and lambda calculus.
Or were you talking about programming? Pssh. That's vocational school stuff these days.
If I hadn't posted previously, I'd have obliged you. Two points if I possibly could. One for self-important whining about moderation, and another for "LOL"
> But Rockstar also needs to stop whining and take responsibility for their games. They're trying to scapegoat some modder, deny that there is pornographic code in the game, etc. They lie.
The "pornographic code" contains scenes of sex where the participants don't even take off their clothes.
The hotcoffee mod adds content, specifically some naked textures for the female models. They couldn't even be bothered to mod CJ. Probably because modding the mesh is hard, and it would take some extra polygons in an area where CJ is no doubt modelled like a Ken doll.
Congress is wagging its jowls over a hacked copy of a game. This is the best thing the leaders of our country can do with their time.
The left wants to force socialist morals on you, and the right wants to force Puritan morals on you.
The left's paternalism is based on utopian egalitarianism, the right's is based on fear of roasting in hell at the hands of an angry god.
The left tends toward believing itself the force of progress, while the right prefers the "good old days".
Frankly, I find both distasteful, but the right's jowl-wagging bluster and bigotry toward non-puritans has chased me away and quite firmly left of center.
ReiserFS is a possibility. XFS supposedly has extended attributes too. NTFS doesn't need streams to do it, it already has extended attributes... NTFS is descended from OS/2's filesystem after all.
So hey they could open SOM... big deal. This does not mean everyone will flock to it. There's hundreds of good open-source ideas out there that are rotting away for lack of use in production code.
Obviously you don't know anything about proper pluralization. Now if you excuse me, I have to leave early to take the bus to work and transfer to another. It takes a while to take two bii to work.
It's sad really that not only do some people not like the truth, that they would also like to try to stop others from hearing the truth.
Look buddy, this is slashdot. Moderators are not always smart. You on the other hand are not some kind of martyr. Get some perspective and stop bitching.
I always thought it'd be useful as an autoresponder. They tend to reply to the first few replies with more templates. It's really just a click or two for them, and they spend all day on it. You'd have to have a pretty sophisticated autoresponder to create a response they'd waste actual time on. The only way it could then scale to really put a dent in the scamming would be to have millions of people using it, but then that creates the problem of mailbombs brought on by false positives and joe-jobs. Scambaiting may be fun, but it won't shut down the culture of fraud or even really dent it.
> But you don't care... you don't see one of Africa's main problems as being the corrupt tyrants that rule it
But apparently you don't see a problem with the people who give these corrupt tyrants money and hardware.
I do agree with you on one point, it isn't the corporation we should be charging with crimes, it should be the people running the corporations. Aren't we all about individual initiative and responsibility after all?
I'd give 'em an award for "most idiotic business plan of the year" but that already went to Lycos Europe for the same "DDOS The Spammers" idea.
If spam were mostly coming from dedicated "bulletproof" spamhauses, then great, I'd say "dodge this" and let 'em have it. Most spam is coming from zombied machines. So their plan effectively involves DDOS'ing... a DDOS network. Hope you have a bigger internet stashed away somewhere to do this with.
My Linux machine doesn't sleep, but the monitor does. I find I have to move the mouse a good couple inches before it wakes the monitor up -- just nudging it a little doesn't do it. No idea whether that will translate to the same for an actual suspend.
However, I don't really jiggle the mouse all that easily, since I put it on a mousepad, even though it's a wireless optical mouse (it's built in to the swing-out tray). Tracks better with the pad too, which has a busy design on it, unlike the smooth desk.
The Stella Awards is still a mean-spirited jab at its namesake, who wanted only her medical expenses covered because Mcdonalds knew of the danger of putting boiling coffee into a flimsy styrofoam cup, but refused to do anything about it.
And they didn't start linking to snopes until they started getting called on them. I stand by my statements, mister Anonymous Coward. Mean and stupid. This is politics.
Granted, it's hard to make Burnout prettier than it is already... Let's hope the sequel has better physics than the "matchbox car physics" of the original. Buses that hit a curb and flip up onto their end, for example...
