Perhaps I am naive and perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about but I do have 7 years with my current company. Three and a half of those as an intern and I was hired out of school at a very respectable wage. The reason I'm loyal is simple, the people I work for come from a culture where building a team is important. They hire people they've worked with in the past, knew from college, or referred to by current employees. The sense of community is strong. This is not true company wide since our division is the product of a massive buyout, but the culure has remained unchanged. I have expressed desire to retire with my company and my senior management and executives are excited by that possibility and have provided me with opportunities that I would not have recieved elsewhere.
Perhaps I just lucked out and found a company that was willing to invest and take risks on me and I offer my loyalty in return.
2) Okay, well lucky you. I have. I know many friends that have. I know several gamers who will reinstall their operating from scratch routinely to keep kruft to a minimum and to keep the systems running smoothly. I've often had a game get installed, have glitches, require patches and driver updates, etc. On the other hand, every console game I've ever bought has worked out of the box.
That's all voodoo IMHO. Operating systems do not magically get more bloated. They are not a self replicating system. If anything it's a psychological trick to think you are getting better performance since we all know a computer is faster when it's in a brand new state.
Wouldn't gamers be the ones to avoid downloading and installing all the typical performance hoggers anyway? But I guess some are so obsessed with getting a few more FPS that the only way to repair the damage is to reinstall.
This isn't a matter of which language, it's a matter or concepts, foundational knowledge, a bag of tricks. The simple truth of the matter is those who learned in C think it's the only way to really grasp the concepts. Those who learned in Java or any other language for that matter will think their language is an excellent vehicle to grasp the concepts. Anecdotally, all our tests were paper based so if you couldn't write a Linked List on paper there was no way you were going to write one in any language. And as the article mentioned, it was not explicitly Java's fault for this but rather the fact that universities are continually reducing the number of courses focused around core concepts.
Computer Science is a science degree. If you want to be a code monkey go to ITT.
Piracetam and vinpocetine are just unverified dietary supplements.
Adrafinil is fancy caffiene.
Methylphenidate, also known as Ritalin, is primarily used for people with ADHD or in ordinary individuals who have sleeping and fatigue disorders.
If you are healthy (which after that cocktail you may be sitting with quite an over active heart) might I suggest in all manner of kindness, you might find better results if you not work like a maniac and instead devote an hour of overtime to excercise and healthy eating. You may find that all those pills are just an expensive placebo.
Now that I think about it, that second part of your comment seems more sarcastic than I had thought...
Honestly, I don't know what the big deal is. You figure tuition is $170 x 130 credit hours for a total of $22100 total, for a degree from the University of Nebraska in 4 years. If you add in the additional moneys worst case scenario you have from UNL Comp Eng
There is a set of required core courses in computer science and engineering (29-32 credit hours), electrical engineering (28 credit hours), mathematics (23 credit hours), and physics and chemistry (13 credit hours). Students select technical electives (12 credit hours) distributed over at least three of the following five areas: system-level architecture, software systems, design implementation, communication and distributed systems, and computer engineering applications. The department maintains a list of CSCE 496 special topics selections that may be substituted as technical electives. Students must complete the humanities and social science requirements of the college (18 hours), a technical writing course, and the college's freshmen and sophomore seminars and professional ethics course.
So of that, to be on the safe side, is 108 credit hours of engineering at an extra $40 per credit hour gives us a total of $4320. So, again, an aditional $1080 a year. So what. Suck it up.
Firstly, security is black and white. There is no gray.
That being said, why would anyone want to copy your card in the first place? There are so many easier ways of beating the system. It would be possible to get a merchant account using fraudulent information, obtain a card reader, spend a day on the subway or walking the streets of Manhattan and charge $25 to every card you could read durring the day. The ideal amount to charge is the maximum that doesn't require a paper trail. The next step would be to withdrawl the money, cancel your merchant account, and lay low. Honestly, it's as simple as walking next to someone and all you need is a card reader, PDA and internet access.
And if you've ever tried to dispute fraudulent charges, it's not a fun time.
Your DNA is not public, just the markers. When your DNA is profiled they will use a set number of markers (anywhere between 12 and 44) to determine your halpogroups (where your DNA originated from) and place you into a combination of groups. It is these markers that become public. Generally the testing sites will destroy your DNA after 6 months; it is kept this long incase you want to have other tests done like y-chromosome, mitochondrial, etc.
