I'm taking an assembler class myself right now. The real point of taking an assembler class anymore is to help you understand how computers work at a lower level, so you make better decisions programming in a higher level language. Very few programs should need to have asm anymore. Even linux kernel drivers are mostly written in C.
The x86 is and odd choice if that's the goal, because it just kludge upon kludge trying to make an 8 bit processor be 16 bit, then 32, and now 64. I don't know any x86 asm, but it is rather wonky and makes you jump through some hoops as I am told.
At OSU we are learning SPARC asm. When Sun went from 32 to 64 bit I think that for the most part they just had to change all the register sizes to 64 bit, because it was designed with the future a little bit more in mind than the x86.I'm just taking a really basic class (it's actually called "Introduction to Computer Systems"), so we aren't going to deal with things like the differences between a SPARC and UltraSPARC, but like I said it is apparently an easy transition. I'd imagine that the PPC is probably easy too. (Both are 32bit bigendian with the possibility of 64bit in the future designed in, I think)
Anyone have any luck tring to get a greencard in Japan?
I haven't tried it yet, but after I graduate I'm going to try the JET program.
If you want to go there for a year or two and have a degree, give it a go.
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The keyboard has hiragana on it, which is the Japanese syllabic writing system for native works. Shift (I think) outputs the equivilant katakana, which is the syllabic writing system for borrowed (foreign) words. An input system on the computer automatically replaces the kana with the kanji for words that can be written in kanji as you go.
There are actually dozens of systems for inputting Chinese and Japanese in computers. That is the most common for Japanese today to my knowledge. In China the most common is to have a keyboard with special characters that represent the sounds in Chinese using a system called BoPoMoFo. Unlike the Japanese Kana, the BoPoMoFo characters are never used when writing; only for typing.There actually are Chinese keyboards with large arrays of Hanji (same as Kanji, but how the Chinese say it). Watch the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies to see Bond be intimidated by one:)
If anyone cares to know more I'd recomend this book published by Oreilly.
Oh, and PinYin is the romanization system for Chinese endorsed by the government of the PRC. The BoPoMoFo keyboard symbols represent PinYin sounds.
Ebonics caused such a big flap because most Americans without any linguistic training don't understand what it was about. The whole point of it was acknowledging that African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a substantially different dialect than Standard American English (SAE) which follows many different grammatical and syntactic rules and has a different vocabulary. As an aid to students in areas where AAVE is the primary dialect they wanted to have teachers use it in primary education to help the kids learn and be more successful in school. The idea is along the same lines as bilingual (Spanish and English) primary school education in states like California and Texas.
If your hardware wouldn't fry in the process, you could rip the video card out of a runnig machine, and replace it. Actually, there are people working on this for the linux kernel at least See this page or the May issue of Linux Journal page 54. I imagine that similar capabilities could be coded for any BSD as well.
Have you ever seen the ADV DVDs? They suck. Bad. From what I understand the Japanese DVDs are so so much better. The only extras ADV gives you are ads for more ADV released series. The Japenese DVDs have more extras. If I go to Japan this summer like I want to, then I'm going to buy the Japanese Eva DVDs when I'm there.
Check Out http://www.gainax.co.jp/soft/evadvd/index-e.h tml
A bit OT, but banzai means something like "May you live 10,000 years" (Very loose translation there. The two words in the compund are ban (10,000. usually read "man") and sai (years-of-life. which gets voiced to zai)) I doubt you want Bonzi Buddy to last for 10,000 years, ne?:)
The last I heard (and sorry for not having a URL) was that Palm catagorically said that they would not open source anything from BeOS or licence it to anyone else and basically asked that people please stop bugging them about it.
To my knowledge Solaris and NT are the only options.
Right now there is stdsun (student sun, which is a load balancer that redirects you to alpha, beta, gamma, et al), facsun (faculty sun, which serves a similar purpose to stdsun but for faculty), testsun (which is a box to test Solaris 8 out. staff only as far as I can tell), stdnt (I think you can guess) and facnt (ditto).
