A friend of mine had a really stripped bolt on his oil pan, so he spot welded his craftsmen wrench to the bolt and replaced it with a new bolt. Next day brought the wrench with bolt welded on to sears and got a replacement. Now thats a warrantee
I bet thats not good
I am to lazy to try and do anything with that information though. Besides what mischief would I want cause to a poor web site like this
I knew it was a troll but sometimes I feel the need to correct disinformation. Besides what do you care if I respond to a troll my god, do you not have anything better to do than (oops I am responding to a troll again.. damn it) nevermind
That someone in my apartment complex gets a wireless router and I can steal their bandwith and get free internet access:)
Seriously instead of purchaisng this just make sure only registered MAC's can be authorized by your router and that knocks out the casual browser. Then have it log all access ( I am sure most routers can do this) and at least for home use you should be good. Coporations need to take some more precautions but i am not a security expert so...
Ok I have never used C#. I have used java and c/c++ and a little assembly i am currently a computer engineering major at UCSD. I think every language has its place for some task assembly is what you want for others C or C++. If you developing applications for windows (ie. thats your job and if you work for a commercial softwarehouse thats probably what you do and are the spawn of satan jk.:-) then C# is probably what you want to use and from what i hear it makes things a lot simpler to develope applications.
I personally don't plan on becoming a windows developer so I probably will not need to learn C# (not saying that i never will). My guess is that i will be using C and assembly but i guess that really depends on which company I end up working for and the way they do things.
>However, the time has come for a complete paradigm shift in programming
hey assembly is where it started. and a lot of people still use assembly. Just when your trying to write a full application assembly will just simply take to fricking long but it great for those tiny segments
>C++ and Java do not allow the programmer to directly access the hardware. Instead they compile into a "bytecode" which is then interpretted by a virtual machine. While very portable, this limits the speed of Java and C++ programs.
Ok first of while java is compiled into byto code, C++ is compiled to machine code. Also in C/C++ you can wirte inline assembly to really make some core parts of your code fly.
>(the way MS has pushed Java, or Sun supported C#)
are you backwards?
>I would like to see the FSF release a GNU-based assembly compiler
I am all for private space travel. Let companies put up their own sattelites, go mine on the moon, mars etc, open a space hotel the possibilities are endless.
Here is a pretty cool article on the future possbility of a space elevator
Not that I like IE but trusted domains works pretty well. I assume that your employee's access the same few sites for work related purpose. My employer is a financial consultant so we have a several provider's web sites that we use to get client account information. I simply tell the browsers to trust thoses domain and be really strict everywhere else. If a user complains about 'why cant I see the trailer for the new movie', well the answer is you dont need to.
Google is a very good search engine. And I don't know what the hell this Mr. Anti-Google is talking about, "undemocratic" everyoney knows google is powered by pigeon clustetrs, millions of pigeons voting on the relevant sites
Hmmm most students I know don't pay for ms software when you can easly borrow a cd from a friend or download an iso and use a serial off the web that doesnt require activation.
Of course myself I have Linux loaded on my new hp laptop with an amd processor (its ok but its got issues) with star office for word processing, gcc instead of visual studio and sun java sdk
A side note if you look at the support forums on hp's web site you will see a lot discontent. HP only has long distance phone numbers for support and the only thing they tell you to do is to reimage your system with the recovery cd's that come with the systekm no matter what your problem is. I use to really respect hp but lately they have gotten a bit shoddy
I am a computer engineering student and both my parents are high school teachers. My mom recently graduated from SDSU with a b.a. in French and her teaching credential. She had to take a series of tech ed classes, mainly they taught her about powerpoint, how to build web pages with a simple web creation tool. She had projects where she had to build a whole web site with a sylabus(spelling?), notes, links etc. etc. The gave these educational websites some buzz word name "infotracks" or something like that can't really remember.
Personally I think 90% of the kids already know how to use a computer by the time they enter school. Its the teachers just trying to save face by showing the kids they know too.
I can't think of any class that has been enriched by the teachers use of technology save my programming classes but hey thats kind of a given. Actually once my math professor brought in a laptop and played some 4d space simulations that was cool but kind of useless.
Several profs have tried using message boards and assigning that every student post two site related to clas etc etc Complete waste of time maybe the same two suck up students used the board the same time and eveyone else posted www.computers.com or something lame like that.
I think students should be given assignments that require a computer but dont give them any set way of doing (like telling them what software to use) Let them come up with the solutions and use technology how they best see fit, ie instant messeging group mates, and using a yahoo briefcase to share files, vs the group that uses irc to do the whole project whatever but let htem figure it out.
