With the World Cup around the corner, I dug out my trusty A-B converter again to tune in to the Indonesian channels. The reception is a bit grainy but still acceptable. And it’s way cheaper than the $94.16 you have to shell out for Starhub and Singtel’s World Cup package.
The good news is that I’m getting pretty good quality on Malaysia’s TV1 and TV2, so I can watch that as well. As I said before, if our neighbours can provide us with free World Cup coverage, why can’t the local channels do the same?
Just spotted this comment, which I will mark as spam.
Couple of days back I have started my local recruiting agency and now i am looking for some good highly professional place that is dedicated in placement of professionals, that can help me to expand my business of recruiting. I am also having many professional candidates looking for professional jobs and I also look for professional companies that require professional candidates from different areas right from restaurant jobs to highly trained engineers job and also management jobs. Does anyone know about anything nice place?
That’s 6 “professional”s in 2 sentences. Wow. Besides showing a lack of vocabulary, the author also trips up on his/her grammar.
Edsger W. Dijkstra should be a familiar name to any computer science student, since one of the most important algorithms, Dijkstra’s algorithm, is taught in graph theory.
Besides being a brilliant computer scientist, he’s also written some articles regarding the computer science discipline and the computer industry. Click here for the link.
As such, most of what he covers are quite esoteric to those without any programming experience. Case in point, when I first started programming, I had to get used to the fact that in many languages, numbering starts at zero. Ie, the the first item in a list is indexed as 0, the second item is indexed as 1, and so on. An interesting view I discovered is that according to him, many mathematicians view computer science in poor light, and these are usually the poorer mathematicians.
I gave the puzzle as a sobering exercise to one of the staff members of the Department of Mathematics at my University, because he expressed the opinion that programming was easy. He violated the above rule and, being, apart from a pure, perhaps also a poor mathematician, he started to look for interesting, non-obvious properties
On poor mathematicians again:
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
On learning:
We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.
On the Internet’s impact on computer science:
No, I’m afraid that computer science has suffered from the popularity of the Internet. It has attracted an increasing —not to say: overwhelming!— number of students with very little scientific inclination and in research it has only strengthened the prevailing (and somewhat vulgar) obsession with speed and capacity.
On the power of machines:
Machine capacities now give us room galore for making a mess of it. Opportunities unlimited for fouling things up! Developing the austere intellectual discipline of keeping things sufficiently simple is in this environment a formidable challenge, both technically and educationally.
On society’s expectations:
…..machines have become several orders of magnitude more powerful! To put it quite bluntly: as long as there were no machines, programming was no problem at all; when we had a few weak computers, programming became a mild problem, and now we have gigantic computers, programming had become an equally gigantic problem. In this sense the electronic industry has not solved a single problem, it has only created them, it has created the problem of using its products. To put it in another way: as the power of available machines grew by a factor of more than a thousand, society’s ambition to apply these machines grew in proportion, and it was the poor programmer who found his job in this exploded field of tension between ends and means. The increased power of the hardware, together with the perhaps even more dramatic increase in its reliability, made solutions feasible that the programmer had not dared to dream about a few years before. And now, a few years later, he had to dream about them and, even worse, he had to transform such dreams into reality!
I was playing around with the Google Maps API, when I found that I can’t access my Javascript files in Glassfish. The JSPs were working fine, so I guess it’s some URL handling thing in web.xml. As it turns out, there’s a default servlet in Glassfish that should be used to serve static resources (like CSS, Javascript, PDF, image files, etc). Digging into ${GLASSFISH_HOME}/glassfish/domains/domain1/config, I found the default-web.xml. Under the section called “Built In Servlet Definitions”, there’s this XML snippet:
Well, now that works, but it’s not an elegant solution. Imagine, if I want to serve a new kind of file, say an Excel file, I have to remember to include the extension in web.xml, besides just throwing the file into the correct folder. I will have to relook into this again, but for now, I’m just happy it works
It’s quite common to see 2 people playing one one piano. It’s indeed rare to see 2 guys play the same guitar. Check out this clip for the duet (and look our for Tommy’s expression )
SINGAPORE: 92.2 per cent of students who graduated from the three local universities last year found jobs within six months of graduation, according to figures posted on the Education Ministry’s website on Monday.
The employment rate of graduates from the Singapore Management University (SMU) is the highest among the three local varsities.
96.8 per cent of its graduates found jobs within six months of graduation.
In comparison, about 91 per cent of graduates from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and about 89 per cent of graduates from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) found jobs within six months of graduation.
In terms of salary, graduates from SMU’s Information Systems Management course earned the highest mean monthly salary of about S$3,450.
Graduates from the Business Administration with Honours course at NUS came close with a mean monthly salary of about S$3,400.
At the other end of the scale are graduates from NUS’s Applied Science course. Their mean monthly salary is about S$2,400.
That’s slightly lower than graduates from NTU’s Art, Design and Media course, who have a mean monthly salary of about S$2,430. – CNA/vm
I was downloading Nvidia drivers and I saw this benchmark for Star Tales. Basically it’s rendering 5 girls dancing to Wonder Girl’s monster hit, Nobody. It’s supposed to demonstrate the power of the PhysX in enhancing games. Here’s a video of the benchmark
I downloaded the benchmark and installed it. When I tried to run it, the program complained of missing files. That’s pretty bad, but worse was to come.
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