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    rockking1379 got a reaction from AddonCustoms in Quick Survey   
    hey everyone,
     
    i am currently a sophomore in college and one of my classes i am taking requires me to conduct a survey. its part of a group research project and my survey only covers part of the actual project. if you could, please take the survey. it should take you less than two minutes honestly. they are simple questions.
     
    http://goo.gl/forms/GzSgtLUKVN
     
    thanks everyone who takes it
     
    *edit*
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vwCqm1frQKX4X-h_Uw606H-Zrzr7xJYRIGk6lYRVGn4/edit?usp=sharing
     
    a link to view the responses sheet
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Railgun in Quick Survey   
    hey everyone,
     
    i am currently a sophomore in college and one of my classes i am taking requires me to conduct a survey. its part of a group research project and my survey only covers part of the actual project. if you could, please take the survey. it should take you less than two minutes honestly. they are simple questions.
     
    http://goo.gl/forms/GzSgtLUKVN
     
    thanks everyone who takes it
     
    *edit*
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vwCqm1frQKX4X-h_Uw606H-Zrzr7xJYRIGk6lYRVGn4/edit?usp=sharing
     
    a link to view the responses sheet
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from mathijs727 in Software linus showed on a video. Need help finding it.   
    Software to erase drives? Personally my solution is a torx drive, screwdriver, and hammer. Ain't nothing coming off that drive when I'm done
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from dom1310df in Software linus showed on a video. Need help finding it.   
    Software to erase drives? Personally my solution is a torx drive, screwdriver, and hammer. Ain't nothing coming off that drive when I'm done
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Bensemus in $2 Million Dollar Cell Phone Bill? Verizon screwed up again...   
    honestly thats what i would do. just go back after them for this mistake. its one thing for it to happen and you notice and fix it. its another when you send it off to collections and prevent them from getting a house. and the damage could be very severe on their credit
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from reptileexperts in $2 Million Dollar Cell Phone Bill? Verizon screwed up again...   
    honestly thats what i would do. just go back after them for this mistake. its one thing for it to happen and you notice and fix it. its another when you send it off to collections and prevent them from getting a house. and the damage could be very severe on their credit
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Trik'Stari in $2 Million Dollar Cell Phone Bill? Verizon screwed up again...   
    honestly thats what i would do. just go back after them for this mistake. its one thing for it to happen and you notice and fix it. its another when you send it off to collections and prevent them from getting a house. and the damage could be very severe on their credit
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from EChondo in Minecraft adds cross-platform play so Windows 10 players can build with mobile friends   
    i understand its crossplatform but it has way to many limitations on it. while cool that they did this, the limitation just doesnt seem to make it very worthwhile when i can just as easily setup a server and run far more people. if anything, i would have been excited to see them announce crossplatform gameplay from console to the PC on vanilla servers. that would have been nice to see. or even mod support for the console (heaven forbid they ever figure that one out)
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd in Hyper-V on Windows 10, Linux and Graphics card passthrough   
    here are my thoughts:
     
    use linux as the host and windows as the guest with a GPU passed through to it
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Technous285 in RIAA Asks BitTorrent Inc. To Block Infringing Content With A Hash Filter   
    So yeah here is a hash of the content we don't want pirates. Oh wait every freaking pirated copy will probably have a different hash. Ffs
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from monopolyman in Would anyone be interested in a tutorial on GPU-passthrough on Linux for a gaming VM?   
    https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/gpu-passthrough-with-kvm-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too/82250
    someone on teksydnicate forums already did this
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Vassili62 in Would anyone be interested in a tutorial on GPU-passthrough on Linux for a gaming VM?   
    https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/gpu-passthrough-with-kvm-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too/82250
    someone on teksydnicate forums already did this
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Dobbsjr in Why are we lacking computer programmers?   
    so i was going to type this on my phone and decided it deserves a better response so i switched to laptop. but here goes my two cents for you.
     
    the reason programing is so uncommon is because of several issues. first being that computers have gotten easier to use. you no longer need to know how to program to use a computer. back when they first were coming out though, that wasnt the case. the second is schools. there are multiple issues with schools and computers. when computers first came out, schools were teaching how to write software. now schools teach how to write using software. there is a big difference. among the youth, why is it so uncommon? because it is challenging intellecutally. programming isnt something you can just pick up and run away with. it takes some real thought and work to get what you want. and many students when things stop going how they want (which in programming will happen in about the first five lines they ever write) they give up. programming takes persistence and as a generation that is lacking. so is logical thinking, but thats a different story. there are also a lot of misconceptions about programming and a lot of wrong doing in schools with it. with programming in schools, if it is offered, it is done so as an elective. and many students have other electives they would rather thake than programming. goes back to the misconceptions which is that its hard. no programming it self is not hard. what is hard is logically breaking down large problems that are easy enough to solve. that is the hard part. many people also think it involves a ton of math, and sure if you go do 3D graphics then its going to be very math intensive. if you are going to design the latest and greatest algorithms it will be very math intensive because you are doing performance metrics and trying to reduce times here and there. but for the general population, a few extra milliseconds on something is just fine and will go unnoticed. another issue with programming in shcools, is even if we were to begin offering it, who is going to teach it? we dont have teachers certified or able to teach programming because they themselves would be learning. and trying to convince someone with years of industry experience to take a pretty large pay cut and come teach a group of misfit teenages how to code isnt gonna be a easy task. so why is it uncommon? because we dont have people able to teach it to students and students dont want to learn.
     
