That doesn't compete with the unsecured wireless LAN method. Or secured and you have a password, which works for me because my friend doesn't have a CD burner. And that other one is just lazy. And that other guy is just a shithead who says he'll download me Debian, and just keeps my CDs.
If in Europe everyone had a Ferrari would you be complaining about how America was so far behind in automotive technology? I still consider broadband to be a luxury item.
More like "All we have are Athlon XPs, and you're complaining that you can't get better than Athlon 64 FX?" while the select few have multiple Opterons.
My point is that it seems like you're complaining about how 1Mb/s is too slow to use.
Maybe you should all stop complaining about how you don't all have ten megabit connections?
Over here in Australia, we are almost all on 56k. I can count the number of people I know who have broadband on one hand.
In the USA, you recently got to 50% of households with broadband. Care to guess how many people in Australia have access to high-speed internet? One million as of June 2004. Out of more than 20 million. THAT'S FIVE PERCENT!!!
Just because some countries have faster internet, that doesn't mean you're falling behind.
I'd kill people to get a 512k ADSL line, but I'm just not able to. Be happy with what you already have.
If I go to my natural sleep cycle, I end up about 3 to 5 hours late for school;)
I go off caffiene whenever I run out of coffee, and my parents buy Blend 43. I've looked at my code from that period. My internal reaction was somewhere along the lines of "What the fuck were you thinking???".
Besides, I do actually like coffee for the taste.
Not everyone works that way - I'm still at school though, but I sleep 12 till 6, have some coffee to get me up in the morning, and I can code for hours.
Sometimes however, when I sleep 10 till 7, I'm really tired all day, and can't get anything done.
Just because some people's brains work one way doesn't mean it applies to everyone.
Seeing as how I'm on slashdot now, rather than writing code, you know how long I slept last night;)
It's not that strange that he was *asked* not to use the service outside the library, they probably wan't to keep better track of who's using it
But it is strange that he was told to "just close that up, sir, or use your computer elsewhere?".
I don't see why a person shouldn't be allowed to use their own computer equipment in a public place.
Well, I'd say it's fair to assume that a priest is less likely to be breaking the law than a nerd sitting near an AP, typing quickly on a non-Windows computer. Or the angry looking guy with a bulge in his coat pocket.
I've accidently put my IM logs on the internet. Sometimes it can be easy enough to make a mistake (ie. deny,allow rather than allow,deny). A shitload of private stuff got out to everyone I know (I'm 14, so I have to be with these people a lot of the time), and now I use GnuPG with a 4096-bit key, and digest authentication.
You don't have to be dumb to make mistakes like this, a single typo can do it. Being dumb just helps.
I told him double-ROT13 not realizing just how dense he was. The story gets better! The marketing shpiel he put together was going to the IT security folks at the NSA! One of them called me up, in tears from laughing
I just had the exact same reaction. You posted this over 30 minutes ago. I'm still laughing out loud now.
I'm still a newbie too, but spending a while coding assembly straightened me out. That and seeing the code from one of my friends from school who started C++ a couple of weeks ago. Scared the shit out of me. Haven't had a single memory leak since. Most of the mistakes you mentioned does piss me off though. That and opening braces on the same line as the start of a function/class/loop/struct/etc. But that's just me.
What I'd recommend to the other newbies out there is to download something simple from Sourceforge, go through it, try to understand it, and rewrite it yourself, if it's simple enough (I did md5sum, reusing some code from md5lib). Try either that or 2^n-ROT13, where n > 0;)
The only other way I can think of that could check whether a year is a leap year would be
bool leapYear = (year & 0x3) ? false : true;
Which, if I understand correctly, would run faster, because there's no division involved. Not that performance really matters in a calendar.
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Just out of curiosity, what is the other site?
That doesn't compete with the unsecured wireless LAN method. Or secured and you have a password, which works for me because my friend doesn't have a CD burner. And that other one is just lazy. And that other guy is just a shithead who says he'll download me Debian, and just keeps my CDs.
why don't you move to where it's available, or pressure Telstra to provide ADSL where you are?
How many teenagers do you know that can pay $80 a month for an internet connection?
Yes, but you get it CHEAP
If in Europe everyone had a Ferrari would you be complaining about how America was so far behind in automotive technology? I still consider broadband to be a luxury item.
More like "All we have are Athlon XPs, and you're complaining that you can't get better than Athlon 64 FX?" while the select few have multiple Opterons.
My point is that it seems like you're complaining about how 1Mb/s is too slow to use.