It is pretty cool, but on days when labs are due (*cough*Thursdays*cough*) it can be dog ass slow. I've waited 5 minutes from clicking on stdsun before I got the login screen before. And then 5 more to actually get my CDE (barf!) session going.
As I understand it, yes they would be required to distribute the source in that case. If the GPL'd program is distributed in binary format then you must either distribute source with it or offer to give the source on demand to any interested party for no more than the cost of physically copying it. I belive that this is how we got an Objective C compiler in GCC. Apple didn't quite grok the GPL, and used GCC for their ObjC compiler and ended up having to give the source for their changes. (Though they seem more OSS friendly these days)
One of the "suggested" remedies is to force Microsoft to not include a browser with the OS. I have to question, though, whether this would really be best for the consumer.
One big problem with not including IE would be that so many programs (including non-MS programs) use the IE component, so it essentially has to be installed. All they could really do is not put IE on the desktop as far as I know.
Well, if you mean in an overall sense (you don't want X at all), then there is Berlin, but I don't think it is very far along. If you don't like XFree86 there are some commercial X versions like
MetroX. I'm sure there are more, but their name popped into my head.
Without question, floppies suck, but looking at Word 2000 on my laptop running Win2k I see a floppy disk on the toolbar, and when I mouse over it I get a tooltip that says "save". It may (or may not) be a dumb icon, but it has precedent, and current usage by the company that dominates desktop word processing.
As several people have said in regards to this issue: to understand why Kane is considered to be so amazing requires some knowledge of the history of film. To the modern viewer it seems so-so, because everything that was innovative when it came out has been copied by so many film makers that it seems normal now. IIRC, it was the first movie that started at the end of the story (with Kane dying), and then the rest of the movie explains what happens up until then. A good recent example of that idea is Fight Club, which even has a nice self referential line at the actual end to the opening ("I still don't have anything to say."). I believe the cinematography was pretty inovative at the time too. It's been a couple years since I took intro to film, or I'd remember a bit more.
Your story may be more representative of how it normally goes(for all I know), but I had nowhere near that many problems with the nVidia drivers. I'm running SuSE 7.1, and all I did was 'rpm --force --nodeps... ' the two files, and then started X and boom I had accelerated 3d. Then for Win2K I had download the driver, install, then reboot, then I had good acceleration. Linux needed no reboot. (and OpenUniverse got a couple more fps on Linux.
Actually, if it follows previous MST3K DVDs, then you will be able to watch the full, uncut movie without them at all if you want to. To make it fit for time, and other considerations the movies were almost always edited down a bit, but the DVDs have the whole thing on them too.
An atheist does not "take a definite position that there is no God". At least not necessarily. An atheist (IMHO, as one) believes that there is just no evidence and a pointless question, or all arguements just come from or lead to meaningless questions. It is not a position of faith. I recomend reading George Smith's "Atheism: The Case Against God". I think that he shows that agnosticism is the *least* intellectually honest position.
That is an interesting, but probably not good idea. Be tried basically that idea with their first file system, and it was pathetically slow. BFS has database-like elements, e.g. the journal and the indexed metadata in key = value format. Dominic Giampaolo and his team at Be learned the hard way that putting an actual database in the filesystem is not good. Practical File System Design with the Be File System (ISBN 1-55860-497-9) is a good read about how filesystems work, and only requires a basic knowledge of C to understand. He talks about BFS, ext2, XFS, NTFS, and HFS (focus on BFS of course) and how they address several design issues. I recomend checking it out.
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That'd be hilarious, but with how much CBS freaked (warning: realmedia) about the song I doubt ECC would risk it.
I'm taking an assembler class myself right now. The real point of taking an assembler class anymore is to help you understand how computers work at a lower level, so you make better decisions programming in a higher level language. Very few programs should need to have asm anymore. Even linux kernel drivers are mostly written in C.
