You could do worse than Jesse Liberty and David Hovarth's "Teach yourself C++ for Linux in 21 days", published by Sams. There is also Tom Swans "Tom Swan's GNU C++ for Linux", published by Que (I think).
Why not take a course at the Open University (www.open.ac.uk)? It's as real as any other university, and you work in your own time from home (so I guess you *could* do it in a year, but I wouldn't recommend it). I'm not sure you'd be able to do it from the US, but it's worth looking at, especially as it has the additional benefits of a British degree (more detail, cheaper, etc).
From the comments here it looks like people have a problem getting cheap region free players. May I recommend the Logix 3300D from bigsave.com? It only costs 125 quid. I've got one and its great.
I don't work for or have any interest in them.. just wanted to help people out.
Yeah, but its not always state funded. Look at the funding the IRA got from the US through NORAID. US money was going on guns and bombs that killed not only British soldiers, but countless civilians as well. I'm guessing that the only reason the IRA didn't pull-off something like NY was their lack of resources and ability - they certainly wouldn't have a moral problem with it (as the bombing of London shops and shootings of babies goes to prove).
As for harbouring of terrorists, I seem to remember the US being quite happy to let Gerry Adams in - a man whose organisation is just as evil as Bin Ladens. No Americans killed though, so no worries there.
Yeah, this has been around for a while. The ambulances here (Bath, UK) have this white noise between siren blasts. It's pretty good as you always know where they are.
Another communist nation eh? Gosh, that's a valid reason. Hey, I don't like your right-wing Republican government - I vote for invading America. After all, it's the closest country to us (if you go west) and I don't agree with the way it runs itself.
I was offered a job in a rather famous games company (which I didn't take). I have a CS degree and a PhD (which invloved AI), but no real games experience...
It's sounds sort-of like a book called "Host". I can't remember who wrote it, but it also involved people downloading their brains into computers...
Re:European Beef - or GM Rice? Gee, Tough Call.
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Our beef? I'd rather eat beef produced to the strictest standards in the world than anyone elses. You learn by your mistakes - British beef is now the safest in the world. Besides, any American claiming that their hormone-filled crap is any better is kidding themselves. The US is blackmailing the EU into not banning it's beef with the threat of (unfair) blockades on EU goods. Yeah, that's fair. Also, sneaking your dodgy GM food into non-GM shipments? Sneaky. I wouldn't touch American produce with a bargepole.
Argh.. no no no no! Americans always manage to wind me up on this point! You cannot possibly argue that free health care for all is wrong! Are you mad? What sort of civilised country turns people away from operations they need because they can't afford it? Probably the same sort of country that still kills its criminals. Private healthcare in the States is one of the main reasons why drugs cost so much - because American health insurance will pay. Your drug companies and doctors are profiteering from a system designed to perpetuate greed, and it's ruining it for the civilised world.
As for universities, it's sick the amount you have to pay to get a degree that is considered poor by the rest of the world. Its laughable that you all sit there, paying through the nose for something that should be provided for all, and dismiss any effort to get free healthcare and education as some sort of 'communist' plot. Madness.
Rant over. It just bugs me. Greatest nation on Earth? Maybe when you stop letting people die because they're too poor to afford treatment.
As long as you insist on having a society where anyone can get sued for millions of pounds for *anything*, this sort of stuff will go on. It's getting out of hand, and it's spreading over to the UK, where we'd rather keep our freedoms, thanks.
Campus police? What a crazy idea. You'll be selling poeple machine guns for 'home defence' next!;)
Mobile phone coverage in the UK is 98% of the population, which is more (obviously). You could mean percentage of the population who *has* a mobile phone of course - that's about 60% here, I think.
Here at Aberystwyth we have just set-up a room of PIII's running Solaris x86 for the undergrads to use (replacing the Sparc 5's that used to be in that room). Solaris is indeed free, and it was chosen mainly because our support team have plenty of Solaris experience.
It's pretty quick (but then, these PIII's are only a month old), but compared to Linux it's hugely resource hungry (256 meg RAM required in our machines). It also supports vitually no hardware - we had a job getting monitors and video/sound cards that it supports. It's also pretty unstable. For instance, when the students run Netscape, 4% or so of Web pages crash the machine. I don't just mean crash Netscape - they chuck you out of X and back to the login screen (this amuses the students no end as they lose all their code).
A lot of staff have Linux on their office machines (like me), and after seeing Solaris I guess it'll end up on the students machines before long too.
But yes, it's free.. and it's not bad. It was that or NT after all;)
Re:Why are metered local calls "stupid"?
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I agree here. With friends and family etc, off peak calls to Freeserve are not that expensive. Personally I much prefer to pay per minute on-line than a flat monthly fee. If I could connect 24 hours a day for the same cost, you can bet that I would do just that, as would most other users. I'd bet that getting a connection would get pretty tricky.
Don't US users pay a lot more for 'long distance' calls than we do anyway? What makes their phone system so great? They can't even get mobile phones working properly together over there;)
I don't think so. I mean, if someone said to me "I'm from the FBI and you're under arrest" I would ignore him and wait for the real police. It would be like a policeman from here (the UK) going to New York and arresting someone. They would only have the same powers as anyone else (ie a citizens arrest), but no more.
