I think it depends on what you're trying to do. In high-school I was on a botball team. It's a robotics competition using Lego Mindstorms controllers (and others). Teams are given goals, then make & program robots with the supplied parts kit, and use the robots to compete at achieving those goals.
We could have done some programming with the graphical software Mindstorms includes. But it was too limited, too slow, and not nearly as useful as the using C & a compiler. It's not that graphical programming is a bad idea, it's a fine idea, it's just that it tends to either be limited, or slower than just learning how to type the instructions out.
That said, I think such environments could be great for creating program designs. A design document that you can run & get basic, overall proof-of-concept functionality out of could be very useful.
Capsaicin (the stuff that makes spicy food spicy) doesn't have any known immune-boosting effects, but the reaction to the spice can help clear the sinuses. The increased tear duct activity & mucous production can help loosen mucous in the nose (it's more liquidy). Mexico has poor overall sanitation, so while their food may be helpful in treating the symptoms the risk of contracting a disease is higher.
Mod parent funny. The ground fault attack (hard to carry out) is superseded by the obvious RF attack, that is to just monitor the wireless signal.
You're not the only one laughing at that joke, but the mods clearly didn't get it (+4 interesting as of this writing.)
That's for anti-vibration. And racketballs cut in half work just as well. Or hanging a cement block from the ceiling with bungee cords. The second is used in at least one DIY scanning electron microscope design, it's pretty good. Eliminating power noise is an electrical circuit, often an AC->DC->AC circuit.
I am of Jewish heritage. My great grandparents were shot by the Nazis. Part of my family is Argentinian, as they were forced to flee there to escape the death camps. I don't like Nazis of any sort. But I still think the freedom of speech is more important. Suppressing someone's beliefs, through any means is wrong. If that means is hate crime laws or death camps, it's still wrong.
True, but over the whole year the maximal width is 2au. Average width is 1 AU. The width of the "circle" (ellipse actually) that makes up a year is the diameter, which is about 2 AU (ellipse, remember?)
Not exactly. I've got some "old" decks that handily beat any new deck. The real cash cow for them is Type II. Since most tournaments are Type II, and in Type II you can only use cards from the last 2 sets (Current Edition, last 2 expansions) you have to buy new cards & change your deck every few months. Many Type I or I.5 decks don't use cards from the last few editions at all, especially the Type I, which can use the very old and overpowered cards.
And that leads to what we already have in all MMOs: One perfect setup with the rest being crap.
I think that's why I ilke EVE online. Sure, most ships have 1 or 2 really good setups, and most ship classes have 1-2 best ships, but because of the way scaling works an interceptor or assault frigate probably can't be killed by a battleship. It may not be able to kill the BS easily, or at all, but it lets the newbies compete and be useful. That interceptor can hold a BS down for the rest of the gang to kill, while not dying.
There's also the nice bit that, out of all the skills you have at any time, only a small fraction can be used with any one ship. The ship's items (modules) determine what you can do with it, and trying to fit a module for everything tends to lead to a very unfocused, very dead ship.
Of course, it's not all perfect. The player-controlled space mechanics are currently such that they encourage massive power-blocks, instead of many small alliances in conflict with each other. The next "expansion" (really, a big patch, since they're included in the subscription...) is going to revise this, but how successful it will be I cannot say yet.
Firefox is already multithreaded. This is multiprocessing, which is different. Threads are subsets of a process, and if a thread crashes the whole process crashes. This will allow one process (tab) to crash without crashing the entire browser. Each process (tab, UI) can be multithreaded, allowing for performance gains.
The downside, of course, is that processes generally require more overhead than tabs.
Don't forget Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" (1967), or Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question" (1956). It's a much older concept than Neuromancer.
Neverwinter did things rather well though. You start at level 1, and in one of the expansions (Hordes of the Underdark) the level cap is raised from 20 to 40. You HAD godlike powers. But there are suddenly bigger, better gods around.
Of course, that's power creep, and can be bad in multiplayer games: old players are forever greater than new players, and the newbies can't contribute.
Pointless, eh?
It lets me install security patches when I want, without rebooting.
Yet I do reboot for reasons other than patching. I run Kubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Slackware, and Windows. I like to test programs I write before releasing them. This lets me avoid rebooting when I don't want to, and the faster reboots with Jaunty make those times when I do want to reboot easier.
The best network-management classes I've taken worked similarly. There's not really work to show, but you had to put the right answer. The best bit was, for most of them, the Internet was allowed. Only on the test where we had problems like "The internet connection is down, here are the symptoms, get internet again" was it not allowed as a reference. The extra-credit problems required the internet, their material was not taught in class. As a network admin, you need to be able to use google/whatever search engine, because no one can know every possible problem's solution. But if the knowledge is out there, and you learn how to find it, you can solve real-world problems.
"Independent filmmakers seem able to produce top quality films for only a few million, even using unionized labor throughout."
Sure, having your workers ground themselves so they don't carry a charge will decrease some small electrical shocks, but is it really that much of a problem to have ionized labor?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function
Read that. It's hard to get the original password, because no one knows how to do the math backwards. It can be easy to change the password, just hash your new password & copy the new hash over, replacing the old. Of course, if there's a secret salt that will fail, but you can probably discover the salt. All that requires physical access in most cases, BTW.
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I think it depends on what you're trying to do. In high-school I was on a botball team. It's a robotics competition using Lego Mindstorms controllers (and others). Teams are given goals, then make & program robots with the supplied parts kit, and use the robots to compete at achieving those goals.
We could have done some programming with the graphical software Mindstorms includes. But it was too limited, too slow, and not nearly as useful as the using C & a compiler. It's not that graphical programming is a bad idea, it's a fine idea, it's just that it tends to either be limited, or slower than just learning how to type the instructions out.
