haven't you heard of http://www.mono-project.com/MoonlightRoadmap ? The final version is due tomorow.
For those still complaining, the Presidential Inaugural Commitee also choosed YouTube, Twitter & Flickr as official broadcaster. Microsoft silverlight is only one way to watch it.
I've been in 2x150+ classes at my university and it's really a good idea to move from those as the best the teacher can do is read the slides (God they love those at the university) which every student can do on their own at home, there's no "plus-value" of going to class especially when you have 45min of bus each way to get there.
Stories ain't illegal as far as I can recall, it is only if you take pictures/video;). They have to have the age of the sexual maturity, in canada it is now 16 so yes this would be illegal to talk about it, although the act itself is not illegal as both party have less than 3 years of age difference.
your point is excellent. it is not only a course for people who want to pursue a career in CS, it is a window into the world of programming for all discipline and should therefor not include complicated thing such as memory allocation and all.
I understand what you mean now, but we learned C/C++ the following semesters which dove into the whole memory allocation issue and doing everything yourself instead of using managed language.
Personally I prefered seeing quick result in the beginning with a UI and not having to worry about pointer and investigate how it was done later. It's personnal preferences and I know I might have been even more discourage to pursue my degreeS in CS if we had pass the whole first year with C or C++, those things can wait.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
Edsger Dijkstra
'If you try and teach Java as a first course, you force the student to accept too much magic without understanding any of it.'
I have to disagree here. We had to program our own list/sorted list/vector/tree and only at the end of the first semester the teacher said "everything you did already exist in the java librairies" that was one heck of a moment:P
Because algorithmy is already difficult on its own and not everybody has the same capacity to learn new language that easily, that doesn't mean they won't be good in the work if they don't need that versatility.
I don't think teaching Functionnal programming at first is a good idea, let that for the programming languages course as this is a whole new area of thinking and just learning the basic for/while/do/vectors/matrices/types will be hard
enough for most. Although 1 course for each paradigm to serve as an introduction and could be interresting as long as they don't have to learn it right away
Java all the way. Get some high-end lego kits programmable using java that will inspire the kids of all ages.
I learned java as primary language throughout my education and am very happy because in the industry many people don't seem to be able to "think" object (especially when linked to an object database or an ORM) and once you know OO, structured programming is really and I can't emphasis enough on the REALLY part.
At the university they still introduce graphical interface and OO practices in the third semesters and that is why I am on the comitee to change all that...
Even if everybody was doing it (wich I know isn't - at least at some governmental level and in some private cies) it doesn't make it right.
Shame on Apple and I hope they will learn from this.
I tried it and citrix is a good replacement if you have the speed. Our only real big issues has been in cities where they alternative ways to connect to the Internet, but when you're close to the central and have decent internet speed (3mbps or more), this isn't a problem.
Just try Microsoft Office 2007 test-drive or Windows Vista test drive. I would personally use office 2007 version if it were integrated into my OS directly, as for windows vista well their server are sometimes overloading but I'm sure the experience from a closed central would be much better.
Just yesterday my father, retired CS teacher after 25y, asked me how far away are we from having web OS (It's a topic that has existed since the beginning of the Internet so no real news there!), what a coincidence:)
There are already many web OS, a link(in french, but just clicking the webOS's name souldn't be that hard !) with 65 webOS so far. I personally recommend http://www.mygoya.de
Are network infrastructures ready to support full-time streaming information from the Internet? Probably not at the scale we, as geeks, would like it to be especially with all the bandiwth limitation our ISP seem attracted to. Also, we probably would need to all jump to fiber-optic or at least 100mbits cable (with much better upload speed than we can get today) and that should to the trick to anything but videogames or other applications where 100ms is way too long. I can really imagine myself booting on a mini-os like XpressGate wich would be used to run games and such and for anything else there would be my WebOs available from anywhere in the world.
Is this the future ? Probably yes, at least part of it. e.g. At the department of fisheries & oceans canada where I worked they are moving everything away on their "virtual desktop" wich is acessible across canada (but still require a physical OS to connect to the distant one, but that problem could be solve with quick-bootable-os like asus XpressGate), onboard any coastguard ship or chopper wich will make everybody's life easier.
I would really like to see a prototype of some sort at next-year (or the following at least) microsoft's tech fest
Well if they could at least allow it to run into virtual machine so I can try it out;). I would like to have an opinion on OS X ! (other than "they should sell it for non-apple hardware so I can try it out" of course)
I won't pay prenium for the hardware they sell when 99% of it is available for 10-20%, and these aren't the best prices either, less elsewhere.
I agree that opening the OS X will probably won't happen anytime soon, but if clones become more & more current, this might just be what's needed to force them to do so.
Even though Apple prohibit installation of their software on non-apple hardware, I think this is a good think as it might just make Jobs realise that it's time to open-up and prove that their OS is really up to the battle with the competition.
