You don't buy a nice slimline tablet and Bill Gates turns up on your doorstep threatening your dog with a shotgun, screaming until you swap out your tablet for a notebook/tablet hybrid.
You're right about that. Bill would never do such a thing. He's left those menial tasks to Steve Ballmer.
This article is a week old- Apple has had it on their PR site for quite awhile. I'm surprised slashdot even covered this. From Apple's website:
November 01, 2007 Time names iPhone Invention of the Year
Apple didn't invent the touchscreen," explains Lev Grossman (Time), but "Apple knew what to do with it," creating a "whole new kind of interface, a tactile one that gives users the illusion of actually physically manipulating data with their hands--flipping through album covers, clicking links, stretching and shrinking photographs with their fingers." It's implementation of touchscreen technology is one of the five reasons Grossman believes that iPhone "is the best thing invented this year." What do you think are the other four?
There is no such thing as a purely hardware firewall in modern times.
The hardware like a Cisco pix has software (i.e. firmware) running on top of a simple (usually Linux or bsd architecture). A true hardware firewall is John or Jane sitting at a switchboard plugging in and unplugging cables, like way back when telephones first existed. You could also theoretically unplug the networking cable every-so-often to get a firewall-like effect, but the bottom line is that there is something (a brain) that decides what goes in and what goes out. The brain is a bunch of code (software) that is the firewall.
Hell, create a searing flame capable of burning anyone to death who dare walks through it- that's the literal definition of a firewall. The heat caused by the burning of wood or something else is a "hardware" firewall.
[sarcasm]Will there be a Tax on earbuds too? How about we have a per child tax of $50/year to account for music piracy, starting from birth, of course.[/sarcasm]
What is this crap? Canada needs to get their priorities in order. People are more important than lobbyist groups. I hope Canadians are voting for the right politicians, because if this continues any industry could just come up and say "People are downloading/using our material illegally, we need to be compensated." Poof, another tax! With so many copies of Windows pirated, I'm surprised that Microsoft hasn't been trying to get a piece of this cake.
The real question is do you want to teach yourself math or do you want to understand math? Lots of people can pick up patterns and get away with simple things on tests, but if it's work you need the math for then I assume you're going to have to think out of the box. Most people don't understand the math- they look for patterns, memorize problems, and take tests. The actual "learning" comes later when they have to apply the methods taught to them.
For Self Teaching- don't do it. Your main problem is finding out what learning mechanism works best for you and then finding a compatible mentor. Don't go to a local college and merely buy the textbooks there, you will get through the first chapter then realize you wasted $100 on a book you have no idea how to read.
Also, you need to decide how far in math you need to go. For calculus not all books are created equal. Find a simple book that has easy to understand examples but does not go too far. Make sure it has a few chapters on limits only- you need to know these to know calculus. On the other hand, you likely do not need to know how to check if an integral is converging or diverging, knowing how to do Taylor series, Laplace Transform, Invariant coordinate systems, etc. The book you select should have basic differential and integral calculus but nothing too advanced. Take baby steps. If you can work your way (with someone) through these things you will have a better chance to succeed and know what types of math you need to specialize in and how much.
Also, tell us what types of problems you are running in to or else we can't pin down a specific way to help you. What types of applications are you doing and what do you need to find out? You may only need differential and some basic integral calculus do to the work you need.
That's my advice for self-teaching, but I would suggest going to a community college or finding a mentor who will (maybe for a small fee) teach you the math.
Finally, if you do not understand the math you will not be able to use it in your job. Make sure you don't waste your time going down the wrong path. It's essential to have someone to ask and review your work so that you find out you are not doing things backwards and upside-down.
Learning math is similar to learning a language, although the constructs are vastly different between the two. It doesn't happen through osmosis and it's hard to get a good understanding of the "pronounciation" unless you have someone you can go to. Again, seriously consider taking some precalculus classes at a Community College then going on to calc. Without the foundation for the more advanced stuff you will get nowhere. De toute façon, on chance!
I am a student at ISU and nearly all the research for this type of equipment takes place in Ames Lab (http://www.ameslab.gov)
I personally know two professors who work there and they are both top-notch.
