I learnt C++ as my first language. I read a book and got it all wrong (writing code in.h files for instance).
By the time, information was scarce and the internet was just a sea of porn (wait, it still is, but you wouldn't find anything else useful).
Now I wish I learnt to program in Ruby.
My cousin was trying to program in Python. I answered a lot of his questions by IM. Thing is, he got confused by Python's identation.
I think it is a bad thing to new programmers. Also he doesn't speak english (we're brazilian) so there is few free material for him.
Ruby wouldn't solve this problem. But I think it is easier to understand the code in ruby.
You should try wurm online (www.wurmonline.com).
It is a persistent rpg where users found cities and help each other.
Haven't played it since it came out of beta (i think it is out of beta now).
No mention to the Zeebo console being tested in Brazil.
Zeebo is a download only console, meant for 3rd world countries (where pirating is high).
Though in my opinion it is a bit expensive (US$250, which is more than the monthly minimum wage in Brazil). If they don't make the games really inexpensive, it will fail miserably. Another missing feature is browsing the internet.
You can learn more about it here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10252999-17.html
One other note -- sure it's inexpensive now, since there is an incredible amount of wasted human hair. But if this were ever deployed widely, I think we'd see prices of shorn hair go up, and I question whether there'd be enough to meet demand until it cost the same as other methods.
Well, there are human hair wigs, which are quite expensive. True, you only sell your hair for a good price if it is long and shiny (or whatever).
Soon last.fm will charge for most non-US users.
If the VPN gives me an american IP, I could listen to last.fm again.
So it's 7 euros for VPN to listen to last.fm, which charges 3 euros...
Well, I get to see all other goodies for americans only like Zulu and the like.
8) The Brazilian government is far from perfect, but is much less corrupt than the U.S. government. How many Iraqi civilians has the president of each country killed? George W. Bush: 1,000,000. Lula: 0. How many countries has each country invaded or bombed for oil or weapons or other profits since the end of the 2nd World War: United States: 24. Brazil: 0. Brazil only invades other coutries to steal their coconuts. Which are used to bomb other countries and play soccer.
You know that there are ways to sidtill pee using your a cup, a hole in the ground and a plastic canvas or something like that.
1)Dig a hole 2)Pee in hole 3)Place cup on middle of hole 4)cover the hole with plastic, leave a small stone (or whatever trinket you find lying around) in the middle of the plastic 5)wait to water to evaporate 6)??? 7)Water (Profit?)
I have a DWL G122 USB wireless adapter. I tried 2 drivers (first was plain wrong, and ndiswrapper worked for 15 seconds and hung my system) and 2 OSs (FreeBSD and Ubuntu).
Switched back to Debian, found out that the rt2750 driver would work and it did. I just think that the usb connector is faulty and disconnects from time to time (or maybe the driver is not good enough).
Do you buy stolen goods?
If you pay them, then they will steal more, because they have a consumer base.
Warez, or whatever site have a consumer base that won't pay them. Google does.
Geez...what's the govt. gonna do next to 'protect' us from ourselves?? Make you wear a seatbelt? Make you wear a helment on a motorcycle? Make you.....oh wait. --cayenne8 (626475)
Here in Brazil we're obligated to do both. Else we get fined for around 40 bucks. And yet, we got Darwin Awards in 2003 and 2006:p
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I learnt C++ as my first language. I read a book and got it all wrong (writing code in .h files for instance).
By the time, information was scarce and the internet was just a sea of porn (wait, it still is, but you wouldn't find anything else useful).
Now I wish I learnt to program in Ruby.
My cousin was trying to program in Python. I answered a lot of his questions by IM. Thing is, he got confused by Python's identation.
I think it is a bad thing to new programmers. Also he doesn't speak english (we're brazilian) so there is few free material for him.
Ruby wouldn't solve this problem. But I think it is easier to understand the code in ruby.
Why name a machine that doesn't come when you call?
You should try wurm online (www.wurmonline.com).
It is a persistent rpg where users found cities and help each other.
Haven't played it since it came out of beta (i think it is out of beta now).
No mention to the Zeebo console being tested in Brazil.
Zeebo is a download only console, meant for 3rd world countries (where pirating is high).
Though in my opinion it is a bit expensive (US$250, which is more than the monthly minimum wage in Brazil). If they don't make the games really inexpensive, it will fail miserably. Another missing feature is browsing the internet.
You can learn more about it here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10252999-17.html
One other note -- sure it's inexpensive now, since there is an incredible amount of wasted human hair. But if this were ever deployed widely, I think we'd see prices of shorn hair go up, and I question whether there'd be enough to meet demand until it cost the same as other methods.
Well, there are human hair wigs, which are quite expensive.
True, you only sell your hair for a good price if it is long and shiny (or whatever).
Absolutely agree. Today's technology will be yesterday's in less than 24 hours.
Soon last.fm will charge for most non-US users. If the VPN gives me an american IP, I could listen to last.fm again. So it's 7 euros for VPN to listen to last.fm, which charges 3 euros... Well, I get to see all other goodies for americans only like Zulu and the like.
I've been using XP for 7 years now, and it's far from being crap. It's the most stable OS I've ever used...
So you never used anything besides XP and Mac OS then.
Swatch tried this in 1998. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
http://pleac.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gmilburn.ca/ac/
It hasn't been slashdotted yet.
ndiswrapper isn't supposed to run properly.
Get proper drivers.
Michael Jackson
You know that there are ways to sidtill pee using your a cup, a hole in the ground and a plastic canvas or something like that.
1)Dig a hole
2)Pee in hole
3)Place cup on middle of hole
4)cover the hole with plastic, leave a small stone (or whatever trinket you find lying around) in the middle of the plastic
5)wait to water to evaporate
6)???
7)Water (Profit?)
I have a DWL G122 USB wireless adapter.
I tried 2 drivers (first was plain wrong, and ndiswrapper worked for 15 seconds and hung my system) and 2 OSs (FreeBSD and Ubuntu).
Switched back to Debian, found out that the rt2750 driver would work and it did.
I just think that the usb connector is faulty and disconnects from time to time (or maybe the driver is not good enough).
The problem with Project Gutenberg is that it only has Public Domain works.
So you won't find any work about Java, Ruby, nor Network Administration.
You may find such in http://en.wikibooks.org/
then you can screw Windows rather than the contrary.
Does this works for windows version too?
98 is better than 95 which is better than 3.11 and so on.
Does ME == 1000?
What about XP?
A web page is like a porn magazine that goes thru the tubes.
To learn rails first watch the screencasts on the site.
Then start to play with it and look at the API. The documentation is javadoc like (rdoc).
If you want to see code, try the "Rails Recipes" book. Though this will only get you through some tricks, not the base of your app.
Do you buy stolen goods? If you pay them, then they will steal more, because they have a consumer base. Warez, or whatever site have a consumer base that won't pay them. Google does.
Yes, that's right. If everyone starts to use Linux, then I'll have to learn Solaris or BSD or something else.
:(
Keep Linux the way it is.
BTW I never got the Solaris DVD