So you'd rather have a lot of things shoved down your throat that you don't want to read or ask the professor what a good book is. I've chosen the latter approach. I know professors and ask them for suggestions without having to have them shoved down my throat in class with a timeline for reading. I'm done with this discussion. It's pointless. If you want to take it, the last word is yours.
You're taking a specific example and generalizing it. Your post implied that worthwhile books are necessarily not enjoyable. I'm saying that that isn't the case because I very much enjoyed the only book you cited as an example.
This is stupid. (oh wait, this is/. This kind of discussion should be expected)
*prepares to be modded flamebiat again*
Aren't you assuming that I wouldn't want to read Descartes? I've read Discourse on Method (before we were assigned it for a class). I find those types of books interesting, and luckily I was brought up having an interest in that type of reading.
That's what I'm trying to say. I do derive pleasure from that type of reading so it's not a contradiction at all.
Now you sound like my professors. I'm perfectly capable of knowing what books to read. I love literature. I love writing. Don't assume that I don't because I don't like being told what to read and what to write about. I read for its own pleasure, and not for the purpose of becoming 'well rounded'. There is a huge difference and it seems that you haven't learned it yet.
I think that some employees should be able to. Granted, almost everyone in IT probably has Administrative access to their work machines. However, some might not. If so, then it's wasted prodcutivity for someone that knows what they're doing to have to wait for the helpdesk staff to do it. And, let's be honest. The helpdesk doesn't always do everything right.
The question is where to draw the line. Obviously if you or I had to sit around and wait for someone to come do everything for us, we'd be pretty unhappy. What are the chances that there are capable people around that are just getting annoyed with having to go to IT for everything when they are perfectly capable of handling it themselves?
Maybe it's not the case everywhere, but here the problems it that the CS department teaches entirely theoretical computer science, expecting you to learn everything else when you get to industry.
This is a horrible attitude, as many students (including myself) are not going into software development. Now, I took the initiative, bought a bunch of books, read articles and practiced using all of the techniques/design patterns etc for both OO and procedural languages.
Of course, students can't be taught everything in school, but if you go and ask a classroom of students here what polymorphism is, you'll get a lot of blank looks. The same goes with memory management in C/C++. People just don't know how to do it.
It's a real problem here and I don't really know the right way to fix it.
You said it. I love how professors take all semester to grade things (keep in mind that they're grading your programs with grep) but if you turn it in even a minute late, it's 20% off your grade.
If challenged, they'll say that the stress is part of learning. I'd like to know how turning your project in half working on time makes you learn more than turning it in fully working a day late.
I'm just far more productive in the early morning than I am in the late night. I wake up at 6 and go work out, and hit the shower around 7:15. I'll sometimes stay out late on weekend nights, but because I'm so accustomed to waking up early, I can't sleep past 9 or so, even when I go to bed late. It's worked out well so far for me.
If it's a problem, don't vary your sleep schedule. I'm a college student and I always sleep from 10 - 6. Every single night. I treat sleep in the exact same way I do a class. There's no skipping it. This means that I need to do what it takes to get my work done by 10. Of course, this means that some days, or even weeks, I don't have much of a social life, but I'm a computer science major anyway so there's not much to lose there.:D
In all seriousness, I've found that once I started doing that, things became much easier and I was actually able to get my 8 hours every night and still get all of my work done. I highly recommend trying it for a week. If you don't like it, then fine. But, I think you'll notice a difference as I did.
Was I the only one to read the title and question why someone was talking about an expandable array on Slashdot in 2008? I thought the Vector had been around for some time now.
I never said it was practical. All I'm doing is pointing out that anyone who says XOR encryption is insecure or useless doesn't know what they're talking about. It would be stupid to use it for an entire drive, of course.
Iperf, or something like it is what you should be using for speed tests. Set up the daemon on a machine that you know you need to access and tell it to send a ton of data a few times. See what the results are. Those speed tests test how quickly you can communicate with some random server that you'll never need to send any presentations or video files to in day to day business.
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Am I the only one that thought by pagers, we were talking about more, less and company?
Evidence? Or just rhetoric?
Who said anything about a lab? I'm talking about dorms, where there are two ports in a room and two people in a room.
If you let users have physical access to your network hardware, you deserve to be cracked.
So you'd rather have a lot of things shoved down your throat that you don't want to read or ask the professor what a good book is. I've chosen the latter approach. I know professors and ask them for suggestions without having to have them shoved down my throat in class with a timeline for reading. I'm done with this discussion. It's pointless. If you want to take it, the last word is yours.
