Like all the other replies to your comments, I too used NT before 2000 and found it far more stable than the other MS OSs available at the time. I used NT 3.51 from more or less when it first came out - I remember it quite well because it was the first OS I used that implemented full window dragging, I feature I was very impressed with for some reason. I did 16 bit (not 32 bit, it had to run on windows 3.51 too) development in it using Visual Studio 1.51, and when the product crashed (as it often did...) I remember being very pleased that the OS kept on trucking without requiring me to reboot (again!!).
Teaching seems to be to always be somewhat of a balancing act between something that will engage the enthusiasm of as many students as possible, and something that will transfer as much relevant knowledge/skills to the students as possible.
I think that one of the big advantages of using the BBC micro in particular (as has already been mentioned here) is its IO ports - allowing one to hook the machine up to all sorts of physical real-world objects (robots, buzzers, LEDs, whatever)
Myself, 'coding an ASCII game on an obsolete platform' would definitely have captured my imagination, since I did exactly that on the BBC micros we had at school. I even tried to write a chat program using the network fileserver as a store for lines of text. That particular experiment failed, and since our teacher knew less than we did (a problem for most of my generational peers I should have thought), I never got any further with it.
I was in the same boat as you, but with respect to maths, finding everything up until university extremely dull and therefore not worth my time (arrogance of youth!). Although it does rather sound like you're alot smarter than I am:)
But I think that the BBC micro will be able to prove itself as an extremely valuable teaching tool, perhaps not of advanced numerical optimization techniques, but certainly of the way in which computing devices work at their most basic level. Just like how in A-level maths one sticks to fairly basic concepts instead of jumping into differential calculus or whichever branch of maths happens to be your personal favourite. (calculus for me, but that's only because it seems so much like magic)
That doesn't exactly sound like a whole heap of fun though, does it?
Part of teaching people at this level is coming up with something that both engages the brain and is at least a little bit of fun. Using highly specialised fields, like the numerical algorithms you talk about (about which I have no experience whatsoever, despite being fifteen years into a programming career), is as likely to turn people off the field as it is to fire up their imaginations.
You can put a screen protector on them, for one...
You can put a screen protector on an iPhone, or at least you can on an iPod touch. It's the first thing I did when I bought mine, and it works perfectly fine with it on.
What exactly are 'strong C skills' ? C is about the simplest language out there, and the important skills are more in the direction of debugging, teamwork, and so on.
Really, knowing C well doesn't really prove anything.
So since you can create rich apps in this way, how does the argument that Steve wants to make sure you can't hide from the app store hold water? I think the fact is that Flash on apple devices has sucked for a long time, and Adobe have failed to address the issue. It's certainly not very impressive on my macbook pro, taking several seconds to take youtube videos full-screen (during which time a spinning pizza at least gives me something to fling around the screen).
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The difference I think between fanciful technology (warp drives, stargates, whatever) is that they don't carry with them a particular morality.
ESP falls into this category too. Thus stories based around such things will (ideally) be about the characters' individual moralities.
Stories with god in them however, tend to invoke an external morality, which alot of people find really annoying. Me included.
Not that I watched 'Lost' past the first series, just got bored of it. Chap here at work still digs it though, and I'll be interested to hear what he makes of this final episode.
Not to mention using it with simulink, which is pretty impressive. Also the differential equation solvers are pretty smart, if you need them. Plus we use it with the symbolic math toolbox, which is very powerful and as far as I know there is no free replacement for it. Not that I would expect there to be, symbolic math is pretty hard to program I should think. The last free one I tried didn't even know that cos^2+sin^2 == 1
I did this once, sort of. Video camera into a delay loop to a monitor. Is very interesting watching people watch themselves as they were thirty seconds ago. Quite unlike looking in a mirror.
"and then, the invisible guy is no longer invisible, and then the dead guy is no longer dead, and then a nuclear bomb explodes, and then they find a hidden Chinese temple, and then a smoke monster kills everybody in the temple, and then they find a secret lighthouse, and then they find a secret cave, and then this little kid keeps appearing and disappearing, and then . . . "
Actually that sounds pretty good... Is that the plot of lost? I had no idea. Might watch it now:)
The built-in VNC in osx supports only the high-bandwidth connections (24 bit color, high quality etc). This as you say isn't usable over lower speed connections. I use a third-party server, called vine server I think, which works much better over WAN connections, but doesn't support strong encryption or something.
