I don't think they are really interested in having an IM service. They probably just want to get more people using gmail, and get a gmail logo on the desktops of a few hundred thousand people.
Plus...google is starting to get so large, if they don't grow into other net service areas they'll fall behind.
I work with AVR controllers a lot..and constantly want a serial terminal. I dunno how to do that with a TI calc...but the way I debug a lot of my projects, is by connecting a cheap 433mhz transmitter to the avr, and the reciever to a serial adapter(or in my case, the serial transmitter on the stk500). So all you need to do is send serial data to the transmitter, run a terminal on the pc with the serial adapter...and you have an easy way to wirelessly debug. You could also switch the reciever/transmitter around and have a one way serial connector to the AVR...which could be useful.
In high school I took a class in BASIC, and then C++. And my first year of college I took an ANSI C class. But it wasn't until I took a class on logic design, and then a class in assembly that I understood what was actually going on. If you want to teach students what is actually behind a program, show them what is happens on a logic level...and how those loops and interrupts actually work.
A good book for beginners in logic design(and the overall idea behind semiconductors and circuits) is bebop to the boolean boogie
And once assembly is introduced, you can use an emulator like emu8086 to let them watch the program as it runs.
You could of course take a top-down approach, and teach them php/perl/vb. But I've always felt that if you work from the bottom up, not only will they appreciate the fact that higher level languages are so much easier, but they're understand what is going on behind the scenes.
"In this case, since there's no way for the WAP owner to stop signals reaching the road"
So encryption isn't considered a way to restrict a signal? I just think that if you set up computer hardware and intentionally configure(or refuse to properly configure) it to accept all unknown connection attempts, then you just volunteered that connection to anyone who wants it.
If a government installation broadcasts a radio signal unencrypted from a base, and the signal spreads across a large area...and you turn on your radio and intercept it, does that mean you are maliciously trying to steal that signal?
I agree the guy is stupid, and should get what is coming to him for being so stupid. But the fact that he was convicted for something like this wouldn't make me feel secure if I was a UK laptop user around open access points.
Now when I see those little LCDs in the headrests of cars in front of me playing movies, I'm afraid if I look at them I'm stealing the movie from driver of that car. And if I happen to be behind that person playing other movies a few times a month(they live close, or drive similar roads) I'm conspiring to steal thier video!
really though. When he signs on, the instant the router assigns him an IP the network has asked him on to the network. Since when is an unencrypted signal entering your private space(the guy was in his vehicle, on what I'm assuming was a public road) not yours to use?
It is now illigal to posses eyes. Just today, a man was caught sitting in his car watching a big screen TV his nieghbor had mounted on the rooftop. After he was arrest for "illigal tv viewage and theft" it was also found he had a pair of glasses at his home to help facilitate this new kind of information theft. The local sheriff's department suggests that people put their televisions inside their home, but note that if they are stupid enough to leave them outside, they'd be more than happy to arrest people looking at it anyways.
It's ridiculous to base grades on effort, but this is what teachers in public school constantly do to avoid telling kids they need to get off their ass and do the work. Also, have teachers spend the class time teaching the subject, and then assign projects (NOT mundane homework) for students to do outside of class to reiterate the subject matter.
the back-woods-doesn't-understand-computers-worth-a-da mn county news reports:
A man was discovered tuesday standing outside the fence of the local drive-in theater watching the movies. This movie "hacker" has been spotted by several patrons, and was finally arrested by a cop just as ignorant as his superiors for hacking the theater's security fence.
When the manager of the theater was asked why he didn't put a taller fence up(like the other smarter theater owners) he replied, "Most of the people that live around the theater are short, I didn't think they would even bother trying to look over the fence."
As americans get taller, this new type of hacking plagues drive-in theaters across the country. Small towns across america are passing laws to combat this new type of hacking, but some officials think there is little or nothing idiotic theater owners will be able to do to stop determined movie hackers.
He probably wouldn't have been caught if he didn't include 80 games on the drive of every xbox he modded.
That's like giving out 80 bags of hash with every bong you sell....the cops probly care more about the amount of hash you're giving out than they are the fact that you're selling bongs.
