I can tell you as a bonafide resident of Mountain View the net work is not over saturated. It is simply unusable. There was a brief time where the secure variant worked passably well but that doesn't even work now. I honestly suspect the problem is just the access points are not receiving any physical maintenance and are falling into disrepair. There's enough alive to maintain the visible SSID but that's about it.
This summary was anything but easily digestible. The second sentence is a nightmarish run-on and misuses "affect". I stared at it for 30 seconds trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
I have 4 computers at home, running windows and MacOSX. I have 1 at work running Windows. Many of these dual boot and run Linux. Two of them have VMs running guest OSes. All of them have multiple browsers; some combination of IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. I use all of them, not because I'm crazy but because the "best" browser changes every 6 months. XMarks managed to keep my bookmarks synced across all these browsers and all these OSes. And it did it painlessly.
I'm not sure why everyone thinks I should "man" up and write my own. I didn't write my own browser, OS, GUI, etc. A fool makes new tools when existing ones are already on the workbench.
Architecture is, thankfully, not all about efficiency. Being able to design buildings with the unprecedented structural freedom that 3D printing enables is actually quite exciting. I doubt they'll make full buildings out of it but I can see individual rooms or features constructed this way.
Almost all modern electronics have these little sensors. It's so manufacturers rightly don't have to cover warranty repairs for your accidental swim in the lake.
Your question has a lot of what you want, not what he wants. So ponder that for a moment: if he doesn't have any interest, you're wasting both your time and his time, plus causing aggravation and friction. Ask him if he's interested, ask him what kinds of things he would like to develop, and go from there.
Javascript, by the way, is the new BASIC. It's ubiquitous and you can get results quickly.
The "Top 1000" sites are the ones I don't bother searching for: google, microsoft, yahoo, salon, nytimes, espn, amazon: I already know what they are. You use a search engine to search for stuff you can't find.
My understanding is that the applications (initially anyway) are all CSS, HTML, and Javascript. The Pre isn't multi-tasking several apps, but running webkit in multiple threads. Stability shouldn't be a problem.
You've clearly never done any multithreaded programming.
Well, it's just a rumor. Apple is always surrounded by rumors and I don't think much of this one. Besides, all the limitations of Twitter make it seem like an u
No, most Americans think the same thing. I don't think anyone at Fermilab or CERN thinks that way because it tends to be a lot of the same people. They're all physicists and they all want to run the experiments and get on with science.
They do want to get their names on papers & articles though.
It is true that some sectors will always need more power. It is not clear if those sectors are large enough to support the enormous and growing cost of each subsequent generation of CPU technology. Right now, scientific computation is essentially getting a subsidy from the gamer community. I don't know if this will continue to be true in the future. Game workloads currently do not benefit much from multicore designs and it is unlikely to be a "small matter of programming" to get there.
As specialized domains of computation become divergent in their needs, the goal of making one CPU design to rule them all gets harder and harder.
Processing - Processing is nice for making graphics and is meant to be accessable. Graphics are hard to resist for the beginner. Processing has integrated examples, is portable, and comes with a tiny IDE.
Javascript - Javascript is actually a fine language and they can run their scripts on any modern browser. Interaction will be a breeze. You will need editors though.
Python - Python's syntax is as clean as you could want and can go from the simple tutorials all the way to large scale systems development. There are Python IDEs available for most major platforms. Of these 3, Python is the only one that won't give you a walled-garden experience.
As these are gifted students, they might already have ideas what they want to learn. I know I did when I was that age. It might be good to teach some topics in each language.
I encourage the BT folks to work on new protocols and push the envelope. I'm a firm believer in TCP but I see no reason to not try and do better. This article however, doesn't tell me anything other than BT says "Will not," to the Register's "Will too!"
It amazes me how many people use find & grep but don't know about xargs. Built in indexing is change the way we compute but not to long ago the fastest way to find anything in a hierarchy was: $ find . -print0 | xargs -0 egrep "somepattern"
This uses egrep (used to be faster than grep), xargs (to minimize forking), and the -0 hack (to safely handle weird paths).
Another gem along the lines of "cd -" that apparenlty I'm the only one to use: $ cd/godawfullongpath/.../evenlonger/... $ a=`pwd` $ cd/someotherplace/.../thankgodfortab/... $ cp $a/* . # or somesuch $ b=`pwd` $...etc...
Using just plain old shell skills like setting variables to temporarily hold long path names can save lots of time and reduce errors.
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I can tell you as a bonafide resident of Mountain View the net work is not over saturated. It is simply unusable. There was a brief time where the secure variant worked passably well but that doesn't even work now. I honestly suspect the problem is just the access points are not receiving any physical maintenance and are falling into disrepair. There's enough alive to maintain the visible SSID but that's about it.
