The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.
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Simple question: is your day too long if your education starts at 10am and you go home at 6pm?
I’ve heard that at other faculties they have lectures till 8pm! And it’s not an exception to start at 8am… Poor CS people then, 10-18 is quite much…
When on road, many of us do not like to work with laptop trackpoints, trackpads and track-whatever-moves-the-damn-cursor. For some finer work like graphics or gaming, mouse is inevitably required. At the same time, to carry the mouse and plug the cords is not always what you would like to do. Cordless solutions solve only a half of this hardship.
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I come to this lecture of Mike Joy, to listen about the latest progress in the research of automatic program assessment (student made solutions are marked by a computer). At a point, where almost all students fall asleep, Mike asks: “What makes a good program?”.
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That’s the biggest news today, by now. Welcome back.
Passengers angry.
Drivers on strike.
Transportation threatened.
Passengers angry.
Trash starts to smell.
Luckily it’s winter,
so it does not smell that bad.
Employers met.
Salaries raised.
Part-timers kicked.
Drivers go happy.
Where to get money?
Let’s increase prices.
Let’s decrease shifts.
No part-timers.
Passengers angry.
Matti presents his stances on how to deal with authorship of papers. It came to my mind, how to cope with the information and ideas one receives in reviews?
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