check out the cerebellum from Carnegie Mellon. personally, though, i think lego mindstorms toolkits can take a high school student very far. in high school a friend of mine used one and did some pretty cool stuff with it in C. we learned a lot about stacks (we overflowed that a couple times...recursion can be a bad idea;) and we even learned about multi threading (yes, it can do it!) but if you're looking for something more advanced, i definitely recommend the cerebellum. its what a lot of first year CMU kids start using for their robotics projects.
Vista. The term stirs the imagination to conceive of beautiful possibilities just around the corner. And âoejust around the cornerâ is what Windows Vista has been, and has remained, for the past two years. In this time, Vista has suffered a series of high-profile delays, including most recently the announcement that it would be delayed until 2007. The largest software project in mankindâ(TM)s history now threatens to also be the longest.
Admittedly, this essay would be easier written for Slashdot, where taut lines divide the world crisply into black and white. âoeVista is a bloated piece of crap,â my furry little penguin would opine, âoewritten by the bumbling serfs of an evil capitalistic megalomaniac.â But thatâ(TM)d be dead wrong. The truth is far more nuanced than that. Deeper than that. More subtle than that.
I managed developer teams in Windows for five years, and have only begun to reflect on the experience now that I have recently switched teams. Through a series of conversations with other leaders that have similarly left The Collective, several root causes have emerged as lasting characterizations of whatâ(TM)s really wrong in The Empire
Useless Trivia Sidebar: Broken Windows Theory
The original broken windows theory, first coined by Wilson and Kelling, describes the purported phenomenon whereby an abandoned warehouse with no broken windows is mostly left alone, but as soon as one window is broken, it acts as an open invitation to passers-by that itâ(TM)s open-season for rock-throwing.
This was generally accepted for many years as being true, but is recently coming under fire from different angles. We wonâ(TM)t delve into those here, since we mostly commandeered the phrase because it sounded good, not because it actually has anything at all to do with our subject matter.
The Usual Suspects
Ask any developer in Windows why Vista is plagued by delays, and theyâ(TM)ll say that the code is way too complicated, and that the pace of coding has been tremendously slowed down by overbearing process. These claims have already been covered in other popular literature. A quick recap for those of you just joining the broadcast:
* Windows code is too complicated. Itâ(TM)s not the components themselves, itâ(TM)s their interdependencies. An architectural diagram of Windows would suggest there are more than 50 dependency layers (never mind that there also exist circular dependencies). After working in Windows for five years, you understand only, say, two of them. Add to this the fact that building Windows on a dual-proc dev box takes nearly 24 hours, and youâ(TM)ll be slow enough to drive Miss Daisy.
* Windows process has gone thermonuclear. Imagine each little email you send asking someone else to fill out a spreadsheet, comment on a report, sign off on a decision â" is a little neutron shooting about in space. Your innocent-seeming little neutron now causes your heretofore mostly-harmless neighbors to release neutrons of their own. Now imagine there are 9000 of you, all jammed into a tight little space called Redmond. Itâ(TM)s Windows Gone Thermonuclear, a phenomenon by which process engenders further process, eventually becoming a self-sustaining buzz of fervent destructive activity.
Letâ(TM)s see if, quantitatively, thereâ(TM)s any truth to the perception that the code velocity (net lines shipped per developer-year) of Windows has slowed, or is slow relative to the industry. Vista is said to have over 50 million lines of code, whereas XP was said to have around 40 million. There are about two thousand software developers in Windows today. Assuming there are 5 years between when XP shipped and when Vista ships, those quick on the draw with calculators will discover that, on average, the typical Windows developer has produced one thousand new lines of shipped code per year during Vista. Only a thousand lines a
CEO gives n% of shares to non-CEO. therefore one person is CEO and gets power while the other person gets power in the form of shareholders.
or fuck the mentors, do co-CEO.
you basically want some open air cans. troll around head-fi.org for a while and you'll definitely find some. also, check out headroom (headphones.com or something, im not sure, google it). they have great, mostly unbiased reviews of all the headphones they sell. you're sure to find something for yourself.
reset the CMOS. if you're not even booting to the graphical part of windows chances are there is something wrong way before that. gateway machines are weird. you may have noticed that when you plug the computer in a bunch of capacitors on the motherboard will charge. i have yet to run across another mobo that does it. it might have something to do with that and the fact that the mobo isnt completley isolated from the outside world when its turned off. so yeah, reset that cmos and try again.
