Obviously, much of the difference is actually inherited from the country from which the bulk of the residents draw their lineage from -whether England, France, Spain, Germany....
"Well, yeah, it is. In this case, while the citation may be there, enough of the text is taken that there's no point in consulting the original article (so it's not like aggregators such as slashdot, which point to the article). The blogger adds no additional content, and effectively profits (whether in "community kudos" or adsense) from unauthorized reproduction of someone else's content.
That's plagiarism, whether cited it or not.
Think of some of the "techno trends" blog links that make it to slashdot sometimes. Slashdot links to the blog; the blog contains pretty much the whole news item, and you're done."
I'm no sports fan, and I wonder how you feel that skipping the breaks and timeshifting affects the impact of a game. Does it go by "too quickly?" Does it still feel like you are watching it live? Does it hold the same excitement value?
No, watching a sporting event with TiVo/Myth and skipping commercials is not the same as watching it "live".
It's better.
The game has more impact, more excitement when I'm not distracted by ads whose content/tone is it odds with the action.
Plus the flexibility is incredible. If it's a lazy sunday afternoon, I just skip the commercials/intermissions. If it's late on a school night, and I just want to get to end and get to bed, I skip the commentary and just watch the action whistle to whistle. Cut the crap and catch all the action. Imagine watching a 60-minute sporting event in a little over 60-minutes, as opposed to 3-hours.
Either way, I've left commercial tv and I'm not going back.
It's an ad for a local discount furniture store (I'm in the Boston area)
Let me guess: Bob's Discount Furniture with the owner saying "at THEIR store? I doubt it!" in a Kennedy-style masshole accent? Yeah, those have got to rank with the most annoying advertisements ever.
I was thinking Bernie and Phyl, but Bob's is worse. I wonder if that advertising tactic works on anyone--annoying==memorable. Yeah, thanks to those obnoxious jingles I remember 1-800-54-GIANT. I mean, I remember to call any one but that number when my windshield's busted.
Whatever. For broadcast tv I have TiVo--the only live tv I watch is the end of sporting events when I don't build up enough buffer before starting to watch. For radio it's NPR and Sirius. If it's a new commercial from the last 2 year, I probably haven't seen/heard it.
I think Tivo and others may be missing something here, people watching TV do appreciate a "breather" every once in a while
Huh? "Breather"? Maybe if you're watching The Godfather trilogy, or something on that scale, you might want a bathroom break every couple of hours. But are you so out of shape (mentally and/or physically) you can't make it through a 22-minute (skipping commercials) sit com without a "breather"?
I was a late-comer to "Lost" and caught up by downloading most of the first season. It was so great to watch those episodes without interruption, so easy to get lost in the narrative. Now watching the current episodes, even having to hit the 30-second skip a dozen times every 20 minutes makes the show less enjoyable.
I would not watch that show with commercials. Period. I won't say I'd give up on commercial tv without TiVo--I could still get through Simpsons and some sporting events. But with a drama like Lost that depends on drawing the viewer into a mood and a tone, for me it isn't a question of commercials or no commercials. I wouldn't watch Sopranos with commercials. I wouldn't watch Deadwood with commercials. I wouldn't watch Lost with commercials. Anymore than I would read Lord of the Rings if I had to read 2 pages of ad copy after every chapter.
I've been to the promised land. I have TiVo. I'm not going back. I don't need a "breather". There are enough alternatives--premium channels, DVDs, books, the real world.
For the record, I do watch the ads TiVo downloads. But I don't do it in the middle of a show.
Nixon couldn't make today--he'd be way too liberal! The guy set up the EPA, visited Moscow and China, negotiated SALT I...
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Nixon fan. But here we have one of the most power-hungry, fascist, paranoid figures in the history of American politics, and there's no way he'd get within a mile of the White House today. He wasn't power-hungry, fascist, or paranoid enough!
Marvin had a brain that was practically the size of a planet and he was gloomy.
