yeah, bush has done 40 things worse. excessive spending, a federal takeover of education and airport security, a massive medicare bill, trade tariffs, spending more than clinton ever did. yeah, i got alot of issues domestically. how again is he a "conservative"?
however, he has been right on the war on terror. not just afghanistan and iraq, but look at lebanon, egypt, palestinian terrirtories, ukraine, etc. i only supported him on the war, because he is doing a great job. we are winning. maybe all those anti-war people maybe should rethink a few things...
the only real problem with last years election is that for most of/.ers, the wrong guy won. the us civil rights commission did two exhaustive studies of florida. guess what? nothing. no fraud, no intimidation, no disenfranchisement. sorry go home. the press did a thorough recount of the ballots. every scenario. guess what. bush still wins. if you want the links, i'll find them, but we're finding voter reg. fraud in ohio, but oops, they'er democratic. and washington state. please. dead people voting, "discovered" ballots, 500 people registered at the same address. recounts until the democrat wins.
i'm honestly taking sides, because i think there's going to be an amount of chicanery on both sides. but if this is your kool-aid, and you focus on voting problems, a system which has served us for 200 years, then you're living in la la land. the 1960 election was won by fraud. nixon didn't run around the country for years claiming he was robbed, etc. if you're unhappy, how about volunteering next time, as the democrats had to pay campaign workers, while the republicans had 1 million volunteers. oh, and lastly, if you're hanging out at kos, oh nevermind...
north korea. and they have nukes thanks to failure on the clinton admin. and don't anyone claim that they got them under bush, because clinton sent carter there in 1994 and secured an "agreement". carter's plane wasn't even off the tarmac when noko turned off the inspection cameras and began reprcessing the spent rods. and it was kinda hard to focus on noko after 9/11.
now of course, when you talk about "communists", you're really referring to stalinists. and there're a few left around. chavez in venezuela is close. and they got lots of oil.
true, but i can't imagine that they couldn't do it with an int[] or something like it: hell, even c has int rand(void) which could fill an array and i imagine is in the c libs used by apple. not that i'd know how to do it in c though.
damn, i posted to early. i stil have mod points left. that is a a helluva business plan apple has. convincing people that they made the right purchase AFTER they bought it.
1) reassure customer purchase was right one
2) ???????
3) profit
it's funny that would happen. i gave an example to my ap comp sci class last semester, a simple deck of cards. first, create a clean deck of cards, in order. then i simply loaded all the cards into an ArrayList (or a Vector, doesn't matter really), got a Random.nextInt(ArrayList.size()-1), grabbed that card, and threw it into the new deck, then ArrayList.trimToSize(). did that until the ordered deck was empty. i had them look for patterns. few emerge. then, we used a little recursion and shuffled x number of times. now, if a wannabe hacker like me, using java no less, can think to do that, then there should be no problem. hell, we're not talking about loading the actual mp3's, just the filenames. on an ipod shuffle, there's what, 500 songs? how many k are all the filenames gonna be really? load them into a (what the hell is the cocoa class?), shuffle into a new class, lather rinse, repeat. bingo. if there's repeating, and i don't know, my 20gb ipod plays iron maiden, slayer, etc., albums, i don't ever randomize. but that's me.
Is it just me, or does Dvorak get dumber and dumber with every passing column?
he can't get any dumber. he needs something to write about, goes into his cliche drawer and pulls up linux, MS, and death. add in a secret meeting (what, no tin foil hat?). viola', article on slashdot.
the user license only applies to appletalk users. there are unlimitied smb, ftp, etc. the other problem with osx/darwin is it uses netinfo instead of/etc for users, etc. netinfo has full access in the cli so no gui is needed. and, if you're setting up a unix server, and you're a *nix/cli expert, you probably aren't after osx server, or ppc either (cost). you can easily install anything on os x client, so if you have a G4 or whatever laying around, and you can set up a >console user (no gui) in darwin, running linux for free might not be becessary.
trust me, 1/2 the kids would lose the sticks in a week. hell, i take my students into the lab in august, we change passwords, come october, they've forgetten them. you're better off with a smb or nfs central file server, then outside ftp. at least then it's only a password problem.
the other problem is that knoppix does take a while to load (off the cd), and you'd need a swap partition anyways to improve performance. since the clients are fairly decent computers, they will run most distro's fine. everyone is always pushing the latest distro. but you know what, fire up something a bit older, like mandrake 7.2. the latest firefox and OO.org will still run (though other apps that need newer libs might not), and the system will run lots faster. hell, i have an older K62-300/128mb laptop that i drag along on road trips. runs mdk7.2 great. for kids in a computer lab, performance will be an issue as they wait and have time to play grabass.