Chances are the testing is being contracted out to another organization like The DNA Testing Center of America or another large DNA testing lab at which the DNA retention policies would be that of the lab.
Our house had a Kaypro II with daisy wheel printer purchased a few months after I was born by my father for $2000. Quite literally I was born and raised on CP/M, DOS with Norton Commander on our Epson, Windows 3.11 - nothing like getting winsocks working so we could telnet into the Uni, and the protests of upgrading to Win 95.
And when working with the deaf in elementary school I saw my first accoustic coupler. It was the coolest thing I ever saw. A qwerty keyboard with a 3 line 80 column display that you hooked up you telephone reciever to. Absolutely amazing. It could be used for relay chat to a dispatcher or line to line to make direct calls from one terminal to another.
Using Safari as the SDK moves all costs over to the application developer and the customer. Both being charged for bandwidth usage and the customer is getting royally fcuked with the expensive data plans it's going to require just to use all these apps. Cash money for the carriers.
That being said, this kid sounds like a fuckin nut job.
Right, a fuckin nut job. Ever listened to 7 year olds play cops and robbers? Ever take a moment to listen to your inner monologue in a traffic jam? Ever stop to consider that possibly more people would be writing escapist fiction if there was no reprisal for do so in the first place? He's not a fuckin nut job. He's a regular kid.
For a creative writing assignment, I had written a suicide note as a character sketch. It was completely within the boundaries of the assignment. I turned it into my teach who simply told me, "I can't accept this as a valid assignment, and if you want to turn it in anyways, I'll have to contact the principal." So I wrote a new one.
On a similar note, my little brother wrote a strikingly similar piece of work for his creative writing class. It was all about drugs, sex, killing people, prostitution, etc. No one seemed to care at all. He was a rebel and everyone knew it. The teacher, who had been my mentor, called our parents to inform them. My parents were really cool about it. Turns out he was just reading a lot of Chuck Palahniuk and was simply immitating his favorite author.
Ralston, Nebraksa recently cut an innovative project that had been running for at least a decade. It was called Academic Resources and was an alternative classroom for gifted students given a few times a week. In this class, elementary students would explore advanced topics such as architecture, geometry and trigonometry, logical reasoning, along with a year long research project. This program was the avenue most gifted students needed in order to break the monotony of elementary education. This program was the foundation that allowed these students to really persue their own interests once they entered secondary education where electives became available. Interestingly enough it only cost the school district one extra teacher since the teacher floated between the elementary schools in the district.
I can say with certainty that those students involved in this program have gone on to be very successful individuals in their field of choice.
Even one time pads are not going to work. It's a shared key protocol so you have to worry about key transmittion and storage. It is a lot more hassle than it is worth. An issued smart card with your private key for RSA transactions would be a better option.
Would you rather have a new key for every transaction or a trustworthy proven asymetrical encryption scheme?
As a child I used to studder to the point of panic attacks yet when I sang I was okay. After having an excellent speech pathologist we figured out it was all in the breathing. Once I mastered proper breathing techniques I went on to perform in over 25 stage productions and competed nationally in competitive speech. You see, most people never learn to breath correctly let alone have proper breath control.
Singing forces you to control your breathing while regular speech does not. When you memorize something, like a prepared speech, you rehearse in where you are going to breath and it becomes programmed in. Being on the spot forces you into a panic response, adrenaline starts pumping, you start shaking a little bit, and you are affected by the 'nerves'. All techniques about staying calm are rooted in breathing properly. It's all about breath control. From personal experience I have to disagree with it being about using a different part of your brain.
The fact that we can even control our breathing is one of the reasons we can speak in the first place.
... but I chose not to. I had around 50 credits out of 125 after my freshman year, some coming from transfer/AP classes and some retro credit for taking advanced math and english classes. Take Calc 3 and get credit for Calc 1 & 2, pretty sweet deal. So that left me with about 4 classes a semester for the next 3 years and with all that free time I joined the Forensics team, got a cooperative intership that I worked parttime year round, partied and traveled. Finished my degree in 4 years, still ahead of a lot of my peers, and had a wonderful time in college. Now I'm doing it again with the Master's Degree as a fellow with the same company I interned for.
