Get a copy of a small book called "UML Distilled" by Martin Fowler. Analysis and design are the keys to a successful software project. Read it; live it.
Probably the same substances that come from existing diesels. The difference is this is carbon neutral since the carbon was pulled from the atmosphere to begin with.
I call bullshit. Linux and Android are not the same thing. Saying "Linux is no more 'invulnerable' to attack & exploit than Windows is" is just plain wrong.
Shoot for some kind of software development in medical research, medical devices or medical IT. As long as you live, there will always be people and they will need health care. It's a safe bet.
It's a great achievement, but is it useful? I have a G1 and Android is great there because the G1 is not big enough for a full desktop (physically or resource wise).
I also have an XO, eee PC (701), and Aspire One. I run Xubuntu and Ubuntu on them because they can handle it. Running Android on those machines would hobble them.
with Moore's law this means that a few months later, netbooks *will* be powerful enough.
You forgot about Bill's Law which states Windows will be more bloated with each update and new version.
Unless Microsoft changes their culture, palm-top devices will never be able to run the current version of Windows.
I agree with you that "The Big Three" have been mismanaged. I also agree with you that the executives there are way over-paid. But that is off-topic for this story.
Michigan has also tried to lure manufacturing companies here with incentives. It won't work because the abuse by labor unions in this state is just too great.
I watched labor unions in Michigan drive manufacturing out of this state into more friendly states like Tennessee. Unions have destroyed Michigan and given us the highest unemployment rate in the country.
Destroying one state isn't enough. Let's all drink the kool-aid and perish together.
OLPCs are made to take a lot of abuse. There aren't many openings for kids to pour fluids or sand in. The solid state disk holds up well for obvious reasons. The dual mode display even works in bright sunlight.
If you want to use it as a "real" laptop, just add the xfce desktop package and add a.xinitrc file to bring it up instead of the "sugar" interface for kids. This is all well documented on the olpc wiki site, so don't responds with any whining!
My kids (14,8,4) use this all the time and love it. The four year old can type words and have the computer say them. It is a big help in teaching him reading. All kids are different and your two year old may or may not enjoy the laptop now, but will grow into it.
I like German and it is my second language, BUT there is something you should know. The best way to strengthen you language skills is to travel to a country that speaks that language and immerse yourself. The problem is when you travel to Germany or Austria, almost everyone can speak english and will as soon as they detect you speak it. As their english is usually magnitudes better than your german, the conversations proceed in english. The only time I got to exercise my German was when I was stuck in a hotel where the desk person only spoke (hungarian?) and german.
On the other hand, if you travel in France, many speak english, but won't. It's a pride thing. You might get a lot of bang for the effort if you learn french (assuming you would like to travel in France, and who wouldn't).
anybody who can handle a programming language and math should have no problem with foreign languages
I disagree with this comment. I have taken a lot of math and done well. I have forgotten more computer languages than the average programmer knows. And still, I cannot reproduce the sounds of french or many other languages. It's a talent you lose as you get older. German I have no problem with because it is so similar to english.
Programming is a substantial discipline and takes decades to master--it's not just some sort of advanced touch typing. That's why engineering schools offer degrees in computer science and produce software engineers. Without applying engineering discipline to software, you're doing nothing but hacking. Most hackers don't have the math skills to prove the correctness of their software. How will you send humans to mars if you can't prove your software won't kill them?
I don't think there is a single statement here that you can support.
Engineering schools are teaching Java, VB, and C++. When FORTRAN is used by scientists, it is sad, but is is for a good reason - many scientific applications and libraries were written in FORTRAN and it is easier to work with them in FORTRAN than rewrite them.
Good programmers and bad programmers come from all walks of life. Your comment is similar to one from a bigot that attributes a certain property to people of a specific race.
Try visiting an engineering school since it's obvious you have never attended one.
Sure, but with graphics there will be a lot of requests. Since Java has no way to speed up memory allocation using objects on the stack or explicit deletes, it will need to do a lot of garbage collection and that is really inefficient. For many applications, that is tolerable, but not for graphics.
The X server should be mostly scrapped and rewritten in Java Is this the funny part? Java's reliance on garbage collection makes it perform too poorly for graphics. I like Java, but not for something like this.
A quick google shows that there was a project started. See http://stegfs.sourceforge.net/
I'm not sure what you mean when you say,
Linux, the so called Free Software Operating System
Is your p2p application or plug in sending back your MAC address, firmware revision, manufacture date, GUID or other details?" This is exactly why Open Source Software is so important. Even though the average user may not have the skill to examine the code for breaches of trust, there are many in the community that can and do. These breaches are fixed or made public and public opinion will decide whether or not the P2P application is trustworthy.
