It may not be programming. But is concept mapping worth considering? From Wikipedia:
Concept maps are a way to develop logical thinking and study skills, by revealing connections and helping students see how individual ideas form a larger whole.
That is probably a valuable skill to have for anything, and can easily be extended to programming.
Umm yeah ok. But if you do sum = num1 + num2, sum _does_ equal num1+num2 after the assignment. I am not sure what you're getting at. Perhaps you meant the expression x = x + 1 is counter-intuitive unless you understand the '=' operator means 'assign to x'.
That's a pretty vague distinction Ray. Personally I hate the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 nonsense, but I guess if it makes sense to people that is the way things will travel. Before "the web" there were places called BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems). The BBSs were actually quite like "web 2.0" and communities were born around them. Also, back in the dark ages of Web 1.0 there were heaps of communities and community sites. Linux, for a start, evolved its community during the Web 1.0 era.
I'm not deliberately trying to be critical Ray (your comments are way up in my respect-o-meter and I always value what you say). I just find this web 1.0 and web 2.0 thing difficult to grasp.
I don't like "automatic" because it's easy to set up, but difficult to stop. I'm not sure I see any big difference between writing "1000" on a slip of paper (which is not legal tender)
What are you talking about? Of course it's legal tender. If you don't think it's legal then feel free to send me a check for $22000 so I can buy a new graphics card. Thanks.
I work at UMass Amherst and I'm trying to get this implemented
What would you get sued for? Stating a fact? Surely the US has not gone that crazy (although, I agree, from the news reports and stuff people in the US sue at the drop of a penny).
Why the hell should a university pay the mafia anyway? Is your university a mecca for file sharers and the root of all illegal activities. Last I checked universities were places to go to learn. I don't think I know anybody who goes to uni for the filesharing advantages. Are you saying that your uni is the source of a good majority of pirated stuff and that is what your students spend most of their time doing?
I work at UMass Amherst and I'm trying to get this implemented
Why exactly are you trying to get this implemented? Somebody told you it was good? Got a phone call from the mafia? Clueless? It will look good on your resume?
Your post is modded informative, but there is nothing informative about it except that you're trying to get it implemented. I don't know what position you hold at UMAss, but this kind of blind following is exactly what the RIAA hopes. Do they not teach critical thinking at UMass anymore? Are you tenured or a guy/girl with an administrative job. If you are a guy/girl with an administrative job then I really think you should do some research and gain an informed opinion. If you're a tenured prof/scientist/researcher or whatever, then you should know better.
I am only asking because I'd really like to know what motivates you trying to comply with the RIAA extortion.
The two classic counterexamples to your curmudgeonly and frankly unbelievable assertion (seriously, who doesn't listen to music?)
I seriously do not (intentionally) listen to music. I have zero music CDs and zero music files on any of my computers. Hard to believe? Maybe. But I don't... music doesn't interest me.
Lucky there isn't a camera tax. I use my camera all the time in libraries making "illegal" copies of pages of books. Of course, it's not illegal is it... it's fair use. But I bet if the RIAA were representing books they'd want a camera tax as well. And why isn't there a pen/pencil tax? I can sit in a library and write down, verbatim, the text from a book.
And what about people like me who don't listen to music? Why the hell should I (indirectly through the university) pay their stupid "tax" (it's not a tax... I don't think anyone but governments can create a tax)?
That's great. But from my memory of university there were a lot of things that we students wanted (and I am sure that if we voted most would have been in support of). Unfortunately this isn't always a good thing. In the real word universities are not run by the majority spoken students (nor should they be). I'm not supporting the RIAA or anyone else, I am just saying that a student vote, which might sound all nice and cozy and demacratic, is probably not the right way to go.
He claims his firewall blocks all unknown incoming traffic. It would be impossible for him to download a file with a virus as that would be considered unknown incoming traffic.
No offence, but what are you talking about? The incoming file is known traffic, yes. Whether or not that file is a virus or contains a trojan is not known at all by the firewall (and nor should it know or care). It would be perfectly possible to download a file with a virus in it because it's not the virus that the firewall is letting through... it's the file.
Meanwhile, to bang the open source drum, they also didn't test Clam AV. I don't know Clam's market share, but I have to say I like it a lot for its ease of integration into my UNIXy infrastructure compared to the commercial ones I've tried...