What part of 'brain the size of a planet' confuses people? Are there any other examples of Marvin exaggerating? Or using metaphor? Or expressing itself as anything other than a perfectly logical (although depressed) machine?
When Marvin says it has the brain the size of a planet, it means somewhere in the galaxy is a planet-sized object which serves the functions of Marvin's brain. There's no 'practically' about it. The space between Marvin's ears was not his brain, but rather a gateway to his brain, which being the size of a planet, would not fit on his shoulders.
Well gee, if Marvin has a brain the size of a planet...and the Earth was in reality a computer--an artificial brain, if you will--the size of a planet...
Sometimes I wonder if anyone on/. has really encountered any of the various forms of HHGttG, or all you all just poseurs?
Hmmm, we might have crossed paths. I came in Oct 2000. About March 2001 they let go all the tech staff and kept the sales guys. Then sometime Sept/Oct 2001 they closed shop.
I still have a PR video floating around my hard drive. Probably the only thing that company ever finished.
The best was when they dumped all us techies, they offered to accelerate all our stock options. Gee, our stock would be unsecured (last in line to get paid when the whole thing went tits up), while the notes from the investors are secured (first in line). So they'd let us pay the folks who were firing us. How kind.
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If SQL is pronounced 'ess cue ell', is MySQL pronounced 'emm why ess cue ell'?
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And the Microsofties are correct, if referring to the server platform. 'MS-SQL Server' is 'Microsoft Sequel Server.' (It's MS's product; they can call it whatever they wish.)
The structured query language is abbreviated 'ess cue ell.'
So it's perfectly correct to say, "let's see how that ess cue ell code performs on the sequel server."
Is there anything there that's really all that nuts?
Yes.
I'll put it this way--Sony has abandoned Betamax. They must be dead in the water. DAT was a let-down. No more movies on UMD. DRMed CDs. Time to start short-selling Sony.
The facts on Sony's failures are not in despute. It's the conclusion, that Sony is dead in the water, that would be nuts.
Likewise, Microssoft has made mistakes. But with huge leads in the desktop OS, web browser, office suite markets, with signifigant presence in the server OS and application markets, plus the gaming, and, oh yeah, a couple billion in the bank, I would LOVE to be that kind of dead in the water.
Dvorak throws out some statements to which people who don't think for themselves and figure, it's on the internet it must be true, can say, "he's got a good point." For the rest of us who use our brains, he's full of shite.
When were you at Sprockets? I would guess before they brought in Kevin Hegg. I wouldn't say Sprockets.com was fake, but it wasn't money well spent
In the month or so between getting hired and actually starting the job, they had some big shake up. They had planned a big roll-out at some conference, and it turned out none of the code was worth the bits it was printed on. Not only was all dev outsourced, but no one was managing the project or doing any sort of QA. I heard they completely faked the presentation at the conference with fake screen shots passed off as a live site.
Then they started pretty much from scratch again. Brought in a new guy to head up development. Still outsourced but had the devs in Boston do some actual work, even if just to have someone watching the code to make sure it changed over time as actual work got done.
And then there were the lay-offs a couple weeks after I started. I got stuck as the office network admin half way through an upgrade to Win2k/AD. About 6 months later they laid off pretty much all technical staff, just kept management and sales. I guess the plan was, if they actually sold the service, then they'd finish up dev.
Anyway, I'd come from a REAL start-up--no VC money, no swag. The owner/founder was lead dev, and I was dev/QA/net admin/webmaster/tech support. I actually thought the move to Sprockets was a step up to a 'real' company. Ah, the naivete of youth.
Well, it wasn't a complete loss. It was during my time at Sprockets I was introduced to Computer Stew. "Starship. Jefferson Starship."
1989 1st in seven-state region, American High School Mathematics Exam
1989 Principal Mallet Percussionist, Oklahoma All-State Band
1988 Principal Mallet Percussionist, Oklahoma All-State Orchestra
Yes, someone 15 years out of high school with such credentials on his CV is most likely a suckup and a twit. So you were best in your school at beating your mallet. Get over it; no one cares.
