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Comment original games? (Score 4, Insightful) 113

Those original games are blatant rip-offs as well.
Angry Birds? Flappy Birds? I had similar games on my C64 and those were probably already copies of similar games on Atari and earlier computers.
Except for the eye-candy, these games could be programmed by anyone taking a basic programming/gaming 101 course.

Comment Re:What about nursing?? (Score 1) 329

I don't think that's true.
In Belgium at least in the 90s med school was populated by more women than men (I'd say 2/3rd).
I would actually argue that where intelligent scientifically inclined men tend to choose engineering, the women tend to choose med school.

Med school is harder than nursing school as well. I'm sure the women that are smart enough to go for med school won't just settle for nurse. And respect is due for nurses as well, it's a tough job.

Comment Re:I'm wondering about protocol (Score 1) 130

exactly.
When you're blocking everything, you're blocking nothing.
Instead of having a clear view of what was on the mind of students, these students will now use anonymous proxies, vpn , tor and the like to still access this content.
In turn, the university will have lost control or at least oversight of what the students were actually accessing.

Comment Re:good (Score 1) 364

Jamie and Adam won't be seeking work after Mythbusters? Jamie is 57 and Adam is actually only 47 years old ! Unless Mythbusters runs until they're 80, I'm sure they'll be looking for other gigs after this one. There is no retirement age in media, unless you're physically unfit to do the job or nobody wants you anymore.

Comment (Poor) kids get dumber during holidays (Score 4, Interesting) 421

Research concluded that poor kids, where parents usually don't spend as much 'meaningful' time with the children, because they're busy working three jobs to get food on the table, actually lose knowledge (math, reading comprehension) during summer. Blue collar/middle class children usually were leveled whereas middle class/rich kids actually got a bit smarter during summer. (http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Summer_Learning_Loss/).
So for some children there may certainly be a benefit to less vacation.

Comment Re:Its Fine. - not (Score 1) 348

I've had to do the "port forward - tunneling - port reconnect" thing for Oracle, and I'm pretty sure you can put the reconnect and initial connection on the same port, or at least you can specify a specific port where that reconnect happens. Because indeed otherwise you're left with a range of open ports or you don't know which port to tunnel on.
The database had to be in a certain mode though (Don't know if it was shared or dedicated), and some changed to the ORA file or other were necessary too to specify the port.
Oh yes, and in good Oracle fashion, this was only possible from Oracle9i, or before Oracle10 or something like that :-)
And why it pays to be an Oracle consultants, folks :-) (I'm not an Oracle consultant for the record).

Next lesson: try installing Oracle on a linux platform...I hope you guys know something about library linking, compiler options and make files

Comment F1 score, precision and recall (Score 1) 133

Sounds a bit like the f1 measure used in classification systems, where the F-score is the harmonic mean of precision and recall. (where trying to higher precision yields lower recall and vice-versa)
however, I'm wondering how stable this Weissman score is. Compression algorithms might not all perform O(n) where n is size of data to compress.
Or it may actually give a very high score to something that doesn't compress at all.
public byte[] compress( byte[] input) { return input;}
I bet this gets a high Weissman score ;-)

Comment Re:No, no unfair advantage at all... (Score 3, Informative) 175

I can't speak for long jump, but in high jump your shoes are definately regulated.
you're not allowed for example to have shoes that have a sole thicker than a certain amount.
I just looked it up and apparently it's the same for long jump shoes.
So yes, I don't think springs or a blade qualify as valid shoes in this case (especially if the blade is 18 inches longer than your other leg!).

Comment Why Math matters (Score 2) 241

No you don't need math to write an iPhone App or an interactive website.
You do need math to understand why looking up some keys in a HashMap is much faster than iterating over a vector.
You do need math to understand why some encryption algorithms are better than others
It just gives you the tools to better comprehend what's going on under the hood, so you have more information to make the right choices in how to implement something.

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