That would be correct. My guess is this is just about political posturing, showing disapproval of building military assets so close to their border... and is likely intended more for the russian newspapers then american leaders. Kinda like how our canidates keep talking about a preemptive strike on Iran but on a bigger scale.
It is amazing how the NYT went from respectable neutral newspaper to 'most liberal paper in the nation' in just a few short years of reporting on Bush Jr.
Within itself yes, math is right or wrong, but that is mostly because it is self consistant. Talk to any good anthropologist or historical linguist and they will tell you that 'math' as we know it is not what it always was, and there are multiple systems that are all self consistant. It is kinda like programming languages.. compile your program and it either works or does not, but that does not mean C++ (or even OOP) is the only language, and there is a lot to learn by teaching some of the other systems.
Unless the school sucks, they do have those requirements. But you have repeatedly showed yourself to be a misogynistic prick so I doubt you care about reality or what people actually do with these degrees (hint: they do find jobs, some of them quite well paying, some even at tech companies).
As for skipping logic... I have found people coming out of these programs to be generally better adjusted and with broader skills then many of the focused engineering students. Engineering programs often put out overly focused skillsets and skip over all those 'liberal arts' requirements producing people unable to operate outside their domain or think outside their own very narrow cultural mindset since they were never exposed to anything else... which ironically can make them crappy engineers once their brand new skillset gets a little dated.
Yeah.. who do you think cleans up all those technical documents engineers suck at writing? Or edits those geeky books like ORiely stuff that fly off the shelves. Most of the english majors I know are employed and using their degree, with at least one pulling in more money then me (being an engineer and thus not exactly poor).
Just because you don't know what they do with their skills do not mean they are not in play. This is one of the problems, I think, with the tech community.. too insular, doesn't spend enough time interacting with other domains, and tends to forget that there things out there other then gadgets and money. Even LBGT studies and Russian have uses, just not uses most people on slashdot encounter. LBGT stuff is invaluable for people going into fields like counciling (which helps a lot of people) or social services, Russian is good for people who are going into translation services or many types of international business, not to mention how well it can dovetail with any number of research professions in areas like anthropology.
Actually, this focus is bad for engineers too. Universities are more then training centers and diploma mills, they are useful because they are culturally different from corporate America (which already has itself) and this kinda focus can really cause issues for the learning/research environment. The way Stanford is going it becomes relevant to ask 'why even bother as a university?'
The problem is not focus on 'useful' scholarship, but 'profitable' scholarship, which tends to lock out a lot of stuff that might be of benefit but has no immediate use, which, once again, is where Universities excel since private research institutes already have the 'short term benefit' focus going on.
Grievance mongers.. nice little sexist jab there.... also nice bit of hypocrisy in general... 'how dare they cut something I like to fund something they find valuable! Here are a list of things I don't find value in they should cut instead!'.
That is hard to say, though for an American school it is a bit odd. Depending on how old the school is, its computer science curricula might have developed any number of ways, and quite a few keep pieces of it in their math and electrical engineering departments with 'computer science' being a specialization within mathematics while computer engineering (hardware/software) and software engineering (process) living within the EE dept or as separate departments within engineering.
If one is studying literal 'computer science' it often is a program or a specialization since that focuses on things like theory and computation.
No drop feels it is responsible for the flood. Sure, this particular author's part might be pretty small, but the idea that science fiction's take on the future can either encourage or discourage young minds is not new and there have been noticeable connections between optimistic science fiction and a rise in the next generation of scientific interest.... so what author's produce does seem to have an impact, and I see no problem with one author acknowledging his own role in this.
Not only that, but compiling FORTRAN and C (and thus C++) into the same application is easy ^_^
FORTRAN has a bad rep.. it is a good language, but not very 'sexy', so it has fallen out of favor. Languages are, in many ways, a social contest... often having more to do with how many people are using it then the language's actual ability (since this impacts how easy it is to hire people).
Unfortunately there is also a high 'sexy' factor in creating new languages that do the same things as old ones, solving the same problems over and over as programmers slowly notice 'oh dear, we actually do need XYZ from the language we stopped using, ok, put that in too'.
It could be argued that Ada not only had a huge effect (many language features we now thing of as standard came from Ada), but is still in use in many places, so I would call it pretty successful.
Not this time no, but this type of stuff happens in pretty much all the major religions at one point or one place. There are still stories out of Africa for instance of Christians using violence to stop girls from learning... and Shinto has plenty of darkness in its not to distant past.
The problem is, this isn't a religious issue, religion is used as the excuse, but this type of behavior happens over and over and is much more related to political strife in a region. Crow, it wasn't all that long ago that Christians in the US were using violence to keep blacks and women out of schools, and things have improved here as things stabilized.
