Is coding today really like learning to read or write? I don't think so. I would say learning to draw by hand is even more important than coding. Regardless of your field, knowing how to draw simple figures and diagrams will help convey your idea. But yet, we don't say that everyone should learn to draw.
Computer programming should be like any other field, those who are interested, get in. True, computers are getting more and more pervasive, but so too are cars, motor cycles, and bicycles. yet, not everyone knows or need to know how to drive a car or ride a bike.
It might help a person if they knew how to drive or ride, but that only depends of if they live some place where they have access to a car or bike and it matters that they know to drive.
As a mostly self thought programming, I have been posting [YouTube videos](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnVxTe31G4nTbhp9dQEO4iQ) which break down programming concepts and addresses one concept at time. I think it is a really good introduction to computer programming for *anyone* who wants to learn or is curious. But even as simple and clears as my videos are, still there will be people who won't get it, because programming is not for them. And they shouldn't be torture to learn it.
How hard can it be to have the Wifi network completely separated everything else? The only thing it shares, is electricity. How can anyone go form the WiFi to the plane's network in that case?
Yeah, once they removed the 'Other OS' option, I don't care what they do now. i still have mine and mostly use it with my NAS to stream media. The only reason I got it in the first place, was to install Linux. I was fairly happy with my PS2.
since mobile devices have GPS. couldn't an app be written that would receive the latest information from NASA. as they get more info, they push it to the app. i f you are worried about getting hit, you install the app and monitor it. If you are in with X meters/feet of latest estimate, you get notified or your app makes a sound.
how hard is that to do? i would do the app part for android, but the data would have to be fed from a credible source.
Removing a feature from a product that you have already purchased seem wrong. Just as the ideas of companies still having some form of control how you use something you purchased, not leased. So, is a class action lawsuit an option?
I can attest to this. This is the same setup we used which had VoIP, DB, and HTTP. We ran OpenVZ on CentOS on DRBD. Each openvz virtual machine ran a service, sometimes several of the same services (db and voip). because fo DRBD, redundancy was taking care of, an using heartbeat, well, high availability was also easy. It worked very well. the only thing i would say, it is takes some knowledge and much elbow grease to get this working and plenty of testing. where as, some of the other solutions would be easer.
Only this weekend I hear on NPR a professor in California wrote a Chemistry book and released it under CC license. He felt the chem books available were too expensive, generic, and with just pretty pictures.
Didn't ID software release some of their code as OSS? They didn't have to do that. Now that they may have turned around and used some GPL software, they aren't even given a break. Things like this would make a company just stay close instead of having to deal with the overly zealous OSS nuts who can't seem to understand give and take. Isn't that the point of OSS anyway?
is that this can go on forever. say the alarmist are right, and we recognize global warming and decided to do something about it. after the planet is saved (or start to cool down), the non-believers in GW will just say "see, what we told ya, nothing to worry about". so, where they right? the the alarmist will argue on past data how the trend was GW and they saved the planet.
you will always have your mouse next to your computer. you already have keyboards with these kind of information. i don't know about most people, but i type looking at the monitor, not the keyboard nor the mouse. so what if my mouse is blinking or flashing? i am not likely to see that most time, i rarely look at the mouse, plus my hand mostly cover the darn thing.
this is just stupid in my opinion. i don't see how this is better than all the simular kind of indications on your screen (which is where you are looking or likely to look first).
I don't know what's going with software companies, but aren't they missing something? I mean, if they write a piece of software and a user acquires it legally and can find other "reasonable" usage for it on other devices or with other systems, etc. What is the problem? So long as they say they are not responsible for usage they don't cover or intended. So someone got this on a DVD player, or an Home Entertainment Device, shat is the deal? I really don't get it.
I think it will be too late when these companies realize how much they have been restricting their users. But as open/free source software get better and start to fill those gaps, only the stupid will stick with those EULA. Even other companies will be switching to the less restrictive versions becuase which company wants to be open to audits and then the protential violation of the terms?
The guys at Interact-TV are great. Their device has a lot of potential. Not only that, but when I had issues, they were more than happy to address them.
I bought the MC1000 last year November. I was so excited to get it. I am not surprised that the Wired article said the Telly was buggy. I eventually had to return mine. I really wanted this to work, and it kind of. But it crashed so often and didn't do what it was suppose to well. At first, it didn't record, rip CDs, didn't play DVDs as it should, tune in some channels, and a few other minor things. I returned it for some work and they fixed many of those problems. When I got it back, it still didn't rip cds properly. There were gaps in the audio, the names for album and song title were corrupt.
