As any TruFan will tell you, it's pronounced SKIFFY.;)
The phrase Sci-Fi came from beloved fan and editor Forrest J. Ackerman, who coined it in honor of Hugo Gernsback, an early 20th century radio enthusiast and pioneer in Science Fiction publishing, who himself coined the audio term "Hi-Fi" for use in one of his other magazines. (He's also the namesake behind Science Fiction's version of the Oscars, called of course the "Hugo").
Alas, Forrey's term stuck.
Names aside, no, Science Fiction does NOT need its own category. It's a genre. Opening that door would mean we'd need a Fantasy Oscar, a Western Oscar, one for Murder Mysteries, Romances, Action/Adventure, Comedy...
I find JavaScript's weak typing and dynamic nature difficult to adapt to because I'm so used to strongly-typed, compiled languages with lots of compile-time error-checking and help from the IDE.
I would recommend a re-acquaintance of the Scientific Method.
This is just smoke & mirrors. Hardware vendors have nothing to fear from these "rules"; they're merely scary posturing.
What happens to hardware after it has been sold has nothing to do with any particular operating system that may have been originally installed.
Tell me honestly that chip, screen or battery maker X could be held liable if I, the end user root my gadget to get Win8 the hell off of it, or may it play with others.
And why do these new requirements not apply to x86? UEFI came from Intel (and HP) in the first place. M$, mighty though they are know two things:
It would not be wise to piss off the main source of chips that runs their code.
It's all BS anyway, as they can't stop folks from playing with the hardware once it's been sold.
What no one seems to be talking about (pun intended) is that a blanket ban on hands-free devices would also preclude one from speaking to another person in the car.
So, sure, just tweak the law to allow for conversations with persons actually present in the vehicle.
So it'll be OK to take your eyes off the road to respond to conversation with your passenger, but not the disembodied voice in your headpiece... exactly how is that safer?
Having been a PC guy since the mid 80's, the switch to a MacBook Pro a year ago last Spring went quite well. The only time I use Parallels these days is for some legacy Excel sheets, as LibreOffice still isn't quite up to par with their VB implementation. (Or I haven't RTFM enough times to properly convert the code...)
Sure, needing to support folks still on 'doze keeps me familiar with the current state of that O/S, but more & more the lines are blurring.
No matter what the platform, the user experience is fairly homogenized: You point. You click. You tap a bit on the keyboard. Stuff happens. Rinse & Repeat.
Manually run a small script each day on a home server. (If you're away from home you SSH in to run the script).
Do this every day, perhaps right after the coffee starts brewing. Make it a habit so you won't forget...
...because if you do forget (or keel over, or for whatever reason do not run the script), another script kicks in and your current P/W list is forwarded to the appropriate parties.
PITA part is remembering to do this every day. Sure wouldn't want to cron that as well, would kinda defeat the purpose.
Many may anticipate the iSqueal fork, hoping it will conveniently be available via the crApp store...
... and it will be, as soon as Emperor Jobs figures rewrites the laws of math, discovering a new (and certainly non-Euclidean) equation wherein FREE * 30% > $0
"Having a life" conflicts with "making me better at my job". Job & life are intertwined, so you never know where a piece of knowledge from one will help the other.
On the surface studying history, for example wouldn't seem to help divining more about OOP. But you might be reading a bio of some historical figure, come across something he or she came up with, and solve that bottleneck that's troubled you all day (or week).
Don't try to choose *all* your classes based solely on what they'll do for your 9 to 5. Pick some stuff that interests you outside your chosen field. The more you know in general, the better you'll be at your job... and your life.
Have been down this road. FrontPage (shudder) in the 90's. DreamWeaver and others for a bit.
HTML, JS, CSS, XML, PHP, Python, Perl... it's all text. Finally realized I did not need a gui editor with internal browser.
Best bet is to know your code, have a good mental idea of what it will do, use the browser to verify.
The following is all open source, so no emptying of the wallet...
Put Apache on your dev machine so you can run vhosts. Modify your hosts file to point localhost to whatever internal-only domain name you choose.
Code with jEdit - java based so completely cross-platform, code folding, syntax highlighting, macro capability etc. A wonderful tool.
View with FireFox. Install the FireBug, Web Developer, ColorZilla and MeasureIt extensions. Find a 'doze machine somewhere so you can (begrudgingly) use IE just to make sure stuff is rendering as you expect. Install Opera & Chrome just because you can, though you'll use them the least.