If only there were a specific hardware component such as a usb key that could be purchased to turn any computer into an apple-compatible one I would most certainly buy one to try out OS X once and for all.
Why won't they just shut Gmail down?
Oh yeha right...
Steve didn't give any personnal info
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Inside Steve's Brain
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I did a bit of research on Steve last semester (on my own, it wasn't requested) for a management course and no articles really had the insights FROM STEVE, they were are simply what the author thought was working and not.
here's what I found at forbes:
"Jobs is also among the most controversial figures in business. He oozes smug superiority, lacing his public comments with ridicule of Apple's rivals, which he casts as mediocre, evil, and-worst of all-lacking taste. No CEO is more wilful, or more brazen, at making his own rules, in ways both good and bad. And no CEO is more personally identified with-and controlling of-the day-to-day affairs of his business. Even now, Jobs views himself less as a mogul than as an artist, Apple's creator-in-chief. He has listed himself as "co-inventor" on 103 separate Apple patents, everything from the user interface for the iPod to the support system for the glass staircase used in Apple's dazzling retail stores."
"Jobs' personal abuses are also legend: He parks his Mercedes in handicapped spaces, periodically reduces subordinates to tears, and fires employees in angry tantrums. Yet many of his top deputies at Apple have worked with him for years, and even some of those who have departed say that although it's often brutal and Jobs hogs the credit, they've never done better work."
Here's some of my favorites quotations from Steve:
"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
for microsoft fanboys, Bill Gates is also very rude when communicating with his people, but both motivates their troops a whole lot as you can see in Bill Gates: how a geek changed the world, BBC Money Programme. Here is a quote from bill: Â That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard Â;)
I'm gonna give this book a try, but I'm still waiting for a real book ON steve's insights though one that he will have personnaly oversees.
source: Article, THE TROUBLE WITH STEVE. By: Elkind, Peter, Burke, Doris, Fortune, 07385587, 3/17/2008, Vol. 157, Issue 5
it's simple, most router keep tcpip connections alive for 3600 sec or more (especially d-link one), so each time you establish a connection on a bittorrent client your router open a new one. After a few hours, sometimes a day or a few ones, it can become a problem very quickly as you might imagine.
Just install dd-wrt or tomato and drop the timeout to 360sec, it'll do the job.
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still waiting for the windows SDK.
haven't you heard of http://www.mono-project.com/MoonlightRoadmap ? The final version is due tomorow.
For those still complaining, the Presidential Inaugural Commitee also choosed YouTube, Twitter & Flickr as official broadcaster. Microsoft silverlight is only one way to watch it.
How could an information so wrong have made it to frontpage?
http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ there's a mac runtime.
I've been in 2x150+ classes at my university and it's really a good idea to move from those as the best the teacher can do is read the slides (God they love those at the university) which every student can do on their own at home, there's no "plus-value" of going to class especially when you have 45min of bus each way to get there.
Stories ain't illegal as far as I can recall, it is only if you take pictures/video ;). They have to have the age of the sexual maturity, in canada it is now 16 so yes this would be illegal to talk about it, although the act itself is not illegal as both party have less than 3 years of age difference.
anyway this is irrelevant :)
should have read "really easy" :P
your point is excellent. it is not only a course for people who want to pursue a career in CS, it is a window into the world of programming for all discipline and should therefor not include complicated thing such as memory allocation and all.
I understand what you mean now, but we learned C/C++ the following semesters which dove into the whole memory allocation issue and doing everything yourself instead of using managed language.
Personally I prefered seeing quick result in the beginning with a UI and not having to worry about pointer and investigate how it was done later. It's personnal preferences and I know I might have been even more discourage to pursue my degreeS in CS if we had pass the whole first year with C or C++, those things can wait.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." Edsger Dijkstra
and I have to agree with him ...
'If you try and teach Java as a first course, you force the student to accept too much magic without understanding any of it.'
I have to disagree here. We had to program our own list/sorted list/vector/tree and only at the end of the first semester the teacher said "everything you did already exist in the java librairies" that was one heck of a moment :P
Because algorithmy is already difficult on its own and not everybody has the same capacity to learn new language that easily, that doesn't mean they won't be good in the work if they don't need that versatility.
I don't think teaching Functionnal programming at first is a good idea, let that for the programming languages course as this is a whole new area of thinking and just learning the basic for/while/do/vectors/matrices/types will be hard enough for most. Although 1 course for each paradigm to serve as an introduction and could be interresting as long as they don't have to learn it right away
Java all the way. Get some high-end lego kits programmable using java that will inspire the kids of all ages.
I learned java as primary language throughout my education and am very happy because in the industry many people don't seem to be able to "think" object (especially when linked to an object database or an ORM) and once you know OO, structured programming is really and I can't emphasis enough on the REALLY part.
