Its not so clear that this will help much if at all. Macs have had virtual PC for years but when i hear of people switching OSes its usualy the case that they go 100% for native mac products and this is with virtual pc being a much more mature program than WINE, no offense to it's authors but connectix has several years head start not to mention a large budget. I see emulation software being most helpful for individuals who want to use a certain platform that their companies proprietary software doesnt support and in the case of linux this group probably already dual boots into linux anyway. of course this doesnt mean i wont try it out once 1.0 is released.
People ahve been doing this for years. we use MOSS (measurment of software similarity) which was writen by alex aiken at berkeley. As for the editorial comment I think that there's a little difference between asking a coworker (or another student) for help and copying code directly from another source. But everyone's entitled to their opinion.
if you can write to an hfs+ drive you dont need any special software, the iPod keeps it's music in a hidden folder called `music` right on the drive, just drop your mp3s in there and you can play them.
"The cool thing about Simply GNUstep is its partial source compatibility with MacOSX programs"
Arent all programs 'partialy source compatible' with an OS that has that particular compiller this could be great in terms of colaberation and future development but it also could be nothing mroe than empty hype.
Youre almost right there with the market except for one thing. An imac with OS X is like a gift from heaven for any college kid interested in CS. it's cheap, it doesnt take futzing with to get it and the dev tools working properly, and best of all gcc runs perfectly on it. Our first programing assignment for my cs class was get your computer's compiler and such working. for windows this took two pages to explain for os x (and my trusty 400Mhz iMac) it was simple 'use gcc'
I think what exactly a CS degree entails changes alot based on where you are. From what i can tell a cs degree from my school is not geered for programing at all infact it has little to do with programing and is heavy on theory.
So my advice to you is ask at the university youre applying to rather than a general audience.
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This isnt going to be used as a courtroom evidence this technology is supposed to help decide which people get closer scrutiny when going through security checks
If you stutter and look down when you go through customs youre not going to be shot on the spot but since youre doing things which make it statisticaly more probable that youre lieing then youre going to be looked at closer.
Likewise with this device the group which sets off a positive result will contain more liars than the group which goes through undetected, so it makes sense to pay more attention to them.
As for your first con, i dont think you give the mac business unit enough credit. Office for Mac is a streamlined solid program, it blows office XP out of the water and I use both regularly. It's about time we got over the it comes with an MS label so it must be crap train of thought. a select few of their software titles actualy suceed on their own merits, not just based on the aformentioned monopoly.
a nomad jukebox will set you back 270 retail for 6GB. This thing is larger than and weighs more than a first generation discman and its just about as hard to run with (i know ive tried) becuase it has under 5 minutes of skip proection (to be fair i dont know if the 20 minutes on the ipod will help or not though)
Intel's 128 MB player - $299. about the same dimensions as the ipod... so that's why theyre scrapping it....
samsung 64MB player-$199 slightly smaller, tiny lcd
i2Go eGo MP3 Player- 399 from buy.com (499 retail) this thing has 340 MB flash memory and is slightly smaller than the ipod. with no lcd.
All that info was off buy.com as of 3pm today(they had some $100 players with 32MB or less that i didnt look at) you can check yourself if you want as.
The point is that this is a very good and competitively priced mp3 player even without the large screen easy to navigate menus, firewire connection/recharging and portable hard drive function. Its not revolutionary or all that special and the only complain that i could have about it is that it was so over hyped by apple. (I was really holding out for the apple teleportation device)
Israel has a system where every person is assigned an ID number which, unlike your social security number, is a public record anyone can check. This isnt going to take away libterties from anyone It would just allow the government to do what theyre supposed to do anyway. Airplane hijackings arent the only place where this would be useful, identity fraud and underage drinking is another area (not that i think that setting the drinking age at 21 isnt counter productive and doesnt encourage bing drinking and unsafe behavior. but thats another argument entierly.) What good is a fake ID if you walk into a bar and they scan your number on your id and it comes back invalid or with someone else's information on it.
If i remember correctly by the second lecture of the introduction to computer systems course taught at my school we all understood the general principles behind modern encryption well enough to write our own software. What makes anyone in the government think that terrorists will use american comercial products when they could write their own or obtain it from a country without these sorts of laws.
Is this based on the old Micro Prose game by the same name? That game could improve your social skills too, I mean how else would i learn to sweep a beautiful young heires off her feet with my pirate antics?
FOOL! as you posted that a switch somewhere in england went on as you were labeled by echelon as a possible revolutionary. expect all your credit cards to be cancled and never to get a job ever again.
would you walk into a preschool class with an astrophysics book? or would you walk into a roots concert with a backstreet boys rock tee shirt? if the answer to these questions is no then congradulations you just assigned people to groups. not that its always a bad thing, the problem is when youre so rigid with your assignment you cant change your opinion. There are some generalizations you can make about different groups, they dont apply to everyone in a group but if they do apply to most of the group then theyre a good place to start from untill you know more about them. hell he might walk into class and find that the entire room is 78 year old's with perfect hearing and vision who are receptive to new ideas and proficient in both C and cobal. i just wouldnt bet on it.