Write code, save, tab over to FireFox, F5 to refresh.
Rinse and repeat. You'll barely touch the mouse, as Ghu intended.
When things look good, upload with FileZilla (which supports SFTP, so you can safely dial in using your private key).
The hosting company is the apartment complex. All they do is allow traffic to your door.
What you do in the apartment is your concern.
You may wish to involve a web programmer, or learn a whole bunch.;)
-rant-
If the site will be taking money, beware PCI compliance. Experience shows most of the companies offering this "service" are just scammers. Just last night one of my sites failed due to alleged existence of a file that in reality is not even on the server. Not even the directory exists, yet it was flagged for this brand new "critical problem", and supposedly Visa can financially penalize the client due to "failure".
They're mostly a bunch of lazy crooks cashing in on FUD.
-/rant-
Glad this was done, but wondering when IT cops are going to move to the current century.
The authorities went physically to data centers & pulled the plug on suspect servers.
Yes, you'd want to confiscate the offending machines, but why not start by simply updating iptables on the core router(s) serving the DC(s), effectively and simultaneously shutting them off from the outside world?
Timing the takedown would be much better controlled, as it could be scripted and run from a central location. Just set it up and click the "Die Monster Die" icon (or run DMD from your shell) and all the heads of the Hydra get cut at once. Plenty of time for cleanup after you know for sure none of the C&C boxes can shoot out some last-minute instruction before getting shut off.
(Sure, there would be some tug of war on allowing one entity all those logins. That's what ACL's are for. They'd be updated as well after the takedown is complete.)
"CS" is a very broad field. Are you a project manager? A SysAdmin? A repair tech? A coder - be it device drivers, websites, compiled apps, operating systems... ?
A certain amount of math is good for any human to have. If your field requires more, you should learn it.
Running cable or troubleshooting an ailing PC doesn't require much in the way of higher math skills, but coding requires at least a good grasp of logic.
Writing an app like Mathematica would certainly demand some serious chops. (Programming is like teaching, in this case teaching a computer how to act. You yourself must know how it works before you can explain it to others.)
Even if you're in a managerial role, riding herd over those doing the heavy lifting, it would still behoove you to be familiar with what your group needs to know to get the job done.
Others have suggested a VPS; that's just another way to get a static IP (under no circumstances consider shared hosting, you never know who your 'neighbors' may be spamming...)
But, since you run the server out of your own shop, besides switching to a static ip for your own connection, get with StartCom or one of the other low-cost cert folks & switch to SSL for your email traffic as well.
Any of the free DNS services (dyndns, whatever) can be used to create an A record for your IP.
Don't really believe in Astrology, but it does appear to be an amazing predictor of human personality.
So, I suddenly have to change my behavior?
As one born on the cusp (15 minutes as the clock flies, not degree-wise), guess I can now claim three signs. Things were confusing enough with just the two.
There's no problem with an "App Store" per se. It's just another shop. You are welcome to visit it, or not, as you prefer.
Owning just the single Mac product - a laptop - and not using iTunes, I'd had no experience with their store. However, it showed up after the latest software update, so thought to give it a whirl.
Very shiny. Very unusable. Even though it professes to have free items available for download, it does not appear possible to even create an account without providing some method of payment. Sure, you can look around, but how do you get the free stuff without being logged in? Nothing - even the allegedly free items - are actually available unless you're willing to pay.
Sure, there are ways around that. I could acquire a small pre-paid Visa or AmEx, use that to establish the account then actually spend the money somewhere else. But those are extra steps I shouldn't have to go through for free stuff.
I can understand their wanting to track who downloads what, but there's no reason to provide a method of payment for something that has no cost. Surely the system can be smart enough to require payment at the time it's actually necessary.
It's as if you were at the grocery store and the lady behind the display of chips offered a sample to you, but first you had to show her a ten spot.
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As any TruFan will tell you, it's pronounced SKIFFY. ;)
The phrase Sci-Fi came from beloved fan and editor Forrest J. Ackerman, who coined it in honor of Hugo Gernsback, an early 20th century radio enthusiast and pioneer in Science Fiction publishing, who himself coined the audio term "Hi-Fi" for use in one of his other magazines. (He's also the namesake behind Science Fiction's version of the Oscars, called of course the "Hugo").