That said, I think such environments could be great for creating program designs. A design document that you can run & get basic, overall proof-of-concept functionality out of could be very useful.
Capsaicin (the stuff that makes spicy food spicy) doesn't have any known immune-boosting effects, but the reaction to the spice can help clear the sinuses. The increased tear duct activity & mucous production can help loosen mucous in the nose (it's more liquidy). Mexico has poor overall sanitation, so while their food may be helpful in treating the symptoms the risk of contracting a disease is higher.
Mod parent funny. The ground fault attack (hard to carry out) is superseded by the obvious RF attack, that is to just monitor the wireless signal.
You're not the only one laughing at that joke, but the mods clearly didn't get it (+4 interesting as of this writing.)
That's for anti-vibration. And racketballs cut in half work just as well. Or hanging a cement block from the ceiling with bungee cords. The second is used in at least one DIY scanning electron microscope design, it's pretty good. Eliminating power noise is an electrical circuit, often an AC->DC->AC circuit.
I am of Jewish heritage. My great grandparents were shot by the Nazis. Part of my family is Argentinian, as they were forced to flee there to escape the death camps. I don't like Nazis of any sort. But I still think the freedom of speech is more important. Suppressing someone's beliefs, through any means is wrong. If that means is hate crime laws or death camps, it's still wrong.
PNS syndrome is a horrible, horrible thing.
Changing the weather is easy. Chaos theory tells us that. Predicting the change is the hard part, and controlling what change you want is even harder.
That is, of course, due to the fact that a Troy pound (used for gold) measures a lower weight than an avoirdupois pound.
True, but over the whole year the maximal width is 2au. Average width is 1 AU. The width of the "circle" (ellipse actually) that makes up a year is the diameter, which is about 2 AU (ellipse, remember?)
Not exactly. I've got some "old" decks that handily beat any new deck. The real cash cow for them is Type II. Since most tournaments are Type II, and in Type II you can only use cards from the last 2 sets (Current Edition, last 2 expansions) you have to buy new cards & change your deck every few months. Many Type I or I.5 decks don't use cards from the last few editions at all, especially the Type I, which can use the very old and overpowered cards.
I think that's why I ilke EVE online. Sure, most ships have 1 or 2 really good setups, and most ship classes have 1-2 best ships, but because of the way scaling works an interceptor or assault frigate probably can't be killed by a battleship. It may not be able to kill the BS easily, or at all, but it lets the newbies compete and be useful. That interceptor can hold a BS down for the rest of the gang to kill, while not dying.
There's also the nice bit that, out of all the skills you have at any time, only a small fraction can be used with any one ship. The ship's items (modules) determine what you can do with it, and trying to fit a module for everything tends to lead to a very unfocused, very dead ship.
Of course, it's not all perfect. The player-controlled space mechanics are currently such that they encourage massive power-blocks, instead of many small alliances in conflict with each other. The next "expansion" (really, a big patch, since they're included in the subscription...) is going to revise this, but how successful it will be I cannot say yet.
Firefox is already multithreaded. This is multiprocessing, which is different. Threads are subsets of a process, and if a thread crashes the whole process crashes. This will allow one process (tab) to crash without crashing the entire browser. Each process (tab, UI) can be multithreaded, allowing for performance gains.
The downside, of course, is that processes generally require more overhead than tabs.
Don't forget Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" (1967), or Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question" (1956). It's a much older concept than Neuromancer.
Neverwinter did things rather well though. You start at level 1, and in one of the expansions (Hordes of the Underdark) the level cap is raised from 20 to 40. You HAD godlike powers. But there are suddenly bigger, better gods around.
Of course, that's power creep, and can be bad in multiplayer games: old players are forever greater than new players, and the newbies can't contribute.
Pointless, eh? It lets me install security patches when I want, without rebooting. Yet I do reboot for reasons other than patching. I run Kubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Slackware, and Windows. I like to test programs I write before releasing them. This lets me avoid rebooting when I don't want to, and the faster reboots with Jaunty make those times when I do want to reboot easier.
If you plan on bludgeoning people with a keyboard I recommend a Model M. The steel plate adds stability and mass.
He wrote & uses EMACS. Isn't that enough of a web browser?
Dasher is a good system. Especially if you can write language files for given programming languages.
The best network-management classes I've taken worked similarly. There's not really work to show, but you had to put the right answer. The best bit was, for most of them, the Internet was allowed. Only on the test where we had problems like "The internet connection is down, here are the symptoms, get internet again" was it not allowed as a reference. The extra-credit problems required the internet, their material was not taught in class. As a network admin, you need to be able to use google/whatever search engine, because no one can know every possible problem's solution. But if the knowledge is out there, and you learn how to find it, you can solve real-world problems.
"Independent filmmakers seem able to produce top quality films for only a few million, even using unionized labor throughout."
Sure, having your workers ground themselves so they don't carry a charge will decrease some small electrical shocks, but is it really that much of a problem to have ionized labor?
Norton is "easy" to remove. You just have to download the norton removal tool. Of course, that thing should be the default uninstall.
No, they use APL. I won't post examples, the characters probably won't print.
Good advice. I'll trust no one. I don't trust you. Horrible advice. I'll trust everyone.
It's a common term in the UK/Ireland also, but not so common in America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function Read that. It's hard to get the original password, because no one knows how to do the math backwards. It can be easy to change the password, just hash your new password & copy the new hash over, replacing the old. Of course, if there's a secret salt that will fail, but you can probably discover the salt. All that requires physical access in most cases, BTW.