There were several minor annoyances that I just got tired of this thing not working as it should. I didn't mind that it wasn't super quiet, I knew it was computer and not the best. I think the price was fair for no monthly fee and basically having an open platform and open source. I think they will or could make a really good device if they just make it work without crashing and simply do what it is suppose to. If it is going to rip CDs, well I want to know when I put a CD in it will rip.
Even thought I returned the one I bought last year, I am still monitoring their product releases to see when they might have something solid for me.
in trying to be everyones' operating system by integrating UNIX/Linux. Couldn't that lead to more insecurity? the only reason i think is that while the architecture might be modular, M$ love to bury everything into a nicely integrated system (no one every thought the browser would make sense as part of the OS until M$ said so).
i am not an expert, but won't Windows be a bit more secure if IE wasn't so tightly integrated? now i don't thing Linux or Macs would have the same security concerns simply because very few things which are not critical to the Kernel will get in there. Wine has been around for a bit and even if it was more stable, i didn't see it ever getting into the kernel. that would just be another thing to worry about.
an OS is a complex piece of software as it is, but to try to do everything and be everything, that is asking for trouble. it is like Java (no flam war intended), Java for a bit wanted to be everyone's programming language (after it got out of the lab). that makes it so bloated and complex that i am sure there are a ton of duplicate classes or classes that are slightly similar which can lead to confusion and a maintenance nightmare.
i don't want to insult anyone's intelligence, but. am i the only person who thinks that it would have to be really big to contain the number of animals it is claimed (two of all animals on earth at the time) plus for for all for 40 days. given that one man built this makes it a bit more unlikely. why are people even looking. take one of our largets ship today. can it reasonably hold two of every animal on land and food for 40 days? if so, how much effor would it take for one or a few individuals to build such a ship (out of wood no less) and loading it? people have to start thinking. if a few stories shouldn't be taking literally, then shouldn't all of them? and if they are not literal, then they didn't happen and what they actually mean is probably lost.
after many cases and revealations like these. how could you? how could any reasonable person not feel that they were and are getting the short end of the stick becuase of M$ business practices?
linux, BSD, or any other OSS/FS is not your only choice if u don't want to mess with M$. You have Apple and some others. but people who have a love for M$ should really look at why the like them, what they have been doing to the industry, and whether or not M$ business practices benefits you and your friends in the long term.
i know, that seem like just too much for really busy people to think about. but like politics, it may not be fun, but ignoring it will get you and idiot for a leader. as for M$, it will limit your choice if they get thier way, u probably won't have Linux, BSD, Apple, BeOS (which kind of don't exist thanks to them), etc.
than good. yes, this is not a new idea, but the fact that M$ continues to do it is to me, evidence that they are not serious about security.
Last week a client of mine wanted me to do some work on his computer and to remove M$ IM on WinXP. You try it, it will tell you that WinXP depends on some functionality of IM. What? The OS needs this crummy application you can get for free somewhere? If that is really true, then no wonder their system is so freaking vulnerable to all kinds of things.
just about anyone who write large software knows that u have make it modular design and if possible striving independent modules as possible to reduce risk and propagation of faults. consider this, even after the trial, M$ still continues to bind unrelated OS functionality with applications. Apps and OS services are completely different.
while M$ tries to give you a big bloated piece of software with OS and THEIR apps tightly integrated. look at what the people doing micro-kernels are doing. they are trying to make the kernel as simple as possible (hence easier to debug, understand, etc.). Then, the OS services are just apps (again, very independent form each other--though they may use the services provided by the other). but their is no need for that particular app, just any app providing that service..v
to not be in the runnings for the most hated company like microsoft. but to also destroy their future. SCO will not survive these rounds of attack and law suits. they are amounting a nice army of enemies. besides, their method of requiring paying without proof certainly looks like extortion to me. hopefully the government and other law makers see it that way..v
We want to go through so much trouble to jail people swapping movies and music (for which they don't usually enrich themselves). but we have execs walking freely who have stolen millions (to enrich themselves and friends) from the poor. don't get me wrong, the swappers are probably taking money from someone, rich folks. oh, the MPAA will have u believe it is the guy who works on the set and don't have a steady job. i so love our society.
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Is coding today really like learning to read or write? I don't think so. I would say learning to draw by hand is even more important than coding. Regardless of your field, knowing how to draw simple figures and diagrams will help convey your idea. But yet, we don't say that everyone should learn to draw.