Hush, you are getting in the way of the Apple hate! If people realized that the 6.0 utility was a rewrite with many features still in development, only containing the most commonly used ones, and released at the same time as the 5.6 utility so that people who do use those configuration features still can... well, that would get in the way of the "Apple sheeple are destroying the our internet!' narrative.
Seems to be working pretty well for being 'broken'. I don't know where you got the idea that every host is 'supposed' to be addressable, but it has not been that way for a longtime. Principles are nice, but they have to justify their existence. You can not simply say 'there is a principle in play' and have that justify anything, esp when twisting things to meet that priciniple makes things more complex/expensive/etc and removes perfectly functional solutions to real problems.
That and she apparently knows the person IRL, so the whole idea that he is too good to catch is pretty implausible. It is more likely the stalker is a sock puppet she created to banter with.
Did so a while back when using an old kernel + drivers in an embedded environment. I found the community pretty supportive in running the issue to ground.
There is a big difference, in cars, between 'maintain' and 'upgrade'. With cars you do not need to swap out major systems with new versions, generally you can get original parts or parts that work the same as originals at least. If your carburetor has a defect you do not need to get more tires because the replacement unit requires a new type of engine.
Also, I suspect that many of the existing XP installs that will be an issue are embedded systems rather then corporate customers. People tend to forget about those but they make up a huge piece of the install base, and you typically can not just throw a new motherboard in there to bring it up to 'Win7 compatible'. Often you have to replace the whole unit and the mess that brings about.
While PSN does not require credit card numbers, it did store them, which is something people might want to sue over in event of a breech.
As for crippling, it is not worth arguing if the 'other os' feature was integral or if its removal harmed people, the point was you had no mechanism to backdate, which with the aforementioned BSD and GPL licenses you can always download the source and install another copy if an update breaks something.
It all depends on who you listen to and which negative coverage you 'notice'. Microsoft gets tons of praise and has an army of fanboys, just like Apple and Google and Facebook, each of which seems to feel that their brand is under constant attack while the 'others' get off easy.
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That would be correct. My guess is this is just about political posturing, showing disapproval of building military assets so close to their border... and is likely intended more for the russian newspapers then american leaders. Kinda like how our canidates keep talking about a preemptive strike on Iran but on a bigger scale.
It is amazing how the NYT went from respectable neutral newspaper to 'most liberal paper in the nation' in just a few short years of reporting on Bush Jr.
Within itself yes, math is right or wrong, but that is mostly because it is self consistant. Talk to any good anthropologist or historical linguist and they will tell you that 'math' as we know it is not what it always was, and there are multiple systems that are all self consistant. It is kinda like programming languages.. compile your program and it either works or does not, but that does not mean C++ (or even OOP) is the only language, and there is a lot to learn by teaching some of the other systems.
Unless the school sucks, they do have those requirements. But you have repeatedly showed yourself to be a misogynistic prick so I doubt you care about reality or what people actually do with these degrees (hint: they do find jobs, some of them quite well paying, some even at tech companies).
As for skipping logic... I have found people coming out of these programs to be generally better adjusted and with broader skills then many of the focused engineering students. Engineering programs often put out overly focused skillsets and skip over all those 'liberal arts' requirements producing people unable to operate outside their domain or think outside their own very narrow cultural mindset since they were never exposed to anything else... which ironically can make them crappy engineers once their brand new skillset gets a little dated.
Yeah.. who do you think cleans up all those technical documents engineers suck at writing? Or edits those geeky books like ORiely stuff that fly off the shelves. Most of the english majors I know are employed and using their degree, with at least one pulling in more money then me (being an engineer and thus not exactly poor).
Just because you don't know what they do with their skills do not mean they are not in play. This is one of the problems, I think, with the tech community.. too insular, doesn't spend enough time interacting with other domains, and tends to forget that there things out there other then gadgets and money. Even LBGT studies and Russian have uses, just not uses most people on slashdot encounter. LBGT stuff is invaluable for people going into fields like counciling (which helps a lot of people) or social services, Russian is good for people who are going into translation services or many types of international business, not to mention how well it can dovetail with any number of research professions in areas like anthropology.
Actually, this focus is bad for engineers too. Universities are more then training centers and diploma mills, they are useful because they are culturally different from corporate America (which already has itself) and this kinda focus can really cause issues for the learning/research environment. The way Stanford is going it becomes relevant to ask 'why even bother as a university?'
The problem is not focus on 'useful' scholarship, but 'profitable' scholarship, which tends to lock out a lot of stuff that might be of benefit but has no immediate use, which, once again, is where Universities excel since private research institutes already have the 'short term benefit' focus going on.
