AC is also safer than DC on higher voltage. When you get electrocuted by a (relatively) low DC level, your blood electrolyses, which will almost surely kill you. With AC you do not get that effect.
Taking this comment and some of the previous about QBASIC together : I once implemented a turtle library together in QuickBasic (and who remembers that:-) ?
I program since about 20 years, and have programmed in several different languages, but I found How to Design Programs very interesting to read and study. It really gives a nice methodology, which has influenced quite my programming, even in Perl.
How old is your dad ? Mine's 66, and he is happily running Linux + KDE, together with the GIMP, Mozilla/Firefox, Sylpheed, VNC to connect to his Windows computer (scanners!), with memory sticks and his camera on Linux.
I had a look at Ruby on Rails, and what entices me most is the fact that for every part you need, you can use the same language.
I did an application in Zope last year, and I really had to jump through hoops. It is not possible to apply consistency in syntax across all levels, and you must study Python, Zope Page Templates and DTML.
I already found out when I was 21 or 22 (I was still in school then), that it was better for me to go to sleep early, rather than stay up late for a programming problem.
When I woke up fresh, I usually had the solution of the problem the evening before, and it was much easier to spot problems in already implemented code.
The only reason MMX instructions exist, is because at the time (about 1996), there where some large companies which had initiatives for building powerful multi-media chips for PC add-on cards.
MMX was introduced by Intel to kill off those initiatives.
I got this too. Once you figure out how something needs to be done, the fun is gone and only the boring parts remain.
This is a problem that I have in part been able to take on, but it is not easy. All people around me do not seem to have problems doing tasks that I find boring (but must be done), so there is not anyone around me who can understand what my problem is.
I cope, I am relatively happy, being married, having a little daughter, doing rather well, but not having reached some goals in life due to not being able to exert some self discipline at some crucial stage.
I hope I can get my daughter along, because I know what mistakes people have made in my raising, I know what mistakes I have made myself, and I hope I can make my daughter reach bigger goals.
'How To Design Programs' is a fantastic course on learning to program using Scheme. The way you are guided to think about solving a programming problem is fantastic. It can be applied to any programming language.
What do you mean? Pascal was THE industrial language at the age of DOS/Windows 3.1. Thousands of commercial applications were written with it (especially the Borland variant). The reason it was chosen as an educational language was because of its success in the industry, much like Java today.
Pascal was created in 1969 by Niklaus Wirth as a language to teach people programming.
Turbo Pascal was created somewhere in the second half of the seventies for CP/M.
It's take off in the eighties has much to do with the IBM PC platform which was successful in business settings.
So Pascal only made an impact roughly 10 years after its inception.
I once did a small project (~2000 lines) in Pascal (a kind of curses front-end to a database on a Digital Ultrix system), and when I had finished, my feelings where utterly that Pascal was created to teach programming, because in the real Pascal specification, there are things that are obstacles for industrial programming. The teacher said I was correct.
Also the way (standard) Pascal handles working with files, is clearly something that is derived from the IBM platform on which it was developed. In standard Pascal, you can not give a filename. This assignment from file to filename is done on the JCL card that is used to run the compiled Pascal program.
Turbo-Pascal alleviated a lot of the problems that standard Pascal has. And Niklaus Wirth also moved on by creating Modula, Modula-2 and Oberon as better successors to his original Pascal.
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AC is also safer than DC on higher voltage. When you get electrocuted by a (relatively) low DC level, your blood electrolyses, which will almost surely kill you. With AC you do not get that effect.
Taking this comment and some of the previous about QBASIC together : I once implemented a turtle library together in QuickBasic (and who remembers that :-) ?
I program since about 20 years, and have programmed in several different languages, but I found How to Design Programs very interesting to read and study. It really gives a nice methodology, which has influenced quite my programming, even in Perl.
Why use an old computer ? Use an emulator or a simulator.
Still on Solaris 8 here, and I am not an administrator.
The administrator's here do not really have a clue about GNU, they find it easier to listen to Sun.
Even better. I think it was Rudy Rucker who once wrote a book about Godel's Theorem and proved that it was Godel who really invented Lisp.
What's a nice Unix system ?
In 1999/2000 I worked on HP/UX. I sorely missed the GNU tools, especially if you e.g. do Ctrl-V in the Korn shell and it says 1989.
