True. If application X can't be used. It sucks, and its perhaps nothing that can be done about it.
But there should be Linux machines available to the children and the teachers. A local Linux "fanclub" might attract new users if they can show all the nice apps in Linux. Give the users a choice!
I would like them to tell me "When I see this sequence X it means that Y will happen"
Now exchange X for a certain sequence, you decide, and Y for a non bogus event (such as, someone famous will die, instead you should tell me who) and tell me when it will happen.
I predict that they will say: "Oh, it doesn't work that way..."
I need help. Since I'm using my parents DNA, they've sued me for copyright infringement. What should I do? Do you think I can get a license to use it? They have even talked about a patent on sueing your children as a business method.
Seriously, some people must wake up and start thinking!
They are going to sell a 12 DVD box with the three extended versions, but are they going to sell a box with the extended versions WITHOUT all the extra features (making of the film, etc.)? Does anybody know that?
Well. Someone once said, "where they burn books, they will soon start burning people".
This has happend many times in history... and someone said that "What we learn from history, is that we never learn from history and are bound to repeat the same mistakes"
Well, it is password protected, and I thought xpdf would ignore that, but obviously not. That sucks, and is this what it is going to be when we get DRM?
Power consumption is a very important thing, and I'm not only talking about the heat. 200W, and all you make are a few word documents, send a few emails. And the machine is turned on 24 hours per day.
But on the other hand, they claim making love consumes over 300W (per individual), so it might acctually be a good power saving thing to surf for porn instead.
This is exactly a reinventig-the-wheel competition then! If you are not allowed to use the XYZ algorithm in some library, then the competition is just about who can implement the XYZ algorithm.
If you know that you should use the XYZ algorithm (==problem solving) then you should use the best XYZ algorithm you know of. If you don't know of any, then you should write one yourself. Unfortunatly, it will take some time, but you will learn a lot by doing so.
If you don't know about the XYZ algorithm, well, you have a lot to learn my friend.
What is the difference between problem solving and real-life programming? I think that they are almost the same!
The difference is that problem solving is more fun compared to write 532 derived classes with 54535633 set and get methods... If you don't use problem solving skills in real world programming, you will get very bad programs.
That sucks! Are you supposed to win if you can write the basic datastructures, trees, etc, faster than anyone else? That's not a very interesting competition then.
Half of the work is to understand the problem. The rest is to tell a computer to do stuff to find the solution. It shouldn't matter how you tell it to do stuff. The point is that you should try to learn as many tools as possible and be allowed to use them.
It would be of interest to know how they are modelling the storage usage. Not many persons will ever fill up 1 TB, I would need 5 months with constant maximum uploading from my machine to fill that. So how safe is it to promise that space? I guess they could promise you 1000000000 TB also, as no one except me would ever try to fill that up.
Dear CowboyNeal, I strongly object to your writing "Okay, so it may not really be proof of parallel universes,.."
You make it sound like there is a chance that there will be a proof sometime for something in physics. Per definition, it can never be a proof for anything in phyciscs. There can only be modells and experiments that contradicts the modell or that "confirms" the modell.
Well, it's like UNIX, it's userfriendly, it's just selects it's friends very carefully. IMHO, the perfect friend is someone interested in maximum performance and knows how to program and knows something about computer hardware.
Well, that was the best calculator I've ever used! I love it! It only had
1/x x^2 sqrt(x) y^x sin cos tan log ln buttons, and a "INV" button. With INV I got the inverse functions, and I learnd about inverse trigonometric functions before the other did that in school. Du to its basic nature, I was forced to think about in which order I had to do calculations. Thank you TI! I learnt a lot due to the simplicity, I was forced to do some thinking on my own!
It should have been faster with the trigonometric calculations though.
A very valid point! There should be more logic and problem solving in school-maths. That is one of the most fun parts of mathematics. So much interesting mathematics can be learned by this.
Many teachers don't know anything about logic, and that's why it is not taught in school.
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A human girl?
If you can't get a girl that would like to stay home and watch the shows, whats the point of meeting girls?
I would make an exception for Starbuck though.
True. If application X can't be used. It sucks, and its perhaps nothing that can be done about it.
But there should be Linux machines available to the children and the teachers. A local Linux "fanclub" might attract new users if they can show all the nice apps in Linux.
Give the users a choice!
Nothing to worry about. It's a natural thing to loose it.
Ever heard of radioactive decay?
Predict a tsunami by random numbers?
I would like them to tell me "When I see this sequence X it means that Y will happen"
Now exchange X for a certain sequence, you decide,
and Y for a non bogus event (such as, someone famous will die, instead you should tell me who) and tell me when it will happen.