That's a nice idealistic way to look at it. but to say that someone is just a student misleading.
students are broken down into groups all the time and different teaching approaches are used for each group. for example, acelerated or honor's classes try to isolate a group of students who are supposedly brighter than their peers. the teered college system that our country has is another way of classifying students. Grade levels based on past experience is another.
Furthermore its hard to argue that age doesnt play a roll in the ability to grasp new concepts and learn new facts. try teaching a four year old and a 35 year old a new language, chances are the four year old will be fluent long before the older student. repeat teh experiment with a 35 year old and a 70 year old and youll get the same results.
the only point to saying that a group of people are just students when they could much more accuratly be described by seniors is to be Politicaly Correct. and this is still slashdot right??
For many people at slashdot a search at google will probably turn up the most indepth information on a subject that they want to research. But for a senior the information is probably going to be too hard to sort through and too littered with dead ends. I would suggest directing them towards specific sites rather than the web at large.
For example, if they want to look up information babe ruth mlb's web site would be a better place to start than a search engine.
if you give them a list of bookmarks ranging from encyclopedia's to trivia sites itll be easier for them to digest the information than if you give them a search engine and show them how to get whatever they want.
Not only does the technology exist, but according to arstechnica theyre already for sale. Thats a first hype a technology AFTER its been released instead of three years down the road.
The reason so few games make use of it is because as soon as microsoft decided they wanted to buy into the console market they quickly crippled the Dreamcast windows CE SDK and then went off on their own plans.
the _REAL_ way to screw them over is to buy a dozen then not buy any games. theyre selling each box at a $125 loss so if you buy 12 then dont purchasing any games your costing microsoft some cash. And what will you do with your newly aquired compu... err i mean consoles? well you could follow iraq's lead and string them together to use as a missle guidance system.
Civ I was the first computer game i played. for some reason the copy of the game i had crashed whenever a city was captured though, so i obviously was a rather peaceful player, a strategy, try as i might, i never have been able to shake. maybe Ill play as Gengis Kahn for Civ III to work on it.
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No one panic the easter egg where you hold down the center button and it lets you play brickel is still there, it's just moved into Settings>Legal.
sticking with the mozilla policy of asymptoticly aproaching 1.0 0.9.9.1 will be released in two months followed by 0.9.9.9.5 seven years from now.
Ive always been fond of turquoise headers that mix to form a slightly retro/weird modern look... hey kinda like this.
I dont know. Why did you?
Its not so clear that this will help much if at all. Macs have had virtual PC for years but when i hear of people switching OSes its usualy the case that they go 100% for native mac products and this is with virtual pc being a much more mature program than WINE, no offense to it's authors but connectix has several years head start not to mention a large budget. I see emulation software being most helpful for individuals who want to use a certain platform that their companies proprietary software doesnt support and in the case of linux this group probably already dual boots into linux anyway. of course this doesnt mean i wont try it out once 1.0 is released.
People ahve been doing this for years. we use MOSS (measurment of software similarity) which was writen by alex aiken at berkeley. As for the editorial comment I think that there's a little difference between asking a coworker (or another student) for help and copying code directly from another source. But everyone's entitled to their opinion.
if you can write to an hfs+ drive you dont need any special software, the iPod keeps it's music in a hidden folder called `music` right on the drive, just drop your mp3s in there and you can play them.
Arent all programs 'partialy source compatible' with an OS that has that particular compiller this could be great in terms of colaberation and future development but it also could be nothing mroe than empty hype.
Youre almost right there with the market except for one thing. An imac with OS X is like a gift from heaven for any college kid interested in CS. it's cheap, it doesnt take futzing with to get it and the dev tools working properly, and best of all gcc runs perfectly on it. Our first programing assignment for my cs class was get your computer's compiler and such working. for windows this took two pages to explain for os x (and my trusty 400Mhz iMac) it was simple 'use gcc'
I think what exactly a CS degree entails changes alot based on where you are. From what i can tell a cs degree from my school is not geered for programing at all infact it has little to do with programing and is heavy on theory.
So my advice to you is ask at the university youre applying to rather than a general audience.
This isnt going to be used as a courtroom evidence this technology is supposed to help decide which people get closer scrutiny when going through security checks
If you stutter and look down when you go through customs youre not going to be shot on the spot but since youre doing things which make it statisticaly more probable that youre lieing then youre going to be looked at closer.
Likewise with this device the group which sets off a positive result will contain more liars than the group which goes through undetected, so it makes sense to pay more attention to them.
