Guess where Microsoft just opened their new German headquarters? Right: In Munich...
(To be fair: They had their headquarters nearby Munich already before - but now they lured them right into the city)
I don't know about the US - but here in Europe (where living near the border isn't that uncommon) a simple solution for that problem is to deactivate automatic roaming in the settings of your mobile phone...
I totally agree with you on that. My point is that you should not throw out fundamental stuff like computational complexity in favor of topics that directly apply to "real-world problems". I think the challenge is to find a good mixture including enough of both types.
The world doesn't need more people arguing over P=NP;
I would argue that the world needs more people (software engineers) that at least understand what the problem of P=NP is all about. Good software engineers know (and care) about the computational complexity of the stuff that they are producing.
I agree to some extent. However, since more and more application functionality (e.g., Google Mail replacing your local email program) is pushed into the browser, performance gets more important again. People just want their web apps as snappy as their local applications.
Focusing on pseudocode might be fine in college - but in HS it is very important to start with topics that are actually motivating the students. The danger is that you lose 80% of your students on the way if you do not give them "something to play with" every once in a while.
As someone who hasn't been able to access his home directory for the complete weekend due to some weird server hosting it at my company being down, I can confirm that relying on others sucks.
Remembering the last time I had a hard drive die without me having done backups for a long time, I can confirm that relying on myself sucks as well.
So I loose in all cases...
I am not sure whether Firefox 3.1 will ever be finished as most Firefox developers seem to be trapped without power in Canada...:-) See: http://planet.mozilla.org/
I would like to know more about the kinds of technology they are using. There are tons of interesting issues like the communication technology, security, energy supply,...
Unfortunately, the article does not provide many details so I looked for the web page of the company: http://streetlinenetworks.com/ - However, there isn't much more information to be found there either...
Anyway, it will be exciting to see a real-world wireless sensor network operating on such a large scale!
I think what people really want is an iPhone that can be used with any GSM carrier. For that, it would be worth paying more - but not for another way of still being tied to AT&T...
Why would Australia, already with very limited high cost bandwidth to the rest of the world, bother building out cable to the small remote isolated island of Guam? If you look at this map http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/submarine/refs/Asian_Map_LR.pdf that a previous poster linked to you will see that Guam is already quite well connected (both to Asian countries and to the US) - so connecting Australia to Guam gives much more benefits than just being connected to Guam.
To me this sounds like a publicity stunt with little useful output for the projects.
I prefer the concept of the Google Summer of Code (even though many of the projects funded there seem to fail), because it focuses on a longer-term development and possibly recruits new talent to the projects.
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If I want to taste something really bad, I just start cooking. Much cheaper than buying a Nintendo!
Guess where Microsoft just opened their new German headquarters? Right: In Munich... (To be fair: They had their headquarters nearby Munich already before - but now they lured them right into the city)
How about uniting one with a Buran:
http://speyer.technik-museum.de/node/649
Admitted, the cost of transporting it to Germany might be significant...
I don't know about the US - but here in Europe (where living near the border isn't that uncommon) a simple solution for that problem is to deactivate automatic roaming in the settings of your mobile phone...
I am disappointed, Microsoft!
I totally agree with you on that. My point is that you should not throw out fundamental stuff like computational complexity in favor of topics that directly apply to "real-world problems". I think the challenge is to find a good mixture including enough of both types.
The world doesn't need more people arguing over P=NP;
I would argue that the world needs more people (software engineers) that at least understand what the problem of P=NP is all about. Good software engineers know (and care) about the computational complexity of the stuff that they are producing.
I tend to believe your statement - but a link to a source verifying this would have been nice anyway...
I agree to some extent. However, since more and more application functionality (e.g., Google Mail replacing your local email program) is pushed into the browser, performance gets more important again. People just want their web apps as snappy as their local applications.
If they are going to have breaks anyway, I wish they were a bit longer. It would give me time to get a snack.
And there is your reason why they don't do that...
Voters favored Obama throughout election!
For everyone who - like me - does not live in a country where 'filibustering' is used in politics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster
The Transrapid technology is still ahead - it already has a running commercial system in Shanghai, China. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid
Focusing on pseudocode might be fine in college - but in HS it is very important to start with topics that are actually motivating the students. The danger is that you lose 80% of your students on the way if you do not give them "something to play with" every once in a while.
As someone who hasn't been able to access his home directory for the complete weekend due to some weird server hosting it at my company being down, I can confirm that relying on others sucks.
Remembering the last time I had a hard drive die without me having done backups for a long time, I can confirm that relying on myself sucks as well.
So I loose in all cases...
... just in case you desperately need to buy some cheap "medicine" :-)
I am not sure whether Firefox 3.1 will ever be finished as most Firefox developers seem to be trapped without power in Canada... :-) See: http://planet.mozilla.org/
How? The article is more confusing than informative on this aspect...
I would like to know more about the kinds of technology they are using. There are tons of interesting issues like the communication technology, security, energy supply, ...
Unfortunately, the article does not provide many details so I looked for the web page of the company: http://streetlinenetworks.com/ - However, there isn't much more information to be found there either...
Anyway, it will be exciting to see a real-world wireless sensor network operating on such a large scale!
Maybe it is because you do not know where fun ends and sickness starts. I think there are better topics for making bad jokes than the death penalty...
I think what people really want is an iPhone that can be used with any GSM carrier. For that, it would be worth paying more - but not for another way of still being tied to AT&T...
Fair enough - but if you ask the Germans about California, they will tell you that they know it as 'Kalifornien'...
To me this sounds like a publicity stunt with little useful output for the projects. I prefer the concept of the Google Summer of Code (even though many of the projects funded there seem to fail), because it focuses on a longer-term development and possibly recruits new talent to the projects.