In a number of cities in Israel you purchase scratch-off cards in connivence-stores. When you want to park you scratch the date/time off the card (to "activate" it) and hang it in your window. I think its pretty brilliant. No physical infrastructure to maintain. To money/coins to collect. If the city wants to change the price of parking - they just change it. No machines to update.
Make your students get together IRL to collaborate. I transforms programming from a isolating activity to a social one. This way students are more likely to form personal bonds and continue studying computer science.
No but transactions are easier for the lay public to understand and they introduce many of the same issues. Plus, simultaneous transactions do create processes that are running simultaneously (i.e. in parallel) do they not?
I agree there are many issues that come up with parallel programming that transactions won't introduce (how to best parallelize an algorithm, how to prevent deadlock etc) but transactions do describe the problem of maintaining consistent data across processes well.
This is just a simple example to show how hard it is to keep data consistent across different processes. A better example would have been to think about a shared bank account account where one person might be withdrawing money and the other might be checking the balance at the same time.
To be clear, Paperbak encodes 500,000 bytes per page. The 3 megabytes figure was for c code (which is easily compressed) - most image formats are already compressed so you won't get 3 megs worth on a page.
You probably also want to include a human readable description the encoding/decoding algorithm and the source code.
The idea behind the Semantic Web is that content providers tag content with semantic information to allow the creation of an ontology so that programs can easily use the for reasoning. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web)
The is an example of text summarization which is a classic natural language processing (NLP) task.
Its hard not to copy features when according to Microsoft vista will do everything but slice bread. Until its released you really can't say its being copied.
I used a first-aid style re-freezable ice pack with my old powerbook (AKA "the leg burner") and it was great. The fan never turned on (at least until the ice pack warmed up).
Timbuk2 makes the best designed bag I've ever used.
When I first got the back I looked at its oddly shaped pockets and said to myself "What are those for?"
Then I started using the bag and every couple days I found myself with a new item I had to carry (cable, pda, adaptor, envelops, glasses). There was a special pocket made to stash each item!
Your right! Why lock your door? If someone really wants to get into your house, they probably will. Home security really should be security through obscurity. This must be why we've kept our Vice President in an undiclosed location for all this time?
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In a number of cities in Israel you purchase scratch-off cards in connivence-stores. When you want to park you scratch the date/time off the card (to "activate" it) and hang it in your window. I think its pretty brilliant. No physical infrastructure to maintain. To money/coins to collect. If the city wants to change the price of parking - they just change it. No machines to update.
I know this doesn't answer your question but...
Make your students get together IRL to collaborate. I transforms programming from a isolating activity to a social one. This way students are more likely to form personal bonds and continue studying computer science.
No but transactions are easier for the lay public to understand and they introduce many of the same issues. Plus, simultaneous transactions do create processes that are running simultaneously (i.e. in parallel) do they not? I agree there are many issues that come up with parallel programming that transactions won't introduce (how to best parallelize an algorithm, how to prevent deadlock etc) but transactions do describe the problem of maintaining consistent data across processes well.
This is just a simple example to show how hard it is to keep data consistent across different processes. A better example would have been to think about a shared bank account account where one person might be withdrawing money and the other might be checking the balance at the same time.
I spent $20 on omnifocus and couldn't be happier with the purchase. Good software can demand higher prices.
I was going to suggest Paperbak too.
You can store up to 3 megabytes per page
To be clear, Paperbak encodes 500,000 bytes per page. The 3 megabytes figure was for c code (which is easily compressed) - most image formats are already compressed so you won't get 3 megs worth on a page.
You probably also want to include a human readable description the encoding/decoding algorithm and the source code.
The idea behind the Semantic Web is that content providers tag content with semantic information to allow the creation of an ontology so that programs can easily use the for reasoning. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web) The is an example of text summarization which is a classic natural language processing (NLP) task.
- Ben Fry
- C.E.B. Reas
- Jennifer Steinkamp
bitforms represents some great artists.Also check with your university's art department. They probably have some great students and faculty working with technology.
Its hard not to copy features when according to Microsoft vista will do everything but slice bread. Until its released you really can't say its being copied.
I've been changing .zip to .piz and things go through fine.
He may not be a genius but he is very good at (self) promotion. That is important for business.
And yet we are all looking...
I used a first-aid style re-freezable ice pack with my old powerbook (AKA "the leg burner") and it was great. The fan never turned on (at least until the ice pack warmed up).
You could get a DMXethergate and then (if you are really a "computer geek") roll your own UI.
Check out a Stanford Professor's links on the subject
When I first got the back I looked at its oddly shaped pockets and said to myself "What are those for?"
Then I started using the bag and every couple days I found myself with a new item I had to carry (cable, pda, adaptor, envelops, glasses). There was a special pocket made to stash each item!
Amazing.
I 2nd "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime."
Cashier: We don't have small only regular, large, and extra-large?
Four years later students loose their life savings.
At least none of the joke were off color.
- David Rokeby
- Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
- Simon Penny
Who are yours?"I'm sure there are some bored crackers out there who'd tackle this for a chance at some cash"
From the article it sounds like the ticket determins if you win money and the game is just window dressing.
From the Courant:
"Customers may choose to forgo the CD and just scratch and turn in their ticket to see if it's a winner"
LA has had traffic online for a long time:? Region=Greater+Los +Angeles
Freeways:
http://www.sigalert.com/map.asp
Surface Streets:
http://trafficinfo.lacity.org/
Your right! Why lock your door? If someone really wants to get into your house, they probably will. Home security really should be security through obscurity. This must be why we've kept our Vice President in an undiclosed location for all this time?
Check out the work of Jeffrey Shaw, David Rokeby, and Chista Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.
Good information on installing an cygwin openssh server (sshd) can be found here:
S SH _Servers
http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html#