I took the AP Computer Science AB test just last year and failed miserably, i think i got a one, but that's OK. It turns out that it really doesn't matter what programming language the test is over because everything in the test is based on propriety libraries developed by the college board for the specific purpose of being tested over. None of it has any real application anywhere else in the world!
I took the first CS class in high school and was prevented from completing the second (I was kicked out around Sept.) but still figured I would at least try to take the test just for the hell of it. It didn't matter if I passed it or not because I figured that since I was going in to Computer Science I would need to take the CS classes in college anyways. Once I saw the test, I knew instantly that I had no chance and a few minutes later turned it in and requested that it not be sent to my university.
But it was basically over what they call the AP Classes, and not class as in a course but class as in Object Oriented. They were developed by the college board, like i said earlier, for the specific purpose of being tested over. There was also a case study that was covered in the test over a big int implementation.
So the point being, the test isn't over the language it's over what they want you to know, so it really doesn't matter what language is taught just so long as something is taught. I personally hate java and think it's a dumb move, but when you think about it, with the current c++ situation the students coming out only know proprietary classes that aren't used anywhere outside of the academic world.
Check out Sprints Wireless Broadband Direct, you will be surprised if you think wireless is slow, mobile providers like ricochet are but not fixed wireless.
When you think about it, wireless makes the most sense, because it has the potential to reach the largest market share and the speed is as good if not better than DSL or cable, and costs the same. Right now Sprint uses the big radio towers but i have heard that they will move to the cell towers which will greatly increase the marketshare.
I understand that cable has the potential to be better than dsl, simply because the dta pipeline is much bigger. I have @home right now, and that is only because at the moment dsl is not available in my apartment due to a poor wiring job, cable for me goes out three or for times a week at random times and for different lengths, and while it is up the speeds aren't consistent at all, and there is alot fo packet loss, and the biggest thing that pisses me off is that they limit your upstream to 16k (they do for us here in dallas, i odn't know about elsewere). My roommate rpeviosuly had dsl and he loved it and said that it went down only a few times in a year and he had consistent speeds, and the upstream is better, so we only have @home until dsl is avail, i don't care what other people think, but until at&t and @home get there act together, dsl is the better service.
When I first heard about battlebots on tv i thought it was a cool idea, from the commercials it looked like what robotwars could have become before they got that show on pbs, so i was looking forward to it, but then i realized that it's comedy central, how could they take this seriously and because of the target audience of those on comedy central, it is entirely dumbed down. They added all that commentary, bull nye and donna d'erico and not enough robot destruction.
I participated in first for two years, and would recommend it to anyone in high school. I'm in college now and my participation in first helped me get there.
All my professor required was a windows executable and a copy of the source. The windows executable is understandable, because she ran windows, but she wouldn't stop anyone from coding in linux, just so long as you show up with something she can run on her computer and the source.
thsi may sound a bit extreme but those of us who do some web developing and have control over what goes on on a website can simply put scripts to block users that are using ie, and direct them to the netscape page or even mozilla. If enough people do this, the average internet user will get fed up with seeing "your borwser is incompatible with this page, try upgrading to soemthing else" whenever they go to a web page, i know this is real easy with php and i'm sure it can be done in perl.
I got a chance to look at one of the robotic interfaces that is either going in the shuttle or ISS, and they said they will be moving to more off the shelf products to save money, the laptop I saw looked like it was running a version of solaris, but then again, that could be for prototyping purposes.
It's just like the simpson episode where the advertisement characters came to life and ran rampant through the city and the solution was to just ignore them and they would go away. Well, nobody is forcing you to use AOL or watch Time Warner related material, there are other alternatives and that is where the power of the internet comes in, you now have the choice of where you want to get your information from. There is no doubt that network news/media is biased and controls what you see, and i accept that fact and if i don't like a news story or tv show i simply watch something else or get my information from more credible places. So let the "idiots" do as they please, they aren't harming the "intelligent" internet users by signing on to AOL and leave it at that.
One way to prove that their systems are inferior is to hack it, infiltrate it and take it down. No don't do this, it wont change their minds. As a high school senior whose been through all the crap that goes on with computers at school, I've come to the realization that you wont get what you want and need in resources from your high school because they don't have the ability to supply you with them. For the most part (at least from what i have experienced) the cs teachers and network administrators don't know what linux/free software/open source is all about so they are more likely to stick to windows and mac because it is easy and common, if they did switch over to linux they would either have to hire someone that knew *nix which would probably cost more than what they currently have or if they just learn as they go along they will find that the students know far more than the adults do and that only the people who can truly appreciate linux will be removed because they will be considered security threats. There is no point in bickering and complaining, just do what you need to do to make the grade and have fun later on.
If anyone gave them a bad review, I agree with them. I'm sure many of you will disagree with me on this but (1) 2001: space odysee sucked... movie and book (2) Mission to Mars was just a reinterpretation of 2001. All events that happen in 2001 are symbolically in m2mars only they tried to make sense which just made the movie plain stupid, not to mention the inaccurate crap that was going on on mars. I went to the mars/moon breifing a year ago and they said that the temperature varies greatly between groundlevel and where your head would be, yet it did not bother them when they were in a tent on the martian surface. My recommendation is to not see the movie, if you have seen/read 2001 imagine it on mars.
