Why not integrate the wifi stuff into the loudspeakers? Just put your 110/220 in the speaker and voila, done. If you really want a user interface, put it on the remote.
I guess it wouldn't work if you want a CDR/MP3 player, but the same can be done there too.
There should only be one sort of wire: power wires (because I haven't thought of a better solution for that).
>DES, for instance, had its S-boxes strengthened against differential cryptanalysis in the '70s--about a decade and a half before the civilian cryptanalytic community discovered differential cryptanalysis.
Question: Strengthened? or changed? Last I heard in my crypto class was that noone knows the engineering behind the change.
I think I understood his post very well and my comment is still valid.
There is more to science than physics or math... lots more. The fact that certain areas of research are explored ten times over says nothing about unresearched areas.
A failure to recognize undiscovered "space" reduces your chance to find something new.
>the small science has been done. You can't prove that. Why don't you make more positivistic comments such as: many research areas need a lot of money/work before results are obtained.
I really like this negativistic thinking if it is provable, but I think you are wrong this time.
My definition of a nerd is someone who has the ability to keep concentrated at [whatever] for longer times. I've seen computer nerds, psychology nerds, glider pilot nerds, art nerds, etc.
Because computers are hard to understand, for many people, computer nerds are not understood. A psychology nerd however is of course very nice and empathetic. Not. They think they are. During conversation the other party can understand what they are talking about so fewer damage is done.
One problem I think many nerds have is that they don't generalize their skills. Managing a powerfull tool, like deep concentration and intelligence combined is, is an art. That is something to be trained.
I don't mind being able to "nerd". I can snap out of it now but I don't always want to. I know what I can do with my skills now (but it took an awfull amount of time and trianing).
Because a good set of current distro's should be there since high speed internet access is not always available, but a cd burner is. Maybe also a version of Knoppix so they can start learning linux without f'ing up their parents computer.
May I also add that a lot of data can also be spread via CD rom. Datasheets are not interesting in paper form, but in pdf form they are cheap to distribute.
Books that I wished I had read earlier: -K&R: small but powerfull -computer architecture, a quantative approach: gives a definition of a computer platform HW wise -something about assember. I read "assembly language programming" by Giles. It is a thorough book but it was a bitch to get through (there must be easier ones). I never had any problems learning those pesky risc isa's after that though. -a book about computer security and viruses. Security and the damage viruses can do, and not do, and why, can make youngsters aware of the problem.
Something that should be solved is the choice people make when they start reading a book "about computers". Maybe an overview of what technologies are available today can be a great book as an introduction to the rest of your library.
Something else is that some tech books contain mistakes. If you want to learn but you have no way to solve a mistake from the book, you can not continue learning. One way to solve this is to get a good mentor. Maybe a little OT...
> Hah, yeah like in Italy where nobody below manager can be fired
Well, nobody can be fired in Holland either until you prove to the unions that the state of your company is really bad. They need (government?) permission.
>Passion for what you do also has something to do with it
Why don't you make sure you earn more and give the rest to charity? There are many ways to make a difference, yours may be the most direct one but I'm not sure if it is the best.
>>Look, to me (comp.arch) any language is only a limitation. >I confess, I don't understand your point. My point is: for me, learning a new computer language is learning how you are limited/empowered to do things. Somewhere, somehow there is a mapping from language to hardware and I know my hardware. The rest is just a logical reorganisation in one way or another.
Maybe we're comparing apples and oranges for the rest. Electrical engineers here get: multiple types of assembler, c, c++, scheme, matlab, maple and vhdl. You've then "been around" in your languages. What you describe is something else.
Btw, algorithm skillz is something I admire. I've had far too little formal language training which you need to proof stuff.
Already halfway through I thought that you are a CS. It shows...
Look, to me (comp.arch) any language is only a limitation. Some limit in one way, some in another. That is the fundamental concept in any language (e.g. compare Chinese to English), not just computer languages. For your two arguments: -if this would be the problem then look through the libraries first off -paradigms, there aren't that many and some are overrated
I get the feeling CS guys feel like they know all about computer languages. But in the beginning languages map on hardware and in the end it solves a question. I like jobs where the question and hardware matters most, then I'll design a language around if necessary (or pick the appropriate one if it exists).
The only good thing I've seen coming from CS are algorithm skillz.
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>Just because someone else broke the rules doesn't make it ok for you to break them too.
check...
Good idea! Remove networking features because they haven't become widespread use (yet). NOT.
I use it every day. It is what makes my computer as I want my computer to be.
>Any given region of spectrum can only carry so much data, any way you slice it.
I'll slice you a vector. Maybe you should rtfa before saying this because that is what the article is about.
Why not integrate the wifi stuff into the loudspeakers? Just put your 110/220 in the speaker and voila, done. If you really want a user interface, put it on the remote.
I guess it wouldn't work if you want a CDR/MP3 player, but the same can be done there too.
There should only be one sort of wire: power wires (because I haven't thought of a better solution for that).