As far as education for the teachers I think most new teachers should alread have a good background in computers and they should be more worried about what they are teaching than how they can use the newest wiz bang technology to teach the same old thing. If you teaching computers then you should have a comp sci degree anywyas and will completely ignore any tech-ed class
in interviews lucas states the the jedi is a wrapper for his hindu beliefs. He just gave it another name and gave them some really cool powers and light sabers.
See my earlier post
Actually the jedi faith is very similar to hinduism in it beliefs about the force being vreated by all living things. I didnt write the following excerpt but thought I would post it here.
______
It is a very little known fact that George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars world, has strong Hindu beliefs. Just as Hinduism affects our lives, so has it affected his, which can be shown by the fact that he has incorporated Hindu themes throughout the Star Wars trilogy. This essay will touch, through various examples, the way Lucas has weaved Hinduism into his movies.
Of the trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back seems to portray Hinduism in the fullest sense. Specifically, the part when Luke Skywalker goes to find Yoda. When he first arrives, Luke finds himself in a forest, looking for the old, wise Yoda to learn the ways of the Jedi. This is very like Hindu's Janoi (Gujarati), where young males run to the forest in search of the old, wise yogi, who would provide great knowledge. Just as a yogi "tests" potential students on their patience to enter into the arduous task of learning, so does Yoda "test" Luke by not telling him who he is. His purpose, of course, was seeing if Luke had patience or not.
As the training progresses, Luke learns to control what is called "the Force." Yoda explains that everything is part of the Force, such as the "...the tree, the rock..." etc. This Force is very similar to the Hindu concept of the One or the Universe (in essence Om). In Hinduism it is said that we are all part of the One, just like what Yoda said about the Force. Simply put, it is concluded that Yoda was referring to "the Force" as the Force of the One.
Luke also learns about illusion. In one scene, he tries to pickup his X-wing with the Force, but fails. Yoda explains that one should not judge anything by it's size (in essence, what we see is an illusion). He calls all material items "crude matter" and that these are the not the things to judge with. This scene illustrates the Hindu concept that life is an illusion (or Maya).
During the same training scenes, Luke gets a vision of his friends in trouble. Luke then prepares to leave to save his friends. Yoda persuades him not to go by saying that he must finish his training because it is more important. This exemplifies the Hindu concept of duty over family. The duty over family lesson can be seen in stories like the Bhagavad-Gita, where Lord Krishna tells Arjun to fight his cousins, despite his feelings for them, because it is his duty.
At then end of the training scenes, as Luke is leaving, Ben Kenobi warns Luke to never "give into anger and hate." This lesson of benevolence is also taught by Mohandas Gandhi, which he derived from Hinduism.
Besides the training scenes, there are other areas of Star Wars that portray Hinduism. For example, the concept of destiny. In Star Wars, the word "destiny" is used many times in the context of fulfilling one's destiny. This is very similar to duty. Another example is the father-son relationship between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. This parallels with Krishna and his uncle who are both related and nemesis. Finally, one last example, Luke, being the only son, cremates Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi. Though I have heard of other religions cremating, it is a predominantly Hindu ritual. In the above examples I have suggested a few connections between Hinduism and Star Wars. Of course, these are arguable, but they are a starting point in which to provoke thought.
-Rajan Rajbhandari, 1994
I personally use redhat 7.3 I think its fine, if you don't like the version of gcc that comes with it replace it with what you want. You dont like the way the stock kernel is built, build your own. I see a distro as a starting point. A collection of apps that I get to choose and pick from. I heard ppl call red hat bloat ware, sure it has a ton of needless apps but you can always not-install or remove what you dont want. And if you need a tool that doesnt come with the distro go download it. Red hat is doing nothing nor can it to stop this.