Over the last few years, I've noticed that a surprisingly large number of what should be technically savvy computer users seem to lack strong computer skills. Mostly, this seems to manifest itself in varying degrees of lost task-bars and the lack of understanding regarding the double and single clicks. It baffles me that a culture so obsessed with technical knowledge and accuracy can demonstrate such little attention to detail when it comes to properly and efficiently using their computer, and it baffles me even more that many people show apathy when you attempt to help them use their computer the right way. Do high school teachers and college professors just not care that elementary school children can use a computer with a higher degree of understanding than they can? Do they not realize that a mediocre command of their personal computer makes them appear less intelligent? Am I missing something here?
Seriously though. I've never met an English teacher that had computer skills you call anything other than moderate.
The warrant is halarious. If you read the bottom, it basically says:
the company president called me, and said that one of his employees has accused him of illigal acts. Please go to my employees house, and remove everything that he has that could be used to prove that we have committed illigal acts.
I can understand banning calculators for basic math, but I don't understand why so many people seem to be so bitter about calculators in the classroom. The _best_ teachers(professors) I've ever had allowed calculators and all of there functions, but it didn't matter. Their curriculum and tests were based around understanding the concept, not getting some worthless inanimate answer.
I took an intro to logic design course a few years ago(EE student), and as a easier-to-understand reference for the simpler topics, I got this book.
bebop to the boolean boogie It was nice for an introduction to logic design, and the simpler parts of computer hardware. I later went on to learn about(and program) FPGA's, and do some analog stuff....but most of my projects now are microcontroller based.
Personally, I think the best way to learn is on a project basis. Pick out something you want to make(a volume knob, small robot, IR remote control) and start making it. When you're done, you have that much more experience to put into other projects.
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you're forgetting the function(Fn) keys on laptops.
I think that's the gaming noobs creed
If I kill you, you suck. If you kill me, your cheating.
I don't think they are really interested in having an IM service. They probably just want to get more people using gmail, and get a gmail logo on the desktops of a few hundred thousand people.
Plus...google is starting to get so large, if they don't grow into other net service areas they'll fall behind.
I work with AVR controllers a lot..and constantly want a serial terminal. I dunno how to do that with a TI calc...but the way I debug a lot of my projects, is by connecting a cheap 433mhz transmitter to the avr, and the reciever to a serial adapter(or in my case, the serial transmitter on the stk500). So all you need to do is send serial data to the transmitter, run a terminal on the pc with the serial adapter...and you have an easy way to wirelessly debug. You could also switch the reciever/transmitter around and have a one way serial connector to the AVR...which could be useful.
transmitters and recievers
"Watch-like", instead of "Watch like"?
3D realms just announced they are about to start writing the source code for Duke Nukem Forever.
In high school I took a class in BASIC, and then C++. And my first year of college I took an ANSI C class. But it wasn't until I took a class on logic design, and then a class in assembly that I understood what was actually going on. If you want to teach students what is actually behind a program, show them what is happens on a logic level...and how those loops and interrupts actually work.
A good book for beginners in logic design(and the overall idea behind semiconductors and circuits) is bebop to the boolean boogie
And once assembly is introduced, you can use an emulator like emu8086 to let them watch the program as it runs.
You could of course take a top-down approach, and teach them php/perl/vb. But I've always felt that if you work from the bottom up, not only will they appreciate the fact that higher level languages are so much easier, but they're understand what is going on behind the scenes.
Google removes all traces of ZDnet, and CNet from it's search engine.
Speeding tickets are another term for "random toll road fee".
Funny, I thought they were a monetary incentive to not recklessly endanger other peoples lives.
I've paid my dues lately. It's just a matter of time before you do as well.
I don't speed. So I don't worry about getting speeding tickets, and therefore it is not "just a matter of time before [I get a ticket] as well."
I'm entering my 4th year of college(EEE student). I'm very happy with my PDA, of which I've used for the last 3 years.
PDA
And don't forget, most PDAs come with crappy stylii. I would go ahead and upgrade to a better stylus while you buy the PDA.one of my favorates
I know! What kind of retarded company targets the MAJORITY of people on the internet!?
"In this case, since there's no way for the WAP owner to stop signals reaching the road"
So encryption isn't considered a way to restrict a signal? I just think that if you set up computer hardware and intentionally configure(or refuse to properly configure) it to accept all unknown connection attempts, then you just volunteered that connection to anyone who wants it.
If a government installation broadcasts a radio signal unencrypted from a base, and the signal spreads across a large area...and you turn on your radio and intercept it, does that mean you are maliciously trying to steal that signal?
