At this point I regret living on the bleeding edge with my Gentoo Linux 64-bit installation on an AMD Mobile Athlon64. It just can't handle Flash... too purty;P
Who could resist broken chips? Especially the silicon-flavoured? Condense them into a big clump on a plate, and I will megaherzedly dig into them while watching penguins fly through my broken windows. You just gotta love those intelligent clusters of beowulf penguins!
I have seen other slashdotters making the suggestion to bring a robot arm and then letting the kids interact with that arm using a programming language (i.e. LOGO-based).
I don't think that this will make the right impression on kids. Robotics is only one of several interesting hardware/software/compsci fields, but are you using a robot arm on your job every day? Though so...
(If you do, let me know. I for one welcome our robot-arm wielding software overlords!)
Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying you should pull up vim and code in C! Rather something with a nice "whoa! factor" that is still applicable to your job?
Bring a couple of devices, an iPod, a serial adapter, a mouse, and have a couple of demos ready. Explain how MP3s work. Something tangible is much more interesting!
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't give the kids a wrong impression about your work. Be honest. Those little buggers know when you are lying to them.
"Wow, this Linux thing is really want I need." The keyword is "need." Not "want" or "cool" or "wow." Need for a cheap, effective tech solution is what can and will drive Open Source. This is pure business.
I disagree. If it all were about the need, we would still be using WordPerfect for DOS. It's all about the desire. I do not need a fancy dual Mac G5 with a 30" cinema screen, but I desire it. And that's what's keeping a company up. If you have products that are desirable, you'll always have customers. If you were merely fulfilling needs, then well, good luck. You are going to need it.
In C++, I can write a sorting algorithm that sorts objects that are not even the same concrete type.
And how is this different from C? Apart from the fact that C doesn't know about classes (although you can fake them convincingly with C structs), you can sort objects that aren't of the same concrete type. Just make sure that you use a proper struct layout that keeps track of what you are using. This way you are actually saving the `type of type' in the object itself whereas i.e. in Java a certain is property / type of a type is implicit through its class name:
"Good" Java:
abstract class Account {
float balance;
void fancy(); }
class FancyAccount1 extends Account {
void fancy() { }; }
class FancyAccount2 extends Account {
void fancy() { }; }/* What about an account that does fancy in FancyAccount1 and, say, FancyAccount3 but not FancyAccount2? The following is looked down upon. (except the C code of course;)) */
"But if you think technology can solve your security problems [...] then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology." - Bruce Schneier
do we really need a BIOS? Can we live and power our computers without one? Why don't we strip all obsolete junk away, i.e. the A20 gate? Once we do that, why don't we get rid of the BIOS itself? The less hardware and software, the more direct access we'll have to the hardware, and the less software-wrappers we'll have around hardware -> higher speed, less code, more time for important things. I can't answer those questions. Can you?
I'm not sure what the best price range is but I know one thing. We can't afford to do it for free all the time. -- Free Mini Mac [slashdot.org]! It's easy. Here's how.
The fact that you're advertising in your sig a free mini mac in turn for someone's personal information is highly ironic.
Is it just me, or could all that be explained by different causes?
From TFA:
To find out, I contacted Oneupweb, a search engine optimization, or SEO, firm based on the shores of Lake Michigan. Unfortunately, no one there knew the answer either, so Lisa Wehr, the founder and CEO, offered to conduct a study of 30 clients for me.
Observe that we get almost no information about those 30 clients. Are these startups? Or long-running businesses? Furthermore, we get only percent measures of visits instead of a unique visitors per day count or something more tangible.
Case in point: Eastwood is a niche seller of automotive refurbishing tools and a Oneupweb client. (Emphasis by me)
I know that due to recent developments of D1 (Drift) racing competitions, there is a higher demand for niche products. Again, we don't get any tangible numbers, but just percent increases.
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At this point I regret living on the bleeding edge with my Gentoo Linux 64-bit installation on an AMD Mobile Athlon64. It just can't handle Flash... too purty ;P
In the post-9/11 world, all hard-drives are terroristicular. ;)
That was an awesome Gameboy game.
Wrong. Keep the government out of cars, passports, items in stores, etc.
I'm glad you discovered the reference. :)
slashdot haikuness
you make quite a bad mistress
compared to the moon
less junk on TV == less channel switching == no need for fancy remote controls
My C$0.02...
No, but as a crappily coded perl script... ;-)
*cough*Microsoft*cough*Windows*cough*
Who could resist broken chips? Especially the silicon-flavoured?
Condense them into a big clump on a plate, and I will megaherzedly dig into them while watching penguins fly through my broken windows. You just gotta love those intelligent clusters of beowulf penguins!
Ah! My God!
Too many embedded links to geeky stuff.
You require enlightenment about distributed computing...
Go here
I have seen other slashdotters making the suggestion to bring a robot arm and then letting the kids interact with that arm using a programming language (i.e. LOGO-based).
I don't think that this will make the right impression on kids. Robotics is only one of several interesting hardware/software/compsci fields, but are you using a robot arm on your job every day? Though so...
(If you do, let me know. I for one welcome our robot-arm wielding software overlords!)
Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying you should pull up vim and code in C! Rather something with a nice "whoa! factor" that is still applicable to your job?
Bring a couple of devices, an iPod, a serial adapter, a mouse, and have a couple of demos ready. Explain how MP3s work. Something tangible is much more interesting!
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't give the kids a wrong impression about your work. Be honest. Those little buggers know when you are lying to them.
1. Make people desire GNU/Linux ;)
2. ???
3. Profit!!
I disagree. If it all were about the need, we would still be using WordPerfect for DOS. It's all about the desire. I do not need a fancy dual Mac G5 with a 30" cinema screen, but I desire it. And that's what's keeping a company up. If you have products that are desirable, you'll always have customers. If you were merely fulfilling needs, then well, good luck. You are going to need it.
"Good" Java:
abstract class Account {
float balance;
void fancy();
}
class FancyAccount1 extends Account {
void fancy() { };
}
class FancyAccount2 extends Account {
void fancy() { };
}
"Bad Java":
class Account {
float balance;
boolean does_fancy_one;
boolean does_fancy_two;
}
C:
struct {
float balance;
enum { NORMAL, FANCY_ONE, FANCY_TWO } type;
}
With respect to the above code, OOP is good for fairly static hierarchies. OOP is bad for a system in constant change.
"But if you think technology can solve your security problems [...] then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."
- Bruce Schneier
do we really need a BIOS?
Can we live and power our computers without one?
Why don't we strip all obsolete junk away, i.e. the A20 gate? Once we do that, why don't we get rid of the BIOS itself?
The less hardware and software, the more direct access we'll have to the hardware, and the less software-wrappers we'll have around hardware -> higher speed, less code, more time for important things.
I can't answer those questions. Can you?
I thought automake would do the reading part.
Yeah, it's used to play DVD-Arrrrrrrr's.
The fact that you're advertising in your sig a free mini mac in turn for someone's personal information is highly ironic.
From TFA:
Observe that we get almost no information about those 30 clients. Are these startups? Or long-running businesses? Furthermore, we get only percent measures of visits instead of a unique visitors per day count or something more tangible.
I know that due to recent developments of D1 (Drift) racing competitions, there is a higher demand for niche products. Again, we don't get any tangible numbers, but just percent increases.
This is not an informative article.