If you get the torrent files from mandrake's website, you can be sure that it's the right file. Bittorrent automatically checksums each piece of the file and redownloads any that are corrupt.
I guess you're right about BASIC being a flawed language, but that's not my main point. If you can teach higher level concepts with python or perl or php or something, that would work just as well, most likely better.
I agree that assembly language should be taught, but not necessarily as the first language. BASIC is a good tool for teaching higher level programming ideas like conditional statements, loops, etc... Once those concepts are understood, C should be taught. I was a fairly proficient C programmer before I learned assembly (68k), but even then assembly helped me understand much more about the inner workings of C and what lines of code do. Instead of just knowing that code I write works, I now know why it works and I am able to do much more advanced things with a low-level knowledge of programming.
Rather than criticize, maybe I ought to have said that it would have been admirable if Google had noted this and made some effort to avoid it.
I do agree with that. Since, as you said, there are people who continue to open attachments when repeatedly told not to, some sort of warning on Orkut would be nice. Although, I don't see how Google could get this warning to people unless they read the site before getting the spam. I guess we'll just have to let natural selection continue on its course:).
As many people before me have said and many people after me will undoubtedly say, the prefix mega- means million no matter where it's applied, so one megapixel is 1,000,000 pixels.
Maybe they're just going to analog video recordings for now, but one assumes the license plate images are easy to OCR and that can be done in real time soon enough.
Like the other post about England, this has been done in Rhode Island, to a lesser extent. There's a system down there that snaps a picture of anyone who runs a red light, OCRs the plate, and prepares a ticket. The only human intervention needed is a quick verification (1 click at headquarters) and the ticket's sent out. If the person tries to challenge it, the state has video of them going through the red light, not a single challenge has been successful.
Because you don't have a finely tuned antenna pointed directly at their finely tuned antenna. Without amplifying the signal, all they can do is fiddle with the antenna, so that's what they did.
So you're saying that x86 users, which are the vast majority of people who have a use for NTFS, should be deprived of something that works well just because it won't work for you? I'm all for cross-platform support, but your logic is quite selfish. If something works, use it.
I'm surprised how many people have unsecured wireless access points. I'm not talking about WEP, just basic access restricton based on MAC address. I have a Linksys wireless router, and I have it set to only allow certain wireless MAC addresses to connect. If a friend with a wireless laptop is visiting or for some reason I get a new wireless adapter, all I have to do is log into the router from a wired computer or one that already has access , find the denied MAC address in the access logs, and allow it access. Nothing has to be done on the client machines, and I don't have to worry about wardrivers.
I have an early Compaq portable, which, as stated in the article, is more correctly described as luggable for its size. It has an orange plasma screen and still runs dos very happily whenever I decide to boot it up. I have a speech recognition card for it that actually works very well, although it can only recognize pretrained words. It may be old, but it still works great and would be good if someone wants a cheap computer to learn programming.
Errr.. you do realize that CVS has been around for longer than two years, right? Just because it's now being reported on/. doesn't mean that it's never been done before..
Wrong. The people they would've left behind are NOT the people who just bought Panther, it's the people with Jaguar and earlier, which came out many months ago.
Actually, rc5 is the same as 1.1. It's not uncommmon with many apps for the final release candidate to be rereleased as a stable version. For those of you who might not believe me, here are the md5sums of the two install zips (ignore any spaces that may get shoved in there..):
This seems a little sketchy to me: I posted three papers, one of about 300 words, one of about 700 words, and one of about 1500 words and I noticed a direct correlation between the length of the papers and the scores it gave them (the 1500 word paper got an almost perfect score). I don't remember the exact grades I got on the papers, but I think I got the highest grade on the 700 word paper, which this doesn't seem to agree with.
I've seen lots of posts with people complaining about how laptops aren't any more efficient/better/sexier/etc than pen and paper, but let's look at the facts: In today's instant messaging filled world, many kids can type 50wpm or more. Show me someone who can write at 50wpm. No matter how fast you move your hand, it's just not physically possible to form letters using a pen as quickly as tapping the letters on a keyboard. For this reason alone, kids could spend more time thinking about their ideas and less time writing them down/typing them.
How does it overcome language barriers? All it can be used to send is letters, and letters make up words. Last time I checked, words were somewhat different between languages.
How hard can it be to remember that Firebird is web and Thunderbird is email? I know the names aren't as simple as "Internet Explorer", but come on, it's just two simple words!
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If you get the torrent files from mandrake's website, you can be sure that it's the right file. Bittorrent automatically checksums each piece of the file and redownloads any that are corrupt.
I guess you're right about BASIC being a flawed language, but that's not my main point. If you can teach higher level concepts with python or perl or php or something, that would work just as well, most likely better.
