# "Have to recheck the site periodically to check for a update for a specific program" - Bullshit. This doesn't even have to do with package management, and it's an OS X convention for apps to auto-check for updates when they're run. You don't have to recheck any websites.
In my experience, it's only a very small minority of the programs that in reality do it though, so IMHO that point is very valid, on both Windows and Mac OS X, and the main reason I prefer the Gentoo/Debian package management approaches.
The OS X way would be more or less perfect, if updates for third party products could be searched for automagically, just as with the Apple software (through the system updater).
If you are that clear about who and what you want, make a very obvious sign "This is what we're recruiting right now". List specific positions with job descriptions and all, and put a box beneath it with forms "Contact me about ___ position". And include internships, thesis opportunities as well.
Sadly, many of the companies that go to the job fairs I've been to don't really have a very specific goal of being there, it's more like a public relations thingie. It's almost like using a job fair as an opportunity of recruiting seems like a novel idea...
Worst example I have is Ericsson, who for several years went to the job fair at Chalmers, claiming they had no job openings, no possibilities of thesis writing at the company, and no summer internships.
This is a tricky situation though. If the original MOD was not copyrighted (ie. not submitted into TEOSTO, the Finnish copyright system), then I guess there's nothing "legally" wrong that Timbaland & Co. have done.
Please do not spread FUD as you obviously don't know very much about Finnish copyright at all. In Finland (nor most western countries, including the US), you DON'T HAVE TO REGISTER YOUR WORK TO GET IT COPYRIGHTED. Neither does the law differ for people members of an organization for composers (like TEOSTO) or not, although it possibly would have been good to have them as legal support.
OTOH - it's possible that there's not really a possibility for Tempest to join TEOSTO. I haven't seen their membership agreement, but their Swedish sister organization STIM has membership agreements from hell that are totally incompatible with any free (neither as in beer nor speech) distribution of any of your tunes, future or past ones, AT ALL.
I'm not sure which ones you are referring to, except of course English.
Swedish has ÅÄÖ. Norwegian has ÅÆØ, and so does Danish. Finnish has Ä and Ö. German has ÄÖÜ and ß. French has even more weird characters, including Ç. Spanish has Ñ, Ü and accents, and the list goes on. For really weird characters, check Polish.:) I don't doubt that a few of these are codable in pure ASCII, but for the rest of us, we're happy to be out of the code page choosing problems.
I wrote (p)rogramming language, not (apl)rogramming language, so you better explain how and where that language is called P...:) (I also know that there are a lot of languages with names based on PL, but I was referring specifically to languages referred to as merely "P")
Either it'll be called 10, or H. G, has already been taken, not only once, but twice.
For your reference (kudos goes to Wikipedia), the following single letter (sometimes including some additional nonalphabetic characters) have also been implemented:
So - that only leaves you the letters H, I, N, O, P (sic!), U, V, W, Y and Z if you don't want to have a name clash with another programming language. Technically, M and X are followed by numbers in the previous examples, so you could argue for them as well, and even A (as it has a plus behind the letter)
I'm mostly surprised that noone has thought of a (P)rogramming language.:)
All those reasons are all probably perfectly reasonable, but none of them are mentioned in the FAQ at the site. According to the FAQ, the reason is legal, not technical or practical, which pretty much is bullshit...
Nice some one at least got my partly serious undertone of that posting.:)
I do indeed have a 1983 vintage TV, second hand from my parents (I'm in Europe though, so it's at least PAL, not NTSC). It does have a remote, so if I would only remember to buy a new battery and tape it all together so it doesn't fall apart all the time (remotes don't really stay in one piece over close to 25 years in any normal family), I wouldn't have to walk forward to the TV to change channels. That doesn't matter that much however - I'm a true slashdot geek, I mostly just view Discovery Channel and the little zapping I actually do probably is good exercise for me.:)
And about video input: it does have a SCART connector used for that. For some reason, it doesn't like RCA->SCART-converters, but I don't mind, I run them through my VCR anyway. And no, I don't own, and won't buy, a DVD. I use my iBook for video playback instead...:D
Well, at first, neither of the two you suggested seem very suited for all electrical schematics, but rather, they're biased at PCB schematics. And secondly, the advantage may only be that the engineer already knows AutoCad, and last, at least for switching cabinets, you'll have to do some 2d mechanical drawings (layout etc) in addition to just electrical schematics.