College is about having fun, learning some new stuff, meeting people and finding yourself in this world. Anyone can get a degree but not everyone can build character.
Back in 2000 I used to keep a single badge on my bag, the Green Barret "We kill for peace" badge. I was randomly selected to be searched 4 times at the same airport by the same people working the gates. One of the incidents was less than 5 minutes apart.
If a computer is simply a pornography machine it really doesn't serve much purpose at all. Hell a monthly subscription to the playboy channel is $15.99 and I'm sure Spice or Vivid would be comparably priced. That sure has hell beats a $400+ initial investment and $40+ a month for high speed internet.
I understand that black tends to fade away better and without getting into too much color theory (because the only color theory I have is from highschool art classes) black does not blend well with the natural tones like brown and tan. White would work well since most walls are white and a computer is most likely going to be up against a wall.
Another thing, why would you have a PC/Mac in your sittingroom?
There are plenty of reasons to have a PC/Mac in the living room. People do a number of things in the living room all focused around relaxation and entertainment. If you enjoy reading you may have magazines and novels on the coffee table, or your DVD collection next to the entertainment center, or crosswords and puzzle books tucked away next to the sofa. Other people enjoy texting, telephoning and chatting. For this a computer, or more convienently a laptop, would find a natural home in the living room.
One idea is to pull out functions of your daily life into the rooms they belong in. If you aren't sleeping well or your love life is lacking, remove everything from the bedroom that shouldn't be in the bedroom like computers, tv, and such. If you aren't studying well for your Doctorate classes and exams, remove the distractions by dedicating a room to just that. You'll find that you are more focused and enjoy each space of your living environment even more.
The computer does not have a perfect home quite yet. Form, function and style will allow it to find its right place in the home
When the average person purchases a computer where do they put it? Usually in the den or study. But if it is an attractive piece of "furniture" it will get placement in the more commonly occupied areas. Honestly would you rather have your boxy OEM loud-as-hell and not very sleek Dell or a shiny iMac or Mac Mini/Cinema Display out in the living room? The one in the common living space is going to get the most use. It's why the sunflower iMac G4 did so well; people didn't mind it out where it could be seen.
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Perhaps I am naive and perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about but I do have 7 years with my current company. Three and a half of those as an intern and I was hired out of school at a very respectable wage. The reason I'm loyal is simple, the people I work for come from a culture where building a team is important. They hire people they've worked with in the past, knew from college, or referred to by current employees. The sense of community is strong. This is not true company wide since our division is the product of a massive buyout, but the culure has remained unchanged. I have expressed desire to retire with my company and my senior management and executives are excited by that possibility and have provided me with opportunities that I would not have recieved elsewhere.
Perhaps I just lucked out and found a company that was willing to invest and take risks on me and I offer my loyalty in return.
That's all voodoo IMHO. Operating systems do not magically get more bloated. They are not a self replicating system. If anything it's a psychological trick to think you are getting better performance since we all know a computer is faster when it's in a brand new state.
Wouldn't gamers be the ones to avoid downloading and installing all the typical performance hoggers anyway? But I guess some are so obsessed with getting a few more FPS that the only way to repair the damage is to reinstall.
This isn't a matter of which language, it's a matter or concepts, foundational knowledge, a bag of tricks. The simple truth of the matter is those who learned in C think it's the only way to really grasp the concepts. Those who learned in Java or any other language for that matter will think their language is an excellent vehicle to grasp the concepts. Anecdotally, all our tests were paper based so if you couldn't write a Linked List on paper there was no way you were going to write one in any language. And as the article mentioned, it was not explicitly Java's fault for this but rather the fact that universities are continually reducing the number of courses focused around core concepts.
Computer Science is a science degree. If you want to be a code monkey go to ITT.
is probably the most qualified journalism outlet to review the gPC.
Piracetam and vinpocetine are just unverified dietary supplements.
Adrafinil is fancy caffiene.
Methylphenidate, also known as Ritalin, is primarily used for people with ADHD or in ordinary individuals who have sleeping and fatigue disorders.
If you are healthy (which after that cocktail you may be sitting with quite an over active heart) might I suggest in all manner of kindness, you might find better results if you not work like a maniac and instead devote an hour of overtime to excercise and healthy eating. You may find that all those pills are just an expensive placebo.
