Do what I do when shopping around... only read the negative reviews... there are ALWAYS some. I did this while shopping for a good KVM switch and learnt such a lot. Most negative reviews were from people who did not understand some aspects of KVM switches, such as why they may only support certain resolutions (they need to emulate aspects of the display) active keyboard and mouse emulation (since when the switch is not active on one computer, that computer must still think the keyboard/mouse/screen is plugged in).
So what I did was learn from the negative reviews and choose the product with the least amount of negative reviews that related to me.
I ended up getting "IOGEAR GCS932U MiniView Micro DVI-D 2 Port KVM with Audio and Cables" and it worked perfectly for my setup, which is a good thing since my setup was what gave a lot of other KVMs problems.
My setup: Logitech Mouse Mac Aluminium Keyboard DELL 24" Ultrasharp 1920x1200 display
Shared between a PC and a Macbook Pro (Both with DVI)
And I'm very happy with my product, thanks to reading countless horror stories with other products.
Sure, adding anything to IE will only give it more possible attack points. Adding any other in-tab browser to IE will give IE the additional security vulnerabilities of that browser. This will increase the total number of possible security holes in the application.
But... on most sites you only use one type of browser at a time. And since it is well known that IE is 1) insecure, 2) a bullseye painted on a target... it can only increase your overall safety to use a different browser. In particular chrome/webkit.
So both true and false, depending how you look at it.
Interesting thing is that I loved English (my second language) and a classroom environment is the best way to learn a language not spoken anywhere else. Not only that; I can honestly say I got great benefit from classes such as technical drawing and math as well.
Yes, I did feel some of the other subjects were a waste of time, but overall I think school was beneficial.
...they can play "Try to find work in a struggling world economy competing against foreign jobseekers with real educations"
I'm not saying that all students will fall flat... the ones that are bright and feel that school is easy will not have a problem. It's possible they will even excel.
It's the majority of lazy students that will suffer.
Since compilers are usually compiled using themselves I'm pretty confident no such sacrifice will be made.
Apple can tweak compiler parameters due to the fixed and well-defined set of hardware. As any Gentoo guru can tell you, this can also be done on Linux, but is not generally the case (I too did not want to optimize too much lest I need to recompile everything due to a motherboard swop-out)
You could be a Veteran Solver. Someone who completes a level completely AND knows how not to fall into holes.
I think there are axes to this graph, and players can be any degree of the following:
1) Nimble - athletic control, precision of moment 2) Quester - Someone to explorers every possible puzzle/area/option 3) Aggressiveness - Avoid enemies? Shoot friendlies? Cope well in pvp? 4) Goal - Play for enjoyment or goal driven for completion? Pace of game.
Just do Python. They can learn most other languages from there.
Python is better than Perl because for beginners would takes weeks just to learn all the different possibilities of IF branches in Perl. Perl's motto is 'There's More Than One Way To Do It', and while that is cool for the hacker ethic it does damage to people learning programming.
Fact: You don't want to spend most of the time teaching kids a language instead of programming concepts.
Python because it also has OO programming. Not tacked on such as C++, ObjectPascal or Perl. And learners can easily transition from functional to OO.
Python is simple and clean and not bogged down by semantics.
It is not as hard-core as lisp or smalltalk, being much easier to progress.
We do not care about speed, not that that is an issue anyways.
I like all languages, and learners can be made aware of alternatives. To each his own style. Wether it be Perl monks, assembly 4k demo writers, C++ Linux engineers, PHP Web back-end programmers or C#.NET ASP AA++--%% certified engineers.
My personal history:
Vic 20 / C64 BASIC, Microsoft BASIC / 68k assembly on Amiga, Logo, Pascal, LPC (Lars PensjÃ's C for MUDs)
Then there was a shaky transition to OO... this could have gone smoother and I wish it had.
Object Pascal, C++, Perl, Python, ABAP, C#
Perhaps it was the BASIC that messed me up, but I doubt it.