It's like people with "MCSE, MCP" or some other similar combo on their cards/CV. MCP means you've passed any single MS exam. By definition, every MCSE, MCSA, or otherwise is also an MCP. Adding MCP to another MS credential is redundant.
Other than the patents, I doubt the list you quote is that different from what many/.ers could claim. Oh wait, I don't have a gold star from my employer.
Amazing how many people still don't understand the difference between correlation and causation. I think everyone should take an intro economisc or statistics class just to realize the difference.
Who has time for for an economics class? Summer is just around the corner. We've got to do something about all that ice cream out there!!
Please, think of the children.
(Maybe we should start adding vaccine to the sprinkles. (Am I the only one who calls them jimmies?))
Don't listen to the people who say you need math or other sciences in order to do computers. In general, the people who say that tend to be people who don't know anything about computers.
...or just anything about computer science...
I was never very good at math, never really took any chemistry or biology, but did get into physics and electronics a bit. However, I was insanely into computers. Since then I've done lots of work programming, system and network administration, and all sorts of other computer-related work. A decade ago I started a technology company that has allowed me to challenge myself in so many different ways ever since.
I do not doubt the parent poster's success with computers and business, but it doesn't sound like he's ever done computer science.
Look at it this way, do you need a lot of math to work on cars? Well, it depends.
If you want to maintain and repair cars, you might need a little math--metric to english unit conversions, gear ratios, that sort of stuff--but not too much. For the computer world, that's kinda like being a sys or network admin. (Not the best analogy, but go with it.)
If you want to build cars, again you could probably get away with basic math. Certainly there are skills much more important to a career building cars. That's kinda like being a programmer. Most of the folks in this thread saying forget the math are programmers. What they do may be challenging, and they may be very good at it, but it ain't science--computer, rocket, or other.
The original question was in regards to computer science. In my analogy, car science isn't building cars nor maintaining cars, it's designing cars. And you better believe that takes a math or two. I'm talking designing wind tunnel experiments, crunching data from crash tests, space-age materials, all that jazz.
The guys doing car science use a lot math. Same goes for the guys doing computer science.
I don't mean to turn anyone off to looking into a CS degree. I just want to put responses from programmers into the proper perspective. Programming is not computer science.
That said, math is a big world. Most folks who have gone up to taking calc have no idea what real math is. Most high school math tracks (at least in my limited experience) focus everyone to calculus as some holy grail of mathematics. And it really isn't that big a deal, especially for computer science.
I picked up an undergrad major in math just taking another math course whenever I had room in my schedule and am in my first year of going back to school for a grad degree in CS with a math concentration, and my calc days pretty much ended in high school after the AP test. Linear algebra, abstract algebra, Galois theory, discrete math. Calc was fun, but 9th grade algebra has been more useful for me than 12th grade calc.
Now, if you took calc and worked hard and got extra tutoring and really focused and snuck out with a D+, CS may not be the best path through college. But if you took calc, shuffled through with a B, coulda done better but you just weren't interested, well than that really doesn't come consideration one way or another for picking CS as major.
IMHO.
On the other, Sony is being made a scapegoat for the relative complexity of maintaining a secure and clean system.
Riiiight. Just like Jeffrey Dahmer was made a scapegoat for the relative complexity of maintaining a living system. Was it his fault people are so easy to kill and yummy?
The concept of pre-selling domain names before they expire...blah blah blah...The day after it expired...blah blah blah...
You admit to letting your domain name registration expire. Where's the pre-selling?
As for those wondering where to find a good registrar, I have a small personal web site with Digital Space with domain names registered through them. When the registration comes up for expiration I get email notice at 90, 60, and 30-days before the expiration date.
