If I can only buy a new Intel P4 computer with the RDRAM, then I guess the simplest solution is to buy myself a Dual Athlon 1.4 GHz + DDR Ram computer. It is probably cheaper too.
(I think) Last summer, IBM recalled the power supplies of their I-series laptops. There were couple reports about the flaw in manufaturing of the power supplies and causes to "catch fire" too.
However, IBM was very good at it. They exchanged mine within one week.
Funny thing is that the mailman who was doing all these recalls were saying that he had to do more than 200 exchanges at Waterloo, Ontario area. Nice eh?
This type of accidents has not happened before. US spy plane crashed with China's Military plane. No matter if it was a spy mission from the US, or it was just some sort of routine mission that US claimed to be, no one really wants this type of accidents to happen. (And certainly, no one wants this to happen again.)
However, I think both countries are trying to make the history here:
If US gives a full apprology to China, then China will feel secured in the future that US will not send (as many) spy plane over to near China area.
If US does not give a full apprology to China, but winning this arguement by getting its people back, US will send more spy plane to China without any constraint in the future. (And certainly China won't be able to say anything.)
If it was not a spy plane, there would be some sort of US Flag (or US military logo) on the plane, wasn't it? Then boarding on the plane would violate International Law. But if it was a spy plane, then obviously there was no sign. A plane like this entered your area and landed, you would go see what the hack it came from and arrest all those people on the plane right?
If you are trying to do business with the other country, do you really want to 'spy' on them?
If it was still Bill Clinton the president instead of Bush Jr., what would have happened?
Bill Clinton opened up most parts of Asia when he was the president, now Bush is trying to close it all down?
Couple of my EE friends who are graduating in the coming June already got themselves jobs at some companies which make optical equipments. I think my friends are doing optical equipment testings.
MagicDraw will also generate DDL (and I think also C codes in its pro version), read Rational Rose 98 files, and it is using XML as their file format. So even after the software is expired, one can still port the project data somewhere else. Very cool.
The one problem I found is that sometimes if you let MagicDraw idle for about an hour or so, the memory usage stacks up a bit. I don't know why, but probably because the program is using jvm.
I'm not really into the laser stuff, so I don't have any idea about laser wavelength and related topics.
I have a IBM ThinkPad and it has build in DVD player and it read my backup CDR with no problem. So I guess DVD player reading CDR is depends on the design. (My Toshiba 16x CD-ROM drive cannot read any multi-section CDR at all. Partly because of their design or chipset right? And the manual says that it doesn't support multi-section. But I'm sure Panasonic CDROM drives do support it.)
In addition, Visors by default come with the USB Sync. If you have a Windows machine with USB ports, then you are set. If you are using linux (not sure for BSD), you probably want to get the 2.2.18 kernel or 2.4-test for the USB support.
Gnome-pilot already support Visor Deluxe. (Of course I know, I own a visor deluxe, in Ice colour too =b)
If you want Serial Port Sync, you will need to buy it extra.
If I will buy a new PDA now, I will probably go for the Platium since it's twice as fast (33 instead of 16) and it's running PalmOS 3.5 while the Deleux version is running 3.0.1H (Handspring version).
There is no ozone layer on Mars. That means we would somehow build our live support systems on the red planet. I recalled that NASA also discovered that there is no water in Mars (on and off discoveries). Why o' why we spend all these time discovering these stuff on Mars? Should be spend all these resources to improve our Earth first? Plus, it's probably not fun when you look out the window and say "Hey, look at the red desert!"
If I am buying a new machine for gaming and DVD, I would probably choose AMD Athlon or something. But after all I will still buy a Intel P4 since it's good for business applications and development tools. Also mathematical and scientific stuff.
Computer Science Professors at most collages/universities teach some fundamental problems. However, they don't teach (or don't know how to teach) the way to mix different methods together to solve problems. Most of them are just into their own researches and not really into teaching.
Let me use something from the movie Matrix: There are difference between knowing the path and walking the path. - Comp Sci and Engineering students need to walk through the path to learn programming. But most professors at school don't even know how to show the door of the path. (At the same time, not all computer science or engineering students are the chosen ones who can code!)
"Do they teach math classes in computer science programs today? I've noticed that qualified physicists and engineers are aggressively courted for many positions where these skills are needed."
Actually, they do still teach math to CS students in their first two years. But not too many of them will do advance math like Graph Theory or Algorithm Analysis. And not too many of them will take Set Theory which I found it's close related to computer science.