Closed source applications from companies like M$ can't be trusted in this way.
I believe you could accurately simulate a hammer with a system of six particles.
While Intel's Nehalem demo had 50,000-60,000 particles and ran at 15-20 fps (without a GPU), the particle demo on a GeForce 9800 card resulted in 300 fps. 60,000 is greater than 6. Your machine might slow down under that amount of computation.
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Considering how bad Facebook and Twitter are, and how many resources Google has, it's amazing they couldn't make Google+ fly. SMH
Get a copy of a small book called "UML Distilled" by Martin Fowler. Analysis and design are the keys to a successful software project. Read it; live it.
Probably the same substances that come from existing diesels. The difference is this is carbon neutral since the carbon was pulled from the atmosphere to begin with.
I call bullshit. Linux and Android are not the same thing. Saying "Linux is no more 'invulnerable' to attack & exploit than Windows is" is just plain wrong.
If everyone read this book, the world would be a more peaceful place. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Delusion
Shoot for some kind of software development in medical research, medical devices or medical IT. As long as you live, there will always be people and they will need health care. It's a safe bet.
It's a great achievement, but is it useful? I have a G1 and Android is great there because the G1 is not big enough for a full desktop (physically or resource wise).
I also have an XO, eee PC (701), and Aspire One. I run Xubuntu and Ubuntu on them because they can handle it. Running Android on those machines would hobble them.
with Moore's law this means that a few months later, netbooks *will* be powerful enough.
You forgot about Bill's Law which states Windows will be more bloated with each update and new version.
Unless Microsoft changes their culture, palm-top devices will never be able to run the current version of Windows.
I agree with you that "The Big Three" have been mismanaged. I also agree with you that the executives there are way over-paid. But that is off-topic for this story.
Michigan has also tried to lure manufacturing companies here with incentives. It won't work because the abuse by labor unions in this state is just too great.
The situation is the same and has the same solution.
If you create such an extortion situation, you won't be hired anywhere else.
I watched labor unions in Michigan drive manufacturing out of this state into more friendly states like Tennessee. Unions have destroyed Michigan and given us the highest unemployment rate in the country.
Destroying one state isn't enough. Let's all drink the kool-aid and perish together.
OLPCs are made to take a lot of abuse. There aren't many openings for kids to pour fluids or sand in. The solid state disk holds up well for obvious reasons. The dual mode display even works in bright sunlight. .xinitrc file to bring it up instead of the "sugar" interface for kids. This is all well documented on the olpc wiki site, so don't responds with any whining!
If you want to use it as a "real" laptop, just add the xfce desktop package and add a
My kids (14,8,4) use this all the time and love it. The four year old can type words and have the computer say them. It is a big help in teaching him reading. All kids are different and your two year old may or may not enjoy the laptop now, but will grow into it.
5. Microsoft Office 2003. (400$)
Make that:
5. Open Office. ($0)
On the other hand, if you travel in France, many speak english, but won't. It's a pride thing. You might get a lot of bang for the effort if you learn french (assuming you would like to travel in France, and who wouldn't).
anybody who can handle a programming language and math should have no problem with foreign languages
I disagree with this comment. I have taken a lot of math and done well. I have forgotten more computer languages than the average programmer knows. And still, I cannot reproduce the sounds of french or many other languages. It's a talent you lose as you get older. German I have no problem with because it is so similar to english.
I don't think there is a single statement here that you can support.
Engineering schools are teaching Java, VB, and C++. When FORTRAN is used by scientists, it is sad, but is is for a good reason - many scientific applications and libraries were written in FORTRAN and it is easier to work with them in FORTRAN than rewrite them.
Good programmers and bad programmers come from all walks of life. Your comment is similar to one from a bigot that attributes a certain property to people of a specific race.
Try visiting an engineering school since it's obvious you have never attended one.
BS! Engineers don't need no stinkin managers!
Sure, but with graphics there will be a lot of requests. Since Java has no way to speed up memory allocation using objects on the stack or explicit deletes, it will need to do a lot of garbage collection and that is really inefficient. For many applications, that is tolerable, but not for graphics.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say, Linux, the so called Free Software Operating System
That's true, unless it was encoded somehow. This might be done to compress the size of the message.
Closed source applications from companies like M$ can't be trusted in this way.
Yes, but it has USB ports, so you can plug in an external drive.