I made the experience that a PowerPC at 400Mhz can easily outrun a P-III-550 at compiling an application with GNU C++. I think it was almost twice as fast actually. The problem I currently see with PowerPCs is their lack of proper XFree X-Servers. Some 2D-accelerated X-Server would pretty much make me happy but all I got working was that Framebuffer X-Server which makes that box unusuable for all that requires the desktop. I'd really love to be able to run Linux properly on one of those systems, I'd gladly switch my home pc from x86 to PPC.
You're wrong. Never underestimate the power of... you know how this ends. At Karlsruhe University in Germany they're using Java to teach their students non-object-oriented programming. But that doesn't matter really as actually knowing how to even use a computer is hardly on their curriculum for computer science until the 4th term.You'll get lots of useless maths, though.
...was my 12th-13th grade physics teacher. He really managed to get all of us excited about physics. We kept pondering all sorts of weird ideas, discussing things like photons rotating around each other and stuff like that. This sort of thing really gives you an idea about all those numbers and relations you're learning about. One day I found out (on the internet) that this particular teacher had done some great work on chaos theory when he was at university. Asked about it he prepared a presentation about chaos theory and it's implicancies and invited us to learn a bit more about this subject *in his spare time*. Tell you what: we all came back to school at about 07:00pm to listen to his explanations.
As far as I know, this teacher is now working for a company in the UK. He left our school the year we had our graduation.
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I made the experience that a PowerPC at 400Mhz can easily outrun a P-III-550 at compiling an application with GNU C++. I think it was almost twice as fast actually. The problem I currently see with PowerPCs is their lack of proper XFree X-Servers. Some 2D-accelerated X-Server would pretty much make me happy but all I got working was that Framebuffer X-Server which makes that box unusuable for all that requires the desktop. I'd really love to be able to run Linux properly on one of those systems, I'd gladly switch my home pc from x86 to PPC.
You're wrong. Never underestimate the power of ... you know how this ends. At Karlsruhe University in Germany they're using Java to teach their students non-object-oriented programming. But that doesn't matter really as actually knowing how to even use a computer is hardly on their curriculum for computer science until the 4th term.You'll get lots of useless maths, though.
...was my 12th-13th grade physics teacher. He really managed to get all of us excited about physics. We kept pondering all sorts of weird ideas, discussing things like photons rotating around each other and stuff like that. This sort of thing really gives you an idea about all those numbers and relations you're learning about. One day I found out (on the internet) that this particular teacher had done some great work on chaos theory when he was at university. Asked about it he prepared a presentation about chaos theory and it's implicancies and invited us to learn a bit more about this subject *in his spare time*. Tell you what: we all came back to school at about 07:00pm to listen to his explanations. As far as I know, this teacher is now working for a company in the UK. He left our school the year we had our graduation.