>DES, for instance, had its S-boxes strengthened against differential cryptanalysis in the '70s--about a decade and a half before the civilian cryptanalytic community discovered differential cryptanalysis.
Question: Strengthened? or changed? Last I heard in my crypto class was that noone knows the engineering behind the change.
This has happened before in debian unstable too. X was broken an a reinstall was needed.
apt-get doesn't own my computer but I sure have to trust it. Now I run stable because of this...
I think I understood his post very well and my comment is still valid.
There is more to science than physics or math... lots more. The fact that certain areas of research are explored ten times over says nothing about unresearched areas.
A failure to recognize undiscovered "space" reduces your chance to find something new.
So I have this rule I can remember:
forty two
to good to be true
>the small science has been done.
You can't prove that. Why don't you make more positivistic comments such as: many research areas need a lot of money/work before results are obtained.
I really like this negativistic thinking if it is provable, but I think you are wrong this time.
I still can't believe that on our news servers you can find kiddieporn. I value freedom, but not at the cost of children.
My definition of a nerd is someone who has the ability to keep concentrated at [whatever] for longer times. I've seen computer nerds, psychology nerds, glider pilot nerds, art nerds, etc.
Because computers are hard to understand, for many people, computer nerds are not understood. A psychology nerd however is of course very nice and empathetic. Not. They think they are. During conversation the other party can understand what they are talking about so fewer damage is done.
One problem I think many nerds have is that they don't generalize their skills. Managing a powerfull tool, like deep concentration and intelligence combined is, is an art. That is something to be trained.
I don't mind being able to "nerd". I can snap out of it now but I don't always want to. I know what I can do with my skills now (but it took an awfull amount of time and trianing).
>Yeah yeah. It's a dupe. Funny that not a single reader emailed me in almost 2 hours to tell me.
I mean, it was that obvious it is nearly funny.
Because a good set of current distro's should be there since high speed internet access is not always available, but a cd burner is. Maybe also a version of Knoppix so they can start learning linux without f'ing up their parents computer.
May I also add that a lot of data can also be spread via CD rom. Datasheets are not interesting in paper form, but in pdf form they are cheap to distribute.
Books that I wished I had read earlier:
-K&R: small but powerfull
-computer architecture, a quantative approach: gives a definition of a computer platform HW wise
-something about assember. I read "assembly language programming" by Giles. It is a thorough book but it was a bitch to get through (there must be easier ones). I never had any problems learning those pesky risc isa's after that though.
-a book about computer security and viruses. Security and the damage viruses can do, and not do, and why, can make youngsters aware of the problem.
Something that should be solved is the choice people make when they start reading a book "about computers". Maybe an overview of what technologies are available today can be a great book as an introduction to the rest of your library.
Something else is that some tech books contain mistakes. If you want to learn but you have no way to solve a mistake from the book, you can not continue learning. One way to solve this is to get a good mentor. Maybe a little OT...
> Hah, yeah like in Italy where nobody below manager can be fired
Well, nobody can be fired in Holland either until you prove to the unions that the state of your company is really bad. They need (government?) permission.
>Passion for what you do also has something to do with it
Why don't you make sure you earn more and give the rest to charity? There are many ways to make a difference, yours may be the most direct one but I'm not sure if it is the best.
in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, you get tickets that way. Speed is measured with two spools of wire in the road instead of one.
however, if they have a witness that says the organisation has illegal software they'll get a court order.
We, in Delft, have FAT PIPES at home (think Mbytes/s /system). At the faculty however some still work at Indy machines from the early 90's (100MHz?).
If you are a student, without hardware but with a fat pipe this would work then eh? I seem to fit the profile.
Did you ever connect a mouse and say: I pci'd this mouse onto the computer? Or anything remotely similar?
I think PCI is not generic at all.
Maybe it is meant to stop Microsoft releasing its Linux version :-)
My god this funny, thanks for the laugh.
>>Look, to me (comp.arch) any language is only a limitation.
>I confess, I don't understand your point.
My point is: for me, learning a new computer language is learning how you are limited/empowered to do things. Somewhere, somehow there is a mapping from language to hardware and I know my hardware. The rest is just a logical reorganisation in one way or another.
Maybe we're comparing apples and oranges for the rest. Electrical engineers here get: multiple types of assembler, c, c++, scheme, matlab, maple and vhdl. You've then "been around" in your languages. What you describe is something else.
Btw, algorithm skillz is something I admire. I've had far too little formal language training which you need to proof stuff.
Already halfway through I thought that you are a CS. It shows...
Look, to me (comp.arch) any language is only a limitation. Some limit in one way, some in another. That is the fundamental concept in any language (e.g. compare Chinese to English), not just computer languages. For your two arguments:
-if this would be the problem then look through the libraries first off
-paradigms, there aren't that many and some are overrated
I get the feeling CS guys feel like they know all about computer languages. But in the beginning languages map on hardware and in the end it solves a question. I like jobs where the question and hardware matters most, then I'll design a language around if necessary (or pick the appropriate one if it exists).
The only good thing I've seen coming from CS are algorithm skillz.
don't do drugs son :-)