    also i recently wrote a paper on programming in schools, message me if you would like to see it. i would be happy to share it with you
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Grissm in Bar Code Scanner System w/ mysql database   
    lol SQL server for java only requires you to include the SQL Server JDBC driver and load the class at runtime. i can totally help you guys out with this. especially with a rushed time frame. i will send out an email
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from TechFnatic in Why are we lacking computer programmers?   
    Thank you for sharing that. I personally enjoyed the read
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from TechFnatic in Why are we lacking computer programmers?   
    so i was going to type this on my phone and decided it deserves a better response so i switched to laptop. but here goes my two cents for you.
     
    the reason programing is so uncommon is because of several issues. first being that computers have gotten easier to use. you no longer need to know how to program to use a computer. back when they first were coming out though, that wasnt the case. the second is schools. there are multiple issues with schools and computers. when computers first came out, schools were teaching how to write software. now schools teach how to write using software. there is a big difference. among the youth, why is it so uncommon? because it is challenging intellecutally. programming isnt something you can just pick up and run away with. it takes some real thought and work to get what you want. and many students when things stop going how they want (which in programming will happen in about the first five lines they ever write) they give up. programming takes persistence and as a generation that is lacking. so is logical thinking, but thats a different story. there are also a lot of misconceptions about programming and a lot of wrong doing in schools with it. with programming in schools, if it is offered, it is done so as an elective. and many students have other electives they would rather thake than programming. goes back to the misconceptions which is that its hard. no programming it self is not hard. what is hard is logically breaking down large problems that are easy enough to solve. that is the hard part. many people also think it involves a ton of math, and sure if you go do 3D graphics then its going to be very math intensive. if you are going to design the latest and greatest algorithms it will be very math intensive because you are doing performance metrics and trying to reduce times here and there. but for the general population, a few extra milliseconds on something is just fine and will go unnoticed. another issue with programming in shcools, is even if we were to begin offering it, who is going to teach it? we dont have teachers certified or able to teach programming because they themselves would be learning. and trying to convince someone with years of industry experience to take a pretty large pay cut and come teach a group of misfit teenages how to code isnt gonna be a easy task. so why is it uncommon? because we dont have people able to teach it to students and students dont want to learn.
     
    also i recently wrote a paper on programming in schools, message me if you would like to see it. i would be happy to share it with you
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    rockking1379 reacted to Colonel_Gerdauf in ASRock Rack Announces EP2C612D24 and 4L Server Motherboards, 24 DIMM slots for up to 1.5TB of RAM   
    They do not. The people using enterprise equipment have a function-over-form mindset. Asides from standard matters such as labelling and cable management, they do not care a single bit about how the equipment looks; they only care about whether or not it fufils the required tasks at the intended scale.
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Guest in MS rekts carriers, Windows 10 mobile updates won't be held down by carrier approval   
    Everyone bashes apple for the locked up system but at least they do the software updates right. As op said, carriers have some involvement mostly with the major version updates. But once that is verified then bug fixes and small patches are whenever the manufacturer feels like it. With android that just means basically never
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Stefan1024 in How to put a delay in a While loop Java   
    import java.awt.BorderLayout;import javax.swing.JFrame;import javax.swing.JProgressBar;public class pbarTest extends JFrame{ JProgressBar jbar; public pbarTest() { super(); jbar = new JProgressBar(); jbar.setValue(0); this.add(jbar, BorderLayout.CENTER); this.setSize(480, 600); this.setTitle("Animate Progress Bar"); this.setVisible(true); } public void animate() { for(int i = 0; i<10; i++) { jbar.setValue(i*10); try { Thread.sleep(100); } catch(InterruptedException ie) { System.err.println(ie.getMessage()); } } } public static void main(String[] args) { pbarTest pbar = new pbarTest(); pbar.animate(); }} here is an example. notice how i do not animate the progres bar in the constructor! wait until the window is fully on screen and then do the animation. this is a cheesy example since the progress bar is the only thing on the screen and takes up pretty much the entire window but at least you see that you can not do the animation before you have the window on the screen
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Misanthrope in Netflix can now ban VPN users under updated terms and conditions   
    so to me, the loophole here is use the VPN when you first sign up for netflix. then your account was established in America.
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from NeatSquidYT in Things to do with a raspberry pi   
    put one on the toilet, and then write a program that says "congratulations" whenever you pee for a long time
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Cheko7811 in Things to do with a raspberry pi   
    put one on the toilet, and then write a program that says "congratulations" whenever you pee for a long time
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Ciccioo in Things to do with a raspberry pi   
    put one on the toilet, and then write a program that says "congratulations" whenever you pee for a long time
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from MG2R in Things to do with a raspberry pi   
    put one on the toilet, and then write a program that says "congratulations" whenever you pee for a long time
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    rockking1379 got a reaction from Dabombinable in PayPal fined $7.7M (£5M) for allowing illegal payments   
    so we can fine paypal for allowing illegal payments...but wall street crashes the global economy and nothing gets done about it??? because logic!
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