I think Amazon did the right thing and according to their official response:
Amazon Kindle Customer Service says: "These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books. When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded customers. We are changing our systems so that in the future, books will not be removed from customers' devices in these circumstances."
Perhaps they think this is safe because it runs in a 'safe' Javascript sandbox in a browser 'sandbox' despite iPhone unlocking hacks out there proving otherwise.
I have to second that annoying tab bar. The problem with having the tabs located on the actual title bar on mac is that you inadvertently minimize your whole Safari if you sometimes try to switch to a tab.
I've done this many times... first click to try and switch to a tab I move the mouse slightly (Safari sees this as an attempt to move the window and does not switch to tab... yay!, then I try again, and this time it picks up that I've now double-clicked and the default on OS X is to minimize.
Argh. Yup, it seems I'm still going to be waiting for Chrome... at least then I will have my tabs in separate processes and will finally be able to kill only the tabs which are using up all my memory.
Oh, and please ignore the more insidious pleonasms, dangling participles, incorrect and spurious comma splices and British serial commas I have perpetrated! (some habits are just too hard to beat...)
(But feel free to point out any malapropisms.)
I should stop now, for in hypercorrection[sic][sic] lies madness!:P
I was supporting a friend's parents' machine for about 4 years a while ago. Initially I loaded XP for them, using Eudora as mail client and IE as the browser. The problems I had with this was that they would get a virus about once a month... and they did try to be careful. I eventually tried some anti-virus applications (extra cost!) but this only got them more confused and slowed down their machine. From a UI point of view it was pretty good. Also it supported multi-users quite well. After the 2nd crash (machine not shut down correctly, etc) the registry hive file was totally trashed this time and not even a restore from any of the two backup files helped, I decided to take the plunge and give them Linux.
Linux:
I picked Xandros here (at the time it was the most user friendly) I personally used Suse, Debian, RedHat and Mandrake (so I know my GNU/Linux). It all went well for some time. At least the machine did not crash and we had zero virus problems. Alas however, the multi-user switching was slow and clunky, and the file permissions (they wanted to share some stuff between the mom and dad) was a royal pain (it was workable, I know how to set up s-bits etc, but it was still a pain). Then there was the problem that the dad's favorite windows Golf game (although it worked), did not work well, but this is not really a big issue. Another issue was that the word processor (OpenOffice) had a very limited clipart selection, and the mail application was not as cool. And lastly, a MAJOR problem was the lack of a system-wide way of setting the default font's larger... every, single, application, had a different way of setting this, and some application you just could not change certain font sizes... even when setting the DPI under X11 differently did not have the desired effect... it was just terrible! One thing I have to say... they DID need my help much less, and was happier with it than with windows! lol (Using Firefox and Thunderbird)
Mac Mini
Then I bought myself a tiny Macbook G3... and I was SO impressed with it. It did it ALL perfectly. (Even had a nice Golf Game! lol). Clipart, good UI, good fast user switching, snappy, nice apps, good font visibility. It had it all. But unlike the other solutions it came at a price. But considering they insisted on paying me a small amount (they felt they needed to do this to ensure my continued help and dedication... lol!) this was not really such a big issue. That was about 3 years ago now... (Using Firefox and Mail.app)
So:
So in conclusion, XP for 1 year... Linux for another, and the rest Mac.
For myself I stick with all 3 variants at home. But I will never recommend Linux or XP to any elderly person or computer-Luddite. A Mac works like an appliance. you don't even know it's there. The thing I have to add is that old does not imply they are incapable. They just don't see the need to struggle with equipment. They actually tought me a thing or two about Linux and Windows.:P
Yea, the Amiga was seen as too much 'for children' what held it back was paradoxically its more thought-through and superior architecture. I had a choice at the time between similarly priced Amiga 500 and an XT with no graphics. I should have gotten the XT I suppose, but at least I had lots of fun while other people learned to use Lotus 123. (I did design and develop a 3D CAD application (with GUI and mouse etc.) while still at high school in 1988 while the rest of my class were still messing around with writing 'hangman' games.)
