Those kids can go to a tech school and become electrical technicians. Plugging a damn PCI card in has nothing to do with computer science. Knowing your way around the start menu has nothing to do with computer science.
Computer science is a mathematical discipline that has little to do with computers at all. If only more high school kids knew that, the drop-rate of Computer Science/Engineering degrees wouldn't be so high.
What if i'm coming home late from work, and want to just check my e-mail before bed? currently, i have to boot into my ubuntu machine (takes several minutes, more probably then windows but it's worth it). I would be happy with a 'web-browser-only' option, but my motherboard doesn't support those fancy flash-linuxes...
I don't really know Python, but as far as pascal is concerned, as a C programmer (who learned on BASIC and dabbles in PERL) i find pascal to be too structured and make too many presumptions. for instance, there is too much type-incompatibility, and not enough of the language is transparent as far as what is actually happening in the computer itself.
If the kid wants to learn how a computer works, i suggest even an assembler and a small embedded development kit (HC12 or similar). (full disclosure: i do embedded development professionally). if they want to learn algorithm design or mathematics, then these high level structured languages are fine.
if i could do it all over, i would have probably started on PERL, because one can use exactly as much structure as you know how, but are not forced to learn things like Objects before achieving a basic understanding of procedural processing.
care to explain why the operating system that is installed on the receptionists' machine reflects the competence of the doctor (or the receptionist for that matter)?
I am sick and tired of you damn liberals turning every topic into a George W Bush Bash-a-thon. For god's sake, can we have ONE article where we just leave the politics out of it? His term is almost over...quit bitching and vote in November.
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In my experience anyone in any job 'for the paycheck' isn't very good at it anyway. i'm not threatened.
Those kids can go to a tech school and become electrical technicians. Plugging a damn PCI card in has nothing to do with computer science. Knowing your way around the start menu has nothing to do with computer science.
Computer science is a mathematical discipline that has little to do with computers at all. If only more high school kids knew that, the drop-rate of Computer Science/Engineering degrees wouldn't be so high.
But just look at those doom 3 level load times! I DON'T HAVE 7 SECONDS TO SPARE!
(also, i use solid gold SATA cables so my data doesn't get dirty)
jenga tends to be stable for longer periods of time...
What if i'm coming home late from work, and want to just check my e-mail before bed? currently, i have to boot into my ubuntu machine (takes several minutes, more probably then windows but it's worth it). I would be happy with a 'web-browser-only' option, but my motherboard doesn't support those fancy flash-linuxes...
I don't really know Python, but as far as pascal is concerned, as a C programmer (who learned on BASIC and dabbles in PERL) i find pascal to be too structured and make too many presumptions. for instance, there is too much type-incompatibility, and not enough of the language is transparent as far as what is actually happening in the computer itself.
If the kid wants to learn how a computer works, i suggest even an assembler and a small embedded development kit (HC12 or similar). (full disclosure: i do embedded development professionally). if they want to learn algorithm design or mathematics, then these high level structured languages are fine.
if i could do it all over, i would have probably started on PERL, because one can use exactly as much structure as you know how, but are not forced to learn things like Objects before achieving a basic understanding of procedural processing.
a CF interface is actually IDE, if i recall correctly. You might be able to master/slave it in there somehow.
care to explain why the operating system that is installed on the receptionists' machine reflects the competence of the doctor (or the receptionist for that matter)?
I'm pretty sure nobody ever upgraded from W98 to NT3...
I find that a good programmer does not hang on any language. Programming, as a skill, is not language-Dependant.
A good programmer should be able to pick up new languages quickly enough that 'not knowing them' is a non-issue.
Or move...
I am sick and tired of you damn liberals turning every topic into a George W Bush Bash-a-thon. For god's sake, can we have ONE article where we just leave the politics out of it? His term is almost over...quit bitching and vote in November.
So...a docking station. Like you could get from Dell or IBM for years.
God, Steve is SUCH an innovator!
So, basically what your saying is, that in South Korea, E-mail is for old people?
I think you mean
!standard = wrong
or maybe even
~standard = wrong
but
(standard != wrong) == wrong
Best radio station in Pittsburgh is called 'Bob'...
Actually no, VHS tapes wear out, and people know this. Also, DVD players are cheap.
Not to mention a 200Mhz ARM core is faster then an x86 running at the same clock...
If i remember correctly, the book only had 3 trolls....slashdot has many more, job competition will be pretty stiff.
if you have much more then one bookshelf, your books should be organized by subject or author.
not to mention NMEA 0183 is specced to 4800 baud rs232!
Actually, billions and trillions are made up of millions. lots of them.
Does IE still screw up PNG transparency? all these years later? and people still use it?
What do you mean you connected with your voice...you chirped into a handset? that's amazing!
That was kind of a spoiler (it was a pretty good film)