My understanding was that the issue in the MGM vs. Grokster case was that Grokster marketed their software to be used in an unlawful manner. But the judge clearly stated that other software (ie. IM software used to send files, web browsers, etc) and companies would not be held responsible for their tool simply being used for illegal purposes so long as the tool was not marketed to be used in that way. So whats the deal? That sounds like a logical outcome to me...
its just a matter of being aware of it or not. i never used to see the flicker until my roomate pointed it out to me. now i can even spot monitor flicker at 75hz.
i cursed my friend as well, now he can see the 60hz flicker and was forced to invest in a very nice (and very expensive) samsung lcd. but when i first complained about his old crt monitor he had no idea what "flicker" i was talking about.
my younger brother went through this same phase. i agree, its VERY annoying. i have yet to figure out what the solution is, but the key is to act now!
one thought: hop on the internet with them. start showing them all the neat things on the internet where they can learn more about little projects they could replicate or even enhance at home. anything to get their minds churning. that way they get the motivation to get off their butts themselves!
also, i would encourage them to go to their friends houses to hang out, or to the mall with the friends, etc. offer to drive them. sure hanging out at the mall isnt time much better spent, but at least its a step in the right direction.
and if all else fails, may be seeing their parents using the internet so often will make them feel its not as cool as they thought it was and they'll stop;)
you sound a lot like me. i didnt like high school as far as academics went. it bored me. there was too much bs work. so i skimped on things like homework which dragged my grades down but i proved in tests that i knew the information as good as our valedictorian.
i was pretty lost just as you seem to be so i just took the traditional route and headed off to college [carnegie mellon]. at first i thought i made a big mistake as college turned out to be a lot like high school as far as pure academics went. however, ive just finished my first year at cmu and i cant be happier. the key is research. because i came to cmu ive had so many opportunities to do research in fields i want to learn more about. im doing working at the intel robotics research lab here in pittsburgh and im working with red team. classes are still pretty boring but its a small price to pay to get to all this exciting work.
so moral of the story? if you can get yourself in a good university for your interests you'll definately be happy. just dont live off campus you first year ; )
heres a book that was suggested by my professor here at CMU for our intro to C class:
"C for Java Programmers" by Thomasz Muldner" ISBN: 0-201-70279-7
not exactly c++ but may be you can find something like it. in anycase, should help others.
um, thats really really old news. resorts have had those things for at least five years now if not longer. ive gone on lots of vacations and seen those things. i never tried it though cuz it just seemed so lame. i mean, why do that when you're SCUBA certified and can have so much more fun SCUBA diving?
haha, i [the poster] am actually at cmu now, studying cs and physics [double major]. i submitted this question a good year and a half ago. suprised it came up now. oh well, im glad its getting a lot of discussion, its still helping me and hopefully will help a lot of others =]
wow, unfortunately for me i submitted this question like 1.5 YEARS AGO. im now at carnegie mellon university double majoring in computer science and physics [and possibly dropping physics for mech e or ee].
my desires definitely have changed, but hopefully this whole shindig can help some other high school junior.
or may be we drink other drinks becuase they taste good and happen to have much more caffine than regular colas?
just a thought, try reading the original post
if you need to wake up cuz you are gaming, grab an ice cold bottle of BAWLS!
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there isnt a quake1 mod for q3, correct, but q1 was ported to the half life engine which is really just a mixture of the q1 and q2 engines. it makes the game look really really good, you should check it out. sorry no link though
fileshack is now hosting the mod, they are much much faster, i would recommend using them. link somewhere on the shacknews.com page. im pretty sure its just fileshack.com though
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i have to leave some suprise for the readers dont i? =]
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you know, i cant stand it when people bring up the whole violent games cause real life violence crap. its such bs. go to a lan party and tell me everyone there is violent.
