So did I, but the kind of time to practice I had isn't the kind of thing I can get in school.
Last year, we got 90 minutes a week, for one term, to learn to solder, basic theory, and other stuff like that. I was the only person in my class who already knew.
This year I had more like 4 hours a week, which makes things slightly better, but there was still the contant sound of a desolder station in the background. And some of the PCBs I saw were horrifying.
You also need to remember that the teachers don't always understand some stuff. The circuit that we built was simple, just some Schmitt Trigger NAND gates wired as an oscillator, LDR, piezo buzzer, etc. etc.
I ended up being the only person in the class who could do any basic fault finding.
And I count the teacher as a person, as well as the student teacher, who had a degree in electrical engineering. And by fault finding, I mean grounding the gate inputs to check which stage of the circuit the fault was in. At the first stage, all I needed to do was bypass the LDR with a pair of pliers.
Needless to say, a teacher and someone with a degree in electrical engineering couldn't figure this out. And this was in a one-page schematic that took me about 30 seconds to understand.
And then there was the case of what we were being taught. We were given the wrong colours for mains wiring, polarities for transistors were incorrect in our notes (i still remember making that mistake....and I have the scar on my thumb to prove it).
Most slashdotters seem to have some skills in these areas. But some people out there have amazing stupidity. Before someone comes with a reply saying how that is just our area of expertise, I don't act as though I know how to do accounting, or designing hard drives, or anything else like that.
Have to agree with you. I'm 15 now,
and last time i had to go without my computer
(hardware failure), I started to behave very
strangely.
Yes, maybe sitting in the dark drinking coffee and
staring at my subwoofer for hours at a time is a
sign that I should cut back on the computer time.
But we know it's not gonna happen. Things
similar to this happen when I work on a computer
without gcc. Without one at all......arrgghh....
it's horrible;)
For short periods caffiene can take you a long way. I've managed to go almost 18 hours straight in my school holidays. A hit every couple hours is enough, if you don't do it often.
Actually, last time I read a MS EULA (supposed to be doing Japanese homework, any distraction was welcome ), it said that a one-time change of ownership was ok, as long as you give all manuals, etc.
I did that in year one, 12-year-olds may be a little past that stage.
However, the electronic kits from stores are good, I get one occasionally, but slightly more advanced than one for 12 year olds.
Bear in mind that most of the people in my electronics class (yr 9, did it in yr 8 too) can't solder for shit. Maybe this is not the norm, but don't expect 12-year-olds to be able to solder without making a horrifying mess of their PCB.
Most teachers don't seem to know shit, but they have most of the basic stuff down, although I always seem to be the one doing fault finding for people. I would assume however that the poster is more skilled than this.
Schools aren't really allowed to do that much for fear of lawsuits. At mine this year (yr 9), we made minature cars in wood tech, hole in the back to put in a minature carbon dioxide canister, which makes it go about 10 or 15 meters before starting to slow down.
Before we could take them home, they had to have an empty canister glued into the hole, so we couldn't put a new one in.
That I was able to get the empty one out (and help some friends do it) the day we got them back (relief teacher, which meant we just do whatever we want for the most part) in about 15 seconds was beside the point. They have to cover their arses, otherwise a lawsuit comes.
Not much on the new scripting engine. Is it still scheme? I'm fairly open minded as far as languages go, but scheme is the most horrifying I have ever seen.
I would like to be able to write scripts using another language, maybe using something like SWIG if it is really needed.
I got a call saying "The computer won't start." I said "Is it plugged in?" "Yes, of course! Do you think I'm that stupid???". Then I heard a rattle in the background, and then heard the computer come on.
I find that it is best to deal with people like this by installing Gentoo, and never leaving the computer alone.
I was tech support at my school too, before I want to high school.
Bear in mind that this was a network running on NT4 with Win98 machines. I wasn't the one who set it up, obviously. There were no access-controls on anything, anyone could change any settings, they all had IE.
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It's readable in the sense that I can ignore all the operators and rearrange the words into something meaningful.
In any other sense it is not.
So did I, but the kind of time to practice I had isn't the kind of thing I can get in school.
Last year, we got 90 minutes a week, for one term, to learn to solder, basic theory, and other stuff like that. I was the only person in my class who already knew.
This year I had more like 4 hours a week, which makes things slightly better, but there was still the contant sound of a desolder station in the background. And some of the PCBs I saw were horrifying.
You also need to remember that the teachers don't always understand some stuff. The circuit that we built was simple, just some Schmitt Trigger NAND gates wired as an oscillator, LDR, piezo buzzer, etc. etc.
I ended up being the only person in the class who could do any basic fault finding.
And I count the teacher as a person, as well as the student teacher, who had a degree in electrical engineering. And by fault finding, I mean grounding the gate inputs to check which stage of the circuit the fault was in. At the first stage, all I needed to do was bypass the LDR with a pair of pliers.
