I once heard the story of a girl in a physics curriculum, which was completely ignored during the first years of her study. Like she didn't exist. Why? Just because she was a girl, and no one (rest were guys) dared to talk to her. Only after a long long time it went a bit better. Must have been living hell.
By the way, if you wanted to invite her out after work, why didn't you do it as part of the workgroup? She won't get a better part of the team if every members asks her out individually... And why not just talk during work, breaks, or whatever. Just treat her as a normal person, and sometimes also as a woman (noticing new haircut and whatever), no harrasment in that.
Yeah I got pretty close as well when I was hot-swapping a non-hot-swappable drive. Nice sparks! The thing actually still worked perfectly afterwards. Wouldn't post stuff like that on either slashdot or youtube though.
Parent and Grandparent seem to make some very good points. I never heard of the program before, but it sounds like the best next time after the total-hardware solution presented earlier.
Futhermore, I have nothing against tapes, and actually use one at work to put huge files away (glad I don't have to put them on DVD, my first 200 GB tape is still only half full) but they're really not very cheap compared to harddisks, and you'll have to buy a new tapedrive as soon as harddisk capacity goes up. At work we have a lot of 8 GB tapedrives lying around, which all had cost a fortune (say 10x cost of a comparable harddrive) but are now redundant. Since it is for home use, you will never use an amount of tapes that makes this still cost efficient.
Also, when your tapedrive breaks, or you need to transport information, you'll need another costly tapedrive! These things are really interesting for corporate environments only.
A 264kb plugin would be a more appropriate name then. I wanted to suggest w3m, but even the tar.gz of w3m is almost 2 MB. lynx tar.gz is 3 mb and the win32 binaries of links are also exceeding 300 kb. Hardly feasible that any browser would be smaller I'd say.
Why not print your company's name on the disc and use it as giveaway promotional material. Djeez, if you make keychains or simple pens with your name on it it'll cost you more. Furthermore knoppix is likely to make a good impression on anyone who uses it, so you'll be remembered for showing this to them, and they are also likely to spread it around (whereas a pen most likely is to break before it ran out of ink, I had a pen like that from a plastic factory once, not a good sign, even though they didn't make the pen themselves)
yeah, don't know if it has that or not, but otherwise it's pretty limited. It should use random anonymous proxies by default with some fancy mechanism or something in that directions. I also wonder if its search engine has a way to circumvent http referrers, because on server logs it's pretty easy to see who searched for what with the normal search engines.
In holland there is protection for people under arrest, their last name is abbreviated to a single letter, e.g. "Billy the K. arrested". Now this is all very nice of course, but in our neighbouring country Belgium, where the same language is spoken, they don't have this rule. So if we watch the Belgian news, we can see "Billy the Kid arrested". It's a completely useless legistlation, already since its introduction (not like one couldn't check in belgium 100 yrs ago). And I sure don't hope they will digitally filter all this stuff out from websites and the news now.
Wikis are fine as a knowledge database when the problems you have can be solved in a well-known way. Giving reference info in a forum is a bit more difficult, you could make 'sticky topics', but the info will get outdated, someone needs to keep track of it and update it. There it would be the best to put a wiki in. But if you are doing motorbike maintenance, or setting up a new router, unexpected things might happen and you often need information that can not be put in a certain form, and discussing this on a forum is the best way to solve the problem.
Another difference between forums and wikis is that in forums it always remains clear who contributed what, and who has a certain expertise on a certain area. This gives a larger sense of community. As it's rather difficult to browse the history of a wiki, you'll hardly ever find out any personal approach/speciality for a certain wiki-user. Furthermore, chit-chatting in a wiki is difficult as well, and it's too easy for someone to pull a prank on someone else. I have a bit of a bias to forums on this point, though (as moderator in a reasonably large DSL forum).
I'd say, let wikis and forums live side by side, happily ever after.
Actually, the university program should be such that you CAN choose your own books. That is what you are supposed to be educated for in the first place, finding and selecting your information. Actually I was once so much frustrated by a course (professor showed sheets with chemical reactions, you were not allowed to copy them, only write them down from the screen), that I decided to just skip the course and learn the same material from textbooks about the subject that were in the library. A course should ideally give the list of information that you are required to know at the end, and then suggestions for the books to buy. Nothing wrong with this approach, and it might open the book market a bit.
This already makes it look less childish at least! And adds a little bit more faith to sun if their employees are apparently skilled enough to work on nice projects like that in their free time.
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Of course it is!:) Actually I now recall that it wasn't using kiosk software, but just locked down windows and used ghost images to overwrite anything that happened to it at the end of the day (or at will).
I don't know about you, but a toilet that's stuck on a long distance flight sounds like a good reason to stop and repair that essential part immediately! Or maybe you don't give a crap.
