Parent has a good point. I have taken my fair share of programming coursework, but learned most of my current skill-set on my own. This did not include C#, but did include C++, Java, Perl, Python, and Fortran. When interviewing for a job, these languages interested the company. However, when they came back with an offer, it was for coding in C# for a particular need they had.
If you already know a bit of C++ and Java, C# is not difficult to pick up, and is used heavily with the.NET environment in many businesses today. I'll be the first to admit...as a diehard Mac/Linux user, it hurt to have to program for the Windows environment and using M$ tools...but it's really not as bad as I originally made it out to be.
Also important, is to realize that no company that will be hiring a graduate straight out of a BS/BA will expect them to be able to write a massive program immediately or on their own. Most programming houses will have you working in a development team, of which you will slowly integrate, and will only be working on small pieces of a much larger program.
Not a bad article? If you click off of page one, things go downhill pretty fast. Last time I checked, XPs hibernate mode wrote the RAM image to disk and turned the machine off. And when is the last time you saw a laptop that had a NiCd battery pack???
For most workloads, if they are fairly multithreadable, 3 processors available will be just fine. I know of very few workloads that require an even number of processors, and even if it were the case that the task were split into an even number of threads, the OS should have no problem scheduling on a reduced number of processors.
Weather models taking advantage of domain decomposition would tend to work much better, if at all depending on the decomposition method, if there were and even number of processors. Domain decomposition basically assigns a sub-domain to a given processor and the memory associated with it's arrays. Works better still if the number of processors == 2^n. I would venture than any model using 3d grids and domain decomposition would work this way.
Texmaker is a nice multi-platform LaTeX editor that uses templates. Another option would be TeXShop. As for a good tutorial, the not-so-short guide to LaTeX is a great way to go. Long-short guide LaTeX is simply the best tool for working with research papers and the like with structured formatting and bibliographical information use BibTeX.
Gaim does a fair job at IM tasks for all major protocols.
As for a greeting card program, I've found that American Greetings Create-A-Card (version 3 at least) works very well with WINE now.
Family tree....don't know about this one, but it's possible that what they are already using could run under WINE.
I've been running various Linux distributions since '97, and Gentoo w/out Windows for the last 3.5 years with no problems. If you need a program that runs in Windows...you can "usually" find an OSS alternative, or run the program in WINE (unless it is a 3d game using Windows APIs...OpenGL stuff seems to work a bit of the time).
In theory this is a great idea, give bonuses to teachers that are doing their jobs well. However, in practice....I fear that we will only see exams getting easier and the children being taught less and less. We will see classes being taught to the children at the bottom of the bell curve rather than the middle...and instead of screwing up the gifted children's education....everyone will suffer.
Isn't it bad enough that we are teaching classes to prepare the children for standardized tests, and then don't cover a lot of information that isn't on those tests just for the sake of raising test scores?
Synthetic, combustible gas produced in the process will be used to run turbines to create about 120 megawatts of electricity that will be sold back to the grid. The facility will operate on about a third of the power it generates, free from outside electricity.
LMAO...that has got to be the funniest thing I've seen all day!! (Yes, my day has been rather boring...but that's what a grad student with their head in equations all day has to look forward to. =P )
Oh Yes, we are... we can't ruin our Macs with Windows...
and if you don't think so, why did you buy a Mac in the first place ?
Obviously, you missed this line... "I don't use it very often, but I have a few Windows programs that are invaluable, such as greeting card creations software and a few development packages that I used in my computer science coursework."
Not all of us that want to use VPC are wanting to replace OS X or run windows for the hell of it. Even us mac users out there can admit it when there are software offerings available on other platforms that are necessary. Besides, don't forget that VPC also allows macs to run Linux in a virtualized state!!!
So, M$ made Virtual PC for the PC free, but those of us with older (G3/G4/G5) macs are not in luck with this announcement. I wonder if we'll ever see VPC Mac as a freebee offering. I don't use it very often, but I have a few Windows programs that are invaluable, such as greeting card creations software and a few development packages that I used in my computer science coursework.
All jokes about the Deathstar attack aside, I actually had the privilege of seeing this display firsthand this past year. I was attending the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Atlanta, and NOAA was showing this display with information about the 2005 hurricane season. It is quite a large display, but it has the capability of showing large amounts of data in an entertaining and easy to understand way.
Here are a few pictures of the actual display in operation...
I use revised driver for OS X that allows my older trackpad to use the new scrolling feature of the newer Macs. The right-click on my iBook is now two fingers on the trackpad with a single-click...between the scrolling and this new click strategy, I can't live without it. I even find myself trying to do the same on Windows laptops that even have a right click...it's much more natural than having to locate a separate button.
Right when the XP final setup screen appears, the screen resolution changes such that the apparent image is smaller than the full LCD. However, if you look carefully in the video, you can see the mouse pointer go off into the black region of the LCD...how is this possible!?!? Not to mention, the parent did mention that the machine came out of sleep mode, it was not a complete boot of the machine, this could still all be within Virtual PC or something along the same lines.
