Separate the men from the boys (or some other non-sexists cliché). Granted, we don't want to "scare" people away, but CS isn't/shouldn't be easy, so why slow down from the get go?
One of the cities that we support recently bought a new chiller for their ice rink. Their old one was just managed in-house. You had to be standing in front of the device to do much of anything. And if it was malfunctioning they had to send someone out to eyeball the machine. Their new one has a network jack and can be monitored remotely through a web interface. So we had to get them bandwidth and a static IP address so they could keep an eye on things even when nobody was physically at the civic center.
Just curious, but can you only monitor it or could you "adjust" it to convert the ice rink into a swimming pool? If so, what is its ip address?
Seriously though, while it is cool to be able to remotely monitor the ice rink, are we (in general) being too hasty to connect too many things to an exposed internet connection? I'm sure you did your due diligence, but I'd bet that lots of companies market internet connection as features without going through rigorous enough hardening/partitioning to prevent "hacking".
making it possible for me to assign a public-facing IP address and DNS entry for every toaster in my house.
Awesome, I can't wait till I can read a howto article that has the following:
... ping toaster1.example.com
If no response, then you'll need to make sure that your toaster is connected to the internet and its DNS entry resolves. Once your toaster is online...
I've personally found that vi(m) is the best development tool around. You can say that DW/Eclipse saves you time with auto-completion and whatnot, but as for me and my sites, I take pride in the fact that I have typed every single character.
Define safely. I've never been harmed by a cloned sheep.
There are SO many ethical questions concerning cloning of humans. First, who exactly are the parents? Second, are they allowed to live a "normal" life or will they be kept in laboratories for extensive testing. Third, its a relatively new field of study and we don't know all of the possible repercussions on their long term impact on the overall gene pool. Last (for this discussion at least), a lot of science is based on trial and error so are we really ready to err with "human lives"?
Bottom line is that there are lots of questions that could be debated exhaustively and still no consensus would be reached. There will be people on all sides of the issues that won't budge.
Its actually pretty amazing what you can do with just those three "crossplatform API's" that (if designed correctly) will degrade nicely to mobile phones, visually impaired users, etc.
I avoid Flash, Gnash, Sliverlight, etc like the plague simply because as soon as you go down that path you do, in fact, cut out *some* of your userbase. It might be 2, 15%, or some number/percentage that you won't ever be able to truly quantify...but rest assured you do cut *some* of it, and (as a smart business man) I think that the more users I have, the better off I'll be, period.
I'm skeptical about the article (even though I didn't read it). I think somebody just sold their company and is now attempting to go back and re-geek-out their own childhood. They are just soliciting all of the ideas and fun things other/.'ers did when they were little and are going to make a massive Fry's run. (Hint to all non-millionaire/. readers, buy stock in Fry's)
I wouldn't be surprised if we see another story in about 6 months detailing the largest technik/lego/rare earth magnet/ landing platform for a RC helicopter that is controlled by a Commodore64 connected to a breadboard and a 300 in one Radio Shack Electronics set. This structure will have BB gun turrets as well as a special "chamber" designed specifically for playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Except in this context its a valid comparison. Apples and oranges are both foods. They may taste completely different, but they both provide nutritional value. Same with this conversation/article. Both are application suites. They may look different and have different requirement (net access...yeah yeah Google Gears, etc) but they both allow you to create/edit documents.
On a side note, I think in many cases the apples to oranges comparison isn't sufficient. How about hamsters and hand grenades?
Your 15 year old sounds like one of my wife's co-workers. Check out the math.
1 Month (30 * 24 * 60) = 43200 minutes.
20,000 text averages out to 1 text every 2.16 minutes.
If you take away eight hours out of the day for sleep/activities where they could not text then it translates into 1 text every minute and 26 seconds!
They wonder why kids now have such short attention spans, I'm guessing that it might have to do with the fact that they have to stop what they are doing (on average) every minute or so to send a text. Anyway, I'm sure we all as kids did something that previous generations though was absurd, so I'm not criticizing. I just think its interesting to see what "those crazy kids" do, and it makes you wonder what will be the next latest and greatest thing...
FWIW I'm 26 and hate to text. I do however use them occasionally, but I still prefer to call or email.
Don't disagree (to a certain extent), but then you are making a case to keep us even more locked into a two party system. If the number of (projected) votes is what determines who gets the most press, or in this case press at all, then third-party (outsiders) will have even less of a chance to get national coverage.
I agree with just about everything that you said...except that I am sick of hearing the "McCain will surely die and Palin will be president" mantra.
Whether or not he is old, I just find it a horrible outlook for people to be basing their presidential decision on the assumption that the President will die.
Rant over, and again I think you made some great comments.
Is or was? Now that gas down enough that old people don't start every conversation with "have you seen the price of gas today." Will the 'green revolution' really keep accelerating? I hope that we aren't that short sighted, but its hard to get people excited about alternate energy when the payback time just (more or less) doubled after oil price halved...
