For my engineering classes I have never needed anything more than octave (GNU matlab clone).
The only time I even needed that was for signal analysis plotting holes and doing edge detection on images and so on, so it was hardly a frequent occurance. Everything else (structures, electonics and so on) was solvable on paper with a casio graphic calculator (not for the graphing but for the ability to store 50+ variables, saving a lot of re-entry).
The exceptions to this are of course applications like CFD but unless you feel like forking out many thousands of pounds you just use SSH, X forwarding and whatever happens to be installed on the universities UNIX workstations from your dorm.
Looks to me like the computer geek is just going to become a staple of the successful organized crime family in Kangaroo-land
On the plus side there are now a lot of extra interesting and challenging jobs available for any unemployed slashdotters and organised crime is one thing that's totally safe from outsourcing!
My hats off Doug Turner and to the guys programming Minimo but I just don't browse the web on my micro devices. I use them for their other features.
I browse the web with OmniWeb (and sometimes Opera) on my Zaurus (C750) - the screen is more than enough to handle something like the mobile version of Slashdot, as long as you block the flash ads (which are 20-30x the size of the content).
It's great since it talks to the bluetooth cell phone in my bag and the batteries are good for over two hours each way on my commute of reading slashdot. Since I leave for work before 7 it costs £0.01/min to grab the pages I want to view, then I pick up all the data I want for the outbound trip off the wireless network in the office.
This is one area where tabbed browsing kicks butt btw - I can open up an entire days worth of inane comments and then sleep the device and they are still there to be looked at when I want them later on the train.
First they get their market on the desktop eaten so they make an excellent mobile product that's worth the money. Now they are facing (in a decade or so when Mozilla finishes development... they aren't the speediest at new products) getting that market wiped out too. I don't mind seeing it happen to companies like Microsoft but it seems a little hard on Opera who have this far been nothing but nice*.
So, whilst I am looking forward to seeing what Moilla can do, I wish the Opera guys all the best and hope that the money they made in the mobile market lets them develop something spectacular to keep them going until the commodity stuff catches up again:o)
*Do you see any lawsuits? Threats? Whining? Almost unbelievable in this day and age.
If companies can get away with spouting total bollocks (first 64 bit desktop anyone - my Mesh Alpha (from a consumer desktop computing company) is obviously now very valuable since it never existed?) and not get fined, what incentive do they have for telling the truth?
Lies sell, since most people are stupid and believe whatever they are told.
Can see the result of the logo change already
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Normally it escapes in a wild burst of savage, demonic power. This time they had to keep proding it until it eventually slouched away.
1.4m DSes sold, that's 0.3bn dollars, or 0.02bn pounds. Remove the ammount they pair their retail channel...
Just goes to show how truely insignificant the market for games consoles is. IBM's now-ex PC business has an $11bn turnover, 37 times the size of Nintendo's DS turnover (ignoring SPA sales for now), and IBM isn't even a big player in the PC market.
Curiously enough if you owned the US monopoly on DSes then you could purchase 150 million beers. Sufficient for any party one might think.
Sounds like a technical question to me and the last thing you want when solving technical problems is an artist saying 'well yes, that's all very nice, but we think it should be pink'.
One of the projects here last year was a RC helicopter with telemetry feedback and computerised control, plus a wireless camera feed (not over IP though) - the ground terminal was a laptop running RH9.
No major hickups involved, which was good as their budget was bad enough after buying the first heli let alone having to buy a replacement after a crash:o)
(The point about incompatible architecture is right, by the way; by analogy, if the OpenOffice guys could download all of the Microsoft Office source code tomorrow, it would probably slow them down more than help them.)
You heard it here first folks, Office 2k4 source code leak on Kazaa tomorrow from 'unknown source'...
These multi core and multi processor systems can be a bugger to program for because handling concurrrency in a way that doesnt cause deadlocking is a major pain in the ass.
One of the better ways is to model out the program in CSP (or a variant thereof) and then write in a specially designed language like Occam (developed for the original transputer, but ported now to x86). These give you code that cannot deadlock or livelock or suffer from resource starvation without needing any of the complex and buggy hacks you see in things like the Linux kernel. And the Linux kernel only has to deal with a few processors... scalling to a few thousand processors in C would require a programmer of insane genius or the implimentation of effectivly a new language on top of C to handle the problems caused.
So, what language do developers use to target this? Is it something elegant designed for the problem at hand?
Fortunatly they will be rebroadcasting the entire 16 days worthwhile programming once the new satellite is online. The transmission is expected to take approximatly 131 seconds.
"The other problem is that many word processors are very useful for those cases when the text composition isn't really important, but formatting is the key point, like a sign for my garage sale. Have you ever tried do something like that in TeX?"
If what you are making is esentially a graphic then use something approptiate to the task! In this case a graphics package or indeed a DTP package is what you need, not a word processor.
