I used to complain about how sad it was that half the kids in my class (S.E.) couldn't function in c or asm until about third year... they still can't function in it, but man is it nice being able to count on a massive curve in any class that relies on low level coding/knowledge.
From the forums
"...
Some of you are concerned about the technical challenges in making Native
Client secure. So are we, and that's why we are sharing the system in this
research release, so the community can review it with a critical eye. These
concerns have been with us from day one of this project, but as we continue
to work on the system we have increasing confidence in what we can do with
this approach. So, while feedback and discussion are very welcome, we also
hope our critics will show us specific design and implementation defects
that allow them to break out of the sandbox. Such specific defects are the
real key to whether or not we can make this system secure.
Thank you for your interest in Native Client.
Brad Chen"
The subject says enough. Pick up Software Fundementals: A collection of his papers. It is the foundation of the accredited software engineering in Canada
If you seriously believe any OSS editor/IDE competes with visual studio you've lost perspective. I strongly suggest you give VS a try and see what we are actually up against.
It doesn't help our cause to pretend we've already won battles we haven't. It just makes us look as ignorant and delusional as the microsoft fud machine.
bueller.
It took me till halfway through my soft eng. degree to realize, but java is an engineer's language. It implements MIS consisely.
Other languages have their place as have been covered a million times (Except for PHP. God won't someone somehow kill PHP), but java is just excellent for the engineering process.
You obviously aren't applying to Canadian medical schools. McMaster Med sees a 90 in history as equivalent to a 90 in eng. It's pretty lame... even more lame is a 90 in health sci being held as equivalent.
Software Engineering may be right up your alley then. Less pure math and such than those CS folk. We only take calc through vectors, no PDE's. We do take a crap load of discrete... a crapload. But in reality, that's pretty much the right amount for anything to do with analyzing logic.
Software Engineering is an accredited engineering discipline in Canada.
Like all engineering fields in Canada, you must be accredited by the governing bodies. To do this you need to attend an accredited university for a 4 year bachelor of engineering program. That's right, we accredit directly in school. All programs are monitored carefully and ensure a consistent, minimum level of performance across the country.
Put simply, you have to go through an accredited university- in an accredited program(bachelor of engineering)- to call yourself a Software Engineer in Canada.
Or even more simply, from even our worst schools we consistently produce engineers that effing rock.
with all the vitriol in this thread you'd think this was another vista release. I'm personally pumped for this; Between KDE4 and CFS I haven't been this excited for a new release of all the linux distros in awhile.
Don't like it? Don't use it. Why slam everyone's hard work though?
To the developers: Thank you very much.
You're never going to stop it. It's unstoppable. It's our fault for not adjusting our business model to meet with modern reality.
why does this sound familiar?
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Are you serious? Flash: It has a monopoly right now. It is a piece of shit. It barely supports linux. And beyond that, I have to use terrible development tools in a windows environment to do anything with it. Silverlight: Gives me hope. I like.NET. I like Mono. I use linux for most of my computing because it meets my needs better. But I hold nothing against Microsoft, and if they can beat flash, then god bless them for it. I'd love to be able to build that type of interactive web content in visual studio (gotta admit, it's fast. Particularly when dealing with multiple data sources whether they be on linux or windows). The time I'd save at work would be incredible.
how is mepis though for software support? I loved Ubuntu, but I hated gnome; so i'm back on OpenSuse for desktop needs, as they provide a nice KDE implementation. you'd recommend it tho?
Tetis was not great. Tetris was definitive. I don't even know of what. it just was.
And anyone else notice any correlations between tetris performance, and academic performance on the same day?
off topic, but can you recommend a distro over suse? I switched to it because it was the best KDE distro I could find... but yeh, I seriously hate yast, and zen has not been smooth for me.
I loved Ubuntu for the most part (except... gnome)... but had a deep hate for kubuntu. Although now that I know more, i'd be willing to give kubuntu a shot again and make it a decent KDE distro. but would you recommend anthing else? Also, what do you think of Mepis over Kubuntu? or PCLinuxOS? or gentoo?
I realise this is off topic, but you outlined the problems in suse that piss me off, so i figured i'd see if you had any advice.
