Oh I'm sorry, I thought GP was implying there was some kind of Rupert Murdoch conspiracy to convince every sane person on Earth that RIM wasn't managing its business very well. But I guess his point was really something to do with striped cats, in which case I guess I have to agree. Or not? But anyway, allow me to rephrase: Capitalist pigdogs in service of corrupt Rupert Murdoch media mouthpiece suggest RIM is considering every Hail Mary survival strategy foisted by/. punters for last six months. This is obvious lie designed to confuse markets and inflame mistrust of RIM, which is most solid and successful company in mobile handset market.
You seem to be saying exactly what I was saying. The main difference is that you seem to have missed the fact that he doesn't have any projects of any size.
I'd have to disagree. One of the key things an IDE buys you is an automated build. So instead of learning a bazillion compiler options, make, ant, and other tools used to control the build process, you just write the code in the IDE, click on debug, and you're off and tracing through your code.
This assumes he'll be using a compiled language, which also would not be my recommendation at this juncture.
Actually, if this is the guy's first forays into "proper programming," I'd tend to maybe steer clear of an IDE, and certainly something as complex as Eclipse. You don't really need it, and a big IDE like that just becomes one more thing to learn, i.e. one more barrier to entry. If what you want to do is write a program and get that magic feeling of watching the program run and seeing it do what it's supposed to do, then just rush on in and do that! No need to learn some IDE. IDEs are great for people who do programming every day and who have to maintain big code bases and work within a group. But if all you want to do is learn to program, I say skip it for now. Save it for when you start doing something ambitious and the tools an IDE gives you are actually useful.
You don't say much about language preference, but would Portable Python fill the bill? I know you asked for an IDE as well, and there might be options for that -- or really any text editor will do -- but this might be a place to start.
There is the part where it means he won't be able to address customers, shareholders, analysts, press, or the public at the aforementioned "high-profile events." One of those events would be Google I/O, the much-ballyhooed developer event that kicks off in San Francisco next week. I, for one, expected Google's CEO to appear at the keynote to unveil whatever it is they plan to unveil there -- that would seem to be the appropriate way to do it -- but I guess he won't. Page already has something of a reputation as a reclusive, nerdy guy who doesn't like to address the public.
They seem to have changed their technology a little bit, but basically, Opa is a language for Web apps. Instead of writing your app in three (or more) languages like you do now, you write the whole app in Opa. Then you run your Opa code through the Opa compiler, and it generates all the appropriate JavaScript for the front end, the back end code, and the database queries necessary for the application.
Opa ships with its own back-end runtime, which includes an execution engine and a data store, but it sounds like now the default mode is to forget about those and use Node.js and MongoDB instead.
So it's kind of cool in the sense that it allows you to write Web applications like you do normal applications, i.e. you can use one language to do it. On the other hand, according to their info:
On the same hardware, Apache makes 4200 requests per second, the core HTTP server of Opa 4000. PHP makes 1800 requests per second, Opa 1500.
no, you don't need to "go to replay", the system knows faster than the umpire if it's a ball or strike.
How does it know that, exactly? It says the system has recorded "the complete trajectory, spin angle and spin rate" of the pitch. How does it know where the strike zone is?
Please tell me you're not one of those who wants to turn baseball into American football, where the whole thing is an interminable, mind-numbing exercise in replays, computer graphics, satellite-based ball tracking systems, and submarine-mounted sonar? I like my sports to be about human beings. In baseball, umpires determine balls and strikes. They're all that's needed.
Awesome, so we don't have to rely on humans in those really close calls.
What... you mean like a "let's go to instant replay" type close call? As in "we think he struck out, but we'll have to go back and analyze each pitch to be sure"?