Computer programming should be like any other field, those who are interested, get in. True, computers are getting more and more pervasive, but so too are cars, motor cycles, and bicycles. yet, not everyone knows or need to know how to drive a car or ride a bike.
It might help a person if they knew how to drive or ride, but that only depends of if they live some place where they have access to a car or bike and it matters that they know to drive.
As a mostly self thought programming, I have been posting [YouTube videos](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnVxTe31G4nTbhp9dQEO4iQ) which break down programming concepts and addresses one concept at time. I think it is a really good introduction to computer programming for *anyone* who wants to learn or is curious. But even as simple and clears as my videos are, still there will be people who won't get it, because programming is not for them. And they shouldn't be torture to learn it.
How hard can it be to have the Wifi network completely separated everything else? The only thing it shares, is electricity. How can anyone go form the WiFi to the plane's network in that case?
She pulled HP out of all those countries that didn't have decent women rights. Oh yeah, only thing is, she didn't.
Yeah, once they removed the 'Other OS' option, I don't care what they do now. i still have mine and mostly use it with my NAS to stream media. The only reason I got it in the first place, was to install Linux. I was fairly happy with my PS2.
since mobile devices have GPS. couldn't an app be written that would receive the latest information from NASA. as they get more info, they push it to the app. i f you are worried about getting hit, you install the app and monitor it. If you are in with X meters/feet of latest estimate, you get notified or your app makes a sound.
how hard is that to do? i would do the app part for android, but the data would have to be fed from a credible source.
i would bet that some lawyers are suing because they lost out on those businesses.
Removing a feature from a product that you have already purchased seem wrong. Just as the ideas of companies still having some form of control how you use something you purchased, not leased. So, is a class action lawsuit an option?
agreed. isn't the whole foss thing about flexibility and freedom?
I can attest to this. This is the same setup we used which had VoIP, DB, and HTTP. We ran OpenVZ on CentOS on DRBD. Each openvz virtual machine ran a service, sometimes several of the same services (db and voip). because fo DRBD, redundancy was taking care of, an using heartbeat, well, high availability was also easy. It worked very well. the only thing i would say, it is takes some knowledge and much elbow grease to get this working and plenty of testing. where as, some of the other solutions would be easer.
Only this weekend I hear on NPR a professor in California wrote a Chemistry book and released it under CC license. He felt the chem books available were too expensive, generic, and with just pretty pictures.
Didn't ID software release some of their code as OSS? They didn't have to do that. Now that they may have turned around and used some GPL software, they aren't even given a break. Things like this would make a company just stay close instead of having to deal with the overly zealous OSS nuts who can't seem to understand give and take. Isn't that the point of OSS anyway?
National Security my anus.
is that this can go on forever. say the alarmist are right, and we recognize global warming and decided to do something about it. after the planet is saved (or start to cool down), the non-believers in GW will just say "see, what we told ya, nothing to worry about". so, where they right? the the alarmist will argue on past data how the trend was GW and they saved the planet.
you will always have your mouse next to your computer. you already have keyboards with these kind of information. i don't know about most people, but i type looking at the monitor, not the keyboard nor the mouse. so what if my mouse is blinking or flashing? i am not likely to see that most time, i rarely look at the mouse, plus my hand mostly cover the darn thing.
this is just stupid in my opinion. i don't see how this is better than all the simular kind of indications on your screen (which is where you are looking or likely to look first).
I don't know what's going with software companies, but aren't they missing something? I mean, if they write a piece of software and a user acquires it legally and can find other "reasonable" usage for it on other devices or with other systems, etc. What is the problem? So long as they say they are not responsible for usage they don't cover or intended. So someone got this on a DVD player, or an Home Entertainment Device, shat is the deal? I really don't get it.
I think it will be too late when these companies realize how much they have been restricting their users. But as open/free source software get better and start to fill those gaps, only the stupid will stick with those EULA. Even other companies will be switching to the less restrictive versions becuase which company wants to be open to audits and then the protential violation of the terms?
the chick drinking coffee in the image.mwv movie clip? :) Look to me like there is something going on between the here and the dude in the office.
The guys at Interact-TV are great. Their device has a lot of potential. Not only that, but when I had issues, they were more than happy to address them.
I bought the MC1000 last year November. I was so excited to get it. I am not surprised that the Wired article said the Telly was buggy. I eventually had to return mine. I really wanted this to work, and it kind of. But it crashed so often and didn't do what it was suppose to well. At first, it didn't record, rip CDs, didn't play DVDs as it should, tune in some channels, and a few other minor things. I returned it for some work and they fixed many of those problems. When I got it back, it still didn't rip cds properly. There were gaps in the audio, the names for album and song title were corrupt.