Actually, they do need to make a profit... or in the least break even. Non-profit means the profits aren't getting sifted off to owners. They are going back into the business, which is -- in Canada -- run by a board of directors, who are in turn regulated by laws controlling the operation of the non-profit. The ODSL should be striving to take in as much revenue as possible to expand their services.
... I don't think a lot of slashdotters are understanding this. And to hear this about the ODSL it is actually kinda grim... which only puts me in a better exam mood.
Effing exams.
Browsing at -1 below the parent post actually restored some of my faith in the slashdot community... I just wish that every post that simply disagreed with the notion that 'opensource is true capitalism' didn't get modded into obilivion. Discourse is healthy.
Hilarious.
Dude, just think back to high school. Every chick I knew was up in arms if their friends were getting better presents from their respective boyfriends. Girls with diamonds of course, won the contest.
I think every girl I've ever dated has said 'diamonds are stupid', but then they'd go ballastic with envy when someone they know got a giant diamond engagement ring.
Lamborghini - Owned by Audi (not American) Maserati - Owned fully by Fiat (not American)
Just thought I'd point it out. The American Big 2 (as the 'third' is now owned by Germans) are also dying a slow painful death.
/Anyone else seen the 2006 Challenger concept? moly. Go Germans!
Back to the rest of your post. There hasn't been a massive capital flight from Europe (or anywhere for that matter) to the States, in fact it has been quite the opposite, hence the dollar dropping against everyone else so rapidly. I'm not sure how anyone can justify this deficit as ok. It is short-sighted suicide. Unless of course this Iraq war seriously pays off and keeps up swimming in oil for longer than the rest of the world. But from how pissed off the locals are (in Iraq) I don't think it's going to provide us with much.
Slashdot Mirror
I used to complain about how sad it was that half the kids in my class (S.E.) couldn't function in c or asm until about third year... they still can't function in it, but man is it nice being able to count on a massive curve in any class that relies on low level coding/knowledge.
From the forums
"... Some of you are concerned about the technical challenges in making Native Client secure. So are we, and that's why we are sharing the system in this research release, so the community can review it with a critical eye. These concerns have been with us from day one of this project, but as we continue to work on the system we have increasing confidence in what we can do with this approach. So, while feedback and discussion are very welcome, we also hope our critics will show us specific design and implementation defects that allow them to break out of the sandbox. Such specific defects are the real key to whether or not we can make this system secure. Thank you for your interest in Native Client. Brad Chen"
Keep an open mind. This could be a very big.
Dude, we aren't talking about a note taking program.
Agreed! great mouse. and it works on a mirror! not that I use mirrors as mouse pads too often...but sometimes shit gets kinky.
Except on Mythbusters, the expert got it right and put the vodkas in the correct order during the blind taste testing.
147$ Hardly a king's ransom.
(PS- XP will play bluray discs at 1080p just fine)
The subject says enough. Pick up Software Fundementals: A collection of his papers. It is the foundation of the accredited software engineering in Canada
If you seriously believe any OSS editor/IDE competes with visual studio you've lost perspective. I strongly suggest you give VS a try and see what we are actually up against. It doesn't help our cause to pretend we've already won battles we haven't. It just makes us look as ignorant and delusional as the microsoft fud machine. bueller.
It took me till halfway through my soft eng. degree to realize, but java is an engineer's language. It implements MIS consisely. Other languages have their place as have been covered a million times (Except for PHP. God won't someone somehow kill PHP), but java is just excellent for the engineering process.
You obviously aren't applying to Canadian medical schools.
McMaster Med sees a 90 in history as equivalent to a 90 in eng. It's pretty lame... even more lame is a 90 in health sci being held as equivalent.
Software Engineering may be right up your alley then. Less pure math and such than those CS folk.
We only take calc through vectors, no PDE's. We do take a crap load of discrete... a crapload. But in reality, that's pretty much the right amount for anything to do with analyzing logic.
