That was true before Safari hit 3.0. On Pre 3.0 versions of Safari things like Gmail chat and many (gasp!) sports websites auto-refreshing scoreboards refused to work. Ever since Safari 3.0 it's been the most reliable browser for me - on any platform.
I implore anyone to find a better meal than a Double Cheeseburger at McDonald's for the price of $1. It's truly quite amazing that you can eat a decent, consistent product at the price.
And I'm being serious, no really.
Definitely Craigslist. I've been given tons of old computers by generous relatives and I'm always happy to return the favor. I gave away a SparcStation 5 and some other random equipment and people were always happy to come pick it up.
If you put it on Craiglist, you can probably find someone within a few hours willing to take it off your hands.
I graduated from Vanderbilt in '07 with double major in math and physics. I'd say about half of the majors had some level of programming experience, or were taking those CS courses in addition to the physics.
My programming was limited to one class on MATLAB. Learning to program was a common debate and conversation between the professors and management and the students.
The major issue with knowing how to program was for people who intended to goto grad school. It's definitely a huge plus for graduate work in physics and should be a requirement for anyone who intends to go further than a BS. Because I wasn't planning to get a masters or Ph.D. it was never really a problem.
A year later, I'm a SQL Server developer, so what do I know.
MidpSSH is great. The obvious mobile device/screen limitations not withstanding, I've never been able to not do something I needed to.
Being able to SSH into a server, and then access mysql from the terminal is great. It's even more great when a customer wants to know how many orders you have outstanding for a certain product and you can type the necessary sql into the terminal and get the results.
I believe you can even use Telnet and FTP from MidpSSH on the blackberry.
I think a major part of this debate is finding a device with a keyboard you are comfortable with. Being able to type quickly with minimal mistakes will make any software seem much better
"[sic]" is the standard expression if you wish to inform readers that something is "not a typo". You use [sic] when quoting someone else and want to make it clear the mistake was made elsewhere.
You don't use it just when people may not believe what you typed
Agreed! I assume most of the data in Un-data is from Oscar Wilde himself.
I can't believe they called this "un-data".
Then again - about to the NGO/IGO discussion above - this must be a govermental organzation - only an oversized committee could have the cajones to come up with a name like that.
I'd download it, but Comcast would probably think im doing something illegal and cut off the rest of my internet access.
Also - how is the downside to being first post and getting a thousand replies to your nonsense "first post NT" message not mentioned more.
I'd never go for first post for fear of email.
no question about it - Tecmo Super Bowl was the peak of football gaming. To this day, i dont know anyone that actually thinks Madden 08 is a better game.
In addition to Madden 08 - you get RBI Baseball - and in a distant 3rd place Baseball Stars.
The quality of these games (especially these two) has been unmatched for 20 years.
I was thinking more in terms of sports games (perhaps thats the heresy). More teams, more uniforms, more everything could really help EA (or is it EA Take-Two Now) get in the game.
I think that the biggest difference maker for the ps3 will be that all games will now come on BD, while 360 games are on DVD (dual layer).
I don't know how the developers don't use this to their advantage.
How long will it take for developers to really utilize all the space on the BD?
I have used Office 2007 some, and found that I benefited from the improvements (things like more than 3 ways to sort in excel), but what I really noticed is when I compared it to my trial of OpenOffice. It was unbelievable how many little shortcuts that make using Excel so much easier didn't exist in OpenOffice. Just the different ways to handle copy/pastes and functions, I felt that using Openoffice was a much more arduous task than using Excel.
I also noticed that the performance was much worse using Openoffice than Excel on a windows machine, the performance was a little better between windows and linux (for OOo) but still not as good as Excel 2003 in Windows.
Am I the only person who has seen this? Or is there a larger issue at stake? I've seen how much every business uses Excel, and feel that if they can't solve these little problems, that OpenOffice will never have a chance to steal significant market share from MSFT
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It's pretty obvious that upgrading to Vista is tough, and with its hardware demands, id be much more impressed with Microsoft if it was only available as an OEM install for now. That way the only computers running it were intended to.
I find it interesting that quanutm computers are already getting so much press; maybe we should thank someone like David Deutsch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch for the great name of "quantum computer"). Because these things are so far from what anybody who reads an article about them, using the term computer is ridiculously misleading. I really believe that this field will explode and provide something more than obvious physics jokes. Until then, I want more people to realize that quantum computing is probably where digital computing was after World War II.
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As a senior math/physics student in college, I can promise you that for any handheld computations, an 89 is what you want. I've learned it pretty well over the years, but there are still dozens of functions I haven't even learned to use. As everyone has mentioned, the 89 can do symbolic calculus, is easy to program, can handle tons of variables, the input method is infinitely better than the 83/84 and its graphing capabilities (3-d, slope fields, etc.) its amazing.
I preferred using Mathematica for my physics homework and we used MATLAB in our math classes (I think that is the standard dichotomy). I've heard good things about Octave, and don't ignore the simplicity and power of the "Grapher" app in MacOS. I found myself using Grapher and Google (it can do most basic arithmetic) for a large percentage of my homework. Grapher can do tangent lines, integrals, evaluations, and a variety of other functions.
Mark B
I think everyone that has really played games will agree with me on the following list:
1. RBI Baseball (NES)
2. Tecmo Super Bowl (NES
3. Simcity 2000 (Windows 3.1)
4. Half-Life (Windows 98)
5. Civilization (I,II,III, IV, and hopefully V)
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That was true before Safari hit 3.0. On Pre 3.0 versions of Safari things like Gmail chat and many (gasp!) sports websites auto-refreshing scoreboards refused to work. Ever since Safari 3.0 it's been the most reliable browser for me - on any platform.
