Personally I use Linux because its free, the software is free and it runs resonable on my Dual Celeron 500 vs Win2k which runs slower. That's why I do it
That's how most of the old time gangsters were taken down as well. Since its hard to get people to speak up about the racketerring, and the killing, etc. Just get them for tax evasion (how do you argue with numbers!). Same here, can't get them for SPAM, get them for something thats easy to prove! YEAH...
Does anyone else remember playing "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?". I loved that game, and I think its probably one of the biggest reasons for my love of history and computers! I can see good high quality video games easily making people love History and Geography! As a side note there were tons of spin offs from the "Carmen Sandiego" series. There was a "Where in Time" and there was even a TV Show/Gameshow!
Aren't people forgetting the social problems? Its like what the mathmatician said in Jurrasic Park: "They were so busy trying to see if they could, they didn't stop and think if they should" (or something to that effect). So if we have a generation (or two) of people living longer, what happens to Social Security? Or housing? Or land prices? Or the environment? Or heck lots and lots of other very limited resources! Would I take one of these pills if it was offered to me for $1k? Damn straight I would, but there are so many issues that I shudder at the effects this will have ~100 years down the road.
I don't see how the language should matter in these sorts of exams. Personally I rather have the AP test be questions about algorithms, ideas and concepts. Something like:
1) Write PseudoCode for an AVL Tree 2) Describe the benefits of a hashtable
etc...
No coding, just ideas that a smart student can take to any language, whether its Java or C++ or anything else.
I went to CalPoly San Luis Obispo (http://www.calpoly.edu/) and Computer Science was in the College of Engineering so we had to take the same Calculus and Physics classes as the other engineers, not to mention tons of theory classes. This on top of the normal programming and general education classes. Did these classes help me to become a better programmer? Definitly, by helping me to expand my critical thinking to include more than just "how to code". I think that any CS person that DOESN'T take at least a few classes of some high level math is just hurting themselves.
I remember a project where hardware engineers setup a cpu to modify itself until it learned to do a task by itself. It got to the point where the hardware was doing the right thing, but not because the hardware was reconfigured properly, but because the software was using minute naunances in the electricity flowing through to get the job done. Even the hardware designers had no idea how it could possible be working
Maybe Micrososft will get their programmers to code better and use less memory. Maybe Nautilus won't use up 40+mb to just open up one windows, maybe Mozilla won't chew up 70+ mb and damn if GAIM doesn't use 40+mb....
So I gotta agree with this guy, Linux does have its share of problems, but its not because Linux is deficient in anyway, its just that there is a different mentality about Linux than Windows. Lets take his sound card example, the manufacturer of the sound card had two choices, support Linux and spend money on potentially smaller market, or save that money and focus entirely on Windows. The company probably hoped that some Linux driver coder would just whip up a driver and save them the hassle. That's the wrong mentality, and until companies see Linux as a financial win, these sorts of problems will exist.
Sigh, I can relate with this guy, I've tried and tried but my DLINK DWL-520 rev e PCI wireless card still doesn't work under Linux.
Has to be the XSan.. this combined with the XServe and XServe RAID really does have to worry companies like Sun and SGI a little.
How would this affect SGI or SUN? Both companies offer comparable machines, and have 20+ years of experience doing high performance computing, clustering and filesystems. Check out Solaris10 (http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/10/). With features like DTrace, NFS v4, a highperformance TCP/IP stack and other enterprise level features Apple has a long way to go to compete.
Some problems that I can see with it. What if your in a flat area with no buildings, landmarks, etc? Or even worse, a very rocky, natural area (say something similar to the grand canyon). And even barring those problems, wouldn't GPS just plain be easier? Take the same concept, have the phone grab its GPS location, have you enter the address you want to go, and both pieces of information are sent and the phone gets its route to get you where you want to go (with associated fee). Seems cool, though.
As long as they keep the whole sex bit out of the series, it should be very cool miniseries. RingWorld, Hyperion, and Ender's Game were the books I loved in High School. If they make the remaining two into mini-series I'll be very, very happy!
How do I get my favorite package to be in the Fedora install? Personally I'd love to see better wireless support, maybe WLAN or HostAP.
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If you have Winamp you can click on "TV" and watch this and many other shows, music videos, etc. The bitrates available range from 56k for modems, all the way to 1000k for broadband, and everywhere in between.
Not sure about everyone else, but humans as a whole we have many more earth bound issues that require our attention. Famine, disease, and war are way more important, and require more of our attention.
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Except that Valve SELLS the engine to other companies so that they can make their own games. ID did this with the Quake engine.
Personally I use Linux because its free, the software is free and it runs resonable on my Dual Celeron 500 vs Win2k which runs slower. That's why I do it
But will it find out who sent the SPAM and hurl them into the Sun? Until I get this feature, I don't think it'll be perfect :)
That's how most of the old time gangsters were taken down as well. Since its hard to get people to speak up about the racketerring, and the killing, etc. Just get them for tax evasion (how do you argue with numbers!). Same here, can't get them for SPAM, get them for something thats easy to prove! YEAH...
