Talking to a ________________ (fill in your favorite - ie. priest,rabbi, imam,...) Q: how do you know that *your* scriptures are the true word of God? A: It is written in the scriptures! Q: Yes, but how do you know your scriptures are authentic? A: They came from God! Q: Ok, how do you know that? A: Well, it is written right here in the scriptures!!!
Sometimes one has to think that religious people have some kind of mental blockade when it comes to critical thinking about (ones) religion.
OTOH There lies a great comfort in following religious rules. You can do some of the worst things a human being is capable of and just say "God wants it!". If things go bad, "God is testing me!". If things go well, "Thank God for this". Should you really screw up, "God forgive me"....
Taking responsibility for your own actions is often a very uncomfortable way; so, why don't we just delegate responsibility for *our own* actions to a higher deity?
As long as there is "religious freedom" there will be people justifying their deeds with the wishes of a deity, thus giving the rest of humanity a bad time!
I am not opposed to religious feeling, but many people tend to abuse these feelings, and even more people let themselves be abused; thus delegating responsibility for their actions. When will we have a religion that truly holds you responsible for your actions?
Cut the bullshit, Germans ban selling violent games (blood, gore & co.) to minors. Get your facts straight the next time!
P.S. I think grandparent is right, dehumanization of a group of people in the media is usually the first step toward justifying a genocide in front of ones own people -- crusades,Auschwitz,Srebrenica,....
True!<br> I never said that this is a successful way for the poor to get their share, it is just a consequence of poor leadership. They wont get richer, they'll just get even
How 'bout bringing down democratically elected governments, bombing countries who have done no harm to you, "detaining" people *you* suspect to be terrorists,... the list is very long and there are a lot of arguments on both sides; still I can't see your arguments justified by a faulty logic (we are smarter than them, so we have a right to be wealthier) They could use just the same rhetoric on you (We'll bomb a few skyscrapers, they'll get scared like shit, bomb whomever they get first - except us - and become a dictatorship by the will of their scared people) Prego?
Exceptional people deserve to be rewarded for their talent, intelligence, and efforts, not brought down to the level of people who toil at menial work and still expect easy access to everything they want.
Cut the crap! This type of @"Come First, Serve First" predatory capitalism is the reason many people in the world simply hate westerners. You guys brought us 9/11, Madrid, London,... The fact that someone has more money than the other, just means that he had more luck (genes,family,education,...). Rarely is it a sign of superiority. Although I agree that most "stupid" ones end up poor, I think that your comment just shows how "exceptionally" wrong you are! OTOH heads like yours roll first, when the poor decide that enough is enough -- Viva la Revolution!:P
A friend of me is working on an -El Cheapo - design using cirrus logic EP9302 SoC. You basically need some RAM and flash...and thats it. This device has all you need, including USB,LAN,SPI,... Other variants (series 931x) even have VGA-out! Our main problem is the flash memory needed, since its out of production. You can use some substitute, fiddling around with the address lines, but we decided to have a second look at the bootloader, and try to boot this baby directly from USB or SPI. As for the assembly...well, we found a guy in Serbia who has the necessary gear to manufacture 2 and 4 layer boards. His price for a 2 layer board (90x90mm) with ~30 components soldered was 60 Euros for the prototype, 60 for the solder mask, and around 5 Euros for the board and assembly. (Components are on your tab, of course!)
Should you need info about him, send me a message.
Just got it done for my family and a few relatives. You also get a neat certificate. The way it goes, there will be more cartoon characters and funny names on their way to mars than actual people... Alfred E. Newman and Mickey Mouse... Yuck!
Sad to see that all of the west's criticism towards the Soviet Union, Iraq, North Korea, etc. is hypocritical considering this form of censorship. At least in the SSSR you had some kind of social justice...
*Uh, Sir...Why do we have to use int? Wouldn't it make more sense justo to use float or double?*
Forget it, Logo was designed to give you enough distance to the machine. unfortunately it didn't teach kids too much. Assuming that these kids already had some CS lessons, its time to let them learn about how a computer works (remember, thats the point in learning about programming) and they wont learn anything unless they get down to the bottom of the machine.