The x86 is and odd choice if that's the goal, because it just kludge upon kludge trying to make an 8 bit processor be 16 bit, then 32, and now 64. I don't know any x86 asm, but it is rather wonky and makes you jump through some hoops as I am told.
At OSU we are learning SPARC asm. When Sun went from 32 to 64 bit I think that for the most part they just had to change all the register sizes to 64 bit, because it was designed with the future a little bit more in mind than the x86.I'm just taking a really basic class (it's actually called "Introduction to Computer Systems"), so we aren't going to deal with things like the differences between a SPARC and UltraSPARC, but like I said it is apparently an easy transition. I'd imagine that the PPC is probably easy too. (Both are 32bit bigendian with the possibility of 64bit in the future designed in, I think)
Anyone have any luck tring to get a greencard in Japan?
I haven't tried it yet, but after I graduate I'm going to try the JET program. If you want to go there for a year or two and have a degree, give it a go.
The keyboard has hiragana on it, which is the Japanese syllabic writing system for native works. Shift (I think) outputs the equivilant katakana, which is the syllabic writing system for borrowed (foreign) words. An input system on the computer automatically replaces the kana with the kanji for words that can be written in kanji as you go.
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There are actually dozens of systems for inputting Chinese and Japanese in computers. That is the most common for Japanese today to my knowledge. In China the most common is to have a keyboard with special characters that represent the sounds in Chinese using a system called BoPoMoFo. Unlike the Japanese Kana, the BoPoMoFo characters are never used when writing; only for typing.There actually are Chinese keyboards with large arrays of Hanji (same as Kanji, but how the Chinese say it). Watch the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies to see Bond be intimidated by one
If anyone cares to know more I'd recomend this book published by Oreilly.
Oh, and PinYin is the romanization system for Chinese endorsed by the government of the PRC. The BoPoMoFo keyboard symbols represent PinYin sounds.
Frink is the Jerry Lewis-esque professsor on the Simpsons. Farnsworth is the professor on Futurama.
Ebonics caused such a big flap because most Americans without any linguistic training don't understand what it was about. The whole point of it was acknowledging that African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a substantially different dialect than Standard American English (SAE) which follows many different grammatical and syntactic rules and has a different vocabulary. As an aid to students in areas where AAVE is the primary dialect they wanted to have teachers use it in primary education to help the kids learn and be more successful in school. The idea is along the same lines as bilingual (Spanish and English) primary school education in states like California and Texas.
If your hardware wouldn't fry in the process, you could rip the video card out of a runnig machine, and replace it.
Actually, there are people working on this for the linux kernel at least See this page or the May issue of Linux Journal page 54.
I imagine that similar capabilities could be coded for any BSD as well.
Have you ever seen the ADV DVDs? They suck. Bad. From what I understand the Japanese DVDs are so so much better. The only extras ADV gives you are ads for more ADV released series. The Japenese DVDs have more extras. If I go to Japan this summer like I want to, then I'm going to buy the Japanese Eva DVDs when I'm there.
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Check Out
http://www.gainax.co.jp/soft/evadvd/index-e.
A bit OT, but banzai means something like "May you live 10,000 years" (Very loose translation there. The two words in the compund are ban (10,000. usually read "man") and sai (years-of-life. which gets voiced to zai)) I doubt you want Bonzi Buddy to last for 10,000 years, ne? :)
The last I heard (and sorry for not having a URL) was that Palm catagorically said that they would not open source anything from BeOS or licence it to anyone else and basically asked that people please stop bugging them about it.
To my knowledge Solaris and NT are the only options. Right now there is stdsun (student sun, which is a load balancer that redirects you to alpha, beta, gamma, et al), facsun (faculty sun, which serves a similar purpose to stdsun but for faculty), testsun (which is a box to test Solaris 8 out. staff only as far as I can tell), stdnt (I think you can guess) and facnt (ditto).
