Eckel's books are pretty good. The books don't bother trying to be a language reference or "for dummies" books. Thinking in Java is very easy to read and follow but yes, having some background in another language helps to understand this book. I taught myself Java in about two weeks just reading through the chapters and trying to solve some of the problems at the end of each one. I learned much more from this book than any coarse I had in Java in college.
Your thinking of the wrong metaphore using buttons on a calculator. If you've ever used software like Mathcad or Mathematica, just imagine that same software running on a PDA. It would be amazingly more powerful than a simple TI or HP calculator. And, you could save the results to a PC to be printed later.
Will this new version of Mandrake actually boot from the CDROM ISO (like redhat or slackware)? I've had trouble with the last two versions simply giving me an error that it cannot read from the device during installation. This was tested on 3 different computer systems and none of them could even get to the installation screen.
Yes, I was pretty disappointed reading the statement that it would keep the government busy for "weeks". If an encryption algorithm doesn't require millions of millions of years to crack, then what's the point of bothering with encryption at all if faster computers are going to be able to decrypt it?
The uplink and connection link lights on the modem were not turning on, which means according to the manual that there is no signal coming from the ISP.
Instead of ending the call there and scheduling an appointment, the tech. insisted on me re-starting the computer, as if that would produce any change in the fact that there was no signal on their end.
What are you talking about? Bottled water is cheap now. I get like 24, half liter bottles for about $3.
In some places the tap water is very gross. Especially if you live in a city. Sure they say it is "safe", but there are still about 500ppm of chemicals used in the cleaning process that leave the water with a very bad taste. I just couldn't find this acceptable to drink unless I was very thirsty.
Cingular now has this dumb promotion for the charlies angels movie where you send a text message to "ANGELS" or something like that and it enters you to win. Up to 4 times a day too.
So the who goal of the promotion is to get ignorant people to waste $0.10 a message and make Cingular some extra money (quite a bit if you add it up).
Could you imagine this new technology where your phone buys things for you being abused by your cellphone provider? I can.
I guess it's a good way for them to get rid of the remaining USB 1.1 devices on the market right now by making them look like the current technology. Consumers are going to notice though, and they are going to be upset. As soon as someone plugs in a USB 1.1 (full-speed) mass storage device into a machine and realizes that it's going to take an hour to copy a small file, they will think that all USB 2 devices are no good.
I was really upset about this decision too. While Internet Explorer is stuck in the year 1999 with no new useful features, Mozilla was finally doing things like MNG and better PNG support.
Here are a few features I like about these formats:
256 levels of alpha channel (useful for logos)
Loseless compression (Great for charts, screenshots, high quality photos)
I just installed Red Hat 9.0 and I was shocked that it didn't install the correct drivers for my NVidia video card. Sure, 2D worked okay but it didn't bother to install any 3D acceleration so I had to download drivers myself and edit X configuration files manually. The average user wouldn't be able to figure this out.
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This isn't a problem. Haven't you ever heard of such thing as a DC to DC voltage converter? They are really cheap (about $0.25 for up to 1Amp for small devices), and quite efficient.
Besides, they will probably have microcontrollers now regulating all the voltage and monitoring all the devices in your car. The jump to 42V isn't a big deal.
I still get those from my cell provider, usually about every 6 months or so. It's usually some dumb service that costs an extra $15/month that would be completely useless to me.
"Now you can order pancakes directly from your phone! Only $15 more per month!!!"
I'm glad I never bought one of those. I did manage to find an old one my friend was throwing away. I opened it up to see how it works. It's actually kind of simple, it's just two strips of material in the fingers that have variable resistance in ohms when you bend them.
I would say that Dvorak still is useful in coding, especially Java because you end up TypingLongNamesLikeThis. It might be a fun experiment to create a programmers Dvorak keyboard though.
I disagree. I've used Dvorak for years, and I would never go back to QWERTY. It's an urban legend that Dvorak is not faster, the reason being is that no studies on Dvorak VS. QWERTY have been done for decades so there really isn't a large body of evidence to discount either one. The only study I have heard of is that Navy study which sounds like it was done at least 50 years ago.
From personal experience, and other people I taught Dvorak too, they usually see a speed improvement of at least 10WPM, usually 30wpm. However, the comfortability of typing is a much greater effect. You can type the same speed as in qwerty, without moving your fingers around as much.
I don't understand why we are still bothering with trying to enforce, with law, protocols that are inherently insecure. Could you imagine if instead of patching buggy software, we just sent law enforcement out everytime someone exploited a bug in Internet Explorer?
The solution is to replace e-mail, with something that requires authentication and encryption. Anyone have suggestions to what is out there already to solve this problem?
You've got to be kidding? It could take up to an hour or two to configure a new video card on some weird generic PC. If someone brings insufficient hardware they have no reason being at a lan party in the first place.
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Eckel's books are pretty good. The books don't bother trying to be a language reference or "for dummies" books. Thinking in Java is very easy to read and follow but yes, having some background in another language helps to understand this book. I taught myself Java in about two weeks just reading through the chapters and trying to solve some of the problems at the end of each one. I learned much more from this book than any coarse I had in Java in college.
Your thinking of the wrong metaphore using buttons on a calculator. If you've ever used software like Mathcad or Mathematica, just imagine that same software running on a PDA. It would be amazingly more powerful than a simple TI or HP calculator. And, you could save the results to a PC to be printed later.
