...when they are working for the good guys. Nice to see that the RIAA is finally being challenged, not on the slashdot message boards amongst the powerless, but in the courts amongst the layers.
Depending on the type of technology role you seek, you may not need more than 1st-year coursework to do well. I worked for a Big-5 as a programmer, ranked very well, yet we never used anything more than basic data structures and object oriented programming. These days, it is even easier as libraries do all the work. If you are more interested in indistrial application in a non-tech industry (i.e. Fin Services, Pharma) rather than the beauty of CS, you will prob have no problem. If you are more interested in Google, or greating next gen OSs, then you do need to learn all the upper level materials.
That said, college is the best time to expand ones' horizons, so I wouldnt judge everything by the applicability to my career. I learned the upper level material, really enjoyed it, (thought unfortunately never used it post-graduation.)
OK, but what about the global wars NBC/Universal shamelessly champions with several of their shows. That is costing us over a Trillion dollars, thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of Arab civilian lives, and unimagined pain for families. If we are going to add up losses, lets do a complete job.
OK, suppose he made legal mistakes on defending on the libel case. What about the the apparent threat to this student's family (see email to the blogger from the journalist):
"As an investigative journalist I can also investigate your entire family if you like and other things."
Is that legal?
Just watch, I predict: TSA: "no sir, we cannot allow you back into the US -- we have no record of you leaving." You: "but i did register, here is the printout of the confirmation page" TSA: "sorry sir, its not in the computer."
Other predictions: such predicaments happen more often to Arabs, Muslims, minorities, and members of the ACLU
Funny how doctors face malpractice claims despite everything patients sign. Perhaps doctors' lawyers need to speak to Gateway/MSFT EULA Lawyers and learn a bit about EULAs:-)
Well, you might want an offline web application for things such as web-based word processing. When you are offline, files are cached offline. When a connection is detected, files are synched back onto the server.
I would imagine online word processing applications' weak like to be the constant need for a connection, especially if you are on a roaming internet connection.
When you opened your account, did you associate the account with an email address? Where do your trade confirmations go? Perhaps the email address you associated with the account later can be queried by Ameritrade employees?
Much like Windows Media Player, the Microsoft site was poorly designed, clunky, wasted precious screen real estate, and doesnt work around the typical user queries. Google's version almost predicts the features I want and works accordingly. I'm not purposely MSFT-bashing, its just that the difference is vast.
I've encountered two problems with parallel programming
1. For applications which are constantly being changed under tight deadlines, parallel programming becomes an obstacle. Parallelism adds complexity which hinders quick changes to applications. This is a very broad generalization, but often the case.
2. Risk. Parallelism introduces a lot of risk, things that arent easy to debug. Some problems I faced happened only once every couple of weeks, and involved underlying black-box libraries. For financial applications, this was absolutely too much risk to bear. I would never do parallel programming for financial applications unless management was behind it fully (as they are for HUGE efforts such as monte carlo simulations and VaR apps.)
This sounds like a good mid-term investment opportunity. How can one profit from this upcoming need for infrastructure change? I'm guessing router manufacturers, who else?
Dear LS1_Brains,
I'm Muslim and I denounce 9/11, Darfur, and any killings instigated by Palestineans. Ask any Muslims (if you know any) and see what they feel about these events? By and large, they will condemn the events as they should.
Now I turn the question around to you, are you and other Christians and Jews and others you know willing to condemn these following acts:
The Holocaust via sanctions of 1,000,000 civilians in Iraq 1990-2000
The murder via war of 75,000 civilians in Iraq 2003-2007
The 55-year slow genocide of the Palestineans via malnutrition (sanctions/water cutoff/destruction of civilian infrastructure)
The massacre of civilians in Sabra and Shatilla
The massacre of civilians in Qana
VA Tech shooter - a suicidal christian terrorist, who likened himself to Jesus Christ and expressed his hatred of the wealthy -- killing dozens in punishment
Since you have conveniently decided to focus just on the past decades, i'll exclude Vietnam, Hitler, Africa, Native Amreicans, and the Crusades.
So what is it? Are you
1. Willing to admit these massacres happened or are you a Holocaust denier?
2. Willing to condemn these massacres?
Please take a survey in your office. I just took one in my office. 50% of the people supported the current strategy of civilian eradication in Iraq and 75% supproted Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
So I turn this question to you in front of Slashdot. For the record, are you willing to admit and condemn these holocausts?
As for being offended. Just as you and I are offended about people denying the Holocaust, I am offended by your denial of the decade-long Iraqi holocaust.
