There's also his short-short story "Answer" (to the question "Is there a god?"). But my favorite (and one of the first Sci-Fi novels I ever read) is "Rogue In Space".
I installed the beta of Karmic UNR, and it imported users from the existing Win XP partition. Even set up a profile photo on the gdm picker -- but the photo it associated with my profile was my wife's photo, not mine. I really wonder how that happened.
Then, I couldn't see how to change the photo. After googling around I saw a mention of gdmphotosetup. Trying to run that in an xterm, the system informed me that I needed gdm-2.20 or some such. Apt-getting that, there was a warning about package dependencies -- then when I rebooted graphical log-on was not working at all.
I can still log on to the console and run startx so to me it's not that bad. At least it's a funny bug 8^).
I broke out into a cold sweat the first time I put on contact lenses (17 years ago). But after a few days wearing them felt normal. Mine are hard contact lenses, BTW--they correct my astigmatism and slow the progression of myopia, which soft contact lenses can't do.
This thread discusses the merits of the STM features of Clojure, a JVM language. It's another way to do lock-free concurrent programming on the JVM, using appropriate data structures.
According to a coworker who got some training in Japan, her Japanese classmates were saying that the Japanese government certification exams are just too hard.
In fact, the Japanese are giving the same exams elsewhere in Asia and not too many people are passing.
The Eee is by Asus, not Intel. I guess you mean the Classmate.
In either case, the PC is not exactly the best one to run Engineering/Math or even a compiler on. The Eee is intended for browsing, light word-processing, etc. The Classmate is intended for use by grade school kids.
If Southern Yellow Pine has this magic property of absorbing a lot of heat from melting above room termperature, then refreezing and letting off the heat - couldn't we make a similar synthetic substance that is even more efficient? Like a sprayable foam of this resin, instead of just using it for the building material.
From TFA: Hazelwood already has collaborative ties with researchers at Intel and IBM that place her in an ideal position to eventually commercialize the technology her lab develops.
IBM's iSeries computers use a lot of microcode to mediate between OS and hardware, promoting both software and hardware independence. Sounds like the current project is in the same vein.
Someone on Win98 doesn't *need* that much support --someone switching to Linux *does*. I'm not exactly new to Linux but when I got dial-up at home and needed to set up a softmodem, I had to compile a kernel module to do it--not something a newbie should be called upon to do. The (Smartlink) modem works perfectly well in Win98.
the iSeries (aka AS/400) OS runs on top of a layer of microcode in which security functions are implemented, so they are immune from this type of malware
I have taught an intro to programming course using C, Python and
Euphoria. I found Euphoria best for teaching, followed by Python and C. With C I found myself dwelling more on syntax, and struggling with unintuitive string handling and obscure compiler error messages. With Python, indentation can be a problem--a student's code can look correctly indented in the editor and yet not run. I think Euphoria hits a sweet spot with simple syntax, informative error messages from the interpreter and easy string and list handling (strings are actually lists of characters).
Having said that, I have to confess that I am using Python to teach the course these days, since it's more likely to useful to the students after they graduate.
This is exactly like the frightening shortage of COBOL programmers, since the COBOL programs still running run on IBM mainframes. And this just goes to show, COBOL has its place, maybe not in the CS but in the IT or MIS curriculum.
On the AS/400's, the documentation was free -- a bookshelf full of manuals. Later they put it on CD's and now still make it available on on the net.
I learned RPG via a one week self-study course at IBM and then just by reading the manual. It was a couple of years on before I discovered the trade magazines and got teh benefit of other people's experience.
Perhaps mind-share rather than market share should be the consideration here. Joy is a research language, exploring new ways (paradigms?) of programming, in the same space as languages such as Haskell (functional) or Factor (concatenative).
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There's also his short-short story "Answer" (to the question "Is there a god?"). But my favorite (and one of the first Sci-Fi novels I ever read) is "Rogue In Space".
see: http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/mas863/urinecontrol.html
I installed the beta of Karmic UNR, and it imported users from the existing Win XP partition. Even set up a profile photo on the gdm picker -- but the photo it associated with my profile was my wife's photo, not mine. I really wonder how that happened.