You don't know how much broadband costs down here, do you?
Give 'em some practice on Cygwin under Windows, if that's the OS they've been trained in. That at least gives them something to do during the install.
I learnt the basics in a weekend on a P2 450, (CLI, Gnome, KDE), you could learn to work on a command line somewhat in 3 days.
Teach scripting later.
Slow in comparison? In other countries, 1.5Mb/s is amazingly fast, and 4Mb/s is just....whoa....shit.
When I see 10Mb/s my reaction is "This is a joke, right?"
Unless they already have Cygwin then they have plenty to learn about the command line.
Australia is far bigger and less dense than both
And don't forget that often we can't download from out own continent.
If you have a reasonable download limit, I wouldn't consider that expensive at all, until you weight it against the cost of living in Chile.
£20 a month for 512/256 ADSL? Nice. Or not?
That's one hell of a price - in Australia we pay $AU80/month for 512/256 ADSL w/ 10 gigs.
Maybe you should all stop complaining about how you don't all have ten megabit connections?
Over here in Australia, we are almost all on 56k. I can count the number of people I know who have broadband on one hand.
In the USA, you recently got to 50% of households with broadband. Care to guess how many people in Australia have access to high-speed internet? One million as of June 2004. Out of more than 20 million. THAT'S FIVE PERCENT!!!
Just because some countries have faster internet, that doesn't mean you're falling behind.
I'd kill people to get a 512k ADSL line, but I'm just not able to. Be happy with what you already have.
If I go to my natural sleep cycle, I end up about 3 to 5 hours late for school ;)
I go off caffiene whenever I run out of coffee, and my parents buy Blend 43. I've looked at my code from that period. My internal reaction was somewhere along the lines of "What the fuck were you thinking???".
Besides, I do actually like coffee for the taste.
Not everyone works that way - I'm still at school though, but I sleep 12 till 6, have some coffee to get me up in the morning, and I can code for hours.
;)
Sometimes however, when I sleep 10 till 7, I'm really tired all day, and can't get anything done.
Just because some people's brains work one way doesn't mean it applies to everyone.
Seeing as how I'm on slashdot now, rather than writing code, you know how long I slept last night
with VB6, which was a steaming pile of crap
VB6 has helped me quite a lot - NOTHING else has motivated me to learn C++ like VB6. *NOTHING*
OSS games would release much more often than a closed source company - gamers have to keep up with updates.
And who wants to patch and recompile their favourite game every weekend?
It's not that strange that he was *asked* not to use the service outside the library, they probably wan't to keep better track of who's using it
But it is strange that he was told to "just close that up, sir, or use your computer elsewhere?".
I don't see why a person shouldn't be allowed to use their own computer equipment in a public place.
Well, I'd say it's fair to assume that a priest is less likely to be breaking the law than a nerd sitting near an AP, typing quickly on a non-Windows computer. Or the angry looking guy with a bulge in his coat pocket.
I've accidently put my IM logs on the internet. Sometimes it can be easy enough to make a mistake (ie. deny,allow rather than allow,deny). A shitload of private stuff got out to everyone I know (I'm 14, so I have to be with these people a lot of the time), and now I use GnuPG with a 4096-bit key, and digest authentication.
You don't have to be dumb to make mistakes like this, a single typo can do it. Being dumb just helps.
He told him that he wasn't allowed to use his laptop in a public place, that makes him a jerk in my opinion.
And how much worse isthan
Besides, I learnt assembly before C++, so I do my own optimisations out of habit.
I just had the exact same reaction. You posted this over 30 minutes ago. I'm still laughing out loud now.
I'm still a newbie too, but spending a while coding assembly straightened me out. That and seeing the code from one of my friends from school who started C++ a couple of weeks ago. Scared the shit out of me. Haven't had a single memory leak since. Most of the mistakes you mentioned does piss me off though. That and opening braces on the same line as the start of a function/class/loop/struct/etc. But that's just me.
What I'd recommend to the other newbies out there is to download something simple from Sourceforge, go through it, try to understand it, and rewrite it yourself, if it's simple enough (I did md5sum, reusing some code from md5lib). Try either that or 2^n-ROT13, where n > 0
The only other way I can think of that could check whether a year is a leap year would beWhich, if I understand correctly, would run faster, because there's no division involved. Not that performance really matters in a calendar.
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Memory
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Creative thinking
And it's not like doing a shitty job repairing a car - It's not that they don't work, just nobody understands them.