I do not think that you understood his point. He knows that HTML is not a programming language, but he pointed out that HTML has some code like features. It transforms text into something that is not text anymore. It teaches you to think is a certain way and enforces some syntax.
Evidently, it's not as hard as a real programming language, but he learnt to think like a programmer. That is what is positive about learning HTML: it's a stepping stone to the real world of programming.
Well, they are not related. What is a fact is that learning to program eats up a lot of time, time that you cannot use to socialize. That's the problem. I know, I could program when I was 14... Don't worry. Eventually you get laid (I was 17 when I got laid), you just need to get lucky with one girl.;-)
Also, do not underestimate the sexual drive of women. I barely can handle the sexual drive of my wife (I got married last year, I'm 29 now...) And, no, the woman I'm married to is not the same as my first time.
And, yes, I'm pretty much a textbook example of a nerd...
I use a real old laptop every day. (Just because I'm too cheap to buy a new one) I got it for 100€ from my former employer. It's a P-III 600MHz with 256Meg RAM. I added 256Meg that I had lying around and that already boosted performance.
However, one day the included 6Gig harddisk with a really low speed (Must have been a 4200RPM, but could be less) and I bought a new 5400RPM 80Gig harddisk . That was pretty much the upgrade that gave me most speed. That, and I could finally install more than one OS and keep the machine usable;-)
Fast harddisks do matter.... Even if I tought that it was one of the least important things in the overall speed of the machine.
Yeah, that pretty much summarizes it. I have 2 hours of Pascal per week, that's the closest to "CS" I got to do. Last year, I also had some database classes, but it limited itself to one to two tables and that seemed to be too much for the kids. Oh, and it was Access.... Not a real database.
It has come to my attention that the highest classes eventually get Sorting and stuff like that, but as far as I know you've got to be really lucky to get such a class. The majority is Word/Excel and I entirely blame our school system. Frankly, this kind of stuff does not belong in highschool.
No, it wasn't... And frankly she wouldn't have known what the format of Notepad was in the first place. I know... I was silly enough to become a CS teacher in HIGHSCHOOL and end up teaching Word/Excel.
I have quit... I don't want of this sillyness anymore...
Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for... I wonder how I overlooked it in the "Command Line Reference". Very helpful!
So, this makes cmd.exe pretty much a full featured shell, even if many people won't accept that fact:-)
I know the problem you talk about. My wife is a kindergardner and she used to do everything in Word. After I reinstalled her machine and removed Word and replaced it with OpenOffice.org she was confused at first. Then I showed her Writer and told her it's for writing letters to the parents. After that I showed her Calc and told her it is for making tables (Kindergardners make a lot of tables, usually just for printing... thus they do not include calculations as we are used to) Guess what? After a while she got to understand the differences and advantages of both systems. (Next up: explain styles in Writer to my wife... )
They simply are uninformed....
You should not have complained to the secretary: you should have *showed* her the right tool for the job. Frankly... You could have saved the friggin file as.txt in Word and import it with the import filters in Excel (Excel has excellent import filters for txt format, which OpenOffice.org seem to lack.... or I just didn't find them yet) Why exactly did you make her life hard, instead of actually helping her?
Well, you could get MicroCHP in your house and both heat your water and house with it, while generating electricity. This is evidently better suited for places where it isn't always warm, but it does make you (semi-)independent of the power grid.
Windows already has a shell. It's called cmd.exe. It's the barebones method for user interaction with the OS
Yes, cmd.exe is a shell. Definately... Still, I don't think that I can interact with the whole OS just by using cmd.exe. I get along rather well with writing.cmd and.bat file, but sometimes one has to resort to multiple ones for doing the same task one could do with one script file in *nix.
Oh, and as far as I know, I can't interact with the registry by using the shell. (For example: delete a registry key). Regedit does have command line switches, but most stuff seems to go over.REG files. Well, perhaps it can be done, but I don't know how and I didn't find much in the Windows Help files. The registry is 100% part of the OS, so it should be accesible by using the integrated shell (which is cmd.exe).
At least I found out about cacls, which is very useful on Windows XP Home machines (that have "limited users" and some badly-behaving applications)
I use an AMD64 2800+ as a server, underclocked to 800MHz. It still makes noise, but I'm not sure if it's the fan. I just might be the harddisk in it. Do you think I can run such a CPU fanless? I don't dare to do it: the temperature right now is around 38.00 degC / 100.40 degF (pasted from "sysctl hw") Still sounds like quite a lot.
