Data from a particular NERC (UK Research Council) project I'm involved with are allowed to be kept by the researchers for a certain amount of time (18 months, maybe?) but then have to be released to the BADC: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/home/index.html - this gives the researchers time to do some analysis and get some papers out on all the hard work they've done, but obliges them to release the data to the community.
Some of the BADC data sets are restricted to non-commercial use only, so you need to flash your 'Academic Investigator' magic card at them to get it. These guys keep good metadata and license agreements and all that stuff. There's even some datasets from CRU, unrestricted (registration required).
Someone broke rule 1 and rule 2 here. Slashdot post ending in 69 does rule 34 on timothy NAO!! Ahma chargin my slashdot layzars! CmdrTaco is now a meme. Ummm. Over 9000?
Honestly, was the phrase "and nothing of value was lost" ever more appropriate?
Brainfuck then. Satisfies rule 1 (the existence rile), rule 2 (the sufficiency rule) and rule 3 - who wouldn't have their interest grabbed by a brainfuck?
But (more) seriously, you can't teach a class of 30 the 10 languages that grab their individual interests - there's always a compromise. So you teach one that is fairly interesting in the hope of it being sufficiently interesting. And make sure you always teach principles and not exclusively syntax, stressing that other programming languages do this but slightly differently.
Come project time let them use any language to get the job done. If a student wants to write a web service in Brainfuck, and succeeds, then A++ with a gold star to them.
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...on boot time, I reckon. The Dell will still be flipping through its BIOS screens when the Atari has checked its RAM and started its OS from ROM.
Seems to be a trend - my (1981) ZX81 started almost instantly, the ZX Spectrum (1982) took a few seconds, my Atari ST (1987) a bit longer, and these days a PC needs to check a couple of gigs of RAM and load a bloated OS from disk....
News media web sites may have crashed under the strain, but all I had to do was wait a few hours and read the news on paper. Paper doesn't crash.
Can't wait a few hours? Okay, switch the TV on and find a 24-hour news channel (even here in the channel-starved UK we get a choice of two). TV doesn't get slashdotted.
Old media WINS in these situations. Sure you can't write comments for all to see at the end of a news bulletin, but then you don't have to read the inane rantings of the masses after every news bulletin. See what I mean about WIN?
Noo, they're listed as distributor. Middle-men. Take it from the producers and put it in the cinemas. They could have sat on their fat corporate butts and done nothing and the movies would probably still have been a success:)
So much content on the web these days is spat out by document.write(), I'm not surprised at all that google evaluates certain javascripts in order to get any content to index.
Even done a "View Source" on a google mail or google maps page? The web is now javascript.
Nobody seems to have pointed out yet that Sainsbury's also sell fuel, so it's a win for them all round. The execs must have been pissing themselves laughing, "Hey, we've got this idea that we can pass off as 'Green Energy', and will mean our customers will be buying more petrol from our stores! Muaahahaha! Stick another swan on the fire!"
Oh we figured that out already. I say 'we', of course I mean 'Einstein'. Mass and energy warp space and time, so we just have to gather together some mass or energy. [Insert "your momma is so fat" joke here]
I recall a TV show about time travel where they reckoned they needed most of the mass in the universe to make a time travel machine...
Except of course those poor newbie student engineers will have to fork out for Matlab licenses, or be stuck in the university labs.
So we teach our 1st year maths students with Scilab, and show them how to install it on their machines. Sure, it doesn't have all the add-on libraries that Matlab has, but in my experience most lecturers who use those in teaching only do it because that's the only bit of Matlab they ever use....
"Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words". And then we get a review with no pictures. Just links to other stuff. And a link to an audio file - sorry, I mean 'PodCast' - which also won't have any pictures, or text I can search, or examples I can cut n paste.
It's like a review of Playboy without at least one carefully cropped picture, coupled with a taped interview with one of the bunnies.
Well no, you use Styles. Section titles get the section title style, body text gets the body text style, and so on. Change the style definition and magically all the relevant text changes too.
Now when I say "Styles", that's what they're called in OpenOffice. I think Word has an equivalent, but they might call it something else. Any way up, you don't have to manually style your section headers as 24pt bold comic sans everytime in Word or OpenOffice.
Can't we just tag the text with some kind of semantic markup, and then use some kind of "sheet of styles" that relate the markup to the appearance? Sound familiar?
