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Boss: "Our goal is to write bug free software. I'll pay a ten-dollar bonus for every bug you find and fix. I hope this drives the right behavior."
Wally: "I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!"
I really like it when book or publication authors take the time to use good fonts and make the equations readable. There's nothing that turns me off more when reading a paper and the author has done all the equations in Times with crappy-looking subscripts and superscripts.
I'm working on a regeneratively cooled LOX/Kerosene rocket engine.
When I was 15, I built a Z-80 computer from my own design. I entered it in the science fair but the judges thought it was a kit so it got disqualified. I guess I did too good of a job wire wrapping it. I'll never forget the experience of hand-entering the bytes for my "operating system" into the EPROM burner at the local computer store. Needless to say, it didn't work the first time...
Flame away if you will but every Java app I've used (on Windows) has been clunky, buggy, and hard to use. None of the standard keyboard shortcuts seem to work, the apps *always* seem to be sluggish, and to top it off, they look funny - they don't inherit any of the look and feel aspects of the desktop. Now some smart Java person will say all these problems are fixable but it seems to me that it takes more effort to put out a quality Java app then say, an MFC or other similar program. The lure of cross-platform portability is nice but not at the expense of usability.
I'll stick to C++ and code in native development environments thank you.
When I was in 3rd or 4th grade, I had read the book How to Eat Fried Worms. I got this crazy idea to take a worm to school and eat it in front of the girls to gross them out. So, I went in the back yard, dug up a worm and put it in a medicine bottle (to suffocate it so it would be dead by lunchtime). Needless to say, it wasn't dead by then... Anyway, I had told the teacher what I was going to do but I guess she didn't believe me. I dipped it into ketchup and gobbled it down. Other than all the girls screaming and one of them throwing up, it wasn't too traumatic.
I didn't get in that much trouble but my mom got called down for a conference when I told them about the idea I got from the book. They ended up banning the book from our school library so maybe I'm to blame for this one!
Check out the PCI/PXI/AT/USB/PCMCIA-5102 from National Instruments. I think they're about $1200 or so and 20 MHz 2-channel 8-bit, a little more than you wanted to pay but it's good stuff.
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I need to sign up to work on Mozilla products! Boss: "Our goal is to write bug free software. I'll pay a ten-dollar bonus for every bug you find and fix. I hope this drives the right behavior." Wally: "I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!"
I really like it when book or publication authors take the time to use good fonts and make the equations readable. There's nothing that turns me off more when reading a paper and the author has done all the equations in Times with crappy-looking subscripts and superscripts.
I'm working on a regeneratively cooled LOX/Kerosene rocket engine.
When I was 15, I built a Z-80 computer from my own design. I entered it in the science fair but the judges thought it was a kit so it got disqualified. I guess I did too good of a job wire wrapping it. I'll never forget the experience of hand-entering the bytes for my "operating system" into the EPROM burner at the local computer store. Needless to say, it didn't work the first time...
Flame away if you will but every Java app I've used (on Windows) has been clunky, buggy, and hard to use. None of the standard keyboard shortcuts seem to work, the apps *always* seem to be sluggish, and to top it off, they look funny - they don't inherit any of the look and feel aspects of the desktop. Now some smart Java person will say all these problems are fixable but it seems to me that it takes more effort to put out a quality Java app then say, an MFC or other similar program. The lure of cross-platform portability is nice but not at the expense of usability.
I'll stick to C++ and code in native development environments thank you.
Actually, Bats = Bugs! Didn't you read Calvin and Hobbs?!
When I was in 3rd or 4th grade, I had read the book How to Eat Fried Worms. I got this crazy idea to take a worm to school and eat it in front of the girls to gross them out. So, I went in the back yard, dug up a worm and put it in a medicine bottle (to suffocate it so it would be dead by lunchtime). Needless to say, it wasn't dead by then ... Anyway, I had told the teacher what I was going to do but I guess she didn't believe me. I dipped it into ketchup and gobbled it down. Other than all the girls screaming and one of them throwing up, it wasn't too traumatic.
I didn't get in that much trouble but my mom got called down for a conference when I told them about the idea I got from the book. They ended up banning the book from our school library so maybe I'm to blame for this one!
Check out the PCI/PXI/AT/USB/PCMCIA-5102 from National Instruments. I think they're about $1200 or so and 20 MHz 2-channel 8-bit, a little more than you wanted to pay but it's good stuff.