Yeah, I know. This is I'm sure why they didn't rewrite the C++ curriculum to teach the STL. (Actually a lot of universities are changing with them, and at least a couple have named the AP change as part of the reason for the timing.)
Oooo, "C++ For You++"? All the people who I've talked to with APCS used that book. I hated that damn thing.... And of course the APCS curriculum is many years out of date; not one program I turned in didn't use the deprecated include style. And when created, the STL hadn't been standardized, so instead of learning vector, list, stack, queue, string, etc., we had to use AP versions of the above (apvector, apstack...). Which meant I took a semester corse in college that was essentially a repeat of the second half of the AP course but with the STL...
If you would have RTFA instead of blindly commented on asmething that is clearly stated, you would have seen the paragraph "The students are getting a good dose of ethics along with some sobering words about legal repercussions. Scheduled guest speakers include a lawyer and a police officer, and Mr. Robinson is hoping to recruit a speaker from the Federal Bureau of Investigation." near the bottom.
Okay, the janitor, who was fired after trying to sell the company and rehired by Disney, is drunk again. But he's still coherant enough (somehow) to write a license similar to the GPL but for moving pictures. One of the employees left the computer on and with an active connection to the company's website. (Yeah, I know this is hypothetical beyond reasonableness, but bear with me.) The janitor uploads a copy of Steamboat Willie under the license, and people get full copies before it is discovered and taken down.
Oh whoops... I have a bad habit of reading things too quickly. I read it as saying that fires didn't bring it down. (I should really slow down reading:-/)
Bingo... indivudial couyright holders, say (*picks up a book*) Robert Caplan, are not going to be able to afford large copyright fees. On the other hand, Disney won't even notice 50K going to save the copyright on Mickey Mouse.
I forgot to say the emphesis in the first quote there ("as well as sufficient additional damage and strength loss to initiate the third event") was mine; it does not appear in the report.
Also, section 2.3 contains some quotes that explicitly say that the towers would have probably stayed up without a fire, e.g. "the aircraft impacts into the two buildings are not believed to have been sufficient to cause collapse without the ensuing fires" on p. 2-37.
The structural engineers who wrote the FEMA report on the collapse take a different view: "In each case the aircraft impacts resulted it severe structual damage, including some localized partial collapse, bit did not result in the initiation of global collapse.... The second event was the simultaneous ignition and growth of fires over large floor areas on several levels of the buildingsp The fires heated the structural systems and, over a period of time, resulted in additional stressing of the damaged structure, as well as sufficient additional damage and strength loss to initiate the third event, a progressive sequence of failures that culminated in total collapse of both structures." See the FEMA report, specifically chapter 2, page 2-15 (section 2.2).
It should be noted that the fuel is not responsible for the fire. It started it, but would have been consumed a short time after the collision. The pires continued to burn office equipment, furnature, etc. (see p. 2-22)
FEMA estimates temperatures between 1700-2000 degrees Farenheit in some areas. This is well above the point where steel will soften, though not quite at melting point (usually stated at about 2500 degrees, though the exact temperature depends on the alloy).
Also know that the fireproofing on the structural beams, a spray-on variety, was mostly blown off in the initial collision.
But yeah, read the report, or Google some more information. It's quite interesting.
>>The WTC was designed to withstand a hit from a 707, one of the largest planes around at the time. It was purposely hit by larger planes flying at maximum speed and chosen for their full fuel load. As for withstanding the impact, the towers did that remarkably well. The steel warping from the intense fires were what ultimately brought them down.
Not only that, but it's possible that if the second plane didn't hit, both towers could still be standing. I heard the tremors from the first tower's collapse could have triggered the second.
Well said. For instance, I find the CG Yodas of the Star Wars prequels much more believable than the puppets of the original trilogy (and most of the Phantom Menace). Sure, in still shots the puppet looks better, but it's nice to be able to watch and not wish that Yoda's mouth was lipsynched (which is not the case with the puppet).
