As a science show, Bill Nye doesn't teach you the calculations, it teaches you the concepts. Visually and auditorially. Which is more than a textbook will do.
Get the formulas from a textbook, the understanding from a video. Then sit back and bang away at those practice problems.
I'm not sure, but I suspect it might have something to do with banner ads. Do the original banner ad links get preserved, or does nyud.net cache the first banner image it sees?
If the image gets cached, DoubleClick isn't going to notice that one of its banner-displaying sites just had thousands of page views per minute.
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You've obviously never undestood the purposes of the equipment stored at swimming pools...
You misunderstand me. I'm not saying that money won't drive development of art that's enjoyable to people who like the genre.
I'm saying there is a holistic value associated with art-by-culture that you don't get with art-by-money, and awareness of it influences one's perception of the art.
The way I see it, Ender's Game had Ender slowly hardening over time. Ender's Shadow had Bean softening over time. In many ways, each character took on traits of the other.
I read it when I was 11. And it still ranks as one of my favorite books.
I hope they don't skim over the Battle School game. I personally found that one a lot more interesting than the Command School "game."
However, how they represent the psycho-manipulative game will be very interesting. The way the book describes it, it ought to look kinda like the DOOM engine, but in 3rd-person instead of 1st-person.
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Although I don't have any directly relevant experience, I've occasionally taken over 5000+ lines of code with abysmal documentation; on one occasion, it became so painful I rewrote major portions because it ended up taking less time than having to figure out what was going on.
You think you've got it bad? I left one of my projects, a D&D city generator, derilict for a few months, only to come back to it months later (er...a couple weeks ago) and not understand half the output formatting code. So I rewrote about 300 lines of code. (Now takes up about 160 lines...but that's just 'cause I'm a better Perl coder than I was.)
I know of a company whose management has mandated that they use automake and autoconf, simply because the OSS projects use them, and Open Source is real successful.
The problem? This code will *never* be maintained by anyone outside the company, and is only intended to run on a single embedded platform.
Idle 90% of the time, but swamped for the 10% of the time you're waiting on results.
We need to shift applications from a event-compute-display model to a predict-compute-event-display model.
Caching data and intermediate data structures helps. Possibly even pre-computing them, when available memory permits.
For example, let's say you've just entered a formula into a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet app can prepare the results of what would happen if you, for example, filled a row or column of cells with the formula.
You think you've got a problem? My packages were last updated in December, via approximately 15 CDs. I haven't had to reinstall on this machine for about five years, thanks to periodic sets of CDs containing all the Debian/testing packages.
I just got my first home internet connection in three or four years a few weeks ago, and apt wants to go out and grab 950MB of packages. Time for another CD set...
IIRC, the fact that a package is in the "stable" repository doesn't have anything to do with bugfix status. Mostly, it means they avoid adding new bugs by not adding features, and fixing old bugs.
I could be wrong, though. It's been a *long* time since I was up-to-date on Debian/stable philosophy.
qemu is a virtualizer, not an emulator. Most of the code gets run at the native speed of the host computer. Similar in principle to VMWare. You can run Linux systems relatively comfortably under qemu.
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As a science show, Bill Nye doesn't teach you the calculations, it teaches you the concepts. Visually and auditorially. Which is more than a textbook will do.
Get the formulas from a textbook, the understanding from a video. Then sit back and bang away at those practice problems.
Every now and then I catch Science Friday...All the latest science and technology topics. They've even done segments on Linux and Firefox.
Sounds like there's a story behind that. Who screwed you, and how?
"Bada boom, bada bing...bada Building!"
It's got to be his creative approach. Even my middle school and high school science teachers showed tapes of his show.
I'm not sure, but I suspect it might have something to do with banner ads. Do the original banner ad links get preserved, or does nyud.net cache the first banner image it sees?
If the image gets cached, DoubleClick isn't going to notice that one of its banner-displaying sites just had thousands of page views per minute.
You've obviously never undestood the purposes of the equipment stored at swimming pools...
You misunderstand me. I'm not saying that money won't drive development of art that's enjoyable to people who like the genre.
I'm saying there is a holistic value associated with art-by-culture that you don't get with art-by-money, and awareness of it influences one's perception of the art.
IIRC, someone's working on a BitTorrent-based HTTP proxy.
The best music and software tends to be funded by culture, not money.
Or they could just give up on avoiding the anti-satanic crowd, and go with "Hexium." Or risk sounding really crappy and go with "Septium."
Octium might work, though.
Damn, we're sitting on a goldmine! /me sees a new source of income.
It's logically trivial if you don't present your archive in the same communications medium as the one you're archiving.
Like archiving Internet2, and presenting it on the internet. Or (not AND) vice versa.
The way I see it, Ender's Game had Ender slowly hardening over time. Ender's Shadow had Bean softening over time. In many ways, each character took on traits of the other.
I read it when I was 11. And it still ranks as one of my favorite books.
I hope they don't skim over the Battle School game. I personally found that one a lot more interesting than the Command School "game."
However, how they represent the psycho-manipulative game will be very interesting. The way the book describes it, it ought to look kinda like the DOOM engine, but in 3rd-person instead of 1st-person.
No thanks, I've got all 256.
Although I don't have any directly relevant experience, I've occasionally taken over 5000+ lines of code with abysmal documentation; on one occasion, it became so painful I rewrote major portions because it ended up taking less time than having to figure out what was going on.
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You think you've got it bad? I left one of my projects, a D&D city generator, derilict for a few months, only to come back to it months later (er...a couple weeks ago) and not understand half the output formatting code. So I rewrote about 300 lines of code. (Now takes up about 160 lines...but that's just 'cause I'm a better Perl coder than I was.)
At least I learned my lesson.
Thanks for the clarification.
I know of a company whose management has mandated that they use automake and autoconf, simply because the OSS projects use them, and Open Source is real successful.
The problem? This code will *never* be maintained by anyone outside the company, and is only intended to run on a single embedded platform.
Idle 90% of the time, but swamped for the 10% of the time you're waiting on results.
We need to shift applications from a event-compute-display model to a predict-compute-event-display model.
Caching data and intermediate data structures helps. Possibly even pre-computing them, when available memory permits.
For example, let's say you've just entered a formula into a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet app can prepare the results of what would happen if you, for example, filled a row or column of cells with the formula.
Try "nmap localhost" .. nmap package required, of course.
That'll show you the IP-based services on your system, be they standalone daemons or run through inetd.
You'll also need the command that lists services provided by the RPC port. But I forget what it is...
You think you've got a problem? My packages were last updated in December, via approximately 15 CDs. I haven't had to reinstall on this machine for about five years, thanks to periodic sets of CDs containing all the Debian/testing packages.
I just got my first home internet connection in three or four years a few weeks ago, and apt wants to go out and grab 950MB of packages. Time for another CD set...
IIRC, the fact that a package is in the "stable" repository doesn't have anything to do with bugfix status. Mostly, it means they avoid adding new bugs by not adding features, and fixing old bugs.
I could be wrong, though. It's been a *long* time since I was up-to-date on Debian/stable philosophy.
You're welcome to turn off viewing of signatures...
You might want to mention that to this guy. I was about to, but noticed your post first.
:)
I wish there was a central wiki that hosted DIY information on this topic. It would be a fascinating read.
qemu is a virtualizer, not an emulator. Most of the code gets run at the native speed of the host computer. Similar in principle to VMWare. You can run Linux systems relatively comfortably under qemu.