It would be nice if.com,.org,.net weren't location specific. So if I were using a French ISP typing in cocacola.com would resolve to cocacola.co.fr, and if I were in the states cocacola.com would resolve to cocacola.co.us. The French site would have english and french available, the american site would be in english. If I wanted to look at the american site from a french isp i'd just type in cocacola.co.us. Kind of like dialing a phone number, if I don't dial a country code first, then I'm dialing within my own country, otherwise I dial a country code to get to that country. I guess hindsight is 20-20. I'm thirsty now.
Was he arrested for the speech he gave in Las Vegas, or for breaking the DMCA laws while he was in Russia? The article doesn't say why he was arrested, but that's how everyone is making it sound (and last I check DMCA laws didn't apply to russian citizens who are in Russia). Anyone found more info on this yet?
Global warming, global cooling, whatever is the invogue global disaster of this week.
Until I get real scientists displaying real data everything is just scare tactics of the invironmental publicity Corperations (earth
first, and the other scare for profit groups) to get more money.
Yes, because obviously we aren't doing anything wrong to our planet. So why is it that whenever I go outside on a nice sunny day I can barely see the mountains surrounding San Jose through the smog?
Why was this modded to 3;interesting? this is obviously flamebait from a troll.
If any infrastructure of national importance is outsourced to a private entity you're
fucked! The moment this happens profits are more important then the public...
I don't know what you're talking about. Our electric utilities in California have been privatized and we're doing fine!
but if you think that drilling in one small section is going to ruin the whole state
Ruining the state is not the issue, damaging the environment is. That's undisturbed land we're talking about, caribou use it as a breeding ground (I can't remember if they're endangered or not, but I know they're not far off). For such a relatively small amount of oil, is it really worth destroying the area? Why not invest more in researching for alternatives?
Drilling for that oil may fix our problems for next year, maybe even the year after, but what about 10 or 20 years from now?
You probably flashed the wrong rom onto there (it depends on which cpu your device has). I've flashed the wrong rom onto a device before. You can still flash roms onto it afterwards, even if the device seems broken. How much did you look into it before you flashed your Palm?
You and CmdrTaco are both on crack, the first season had some amazing episodes. Check out their site every episode from the first season when Conan O'Brien was with the show is a classic.
Kartoon U switched to Java in 98. I'm glad I started in 1995, Smalltalk was a great way to learn OO (and the transition didn't go very smooth, thank god I never had to TA a Java class)
What part of the OO paradigm does Smalltalk not support?
Polymorphism? Nope, Smalltalk does that. C++ and Java do this too (C++ use to cheat at this, but not anymore)
Encapsultation? Every version of Smalltalk I've used enforces this, there's no way around it. C++ and Java don't enforce encapsulation
Inheritance? How many OO languages don't support this:) Multiple Inheritance is an ugly thing that never should have been thought of. Any program that has to use it wasn't designed right, using this is as bad as using friends in C++.
Interpretted? C++ isn't true OO because of this (if you talk to an OO purist at least, I consider C++ to support OO, not be an OO language), Java cheats at this, Smalltalk doesn't
Looks like Smalltalk enforces every OO paradigm I can think of.
Getting back to the topic of Java as a teaching tool, I don't see the problem with it. You can teach OO with it, you don't have to worry about pointers, and it makes you marketable (OT - I still get quite a few Smalltalk job offers, so it's still useful in the workforce).
The problem with WAP is that it was designed for really small screens with 3 or 4 lines, which looks great on a phone but isn't taking full advantage of a PDA. That's why AvantGo and Palm's browser aren't WAP based, because they want to be able to do and show more than WAP can offer.
For programming try a simple scripting language like Perl or Python. (depending on your preference). If you don't have
computers available, you could also try the basic technique of having them write simple scripts and acting like the computers
themselves (follow the instructions and see what happens).
Smalltalk was designed for kids (it's syntax can be described on 2 pages), why not use it if you decide to program? Learning basic object oriented programming is probably easier than functional programming and scripts.
here's an old chinese proverb that someone told me once (and A&E likes to remind me of it on TV):
Tell me, and I may forget
Show me, and I may remember
Involve me, and I will understand
That's something I've always tried to keep in mind when teaching, no matter what age group I'm dealing with.
Remember, kids are going to want to do stuff that looks cool. Looking through the other posts so far things like writing web pages (with Netscape Composer or something similiar), drawing pictures and creating animation scenes would be the kind of stuff they'd enjoy. LOGO was cool when I was young, but it wears thin fast (and computer graphics are much better now, so LOGO will seem lame to most kids).
Last but not least, be creative and it will pay off. Online treasure hunts (get them to find the websites about their favourite TV shows/movies, find wrestling fan sites, etc) are always fun too.
In addition, the Gregorian Calendar only considers Leap Year exceptions on a 400-year cycle, so in the year 4092 it will have drifted off by one full day.
WOO HOO! That means that by 744,744AD our winters will be in the summer and vice versa, it'll be like we're living in Australia!
A jellyfish on the surface of mars would be too small for an earth based telescope to see. Even the hubble space telescope is
not powerful enough to see a jellyfish at this distance. Americans fail yet again!!!
Wow, good thing you caught this. Mars being so far away, I guess NASA messed up their imperial and metric measurements again.
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Telephones exist because of a Canadian, should the Canadian government start a commitee to oversee the distribution of phone numbers all over the world?
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Wow, your laptop fits in your pocket! I am so jealous.
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Man, the m100 is $129, how cheap do you need a pda to get before you buy one?
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Why would I want to listen to mp3's on my palm, I use it to store notes and addresses. The last thing I want to do is listen to mp3's and drain the battery of my pda, I'd rather have a separate mp3 player for that.