Jakob Neilson reccomends designing commercial sites so that Netscape 2 can render them correctly (see Designing Web Usability), because he claims that there are enough people still with it that it'll make a differene. Regardless of if that's true, it does show that requiring post IE-6 will be a very poor idea indeed.
What's your opinion? The only negative comment I've heard is about the typos (and learning curve in general) when starting out. I'm seriously considering getting one myself.
>>Beyond seperating common pairs horizontally, I don't know what factors went into designing Querty, but speeding up typing does not appear to have been one of them
Virtually none. Previous layouts were alphabetical; QWERTY just moved some letters around. Look at the home row: asdfghjkl. All letters from D to L are there, in order, with the exception of E and I which were moved off. Only 4 letters of the first 12 aren't there.
Mice (and joysticks for that matter) have a free reign of movement. I'd be difficult to get the direction accurately with the small motions required. (Try it... down and left seem especially difficut to get right.) The review of the Orb makes it sound like the 8 directions are all that it can go, though i could be wrong about this.
Agreed. I could probably, with the help of some internet sites, an old keyboard, some push swtiches, and a few 7400 ICs, rig something up that was similar to the Orb thing but made mostly out of stuff around the house. There's no way I could even come close to the Touchstream; I wouldn't even be able to get the keys let alone the gestures part. Yet the Orb thing is twice the price of the Touchstream...
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My 19" (CRT) does 1600x1200 nicely. I'd consider 1600 resolution on a 29" monitor abysmal. 2048 would probably be bad...
IBM makes a 22" monitor that does 3840x2400. (Granted, it's $8500...) That would be a nice resolution for a 29".
There are some contracts that broaden the IP that is passed to your company.
(Also, phone conversations are, AFAIK, not copyrightable.)
Dude... It's Yahoo. You can't /. Yahoo.
Yeah, I know. This is I'm sure why they didn't rewrite the C++ curriculum to teach the STL. (Actually a lot of universities are changing with them, and at least a couple have named the AP change as part of the reason for the timing.)
The police have no additional rights to search and seizure than you or I unless they have a warrant.
But did Adobe give their blessing to the project? (Perhaps a better analogy: did the Adobe CEO give his blessing to the project?)
Oooo, "C++ For You++"? All the people who I've talked to with APCS used that book. I hated that damn thing.... And of course the APCS curriculum is many years out of date; not one program I turned in didn't use the deprecated include style. And when created, the STL hadn't been standardized, so instead of learning vector, list, stack, queue, string, etc., we had to use AP versions of the above (apvector, apstack...). Which meant I took a semester corse in college that was essentially a repeat of the second half of the AP course but with the STL...
If you would have RTFA instead of blindly commented on asmething that is clearly stated, you would have seen the paragraph
"The students are getting a good dose of ethics along with some sobering words about legal repercussions. Scheduled guest speakers include a lawyer and a police officer, and Mr. Robinson is hoping to recruit a speaker from the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
near the bottom.
Okay, the janitor, who was fired after trying to sell the company and rehired by Disney, is drunk again. But he's still coherant enough (somehow) to write a license similar to the GPL but for moving pictures. One of the employees left the computer on and with an active connection to the company's website. (Yeah, I know this is hypothetical beyond reasonableness, but bear with me.) The janitor uploads a copy of Steamboat Willie under the license, and people get full copies before it is discovered and taken down.
Oh whoops... I have a bad habit of reading things too quickly. I read it as saying that fires didn't bring it down. (I should really slow down reading :-/)
My guess is that the courts will not hand down mare than a light sentence if Spielberg gives it his approval...
Bingo... indivudial couyright holders, say (*picks up a book*) Robert Caplan, are not going to be able to afford large copyright fees. On the other hand, Disney won't even notice 50K going to save the copyright on Mickey Mouse.
I forgot to say the emphesis in the first quote there ("as well as sufficient additional damage and strength loss to initiate the third event") was mine; it does not appear in the report.