Alas, Forrey's term stuck.
Names aside, no, Science Fiction does NOT need its own category. It's a genre. Opening that door would mean we'd need a Fantasy Oscar, a Western Oscar, one for Murder Mysteries, Romances, Action/Adventure, Comedy...
I find JavaScript's weak typing and dynamic nature difficult to adapt to because I'm so used to strongly-typed, compiled languages with lots of compile-time error-checking and help from the IDE.
I would recommend a re-acquaintance of the Scientific Method.
What happens to hardware after it has been sold has nothing to do with any particular operating system that may have been originally installed.
Tell me honestly that chip, screen or battery maker X could be held liable if I, the end user root my gadget to get Win8 the hell off of it, or may it play with others.
And why do these new requirements not apply to x86? UEFI came from Intel (and HP) in the first place. M$, mighty though they are know two things:
What no one seems to be talking about (pun intended) is that a blanket ban on hands-free devices would also preclude one from speaking to another person in the car.
... exactly how is that safer?
So, sure, just tweak the law to allow for conversations with persons actually present in the vehicle.
So it'll be OK to take your eyes off the road to respond to conversation with your passenger, but not the disembodied voice in your headpiece
What would I like to see slowed down to such a degree?
Anything from the U.S. Senate. Those guys move waaaaaay to fast.
Inertia, plain and simple.
Having been a PC guy since the mid 80's, the switch to a MacBook Pro a year ago last Spring went quite well. The only time I use Parallels these days is for some legacy Excel sheets, as LibreOffice still isn't quite up to par with their VB implementation. (Or I haven't RTFM enough times to properly convert the code...)
Sure, needing to support folks still on 'doze keeps me familiar with the current state of that O/S, but more & more the lines are blurring.
No matter what the platform, the user experience is fairly homogenized: You point. You click. You tap a bit on the keyboard. Stuff happens. Rinse & Repeat.
Bit of a PITA, but...
...because if you do forget (or keel over, or for whatever reason do not run the script), another script kicks in and your current P/W list is forwarded to the appropriate parties.
Manually run a small script each day on a home server. (If you're away from home you SSH in to run the script).
Do this every day, perhaps right after the coffee starts brewing. Make it a habit so you won't forget...
PITA part is remembering to do this every day. Sure wouldn't want to cron that as well, would kinda defeat the purpose.
Perhaps the good folk at Big Blue have never heard of filters...
That was the subject of Arthur C. Clarke's last books (Time Odyssey, with Stephen Baxter).
We humans needed to be stopped as we were only hastening entropy.
Many may anticipate the iSqueal fork, hoping it will conveniently be available via the crApp store...
... and it will be, as soon as Emperor Jobs figures rewrites the laws of math, discovering a new (and certainly non-Euclidean) equation wherein FREE * 30% > $0
"Having a life" conflicts with "making me better at my job". Job & life are intertwined, so you never know where a piece of knowledge from one will help the other.
... and your life.
On the surface studying history, for example wouldn't seem to help divining more about OOP. But you might be reading a bio of some historical figure, come across something he or she came up with, and solve that bottleneck that's troubled you all day (or week).
Don't try to choose *all* your classes based solely on what they'll do for your 9 to 5. Pick some stuff that interests you outside your chosen field. The more you know in general, the better you'll be at your job
Have been down this road. FrontPage (shudder) in the 90's. DreamWeaver and others for a bit.
HTML, JS, CSS, XML, PHP, Python, Perl... it's all text. Finally realized I did not need a gui editor with internal browser.
Best bet is to know your code, have a good mental idea of what it will do, use the browser to verify.
The following is all open source, so no emptying of the wallet...
Put Apache on your dev machine so you can run vhosts. Modify your hosts file to point localhost to whatever internal-only domain name you choose.
Code with jEdit - java based so completely cross-platform, code folding, syntax highlighting, macro capability etc. A wonderful tool.
View with FireFox. Install the FireBug, Web Developer, ColorZilla and MeasureIt extensions. Find a 'doze machine somewhere so you can (begrudgingly) use IE just to make sure stuff is rendering as you expect. Install Opera & Chrome just because you can, though you'll use them the least.
Write code, save, tab over to FireFox, F5 to refresh. Rinse and repeat. You'll barely touch the mouse, as Ghu intended.
When things look good, upload with FileZilla (which supports SFTP, so you can safely dial in using your private key).
