One of the Elders at the time (Dave Small) had written a program that re-worked the track/sector format. It skewed the sectors on the the disk so that as the read head moved from track to track it was quicker to get to the next sector number...
I remember non-standard DOS formatters that used that trick, and others that managed to squeeze a few hundred more K out of the standard 1.44mb floppy.
That one is arguable, depending on personal preference and depending which Indian city we are talking about... four straight months of 38C with 90% humidity isn't everybody's idea of fun.
Resume on a DS is practically instantaneous, at least for commercial titles, and there's a lively homebrew scene, maybe there's already something out there that might work out for you? Plus very portable and easy to scribble with the touchscreen, and great battery life.
Honors/Awards
* 2008 Davidson Fellow
* 2008 Northwest Science Expo, Second Place
* 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Best Engineering Project
* 2008 Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Talent Search, First Place in Oregon
State (Verbal)
* 2008 Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Talent Search, First Place in Oregon
State (Quantitative)
* 2008 High Tech Kids First Lego League First Lego League (FLL) International Open
(team), Second Place Champion\u2019s Award
* 2008 Oregon Chess for Success State Tournament, Team Championship, First Place
* 2008 Oregon Chess for Success State Tournament, Second Place
* 2007 Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Talent Search, First Place in Oregon
State
* 2007 Intel Oregon FLL Champion\u2019s Award (team), First Place
* 2007 Oregon Chess for Success State Tournament, Team Championship, First Place
* 2007 Oregon Chess for Success State Tournament, Second Place
* 2007 World Taekwondo Headquarters: Poom Certificate
* 2006 Intel Oregon FLL State Tournament Young Team, First Place
* 2006 Oregon Chess for Success State Tournament, Team Championship, First Place
* 2005 Intel Oregon FLL Regional Tournament (team), First Place Award
* 2005 Oregon Chess for Success State Tournament (team), Second Place
In his project, âoeHigh Efficient 3-Dimensional Nanotube Solar Cell for Visible and UV Light,â William invented a novel solar panel that enables light absorption from visible to ultraviolet light. He designed carbon nanotubes to overcome the barriers of electron movement, doubling the light-electricity conversion efficiency. William also developed a model for solar towers and a computer program to simulate and optimize the tower parameters. His optimized design provides 500 times more light absorption than commercially-available solar cells and nine times more than the cutting-edge, three-dimensional solar cell.
I use Eclipse for java dev, not python, but I agree that it's generally better to install a local copy of the upstream eclipse rather using the packaged version.
Could you explain what makes a language object-oriented? It's possible to write OO code in C; is C an OO language? If you mention classes and inheritance, well, what about prototypal languages like JavaScript? For that matter, Erlang uses some of the more fundamental things that make Smalltalk-like OO languages great, without actually being OO in any real sense.
The other thing to remember about questions in interviews is that they aren't just about a "correct" answer, but rather getting the applicant to show they know what they're doing. You may not have answered the question, but your response has already demonstrated a depth of knowledge beyond the level of many, many programmers.
Ie, you can't "just" throw them out, even into the recycle bin at the end of your driveway...at least, not in most municpalities. You're not supposed to dispose of batteries as part of regular trash, regardless of whether they're lead-acid car batteries, lithium, alkaline, etc.
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".....so that I can read the raw ATSC data as it streams-in over the antenna."
Buy an HDHomeRun, that's exactly what it does. Signal comes in via coax, data comes out via ethernet.
One of the Elders at the time (Dave Small) had written a program that re-worked the track/sector format. It skewed the sectors on the the disk so that as the read head moved from track to track it was quicker to get to the next sector number...
I remember non-standard DOS formatters that used that trick, and others that managed to squeeze a few hundred more K out of the standard 1.44mb floppy.
The big thing is that here in the States, we don't usually have caps, we have faster connections, and we pay less.
In some places, maybe. I was sad to come back to the States, in Melbourne I had 24mbps, here the best I can do in my market is 6mbps.
Hopefully that means WPA capability (finally...)
That one is arguable, depending on personal preference and depending which Indian city we are talking about ... four straight months of 38C with 90% humidity isn't everybody's idea of fun.
And don't forget monsoon season!
