You can teach any kind of craziness in math, it's interesting and deep. But few kids coming out of that Turc method of multiplication are going to be able to multiply two numbers with a pencil. (It teaches the kids to ad-hoc break down the multiplication by the associative property to multiplication by 5's, 10's and multiples of 10's.) Great for future math majors maybe, if they don't hate the chaos of their fellow students pretending to learn this craziness.
Logic itself is the first thing to teach. College students may have had that only had in one class, geometry early in high school, and/or whatever kind of programming they teach in H.S. now.
Java will do for that I guess, though BASIC and Pascal were simpler, with no libraries.
Once they understand logic and loops, you could hit them with memory and pointers and data structures.
Overriding autorun can be done in the registry, so you don't have to remember to hold down the shift key. Does it work for USB hard drives? Probably. These are the notes I have.
1. Click Start -> Run.
2. Type RegEdit in the Open text box, then press ENTER.
3. In the Registry Editor, locate and click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom
4. Modify the value of the Autorun to 0 (zero) so that CD-ROMs and Audio CDs do not run and start automatically when inserted.
5. Next navigate to the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
6. Modify the value of the NoDriveTypeAutoRun entry to 0xb5 value to turn off the AutoRun feature for CD-ROMs by right-click NoDriveTypeAutoRun and then click Modify to type B5 in the Value data box. Select Hexadecimal, and then click OK.
7. Quit Registry Editor.
8. Restart your computer.
A ship pilot on the SF Bay makes $490,000. So it's not related, but it's pretty astounding these days what some people make compared to anybody I know.
The streaming has no buffering, that's why it stutters on slow connections. It's horribly annoying. So there is no (easy?) way to get the FLash cache and ffmpeg convert it to something you can view offline. I'm guessing that's why NBC serves it that way, not an HD issue. Even on a slower DSL it is unwatchable. Looks fairly good on a decent DSL though.
NBC streaming has closed captioning (like subtitles), I don't know about the new download service. The NBC streaming better about CC than many other streams that don't have them at all, like of course YouTube, but also Comedy Central. Bit they are a little buggy, at least in Firefox. They made some improvements recently.
CC is slightly different than subtitles, by the way if it matters to you. "Subtitles" usually means dialog translation to another language. CC if for the hearing impaired (or drunks in bars), so it gives you dialog and also describes other sounds if needed to understand the show.
Many DVD's include both subtitles and CC. You get the subtitles by clicking the DVD menus; the CC by clicking the TV settings (or mute on some TV's).
"PC (requires Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player 10)."
You have to download an exe installer even in IE7. Are you sure you're talking about the video download service, not streaming? It's NBC Direct Beta, about 1/2 way down this page:
http://www.nbc.com/Video/
Of course they have Eisenstein, subtitled. That's not too bad. Movies are never dubbed for the US market. (Except early Clint Eastwood ?? and the first Mad Max! Mel Gibson's Aussie accent was too tough.)
That's $1/night. A Redbox machine is in the grocery store next door to Blockbuster here. I feel bad for the BB employees when I rent from the robot. The selection is pretty limited, new movies only - which is exactly what is expensive at BB (movies stay on the "new" shelf for 1 year). But it does have some semi-non-mainstream stuff like "Children of Men".
Some valid points, but FF has a fix for the Hibernate bug, maybe more fixes coming, see Bug 213637 and its friends. That fix will be in 2.0.0.8, while 2.0.0.7 was an emergency release for the "Quicktime abuses Firefox command line parameters" vulnerability.
Also, they are swapping the old "Mork" database format, for history and bookmarks, etc., for SQLLite. Performance still has some shaking out to do before Firefox 3 can be released.
Ok my bad sorta. It's in the longer NYT article posted later.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/business/media/20nbc.html
Mr. Gaspin said that one important attraction of the NBC service was the option it would offer consumers to receive programs on a temporary basis free, but including commercials, as well as the choice to pay a fee for episodes without commercials and own the programs.
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"universal interface table" ?? No Google results. Is this new terminology or a new idea?