It is pretty cool, but on days when labs are due (*cough*Thursdays*cough*) it can be dog ass slow. I've waited 5 minutes from clicking on stdsun before I got the login screen before. And then 5 more to actually get my CDE (barf!) session going.
As I understand it, yes they would be required to distribute the source in that case. If the GPL'd program is distributed in binary format then you must either distribute source with it or offer to give the source on demand to any interested party for no more than the cost of physically copying it. I belive that this is how we got an Objective C compiler in GCC. Apple didn't quite grok the GPL, and used GCC for their ObjC compiler and ended up having to give the source for their changes. (Though they seem more OSS friendly these days)
This is already possible with Bonobo and GNOME. Not to knock KDE. I just wanted to drag my prefered desktop in too :)
One of the "suggested" remedies is to force Microsoft to not include a browser with the OS. I have to question, though, whether this would really be best for the consumer.
One big problem with not including IE would be that so many programs (including non-MS programs) use the IE component, so it essentially has to be installed. All they could really do is not put IE on the desktop as far as I know.
It may not be where you heard the story, but it is on page 177 of "The Practice of Programming" by Kernighan and Pike.
Well, if you mean in an overall sense (you don't want X at all), then there is Berlin, but I don't think it is very far along. If you don't like XFree86 there are some commercial X versions like MetroX. I'm sure there are more, but their name popped into my head.
Without question, floppies suck, but looking at Word 2000 on my laptop running Win2k I see a floppy disk on the toolbar, and when I mouse over it I get a tooltip that says "save". It may (or may not) be a dumb icon, but it has precedent, and current usage by the company that dominates desktop word processing.
Well, if you prefer C++ you could always use GTK--.
As several people have said in regards to this issue: to understand why Kane is considered to be so amazing requires some knowledge of the history of film. To the modern viewer it seems so-so, because everything that was innovative when it came out has been copied by so many film makers that it seems normal now. IIRC, it was the first movie that started at the end of the story (with Kane dying), and then the rest of the movie explains what happens up until then. A good recent example of that idea is Fight Club, which even has a nice self referential line at the actual end to the opening ("I still don't have anything to say."). I believe the cinematography was pretty inovative at the time too. It's been a couple years since I took intro to film, or I'd remember a bit more.
Your story may be more representative of how it normally goes(for all I know), but I had nowhere near that many problems with the nVidia drivers. I'm running SuSE 7.1, and all I did was 'rpm --force --nodeps ... ' the two files, and then started X and boom I had accelerated 3d. Then for Win2K I had download the driver, install, then reboot, then I had good acceleration. Linux needed no reboot. (and OpenUniverse got a couple more fps on Linux.
I think he said it tongue in cheek.
Actually, if it follows previous MST3K DVDs, then you will be able to watch the full, uncut movie without them at all if you want to. To make it fit for time, and other considerations the movies were almost always edited down a bit, but the DVDs have the whole thing on them too.
An atheist does not "take a definite position that there is no God". At least not necessarily. An atheist (IMHO, as one) believes that there is just no evidence and a pointless question, or all arguements just come from or lead to meaningless questions. It is not a position of faith. I recomend reading George Smith's "Atheism: The Case Against God". I think that he shows that agnosticism is the *least* intellectually honest position.
That is an interesting, but probably not good idea. Be tried basically that idea with their first file system, and it was pathetically slow. BFS has database-like elements, e.g. the journal and the indexed metadata in key = value format. Dominic Giampaolo and his team at Be learned the hard way that putting an actual database in the filesystem is not good. Practical File System Design with the Be File System (ISBN 1-55860-497-9) is a good read about how filesystems work, and only requires a basic knowledge of C to understand. He talks about BFS, ext2, XFS, NTFS, and HFS (focus on BFS of course) and how they address several design issues. I recomend checking it out.