Have you noticed how makelovenotspam opens in a new window even in tabbed browsers then loads in the page hidden behind the new window "Our offers" from Lycos.
Perhaps we should DDoS the goits for pushing adverts to people without their consent in an underhand fashion? Oh, no, if WE tried that they would airdrpo a million lawyers on us in a heartbeat:\
All those mail order catalogues slashdot sent to Ralsky? Would make a great bonfire to stake him on top of.
What reasons not to download TV off the net?
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You don't have to get your ass raped by the cable companies for $80 a month when you watch 3 hours of TV a week.
You can watch 3 hours of TV in 3 hours, not 4 hours (w/adverts).
You can watch it when you want as often as you want.
You can watch series in ORDER when the network execubots decide that the storyline isn't that much of a big deal anyway.
The new series of the simpsons will air here in 2006 and the BBC isn't nice enough to tell you when a new series starts or what days it's going to be episodes or play them in order. (Here they just have a rolling run of every ep and insert the new ones at random.)
Id be willing to pay a pound to whoever held the rights per hour of TV I watched (in fact I already do, since I pay my TV license fee which equates to about £0.66 per hour of TV I watch in a year) but in return I expect it to be convenient and on demand. If not fuck you I'll just steal it and have it my way anyway.
Why has no one build a mouse with a optical sensor that ALSO has a old style ball hooked up to a small dynamo.
Self powered, never needs the batteries changed. And since precision doesnt matter the ball never needs cleaning, so it's not a disadvantage like it is for tracking.
Easily enough power could be generated for the optical system and a low power RF transmitter:\
The press release says "The development and testing of the hydrogen-powered scooter shows that South Korea's technology is on a par with that of the world," which is totally accurate.......it's just the rest of the world isn't that hot at paying for real R&D either:\
It's like proper engineering but you dont get to blow shit up.
On the other hand when you say 'I design games' people dont assume that you fix washing machines for a living:\
What we _really_ need to do is force executives to work a 80+ hour week whilst we go and play golf (or rather, drive around really fast in those little carts and ram each other). After all they can fuck the whole company over in 30 minutes a day between arriving late and leaving for an early lunch, how much worse could it be if the ever actually did do a full days work?
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For my engineering classes I have never needed anything more than octave (GNU matlab clone).
The only time I even needed that was for signal analysis plotting holes and doing edge detection on images and so on, so it was hardly a frequent occurance. Everything else (structures, electonics and so on) was solvable on paper with a casio graphic calculator (not for the graphing but for the ability to store 50+ variables, saving a lot of re-entry).
The exceptions to this are of course applications like CFD but unless you feel like forking out many thousands of pounds you just use SSH, X forwarding and whatever happens to be installed on the universities UNIX workstations from your dorm.
Looks to me like the computer geek is just going to become a staple of the successful organized crime family in Kangaroo-land
On the plus side there are now a lot of extra interesting and challenging jobs available for any unemployed slashdotters and organised crime is one thing that's totally safe from outsourcing!
My hats off Doug Turner and to the guys programming Minimo but I just don't browse the web on my micro devices. I use them for their other features.
I browse the web with OmniWeb (and sometimes Opera) on my Zaurus (C750) - the screen is more than enough to handle something like the mobile version of Slashdot, as long as you block the flash ads (which are 20-30x the size of the content).
It's great since it talks to the bluetooth cell phone in my bag and the batteries are good for over two hours each way on my commute of reading slashdot. Since I leave for work before 7 it costs £0.01/min to grab the pages I want to view, then I pick up all the data I want for the outbound trip off the wireless network in the office.
This is one area where tabbed browsing kicks butt btw - I can open up an entire days worth of inane comments and then sleep the device and they are still there to be looked at when I want them later on the train.
First they get their market on the desktop eaten so they make an excellent mobile product that's worth the money. Now they are facing (in a decade or so when Mozilla finishes development... they aren't the speediest at new products) getting that market wiped out too. I don't mind seeing it happen to companies like Microsoft but it seems a little hard on Opera who have this far been nothing but nice*.
:o)
So, whilst I am looking forward to seeing what Moilla can do, I wish the Opera guys all the best and hope that the money they made in the mobile market lets them develop something spectacular to keep them going until the commodity stuff catches up again
*Do you see any lawsuits? Threats? Whining? Almost unbelievable in this day and age.
So for once the unwashed are comming to _me_ saying 'I can't read this'.
If it ever goes away I shall have to switch back to mailing them raw TeX files again.
If companies can get away with spouting total bollocks (first 64 bit desktop anyone - my Mesh Alpha (from a consumer desktop computing company) is obviously now very valuable since it never existed?) and not get fined, what incentive do they have for telling the truth?
Lies sell, since most people are stupid and believe whatever they are told.
Normally it escapes in a wild burst of savage, demonic power. This time they had to keep proding it until it eventually slouched away.
If they sell them all (at Amazon prices)...