I mean I forget. But the reasons the built-in VNC is osx is slow is because it doesn't downgrade its connection.
Your argument is completely without merit. If the two people in question committed a crime, are you suggesting that they ought to go unpunished because a third person is dead?
If those two are responsible for her death through their actions, or if they committed statutory rape, or both - then they should be in jail. End of discussion.
For very small sorts (four or less I think) bubble sort is actually more efficient than other more advanced algorithms. So it could get used under some circumstances.
Or at least, I read that it was more efficient once in a book somewhere. Perhaps that is no longer true.
The UK is a great example for TV for the simple reason that it has the best television in the world. The BBC is a publicly-funded body that is able to fulfil its remit of public broadcasting *because* of the BBC 'tax'.
And additionally it also has the best radio in the world, paid for by the TV licence fee, and made available in large part for free for the rest of the world.
Pi is a universal constant in many more ways that it being the ratio of diameter to circumference of a perfect circle - which may not exist in the physical world. It may exist if one considers how forces are distributed in space, but I am not a physicist so I am not sure.
For an example of Pi cropping up without requiring perfect circles consider the fact that the probability of two randomly chosen integers being coprime is 6/pi^2. This quite extraordinary result is proven beyond doubt, and I think we may all be able to agree that nature in some sense 'understands' integers and the concept of primality also.
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Like all the other replies to your comments, I too used NT before 2000 and found it far more stable than the other MS OSs available at the time. I used NT 3.51 from more or less when it first came out - I remember it quite well because it was the first OS I used that implemented full window dragging, I feature I was very impressed with for some reason. I did 16 bit (not 32 bit, it had to run on windows 3.51 too) development in it using Visual Studio 1.51, and when the product crashed (as it often did...) I remember being very pleased that the OS kept on trucking without requiring me to reboot (again!!).
Maybe Amorous Badger is where they'll go once they get past Zygotic Zebra
Teaching seems to be to always be somewhat of a balancing act between something that will engage the enthusiasm of as many students as possible, and something that will transfer as much relevant knowledge/skills to the students as possible.
I think that one of the big advantages of using the BBC micro in particular (as has already been mentioned here) is its IO ports - allowing one to hook the machine up to all sorts of physical real-world objects (robots, buzzers, LEDs, whatever)
Myself, 'coding an ASCII game on an obsolete platform' would definitely have captured my imagination, since I did exactly that on the BBC micros we had at school. I even tried to write a chat program using the network fileserver as a store for lines of text. That particular experiment failed, and since our teacher knew less than we did (a problem for most of my generational peers I should have thought), I never got any further with it.
I was in the same boat as you, but with respect to maths, finding everything up until university extremely dull and therefore not worth my time (arrogance of youth!). Although it does rather sound like you're alot smarter than I am :)
But I think that the BBC micro will be able to prove itself as an extremely valuable teaching tool, perhaps not of advanced numerical optimization techniques, but certainly of the way in which computing devices work at their most basic level. Just like how in A-level maths one sticks to fairly basic concepts instead of jumping into differential calculus or whichever branch of maths happens to be your personal favourite. (calculus for me, but that's only because it seems so much like magic)
That doesn't exactly sound like a whole heap of fun though, does it?
Part of teaching people at this level is coming up with something that both engages the brain and is at least a little bit of fun. Using highly specialised fields, like the numerical algorithms you talk about (about which I have no experience whatsoever, despite being fifteen years into a programming career), is as likely to turn people off the field as it is to fire up their imaginations.
"Nietzsche makes so much more sense now!"
Thousands of tiny luminous spheres, I presume
Damn that sounds awesome, where do you work??
How about no text file?
You can put a screen protector on them, for one...
You can put a screen protector on an iPhone, or at least you can on an iPod touch. It's the first thing I did when I bought mine, and it works perfectly fine with it on.
What exactly are 'strong C skills' ? C is about the simplest language out there, and the important skills are more in the direction of debugging, teamwork, and so on.