Wait a second: in your first post you say you are going to stay with XP or replace it with a free OS. Later you claim that you are a Windows Programmer that needs Windows with Visual Studio.
So, either you plan to change your job very soon into something like a Linux programmer, or you can't ever change. It's that simple: a Windows programmer will need to go on with the programme: you go to the next version of Windows or you are obsolete in no time as a Windows programmer.
If you were talking about your home computer, that's okay, but professionally you are pretty much bound to all Microsoft products.
Many elephants go to "elephant graveyards" to die; will scientists in 60 million years stumble across one of these graveyards, see the tusks and the size of the animals and conclude the elephant was a vicious carnivore which hunted in packs?
If the scientists of the future still have any brains left, they will look at all the teeth and be able to say that the Elephant was a herbivore... Those tusks were probably for defense.
Granted, you may be right about the fossils found together: it may have been a dino-graveyard. It may however also have been a pack of dinos that were caught together in an earth-slide. In the end, we will never know for sure.
Why do I need HD-DVD or Blu-Ray? DVD does just fine everything I need. I'm probably not in the market, because two years and a half ago my old TV died and I bought a new one. A CRT, simply because anything Plasma/LCD was pretty much over 4000€. I got a nice 83cm (~32inch) 16:9 TV for 900€ and it works fine. No, it's not HD-Ready (not that I'm aware of), but I don't care.
My wife would like me to replace it with a Plasma or LCD because the current one looks bulky, but I cannot think of any reason to "throw away" such an investment. It has to stay at least another 6 years. After that, we'll see.
The simple fact that FOSS developers have not been able to produce good GPU drivers despite reverse-engineering demonstrates the level of complexity involved.
Have you just considered for two minutes that it's not the implementation that is complex, but the reverse engineering. Reverse Engineering is pretty much trial-and-error. It's guesswork... Imagine the OSS developer could get hold on the full specifications, then I'd imagine that the "level of complexity" would go down seriously. Actually, as far as I know, NVidia gives the specs of the 2D features of their cards (don't quote me on this, I might be wrong), resulting in strong Open Source drivers for that aspect of the card. Pretty much every NVidia card I have owned worked fine with the Open Source "nv" driver as long as you stay in 2D world.
He probably meant "patently untrue," as in "readily visible or intelligible; obvious." Perhaps you should check a dictionary before nitpicking someone who has a larger vocabulary than you do.
So should you: blatantly... He just spelled it wrong. The first time I saw patently , I was convinced it was wrong. I was smart enough back then to check a dictionary and don't make a fool of myself. The reason I thought it was wrong: in my own mother tongue (Dutch), it actually is "blatant" and thus you see where the confusion comes from.
Yeah, it's called "efficient engines". I've got an Audi TT. Some people argue it's not a sportscar, so I'll give you that. It still is a nice car. It does about 9.5 l/100km, which translates to 24.76MPG.
Still, that thing is a gas guzzler compared to most cars around here.
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It all depends where you work. I've got a train station within 5minutes of biking, I've got a bus station within 5 minutes of walking.
Alas, neither of them help me, because I don't work in the capital.
As for grocery shopping: it's one of the things I always defend US-ians.... Frankly: If I go Gorcery shopping I take four to five crates of mineral water with me. One or two crates of beer. (It barely goes in my sports car's trunk) Frankly, I don't see how I would transport that to my home. That's only the drinking stuff, I'd have more than a couple of bags with normal groceries. For such things a car is actually useful!:-D
I'm going to quit my job... Yes... However, moving closer to my current job would be impossible considering the huge property prices around here. Getting something more fuel-efficient is another pipe dream. If I get (for example) a new Smart Car Diesel, it would only pay off after 10 years or so. (I did the calculation once, but I don't recall the specifics) I'd rather keep my sports car, in that case. After all, for a new car, I'll need higher insurance and a new loan. Stuff that I can forget just now with my current car. The only reason that I can quit my current job is because my wife has a good paying job and she does 100km a day too... Again: moving closer is impossible due to the high property prices. I don't want a mortage for the next 40 years, especially because I'm already 30 years old.
