Theater is only effective when people don't know it's a sham, but everyone today knows it's stupid. You make no differentiation between types of security.
There's a difference between security through inconvenience and security through preventative measures. Typical 5 pin locks are security through inconvenience since they're easy to pick. Guarded doors with metal detectors are inconveniences pretending to be preventative measures. Once it's realized that you're only being inconvenienced, it's no longer security. Much like your coat is not security if someone watches you carry tapes to your back seat.
I'm pretty sure a government or corporation intent on espionage can provide you with a non-electronic, non-metallic camera. May not be a digital camera, but it would work.
Or a step further....just conceal it in "approved" electronics. Unless they're doing complete teardowns of everything you bring in, you can hide a pinhole camera just about anywhere.
Almost all security is security theater. It's there to make fearful people feel better, prevent good people from doing normal things, and does nothing to stop a sufficiently driven enemy from doing anything.
What about those who choose netbooks for their price and battery life? Wouldn't a larger screen add value to those people? Surely I'm not alone in thinking that netbook's compactness is overrated. They're smaller, but still awkward to carry unless you're just aiming to pack as much crap in a bag as possible. My smartphone overlaps my netbook needs so much that the only real difference in functionality is what the smartphone screen space limits me with.
I also get the feeling that Intel feels this cutting into their C2D profits, and that they're the victim of their own success in the netbook realm.
I'm a computer science student (3rd year), and we we're forced to use VS.Net in a class last semester. Having done some pretty spiffy things with it, I really have mixed feelings. I'm normally a gedit, GCC and terminal type of guy, so I wasn't overly excited for that course. After 5 months of heavy.Net usage, these are my feelings.
Pros: It's a wonderful project management program.
The syntax highlighting and the step through code abilities were nice.
Creating command-line programs was actually easier than ever before.
MSDN.com is, surprisinigly, a really awesome resource for information.
Cons: Creating a gui for a program was utter hell. When you start a program that has a gui, there's a bunch of code that gets written for you that you have zero control over. There's no comments explaining why it's there, and vague errors given if you mess some of it up. This may also be because the only GUI programming I've done prior to.Net was tkinter with python and XCode on my Mac..Net is much more complex than the python, but not nearly as polished as XCode.
The compiler seems a little fragile. Given that I'm not a stellar programmer, I make some syntatical errors every now and then. GCC can usually handle these, or give me useful information about what I did wrong..Net just crashes and burns. If you're lucky, it'll pop up a box telling you what line of code failed in some closed source file you can't examine, or if you can examine, is worthless cause there's no comments anywhere. If you're not lucky,.Net will take the whole system down. If you're neither lucky or unlucky, you can use.Net like you would normally use GCC in any situation.
Again, I'm only a moderate programmer, so maybe if code just clicks for you,.Net won't be to bad. My overall oppinion of it is "bleh". I've used better, but I've certainly seen worse (Boa Constructor comes to mind). It doesn't promote good coding habits, but that's not really the IDE's main purpose in my oppinion. Your teachers or book should do that..Net is good for those willing to put up with it, but for the OP's sake, drag and dropping objects does not a computer scientist make. Hell, I've got computer science professors that can't actually program, but they can write pseudocode for optimization problems for NP-complete problems without stopping to think.
By "no moving parts" I think they are excluding the air itself. I'm curious how they accelerate it once it's been injected into the vortex. To me it doesn't make sense that you could accelerate the air inside the vortex by injecting more air at the same speed unless it was tapered, but in that case, why not just make your air supply nozzle like that? Anyways, RPM means rotations per minute, and that's a pretty broad term. You could measure Pluto's orbit around the Sun in RPM if you were so inclined (queue someone to reply with that number). Air is blown into the vortex at an angle such that it rotates around the tube at a certain number of rotations over a given length of time. High pressure would be all that's require to achieve 1x10^6 RPMs. Given the proper equipment, yes, mules and a few guys could produce ice by using mechanical pumps for hours on end.
I'm no physicist, but the energy transfers involved in this make this seem like a waste of resources and time. Using the same mules, you could plow some ground, plant seeds, grow food, carry water to your village, etc. Since when was keeping things cold a priority for survival? Humans existed for thousands of years up until last century with things being as cold as the climate made them, I think third-world countries could use water filters, non-perishable foods and technologies to make themselves self-sustaining before they get toys to make ice.
Huh?
Okay, I'm trolling here but did you even read what you just said? It's no wonder CN changes Anime. That description sounds godawful. I was mildly curious about what this show was until I heard it was the apocolypse told through robot-piloting teenagers. I've watched my fair share of cartoon's as an adult, but calling that plot "entertainment" would be a stretch. Zero chance I'll ever watch an episode of this now.
I know this will get modded down because not likely Anime is sacreligious here and calling BS on something with an obviously stupid plot isn't very popular in this hive mind.
Since Microsoft is buying the founders of distro, I think it's time to start one. Why? I need a good job once I'm out of college and Microsoft has good benefits. Besides, sabotage from within is harder to catch.
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Theater is only effective when people don't know it's a sham, but everyone today knows it's stupid. You make no differentiation between types of security.
