Sure-I use azureus on my desktop, but refuse to throw it on my laptop 'cause it keeps freezing up my poor desktop. But I'll switch CPU for memory usage (just 'cause I can't get anything good on clock cycles)
using task manager:
uTorrent- 3,984K (and the actual program is only.54MB-important on a storage starved system)
Azureus-about 4/5 cycles, approx 55k memory(11.31mb)
If anyone have extra $ for donation at this time. It's definitely make MUCH more sense to donate to disaster-related humanitarian effort. Did that (Red Cross & DWB), now can I also throw some cash at my favorite project? There are always disasters, so those organizations always need money, so I don't think all spare donation cash must go to disaster related efforts 'cause then everything else will get none.
But they get funding through membership dues, (which isn't a bad idea if he's got some cash to spare) and probably through IEEE (which gets money through membership dues, journal subscriptions and probably some corporate funding.) I think the parent poster wants somewhere where his cash will make a decent sized impact.
Dude, I've only been using kubuntu for a year (and it's my first linux distro at that) so I've got nothing but love for it's ease of use, nice ui, and general friendliness.
Please, please school me on emacs vs. vi-the debate fascinates me, but my friends don't wanna explain it. (I use jed and still don't know why it's considered horrible by some people.)
Thanks, but between numpy and matplotlib, I've basically got MatLab covered (plus I actually shelled out for a student edition back when I needed it for my class on matlab.) Hell, instead of Presentation I can use PsychoPy and PyEPL. It's just that often I'm stuck using other programs 'cause I'm a lowly inexperienced undergrad and therefore only have as much say as anyone will give me (which, well I'm working on convincing one prof. 'cause he's programmed before and therefore hates Presentation as much as I do.)
When I was shopping for linux distro's a couple of years ago, gentoo was the newbie linux.(Though the rec's could have just been a whole torture the newbie joke.) It didn't work, neither did RHEL or some other distro (some sort of driver issue) so I ended up getting XP through a friend's uni's academic license. (Looking back, I find it a bit sad that I was the only person in either comp tech. class who even attempted linux.)
Then again, I suppose nobody would have used it otherwise Not true-everyone uses playerstage and it's documentation is well semi-existent. People will use anything if they see a need to.
Some of us don't have much of a choice, if any. Visual Studio is one of my least favorite compilers, but if the professor's giving me code that compiles in VS and requires a hell of a lot of work to compile in anything else-well VS it is.
MatLab is the same, 'cept funner 'cause it's got it's own proprietary language and I had two classes that used it. And then there's this horrible suite for psych experiments called Presentation-that's what the person running the experiment was using, and had no authority to fight him on it. Of course I can do almost anything I need MatLab or Presentation for in python, but that requires forcing people to switch and learn new techs.
I think that's not a great comparison 'cause with rentals/loans/library books, you don't get to keep whatever it is you're borrowing-unless you scan the whole book in (been there/done that-far too time consuming when it's not necessary), bother with decrypting DVD's/MP3's to make copies, etc. With software, once it's shared that's it-give someone software and they're not gonna see a need to buy it. With a library, it's basically exposure and marketing-if the audience likes a book/DVD/CD enough, they'll buy it/more from the same author. (Plus, half the audience are people who'd never buy it in the first place-no lost audience 'cause they weren't an audience in the first place.)
The Ubuntu site is a very clean interface-see button, go to section, then get into the detail. It's perfect for the user who doesn't know anything 'cause they'll never even know what they're missing. The site's incredibly easy to navigate-it just requires more buttons to get somewhere. The Debian site has the standard F/OSS interface-throw just about everything at the user under a couple of subheadings. Less clicks, yeah-but not that much better for it.
Website design is as much about the audience as anything else-and the Ubuntu site is perfectly geared towards it's audience, as is Debians towards it's- which is why it looks any other F/OSS project page where as Ubuntu's looks like a standard corporate page.
5) Make calls from conference rooms instead of your desk. This won't work if you call people daily, but its good if you need to make personal calls once a week or so. I know someone who does that just 'cause they work in a cubical farm and don't want everyone to know what's going on-forget about all the company snooping issues. Even better option: go outside during lunch and use your cell phone.
there needs to be standardization in functions and code, so coders do not have to rewrite the wheel Those standard functions also need to follow good coding practices. There's a library that's used pretty often in the robotics community, but I've got coders who want to write the functions from scratch 'cause the documentation is almost non-existent. (It's a collection of wiki to:do pages, an active mailing list, and uncommented/badly commented code.)Hell I'm tempted to switch to a different architecture for the same reason, and I fangirl using stuff that's already there.
