You are environmentally friendly, so this would be why 4% of the world's population produces 25% of the world's polution. Oh yeah, great environmental record. get over yourself.
No, that is not the reason for the brain drain at all. We have the same situation from New Zealand. It is because of the currency exchange rate and high saleries in the US/UK. Work there for a few years on a higher wage than back home, save all you can and then come home and let the exchange rate double to triple your savings. Instant wealth, or at least a shit load of toys.
Degrees are not for everybody, but would benefit more people than/. population would have you believe. The value is not in what computer skills the degree teaches specifically, but it does teach you about a whole lot of ideas people have already had. All that background reading may be a drag at times, but it will stop you spending time reinventing a whole lot of wheels and give you more time for coming up with those neat new things. It will also probably make you better at developing and improving your ideas. Depending on you school you will may have the opportuninty to sit face to face with large number of very good professors and grad students and discuss stuff. Online communication is fine but doesn't compare to face to face brainstorming sessions, an awful lot of good stuff has been invented in the coffee room.
> I don't think we can revote. Nader voters who voted purposely might switch their vote to Gore out of fearof electing Bush.
> We can't assume every Buchanan vote was intended for Gore. We can't even look at the restof each ballot's party trend to assume they would also have voted for Gore. It's just not full-proof.
> Could we just throw out the county's whole vote? That too would cause an uproar.
Use the power of the electoral college for some good. Acknowledge that it was close and some irregularities may have occured so just split the seats as the vote went. It is within the bounds of the law and quite fair.
Bush got slightly more votes so he can have 13 and Gore can have 12.
This is a joke people./. is full of political opinion, privacy issues, gun control (forever getting mentioned), funding for science/teaching. Taking a standpoint on one of these issues is no different than stating which candidate you choose, you are just polarising yourself on many issues at once.
But as soon a people see something they don't like they throw the toys and go stoming out of the sandpit bitching about the 'new' political tone on/.
Its pathetic, grow up, or don't come back.
We did this when I was teaching programming. Split the class up to groups. Hand out programming contest type questions. Each group solves their problem and then writes a psuedocode solution, including catching all the special cases. They swap with a second group who tries tell the first one what the problem was based on the psuedocode. With inexperienced coders most time the psuedocode will be unclear, almost always uncommented, and the special cases will not clearly be marked. It can be very dificult for the second group. It is good because people get practise at group design, at writing psuedocode and seeing how much of a difference there is between good and bad psuedocode. Since it is supposed to be easier to read than code it people get an idea how difficult bad code will be to read. If you chose more difficult questions expect people to get incomplete solutions. This can take the focus off the psuedocode part which is the more important part.
Depending on the level of the class ask them to figure out Sub Linear Text Searching. Maybe this is already taught. It is mainly a concept thing so it is not only useful for a programming based class. It should give them a kick to devise a method themselves that caused such an impact when it was first thought of.
I see it a bit like having your L2 cache with a microprocessor acting as a realtime translator attached. Things get sucked into the L2 cache translated to X and passed to the X speaking CPU. When the CPU is done it writes back to L2 as normal and the microprocessor deals with caching or memory writeback. By using a programmable array as the L2 cache translator the language can be changed as required if it could not store more than one at a time. Pushing the 'what if's to the limit, it could even be changed as easily as changing consoles, an x86 binary running in one window, a PPC binary in another, as you move between windows the OS tracks which language needs to be spoken and informs the programmable array.
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If you need to ask, you wouldn't understand.
Ratty
Patent Santa then! Stick it to them before they stick it to you.
LabRatty
You are environmentally friendly, so this would be why 4% of the world's population produces 25% of the world's polution. Oh yeah, great environmental record. get over yourself.
No, that is not the reason for the brain drain at all. We have the same situation from New Zealand. It is because of the currency exchange rate and high saleries in the US/UK. Work there for a few years on a higher wage than back home, save all you can and then come home and let the exchange rate double to triple your savings. Instant wealth, or at least a shit load of toys.
Labratty
It was all downhill after E
Rules? My language don't need your stinkin rules.
Degrees are not for everybody, but would benefit more people than /. population would have you believe. The value is not in what computer skills the degree teaches specifically, but it does teach you about a whole lot of ideas people have already had.
All that background reading may be a drag at times, but it will stop you spending time reinventing a whole lot of wheels and give you more time for coming up with those neat new things.
It will also probably make you better at developing and improving your ideas.
Depending on you school you will may have the opportuninty to sit face to face with large number of very good professors and grad students and discuss stuff. Online communication is fine but doesn't compare to face to face brainstorming sessions, an awful lot of good stuff has been invented in the coffee room.
> We can't assume every Buchanan vote was intended for Gore. We can't even look at the restof each ballot's party trend to assume they would also have voted for Gore. It's just not full-proof.
> Could we just throw out the county's whole vote? That too would cause an uproar.
Use the power of the electoral college for some good. Acknowledge that it was close and some irregularities may have occured so just split the seats as the vote went. It is within the bounds of the law and quite fair.
Bush got slightly more votes so he can have 13 and Gore can have 12.
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rattyThe Rodent in the Machine
This is a joke people. /. is full of political opinion, privacy issues, gun control (forever getting mentioned), funding for science/teaching. Taking a standpoint on one of these issues is no different than stating which candidate you choose, you are just polarising yourself on many issues at once.
/.
But as soon a people see something they don't like they throw the toys and go stoming out of the sandpit bitching about the 'new' political tone on
Its pathetic, grow up, or don't come back.
ratty
We did this when I was teaching programming. Split the class up to groups. Hand out programming contest type questions. Each group solves their problem and then writes a psuedocode solution, including catching all the special cases. They swap with a second group who tries tell the first one what the problem was based on the psuedocode. With inexperienced coders most time the psuedocode will be unclear, almost always uncommented, and the special cases will not clearly be marked. It can be very dificult for the second group. It is good because people get practise at group design, at writing psuedocode and seeing how much of a difference there is between good and bad psuedocode. Since it is supposed to be easier to read than code it people get an idea how difficult bad code will be to read. If you chose more difficult questions expect people to get incomplete solutions. This can take the focus off the psuedocode part which is the more important part.
Depending on the level of the class ask them to figure out Sub Linear Text Searching. Maybe this is already taught. It is mainly a concept thing so it is not only useful for a programming based class. It should give them a kick to devise a method themselves that caused such an impact when it was first thought of.
geez mate, we've been telling you aussies this for years, guess you must be a bit slow too. :) Ratty from NZ
I see it a bit like having your L2 cache with a microprocessor acting as a realtime translator attached. Things get sucked into the L2 cache translated to X and passed to the X speaking CPU. When the CPU is done it writes back to L2 as normal and the microprocessor deals with caching or memory writeback. By using a programmable array as the L2 cache translator the language can be changed as required if it could not store more than one at a time. Pushing the 'what if's to the limit, it could even be changed as easily as changing consoles, an x86 binary running in one window, a PPC binary in another, as you move between windows the OS tracks which language needs to be spoken and informs the programmable array.