I have burnout 3, and it's certainly entertaining (except for the DJ and 2/3 of the idiotic tracks), but I'll definitely wait for burnout 4 until it's in the $20 bin before getting More Of The Same.
Given how many tracks in this game are repeats with different cars that handle barely different from the others (compacts and coupes, anyone), there's really only 1/3 as much game as there really are. It's still not an overly short game, but I still would have felt cheated if I shelled out $40 for it (I got it bargain bin).
> The government mandated a ratings system as a result of games like Mortal Kombat
ESRB ratings are absolutely "voluntary". Industry pressure effectively has the force of law, but no one can be legally prohibited from selling their game for not submitting it to ratings.
The same goes for MPAA ratings on movies. Lots of indie flicks never get rated, and even the occasional mass market release goes through without rating. It doesn't seem to affect marketability these days.
I can forgive someone being a credulous dumbass, but being so persistent in it really deserves a bigger smackdown than I can adequately convey in text.
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For the most part, the math part of CS is completely useless unless you're doing something in a field which specifically requires it, i.e. fluid dynamics.
You talking about calculus or basic computability theory?
I rather like that I could authoritatively tell my boss that no, I could not scale up a particular matching problem, one I was solving with brute force, up to to the larger data set of about 10000 times more data, because it was NP-complete -- specifically, that it looked like maximal clique.
You don't always need to apply theory to a problem -- sometimes you just have to recognize it.
> Might sound like a flame, but in my experience CS degrees are looked at as lower than EE.
That's because undergraduate CS is traditionally a blow-off crap curriculum. Intro to algorithms, data structures, a little assembly, C, Java, programming assignments. Maybe one Scheme course. There's schools that have solid CS curriculums, and any accredited graduate level CS is usually pretty heavy duty, but undergrad CS is little better than a high school diploma.
EE on the other hand is freaking hard while still training all the basics of logic and design. Someone who can stick through EE and get a degree in that has some proven smarts and determination.
If you love technology, go sell it, make enough on commission to buy a bunch of it, and your zeal and knowledge will really be an asset. Computer science is for people who love math. Really weird and abstract math, like category theory and lambda calculus.
Or were you talking about programming? Pssh. That's vocational school stuff these days.
> I'll probably get modded down for this. LOL.
If I hadn't posted previously, I'd have obliged you. Two points if I possibly could. One for self-important whining about moderation, and another for "LOL"
It's apparently quite successful. Once again, Dvorak trolled. Once again, Slashdot rose to the bait.
Why mess with success?
> But Rockstar also needs to stop whining and take responsibility for their games. They're trying to scapegoat some modder, deny that there is pornographic code in the game, etc. They lie.
The "pornographic code" contains scenes of sex where the participants don't even take off their clothes.
The hotcoffee mod adds content, specifically some naked textures for the female models. They couldn't even be bothered to mod CJ. Probably because modding the mesh is hard, and it would take some extra polygons in an area where CJ is no doubt modelled like a Ken doll.
Congress is wagging its jowls over a hacked copy of a game. This is the best thing the leaders of our country can do with their time.
Apparently, it is possible to enter in a special code into a search engine, and get Internet Explorer to display lude pictures. This is outrageous!
*gasp* You're right!
Someone think of the children!
The left wants to force socialist morals on you, and the right wants to force Puritan morals on you.
The left's paternalism is based on utopian egalitarianism, the right's is based on fear of roasting in hell at the hands of an angry god.
The left tends toward believing itself the force of progress, while the right prefers the "good old days".
Frankly, I find both distasteful, but the right's jowl-wagging bluster and bigotry toward non-puritans has chased me away and quite firmly left of center.
> Re: NC-17 movies. it's not that you don't let your kids go to NC-17 movies, it's that the movie theater won't let them in
The kids, or the movies? I think it's the latter.
The government is pursuing a backdoor ban. See kids, lying, stealing, and killing is okay, but BREASTS ARE BAD.
This country is filled to the brim with morons. Morons with power.
ReiserFS is a possibility. XFS supposedly has extended attributes too. NTFS doesn't need streams to do it, it already has extended attributes ... NTFS is descended from OS/2's filesystem after all.
