My first computer was an 8086 Epson Equity II monochrome screen, dual 5.25" floppy disks, no hard drive so the only thing I can do on it that was worthwhile was make my own text adventure games. I followed GW-BASIC book and had a blast! I made music using sheet music and painstakingly convert notes into Hz and made silly games. Granted I was about 9 or 10 years old at the time, but I was annoyed I couldn't do more. Eventually when I got a colour computer (CGA), I had a blast playing with colours and different graphic modes (or screens as it was in QBasic, I think it was screen 12 that I liked the most.
I heard about C/C++ and I thought it was stupid, thought BASIC was the way to go (I was a tween or so), then when I got into high school we started playing with Pascal. I found some site in the Netherlands that was a Pascal god doing crazy shit with assembly and I emailed him for help and he graciously did, and my teacher used my rocket ship as an example of what the students were doing on back to school night (it was the centre piece, other students had theirs up too). It was pretty cool. When I became a senior the college board switched from Pascal to C++ so I retook Intro to comp sci to learn C++ and I am glad I did. Not only do I love the language now, loathe basic (ironic, isn't it?), but it helped learn so many other languages that are C-based. While I never formally learned K&R C, I been meaning to pickup their book for quite some time. I think it'll help with learning Objective C, but anyway, I digress.
To answer the question I am self taught to get the basics (no pun intended) and was formally educated after getting a descent elementary grasp.
I suppose in Elementary school, we were taught Logo, so I suppose that counted, but I guess I never saw it as programming other than maybe scripting or telling a computer to draw something, so yeah I guess it does count. Though in middle school, we had Lego Logo which was sick, having lego projects interact with the logo code we wrote.
yes drinking water after each drink is good, i also might add drinking a litre before bed to be a good option as well. and if your stomach can tolerate it, taking two ASA tablets wouldn't be a bad idea either.
That's why I use the Privacy settings. The people I add for those stupid Facebook games I put in a special group that sees none of my personal information. Just access to the game and no more. The games own websites provide instructions on doing so usually as a sticky on the very forums where people swap Facebook handles!
I don't user a colour laser jet for photos, I use it for reports and other things one used to use a colour inkjet for. For photos I will use a dyesub printer from the local store down the road. I know what you were referring to that getting a b&w printer is a good investment for the quality, though there are instances when a decent colour laser is needed too. You can get comparable quality with a deskjet, sure, yes the price is a tad high, but I change replace toners maybe twice a year. Or less. It is a network printer so depends how often my family prints to it as well.
The problem is I bought my colour laser printer for $300, due to a crazy promotion I got through one of our vendors in the office. Toner is about $70 each. It is still more expensive to buy four new toners than it is to buy a new HP Colour LaserJet since they now always have promotions. Sure the toner lasts much longer than those 4 ml ink carts, but still, I've been tempted to buy a new printer, if only to get the latest thing. I hate to waste, and too lazy to reprogram my Cisco router to issue its new static IP since I do it via hardware address on the router.
I suppose I am old enough to when I got my licence about 13 years ago, I had to rely on going to the motor club to get my free maps and just learn the back roads. Even though my current car I own today does have a Sat-Nav built-in, I seldom use the directional part of it and just mainly use it for the map itself since I get that auto-scrolling map of where my car is and I can locate a detour if needed. Heck, I took a cross-country trip a few years ago with a friend and we just relied on maps and the GPS map, not it routing where I am going.
Though I remember when I first was driving I didn't even know my town that well since I was always driven by my parents and never paid any attention where we were going. I was embarrassed to say I had to use MapQuest to get to the local ice cream store across town which was 6 km away! But soon afterwards, I just drove anywhere and everywhere and I didn't rely on using MapQuest any longer because I got the feel of the road.
I remember when I was still a senior in high school, a friend of mine needed a lift to get his car from a service station several towns away. It was around rush hour when we got there, so I didn't want to take the motorway back to his house so I took the back roads and when we got back home, my friend was really amazed how we did that. And I had no Sat-Nav unit that told me where to go, I just know where I was and which roads went where but taking them in the past.