And finally, there are add-on packages like AutoCAD Electrical that makes it very suited even for highly specialized work like scematics drawing...
I'm also an old-school AutoCad user. Actually, I didn't use it until R12. Still, I never bothered with using the menu (I hardly remember it at all - did i ever use it at all?
My equivalent would be: at the command prompt: type "open", "filename.dwg". Finished...
Actually, to make it even more efficient, we had a macro addon. So actually it was: "filename.dwg". Doing this by GUI would take one order of magnitude more time (although it would be more n00b-friendly as well). If I remember correctly, there was a posibility to list files by wildcards as well if you had short-term memory.:)
CATIA isn't really suited for 2D CAD work (floorplans, early design sketches, electrical and other schemas, PCB construction etc). Neither is Solidworks, Pro/E or any of the other 3D CAD tools I've used. This is one of the areas where AutoCAD still shines (except of course, backward compability - with old files as well as old engineers!)
you have to pay for Omron development tools as well (unless the salesmen is trying to sell you some extra hardware so they throw some software in "for free".). The cost is around $100 though, for the complete suit of tools (every single one they have available, including some of the really advanced ones. AFAIK you can buy parts of that suit for part of the cost...
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I have studied a course in parallel algorithms, including localized parallel merge sort (the algorithm you requested). It can be used to subdivide parallelized sorting theoretically unlimitedly. Links: Course homepage, The relevant chapter (PDF) of the course slides, with nice pictures and everything.
# "Have to recheck the site periodically to check for a update for a specific program" - Bullshit. This doesn't even have to do with package management, and it's an OS X convention for apps to auto-check for updates when they're run. You don't have to recheck any websites.
In my experience, it's only a very small minority of the programs that in reality do it though, so IMHO that point is very valid, on both Windows and Mac OS X, and the main reason I prefer the Gentoo/Debian package management approaches.
The OS X way would be more or less perfect, if updates for third party products could be searched for automagically, just as with the Apple software (through the system updater).
NT3.5, NT4, Win2k? :)
If you are that clear about who and what you want, make a very obvious sign "This is what we're recruiting right now". List specific positions with job descriptions and all, and put a box beneath it with forms "Contact me about ___ position". And include internships, thesis opportunities as well.
Sadly, many of the companies that go to the job fairs I've been to don't really have a very specific goal of being there, it's more like a public relations thingie. It's almost like using a job fair as an opportunity of recruiting seems like a novel idea...
Worst example I have is Ericsson, who for several years went to the job fair at Chalmers, claiming they had no job openings, no possibilities of thesis writing at the company, and no summer internships.
You accidentally misspellt second to last in your post...
Please do not spread FUD as you obviously don't know very much about Finnish copyright at all. In Finland (nor most western countries, including the US), you DON'T HAVE TO REGISTER YOUR WORK TO GET IT COPYRIGHTED. Neither does the law differ for people members of an organization for composers (like TEOSTO) or not, although it possibly would have been good to have them as legal support.
OTOH - it's possible that there's not really a possibility for Tempest to join TEOSTO. I haven't seen their membership agreement, but their Swedish sister organization STIM has membership agreements from hell that are totally incompatible with any free (neither as in beer nor speech) distribution of any of your tunes, future or past ones, AT ALL.
far less landfill space consumed (1 compact fluorescent vs 5-10 incandescents)
That really should be none vs 5-10. CFLs should be recycled, in particular because of their mercury content.
I have never lied to *anyone* who has worked for me.
:P
In other words, you haven't ever been an employer?
sigh!
Please, you're the third one to make that very exact comment. Please return when APL has been referred to as "P".
wasteful with western languages
:) I don't doubt that a few of these are codable in pure ASCII, but for the rest of us, we're happy to be out of the code page choosing problems.
I'm not sure which ones you are referring to, except of course English.
Swedish has ÅÄÖ. Norwegian has ÅÆØ, and so does Danish. Finnish has Ä and Ö. German has ÄÖÜ and ß. French has even more weird characters, including Ç. Spanish has Ñ, Ü and accents, and the list goes on. For really weird characters, check Polish.