BTW, it's been proven that pocket pc devices don't back everything up, if your battery dies (their batteries don't last as long either, palm 'sleeps' better), do you really want to lose everything? I use my palm to manage stuff, and play the occasional game. I really don't need it to be mp3 capable, and if you check sales figures of the last few years, most of the public tend to agree with me. Palm may not be doing so well these days, but they're still outselling pocket pcs.
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Tell us if he ever responds, I'd like to know what the uptime for their FreeBSD servers are.
It would be nice if .com, .org, .net weren't location specific. So if I were using a French ISP typing in cocacola.com would resolve to cocacola.co.fr, and if I were in the states cocacola.com would resolve to cocacola.co.us. The French site would have english and french available, the american site would be in english. If I wanted to look at the american site from a french isp i'd just type in cocacola.co.us. Kind of like dialing a phone number, if I don't dial a country code first, then I'm dialing within my own country, otherwise I dial a country code to get to that country. I guess hindsight is 20-20. I'm thirsty now.
Was he arrested for the speech he gave in Las Vegas, or for breaking the DMCA laws while he was in Russia? The article doesn't say why he was arrested, but that's how everyone is making it sound (and last I check DMCA laws didn't apply to russian citizens who are in Russia). Anyone found more info on this yet?
Until I get real scientists displaying real data everything is just scare tactics of the invironmental publicity Corperations (earth first, and the other scare for profit groups) to get more money.
Yes, because obviously we aren't doing anything wrong to our planet. So why is it that whenever I go outside on a nice sunny day I can barely see the mountains surrounding San Jose through the smog?
Why was this modded to 3;interesting? this is obviously flamebait from a troll.
I don't know what you're talking about. Our electric utilities in California have been privatized and we're doing fine!
Mine used to say that, but now all I get is this blue screen :(
Pr0n isn't in their top 5 misspelled queries???
I know it's been 12 years since the last movie, but come on, it's snakes he hates, not rats. His father is the one who hated rats.
Ruining the state is not the issue, damaging the environment is. That's undisturbed land we're talking about, caribou use it as a breeding ground (I can't remember if they're endangered or not, but I know they're not far off). For such a relatively small amount of oil, is it really worth destroying the area? Why not invest more in researching for alternatives?
Drilling for that oil may fix our problems for next year, maybe even the year after, but what about 10 or 20 years from now?
You probably flashed the wrong rom onto there (it depends on which cpu your device has). I've flashed the wrong rom onto a device before. You can still flash roms onto it afterwards, even if the device seems broken. How much did you look into it before you flashed your Palm?
I was going to pull out my Palm VIIx to reply to this, but why waste valuable battery life...
You and CmdrTaco are both on crack, the first season had some amazing episodes. Check out their site every episode from the first season when Conan O'Brien was with the show is a classic.
Kartoon U switched to Java in 98. I'm glad I started in 1995, Smalltalk was a great way to learn OO (and the transition didn't go very smooth, thank god I never had to TA a Java class)
Looks like Smalltalk enforces every OO paradigm I can think of.
Getting back to the topic of Java as a teaching tool, I don't see the problem with it. You can teach OO with it, you don't have to worry about pointers, and it makes you marketable (OT - I still get quite a few Smalltalk job offers, so it's still useful in the workforce).
Qualcomm (and that K company, Kyocera?) have PalmOS based phones out already, put AvantGo on those and save yourself the wait.
The problem with WAP is that it was designed for really small screens with 3 or 4 lines, which looks great on a phone but isn't taking full advantage of a PDA. That's why AvantGo and Palm's browser aren't WAP based, because they want to be able to do and show more than WAP can offer.
Smalltalk was designed for kids (it's syntax can be described on 2 pages), why not use it if you decide to program? Learning basic object oriented programming is probably easier than functional programming and scripts.
Tell me, and I may forget
Show me, and I may remember
Involve me, and I will understand
That's something I've always tried to keep in mind when teaching, no matter what age group I'm dealing with.
Remember, kids are going to want to do stuff that looks cool. Looking through the other posts so far things like writing web pages (with Netscape Composer or something similiar), drawing pictures and creating animation scenes would be the kind of stuff they'd enjoy. LOGO was cool when I was young, but it wears thin fast (and computer graphics are much better now, so LOGO will seem lame to most kids).
Last but not least, be creative and it will pay off. Online treasure hunts (get them to find the websites about their favourite TV shows/movies, find wrestling fan sites, etc) are always fun too.
Maybe if people didn't try to get character sets like Klingon, Cirth and Tengwar added into unicode we wouldn't have this problem!
WOO HOO! That means that by 744,744AD our winters will be in the summer and vice versa, it'll be like we're living in Australia!
Wow, good thing you caught this. Mars being so far away, I guess NASA messed up their imperial and metric measurements again.
Telephones exist because of a Canadian, should the Canadian government start a commitee to oversee the distribution of phone numbers all over the world?
Wow, your laptop fits in your pocket! I am so jealous.
Man, the m100 is $129, how cheap do you need a pda to get before you buy one?
Why would I want to listen to mp3's on my palm, I use it to store notes and addresses. The last thing I want to do is listen to mp3's and drain the battery of my pda, I'd rather have a separate mp3 player for that. BTW, it's been proven that pocket pc devices don't back everything up, if your battery dies (their batteries don't last as long either, palm 'sleeps' better), do you really want to lose everything? I use my palm to manage stuff, and play the occasional game. I really don't need it to be mp3 capable, and if you check sales figures of the last few years, most of the public tend to agree with me. Palm may not be doing so well these days, but they're still outselling pocket pcs.