i worked for a school too. i could see the conversation now.
'i want to write a program to automate this drone bullshit you are making us do'
'what drone bullshit?'
'it will make this task about 100 times faster'
'i dont think thats possible'
'uhm yeah it is, heres a prototype'
"lets not play on the computers. who gave you the admin password"?
=====
result: i wrote a lot of stuff without anyone knowing. and they were so stupid, they didnt think to ask how i did it so much faster. they didnt care. they didnt even notice really.
what im saying is that i think a lot of government employees who are hobbyist hackers have a problem here, because what they are probably doing is writing a lot of interface code to hook up to ancient and/or weird databases that the government agencies use.
it is pretty much impossible to do that 'on your own', because its pretty hard to buy an IBM mainframe or minicomputer and load it with the 15,000$ system your government agency is using so that you can develop the program.
furthermore, if you want the thing to work at all, you are going to have to take it to work and test it.... which would mean you 'worked on it at work'....
what im saying here, from my experience, is that this would basically shut down a whole lot of potentially 'open source' government work unless the government people agree to make it open source in the first place.
thats quite unlikely, a lot of government managers do not understand what 'open source' is, let along what programming is. (heck its porbably that way in companies too)
not which theory is better, but how those theories are used.
i think your geek god einstein would agree with me.
it is actually a damn good thing that we haven't moved on since the 1930s in our basic understandings... it would undoubtedly lead to new and horrific weapons that we are far too immature as a species to deal with in a logical manner.
imagine someone purposely engineering something like the black death of europe, or imagine genghis khan with nuclear weapons. imagine if the US had some superweapon that allowed it to do to every unfree country on earth what it has done to iraq.
physics can't do anything about hubris, stupidity, arrogance, and ignorance. unless it is the physics of the human brain. you can pretend there is such a thing as 'basic research' all you want, but we all know where the funding comes from, what arguments are used to justify it, which directions physicists are going in, and what the end results will be.
because in the old days, let me assure you, a post like yours would have been deleted and/or you would have been banned and/or marked 'troll' and/or 'bad karma', etc etc etc.
anyone remember the 'bitchslap' code?
the slashdroids have forgotten by true identity. blinded by silly jokes, they allow me to slowly gain points. soon i will have their confidence, and become a moderator... whereupon i will unleash the wrath of innocents imprisoned by bad karma in the past. 'bitchslap' away, rob malda and you other man children. the people who you have insulted will not cease until a system of justice prevails on the slashroid!
you freakin ass, nobody in the 'liberated' countries thinks kids should be watching porno, which is a lot more than 'naked breasts' (and if you disagree then i guess you havent seen much porno)
i dont care how much you 'curb your spending' . on $7/hour, that basically means saving 1 months wages so you can buy christmas presents. if your car goes out, you have to go into debt to get it repaired.
i dont care how much you 'cut back', morons like you just do not fucking understand the problem and you wont until you are in the situation. so go fuck yourself.
i.e. rich people stealing from the poor.
and btw alot of crime is when the very poor steal from the average.... the very rich usually live in gated communities far away from the very poor.
1. how long was the porn on? did she just leave it on for hours while continuing with class? was it several times over several classes?
2. why didn't she just turn off the monitor or unplug the machine?
3. if she did ask the principal and others for help, why did they refuse? what is their story? and shouldnt they be on trial as well?
the first class was 'take a project someone did last year, and fix it'.
the trick here was that half the students were electronic engineers, half were CS. the electronic engineers generally had no fucking clue whatsoever about how to do stuff like fix their CLASSPATH, set up ftp / cvs, communicate about the build environment, etc. they were good at other things, just not this stuff.
the second class was 'build your own project'. this was all CS people. as we had no 'lab', it was kind of a problem for some of the groups. my group, however, commandeered someones dorm room, put a cheap server in, and connected from the 'engineering' computer lab using remote software and CVS. we had a lot of meetings, figured things out, split up areas (you do database, you do mockup and html, you do some flowcharts to figure out how it all fits together, you figure out the complex algorithm we need for submodule X, etc etc etc).
honestly, a lot of the teams were worthless - they had some egotistical asshole (or supertwins) write all the code while the other kids were sent to 'hey, you choose the colors for the website'. and like i said, no lab for some of these people made it hard.
on the other hand, these two courses were extremely valuable. i learned a lot about silly obvious things, like half your team doesnt know what autoexec.bat is or how to fix their classpath - what do you do in that situation?
i also learned a lot from mistakes. one guy on my team wanted to redo the database design. i said 'maybe we should talk to the database guys'. he said 'no lets just do it'. huge fucking mistake. something i will never forget, and an extremely valuable lesson because it didnt cost a company any money.
i also learned how to get shit done on time, instead of throwing in every feature and the kitchen sink and hoping it would come out ok.
and what is good, under linux. it has been that way for years. often it is because there are so many half-assed technologies advertising themselves with nobody, like yourself, to say 'this is shite, this is not'.