Will this new version of Mandrake actually boot from the CDROM ISO (like redhat or slackware)? I've had trouble with the last two versions simply giving me an error that it cannot read from the device during installation. This was tested on 3 different computer systems and none of them could even get to the installation screen.
Yes, I was pretty disappointed reading the statement that it would keep the government busy for "weeks". If an encryption algorithm doesn't require millions of millions of years to crack, then what's the point of bothering with encryption at all if faster computers are going to be able to decrypt it?
It's amazing that people would rather PAY money to purchase pop-up blocker software for IE than to use a better web browser.
I'm trying to get my friends to switch to Mozilla but it's very difficult to convince people to try a different web browser.
Yeah, comcast does the same thing.
The uplink and connection link lights on the modem were not turning on, which means according to the manual that there is no signal coming from the ISP.
Instead of ending the call there and scheduling an appointment, the tech. insisted on me re-starting the computer, as if that would produce any change in the fact that there was no signal on their end.
It's amazing people can't use common sense.
What are you talking about? Bottled water is cheap now. I get like 24, half liter bottles for about $3.
In some places the tap water is very gross. Especially if you live in a city. Sure they say it is "safe", but there are still about 500ppm of chemicals used in the cleaning process that leave the water with a very bad taste. I just couldn't find this acceptable to drink unless I was very thirsty.
Cingular now has this dumb promotion for the charlies angels movie where you send a text message to "ANGELS" or something like that and it enters you to win. Up to 4 times a day too.
So the who goal of the promotion is to get ignorant people to waste $0.10 a message and make Cingular some extra money (quite a bit if you add it up).
Could you imagine this new technology where your phone buys things for you being abused by your cellphone provider? I can.
That a 50 pack of CDR's costs $220 in Sweden?
I guess it's a good way for them to get rid of the remaining USB 1.1 devices on the market right now by making them look like the current technology. Consumers are going to notice though, and they are going to be upset. As soon as someone plugs in a USB 1.1 (full-speed) mass storage device into a machine and realizes that it's going to take an hour to copy a small file, they will think that all USB 2 devices are no good.
Here are a few features I like about these formats:
256 levels of alpha channel (useful for logos)
Loseless compression (Great for charts, screenshots, high quality photos)
Animations that have more than 256 colors
It's an open format!
Because they sell you the computer, and then run away!
I just installed Red Hat 9.0 and I was shocked that it didn't install the correct drivers for my NVidia video card. Sure, 2D worked okay but it didn't bother to install any 3D acceleration so I had to download drivers myself and edit X configuration files manually. The average user wouldn't be able to figure this out.
This isn't a problem. Haven't you ever heard of such thing as a DC to DC voltage converter? They are really cheap (about $0.25 for up to 1Amp for small devices), and quite efficient.
Besides, they will probably have microcontrollers now regulating all the voltage and monitoring all the devices in your car. The jump to 42V isn't a big deal.
I still get those from my cell provider, usually about every 6 months or so. It's usually some dumb service that costs an extra $15/month that would be completely useless to me.
"Now you can order pancakes directly from your phone! Only $15 more per month!!!"
well... maybe it's not that bad.
speaking of spending a lot of money, I must have spent at least $2,000 on Nintendo, SNES, and N64 video games growing up.
Now that I think about it, my time would have been better spent programming or reading.
I'm glad I never bought one of those. I did manage to find an old one my friend was throwing away. I opened it up to see how it works. It's actually kind of simple, it's just two strips of material in the fingers that have variable resistance in ohms when you bend them.
And I'm so glad I found that home finance program in QBASIC!!! Why, without it, I would never have been able to balance my checkbook.
I don't trust Bit Torrents file integrity checking. I downloaded several linux ISO's from bit torrent and checked them against the MD5, they failed.
Maybe I forgot that I didn't finish the download, I don't remember. I'm pretty sure that I did though.
Why do you say Dvorak is evil and impractical? I use it all the time.
Although I really dislike that they disable the option to switch keyboards on public computers.
I would say that Dvorak still is useful in coding, especially Java because you end up TypingLongNamesLikeThis. It might be a fun experiment to create a programmers Dvorak keyboard though.
I disagree. I've used Dvorak for years, and I would never go back to QWERTY. It's an urban legend that Dvorak is not faster, the reason being is that no studies on Dvorak VS. QWERTY have been done for decades so there really isn't a large body of evidence to discount either one. The only study I have heard of is that Navy study which sounds like it was done at least 50 years ago.
From personal experience, and other people I taught Dvorak too, they usually see a speed improvement of at least 10WPM, usually 30wpm. However, the comfortability of typing is a much greater effect. You can type the same speed as in qwerty, without moving your fingers around as much.
I don't understand why we are still bothering with trying to enforce, with law, protocols that are inherently insecure. Could you imagine if instead of patching buggy software, we just sent law enforcement out everytime someone exploited a bug in Internet Explorer?
The solution is to replace e-mail, with something that requires authentication and encryption. Anyone have suggestions to what is out there already to solve this problem?
You've got to be kidding? It could take up to an hour or two to configure a new video card on some weird generic PC. If someone brings insufficient hardware they have no reason being at a lan party in the first place.
Oh I think people are already using NSIS. I've even seen it used in Java packages distributed by Sun.
Maybe it just needs a good front end to generate the script.