If the though "I might harm someone" never enters your mind, are you really showing a contempt for human life?
If the thought "I might harm someone" never enters your mind when you are driving a 1000+ pound vehicle at 60+ miles an hour, either you have no clue how kinetic energy works, or you're bloody irresponsible. Either should disqualify you from a driver's license, in my opinion. If you're on the road, you might harm someone; there's no way around that.
I use macs only occasionally, and find this feature extremely annoying. It completely throws off my eye/hand coordination. I'm sure it's wonderful if you're used to it, but it makes it annoyingly difficult to put the cursor where I want it. If I want to move it just couple of inches to the left, I move the mouse slowly, and it only moves a few pixels. If I speed up, acceleration kicks in and the cursor is halfway across the screen when, according to my (linear, subconscious) estimate, it should be on target.
This would be fine if I could find the option to turn it off.
I'm not familiar with any college curriculum that covers things like source control, makefiles, modularization, making sense of a program that was written ten years ago, reverse-engineering code that you no longer have source for, effective use of a debugger etc. etc.
That's funny. I'm in college right now, and several of our courses touch on those things. Makefiles, modularization, and basic use of a debugger are introduced in a Programming in C and UNIX course. These concepts are developed in later courses, and the upper-level project-based courses stress that without good code organization and management, producing a good product is nearly impossible. (I'm thinking especially of one particular course involving writing an OS kernel in 6 weeks with a partner.)
That's not to say that a few school projects can substitute for real world experience, but it's certainly not as if all we do is theory and math.
Or Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Tipler and Mosca. I used a previous edition of this book for AP physics in high school, while the regular physics students used Halliday, Resnick, and Walker.
I don't have much ground to compare the two texts, but I can say that Tipler is a solid textbook. The exercises have a broad difficulty range; you'll probably want to skip the first few in each section (trivial "do you have any clue what this section is about?" questions) and go directly to the harder exercises, some of which are quite challenging.
they are SLOW which automatically disqualifies them in a lot of areas (like high-performance computing) When was the last time you saw Java used for high-performance computing?
I see -nowhere- that Google has said these advertisements will be audible or will be played before a call. That's just FUD by the article writer. Until Google has said -anything- we don't know what their plans are. Agreed; nothing says there will be audible ads. OTOH, given the data they're collecting from GOOG-411, I wouldn't be surprised if there were audible ads or, at the very least, some form of data collection via voice.
In fact, Google has not even said the phones WILL be ad-revenue supported, as far as I can tell. There's a couple quotes from Google on there, but they only deal with Google apps on the phones, not the calling plans. From the original Wall Street Journal article:
The Mountain View, Calif., company has made clear it is serious about developing advanced software and services for cellphones. "What's interesting about the ads in the mobile phone is that they are twice as profitable or more than the nonmobile phone ads because they're more personal," said Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt at the D: All Things Digital conference in May. Clearly, Google is taking a serious look at ads; whether that involves calling plans financed by ads is still open to speculation.
Only 7 million years from now, for all you long range planners. Better stock up on beans, bottled water and relocate your house 1 kilometer underground. Better yet, get a corner on the underground-house market. Then you can make a killing off all the slackers who procrastinated for 6.9 million years.
CHECK THE BACKUPS. Seriously -- before coffee, anything. Make sure that any overnight backups went through okay and make sure all the data is safe and secure. That way, come hell or high water during the day, you're not going to lose more than one day people's work. Because losing people's data is the worst thing that can possibly happen.
And what happens when someone writes a worm that modifies this to *create* errors? It could be pushed to the extent that the processor is completely crippled. A virus could really take out a system this way; you can't even start over with a clean OS install if there's no processor to do the installing. There goes your expensive new system....
Amen to this! Myst really deserves to be on this list. It was the best-selling computer game of all time until The Sims came out, and though I know sales numbers are far from everything, that does say something about the game. What's really important is the combination of an incredibly simple and intuitive point-and-click interface, a set of challenging but not impossible puzzles, a complex story for the player to piece together, and downright beautiful graphics (especially for 1993) that makes Myst a real gem of a game.
RAIN has learned the rates that the Board has decided on, effective retroactively through the beginning of 2006. So... RIAA gets paid for audio streamed in 2006 -- at 2007 rates? Sounds suspiciously similar to backdating to me. And somehow, I doubt that the SEC will take interest in this.
For those who didn't notice, that teacher's homework page was last updated November 8, 2005. Presumably that was well before the no-homework policy was implemented. (You would expect she would have updated the page, but given the state of someoftheotherpages on her site, she doesn't appear to put much effort into maintaining it.)
This is what stuff like smarty is for. That's just for PHP, but it's an example that decent systems to separate the hard logic from the presentation do exist.
Maybe I wasn't clear... I *can* waste time. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a slacker. I work hard, I have a 3.9 GPA. Heck, I go to TJHSST, a Science and Technology magnet school. What I'm saying is that there isn't a short-term incentive to work hard, so a lot of people don't care. I know people whose only goal is to pass.