and the chances that such and such library/subsystem will be installed on a target linux machine? not 100%... so you have to 'detect' things in code, and/or include a bunch of qualifiers about which distro it will run on. if you are real pro, you will have to download and install all the distros you want to support just to make sure they work. every time you change your game, youll have to try it again on all those distros.
with DX, any idiot can sit down and get something working pretty quick using included example programs etc. less BS to wade through. you tell your user 'get DX version abc, windows XP'. then, there is a pretty decent chance your game will run on any windows XP box with DX version abc. not a 100% chance, but a lot better chance than in the linux world.
maybe all that extra work to ensure that the game 'just works' is trivial to you, but to most people labor is not free, theyd rather be making a game than dealing with supporting 5 distros, configuration and compilation scripts,.deb vs.rpm, etc.
personally, i find them to be extremely painful, and a huge inconvenience, because crap just stops working randomly, or the thing freezes, or it wont reboot properly.
youtube is built on IP thet. netscape? its now a horrible ISP, lost 70+ percent of its market share. HP is a sad withering hulk of its former glory, now depending on scamming people out of printer ink instead of making good products, and spying on its own staff illegally instead of promoting a good work environment. yahoo and cisco sell their souls to oppressive governments helping them to spy on and arrest their own citizens and reporters.
in short, fuck stanford. bunch of ass clowns.
logically think it through my good fellow. you think its abhorrent that the poor should procreate. therefore, use condoms. what about when they are raped?
oh, i forgot another funny little detail.
sometimes people think they will be rich, then it winds up they are not so rich.
their rich, wonderful IT job husband with 80k/year job decides to push them down a flight of stairs and smack them around for not having dinner on the table. maybe they dont want to live like that? maybe they leave him, and blam, where is the 80k/year? Ok, they get 20k/year working as a receptionist, probably for shitbag assholes like you at some IT company.
and by the way, yeah, she gets custody, because drunks who beat their kids shouldnt.
fucking ass wipe.
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a large number of them were written by some guy named donald who worked at NASA.
i worked for a school too. i could see the conversation now. 'i want to write a program to automate this drone bullshit you are making us do' 'what drone bullshit?' 'it will make this task about 100 times faster' 'i dont think thats possible' 'uhm yeah it is, heres a prototype' "lets not play on the computers. who gave you the admin password"? ===== result: i wrote a lot of stuff without anyone knowing. and they were so stupid, they didnt think to ask how i did it so much faster. they didnt care. they didnt even notice really.
what im saying is that i think a lot of government employees who are hobbyist hackers have a problem here, because what they are probably doing is writing a lot of interface code to hook up to ancient and/or weird databases that the government agencies use. it is pretty much impossible to do that 'on your own', because its pretty hard to buy an IBM mainframe or minicomputer and load it with the 15,000$ system your government agency is using so that you can develop the program. furthermore, if you want the thing to work at all, you are going to have to take it to work and test it.... which would mean you 'worked on it at work'.... what im saying here, from my experience, is that this would basically shut down a whole lot of potentially 'open source' government work unless the government people agree to make it open source in the first place. thats quite unlikely, a lot of government managers do not understand what 'open source' is, let along what programming is. (heck its porbably that way in companies too)
not which theory is better, but how those theories are used. i think your geek god einstein would agree with me. it is actually a damn good thing that we haven't moved on since the 1930s in our basic understandings... it would undoubtedly lead to new and horrific weapons that we are far too immature as a species to deal with in a logical manner. imagine someone purposely engineering something like the black death of europe, or imagine genghis khan with nuclear weapons. imagine if the US had some superweapon that allowed it to do to every unfree country on earth what it has done to iraq. physics can't do anything about hubris, stupidity, arrogance, and ignorance. unless it is the physics of the human brain. you can pretend there is such a thing as 'basic research' all you want, but we all know where the funding comes from, what arguments are used to justify it, which directions physicists are going in, and what the end results will be.
which are a pretty deadly combination.
loans are not forbidden in islam. charging interest is. http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/economics/nbank1.html so maybe you aren't racist, but you sure are stupid.
because in the old days, let me assure you, a post like yours would have been deleted and/or you would have been banned and/or marked 'troll' and/or 'bad karma', etc etc etc. anyone remember the 'bitchslap' code?
should google have done something more about that?
the slashdroids have forgotten by true identity. blinded by silly jokes, they allow me to slowly gain points. soon i will have their confidence, and become a moderator... whereupon i will unleash the wrath of innocents imprisoned by bad karma in the past. 'bitchslap' away, rob malda and you other man children. the people who you have insulted will not cease until a system of justice prevails on the slashroid!
im giving away my SUN stock as well.
you freakin ass, nobody in the 'liberated' countries thinks kids should be watching porno, which is a lot more than 'naked breasts' (and if you disagree then i guess you havent seen much porno)
i dont care how much you 'curb your spending' . on $7/hour, that basically means saving 1 months wages so you can buy christmas presents. if your car goes out, you have to go into debt to get it repaired. i dont care how much you 'cut back', morons like you just do not fucking understand the problem and you wont until you are in the situation. so go fuck yourself.
i.e. rich people stealing from the poor. and btw alot of crime is when the very poor steal from the average .... the very rich usually live in gated communities far away from the very poor.
