I started with BASIC on a 1980's era Amstrad CPC. It is a fine language for learning on, but if the goal is to move to a more structured language like C, then BASIC is possibly a little sloppy. I got frustrated with the line numbering, as any subroutine calls had to be made via gosub which made it tedious when editing and adding lines. Sure renum renumbered and took gosubs into account, but something like pascal or C just felt more intuitive in that area to me.
I'm not sure if pascal is taught as a beginners language anymore either. I did pascal in high school, but the first thing my programming lecturer said to those that had done pascal programming before, was to forget everything we'd ever learnt before learning C.
I can see a use for this in attempting to reduce the amount of inconsiderate people that leave their laundy in the machines for hours after it's finished. Link the statistics to a names database, so you can see the average time a particular person leaves their laundry after it's finished. Thereby exposing said person to a barrage of ridicule from annoyed laundry users, and hopefully either forcing them to reform their ways, or relegating them to unpopular washing times.
Obviously, you don't want names linked to actual in-use machines... that would just open you up to people targeting others clothes for whatever reason.
Most countries privide AC at 50Hz. Only a handful of countries use 60Hz, even though it is the most effective for delivery of AC over long distances. Nikola Tesla recommended 240V at 60Hz after experiments with AC.
But if you put it in the dishwasher, the detergent will kill the beer's head... we can't have that...
Do dishwashers work with no detergent in them? ie. I'm sure they actually still operate without it, but do they do a decent job on beer glasses without detergent...
A few years back, some human rights activists broke into an RAF airfield and inflicted serious damage to a number of Bae Hawk aircraft that were on their way to Indonesia. They argued that by destroying thes aircraft, they were ultimately saving the lives of innocent people being killed in Indonesia. The courts found that while what they did was illegal, it was justifiable. The sentence however eludes me so I can't tell you what they got.
The Radio-telescope north of Parkes was the only dish large enough to receive the VIDEO from the lander. Most of the comms went through Tidbinbilla (spelling?) etc, but the video had to go through Parkes, because the signal was too weak for video from the other dishes.
You can say anything you want, but I went to the radio-telescope in Parkes in 1996 (4 years before the movie). You can't beat first-hand experience.
Also, the most content it is most worthwhile caching is foreign origin content. Ie, content not covered by Oz copyright laws? Or are they claiming simply that if you are not the copyright holder, so you can't cache it. Muppets.
International copyright is covered under Australian law, as we are a signatory to the Berne Convention... so no hope there.
On thing... didn't Australia pass a law guaranteeing the right to decompile and reverse engineer? Or didn't that go through. It gave me such HOPE for open source when I heard that. If that IS the case, how does that sit with banning DeCSS?
I was wondering the same thing... I wish I could find out. I'll ask my wife to try and find out (She's a lawyer), although her specialty is criminal law, not IP...
Deakin University http://www.deakin.edu.au/ is really big on off-campus. I am off-campus myself, doing the Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science/Software Development). The school of Computing and Mathematics is here: http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/.
They offer off-campus all over the world, and I know of one person last semester that was in California. Check them out...
I agree with you completely there. I don't understand either how anyone could be bored when you are constantly learning cool things that you can use on your own projects. If I wasn't taught C in first year, then how could I use it now for my own projects?
I also don't understand how anyone can say you can learn most of it yourself from books. Yes it can be done, but at nowhere near the speed of in a course. Do you get personal feedback from experienced programmers when you teach yourself?
If the lectures are boring, don't go. I can relate to boring lectures, but not the material itself. My Data Structures and Algorithms unit in first year was the most boring lecture I've ever been to, so I bought the off-campus study guide, and used it. I still went to the labs, I still learnt the material, and I still got feedback from the lab tutors. I just didn't attend the lectures.
Don't just give up because the lectures aren't lively enough. That's the lecturers fault, not the material's.
No offence but you are lying through your teeth. A little research on the CSU webpage yielded the following result:
402x Operating Systems (3) Basic issues in concurrency, deadlock control, synchronization scheduling, memory management, protection and access control, inter-process communication, and structured design. Laboratory experiences with Unix-like operating system. Not available for graduate credit to computer science majors. Prerequisite: CSCI 201L or CSCI 455x.
The is identical to a course I have _already_ taken. You can't pull the wool over my eyes...
No offence taken. I probably should have clarified...
That is a first year subject that I am taking to bring me up to full-time. Because I stuffed up my organisation, it was one of the only subjects offered this semester that I could take (having either already done them, or being first semester subjects) That also explains why I'm not a full 3rd year, I'm taking my last 2nd year subject now too (Databases and Information Retrieval). I can't wait to finish it, so I can say goodbye to databases for hopefully a very long time. They're not something I enjoy...
I'm currently in 2nd / 3rd year of my Computing degree here in Australia, and most of those things can be taken at my university. I'm doing Javascript right now (assignment due tomorrow!!!) and next semester, I'm hoping to take the Java course. My institution (Deakin University http://www.deakin.edu.au/ ) is really big on off-campus (correspondence) and sends their stuff all over the world. I'm doing it off-campus myself from about 2000km north of my home campus.
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My new XOOM seems pretty decent, although I have not tested it significantly with video playback yet.
Well said
I started with BASIC on a 1980's era Amstrad CPC. It is a fine language for learning on, but if the goal is to move to a more structured language like C, then BASIC is possibly a little sloppy. I got frustrated with the line numbering, as any subroutine calls had to be made via gosub which made it tedious when editing and adding lines. Sure renum renumbered and took gosubs into account, but something like pascal or C just felt more intuitive in that area to me.
I'm not sure if pascal is taught as a beginners language anymore either. I did pascal in high school, but the first thing my programming lecturer said to those that had done pascal programming before, was to forget everything we'd ever learnt before learning C.