Well I was in classes all morning at university when the attacks occurred. There is no central PA system, so nobody had a clue. On the way to my next class is where a janitor told me about what happened. Even then, it didn't register how tragic the events were because it was all second-hand information, so I just went into my next class. I just thought it was like what happened last time, a car bomb blew up, and little damage was really done.
Just as class started, somebody came in screaming the WTC just collapses, my wife works there, I'm going to try to call her!!
The teacher didn't know what to do, so he kept teaching. Half the class was ignoring him, trying to call family and friends, my dad worked near the WTC so I left and called, and thankfully he was all right. But the point is, even with all these technologies, it wouldn't of helped me. Up to the second news is simply stupid really. It can wait until I get to a terminal to read it.
this actually happened to me at work. I was setting up a new APC backups in our lab when the electrician put in a 220V drop on for the 110V unit. needless to say, it sparked, scared the shit out of, and my new nickname is sparky. when the technicians here tried to fix it, they asked what happened, i said it smoked.
they said, oh magic smoke came out? ok throw the unit away. its hopeless now:-/
I would be very happy to pay £110.00 a year if it meant I can the full BBC without the editing they do to the shows when they replay them on the discovery channel.
i agree, the guardian is a good news site, but i think the bbc is even better. why? no fucking adverts!!! nothing to distract me but the news and that's all i want.
what do boobies have to do with an R rating? Boobs are just boobs.
It's funny, just look at IMDB and see ratings of R movies here and see them rated 15 or less abroad.
The MPAA really needs to straighten out their priorities. Okay, I am a young adult, not a parent (and yes American) but I personally think a movie like Wedding Crashers should been PG-13 - all it did show was boobs, didnt swear all that much and nothing a teenager hasnt seen or heard before.
The FCC is even more ridicilous when it came to the "Wardrobe Malfunction". I mean, give me a break. You see more nudity in an european soap commercial tnan you did during the microsecond of the superbowl.
One of the main reasons why I go to the theatre is the awesome surround sound. But now with 5.1 surround sound for the home theatre, big-screen TVs, and my cozy couch, I have zero need to see it in the theatre. Sure the silver screen is big and cool, but not anymore. I go in to see a 10:00 show, at at 10, there are 20 minutes of commercials, then 20 more minutes of previews. Then after thats all done, I forgot what movie I came in to see.
as an american i have to say i agree with you. i personally cant stand FPS or american football games. i do enjoy watching sports, but not as much as most people tend to do. (e.g., i dont make it a point to watch a sport).
i was a big fan of nintendo, only bc i grew up with it and became a loyal customer. as nintendo screwed things up i am really looking forward to getting an xbox 360. however, i would like to play those games targeted to the japanese market, as i enjoy RPG games and the alike.
games where i think are fun to me, simulations (flight, or the like). i dont like violent games, think they're rather stupid personally.
just my two cents.
i dont know about other schools, but my university and had approximately 15 week semesters, which roughly 5 months. So it seems like it lasts long enough to take a course, revise for the exams, and be done with it.
Correction, the RIAA has no authority to fine anyone as they are not a government agency (yet...). However, if I get a fancy letter from them, I plan on taking it to court and battle it out.
But again, I don't pirate music. All my music came from CDs I actually held in my hand and ripped to my hard drive. Nevermind the fact after doing so, I gave it back to whomever I borrowed it from.
one of the things i hate is how i cant access my home directory natively. yes i have a "dropbox" that is a 5 GB FAT32 partition that i can read/write from within linux, but since my machine is a dual boot box, i often have to reboot if i want to get certain data i forgot to put there.
of course on linux i can read ntfs, not write, why not have some ability of at least reading ext2/3 from within windows itself? there is no real need to write, as linux can read the windows parititon no questions asked.
you are so right! especially in college my room mate snored so loud my only conform was my (and his) computer making noise!
of course my router flashing was so soothing too!
