Article said they were hoping for March '06 before katrina, now theyre thinking august or so? (fall or later says the article)... Thats not much of a delay is it?
btw, I just looked at the article again, maybe I missed it, but I still don't see anywhere that gives any indication of how many events you went/have been to?
I'll be honest when I say I at least skimmed the article, and my post wasn't meant to be a troll or point the finger at you so much.
What I said at the bottom part is true, so often, someone who knows barely anything writes the definitive guide- apparently though this does not apply to you and I'm sorry I got that wrong.
So this guy who unexpectedly found himself in a programming competition once is writing a guide for the rest of us, I'll take this one to heart...
Seems like theres always someone who has done something once and crawled their way through and came out the sudden expert and felt like documenting it for everyone.
Why don't the guys who are seasoned experts do much freely available writing? Or do they?
not so much impressive as it is intriguing. Certainly anyone could have done such a thing with a little time and a couple bucks (and perhaps a certain disregard for the wellbeing of a mac mini), but the point is they thought of it and they followed through and came up with something interesting. Certainly future versions or copy cats could be much more involved. For instance: I'd love to see a flexible screen in place of the rear decal that could show the movie or something. Either way, while not particularly impressive, it certainly is a little fun.
This seems like a similar idea to HAM Radio examinations. You pay a very teeny testing fee of a couple bucks and people who've received a particular level of qualification can host the tests, though a minimum of two people is required IIRC.
What I'm worried about with the current scheme is that I'll spend $7k+/semester on tuition and get my nice BS in computer science and then have to fork out another few k in redundant certifications. There are guys ive worked with that have had to do just that.
I'm all for a HAM Radio Exam style setup with some sort of self-moderated body with partial governmental/other oversight.
Take windows on intel: you have an os designed to run with any combination of a million cpus, memory chips, network cards, scanners, and various other peripherals, and can be packaged in a pretty box or a plain one. Either way, there are very few designers, save Sun and SGI that actually design a motherboard with all the surrounding stuff just right to give the cpu that extra boost.
Then take MacOS X on Intel OR PPC which aside from the pretty factor, is a much smaller subset of hardware compatibility, has been run through extensive quality control since it has had nearly the same amount of energy/dollars expended on a much smaller set of parts- Combine that with an OS designed for ease of use and hidden power.
FWIW, I'm a 100% PC guy- the main reason I have never switched is that I am an intel assembly programmer in addition to all of the linux programming, and windows.net programming. If Visual Studio ran on PPC and all my code just worked, I'd switch today. The Intel Apple is my ticket to stability. I can run VMWare or some other equivalent product for my windows development with speed to spare (I'm on a 1ghz PC at the moment) and still have all the perks of MacOS, or worst case, dual/triple boot with linux.
The day the intel macs come out, I'll ditch this 1ghz piece of crap I have and get a real machine.
Now this is a loose analogy, and should not be taken literally and/or to the extremes- it is merely a hint of my thoughts.
Any mac, intel or PPC, with Mac OS X is like a Rolls Royce- power, luxury and classic style and tuned for longevity/stability.
Any PC Compatible on windows, be it a dell, sun, sgi, is more like a Viper- power, a light dusting of design, and designed for speed, regardless of comfort or stability.
Sounds like my school. Did you also have a typing program with little colored starlike things called QWERTY's? It turns out there was a bug that you could press ',' and it would count for any character- 300wpm here i come!
20k down will do nothing, and you've simply put up 20k in a non interest bearing account if you can't afford the other 180k. So no, 20k down will not get you into space- that is unless they only ask for the other 180k when you get back and you just file for bankruptcy, I'm sure the state'll love your excuse.
one use however would be paging space for operating systems when the mobo is maxed out in ram. 1gb, 2gb or 4gb max on many mobos, you could throw in several of these with 4gb on as SATA disks and set them up as swap/paging space and it would be nearly as fast as ram (since it is ram, but less the overhead).
My original thought on that was: "Well, I'm awake from 13:00 to 05:00" or "We're open from 01:00 to 10:00".. So you just keep a table of times rather than keeping a table of times and offsets or calculating offsets at all..