I can see a use for this in attempting to reduce the amount of inconsiderate people that leave their laundy in the machines for hours after it's finished. Link the statistics to a names database, so you can see the average time a particular person leaves their laundry after it's finished. Thereby exposing said person to a barrage of ridicule from annoyed laundry users, and hopefully either forcing them to reform their ways, or relegating them to unpopular washing times.
Obviously, you don't want names linked to actual in-use machines... that would just open you up to people targeting others clothes for whatever reason.
A/C is being provided at 60 Hz.
Most countries privide AC at 50Hz. Only a handful of countries use 60Hz, even though it is the most effective for delivery of AC over long distances. Nikola Tesla recommended 240V at 60Hz after experiments with AC.
instead of banging your head, try chewing something crunchy.. I regularly notice monitor flicker, even at 75Hz when I'm eating something crunchy.
http://aboleo.net/software/ubs/
The Uninterrupted Broadcast Daemon. Check it out. It may suit your needs.
But don't push in. I was here first.
And here is what people dont get - ITS NOT ABOUT THE MONEY!
You cant put a price on our childrens future.
Mod this guy up!
But if you put it in the dishwasher, the detergent will kill the beer's head... we can't have that...
Do dishwashers work with no detergent in them? ie. I'm sure they actually still operate without it, but do they do a decent job on beer glasses without detergent...
IIRC, Wolfenstein 3D or Wolf3D was its colloquial name. I think it's because, on the PC anyway, the executable file was called wolf3d.exe
* We need "Education Camps" where children go to be brain washed by feel-good communist propaganda... (Oh wait we have that - they're called schools)
The same way you've been brainwashed by anti-communist propaganda?
A few years back, some human rights activists broke into an RAF airfield and inflicted serious damage to a number of Bae Hawk aircraft that were on their way to Indonesia. They argued that by destroying thes aircraft, they were ultimately saving the lives of innocent people being killed in Indonesia. The courts found that while what they did was illegal, it was justifiable. The sentence however eludes me so I can't tell you what they got.
The Radio-telescope north of Parkes was the only dish large enough to receive the VIDEO from the lander. Most of the comms went through Tidbinbilla (spelling?) etc, but the video had to go through Parkes, because the signal was too weak for video from the other dishes.
You can say anything you want, but I went to the radio-telescope in Parkes in 1996 (4 years before the movie). You can't beat first-hand experience.
I'm speculating here, but I don't think the pilot would give a crap, as long as it gets him home.
We could have been like the Soviets and just not left after WWII.
How many U.S. military bases are in Germany, Japan, Italy, U.K.... etc...
Me thinks that the U.S. did stay behind after WWII.
Also, the most content it is most worthwhile caching is foreign origin content. Ie, content not covered by Oz copyright laws? Or are they claiming simply that if you are not the copyright holder, so you can't cache it. Muppets.
International copyright is covered under Australian law, as we are a signatory to the Berne Convention... so no hope there.
On thing... didn't Australia pass a law guaranteeing the right to decompile and reverse engineer? Or didn't that go through. It gave me such HOPE for open source when I heard that. If that IS the case, how does that sit with banning DeCSS?
I was wondering the same thing... I wish I could find out. I'll ask my wife to try and find out (She's a lawyer), although her specialty is criminal law, not IP...
-Fascist
Some Honda's emit a series of clicks when all the systems start up properly.
Deakin University http://www.deakin.edu.au/ is really big on off-campus. I am off-campus myself, doing the Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science/Software Development). The school of Computing and Mathematics is here: http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/.
They offer off-campus all over the world, and I know of one person last semester that was in California. Check them out...
-Fascist
I agree with you completely there. I don't understand either how anyone could be bored when you are constantly learning cool things that you can use on your own projects. If I wasn't taught C in first year, then how could I use it now for my own projects?
I also don't understand how anyone can say you can learn most of it yourself from books. Yes it can be done, but at nowhere near the speed of in a course. Do you get personal feedback from experienced programmers when you teach yourself?
If the lectures are boring, don't go. I can relate to boring lectures, but not the material itself. My Data Structures and Algorithms unit in first year was the most boring lecture I've ever been to, so I bought the off-campus study guide, and used it. I still went to the labs, I still learnt the material, and I still got feedback from the lab tutors. I just didn't attend the lectures.
Don't just give up because the lectures aren't lively enough. That's the lecturers fault, not the material's.
No offence but you are lying through your teeth.
A little research on the CSU webpage yielded the following result:
402x Operating Systems (3) Basic issues in concurrency, deadlock control, synchronization scheduling, memory management, protection and access control, inter-process communication, and structured design. Laboratory experiences with Unix-like operating system. Not available for graduate credit to computer science majors. Prerequisite: CSCI 201L or CSCI 455x.
The is identical to a course I have _already_ taken. You can't pull the wool over my eyes...
No offence taken.
I probably should have clarified...
That is a first year subject that I am taking to bring me up to full-time. Because I stuffed up my organisation, it was one of the only subjects offered this semester that I could take (having either already done them, or being first semester subjects) That also explains why I'm not a full 3rd year, I'm taking my last 2nd year subject now too (Databases and Information Retrieval). I can't wait to finish it, so I can say goodbye to databases for hopefully a very long time. They're not something I enjoy...
I'm currently in 2nd / 3rd year of my Computing degree here in Australia, and most of those things can be taken at my university. I'm doing Javascript right now (assignment due tomorrow!!!) and next semester, I'm hoping to take the Java course. My institution (Deakin University http://www.deakin.edu.au/ ) is really big on off-campus (correspondence) and sends their stuff all over the world. I'm doing it off-campus myself from about 2000km north of my home campus.