We are using Xtext (2.0) and its companion Xtend (2.0) to build domain specific languages. Together with Xbase, a part grammar for expressions, we can build new DSLs for various purposes in no time. And it is not such a code bloat as some people might think. When you develop applications with a wide range of models, these EMF-based tools are quite practical. Beside that, we evaluated ATL, QVT, and Xtend in various scenarios. Right now it looks like, that Xtend is very well suited to build generators to source code of other languages especially Java and Scala. It also made a good impression in model-to-model transformations.
Well CDs are really outdated. We do not provide Ubuntu on floppies, so why on CDs. Everyone is using an USB-stick/drive and a CD image to install Ubuntu or run the live system. CD is legacy.
Och come on it is not that bad. It has a lot of rough edges and indeed it needs more work. But, honestly I am working at work on a Ubuntu running gnome-shell and it is not hindering getting my work done. After some transition time, it was easy to use. Still starting seldom used programs is still easier with gnome2 as gnome-shell is slow when using the application selection menu.
At home I use Ubuntu with Unity. It is very similar to gnome-shell, but has it difference styles and ways to use it. After all it suits my home office well.
I have not used a CD to install an OS now for years now. Especially, Ubuntu can be put on a USB-stick or these outdated DVD-things I never used either. So this is a non issue.
That's why only big companies can use this method against small companies to prevent competition. The other way round is too dangerous for the attacker. However, this shall not be confused with so-called patent trolls, who work on technology patents and not on "design" patents.
First, there are more than one type of autism. And they may have different kind of causes and even multiple triggers. Second, in Asperger syndrome cases they found out that elevated levels of testosterone during pregnancy can cause Asperger, especially with male embryos.
Another aspect is, the more people look for a special dysfunction, the more they find. This is one cause why there are more autistic kids found in academic families then elsewhere. Especially mild cases of autism are not recognized by teachers and parents who have no diagnostic background or who do not search for typical symptoms.
When I was young everyone wanted to go to the USA. Most of them even considered staying there. But today, this is different. They find it absolutely crazy to go there and that is about the young.
It is bad enough that it is an UAV for surveillance purposes. I do not want to have flying UAVs or MAVs flying over my town. And I want a demilitarized zone inside my city.
A weaponizable unmanned flying object is definitely a geek thing. To discuss such stuff is also a geek thing. And it has always been a geek thing to play with models of other people. Regardless the type of model, e.g., helicopter or business plan or world theory or the downfall of a society. And by the way slashdot is not only for News for Nerds, it is also for Stuff that Matter.
And no it is not a regular news site. It is a news aggregator and discussion forum.
The best thing to keep the crowd down is divide and conquer and of course good surveillance and a quick response force. But surveillance is of greatest importance. It is required for the divide and conquer strategy and it is important for the quick response force. So to achieve the required basics for a totalitarian system you need such stuff.
On the other hand. Democracy works best with out suppression and a homogeneous economic situation for the people, meaning the poor and the rich are not that far apart.
However, in modern western societies, we decided that it is not a problem that the poorer get poorer and that there are more poor people every day, so democracy is no longer working. In a democracy the rich could not get away with so much money. This has nothing to do with jealousy. I do not need my own yacht or villa. Actually I am quite comfortable. The problem is that there are so many people who are not "quite comfortable". They suffer. And they are angry. Right now they are not organized and they are not able to fight for themselves. As this might chance, the state (as in the control structure) has to ensure the safety of those who are "quite comfortable" or above.
In a state (as in the organization of the people for common interests) would obviously address the issue and get the money from the rich for all those necessities of life. Healthcare, pensions, streets, schools, universities, unemployment insurance/guaranteed minimal income, and safety (as in safety for all) etc. BTW a good guaranteed minimal reduces violence and increases safety.
They made a study. And they looked at their glass sphere and the remains in their coffee mug and came up that maybe, no debt is a problem. The result is _perhaps_ there is something like too little debt. But they do not need to worry. The surplus during the early 2000 was due to the New Economy bubble. Every one made some extra money by lending and borrowing until the whole mess blow up, the fed reduced the interest rates and the financial companies worked on the housing crisis, which triggered financial crisis of today, which triggered the state finance crisis. And all debt of all countries increased from the last dip after New Economy and the present crisis. And the same applies to crises from the past.
