Some people like stability, which then I would tell them to get a LTS (Long Term Support) version of your favorite GNU/Linux OS (although not every OS has one)
Others like the support, some the easy of use, others just aren't technically inclined enough to get things to work if they don't work "out of the box" (out of the CD? no, no one gets linux on CD, so I guess: out of the download? Ah, I digress....)
There's a very simple reason –it's a universal, standardised, laptop docking port. One port, USB, ethernet, PCI, monitor, firewire, etc all connected.
True, I just can't find a reason why I really need it. I have ethernet, USB, pcmcia, hdmi port, etc. Who uses firewire(camcorders? Apple?)
This is all because of the Ultrabooks that Intel is pushing on manufacturers to get back at Apple(and take some of their business back) and the sexy looking macbook.
There is also Sam's Teach Youself Java in 24 Hours, and Sam's Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours. If he wants to do web programming there is Sam's Teach Yourself HTML in 24 Hours, however it doesn't go into Javascript so you would need to get another book as well.
I would say the big languages are C, C++, and Java for main-stream languages. If you want to do Windows programming, there is C# and I guess Visual Basic(C# is better in my opinion but Visual Basic is taught to IT professionals who aren't programmers so it may be easier to learn)
I love the Sam's series, especially when I was in High School. Just enough information to make something useful, yet you don't need to be an expert to read it. Definitely a great first book into a programming language, it just highlights the basics and possible differences if you know another language.
And every other free-to-play, but not to play for long, game
I hate that game model, it just makes the people that spend the most money get the best stuff and everyone else is just trying to kill 1,000,000 Level 0 Monsters so they can afford the Level 1 Gun, but oops, a person that bought all the best stuff just Player-Killed you, and you lost all your kills, sorry!
You could always do what I've seen a couple of projects do, release a simpler open-source version and make your pay-for version have more advanced features.
I would suggest that as you add more and more advanced features to the pay-for version, that you include some of the older features inside of the open-source version
You could also ask for donations for the open-source download through paypal(remember you can't make them pay for it if it is just open-source source code)
My parent: Acapulco, has a similar idea but he just wants the older version to be open-sourced where my idea gives you a little more control over what stays closed-sourced and what is open-sourced. Maybe you do want them to pay for a very hard to program feature or something that took you a long time to R&D, which I can understand.
Just remember if you alienate your open-source community they will leave you and you might as well have not spent the time on making some/part/all of it open source to begin with
Never had to make a web-based presentation before, but I have used Google Docs presentation, it just wasn't required.
I'm with you, it would be great for something structured like a map, flowchart, etc.
I just thought of a cool one, my buddy went on a road trip last summer, and it would be cool to start you off where he left, and as you go from town to town that he went to, you could see pictures of what was there, and what was between the places as you "fly/drive"(rotate and move) to the next location. Then you could end up back where you started and it could start over again.
I think it is the font that makes it look choppy. He is right in his discussion of the animations, the fonts re-size awkwardly.
When I first looked at it, without reading anything I thought it would make a good intro movie into your web site to showcase your product, not a presentation.
It reminds me of the slideshow that every web site uses nowadays, but much better and in my opinion more professional looking.
As for property values the value of a farm usually depends on whether it is a money maker or not. How would these farmers feel about a coal fired plant or a nuke that close to them?
Uh, I guess they would be doing exactly what they are doing now, complaining and stopping it from being built.
I wouldn't mind a wind tower in my yard one little bit. A tall one would be a conversation piece.
Until you want to sell the eyesore of a house you now own. You would probably have to PAY someone to take your house because, I don't know about everyone else, but I wouldn't buy that house.
I wouldn't want a Wind Turbine near my house either, it would be an eyesore, and it wouldn't help when I wanted to sell my house
The problem is, finding a place that has near-constant wind in a known or semi-known direction, near no one who minds and yet still near something so that power can be put back into the grid. Oh, and you have to avoid major fault-lines and tornadoes. A tough set of rules to follow...
A little more security never hurt anyone, neither did a fuzzy tester on your software, good alpha/beta testing, and apparently giving money to hackers for bug exploits (Firefox, Google, that I know of). All of these things combined can help you... granted you are bulletproof but your software and customers will be happier because you did it and found some flaws before you released it.
Imagine what Stuxnet would have done if Siemens put some security (or should I say, closed the holes they introduced) into their devices?
I just figured they would want to just sit on your computer and "sip" money out of your account as not to arouse your suspicions that you had malware, so I figured numbers are better then a couple of rich people. But you may be right, maybe they just charge 10,000 bucks from the rich and they wouldn't notice and the not as wealthy people only get 1000 bucks taken. (Numbers are of course fake)
L: Well instead of Linux they are going to use their trusty open-source ROS for the basis of this A: This is kind of taken care of by the next point M M: Well they need a database with lots of functions which has previously been created: RoboEarth P: You need a way to query this information so the people at RoboEarth have created a non-device-specific code for ROS, yey!