There were several minor annoyances that I just got tired of this thing not working as it should. I didn't mind that it wasn't super quiet, I knew it was computer and not the best. I think the price was fair for no monthly fee and basically having an open platform and open source. I think they will or could make a really good device if they just make it work without crashing and simply do what it is suppose to. If it is going to rip CDs, well I want to know when I put a CD in it will rip.
Even thought I returned the one I bought last year, I am still monitoring their product releases to see when they might have something solid for me.
in trying to be everyones' operating system by integrating UNIX/Linux. Couldn't that lead to more insecurity? the only reason i think is that while the architecture might be modular, M$ love to bury everything into a nicely integrated system (no one every thought the browser would make sense as part of the OS until M$ said so).
i am not an expert, but won't Windows be a bit more secure if IE wasn't so tightly integrated? now i don't thing Linux or Macs would have the same security concerns simply because very few things which are not critical to the Kernel will get in there. Wine has been around for a bit and even if it was more stable, i didn't see it ever getting into the kernel. that would just be another thing to worry about.
an OS is a complex piece of software as it is, but to try to do everything and be everything, that is asking for trouble. it is like Java (no flam war intended), Java for a bit wanted to be everyone's programming language (after it got out of the lab). that makes it so bloated and complex that i am sure there are a ton of duplicate classes or classes that are slightly similar which can lead to confusion and a maintenance nightmare.
i don't want to insult anyone's intelligence, but. am i the only person who thinks that it would have to be really big to contain the number of animals it is claimed (two of all animals on earth at the time) plus for for all for 40 days. given that one man built this makes it a bit more unlikely. why are people even looking. take one of our largets ship today. can it reasonably hold two of every animal on land and food for 40 days? if so, how much effor would it take for one or a few individuals to build such a ship (out of wood no less) and loading it? people have to start thinking. if a few stories shouldn't be taking literally, then shouldn't all of them? and if they are not literal, then they didn't happen and what they actually mean is probably lost.
after many cases and revealations like these. how could you? how could any reasonable person not feel that they were and are getting the short end of the stick becuase of M$ business practices?
linux, BSD, or any other OSS/FS is not your only choice if u don't want to mess with M$. You have Apple and some others. but people who have a love for M$ should really look at why the like them, what they have been doing to the industry, and whether or not M$ business practices benefits you and your friends in the long term.
i know, that seem like just too much for really busy people to think about. but like politics, it may not be fun, but ignoring it will get you and idiot for a leader. as for M$, it will limit your choice if they get thier way, u probably won't have Linux, BSD, Apple, BeOS (which kind of don't exist thanks to them), etc.
Those rats do run things. they are manipulating us to make them stronger so then can take over.
than good. yes, this is not a new idea, but the fact that M$ continues to do it is to me, evidence that they are not serious about security.
.v
Last week a client of mine wanted me to do some work on his computer and to remove M$ IM on WinXP. You try it, it will tell you that WinXP depends on some functionality of IM. What? The OS needs this crummy application you can get for free somewhere? If that is really true, then no wonder their system is so freaking vulnerable to all kinds of things.
just about anyone who write large software knows that u have make it modular design and if possible striving independent modules as possible to reduce risk and propagation of faults. consider this, even after the trial, M$ still continues to bind unrelated OS functionality with applications. Apps and OS services are completely different.
while M$ tries to give you a big bloated piece of software with OS and THEIR apps tightly integrated. look at what the people doing micro-kernels are doing. they are trying to make the kernel as simple as possible (hence easier to debug, understand, etc.). Then, the OS services are just apps (again, very independent form each other--though they may use the services provided by the other). but their is no need for that particular app, just any app providing that service.
to not be in the runnings for the most hated company like microsoft. but to also destroy their future. SCO will not survive these rounds of attack and law suits. they are amounting a nice army of enemies. besides, their method of requiring paying without proof certainly looks like extortion to me. hopefully the government and other law makers see it that way. .v
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SGI/IBM? Which OS?
We want to go through so much trouble to jail people swapping movies and music (for which they don't usually enrich themselves). but we have execs walking freely who have stolen millions (to enrich themselves and friends) from the poor. don't get me wrong, the swappers are probably taking money from someone, rich folks. oh, the MPAA will have u believe it is the guy who works on the set and don't have a steady job. i so love our society.