Amen, brother. My firm was looking for a Python coder with some *NIX knowledge. My predecessor left me with a (400 Linux subsidiaries) undocumented network, a totally undocumented 500KB curses based Python program to a freakingly normalized Oracle database, "designed" by a FoxPro enthusiast, and an Interbase DB....Oh my...
Now there are 4 of us working to keep this stuff working (My colleagues -.Net guys doing Java - are banging their heads trying to alter our midtier code...Someone hardcoded the year - "06" being the last:)
This leaves me working as an Oracle and Interbase dba, Unix Sysadmin, Network admin and Python Guru. So, Yes, I understand your trouble. BTW, my salary would make a U.S. admin smile
The only difficulty I can see is that you would have to explain what an object is first
I dont really see a problem there. If you never used a language like C before, you should have no real problems with basic OO programming.
IMHO what makes Python a poor language for beginners, is that it does *not* teach them how a computer works. With C you have to know at least some basics about your CPU architecture (Anyone remember the union statement and sizeof()?), and at the same time you can directly teach them the difference between a value and a reference. Much easier than using some assembler statements.
Nice argument. Doesn't hold its water, though! Sure, the world needs resellers (for the time being, at least), but the RIAA members do zip in productivity. Sure, they organize recording, printing and marketing of artistic content, but they just don't admit that their ways are becoming outdated. The new market doesn't need Sony, Warner & Co. anymore; with YouTube,iTunes Kazaa and the rest of the pack, many of the old dinosaurs should start looking for a new job - after all, if thousands of workers lost their industrial jobs due to outsourcing, I will hardly worry about the fate of some jobless RIAA lawyers.
He gave a legit argument. Many a reader forgot that the RIAA is *not* a body of its own, but rather a prolonged arm of the record labels.<br>Since they have to compete with online stores, P2P, and an audience growing more and more mature (mature as in not that stupid anymore:), they have to reduce the price of their songs.<br><br>RI stands for *Record Industy* (I dont see the artists mentioned anywhere), so I assume that it will be logical to let the artists suffer from price cuts. <br> BTW, Is there also an artists association? If yes, what are they doing?
Maybe he doesn't want to give away a fish pole cause selling fish gives you a hell of a profit in long term.<br> Sell 'em a pole, and they wont need to buy fish from you anymore...god beware us if they should come up with the idea to *sell* the fish...
From my own experience, I can tell you that a "low power" machine tends to *teach* while a high end machine makes a great toy! A computing devices purpose is to... compute. I cant wait to see some bright hackers squeezing the last clock cycle out of this machine. <br>BTW, how many "developers" still know how to code in x86 assembler...or even try to optimize some inner loop in machine language?<br>Anyone? No?<br> I for myself, mostly work in Python, Java, C++ and C# nowadays. I just miss the nearness to the machine I had when working in C and ASM. <br>Viva 6510,Z80,68000,8086... there you learn how to code, my dear.Net monkeys!
IMHO the real problem is not whether InterLink is suing or not, the real problem is that the USPTO and the American government endorse granting such "patents". Instead of patenting the position of a trigger (a position made necessary by ergonomics), they should help people innovate and protect their innovations. The way things are going, I find it more and more disturbing to see the US forcing their patent rules on other countries.
*Balmer dreams:* Imagine a world where every single child in the 3rd. world has a windows machine with visual studio preinstalled and is learning.NET programming! Imagine a *billion* developers working for 20 Cents per hour! Imagine us (M$) developing Vista(tm)2 for under 2000 Bucks.... *Balmer wakes up*... Oh no! They will have Linux on their OLPC's *dials Microsoft R&D*...Hello, Steve here...no, forget Vista stability, get a few OLPC's and load up windows on them...512MB??!? well, throw out some of the garbage, they wont pay for it anyway.
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Talking to a ________________ (fill in your favorite - ie. priest,rabbi, imam,...)
Q: how do you know that *your* scriptures are the true word of God?
A: It is written in the scriptures!
Q: Yes, but how do you know your scriptures are authentic?
A: They came from God!
Q: Ok, how do you know that?