Now, they may want more than this, or they may also want a local database and query engine, which could be SQLite and SQL, but should probably be something more robot-specific, although if you use SQLite or something compatible, lots of people would know how to work with it out-of-the-box
As I see it, it's almost done, they just need to make RoboEarth have a large database, and get the ROS part of RoboEarth to work and they should be on their way to the Ros RoboEarth ROS Plugin? or RRR because then it could be R^3
Let me see if I can make it work out. Note: I am a democrat (aka liberal) so I don't know if this is truly how they arrived at it, but I know basic logic, and thought I would give it a shot.
First some definitions:
Religion: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or Gods
Science: systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
Faith: Complete trust or confidence in someone or something
Now conservatives have faith in religion, really they have faith in a God or Gods. They believe it , but have no hard evidence other then the fact that there is no evidence to the contrary, which I believe is called an argument from ignorance(double check that, it's been a while)
So we have: conservatives have faith in religion, and as the article pointed out, liberals have faith in science.
Now how do we get from liberals have faith in science, to: liberals' use of science as a religion, well that is simply a misguided substitution of faith and religion, and a little rewording to make sense.
So we go from: liberals have faith in science, to: liberals have science as a religion
This is all just a guess, and there are numerous points where anyone who went to school can see right though it, but I guess the "bitter clingers in Jesusland watching NASCAR" missed it.
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Some people like stability, which then I would tell them to get a LTS (Long Term Support) version of your favorite GNU/Linux OS (although not every OS has one)
Others like the support, some the easy of use, others just aren't technically inclined enough to get things to work if they don't work "out of the box" (out of the CD? no, no one gets linux on CD, so I guess: out of the download? Ah, I digress....)
And to think, they used Java just for the UI, and just so that a lot of people could start programming quickly... shame
...Thunderbolt delivers an external PCI bus.
But that is external, why would I want an external SSD?
Until Twitter proves me wrong: +1 Twitter for not being a douche...
+1 for Slashdot if I can get an "edit comment" button
Until (maybe when?) Twitter proves me wrong: +1 Twitter for not being a douche...
You have demonstrated it is unsolvable, you have not proven anything.
All you need is ONE hand to not be solvable, and their entire argument is invalid.
"Their goal: to determine if every hand in Windows' FreeCell solitaire game was in fact winnable, as the program's help file implied."
So any one non-winnable hand, means that every hand in FreeCell is NOT winnable.
(Proof By) Counterexample
There's a very simple reason –it's a universal, standardised, laptop docking port. One port, USB, ethernet, PCI, monitor, firewire, etc all connected.
True, I just can't find a reason why I really need it. I have ethernet, USB, pcmcia, hdmi port, etc. Who uses firewire(camcorders? Apple?)
This is all because of the Ultrabooks that Intel is pushing on manufacturers to get back at Apple(and take some of their business back) and the sexy looking macbook.
Care to share the manufacturer of your 30" 2560x1600 display? I was thinking about getting one of those too.
Also what video card do you have? Do you game or only work on this setup?
Sam's Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours This looks to be the entire book online!
There is also Sam's Teach Youself Java in 24 Hours, and Sam's Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours. If he wants to do web programming there is Sam's Teach Yourself HTML in 24 Hours, however it doesn't go into Javascript so you would need to get another book as well.
I would say the big languages are C, C++, and Java for main-stream languages. If you want to do Windows programming, there is C# and I guess Visual Basic(C# is better in my opinion but Visual Basic is taught to IT professionals who aren't programmers so it may be easier to learn)
I love the Sam's series, especially when I was in High School. Just enough information to make something useful, yet you don't need to be an expert to read it. Definitely a great first book into a programming language, it just highlights the basics and possible differences if you know another language.
I believe: "[...] to become profitable on service alone." was a look at RedHat's Model
And every other free-to-play, but not to play for long, game
I hate that game model, it just makes the people that spend the most money get the best stuff and everyone else is just trying to kill 1,000,000 Level 0 Monsters so they can afford the Level 1 Gun, but oops, a person that bought all the best stuff just Player-Killed you, and you lost all your kills, sorry!
You could always do what I've seen a couple of projects do, release a simpler open-source version and make your pay-for version have more advanced features.
I would suggest that as you add more and more advanced features to the pay-for version, that you include some of the older features inside of the open-source version
You could also ask for donations for the open-source download through paypal(remember you can't make them pay for it if it is just open-source source code)
My parent: Acapulco, has a similar idea but he just wants the older version to be open-sourced where my idea gives you a little more control over what stays closed-sourced and what is open-sourced. Maybe you do want them to pay for a very hard to program feature or something that took you a long time to R&D, which I can understand.