I am transferring to UCSD as a CE major this fall. UCSD intro programming course is java, however at my community college java was the last in a long line of pre-reqs(not really pre-reqs because they were more usefull) first we started with a CS survey class, things like turring machines, pusedo code, a fictional machine language that we had to write on paper ugh, then a C class that focused mainly on syntax and the such and just learning how to solve problems and use the tools provided (MS visual studio) from there we got an intro to data structures class learning about sorting methods, stacks, list, dynamicly linked list, binary trees, has algorithims. then assembly(could have taken that before data structures, probably should have but hey) didnt do anything to spetacular hear but got use to machine code. A C++ class was next. here we got introduced to object oriented design the course seemed to focus on how things are done in C++ we reviwed basic syntax then got introduced to classes, and all the fun that comes with them like inheritance, polymorphism, we did function overloading and stuff. the thing i think we missed the most in this class(it was an online summer session) was the standard libaries in C++ didnt touch them too much but now if i got a reference book i could pick it up pretty quick i am sure (nevver bought the book for the class, but we had some really good online notes that i failed to save after the class damn it). Finally we got to java where we were expected to know OOP already and we learned about the tools of java how to build windows and place buttons and text boxes and stuff, threads, streams and all that fun stuff. For our final project we had to write a client app and a server app that was basicly a really limited Instant messging program. The thing i liked the most about java was how easy it was to build applications in a windowing enviroment. never learned how to do that with C/C++ but from the templates MS visual studio spits out it looks a bit more complicated than java. Of course there is always gtk and good stuff like that.
when i transfer i think i got an advanced data structures class to look foward to as well as OS design and compiler design classes. those will be fun. along with all the ee courses
I am pretty happy with my progession overall but i got a hell of a lot more to learn
I have an ti-89 I believe it is the exact same claculator as the 92 minus the keyboard and missing a few geometry apps. I love this calculator especially for all those pesky integrals that can come up. There are tons of apps on the net you can download or purchase. I think i even saw spice ported to the ti-os. It does have a C compiler but I never tried it. No you cant code c onto the calc you have to use a computer but who would want to code directly onto the keypad anyways. You can make the ti do anything you want.
At my community college I took several programming classes online, C++, assembly, and java. I agree with what some else posted here, light studying followed by a CLEP. Not to much interaction. Most of these classes were spent writing the code the night it was due, and forgetting bout the class tell the nexr assignment. Finally the final comes around and crank that one out, open book of course and its all good. The thing about an online class is that you only get out what you put in. that can be good or bad. For me it was ok because these programming ideas I already had a pretty good handle on and didnt have to waste my time in class learning stuff I already knew, or could grasp very quickly. Giving me more time to study my physics and stuff.
i have an hp pavillion notebook with a Athlon 1.2ghz (xp 1400) and it runs at about 70C (65C on battery) consistently and up to 80C under high load. I dont think the fan switches on until 72C. The bottom of the notebook feels like a mug full of really hot coffee. I am running redhat linux with the latest acpi patches for the 2.4 kernel. Pretty hot, hp tech support says this is fine but I dont believe him
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A friend of mine had a really stripped bolt on his oil pan, so he spot welded his craftsmen wrench to the bolt and replaced it with a new bolt. Next day brought the wrench with bolt welded on to sears and got a replacement. Now thats a warrantee
I bet thats not good I am to lazy to try and do anything with that information though. Besides what mischief would I want cause to a poor web site like this
I knew it was a troll but sometimes I feel the need to correct disinformation. Besides what do you care if I respond to a troll my god, do you not have anything better to do than (oops I am responding to a troll again.. damn it) nevermind
I know I dont know why that ass has it out for me, he posted similar comments to several other of my post. Oh well what can you do.
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That someone in my apartment complex gets a wireless router and I can steal their bandwith and get free internet access :)
Seriously instead of purchaisng this just make sure only registered MAC's can be authorized by your router and that knocks out the casual browser. Then have it log all access ( I am sure most routers can do this) and at least for home use you should be good. Coporations need to take some more precautions but i am not a security expert so...
I personally don't plan on becoming a windows developer so I probably will not need to learn C# (not saying that i never will). My guess is that i will be using C and assembly but i guess that really depends on which company I end up working for and the way they do things.
hey assembly is where it started. and a lot of people still use assembly. Just when your trying to write a full application assembly will just simply take to fricking long but it great for those tiny segments
>C++ and Java do not allow the programmer to directly access the hardware. Instead they compile into a "bytecode" which is then interpretted by a virtual machine. While very portable, this limits the speed of Java and C++ programs.
Ok first of while java is compiled into byto code, C++ is compiled to machine code. Also in C/C++ you can wirte inline assembly to really make some core parts of your code fly.
>(the way MS has pushed Java, or Sun supported C#)
are you backwards?
>I would like to see the FSF release a GNU-based assembly compiler
already there.
Here is a pretty cool article on the future possbility of a space elevator
Not that I like IE but trusted domains works pretty well. I assume that your employee's access the same few sites for work related purpose. My employer is a financial consultant so we have a several provider's web sites that we use to get client account information. I simply tell the browsers to trust thoses domain and be really strict everywhere else. If a user complains about 'why cant I see the trailer for the new movie', well the answer is you dont need to.