I used to be a web developer for my university (I since graduated so I dont work there anymore), and their policy was to ensure it worked back to Netscape 4, as we used netscape profiles for emails. They still used Windows 98 SE too. Eventually XP came a long and IE6 was favoured, and so did webmail--and yet we stopped caring about IE altogether. If it works in Firefox, and not IE, not our problem. I program using standards, if MS cant follow them, then too bad became our motto!
who cares about scholastic, they only deal with the US. Personally I pre-ordered mine from amazon.co.uk bc that idiot Arthur Levine insists Americans are schmucks bc he thinks when a kid reads "He was barking mad" they assume its a dog.
Well lets see now, Roald Dahl published childrens books. I read them all the time. Lets see, they were kept verbatim (english spellings and geographical based vocabulary)--- and u know what? I still knew what it meant!!!! Holy shit! Good move scholastic for ruining a great book!
And JK does regret even allowing them to change the title of the first book. She was scared and im sure she got a huge load of cash to do it too.
Though when i was a kid we were a lot smarter than todays kids so maybe it was a good thing they did it?
so change the firefox search. now i got google toolbar, i use wikipedia as default, though dictionary is handy. though i find i'll probably use php.net more and more, so i'll end up that being default.
I have experimented and I have passed WGA by using a generated cd-key. the same one that allowed me to use sp1, sp2, and now it seems wga. its just a dumb algorithm that can be fooled quite easily.
Just because it is Intel it doesnt mean jack shit it will be x86. From what I understand, Apple owns the IP of the PowerPC design. There is no reason why Intel can not make a bigger, badder PowerPC, just with an Intel logo on it rather than IBMs.
Just a thought......
For the time being, machine language isn't supposed to do your German homework well enough the teacher actually belives you did it. I think it's useful for getting a rough idea. Once it's in the target language, since we are all fluent in the language it translates into, we can figure out what its supposed to say in perfect grammar. And when those weird words that don't get translated, I am sure we can just Google it and find out what it means.
This still does have a long way to go, but it does do a decent job. However, with the Google Browser, I am sure it will be neat seeing blog comments in several different languages. As far as the reader of the site is concerned he thinks its a blog in their native tongue...So reading the site untranslated might have several different languages as comments, which can be neat all on its own.
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My first computer was an 8086 Epson Equity II monochrome screen, dual 5.25" floppy disks, no hard drive so the only thing I can do on it that was worthwhile was make my own text adventure games. I followed GW-BASIC book and had a blast! I made music using sheet music and painstakingly convert notes into Hz and made silly games. Granted I was about 9 or 10 years old at the time, but I was annoyed I couldn't do more. Eventually when I got a colour computer (CGA), I had a blast playing with colours and different graphic modes (or screens as it was in QBasic, I think it was screen 12 that I liked the most. I heard about C/C++ and I thought it was stupid, thought BASIC was the way to go (I was a tween or so), then when I got into high school we started playing with Pascal. I found some site in the Netherlands that was a Pascal god doing crazy shit with assembly and I emailed him for help and he graciously did, and my teacher used my rocket ship as an example of what the students were doing on back to school night (it was the centre piece, other students had theirs up too). It was pretty cool. When I became a senior the college board switched from Pascal to C++ so I retook Intro to comp sci to learn C++ and I am glad I did. Not only do I love the language now, loathe basic (ironic, isn't it?), but it helped learn so many other languages that are C-based. While I never formally learned K&R C, I been meaning to pickup their book for quite some time. I think it'll help with learning Objective C, but anyway, I digress. To answer the question I am self taught to get the basics (no pun intended) and was formally educated after getting a descent elementary grasp. I suppose in Elementary school, we were taught Logo, so I suppose that counted, but I guess I never saw it as programming other than maybe scripting or telling a computer to draw something, so yeah I guess it does count. Though in middle school, we had Lego Logo which was sick, having lego projects interact with the logo code we wrote.
yes drinking water after each drink is good, i also might add drinking a litre before bed to be a good option as well. and if your stomach can tolerate it, taking two ASA tablets wouldn't be a bad idea either.
That's why I use the Privacy settings. The people I add for those stupid Facebook games I put in a special group that sees none of my personal information. Just access to the game and no more. The games own websites provide instructions on doing so usually as a sticky on the very forums where people swap Facebook handles!