I also like ClamAV (see my post above). I use it from my linux machines to scan my Windows machines when they're "offline". Had to write a script to get it to work how I wanted... but that's the beauty of the command line.
I believe that there's a GUI front-end for ClamAV as well (klamav I think it's called). I haven't tried it and I think it's still in early development, but I guess I'll check it out one day just for interests sake.
Sure, but as a user... I get sick of both. I just want something that detects "bad stuff", and doesn't tell me when it finds "good stuff", or at least doesn't remind me every day how sad it is that I need all this crap bolted onto my system just so I can browse fanfics.
Yeah I agree. But my firewall doesn't do that, so I think I misunderstood what you were getting at. Alerting the user about "good stuff" is a bit silly. Obviously when I first set up a firewall lots of good stuff gets queried and logged, but after a few days this should go away (after "training" the firewall).
ClamAV also marks malformed.exe and encrypted compressed files (archives) as potential malware. I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I run clamav on my linux box and use it to scan my XP box (that I use for games). Some of the things are legitimate system (or service pack) files. Fortunately I know this and don't delete them. I can envisage a situation though where I don't know whether the file is OK or not, and in this case the agressive "hueristics" will do nothing but plant FUD.
In regards to firewalls, I think that is the opposite situation. Firewalls (IMO) *should* be paranoid. I don't want a firewall that "knows" what firefox is and what a firefox update is -- why should a firewall need to know this anyway. Keep them simple and err on the side of caution.
It's actually good that you mention this. It was the same with Crysis. You are meant to be on a team, but the whole game played out as if I was on my own (which you are most of the time). It was not until I replayed Crysis and ignored my 'team' (and explored, and took a sniper approach) that I enjoyed it. First time around, with my team, I didn't like it as much.
You're in a team. And, overall, they respond pretty well and predictably. I also find that in CoD4 I 'felt' part of the team. In CoD5 I felt like my team was just there, not helping and I may as well have been on my own.
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Modula-2! Umm, dunno if there is any compilers readily available though.
Concept maps are a way to develop logical thinking and study skills, by revealing connections and helping students see how individual ideas form a larger whole.
That is probably a valuable skill to have for anything, and can easily be extended to programming.
Umm yeah ok. But if you do sum = num1 + num2, sum _does_ equal num1+num2 after the assignment. I am not sure what you're getting at. Perhaps you meant the expression x = x + 1 is counter-intuitive unless you understand the '=' operator means 'assign to x'.
This may be of interest.
Just for the record I am reading http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070302073736822. Absolutely brilliant.
Understood. That makes it all clear. I am sorry for doubting you. Regards.
That's a pretty vague distinction Ray. Personally I hate the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 nonsense, but I guess if it makes sense to people that is the way things will travel. Before "the web" there were places called BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems). The BBSs were actually quite like "web 2.0" and communities were born around them. Also, back in the dark ages of Web 1.0 there were heaps of communities and community sites. Linux, for a start, evolved its community during the Web 1.0 era.
I'm not deliberately trying to be critical Ray (your comments are way up in my respect-o-meter and I always value what you say). I just find this web 1.0 and web 2.0 thing difficult to grasp.
I don't like "automatic" because it's easy to set up, but difficult to stop. I'm not sure I see any big difference between writing "1000" on a slip of paper (which is not legal tender)
What are you talking about? Of course it's legal tender. If you don't think it's legal then feel free to send me a check for $22000 so I can buy a new graphics card. Thanks.
LOL. It seems my ctrl-c did not work and the quote was from another article. Ooops. Sue me.
I work at UMass Amherst and I'm trying to get this implemented
What would you get sued for? Stating a fact? Surely the US has not gone that crazy (although, I agree, from the news reports and stuff people in the US sue at the drop of a penny).
Troll? It's the truth.
Why the hell should a university pay the mafia anyway? Is your university a mecca for file sharers and the root of all illegal activities. Last I checked universities were places to go to learn. I don't think I know anybody who goes to uni for the filesharing advantages. Are you saying that your uni is the source of a good majority of pirated stuff and that is what your students spend most of their time doing?
I work at UMass Amherst and I'm trying to get this implemented
Why exactly are you trying to get this implemented? Somebody told you it was good? Got a phone call from the mafia? Clueless? It will look good on your resume?