The Jews had a ruling once (if I remember correctly) after 49 years they divided all livestock among all families equally. As that was the representation of wealth, they collected all the money of the world and divided it equally among the people. Maybe we should do that. Or at least take all state debt of all countries and declare it gone. Ok the banks would most likely end to exist. But hey we could build new ones.
Well the slashdot post is misleading. It is not powerless, it uses gravity. The interesting thing is, that is uses human motion properties and no electrical power to stay in motion.
A goal is always a good thing it gives you direction. However, you should not hesitate to change it if it does not correlates with your needs. When you are interested in engineering, building things than that variation might not be arts (most likely). But when you are interested to get into space being Captain Kirk, then you might reevaluate your goal. And that point of reevaluation will come. And when it comes, then do so and not dork around;-)
I have seen people running through their studies finishing their master in arts after 5 years. And then they realized that economics and politics was not their prime interest, but social sciences.
This is utter bullshit. SpaceX does not know what they want in 7 years. And you do not know what you want in 7 years. Find out what you really like in engineering. Be aware that might change. Get your master degree. And make stick out of the crowd. Make a remarkable job in your master thesis. If you have the chance to go to conferences. Go there. Talk to people. Most job opportunities are brokered through friends and people you met. If they can remember you. Good thing.
If you just run in one direction, because you decided so with 17 and then plotted a "campaign". Then you might end at the designated destination. However, most likely that is in 7 years from now not the place you wanted to be. Try to live and live with open eyes. Normally opportunities just come by. Do not hesitate to take them. As long as is does not mean to drop out of university. Never ever do that. In the long run you will loose that way.
First, I've studied in Germany and while the universities here do (mostly) have no big names, they have high quality curricula. My guess is, that beside some low quality private universities, the US system also provides descend education on all state universities. So go there and try to master your stuff. Stick your head out of the crowd. Otherwise you may end up at SpaceX, but only as an unimportant minion who never comes near important and cool technology.
The next thing is. Go to a university which matches your profile of interest. If it is 1000 km away. Go there. To be close to home will only make you go there too often. Try to stand on your own feet. You can visit friends and parents in your holidays.
Ah yes. Don't ask Slashdot for advice. Wrong place. Most of us here do not work for SpaceX or other similar companies. SO how should we know?
And one other thing: Study something you like. Don't look at the open job list, because it is todays list and nobody knows how the list will look like in 5 or 7 years when you got your master degree (don't drop out with a bachelor, please). You are only good in things you like. And you have to be good to go to the interesting places in engineering.
The best is to tell them. Don't become a code monkey. You will be out of business if you reduce CS to that. CS is about models and the understanding of the customers domain and the customers needs. programming is only done by a few and it is only done in certain parts, as most things come nowadays from generators out of models. Yes you have to write transformations and templates, but that is something completely different than average coding.
If you want to become a programmer, than you should not study computer science. It is like becoming an architect just because you like to lay bricks. Yes architects have to learn that, but their primary target is to design the whole house. And the art of programming is not part of a CS program. They only learn one or two languages as university to understand the basics. It often is Java and Scheme or Prolog or something like that. The primary job of a CS is to understand foreign domains to an extend so they can develop a model from it and apply the required transformations on that information to fulfill the customers needs. Therefor they have to understand the customer. So a full nerd who is not able to speak to other people should probably first study something else to learn how to communicate with other people. I did for that purpose classes in adult education. It told me a lot about group behavior, group management, presenting, and communication of thoughts. And that mainly by doing so. They gave us some background theory, but the real learning was the doing.
I do not know how things are in the US. However, CS is considered a hard study in Germany. You have less math then in math. Therefor you have graph-theory, logic (first order logic, model logic, etc.), grammars and languages. But CS is not only theory and application of those to real world problems (modeling and playing with other peoples models). It is also a people thing. So you need people skills and you should train your people skills. You need to understand people form other domains so you can understand their models and their information processing needs. You also work in teams and need to know a lot on group behavior and group management. Programming is just one thing and it is the last step in modeling.