yes i was mostly commenting on high school texts. however, he's talking about teaching at the juco level, which many classes are nothing more than glorified high school courses. (not to offend, as alot of great classes and teaching goes on at the juco level, but alot of it is high school redux) and the class is an "online javascript class", which i doubt would be a class someone who is transferring to CS would take, other than as a interest. so, the class is alot more practical in nature, i assume, which would necessitate more programming and less theory. do you need to understand polymorphism? no. functions and return values? yes. so, a text for this course would probably be more suited to the high school level, i.e. less "theory", more practicality. just my $0.02. but you are correct abotu text book publishing. it's a crying shame.
i teach mod civ and computer programming (ap comp sci) at a high school. i use the textbooks for both classes very little. i find most text books to be horrible and lacking any real content. what i do for mod civ is find much better article, essays, etc., from reputable locations, use source documents, and always supplement with my knowledge of the subject. I use alot of historical texts and sections from them. as for the computer programming, i have found a ton of resources on the internet, but mostly, i explain a concept, then give them work to practice. with the millions of resources available on the internet, it is ahrdly likely a textbook will cover something novel.
and truthfully, if you need a text book, the teach yourself in 21 days series are as good an introdcutory book as you will find. i also like the oreilly series alot too. the best part about the oreilly books is that they are not too expensive, and they will be useful after the class.
while one cannot "steal" graphics, it would be hard to argue that copying someone's.css file, or a bunch of nested tables, considering that the source is a click away, is copyright infringement. obviously, one could argue, what's it called, brand dilution, if i set up a site called ebey.com and copied the general layout and functionality. but that's different. i someone took layout from one of my sites, hell, i'd be flattered. i'd think it would be quite difficult to trademark html. and,considering that most sites follow the header/3 column layout, how original can one really be.
now, my wife does part-time photography, and belogns to several photo forums. a thread recently had several photo websites that leached everything, even galleries, but, hard linked the photos to the original server. so when the original site owner found out, they replaced the leached photos with gay porn. but that's a bit different.
if someone has been doing something a certain way for years, then it will become second nature. any changes and they get all tweaked. and as for programmers, especially older c/c++ guys, probably cut their teeth on vt100 terminals, etc., "the good old days...", VS would be like putting richard petty into the space shuttle. not to typecast or stereotype, but programmers (not wannabes like myself, i do java, php, etc.), guys who are real gearheads, are gonna be a little compulsive, like musicians. fine. lord knows we need good programmers. anyways, i see kids like that in my classroom, the minute you do something different, they literally freak out. i try to keep my class fairly consistent, but on occasion, i'll do something like have them read battle accounts then write poetry like a ww1 soldier (i teach history, btw) some of them just go ape shit. they literally can't think in that abstract sense. or i'll have them label a map with the countries, the battles, then chart the casualties. that sort of order throws the other half off as well. it's like, "what do i label?", "where do the KIA go?", etc. they refuse to do something in a specific manner.
and that's alot like an ide, especially one from microsoft. hell, you do it there way. period. i can totally see how a guy could be a c++ guru but get turned upside down with VS. remember, tools and carpenters are distinct items.
the parents's comment was that he'd rather use a crappy OS if it was open source versus a proprietary one. i was commenting on his fundamentalism, if you will, not debian. i haven't used debian other than knoppix. i have mostly used redhat/fedora and mandrake. i'm not an os x fanboi, nor a linux troll. hell, even linus uses a proprietary project management system fo rthe kernel. big deal. it's not a religious war. though some prefer to wage their technical jihad.
i'd rather have a crappy OSS desktop than a propietary one.
you and four other people.
most of us will use the best tool for the job. that is why i use os x AND darwinports. i get the best of both worlds. until iphoto, itunes, and imovie have comprable equivalents on linux then it's a moot point. for me, i need java, perl, mysql, php, and python. hmmm...already there. X11. there. the only real reason i'd need to run lunux is if i was doing kernel development or something x86 specific. and i don't.
and by the way, i have linux installed on my pc at home. i've run linux since 1998 (red hat 5.2). my "switch" if you will came a couple of years ago when i needed a new laptop and didn't want to pay the ms tax and hardware compatibility was less than perfect for linux on laptops, though it is better now. plus, i have three children and lots of digital movies.
not true at all. my old bondi blue 233mhz/160mb ram runs osx slowly, but yellowdog 3 runs rather well. the only problem is the small hard drive and cd-rom. ppc linux runs rather fast. in fact, my 700mhz G3 ibook dual boots between panther and yellowdog. i use it at school and need the linux partition as os x can't access novell netware servers. now, i'm trying to figure out how to run os x under linux via mac-on-linux. but as for linux/ppc performance, linux wins. as for darwin alone, don't know.