I know I'm going to end up in the real world. But for now, I like having the theoretical option of not preparing myself for it - whether I choose to take that option or not.
I doubt people will be walking on the surface, taking long, deep breaths of fresh air.
Likewise, I doubt that any cleaning procedure will be able to keep every bit of dust from getting into areas where people will be taking those nice, deep, contaminated breaths.
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If the though "I might harm someone" never enters your mind, are you really showing a contempt for human life?
If the thought "I might harm someone" never enters your mind when you are driving a 1000+ pound vehicle at 60+ miles an hour, either you have no clue how kinetic energy works, or you're bloody irresponsible. Either should disqualify you from a driver's license, in my opinion. If you're on the road, you might harm someone; there's no way around that.
Wait... profit? I think I'm not going to ask ;)
I use macs only occasionally, and find this feature extremely annoying. It completely throws off my eye/hand coordination. I'm sure it's wonderful if you're used to it, but it makes it annoyingly difficult to put the cursor where I want it. If I want to move it just couple of inches to the left, I move the mouse slowly, and it only moves a few pixels. If I speed up, acceleration kicks in and the cursor is halfway across the screen when, according to my (linear, subconscious) estimate, it should be on target.
This would be fine if I could find the option to turn it off.
It happened with homosexuals, it's happening now with pedophiles and private gun owners.
The difference with pedophiles is that young children are incapable of making the decision to consent.
I'm not familiar with any college curriculum that covers things like source control, makefiles, modularization, making sense of a program that was written ten years ago, reverse-engineering code that you no longer have source for, effective use of a debugger etc. etc.
That's funny. I'm in college right now, and several of our courses touch on those things. Makefiles, modularization, and basic use of a debugger are introduced in a Programming in C and UNIX course. These concepts are developed in later courses, and the upper-level project-based courses stress that without good code organization and management, producing a good product is nearly impossible. (I'm thinking especially of one particular course involving writing an OS kernel in 6 weeks with a partner.)
That's not to say that a few school projects can substitute for real world experience, but it's certainly not as if all we do is theory and math.
HCI = Human-Computer Interaction.
This is a brilliant paper that sums it all up.
You're just saying that because it references Bruce Schneier!
Or Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Tipler and Mosca. I used a previous edition of this book for AP physics in high school, while the regular physics students used Halliday, Resnick, and Walker.
I don't have much ground to compare the two texts, but I can say that Tipler is a solid textbook. The exercises have a broad difficulty range; you'll probably want to skip the first few in each section (trivial "do you have any clue what this section is about?" questions) and go directly to the harder exercises, some of which are quite challenging.
As of this posting, it's gone, presumably for this reason.
CHECK THE BACKUPS. Seriously -- before coffee, anything. Make sure that any overnight backups went through okay and make sure all the data is safe and secure. That way, come hell or high water during the day, you're not going to lose more than one day people's work. Because losing people's data is the worst thing that can possibly happen.
It's another strange legal term. Wikipedia knows what it means.
And what happens when someone writes a worm that modifies this to *create* errors? It could be pushed to the extent that the processor is completely crippled. A virus could really take out a system this way; you can't even start over with a clean OS install if there's no processor to do the installing. There goes your expensive new system....
Amen to this! Myst really deserves to be on this list. It was the best-selling computer game of all time until The Sims came out, and though I know sales numbers are far from everything, that does say something about the game. What's really important is the combination of an incredibly simple and intuitive point-and-click interface, a set of challenging but not impossible puzzles, a complex story for the player to piece together, and downright beautiful graphics (especially for 1993) that makes Myst a real gem of a game.
For those who didn't notice, that teacher's homework page was last updated November 8, 2005. Presumably that was well before the no-homework policy was implemented. (You would expect she would have updated the page, but given the state of some of the other pages on her site, she doesn't appear to put much effort into maintaining it.)
This is what stuff like smarty is for. That's just for PHP, but it's an example that decent systems to separate the hard logic from the presentation do exist.
Maybe I wasn't clear... I *can* waste time. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a slacker. I work hard, I have a 3.9 GPA. Heck, I go to TJHSST, a Science and Technology magnet school. What I'm saying is that there isn't a short-term incentive to work hard, so a lot of people don't care. I know people whose only goal is to pass. I know I'm going to end up in the real world. But for now, I like having the theoretical option of not preparing myself for it - whether I choose to take that option or not.
I'm in high school, so I can do whatever I want as long as I pass... no one's paying me, so no one cares.
Ha ha, you suckers in the real world.
I doubt people will be walking on the surface, taking long, deep breaths of fresh air.
Likewise, I doubt that any cleaning procedure will be able to keep every bit of dust from getting into areas where people will be taking those nice, deep, contaminated breaths.