Oh yeah, and why on earth would someone buy a Mac to run Windows?
If this is true, hope that hybrid technology and alternative fuels come along in a big way in the next few years. Otherwise, we'll be looking at significantly higher gas prices in the coming years.
Station: Houston International
Date/Time: 19th at 0953 UTC
Winds: Calm
Visibility: 10 statute miles (limit of sensor)
Cloud Cover: Clear (up to 12 km -- limit of sensor)
Temp / Dewpoint: 24 C / 23 C
Station Pressure (Altimeter): 29.97 inHg
Remarks: Automated station
Sea Level Pressure: 1014.8 mb
Temp / Dewpoint: 24.4 C / 23.3 C
The WSR-88D is actually able to discern 15 different elevation angles in it's scanning strategies. However, these change depending on whether or not the radar is in Clear Air or Precipitation mode, where Clear Air mode is more sensitive that Precipitation mode. This site contains a bunch of information about the WSR-88D radar.
WSR-88D Radar Information (weather.cod.edu)
Unlike the radar displays from tv stations that you see, the NWS radars do not allow even the meteorologists to see a "live update" instead the returns are every 5-10 min depending on the operating mode of the radar at the time. As well, the various products are all calculated from the base data (reflectivity, velocity, spectral width, etc.) on each scan.
Wow, it must suck to own a computer with no mouse.
Anyone who has ever used a computer for any length of time and wishes to be productive, will tell you that keyboard shortcuts are far more efficient than the equivalent method with a mouse. If you cannot navigate your computer sans mouse, then what kind of computer geek do you consider yourself?
I too have a G3 iBook that has had it's fair share of logic board issues. This will now be the third time that mine has been in the shop, and second time in six months that the logic board will be replaced on Apple. I love the machine, but if it continues to chew through boards every three months, Apple damn well better do something more about it then leaving me with an unreliable machine...read new G4 please!
This is a big problem that I have found with the linux community in general. New users go looking on the forums and in chats for good information from, you guessed it, experienced users as the documentation is not the greatest...and they are met with disgust and distain merely for being a new user that doesn't understand their geekspeak. I can say that Gentoo is probably my distro of choice these days for a few reasons. First, I have NEVER come across any posts in the Gentoo forums where someone told the newbie to go RTFM, instead giving detailed explanations. Secondly, the Portage system is just as good as the apt-get system, and worlds better than the evil RPM system, there is almost no such thing as a dependency problem in Portage. Lastly, the documentation provided by the Gentoo devs is by far the best I've seen in a long time.
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Parent has a good point. I have taken my fair share of programming coursework, but learned most of my current skill-set on my own. This did not include C#, but did include C++, Java, Perl, Python, and Fortran. When interviewing for a job, these languages interested the company. However, when they came back with an offer, it was for coding in C# for a particular need they had.
If you already know a bit of C++ and Java, C# is not difficult to pick up, and is used heavily with the .NET environment in many businesses today. I'll be the first to admit...as a diehard Mac/Linux user, it hurt to have to program for the Windows environment and using M$ tools...but it's really not as bad as I originally made it out to be.
Also important, is to realize that no company that will be hiring a graduate straight out of a BS/BA will expect them to be able to write a massive program immediately or on their own. Most programming houses will have you working in a development team, of which you will slowly integrate, and will only be working on small pieces of a much larger program.
Not a bad article? If you click off of page one, things go downhill pretty fast. Last time I checked, XPs hibernate mode wrote the RAM image to disk and turned the machine off. And when is the last time you saw a laptop that had a NiCd battery pack???
Weather models taking advantage of domain decomposition would tend to work much better, if at all depending on the decomposition method, if there were and even number of processors. Domain decomposition basically assigns a sub-domain to a given processor and the memory associated with it's arrays. Works better still if the number of processors == 2^n. I would venture than any model using 3d grids and domain decomposition would work this way.
Texmaker is a nice multi-platform LaTeX editor that uses templates. Another option would be TeXShop. As for a good tutorial, the not-so-short guide to LaTeX is a great way to go. Long-short guide LaTeX is simply the best tool for working with research papers and the like with structured formatting and bibliographical information use BibTeX.
An awful lot of electronics manufacturers offer downloads of their product manuals online in pdf format.
Gaim does a fair job at IM tasks for all major protocols.
As for a greeting card program, I've found that American Greetings Create-A-Card (version 3 at least) works very well with WINE now.
Family tree....don't know about this one, but it's possible that what they are already using could run under WINE.
I've been running various Linux distributions since '97, and Gentoo w/out Windows for the last 3.5 years with no problems. If you need a program that runs in Windows...you can "usually" find an OSS alternative, or run the program in WINE (unless it is a 3d game using Windows APIs...OpenGL stuff seems to work a bit of the time).