what's your secret. i've been trying to get my district to go with some macs for a while, especially for my AP comp sci class. they're still stuck in the OS9 mentality. they say it's cost, but when you figure in anti-virus, security software, lockremote control, etc., it adds hundreds plus when you talk about maintanence and upkeep...
apple has traditionally been a hardware company. that is their forte. when they do software, they have the advantage of a singular platform (hw and sw), and can focus on a narrow audience. the only noticable problem, at least that i saw in the old mac lab was appletalk. it was slow and inconsistent.
I'm talking about how he treats his customers and the computing industry in general.
i have no love for their products. i use linux, os x, develop php/mysql apps, etc. my wife uses her computer for her photo business and runs xp, but uses, moz mail, firefox, etc., and needs it primarily for photoshop. now, as for gates and businesses, again, i'm no fan, but look, microsoft has done more for the computing industry and computing than we really want to admit. because of him, there is a computer on every desk. because of him, millions of people have been able to put comptuers in their businesses, become infinielty more productive, and become infintiely more profitable. (no bitching about profits. i'm not talking about corrupoion and shit like that. and what company is gonna hire a programmer if they aren't profitable. hire-a-geek telethon was last week.) and all those businesses that benefitted never gave bill a dime of their extra profits beyond the software costs. look, i won't even run wmp on my ibook because i figure they got some backdoor crap that'll log whatever i watch, like they do in windows. but, saying that gates treats his customers like shit is a mindless comment becasue had he, they'd have left along time ago. and separate customers from the industry. for the most part, he has given his customers what they want. now, it's his actions like passport, activation, all the other shit that he wants to do that sucks. i agree. but don't confuse his desire to eexpand his influence and treating his customers shitily.
the difference is between a crappy $500 dollar laptop and a much better one even if it's two years old. a crappy laptop always will be crappy, while an older, once top of the line laptop will have a better screen, keyboard, etc. i'll take that for development any day of the week
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apparently you lack a sense of humor. and by the way, we got a raise. i get 25 grand a year. (that's humor too.)
i thought you open source guys were a bunch of raving anarchists. now i find out you actaully have a union to give a state of address. damn.
yeah, bush has done 40 things worse. excessive spending, a federal takeover of education and airport security, a massive medicare bill, trade tariffs, spending more than clinton ever did. yeah, i got alot of issues domestically. how again is he a "conservative"?
however, he has been right on the war on terror. not just afghanistan and iraq, but look at lebanon, egypt, palestinian terrirtories, ukraine, etc. i only supported him on the war, because he is doing a great job. we are winning. maybe all those anti-war people maybe should rethink a few things...
crap. i'm honestly not taking sides...
the only real problem with last years election is that for most of /.ers, the wrong guy won. the us civil rights commission did two exhaustive studies of florida. guess what? nothing. no fraud, no intimidation, no disenfranchisement. sorry go home. the press did a thorough recount of the ballots. every scenario. guess what. bush still wins. if you want the links, i'll find them, but we're finding voter reg. fraud in ohio, but oops, they'er democratic. and washington state. please. dead people voting, "discovered" ballots, 500 people registered at the same address. recounts until the democrat wins.
i'm honestly taking sides, because i think there's going to be an amount of chicanery on both sides. but if this is your kool-aid, and you focus on voting problems, a system which has served us for 200 years, then you're living in la la land. the 1960 election was won by fraud. nixon didn't run around the country for years claiming he was robbed, etc. if you're unhappy, how about volunteering next time, as the democrats had to pay campaign workers, while the republicans had 1 million volunteers. oh, and lastly, if you're hanging out at kos, oh nevermind...
north korea. and they have nukes thanks to failure on the clinton admin. and don't anyone claim that they got them under bush, because clinton sent carter there in 1994 and secured an "agreement". carter's plane wasn't even off the tarmac when noko turned off the inspection cameras and began reprcessing the spent rods. and it was kinda hard to focus on noko after 9/11.
now of course, when you talk about "communists", you're really referring to stalinists. and there're a few left around. chavez in venezuela is close. and they got lots of oil.
oh.
true, but i can't imagine that they couldn't do it with an int[] or something like it: hell, even c has int rand(void) which could fill an array and i imagine is in the c libs used by apple. not that i'd know how to do it in c though.
damn, i posted to early. i stil have mod points left. that is a a helluva business plan apple has. convincing people that they made the right purchase AFTER they bought it.