I predict that they will say: "Oh, it doesn't work that way..."
If you can't, then please shut your noicehole.
I need help.
Since I'm using my parents DNA, they've sued me for copyright infringement. What should I do? Do you think I can get a license to use it? They have even talked about a patent on sueing your children as a business method.
Seriously, some people must wake up and start thinking!
I feel sorry for the children that have no problems at school and then are held back due to retarded teachers. Find a better school if it is possible.
They are going to sell a 12 DVD box with the three extended versions, but are they going to sell a box with the extended versions WITHOUT all the extra features (making of the film, etc.)?
Does anybody know that?
Well.
Someone once said, "where they burn books, they will soon start burning people".
This has happend many times in history... and someone said that "What we learn from history, is that we never learn from history and are bound to repeat the same mistakes"
Steve Balmer said Linux is a cancer...
Yes!
I hope they manage to kill sendmail, so we will get rid of it and get more secure MTA's.
Looking glass and Nvidia SLI dual GF6800 video cards...I can see where this is heading!
Well, it is password protected, and I thought xpdf would ignore that, but obviously not. That sucks, and is this what it is going to be when we get DRM?
I just love postscript more and more...
Is this really something that should be on slashdot? Is this something that is importnat or nerds? Is it something that matters?
Come on....
Power consumption is a very important thing, and I'm not only talking about the heat. 200W, and all you make are a few word documents, send a few emails. And the machine is turned on 24 hours per day.
But on the other hand, they claim making love consumes over 300W (per individual), so it might acctually be a good power saving thing to surf for porn instead.
Nah, we just adopt communism and we don't have any money then.
Problem solved.
"sue [a-z]*"
That would work fine since I have a patent on "sue *", not on the regexp [a-z]*
This is exactly a reinventig-the-wheel competition then! If you are not allowed to use the XYZ algorithm in some library, then the competition is just about who can implement the XYZ algorithm.
If you know that you should use the XYZ algorithm (==problem solving) then you should use the best XYZ algorithm you know of. If you don't know of any, then you should write one yourself. Unfortunatly, it will take some time, but you will learn a lot by doing so.
If you don't know about the XYZ algorithm, well, you have a lot to learn my friend.
What is the difference between problem solving and real-life programming? I think that they are almost the same!
The difference is that problem solving is more fun compared to write 532 derived classes with 54535633 set and get methods... If you don't use problem solving skills in real world programming, you will get very bad programs.
That sucks!
Are you supposed to win if you can write the basic datastructures, trees, etc, faster than anyone else?
That's not a very interesting competition then.
Half of the work is to understand the problem. The rest is to tell a computer to do stuff to find the solution. It shouldn't matter how you tell it to do stuff. The point is that you should try to learn as many tools as possible and be allowed to use them.
It would be of interest to know how they are modelling the storage usage. Not many persons will ever fill up 1 TB, I would need 5 months with constant maximum uploading from my machine to fill that. So how safe is it to promise that space?
I guess they could promise you 1000000000 TB also, as no one except me would ever try to fill that up.
Well, 1 kliogram is defined as the mass of the international kilogram protoyp stored somewhere in Paris.
The cube meter is the volume of a cube where each edge is 1m. 1m is defined as a the distance light travels in 1/299798252seconds.
Dear CowboyNeal, I strongly object to your writing "Okay, so it may not really be proof of parallel universes,.."
You make it sound like there is a chance that there will be a proof sometime for something in physics. Per definition, it can never be a proof for anything in phyciscs. There can only be modells and experiments that contradicts the modell or that "confirms" the modell.
Well, it's like UNIX, it's userfriendly, it's just selects it's friends very carefully.
IMHO, the perfect friend is someone interested in maximum performance and knows how to program and knows something about computer hardware.
Have you looked at fortran 90, 95 or 2000?
Now that's a distro that you shouldn't let your children use!
Well, that was the best calculator I've ever used! I love it!
It only had
1/x x^2 sqrt(x) y^x sin cos tan log ln
buttons, and a "INV" button. With INV I got the inverse functions, and I learnd about inverse trigonometric functions before the other did that in school. Du to its basic nature, I was forced to think about in which order I had to do calculations. Thank you TI!
I learnt a lot due to the simplicity, I was forced to do some thinking on my own!
It should have been faster with the trigonometric calculations though.
A very valid point!
There should be more logic and problem solving in school-maths. That is one of the most fun parts of mathematics. So much interesting mathematics can be learned by this.
Many teachers don't know anything about logic, and that's why it is not taught in school.