Your post is modded informative, but there is nothing informative about it except that you're trying to get it implemented. I don't know what position you hold at UMAss, but this kind of blind following is exactly what the RIAA hopes. Do they not teach critical thinking at UMass anymore? Are you tenured or a guy/girl with an administrative job. If you are a guy/girl with an administrative job then I really think you should do some research and gain an informed opinion. If you're a tenured prof/scientist/researcher or whatever, then you should know better.
I am only asking because I'd really like to know what motivates you trying to comply with the RIAA extortion.
The two classic counterexamples to your curmudgeonly and frankly unbelievable assertion (seriously, who doesn't listen to music?)
I seriously do not (intentionally) listen to music. I have zero music CDs and zero music files on any of my computers. Hard to believe? Maybe. But I don't... music doesn't interest me.
Lucky there isn't a camera tax. I use my camera all the time in libraries making "illegal" copies of pages of books. Of course, it's not illegal is it... it's fair use. But I bet if the RIAA were representing books they'd want a camera tax as well. And why isn't there a pen/pencil tax? I can sit in a library and write down, verbatim, the text from a book.
And what about people like me who don't listen to music? Why the hell should I (indirectly through the university) pay their stupid "tax" (it's not a tax... I don't think anyone but governments can create a tax)?
Why should I pay a monthly fee, for something I already legally own, so that I can play it on the device of my choice?
That's great. But from my memory of university there were a lot of things that we students wanted (and I am sure that if we voted most would have been in support of). Unfortunately this isn't always a good thing. In the real word universities are not run by the majority spoken students (nor should they be). I'm not supporting the RIAA or anyone else, I am just saying that a student vote, which might sound all nice and cozy and demacratic, is probably not the right way to go.
He claims his firewall blocks all unknown incoming traffic. It would be impossible for him to download a file with a virus as that would be considered unknown incoming traffic.
No offence, but what are you talking about? The incoming file is known traffic, yes. Whether or not that file is a virus or contains a trojan is not known at all by the firewall (and nor should it know or care). It would be perfectly possible to download a file with a virus in it because it's not the virus that the firewall is letting through... it's the file.
Meanwhile, to bang the open source drum, they also didn't test Clam AV. I don't know Clam's market share, but I have to say I like it a lot for its ease of integration into my UNIXy infrastructure compared to the commercial ones I've tried...
I also like ClamAV (see my post above). I use it from my linux machines to scan my Windows machines when they're "offline". Had to write a script to get it to work how I wanted... but that's the beauty of the command line.
I believe that there's a GUI front-end for ClamAV as well (klamav I think it's called). I haven't tried it and I think it's still in early development, but I guess I'll check it out one day just for interests sake.
Sure, but as a user... I get sick of both. I just want something that detects "bad stuff", and doesn't tell me when it finds "good stuff", or at least doesn't remind me every day how sad it is that I need all this crap bolted onto my system just so I can browse fanfics.
Yeah I agree. But my firewall doesn't do that, so I think I misunderstood what you were getting at. Alerting the user about "good stuff" is a bit silly. Obviously when I first set up a firewall lots of good stuff gets queried and logged, but after a few days this should go away (after "training" the firewall).
ClamAV also marks malformed .exe and encrypted compressed files (archives) as potential malware. I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I run clamav on my linux box and use it to scan my XP box (that I use for games). Some of the things are legitimate system (or service pack) files. Fortunately I know this and don't delete them. I can envisage a situation though where I don't know whether the file is OK or not, and in this case the agressive "hueristics" will do nothing but plant FUD.
In regards to firewalls, I think that is the opposite situation. Firewalls (IMO) *should* be paranoid. I don't want a firewall that "knows" what firefox is and what a firefox update is -- why should a firewall need to know this anyway. Keep them simple and err on the side of caution.
It's actually good that you mention this. It was the same with Crysis. You are meant to be on a team, but the whole game played out as if I was on my own (which you are most of the time). It was not until I replayed Crysis and ignored my 'team' (and explored, and took a sniper approach) that I enjoyed it. First time around, with my team, I didn't like it as much.
You're in a team. And, overall, they respond pretty well and predictably. I also find that in CoD4 I 'felt' part of the team. In CoD5 I felt like my team was just there, not helping and I may as well have been on my own.
That's funny. I played it on 1680x1050. *shrug*