Needless to say, a teacher and someone with a degree in electrical engineering couldn't figure this out. And this was in a one-page schematic that took me about 30 seconds to understand.
And then there was the case of what we were being taught. We were given the wrong colours for mains wiring, polarities for transistors were incorrect in our notes (i still remember making that mistake....and I have the scar on my thumb to prove it).
Most slashdotters seem to have some skills in these areas. But some people out there have amazing stupidity. Before someone comes with a reply saying how that is just our area of expertise, I don't act as though I know how to do accounting, or designing hard drives, or anything else like that.
Have to agree with you. I'm 15 now, and last time i had to go without my computer (hardware failure), I started to behave very strangely.
;)
Yes, maybe sitting in the dark drinking coffee and staring at my subwoofer for hours at a time is a sign that I should cut back on the computer time.
But we know it's not gonna happen. Things similar to this happen when I work on a computer without gcc. Without one at all......arrgghh.... it's horrible
Three words: One. Time. Pad.
There is NO way that that can be broken if the key is not compromised. It is completely impossible.
For your example, 137+48, if you learn all the combinations of single digit integers, then you can break it up into:Because you have multiples of ten for the most part, it is a lot easier.
But this is just my way, it may not work for other people.
If it's free as in speech, then you can edit out the commercials and redistribute.
;)
And it will happen, or it would if the show itself was open source, and not about open source
For short periods caffiene can take you a long way. I've managed to go almost 18 hours straight in my school holidays. A hit every couple hours is enough, if you don't do it often.
;)
I wouldn't recommend doing this often though
Why would they need to invent a new laser? There are already plenty on the market that are not for CD/DVD.
What you don't seem to understand is that we want to live life for ourself, and form our own opinions.
Maybe we pay a price, maybe we don't. It's the choice that matters.
Or perhaps he's running a 100 node cluster on the same unswitched 10Base-T network ;)
Hey, you never know.
Actually, last time I read a MS EULA (supposed to be doing Japanese homework, any distraction was welcome ), it said that a one-time change of ownership was ok, as long as you give all manuals, etc.
Complete BS, it'd never stand up in court.
I would imagine that you are free to copy, but not redistribute. Of course, by copying you are probably violating DMCA, so it wouldn't be legal.
I did that in year one, 12-year-olds may be a little past that stage.
However, the electronic kits from stores are good, I get one occasionally, but slightly more advanced than one for 12 year olds.
Bear in mind that most of the people in my electronics class (yr 9, did it in yr 8 too) can't solder for shit. Maybe this is not the norm, but don't expect 12-year-olds to be able to solder without making a horrifying mess of their PCB.
Most teachers don't seem to know shit, but they have most of the basic stuff down, although I always seem to be the one doing fault finding for people. I would assume however that the poster is more skilled than this.
Schools aren't really allowed to do that much for fear of lawsuits. At mine this year (yr 9), we made minature cars in wood tech, hole in the back to put in a minature carbon dioxide canister, which makes it go about 10 or 15 meters before starting to slow down.
Before we could take them home, they had to have an empty canister glued into the hole, so we couldn't put a new one in.
That I was able to get the empty one out (and help some friends do it) the day we got them back (relief teacher, which meant we just do whatever we want for the most part) in about 15 seconds was beside the point. They have to cover their arses, otherwise a lawsuit comes.
And all except one can render W3C standard HTML.
Anyone care to guess which one?
I dunno, having someone like that around can be useful
But what percentage of Windows users have bought a computer since SP2 was released?
They already exist, or at least they do in Australia.
And btw, that isn't how you spell condom.
Not much on the new scripting engine. Is it still scheme? I'm fairly open minded as far as languages go, but scheme is the most horrifying I have ever seen.
I would like to be able to write scripts using another language, maybe using something like SWIG if it is really needed.
My school had one techie that was there two days a week. I was the tech staff the rest of the time.
I got a call saying "The computer won't start." I said "Is it plugged in?" "Yes, of course! Do you think I'm that stupid???". Then I heard a rattle in the background, and then heard the computer come on.
I find that it is best to deal with people like this by installing Gentoo, and never leaving the computer alone.
At least I got to spend some time in The Room Full Of Old Computers, Some Servers, And Half A Kilometer Of Cable(tm)
Seemed a lot like my bedroom, actually.
I was tech support at my school too, before I want to high school.
Bear in mind that this was a network running on NT4 with Win98 machines. I wasn't the one who set it up, obviously. There were no access-controls on anything, anyone could change any settings, they all had IE.
And all 650 of us were sharing an ISDN.
One time I did literally throw my mobile at the ground as soon as I heard what it was about. Hard.
Ericsson T100, it's a strong phone.
And when the full SDK comes out? I can't debug it, but I can write some of the code.