And you personally think that all people from one country have the same thoughts, opininions, beliefs, whishes, dreams, or however one would word it. You personally refer to the entire population of a country and state what they "think." Just remember that about 50% of the united states did not vote for the current government and most people in the country probably have many different thoughts and views on the topic.
My first thoughts went along with many others out there. I can't help but think about the security of the wireless. People here have argued (affectively) that wireless can be safer because cat5 can become damaged and cause failure. I still say it's a lot more secure, so why not use both. Use the cat5 connection, but install a wireless network (just leave it off). If the primary network fails fall back to the wireless.
I used to work for a commercial web design company. Our server language was Cold Fusion, we also used some Flash, plenty of CSS, and a bit of javascript. Most of our websites had two versions, one that cut out all the Flash for slow connections. We never followed standards to a T, and didn't use a parser. We did however try to follow standards when possible, but the ultimate test came when we thought we were done with a web page. We had multiple versions of IE, Netscape/Mozilla, and Opera as well as the latest version of some lesser known to the masses browsers. We then had a human go through and do QA checks on every page we produced in every browser we cared about. We checked that all functionality worked as well as load times on broadband and dial up (yes we even cared about those people). Ultimately our customers wanted a product that was useable and worked. Most of our customers had no idea what standards existed for web content, nor did they care. The bottom line is customer satisfaction, and that generally consists of delivering a working product. Of course you need to account for future browsers and that sort of thing, and that is something where following standards is intended to ensure the site you created 6 months ago works with the latest version of a browser (of course this guarantees nothing as I'm sure the slashdot community knows all too well). So as in all things doing your best and a little bit of luck is the best you could hope for. Ultimately I think making a best attempt to follow standards is a good thing from a development point of view, but in the real world it doesn't always work.
Where did this guy get this statistic? The public university I graduated from 2 years required all students to have a laptop starting my freshman year (fall 2000). The 2 years before were optional. But ever since fall 2000 Northern Michigan University has required all full time students to have a laptop. Yay for bogus information making this site.
That is EXACTLY what my university did. The year I started attending/working there we had a mandatory laptop program go into use. For most things we had licenses for all the students, but the big expensive programs, AUTO CAD, GIS, some art programs, etc, we used a key server. Our school also leased the computers to students with a fee built into tuition so they could be upgraded every two years. This kept things a bit more sane, and there was a buy out option at the end of your lease. Unfortunately for the art students they just got ibooks since powerbooks were so much more expensive then the thinkpads everyone else had. To help with this we kept one computer lab on campus that was a Mac lab with a bunch of high end machines that could be used by art students when they had some really intense work that needed to be done. I think the key server to cut down licensing fees with the computer lease/software fee built right into the tuition made it easy for everyone.
How could you get "us"? You're talking about human beings! Each one is different from the next. There is no way you can generalize any large group of people and be accurate (well except the French, cowards). Didn't you pay attention in 2nd grade?
When I did my undergrad I spent my last 3 years doing the IBM competition. It was limited to a 3 person team, so many questions and a 5 hour time limit. Written materials allowed, no internet access or digital material (ie pre made code). My team got pretty Successful by our last year, just finishnig 7 seats out from going to worlds (not bad for a school nobody had ever heard of). Anyways, I found success in team programming competitions came from a bit of experience and building the right team. Since there was only one terminal you only need one person that knows the language you're coding. We had 1 guy that was truely amazing with C, and he did all the coding. the other two of us were much better problem solvers. The key was having a bit of practice and knowing how to pick out the easiest problems. Solve those as fast as you can, to rack up points quick. Then once we'd get a couple and be semi-stuck our coder would find one that wasn't too hard but would take a while to hack out. He'd work on that while the other 2 of us started tackling the difficult ones burning chalk on the blackboard and writing Pseudo code. By the time the easy one was done one of the other two could have pseudo code that the coder could quickly code while the other both problem solvers finished the partially solved one, or if too stuck could move on to any problems left. I think our team was successful because of balance, something any team benefits from. While I was a descent coder and so was the other problem solver, neither of us could code a doubly linked - circular linked list in a matter of minutes with no reference like the 3rd guy. However he would never have solved the problem to a point that he knew he needed that datastructure as fast as myself. So competative coding needs experience, balance of skills, and in a team situation, keep someone coding at all times if possible!
insurance is a great idea... as far as tracking the IP that should be doable... but where do you want to know where it is? what city? what building? Most universities spoof IPs so figuring out the exact location isn't going to happen. It sounds more like you're worried about where she is/spying on her then the security of the laptop. Insurance will take care of that. As far as spying on her, she's going to college, this happens, you should be happy for her and let her go as hard as it is.
I recently graduated with a major in CS and a minor in Mathematics from a not so major university. But, I did manage to land a great job at a major healthcare software company. I know quite a few people in my same position that did graduate from big name universities that don't have majors in related fields, but minored in CS. My company looks for BRIGHT individuals with at least SOME background in CS, and then trains you for your role. This is because so many roles are things that are new to the industry and no matter who you are you probably wouldn't have much experience (exceptions are of course GUI programmers with tons of VB experience etc), but there are plenty of roles in a company like mine where a minor in CS could get you the job.