Finally, the reason Ntive Americans and Africans conflicts with the western world have flared out is not because Western nations are inherently peaceful. Rather it is because the Native Amricans were NEARLY COMPLETELY ERADICATED. Africa remains in a similar state.
"Radical Christians are common criminals, whereas radical Muslims are a significant threat to civilization."
Please explain whether these individuals were Muslims or Christians
- Christopher Columbus / Europe - Extermination of Native Americans
- Christopher Columbus / Europe - Death of 35 Million Africans
- Hitler - Extermination of Jews/Gays/Gypsies/etc
- Multiple US Admins - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
- Multiple US Admins - Extermination of Vietnam
- Iraq 1/2 - 1Million civilians killed, 500,000 kids - by US/UK sanctions
Lets not kid ourselves...
LS1 Brains -- I am a Muslim, and I am upset by your comments. Mostly because it seems to be an epic denial on your part. I would argue that Muslims are far less extreme than other religions. There have been how many criminals amongst Muslims -- 10k? 20k? Out of 1.5Billion. Not consider Christianity and its crimes (often denied or apologized for by Christians)
- Crusades
- Native American Holocaust
- African Holocaust (35 Million People!)
- Nazi holocaust
- Hiroshima
- Nagasaki
- Vietnam
- Iraq I
- Iraq II
Who is more violent? How many Christians do you know who would still support Hiroshima and Nagasaki if it happened today, I know dozens of Christians who open support this monumental terrorist event.
So if you are going to make wildly biased statements, atleast distort facts rather than your own sense of denial.
Holocaust Denial is common in the USA. Even at my college, people widely denied the Iraqi Holocaust (extermination of 1Million+ iraqi (UN figure) via Bush/Clinton's sanctions.)
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions
Guess who the loudest deniers were? Conservative organizations.
"If it wasn't for the West, they'd still be driving camels on top of the world's richest oil deposits.)"
This is an incredibly racist and ignorant comment given the likely intention. You should know these countries had vibrant cultures, most of which was destroyed during colonialism, which forced artifical boundaries and turned the societies into large factories. Perhaps they would be driving camels...but that is because GDP isnt everything to them, and there are other things besides money and power that matter?
What I dont understand is how the standard government/big-media explanation is not a conspiracy theory? So supposedly 19 guys from various countries, driven by their people's hatred of freedom, were being controlled via walkie-talkie's by an ex-CIA officer living in caves in Afghanistan.
Whether you do or do not believe the store, 20 people necessarily defines a conspiracy. So I dont understand why the standard explation is not a "conspiracy theory."
As a patriotic Progressive American, I've had much the same issues with the Conservative and Republican base -- they use lies and lawyers to get their way. Sue someone hard enough and pretty soon they run out of money and admit that, indeed, 2+2=5. I havent understood why Democrats dont do this.
I'm sorry to bring politics into this, but this is exactly what Microsoft has done. They have aimed to cloud facts and use legal threats. They will likely succeed, much like SCO did. While nerds on/. keep whining about these tactics, M$FT keeps more corporations away from Linux every day this goes on.
So what does one do? I suggest you stop preaching to the/. choir and start making a list of patents Microsoft has violated. Get your pro bono lawyers and start suing large corporations which use these products in violation of IP law. Its pathetic. But it will work, because lawyers run America, and this is how things get done. Create enough buzz about Microsoft's violations and soon M$FT will stop using these tactics. Spread the word. I'm sure M$FT has an army of PR people spreading these Linux stories right now.
Otherwise, the next CIO that is selecting Solaris vs. SuSe for his grid, he's going to go with the safe bet. And that type of "better safe than sorry" is exactly what M$FT wants.
I've been in a similar situation. I didnt make the email that formal, but basically wrote "Per out conversation, I will make X copies of WorldScope, based on your understanding that so many floating licenses are available." My boss wrote back "do not install." Then came by my desk and verbally said to install. THEN what do you do?
Currently, vendors losing data typically offer 3 months of identity detection, as if that does anything. Criminals can simply wait 3 months and begin stealing identities freely, as most people cannot afford to purchase these costly (and largely useless) services.
Unless vendors are presented with liability, as are most other businesses, data will continue to be lost all the time. There is virtually no cost to losing data.
Simple, because the myth of the "liberal media" is the best lie ever told. The media is hardly liberal on most matters. Especially when it comes to questioning Republican and Conservative candidates about wrongdoings.
Slashdot Mirror
...when they are working for the good guys. Nice to see that the RIAA is finally being challenged, not on the slashdot message boards amongst the powerless, but in the courts amongst the layers.
