What about "proactive refactoring." Before coding your new feature into a system, you can do some analysis and identify ways to refactor the existing code so that your change is easier to implement and will have the least amount of impact on the rest of the system.
Yes, this book has been out for a number of years now and is concept is not new. It is (or should) be taught in any decent software engineering curriculum.
What gets me is that this book was published back in 1999, yet there hasn't been that much progress in terms of automated refactoring tools since then. Most IDE's have a handful of the simple ones available, but nothing complicated such as extract class (which I use frequently and is prone to errors).
If one person is able to permanently destroy records like that with no chance to restore them, then that is the fault of their IT department. Disks are cheap, and we pay through the nose for health care, so there should be no excuses.
However, university education would be much cheaper... supply and demand at work. There would also be less money flowing, as many industries feed money into uni's in exchange for research.
There is a definate connection between college education and getting a job/industry. However, I think many people think that the only reason that college is valuable is to make that paycheck afterward. These people tend to be your classic "i have a degree but know nothing" types. People who value the education typically have more drive and see that college is much more than an avenue to a paycheck.
If people could make good $$ without college, I doubt you'd see so many people trying to go....
Art majors
English majors
Performing arts majors
I could go on... I don't see how you have a valid point. I am not saying that the above fields are not worthy of pursuing, but people do not get into them for the money.
The way I see it, a university education is supposed to teach you theory and provide a "well rounded education." It irritates me when I hear the classic "why do I have to take social science/english/art, I came here to learn how to program."
Computer science is theory and math. Computers and langauges are the tools used to explore these concepts. The specific languages you learn in the university doesn't really matter; anyone with a CS degree and half a brain can pick up new languages within a very short amount of time.
I think it would be a very bad move for universities to cater to the corporate world. If you want to just learn programming, get some certs or buy a book. If you want an education, go to the university.
Well, yes, I did have courses that were in Lisp, prolog, clips, assembly, and we created a made up interpreted language as well. I wasn't about to type up my entire 4 year curriculum in my post, just what was appropriate for the topic at hand.
I think there needs to be a distinction between learning concepts and the tools you use to learn them. I graduated from uni within the past 5 years, and they taught first year CS students in Java. They used these languages to teach data structure (ie stacks, dictionaries, etc) and some simple algorithms like sorting. At the same time, they taught us proper object oriented skills since that is what the industry is demanding.
During the second year we took a class that taught C/C++ which basically taught pointers and memory management. In my upper level courses like operating systems and graphics, it was all C and C++ from then on. I think this gave me a pretty well rounded education.
When I was done, I had used a number of tools (languages) to learn a variety of CS topics, and felt that I was well prepared for the industry.
I never understood these restrictions in the first place, and was glad to see them taken out. Why shouldn't a wizard use a sword if they want? Gandalf has a sword, and he is arguable the model TSR used when creating the wizard class.
Why wouldn't dwarves be able to use magic? I'm not a rules lawyer, but I think they get an INT penalty so it is harder for a dwarf to become a wizard. This is the same as a mentally challenged child working twice as hard in school in order to get into the college that the other students get into without much effort.
Freedom is a good thing. Also, you have the option of making house rules that restrict alignments and class choices.
Does it not seem like the RIAA is shooting themselves in the foot with this? I always thought one of the main points of playing tunes on the radio was advertising for the artists, enticing people to buy the whole album.
If people stop hearing new songs on the radio, then the RIAA will really see a dip in CD sales. This is just more proof that the RIAA is way out of touch with how the market works.
Good points. I think this means it's time for another good reread of LotR, going throught his part more carefully. I don't think any specifics are given in the text regarding the ghosts, I think it's more my own interpretation that they use nothing but fear. I never liked deus ex machina's in my stories, so I would like to think that they have no real power against an enemy other than psychological.
I also agree on your points regarding tolkien purists' take on the movies. I personally loved the movies, and I never thought that they'd be exactly like the books. No movie is exactly like the book because print and visual are two entirely different mediums. Case in point, phantom of the opera the musical is different in many respects than the book. However, both are considered to be classics.
I enjoyed the movies because it really is one of those rare cases that a fantasy movie is done well, and well received by the general public. The script, costumes, scenery, etc were all exceptional and art unto themselves.
I don't have the text in front of me, but from the wikipedia article on Paths of the Dead:
The only weapon that they required was fear, driving their enemies to cast themselves madly into the sea.) When those foes were defeated and Aragorn could claim the black ships of the Corsairs for his own, he declared that the curse was lifted and the dead departed forever. When the dead had gone, the men of southern Gondor joined Aragorn in the ships and sailed to the aid of Minas Tirith.
In the movie adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King the battle with the Corsairs occurred only in the extended edition and the Army of the Dead accompanied Aragorn to Minas Tirith to defeat Sauron's orcs, after which Aragorn declared their curse lifted. The army of the Dead (here able to inflict physical harm) is the only force that accompanies Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli to Minas Tirith in the film, the other men being removed entirely.