1.4m DSes sold, that's 0.3bn dollars, or 0.02bn pounds. Remove the ammount they pair their retail channel...
Just goes to show how truely insignificant the market for games consoles is. IBM's now-ex PC business has an $11bn turnover, 37 times the size of Nintendo's DS turnover (ignoring SPA sales for now), and IBM isn't even a big player in the PC market.
Curiously enough if you owned the US monopoly on DSes then you could purchase 150 million beers. Sufficient for any party one might think.
Why not cut out the middle man and just mail you CDs with music on them?
Today's Dilbert seems somehow appropriate:
Would you stop if I pointed out that everyone in the room except you is an electrical engineer?
Sounds like a technical question to me and the last thing you want when solving technical problems is an artist saying 'well yes, that's all very nice, but we think it should be pink'.
One of the projects here last year was a RC helicopter with telemetry feedback and computerised control, plus a wireless camera feed (not over IP though) - the ground terminal was a laptop running RH9.
:o)
No major hickups involved, which was good as their budget was bad enough after buying the first heli let alone having to buy a replacement after a crash
If we complained about every crap show on television perhaps we could get the whole lot switched off?
But how will we be able to see outside the house?
--My mother, when I replaced her computer.
(The point about incompatible architecture is right, by the way; by analogy, if the OpenOffice guys could download all of the Microsoft Office source code tomorrow, it would probably slow them down more than help them.)
You heard it here first folks, Office 2k4 source code leak on Kazaa tomorrow from 'unknown source'...
These multi core and multi processor systems can be a bugger to program for because handling concurrrency in a way that doesnt cause deadlocking is a major pain in the ass.
One of the better ways is to model out the program in CSP (or a variant thereof) and then write in a specially designed language like Occam (developed for the original transputer, but ported now to x86). These give you code that cannot deadlock or livelock or suffer from resource starvation without needing any of the complex and buggy hacks you see in things like the Linux kernel. And the Linux kernel only has to deal with a few processors... scalling to a few thousand processors in C would require a programmer of insane genius or the implimentation of effectivly a new language on top of C to handle the problems caused.
So, what language do developers use to target this? Is it something elegant designed for the problem at hand?
Fortunatly they will be rebroadcasting the entire 16 days worthwhile programming once the new satellite is online. The transmission is expected to take approximatly 131 seconds.
"The other problem is that many word processors are very useful for those cases when the text composition isn't really important, but formatting is the key point, like a sign for my garage sale. Have you ever tried do something like that in TeX?"
If what you are making is esentially a graphic then use something approptiate to the task! In this case a graphics package or indeed a DTP package is what you need, not a word processor.
Have you noticed how makelovenotspam opens in a new window even in tabbed browsers then loads in the page hidden behind the new window "Our offers" from Lycos.
:\
Perhaps we should DDoS the goits for pushing adverts to people without their consent in an underhand fashion? Oh, no, if WE tried that they would airdrpo a million lawyers on us in a heartbeat
Fight spammers with fire! Brilliant!
All those mail order catalogues slashdot sent to Ralsky? Would make a great bonfire to stake him on top of.
You don't have to get your ass raped by the cable companies for $80 a month when you watch 3 hours of TV a week.
You can watch 3 hours of TV in 3 hours, not 4 hours (w/adverts).
You can watch it when you want as often as you want.
You can watch series in ORDER when the network execubots decide that the storyline isn't that much of a big deal anyway.
The new series of the simpsons will air here in 2006 and the BBC isn't nice enough to tell you when a new series starts or what days it's going to be episodes or play them in order. (Here they just have a rolling run of every ep and insert the new ones at random.)
Id be willing to pay a pound to whoever held the rights per hour of TV I watched (in fact I already do, since I pay my TV license fee which equates to about £0.66 per hour of TV I watch in a year) but in return I expect it to be convenient and on demand. If not fuck you I'll just steal it and have it my way anyway.
Why has no one build a mouse with a optical sensor that ALSO has a old style ball hooked up to a small dynamo.
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Self powered, never needs the batteries changed. And since precision doesnt matter the ball never needs cleaning, so it's not a disadvantage like it is for tracking.
Easily enough power could be generated for the optical system and a low power RF transmitter
What I want to know is can I use this to build my mouse a gocart. At last he will no longer live in the shadow of that bastard speedy gonzales!
The press release says "The development and testing of the hydrogen-powered scooter shows that South Korea's technology is on a par with that of the world," which is totally accurate.... ...it's just the rest of the world isn't that hot at paying for real R&D either :\
It's like proper engineering but you dont get to blow shit up.
:\
On the other hand when you say 'I design games' people dont assume that you fix washing machines for a living
What we _really_ need to do is force executives to work a 80+ hour week whilst we go and play golf (or rather, drive around really fast in those little carts and ram each other). After all they can fuck the whole company over in 30 minutes a day between arriving late and leaving for an early lunch, how much worse could it be if the ever actually did do a full days work?