Then I skipped DOS and windows entirely and went from OS/2 to Linux. Later to use Windows NT.
Yea, you can run WoW quite nicely in Linux nowadays... it's just a bit of an issue with Ventrilo still. But, yes, I prefer using a Mac for this as well... even though I have a gaming machine (to play things like Crysis and Fallout 3 on) I still spend about 99% of my time on my Macbook (WoW, VMWare with XP and Linux, mail, browsing).
Movies have taught me that all cars explode (sometime even before impact), cars can lose up to 5 hubcaps in chase scenes (perhaps they stopped somewhere to install some extras during a leisurely part of the chase?), explosions go BOOM in space (I always thought it was the magnetic resonance against the outer hull of other ships that cause the 'sound'!).
Oh, yea, and lemmings jump off cliffs to their deaths...
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That your anecdote, then?:P
Seriously, I think you just stated most of my thoughts as well.
I recall about how placebo effects actually do help cure some people. and many doctors still give it to their patients unknowingly. I'm all for that, however some people argue that giving someone something other than what they asked for is unethical... can you say 'large drug company'?
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Do what I do when shopping around... only read the negative reviews... there are ALWAYS some. I did this while shopping for a good KVM switch and learnt such a lot.
Most negative reviews were from people who did not understand some aspects of KVM switches, such as why they may only support certain resolutions (they need to emulate aspects of the display) active keyboard and mouse emulation (since when the switch is not active on one computer, that computer must still think the keyboard/mouse/screen is plugged in).
So what I did was learn from the negative reviews and choose the product with the least amount of negative reviews that related to me.
I ended up getting "IOGEAR GCS932U MiniView Micro DVI-D 2 Port KVM with Audio and Cables" and it worked perfectly for my setup, which is a good thing since my setup was what gave a lot of other KVMs problems.
My setup:
Logitech Mouse
Mac Aluminium Keyboard
DELL 24" Ultrasharp 1920x1200 display
Shared between a PC and a Macbook Pro (Both with DVI)
And I'm very happy with my product, thanks to reading countless horror stories with other products.
Sure, adding anything to IE will only give it more possible attack points. Adding any other in-tab browser to IE will give IE the additional security vulnerabilities of that browser. This will increase the total number of possible security holes in the application.
But... on most sites you only use one type of browser at a time. And since it is well known that IE is 1) insecure, 2) a bullseye painted on a target ... it can only increase your overall safety to use a different browser. In particular chrome/webkit.
So both true and false, depending how you look at it.
Oh?
Interesting thing is that I loved English (my second language) and a classroom environment is the best way to learn a language not spoken anywhere else. Not only that; I can honestly say I got great benefit from classes such as technical drawing and math as well.
Yes, I did feel some of the other subjects were a waste of time, but overall I think school was beneficial.
me too!
...they can play "Try to find work in a struggling world economy competing against foreign jobseekers with real educations"
I'm not saying that all students will fall flat... the ones that are bright and feel that school is easy will not have a problem.
It's possible they will even excel.
It's the majority of lazy students that will suffer.
Since compilers are usually compiled using themselves I'm pretty confident no such sacrifice will be made.
Apple can tweak compiler parameters due to the fixed and well-defined set of hardware. As any Gentoo guru can tell you, this can also be done on Linux, but is not generally the case (I too did not want to optimize too much lest I need to recompile everything due to a motherboard swop-out)
My 2 lvl 80 night elf druids are turning over in their account-expired graves.
Yea. I stopped reading at that point ...
You could be a Veteran Solver. Someone who completes a level completely AND knows how not to fall into holes.