Really, knowing C well doesn't really prove anything.
But if that's the case, then how come the iphoneOS comes with a full web browser and javascript and canvas support too. I mean, they've even got a page on the apple dev site about it here:
http://developer.apple.com/safari/articles/makinggraphicswithcanvas.html
So since you can create rich apps in this way, how does the argument that Steve wants to make sure you can't hide from the app store hold water? I think the fact is that Flash on apple devices has sucked for a long time, and Adobe have failed to address the issue. It's certainly not very impressive on my macbook pro, taking several seconds to take youtube videos full-screen (during which time a spinning pizza at least gives me something to fling around the screen).
The difference I think between fanciful technology (warp drives, stargates, whatever) is that they don't carry with them a particular morality.
ESP falls into this category too. Thus stories based around such things will (ideally) be about the characters' individual moralities.
Stories with god in them however, tend to invoke an external morality, which alot of people find really annoying. Me included.
Not that I watched 'Lost' past the first series, just got bored of it. Chap here at work still digs it though, and I'll be interested to hear what he makes of this final episode.
Not to mention using it with simulink, which is pretty impressive.
Also the differential equation solvers are pretty smart, if you need them.
Plus we use it with the symbolic math toolbox, which is very powerful and as far as I know there is no free replacement for it. Not that I would expect there to be, symbolic math is pretty hard to program I should think. The last free one I tried didn't even know that cos^2+sin^2 == 1
I did this once, sort of. Video camera into a delay loop to a monitor. Is very interesting watching people watch themselves as they were thirty seconds ago. Quite unlike looking in a mirror.
This way of storytelling does not seem to be particularly new, either. Gravity's Rainbow was published nearly 40 years ago.
And I STILL haven't finished it...
"and then, the invisible guy is no longer invisible, and then the dead guy is no longer dead, and then a nuclear bomb explodes, and then they find a hidden Chinese temple, and then a smoke monster kills everybody in the temple, and then they find a secret lighthouse, and then they find a secret cave, and then this little kid keeps appearing and disappearing, and then . . . "
Actually that sounds pretty good... Is that the plot of lost? I had no idea. Might watch it now :)
The built-in VNC in osx supports only the high-bandwidth connections (24 bit color, high quality etc). This as you say isn't usable over lower speed connections. I use a third-party server, called vine server I think, which works much better over WAN connections, but doesn't support strong encryption or something.
I mean I forget. But the reasons the built-in VNC is osx is slow is because it doesn't downgrade its connection.
How is years of bullying by multiple people both in school and outside of school, not 'extreme methods' ?
Your argument is completely without merit. If the two people in question committed a crime, are you suggesting that they ought to go unpunished because a third person is dead?
If those two are responsible for her death through their actions, or if they committed statutory rape, or both - then they should be in jail. End of discussion.
For very small sorts (four or less I think) bubble sort is actually more efficient than other more advanced algorithms. So it could get used under some circumstances.
Or at least, I read that it was more efficient once in a book somewhere. Perhaps that is no longer true.
Well not really, strippers *are* for kids. They're certainly not for grown-ups anyway.
The UK is a great example for TV for the simple reason that it has the best television in the world. The BBC is a publicly-funded body that is able to fulfil its remit of public broadcasting *because* of the BBC 'tax'.
And additionally it also has the best radio in the world, paid for by the TV licence fee, and made available in large part for free for the rest of the world.
And no, I don't live there.
1.) Nobody likes writing documentations.
I don't know about that. Here at work we have a documentation team, and I assume that at least some of them do like writing 'documentations'.
We can construct all of Mathematics beginning only with the Empty set
I'm afraid that we can't - we have to take some of it on faith and that's just the end of it. Something to do with Goedel.
Pi is a universal constant in many more ways that it being the ratio of diameter to circumference of a perfect circle - which may not exist in the physical world. It may exist if one considers how forces are distributed in space, but I am not a physicist so I am not sure.
For an example of Pi cropping up without requiring perfect circles consider the fact that the probability of two randomly chosen integers being coprime is 6/pi^2. This quite extraordinary result is proven beyond doubt, and I think we may all be able to agree that nature in some sense 'understands' integers and the concept of primality also.