Resume on a DS is practically instantaneous, at least for commercial titles, and there's a lively homebrew scene, maybe there's already something out there that might work out for you? Plus very portable and easy to scribble with the touchscreen, and great battery life.
Oh, and games too :)
I suppose his dad plays his chess matches and practices his Taekwondo for him too? He sounds like a genuinely extremely talented kid:
Honors/Awards
* 2008 Davidson Fellow
* 2008 Northwest Science Expo, Second Place
* 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Best Engineering Project
* 2008 Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Talent Search, First Place in Oregon
State (Verbal)
* 2008 Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Talent Search, First Place in Oregon
State (Quantitative)
* 2008 High Tech Kids First Lego League First Lego League (FLL) International Open
(team), Second Place Champion\u2019s Award
* 2008 Oregon Chess for Success State Tournament, Team Championship, First Place
* 2008 Oregon Chess for Success State Tournament, Second Place
* 2007 Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Talent Search, First Place in Oregon
State
* 2007 Intel Oregon FLL Champion\u2019s Award (team), First Place
* 2007 Oregon Chess for Success State Tournament, Team Championship, First Place
* 2007 Oregon Chess for Success State Tournament, Second Place
* 2007 World Taekwondo Headquarters: Poom Certificate
* 2006 Intel Oregon FLL State Tournament Young Team, First Place
* 2006 Oregon Chess for Success State Tournament, Team Championship, First Place
* 2005 Intel Oregon FLL Regional Tournament (team), First Place Award
* 2005 Oregon Chess for Success State Tournament (team), Second Place
From the synopsis on the Davidson Institute website, it sounds like he simulated the design with computer models but did not actually build it.
Slightly more technical detail available from Davison Institute website:
In his project, âoeHigh Efficient 3-Dimensional Nanotube Solar Cell for Visible and UV Light,â William invented a novel solar panel that enables light absorption from visible to ultraviolet light. He designed carbon nanotubes to overcome the barriers of electron movement, doubling the light-electricity conversion efficiency. William also developed a model for solar towers and a computer program to simulate and optimize the tower parameters. His optimized design provides 500 times more light absorption than commercially-available solar cells and nine times more than the cutting-edge, three-dimensional solar cell.
I use Eclipse for java dev, not python, but I agree that it's generally better to install a local copy of the upstream eclipse rather using the packaged version.
Er, duh, you're right, what was I thinking... Silly mistake.
2. Bandwidth. Fiber is fast everything else is slow. Running a fiber line out to a barge is iffy at best.
There's lots of fiber already running across our world's oceans, perhaps they will locate their data centers along them and tap into the lines?
What are you on about? Order of operations applies, the assignment will always take place after the increment.
Could you explain what makes a language object-oriented? It's possible to write OO code in C; is C an OO language? If you mention classes and inheritance, well, what about prototypal languages like JavaScript? For that matter, Erlang uses some of the more fundamental things that make Smalltalk-like OO languages great, without actually being OO in any real sense.
The other thing to remember about questions in interviews is that they aren't just about a "correct" answer, but rather getting the applicant to show they know what they're doing. You may not have answered the question, but your response has already demonstrated a depth of knowledge beyond the level of many, many programmers.
Er, I've seen both of them, and aside from having lots of lights and big video screens, the visuals are not very much alike at all.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
It's not the science he's upset about, it's the reporting.
That's not fair off from the situation in Australia, where bandwidth caps are the norm. It's possible to get an ADSL2+ plan where you could exceed the monthly download cap in less than 5 minutes!
You can in Cleveland, at least for regular alkalines.
What in the world is a "tooth-talker"?
Really? You've never seen a MasterCard with PayPass? My bank replaced my old debit card with one over two years ago.
Granted, the only place I've seen that accepted PayPass was at a Sheetz, and it didn't seem to work. But they're definitely out there.
I'm sorry, I fail to see what this has to do with magic pendants...
Oh, wait, maybe you're asking for it to be translated into Bislama? I suppose that could be considered "Lamen terms".
Or, hmm, maybe you mean "layman"?
I'm not sure if Aussies should be boosting that they get first crack at this game or shamed at revealing how much computer games cost down there...
Me and my wife make over 100k and we only pay about 1800 in taxes a year. That's 1.8% for those of you who don't know math from your own ass.
Er, and how do you manage this?
Ah, so that's why Gates made Windows Vista?