Here is something that might help.
Excerpt:
"And now...the rest of the story: I'll take you on a short tour of NT's lineage, which leads back to Digital and its VMS OS. Most of NT's lead developers, including VMS's chief architect, came from Digital, and their background heavily influenced NT's development. After I talk about NT's roots, I'll discuss the more-than-coincidental similarities between NT and VMS, and how Digital reacted to NT's release. .."
Link:
http://windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=4494
I don't agree with that, and I don't agree with the ankle biter that wrote TFA. Like him I took a course called something like "Numerical Methods" as a physics undergraduate, but about 25 years earlier than he did. But the era doesn't entirely explain our difference of opinion.
What a great many posters here miss is that these are not CS majors, this is not a programming course, per se. This is about preparing them for coding their science problems; maybe even on supercomputers. If you're never going to do that, fine.
But, what a few insightful posters have pointed out is that ForTran is still used quite extensively, and was designed for exactly the problems that these students are dedicating their careers to.
But no one has seemed to summarize the obvious: weblogs are like self published books. When the amateurs do it, the audience will be small. When the pros do it, they can be entertaining. Look at Roger Ebert's blog for instance. (No link provided; this is not an advert).
This is like the Turing test. The original concept was to point out that if you can't distinguish between the responses of a human and a computer, than the computer was essentially human.
Touring was just making a point, but people have taken it too far and claim that if you can't distinguish, then the computer is intelligent.
So, imagine a space alien arriving in his UFO and failing the Turing test because not only does it not know what baseball is, but can't even understand human language; maybe doesn't even experience sight and sound, but experiences the world in it's own way.
It was necessary to develop monolithic graphical development "environment" programs for windows because it lacks even the basics for developement. Thus, windows "IDE"s are an environment within an environment. Unix was designed by programmers, for programmers. Unix IS and IDE.
All big sucessfull [sic] highly technological projects happened while being directly affected by goverment [sic]. Internet, Unix...
I guess that's the big brother mindset. I don't remember the US government, much less any bunch of murderous commie assholes having anything to do with Unix.
When the Duma see a way to line their pockets with something, they will embrace it (or when Vladimir Putz tells them to).
In the late '70s I lusted after an Ohio Scientific 6502 based computer (http://oldcomputers.net/osi-600.html), but had to settle for a used Poly88 8080 based system (http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/Poly88/index.html). They were probably equally capable but the OSI seemed sexier. When the IBM PC came out, I lost interest in microcomputers because they had become appliances, like toasters.
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Skype is available for the 2G iPod Touch.
Curious about which distro you install for them.
Sounds like an http proxy. Maybe there will be a switch in IE to automatically turn in on.
Sorry, M$ owns North America.
If you hate it so much, why do you use it. Pay out your ass for some Microsucks shitware knockoff instead.
Here is something that might help. Excerpt: "And now...the rest of the story: I'll take you on a short tour of NT's lineage, which leads back to Digital and its VMS OS. Most of NT's lead developers, including VMS's chief architect, came from Digital, and their background heavily influenced NT's development. After I talk about NT's roots, I'll discuss the more-than-coincidental similarities between NT and VMS, and how Digital reacted to NT's release. . ."
Link:
http://windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=4494
What a great many posters here miss is that these are not CS majors, this is not a programming course, per se. This is about preparing them for coding their science problems; maybe even on supercomputers. If you're never going to do that, fine.
But, what a few insightful posters have pointed out is that ForTran is still used quite extensively, and was designed for exactly the problems that these students are dedicating their careers to.
But no one has seemed to summarize the obvious: weblogs are like self published books. When the amateurs do it, the audience will be small. When the pros do it, they can be entertaining. Look at Roger Ebert's blog for instance. (No link provided; this is not an advert).
Touring was just making a point, but people have taken it too far and claim that if you can't distinguish, then the computer is intelligent.
So, imagine a space alien arriving in his UFO and failing the Turing test because not only does it not know what baseball is, but can't even understand human language; maybe doesn't even experience sight and sound, but experiences the world in it's own way.
You would fail it's Touring test.
Good riddance.
Post again after it launches.
Well, then? What does work?
You date the high school bully, then you complain that he doesn't act like a gentleman.
Exactly: If you use MS (or it uses you), you get what you deserve. Stop Whining.
to ensure that there will still be something there to see when tourists eventually visit
Archeologists are supposed to study cultures that don't exist anymore. He should stick to that and leave amusement parks to Disney.
Looks fine in Links. Fast too. Why mess with those graphical browsers. You're needlessly stealing resources from your other apps.
It was necessary to develop monolithic graphical development "environment" programs for windows because it lacks even the basics for developement. Thus, windows "IDE"s are an environment within an environment. Unix was designed by programmers, for programmers. Unix IS and IDE.
Is there a reference for the differences between MS's Sybase and Sybase's Sybase these days?
OpenSolaris DVDs have both as does the HDD install, and automatically boots the kernel appropriate to your hardware.
But unimaginative, shortsighted, and just wrong.
If man were meant to fly, He would have given us wings.
All big sucessfull [sic] highly technological projects happened while being directly affected by goverment [sic]. Internet, Unix...
I guess that's the big brother mindset. I don't remember the US government, much less any bunch of murderous commie assholes having anything to do with Unix.
When the Duma see a way to line their pockets with something, they will embrace it (or when Vladimir Putz tells them to).
In the late '70s I lusted after an Ohio Scientific 6502 based computer (http://oldcomputers.net/osi-600.html), but had to settle for a used Poly88 8080 based system (http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/Poly88/index.html). They were probably equally capable but the OSI seemed sexier. When the IBM PC came out, I lost interest in microcomputers because they had become appliances, like toasters.
They don't give me mod points anymore. The rest of these people are dumbasses. I would give you +
"Proactive"? What does the prefix "pro" mean? Do you mean pre-emptive?
But the US military uses Windoz; China developed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux Red Flag Linux.