No but your mom does
I implore anyone to find a better meal than a Double Cheeseburger at McDonald's for the price of $1. It's truly quite amazing that you can eat a decent, consistent product at the price. And I'm being serious, no really.
Definitely Craigslist. I've been given tons of old computers by generous relatives and I'm always happy to return the favor. I gave away a SparcStation 5 and some other random equipment and people were always happy to come pick it up. If you put it on Craiglist, you can probably find someone within a few hours willing to take it off your hands.
My programming was limited to one class on MATLAB. Learning to program was a common debate and conversation between the professors and management and the students.
The major issue with knowing how to program was for people who intended to goto grad school. It's definitely a huge plus for graduate work in physics and should be a requirement for anyone who intends to go further than a BS. Because I wasn't planning to get a masters or Ph.D. it was never really a problem.
A year later, I'm a SQL Server developer, so what do I know.
Being able to SSH into a server, and then access mysql from the terminal is great. It's even more great when a customer wants to know how many orders you have outstanding for a certain product and you can type the necessary sql into the terminal and get the results.
I believe you can even use Telnet and FTP from MidpSSH on the blackberry. I think a major part of this debate is finding a device with a keyboard you are comfortable with. Being able to type quickly with minimal mistakes will make any software seem much better
Agreed! I assume most of the data in Un-data is from Oscar Wilde himself. I can't believe they called this "un-data". Then again - about to the NGO/IGO discussion above - this must be a govermental organzation - only an oversized committee could have the cajones to come up with a name like that.
How long have they been able to embed videos in the article?
I'd download it, but Comcast would probably think im doing something illegal and cut off the rest of my internet access. Also - how is the downside to being first post and getting a thousand replies to your nonsense "first post NT" message not mentioned more. I'd never go for first post for fear of email.
no question about it - Tecmo Super Bowl was the peak of football gaming. To this day, i dont know anyone that actually thinks Madden 08 is a better game. In addition to Madden 08 - you get RBI Baseball - and in a distant 3rd place Baseball Stars. The quality of these games (especially these two) has been unmatched for 20 years.
I was thinking more in terms of sports games (perhaps thats the heresy). More teams, more uniforms, more everything could really help EA (or is it EA Take-Two Now) get in the game.
I think that the biggest difference maker for the ps3 will be that all games will now come on BD, while 360 games are on DVD (dual layer). I don't know how the developers don't use this to their advantage. How long will it take for developers to really utilize all the space on the BD?
I have used Office 2007 some, and found that I benefited from the improvements (things like more than 3 ways to sort in excel), but what I really noticed is when I compared it to my trial of OpenOffice. It was unbelievable how many little shortcuts that make using Excel so much easier didn't exist in OpenOffice. Just the different ways to handle copy/pastes and functions, I felt that using Openoffice was a much more arduous task than using Excel. I also noticed that the performance was much worse using Openoffice than Excel on a windows machine, the performance was a little better between windows and linux (for OOo) but still not as good as Excel 2003 in Windows. Am I the only person who has seen this? Or is there a larger issue at stake? I've seen how much every business uses Excel, and feel that if they can't solve these little problems, that OpenOffice will never have a chance to steal significant market share from MSFT
It's pretty obvious that upgrading to Vista is tough, and with its hardware demands, id be much more impressed with Microsoft if it was only available as an OEM install for now. That way the only computers running it were intended to.
the XP in Windows XP was for eXPerience (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP).
I'm upset you beat me to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median
am i the only one not assuming that we are intelligent life? have you tried to use windows me? or add a wireless card in linux?
I find it interesting that quanutm computers are already getting so much press; maybe we should thank someone like David Deutsch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch for the great name of "quantum computer"). Because these things are so far from what anybody who reads an article about them, using the term computer is ridiculously misleading. I really believe that this field will explode and provide something more than obvious physics jokes. Until then, I want more people to realize that quantum computing is probably where digital computing was after World War II. MB
Weak. Baseball is a great game. You just gotta learn to respect the game before you can enjoy it.
Hundreds of Thousands of Millions = Hundreds of Billions. If thats the size of the open source market, then I'm definitely jumping on that MySQL IPO.
1^n packages? Check my math, but... 1*1*1*1...1=1
As a senior math/physics student in college, I can promise you that for any handheld computations, an 89 is what you want. I've learned it pretty well over the years, but there are still dozens of functions I haven't even learned to use. As everyone has mentioned, the 89 can do symbolic calculus, is easy to program, can handle tons of variables, the input method is infinitely better than the 83/84 and its graphing capabilities (3-d, slope fields, etc.) its amazing. I preferred using Mathematica for my physics homework and we used MATLAB in our math classes (I think that is the standard dichotomy). I've heard good things about Octave, and don't ignore the simplicity and power of the "Grapher" app in MacOS. I found myself using Grapher and Google (it can do most basic arithmetic) for a large percentage of my homework. Grapher can do tangent lines, integrals, evaluations, and a variety of other functions. Mark B
I think everyone that has really played games will agree with me on the following list: 1. RBI Baseball (NES) 2. Tecmo Super Bowl (NES 3. Simcity 2000 (Windows 3.1) 4. Half-Life (Windows 98) 5. Civilization (I,II,III, IV, and hopefully V)