A: Well, it is written right here in the scriptures!!!
Sometimes one has to think that religious people have some kind of mental blockade when it comes to critical thinking about (ones) religion.
OTOH There lies a great comfort in following religious rules. You can do some of the worst things a human being is capable of and just say "God wants it!". If things go bad, "God is testing me!". If things go well, "Thank God for this". Should you really screw up, "God forgive me"....
Taking responsibility for your own actions is often a very uncomfortable way; so, why don't we just delegate responsibility for *our own* actions to a higher deity?
As long as there is "religious freedom" there will be people justifying their deeds with the wishes of a deity, thus giving the rest of humanity a bad time!
I am not opposed to religious feeling, but many people tend to abuse these feelings, and even more people let themselves be abused; thus delegating responsibility for their actions. When will we have a religion that truly holds you responsible for your actions?
No, I think the author *really* needs to get laid.
Does he jack off while using Vista?
Cut the bullshit, Germans ban selling violent games (blood, gore & co.) to minors.
Get your facts straight the next time!
P.S. I think grandparent is right, dehumanization of a group of people in the media is usually the first step toward justifying a genocide in front of ones own people -- crusades,Auschwitz,Srebrenica,....
True!<br>
I never said that this is a successful way for the poor to get their share, it is just a consequence of poor leadership. They wont get richer, they'll just get even
How 'bout bringing down democratically elected governments, bombing countries who have done no harm to you, "detaining" people *you* suspect to be terrorists,...
the list is very long and there are a lot of arguments on both sides; still I can't see your arguments justified by a faulty logic (we are smarter than them, so we have a right to be wealthier) They could use just the same rhetoric on you (We'll bomb a few skyscrapers, they'll get scared like shit, bomb whomever they get first - except us - and become a dictatorship by the will of their scared people)
Prego?
Cut the crap! This type of @"Come First, Serve First" predatory capitalism is the reason many people in the world simply hate westerners.
You guys brought us 9/11, Madrid, London,...
The fact that someone has more money than the other, just means that he had more luck (genes,family,education,...). Rarely is it a sign of superiority.
Although I agree that most "stupid" ones end up poor, I think that your comment just shows how "exceptionally" wrong you are!
OTOH heads like yours roll first, when the poor decide that enough is enough -- Viva la Revolution!
A friend of me is working on an -El Cheapo - design using cirrus logic EP9302 SoC. You basically need some RAM and flash...and thats it. This device has all you need, including USB,LAN,SPI,...
Other variants (series 931x) even have VGA-out!
Our main problem is the flash memory needed, since its out of production. You can use some substitute, fiddling around with the address lines, but we decided to have a second look at the bootloader, and try to boot this baby directly from USB or SPI.
As for the assembly...well, we found a guy in Serbia who has the necessary gear to manufacture 2 and 4 layer boards. His price for a 2 layer board (90x90mm) with ~30 components soldered was 60 Euros for the prototype, 60 for the solder mask, and around 5 Euros for the board and assembly. (Components are on your tab, of course!)
Should you need info about him, send me a message.
A teenage kid at home?
Oh, and (s)he does (not) use a computer?
Ooooh, and you never bought your kid some blank (recordable) media?
Liar!
...Nothing to see here anymore...just the sea....move along...
Just got it done for my family and a few relatives. You also get a neat certificate.
The way it goes, there will be more cartoon characters and funny names on their way to mars than actual people... Alfred E. Newman and Mickey Mouse... Yuck!
Most of linux is not built around "User experience".
:)
Although people use KDE, Gnome &Co., these are just trying to copy the Windows UI.
Many a year will pass until a Mahdi unites us, and bring us One GUI for all the people in the universe....and it will be good!
Sad to see that all of the west's criticism towards the Soviet Union, Iraq, North Korea, etc. is hypocritical considering this form of censorship.
At least in the SSSR you had some kind of social justice...
Considering that you are reading this for free, try to contribute, instead of just bitching around....give us your opinion!