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And you personally think that all people from one country have the same thoughts, opininions, beliefs, whishes, dreams, or however one would word it. You personally refer to the entire population of a country and state what they "think." Just remember that about 50% of the united states did not vote for the current government and most people in the country probably have many different thoughts and views on the topic.
My first thoughts went along with many others out there. I can't help but think about the security of the wireless. People here have argued (affectively) that wireless can be safer because cat5 can become damaged and cause failure. I still say it's a lot more secure, so why not use both. Use the cat5 connection, but install a wireless network (just leave it off). If the primary network fails fall back to the wireless.
I used to work for a commercial web design company. Our server language was Cold Fusion, we also used some Flash, plenty of CSS, and a bit of javascript. Most of our websites had two versions, one that cut out all the Flash for slow connections. We never followed standards to a T, and didn't use a parser. We did however try to follow standards when possible, but the ultimate test came when we thought we were done with a web page. We had multiple versions of IE, Netscape/Mozilla, and Opera as well as the latest version of some lesser known to the masses browsers. We then had a human go through and do QA checks on every page we produced in every browser we cared about. We checked that all functionality worked as well as load times on broadband and dial up (yes we even cared about those people). Ultimately our customers wanted a product that was useable and worked. Most of our customers had no idea what standards existed for web content, nor did they care. The bottom line is customer satisfaction, and that generally consists of delivering a working product. Of course you need to account for future browsers and that sort of thing, and that is something where following standards is intended to ensure the site you created 6 months ago works with the latest version of a browser (of course this guarantees nothing as I'm sure the slashdot community knows all too well). So as in all things doing your best and a little bit of luck is the best you could hope for. Ultimately I think making a best attempt to follow standards is a good thing from a development point of view, but in the real world it doesn't always work.
Where did this guy get this statistic? The public university I graduated from 2 years required all students to have a laptop starting my freshman year (fall 2000). The 2 years before were optional. But ever since fall 2000 Northern Michigan University has required all full time students to have a laptop. Yay for bogus information making this site.
That is EXACTLY what my university did. The year I started attending/working there we had a mandatory laptop program go into use. For most things we had licenses for all the students, but the big expensive programs, AUTO CAD, GIS, some art programs, etc, we used a key server. Our school also leased the computers to students with a fee built into tuition so they could be upgraded every two years. This kept things a bit more sane, and there was a buy out option at the end of your lease. Unfortunately for the art students they just got ibooks since powerbooks were so much more expensive then the thinkpads everyone else had. To help with this we kept one computer lab on campus that was a Mac lab with a bunch of high end machines that could be used by art students when they had some really intense work that needed to be done. I think the key server to cut down licensing fees with the computer lease/software fee built right into the tuition made it easy for everyone.
How could you get "us"? You're talking about human beings! Each one is different from the next. There is no way you can generalize any large group of people and be accurate (well except the French, cowards). Didn't you pay attention in 2nd grade?
When I did my undergrad I spent my last 3 years doing the IBM competition. It was limited to a 3 person team, so many questions and a 5 hour time limit. Written materials allowed, no internet access or digital material (ie pre made code). My team got pretty Successful by our last year, just finishnig 7 seats out from going to worlds (not bad for a school nobody had ever heard of). Anyways, I found success in team programming competitions came from a bit of experience and building the right team. Since there was only one terminal you only need one person that knows the language you're coding. We had 1 guy that was truely amazing with C, and he did all the coding. the other two of us were much better problem solvers. The key was having a bit of practice and knowing how to pick out the easiest problems. Solve those as fast as you can, to rack up points quick. Then once we'd get a couple and be semi-stuck our coder would find one that wasn't too hard but would take a while to hack out. He'd work on that while the other 2 of us started tackling the difficult ones burning chalk on the blackboard and writing Pseudo code. By the time the easy one was done one of the other two could have pseudo code that the coder could quickly code while the other both problem solvers finished the partially solved one, or if too stuck could move on to any problems left. I think our team was successful because of balance, something any team benefits from. While I was a descent coder and so was the other problem solver, neither of us could code a doubly linked - circular linked list in a matter of minutes with no reference like the 3rd guy. However he would never have solved the problem to a point that he knew he needed that datastructure as fast as myself. So competative coding needs experience, balance of skills, and in a team situation, keep someone coding at all times if possible!
insurance is a great idea... as far as tracking the IP that should be doable... but where do you want to know where it is? what city? what building? Most universities spoof IPs so figuring out the exact location isn't going to happen. It sounds more like you're worried about where she is/spying on her then the security of the laptop. Insurance will take care of that. As far as spying on her, she's going to college, this happens, you should be happy for her and let her go as hard as it is.
I recently graduated with a major in CS and a minor in Mathematics from a not so major university. But, I did manage to land a great job at a major healthcare software company. I know quite a few people in my same position that did graduate from big name universities that don't have majors in related fields, but minored in CS. My company looks for BRIGHT individuals with at least SOME background in CS, and then trains you for your role. This is because so many roles are things that are new to the industry and no matter who you are you probably wouldn't have much experience (exceptions are of course GUI programmers with tons of VB experience etc), but there are plenty of roles in a company like mine where a minor in CS could get you the job.