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You could do worse than Jesse Liberty and David Hovarth's "Teach yourself C++ for Linux in 21 days", published by Sams. There is also Tom Swans "Tom Swan's GNU C++ for Linux", published by Que (I think).
Why not take a course at the Open University (www.open.ac.uk)? It's as real as any other university, and you work in your own time from home (so I guess you *could* do it in a year, but I wouldn't recommend it). I'm not sure you'd be able to do it from the US, but it's worth looking at, especially as it has the additional benefits of a British degree (more detail, cheaper, etc).
From the comments here it looks like people have a problem getting cheap region free players. May I recommend the Logix 3300D from bigsave.com? It only costs 125 quid. I've got one and its great.
I don't work for or have any interest in them.. just wanted to help people out.
Yeah, but its not always state funded. Look at the funding the IRA got from the US through NORAID. US money was going on guns and bombs that killed not only British soldiers, but countless civilians as well. I'm guessing that the only reason the IRA didn't pull-off something like NY was their lack of resources and ability - they certainly wouldn't have a moral problem with it (as the bombing of London shops and shootings of babies goes to prove).
As for harbouring of terrorists, I seem to remember the US being quite happy to let Gerry Adams in - a man whose organisation is just as evil as Bin Ladens. No Americans killed though, so no worries there.
Yeah, this has been around for a while. The ambulances here (Bath, UK) have this white noise between siren blasts. It's pretty good as you always know where they are.
Another communist nation eh? Gosh, that's a valid reason. Hey, I don't like your right-wing Republican government - I vote for invading America. After all, it's the closest country to us (if you go west) and I don't agree with the way it runs itself.
Sheesh.
I was offered a job in a rather famous games company (which I didn't take). I have a CS degree and a PhD (which invloved AI), but no real games experience...
It's sounds sort-of like a book called "Host". I can't remember who wrote it, but it also involved people downloading their brains into computers...
Our beef? I'd rather eat beef produced to the strictest standards in the world than anyone elses. You learn by your mistakes - British beef is now the safest in the world. Besides, any American claiming that their hormone-filled crap is any better is kidding themselves. The US is blackmailing the EU into not banning it's beef with the threat of (unfair) blockades on EU goods. Yeah, that's fair. Also, sneaking your dodgy GM food into non-GM shipments? Sneaky. I wouldn't touch American produce with a bargepole.
Argh.. no no no no! Americans always manage to wind me up on this point! You cannot possibly argue that free health care for all is wrong! Are you mad? What sort of civilised country turns people away from operations they need because they can't afford it? Probably the same sort of country that still kills its criminals. Private healthcare in the States is one of the main reasons why drugs cost so much - because American health insurance will pay. Your drug companies and doctors are profiteering from a system designed to perpetuate greed, and it's ruining it for the civilised world.
As for universities, it's sick the amount you have to pay to get a degree that is considered poor by the rest of the world. Its laughable that you all sit there, paying through the nose for something that should be provided for all, and dismiss any effort to get free healthcare and education as some sort of 'communist' plot. Madness.
Rant over. It just bugs me. Greatest nation on Earth? Maybe when you stop letting people die because they're too poor to afford treatment.
As long as you insist on having a society where anyone can get sued for millions of pounds for *anything*, this sort of stuff will go on. It's getting out of hand, and it's spreading over to the UK, where we'd rather keep our freedoms, thanks.
;)
Campus police? What a crazy idea. You'll be selling poeple machine guns for 'home defence' next!
So.. anyone know somewhere in the UK I
could find one of these?
Mobile phone coverage in the UK is 98% of the
population, which is more (obviously). You could
mean percentage of the population who *has* a
mobile phone of course - that's about 60% here, I
think.
I like my Nokia 7110e - WAP is damn useful.
Here at Aberystwyth we have just set-up a room of PIII's running Solaris x86 for the undergrads to use (replacing the Sparc 5's that used to be in that room). Solaris is indeed free, and it was chosen mainly because our support team have plenty of Solaris experience.
;)
It's pretty quick (but then, these PIII's are only a month old), but compared to Linux it's hugely resource hungry (256 meg RAM required in our machines). It also supports vitually no hardware - we had a job getting monitors and video/sound cards that it supports. It's also pretty unstable. For instance, when the students run Netscape, 4% or so of Web pages crash the machine. I don't just mean crash Netscape - they chuck you out of X and back to the login screen (this amuses the students no end as they lose all their code).
A lot of staff have Linux on their office machines (like me), and after seeing Solaris I guess it'll end up on the students machines before long too.
But yes, it's free.. and it's not bad. It was that or NT after all
I agree here. With friends and family etc, off peak calls to Freeserve are not that expensive. Personally I much prefer to pay per minute on-line than a flat monthly fee. If I could connect 24 hours a day for the same cost, you can bet that I would do just that, as would most other users. I'd bet that getting a connection would get pretty tricky.
;)
Don't US users pay a lot more for 'long distance' calls than we do anyway? What makes their phone system so great? They can't even get mobile phones working properly together over there
I don't think so. I mean, if someone said to me "I'm from the FBI and you're under arrest" I would ignore him and wait for the real police. It would be like a policeman from here (the UK) going to New York and arresting someone. They would only have the same powers as anyone else (ie a citizens arrest), but no more.