It still looks a little unstable on stairs but it does mean that a person in a wheelchair can go up and down stairs by themselves, which is definetly a good thing.
If not Edison, then somebody else would've invented the lightbulb shortly after.
From what I remember of history, Edison didn't invent the electric light bulb he perfected the vacumn technique. A man named Swan made the first electric light bulb in 1879 but he had trouble with the vacumn later that year Edison sorted the vacumn. His bulb lasted for 40 hours. A year later in 1880 he had a bulb that could last for 1500 hours and he began marketing it.
In 1910 Coolidge invented the tungsten filament which increased how long the bulb could last.
So depending on what you want from an electric light bulb it the 'inventor' could have been any of the three Swan, Edison or Coolidge. In fact Swan filed a law suit against Edison for 'stealing' the idea. Edison wasn't really an inventor he was more the head of a research department.
More info hereherehere and some info on the law suit that Swan filed against Edison.
This could be too confusing for beginners if they can switch between OOP functional etc. I current teach C to people that have done a years worth of Java and they are always getting confused about what can be done in each language. Personally I'd say pick a pretty minimal language which can do graphics. Being able to draw pretty things on screen always interests people. From my own experince I'd say something like Pascal but as others have pointed out it can be difficult to find compilers. So I'd probably go with smalltalk.
I don't think the point you made about being stuck with one paradigm is valid as soon as you understand one you can then learn another and you won't get the confusion of not understanding the boundries. Just because these kids are learning one language now doesn't mean that is the only language they will learn.
All the stories I've read here are of expensive items and extended warranties. 4 years ago I bought a cheap vacumn cleaner (about £40) which the sales assistant said was an okay vacumn cleaner for the price not whizz bang and full of features but it would clean a floor. Then he starts on about getting an extended warranty for £30 pounds. When I said I didn't want it he started telling me about how bad the vacumn cleaner I'd just chosen was and that it would definetly break soon. A firm no to the extended warranty shut him up though. Seems an odd tactic to change your mind halfway through a sale like that.
I would (and did) however buy an extended warranty for a laptop.
Really, the most objective way to analyze that claim is to look at how many windows users open on their own workstation, versus how many remoted X applications they run. Compare that percentage. Then take a look at how much more complex X was made to handle the eventuality of having to handle remote windows, etc, etc. Is it worth it?
You have to take into account why the original design was made. People didn't used to have a unix machine as their desktop. They connected remotely to a central machine if they wanted a graphical system an X session was sent to an X-Terminal (thin client in todays jargon). If you had performed your metric say 10/15 years ago then it would have come out on the side of a network transparent system.
That being said, I've never used X in a thin-client environment - it's possible that it could perform quite well
When I used it is this environment it worked very well in fact it felt faster than my current desktop machine (p3 800), but my current desktop looks a lot prettier:-)
When concrete was first invented, someone built a bunch of houses with it as a proof of concept.
Concrete is not an invention of the modern world. The oldest known concrete dates back to 5,600 BC in the former Yugoslavia. The first major users of concrete where the Egyptians in around 2,500 BC. The Romans followed in around 300 BC.
Google for the history of concrete for more information.
94-97. They phased out cent1 in 96 IIRC and replaced it with three machines (unixa-unixc). I think they have now gone back to having one machine again (cent1) but usernames are based on real names and not subject.
According to the storcard website these cards have a datarate of 5Mbytes/sec the rotational speed is 3600 rpm and the average access time is 15 msec. All taken from the overview of the StorCard from the campany website.
CLO might do what you want. It provides groups of users which can be admin'd by different people, as well as a few other things such as group based file shares. To have alook at it just create yourself a new user. Thier isn't a downloadable package yet (I'm lazy) but just send a message to the admin (Bach) to get it.
That would be Dr. Harold Shipman, the BBC reports that he killed 215 of his patients, although he was jailed for life for 15 murders, I assume they didn't know about the others. Here is a list of articles about him from the BBC.