As for your first con, i dont think you give the mac business unit enough credit. Office for Mac is a streamlined solid program, it blows office XP out of the water and I use both regularly. It's about time we got over the it comes with an MS label so it must be crap train of thought. a select few of their software titles actualy suceed on their own merits, not just based on the aformentioned monopoly.
a nomad jukebox will set you back 270 retail for 6GB. This thing is larger than and weighs more than a first generation discman and its just about as hard to run with (i know ive tried) becuase it has under 5 minutes of skip proection (to be fair i dont know if the 20 minutes on the ipod will help or not though)
Intel's 128 MB player - $299. about the same dimensions as the ipod... so that's why theyre scrapping it....
samsung 64MB player-$199 slightly smaller, tiny lcd
i2Go eGo MP3 Player- 399 from buy.com (499 retail) this thing has 340 MB flash memory and is slightly smaller than the ipod. with no lcd.
All that info was off buy.com as of 3pm today(they had some $100 players with 32MB or less that i didnt look at) you can check yourself if you want as.
The point is that this is a very good and competitively priced mp3 player even without the large screen easy to navigate menus, firewire connection/recharging and portable hard drive function. Its not revolutionary or all that special and the only complain that i could have about it is that it was so over hyped by apple. (I was really holding out for the apple teleportation device)
Israel has a system where every person is assigned an ID number which, unlike your social security number, is a public record anyone can check. This isnt going to take away libterties from anyone It would just allow the government to do what theyre supposed to do anyway. Airplane hijackings arent the only place where this would be useful, identity fraud and underage drinking is another area (not that i think that setting the drinking age at 21 isnt counter productive and doesnt encourage bing drinking and unsafe behavior. but thats another argument entierly.) What good is a fake ID if you walk into a bar and they scan your number on your id and it comes back invalid or with someone else's information on it.
If i remember correctly by the second lecture of the introduction to computer systems course taught at my school we all understood the general principles behind modern encryption well enough to write our own software. What makes anyone in the government think that terrorists will use american comercial products when they could write their own or obtain it from a country without these sorts of laws.
Is this based on the old Micro Prose game by the same name? That game could improve your social skills too, I mean how else would i learn to sweep a beautiful young heires off her feet with my pirate antics?
Hey are you the same "Local Man" who the people at the onion always write about??? can i get your autograph?
FOOL! as you posted that a switch somewhere in england went on as you were labeled by echelon as a possible revolutionary. expect all your credit cards to be cancled and never to get a job ever again.
would you walk into a preschool class with an astrophysics book? or would you walk into a roots concert with a backstreet boys rock tee shirt? if the answer to these questions is no then congradulations you just assigned people to groups. not that its always a bad thing, the problem is when youre so rigid with your assignment you cant change your opinion. There are some generalizations you can make about different groups, they dont apply to everyone in a group but if they do apply to most of the group then theyre a good place to start from untill you know more about them. hell he might walk into class and find that the entire room is 78 year old's with perfect hearing and vision who are receptive to new ideas and proficient in both C and cobal. i just wouldnt bet on it.
students are broken down into groups all the time and different teaching approaches are used for each group. for example, acelerated or honor's classes try to isolate a group of students who are supposedly brighter than their peers. the teered college system that our country has is another way of classifying students. Grade levels based on past experience is another.
Furthermore its hard to argue that age doesnt play a roll in the ability to grasp new concepts and learn new facts. try teaching a four year old and a 35 year old a new language, chances are the four year old will be fluent long before the older student. repeat teh experiment with a 35 year old and a 70 year old and youll get the same results.
the only point to saying that a group of people are just students when they could much more accuratly be described by seniors is to be Politicaly Correct. and this is still slashdot right??
For example, if they want to look up information babe ruth mlb's web site would be a better place to start than a search engine.
if you give them a list of bookmarks ranging from encyclopedia's to trivia sites itll be easier for them to digest the information than if you give them a search engine and show them how to get whatever they want.
Not only does the technology exist, but according to arstechnica theyre already for sale. Thats a first hype a technology AFTER its been released instead of three years down the road.
The reason so few games make use of it is because as soon as microsoft decided they wanted to buy into the console market they quickly crippled the Dreamcast windows CE SDK and then went off on their own plans.
the _REAL_ way to screw them over is to buy a dozen then not buy any games. theyre selling each box at a $125 loss so if you buy 12 then dont purchasing any games your costing microsoft some cash. And what will you do with your newly aquired compu... err i mean consoles? well you could follow iraq's lead and string them together to use as a missle guidance system.
Civ I was the first computer game i played. for some reason the copy of the game i had crashed whenever a city was captured though, so i obviously was a rather peaceful player, a strategy, try as i might, i never have been able to shake. maybe Ill play as Gengis Kahn for Civ III to work on it.