Good luck!
Just wondering when Andy Samberg will be collecting his Nobel prize...
The hosting company is the apartment complex. All they do is allow traffic to your door.
;)
What you do in the apartment is your concern.
You may wish to involve a web programmer, or learn a whole bunch.
-rant-
If the site will be taking money, beware PCI compliance. Experience shows most of the companies offering this "service" are just scammers. Just last night one of my sites failed due to alleged existence of a file that in reality is not even on the server. Not even the directory exists, yet it was flagged for this brand new "critical problem", and supposedly Visa can financially penalize the client due to "failure".
They're mostly a bunch of lazy crooks cashing in on FUD.
-/rant-
In a possible nod to Deacon Dodgson, Mr. Cleese, when asked on the Dick Cavett show about how Monty Python came up with their sketches, said:
"We take an illogical concept, and follow it through to its logical conclusion."
Sage advice. Any good programmer (at least ones that have to deal with UI's) learns to imagine what some random joe might do to his code.
I hear the Document Foundation may be a good fit for this OpenOffice project.
Tablets are a fad ... just like that intertubes thingy.
Glad this was done, but wondering when IT cops are going to move to the current century.
The authorities went physically to data centers & pulled the plug on suspect servers.
Yes, you'd want to confiscate the offending machines, but why not start by simply updating iptables on the core router(s) serving the DC(s), effectively and simultaneously shutting them off from the outside world?
Timing the takedown would be much better controlled, as it could be scripted and run from a central location. Just set it up and click the "Die Monster Die" icon (or run DMD from your shell) and all the heads of the Hydra get cut at once. Plenty of time for cleanup after you know for sure none of the C&C boxes can shoot out some last-minute instruction before getting shut off.
(Sure, there would be some tug of war on allowing one entity all those logins. That's what ACL's are for. They'd be updated as well after the takedown is complete.)
Thank Ghu for Parallels, now my Mac can run every developer's dream editor: Notepad!
"CS" is a very broad field. Are you a project manager? A SysAdmin? A repair tech? A coder - be it device drivers, websites, compiled apps, operating systems... ?
A certain amount of math is good for any human to have. If your field requires more, you should learn it.
Running cable or troubleshooting an ailing PC doesn't require much in the way of higher math skills, but coding requires at least a good grasp of logic.
Writing an app like Mathematica would certainly demand some serious chops. (Programming is like teaching, in this case teaching a computer how to act. You yourself must know how it works before you can explain it to others.)
Even if you're in a managerial role, riding herd over those doing the heavy lifting, it would still behoove you to be familiar with what your group needs to know to get the job done.
Others have suggested a VPS; that's just another way to get a static IP (under no circumstances consider shared hosting, you never know who your 'neighbors' may be spamming...) But, since you run the server out of your own shop, besides switching to a static ip for your own connection, get with StartCom or one of the other low-cost cert folks & switch to SSL for your email traffic as well. Any of the free DNS services (dyndns, whatever) can be used to create an A record for your IP.
Two possible reasons:
Only if one is not concerned by the prospect of our delicious green cheese being commandeered by commies.
Don't really believe in Astrology, but it does appear to be an amazing predictor of human personality.
So, I suddenly have to change my behavior?
As one born on the cusp (15 minutes as the clock flies, not degree-wise), guess I can now claim three signs. Things were confusing enough with just the two.
There's no problem with an "App Store" per se. It's just another shop. You are welcome to visit it, or not, as you prefer.
Owning just the single Mac product - a laptop - and not using iTunes, I'd had no experience with their store. However, it showed up after the latest software update, so thought to give it a whirl.
Very shiny. Very unusable. Even though it professes to have free items available for download, it does not appear possible to even create an account without providing some method of payment. Sure, you can look around, but how do you get the free stuff without being logged in? Nothing - even the allegedly free items - are actually available unless you're willing to pay.
Sure, there are ways around that. I could acquire a small pre-paid Visa or AmEx, use that to establish the account then actually spend the money somewhere else. But those are extra steps I shouldn't have to go through for free stuff.
I can understand their wanting to track who downloads what, but there's no reason to provide a method of payment for something that has no cost. Surely the system can be smart enough to require payment at the time it's actually necessary.
It's as if you were at the grocery store and the lady behind the display of chips offered a sample to you, but first you had to show her a ten spot.
Guess I'm welcome to shop elsewhere.