Not to get political (on election day nonetheless) but it will be interesting to see if this continues to be a "high priority issue" for whatever administration takes over in January...my gut feeling is that its will be in a top 5 list, but it probably got bumped down a slot or two.
Does it really matter? The real issue is about competition. On a different level I guess the metric that ends up being what really matters is the number of students/parents that choose you as a teacher/school over the other competition. So, the school will get the "best" teachers in an effort to win more "votes." Either way, this results in a better education for the students.
Opening a browser, searching google, finding a program that seems like it might do what you want, finding the download link, agreeing to the download policy, downloading it, running the installer, clicking next a few times without reading any of the screens is actually a lot harder.
I am by no means defending this scenario, but unfortunately that is what most users associate with "installing software." To some extent, that is what we trained them to do (when we knew we couldn't get them to switch to linux)..."ok, go to google search ???, click download and install."
My point is that now that people are used to that scenario it seems awkward/wrong for them to think that the program is already on their system (or that the "link" is on their system). I got my mom to try Ubuntu for a while and she liked many aspects of it, but she never quite got the whole software repository aspect completely down. She'd still ask, how do I download this/that...because that is what she associates with "installing software".
Its all about using what you know and knowing what your using. People that are used to package managers have a hard time understanding "search, download, install" and vice versa. So just because your way is "better" doesn't mean that people will instantly recognize/understand why.
As a Spyder owner, I can attest that it is a very stable vehicle. It has several safety features (warning: flash site) namely its VSS (Vehicle Stability System) that makes sure you can't/don't high side it like conventional trikes.
Its a first generation vehicle, but its been developed for around 10 years and minus a few minor complaints they totally hit a home run! I can confidently say that I am very happy with my purchase. But I must warn you, don't buy one unless you really like attention because everyone will come up to you and have a conversation.
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That explains why so many kids drop out of CS.
Separate the men from the boys (or some other non-sexists cliché). Granted, we don't want to "scare" people away, but CS isn't/shouldn't be easy, so why slow down from the get go?
Okay... so what's your query?
Postgres is horrible it can't even handle this extremely basic query!
Just curious, but can you only monitor it or could you "adjust" it to convert the ice rink into a swimming pool? If so, what is its ip address?
Seriously though, while it is cool to be able to remotely monitor the ice rink, are we (in general) being too hasty to connect too many things to an exposed internet connection? I'm sure you did your due diligence, but I'd bet that lots of companies market internet connection as features without going through rigorous enough hardening/partitioning to prevent "hacking".
making it possible for me to assign a public-facing IP address and DNS entry for every toaster in my house.
Awesome, I can't wait till I can read a howto article that has the following:
I've personally found that vi(m) is the best development tool around. You can say that DW/Eclipse saves you time with auto-completion and whatnot, but as for me and my sites, I take pride in the fact that I have typed every single character.
Besides which we can't even clone a sheep safely.
Define safely. I've never been harmed by a cloned sheep.
There are SO many ethical questions concerning cloning of humans. First, who exactly are the parents? Second, are they allowed to live a "normal" life or will they be kept in laboratories for extensive testing. Third, its a relatively new field of study and we don't know all of the possible repercussions on their long term impact on the overall gene pool. Last (for this discussion at least), a lot of science is based on trial and error so are we really ready to err with "human lives"?
Bottom line is that there are lots of questions that could be debated exhaustively and still no consensus would be reached. There will be people on all sides of the issues that won't budge.
4) HTML + CSS + Javascript
Been working just fine for me!
Its actually pretty amazing what you can do with just those three "crossplatform API's" that (if designed correctly) will degrade nicely to mobile phones, visually impaired users, etc.
I avoid Flash, Gnash, Sliverlight, etc like the plague simply because as soon as you go down that path you do, in fact, cut out *some* of your userbase. It might be 2, 15%, or some number/percentage that you won't ever be able to truly quantify...but rest assured you do cut *some* of it, and (as a smart business man) I think that the more users I have, the better off I'll be, period.
Yes, it's called EXIF and they are talking about a photo with the EXIF stripped.
Don't say things like that, else they'll consider any photo without EXIF to be taken by a terrorist.
I'm skeptical about the article (even though I didn't read it). I think somebody just sold their company and is now attempting to go back and re-geek-out their own childhood. They are just soliciting all of the ideas and fun things other /.'ers did when they were little and are going to make a massive Fry's run. (Hint to all non-millionaire /. readers, buy stock in Fry's)
I wouldn't be surprised if we see another story in about 6 months detailing the largest technik/lego/rare earth magnet/ landing platform for a RC helicopter that is controlled by a Commodore64 connected to a breadboard and a 300 in one Radio Shack Electronics set. This structure will have BB gun turrets as well as a special "chamber" designed specifically for playing Dungeons and Dragons.
there are lots of cool things from United Nuclear
Give the gift that keeps on giving...radiation poisoning.