I think there are axes to this graph, and players can be any degree of the following:
1) Nimble - athletic control, precision of moment
2) Quester - Someone to explorers every possible puzzle/area/option
3) Aggressiveness - Avoid enemies? Shoot friendlies? Cope well in pvp?
4) Goal - Play for enjoyment or goal driven for completion? Pace of game.
No Flash needed anymore to bring the (already CPU-heavy) Firefox to kill your machine's CPU load.
Now any and all sites will be able to do it!
I've seen this as well with Skype. Which is why I think many corporates ban the use (or try to) of Skype.
Except that you need to publish your source code... which means that you are also GPLed... which means I can go and grab it and put it in for 99c.
"Crackers Get Free Parking In San Francisco"
Just do Python. They can learn most other languages from there.
Python is better than Perl because for beginners would takes weeks just to learn all the different possibilities of IF branches in Perl. Perl's motto is 'There's More Than One Way To Do It', and while that is cool for the hacker ethic it does damage to people learning programming.
Fact: You don't want to spend most of the time teaching kids a language instead of programming concepts.
Python because it also has OO programming. Not tacked on such as C++, ObjectPascal or Perl. And learners can easily transition from functional to OO.
Python is simple and clean and not bogged down by semantics.
It is not as hard-core as lisp or smalltalk, being much easier to progress.
We do not care about speed, not that that is an issue anyways.
I like all languages, and learners can be made aware of alternatives. To each his own style. Wether it be Perl monks, assembly 4k demo writers, C++ Linux engineers, PHP Web back-end programmers or C# .NET ASP AA++--%% certified engineers.
My personal history:
Vic 20 / C64 BASIC, Microsoft BASIC / 68k assembly on Amiga, Logo, Pascal, LPC (Lars PensjÃ's C for MUDs)
Then there was a shaky transition to OO ... this could have gone smoother and I wish it had.
Object Pascal, C++, Perl, Python, ABAP, C#
Perhaps it was the BASIC that messed me up, but I doubt it.
Assembly teaches you 'how to bake a cake'. So does BASIC and Pascal and C.
The problem for me was moving from such basic programming to high-level modeling using (in my view) a much better system of OO design.
Start them with Objects... I had a hard time getting into OO programming because I started with a very low level language.
I think Amazon did the right thing and according to their official response:
Amazon Kindle Customer Service says:
"These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books. When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded customers. We are changing our systems so that in the future, books will not be removed from customers' devices in these circumstances."
Perhaps they think this is safe because it runs in a 'safe' Javascript sandbox in a browser 'sandbox' despite iPhone unlocking hacks out there proving otherwise.
http://www.jac64.com/jac64-how-to-use.html
I suggest 3-4 for a good balance.
3-3 may even be less threatening, but then they may think us too primitive.
I have to second that annoying tab bar. The problem with having the tabs located on the actual title bar on mac is that you inadvertently minimize your whole Safari if you sometimes try to switch to a tab.
I've done this many times... first click to try and switch to a tab I move the mouse slightly (Safari sees this as an attempt to move the window and does not switch to tab... yay!, then I try again, and this time it picks up that I've now double-clicked and the default on OS X is to minimize.
Argh. Yup, it seems I'm still going to be waiting for Chrome... at least then I will have my tabs in separate processes and will finally be able to kill only the tabs which are using up all my memory.
Got a question, I remember my old Model M... loved it. Would like something similar.
The best I could find so far is a Das Keyboard.
However, even though this keyboard is close to the feel (it goes clicky-click) it lacks the cast-iron feel of the keys of the old model M.
How are the keys on they keyboards from pckeyboards.com? Are they platicky or solid?
Oh, and please ignore the more insidious pleonasms, dangling participles, incorrect and spurious comma splices and British serial commas I have perpetrated! (some habits are just too hard to beat...)
(But feel free to point out any malapropisms.)
