I don't know about this... My Data Plan costs $20 a month, for unlimited Internet access including use of my BlackBerry as a tethered modem. How much less could it possibly be?
I should think you have a good point about WiFi... but such phones are currently becoming available. For one thing, BlackBerry models with WiFi and 3G are coming out of the pipeline (in a month or so).
To appease the Apple fanboys:) the latest poll I saw had Blackberry vs iPhone 51% to 49% -- a difference quite likely not statistically significant. [Phew!]
In emails in Greek the word "kai" is ubiquitous, as it translates to "and". Yahoo happily serves ads about Kai Fragrances or the Napili Kai Beach Resort -- in Maui. How much bang are these sponsors getting for their buck?!
Thank you for reminding me of a wonderful man and master of our craft, whose graduate course I remember fondly -- as well as his penchant for wicked APL one-liners!:-)
Uh... to save time in locating useful material? He still has to "do his research" himself, namely, assess what he reads, AND come up with a new contribution of his own.
Quite right. Techniques and good advice may on occasion be misused. It takes ability to discern what is relevant and appropriate and what isn't.
I remember a study comparing A, top programmer, and B, barely competent. In some admittedly vague metric A was "worth" 10 to 100 times as much as B.
Which is not to say that A will always produce top-notch code. Practical realities and constraints may still give rise to mediocre code -- if the alternative is no code at all.
One should also factor in the increasing, and sometimes imposed, reliance on ready-made libraries, platforms, frameworks... which often bring about acceptable but hardly stellar results.
The classics, "The Mythical Man-Month", "Programming Jewels", Parnas, Dijkstra... are a good read and a start towards more current efforts. But the task of distilling a substantial part of a gifted practitioner's skill into articulable principles is no easy thing, and if it can be done it certainly deserves a Ph.D.
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Dunno... I might also try Tom's Hardware :)
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Quidquid latinum dictum est, altum viditur :-O
I should think you have a good point about WiFi... but such phones are currently becoming available. For one thing, BlackBerry models with WiFi and 3G are coming out of the pipeline (in a month or so).
To appease the Apple fanboys :) the latest poll I saw had Blackberry vs iPhone 51% to 49% -- a difference quite likely not statistically significant. [Phew!]
Is it that hard to click Phone... Menu... Help ... Conference Call... Making a Conference Call ...and read:
1. During a call, press the SEND key
2. Type a phone number or highlight a contact
3. Press the SEND key
4. During the second call press the Menu key
5. Click JOIN
You might also simply go to a BlackBerry Bulletin Board and ask.
Just don't pay any heed if you see me there mentioning videos such as
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNMOMayDeqs
We do poke fun at iPhones :)
Or make an inadvertent 911 call :))
Actually, practice made my thumbnail pretty agile on BlackBerry Pearl's MultiTap condensed keyboard. It's faster than on a QWERTY.
All things considered, I'm happy to be a man :)
No dice. We've also been trying to give Florida back to Spain for YEARS :(
In emails in Greek the word "kai" is ubiquitous, as it translates to "and". Yahoo happily serves ads about Kai Fragrances or the Napili Kai Beach Resort -- in Maui. How much bang are these sponsors getting for their buck?!
"ecrivez en francais", you insensitive Claude :))
Uh... www.google.us
You guys are on my subnet... but sorry, I prefer 127.0.0.1, it's uncannily like my stuff.
Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy an ugly hat [@Dilbert :) ]
I mention the Geneva Convention in a post... here come the hawt chykks of Lausanne.
I write "too many Chiefs and not enough Indians" in an email and presto, I'm contemplating Bollywood beauties.
Semantic Web my foot.
1. The Billiard Ball Reflection Problem
2. Recognition of Trigonometric Identities Problem
3. Shortest Mutation of Strings Problem
4. [I don't remember the 4th one]
For each of the above four problems
i) Discuss which programming language you consider most appropriate for the problem
ii) If you do not already know said language, learn it.
iii) Write a program in said language solving the problem
I did (1) in FORTRAN, just to prove a point about libraries. I did (2) and (3) in LISP. That is how I learned LISP :)
Thank you for reminding me of a wonderful man and master of our craft, whose graduate course I remember fondly -- as well as his penchant for wicked APL one-liners! :-)
Uh... to save time in locating useful material? He still has to "do his research" himself, namely, assess what he reads, AND come up with a new contribution of his own.
I remember a study comparing A, top programmer, and B, barely competent. In some admittedly vague metric A was "worth" 10 to 100 times as much as B.
Which is not to say that A will always produce top-notch code. Practical realities and constraints may still give rise to mediocre code -- if the alternative is no code at all.
One should also factor in the increasing, and sometimes imposed, reliance on ready-made libraries, platforms, frameworks... which often bring about acceptable but hardly stellar results.
The classics, "The Mythical Man-Month", "Programming Jewels", Parnas, Dijkstra... are a good read and a start towards more current efforts. But the task of distilling a substantial part of a gifted practitioner's skill into articulable principles is no easy thing, and if it can be done it certainly deserves a Ph.D.
"If I have seen further than others it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants" [Isaac Newton, paraphrased(?)]
"It can be tough when you are standing in the footprints of dwarves" [classic of Usenet]
And timing them right. Video-conferencing was technically possible and indeed became available -- before its time.
Has it come to that?... hope@at_home?
I can only hope the NSA's computing power should be capable of breaking such a thing's encryption within a time scale a tad shorter than 1-2 years :-(
And then we do what?... DDoS them off the Net?! :-O