Well, with my current job I have to do 100km/day too... That adds up, especially because I was dumb enought to buy a sports car six years ago. (When prices were still acceptable and I only had to do 60km/day) With the fuel efficiency of about 25MPG my car has, it hurts... badly... (I manage to get it up to 27.6MPG by driving like a grampa)
In the US, there seems to be a myth that in Europe one can rely on public transportation all the time. This is true in the big metropolitan areas, but most people still live outside such areas. Going to my work with public transportation would take over 3 hours. With my car, I can make it in an hour in peak times and in less than 40 minutes out of peak times.
I read that the main problem in the US is that science/math is considered unsexy. Most students want to go into business or law, because that's where the money is made. I guess it is a result of being an extremely capitalist society.
One odd thing is that the US imports many scientists with attractive grants, resulting in an exodus from European scientists (probably from other countries too, I just know Europe). Of course, since the eleventh september, getting a visa has become hard and thus less scientists are imported, which could result in a downfall of the science contributions from US. That said: being a scientist in Europe is hard too because the lack of money. That's probably a result of being a socialist society;-)
I guess there has to be a middle way between the two systems.
That was one thing that really annoyed me about the P4; a 2 GHz P4 was NOT more than twice as fast as a 850 MHz P3. It meant one couldn't compare CPUs with each other any more.
You never could do that in the first place. Within a CPU family, it used to be possible. (With Intels naming schemen today, I can't do it anymore either!) Compare a P-III 500MHz to a P-III 1GHz and you knew that the latter was approximately twice as fast. An 2GHz AMD Athlon XP was approximately twice as fast as a 1GHz AMD Athlon XP. I say approximately because cache sizes could influence these results. You never could compare a P-IV to a P-III or a P-IV to an AMD Athlon, expect by falling back on benchmarks and you *know* that all these benchmarks are pretty much artificial and can skew results in favour of a certain architecture.
Really a long time ago, it was even dubious within the processor family: is a 486DX2/66 slower than a 486DX4/100? After all, the bus speed of the DX2 was 33MHz and the DX4 had a 25MHz bus. Back in the day such things has a major impact. (Even today it can have a big impact...)
You can also recall the Pentium Pro (The CPU on which both the P-II and the P-III were based on) It was a horrible performer for 16-bit code, but on 32-bit code it was pretty much king. Also don't forget the extremely fast cache that it had. A PPro200 with enough RAM can handle Windows 2000 without a hitch. (I know, I had one with 256Meg RAM) The P-II came out, with a less performant cache and it couldn't beat the PPro clock-for-clock. That's why the lowest P-II came at 233MHz. (Yeah, it also included the MMX instruction set, I know, I know...)
In summary: within processor families you can compare, outside processor families you are pretty much SOL.
Besides, I know I'm going to sound like someone saying "we have enough processor power", but my primary laptop is a P-III 500MHz mobile with 512Meg PC100 RAM. You know what? That baby runs pretty much everything I throw at it: Windows XP Pro SP2, OpenOffice 2.0.2, Firefox 1.5.0.1, Thunderbird 1.5, AVG Antivirus, PuTTY, Filezilla, Acrobat Reader 7, iTunes6, Quicktime, Media Player classic, Borland Delphi Personal, Eclipse 3.0, Tomcat and The GIMP (but I have to be patient when handling big images). Perhaps not all at the same time (I never tried), but I often run at least a selection of the above. Sure, sometimes I have to wait a few seconds for a program to start, but it's not as if I'm that of a hurry.
If I need more oompha, I just switch to my own AMD Athlon MP 2400+ SMP machine (4Gig RAM) or to my wifes P-IV 2.6GHz Hyperthreading (2Gig RAM). Frankly, that doesn't happen often...
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Evidently, it's not as hard as a real programming language, but he learnt to think like a programmer. That is what is positive about learning HTML: it's a stepping stone to the real world of programming.
Also, do not underestimate the sexual drive of women. I barely can handle the sexual drive of my wife (I got married last year, I'm 29 now...) And, no, the woman I'm married to is not the same as my first time.
And, yes, I'm pretty much a textbook example of a nerd...