Since 2000 I work on a Solaris system. I had to install the GNU tools again for myself, because of the outdatedness of the standard Unix tools.
My dad is also on dialup, but I must admit that we live only about 30 km from each other, so personal support is easy.
Just tried, when you hover over a tab you get a balloon with the full title.
apt-get install okle
How old is your dad ? Mine's 66, and he is happily running Linux + KDE, together with the GIMP, Mozilla/Firefox, Sylpheed, VNC to connect to his Windows computer (scanners!), with memory sticks and his camera on Linux.
Yep, that's ISO 9000/9001 for you.
Microsoft paid Wang Corporation a large sum to settle on issues regarding OLE.
And unless you already know where the Debian name came from, who would guess upon looking at it, that is the contraction of two names ?
I think Debian has a nice, neutral ring to it, very suited to use as a brand name, and certainly more creative than MS's usage of day-to-day words.
If you use Red Hat and have an USB printer, it is configured automatically at startup (Since Red Hat 9).
I had a look at Ruby on Rails, and what entices me most is the fact that for every part you need, you can use the same language.
I did an application in Zope last year, and I really had to jump through hoops. It is not possible to apply consistency in syntax across all levels, and you must study Python, Zope Page Templates and DTML.
Ruby on Rails does not seem to have this problem.
Even more, Cygwin is Free Software!
I already found out when I was 21 or 22 (I was still in school then), that it was better for me to go to sleep early, rather than stay up late for a programming problem.
When I woke up fresh, I usually had the solution of the problem the evening before, and it was much easier to spot problems in already implemented code.
Yes.
And my mirror is pointed not to testing or unstable, but to sarge and sid, which means that I should have been updated last night.
I am already running sarge (and sid too) for more than a year, and I have seen the programs it contains getting progressively better.
Finally I can make a DVD of it and then see when Xorg comes into Debian unstable.
Shameless plug : you should buy one from a manufacturer who also makes 100Hz television.
(I work for Philips.)
If you want to buy trucks, I am sure you have more choice than in buying enterprise software.
The only reason MMX instructions exist, is because at the time (about 1996), there where some large companies which had initiatives for building powerful multi-media chips for PC add-on cards.
MMX was introduced by Intel to kill off those initiatives.
I got this too. Once you figure out how something needs to be done, the fun is gone and only the boring parts remain.
This is a problem that I have in part been able to take on, but it is not easy. All people around me do not seem to have problems doing tasks that I find boring (but must be done), so there is not anyone around me who can understand what my problem is.
I cope, I am relatively happy, being married, having a little daughter, doing rather well, but not having reached some goals in life due to not being able to exert some self discipline at some crucial stage.
I hope I can get my daughter along, because I know what mistakes people have made in my raising, I know what mistakes I have made myself, and I hope I can make my daughter reach bigger goals.
'How To Design Programs' is a fantastic course on learning to program using Scheme. The way you are guided to think about solving a programming problem is fantastic. It can be applied to any programming language.
What do you mean? Pascal was THE industrial language at the age of DOS/Windows 3.1. Thousands of commercial applications were written with it (especially the Borland variant). The reason it was chosen as an educational language was because of its success in the industry, much like Java today.
Pascal was created in 1969 by Niklaus Wirth as a language to teach people programming.
Turbo Pascal was created somewhere in the second half of the seventies for CP/M.
It's take off in the eighties has much to do with the IBM PC platform which was successful in business settings.
So Pascal only made an impact roughly 10 years after its inception.
I once did a small project (~2000 lines) in Pascal (a kind of curses front-end to a database on a Digital Ultrix system), and when I had finished, my feelings where utterly that Pascal was created to teach programming, because in the real Pascal specification, there are things that are obstacles for industrial programming. The teacher said I was correct.
Also the way (standard) Pascal handles working with files, is clearly something that is derived from the IBM platform on which it was developed. In standard Pascal, you can not give a filename. This assignment from file to filename is done on the JCL card that is used to run the compiled Pascal program.
Turbo-Pascal alleviated a lot of the problems that standard Pascal has. And Niklaus Wirth also moved on by creating Modula, Modula-2 and Oberon as better successors to his original Pascal.