1) reassure customer purchase was right one
2) ???????
3) profit
it's funny that would happen. i gave an example to my ap comp sci class last semester, a simple deck of cards. first, create a clean deck of cards, in order. then i simply loaded all the cards into an ArrayList (or a Vector, doesn't matter really), got a Random.nextInt(ArrayList.size()-1), grabbed that card, and threw it into the new deck, then ArrayList.trimToSize(). did that until the ordered deck was empty. i had them look for patterns. few emerge. then, we used a little recursion and shuffled x number of times. now, if a wannabe hacker like me, using java no less, can think to do that, then there should be no problem. hell, we're not talking about loading the actual mp3's, just the filenames. on an ipod shuffle, there's what, 500 songs? how many k are all the filenames gonna be really? load them into a (what the hell is the cocoa class?), shuffle into a new class, lather rinse, repeat. bingo. if there's repeating, and i don't know, my 20gb ipod plays iron maiden, slayer, etc., albums, i don't ever randomize. but that's me.
Is it just me, or does Dvorak get dumber and dumber with every passing column?
he can't get any dumber. he needs something to write about, goes into his cliche drawer and pulls up linux, MS, and death. add in a secret meeting (what, no tin foil hat?). viola', article on slashdot.
the user license only applies to appletalk users. there are unlimitied smb, ftp, etc. the other problem with osx/darwin is it uses netinfo instead of /etc for users, etc. netinfo has full access in the cli so no gui is needed. and, if you're setting up a unix server, and you're a *nix/cli expert, you probably aren't after osx server, or ppc either (cost). you can easily install anything on os x client, so if you have a G4 or whatever laying around, and you can set up a >console user (no gui) in darwin, running linux for free might not be becessary.
trust me, 1/2 the kids would lose the sticks in a week. hell, i take my students into the lab in august, we change passwords, come october, they've forgetten them. you're better off with a smb or nfs central file server, then outside ftp. at least then it's only a password problem.
the other problem is that knoppix does take a while to load (off the cd), and you'd need a swap partition anyways to improve performance. since the clients are fairly decent computers, they will run most distro's fine. everyone is always pushing the latest distro. but you know what, fire up something a bit older, like mandrake 7.2. the latest firefox and OO.org will still run (though other apps that need newer libs might not), and the system will run lots faster. hell, i have an older K62-300/128mb laptop that i drag along on road trips. runs mdk7.2 great. for kids in a computer lab, performance will be an issue as they wait and have time to play grabass.
yes i was mostly commenting on high school texts. however, he's talking about teaching at the juco level, which many classes are nothing more than glorified high school courses. (not to offend, as alot of great classes and teaching goes on at the juco level, but alot of it is high school redux) and the class is an "online javascript class", which i doubt would be a class someone who is transferring to CS would take, other than as a interest. so, the class is alot more practical in nature, i assume, which would necessitate more programming and less theory. do you need to understand polymorphism? no. functions and return values? yes. so, a text for this course would probably be more suited to the high school level, i.e. less "theory", more practicality. just my $0.02. but you are correct abotu text book publishing. it's a crying shame.
i teach mod civ and computer programming (ap comp sci) at a high school. i use the textbooks for both classes very little. i find most text books to be horrible and lacking any real content. what i do for mod civ is find much better article, essays, etc., from reputable locations, use source documents, and always supplement with my knowledge of the subject. I use alot of historical texts and sections from them. as for the computer programming, i have found a ton of resources on the internet, but mostly, i explain a concept, then give them work to practice. with the millions of resources available on the internet, it is ahrdly likely a textbook will cover something novel.
and truthfully, if you need a text book, the teach yourself in 21 days series are as good an introdcutory book as you will find. i also like the oreilly series alot too. the best part about the oreilly books is that they are not too expensive, and they will be useful after the class.
while one cannot "steal" graphics, it would be hard to argue that copying someone's .css file, or a bunch of nested tables, considering that the source is a click away, is copyright infringement. obviously, one could argue, what's it called, brand dilution, if i set up a site called ebey.com and copied the general layout and functionality. but that's different. i someone took layout from one of my sites, hell, i'd be flattered. i'd think it would be quite difficult to trademark html. and,considering that most sites follow the header/3 column layout, how original can one really be.
now, my wife does part-time photography, and belogns to several photo forums. a thread recently had several photo websites that leached everything, even galleries, but, hard linked the photos to the original server. so when the original site owner found out, they replaced the leached photos with gay porn. but that's a bit different.