In theory this is a great idea, give bonuses to teachers that are doing their jobs well. However, in practice....I fear that we will only see exams getting easier and the children being taught less and less. We will see classes being taught to the children at the bottom of the bell curve rather than the middle...and instead of screwing up the gifted children's education....everyone will suffer. Isn't it bad enough that we are teaching classes to prepare the children for standardized tests, and then don't cover a lot of information that isn't on those tests just for the sake of raising test scores?
RTFA......From TFA:
LMAO...that has got to be the funniest thing I've seen all day!! (Yes, my day has been rather boring...but that's what a grad student with their head in equations all day has to look forward to. =P )
Obviously, you missed this line... "I don't use it very often, but I have a few Windows programs that are invaluable, such as greeting card creations software and a few development packages that I used in my computer science coursework."
Not all of us that want to use VPC are wanting to replace OS X or run windows for the hell of it. Even us mac users out there can admit it when there are software offerings available on other platforms that are necessary. Besides, don't forget that VPC also allows macs to run Linux in a virtualized state!!!
So, M$ made Virtual PC for the PC free, but those of us with older (G3/G4/G5) macs are not in luck with this announcement. I wonder if we'll ever see VPC Mac as a freebee offering. I don't use it very often, but I have a few Windows programs that are invaluable, such as greeting card creations software and a few development packages that I used in my computer science coursework.
All jokes about the Deathstar attack aside, I actually had the privilege of seeing this display firsthand this past year. I was attending the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Atlanta, and NOAA was showing this display with information about the 2005 hurricane season. It is quite a large display, but it has the capability of showing large amounts of data in an entertaining and easy to understand way.
Here are a few pictures of the actual display in operation...
http://community.webshots.com/album/551340290QQkDQ E/
I use revised driver for OS X that allows my older trackpad to use the new scrolling feature of the newer Macs. The right-click on my iBook is now two fingers on the trackpad with a single-click...between the scrolling and this new click strategy, I can't live without it. I even find myself trying to do the same on Windows laptops that even have a right click...it's much more natural than having to locate a separate button.
Right when the XP final setup screen appears, the screen resolution changes such that the apparent image is smaller than the full LCD. However, if you look carefully in the video, you can see the mouse pointer go off into the black region of the LCD...how is this possible!?!? Not to mention, the parent did mention that the machine came out of sleep mode, it was not a complete boot of the machine, this could still all be within Virtual PC or something along the same lines. Oh yeah, and why on earth would someone buy a Mac to run Windows?
If this is true, hope that hybrid technology and alternative fuels come along in a big way in the next few years. Otherwise, we'll be looking at significantly higher gas prices in the coming years.
Station: Houston International Date/Time: 19th at 0953 UTC Winds: Calm Visibility: 10 statute miles (limit of sensor) Cloud Cover: Clear (up to 12 km -- limit of sensor) Temp / Dewpoint: 24 C / 23 C Station Pressure (Altimeter): 29.97 inHg Remarks: Automated station Sea Level Pressure: 1014.8 mb Temp / Dewpoint: 24.4 C / 23.3 C
The WSR-88D is actually able to discern 15 different elevation angles in it's scanning strategies. However, these change depending on whether or not the radar is in Clear Air or Precipitation mode, where Clear Air mode is more sensitive that Precipitation mode. This site contains a bunch of information about the WSR-88D radar. WSR-88D Radar Information (weather.cod.edu) Unlike the radar displays from tv stations that you see, the NWS radars do not allow even the meteorologists to see a "live update" instead the returns are every 5-10 min depending on the operating mode of the radar at the time. As well, the various products are all calculated from the base data (reflectivity, velocity, spectral width, etc.) on each scan.
Wow, it must suck to own a computer with no mouse. Anyone who has ever used a computer for any length of time and wishes to be productive, will tell you that keyboard shortcuts are far more efficient than the equivalent method with a mouse. If you cannot navigate your computer sans mouse, then what kind of computer geek do you consider yourself?
Unfortunately that doesn't help those of us that have machines that are long past their Apple Care.
I too have a G3 iBook that has had it's fair share of logic board issues. This will now be the third time that mine has been in the shop, and second time in six months that the logic board will be replaced on Apple. I love the machine, but if it continues to chew through boards every three months, Apple damn well better do something more about it then leaving me with an unreliable machine...read new G4 please!
This is a big problem that I have found with the linux community in general. New users go looking on the forums and in chats for good information from, you guessed it, experienced users as the documentation is not the greatest...and they are met with disgust and distain merely for being a new user that doesn't understand their geekspeak. I can say that Gentoo is probably my distro of choice these days for a few reasons. First, I have NEVER come across any posts in the Gentoo forums where someone told the newbie to go RTFM, instead giving detailed explanations. Secondly, the Portage system is just as good as the apt-get system, and worlds better than the evil RPM system, there is almost no such thing as a dependency problem in Portage. Lastly, the documentation provided by the Gentoo devs is by far the best I've seen in a long time.
Just my $0.02