However, one day the included 6Gig harddisk with a really low speed (Must have been a 4200RPM, but could be less) and I bought a new 5400RPM 80Gig harddisk . That was pretty much the upgrade that gave me most speed. That, and I could finally install more than one OS and keep the machine usable ;-)
Fast harddisks do matter.... Even if I tought that it was one of the least important things in the overall speed of the machine.
It has come to my attention that the highest classes eventually get Sorting and stuff like that, but as far as I know you've got to be really lucky to get such a class. The majority is Word/Excel and I entirely blame our school system. Frankly, this kind of stuff does not belong in highschool.
I have quit... I don't want of this sillyness anymore...
Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for... I wonder how I overlooked it in the "Command Line Reference". Very helpful! :-)
So, this makes cmd.exe pretty much a full featured shell, even if many people won't accept that fact
They simply are uninformed....
You should not have complained to the secretary: you should have *showed* her the right tool for the job. Frankly... You could have saved the friggin file as .txt in Word and import it with the import filters in Excel (Excel has excellent import filters for txt format, which OpenOffice.org seem to lack.... or I just didn't find them yet) Why exactly did you make her life hard, instead of actually helping her?
Well, you could get MicroCHP in your house and both heat your water and house with it, while generating electricity. This is evidently better suited for places where it isn't always warm, but it does make you (semi-)independent of the power grid.
Yes, cmd.exe is a shell. Definately... Still, I don't think that I can interact with the whole OS just by using cmd.exe. I get along rather well with writing .cmd and .bat file, but sometimes one has to resort to multiple ones for doing the same task one could do with one script file in *nix. .REG files. Well, perhaps it can be done, but I don't know how and I didn't find much in the Windows Help files. The registry is 100% part of the OS, so it should be accesible by using the integrated shell (which is cmd.exe).
Oh, and as far as I know, I can't interact with the registry by using the shell. (For example: delete a registry key). Regedit does have command line switches, but most stuff seems to go over
At least I found out about cacls, which is very useful on Windows XP Home machines (that have "limited users" and some badly-behaving applications)
I use an AMD64 2800+ as a server, underclocked to 800MHz. It still makes noise, but I'm not sure if it's the fan. I just might be the harddisk in it. Do you think I can run such a CPU fanless? I don't dare to do it: the temperature right now is around 38.00 degC / 100.40 degF (pasted from "sysctl hw") Still sounds like quite a lot.
So, either you plan to change your job very soon into something like a Linux programmer, or you can't ever change. It's that simple: a Windows programmer will need to go on with the programme: you go to the next version of Windows or you are obsolete in no time as a Windows programmer.
If you were talking about your home computer, that's okay, but professionally you are pretty much bound to all Microsoft products.
If the scientists of the future still have any brains left, they will look at all the teeth and be able to say that the Elephant was a herbivore... Those tusks were probably for defense.
Granted, you may be right about the fossils found together: it may have been a dino-graveyard. It may however also have been a pack of dinos that were caught together in an earth-slide. In the end, we will never know for sure.
Which is pretty much everyone...
My wife would like me to replace it with a Plasma or LCD because the current one looks bulky, but I cannot think of any reason to "throw away" such an investment. It has to stay at least another 6 years. After that, we'll see.
Have you just considered for two minutes that it's not the implementation that is complex, but the reverse engineering. Reverse Engineering is pretty much trial-and-error. It's guesswork... Imagine the OSS developer could get hold on the full specifications, then I'd imagine that the "level of complexity" would go down seriously. Actually, as far as I know, NVidia gives the specs of the 2D features of their cards (don't quote me on this, I might be wrong), resulting in strong Open Source drivers for that aspect of the card. Pretty much every NVidia card I have owned worked fine with the Open Source "nv" driver as long as you stay in 2D world.
So should you: blatantly ... He just spelled it wrong. The first time I saw patently , I was convinced it was wrong. I was smart enough back then to check a dictionary and don't make a fool of myself. The reason I thought it was wrong: in my own mother tongue (Dutch), it actually is "blatant" and thus you see where the confusion comes from.
Still, that thing is a gas guzzler compared to most cars around here.
It all depends where you work. I've got a train station within 5minutes of biking, I've got a bus station within 5 minutes of walking.
Alas, neither of them help me, because I don't work in the capital.
