I managed to find mine on closeout for $100 but they are worth the extra money. Several people have mentioned that woodworking dust is now classified as a carcinogen, so they have to work pretty well.
SIP and therefore SIMPLE _do_ support TCP. Companies releasing IM product were to produce clients that only allowed file transfers over TCP based SIP sessions, this wouldn't really be a problem.
You could use SIP to intitiate the session and then use RTP or TCP to actually convey the data, this sounds like what they're trying to create a new standard to do, but it doesn't exist yet.
SIMPLE is still a draft and is changing dramatically every day. Its not really something that you can follow the latest draft and automatically work with other clients that were already written (as they probally we written using older drafts). Windows XP messenger is one example of a SIMPLE client that was written to an older standard.
The major difference between the using a plain RAM cache and a RAM disk cache is that a RAM disk cache will persist between browser sessions (not between reboots though), while a RAM cache will clear if you exit the browser. If you have a less-than-stable browser, its not a terrible thing... unfortunately the memory isn't available for other applications which may need it...
The latest userfs code would compile on kernels 1.3/2.0, although it looks like someone has made it compile with 2.2/glibc. The author's page on userfs is at: http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/userfs/
I've been put through interviewing classes by companies (how to interview poential cooworkers). And you have it right. While quizzing is great for getting an idea if someone is compentant or not in a given language, finding out how they actually handled past experiances is much better.
Asking someone "well how would you handle" is much different (and usually less acurate) than "how did you handle". The interviewee is much less likely to fibb on the second one.
On the other side, that means to answer these kind of questions, you need to be able to draw on your experiance to answer questions. As an interviewer, I'm always more impressed if someone can show how they are drawing on some of their past experiances to answer a question I ask. You can go too far though. Make sure not to trivialize the questions asked by saying "sure I've done all that before", because while situations are similar, there are always new twists which can make a problem much more confounding...
The leggo mindstorms are a great idea. One project which a friend and I tackled in HS was working with Legos. At the time the only legos out there were the technic's, and there was a company (Paradigm Software) that was developing a language called Object Logo, and a controller, called the pearl controller for the Macintosh to control the legos. As a proof-of-concept thing, we actually created a plotter out of legos (like a pen-and-paper thing...). We then wrote some simple drawing programs (one in Object Logo and one in Hypercard) which would control the plotter and try to print things out. The whole thing was based on reading from light sensors how many clicks things had moved, etc.
The whole experiance was really interesting and it actually taught me some skills which helped me when I started working for a company controlling external robots based on inputs from digital data acquisition.
Not only that but it got the two of us a trip to SigGRAPH (92 I think) from the company.
I guess that's another thing that might help kids get into something is to get an external source involved. They may not want to market a product developed by HS kids, but as a proof-of-concept project, or maybe a demo, the kids may get oppurtunities that they otherwise wouldn't...
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Amazon carries several of them (both Jet and Delta priced from $200 up to over $500).
I managed to find mine on closeout for $100 but they are worth the extra money. Several people have mentioned that woodworking dust is now classified as a carcinogen, so they have to work pretty well.
SIP and therefore SIMPLE _do_ support TCP. Companies releasing IM product were to produce clients that only allowed file transfers over TCP based SIP sessions, this wouldn't really be a problem.
You could use SIP to intitiate the session and then use RTP or TCP to actually convey the data, this sounds like what they're trying to create a new standard to do, but it doesn't exist yet.
SIMPLE is still a draft and is changing dramatically every day. Its not really something that you can follow the latest draft and automatically work with other clients that were already written (as they probally we written using older drafts). Windows XP messenger is one example of a SIMPLE client that was written to an older standard.
The major difference between the using a plain RAM cache and a RAM disk cache is that a RAM disk cache will persist between browser sessions (not between reboots though), while a RAM cache will clear if you exit the browser. If you have a less-than-stable browser, its not a terrible thing... unfortunately the memory isn't available for other applications which may need it...
The latest userfs code would compile on kernels 1.3/2.0, although it looks like someone has made it compile with 2.2/glibc. The author's page on userfs is at: http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/userfs/
I've been put through interviewing classes by companies (how to interview poential cooworkers). And you have it right. While quizzing is great for getting an idea if someone is compentant or not in a given language, finding out how they actually handled past experiances is much better.
Asking someone "well how would you handle" is much different (and usually less acurate) than "how did you handle". The interviewee is much less likely to fibb on the second one.
On the other side, that means to answer these kind of questions, you need to be able to draw on your experiance to answer questions. As an interviewer, I'm always more impressed if someone can show how they are drawing on some of their past experiances to answer a question I ask. You can go too far though. Make sure not to trivialize the questions asked by saying "sure I've done all that before", because while situations are similar, there are always new twists which can make a problem much more confounding...
The whole experiance was really interesting and it actually taught me some skills which helped me when I started working for a company controlling external robots based on inputs from digital data acquisition.
Not only that but it got the two of us a trip to SigGRAPH (92 I think) from the company.
I guess that's another thing that might help kids get into something is to get an external source involved. They may not want to market a product developed by HS kids, but as a proof-of-concept project, or maybe a demo, the kids may get oppurtunities that they otherwise wouldn't...