Also, section 2.3 contains some quotes that explicitly say that the towers would have probably stayed up without a fire, e.g. "the aircraft impacts into the two buildings are not believed to have been sufficient to cause collapse without the ensuing fires" on p. 2-37.
The structural engineers who wrote the FEMA report on the collapse take a different view: "In each case the aircraft impacts resulted it severe structual damage, including some localized partial collapse, bit did not result in the initiation of global collapse.... The second event was the simultaneous ignition and growth of fires over large floor areas on several levels of the buildingsp The fires heated the structural systems and, over a period of time, resulted in additional stressing of the damaged structure, as well as sufficient additional damage and strength loss to initiate the third event, a progressive sequence of failures that culminated in total collapse of both structures." See the FEMA report, specifically chapter 2, page 2-15 (section 2.2).
It should be noted that the fuel is not responsible for the fire. It started it, but would have been consumed a short time after the collision. The pires continued to burn office equipment, furnature, etc. (see p. 2-22)
FEMA estimates temperatures between 1700-2000 degrees Farenheit in some areas. This is well above the point where steel will soften, though not quite at melting point (usually stated at about 2500 degrees, though the exact temperature depends on the alloy).
Also know that the fireproofing on the structural beams, a spray-on variety, was mostly blown off in the initial collision.
But yeah, read the report, or Google some more information. It's quite interesting.
>>The WTC was designed to withstand a hit from a 707, one of the largest planes around at the time. It was purposely hit by larger planes flying at maximum speed and chosen for their full fuel load. As for withstanding the impact, the towers did that remarkably well. The steel warping from the intense fires were what ultimately brought them down.
Not only that, but it's possible that if the second plane didn't hit, both towers could still be standing. I heard the tremors from the first tower's collapse could have triggered the second.
They are demolishing anything that would pose a threat.
Well said. For instance, I find the CG Yodas of the Star Wars prequels much more believable than the puppets of the original trilogy (and most of the Phantom Menace). Sure, in still shots the puppet looks better, but it's nice to be able to watch and not wish that Yoda's mouth was lipsynched (which is not the case with the puppet).
>>On second thought that would make one hell of a target for terrorists.
It's an aircraft carrier... what are you worried about?
Jakob Neilson reccomends designing commercial sites so that Netscape 2 can render them correctly (see Designing Web Usability), because he claims that there are enough people still with it that it'll make a differene. Regardless of if that's true, it does show that requiring post IE-6 will be a very poor idea indeed.
Two words: permanent marker
(And a $1.25 keyboard from Goodwill...)
My keys now have 2 letters each, one handwritten.
>>I had to save up a few months to afford it.
What's your opinion? The only negative comment I've heard is about the typos (and learning curve in general) when starting out. I'm seriously considering getting one myself.
According to Donald Norman, Dvorak provides about a 10% advantage. (So, I suppose if you type 800 wpm you'll get 80 wpm faster, but...)
(See The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald Norman, p. 147.)
>>Beyond seperating common pairs horizontally, I don't know what factors went into designing Querty, but speeding up typing does not appear to have been one of them
Virtually none. Previous layouts were alphabetical; QWERTY just moved some letters around. Look at the home row: asdfghjkl. All letters from D to L are there, in order, with the exception of E and I which were moved off. Only 4 letters of the first 12 aren't there.
Mice (and joysticks for that matter) have a free reign of movement. I'd be difficult to get the direction accurately with the small motions required. (Try it... down and left seem especially difficut to get right.) The review of the Orb makes it sound like the 8 directions are all that it can go, though i could be wrong about this.
Agreed. I could probably, with the help of some internet sites, an old keyboard, some push swtiches, and a few 7400 ICs, rig something up that was similar to the Orb thing but made mostly out of stuff around the house. There's no way I could even come close to the Touchstream; I wouldn't even be able to get the keys let alone the gestures part. Yet the Orb thing is twice the price of the Touchstream...