I agree that assembly language should be taught, but not necessarily as the first language. BASIC is a good tool for teaching higher level programming ideas like conditional statements, loops, etc... Once those concepts are understood, C should be taught. I was a fairly proficient C programmer before I learned assembly (68k), but even then assembly helped me understand much more about the inner workings of C and what lines of code do. Instead of just knowing that code I write works, I now know why it works and I am able to do much more advanced things with a low-level knowledge of programming.
Rather than criticize, maybe I ought to have said that it would have been admirable if Google had noted this and made some effort to avoid it.
:).
I do agree with that. Since, as you said, there are people who continue to open attachments when repeatedly told not to, some sort of warning on Orkut would be nice. Although, I don't see how Google could get this warning to people unless they read the site before getting the spam. I guess we'll just have to let natural selection continue on its course
Anyone who runs an uninvited program recieved via email nowadays is just asking for trouble... That's not Google's fault.
As many people before me have said and many people after me will undoubtedly say, the prefix mega- means million no matter where it's applied, so one megapixel is 1,000,000 pixels.
Maybe they're just going to analog video recordings for now, but one assumes the license plate images are easy to OCR and that can be done in real time soon enough.
Like the other post about England, this has been done in Rhode Island, to a lesser extent. There's a system down there that snaps a picture of anyone who runs a red light, OCRs the plate, and prepares a ticket. The only human intervention needed is a quick verification (1 click at headquarters) and the ticket's sent out. If the person tries to challenge it, the state has video of them going through the red light, not a single challenge has been successful.
Because you don't have a finely tuned antenna pointed directly at their finely tuned antenna. Without amplifying the signal, all they can do is fiddle with the antenna, so that's what they did.
v / lambda :)
So you're saying that x86 users, which are the vast majority of people who have a use for NTFS, should be deprived of something that works well just because it won't work for you? I'm all for cross-platform support, but your logic is quite selfish. If something works, use it.
I'm surprised how many people have unsecured wireless access points. I'm not talking about WEP, just basic access restricton based on MAC address. I have a Linksys wireless router, and I have it set to only allow certain wireless MAC addresses to connect. If a friend with a wireless laptop is visiting or for some reason I get a new wireless adapter, all I have to do is log into the router from a wired computer or one that already has access , find the denied MAC address in the access logs, and allow it access. Nothing has to be done on the client machines, and I don't have to worry about wardrivers.
I have an early Compaq portable, which, as stated in the article, is more correctly described as luggable for its size. It has an orange plasma screen and still runs dos very happily whenever I decide to boot it up. I have a speech recognition card for it that actually works very well, although it can only recognize pretrained words. It may be old, but it still works great and would be good if someone wants a cheap computer to learn programming.
Probably what most distros give you for paying: Priority support.
Errr.. you do realize that CVS has been around for longer than two years, right? Just because it's now being reported on /. doesn't mean that it's never been done before..
Wrong. The people they would've left behind are NOT the people who just bought Panther, it's the people with Jaguar and earlier, which came out many months ago.
If you had actually looked at the website, you'd see that the zipfile has source code in it...
There aren't any buffer overflows inherent in the c++ language, it's crappy programming that causes buffer overflows.
Of course, you have to trust me to believe those md5sums, but life's tough, ain't it?
This seems a little sketchy to me: I posted three papers, one of about 300 words, one of about 700 words, and one of about 1500 words and I noticed a direct correlation between the length of the papers and the scores it gave them (the 1500 word paper got an almost perfect score). I don't remember the exact grades I got on the papers, but I think I got the highest grade on the 700 word paper, which this doesn't seem to agree with.
I've seen lots of posts with people complaining about how laptops aren't any more efficient/better/sexier/etc than pen and paper, but let's look at the facts: In today's instant messaging filled world, many kids can type 50wpm or more. Show me someone who can write at 50wpm. No matter how fast you move your hand, it's just not physically possible to form letters using a pen as quickly as tapping the letters on a keyboard. For this reason alone, kids could spend more time thinking about their ideas and less time writing them down/typing them.
If you're a schoolteacher why didn't you capitalize your sentences?
it overcomes real language barriers.
How does it overcome language barriers? All it can be used to send is letters, and letters make up words. Last time I checked, words were somewhat different between languages.
How hard can it be to remember that Firebird is web and Thunderbird is email? I know the names aren't as simple as "Internet Explorer", but come on, it's just two simple words!
They won't be integrated at all. The whole point of Firebird and Thunderbird is to separate them from the main suite to reduce bloat and complexity.
If the software is smart, it will look for perfect reproductions which no human would be capable of and give an error if it detects one.