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check out the cerebellum from Carnegie Mellon. personally, though, i think lego mindstorms toolkits can take a high school student very far. in high school a friend of mine used one and did some pretty cool stuff with it in C. we learned a lot about stacks (we overflowed that a couple times...recursion can be a bad idea ;) and we even learned about multi threading (yes, it can do it!) but if you're looking for something more advanced, i definitely recommend the cerebellum. its what a lot of first year CMU kids start using for their robotics projects.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~myrover/cerebellum/
disclaimer: i'm a CMU student.
from mirror dot incase they re-sync:
Vista. The term stirs the imagination to conceive of beautiful possibilities just around the corner. And âoejust around the cornerâ is what Windows Vista has been, and has remained, for the past two years. In this time, Vista has suffered a series of high-profile delays, including most recently the announcement that it would be delayed until 2007. The largest software project in mankindâ(TM)s history now threatens to also be the longest.
Admittedly, this essay would be easier written for Slashdot, where taut lines divide the world crisply into black and white. âoeVista is a bloated piece of crap,â my furry little penguin would opine, âoewritten by the bumbling serfs of an evil capitalistic megalomaniac.â But thatâ(TM)d be dead wrong. The truth is far more nuanced than that. Deeper than that. More subtle than that.
I managed developer teams in Windows for five years, and have only begun to reflect on the experience now that I have recently switched teams. Through a series of conversations with other leaders that have similarly left The Collective, several root causes have emerged as lasting characterizations of whatâ(TM)s really wrong in The Empire
Useless Trivia Sidebar: Broken Windows Theory
The original broken windows theory, first coined by Wilson and Kelling, describes the purported phenomenon whereby an abandoned warehouse with no broken windows is mostly left alone, but as soon as one window is broken, it acts as an open invitation to passers-by that itâ(TM)s open-season for rock-throwing.
This was generally accepted for many years as being true, but is recently coming under fire from different angles. We wonâ(TM)t delve into those here, since we mostly commandeered the phrase because it sounded good, not because it actually has anything at all to do with our subject matter.
The Usual Suspects
Ask any developer in Windows why Vista is plagued by delays, and theyâ(TM)ll say that the code is way too complicated, and that the pace of coding has been tremendously slowed down by overbearing process. These claims have already been covered in other popular literature. A quick recap for those of you just joining the broadcast:
* Windows code is too complicated. Itâ(TM)s not the components themselves, itâ(TM)s their interdependencies. An architectural diagram of Windows would suggest there are more than 50 dependency layers (never mind that there also exist circular dependencies). After working in Windows for five years, you understand only, say, two of them. Add to this the fact that building Windows on a dual-proc dev box takes nearly 24 hours, and youâ(TM)ll be slow enough to drive Miss Daisy. * Windows process has gone thermonuclear. Imagine each little email you send asking someone else to fill out a spreadsheet, comment on a report, sign off on a decision â" is a little neutron shooting about in space. Your innocent-seeming little neutron now causes your heretofore mostly-harmless neighbors to release neutrons of their own. Now imagine there are 9000 of you, all jammed into a tight little space called Redmond. Itâ(TM)s Windows Gone Thermonuclear, a phenomenon by which process engenders further process, eventually becoming a self-sustaining buzz of fervent destructive activity.
Letâ(TM)s see if, quantitatively, thereâ(TM)s any truth to the perception that the code velocity (net lines shipped per developer-year) of Windows has slowed, or is slow relative to the industry. Vista is said to have over 50 million lines of code, whereas XP was said to have around 40 million. There are about two thousand software developers in Windows today. Assuming there are 5 years between when XP shipped and when Vista ships, those quick on the draw with calculators will discover that, on average, the typical Windows developer has produced one thousand new lines of shipped code per year during Vista. Only a thousand lines a
how bout coffee...
CEO gives n% of shares to non-CEO. therefore one person is CEO and gets power while the other person gets power in the form of shareholders. or fuck the mentors, do co-CEO.
you basically want some open air cans. troll around head-fi.org for a while and you'll definitely find some. also, check out headroom (headphones.com or something, im not sure, google it). they have great, mostly unbiased reviews of all the headphones they sell. you're sure to find something for yourself.
reset the CMOS. if you're not even booting to the graphical part of windows chances are there is something wrong way before that. gateway machines are weird. you may have noticed that when you plug the computer in a bunch of capacitors on the motherboard will charge. i have yet to run across another mobo that does it. it might have something to do with that and the fact that the mobo isnt completley isolated from the outside world when its turned off. so yeah, reset that cmos and try again.
