I believe the Command and Windows keys are equivalent. You can also buy a Happy Hacking keyboard with a penguin on the key. What's printed there doesn't matter.
You should think about picking up a cheap digital keyboard, like for ~$50, and learning how the keys correspond to notes. This should be pretty simple compared to wind and brass instruments. Since all you need to do is pick up the pitches, you don't need to actually learn how to play the piano. Think of it as learning to hunt-and-peck, versus actual touch typing.
Plus, you'll then be able to practice anywhere there's a piano, rather than being tied to your computer.
It's not that the new planet is brighter than Pluto, it's that it's brighter than a snowball at the same size as Pluto and the same distance as the new planet.
There's a difference between fair and balanced. Fair is when you tell the unbiased truth. Balanced is when you give the UFO conspiracy theorist and the exobiologist equal standing.
Many of the posters here are suggesting more socialization with like-minded youngsters. Personally, I think it rather unlikely that throwing him in with other math/science nerds with equally poor social skills will do anything for him. Consider instead the artsy crowd--they are creative, more socially developed, willing to accept outsiders, and often largely female:)
Most of my friends in high school were either in marching band or were editors of the newspaper/literary journal, and comparing myself before and after, I think they did a world of good.
Ellison's script ought to be required reading for any science fiction movie fan. This thing somehow manages to combine Asimov's intellectual intricacy and Ellison's raw emotional punch in a seamless translation that would've been the "first really mature science fiction movie" (to paraphrase Harlan Ellison). So of course it didn't get made.
Did anyone else notice that with the exception of Singapore and Finland, the the countries with the highest percentage of engineering vs other degrees were all fairly poor? Additionally, a disproportionately large percentage of PhD's in science went to nonresidents (international students in the US?, who are likely to be from poorer countries)
Just some food for thought for all of you who think college degrees are useless. If you think college tuition is a lot of money, compare it to how much that money could buy in China or Russia. And then look at what those people are spending that HUGE amount of money to learn.
Anyone remember the Computer Recreations columns that used to run in Scientific American in the 80s? They were written by A.K. Dewdney, and every one had an idea for an interesting project. Sort of like the Amateur Scientist column they run now, but the experiments only require a computer and a compiler. I had lots of fun programming those things...
Borland C++ Builder rocks! I learned programming with the first few versions of Visual Basic, then learned real programming with plain C/C++. Well, C++ Builder with the VCL combines all the high-level convenience of VB with C++ compatibility, so I can call Win32 API directly, link to C libraries, and use C/C++ without having to micromanage the UIs. To anyone programming on Windows who hasn't used Delphi or C++ Builder: try it! My Windows programs are no longer, and sometimes shorter than an equivalent command line program.
Oh yea, and there will soon be C++ Builder on Linux. Whee....
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Think about it.
A content public is too complacent to take action. What open source needs exactly this kind of action from big software companies--restrictive, ridiculous extortion. The more the better.
Take a look at history. Every mass revolution has taken place not out of ideology, but because people were dissatisfied. Like or not, it's going to take a lot of motivation to convince the public to switch from Windows/Office to some difficult-to-use, complex Linux system, and that kind of motivation is never going to come from the open source community.
So let them bring on the BSA scare tactics! Let's have software rented by the month! Draconian software licenses! The more the better, because the more they sqeeze, the more people are going to turn to other solutions, and that's exactly what we want.
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I believe the Command and Windows keys are equivalent. You can also buy a Happy Hacking keyboard with a penguin on the key. What's printed there doesn't matter.
Your argument boils down to, "China is not politically stable, so it's okay for the government to violate basic human rights."
That's bullshit.
Public radio isn't "frothing at the mouth liberal" --- it's the corporate media that's frothing at the mouth conservative.
Neglecting to modprobe snd-pcm-oss seems to kill browser sound quite effectively on my ALSA-based system.
Actually, the fact that Firefox is more modern has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that Firefox is open source. Release early and release often!
I imagine it can't be too difficult to build your own distro of OOo that saves in MS Office format by default.
Plus, you'll then be able to practice anywhere there's a piano, rather than being tied to your computer.
It's not that the new planet is brighter than Pluto, it's that it's brighter than a snowball at the same size as Pluto and the same distance as the new planet.
As long as I can run Linux on it...
"The table-sized, 820-pound (372-kilogram) impactor is scheduled to smash into the comet's nucleus at 23,000 mph (37,000 kilometers) per hour"
Actually, that comes out to be about 2.8 m/s^2, or less than one third of a gee.
If one assumes that a gig of ram weighs 50 grams, then according to Google, 23,000 gigs is indeed approximately 1.27 tons.
So when will we be able to legally play DVDs on Linux?
There's a difference between fair and balanced. Fair is when you tell the unbiased truth. Balanced is when you give the UFO conspiracy theorist and the exobiologist equal standing.
Fox News is balanced. George Soros is fair.
Agreed. And there's a whole lot of mojo in his code...
Really Kwiki needs a sort of architecture guide so that people can contribute without reading through several dozen Kwiki and Spoon modules first.
"de facto standard"? When was the last time you saw a Mac with a floppy? Nevermind all those ultralight PC laptops out there...
Many of the posters here are suggesting more socialization with like-minded youngsters. Personally, I think it rather unlikely that throwing him in with other math/science nerds with equally poor social skills will do anything for him. Consider instead the artsy crowd--they are creative, more socially developed, willing to accept outsiders, and often largely female :)
Most of my friends in high school were either in marching band or were editors of the newspaper/literary journal, and comparing myself before and after, I think they did a world of good.
What better excuse to buy an iPod? :)
See the glowing review on scifi.com, buy the screenplay, and weep.
Yes, nitrogen is very inert. You get asphyxiated when you breathe 100% nitrogen.
Just some food for thought for all of you who think college degrees are useless. If you think college tuition is a lot of money, compare it to how much that money could buy in China or Russia. And then look at what those people are spending that HUGE amount of money to learn.
Anyone remember the Computer Recreations columns that used to run in Scientific American in the 80s? They were written by A.K. Dewdney, and every one had an idea for an interesting project. Sort of like the Amateur Scientist column they run now, but the experiments only require a computer and a compiler. I had lots of fun programming those things...
Borland C++ Builder rocks! I learned programming with the first few versions of Visual Basic, then learned real programming with plain C/C++. Well, C++ Builder with the VCL combines all the high-level convenience of VB with C++ compatibility, so I can call Win32 API directly, link to C libraries, and use C/C++ without having to micromanage the UIs. To anyone programming on Windows who hasn't used Delphi or C++ Builder: try it! My Windows programs are no longer, and sometimes shorter than an equivalent command line program.
Oh yea, and there will soon be C++ Builder on Linux. Whee....
Think about it.
A content public is too complacent to take action. What open source needs exactly this kind of action from big software companies--restrictive, ridiculous extortion. The more the better.
Take a look at history. Every mass revolution has taken place not out of ideology, but because people were dissatisfied. Like or not, it's going to take a lot of motivation to convince the public to switch from Windows/Office to some difficult-to-use, complex Linux system, and that kind of motivation is never going to come from the open source community.
So let them bring on the BSA scare tactics! Let's have software rented by the month! Draconian software licenses! The more the better, because the more they sqeeze, the more people are going to turn to other solutions, and that's exactly what we want.