At the university they still introduce graphical interface and OO practices in the third semesters and that is why I am on the comitee to change all that ...
Awesome! Even more choices for us, users! //Sarcasm off
EA should really hire real statisticians.
Nvidia has denied rumours that the company is planning an entry into the x86 CPU market
Of course they're denied building a x86 CPU, they're working on an x64 model. 'nuff said.
Even if everybody was doing it (wich I know isn't - at least at some governmental level and in some private cies) it doesn't make it right. Shame on Apple and I hope they will learn from this.
Just try Microsoft Office 2007 test-drive or Windows Vista test drive. I would personally use office 2007 version if it were integrated into my OS directly, as for windows vista well their server are sometimes overloading but I'm sure the experience from a closed central would be much better.
Just yesterday my father, retired CS teacher after 25y, asked me how far away are we from having web OS (It's a topic that has existed since the beginning of the Internet so no real news there!), what a coincidence :)
There are already many web OS, a link(in french, but just clicking the webOS's name souldn't be that hard !) with 65 webOS so far. I personally recommend http://www.mygoya.de
Are network infrastructures ready to support full-time streaming information from the Internet? Probably not at the scale we, as geeks, would like it to be especially with all the bandiwth limitation our ISP seem attracted to. Also, we probably would need to all jump to fiber-optic or at least 100mbits cable (with much better upload speed than we can get today) and that should to the trick to anything but videogames or other applications where 100ms is way too long. I can really imagine myself booting on a mini-os like XpressGate wich would be used to run games and such and for anything else there would be my WebOs available from anywhere in the world.
Is this the future ? Probably yes, at least part of it. e.g. At the department of fisheries & oceans canada where I worked they are moving everything away on their "virtual desktop" wich is acessible across canada (but still require a physical OS to connect to the distant one, but that problem could be solve with quick-bootable-os like asus XpressGate), onboard any coastguard ship or chopper wich will make everybody's life easier.
I would really like to see a prototype of some sort at next-year (or the following at least) microsoft's tech fest
Well if they could at least allow it to run into virtual machine so I can try it out ;). I would like to have an opinion on OS X ! (other than "they should sell it for non-apple hardware so I can try it out" of course)
I won't pay prenium for the hardware they sell when 99% of it is available for 10-20%, and these aren't the best prices either, less elsewhere.
I agree that opening the OS X will probably won't happen anytime soon, but if clones become more & more current, this might just be what's needed to force them to do so.
Hope I will still be alive when they reach Googol indexed pages
Even though Apple prohibit installation of their software on non-apple hardware, I think this is a good think as it might just make Jobs realise that it's time to open-up and prove that their OS is really up to the battle with the competition. If only there were a specific hardware component such as a usb key that could be purchased to turn any computer into an apple-compatible one I would most certainly buy one to try out OS X once and for all.
Why won't they just shut Gmail down? Oh yeha right ...
here's what I found at forbes: "Jobs is also among the most controversial figures in business. He oozes smug superiority, lacing his public comments with ridicule of Apple's rivals, which he casts as mediocre, evil, and-worst of all-lacking taste. No CEO is more wilful, or more brazen, at making his own rules, in ways both good and bad. And no CEO is more personally identified with-and controlling of-the day-to-day affairs of his business. Even now, Jobs views himself less as a mogul than as an artist, Apple's creator-in-chief. He has listed himself as "co-inventor" on 103 separate Apple patents, everything from the user interface for the iPod to the support system for the glass staircase used in Apple's dazzling retail stores."
"Jobs' personal abuses are also legend: He parks his Mercedes in handicapped spaces, periodically reduces subordinates to tears, and fires employees in angry tantrums. Yet many of his top deputies at Apple have worked with him for years, and even some of those who have departed say that although it's often brutal and Jobs hogs the credit, they've never done better work."
Here's some of my favorites quotations from Steve: "Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it." "It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
for microsoft fanboys, Bill Gates is also very rude when communicating with his people, but both motivates their troops a whole lot as you can see in Bill Gates: how a geek changed the world, BBC Money Programme. Here is a quote from bill:  That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard  ;)
I'm gonna give this book a try, but I'm still waiting for a real book ON steve's insights though one that he will have personnaly oversees.
source: Article, THE TROUBLE WITH STEVE. By: Elkind, Peter, Burke, Doris, Fortune, 07385587, 3/17/2008, Vol. 157, Issue 5
it's simple, most router keep tcpip connections alive for 3600 sec or more (especially d-link one), so each time you establish a connection on a bittorrent client your router open a new one. After a few hours, sometimes a day or a few ones, it can become a problem very quickly as you might imagine. Just install dd-wrt or tomato and drop the timeout to 360sec, it'll do the job.