Depending on the type of technology role you seek, you may not need more than 1st-year coursework to do well. I worked for a Big-5 as a programmer, ranked very well, yet we never used anything more than basic data structures and object oriented programming. These days, it is even easier as libraries do all the work. If you are more interested in indistrial application in a non-tech industry (i.e. Fin Services, Pharma) rather than the beauty of CS, you will prob have no problem. If you are more interested in Google, or greating next gen OSs, then you do need to learn all the upper level materials.
That said, college is the best time to expand ones' horizons, so I wouldnt judge everything by the applicability to my career. I learned the upper level material, really enjoyed it, (thought unfortunately never used it post-graduation.)
Hey -- maintaining a vast global conspiracy takes lots of communication :-)
OK, but what about the global wars NBC/Universal shamelessly champions with several of their shows. That is costing us over a Trillion dollars, thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of Arab civilian lives, and unimagined pain for families. If we are going to add up losses, lets do a complete job.
On point 1 -- this seems like a case of perjury doesnt it? Isnt that pretty serious?
OK, suppose he made legal mistakes on defending on the libel case. What about the the apparent threat to this student's family (see email to the blogger from the journalist): "As an investigative journalist I can also investigate your entire family if you like and other things." Is that legal?
"Bullshit. DHS goes out of it's way to not do profiling. "
Apparently you were in a coma for the last seven years. Please check the news.
Just watch, I predict:
TSA: "no sir, we cannot allow you back into the US -- we have no record of you leaving."
You: "but i did register, here is the printout of the confirmation page"
TSA: "sorry sir, its not in the computer."
Other predictions: such predicaments happen more often to Arabs, Muslims, minorities, and members of the ACLU
Funny how doctors face malpractice claims despite everything patients sign. Perhaps doctors' lawyers need to speak to Gateway/MSFT EULA Lawyers and learn a bit about EULAs :-)
Well, you might want an offline web application for things such as web-based word processing. When you are offline, files are cached offline. When a connection is detected, files are synched back onto the server. I would imagine online word processing applications' weak like to be the constant need for a connection, especially if you are on a roaming internet connection.
When you opened your account, did you associate the account with an email address? Where do your trade confirmations go? Perhaps the email address you associated with the account later can be queried by Ameritrade employees?
Much like Windows Media Player, the Microsoft site was poorly designed, clunky, wasted precious screen real estate, and doesnt work around the typical user queries. Google's version almost predicts the features I want and works accordingly. I'm not purposely MSFT-bashing, its just that the difference is vast.
Wow. Microsoft Couldnt Do This In a Million Years! No evidence needed (and I aint even a MSFT hater.)
I've encountered two problems with parallel programming 1. For applications which are constantly being changed under tight deadlines, parallel programming becomes an obstacle. Parallelism adds complexity which hinders quick changes to applications. This is a very broad generalization, but often the case. 2. Risk. Parallelism introduces a lot of risk, things that arent easy to debug. Some problems I faced happened only once every couple of weeks, and involved underlying black-box libraries. For financial applications, this was absolutely too much risk to bear. I would never do parallel programming for financial applications unless management was behind it fully (as they are for HUGE efforts such as monte carlo simulations and VaR apps.)
This sounds like a good mid-term investment opportunity. How can one profit from this upcoming need for infrastructure change? I'm guessing router manufacturers, who else?
Dear LS1_Brains, I'm Muslim and I denounce 9/11, Darfur, and any killings instigated by Palestineans. Ask any Muslims (if you know any) and see what they feel about these events? By and large, they will condemn the events as they should.
Now I turn the question around to you, are you and other Christians and Jews and others you know willing to condemn these following acts:
The Holocaust via sanctions of 1,000,000 civilians in Iraq 1990-2000
The murder via war of 75,000 civilians in Iraq 2003-2007
The 55-year slow genocide of the Palestineans via malnutrition (sanctions/water cutoff/destruction of civilian infrastructure)
The massacre of civilians in Sabra and Shatilla
The massacre of civilians in Qana
VA Tech shooter - a suicidal christian terrorist, who likened himself to Jesus Christ and expressed his hatred of the wealthy -- killing dozens in punishment
Since you have conveniently decided to focus just on the past decades, i'll exclude Vietnam, Hitler, Africa, Native Amreicans, and the Crusades.
So what is it? Are you
1. Willing to admit these massacres happened or are you a Holocaust denier?
2. Willing to condemn these massacres?
Please take a survey in your office. I just took one in my office. 50% of the people supported the current strategy of civilian eradication in Iraq and 75% supproted Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
So I turn this question to you in front of Slashdot. For the record, are you willing to admit and condemn these holocausts?