*Uh, Sir...Why do we have to use int? Wouldn't it make more sense justo to use float or double?*
Forget it, Logo was designed to give you enough distance to the machine. unfortunately it didn't teach kids too much. Assuming that these kids already had some CS lessons, its time to let them learn about how a computer works (remember, thats the point in learning about programming) and they wont learn anything unless they get down to the bottom of the machine.
Amen, brother. My firm was looking for a Python coder with some *NIX knowledge. .Net guys doing Java - are banging their heads trying to alter our midtier code...Someone hardcoded the year - "06" being the last :)
My predecessor left me with a (400 Linux subsidiaries) undocumented network, a totally undocumented 500KB curses based Python program to a freakingly normalized Oracle database, "designed" by a FoxPro enthusiast, and an Interbase DB....Oh my...
Now there are 4 of us working to keep this stuff working (My colleagues -
This leaves me working as an Oracle and Interbase dba, Unix Sysadmin, Network admin and Python Guru.
So, Yes, I understand your trouble.
BTW, my salary would make a U.S. admin smile
I dont really see a problem there. If you never used a language like C before, you should have no real problems with basic OO programming.
IMHO what makes Python a poor language for beginners, is that it does *not* teach them how a computer works. With C you have to know at least some basics about your CPU architecture (Anyone remember the union statement and sizeof()?), and at the same time you can directly teach them the difference between a value and a reference.
Much easier than using some assembler statements.
Nice argument. Doesn't hold its water, though!
Sure, the world needs resellers (for the time being, at least), but the RIAA members do zip in productivity. Sure, they organize recording, printing and marketing of artistic content, but they just don't admit that their ways are becoming outdated. The new market doesn't need Sony, Warner & Co. anymore; with YouTube,iTunes Kazaa and the rest of the pack, many of the old dinosaurs should start looking for a new job - after all, if thousands of workers lost their industrial jobs due to outsourcing, I will hardly worry about the fate of some jobless RIAA lawyers.
He gave a legit argument. Many a reader forgot that the RIAA is *not* a body of its own, but rather a prolonged arm of the record labels.<br>Since they have to compete with online stores, P2P, and an audience growing more and more mature (mature as in not that stupid anymore:), they have to reduce the price of their songs.<br><br>RI stands for *Record Industy* (I dont see the artists mentioned anywhere), so I assume that it will be logical to let the artists suffer from price cuts. <br> BTW, Is there also an artists association? If yes, what are they doing?
Maybe he doesn't want to give away a fish pole cause selling fish gives you a hell of a profit in long term.<br> Sell 'em a pole, and they wont need to buy fish from you anymore...god beware us if they should come up with the idea to *sell* the fish...
I saw a 256 MB player for cca. 20$ from Canyon. Being sold all over the Balkans ;)
From my own experience, I can tell you that a "low power" machine tends to *teach* while a high end machine makes a great toy! A computing devices purpose is to ... compute. I cant wait to see some bright hackers squeezing the last clock cycle out of this machine. <br>BTW, how many "developers" still know how to code in x86 assembler...or even try to optimize some inner loop in machine language?<br>Anyone? No?<br> I for myself, mostly work in Python, Java, C++ and C# nowadays. I just miss the nearness to the machine I had when working in C and ASM. <br>Viva 6510,Z80,68000,8086 ... there you learn how to code, my dear .Net monkeys!
IMHO the real problem is not whether InterLink is suing or not, the real problem is that the USPTO and the American government endorse granting such "patents". Instead of patenting the position of a trigger (a position made necessary by ergonomics), they should help people innovate and protect their innovations. The way things are going, I find it more and more disturbing to see the US forcing their patent rules on other countries.
*Balmer dreams:* Imagine a world where every single child in the 3rd. world has a windows machine with visual studio preinstalled and is learning .NET programming!
Imagine a *billion* developers working for 20 Cents per hour!
Imagine us (M$) developing Vista(tm)2 for under 2000 Bucks....
*Balmer wakes up*...
Oh no! They will have Linux on their OLPC's
*dials Microsoft R&D*...Hello, Steve here...no, forget Vista stability, get a few OLPC's and load up windows on them...512MB??!?
well, throw out some of the garbage, they wont pay for it anyway.
Uninstall Windows!