None of them are being referred to as merely "P". But if you had the rest of the comments to my post you would already have known that...
I wrote (p)rogramming language, not (apl)rogramming language, so you better explain how and where that language is called P... :)
(I also know that there are a lot of languages with names based on PL, but I was referring specifically to languages referred to as merely "P")
Either it'll be called 10, or H. G, has already been taken, not only once, but twice.
For your reference (kudos goes to Wikipedia), the following single letter (sometimes including some additional nonalphabetic characters) have also been implemented:
A+ A++ B C C-- C++ C# D E F F# G (now known as Deesel) G J J# J++ K L M4 Q R S S2 T X10
So - that only leaves you the letters H, I, N, O, P (sic!), U, V, W, Y and Z if you don't want to have a name clash with another programming language. Technically, M and X are followed by numbers in the previous examples, so you could argue for them as well, and even A (as it has a plus behind the letter)
I'm mostly surprised that noone has thought of a (P)rogramming language.
All those reasons are all probably perfectly reasonable, but none of them are mentioned in the FAQ at the site. According to the FAQ, the reason is legal, not technical or practical, which pretty much is bullshit...
Nice some one at least got my partly serious undertone of that posting. :)
:)
:D
I do indeed have a 1983 vintage TV, second hand from my parents (I'm in Europe though, so it's at least PAL, not NTSC). It does have a remote, so if I would only remember to buy a new battery and tape it all together so it doesn't fall apart all the time (remotes don't really stay in one piece over close to 25 years in any normal family), I wouldn't have to walk forward to the TV to change channels. That doesn't matter that much however - I'm a true slashdot geek, I mostly just view Discovery Channel and the little zapping I actually do probably is good exercise for me.
And about video input: it does have a SCART connector used for that. For some reason, it doesn't like RCA->SCART-converters, but I don't mind, I run them through my VCR anyway. And no, I don't own, and won't buy, a DVD. I use my iBook for video playback instead...
My old CRT TV from 1983 won't be replaced until it fails!
And we use 2D interfaces to design 3D environments BECAUSE we don't have any 3D interface devices.
Wrong. We don't have any 3d OUTPUT devices. INPUT devices, however, are available.
Well, at first, neither of the two you suggested seem very suited for all electrical schematics, but rather, they're biased at PCB schematics. And secondly, the advantage may only be that the engineer already knows AutoCad, and last, at least for switching cabinets, you'll have to do some 2d mechanical drawings (layout etc) in addition to just electrical schematics.
And finally, there are add-on packages like AutoCAD Electrical that makes it very suited even for highly specialized work like scematics drawing...
oops. [enter] after "open" and "filename". And [Ctrl-O] before second filename. Note to self: Enclosing typed keys in < and > on /. = bad idea.
I'm also an old-school AutoCad user. Actually, I didn't use it until R12. Still, I never bothered with using the menu (I hardly remember it at all - did i ever use it at all?
:)
My equivalent would be:
at the command prompt: type "open", "filename.dwg". Finished...
Actually, to make it even more efficient, we had a macro addon. So actually it was:
"filename.dwg". Doing this by GUI would take one order of magnitude more time (although it would be more n00b-friendly as well). If I remember correctly, there was a posibility to list files by wildcards as well if you had short-term memory.
If you're actually building any kind of real object, then you're probably using Pro/E or Solidworks.
:)
Custom made electrical cabinets? I'd like you to explain the workflow of creating an electrical schema in Pro/E!
CATIA isn't really suited for 2D CAD work (floorplans, early design sketches, electrical and other schemas, PCB construction etc). Neither is Solidworks, Pro/E or any of the other 3D CAD tools I've used. This is one of the areas where AutoCAD still shines (except of course, backward compability - with old files as well as old engineers!)
you have to pay for Omron development tools as well (unless the salesmen is trying to sell you some extra hardware so they throw some software in "for free".). The cost is around $100 though, for the complete suit of tools (every single one they have available, including some of the really advanced ones. AFAIK you can buy parts of that suit for part of the cost...
... at least as far as I know. Of course I didn't do it on my own, I only engineered the electric system.
The only real contender is the wireless transport robot control system I built this spring. It's only a pity it hasn't been used in a plant yet...