Tell you the truth, a lot of people in computer science program don't like to code. A lot of them admitted that they study this because of money, not because of their interest. A lot of them don't like to hack codes. All they want is getting a good job at IT field, not as programmers. So if employers are looking for good coders and problem solvers, I would suggest you test their skills instead of hiring people depends on their resumes.
It's actually a good idea of being a computer historian. However, there are a lot of books out there already covered the most important information about the changes and improvements of the computer industry, hardware and software.
You may want to look at Structured Computer Organization from Andrew S. Tanenbaum (Creator of MINIX). It covers the changes of programming languages, instruction set, computer architecture, milestones in development of digital computers (Vaccuum Tubes to Transistors to VLSI), Moore's Law, Pentium , UltraSPARC, picoJava, storage, RAM,.... to how to design your own CPU.
You may find it too advance to under the whole designing CPU chapters, but it sure gives you a general idea of the history of computer in its introduction chapters.
You can also design some contest-type problems and give students about one to two weeks to finish. Especially those programming problems that require them to combine two or more data types inside the program... Search Trees with Stacks / Queues would be good.
"Programming contests. Have your students write a program to illustrate some concept you've been teaching. Give prizes/recognition to the student with the fastest / shortest / most creative solution."
Put students in groups, simulate as computer consultant companies and write proposals about the school or schoolboard, such as make overhead presentations, presents full proposals, write related programs as suggested in their proposals, define what hardware needs to be improved in offices and school computer labs.
If you have a lot of old computers like 386s or 486s... get them to know how to set up their own linux box... without using binaries... that means they have to compile almost everything in their linux box.
If you have a lot of powerful computers... get them to write some GL programs, like rotate 3D box with random rainbow colours.
Put students in groups and ask them to make web sites for the school... including setting up the Aparche server, CGI + HTML + JavaScript, may be XML or ASP.
Database programs... using DBase or COBOL... note: highschool students mostly will not impressed by this kind of projects.
If you want this CDROM to be generally available to access for all kind of users (Linux, Windows, BeOS, *NIX, MAC...) then Perl would not be a good idea on the CDROM for searching. It may not run properly in Windows (for those who doesn't have ActivePerl installed) and BeOS.
However, you can use Perl script to generate a massive listing and index of the keywords and make this to be HTML files. HTML files are mostly accessable by most computer users. It's also good to include ASCII text files along with PDF files.
One drawback of using only ASCII text files is that if you have a lot of pictures or diagrams in this document and expect the users to print them, you don't really want them to open each image in GIMP or Photoshop and do the printing.
Also, you can try to write CGI scripts and put them on the CDROM along with the HTML files. You can make CGI script possible to do searching text for you.
Aside, you may want to try Perlfect Search 3.08. Their web page description:"Perlfect Search is a sophisticated, powerful, versatile, customizable and effective site indexing/searching suite available under an open source licence. It comes as a pair of disctinct scripts. The indexer, that automatically, scans and indexes a web site, and the search engine, a cgi script that serves search queries for keywords over the index, and displays results pages in html, in a standard format including title, description and relevance ranking for each matching document. "
Another possibility is PDF format. You can also try PostScript file too. But I'm not sure if you can get any script to search text in PDF or PS format.
For making PDF file, you can buy the Adobe Acrobat, or try HTML DOC from Easy Software Products. It can convert HTML files into PDF and PS files and it's available in Linux, Windows, UNIX, IRIX, NT and Solaris.
Both HTMLDOC 1.8.8 and Perlfect Search 3.08 are in GPL.
Seldom there is people talking about the ethics of computer industry. Do you have any thoughts about this issue? Or any comments on the ethic issues of M$, Napster, GPL, crackers,...?
Slashdot Mirror
AnyJ is also a good one to use. It supports Windows, Mac and Linux.
Try JCreator. They have one free version and one professional version.
If I can only buy a new Intel P4 computer with the RDRAM, then I guess the simplest solution is to buy myself a Dual Athlon 1.4 GHz + DDR Ram computer. It is probably cheaper too.
However, IBM was very good at it. They exchanged mine within one week.
Funny thing is that the mailman who was doing all these recalls were saying that he had to do more than 200 exchanges at Waterloo, Ontario area. Nice eh?
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Pretty handy, though. And I don't have to waste more time to set up the filters anymore.
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This type of accidents has not happened before. US spy plane crashed with China's Military plane. No matter if it was a spy mission from the US, or it was just some sort of routine mission that US claimed to be, no one really wants this type of accidents to happen. (And certainly, no one wants this to happen again.)