Looking at our students at university, most of them, especially the male students, have a total misconception of computer science (CS). Their motive is often: I play with computers all day and computers are cool. Therefor I study computers. But CS is not playing with computers it is not programming. These are only some minor parts of CS. The central element of CS is information, that's why it could also be described as Informatics. The interesting questions in CS are: "How do you get the information?", "Who tells me what to do with it?" and "How can I do that?". The first two questions are answered by the domain of application, which means some none CS person tells you what the do and what they want. And you as as computer scientists have to learn and understand their domain. So communication skills and people skills are as important than logic skills.
In my life, I had to learn to communicate with South African business men, with German business men, with electrical engineers, and mathematicians working in the railway business as developers. They are all different, and you have to know a lot about social group behavior to understand what is going on when you talk to people. So being a total nerd only helps you through the classes at university, but it will not help you to be a good computer scientist.
As CS is considered a male thing, the few women who study it, have given that decision more thought. And in average they are better in that field. This is very similar to the male performance in so called female fields. There men outperform women (on the average), as they given their decision more thought.
And the most important thing to do: Invite real computer scientists, but do not invite the nerds. Nerds are nice people (mostly), but they do not represent the majority in CS especially above ground level (as they live below;-).
Among European conservatives, a virus was spread. They want to control the Internet, because it has to be controlled. Uncontrolled things are bad. And they all try to argument that with child pornography. They did that with web blockades. We have/had a law to enforce such blockades. However, they do not execute the law and want to abolish it. They had also a law so they can log all your traffic. However, the law was abolished by the Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG = Supreme Court). And they had this state Trojan horse. However, that is illegal. As they all want it so desperate even when it is illegal and stupid and unethical, it must be a virus or it is a new drug which converts normal humans in control freaks.
What do they all want on my computer? There is nothing on it beside recorded TV series, music, and all my scientific and not so scientific publications. Oh I forgot the collection of recipes. I guess they are after the very old dope-brownie recipe.
Ah yes and Mr. Motti can be found here [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/committees/view.do?language=EN&id=96760]
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We are using Xtext (2.0) and its companion Xtend (2.0) to build domain specific languages. Together with Xbase, a part grammar for expressions, we can build new DSLs for various purposes in no time. And it is not such a code bloat as some people might think. When you develop applications with a wide range of models, these EMF-based tools are quite practical. Beside that, we evaluated ATL, QVT, and Xtend in various scenarios. Right now it looks like, that Xtend is very well suited to build generators to source code of other languages especially Java and Scala. It also made a good impression in model-to-model transformations.
Well CDs are really outdated. We do not provide Ubuntu on floppies, so why on CDs. Everyone is using an USB-stick/drive and a CD image to install Ubuntu or run the live system. CD is legacy.
Och come on it is not that bad. It has a lot of rough edges and indeed it needs more work. But, honestly I am working at work on a Ubuntu running gnome-shell and it is not hindering getting my work done. After some transition time, it was easy to use. Still starting seldom used programs is still easier with gnome2 as gnome-shell is slow when using the application selection menu.
At home I use Ubuntu with Unity. It is very similar to gnome-shell, but has it difference styles and ways to use it. After all it suits my home office well.
I have not used a CD to install an OS now for years now. Especially, Ubuntu can be put on a USB-stick or these outdated DVD-things I never used either. So this is a non issue.
That's why only big companies can use this method against small companies to prevent competition. The other way round is too dangerous for the attacker. However, this shall not be confused with so-called patent trolls, who work on technology patents and not on "design" patents.
First, there are more than one type of autism. And they may have different kind of causes and even multiple triggers. Second, in Asperger syndrome cases they found out that elevated levels of testosterone during pregnancy can cause Asperger, especially with male embryos.
Another aspect is, the more people look for a special dysfunction, the more they find. This is one cause why there are more autistic kids found in academic families then elsewhere. Especially mild cases of autism are not recognized by teachers and parents who have no diagnostic background or who do not search for typical symptoms.
When I was young everyone wanted to go to the USA. Most of them even considered staying there. But today, this is different. They find it absolutely crazy to go there and that is about the young.
It is bad enough that it is an UAV for surveillance purposes. I do not want to have flying UAVs or MAVs flying over my town. And I want a demilitarized zone inside my city.
All the stuff the government uses is totally save. Look at the German Trojan Horse. errr. never mind.