Google is a very good search engine. And I don't know what the hell this Mr. Anti-Google is talking about, "undemocratic" everyoney knows google is powered by pigeon clustetrs, millions of pigeons voting on the relevant sites
I am sure most of you have seen this but this is some of the most clear codeI have ever seen.
Of course myself I have Linux loaded on my new hp laptop with an amd processor (its ok but its got issues) with star office for word processing, gcc instead of visual studio and sun java sdk
A side note if you look at the support forums on hp's web site you will see a lot discontent. HP only has long distance phone numbers for support and the only thing they tell you to do is to reimage your system with the recovery cd's that come with the systekm no matter what your problem is. I use to really respect hp but lately they have gotten a bit shoddy
I am a computer engineering student and both my parents are high school teachers. My mom recently graduated from SDSU with a b.a. in French and her teaching credential. She had to take a series of tech ed classes, mainly they taught her about powerpoint, how to build web pages with a simple web creation tool. She had projects where she had to build a whole web site with a sylabus(spelling?), notes, links etc. etc. The gave these educational websites some buzz word name "infotracks" or something like that can't really remember. Personally I think 90% of the kids already know how to use a computer by the time they enter school. Its the teachers just trying to save face by showing the kids they know too. I can't think of any class that has been enriched by the teachers use of technology save my programming classes but hey thats kind of a given. Actually once my math professor brought in a laptop and played some 4d space simulations that was cool but kind of useless. Several profs have tried using message boards and assigning that every student post two site related to clas etc etc Complete waste of time maybe the same two suck up students used the board the same time and eveyone else posted www.computers.com or something lame like that. I think students should be given assignments that require a computer but dont give them any set way of doing (like telling them what software to use) Let them come up with the solutions and use technology how they best see fit, ie instant messeging group mates, and using a yahoo briefcase to share files, vs the group that uses irc to do the whole project whatever but let htem figure it out. As far as education for the teachers I think most new teachers should alread have a good background in computers and they should be more worried about what they are teaching than how they can use the newest wiz bang technology to teach the same old thing. If you teaching computers then you should have a comp sci degree anywyas and will completely ignore any tech-ed class
yes but can we really call the new star wars movies "Star Wars" more like good girl gone hollywood whore
i would agree with that. thank you for an intellegent response compared to the rest.
in interviews lucas states the the jedi is a wrapper for his hindu beliefs. He just gave it another name and gave them some really cool powers and light sabers. See my earlier post
Actually the jedi faith is very similar to hinduism in it beliefs about the force being vreated by all living things. I didnt write the following excerpt but thought I would post it here. ______ It is a very little known fact that George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars world, has strong Hindu beliefs. Just as Hinduism affects our lives, so has it affected his, which can be shown by the fact that he has incorporated Hindu themes throughout the Star Wars trilogy. This essay will touch, through various examples, the way Lucas has weaved Hinduism into his movies. Of the trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back seems to portray Hinduism in the fullest sense. Specifically, the part when Luke Skywalker goes to find Yoda. When he first arrives, Luke finds himself in a forest, looking for the old, wise Yoda to learn the ways of the Jedi. This is very like Hindu's Janoi (Gujarati), where young males run to the forest in search of the old, wise yogi, who would provide great knowledge. Just as a yogi "tests" potential students on their patience to enter into the arduous task of learning, so does Yoda "test" Luke by not telling him who he is. His purpose, of course, was seeing if Luke had patience or not. As the training progresses, Luke learns to control what is called "the Force." Yoda explains that everything is part of the Force, such as the "...the tree, the rock..." etc. This Force is very similar to the Hindu concept of the One or the Universe (in essence Om). In Hinduism it is said that we are all part of the One, just like what Yoda said about the Force. Simply put, it is concluded that Yoda was referring to "the Force" as the Force of the One. Luke also learns about illusion. In one scene, he tries to pickup his X-wing with the Force, but fails. Yoda explains that one should not judge anything by it's size (in essence, what we see is an illusion). He calls all material items "crude matter" and that these are the not the things to judge with. This scene illustrates the Hindu concept that life is an illusion (or Maya). During the same training scenes, Luke gets a vision of his friends in trouble. Luke then prepares to leave to save his friends. Yoda persuades him not to go by saying that he must finish his training because it is more important. This exemplifies the Hindu concept of duty over family. The duty over family lesson can be seen in stories like the Bhagavad-Gita, where Lord Krishna tells Arjun to fight his cousins, despite his feelings for them, because it is his duty. At then end of the training scenes, as Luke is leaving, Ben Kenobi warns Luke to never "give into anger and hate." This lesson of benevolence is also taught by Mohandas Gandhi, which he derived from Hinduism. Besides the training scenes, there are other areas of Star Wars that portray Hinduism. For example, the concept of destiny. In Star Wars, the word "destiny" is used many times in the context of fulfilling one's destiny. This is very similar to duty. Another example is the father-son relationship between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. This parallels with Krishna and his uncle who are both related and nemesis. Finally, one last example, Luke, being the only son, cremates Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi. Though I have heard of other religions cremating, it is a predominantly Hindu ritual. In the above examples I have suggested a few connections between Hinduism and Star Wars. Of course, these are arguable, but they are a starting point in which to provoke thought. -Rajan Rajbhandari, 1994
I personally use redhat 7.3 I think its fine, if you don't like the version of gcc that comes with it replace it with what you want. You dont like the way the stock kernel is built, build your own. I see a distro as a starting point. A collection of apps that I get to choose and pick from. I heard ppl call red hat bloat ware, sure it has a ton of needless apps but you can always not-install or remove what you dont want. And if you need a tool that doesnt come with the distro go download it. Red hat is doing nothing nor can it to stop this.