However, I think both countries are trying to make the history here:
If it was not a spy plane, there would be some sort of US Flag (or US military logo) on the plane, wasn't it? Then boarding on the plane would violate International Law. But if it was a spy plane, then obviously there was no sign. A plane like this entered your area and landed, you would go see what the hack it came from and arrest all those people on the plane right?
If you are trying to do business with the other country, do you really want to 'spy' on them?
If it was still Bill Clinton the president instead of Bush Jr., what would have happened?
Bill Clinton opened up most parts of Asia when he was the president, now Bush is trying to close it all down?
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The one problem I found is that sometimes if you let MagicDraw idle for about an hour or so, the memory usage stacks up a bit. I don't know why, but probably because the program is using jvm.
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I have a IBM ThinkPad and it has build in DVD player and it read my backup CDR with no problem. So I guess DVD player reading CDR is depends on the design. (My Toshiba 16x CD-ROM drive cannot read any multi-section CDR at all. Partly because of their design or chipset right? And the manual says that it doesn't support multi-section. But I'm sure Panasonic CDROM drives do support it.)
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Gnome-pilot already support Visor Deluxe. (Of course I know, I own a visor deluxe, in Ice colour too =b)
If you want Serial Port Sync, you will need to buy it extra.
If I will buy a new PDA now, I will probably go for the Platium since it's twice as fast (33 instead of 16) and it's running PalmOS 3.5 while the Deleux version is running 3.0.1H (Handspring version).
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i. There is no spoon.
Let me use something from the movie Matrix: There are difference between knowing the path and walking the path. - Comp Sci and Engineering students need to walk through the path to learn programming. But most professors at school don't even know how to show the door of the path. (At the same time, not all computer science or engineering students are the chosen ones who can code!)
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i. There is no spoon.
Actually, they do still teach math to CS students in their first two years. But not too many of them will do advance math like Graph Theory or Algorithm Analysis. And not too many of them will take Set Theory which I found it's close related to computer science.
Tell you the truth, a lot of people in computer science program don't like to code. A lot of them admitted that they study this because of money, not because of their interest. A lot of them don't like to hack codes. All they want is getting a good job at IT field, not as programmers. So if employers are looking for good coders and problem solvers, I would suggest you test their skills instead of hiring people depends on their resumes.
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i. There is no spoon.
You may want to look at Structured Computer Organization from Andrew S. Tanenbaum (Creator of MINIX). It covers the changes of programming languages, instruction set, computer architecture, milestones in development of digital computers (Vaccuum Tubes to Transistors to VLSI), Moore's Law, Pentium , UltraSPARC, picoJava, storage, RAM, .... to how to design your own CPU.
You may find it too advance to under the whole designing CPU chapters, but it sure gives you a general idea of the history of computer in its introduction chapters.
You can also try the Computer History Association of California, and the Computer Industry History page from Electronic Software Publishing Corp.
You may want to try GeekCode.
You can also design some contest-type problems and give students about one to two weeks to finish. Especially those programming problems that require them to combine two or more data types inside the program... Search Trees with Stacks / Queues would be good.
Try American Computer Science League. It may help to find some *fun* programming contest problems.
You may also want to try this:
Exploring the Link between Real and Virtual Experiences in the Classroom with VRML and 3D Modeling
Hope this help.
However, you can use Perl script to generate a massive listing and index of the keywords and make this to be HTML files. HTML files are mostly accessable by most computer users. It's also good to include ASCII text files along with PDF files.
One drawback of using only ASCII text files is that if you have a lot of pictures or diagrams in this document and expect the users to print them, you don't really want them to open each image in GIMP or Photoshop and do the printing.
Also, you can try to write CGI scripts and put them on the CDROM along with the HTML files. You can make CGI script possible to do searching text for you.
Aside, you may want to try Perlfect Search 3.08.
Their web page description:"Perlfect Search is a sophisticated, powerful, versatile, customizable and effective site indexing/searching suite available under an open source licence. It comes as a pair of disctinct scripts. The indexer, that automatically, scans and indexes a web site, and the search engine, a cgi script that serves search queries for keywords over the index, and displays results pages in html, in a standard format including title, description and relevance ranking for each matching document. "
Another possibility is PDF format. You can also try PostScript file too. But I'm not sure if you can get any script to search text in PDF or PS format.
For making PDF file, you can buy the Adobe Acrobat, or try HTML DOC from Easy Software Products. It can convert HTML files into PDF and PS files and it's available in Linux, Windows, UNIX, IRIX, NT and Solaris.
Both HTMLDOC 1.8.8 and Perlfect Search 3.08 are in GPL.
Hope this help.
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