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I took the AP Computer Science AB test just last year and failed miserably, i think i got a one, but that's OK. It turns out that it really doesn't matter what programming language the test is over because everything in the test is based on propriety libraries developed by the college board for the specific purpose of being tested over. None of it has any real application anywhere else in the world!
I took the first CS class in high school and was prevented from completing the second (I was kicked out around Sept.) but still figured I would at least try to take the test just for the hell of it. It didn't matter if I passed it or not because I figured that since I was going in to Computer Science I would need to take the CS classes in college anyways. Once I saw the test, I knew instantly that I had no chance and a few minutes later turned it in and requested that it not be sent to my university.
But it was basically over what they call the AP Classes, and not class as in a course but class as in Object Oriented. They were developed by the college board, like i said earlier, for the specific purpose of being tested over. There was also a case study that was covered in the test over a big int implementation.
So the point being, the test isn't over the language it's over what they want you to know, so it really doesn't matter what language is taught just so long as something is taught. I personally hate java and think it's a dumb move, but when you think about it, with the current c++ situation the students coming out only know proprietary classes that aren't used anywhere outside of the academic world.
Check out Sprints Wireless Broadband Direct, you will be surprised if you think wireless is slow, mobile providers like ricochet are but not fixed wireless.
When you think about it, wireless makes the most sense, because it has the potential to reach the largest market share and the speed is as good if not better than DSL or cable, and costs the same. Right now Sprint uses the big radio towers but i have heard that they will move to the cell towers which will greatly increase the marketshare.
I understand that cable has the potential to be better than dsl, simply because the dta pipeline is much bigger. I have @home right now, and that is only because at the moment dsl is not available in my apartment due to a poor wiring job, cable for me goes out three or for times a week at random times and for different lengths, and while it is up the speeds aren't consistent at all, and there is alot fo packet loss, and the biggest thing that pisses me off is that they limit your upstream to 16k (they do for us here in dallas, i odn't know about elsewere). My roommate rpeviosuly had dsl and he loved it and said that it went down only a few times in a year and he had consistent speeds, and the upstream is better, so we only have @home until dsl is avail, i don't care what other people think, but until at&t and @home get there act together, dsl is the better service.
this is far more significant than rh7.0
When I first heard about battlebots on tv i thought it was a cool idea, from the commercials it looked like what robotwars could have become before they got that show on pbs, so i was looking forward to it, but then i realized that it's comedy central, how could they take this seriously and because of the target audience of those on comedy central, it is entirely dumbed down. They added all that commentary, bull nye and donna d'erico and not enough robot destruction.
I participated in first for two years, and would recommend it to anyone in high school. I'm in college now and my participation in first helped me get there.
All my professor required was a windows executable and a copy of the source. The windows executable is understandable, because she ran windows, but she wouldn't stop anyone from coding in linux, just so long as you show up with something she can run on her computer and the source.
thsi may sound a bit extreme but those of us who do some web developing and have control over what goes on on a website can simply put scripts to block users that are using ie, and direct them to the netscape page or even mozilla. If enough people do this, the average internet user will get fed up with seeing "your borwser is incompatible with this page, try upgrading to soemthing else" whenever they go to a web page, i know this is real easy with php and i'm sure it can be done in perl.
...When a query of "nonfatal weapons" takes 0.03 seconds and thousands of matches just magically show up
I got a chance to look at one of the robotic interfaces that is either going in the shuttle or ISS, and they said they will be moving to more off the shelf products to save money, the laptop I saw looked like it was running a version of solaris, but then again, that could be for prototyping purposes.
It's just like the simpson episode where the advertisement characters came to life and ran rampant through the city and the solution was to just ignore them and they would go away. Well, nobody is forcing you to use AOL or watch Time Warner related material, there are other alternatives and that is where the power of the internet comes in, you now have the choice of where you want to get your information from. There is no doubt that network news/media is biased and controls what you see, and i accept that fact and if i don't like a news story or tv show i simply watch something else or get my information from more credible places. So let the "idiots" do as they please, they aren't harming the "intelligent" internet users by signing on to AOL and leave it at that.
One way to prove that their systems are inferior is to hack it, infiltrate it and take it down. No don't do this, it wont change their minds. As a high school senior whose been through all the crap that goes on with computers at school, I've come to the realization that you wont get what you want and need in resources from your high school because they don't have the ability to supply you with them. For the most part (at least from what i have experienced) the cs teachers and network administrators don't know what linux/free software/open source is all about so they are more likely to stick to windows and mac because it is easy and common, if they did switch over to linux they would either have to hire someone that knew *nix which would probably cost more than what they currently have or if they just learn as they go along they will find that the students know far more than the adults do and that only the people who can truly appreciate linux will be removed because they will be considered security threats. There is no point in bickering and complaining, just do what you need to do to make the grade and have fun later on.
If anyone gave them a bad review, I agree with them. I'm sure many of you will disagree with me on this but (1) 2001: space odysee sucked... movie and book (2) Mission to Mars was just a reinterpretation of 2001. All events that happen in 2001 are symbolically in m2mars only they tried to make sense which just made the movie plain stupid, not to mention the inaccurate crap that was going on on mars. I went to the mars/moon breifing a year ago and they said that the temperature varies greatly between groundlevel and where your head would be, yet it did not bother them when they were in a tent on the martian surface. My recommendation is to not see the movie, if you have seen/read 2001 imagine it on mars.