virtual structures and visual shapes and understand and visualize what the hell you are actually coding so that you can see the mistakes in the structure visually I can't get electrical engineers to abstract their code enough to think of it as a whole, and they're taught to make visual models-getting decision trees and flow charts was like pulling teeth, ended up a total waste of time. The computer engineers I know fall mostly into the "hate software engineering with a passion and think it's worthless" category-one of 'em likes vb, but he's not gonna code a vision system for a robot that way. (Which is a different point-not all code is equal, and a visual ide may very well be useless for a lot of projects.)
represented in a flowchart like format but much more like a diagram of an electric circuit and with things like what the size of X is and it's computational *load* on the cpu and whatnot But isn't that sort of throwing optimization right with design right with implementation-something that should never be done for a wide variety of reasons?
The myspace job sounds kind of awesome-look through the web all day, babysit some myspacers, accept/reject a couple of things, basically be a moderator. The csr jobs are similar, 'cept they require actually dealing with customers. Okay, so the pay will barely cover food, and the job isn't challenging, but with all that free time I can do a real job on the side, or get a masters degree.
I've worked clerical at a school-that's the best of bad customers, strange questions, and ad-hoc tech repair.
Much better off with a Desktop if you can swing it, or at least an external monitor. Which is what the comp labs are for-I'm talking about needing a quick view of something they already drew in CAD or whatever else, or trying to get together a group project.
Basically, I totally agree with you-I was just trying to give anecdotal evidence of low-end macs being sort of worthless for the people I know. (I honestly didn't mean to troll/flamebait.)
Because all the laptops (mac's real market for computers-and I can't even find one under a 1000 at the moment) under 1000 aren't really useful. They give those things (actually the macbooks-which a 'lil over the 1000 price point) for free to the honor's college kids at my school, and well half the engineers/architects I know wanna buy dell's and the like 'cause the macbooks can barely handle their apps, when compatibility issues don't start up.
The mac mini is utterly adorable-but I can but a more powerful dell for the same price (or a fit-pc for cheaper)-most people who really care about a small pc just by a laptop.
If the professor assigns homework (that he'll collect) from the textbook, or just can't teach, (or in one case would fail any student without the book, which he had written) then it's necessary to buy the thing. I buy them off half, amazon, ebay, etc. so I pay as much for books as my brother in poli-sci, but without scouring for books, it'd cost a good $1000 a year (at least) for books. The school library, if it even has the book, only allows us to borrow it for two hour blocks.
How does a young person today get started? Robotics! Lego is introducing kids to robotics at home through the mindstorm serious, and getting kids in elementary and middle school envolved through Lego League. High school's have US First, which has plenty of non-tech responsibilities so any kid remotely interested can get a toehold. Not a large percentage of the kid population, yeah-but an ever growing pool.
On the CS side, all that talk about social networking and fan culture has led to a whole generation of girls who code CSS/HTML and manage PHP forums and SQL databases and are otherwise very involved in webtech and write great IRC tutorials. Don't discount it 'cause a lot of these girls end up either in CS or doing great things without that CS degree.
Uh, they all do engineering/science degrees first, then go to law school. (At least in the states, where our law schools don't like pre-law majors and like engineers/science majors 'cause they're the only ones who can pass the patent bar exams.)
Not just the UK;in the US we've constantly got a shortage of math and science teachers (and all sorts of teachers for underfunded school districts) 'cause the pay's not worth the difficulty of the job-and when it comes to maths and sciences, many people feel that once they do all the course work for the degree, they may as well go into the private sector and get a job that pays much better and gets more respect.
Tell people you wanna be a teacher, you're told it's a waste of your potential or you're an idiot-it's okay as a three year break before grad school or work (a fellowship-which is lately how cities have recruited teachers for unstaffable positions) but as a career? people look baffled.
Dude, I'm getting both (psychology and computer engineering) and it's not that clean cut. Yeah, most of my psych courses are easier than most of my engineering ones, but some really aren't. The humanities require a lot of thinking too-all sorts of multi-variable analysis to find causal chains and predictable outcomes, which isn't much different from the type of thinking required for engineers.
Plus, plain old skills come in. I have the advantage of being able to write and the disadvantage of being horrible with analogue circuits, so of course I find engineering more difficult. There are people in my classes who are terrible at writing-so they find the engineering courses easy compared to their liberal arts. There's also culture-if every tv show/comic/movie/etc. is sending the message that math is hard, kids get scared of math before they even try it, and that makes it that much harder to get kids interested.
First, why isn't there a better effort at medium to large video-conferencing that pretty much anyone can set up? Probably 'cause it's assumed that the only people really need medium/large video-conferencing software are universities and companies-and they can afford proprietary software, so why try too hard?