I believe the fact that no one survived before Aragorn was either a myth, since the paths were in themselves a legend of sort, or they died in some sort of indirect way. The ghosts themselves can't harm anyone directly.
The only part I think Jackson totally screwed up was the army of the dead in RotK. The fact that he just swept up the battlefield with an invincible army made the entire battle completely worthless. In the books, I believe the army couldn't actually kill anyone, they simply frightened people so much that they dropped their weapons and ran away.
My bet is that they'll split the hobbit into 2 movies, the first one ending with bilbo stealing the ring from gollum. The second movie would feature the escape from the goblins, the slaying of smaug, and the war of the 5 armies.
Afterward, the kid couldn't take all the fame that came after this huge best buy show. He went into his basement and played Heroin Hero for weeks straight in order to deal with it.
Ok, so what if I, Joe Pirate, go and download the latest episode of Lost from the pirate bay and subsequently get sued for copyright infringement. What if this episode was something that was leaked "unofficially" by the studio. Since it is done under the radar, the mafiaa officials won't know the difference. They're basically baiting you.
It's like putting a diamond ring on a park bench, hiding in the bushes, and then calling the police when someone picks it up.
You missed out then. My personal favorite has been book 2, which had a nice "adventure" quality to it. I must admit, I have only read until book 5 so I can't compare with the later volumes. I really liked the character of Hurin in book 2, and wish they would have kept him around (again, not sure if he comes back into the story after book 5).
I loved it everytime someone said "It's got electrolytes!" I ran cross-country and track in high school, and my coach always reminded us to drink plenty of gatorade after practice to restore electrolytes. This was many years before the movie too...
Install Vista ultimate, turn off the shiny crap that eats all of your processing and GPU power... I don't see what the problem is here.
I am not a Vista user, so please correct me if I'm wrong. If a windows ultimate user turns off aero and whatever other extra that makes it look pretty it should run just as well as home basic?
This reminds me of the Bill Hick's bit on advertisers.. do a search in youtube and you'll find it. They really are turning into Satan's Little Helpers.
Seriously, do we really need more ads on EVERYTHING?? I understand the need to get a product's info out into the brain's of all americans, but there is something to be said of plastering them everywhere that has the space.
At least there's always a way to block electronic ads. The meatspace ads are the ones that really tick me off.
Slashdot Mirror
I would bet that when running around most people visit 5 or less destinations. Therefore, the feature would be very helpful for a lot of people.
What about "proactive refactoring." Before coding your new feature into a system, you can do some analysis and identify ways to refactor the existing code so that your change is easier to implement and will have the least amount of impact on the rest of the system.
Yes, this book has been out for a number of years now and is concept is not new. It is (or should) be taught in any decent software engineering curriculum.
What gets me is that this book was published back in 1999, yet there hasn't been that much progress in terms of automated refactoring tools since then. Most IDE's have a handful of the simple ones available, but nothing complicated such as extract class (which I use frequently and is prone to errors).
What I want to know is, where are the backups?
If one person is able to permanently destroy records like that with no chance to restore them, then that is the fault of their IT department. Disks are cheap, and we pay through the nose for health care, so there should be no excuses.
However, university education would be much cheaper... supply and demand at work. There would also be less money flowing, as many industries feed money into uni's in exchange for research.
There is a definate connection between college education and getting a job/industry. However, I think many people think that the only reason that college is valuable is to make that paycheck afterward. These people tend to be your classic "i have a degree but know nothing" types. People who value the education typically have more drive and see that college is much more than an avenue to a paycheck.
If people could make good $$ without college, I doubt you'd see so many people trying to go....
Art majors
English majors
Performing arts majors
I could go on... I don't see how you have a valid point. I am not saying that the above fields are not worthy of pursuing, but people do not get into them for the money.
The way I see it, a university education is supposed to teach you theory and provide a "well rounded education." It irritates me when I hear the classic "why do I have to take social science/english/art, I came here to learn how to program."
Computer science is theory and math. Computers and langauges are the tools used to explore these concepts. The specific languages you learn in the university doesn't really matter; anyone with a CS degree and half a brain can pick up new languages within a very short amount of time.
I think it would be a very bad move for universities to cater to the corporate world. If you want to just learn programming, get some certs or buy a book. If you want an education, go to the university.
Well, yes, I did have courses that were in Lisp, prolog, clips, assembly, and we created a made up interpreted language as well. I wasn't about to type up my entire 4 year curriculum in my post, just what was appropriate for the topic at hand.
I think there needs to be a distinction between learning concepts and the tools you use to learn them. I graduated from uni within the past 5 years, and they taught first year CS students in Java. They used these languages to teach data structure (ie stacks, dictionaries, etc) and some simple algorithms like sorting. At the same time, they taught us proper object oriented skills since that is what the industry is demanding.
During the second year we took a class that taught C/C++ which basically taught pointers and memory management. In my upper level courses like operating systems and graphics, it was all C and C++ from then on. I think this gave me a pretty well rounded education.
When I was done, I had used a number of tools (languages) to learn a variety of CS topics, and felt that I was well prepared for the industry.