-A side note: Ames, IA was the largest producer of Uranium 235 in the world between 1940 and 1950.
I have a die hard Windows-fanatic friend who is in engineering. Last week he bought a MacBook and was an instant convert. The main reason he did not want a PC laptop was Vista, and he wanted to be able to run all the special hardware and software goodies he uses in business on that laptop. Vista doesn't support those yet. Mac OS X (via parallels, vmware, or boot camp) does. He literally could not believe you could run Windows, be able to right click on a Mac touchpad, and use iLife tools for media.
That said, this is a guy who thought WMA was a better format than ogg vorbis and aac because it was made by microsoft. He thought that not only was the quality better in wma, but also the compression/quality ratio. Ripping a few CD's and playing them on his new MacBook fixed that problem quickly. Shows you how much MS fud there is lurking about.
I had no idea what the heck this was so I looked it up. Here's the definition:
panopticon (pan opti con) noun historical a circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which prisoners could at all times be observed.
ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from pan- [all] + Greek optikon, neuter of optikos 'optic.'
As you can see from my user number, I've been around a while
I'm not nearly as close to slashdot's inception as you are as I was Junior High school, but I can tell you, things have changed a lot... some of it for the worst.
I don't think I would put the title of your post the way you did, but I definately agree with your points about content and slashdot. To not read your post and simply mod you as flamebait/troll/whatever evil is not right. However, there are a new generation of computer users with decidedly different views than more traditional slashdotters have. Some of these people are good, some of them will mod you -1 for disagreeing with your opinion.
I believe that most people are good people who want their feelings to be felt and accounted for by their social groups. Not all posts have to have a light, fluffy, omg ponies slant to them. But that is the way of things today, as the new replace the old. Slashdot of long ago is dramatically different from Slashdot today. I remember when Zonk used to post Mac OS X updates as news and those would get feedback about features/bugs/fixes. I have not seen anything like this in many, many years.
Maybe it is due to the world's political climate, the times we live in, or some economy driven thing. Either way, I speak my mind no matter what I'll be moderated. This is free society, speak your mind and give others the benefit of the doubt.
That ends my philosophical rant.
And for the record, there's probably a Dvorak or Cringley story that is just as bad as this story.
I mentioned the exact same thing but that this was a big group project, he was just the guy (who rather badly) soldered the wire into the iPhone. The way to solder that kind of equipment is with tweezer soldering irons, very small amounts of solder, and either a chemical or 400 grit sand paper to get the solder mask off. You use a smaller 26-28 AWG wire instead of the rather large one he used in the photo to get the best results.
This was a huge team effort, it was not pulled off by this guy alone. The software reverse-engineering alone would take more time than figuring out how to hack the hardware. I don't know if he's a member of the North American Marl0n Brando Look-a-like Association, but come on.
Another thing- I know this post and the parent is going to hit the Trolling trigger for some people, but honestly we have a right to voice our opinion. As a moderator, you can choose three ways: reward the good posts, mod down the truely bad posts, or mod down anything you disagree with. Yes there are trolls out there who need to be dealt with and they are, but seriously our standards for posting and moderation have been slipping and it makes me wonder where/. is headed.
iWork, not iWorks
Excel, not Excell
Word, not Words
Is this an inheritance of the "MS Works" suite?
Exactly, we've been polluted be a product that does exactly the opposite of what it is named.
For some reason, Microsoft does this. Another example is (in the old days) typing "win" to start windows. I mean there was the solitaire game, but that was totally rigged so that you lost and had to start over all the time. I hardly call it winning when one of Microsoft's core system components is essentially a big time-waster!
I want to reiterate that this was not just one person doing the entire hack, but many many people from all over the world contributing to this project. This was not a one man show. Congrats to the kid for soldering a wire to the pcb trace, but seriously there are people who did more important things like reverse-engineer iPhone's Firmware. He wouldn't know what to change on the logic board if not for all that work. Those are the unsung heroes of this event.
Actually this still exists today in a special form. If you are running a MacBook/MacBook Pro and your battery goes down to 0% charge, Mac OS X will copy the entire contents of your RAM onto your Hard Disk. You can take out the battery, put a fresh one in, and press the power button. A few seconds later you are now back up and running, network connections and all after totally removing all power from your system, no restart required. The only source of power inside the notebook is the battery keeping your computer's clock ticking.
