This is not bias. Its called credit. When someone spend years saying credible things you are expected to take his declarations seriously. He can be wrong, but his opinion has to be respected and evaluated with caution
"To get some insight" is not the same thing as "understand". This is one of the most beautiful things in physics: you know that you will never fully understand anything, but still you go on with the hope of just progressing towards an unreachable goal
Java is not the best choice, but it is a wiser one than C, for example. The guy has to forget a little about memory management and pointer arithmetics on his first steps. After he has some experience with programming he can get into low level details
I had professionally worked with a couple of languages, which includes Java and python. That being said, I see strengths on both languages but I think python is a better choice for introductory courses.
One thing that I believe is very important is to make them program in more than one language. CS majors should understand that there is no silver bullet. Each language has its place and time and a good professional have to be ready to handle more than one tool.
Calm down man! I don't use mail and end of story. You have to live with that. When I send parcels, I do it to ONE person and just write down the address.
You are trying to put your world view on everybody's head. Neither I nor the people I know need to print frickin mail labels that's it. OpenOffice is good enough for me.
I didn't said that OpenOffice is only suitable for trivial business tasks and home use. I said it is suitable for some common business tasks and home use.
How about twisting someone else's word heh!?
I work at one of the largest oil companies in the world and never seen anyone printing a mailing label either and home or at work. And I am serious about it. People just e-mail each other. I would even guess that my secretary wouldn't be able to do it (she is a Word 2003 user).
Besides, I don't use snail mail anymore and none of my friends use it either. So, no Christmas cards problem... Welcome to the 21th century!;-)
If something is not useful to you, it doesn't means that it is useless.
Sorry for the bluntness, but... holy crap! not The Gimp Thread Again. It boils down to:
1) Gimp is nice
2) Gimp gets better with time
3) Gimp's interface is horrible
4) Gimp's interface gets better with time
5) Gimp doesn't have CMYK support
6) This is not important to a whole lotta people
7) But it is a show stopper for some
8) iterate until hell freezes over
I didn't said it was easy to do it in OpenOffice, I said many people simply don't do this kind of stuff. They type letter, save / print and bam. End of story.
Improvement on performance
Improvement on software compatibility
Improvement on hardware compatibility
Improvement to users daily workflow
OH, WAIT...
Sorry for the joke, couldn't resist;-)
I had a chance to get my hands on a Vista machine and I have to say that it was BETTER than a expected. Only real issue to me as far as I went is that I saw a dual core behave like a pIII on XP performance wise. Besides that, no other issues. Maybe I got lucky
To print mailing labels is not something simple. I would say about 10% of people I know knows how to do it on MS Word.
You see, I am not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that there are a huge bunch of people that justs type letter on Word. Those people could use Ooo until hell freezes and they will not miss anything from MS Word.
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C'mon less than 2 beers per person in the world!!??! Its way much more! And I know their market is smaller than that
The point is that you can't find one that is actually counting... Those just don't count it anymore. Imagine a nail company! Or a paper clip!
This is not bias. Its called credit. When someone spend years saying credible things you are expected to take his declarations seriously. He can be wrong, but his opinion has to be respected and evaluated with caution
"To get some insight" is not the same thing as "understand". This is one of the most beautiful things in physics: you know that you will never fully understand anything, but still you go on with the hope of just progressing towards an unreachable goal
But if you try to learn both you risk becoming like a duck: you can swim, fly and run, but do none well
There is nothing more fascinating than learning how computers really work.
Yes, there is: learn how reality works. I am a physicist and nothing beats the feeling when you get some insight on how the universe behave
Java is not the best choice, but it is a wiser one than C, for example. The guy has to forget a little about memory management and pointer arithmetics on his first steps. After he has some experience with programming he can get into low level details
I had professionally worked with a couple of languages, which includes Java and python. That being said, I see strengths on both languages but I think python is a better choice for introductory courses.
One thing that I believe is very important is to make them program in more than one language. CS majors should understand that there is no silver bullet. Each language has its place and time and a good professional have to be ready to handle more than one tool.
Calm down man! I don't use mail and end of story. You have to live with that. When I send parcels, I do it to ONE person and just write down the address.
You are trying to put your world view on everybody's head. Neither I nor the people I know need to print frickin mail labels that's it. OpenOffice is good enough for me.
I didn't said that OpenOffice is only suitable for trivial business tasks and home use. I said it is suitable for some common business tasks and home use.
How about twisting someone else's word heh!?
I work at one of the largest oil companies in the world and never seen anyone printing a mailing label either and home or at work. And I am serious about it. People just e-mail each other. I would even guess that my secretary wouldn't be able to do it (she is a Word 2003 user).
Besides, I don't use snail mail anymore and none of my friends use it either. So, no Christmas cards problem... Welcome to the 21th century! ;-)
If something is not useful to you, it doesn't means that it is useless.
You are right. This part always get into The Gimp Thread too!
you missed the "World" part
Sorry for the bluntness, but... holy crap! not The Gimp Thread Again. It boils down to:
1) Gimp is nice
2) Gimp gets better with time
3) Gimp's interface is horrible
4) Gimp's interface gets better with time
5) Gimp doesn't have CMYK support
6) This is not important to a whole lotta people
7) But it is a show stopper for some
8) iterate until hell freezes over
There, one less gimp thread!
I didn't said it was easy to do it in OpenOffice, I said many people simply don't do this kind of stuff. They type letter, save / print and bam. End of story.
For those, OpenOffice is perfect.
It less that you need the degree and more that a degree makes it easier for your.
I for one, thought it was an informative post! Isn't that all true?!
Improvement on performance
Improvement on software compatibility
Improvement on hardware compatibility
Improvement to users daily workflow
OH, WAIT...
Sorry for the joke, couldn't resist ;-)
I had a chance to get my hands on a Vista machine and I have to say that it was BETTER than a expected. Only real issue to me as far as I went is that I saw a dual core behave like a pIII on XP performance wise. Besides that, no other issues. Maybe I got lucky
To print mailing labels is not something simple. I would say about 10% of people I know knows how to do it on MS Word.
You see, I am not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that there are a huge bunch of people that justs type letter on Word. Those people could use Ooo until hell freezes and they will not miss anything from MS Word.
I, for one, welcome our new dancing scientists overlords
I will give it a try!
I meant NEW games like that. I actually play quite a lot on dosbox... ;-)
The women are getting too old anyway ;D
Either that or you are getting younger. Oh, wait...
.. its news for nerds, stuff that matters.
Thas not necessary. After a couple o years, Hawking will pick up the accent by himself.
That is not dead which eternal lie, and with strange aeons, even death may die.
Thank god it was taped by a robot. Nobody got insane this time.