Now that I think about it, that second part of your comment seems more sarcastic than I had thought...
I could make a racist comment about his ethnicity but I'll let that one die.
Honestly, I don't know what the big deal is. You figure tuition is $170 x 130 credit hours for a total of $22100 total, for a degree from the University of Nebraska in 4 years. If you add in the additional moneys worst case scenario you have from UNL Comp Eng
There is a set of required core courses in computer science and engineering (29-32 credit hours), electrical engineering (28 credit hours), mathematics (23 credit hours), and physics and chemistry (13 credit hours). Students select technical electives (12 credit hours) distributed over at least three of the following five areas: system-level architecture, software systems, design implementation, communication and distributed systems, and computer engineering applications. The department maintains a list of CSCE 496 special topics selections that may be substituted as technical electives. Students must complete the humanities and social science requirements of the college (18 hours), a technical writing course, and the college's freshmen and sophomore seminars and professional ethics course.So of that, to be on the safe side, is 108 credit hours of engineering at an extra $40 per credit hour gives us a total of $4320. So, again, an aditional $1080 a year. So what. Suck it up.
College Education is a privilege not a right.
Oh Contraire!
Firstly, security is black and white. There is no gray.
That being said, why would anyone want to copy your card in the first place? There are so many easier ways of beating the system. It would be possible to get a merchant account using fraudulent information, obtain a card reader, spend a day on the subway or walking the streets of Manhattan and charge $25 to every card you could read durring the day. The ideal amount to charge is the maximum that doesn't require a paper trail. The next step would be to withdrawl the money, cancel your merchant account, and lay low. Honestly, it's as simple as walking next to someone and all you need is a card reader, PDA and internet access.
And if you've ever tried to dispute fraudulent charges, it's not a fun time.
What's to say that this wasn't a landing pod similar to our Lunar Lander?
Your DNA is not public, just the markers. When your DNA is profiled they will use a set number of markers (anywhere between 12 and 44) to determine your halpogroups (where your DNA originated from) and place you into a combination of groups. It is these markers that become public. Generally the testing sites will destroy your DNA after 6 months; it is kept this long incase you want to have other tests done like y-chromosome, mitochondrial, etc.
Chances are the testing is being contracted out to another organization like The DNA Testing Center of America or another large DNA testing lab at which the DNA retention policies would be that of the lab.
Our house had a Kaypro II with daisy wheel printer purchased a few months after I was born by my father for $2000. Quite literally I was born and raised on CP/M, DOS with Norton Commander on our Epson, Windows 3.11 - nothing like getting winsocks working so we could telnet into the Uni, and the protests of upgrading to Win 95.
And when working with the deaf in elementary school I saw my first accoustic coupler. It was the coolest thing I ever saw. A qwerty keyboard with a 3 line 80 column display that you hooked up you telephone reciever to. Absolutely amazing. It could be used for relay chat to a dispatcher or line to line to make direct calls from one terminal to another.
Using Safari as the SDK moves all costs over to the application developer and the customer. Both being charged for bandwidth usage and the customer is getting royally fcuked with the expensive data plans it's going to require just to use all these apps. Cash money for the carriers.
Right, a fuckin nut job. Ever listened to 7 year olds play cops and robbers? Ever take a moment to listen to your inner monologue in a traffic jam? Ever stop to consider that possibly more people would be writing escapist fiction if there was no reprisal for do so in the first place? He's not a fuckin nut job. He's a regular kid.
Don't be so quick to judge
For a creative writing assignment, I had written a suicide note as a character sketch. It was completely within the boundaries of the assignment. I turned it into my teach who simply told me, "I can't accept this as a valid assignment, and if you want to turn it in anyways, I'll have to contact the principal." So I wrote a new one.
On a similar note, my little brother wrote a strikingly similar piece of work for his creative writing class. It was all about drugs, sex, killing people, prostitution, etc. No one seemed to care at all. He was a rebel and everyone knew it. The teacher, who had been my mentor, called our parents to inform them. My parents were really cool about it. Turns out he was just reading a lot of Chuck Palahniuk and was simply immitating his favorite author.
And the AES key is stored on the USB drive in plain text! Doh!
Husband: What's that room over there?
Realtor: That's the hot chicks room.