I was in New Hampshire as a tourist from England with a friend from San Diego. She knew NH had this Old Man rock formation thing, and so we went to see it. We parked the car, and wandered along the track towards the lake, eyes up on the skyline waiting for this rock formation to appear round the corner from the hillside. But it didn't. It was September 2007. We'd got all the way to the viewpoint before we saw any mention of the fact it had fallen off four years earlier.
There were quite a few visitors there pointing at the empty space where the Old Man used to be.
In lectures these days in our department apparently the level of interaction is minimal. Maybe there will be one student who asks questions. Mostly they stare at their phones. Why? Well, one hypothesis is shyness, and the fear of being *wrong* or looking stupid.
So to mitigate against this, our dept has bought a set of PRS units. Personal Response Systems. Every student gets one at the start of the lecture, and then when the lecturer wants to say "So, given all that, what would the answer to this question be?", the student presses button A, B, C, or D. And the responses come up on a chart.
The PRS units have actually been stuck in their boxes for a year, unused, because it requires staff to actually work out how to use the things, it requires all the batteries to work, it requires the receiver box to be integrated with the lecture room PC, it requires the lecturer to install a PowerPoint add-on to set questions and chart the answers....
The more the students sort out their own education via social networks and free coursewares, the more time we researchers and lecturers have for doing research and not having to punch information into undergrads....
A friend of mine is teaching maths for final year environmental science students. One of them, confused about sines and cosines, asked "What is this 'trig' stuff?". Remember, these are _science_ students. If they want to learn trig by joining the Facebook We Love Trigonometry group then whoop-de-doo, as long as you do some assignments (online) and the quality doesn't suffer then it's go go go. Maybe we can even demolish these ugly student halls of residence and they can all stay home with mum and dad for three years, which, given the current economic climate, is where they'll have to stay after they graduate...
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Surely we all know the truth about wifi?! Wifi eats babies!!
Here:
http://miscellanea.wellingtongrey.net/2007/05/27/the-truth-about-wireless-devices/
Data from a particular NERC (UK Research Council) project I'm involved with are allowed to be kept by the researchers for a certain amount of time (18 months, maybe?) but then have to be released to the BADC: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/home/index.html - this gives the researchers time to do some analysis and get some papers out on all the hard work they've done, but obliges them to release the data to the community.
Some of the BADC data sets are restricted to non-commercial use only, so you need to flash your 'Academic Investigator' magic card at them to get it. These guys keep good metadata and license agreements and all that stuff. There's even some datasets from CRU, unrestricted (registration required).
Y'all slashdotters posting in a troll thread!
Srsly.
Someone broke rule 1 and rule 2 here. Slashdot post ending in 69 does rule 34 on timothy NAO!! Ahma chargin my slashdot layzars! CmdrTaco is now a meme. Ummm. Over 9000?
Honestly, was the phrase "and nothing of value was lost" ever more appropriate?
Brainfuck then. Satisfies rule 1 (the existence rile), rule 2 (the sufficiency rule) and rule 3 - who wouldn't have their interest grabbed by a brainfuck?
But (more) seriously, you can't teach a class of 30 the 10 languages that grab their individual interests - there's always a compromise. So you teach one that is fairly interesting in the hope of it being sufficiently interesting. And make sure you always teach principles and not exclusively syntax, stressing that other programming languages do this but slightly differently.
Come project time let them use any language to get the job done. If a student wants to write a web service in Brainfuck, and succeeds, then A++ with a gold star to them.
No, you're confusing Apollo 15 with the landscape on the arcade Lunar Lander game, surely!
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Maybe I'll get sued for copying their FAQ text now...
...on boot time, I reckon. The Dell will still be flipping through its BIOS screens when the Atari has checked its RAM and started its OS from ROM.
Seems to be a trend - my (1981) ZX81 started almost instantly, the ZX Spectrum (1982) took a few seconds, my Atari ST (1987) a bit longer, and these days a PC needs to check a couple of gigs of RAM and load a bloated OS from disk....
Are you thinking of the dyslexic pimp who opened a warehouse?
Preferably without suits. They won't mind, because they think they're just heading to a big warehouse in Arizona.
News media web sites may have crashed under the strain, but all I had to do was wait a few hours and read the news on paper. Paper doesn't crash.
Can't wait a few hours? Okay, switch the TV on and find a 24-hour news channel (even here in the channel-starved UK we get a choice of two). TV doesn't get slashdotted.