Software Engineering is an accredited engineering discipline in Canada. Like all engineering fields in Canada, you must be accredited by the governing bodies. To do this you need to attend an accredited university for a 4 year bachelor of engineering program. That's right, we accredit directly in school. All programs are monitored carefully and ensure a consistent, minimum level of performance across the country. Put simply, you have to go through an accredited university- in an accredited program(bachelor of engineering)- to call yourself a Software Engineer in Canada. Or even more simply, from even our worst schools we consistently produce engineers that effing rock.
with all the vitriol in this thread you'd think this was another vista release. I'm personally pumped for this; Between KDE4 and CFS I haven't been this excited for a new release of all the linux distros in awhile. Don't like it? Don't use it. Why slam everyone's hard work though? To the developers: Thank you very much.
You're never going to stop it. It's unstoppable. It's our fault for not adjusting our business model to meet with modern reality. why does this sound familiar?
Are you serious? .NET. I like Mono. I use linux for most of my computing because it meets my needs better. But I hold nothing against Microsoft, and if they can beat flash, then god bless them for it. I'd love to be able to build that type of interactive web content in visual studio (gotta admit, it's fast. Particularly when dealing with multiple data sources whether they be on linux or windows). The time I'd save at work would be incredible.
Flash: It has a monopoly right now. It is a piece of shit. It barely supports linux. And beyond that, I have to use terrible development tools in a windows environment to do anything with it.
Silverlight: Gives me hope. I like
seconded. The zealotry on slashdot pisses even me off. And I'm the guy who pisses my friends off with "switch to Linux" non-stop.
I can finally take off my tinfoil hat indoors! oh the thought of sleep, sans dreams of crackling death propagated by my thought-helmet.
how is mepis though for software support?
I loved Ubuntu, but I hated gnome; so i'm back on OpenSuse for desktop needs, as they provide a nice KDE implementation.
you'd recommend it tho?
Tetis was not great. Tetris was definitive. I don't even know of what. it just was. And anyone else notice any correlations between tetris performance, and academic performance on the same day?
off topic, but can you recommend a distro over suse? I switched to it because it was the best KDE distro I could find... but yeh, I seriously hate yast, and zen has not been smooth for me. I loved Ubuntu for the most part (except... gnome)... but had a deep hate for kubuntu. Although now that I know more, i'd be willing to give kubuntu a shot again and make it a decent KDE distro. but would you recommend anthing else? Also, what do you think of Mepis over Kubuntu? or PCLinuxOS? or gentoo? I realise this is off topic, but you outlined the problems in suse that piss me off, so i figured i'd see if you had any advice.
my bad... I think exams are killing what's left of my brain.
Actually, they do need to make a profit... or in the least break even. Non-profit means the profits aren't getting sifted off to owners. They are going back into the business, which is -- in Canada -- run by a board of directors, who are in turn regulated by laws controlling the operation of the non-profit. The ODSL should be striving to take in as much revenue as possible to expand their services.
... I don't think a lot of slashdotters are understanding this. And to hear this about the ODSL it is actually kinda grim... which only puts me in a better exam mood.
Effing exams.
Browsing at -1 below the parent post actually restored some of my faith in the slashdot community ... I just wish that every post that simply disagreed with the notion that 'opensource is true capitalism' didn't get modded into obilivion. Discourse is healthy.
Hilarious.
Dude, just think back to high school. Every chick I knew was up in arms if their friends were getting better presents from their respective boyfriends. Girls with diamonds of course, won the contest.
I think every girl I've ever dated has said 'diamonds are stupid', but then they'd go ballastic with envy when someone they know got a giant diamond engagement ring.
Lamborghini - Owned by Audi (not American)
/Anyone else seen the 2006 Challenger concept? moly. Go Germans!
Maserati - Owned fully by Fiat (not American)
Just thought I'd point it out. The American Big 2 (as the 'third' is now owned by Germans) are also dying a slow painful death.
Back to the rest of your post. There hasn't been a massive capital flight from Europe (or anywhere for that matter) to the States, in fact it has been quite the opposite, hence the dollar dropping against everyone else so rapidly. I'm not sure how anyone can justify this deficit as ok. It is short-sighted suicide. Unless of course this Iraq war seriously pays off and keeps up swimming in oil for longer than the rest of the world. But from how pissed off the locals are (in Iraq) I don't think it's going to provide us with much.