Ralston, Nebraksa recently cut an innovative project that had been running for at least a decade. It was called Academic Resources and was an alternative classroom for gifted students given a few times a week. In this class, elementary students would explore advanced topics such as architecture, geometry and trigonometry, logical reasoning, along with a year long research project. This program was the avenue most gifted students needed in order to break the monotony of elementary education. This program was the foundation that allowed these students to really persue their own interests once they entered secondary education where electives became available. Interestingly enough it only cost the school district one extra teacher since the teacher floated between the elementary schools in the district.
I can say with certainty that those students involved in this program have gone on to be very successful individuals in their field of choice.
Even one time pads are not going to work. It's a shared key protocol so you have to worry about key transmittion and storage. It is a lot more hassle than it is worth. An issued smart card with your private key for RSA transactions would be a better option.
Would you rather have a new key for every transaction or a trustworthy proven asymetrical encryption scheme?
As a child I used to studder to the point of panic attacks yet when I sang I was okay. After having an excellent speech pathologist we figured out it was all in the breathing. Once I mastered proper breathing techniques I went on to perform in over 25 stage productions and competed nationally in competitive speech. You see, most people never learn to breath correctly let alone have proper breath control.
Singing forces you to control your breathing while regular speech does not. When you memorize something, like a prepared speech, you rehearse in where you are going to breath and it becomes programmed in. Being on the spot forces you into a panic response, adrenaline starts pumping, you start shaking a little bit, and you are affected by the 'nerves'. All techniques about staying calm are rooted in breathing properly. It's all about breath control. From personal experience I have to disagree with it being about using a different part of your brain.
The fact that we can even control our breathing is one of the reasons we can speak in the first place.
... but I chose not to. I had around 50 credits out of 125 after my freshman year, some coming from transfer/AP classes and some retro credit for taking advanced math and english classes. Take Calc 3 and get credit for Calc 1 & 2, pretty sweet deal. So that left me with about 4 classes a semester for the next 3 years and with all that free time I joined the Forensics team, got a cooperative intership that I worked parttime year round, partied and traveled. Finished my degree in 4 years, still ahead of a lot of my peers, and had a wonderful time in college. Now I'm doing it again with the Master's Degree as a fellow with the same company I interned for.
College is about having fun, learning some new stuff, meeting people and finding yourself in this world. Anyone can get a degree but not everyone can build character.
Back in 2000 I used to keep a single badge on my bag, the Green Barret "We kill for peace" badge. I was randomly selected to be searched 4 times at the same airport by the same people working the gates. One of the incidents was less than 5 minutes apart.
If a computer is simply a pornography machine it really doesn't serve much purpose at all. Hell a monthly subscription to the playboy channel is $15.99 and I'm sure Spice or Vivid would be comparably priced. That sure has hell beats a $400+ initial investment and $40+ a month for high speed internet.
I understand that black tends to fade away better and without getting into too much color theory (because the only color theory I have is from highschool art classes) black does not blend well with the natural tones like brown and tan. White would work well since most walls are white and a computer is most likely going to be up against a wall.
There are plenty of reasons to have a PC/Mac in the living room. People do a number of things in the living room all focused around relaxation and entertainment. If you enjoy reading you may have magazines and novels on the coffee table, or your DVD collection next to the entertainment center, or crosswords and puzzle books tucked away next to the sofa. Other people enjoy texting, telephoning and chatting. For this a computer, or more convienently a laptop, would find a natural home in the living room.
One idea is to pull out functions of your daily life into the rooms they belong in. If you aren't sleeping well or your love life is lacking, remove everything from the bedroom that shouldn't be in the bedroom like computers, tv, and such. If you aren't studying well for your Doctorate classes and exams, remove the distractions by dedicating a room to just that. You'll find that you are more focused and enjoy each space of your living environment even more.
The computer does not have a perfect home quite yet. Form, function and style will allow it to find its right place in the home
When the average person purchases a computer where do they put it? Usually in the den or study. But if it is an attractive piece of "furniture" it will get placement in the more commonly occupied areas. Honestly would you rather have your boxy OEM loud-as-hell and not very sleek Dell or a shiny iMac or Mac Mini/Cinema Display out in the living room? The one in the common living space is going to get the most use. It's why the sunflower iMac G4 did so well; people didn't mind it out where it could be seen.