Haven't you listened to the lawyer-speak at the end of pretty much every drug commercial?
For instance, Breo Ellipta, an inhaler used to treat asthma has this warning "People with asthma who take long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist (LABA) medicines, such as vilanterol (one of the medicines in BREO), have an increased risk of death from asthma problems." (Emphasis added)
They're going to have to either kick it up a notch in the next product cycle OR find and release similar vulnerabilities in the competition's product lines...
Um, I think this must be a typo, (">" is usually "greater than"), because I would be *extremely* upset if a language actually used ">" for "less than"!
How about introducing a scripting language into one of the popular MMOs to automate tedious tasks? If the API and syntax are simple, and there are nice examples for common tasks, the self-interest of players will push them to use it... learning programming as a side effect.
Years ago I wrote a little program for my (then) 3-year old sister on a TRS-80 Color Computer (it was kinda old even then). She loved it, it entertained her for hours, taught her about interacting with the computer via the keyboard, and about the order of the alphabet and numeric digits.
The program was really simple:
When the child pressed a letter or number key, the *entire* screen background changed to a bright color, the letter was displayed at the maximum font size that would fit, and an audible tone was played. Each letter/number was mapped to a specific color and tone, in case-insensitive alphabetic + numeric order (A-Z,0-9), so that colors and tones spanned both the spectrum and audible range (e.g. A= Red + low tone, 9=Blue + high tone).
I think that two simple additions would make it appropriate for an interactive kiosk for 3-8 year olds:
1) Create an over-sized keyboard for the the letters and numbers that use large 'industrial-strength' buttons 2) Provide a 'record', 'erase', and 'play' button and equivalent functionality in the software: Child can press record, then press several buttons, then press play and the letter/color/tones will be played back.
Now we can seed Mars! Soon it'll be all green. Suddenly the green will dissappear, prompting a team of astronauts to voyage there to discover, the hard way, that bugs ate the green bacteria!
I played around with a variety of converters a couple of weeks ago. The best luck I had was: 1) convert (la)TeX to html (there are a number of tools) 2) read html that into word 3) save as Word.doc file (or rtf) I imagine that OpenOffice would do step 3 fine as well.
Another problem is the difficulty in keeping the rocket flying straight. Think about it: all of the propulsion is coming from the very end of the rocket. If the nose gets even a little bit out of alignment, the thing will flip and crash...
Actually, you would just figure out exactly which frequency is best for kicking out electors, create one of these photonic converters that shifts everything to that frequency and bond it to the top of the solar cell. Presto the ultimate solar cell!
As others have pointed out it is *possible* to run a Windows based cluster. It isn't *practical* unless you are willing to put a lot of mony into very high end hardware and support.
The basic problem is system reliability. With commodity hardware, my experience is that a windows boxes have an uptime of less than 20 days. Thats translates in to a single machine crashing with probabilty 1/20 in any day (probably too low). I've successfully run linux clusters where the uptime was only limited by my propensity for upgrading kernels, etc. Given the probability of crashing on a given day to be, say, 1/200 (probably too high.)
Now, remember that most parallel programs will die if any of the nodes crash. Then do the computation:
P(No Nodes Crash during 1 day)= 1 - P(Any Node Crashes) = 1 - [1 - P(one node crash)] ^(# Nodes)
Play with the numbers and you'll see why no-one can afford to run really big Windows clustesr. For even a 20-node cluster there is 64% probability of a crashes every _DAY_. For a 20 node Linux cluster, that number is only 10%. It gets worse the more nodes you have.
Well, I'm not Canadian, but I'm married to one. My Canadian in-laws live in BC and seem to be MUCH more disallusioned with thier government than my US friends are.
I've spent several happy afternoons taking a pile of "obsolete" hardware and software (anyone remember WP 4.2?) and turning it into useful workstations for a local charity.
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Haven't you listened to the lawyer-speak at the end of pretty much every drug commercial? For instance, Breo Ellipta, an inhaler used to treat asthma has this warning "People with asthma who take long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist (LABA) medicines, such as vilanterol (one of the medicines in BREO), have an increased risk of death from asthma problems." (Emphasis added)
They're going to have to either kick it up a notch in the next product cycle OR find and release similar vulnerabilities in the competition's product lines ...
The previous Slashdot article suggests Intel's spin-doctors are already doing just that.
What about desktop applications? Is this planned?
It's one thing to use ">" for "less than".