Seriously, OP needs to grow up. Don't pay your mortgage, the bank might take your house. Don't pay your registration, the registrar might take your domain name. This ain't rocket science.
Prisoner #1: So what're you in for?
Prisoner #2: Aggravated assault. You?
Prisoner #1: Armed robbery. How 'bout you?
AOL Engineer: I stole 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and sold them to spammers who sent out up to 7 billion unsolicited e-mail messages.
Prisoners #1 and 2 inch away from AOL Engineer at the lunch table
AOL Engineer: And disturbing the peace.
Prisoners #1 and 2 slap the AOL Engineer on the back and all have a good laugh.
Slashdot Mirror
There. Fixed that for ya.
"Well, yeah, it is. In this case, while the citation may be there, enough of the text is taken that there's no point in consulting the original article (so it's not like aggregators such as slashdot, which point to the article). The blogger adds no additional content, and effectively profits (whether in "community kudos" or adsense) from unauthorized reproduction of someone else's content.
That's plagiarism, whether cited it or not.
Think of some of the "techno trends" blog links that make it to slashdot sometimes. Slashdot links to the blog; the blog contains pretty much the whole news item, and you're done."
--DingerX
No, watching a sporting event with TiVo/Myth and skipping commercials is not the same as watching it "live".
It's better.
The game has more impact, more excitement when I'm not distracted by ads whose content/tone is it odds with the action.
Plus the flexibility is incredible. If it's a lazy sunday afternoon, I just skip the commercials/intermissions. If it's late on a school night, and I just want to get to end and get to bed, I skip the commentary and just watch the action whistle to whistle. Cut the crap and catch all the action. Imagine watching a 60-minute sporting event in a little over 60-minutes, as opposed to 3-hours.
Either way, I've left commercial tv and I'm not going back.
Whatever. For broadcast tv I have TiVo--the only live tv I watch is the end of sporting events when I don't build up enough buffer before starting to watch. For radio it's NPR and Sirius. If it's a new commercial from the last 2 year, I probably haven't seen/heard it.
Huh? "Breather"? Maybe if you're watching The Godfather trilogy, or something on that scale, you might want a bathroom break every couple of hours. But are you so out of shape (mentally and/or physically) you can't make it through a 22-minute (skipping commercials) sit com without a "breather"?
I was a late-comer to "Lost" and caught up by downloading most of the first season. It was so great to watch those episodes without interruption, so easy to get lost in the narrative. Now watching the current episodes, even having to hit the 30-second skip a dozen times every 20 minutes makes the show less enjoyable.
I would not watch that show with commercials. Period. I won't say I'd give up on commercial tv without TiVo--I could still get through Simpsons and some sporting events. But with a drama like Lost that depends on drawing the viewer into a mood and a tone, for me it isn't a question of commercials or no commercials. I wouldn't watch Sopranos with commercials. I wouldn't watch Deadwood with commercials. I wouldn't watch Lost with commercials. Anymore than I would read Lord of the Rings if I had to read 2 pages of ad copy after every chapter.
I've been to the promised land. I have TiVo. I'm not going back. I don't need a "breather". There are enough alternatives--premium channels, DVDs, books, the real world.
For the record, I do watch the ads TiVo downloads. But I don't do it in the middle of a show.
Wonder how f'ed up the G.O.P. has become?
Nixon couldn't make today--he'd be way too liberal! The guy set up the EPA, visited Moscow and China, negotiated SALT I...
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Nixon fan. But here we have one of the most power-hungry, fascist, paranoid figures in the history of American politics, and there's no way he'd get within a mile of the White House today. He wasn't power-hungry, fascist, or paranoid enough!
What part of 'brain the size of a planet' confuses people? Are there any other examples of Marvin exaggerating? Or using metaphor? Or expressing itself as anything other than a perfectly logical (although depressed) machine?
