is this not Homework plagiarism. i am not sure why people can not use the regular resources 1)do prepare for the class befor e the lecture 2) follow the lectures in class room/virtual class room 3) follow up with the professor/tutor for questions
4) work in a study group (in a room /or virtual) for better understanding of material 5) do home works on own.
i agree that working with breaks and socializing with colleagues for a coffee/a walk/ a fresh breath of air is good for productivity. however i do not agree with some posters who say that there are no metrics to measure productivity. there are ways to measure programmer productivity. not talking about lines added or features added. in general we can get a sense of how involved is a feature addition by looking at the list of data structures needed, algorithms to process the data, algorithms to list/display the output.
more formal methods--http://secse08.cs.ua.edu/Papers/Danis.pdf
The irony is GM seeds have not been effective in India and the consequences are not as rosy as what Monsanto had promised to deliver. Scathing reports of mass suicides of Indian farmers broke out as recently as three years ago when scores of farmers took their own lives in order to escape the burden of high prices and failure of Monsanto’s GM seeds.
Monsanto offered its GM seeds to the farmers of India with hopes of reaping plentiful crops. Plain and mostly uneducated farmers thought Monsanto had come to provide a “magic” formula that would transform their lives. They had no idea what was coming.
Monsanto’s seeds in India did not produce what the company had promised and farmers hoped. The expensive seeds piled up debts and destroyed farming fields. In many instances, the crops simply failed to materialize. The farmers were not aware that the GM seeds required more water than the traditional seeds. And lack of rain in many parts of India exacerbated the crop failure.
As several posters said, nothing will beat matlab with its long list of tool boxes. It would be nice if there is more open source work in building more tool boxes for Octave(octave is open source compatible to matlab).
This article is very poorly written. Few things:
author even did not mention the common name "one-time pad" for the technique he explained.
one-time pad(OTP) uses the key same length as the data.
the key has to come from a true random source that is resistant to side-channel attacks.
key transport/exchange is a big issue.