I don't user a colour laser jet for photos, I use it for reports and other things one used to use a colour inkjet for. For photos I will use a dyesub printer from the local store down the road. I know what you were referring to that getting a b&w printer is a good investment for the quality, though there are instances when a decent colour laser is needed too. You can get comparable quality with a deskjet, sure, yes the price is a tad high, but I change replace toners maybe twice a year. Or less. It is a network printer so depends how often my family prints to it as well.
The problem is I bought my colour laser printer for $300, due to a crazy promotion I got through one of our vendors in the office. Toner is about $70 each. It is still more expensive to buy four new toners than it is to buy a new HP Colour LaserJet since they now always have promotions. Sure the toner lasts much longer than those 4 ml ink carts, but still, I've been tempted to buy a new printer, if only to get the latest thing. I hate to waste, and too lazy to reprogram my Cisco router to issue its new static IP since I do it via hardware address on the router.
I suppose I am old enough to when I got my licence about 13 years ago, I had to rely on going to the motor club to get my free maps and just learn the back roads. Even though my current car I own today does have a Sat-Nav built-in, I seldom use the directional part of it and just mainly use it for the map itself since I get that auto-scrolling map of where my car is and I can locate a detour if needed. Heck, I took a cross-country trip a few years ago with a friend and we just relied on maps and the GPS map, not it routing where I am going. Though I remember when I first was driving I didn't even know my town that well since I was always driven by my parents and never paid any attention where we were going. I was embarrassed to say I had to use MapQuest to get to the local ice cream store across town which was 6 km away! But soon afterwards, I just drove anywhere and everywhere and I didn't rely on using MapQuest any longer because I got the feel of the road. I remember when I was still a senior in high school, a friend of mine needed a lift to get his car from a service station several towns away. It was around rush hour when we got there, so I didn't want to take the motorway back to his house so I took the back roads and when we got back home, my friend was really amazed how we did that. And I had no Sat-Nav unit that told me where to go, I just know where I was and which roads went where but taking them in the past.
Well I was in classes all morning at university when the attacks occurred. There is no central PA system, so nobody had a clue. On the way to my next class is where a janitor told me about what happened. Even then, it didn't register how tragic the events were because it was all second-hand information, so I just went into my next class. I just thought it was like what happened last time, a car bomb blew up, and little damage was really done.
Just as class started, somebody came in screaming the WTC just collapses, my wife works there, I'm going to try to call her!!
The teacher didn't know what to do, so he kept teaching. Half the class was ignoring him, trying to call family and friends, my dad worked near the WTC so I left and called, and thankfully he was all right. But the point is, even with all these technologies, it wouldn't of helped me. Up to the second news is simply stupid really. It can wait until I get to a terminal to read it.
this actually happened to me at work. I was setting up a new APC backups in our lab when the electrician put in a 220V drop on for the 110V unit. needless to say, it sparked, scared the shit out of, and my new nickname is sparky. when the technicians here tried to fix it, they asked what happened, i said it smoked.
:-/
they said, oh magic smoke came out? ok throw the unit away. its hopeless now
I would be very happy to pay £110.00 a year if it meant I can the full BBC without the editing they do to the shows when they replay them on the discovery channel.
i agree, the guardian is a good news site, but i think the bbc is even better. why? no fucking adverts!!! nothing to distract me but the news and that's all i want.
which is why my computer is password protected and i always lock it when i leave the console.
what do boobies have to do with an R rating? Boobs are just boobs. It's funny, just look at IMDB and see ratings of R movies here and see them rated 15 or less abroad. The MPAA really needs to straighten out their priorities. Okay, I am a young adult, not a parent (and yes American) but I personally think a movie like Wedding Crashers should been PG-13 - all it did show was boobs, didnt swear all that much and nothing a teenager hasnt seen or heard before. The FCC is even more ridicilous when it came to the "Wardrobe Malfunction". I mean, give me a break. You see more nudity in an european soap commercial tnan you did during the microsecond of the superbowl.