Apples and Oranges, people...
Except in this context its a valid comparison. Apples and oranges are both foods. They may taste completely different, but they both provide nutritional value. Same with this conversation/article. Both are application suites. They may look different and have different requirement (net access...yeah yeah Google Gears, etc) but they both allow you to create/edit documents.
On a side note, I think in many cases the apples to oranges comparison isn't sufficient. How about hamsters and hand grenades?
Your 15 year old sounds like one of my wife's co-workers. Check out the math.
1 Month (30 * 24 * 60) = 43200 minutes.
20,000 text averages out to 1 text every 2.16 minutes.
If you take away eight hours out of the day for sleep/activities where they could not text then it translates into 1 text every minute and 26 seconds!
They wonder why kids now have such short attention spans, I'm guessing that it might have to do with the fact that they have to stop what they are doing (on average) every minute or so to send a text. Anyway, I'm sure we all as kids did something that previous generations though was absurd, so I'm not criticizing. I just think its interesting to see what "those crazy kids" do, and it makes you wonder what will be the next latest and greatest thing...
FWIW I'm 26 and hate to text. I do however use them occasionally, but I still prefer to call or email.
Don't disagree (to a certain extent), but then you are making a case to keep us even more locked into a two party system. If the number of (projected) votes is what determines who gets the most press, or in this case press at all, then third-party (outsiders) will have even less of a chance to get national coverage.
I agree with just about everything that you said...except that I am sick of hearing the "McCain will surely die and Palin will be president" mantra.
Whether or not he is old, I just find it a horrible outlook for people to be basing their presidential decision on the assumption that the President will die.
Rant over, and again I think you made some great comments.
Ahhhhhhhhh...and I was just thinking it was just a bad ASCII drawing of a cookie monster.
Because the 'green revolution' is accelerating
Is or was? Now that gas down enough that old people don't start every conversation with "have you seen the price of gas today." Will the 'green revolution' really keep accelerating? I hope that we aren't that short sighted, but its hard to get people excited about alternate energy when the payback time just (more or less) doubled after oil price halved...
Not to get political (on election day nonetheless) but it will be interesting to see if this continues to be a "high priority issue" for whatever administration takes over in January...my gut feeling is that its will be in a top 5 list, but it probably got bumped down a slot or two.
...not how many times the Earth has gone round the Sun since you popped out of a vagina.
I was born via a c-section, you insensitive clod!
How many "votes" more or less decided the last Florida Presidential election (and therefore the final outcome)?
I don't know where I actually stand on this issue, but even a 1% swing in either direction can actually make a huge change.
AM - Longer transmission distance
FM - Higher fidelity
I believe a decision like this is above my pay grade.
How do you determine a teacher's performance?
Does it really matter? The real issue is about competition. On a different level I guess the metric that ends up being what really matters is the number of students/parents that choose you as a teacher/school over the other competition. So, the school will get the "best" teachers in an effort to win more "votes." Either way, this results in a better education for the students.
Opening a browser, searching google, finding a program that seems like it might do what you want, finding the download link, agreeing to the download policy, downloading it, running the installer, clicking next a few times without reading any of the screens is actually a lot harder.
I am by no means defending this scenario, but unfortunately that is what most users associate with "installing software." To some extent, that is what we trained them to do (when we knew we couldn't get them to switch to linux)..."ok, go to google search ???, click download and install."
My point is that now that people are used to that scenario it seems awkward/wrong for them to think that the program is already on their system (or that the "link" is on their system). I got my mom to try Ubuntu for a while and she liked many aspects of it, but she never quite got the whole software repository aspect completely down. She'd still ask, how do I download this/that...because that is what she associates with "installing software".
Its all about using what you know and knowing what your using. People that are used to package managers have a hard time understanding "search, download, install" and vice versa. So just because your way is "better" doesn't mean that people will instantly recognize/understand why.
Google is the new microsoft!!!
.5?
Sensational press 2, Rational thinking
Try to imagine McCain sitting poolside at a resort sipping a margarita, for example. I can't. To me, that's a fatal flaw.
In contrast, I can easily picture myself sitting poolside sipping a margarita...therefore I am announcing my candidacy for President!
If I had to choose between sex and internet, I'd choose sex.
As a Spyder owner, I can attest that it is a very stable vehicle. It has several safety features (warning: flash site) namely its VSS (Vehicle Stability System) that makes sure you can't/don't high side it like conventional trikes.
Its a first generation vehicle, but its been developed for around 10 years and minus a few minor complaints they totally hit a home run! I can confidently say that I am very happy with my purchase. But I must warn you, don't buy one unless you really like attention because everyone will come up to you and have a conversation.