I agree the guy is stupid, and should get what is coming to him for being so stupid. But the fact that he was convicted for something like this wouldn't make me feel secure if I was a UK laptop user around open access points.
Now when I see those little LCDs in the headrests of cars in front of me playing movies, I'm afraid if I look at them I'm stealing the movie from driver of that car. And if I happen to be behind that person playing other movies a few times a month(they live close, or drive similar roads) I'm conspiring to steal thier video!
really though. When he signs on, the instant the router assigns him an IP the network has asked him on to the network. Since when is an unencrypted signal entering your private space(the guy was in his vehicle, on what I'm assuming was a public road) not yours to use?
british AMD leaves terrorist-related sites alone.
It is now illigal to posses eyes. Just today, a man was caught sitting in his car watching a big screen TV his nieghbor had mounted on the rooftop. After he was arrest for "illigal tv viewage and theft" it was also found he had a pair of glasses at his home to help facilitate this new kind of information theft. The local sheriff's department suggests that people put their televisions inside their home, but note that if they are stupid enough to leave them outside, they'd be more than happy to arrest people looking at it anyways.
Make schools performance, and project based.
It's ridiculous to base grades on effort, but this is what teachers in public school constantly do to avoid telling kids they need to get off their ass and do the work. Also, have teachers spend the class time teaching the subject, and then assign projects (NOT mundane homework) for students to do outside of class to reiterate the subject matter.
the back-woods-doesn't-understand-computers-worth-a-da mn county news reports:
A man was discovered tuesday standing outside the fence of the local drive-in theater watching the movies. This movie "hacker" has been spotted by several patrons, and was finally arrested by a cop just as ignorant as his superiors for hacking the theater's security fence.
When the manager of the theater was asked why he didn't put a taller fence up(like the other smarter theater owners) he replied, "Most of the people that live around the theater are short, I didn't think they would even bother trying to look over the fence."
As americans get taller, this new type of hacking plagues drive-in theaters across the country. Small towns across america are passing laws to combat this new type of hacking, but some officials think there is little or nothing idiotic theater owners will be able to do to stop determined movie hackers.
He probably wouldn't have been caught if he didn't include 80 games on the drive of every xbox he modded.
That's like giving out 80 bags of hash with every bong you sell....the cops probly care more about the amount of hash you're giving out than they are the fact that you're selling bongs.
Over the last few years, I've noticed that a surprisingly large number of what should be technically savvy computer users seem to lack strong computer skills. Mostly, this seems to manifest itself in varying degrees of lost task-bars and the lack of understanding regarding the double and single clicks. It baffles me that a culture so obsessed with technical knowledge and accuracy can demonstrate such little attention to detail when it comes to properly and efficiently using their computer, and it baffles me even more that many people show apathy when you attempt to help them use their computer the right way. Do high school teachers and college professors just not care that elementary school children can use a computer with a higher degree of understanding than they can? Do they not realize that a mediocre command of their personal computer makes them appear less intelligent? Am I missing something here?
Seriously though. I've never met an English teacher that had computer skills you call anything other than moderate.
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just buy 40 blackberries....should last a while
The warrant is halarious. If you read the bottom, it basically says:
the company president called me, and said that one of his employees has accused him of illigal acts. Please go to my employees house, and remove everything that he has that could be used to prove that we have committed illigal acts.
sharpy + arm opposite to writing hand = simple semi-permanent to-do list.
I can understand banning calculators for basic math, but I don't understand why so many people seem to be so bitter about calculators in the classroom. The _best_ teachers(professors) I've ever had allowed calculators and all of there functions, but it didn't matter. Their curriculum and tests were based around understanding the concept, not getting some worthless inanimate answer.
make sure it has a tin-foil hate clause.
I took an intro to logic design course a few years ago(EE student), and as a easier-to-understand reference for the simpler topics, I got this book. ...but most of my projects now are microcontroller based.
bebop to the boolean boogie
It was nice for an introduction to logic design, and the simpler parts of computer hardware. I later went on to learn about(and program) FPGA's, and do some analog stuff.
Personally, I think the best way to learn is on a project basis. Pick out something you want to make(a volume knob, small robot, IR remote control) and start making it. When you're done, you have that much more experience to put into other projects.