You could have done better than to repeat yourself, methinks. How about:
11) Too many false starts, destroying confidence in the brand (which is now essentially being jettisoned in favor of a new one)
12) Phones run on ARM, and ARM is just a concept -- there's no one chipmaker that Microsoft can collude with like it did with Intel
13) Microsoft's demonstrated failure to execute in the consumer electronics market (Zune)
14) Microsoft's desire to tie its phone OS to its desktop OS demands too much of partners and only benefits Microsoft (buy an iPhone and it still works great if you have a Mac)
15) Microsoft tried offering an OS that ran on a wide range of devices, but it went too far, so its phone OS was based on the same as the OS it was marketing to the people who build ATMs and car navigation systems
16) Microsoft doesn't really want another PC market anymore; now it wants a piece of Apple's market, i.e. acting as middleman on every single software and media transaction on the platform and taking its cut. It figures the best way to pull that off (and maintain its strict licensing terms) is to follow closely in Apple's footsteps.
Errr... are you sure you're reading that right? By that table, less than 2% of Web users and a negligible percentage of Steam users have 1280x768 monitors. By comparison, 1280x800 commands 13% of the Web and 4% of Steam, and 1366x768 is around 18% across the board.
We're talking about an eight-year-old here, and all anybody seems to be mentioning is the same old stuff that crops up every time there's a "what should I read?" question on/. Seriously, Dune for an eight-year-old? Get out.
It seems strange to me that anyone would even need to ask this question, when the market for juvenile fiction seems to be exploding right now (especially as compared to the market for literary fiction). Why not just take him to a bookstore and have him pick out something that looks fun?
But if you want to find some suitable, critically-acclaimed books for his age, perhaps you should consult the list of Newbery Award winners. There's a decent amount of science fiction and fantasy in there, and a bunch of other good stuff, besides.
Any ordering that includes Episode II is just plain deranged. That's not only the worst of the Star Wars movies, it's gotta be one of the worst pieces of trash ever screened. It's like the Adam Sandler movie of special effects!
Inflation is the best way to skew prices in the economy, and destroy a delicate balance in a complex system. The cutbacks you speak of are the result of the inflation.
The annual rate of inflation, averaged over a decade or so, hovers at around 2 percent. Tuition is going up way faster than that, and the cutbacks happen nearly every semester. Nice try, though.
OK... but given all of what you say, we're still to conclude that if we took away all government student loans, universities would no longer have incentives to raise tuition? And the only reason tuition is so high is because the government subsidizes it? Because that seems to be what Bloomberg is saying.
Death Metal? And he's concerned about sound quality?
He's not playing jazz records through $3,000 studio monitors. He's playing amplified music with an electric guitar (or bass). It's not so much about "sound quality" as it is about volume, tone, and control over various effects (attack, decay, etc).
To the trained ear, every acoustic guitar sounds a little different. To the untrained, casual listener, they probably all sound like a guitar. But you'd literally have to be deaf not to notice that two electric guitar/effect/amplifier setups can sound very, very different from each other.
As the previous poster said: good 3D will make the visuals look better. As will a subwoofer do for sound.
Good analogy. But I disagree, because 3D movies never really look "3D." At best they look "stereoscopic," like a bunch of flat layers arranged in a diorama. Why not go for the tacky bass, since you don't have real drums at all, just an 808?
Build a damn tube amp. Build lots of them. You can make a killing selling them to audiophiles and guitar players.
This is totally true. Musicians love kit that's not off the shelf from Guitar Center. A friend of mine plays in a couple death metal bands and he's constantly amazing me with the home electronics projects he posts to Facebook: fixing up old amps, modifying pedals, etc. He gets tons of requests.
There are lots of people who believe that when you die you "go to the afterlife," and that even bad people end up there (where their lives won't be so hard). The idea that good people will go to Heaven only if bad people are punished for all eternity is a fairly wrathful concept.
Likewise, the idea that the Devil is "the opposite of God" is a kind of fringe belief for Christianity. By most reckonings, the Christian Devil is clearly subordinate to God. Some Christians don't really believe in the Devil at all. Neither do Jews.
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Oh I'm sorry, I thought GP was implying there was some kind of Rupert Murdoch conspiracy to convince every sane person on Earth that RIM wasn't managing its business very well. But I guess his point was really something to do with striped cats, in which case I guess I have to agree. Or not? But anyway, allow me to rephrase: Capitalist pigdogs in service of corrupt Rupert Murdoch media mouthpiece suggest RIM is considering every Hail Mary survival strategy foisted by /. punters for last six months. This is obvious lie designed to confuse markets and inflame mistrust of RIM, which is most solid and successful company in mobile handset market.