Then if youre meeting online, you say, "What about 08:35" and they say "I wont be up until 11:00" or "Sure, yeah I can do that"
To me, it seems simpler once you get past the initial getting used to of being up at different hours.
personally, id rather just not fuck with time at all, get rid of DST altogether... or better yet, live on GMT so when you tell someone in another state/country what time to meet you dont have to compute time zones.
I called 911 from a cell phone (e911 enabled) when a car nearby me stalled out and caught fire after a minor explosion. I was no more than 2 blocks away when the police sires could be heard and in less than 2 minutes the fire engine was there.
The driver had already gotten out of the car, but had he been unable, he still would have survived with the help of the fire department- the fire hadn't totally engulfed the car yet, was mostly the engine compartment.
That was actually the first time I'd called 911 on a cell phone since before E-911 when I got the highway patrol and waited on hold for 4-5 minutes while a woman was getting pushed into traffic in a highway-side dispute with a large man. In any case, I was extremely impressed, my phone lit up that they were accessing my gps coordinates and i actually got my local 911 center- voip will get that far, but it will be a while before the infrastructure (comcast/mediacom/whatever) is strong enough. Once I have cisco a router on a fiber or copper loop at my house, I'll trust voip for my life, until everyone else does- I dont think voip should be your only communications.
back to my original point, 911 is far from useless, just by myself I've potentially saved two people with the help of 911. Remind me not to call when you're on fire.
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Article said they were hoping for March '06 before katrina, now theyre thinking august or so? (fall or later says the article)... Thats not much of a delay is it?
btw, I just looked at the article again, maybe I missed it, but I still don't see anywhere that gives any indication of how many events you went/have been to?
I'll be honest when I say I at least skimmed the article, and my post wasn't meant to be a troll or point the finger at you so much.
What I said at the bottom part is true, so often, someone who knows barely anything writes the definitive guide- apparently though this does not apply to you and I'm sorry I got that wrong.
So this guy who unexpectedly found himself in a programming competition once is writing a guide for the rest of us, I'll take this one to heart...
Seems like theres always someone who has done something once and crawled their way through and came out the sudden expert and felt like documenting it for everyone.
Why don't the guys who are seasoned experts do much freely available writing? Or do they?
I'd guess this is a move at copy protection, since the format is generally not available for consumers yet.
not so much impressive as it is intriguing. Certainly anyone could have done such a thing with a little time and a couple bucks (and perhaps a certain disregard for the wellbeing of a mac mini), but the point is they thought of it and they followed through and came up with something interesting. Certainly future versions or copy cats could be much more involved. For instance: I'd love to see a flexible screen in place of the rear decal that could show the movie or something. Either way, while not particularly impressive, it certainly is a little fun.
found this...
http://www.arrl.org/whyham.html
I'm aware that it's not an acronym, for some reason though, I don't remember seeing it un-capsed. Oh well. Thanks for the correction.
This seems like a similar idea to HAM Radio examinations. You pay a very teeny testing fee of a couple bucks and people who've received a particular level of qualification can host the tests, though a minimum of two people is required IIRC.
What I'm worried about with the current scheme is that I'll spend $7k+/semester on tuition and get my nice BS in computer science and then have to fork out another few k in redundant certifications. There are guys ive worked with that have had to do just that.
I'm all for a HAM Radio Exam style setup with some sort of self-moderated body with partial governmental/other oversight.
Take windows on intel: you have an os designed to run with any combination of a million cpus, memory chips, network cards, scanners, and various other peripherals, and can be packaged in a pretty box or a plain one. Either way, there are very few designers, save Sun and SGI that actually design a motherboard with all the surrounding stuff just right to give the cpu that extra boost.
.net programming. If Visual Studio ran on PPC and all my code just worked, I'd switch today. The Intel Apple is my ticket to stability. I can run VMWare or some other equivalent product for my windows development with speed to spare (I'm on a 1ghz PC at the moment) and still have all the perks of MacOS, or worst case, dual/triple boot with linux.