Old media WINS in these situations. Sure you can't write comments for all to see at the end of a news bulletin, but then you don't have to read the inane rantings of the masses after every news bulletin. See what I mean about WIN?
Noo, they're listed as distributor. Middle-men. Take it from the producers and put it in the cinemas. They could have sat on their fat corporate butts and done nothing and the movies would probably still have been a success :)
American media? A film directed by a New Zealander, based on a book by a Brit, shot in New Zealand, post-production in England....
So much content on the web these days is spat out by document.write(), I'm not surprised at all that google evaluates certain javascripts in order to get any content to index.
Even done a "View Source" on a google mail or google maps page? The web is now javascript.
Nobody seems to have pointed out yet that Sainsbury's also sell fuel, so it's a win for them all round. The execs must have been pissing themselves laughing, "Hey, we've got this idea that we can pass off as 'Green Energy', and will mean our customers will be buying more petrol from our stores! Muaahahaha! Stick another swan on the fire!"
Oh we figured that out already. I say 'we', of course I mean 'Einstein'. Mass and energy warp space and time, so we just have to gather together some mass or energy. [Insert "your momma is so fat" joke here]
I recall a TV show about time travel where they reckoned they needed most of the mass in the universe to make a time travel machine...
Except of course those poor newbie student engineers will have to fork out for Matlab licenses, or be stuck in the university labs.
So we teach our 1st year maths students with Scilab, and show them how to install it on their machines. Sure, it doesn't have all the add-on libraries that Matlab has, but in my experience most lecturers who use those in teaching only do it because that's the only bit of Matlab they ever use....
"Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words". And then we get a review with no pictures. Just links to other stuff. And a link to an audio file - sorry, I mean 'PodCast' - which also won't have any pictures, or text I can search, or examples I can cut n paste.
It's like a review of Playboy without at least one carefully cropped picture, coupled with a taped interview with one of the bunnies.
Well no, you use Styles. Section titles get the section title style, body text gets the body text style, and so on. Change the style definition and magically all the relevant text changes too.
Now when I say "Styles", that's what they're called in OpenOffice. I think Word has an equivalent, but they might call it something else. Any way up, you don't have to manually style your section headers as 24pt bold comic sans everytime in Word or OpenOffice.
Surely Murdoch's effort to monetarize News Corp content is not 'make the bastards pay', but 'make us pay the bastards'?
Can't we just tag the text with some kind of semantic markup, and then use some kind of "sheet of styles" that relate the markup to the appearance? Sound familiar?
Have you seen his flickr portrait:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/3507675011/
No wonder the ATM guys were a bit wary...
I was in New Hampshire as a tourist from England with a friend from San Diego. She knew NH had this Old Man rock formation thing, and so we went to see it. We parked the car, and wandered along the track towards the lake, eyes up on the skyline waiting for this rock formation to appear round the corner from the hillside. But it didn't. It was September 2007. We'd got all the way to the viewpoint before we saw any mention of the fact it had fallen off four years earlier.
There were quite a few visitors there pointing at the empty space where the Old Man used to be.
In lectures these days in our department apparently the level of interaction is minimal. Maybe there will be one student who asks questions. Mostly they stare at their phones. Why? Well, one hypothesis is shyness, and the fear of being *wrong* or looking stupid.
So to mitigate against this, our dept has bought a set of PRS units. Personal Response Systems. Every student gets one at the start of the lecture, and then when the lecturer wants to say "So, given all that, what would the answer to this question be?", the student presses button A, B, C, or D. And the responses come up on a chart.
The PRS units have actually been stuck in their boxes for a year, unused, because it requires staff to actually work out how to use the things, it requires all the batteries to work, it requires the receiver box to be integrated with the lecture room PC, it requires the lecturer to install a PowerPoint add-on to set questions and chart the answers....
The more the students sort out their own education via social networks and free coursewares, the more time we researchers and lecturers have for doing research and not having to punch information into undergrads....
A friend of mine is teaching maths for final year environmental science students. One of them, confused about sines and cosines, asked "What is this 'trig' stuff?". Remember, these are _science_ students. If they want to learn trig by joining the Facebook We Love Trigonometry group then whoop-de-doo, as long as you do some assignments (online) and the quality doesn't suffer then it's go go go. Maybe we can even demolish these ugly student halls of residence and they can all stay home with mum and dad for three years, which, given the current economic climate, is where they'll have to stay after they graduate...