Wait... so you're saying RIM is doing just fine and there is no problem? Thorsten Heins, is that you?
Once a project grows to a certain size ...
You seem to be saying exactly what I was saying. The main difference is that you seem to have missed the fact that he doesn't have any projects of any size.
I'd have to disagree. One of the key things an IDE buys you is an automated build. So instead of learning a bazillion compiler options, make, ant, and other tools used to control the build process, you just write the code in the IDE, click on debug, and you're off and tracing through your code.
This assumes he'll be using a compiled language, which also would not be my recommendation at this juncture.
So basically, RIM is now openly mulling every option we all floated months ago, back when they were still insisting there was no problem.
Remind me again why anyone should have faith in the management of this company?
Actually, if this is the guy's first forays into "proper programming," I'd tend to maybe steer clear of an IDE, and certainly something as complex as Eclipse. You don't really need it, and a big IDE like that just becomes one more thing to learn, i.e. one more barrier to entry. If what you want to do is write a program and get that magic feeling of watching the program run and seeing it do what it's supposed to do, then just rush on in and do that! No need to learn some IDE. IDEs are great for people who do programming every day and who have to maintain big code bases and work within a group. But if all you want to do is learn to program, I say skip it for now. Save it for when you start doing something ambitious and the tools an IDE gives you are actually useful.
You don't say much about language preference, but would Portable Python fill the bill? I know you asked for an IDE as well, and there might be options for that -- or really any text editor will do -- but this might be a place to start.
There is the part where it means he won't be able to address customers, shareholders, analysts, press, or the public at the aforementioned "high-profile events." One of those events would be Google I/O, the much-ballyhooed developer event that kicks off in San Francisco next week. I, for one, expected Google's CEO to appear at the keynote to unveil whatever it is they plan to unveil there -- that would seem to be the appropriate way to do it -- but I guess he won't. Page already has something of a reputation as a reclusive, nerdy guy who doesn't like to address the public.
They seem to have changed their technology a little bit, but basically, Opa is a language for Web apps. Instead of writing your app in three (or more) languages like you do now, you write the whole app in Opa. Then you run your Opa code through the Opa compiler, and it generates all the appropriate JavaScript for the front end, the back end code, and the database queries necessary for the application.
Opa ships with its own back-end runtime, which includes an execution engine and a data store, but it sounds like now the default mode is to forget about those and use Node.js and MongoDB instead.
So it's kind of cool in the sense that it allows you to write Web applications like you do normal applications, i.e. you can use one language to do it. On the other hand, according to their info:
On the same hardware, Apache makes 4200 requests per second, the core HTTP server of Opa 4000. PHP makes 1800 requests per second, Opa 1500.
no, you don't need to "go to replay", the system knows faster than the umpire if it's a ball or strike.
How does it know that, exactly? It says the system has recorded "the complete trajectory, spin angle and spin rate" of the pitch. How does it know where the strike zone is?
Please tell me you're not one of those who wants to turn baseball into American football, where the whole thing is an interminable, mind-numbing exercise in replays, computer graphics, satellite-based ball tracking systems, and submarine-mounted sonar? I like my sports to be about human beings. In baseball, umpires determine balls and strikes. They're all that's needed.
I think it's a pretty safe bet that no way would 1 in 10 tablet owners have both.
Awesome, so we don't have to rely on humans in those really close calls.
What... you mean like a "let's go to instant replay" type close call? As in "we think he struck out, but we'll have to go back and analyze each pitch to be sure"?
You could have done better than to repeat yourself, methinks. How about:
11) Too many false starts, destroying confidence in the brand (which is now essentially being jettisoned in favor of a new one)
12) Phones run on ARM, and ARM is just a concept -- there's no one chipmaker that Microsoft can collude with like it did with Intel
13) Microsoft's demonstrated failure to execute in the consumer electronics market (Zune)
14) Microsoft's desire to tie its phone OS to its desktop OS demands too much of partners and only benefits Microsoft (buy an iPhone and it still works great if you have a Mac)
15) Microsoft tried offering an OS that ran on a wide range of devices, but it went too far, so its phone OS was based on the same as the OS it was marketing to the people who build ATMs and car navigation systems
16) Microsoft doesn't really want another PC market anymore; now it wants a piece of Apple's market, i.e. acting as middleman on every single software and media transaction on the platform and taking its cut. It figures the best way to pull that off (and maintain its strict licensing terms) is to follow closely in Apple's footsteps.