When Marvin says it has the brain the size of a planet, it means somewhere in the galaxy is a planet-sized object which serves the functions of Marvin's brain. There's no 'practically' about it. The space between Marvin's ears was not his brain, but rather a gateway to his brain, which being the size of a planet, would not fit on his shoulders.
Well gee, if Marvin has a brain the size of a planet...and the Earth was in reality a computer--an artificial brain, if you will--the size of a planet...
Sometimes I wonder if anyone on /. has really encountered any of the various forms of HHGttG, or all you all just poseurs?
Gloomy, indeed.
Hmmm, we might have crossed paths. I came in Oct 2000. About March 2001 they let go all the tech staff and kept the sales guys. Then sometime Sept/Oct 2001 they closed shop.
I still have a PR video floating around my hard drive. Probably the only thing that company ever finished.
The best was when they dumped all us techies, they offered to accelerate all our stock options. Gee, our stock would be unsecured (last in line to get paid when the whole thing went tits up), while the notes from the investors are secured (first in line). So they'd let us pay the folks who were firing us. How kind.
If SQL is pronounced 'ess cue ell', is MySQL pronounced 'emm why ess cue ell'?
And the Microsofties are correct, if referring to the server platform. 'MS-SQL Server' is 'Microsoft Sequel Server.' (It's MS's product; they can call it whatever they wish.)
The structured query language is abbreviated 'ess cue ell.'
So it's perfectly correct to say, "let's see how that ess cue ell code performs on the sequel server."
Yes.
I'll put it this way--Sony has abandoned Betamax. They must be dead in the water. DAT was a let-down. No more movies on UMD. DRMed CDs. Time to start short-selling Sony.
The facts on Sony's failures are not in despute. It's the conclusion, that Sony is dead in the water, that would be nuts.
Likewise, Microssoft has made mistakes. But with huge leads in the desktop OS, web browser, office suite markets, with signifigant presence in the server OS and application markets, plus the gaming, and, oh yeah, a couple billion in the bank, I would LOVE to be that kind of dead in the water.
Dvorak throws out some statements to which people who don't think for themselves and figure, it's on the internet it must be true, can say, "he's got a good point." For the rest of us who use our brains, he's full of shite.
In the month or so between getting hired and actually starting the job, they had some big shake up. They had planned a big roll-out at some conference, and it turned out none of the code was worth the bits it was printed on. Not only was all dev outsourced, but no one was managing the project or doing any sort of QA. I heard they completely faked the presentation at the conference with fake screen shots passed off as a live site.
Then they started pretty much from scratch again. Brought in a new guy to head up development. Still outsourced but had the devs in Boston do some actual work, even if just to have someone watching the code to make sure it changed over time as actual work got done.
And then there were the lay-offs a couple weeks after I started. I got stuck as the office network admin half way through an upgrade to Win2k/AD. About 6 months later they laid off pretty much all technical staff, just kept management and sales. I guess the plan was, if they actually sold the service, then they'd finish up dev.
Anyway, I'd come from a REAL start-up--no VC money, no swag. The owner/founder was lead dev, and I was dev/QA/net admin/webmaster/tech support. I actually thought the move to Sprockets was a step up to a 'real' company. Ah, the naivete of youth.
Well, it wasn't a complete loss. It was during my time at Sprockets I was introduced to Computer Stew. "Starship. Jefferson Starship."
1989 Principal Mallet Percussionist, Oklahoma All-State Band
1988 Principal Mallet Percussionist, Oklahoma All-State Orchestra
Yes, someone 15 years out of high school with such credentials on his CV is most likely a suckup and a twit. So you were best in your school at beating your mallet. Get over it; no one cares.
It's like people with "MCSE, MCP" or some other similar combo on their cards/CV. MCP means you've passed any single MS exam. By definition, every MCSE, MCSA, or otherwise is also an MCP. Adding MCP to another MS credential is redundant.
Other than the patents, I doubt the list you quote is that different from what many /.ers could claim. Oh wait, I don't have a gold star from my employer.
Twit indeed.