As for being offended. Just as you and I are offended about people denying the Holocaust, I am offended by your denial of the decade-long Iraqi holocaust. Finally, the reason Ntive Americans and Africans conflicts with the western world have flared out is not because Western nations are inherently peaceful. Rather it is because the Native Amricans were NEARLY COMPLETELY ERADICATED. Africa remains in a similar state.
"Radical Christians are common criminals, whereas radical Muslims are a significant threat to civilization." Please explain whether these individuals were Muslims or Christians - Christopher Columbus / Europe - Extermination of Native Americans - Christopher Columbus / Europe - Death of 35 Million Africans - Hitler - Extermination of Jews/Gays/Gypsies/etc - Multiple US Admins - Hiroshima/Nagasaki - Multiple US Admins - Extermination of Vietnam - Iraq 1/2 - 1Million civilians killed, 500,000 kids - by US/UK sanctions Lets not kid ourselves...
LS1 Brains -- I am a Muslim, and I am upset by your comments. Mostly because it seems to be an epic denial on your part. I would argue that Muslims are far less extreme than other religions. There have been how many criminals amongst Muslims -- 10k? 20k? Out of 1.5Billion. Not consider Christianity and its crimes (often denied or apologized for by Christians) - Crusades - Native American Holocaust - African Holocaust (35 Million People!) - Nazi holocaust - Hiroshima - Nagasaki - Vietnam - Iraq I - Iraq II Who is more violent? How many Christians do you know who would still support Hiroshima and Nagasaki if it happened today, I know dozens of Christians who open support this monumental terrorist event. So if you are going to make wildly biased statements, atleast distort facts rather than your own sense of denial.
Holocaust Denial is common in the USA. Even at my college, people widely denied the Iraqi Holocaust (extermination of 1Million+ iraqi (UN figure) via Bush/Clinton's sanctions.) see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions Guess who the loudest deniers were? Conservative organizations.
"If it wasn't for the West, they'd still be driving camels on top of the world's richest oil deposits.)" This is an incredibly racist and ignorant comment given the likely intention. You should know these countries had vibrant cultures, most of which was destroyed during colonialism, which forced artifical boundaries and turned the societies into large factories. Perhaps they would be driving camels...but that is because GDP isnt everything to them, and there are other things besides money and power that matter?
What I dont understand is how the standard government/big-media explanation is not a conspiracy theory? So supposedly 19 guys from various countries, driven by their people's hatred of freedom, were being controlled via walkie-talkie's by an ex-CIA officer living in caves in Afghanistan. Whether you do or do not believe the store, 20 people necessarily defines a conspiracy. So I dont understand why the standard explation is not a "conspiracy theory."
As a patriotic Progressive American, I've had much the same issues with the Conservative and Republican base -- they use lies and lawyers to get their way. Sue someone hard enough and pretty soon they run out of money and admit that, indeed, 2+2=5. I havent understood why Democrats dont do this.
/. keep whining about these tactics, M$FT keeps more corporations away from Linux every day this goes on.
/. choir and start making a list of patents Microsoft has violated. Get your pro bono lawyers and start suing large corporations which use these products in violation of IP law. Its pathetic. But it will work, because lawyers run America, and this is how things get done. Create enough buzz about Microsoft's violations and soon M$FT will stop using these tactics. Spread the word. I'm sure M$FT has an army of PR people spreading these Linux stories right now.
I'm sorry to bring politics into this, but this is exactly what Microsoft has done. They have aimed to cloud facts and use legal threats. They will likely succeed, much like SCO did. While nerds on
So what does one do? I suggest you stop preaching to the
Otherwise, the next CIO that is selecting Solaris vs. SuSe for his grid, he's going to go with the safe bet. And that type of "better safe than sorry" is exactly what M$FT wants.
I've been in a similar situation. I didnt make the email that formal, but basically wrote "Per out conversation, I will make X copies of WorldScope, based on your understanding that so many floating licenses are available." My boss wrote back "do not install." Then came by my desk and verbally said to install. THEN what do you do?
Currently, vendors losing data typically offer 3 months of identity detection, as if that does anything. Criminals can simply wait 3 months and begin stealing identities freely, as most people cannot afford to purchase these costly (and largely useless) services. Unless vendors are presented with liability, as are most other businesses, data will continue to be lost all the time. There is virtually no cost to losing data.
Simple, because the myth of the "liberal media" is the best lie ever told. The media is hardly liberal on most matters. Especially when it comes to questioning Republican and Conservative candidates about wrongdoings.