You're taking a specific example and generalizing it. Your post implied that worthwhile books are necessarily not enjoyable. I'm saying that that isn't the case because I very much enjoyed the only book you cited as an example. This is stupid. (oh wait, this is /. This kind of discussion should be expected)
*prepares to be modded flamebiat again*
Aren't you assuming that I wouldn't want to read Descartes? I've read Discourse on Method (before we were assigned it for a class). I find those types of books interesting, and luckily I was brought up having an interest in that type of reading. That's what I'm trying to say. I do derive pleasure from that type of reading so it's not a contradiction at all.
Now you sound like my professors. I'm perfectly capable of knowing what books to read. I love literature. I love writing. Don't assume that I don't because I don't like being told what to read and what to write about. I read for its own pleasure, and not for the purpose of becoming 'well rounded'. There is a huge difference and it seems that you haven't learned it yet.
I agree. I'm at a liberal arts school and I spend far more time in these ridiculous liberal arts class than I do in my CS classes. Not cool at all.
I think that some employees should be able to. Granted, almost everyone in IT probably has Administrative access to their work machines. However, some might not. If so, then it's wasted prodcutivity for someone that knows what they're doing to have to wait for the helpdesk staff to do it. And, let's be honest. The helpdesk doesn't always do everything right.
The question is where to draw the line. Obviously if you or I had to sit around and wait for someone to come do everything for us, we'd be pretty unhappy. What are the chances that there are capable people around that are just getting annoyed with having to go to IT for everything when they are perfectly capable of handling it themselves?
Yea, they really dropped the ball on coreutils, huh?
Maybe it's not the case everywhere, but here the problems it that the CS department teaches entirely theoretical computer science, expecting you to learn everything else when you get to industry.
This is a horrible attitude, as many students (including myself) are not going into software development. Now, I took the initiative, bought a bunch of books, read articles and practiced using all of the techniques/design patterns etc for both OO and procedural languages.
Of course, students can't be taught everything in school, but if you go and ask a classroom of students here what polymorphism is, you'll get a lot of blank looks. The same goes with memory management in C/C++. People just don't know how to do it.
It's a real problem here and I don't really know the right way to fix it.
Make mine a Guinness :)
serial port? Configure any network hardware lately?
You said it. I love how professors take all semester to grade things (keep in mind that they're grading your programs with grep) but if you turn it in even a minute late, it's 20% off your grade.
If challenged, they'll say that the stress is part of learning. I'd like to know how turning your project in half working on time makes you learn more than turning it in fully working a day late.
Yup, live in a dorm. I'm a junior.
I'm just far more productive in the early morning than I am in the late night. I wake up at 6 and go work out, and hit the shower around 7:15. I'll sometimes stay out late on weekend nights, but because I'm so accustomed to waking up early, I can't sleep past 9 or so, even when I go to bed late. It's worked out well so far for me.
If it's a problem, don't vary your sleep schedule. I'm a college student and I always sleep from 10 - 6. Every single night. I treat sleep in the exact same way I do a class. There's no skipping it. This means that I need to do what it takes to get my work done by 10. Of course, this means that some days, or even weeks, I don't have much of a social life, but I'm a computer science major anyway so there's not much to lose there. :D
In all seriousness, I've found that once I started doing that, things became much easier and I was actually able to get my 8 hours every night and still get all of my work done. I highly recommend trying it for a week. If you don't like it, then fine. But, I think you'll notice a difference as I did.
Or, you could always go the 28 hour day route.
Am I the only one that chuckled at this?
Was I the only one to read the title and question why someone was talking about an expandable array on Slashdot in 2008? I thought the Vector had been around for some time now.
Can anyone tell me what all those blocks assigned to whois are for?
I never said it was practical. All I'm doing is pointing out that anyone who says XOR encryption is insecure or useless doesn't know what they're talking about. It would be stupid to use it for an entire drive, of course.
Iperf, or something like it is what you should be using for speed tests. Set up the daemon on a machine that you know you need to access and tell it to send a ton of data a few times. See what the results are. Those speed tests test how quickly you can communicate with some random server that you'll never need to send any presentations or video files to in day to day business.
Don't forget that with a key that is as long as the message and is random, XOR encryption is not just computationally hard, it is totally unbreakable.
This reminds me of that Mac Sucks video. True, most of these things don't happen in OS X (or so I hear. I don't use Macs), but it's still funny.
You mean that you don't just rip the switch out of the rack and throw it up in the air? I thought everyone untangled like that!