Then take MacOS X on Intel OR PPC which aside from the pretty factor, is a much smaller subset of hardware compatibility, has been run through extensive quality control since it has had nearly the same amount of energy/dollars expended on a much smaller set of parts- Combine that with an OS designed for ease of use and hidden power.
FWIW, I'm a 100% PC guy- the main reason I have never switched is that I am an intel assembly programmer in addition to all of the linux programming, and windows
The day the intel macs come out, I'll ditch this 1ghz piece of crap I have and get a real machine.
Now this is a loose analogy, and should not be taken literally and/or to the extremes- it is merely a hint of my thoughts.
Any mac, intel or PPC, with Mac OS X is like a Rolls Royce- power, luxury and classic style and tuned for longevity/stability.
Any PC Compatible on windows, be it a dell, sun, sgi, is more like a Viper- power, a light dusting of design, and designed for speed, regardless of comfort or stability.
I should add, it wasn't a bug, supposedly it was a debugging feature of some sort that never got turned off.
They fixed it later after our teacher found out what we were doing (and must have reported the bug?)
No idea what it was, I'm curious too. Mavis Beacon maybe.
IIRC it had red and blue colored virtual hands on the screen that showed you what fingers to use for some parts of the program.
Sounds like my school. Did you also have a typing program with little colored starlike things called QWERTY's? It turns out there was a bug that you could press ',' and it would count for any character- 300wpm here i come!
Here in Ames, IA if you want cable, Mediacom is the only choice, and if you want DSL you have to get Qwest (or someone who has leased qwest's lines).
There are wireless alternatives to internet and satellite for TV so we're not completely screwed, but still yeah, more or less zero competition.
20k down will do nothing, and you've simply put up 20k in a non interest bearing account if you can't afford the other 180k. So no, 20k down will not get you into space- that is unless they only ask for the other 180k when you get back and you just file for bankruptcy, I'm sure the state'll love your excuse.
google should just hire him as a contractor for the next year.
one use however would be paging space for operating systems when the mobo is maxed out in ram. 1gb, 2gb or 4gb max on many mobos, you could throw in several of these with 4gb on as SATA disks and set them up as swap/paging space and it would be nearly as fast as ram (since it is ram, but less the overhead).
Thats not necessarily true, my 97 pontiac grand am was openable by slim jim (AAA helped me once)
My original thought on that was: "Well, I'm awake from 13:00 to 05:00" or "We're open from 01:00 to 10:00".. So you just keep a table of times rather than keeping a table of times and offsets or calculating offsets at all..
Then if youre meeting online, you say, "What about 08:35" and they say "I wont be up until 11:00" or "Sure, yeah I can do that"
To me, it seems simpler once you get past the initial getting used to of being up at different hours.
personally, id rather just not fuck with time at all, get rid of DST altogether... or better yet, live on GMT so when you tell someone in another state/country what time to meet you dont have to compute time zones.
FWIW, I called from US Cellular in Ames, IA on an LG-VX6000 phone.
I called 911 from a cell phone (e911 enabled) when a car nearby me stalled out and caught fire after a minor explosion. I was no more than 2 blocks away when the police sires could be heard and in less than 2 minutes the fire engine was there.
The driver had already gotten out of the car, but had he been unable, he still would have survived with the help of the fire department- the fire hadn't totally engulfed the car yet, was mostly the engine compartment.
That was actually the first time I'd called 911 on a cell phone since before E-911 when I got the highway patrol and waited on hold for 4-5 minutes while a woman was getting pushed into traffic in a highway-side dispute with a large man. In any case, I was extremely impressed, my phone lit up that they were accessing my gps coordinates and i actually got my local 911 center- voip will get that far, but it will be a while before the infrastructure (comcast/mediacom/whatever) is strong enough. Once I have cisco a router on a fiber or copper loop at my house, I'll trust voip for my life, until everyone else does- I dont think voip should be your only communications.
back to my original point, 911 is far from useless, just by myself I've potentially saved two people with the help of 911. Remind me not to call when you're on fire.
err.. 'with' not 'within'
What does Dance Dance Revolution have to do within anything?
I thought it was up up down down left right left right a b a b select start? - the konami code