ARM and X86 are not the same so maybe not or maybe only a limited set of API will work on both with the same code.
WinRT is that "limited set of API." That said, yeah, we're all kind of holding our breaths to find out. No confirmation yet, that I'm aware of.
Looks pretty popular to me.
Errr... are you sure you're reading that right? By that table, less than 2% of Web users and a negligible percentage of Steam users have 1280x768 monitors. By comparison, 1280x800 commands 13% of the Web and 4% of Steam, and 1366x768 is around 18% across the board.
We're talking about an eight-year-old here, and all anybody seems to be mentioning is the same old stuff that crops up every time there's a "what should I read?" question on /. Seriously, Dune for an eight-year-old? Get out.
It seems strange to me that anyone would even need to ask this question, when the market for juvenile fiction seems to be exploding right now (especially as compared to the market for literary fiction). Why not just take him to a bookstore and have him pick out something that looks fun?
But if you want to find some suitable, critically-acclaimed books for his age, perhaps you should consult the list of Newbery Award winners. There's a decent amount of science fiction and fantasy in there, and a bunch of other good stuff, besides.
Any ordering that includes Episode II is just plain deranged. That's not only the worst of the Star Wars movies, it's gotta be one of the worst pieces of trash ever screened. It's like the Adam Sandler movie of special effects!
(no depth, just a series of rather hum-drum encounters and a load of nonsense about magic and superstition)
Wow. I'd hate to hear your review of Homer's Odyssey.
Inflation is the best way to skew prices in the economy, and destroy a delicate balance in a complex system. The cutbacks you speak of are the result of the inflation.
The annual rate of inflation, averaged over a decade or so, hovers at around 2 percent. Tuition is going up way faster than that, and the cutbacks happen nearly every semester. Nice try, though.
OK... but given all of what you say, we're still to conclude that if we took away all government student loans, universities would no longer have incentives to raise tuition? And the only reason tuition is so high is because the government subsidizes it? Because that seems to be what Bloomberg is saying.
Death Metal? And he's concerned about sound quality?
He's not playing jazz records through $3,000 studio monitors. He's playing amplified music with an electric guitar (or bass). It's not so much about "sound quality" as it is about volume, tone, and control over various effects (attack, decay, etc).
To the trained ear, every acoustic guitar sounds a little different. To the untrained, casual listener, they probably all sound like a guitar. But you'd literally have to be deaf not to notice that two electric guitar/effect/amplifier setups can sound very, very different from each other.
As the previous poster said: good 3D will make the visuals look better. As will a subwoofer do for sound.
Good analogy. But I disagree, because 3D movies never really look "3D." At best they look "stereoscopic," like a bunch of flat layers arranged in a diorama. Why not go for the tacky bass, since you don't have real drums at all, just an 808?
Build a damn tube amp. Build lots of them. You can make a killing selling them to audiophiles and guitar players.
This is totally true. Musicians love kit that's not off the shelf from Guitar Center. A friend of mine plays in a couple death metal bands and he's constantly amazing me with the home electronics projects he posts to Facebook: fixing up old amps, modifying pedals, etc. He gets tons of requests.
The bezel gives the user a place to hold the tablet without activating on-screen controls.
And in my experience, if you get fidgety (say, you're watching a feature-length movie on Netflix) that's not always enough.
There are lots of people who believe that when you die you "go to the afterlife," and that even bad people end up there (where their lives won't be so hard). The idea that good people will go to Heaven only if bad people are punished for all eternity is a fairly wrathful concept.
Likewise, the idea that the Devil is "the opposite of God" is a kind of fringe belief for Christianity. By most reckonings, the Christian Devil is clearly subordinate to God. Some Christians don't really believe in the Devil at all. Neither do Jews.