Let me tell you a trick for those on a restricted windows 'kiosk pc' with no input devices, that want to run putty (which is sadly not in the standard menu). Go in IE (of course only browser available there) to the putty website, click on the putty exe, and you'll get the standard IE menu of what you want to do with the download. Obviously you cannot save it, but you can click the option to run it (at least on the ones I tried). Success! Fame!
ok, so as you're in the business, and I'm not:) I have a small question. I once by curiosity found this excellent article describing AS/400 pricing systems. And I was shocked. If you buy the low-end version, you already have the full power chip, but just slowed down. For about $ 20k per processor you can unlock that, but that will also require you to buy another license, for several additional k$ per processor. Also check the price/performance comparison for competing UNIX and Linux systems shown there. What kind of pricing system is that? I can imagine the hardware is a bit more stable etc, but relative performance of the Power PC is not as good it used to be. Still IBM is probably just asking prices that it thinks it can get away with. Why are they doing this?
And, wouldn't someone else be able to use commodity chips (some workstation-grade core 2 duo or opteron) and build a robust system out of that, for only part of they price they ask. Thomas J. Watson was a very good salesman (a bit too good to be legal:) ), and I guess IBM still has a very good salesforce to get their stuff out, but how long can they keep this up with pricing systems like this?
Thank you! I did the same as a kid, and as I already wrote somewhere earlier (too lazy to look it up), I was programming without realizing it. And did some really nice stuff just by combining simple building blocks.
I wonder what the people that recommend python or whatever used as a language when they were 10-11. Fortran? I am programming for already quite a while now in C, perl and other languages, but python introduces several concepts that are pretty abstract.
Get a hypercard clone, or get a new version of Logo. Logo is especially ment for kids and it works (also used that on an MSX as a kid). It directly combines visual results with programming steps. I think that stuff like that is important if you want everyone to enjoy the programming class, not only the ones that will end up programming anyway. And for me, that would be the biggest victory, to get those who are afraid of programming get them to understand what's going on in those computer programs!
You probably were already implying this, but let me restate: Not all new books don't give something useful!
Education is something that is actually advancing, be it slowly. It's important to have access to new books, for example something that integrates new insight into the material, or is based on new knowledge on how students can learn better. I, for example, learned mechanics from a book that said in the introduction that 'the SI system will probably not be very popular'. So our class ended up to spend more time converting args/dyn to some understandable unit than to learn mechanics:)
I can give you other examples, from widely different fields: for example a process in cellbiology where receptors have been found to posess a sort of baseline activity, which you can oppose with inverse agonist drugs, in a much subtler way than just using antagonist drugs. Other one: a friend from eastern europe learned english from books that are by now 30 years old or more. She probably has a pro in grammatical knowledge of the language now, but speaking it is much more difficult, because any new expressions weren't in there, nor the more new learning methods to actually have conversations etc.
The examples above were all for first year knowledge in the respective fields. But to be honest, there are also bad examples: there are unfortunately enough professors that are vague in telling which books you should know, or want to promote their own book, and you end up buying books that weren't important for the class and you are likely to read never again.
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By the way, if you wanted to invite her out after work, why didn't you do it as part of the workgroup? She won't get a better part of the team if every members asks her out individually... And why not just talk during work, breaks, or whatever. Just treat her as a normal person, and sometimes also as a woman (noticing new haircut and whatever), no harrasment in that.
Yeah I got pretty close as well when I was hot-swapping a non-hot-swappable drive. Nice sparks! The thing actually still worked perfectly afterwards. Wouldn't post stuff like that on either slashdot or youtube though.
Must have been a DJ gramophone in its previous life.
yeah, this was in a slashdot article some days ago. Also they mentioned you cannot reinstall the U3 system afterwards (yet).
Futhermore, I have nothing against tapes, and actually use one at work to put huge files away (glad I don't have to put them on DVD, my first 200 GB tape is still only half full) but they're really not very cheap compared to harddisks, and you'll have to buy a new tapedrive as soon as harddisk capacity goes up. At work we have a lot of 8 GB tapedrives lying around, which all had cost a fortune (say 10x cost of a comparable harddrive) but are now redundant. Since it is for home use, you will never use an amount of tapes that makes this still cost efficient. Also, when your tapedrive breaks, or you need to transport information, you'll need another costly tapedrive! These things are really interesting for corporate environments only.
A 264kb plugin would be a more appropriate name then. I wanted to suggest w3m, but even the tar.gz of w3m is almost 2 MB. lynx tar.gz is 3 mb and the win32 binaries of links are also exceeding 300 kb. Hardly feasible that any browser would be smaller I'd say.