I think they missed the mark and made it somewhat difficult to use. Oh and be sure to watch the kids struggle to open it the first time they get their hands on it. I agree completely-it looks like it could be sparkly and fun for kids if it's cleaned up, tested, and streamlined. That's where I think breaking off from OLPC and really trying to stand on it's own is a good thing. It allows for a change in structure and resources that could lead to more development of a friendly UI 'cause the focus is shifted back towards education in the like. Plus, I'm hoping that reaching for a larger audience will also give sugar strong nudge towards better UI, 'cause the average user just won't put up with sugar as it is now-they'll stay with jumpstart and all the other education suites.
Love that they
a)wanna focus on usability
b)are still keeping to the project aims
c)recognizing that people will happily use sugar on anything if it's good.
I think sugar is adorable, wanna throw it on my laptop when I babysit, so I think this could be a good teaching tool. One interface with clicky pictures is easier to work with when teaching, even if there are all sorts of games separately-look at the whole jumpstart line of games. So I'm really psyched, though it'd be nice to have a live usb/live cd version.
Seconding. My old laptop (R40) sometimes actually works a bit better than my new one (X41 tablet, which I actually stole from my bro 'cause I just wanted a tablet-he got a X61 out of it) 'cause I install all sorts of crazy junk on my toy, which I've had to reformat way too many times already. My mom took my old one and it works for her for everything from websurfing to telnetting into work. My brother uses an ancient HP as a media client-and sometimes it works even better than my newer custom box. It's slow, but that doesn't matter much for playing AVI's and the like.
I'm actually looking for old laptops now 'cause I just want a basic linux box to play on.
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Sure-I use azureus on my desktop, but refuse to throw it on my laptop 'cause it keeps freezing up my poor desktop. But I'll switch CPU for memory usage (just 'cause I can't get anything good on clock cycles) using task manager: uTorrent- 3,984K (and the actual program is only .54MB-important on a storage starved system)
Azureus-about 4/5 cycles, approx 55k memory(11.31mb)
But they get funding through membership dues, (which isn't a bad idea if he's got some cash to spare) and probably through IEEE (which gets money through membership dues, journal subscriptions and probably some corporate funding.) I think the parent poster wants somewhere where his cash will make a decent sized impact.
Dude, I've only been using kubuntu for a year (and it's my first linux distro at that) so I've got nothing but love for it's ease of use, nice ui, and general friendliness.
Please, please school me on emacs vs. vi-the debate fascinates me, but my friends don't wanna explain it. (I use jed and still don't know why it's considered horrible by some people.)
Thanks, but between numpy and matplotlib, I've basically got MatLab covered (plus I actually shelled out for a student edition back when I needed it for my class on matlab.) Hell, instead of Presentation I can use PsychoPy and PyEPL. It's just that often I'm stuck using other programs 'cause I'm a lowly inexperienced undergrad and therefore only have as much say as anyone will give me (which, well I'm working on convincing one prof. 'cause he's programmed before and therefore hates Presentation as much as I do.)
Some of us don't have much of a choice, if any. Visual Studio is one of my least favorite compilers, but if the professor's giving me code that compiles in VS and requires a hell of a lot of work to compile in anything else-well VS it is.
MatLab is the same, 'cept funner 'cause it's got it's own proprietary language and I had two classes that used it. And then there's this horrible suite for psych experiments called Presentation-that's what the person running the experiment was using, and had no authority to fight him on it. Of course I can do almost anything I need MatLab or Presentation for in python, but that requires forcing people to switch and learn new techs.
I think that's not a great comparison 'cause with rentals/loans/library books, you don't get to keep whatever it is you're borrowing-unless you scan the whole book in (been there/done that-far too time consuming when it's not necessary), bother with decrypting DVD's/MP3's to make copies, etc. With software, once it's shared that's it-give someone software and they're not gonna see a need to buy it. With a library, it's basically exposure and marketing-if the audience likes a book/DVD/CD enough, they'll buy it/more from the same author. (Plus, half the audience are people who'd never buy it in the first place-no lost audience 'cause they weren't an audience in the first place.)
Website design is as much about the audience as anything else-and the Ubuntu site is perfectly geared towards it's audience, as is Debians towards it's- which is why it looks any other F/OSS project page where as Ubuntu's looks like a standard corporate page.
virtual structures and visual shapes and understand and visualize what the hell you are actually coding so that you can see the mistakes in the structure visually I can't get electrical engineers to abstract their code enough to think of it as a whole, and they're taught to make visual models-getting decision trees and flow charts was like pulling teeth, ended up a total waste of time. The computer engineers I know fall mostly into the "hate software engineering with a passion and think it's worthless" category-one of 'em likes vb, but he's not gonna code a vision system for a robot that way. (Which is a different point-not all code is equal, and a visual ide may very well be useless for a lot of projects.)
represented in a flowchart like format but much more like a diagram of an electric circuit and with things like what the size of X is and it's computational *load* on the cpu and whatnot But isn't that sort of throwing optimization right with design right with implementation-something that should never be done for a wide variety of reasons?