Slashdot Mirror
I have just received word that an iPhone has been scratched. In depth coverage with Commander Taco to follow...
Honestly, I haven't seen this kind of slashdot fervor since OMG PONIES!!! That was definitely a new low.
The person who wrote the summary did not do their research. The Colossus was not the first digital computer:
Atanasoff Berry Computer
The ABC predates colossus by a couple years and the page has some very nice charts detailing what old computers did and when.
Hey, they could have been doing the Thriller dance.
You're right about that. Bill would never do such a thing. He's left those menial tasks to Steve Ballmer.
*Take in any context you like.
[Rant]
There is no such thing as a purely hardware firewall in modern times.
The hardware like a Cisco pix has software (i.e. firmware) running on top of a simple (usually Linux or bsd architecture). A true hardware firewall is John or Jane sitting at a switchboard plugging in and unplugging cables, like way back when telephones first existed. You could also theoretically unplug the networking cable every-so-often to get a firewall-like effect, but the bottom line is that there is something (a brain) that decides what goes in and what goes out. The brain is a bunch of code (software) that is the firewall.
Hell, create a searing flame capable of burning anyone to death who dare walks through it- that's the literal definition of a firewall. The heat caused by the burning of wood or something else is a "hardware" firewall.
[/Rant]
[sarcasm]Will there be a Tax on earbuds too? How about we have a per child tax of $50/year to account for music piracy, starting from birth, of course.[/sarcasm]
What is this crap? Canada needs to get their priorities in order. People are more important than lobbyist groups. I hope Canadians are voting for the right politicians, because if this continues any industry could just come up and say "People are downloading/using our material illegally, we need to be compensated." Poof, another tax! With so many copies of Windows pirated, I'm surprised that Microsoft hasn't been trying to get a piece of this cake.
Ça veut dire "Bon chance!" Je suis désolé.
For Self Teaching- don't do it. Your main problem is finding out what learning mechanism works best for you and then finding a compatible mentor. Don't go to a local college and merely buy the textbooks there, you will get through the first chapter then realize you wasted $100 on a book you have no idea how to read.
Also, you need to decide how far in math you need to go. For calculus not all books are created equal. Find a simple book that has easy to understand examples but does not go too far. Make sure it has a few chapters on limits only- you need to know these to know calculus. On the other hand, you likely do not need to know how to check if an integral is converging or diverging, knowing how to do Taylor series, Laplace Transform, Invariant coordinate systems, etc. The book you select should have basic differential and integral calculus but nothing too advanced. Take baby steps. If you can work your way (with someone) through these things you will have a better chance to succeed and know what types of math you need to specialize in and how much.
Also, tell us what types of problems you are running in to or else we can't pin down a specific way to help you. What types of applications are you doing and what do you need to find out? You may only need differential and some basic integral calculus do to the work you need.
That's my advice for self-teaching, but I would suggest going to a community college or finding a mentor who will (maybe for a small fee) teach you the math.
Finally, if you do not understand the math you will not be able to use it in your job. Make sure you don't waste your time going down the wrong path. It's essential to have someone to ask and review your work so that you find out you are not doing things backwards and upside-down.
Learning math is similar to learning a language, although the constructs are vastly different between the two. It doesn't happen through osmosis and it's hard to get a good understanding of the "pronounciation" unless you have someone you can go to. Again, seriously consider taking some precalculus classes at a Community College then going on to calc. Without the foundation for the more advanced stuff you will get nowhere. De toute façon, on chance!
In Soviet Russia, spam deletes you!
I personally know two professors who work there and they are both top-notch.
-A side note: Ames, IA was the largest producer of Uranium 235 in the world between 1940 and 1950.
They had been used with the mother or the girlfriend?
I have a die hard Windows-fanatic friend who is in engineering. Last week he bought a MacBook and was an instant convert. The main reason he did not want a PC laptop was Vista, and he wanted to be able to run all the special hardware and software goodies he uses in business on that laptop. Vista doesn't support those yet. Mac OS X (via parallels, vmware, or boot camp) does. He literally could not believe you could run Windows, be able to right click on a Mac touchpad, and use iLife tools for media.