Um, I think this must be a typo, (">" is usually "greater than"), because I would be *extremely* upset if a language actually used ">" for "less than"!
How about introducing a scripting language into one of the popular MMOs to automate tedious tasks? If the API and syntax are simple, and there are nice examples for common tasks, the self-interest of players will push them to use it... learning programming as a side effect.
Googling turned up this paper which has a table of studies of speadsheet error rates:
http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/SSR/Mypapers/whatknow.htm
Use Skype/FaceTime/Phone+SMS photos/whatever to go to real world places together: museums, parks, hiking, etc.
I took my girlfriend to quite a number of places vial cell-phone+SMS photos when we were dating-at-a-distance... Now she's my wife!
Splash screen + about gets my vote.
Years ago I wrote a little program for my (then) 3-year old sister on a TRS-80 Color Computer (it was kinda old even then). She loved it, it entertained her for hours, taught her about interacting with the computer via the keyboard, and about the order of the alphabet and numeric digits.
The program was really simple:
When the child pressed a letter or number key, the *entire* screen background changed to a bright color, the letter was displayed at the maximum font size that would fit, and an audible tone was played. Each letter/number was mapped to a specific color and tone, in case-insensitive alphabetic + numeric order (A-Z,0-9), so that colors and tones spanned both the spectrum and audible range (e.g. A= Red + low tone, 9=Blue + high tone).
I think that two simple additions would make it appropriate for an interactive kiosk for 3-8 year olds:
1) Create an over-sized keyboard for the the letters and numbers that use large 'industrial-strength' buttons
2) Provide a 'record', 'erase', and 'play' button and equivalent functionality in the software: Child can press record, then press several buttons, then press play and the letter/color/tones will be played back.
My 2c
Eurika!!
Now we can seed Mars! Soon it'll be all green. Suddenly the green will dissappear, prompting a team of astronauts to voyage there to discover, the hard way, that bugs ate the green bacteria!
I played around with a variety of converters a couple of weeks ago. The best luck I had was: .doc file (or rtf)
1) convert (la)TeX to html (there are a number of tools)
2) read html that into word
3) save as Word
I imagine that OpenOffice would do step 3 fine as well.
A 3-dimentional matrix, in this case the crossword puzzle, is just a stack of 2 dimensional matrices.
So, just print each slice, as well as a diagram showing how the slices are fit together.
For clarity you should fill in a few example answers so that people can see how responses across each of the dimensions work.
LinOS is better. It could be pronounced "lin-ahs", so it would sound like "Linux".
Another problem is the difficulty in keeping the rocket flying straight. Think about it: all of the propulsion is coming from the very end of the rocket. If the nose gets even a little bit out of alignment, the thing will flip and crash...
The Kyocera 7135 gives you a Cell phone + PalmPilot + Mp3 + Color for games
perhaps you could put MAME on it to get all of the classic games.
Then the only thing you are missing is the mega capacity of the iPod.
Another open-source statistical language is R. Its commercial cousin is S-Plus.
Actually, you would just figure out exactly which frequency is best for kicking out electors, create one of these photonic converters that shifts everything to that frequency and bond it to the top of the solar cell. Presto the ultimate solar cell!
As others have pointed out it is *possible* to run a Windows based cluster. It isn't *practical* unless you are willing to put a lot of mony into very high end hardware and support.
The basic problem is system reliability. With commodity hardware, my experience is that a windows boxes have an uptime of less than 20 days. Thats translates in to a single machine crashing with probabilty 1/20 in any day (probably too low). I've successfully run linux clusters where the uptime was only limited by my propensity for upgrading kernels, etc. Given the probability of crashing on a given day to be, say, 1/200 (probably too high.)
Now, remember that most parallel programs will die if any of the nodes crash. Then do the computation:
P(No Nodes Crash during 1 day)= 1 - P(Any Node Crashes) = 1 - [1 - P(one node crash)] ^(# Nodes)
Play with the numbers and you'll see why no-one can afford to run really big Windows clustesr. For even a 20-node cluster there is 64% probability of a crashes every _DAY_. For a 20 node Linux cluster, that number is only 10%. It gets worse the more nodes you have.
Well, I'm not Canadian, but I'm married to one. My Canadian in-laws live in BC and seem to be MUCH more disallusioned with thier government than my US friends are.
Give your old hardware to charity!
I've spent several happy afternoons taking a pile of "obsolete" hardware and software (anyone remember WP 4.2?) and turning it into useful workstations for a local charity.