There's a difference between security through inconvenience and security through preventative measures. Typical 5 pin locks are security through inconvenience since they're easy to pick. Guarded doors with metal detectors are inconveniences pretending to be preventative measures. Once it's realized that you're only being inconvenienced, it's no longer security. Much like your coat is not security if someone watches you carry tapes to your back seat.
I'm pretty sure a government or corporation intent on espionage can provide you with a non-electronic, non-metallic camera. May not be a digital camera, but it would work. Or a step further....just conceal it in "approved" electronics. Unless they're doing complete teardowns of everything you bring in, you can hide a pinhole camera just about anywhere. Almost all security is security theater. It's there to make fearful people feel better, prevent good people from doing normal things, and does nothing to stop a sufficiently driven enemy from doing anything.
What about those who choose netbooks for their price and battery life? Wouldn't a larger screen add value to those people? Surely I'm not alone in thinking that netbook's compactness is overrated. They're smaller, but still awkward to carry unless you're just aiming to pack as much crap in a bag as possible. My smartphone overlaps my netbook needs so much that the only real difference in functionality is what the smartphone screen space limits me with. I also get the feeling that Intel feels this cutting into their C2D profits, and that they're the victim of their own success in the netbook realm.
Ubuntu doesn't follow Gnome's releases on purpose, it has a standard 6 month release cycle of updates.
I'm a computer science student (3rd year), and we we're forced to use VS.Net in a class last semester. Having done some pretty spiffy things with it, I really have mixed feelings. I'm normally a gedit, GCC and terminal type of guy, so I wasn't overly excited for that course. After 5 months of heavy .Net usage, these are my feelings.
.Net was tkinter with python and XCode on my Mac. .Net is much more complex than the python, but not nearly as polished as XCode.
.Net just crashes and burns. If you're lucky, it'll pop up a box telling you what line of code failed in some closed source file you can't examine, or if you can examine, is worthless cause there's no comments anywhere. If you're not lucky, .Net will take the whole system down. If you're neither lucky or unlucky, you can use .Net like you would normally use GCC in any situation.
.Net won't be to bad. My overall oppinion of it is "bleh". I've used better, but I've certainly seen worse (Boa Constructor comes to mind). It doesn't promote good coding habits, but that's not really the IDE's main purpose in my oppinion. Your teachers or book should do that. .Net is good for those willing to put up with it, but for the OP's sake, drag and dropping objects does not a computer scientist make. Hell, I've got computer science professors that can't actually program, but they can write pseudocode for optimization problems for NP-complete problems without stopping to think.
.Net != programming teacher/book.
Pros:
It's a wonderful project management program.
The syntax highlighting and the step through code abilities were nice.
Creating command-line programs was actually easier than ever before.
MSDN.com is, surprisinigly, a really awesome resource for information.
Cons:
Creating a gui for a program was utter hell. When you start a program that has a gui, there's a bunch of code that gets written for you that you have zero control over. There's no comments explaining why it's there, and vague errors given if you mess some of it up. This may also be because the only GUI programming I've done prior to
The compiler seems a little fragile. Given that I'm not a stellar programmer, I make some syntatical errors every now and then. GCC can usually handle these, or give me useful information about what I did wrong.
Again, I'm only a moderate programmer, so maybe if code just clicks for you,
Computer Science != programming.
By "no moving parts" I think they are excluding the air itself. I'm curious how they accelerate it once it's been injected into the vortex. To me it doesn't make sense that you could accelerate the air inside the vortex by injecting more air at the same speed unless it was tapered, but in that case, why not just make your air supply nozzle like that? Anyways, RPM means rotations per minute, and that's a pretty broad term. You could measure Pluto's orbit around the Sun in RPM if you were so inclined (queue someone to reply with that number). Air is blown into the vortex at an angle such that it rotates around the tube at a certain number of rotations over a given length of time. High pressure would be all that's require to achieve 1x10^6 RPMs. Given the proper equipment, yes, mules and a few guys could produce ice by using mechanical pumps for hours on end. I'm no physicist, but the energy transfers involved in this make this seem like a waste of resources and time. Using the same mules, you could plow some ground, plant seeds, grow food, carry water to your village, etc. Since when was keeping things cold a priority for survival? Humans existed for thousands of years up until last century with things being as cold as the climate made them, I think third-world countries could use water filters, non-perishable foods and technologies to make themselves self-sustaining before they get toys to make ice.
Is this the coming of The Diamond Age? I can't wait for the diamond to lose it's monatary value.
Huh? Okay, I'm trolling here but did you even read what you just said? It's no wonder CN changes Anime. That description sounds godawful. I was mildly curious about what this show was until I heard it was the apocolypse told through robot-piloting teenagers. I've watched my fair share of cartoon's as an adult, but calling that plot "entertainment" would be a stretch. Zero chance I'll ever watch an episode of this now. I know this will get modded down because not likely Anime is sacreligious here and calling BS on something with an obviously stupid plot isn't very popular in this hive mind.
Umm, you aren't aware of how many U.S. (and more) entertainment "icons" are canadian born are you?
Since Microsoft is buying the founders of distro, I think it's time to start one. Why? I need a good job once I'm out of college and Microsoft has good benefits. Besides, sabotage from within is harder to catch.