One of the main reasons why I go to the theatre is the awesome surround sound. But now with 5.1 surround sound for the home theatre, big-screen TVs, and my cozy couch, I have zero need to see it in the theatre. Sure the silver screen is big and cool, but not anymore. I go in to see a 10:00 show, at at 10, there are 20 minutes of commercials, then 20 more minutes of previews. Then after thats all done, I forgot what movie I came in to see.
as an american i have to say i agree with you. i personally cant stand FPS or american football games. i do enjoy watching sports, but not as much as most people tend to do. (e.g., i dont make it a point to watch a sport). i was a big fan of nintendo, only bc i grew up with it and became a loyal customer. as nintendo screwed things up i am really looking forward to getting an xbox 360. however, i would like to play those games targeted to the japanese market, as i enjoy RPG games and the alike. games where i think are fun to me, simulations (flight, or the like). i dont like violent games, think they're rather stupid personally. just my two cents.
i dont know about other schools, but my university and had approximately 15 week semesters, which roughly 5 months. So it seems like it lasts long enough to take a course, revise for the exams, and be done with it.
Correction, the RIAA has no authority to fine anyone as they are not a government agency (yet...). However, if I get a fancy letter from them, I plan on taking it to court and battle it out. But again, I don't pirate music. All my music came from CDs I actually held in my hand and ripped to my hard drive. Nevermind the fact after doing so, I gave it back to whomever I borrowed it from.
one of the things i hate is how i cant access my home directory natively. yes i have a "dropbox" that is a 5 GB FAT32 partition that i can read/write from within linux, but since my machine is a dual boot box, i often have to reboot if i want to get certain data i forgot to put there. of course on linux i can read ntfs, not write, why not have some ability of at least reading ext2/3 from within windows itself? there is no real need to write, as linux can read the windows parititon no questions asked.
i see it has optical, but ever since i got my laser mouse from logitech, i'm not going back to traditional optical. ever.
you are so right! especially in college my room mate snored so loud my only conform was my (and his) computer making noise! of course my router flashing was so soothing too!
I used to be a web developer for my university (I since graduated so I dont work there anymore), and their policy was to ensure it worked back to Netscape 4, as we used netscape profiles for emails. They still used Windows 98 SE too. Eventually XP came a long and IE6 was favoured, and so did webmail--and yet we stopped caring about IE altogether. If it works in Firefox, and not IE, not our problem. I program using standards, if MS cant follow them, then too bad became our motto!
who cares about scholastic, they only deal with the US. Personally I pre-ordered mine from amazon.co.uk bc that idiot Arthur Levine insists Americans are schmucks bc he thinks when a kid reads "He was barking mad" they assume its a dog. Well lets see now, Roald Dahl published childrens books. I read them all the time. Lets see, they were kept verbatim (english spellings and geographical based vocabulary)--- and u know what? I still knew what it meant!!!! Holy shit! Good move scholastic for ruining a great book! And JK does regret even allowing them to change the title of the first book. She was scared and im sure she got a huge load of cash to do it too. Though when i was a kid we were a lot smarter than todays kids so maybe it was a good thing they did it?
so change the firefox search. now i got google toolbar, i use wikipedia as default, though dictionary is handy. though i find i'll probably use php.net more and more, so i'll end up that being default.
I have experimented and I have passed WGA by using a generated cd-key. the same one that allowed me to use sp1, sp2, and now it seems wga. its just a dumb algorithm that can be fooled quite easily.
Just because it is Intel it doesnt mean jack shit it will be x86. From what I understand, Apple owns the IP of the PowerPC design. There is no reason why Intel can not make a bigger, badder PowerPC, just with an Intel logo on it rather than IBMs. Just a thought......
For the time being, machine language isn't supposed to do your German homework well enough the teacher actually belives you did it. I think it's useful for getting a rough idea. Once it's in the target language, since we are all fluent in the language it translates into, we can figure out what its supposed to say in perfect grammar. And when those weird words that don't get translated, I am sure we can just Google it and find out what it means. This still does have a long way to go, but it does do a decent job. However, with the Google Browser, I am sure it will be neat seeing blog comments in several different languages. As far as the reader of the site is concerned he thinks its a blog in their native tongue...So reading the site untranslated might have several different languages as comments, which can be neat all on its own.