I should stop now, for in hypercorrection[sic][sic] lies madness! :P
XP:
I was supporting a friend's parents' machine for about 4 years a while ago. Initially I loaded XP for them, using Eudora as mail client and IE as the browser. The problems I had with this was that they would get a virus about once a month... and they did try to be careful. I eventually tried some anti-virus applications (extra cost!) but this only got them more confused and slowed down their machine. From a UI point of view it was pretty good. Also it supported multi-users quite well. After the 2nd crash (machine not shut down correctly, etc) the registry hive file was totally trashed this time and not even a restore from any of the two backup files helped, I decided to take the plunge and give them Linux.
Linux:
I picked Xandros here (at the time it was the most user friendly) I personally used Suse, Debian, RedHat and Mandrake (so I know my GNU/Linux). It all went well for some time. At least the machine did not crash and we had zero virus problems. Alas however, the multi-user switching was slow and clunky, and the file permissions (they wanted to share some stuff between the mom and dad) was a royal pain (it was workable, I know how to set up s-bits etc, but it was still a pain). Then there was the problem that the dad's favorite windows Golf game (although it worked), did not work well, but this is not really a big issue. Another issue was that the word processor (OpenOffice) had a very limited clipart selection, and the mail application was not as cool. And lastly, a MAJOR problem was the lack of a system-wide way of setting the default font's larger... every, single, application, had a different way of setting this, and some application you just could not change certain font sizes... even when setting the DPI under X11 differently did not have the desired effect... it was just terrible! One thing I have to say... they DID need my help much less, and was happier with it than with windows! lol
(Using Firefox and Thunderbird)
Mac Mini
Then I bought myself a tiny Macbook G3... and I was SO impressed with it. It did it ALL perfectly. (Even had a nice Golf Game! lol). Clipart, good UI, good fast user switching, snappy, nice apps, good font visibility. It had it all. But unlike the other solutions it came at a price. But considering they insisted on paying me a small amount (they felt they needed to do this to ensure my continued help and dedication... lol!) this was not really such a big issue. That was about 3 years ago now...
(Using Firefox and Mail.app)
So:
So in conclusion, XP for 1 year... Linux for another, and the rest Mac.
For myself I stick with all 3 variants at home. But I will never recommend Linux or XP to any elderly person or computer-Luddite. A Mac works like an appliance. you don't even know it's there. The thing I have to add is that old does not imply they are incapable. They just don't see the need to struggle with equipment. They actually tought me a thing or two about Linux and Windows. :P
Yea, the Amiga was seen as too much 'for children' what held it back was paradoxically its more thought-through and superior architecture. I had a choice at the time between similarly priced Amiga 500 and an XT with no graphics. I should have gotten the XT I suppose, but at least I had lots of fun while other people learned to use Lotus 123.
(I did design and develop a 3D CAD application (with GUI and mouse etc.) while still at high school in 1988 while the rest of my class were still messing around with writing 'hangman' games.)
Then I skipped DOS and windows entirely and went from OS/2 to Linux. Later to use Windows NT.
Yea, you can run WoW quite nicely in Linux nowadays... it's just a bit of an issue with Ventrilo still. But, yes, I prefer using a Mac for this as well... even though I have a gaming machine (to play things like Crysis and Fallout 3 on) I still spend about 99% of my time on my Macbook (WoW, VMWare with XP and Linux, mail, browsing).
Well, in this one it does!
Movies have taught me that all cars explode (sometime even before impact), cars can lose up to 5 hubcaps in chase scenes (perhaps they stopped somewhere to install some extras during a leisurely part of the chase?), explosions go BOOM in space (I always thought it was the magnetic resonance against the outer hull of other ships that cause the 'sound'!).
Oh, yea, and lemmings jump off cliffs to their deaths...
That your anecdote, then? :P
Seriously, I think you just stated most of my thoughts as well.
I recall about how placebo effects actually do help cure some people. and many doctors still give it to their patients unknowingly. I'm all for that, however some people argue that giving someone something other than what they asked for is unethical... can you say 'large drug company'?