Does anyone else remember playing "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?". I loved that game, and I think its probably one of the biggest reasons for my love of history and computers! I can see good high quality video games easily making people love History and Geography! As a side note there were tons of spin offs from the "Carmen Sandiego" series. There was a "Where in Time" and there was even a TV Show/Gameshow!
Will this let me swap out the video card in my (future) laptop? That would definitly increase laptop life...
Aren't people forgetting the social problems? Its like what the mathmatician said in Jurrasic Park: "They were so busy trying to see if they could, they didn't stop and think if they should" (or something to that effect). So if we have a generation (or two) of people living longer, what happens to Social Security? Or housing? Or land prices? Or the environment? Or heck lots and lots of other very limited resources! Would I take one of these pills if it was offered to me for $1k? Damn straight I would, but there are so many issues that I shudder at the effects this will have ~100 years down the road.
I don't see how the language should matter in these sorts of exams. Personally I rather have the AP test be questions about algorithms, ideas and concepts. Something like:
1) Write PseudoCode for an AVL Tree
2) Describe the benefits of a hashtable
etc...
No coding, just ideas that a smart student can take to any language, whether its Java or C++ or anything else.
I went to CalPoly San Luis Obispo (http://www.calpoly.edu/) and Computer Science was in the College of Engineering so we had to take the same Calculus and Physics classes as the other engineers, not to mention tons of theory classes. This on top of the normal programming and general education classes. Did these classes help me to become a better programmer? Definitly, by helping me to expand my critical thinking to include more than just "how to code". I think that any CS person that DOESN'T take at least a few classes of some high level math is just hurting themselves.
These new video cards have more memory than I have RAM! Geez...
Did he also get an offer from Microsoft to work for them?
I remember a project where hardware engineers setup a cpu to modify itself until it learned to do a task by itself. It got to the point where the hardware was doing the right thing, but not because the hardware was reconfigured properly, but because the software was using minute naunances in the electricity flowing through to get the job done. Even the hardware designers had no idea how it could possible be working
Well there was that Super Mario Bros movie...
Maybe Micrososft will get their programmers to code better and use less memory. Maybe Nautilus won't use up 40+mb to just open up one windows, maybe Mozilla won't chew up 70+ mb and damn if GAIM doesn't use 40+mb....
I don't see how this changes anything? Most IT workers never got overtime, of course we have very flexible schedules so its a good tradeoff I suppose.
So I gotta agree with this guy, Linux does have its share of problems, but its not because Linux is deficient in anyway, its just that there is a different mentality about Linux than Windows. Lets take his sound card example, the manufacturer of the sound card had two choices, support Linux and spend money on potentially smaller market, or save that money and focus entirely on Windows. The company probably hoped that some Linux driver coder would just whip up a driver and save them the hassle. That's the wrong mentality, and until companies see Linux as a financial win, these sorts of problems will exist.
Sigh, I can relate with this guy, I've tried and tried but my DLINK DWL-520 rev e PCI wireless card still doesn't work under Linux.
Has to be the XSan
How would this affect SGI or SUN? Both companies offer comparable machines, and have 20+ years of experience doing high performance computing, clustering and filesystems. Check out Solaris10 (http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/10/). With features like DTrace, NFS v4, a highperformance TCP/IP stack and other enterprise level features Apple has a long way to go to compete.
Some problems that I can see with it. What if your in a flat area with no buildings, landmarks, etc? Or even worse, a very rocky, natural area (say something similar to the grand canyon). And even barring those problems, wouldn't GPS just plain be easier? Take the same concept, have the phone grab its GPS location, have you enter the address you want to go, and both pieces of information are sent and the phone gets its route to get you where you want to go (with associated fee). Seems cool, though.
As long as they keep the whole sex bit out of the series, it should be very cool miniseries. RingWorld, Hyperion, and Ender's Game were the books I loved in High School. If they make the remaining two into mini-series I'll be very, very happy!
Now is this navel lint or dryer lint? Because you know it does make a difference!
How do I get my favorite package to be in the Fedora install? Personally I'd love to see better wireless support, maybe WLAN or HostAP.
If you have Winamp you can click on "TV" and watch this and many other shows, music videos, etc. The bitrates available range from 56k for modems, all the way to 1000k for broadband, and everywhere in between.
Not sure about everyone else, but humans as a whole we have many more earth bound issues that require our attention. Famine, disease, and war are way more important, and require more of our attention.
They have already been slashdotted once before (August 2, 2002)...
So all I have to do is "Download the Internet" as Comcast's ads claim, then I can OWN the internet! Woohoo, where's my multi-terebyte disk array!