if someone has been doing something a certain way for years, then it will become second nature. any changes and they get all tweaked. and as for programmers, especially older c/c++ guys, probably cut their teeth on vt100 terminals, etc., "the good old days...", VS would be like putting richard petty into the space shuttle. not to typecast or stereotype, but programmers (not wannabes like myself, i do java, php, etc.), guys who are real gearheads, are gonna be a little compulsive, like musicians. fine. lord knows we need good programmers. anyways, i see kids like that in my classroom, the minute you do something different, they literally freak out. i try to keep my class fairly consistent, but on occasion, i'll do something like have them read battle accounts then write poetry like a ww1 soldier (i teach history, btw) some of them just go ape shit. they literally can't think in that abstract sense. or i'll have them label a map with the countries, the battles, then chart the casualties. that sort of order throws the other half off as well. it's like, "what do i label?", "where do the KIA go?", etc. they refuse to do something in a specific manner.
and that's alot like an ide, especially one from microsoft. hell, you do it there way. period. i can totally see how a guy could be a c++ guru but get turned upside down with VS. remember, tools and carpenters are distinct items.
the parents's comment was that he'd rather use a crappy OS if it was open source versus a proprietary one. i was commenting on his fundamentalism, if you will, not debian. i haven't used debian other than knoppix. i have mostly used redhat/fedora and mandrake. i'm not an os x fanboi, nor a linux troll. hell, even linus uses a proprietary project management system fo rthe kernel. big deal. it's not a religious war. though some prefer to wage their technical jihad.
i'd rather have a crappy OSS desktop than a propietary one.
you and four other people.
most of us will use the best tool for the job. that is why i use os x AND darwinports. i get the best of both worlds. until iphoto, itunes, and imovie have comprable equivalents on linux then it's a moot point. for me, i need java, perl, mysql, php, and python. hmmm...already there. X11. there. the only real reason i'd need to run lunux is if i was doing kernel development or something x86 specific. and i don't.
and by the way, i have linux installed on my pc at home. i've run linux since 1998 (red hat 5.2). my "switch" if you will came a couple of years ago when i needed a new laptop and didn't want to pay the ms tax and hardware compatibility was less than perfect for linux on laptops, though it is better now. plus, i have three children and lots of digital movies.
not true at all. my old bondi blue 233mhz/160mb ram runs osx slowly, but yellowdog 3 runs rather well. the only problem is the small hard drive and cd-rom. ppc linux runs rather fast. in fact, my 700mhz G3 ibook dual boots between panther and yellowdog. i use it at school and need the linux partition as os x can't access novell netware servers. now, i'm trying to figure out how to run os x under linux via mac-on-linux. but as for linux/ppc performance, linux wins. as for darwin alone, don't know.
I buy a good deal of macs for my school district
what's your secret. i've been trying to get my district to go with some macs for a while, especially for my AP comp sci class. they're still stuck in the OS9 mentality. they say it's cost, but when you figure in anti-virus, security software, lockremote control, etc., it adds hundreds plus when you talk about maintanence and upkeep...
apple has traditionally been a hardware company. that is their forte. when they do software, they have the advantage of a singular platform (hw and sw), and can focus on a narrow audience. the only noticable problem, at least that i saw in the old mac lab was appletalk. it was slow and inconsistent.
I'm talking about how he treats his customers and the computing industry in general.
i have no love for their products. i use linux, os x, develop php/mysql apps, etc. my wife uses her computer for her photo business and runs xp, but uses, moz mail, firefox, etc., and needs it primarily for photoshop. now, as for gates and businesses, again, i'm no fan, but look, microsoft has done more for the computing industry and computing than we really want to admit. because of him, there is a computer on every desk. because of him, millions of people have been able to put comptuers in their businesses, become infinielty more productive, and become infintiely more profitable. (no bitching about profits. i'm not talking about corrupoion and shit like that. and what company is gonna hire a programmer if they aren't profitable. hire-a-geek telethon was last week.) and all those businesses that benefitted never gave bill a dime of their extra profits beyond the software costs. look, i won't even run wmp on my ibook because i figure they got some backdoor crap that'll log whatever i watch, like they do in windows. but, saying that gates treats his customers like shit is a mindless comment becasue had he, they'd have left along time ago. and separate customers from the industry. for the most part, he has given his customers what they want. now, it's his actions like passport, activation, all the other shit that he wants to do that sucks. i agree. but don't confuse his desire to eexpand his influence and treating his customers shitily.
you think they programmed some AI into the roomba?
the difference is between a crappy $500 dollar laptop and a much better one even if it's two years old. a crappy laptop always will be crappy, while an older, once top of the line laptop will have a better screen, keyboard, etc. i'll take that for development any day of the week