I never understood these restrictions in the first place, and was glad to see them taken out. Why shouldn't a wizard use a sword if they want? Gandalf has a sword, and he is arguable the model TSR used when creating the wizard class.
Why wouldn't dwarves be able to use magic? I'm not a rules lawyer, but I think they get an INT penalty so it is harder for a dwarf to become a wizard. This is the same as a mentally challenged child working twice as hard in school in order to get into the college that the other students get into without much effort.
Freedom is a good thing. Also, you have the option of making house rules that restrict alignments and class choices.
Does it not seem like the RIAA is shooting themselves in the foot with this? I always thought one of the main points of playing tunes on the radio was advertising for the artists, enticing people to buy the whole album.
If people stop hearing new songs on the radio, then the RIAA will really see a dip in CD sales. This is just more proof that the RIAA is way out of touch with how the market works.
Good points. I think this means it's time for another good reread of LotR, going throught his part more carefully. I don't think any specifics are given in the text regarding the ghosts, I think it's more my own interpretation that they use nothing but fear. I never liked deus ex machina's in my stories, so I would like to think that they have no real power against an enemy other than psychological.
I also agree on your points regarding tolkien purists' take on the movies. I personally loved the movies, and I never thought that they'd be exactly like the books. No movie is exactly like the book because print and visual are two entirely different mediums. Case in point, phantom of the opera the musical is different in many respects than the book. However, both are considered to be classics.
I enjoyed the movies because it really is one of those rare cases that a fantasy movie is done well, and well received by the general public. The script, costumes, scenery, etc were all exceptional and art unto themselves.
I don't have the text in front of me, but from the wikipedia article on Paths of the Dead:
The only weapon that they required was fear, driving their enemies to cast themselves madly into the sea.) When those foes were defeated and Aragorn could claim the black ships of the Corsairs for his own, he declared that the curse was lifted and the dead departed forever. When the dead had gone, the men of southern Gondor joined Aragorn in the ships and sailed to the aid of Minas Tirith.
In the movie adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King the battle with the Corsairs occurred only in the extended edition and the Army of the Dead accompanied Aragorn to Minas Tirith to defeat Sauron's orcs, after which Aragorn declared their curse lifted. The army of the Dead (here able to inflict physical harm) is the only force that accompanies Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli to Minas Tirith in the film, the other men being removed entirely.
I believe the fact that no one survived before Aragorn was either a myth, since the paths were in themselves a legend of sort, or they died in some sort of indirect way. The ghosts themselves can't harm anyone directly.
I think you're getting your directors confused...
The only part I think Jackson totally screwed up was the army of the dead in RotK. The fact that he just swept up the battlefield with an invincible army made the entire battle completely worthless. In the books, I believe the army couldn't actually kill anyone, they simply frightened people so much that they dropped their weapons and ran away.
My bet is that they'll split the hobbit into 2 movies, the first one ending with bilbo stealing the ring from gollum. The second movie would feature the escape from the goblins, the slaying of smaug, and the war of the 5 armies.
Afterward, the kid couldn't take all the fame that came after this huge best buy show. He went into his basement and played Heroin Hero for weeks straight in order to deal with it.
You lucky geek you, they stopped offering high school electronics class well before I got there :(
I don't even think they have wood shop anymore.
I always thought they'd attack because "Single Female Lawyer" got cancelled.
Ok, so what if I, Joe Pirate, go and download the latest episode of Lost from the pirate bay and subsequently get sued for copyright infringement. What if this episode was something that was leaked "unofficially" by the studio. Since it is done under the radar, the mafiaa officials won't know the difference. They're basically baiting you.
It's like putting a diamond ring on a park bench, hiding in the bushes, and then calling the police when someone picks it up.
You missed out then. My personal favorite has been book 2, which had a nice "adventure" quality to it. I must admit, I have only read until book 5 so I can't compare with the later volumes. I really liked the character of Hurin in book 2, and wish they would have kept him around (again, not sure if he comes back into the story after book 5).
I loved it everytime someone said "It's got electrolytes!" I ran cross-country and track in high school, and my coach always reminded us to drink plenty of gatorade after practice to restore electrolytes. This was many years before the movie too...
StarvingSE has successfully flirted with Violet...
Gotta love nerdy teenage hormones. We didn't even need 3d graphics with physics-enabled "jiggly" sections back then.
Install Vista ultimate, turn off the shiny crap that eats all of your processing and GPU power... I don't see what the problem is here.
I am not a Vista user, so please correct me if I'm wrong. If a windows ultimate user turns off aero and whatever other extra that makes it look pretty it should run just as well as home basic?
This reminds me of the Bill Hick's bit on advertisers.. do a search in youtube and you'll find it. They really are turning into Satan's Little Helpers.
Seriously, do we really need more ads on EVERYTHING?? I understand the need to get a product's info out into the brain's of all americans, but there is something to be said of plastering them everywhere that has the space.
At least there's always a way to block electronic ads. The meatspace ads are the ones that really tick me off.