Then, I couldn't see how to change the photo. After googling around I saw a mention of gdmphotosetup. Trying to run that in an xterm, the system informed me that I needed gdm-2.20 or some such. Apt-getting that, there was a warning about package dependencies -- then when I rebooted graphical log-on was not working at all.
I can still log on to the console and run startx so to me it's not that bad. At least it's a funny bug 8^).
Ownz0red!
ISTR that IBM claims 4 9's reliability for the IBM i (new name of the AS/400) which is a midrange machine. For IBM z, the claim is 100% uptime.
Actually, I remember that some IBM software I installed used the Korn shell and run quite well, even accepting mouse clicks as input on the terminal.
I broke out into a cold sweat the first time I put on contact lenses (17 years ago). But after a few days wearing them felt normal. Mine are hard contact lenses, BTW--they correct my astigmatism and slow the progression of myopia, which soft contact lenses can't do.
Have you had a look at Clojure? It is a Lisp dialect that runs on the JVM with good Java interop and has built-in support for STM concurrency.
This thread discusses the merits of the STM features of Clojure, a JVM language. It's another way to do lock-free concurrent programming on the JVM, using appropriate data structures.
According to a coworker who got some training in Japan, her Japanese classmates were saying that the Japanese government certification exams are just too hard.
In fact, the Japanese are giving the same exams elsewhere in Asia and not too many people are passing.
The Eee is by Asus, not Intel. I guess you mean the Classmate.
In either case, the PC is not exactly the best one to run Engineering/Math or even a compiler on. The Eee is intended for browsing, light word-processing, etc. The Classmate is intended for use by grade school kids.
Already done: http://www.basf.com/corporate/080204_micronal.htm
One possibility is geothermal
Shouldn't that be areothermal 8^)?
See OSDavid
From the third link down: "OSdavid is a free and open-source, advertising supported Desktop-Linux Operating ..."
Separately powered wheels that could swivel through 360 degrees was a feature of Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion Car
From TFA: Hazelwood already has collaborative ties with researchers at Intel and IBM that place her in an ideal position to eventually commercialize the technology her lab develops.
IBM's iSeries computers use a lot of microcode to mediate between OS and hardware, promoting both software and hardware independence. Sounds like the current project is in the same vein.
Someone on Win98 doesn't *need* that much support --someone switching to Linux *does*. I'm not exactly new to Linux but when I got dial-up at home and needed to set up a softmodem, I had to compile a kernel module to do it--not something a newbie should be called upon to do. The (Smartlink) modem works perfectly well in Win98.
the iSeries (aka AS/400) OS runs on top of a layer of microcode in which security functions are implemented, so they are immune from this type of malware
I have taught an intro to programming course using C, Python and Euphoria. I found Euphoria best for teaching, followed by Python and C. With C I found myself dwelling more on syntax, and struggling with unintuitive string handling and obscure compiler error messages. With Python, indentation can be a problem--a student's code can look correctly indented in the editor and yet not run. I think Euphoria hits a sweet spot with simple syntax, informative error messages from the interpreter and easy string and list handling (strings are actually lists of characters).
Having said that, I have to confess that I am using Python to teach the course these days, since it's more likely to useful to the students after they graduate.
On the other hand, he is a recipient of the MacArthur Award (aka The Genius Grant) and the Takeda Award which means he has a nice chunk of change socked away somewhere.
From TFA:
The acronym SHARE does not stand for anything; according to organizers, it refers to sharing information.
This is exactly like the frightening shortage of COBOL programmers, since the COBOL programs still running run on IBM mainframes. And this just goes to show, COBOL has its place, maybe not in the CS but in the IT or MIS curriculum.
On the AS/400's, the documentation was free -- a bookshelf full of manuals. Later they put it on CD's and now still make it available on on the net.
I learned RPG via a one week self-study course at IBM and then just by reading the manual. It was a couple of years on before I discovered the trade magazines and got teh benefit of other people's experience.
To me, a more intriguing question is, does it run i5OS (or OS/400, the OS of IBM's iSeries aka AS/400 machines).
Maybe that's what Frank Soltis was hinting at when he talked about running OS/400 on a Playstation
Perhaps mind-share rather than market share should be the consideration here. Joy is a research language, exploring new ways (paradigms?) of programming, in the same space as languages such as Haskell (functional) or Factor (concatenative).