A weaponizable unmanned flying object is definitely a geek thing. To discuss such stuff is also a geek thing. And it has always been a geek thing to play with models of other people. Regardless the type of model, e.g., helicopter or business plan or world theory or the downfall of a society. And by the way slashdot is not only for News for Nerds, it is also for Stuff that Matter.
And no it is not a regular news site. It is a news aggregator and discussion forum.
The best thing to keep the crowd down is divide and conquer and of course good surveillance and a quick response force. But surveillance is of greatest importance. It is required for the divide and conquer strategy and it is important for the quick response force. So to achieve the required basics for a totalitarian system you need such stuff.
On the other hand. Democracy works best with out suppression and a homogeneous economic situation for the people, meaning the poor and the rich are not that far apart.
However, in modern western societies, we decided that it is not a problem that the poorer get poorer and that there are more poor people every day, so democracy is no longer working. In a democracy the rich could not get away with so much money. This has nothing to do with jealousy. I do not need my own yacht or villa. Actually I am quite comfortable. The problem is that there are so many people who are not "quite comfortable". They suffer. And they are angry. Right now they are not organized and they are not able to fight for themselves. As this might chance, the state (as in the control structure) has to ensure the safety of those who are "quite comfortable" or above.
In a state (as in the organization of the people for common interests) would obviously address the issue and get the money from the rich for all those necessities of life. Healthcare, pensions, streets, schools, universities, unemployment insurance/guaranteed minimal income, and safety (as in safety for all) etc. BTW a good guaranteed minimal reduces violence and increases safety.
They made a study. And they looked at their glass sphere and the remains in their coffee mug and came up that maybe, no debt is a problem. The result is _perhaps_ there is something like too little debt. But they do not need to worry. The surplus during the early 2000 was due to the New Economy bubble. Every one made some extra money by lending and borrowing until the whole mess blow up, the fed reduced the interest rates and the financial companies worked on the housing crisis, which triggered financial crisis of today, which triggered the state finance crisis. And all debt of all countries increased from the last dip after New Economy and the present crisis. And the same applies to crises from the past.
The Jews had a ruling once (if I remember correctly) after 49 years they divided all livestock among all families equally. As that was the representation of wealth, they collected all the money of the world and divided it equally among the people. Maybe we should do that. Or at least take all state debt of all countries and declare it gone. Ok the banks would most likely end to exist. But hey we could build new ones.
Well the slashdot post is misleading. It is not powerless, it uses gravity. The interesting thing is, that is uses human motion properties and no electrical power to stay in motion.
A goal is always a good thing it gives you direction. However, you should not hesitate to change it if it does not correlates with your needs. When you are interested in engineering, building things than that variation might not be arts (most likely). But when you are interested to get into space being Captain Kirk, then you might reevaluate your goal. And that point of reevaluation will come. And when it comes, then do so and not dork around ;-)
I have seen people running through their studies finishing their master in arts after 5 years. And then they realized that economics and politics was not their prime interest, but social sciences.
This is utter bullshit. SpaceX does not know what they want in 7 years. And you do not know what you want in 7 years. Find out what you really like in engineering. Be aware that might change. Get your master degree. And make stick out of the crowd. Make a remarkable job in your master thesis. If you have the chance to go to conferences. Go there. Talk to people. Most job opportunities are brokered through friends and people you met. If they can remember you. Good thing.
If you just run in one direction, because you decided so with 17 and then plotted a "campaign". Then you might end at the designated destination. However, most likely that is in 7 years from now not the place you wanted to be. Try to live and live with open eyes. Normally opportunities just come by. Do not hesitate to take them. As long as is does not mean to drop out of university. Never ever do that. In the long run you will loose that way.
If you are good, you can make contacts. It is important to stick your head out of the crowd. And remember only the squeaky wheel gets the drop of oil.
First, I've studied in Germany and while the universities here do (mostly) have no big names, they have high quality curricula. My guess is, that beside some low quality private universities, the US system also provides descend education on all state universities. So go there and try to master your stuff. Stick your head out of the crowd. Otherwise you may end up at SpaceX, but only as an unimportant minion who never comes near important and cool technology.
The next thing is. Go to a university which matches your profile of interest. If it is 1000 km away. Go there. To be close to home will only make you go there too often. Try to stand on your own feet. You can visit friends and parents in your holidays.
