I think that many potential CS students are discouraged by that Introductory course. I think an introductory course should not teach Java as the first language, but a scripting language such as Perl or Python. Scripting languages allow people to get "feedback" from their programs much faster, not to mention that they are easier to learn and that an interpreter is much easier to conceptualize vs. a compiler (Intro students cannot be assumed to know or have to learn what machine code is; let the Architecture course take care of that).
I was one such potential CS student a few years ago. I majored in something else, but got back into CS quickly after discovering Perl. Perl got me inspired to take a bunch of CS of courses such as Computer Architecture, Compilers, and Operating Systems. I'm now entering the work force as a Computer Scientist after graduating this May thanks to the lack of graduating CS students:).
The idea was to gain some cash to sustain operations until a faultless (i.e. no major faults) CPU can be released. Those that bought faulty CPUs will get their CPUs replaced as soon as faultless CPUs are completed. In some sense you can look at AMD's action as taking out a long term loan.
A counter argument to my theory can be that AMD would not risk its reputation to take out a "cash loan" in such a manner. However, the risk of losing reputation is justified if we consider another major factor at play: the holidays. It is less likely that AMD would gain the same (or even close to the same) cash flows if they would have released the CPUs after the holidays.
AMD now has some cash and is able to breath a little bit. When it releases fixed CPUs it will be able to continue where it left off.
>>> I would say that chances are good that she was at abused in some manner - ranging from a prick of a boyfriend to rape.
I was thinking the same exact things when I read those. It is a really unfortunate case. She was also distraght (understandably) about some of the physical changes that she had encountered. I mean this is young girl who just messed up her life pretty much and felt that she had to go so low as to seek out her "mate" in Riker's Island, which is New York City's big prison.....
but damn it! Its all so funny! As much as I want to feel bad, I can't. If I knew who exactly this was, I'd laugh right in her face because it is just that funny to me:(.
I have a 3 year old Pentium4 that I built. It currently houses 8 ata drives for a total 2.1 tera-bytes (I use cominations of RAID 10, RAID 1, and RAID 0 arrays on it). What did all of those drives cost? On average of $60 after rebates (I've recieved them long ago). If I needed more space, I could add a bunch of 500 gig ata drives on the cheap. However, I'd only have 4 terabytes by the end.
So, in conclusion, SATA drives provide more space, have less need for drives and therefore save energy. (And they prevent me from boasting about my Pentium4:'().
Oh wait a sec! I should RTFS, I can still have more space, cheaper! Current SATA solutions get up to 3.5 Terabytes, but 5. Either way, SATA definitly depricates my ATA setup.
Sugarcane alcohol, is a form of ethanol.
According to Greenspan, ethanol in the US would be produced from corn. Sure, Greenspan is not a scientist, but it is often key economic decision-makers who have the last word. Economy always has dictated and shall allways continue to dictate science.
When oil supplies really get tight, there is going to a massive shift to ethanol vehicles. FYI, Brazil has just about everyone driving ethanol cars already.
This sentiment has been shown by well known and respected individuals such as Greenspan. Therefore it does not surprise me that that electric car is being forgotten about.
Yeh, I use it all the time. Sure, it does not have any fancy encryption, but it works. It's speed varies from time to time (probably due to entire apartment comlex connecting), but its all good.
And heck, I can't get in trouble for all of the p.., excuse me, stuff that I download.
First they told me that playing video games was going to mess me up. That I was not going to amount to anything. Then they told me that it is dangerous for someone not to focus on one task (ADD). I believed them and stopped playing video games.
Now they tell me that I should start playing video games against, and start multitasking. WTF is this!
If one takes a look at the system specs of the the comp that they demonstrated the cooling system on; it NEEDS water cooling due to the 3.73 GHz Intel CPU. That's why its best to buy an AMD64 at the moment: so that you do not have to spend extra money on water cooling. Water cooling should not be necessary. CPU's should not emit any more heat that cannot be taken away by a simple heatsink and fan.
I personally can't imagine any rational human being wasting thier money on water cooling or on something that needs water cooling. Even when I was a foolish teen who thought about building the latest and greatest PC all day long, it never occurred to me to set up water cooling.
I don't think that it is correct to say that the userbase of GIMP is small or inferior to another userbase. The userbase looks quite good considering the number of fabulous candidates that there were. I hope that you browsed through these pages before making your assertion.
I think that it is not a matter of the userbase not pumping out good material, but rather the developers' poor choice. I do not think that the clock is original in any way (not that originality is possible, but a clock seems too common and too easy to think of). There were much nicer and more original splashes from the candidate gallery. For example the one titled, "NextGen GIMP" or "The road to infinity". Actually the most creative one was "Tree of Ideas" in my view (but it was not as good-looking as others to win).