The biggest SD-cards are now 512MB, they're going to have even 4GB cards later on
Does anyone else find that a little scary. My first PC had a 120 meg hard drive and that seemed huge at the time, plenty for all my needs Now we are talking about carrying around 512 meg in our PDAs. Come on ppl does anyone know enough ppl to fill 512meg with contacts?
Seriously what would you fill that with? Books? movies?
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- Movie 1 1.8MB
- Movie 2 1.8MB
- Movie 3 20 MB
It still looks a little unstable on stairs but it does mean that a person in a wheelchair can go up and down stairs by themselves, which is definetly a good thing.From what I remember of history, Edison didn't invent the electric light bulb he perfected the vacumn technique. A man named Swan made the first electric light bulb in 1879 but he had trouble with the vacumn later that year Edison sorted the vacumn. His bulb lasted for 40 hours. A year later in 1880 he had a bulb that could last for 1500 hours and he began marketing it. In 1910 Coolidge invented the tungsten filament which increased how long the bulb could last.
So depending on what you want from an electric light bulb it the 'inventor' could have been any of the three Swan, Edison or Coolidge. In fact Swan filed a law suit against Edison for 'stealing' the idea. Edison wasn't really an inventor he was more the head of a research department.
More info here here here and some info on the law suit that Swan filed against Edison.
This article would suggest otherwise, it's about how masterbation could cut the risk of cancer in men.
IIRC he got the PHB to drink from his cup, bit of a naff ending really.
It was infected with management DNA from the backwash of the cup.
At the end of the episode it is mentioned that there are other hellmouths, leaving it open for a spinoff.
I don't think the point you made about being stuck with one paradigm is valid as soon as you understand one you can then learn another and you won't get the confusion of not understanding the boundries. Just because these kids are learning one language now doesn't mean that is the only language they will learn.
I would (and did) however buy an extended warranty for a laptop.
You have to take into account why the original design was made. People didn't used to have a unix machine as their desktop. They connected remotely to a central machine if they wanted a graphical system an X session was sent to an X-Terminal (thin client in todays jargon). If you had performed your metric say 10/15 years ago then it would have come out on the side of a network transparent system.
That being said, I've never used X in a thin-client environment - it's possible that it could perform quite well
When I used it is this environment it worked very well in fact it felt faster than my current desktop machine (p3 800), but my current desktop looks a lot prettier :-)
Concrete is not an invention of the modern world. The oldest known concrete dates back to 5,600 BC in the former Yugoslavia. The first major users of concrete where the Egyptians in around 2,500 BC. The Romans followed in around 300 BC. Google for the history of concrete for more information.
94-97. They phased out cent1 in 96 IIRC and replaced it with three machines (unixa-unixc). I think they have now gone back to having one machine again (cent1) but usernames are based on real names and not subject.
Are you sure it wasn't in Bailrigg :-)
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That god for that I thought for a second that you a really grim job (or a very strange fetish :-))
According to the storcard website these cards have a datarate of 5Mbytes/sec the rotational speed is 3600 rpm and the average access time is 15 msec. All taken from the overview of the StorCard from the campany website.
CLO might do what you want. It provides groups of users which can be admin'd by different people, as well as a few other things such as group based file shares. To have alook at it just create yourself a new user. Thier isn't a downloadable package yet (I'm lazy) but just send a message to the admin (Bach) to get it.
Would this be proof that Scott Adams reads slashdot?
Course details can be found here.
That would be Dr. Harold Shipman, the BBC reports that he killed 215 of his patients, although he was jailed for life for 15 murders, I assume they didn't know about the others. Here is a list of articles about him from the BBC.
Yeah I find that annoying especially when I'm nowhere near a train :-)
Indeed they did. It had a red stripe as well. Here is a photo gallery of the said van.
To which the reply is you get a lot less shit from the horseless carriage.
Doubtful, but why do I have a sudden urge for my MTV?
Does anyone else find that a little scary. My first PC had a 120 meg hard drive and that seemed huge at the time, plenty for all my needs Now we are talking about carrying around 512 meg in our PDAs. Come on ppl does anyone know enough ppl to fill 512meg with contacts? Seriously what would you fill that with? Books? movies?
Is this in a secret section that I don't have access to? :-)