I am transferring to UCSD as a CE major this fall. UCSD intro programming course is java, however at my community college java was the last in a long line of pre-reqs(not really pre-reqs because they were more usefull) first we started with a CS survey class, things like turring machines, pusedo code, a fictional machine language that we had to write on paper ugh, then a C class that focused mainly on syntax and the such and just learning how to solve problems and use the tools provided (MS visual studio) from there we got an intro to data structures class learning about sorting methods, stacks, list, dynamicly linked list, binary trees, has algorithims. then assembly(could have taken that before data structures, probably should have but hey) didnt do anything to spetacular hear but got use to machine code. A C++ class was next. here we got introduced to object oriented design the course seemed to focus on how things are done in C++ we reviwed basic syntax then got introduced to classes, and all the fun that comes with them like inheritance, polymorphism, we did function overloading and stuff. the thing i think we missed the most in this class(it was an online summer session) was the standard libaries in C++ didnt touch them too much but now if i got a reference book i could pick it up pretty quick i am sure (nevver bought the book for the class, but we had some really good online notes that i failed to save after the class damn it). Finally we got to java where we were expected to know OOP already and we learned about the tools of java how to build windows and place buttons and text boxes and stuff, threads, streams and all that fun stuff. For our final project we had to write a client app and a server app that was basicly a really limited Instant messging program. The thing i liked the most about java was how easy it was to build applications in a windowing enviroment. never learned how to do that with C/C++ but from the templates MS visual studio spits out it looks a bit more complicated than java. Of course there is always gtk and good stuff like that. when i transfer i think i got an advanced data structures class to look foward to as well as OS design and compiler design classes. those will be fun. along with all the ee courses I am pretty happy with my progession overall but i got a hell of a lot more to learn
Why the hell would you even want a barcode scanner?
I have an ti-89 I believe it is the exact same claculator as the 92 minus the keyboard and missing a few geometry apps. I love this calculator especially for all those pesky integrals that can come up. There are tons of apps on the net you can download or purchase. I think i even saw spice ported to the ti-os. It does have a C compiler but I never tried it. No you cant code c onto the calc you have to use a computer but who would want to code directly onto the keypad anyways. You can make the ti do anything you want.
At my community college I took several programming classes online, C++, assembly, and java. I agree with what some else posted here, light studying followed by a CLEP. Not to much interaction. Most of these classes were spent writing the code the night it was due, and forgetting bout the class tell the nexr assignment. Finally the final comes around and crank that one out, open book of course and its all good. The thing about an online class is that you only get out what you put in. that can be good or bad. For me it was ok because these programming ideas I already had a pretty good handle on and didnt have to waste my time in class learning stuff I already knew, or could grasp very quickly. Giving me more time to study my physics and stuff.
i have an hp pavillion notebook with a Athlon 1.2ghz (xp 1400) and it runs at about 70C (65C on battery) consistently and up to 80C under high load. I dont think the fan switches on until 72C. The bottom of the notebook feels like a mug full of really hot coffee. I am running redhat linux with the latest acpi patches for the 2.4 kernel. Pretty hot, hp tech support says this is fine but I dont believe him
but I am still using that 4x I bought for $250 ;-)