The myspace job sounds kind of awesome-look through the web all day, babysit some myspacers, accept/reject a couple of things, basically be a moderator. The csr jobs are similar, 'cept they require actually dealing with customers. Okay, so the pay will barely cover food, and the job isn't challenging, but with all that free time I can do a real job on the side, or get a masters degree.
I've worked clerical at a school-that's the best of bad customers, strange questions, and ad-hoc tech repair.
Basically, I totally agree with you-I was just trying to give anecdotal evidence of low-end macs being sort of worthless for the people I know. (I honestly didn't mean to troll/flamebait.)
Because all the laptops (mac's real market for computers-and I can't even find one under a 1000 at the moment) under 1000 aren't really useful. They give those things (actually the macbooks-which a 'lil over the 1000 price point) for free to the honor's college kids at my school, and well half the engineers/architects I know wanna buy dell's and the like 'cause the macbooks can barely handle their apps, when compatibility issues don't start up.
The mac mini is utterly adorable-but I can but a more powerful dell for the same price (or a fit-pc for cheaper)-most people who really care about a small pc just by a laptop.
If the professor assigns homework (that he'll collect) from the textbook, or just can't teach, (or in one case would fail any student without the book, which he had written) then it's necessary to buy the thing. I buy them off half, amazon, ebay, etc. so I pay as much for books as my brother in poli-sci, but without scouring for books, it'd cost a good $1000 a year (at least) for books. The school library, if it even has the book, only allows us to borrow it for two hour blocks.
On the CS side, all that talk about social networking and fan culture has led to a whole generation of girls who code CSS/HTML and manage PHP forums and SQL databases and are otherwise very involved in webtech and write great IRC tutorials. Don't discount it 'cause a lot of these girls end up either in CS or doing great things without that CS degree.
Uh, they all do engineering/science degrees first, then go to law school. (At least in the states, where our law schools don't like pre-law majors and like engineers/science majors 'cause they're the only ones who can pass the patent bar exams.)
Not just the UK;in the US we've constantly got a shortage of math and science teachers (and all sorts of teachers for underfunded school districts) 'cause the pay's not worth the difficulty of the job-and when it comes to maths and sciences, many people feel that once they do all the course work for the degree, they may as well go into the private sector and get a job that pays much better and gets more respect.
Tell people you wanna be a teacher, you're told it's a waste of your potential or you're an idiot-it's okay as a three year break before grad school or work (a fellowship-which is lately how cities have recruited teachers for unstaffable positions) but as a career? people look baffled.
Dude, I'm getting both (psychology and computer engineering) and it's not that clean cut. Yeah, most of my psych courses are easier than most of my engineering ones, but some really aren't. The humanities require a lot of thinking too-all sorts of multi-variable analysis to find causal chains and predictable outcomes, which isn't much different from the type of thinking required for engineers.
Plus, plain old skills come in. I have the advantage of being able to write and the disadvantage of being horrible with analogue circuits, so of course I find engineering more difficult. There are people in my classes who are terrible at writing-so they find the engineering courses easy compared to their liberal arts. There's also culture-if every tv show/comic/movie/etc. is sending the message that math is hard, kids get scared of math before they even try it, and that makes it that much harder to get kids interested.
irc doesn't require refreshing every three seconds
Love that they a)wanna focus on usability b)are still keeping to the project aims c)recognizing that people will happily use sugar on anything if it's good. I think sugar is adorable, wanna throw it on my laptop when I babysit, so I think this could be a good teaching tool. One interface with clicky pictures is easier to work with when teaching, even if there are all sorts of games separately-look at the whole jumpstart line of games. So I'm really psyched, though it'd be nice to have a live usb/live cd version.
Seconding. My old laptop (R40) sometimes actually works a bit better than my new one (X41 tablet, which I actually stole from my bro 'cause I just wanted a tablet-he got a X61 out of it) 'cause I install all sorts of crazy junk on my toy, which I've had to reformat way too many times already. My mom took my old one and it works for her for everything from websurfing to telnetting into work. My brother uses an ancient HP as a media client-and sometimes it works even better than my newer custom box. It's slow, but that doesn't matter much for playing AVI's and the like. I'm actually looking for old laptops now 'cause I just want a basic linux box to play on.