My understanding was that the issue in the MGM vs. Grokster case was that Grokster marketed their software to be used in an unlawful manner. But the judge clearly stated that other software (ie. IM software used to send files, web browsers, etc) and companies would not be held responsible for their tool simply being used for illegal purposes so long as the tool was not marketed to be used in that way. So whats the deal? That sounds like a logical outcome to me...
its just a matter of being aware of it or not. i never used to see the flicker until my roomate pointed it out to me. now i can even spot monitor flicker at 75hz. i cursed my friend as well, now he can see the 60hz flicker and was forced to invest in a very nice (and very expensive) samsung lcd. but when i first complained about his old crt monitor he had no idea what "flicker" i was talking about.
my younger brother went through this same phase. i agree, its VERY annoying. i have yet to figure out what the solution is, but the key is to act now!
;)
one thought: hop on the internet with them. start showing them all the neat things on the internet where they can learn more about little projects they could replicate or even enhance at home. anything to get their minds churning. that way they get the motivation to get off their butts themselves!
also, i would encourage them to go to their friends houses to hang out, or to the mall with the friends, etc. offer to drive them. sure hanging out at the mall isnt time much better spent, but at least its a step in the right direction.
and if all else fails, may be seeing their parents using the internet so often will make them feel its not as cool as they thought it was and they'll stop
wouldnt people outside the US be able to access the google cache of Bush's website?
if not, someone should just mirror the site right?
i've missed out on all these radio shows etc. where can i find digital version of these shows? for purchase or for legal free download.
you sound a lot like me. i didnt like high school as far as academics went. it bored me. there was too much bs work. so i skimped on things like homework which dragged my grades down but i proved in tests that i knew the information as good as our valedictorian.
i was pretty lost just as you seem to be so i just took the traditional route and headed off to college [carnegie mellon]. at first i thought i made a big mistake as college turned out to be a lot like high school as far as pure academics went. however, ive just finished my first year at cmu and i cant be happier. the key is research. because i came to cmu ive had so many opportunities to do research in fields i want to learn more about. im doing working at the intel robotics research lab here in pittsburgh and im working with red team. classes are still pretty boring but its a small price to pay to get to all this exciting work.
so moral of the story? if you can get yourself in a good university for your interests you'll definately be happy. just dont live off campus you first year ; )
heres a book that was suggested by my professor here at CMU for our intro to C class: "C for Java Programmers" by Thomasz Muldner" ISBN: 0-201-70279-7 not exactly c++ but may be you can find something like it. in anycase, should help others.
i really hope they mean centripetal force...otherwise there wont be much educating goin on.
um, thats really really old news. resorts have had those things for at least five years now if not longer. ive gone on lots of vacations and seen those things. i never tried it though cuz it just seemed so lame. i mean, why do that when you're SCUBA certified and can have so much more fun SCUBA diving?
"this looms as a big threat to .Net and a rejuvenation of the Java platform"
.NET already has like a bizillion languages under it that can "talk" together.
except that
haha, i [the poster] am actually at cmu now, studying cs and physics [double major]. i submitted this question a good year and a half ago. suprised it came up now. oh well, im glad its getting a lot of discussion, its still helping me and hopefully will help a lot of others =]
wow, unfortunately for me i submitted this question like 1.5 YEARS AGO. im now at carnegie mellon university double majoring in computer science and physics [and possibly dropping physics for mech e or ee].
my desires definitely have changed, but hopefully this whole shindig can help some other high school junior.
or may be we drink other drinks becuase they taste good and happen to have much more caffine than regular colas? just a thought, try reading the original post
er, bawls.com heh
if you need to wake up cuz you are gaming, grab an ice cold bottle of BAWLS!
there isnt a quake1 mod for q3, correct, but q1 was ported to the half life engine which is really just a mixture of the q1 and q2 engines. it makes the game look really really good, you should check it out. sorry no link though
fileshack is now hosting the mod, they are much much faster, i would recommend using them. link somewhere on the shacknews.com page. im pretty sure its just fileshack.com though
i have to leave some suprise for the readers dont i? =]
you know, i cant stand it when people bring up the whole violent games cause real life violence crap. its such bs. go to a lan party and tell me everyone there is violent.