1. how long was the porn on? did she just leave it on for hours while continuing with class? was it several times over several classes? 2. why didn't she just turn off the monitor or unplug the machine? 3. if she did ask the principal and others for help, why did they refuse? what is their story? and shouldnt they be on trial as well?
a room with 30 computers...
one ion-cooler for CPU, one for the HD....
now what are we talking about?
at my school we had two of these.
the first class was 'take a project someone did last year, and fix it'.
the trick here was that half the students were electronic engineers, half were CS. the electronic engineers generally had no fucking clue whatsoever about how to do stuff like fix their CLASSPATH, set up ftp / cvs, communicate about the build environment, etc. they were good at other things, just not this stuff.
the second class was 'build your own project'. this was all CS people. as we had no 'lab', it was kind of a problem for some of the groups. my group, however, commandeered someones dorm room, put a cheap server in, and connected from the 'engineering' computer lab using remote software and CVS. we had a lot of meetings, figured things out, split up areas (you do database, you do mockup and html, you do some flowcharts to figure out how it all fits together, you figure out the complex algorithm we need for submodule X, etc etc etc).
honestly, a lot of the teams were worthless - they had some egotistical asshole (or supertwins) write all the code while the other kids were sent to 'hey, you choose the colors for the website'. and like i said, no lab for some of these people made it hard.
on the other hand, these two courses were extremely valuable. i learned a lot about silly obvious things, like half your team doesnt know what autoexec.bat is or how to fix their classpath - what do you do in that situation?
i also learned a lot from mistakes. one guy on my team wanted to redo the database design. i said 'maybe we should talk to the database guys'. he said 'no lets just do it'. huge fucking mistake. something i will never forget, and an extremely valuable lesson because it didnt cost a company any money.
i also learned how to get shit done on time, instead of throwing in every feature and the kitchen sink and hoping it would come out ok.
its 4 am. im sick.
give me a f@#$ break.
and what is good, under linux. it has been that way for years. often it is because there are so many half-assed technologies advertising themselves with nobody, like yourself, to say 'this is shite, this is not'. and the chances that such and such library/subsystem will be installed on a target linux machine? not 100%... so you have to 'detect' things in code, and/or include a bunch of qualifiers about which distro it will run on. if you are real pro, you will have to download and install all the distros you want to support just to make sure they work. every time you change your game, youll have to try it again on all those distros. with DX, any idiot can sit down and get something working pretty quick using included example programs etc. less BS to wade through. you tell your user 'get DX version abc, windows XP'. then, there is a pretty decent chance your game will run on any windows XP box with DX version abc. not a 100% chance, but a lot better chance than in the linux world. maybe all that extra work to ensure that the game 'just works' is trivial to you, but to most people labor is not free, theyd rather be making a game than dealing with supporting 5 distros, configuration and compilation scripts, .deb vs .rpm, etc.
personally, i find them to be extremely painful, and a huge inconvenience, because crap just stops working randomly, or the thing freezes, or it wont reboot properly.
consumer reports is for consumers, not adrenaline junkies who think a family sedan should be able to drag race
i had a 486-33 with 8mb RAM in college. python was one of the few usable languages.
youtube is built on IP thet. netscape? its now a horrible ISP, lost 70+ percent of its market share. HP is a sad withering hulk of its former glory, now depending on scamming people out of printer ink instead of making good products, and spying on its own staff illegally instead of promoting a good work environment. yahoo and cisco sell their souls to oppressive governments helping them to spy on and arrest their own citizens and reporters. in short, fuck stanford. bunch of ass clowns.
i am overwhelmed by your lack of ego
logically think it through my good fellow. you think its abhorrent that the poor should procreate. therefore, use condoms. what about when they are raped? oh, i forgot another funny little detail. sometimes people think they will be rich, then it winds up they are not so rich. their rich, wonderful IT job husband with 80k/year job decides to push them down a flight of stairs and smack them around for not having dinner on the table. maybe they dont want to live like that? maybe they leave him, and blam, where is the 80k/year? Ok, they get 20k/year working as a receptionist, probably for shitbag assholes like you at some IT company. and by the way, yeah, she gets custody, because drunks who beat their kids shouldnt. fucking ass wipe.
'do what you love shrug shrug shrug shrug money will come shrug shrug shrug shrug'
'if thats not the way life worked out for you, then obviously its something wrong with you, and not my concern'
'now on to my brilliant plan to save thousands of dollars by spending 15 grand and about 500 hours labor'.