... big deal. This does not mean everyone will flock to it. There's hundreds of good open-source ideas out there that are rotting away for lack of use in production code.
So hey they could open SOM
Obviously you don't know anything about proper pluralization. Now if you excuse me, I have to leave early to take the bus to work and transfer to another. It takes a while to take two bii to work.
> American 2% beer just annoys me.
There's no such thing. Even Utah sells 3.2% beer.
It's sad really that not only do some people not like the truth, that they would also like to try to stop others from hearing the truth.
Look buddy, this is slashdot. Moderators are not always smart. You on the other hand are not some kind of martyr. Get some perspective and stop bitching.
Call the media, and I don't mean slashdot. This sort of story is their bread and butter.
I always thought it'd be useful as an autoresponder. They tend to reply to the first few replies with more templates. It's really just a click or two for them, and they spend all day on it. You'd have to have a pretty sophisticated autoresponder to create a response they'd waste actual time on. The only way it could then scale to really put a dent in the scamming would be to have millions of people using it, but then that creates the problem of mailbombs brought on by false positives and joe-jobs. Scambaiting may be fun, but it won't shut down the culture of fraud or even really dent it.
> But you don't care... you don't see one of Africa's main problems as being the corrupt tyrants that rule it
But apparently you don't see a problem with the people who give these corrupt tyrants money and hardware.
I do agree with you on one point, it isn't the corporation we should be charging with crimes, it should be the people running the corporations. Aren't we all about individual initiative and responsibility after all?
I'd give 'em an award for "most idiotic business plan of the year" but that already went to Lycos Europe for the same "DDOS The Spammers" idea.
... a DDOS network. Hope you have a bigger internet stashed away somewhere to do this with.
If spam were mostly coming from dedicated "bulletproof" spamhauses, then great, I'd say "dodge this" and let 'em have it. Most spam is coming from zombied machines. So their plan effectively involves DDOS'ing
My Linux machine doesn't sleep, but the monitor does. I find I have to move the mouse a good couple inches before it wakes the monitor up -- just nudging it a little doesn't do it. No idea whether that will translate to the same for an actual suspend.
However, I don't really jiggle the mouse all that easily, since I put it on a mousepad, even though it's a wireless optical mouse (it's built in to the swing-out tray). Tracks better with the pad too, which has a busy design on it, unlike the smooth desk.
The Stella Awards is still a mean-spirited jab at its namesake, who wanted only her medical expenses covered because Mcdonalds knew of the danger of putting boiling coffee into a flimsy styrofoam cup, but refused to do anything about it.
And they didn't start linking to snopes until they started getting called on them. I stand by my statements, mister Anonymous Coward. Mean and stupid. This is politics.
Granted, it's hard to make Burnout prettier than it is already ... Let's hope the sequel has better physics than the "matchbox car physics" of the original. Buses that hit a curb and flip up onto their end, for example...
I have burnout 3, and it's certainly entertaining (except for the DJ and 2/3 of the idiotic tracks), but I'll definitely wait for burnout 4 until it's in the $20 bin before getting More Of The Same.
Given how many tracks in this game are repeats with different cars that handle barely different from the others (compacts and coupes, anyone), there's really only 1/3 as much game as there really are. It's still not an overly short game, but I still would have felt cheated if I shelled out $40 for it (I got it bargain bin).
> The government mandated a ratings system as a result of games like Mortal Kombat
ESRB ratings are absolutely "voluntary". Industry pressure effectively has the force of law, but no one can be legally prohibited from selling their game for not submitting it to ratings.
The same goes for MPAA ratings on movies. Lots of indie flicks never get rated, and even the occasional mass market release goes through without rating. It doesn't seem to affect marketability these days.
President Cheney will just pardon the whole bunch.
Dick Cheney?
You have to go through a bomb-sniffing dog?
That must be a really big dog.
And Darl McBride award for truth in reporting goes to ... the stella awards!
I can forgive someone being a credulous dumbass, but being so persistent in it really deserves a bigger smackdown than I can adequately convey in text.