Ada is not difficult for anyone that knows another OO language. Oh, you mean employers should understand that... ;)
You can teach any kind of craziness in math, it's interesting and deep. But few kids coming out of that Turc method of multiplication are going to be able to multiply two numbers with a pencil. (It teaches the kids to ad-hoc break down the multiplication by the associative property to multiplication by 5's, 10's and multiples of 10's.) Great for future math majors maybe, if they don't hate the chaos of their fellow students pretending to learn this craziness.
Logic itself is the first thing to teach. College students may have had that only had in one class, geometry early in high school, and/or whatever kind of programming they teach in H.S. now.
Java will do for that I guess, though BASIC and Pascal were simpler, with no libraries.
Once they understand logic and loops, you could hit them with memory and pointers and data structures.
"All they know how to do is read the codes" would be more like it.
What's a cycl[oops, garbage collection]
They could light up Cleveland!
It's just a passphrase to break, unless you hide the keyfile (on a floppy, USB key, whatever).
Joe 6-Pack needs an acronym?
For the love of gawd, mod parent up.
and i never say that
Overriding autorun can be done in the registry, so you don't have to remember to hold down the shift key. Does it work for USB hard drives? Probably. These are the notes I have.
Works for USB drives and CD-ROMS.
[2007/10, from:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/09/11/disable-auto-run-and-auto-play-of-u3-smart-drives-launchpad/%5D
1. Click Start -> Run.
2. Type RegEdit in the Open text box, then press ENTER.
3. In the Registry Editor, locate and click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom
4. Modify the value of the Autorun to 0 (zero) so that CD-ROMs and Audio CDs do not run and start automatically when inserted.
5. Next navigate to the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
6. Modify the value of the NoDriveTypeAutoRun entry to 0xb5 value to turn off the AutoRun feature for CD-ROMs by right-click NoDriveTypeAutoRun and then click Modify to type B5 in the Value data box. Select Hexadecimal, and then click OK.
7. Quit Registry Editor.
8. Restart your computer.
A ship pilot on the SF Bay makes $490,000. So it's not related, but it's pretty astounding these days what some people make compared to anybody I know.
Oh, and he may have ruined the Bay for the next decade, with that oil spill last week. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/EarlyEdition/article_view.cfm?recordID=7938&publishdate=11/10/2007
Are they using scabs?
The streaming has no buffering, that's why it stutters on slow connections. It's horribly annoying. So there is no (easy?) way to get the FLash cache and ffmpeg convert it to something you can view offline. I'm guessing that's why NBC serves it that way, not an HD issue.
Even on a slower DSL it is unwatchable. Looks fairly good on a decent DSL though.
That's the Flash streaming service, not the beta download service (NBC Direct).
CC is slightly different than subtitles, by the way if it matters to you. "Subtitles" usually means dialog translation to another language. CC if for the hearing impaired (or drunks in bars), so it gives you dialog and also describes other sounds if needed to understand the show.
Many DVD's include both subtitles and CC. You get the subtitles by clicking the DVD menus; the CC by clicking the TV settings (or mute on some TV's).
"PC (requires Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player 10)."
You have to download an exe installer even in IE7. Are you sure you're talking about the video download service, not streaming? It's NBC Direct Beta, about 1/2 way down this page: http://www.nbc.com/Video/
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Of course they have Eisenstein, subtitled. That's not too bad. Movies are never dubbed for the US market. (Except early Clint Eastwood ?? and the first Mad Max! Mel Gibson's Aussie accent was too tough.)
That's $1/night. A Redbox machine is in the grocery store next door to Blockbuster here. I feel bad for the BB employees when I rent from the robot. The selection is pretty limited, new movies only - which is exactly what is expensive at BB (movies stay on the "new" shelf for 1 year). But it does have some semi-non-mainstream stuff like "Children of Men".
But I've never seen it crash WindowsXP and I think you mixed in complete FUD with your post.
Some valid points, but FF has a fix for the Hibernate bug, maybe more fixes coming, see Bug 213637 and its friends. That fix will be in 2.0.0.8, while 2.0.0.7 was an emergency release for the "Quicktime abuses Firefox command line parameters" vulnerability.
Also, they are swapping the old "Mork" database format, for history and bookmarks, etc., for SQLLite. Performance still has some shaking out to do before Firefox 3 can be released.