Who has time for for an economics class? Summer is just around the corner. We've got to do something about all that ice cream out there!!
Please, think of the children.
(Maybe we should start adding vaccine to the sprinkles. (Am I the only one who calls them jimmies?))
Apparently, somewhere else is San Francisco
* a tiny little division of Harvey Mudd
(frosh class prez, class of '93)
I was never very good at math, never really took any chemistry or biology, but did get into physics and electronics a bit. However, I was insanely into computers. Since then I've done lots of work programming, system and network administration, and all sorts of other computer-related work. A decade ago I started a technology company that has allowed me to challenge myself in so many different ways ever since.
I do not doubt the parent poster's success with computers and business, but it doesn't sound like he's ever done computer science.
Look at it this way, do you need a lot of math to work on cars? Well, it depends.
If you want to maintain and repair cars, you might need a little math--metric to english unit conversions, gear ratios, that sort of stuff--but not too much. For the computer world, that's kinda like being a sys or network admin. (Not the best analogy, but go with it.)
If you want to build cars, again you could probably get away with basic math. Certainly there are skills much more important to a career building cars. That's kinda like being a programmer. Most of the folks in this thread saying forget the math are programmers. What they do may be challenging, and they may be very good at it, but it ain't science--computer, rocket, or other.
The original question was in regards to computer science. In my analogy, car science isn't building cars nor maintaining cars, it's designing cars. And you better believe that takes a math or two. I'm talking designing wind tunnel experiments, crunching data from crash tests, space-age materials, all that jazz.
The guys doing car science use a lot math. Same goes for the guys doing computer science.
I don't mean to turn anyone off to looking into a CS degree. I just want to put responses from programmers into the proper perspective. Programming is not computer science.
That said, math is a big world. Most folks who have gone up to taking calc have no idea what real math is. Most high school math tracks (at least in my limited experience) focus everyone to calculus as some holy grail of mathematics. And it really isn't that big a deal, especially for computer science.
I picked up an undergrad major in math just taking another math course whenever I had room in my schedule and am in my first year of going back to school for a grad degree in CS with a math concentration, and my calc days pretty much ended in high school after the AP test. Linear algebra, abstract algebra, Galois theory, discrete math. Calc was fun, but 9th grade algebra has been more useful for me than 12th grade calc.
Now, if you took calc and worked hard and got extra tutoring and really focused and snuck out with a D+, CS may not be the best path through college. But if you took calc, shuffled through with a B, coulda done better but you just weren't interested, well than that really doesn't come consideration one way or another for picking CS as major. IMHO.
programing != computer science
So what were you planning when you placed your 17" Powerbook in the $20,000 laser cutter?
Riiiight. Just like Jeffrey Dahmer was made a scapegoat for the relative complexity of maintaining a living system. Was it his fault people are so easy to kill and yummy?
Well, maybe for small values of 1. Otherwise, the series on the right approaches, but never equals, 1.
You admit to letting your domain name registration expire. Where's the pre-selling?
As for those wondering where to find a good registrar, I have a small personal web site with Digital Space with domain names registered through them. When the registration comes up for expiration I get email notice at 90, 60, and 30-days before the expiration date.
Seriously, OP needs to grow up. Don't pay your mortgage, the bank might take your house. Don't pay your registration, the registrar might take your domain name. This ain't rocket science.
Sounds like you were screwed by the developer and your own lack of oversight.
Of course, blaming some someone else is always fun.
You don't consider a laptop for be a mobile device?
Prisoner #2: Aggravated assault. You?
Prisoner #1: Armed robbery. How 'bout you?
AOL Engineer: I stole 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and sold them to spammers who sent out up to 7 billion unsolicited e-mail messages.
Prisoners #1 and 2 inch away from AOL Engineer at the lunch table
AOL Engineer: And disturbing the peace.
Prisoners #1 and 2 slap the AOL Engineer on the back and all have a good laugh.