I tried redhat and debian before switching to gentoo, and I found them both harder to use. Redhat I have had way too many problems with dependency hell, and with debian you have to live on unstable to get any new packages, and sometimes that breaks things in a bad way (and... Debian doesnt have the best documentation / support.) Gentoo definatley has a steeper learning curve, but it has enough help to let you do anything you could possibley think of, and more, even if you are new to linux. It also is probably one of the fastest distros out there in my experiance. In short, Gentoo is harder, but its easier at the same time.
Exactly my point. Non pseudocode is obscene to try to right programs in by hand. Its nearly impossible to write a syntatical accurate program (especially one with pointers, lots of casts/refrence/derefrences, etc, and not make some type of syntaxtical, not logical, mistake. I know if I missed points on the essays it was because of stupid syntaxtical mistakes arising from not being able to write in pseudocode, but instead being forced to write in a language designed for use on a computer. Whats the ap comp sci ap test? How well you can write java code by hand. Not computer science.
I thought the test was quite evil, especially compared to the C++ test. I got a 5 on the last one, and am hoping for a 5 on this one, however, the class as a whole is rediculous. The exam is how well can you read language quirks, not how well can you program, do algorithms, etc. I thought it was bad last year, but this year with switching to java the number of questions purely based on language quirks are large.
I took the test, I've been programming opensource for a few years, and think it was absolutley a horid test. Sytnax and language quarks were MUCH more important on the test then any acutal algorithmic knowlege. Having taken the A test in c++, I also think the A test was better written. Some of the questions on the test were way past ambiguous.
Yeah... people were doing this at my school, you know what they did, they said this is using too much network resources please stop. People did. No problems.
Feynman has 6 easy/not so easy peices on physics... I enjoyed those. On A whole I will recomend any of his books... Math I'm not sure... I'd like to try and find a math book (that teaches you as much as a text book) thats not as dry as one... For calculus for the easy stuff Learn Calculus the easy way is a interesting concept, its taught through a story.
Bianary doesn't help at all, you don't even need to hex edit. You can easily come up with aim cheats just by sniffing/reverse enginnerring a packet scheme. If you can make a emulator without source, cheating without source is certainly possible.
This is no where near T1 speeds on cable networks. The upload is capped, the download often becomes very poor during peek hours, latency is often a major issue, and sometimes you can't even get on. Bandwith caps can easily get very expensive, a weekend (one day) of playing games/surfing web can easily generate 100mb of trafic, and thats without legit downloads like updates and linux dists. If they fix reliablility, latency, customer service, and the upload cap, perhaps THEN I could see charging extra, but until then cable is nowhere stable enough to justify extra money unless the bandwith cap is VERY high (4-6gb maybe?)(that would still stop the warez leaches etc but allow almost all other legit activity)
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I tried redhat and debian before switching to gentoo, and I found them both harder to use. Redhat I have had way too many problems with dependency hell, and with debian you have to live on unstable to get any new packages, and sometimes that breaks things in a bad way (and... Debian doesnt have the best documentation / support.) Gentoo definatley has a steeper learning curve, but it has enough help to let you do anything you could possibley think of, and more, even if you are new to linux. It also is probably one of the fastest distros out there in my experiance. In short, Gentoo is harder, but its easier at the same time.
Exactly my point. Non pseudocode is obscene to try to right programs in by hand. Its nearly impossible to write a syntatical accurate program (especially one with pointers, lots of casts/refrence/derefrences, etc, and not make some type of syntaxtical, not logical, mistake. I know if I missed points on the essays it was because of stupid syntaxtical mistakes arising from not being able to write in pseudocode, but instead being forced to write in a language designed for use on a computer. Whats the ap comp sci ap test? How well you can write java code by hand. Not computer science.
they release the old ap every 5 years... (atleast for calc, physics, etc) as thats when they create new multiple choice.
I thought the test was quite evil, especially compared to the C++ test. I got a 5 on the last one, and am hoping for a 5 on this one, however, the class as a whole is rediculous. The exam is how well can you read language quirks, not how well can you program, do algorithms, etc. I thought it was bad last year, but this year with switching to java the number of questions purely based on language quirks are large.
I took the test, I've been programming opensource for a few years, and think it was absolutley a horid test. Sytnax and language quarks were MUCH more important on the test then any acutal algorithmic knowlege. Having taken the A test in c++, I also think the A test was better written. Some of the questions on the test were way past ambiguous.
Yeah... people were doing this at my school, you know what they did, they said this is using too much network resources please stop. People did. No problems.
not to mention, if you save your money even a moderate ammount of money from the day you turn 3 or so, you can have enough to get a downpayment.
Feynman has 6 easy/not so easy peices on physics... I enjoyed those. On A whole I will recomend any of his books... Math I'm not sure... I'd like to try and find a math book (that teaches you as much as a text book) thats not as dry as one... For calculus for the easy stuff Learn Calculus the easy way is a interesting concept, its taught through a story.
Bianary doesn't help at all, you don't even need to hex edit. You can easily come up with aim cheats just by sniffing/reverse enginnerring a packet scheme. If you can make a emulator without source, cheating without source is certainly possible.
This is no where near T1 speeds on cable networks. The upload is capped, the download often becomes very poor during peek hours, latency is often a major issue, and sometimes you can't even get on.
Bandwith caps can easily get very expensive, a weekend (one day) of playing games/surfing web can easily generate 100mb of trafic, and thats without legit downloads like updates and linux dists.
If they fix reliablility, latency, customer service, and the upload cap, perhaps THEN I could see charging extra, but until then cable is nowhere stable enough to justify extra money unless the bandwith cap is VERY high (4-6gb maybe?)(that would still stop the warez leaches etc but allow almost all other legit activity)