That said, this is a guy who thought WMA was a better format than ogg vorbis and aac because it was made by microsoft. He thought that not only was the quality better in wma, but also the compression/quality ratio. Ripping a few CD's and playing them on his new MacBook fixed that problem quickly. Shows you how much MS fud there is lurking about.
Stick with the one that plugs into the dock connector of an iPod. It's so much more portable and fun that way.
Maybe if they sell enough chairs to Ballmer on eBay they can get out of bankruptcy.
If we did that, it would make if awfully difficult to visit some of our favorite porn sites. ;-)
panopticon (pan opti con)
noun historical
a circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which prisoners could at all times be observed.
ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from pan- [all] + Greek optikon, neuter of optikos 'optic.'
Hope this helps some one :-)
I'm not nearly as close to slashdot's inception as you are as I was Junior High school, but I can tell you, things have changed a lot... some of it for the worst.
I don't think I would put the title of your post the way you did, but I definately agree with your points about content and slashdot. To not read your post and simply mod you as flamebait/troll/whatever evil is not right. However, there are a new generation of computer users with decidedly different views than more traditional slashdotters have. Some of these people are good, some of them will mod you -1 for disagreeing with your opinion.
I believe that most people are good people who want their feelings to be felt and accounted for by their social groups. Not all posts have to have a light, fluffy, omg ponies slant to them. But that is the way of things today, as the new replace the old. Slashdot of long ago is dramatically different from Slashdot today. I remember when Zonk used to post Mac OS X updates as news and those would get feedback about features/bugs/fixes. I have not seen anything like this in many, many years.
Maybe it is due to the world's political climate, the times we live in, or some economy driven thing. Either way, I speak my mind no matter what I'll be moderated. This is free society, speak your mind and give others the benefit of the doubt.
That ends my philosophical rant.
And for the record, there's probably a Dvorak or Cringley story that is just as bad as this story.
I mentioned the exact same thing but that this was a big group project, he was just the guy (who rather badly) soldered the wire into the iPhone. The way to solder that kind of equipment is with tweezer soldering irons, very small amounts of solder, and either a chemical or 400 grit sand paper to get the solder mask off. You use a smaller 26-28 AWG wire instead of the rather large one he used in the photo to get the best results.
This was a huge team effort, it was not pulled off by this guy alone. The software reverse-engineering alone would take more time than figuring out how to hack the hardware. I don't know if he's a member of the North American Marl0n Brando Look-a-like Association, but come on.
Another thing- I know this post and the parent is going to hit the Trolling trigger for some people, but honestly we have a right to voice our opinion. As a moderator, you can choose three ways: reward the good posts, mod down the truely bad posts, or mod down anything you disagree with. Yes there are trolls out there who need to be dealt with and they are, but seriously our standards for posting and moderation have been slipping and it makes me wonder where /. is headed.
increases [market] capitalization.......appparently people with mod points don't understand that dollars ARE more important than number of users
Spelling/Grammar Nazi's don't care either way :-)
For some reason, Microsoft does this. Another example is (in the old days) typing "win" to start windows. I mean there was the solitaire game, but that was totally rigged so that you lost and had to start over all the time. I hardly call it winning when one of Microsoft's core system components is essentially a big time-waster!
I want to reiterate that this was not just one person doing the entire hack, but many many people from all over the world contributing to this project. This was not a one man show. Congrats to the kid for soldering a wire to the pcb trace, but seriously there are people who did more important things like reverse-engineer iPhone's Firmware. He wouldn't know what to change on the logic board if not for all that work. Those are the unsung heroes of this event.
My parents are gay you insensitive clod!
Actually this still exists today in a special form. If you are running a MacBook/MacBook Pro and your battery goes down to 0% charge, Mac OS X will copy the entire contents of your RAM onto your Hard Disk. You can take out the battery, put a fresh one in, and press the power button. A few seconds later you are now back up and running, network connections and all after totally removing all power from your system, no restart required. The only source of power inside the notebook is the battery keeping your computer's clock ticking.