Anyway, think outside the box man! ;)
yeah, don't know if it has that or not, but otherwise it's pretty limited. It should use random anonymous proxies by default with some fancy mechanism or something in that directions. I also wonder if its search engine has a way to circumvent http referrers, because on server logs it's pretty easy to see who searched for what with the normal search engines.
In holland there is protection for people under arrest, their last name is abbreviated to a single letter, e.g. "Billy the K. arrested". Now this is all very nice of course, but in our neighbouring country Belgium, where the same language is spoken, they don't have this rule. So if we watch the Belgian news, we can see "Billy the Kid arrested". It's a completely useless legistlation, already since its introduction (not like one couldn't check in belgium 100 yrs ago). And I sure don't hope they will digitally filter all this stuff out from websites and the news now.
Well, there was this interesting commentary, but it was already too late by then. Sad.
Another difference between forums and wikis is that in forums it always remains clear who contributed what, and who has a certain expertise on a certain area. This gives a larger sense of community. As it's rather difficult to browse the history of a wiki, you'll hardly ever find out any personal approach/speciality for a certain wiki-user. Furthermore, chit-chatting in a wiki is difficult as well, and it's too easy for someone to pull a prank on someone else. I have a bit of a bias to forums on this point, though (as moderator in a reasonably large DSL forum).
I'd say, let wikis and forums live side by side, happily ever after.
best game ever. Click the java icon to play it in your browser. And dammit, it's still as addictive as 20 years ago.
So the choice for php+sql might not be such a bad idea after all ;)
Hey man, don't write so much at once! My attention span cannot grasp everything you say here! Where can I click for the next sentence?
Actually, the university program should be such that you CAN choose your own books. That is what you are supposed to be educated for in the first place, finding and selecting your information. Actually I was once so much frustrated by a course (professor showed sheets with chemical reactions, you were not allowed to copy them, only write them down from the screen), that I decided to just skip the course and learn the same material from textbooks about the subject that were in the library. A course should ideally give the list of information that you are required to know at the end, and then suggestions for the books to buy. Nothing wrong with this approach, and it might open the book market a bit.
This already makes it look less childish at least! And adds a little bit more faith to sun if their employees are apparently skilled enough to work on nice projects like that in their free time.
he is, just look at the proof
you forgot "sales", which is where the money actually comes in.
Of course it is! :) Actually I now recall that it wasn't using kiosk software, but just locked down windows and used ghost images to overwrite anything that happened to it at the end of the day (or at will).
I don't know about you, but a toilet that's stuck on a long distance flight sounds like a good reason to stop and repair that essential part immediately! Or maybe you don't give a crap.
Let me tell you a trick for those on a restricted windows 'kiosk pc' with no input devices, that want to run putty (which is sadly not in the standard menu). Go in IE (of course only browser available there) to the putty website, click on the putty exe, and you'll get the standard IE menu of what you want to do with the download. Obviously you cannot save it, but you can click the option to run it (at least on the ones I tried). Success! Fame!
And, wouldn't someone else be able to use commodity chips (some workstation-grade core 2 duo or opteron) and build a robust system out of that, for only part of they price they ask. Thomas J. Watson was a very good salesman (a bit too good to be legal :) ), and I guess IBM still has a very good salesforce to get their stuff out, but how long can they keep this up with pricing systems like this?
I wonder what the people that recommend python or whatever used as a language when they were 10-11. Fortran? I am programming for already quite a while now in C, perl and other languages, but python introduces several concepts that are pretty abstract.
Get a hypercard clone, or get a new version of Logo. Logo is especially ment for kids and it works (also used that on an MSX as a kid). It directly combines visual results with programming steps. I think that stuff like that is important if you want everyone to enjoy the programming class, not only the ones that will end up programming anyway. And for me, that would be the biggest victory, to get those who are afraid of programming get them to understand what's going on in those computer programs!
Education is something that is actually advancing, be it slowly. It's important to have access to new books, for example something that integrates new insight into the material, or is based on new knowledge on how students can learn better. I, for example, learned mechanics from a book that said in the introduction that 'the SI system will probably not be very popular'. So our class ended up to spend more time converting args/dyn to some understandable unit than to learn mechanics :)
I can give you other examples, from widely different fields: for example a process in cellbiology where receptors have been found to posess a sort of baseline activity, which you can oppose with inverse agonist drugs, in a much subtler way than just using antagonist drugs. Other one: a friend from eastern europe learned english from books that are by now 30 years old or more. She probably has a pro in grammatical knowledge of the language now, but speaking it is much more difficult, because any new expressions weren't in there, nor the more new learning methods to actually have conversations etc.
The examples above were all for first year knowledge in the respective fields. But to be honest, there are also bad examples: there are unfortunately enough professors that are vague in telling which books you should know, or want to promote their own book, and you end up buying books that weren't important for the class and you are likely to read never again.
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