As for grocery shopping: it's one of the things I always defend US-ians.... Frankly: If I go Gorcery shopping I take four to five crates of mineral water with me. One or two crates of beer. (It barely goes in my sports car's trunk) Frankly, I don't see how I would transport that to my home. That's only the drinking stuff, I'd have more than a couple of bags with normal groceries. For such things a car is actually useful! :-D
Tell me something new :-(
I'm going to quit my job... Yes... However, moving closer to my current job would be impossible considering the huge property prices around here. Getting something more fuel-efficient is another pipe dream. If I get (for example) a new Smart Car Diesel, it would only pay off after 10 years or so. (I did the calculation once, but I don't recall the specifics) I'd rather keep my sports car, in that case. After all, for a new car, I'll need higher insurance and a new loan. Stuff that I can forget just now with my current car. The only reason that I can quit my current job is because my wife has a good paying job and she does 100km a day too... Again: moving closer is impossible due to the high property prices. I don't want a mortage for the next 40 years, especially because I'm already 30 years old.
Yes, and? Is that a problem? I use Google calculator all the time, and just forgot to "Imperialize" the kilometers. Divide by 1.6 and you're fine...
In the US, there seems to be a myth that in Europe one can rely on public transportation all the time. This is true in the big metropolitan areas, but most people still live outside such areas. Going to my work with public transportation would take over 3 hours. With my car, I can make it in an hour in peak times and in less than 40 minutes out of peak times.
See if I care: I *already* pay $5/gallon *now*...
One odd thing is that the US imports many scientists with attractive grants, resulting in an exodus from European scientists (probably from other countries too, I just know Europe). Of course, since the eleventh september, getting a visa has become hard and thus less scientists are imported, which could result in a downfall of the science contributions from US. ;-)
That said: being a scientist in Europe is hard too because the lack of money. That's probably a result of being a socialist society
I guess there has to be a middle way between the two systems.
You never could do that in the first place. Within a CPU family, it used to be possible. (With Intels naming schemen today, I can't do it anymore either!) Compare a P-III 500MHz to a P-III 1GHz and you knew that the latter was approximately twice as fast. An 2GHz AMD Athlon XP was approximately twice as fast as a 1GHz AMD Athlon XP. I say approximately because cache sizes could influence these results. You never could compare a P-IV to a P-III or a P-IV to an AMD Athlon, expect by falling back on benchmarks and you *know* that all these benchmarks are pretty much artificial and can skew results in favour of a certain architecture.
Really a long time ago, it was even dubious within the processor family: is a 486DX2/66 slower than a 486DX4/100? After all, the bus speed of the DX2 was 33MHz and the DX4 had a 25MHz bus. Back in the day such things has a major impact. (Even today it can have a big impact...)
You can also recall the Pentium Pro (The CPU on which both the P-II and the P-III were based on) It was a horrible performer for 16-bit code, but on 32-bit code it was pretty much king. Also don't forget the extremely fast cache that it had. A PPro200 with enough RAM can handle Windows 2000 without a hitch. (I know, I had one with 256Meg RAM) The P-II came out, with a less performant cache and it couldn't beat the PPro clock-for-clock. That's why the lowest P-II came at 233MHz. (Yeah, it also included the MMX instruction set, I know, I know...)
In summary: within processor families you can compare, outside processor families you are pretty much SOL.
Besides, I know I'm going to sound like someone saying "we have enough processor power", but my primary laptop is a P-III 500MHz mobile with 512Meg PC100 RAM. You know what? That baby runs pretty much everything I throw at it: Windows XP Pro SP2, OpenOffice 2.0.2, Firefox 1.5.0.1, Thunderbird 1.5, AVG Antivirus, PuTTY, Filezilla, Acrobat Reader 7, iTunes6, Quicktime, Media Player classic, Borland Delphi Personal, Eclipse 3.0, Tomcat and The GIMP (but I have to be patient when handling big images). Perhaps not all at the same time (I never tried), but I often run at least a selection of the above. Sure, sometimes I have to wait a few seconds for a program to start, but it's not as if I'm that of a hurry.
If I need more oompha, I just switch to my own AMD Athlon MP 2400+ SMP machine (4Gig RAM) or to my wifes P-IV 2.6GHz Hyperthreading (2Gig RAM). Frankly, that doesn't happen often...