Ah yes. Don't ask Slashdot for advice. Wrong place. Most of us here do not work for SpaceX or other similar companies. SO how should we know?
And one other thing: Study something you like. Don't look at the open job list, because it is todays list and nobody knows how the list will look like in 5 or 7 years when you got your master degree (don't drop out with a bachelor, please). You are only good in things you like. And you have to be good to go to the interesting places in engineering.
The best is to tell them. Don't become a code monkey. You will be out of business if you reduce CS to that. CS is about models and the understanding of the customers domain and the customers needs. programming is only done by a few and it is only done in certain parts, as most things come nowadays from generators out of models. Yes you have to write transformations and templates, but that is something completely different than average coding.
If you want to become a programmer, than you should not study computer science. It is like becoming an architect just because you like to lay bricks. Yes architects have to learn that, but their primary target is to design the whole house. And the art of programming is not part of a CS program. They only learn one or two languages as university to understand the basics. It often is Java and Scheme or Prolog or something like that. The primary job of a CS is to understand foreign domains to an extend so they can develop a model from it and apply the required transformations on that information to fulfill the customers needs. Therefor they have to understand the customer. So a full nerd who is not able to speak to other people should probably first study something else to learn how to communicate with other people. I did for that purpose classes in adult education. It told me a lot about group behavior, group management, presenting, and communication of thoughts. And that mainly by doing so. They gave us some background theory, but the real learning was the doing.
I do not know how things are in the US. However, CS is considered a hard study in Germany. You have less math then in math. Therefor you have graph-theory, logic (first order logic, model logic, etc.), grammars and languages. But CS is not only theory and application of those to real world problems (modeling and playing with other peoples models). It is also a people thing. So you need people skills and you should train your people skills. You need to understand people form other domains so you can understand their models and their information processing needs. You also work in teams and need to know a lot on group behavior and group management. Programming is just one thing and it is the last step in modeling.
Looking at our students at university, most of them, especially the male students, have a total misconception of computer science (CS). Their motive is often: I play with computers all day and computers are cool. Therefor I study computers. But CS is not playing with computers it is not programming. These are only some minor parts of CS. The central element of CS is information, that's why it could also be described as Informatics. The interesting questions in CS are: "How do you get the information?", "Who tells me what to do with it?" and "How can I do that?". The first two questions are answered by the domain of application, which means some none CS person tells you what the do and what they want. And you as as computer scientists have to learn and understand their domain. So communication skills and people skills are as important than logic skills.
In my life, I had to learn to communicate with South African business men, with German business men, with electrical engineers, and mathematicians working in the railway business as developers. They are all different, and you have to know a lot about social group behavior to understand what is going on when you talk to people. So being a total nerd only helps you through the classes at university, but it will not help you to be a good computer scientist.
As CS is considered a male thing, the few women who study it, have given that decision more thought. And in average they are better in that field. This is very similar to the male performance in so called female fields. There men outperform women (on the average), as they given their decision more thought.
And the most important thing to do: Invite real computer scientists, but do not invite the nerds. Nerds are nice people (mostly), but they do not represent the majority in CS especially above ground level (as they live below ;-).
I guess they want to limit it to avoid spammers to use their service. However, 500 outgoing mails can be limiting if you have more than 10 employees.
No. It is just one jerk from Italy. The other jerk they have is prime minister. Mr. Motti can be found here: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/committees/view.do?language=EN&id=96760
Among European conservatives, a virus was spread. They want to control the Internet, because it has to be controlled. Uncontrolled things are bad. And they all try to argument that with child pornography. They did that with web blockades. We have/had a law to enforce such blockades. However, they do not execute the law and want to abolish it. They had also a law so they can log all your traffic. However, the law was abolished by the Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG = Supreme Court). And they had this state Trojan horse. However, that is illegal. As they all want it so desperate even when it is illegal and stupid and unethical, it must be a virus or it is a new drug which converts normal humans in control freaks.
What do they all want on my computer? There is nothing on it beside recorded TV series, music, and all my scientific and not so scientific publications. Oh I forgot the collection of recipes. I guess they are after the very old dope-brownie recipe.
Ah yes and Mr. Motti can be found here [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/committees/view.do?language=EN&id=96760]
They are all wrong. I knew it. I knew it. The universe is like me. It is left handed and it has not much substance ...