With this acquisition Seagate has further strengthened its strong footing as the leader in hard disk manufacturing. I did not read the article linked here, but the one posted on Toms Hardware Guide. This article mentioned how Seagate now will be able to pump out more drives at lower costs and have more assets to conduct more technological reasearch. Western Digital, Samsung, and Hitachi will now have to step up thier efforts to keep up. If these companies are able to adapt to the new market, then consumers will not only see better drives out there, but better drives for less money.
I also have to add my two cents about my experience with hard drives. Currently, I am attempting to replace all of the Maxtors that I have bought over the years (due to the rebate offers which made them have the best price per gig) because each one of them is starting to get bad sectors (which has made me lose some valuable data). I have never had any problems with Western Digital drives, but Seagate is simply having the best price offers today.
I have to also add my two cents about the "addiction" of wanting to secure data. I used to be devastated when I'd lose data (well this was when my drives would be filled with pRon, music, and movies). But about half a year ago, I realized that I only have about two gigs worth of data that I would never want to lose: Pictures of my priceless trips to places and family and the writing I have done for school as well as pleasure. So, in conclusion, I think that people should as themselves (as has already been asked): Do you really need all of the data that you attempt to secure?
Linux is on 4 of the top 5 supercomputers is due to the fact that it is opensource, and can be modified to fit unusuall hardware. I cannot imagine the process one would have to go through to get changes to be made to the way a closed source OS will function on more than 1000 CPUs; all I know is that it is an inconvientient one. Opensource wins out because of the tremendous flexabilty it has to change rapidly.
What the hell is wrong with Slashdot today. This article is dated the 14th of October. This is not news; the prices have changed if you browse the 'net a bit now. On top of that the article was rather stupid as so many have pointed out.
...I can make myself at home, on the road by being able to watch my pornography. No more paying extra for TV channels at hotels. And no more being bored on plane rides.
Seriously, I think that this is an awesome development because one of the things that stop me from buying a laptop is the size of the screen (I want 19" or more). The second thing of course is the harddrive capacities and speed. I am definitly getting a laptop when you can have at least 2 x 250 giga-byte harddrives (with potential to put in another two) that transfer at SATA 150 speeds.
Don't ask what I need that storage for.
I think that change in Domain governance will occur inevitably. As far as I remember, the world is running out of IPs, and eventually everyone will have to start using IPV6. This change may or may not become a significant oppurtunity for governments or corporations for make tremendous changes (In my view there is an oppurtunity for change).
In my utopia, domain name registration (governance, as the article stated) would be managed by a world wide governing body which would commit to free (as it $$$) and fair distribution of domain names (so that no one can profit off of taking a range of names and forcing others to pay for them). The UN is however is not such an organization; never has not never will be.
It is a rather big problem that IT "specialists" are only specialists because they know how to navigate a GUI. It is not a surpise that there will be corporate resistence against OSS simply because a number of "IT specialists" live on the fact that Microsoft saves thier sorry unintelligent asses.
I find it way more practical to have voice recognition than facial recongnition for security reasons. Someone's voice could get recorded and then played back, but if a specific phrase would be recognized only, then it would be kind of tough to force a the owner to say it to a recorder.
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I was one such potential CS student a few years ago. I majored in something else, but got back into CS quickly after discovering Perl. Perl got me inspired to take a bunch of CS of courses such as Computer Architecture, Compilers, and Operating Systems. I'm now entering the work force as a Computer Scientist after graduating this May thanks to the lack of graduating CS students
The idea was to gain some cash to sustain operations until a faultless (i.e. no major faults) CPU can be released. Those that bought faulty CPUs will get their CPUs replaced as soon as faultless CPUs are completed. In some sense you can look at AMD's action as taking out a long term loan.
A counter argument to my theory can be that AMD would not risk its reputation to take out a "cash loan" in such a manner. However, the risk of losing reputation is justified if we consider another major factor at play: the holidays. It is less likely that AMD would gain the same (or even close to the same) cash flows if they would have released the CPUs after the holidays.
AMD now has some cash and is able to breath a little bit. When it releases fixed CPUs it will be able to continue where it left off.
wits and reflexes keep Nintendo sharp.
>>> I would say that chances are good that she was at abused in some manner - ranging from a prick of a boyfriend to rape.
:(.
I was thinking the same exact things when I read those. It is a really unfortunate case. She was also distraght (understandably) about some of the physical changes that she had encountered. I mean this is young girl who just messed up her life pretty much and felt that she had to go so low as to seek out her "mate" in Riker's Island, which is New York City's big prison.....
but damn it! Its all so funny! As much as I want to feel bad, I can't. If I knew who exactly this was, I'd laugh right in her face because it is just that funny to me
So, in conclusion, SATA drives provide more space, have less need for drives and therefore save energy. (And they prevent me from boasting about my Pentium4 :'().