Grievance mongers.. nice little sexist jab there.... also nice bit of hypocrisy in general... 'how dare they cut something I like to fund something they find valuable! Here are a list of things I don't find value in they should cut instead!'.
Apparently the elimination of the computer science department funded a 2% increase in the athletics budget.
That is hard to say, though for an American school it is a bit odd. Depending on how old the school is, its computer science curricula might have developed any number of ways, and quite a few keep pieces of it in their math and electrical engineering departments with 'computer science' being a specialization within mathematics while computer engineering (hardware/software) and software engineering (process) living within the EE dept or as separate departments within engineering.
If one is studying literal 'computer science' it often is a program or a specialization since that focuses on things like theory and computation.
Islam as been part of the American fabric from day one too.
No drop feels it is responsible for the flood. Sure, this particular author's part might be pretty small, but the idea that science fiction's take on the future can either encourage or discourage young minds is not new and there have been noticeable connections between optimistic science fiction and a rise in the next generation of scientific interest.... so what author's produce does seem to have an impact, and I see no problem with one author acknowledging his own role in this.
Not only that, but compiling FORTRAN and C (and thus C++) into the same application is easy ^_^
FORTRAN has a bad rep.. it is a good language, but not very 'sexy', so it has fallen out of favor. Languages are, in many ways, a social contest... often having more to do with how many people are using it then the language's actual ability (since this impacts how easy it is to hire people).
Unfortunately there is also a high 'sexy' factor in creating new languages that do the same things as old ones, solving the same problems over and over as programmers slowly notice 'oh dear, we actually do need XYZ from the language we stopped using, ok, put that in too'.
It could be argued that Ada not only had a huge effect (many language features we now thing of as standard came from Ada), but is still in use in many places, so I would call it pretty successful.
Just like C++
C++ has so many little geeky features, behaviors, and stylest in it that writing unintelligible (except to a few 'l33t') code is pretty on-par with C.
Not this time no, but this type of stuff happens in pretty much all the major religions at one point or one place. There are still stories out of Africa for instance of Christians using violence to stop girls from learning... and Shinto has plenty of darkness in its not to distant past.
The problem is, this isn't a religious issue, religion is used as the excuse, but this type of behavior happens over and over and is much more related to political strife in a region. Crow, it wasn't all that long ago that Christians in the US were using violence to keep blacks and women out of schools, and things have improved here as things stabilized.
Hush, you are getting in the way of the Apple hate! If people realized that the 6.0 utility was a rewrite with many features still in development, only containing the most commonly used ones, and released at the same time as the 5.6 utility so that people who do use those configuration features still can... well, that would get in the way of the "Apple sheeple are destroying the our internet!' narrative.
Seems to be working pretty well for being 'broken'. I don't know where you got the idea that every host is 'supposed' to be addressable, but it has not been that way for a longtime. Principles are nice, but they have to justify their existence. You can not simply say 'there is a principle in play' and have that justify anything, esp when twisting things to meet that priciniple makes things more complex/expensive/etc and removes perfectly functional solutions to real problems.
Of course 'not needed' doesn't solve anything, that is the point. 'Not needed' is a way of indicating that there is not a problem in the first place.
Quite true, though in this case throwing kiddy porn in the mix would normally get the police's attention.
That and she apparently knows the person IRL, so the whole idea that he is too good to catch is pretty implausible. It is more likely the stalker is a sock puppet she created to banter with.
Suicide is illegal, and in inciting someone to commit a crime is also illegal. Though if I recall correctly such cases do not go well.
Did so a while back when using an old kernel + drivers in an embedded environment. I found the community pretty supportive in running the issue to ground.
There is a big difference, in cars, between 'maintain' and 'upgrade'. With cars you do not need to swap out major systems with new versions, generally you can get original parts or parts that work the same as originals at least. If your carburetor has a defect you do not need to get more tires because the replacement unit requires a new type of engine.
Also, I suspect that many of the existing XP installs that will be an issue are embedded systems rather then corporate customers. People tend to forget about those but they make up a huge piece of the install base, and you typically can not just throw a new motherboard in there to bring it up to 'Win7 compatible'. Often you have to replace the whole unit and the mess that brings about.
While PSN does not require credit card numbers, it did store them, which is something people might want to sue over in event of a breech.
As for crippling, it is not worth arguing if the 'other os' feature was integral or if its removal harmed people, the point was you had no mechanism to backdate, which with the aforementioned BSD and GPL licenses you can always download the source and install another copy if an update breaks something.
It all depends on who you listen to and which negative coverage you 'notice'. Microsoft gets tons of praise and has an army of fanboys, just like Apple and Google and Facebook, each of which seems to feel that their brand is under constant attack while the 'others' get off easy.