This summary was anything but easily digestible. The second sentence is a nightmarish run-on and misuses "affect". I stared at it for 30 seconds trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
Here's the deal:
I have 4 computers at home, running windows and MacOSX. I have 1 at work running Windows. Many of these dual boot and run Linux. Two of them have VMs running guest OSes. All of them have multiple browsers; some combination of IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. I use all of them, not because I'm crazy but because the "best" browser changes every 6 months. XMarks managed to keep my bookmarks synced across all these browsers and all these OSes. And it did it painlessly.
I'm not sure why everyone thinks I should "man" up and write my own. I didn't write my own browser, OS, GUI, etc. A fool makes new tools when existing ones are already on the workbench.
I think your choice of automobile is a sign of latent homosexuality.
I think your girlfreind/boyfreind is a dyke/flaming queer.
I might care what you thought if you weren't a homophobic nitwit.
If half of the face is a wolf and the other half a sheep, are you holding a third half in reserve to look like Steve Jobs?
Architecture is, thankfully, not all about efficiency. Being able to design buildings with the unprecedented structural freedom that 3D printing enables is actually quite exciting. I doubt they'll make full buildings out of it but I can see individual rooms or features constructed this way.
Almost all modern electronics have these little sensors. It's so manufacturers rightly don't have to cover warranty repairs for your accidental swim in the lake.
But yeah, they aren't necessarily reliable.
Your question has a lot of what you want, not what he wants. So ponder that for a moment: if he doesn't have any interest, you're wasting both your time and his time, plus causing aggravation and friction. Ask him if he's interested, ask him what kinds of things he would like to develop, and go from there.
Javascript, by the way, is the new BASIC. It's ubiquitous and you can get results quickly.
Agreed. If you are affected you should probably contact the FCC or the FTC and complain about this.
The "Top 1000" sites are the ones I don't bother searching for: google, microsoft, yahoo, salon, nytimes, espn, amazon: I already know what they are. You use a search engine to search for stuff you can't find.
Well, that's what I told her.
My grandfather wants his joke back.
It still has all the glory of plumbing, just like it always did.
It's true but static analysis can fix this problem.
My understanding is that the applications (initially anyway) are all CSS, HTML, and Javascript. The Pre isn't multi-tasking several apps, but running webkit in multiple threads. Stability shouldn't be a problem.
You've clearly never done any multithreaded programming.
Well, it's just a rumor. Apple is always surrounded by rumors and I don't think much of this one. Besides, all the limitations of Twitter make it seem like an u
What could possibly go wrong?
No, most Americans think the same thing. I don't think anyone at Fermilab or CERN thinks that way because it tends to be a lot of the same people. They're all physicists and they all want to run the experiments and get on with science.
They do want to get their names on papers & articles though.
You've clearly never tried to kill a zombie process.
Atlantis is right here.
It is true that some sectors will always need more power. It is not clear if those sectors are large enough to support the enormous and growing cost of each subsequent generation of CPU technology. Right now, scientific computation is essentially getting a subsidy from the gamer community. I don't know if this will continue to be true in the future. Game workloads currently do not benefit much from multicore designs and it is unlikely to be a "small matter of programming" to get there.
As specialized domains of computation become divergent in their needs, the goal of making one CPU design to rule them all gets harder and harder.
Processing - Processing is nice for making graphics and is meant to be accessable. Graphics are hard to resist for the beginner. Processing has integrated examples, is portable, and comes with a tiny IDE.
Javascript - Javascript is actually a fine language and they can run their scripts on any modern browser. Interaction will be a breeze. You will need editors though.
Python - Python's syntax is as clean as you could want and can go from the simple tutorials all the way to large scale systems development. There are Python IDEs available for most major platforms. Of these 3, Python is the only one that won't give you a walled-garden experience.
As these are gifted students, they might already have ideas what they want to learn. I know I did when I was that age. It might be good to teach some topics in each language.
I encourage the BT folks to work on new protocols and push the envelope. I'm a firm believer in TCP but I see no reason to not try and do better. This article however, doesn't tell me anything other than BT says "Will not," to the Register's "Will too!"
I'm fed up with my unreliable email. Anyone know where I can get a new telegraph key? They used to be available everywhere.
It amazes me how many people use find & grep but don't know about xargs. Built in indexing is change the way we compute but not to long ago the fastest way to find anything in a hierarchy was:
$ find . -print0 | xargs -0 egrep "somepattern"
This uses egrep (used to be faster than grep), xargs (to minimize forking), and the -0 hack (to safely handle weird paths).
Another gem along the lines of "cd -" that apparenlty I'm the only one to use:
/godawfullongpath/.../evenlonger/... /someotherplace/.../thankgodfortab/... ...etc...
$ cd
$ a=`pwd`
$ cd
$ cp $a/* . # or somesuch
$ b=`pwd`
$
Using just plain old shell skills like setting variables to temporarily hold long path names can save lots of time and reduce errors.