Just remember if you alienate your open-source community they will leave you and you might as well have not spent the time on making some/part/all of it open source to begin with
Ok, yes, a lot of rotates but I guess you could throw in some slides or something so that you don't do a 720 all the time to get from place to place
Never had to make a web-based presentation before, but I have used Google Docs presentation, it just wasn't required.
I'm with you, it would be great for something structured like a map, flowchart, etc.
I just thought of a cool one, my buddy went on a road trip last summer, and it would be cool to start you off where he left, and as you go from town to town that he went to, you could see pictures of what was there, and what was between the places as you "fly/drive"(rotate and move) to the next location. Then you could end up back where you started and it could start over again.
I think it is the font that makes it look choppy. He is right in his discussion of the animations, the fonts re-size awkwardly.
When I first looked at it, without reading anything I thought it would make a good intro movie into your web site to showcase your product, not a presentation.
It reminds me of the slideshow that every web site uses nowadays, but much better and in my opinion more professional looking.
As for property values the value of a farm usually depends on whether it is a money maker or not. How would these farmers feel about a coal fired plant or a nuke that close to them?
Uh, I guess they would be doing exactly what they are doing now, complaining and stopping it from being built.
I wouldn't mind a wind tower in my yard one little bit. A tall one would be a conversation piece.
Until you want to sell the eyesore of a house you now own. You would probably have to PAY someone to take your house because, I don't know about everyone else, but I wouldn't buy that house.
I wouldn't want a Wind Turbine near my house either, it would be an eyesore, and it wouldn't help when I wanted to sell my house
The problem is, finding a place that has near-constant wind in a known or semi-known direction, near no one who minds and yet still near something so that power can be put back into the grid. Oh, and you have to avoid major fault-lines and tornadoes. A tough set of rules to follow...
Care to share the solution?
A little more security never hurt anyone, neither did a fuzzy tester on your software, good alpha/beta testing, and apparently giving money to hackers for bug exploits (Firefox, Google, that I know of). All of these things combined can help you... granted you are bulletproof but your software and customers will be happier because you did it and found some flaws before you released it.
Imagine what Stuxnet would have done if Siemens put some security (or should I say, closed the holes they introduced) into their devices?
Ah true, good point.
I just figured they would want to just sit on your computer and "sip" money out of your account as not to arouse your suspicions that you had malware, so I figured numbers are better then a couple of rich people. But you may be right, maybe they just charge 10,000 bucks from the rich and they wouldn't notice and the not as wealthy people only get 1000 bucks taken. (Numbers are of course fake)
Well here is what I see as their LAMP stack:
L: Well instead of Linux they are going to use their trusty open-source ROS for the basis of this
A: This is kind of taken care of by the next point M
M: Well they need a database with lots of functions which has previously been created: RoboEarth
P: You need a way to query this information so the people at RoboEarth have created a non-device-specific code for ROS, yey!
Now, they may want more than this, or they may also want a local database and query engine, which could be SQLite and SQL, but should probably be something more robot-specific, although if you use SQLite or something compatible, lots of people would know how to work with it out-of-the-box
As I see it, it's almost done, they just need to make RoboEarth have a large database, and get the ROS part of RoboEarth to work and they should be on their way to the Ros RoboEarth ROS Plugin? or RRR because then it could be R^3
Seriously another Linux vs. GNU/Linux argument?
Let me see if I can make it work out. Note: I am a democrat (aka liberal) so I don't know if this is truly how they arrived at it, but I know basic logic, and thought I would give it a shot.
First some definitions:
Religion: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or Gods
Science: systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
Faith: Complete trust or confidence in someone or something
Now conservatives have faith in religion, really they have faith in a God or Gods. They believe it , but have no hard evidence other then the fact that there is no evidence to the contrary, which I believe is called an argument from ignorance(double check that, it's been a while)
So we have: conservatives have faith in religion, and as the article pointed out, liberals have faith in science.
Now how do we get from liberals have faith in science, to: liberals' use of science as a religion, well that is simply a misguided substitution of faith and religion, and a little rewording to make sense.
So we go from: liberals have faith in science, to: liberals have science as a religion
This is all just a guess, and there are numerous points where anyone who went to school can see right though it, but I guess the "bitter clingers in Jesusland watching NASCAR" missed it.
They're not stupid, they're hypocritical, and lying to themselves about what they believe as much as to anyone else.
Ah, politics.... (any side, not just republicans)
Don't download a piece of software from a torrent site claiming to be Microsoft Office.dmg, but is only a few 10's of MB - it's probably a trojan.
Bloat: your guarantee of genuine Microsoft quality.
HAHA, so true!
I thought it was they didn't know how, LOL (jk)
Now if we were talking about Windows here, I would say they are just counterfeit windows installs and that's why there is no one updating lol
It requires the user to be running as admin to take over the machine.
which A LOT, A LOT of people do, mainly because they don't know better and secondly because it's a lot easier for them not to switch between accounts