Oh wait a sec! I should RTFS, I can still have more space, cheaper! Current SATA solutions get up to 3.5 Terabytes, but 5. Either way, SATA definitly depricates my ATA setup.
That's the only reason I am reading this :(.
Actually, it looks more like this, from this article. According to this, it looks like this.
Sugarcane alcohol, is a form of ethanol. According to Greenspan, ethanol in the US would be produced from corn. Sure, Greenspan is not a scientist, but it is often key economic decision-makers who have the last word. Economy always has dictated and shall allways continue to dictate science.
This sentiment has been shown by well known and respected individuals such as Greenspan. Therefore it does not surprise me that that electric car is being forgotten about.
Yeh, I use it all the time. Sure, it does not have any fancy encryption, but it works. It's speed varies from time to time (probably due to entire apartment comlex connecting), but its all good. And heck, I can't get in trouble for all of the p.., excuse me, stuff that I download.
Hmmm...is it a coincidence that HP is a co-sponsor of the event?
First they told me that playing video games was going to mess me up. That I was not going to amount to anything. Then they told me that it is dangerous for someone not to focus on one task (ADD). I believed them and stopped playing video games.
Now they tell me that I should start playing video games against, and start multitasking. WTF is this!
If one takes a look at the system specs of the the comp that they demonstrated the cooling system on; it NEEDS water cooling due to the 3.73 GHz Intel CPU. That's why its best to buy an AMD64 at the moment: so that you do not have to spend extra money on water cooling. Water cooling should not be necessary. CPU's should not emit any more heat that cannot be taken away by a simple heatsink and fan. I personally can't imagine any rational human being wasting thier money on water cooling or on something that needs water cooling. Even when I was a foolish teen who thought about building the latest and greatest PC all day long, it never occurred to me to set up water cooling.
I don't think that it is correct to say that the userbase of GIMP is small or inferior to another userbase. The userbase looks quite good considering the number of fabulous candidates that there were. I hope that you browsed through these pages before making your assertion.
I think that it is not a matter of the userbase not pumping out good material, but rather the developers' poor choice. I do not think that the clock is original in any way (not that originality is possible, but a clock seems too common and too easy to think of). There were much nicer and more original splashes from the candidate gallery. For example the one titled, "NextGen GIMP" or "The road to infinity". Actually the most creative one was "Tree of Ideas" in my view (but it was not as good-looking as others to win).
I also have to add my two cents about my experience with hard drives. Currently, I am attempting to replace all of the Maxtors that I have bought over the years (due to the rebate offers which made them have the best price per gig) because each one of them is starting to get bad sectors (which has made me lose some valuable data). I have never had any problems with Western Digital drives, but Seagate is simply having the best price offers today.
I have to also add my two cents about the "addiction" of wanting to secure data. I used to be devastated when I'd lose data (well this was when my drives would be filled with pRon, music, and movies). But about half a year ago, I realized that I only have about two gigs worth of data that I would never want to lose: Pictures of my priceless trips to places and family and the writing I have done for school as well as pleasure. So, in conclusion, I think that people should as themselves (as has already been asked): Do you really need all of the data that you attempt to secure?
Linux is on 4 of the top 5 supercomputers is due to the fact that it is opensource, and can be modified to fit unusuall hardware. I cannot imagine the process one would have to go through to get changes to be made to the way a closed source OS will function on more than 1000 CPUs; all I know is that it is an inconvientient one. Opensource wins out because of the tremendous flexabilty it has to change rapidly.
What the hell is wrong with Slashdot today. This article is dated the 14th of October. This is not news; the prices have changed if you browse the 'net a bit now. On top of that the article was rather stupid as so many have pointed out.
...I can make myself at home, on the road by being able to watch my pornography. No more paying extra for TV channels at hotels. And no more being bored on plane rides. Seriously, I think that this is an awesome development because one of the things that stop me from buying a laptop is the size of the screen (I want 19" or more). The second thing of course is the harddrive capacities and speed. I am definitly getting a laptop when you can have at least 2 x 250 giga-byte harddrives (with potential to put in another two) that transfer at SATA 150 speeds. Don't ask what I need that storage for.
I think that change in Domain governance will occur inevitably. As far as I remember, the world is running out of IPs, and eventually everyone will have to start using IPV6. This change may or may not become a significant oppurtunity for governments or corporations for make tremendous changes (In my view there is an oppurtunity for change). In my utopia, domain name registration (governance, as the article stated) would be managed by a world wide governing body which would commit to free (as it $$$) and fair distribution of domain names (so that no one can profit off of taking a range of names and forcing others to pay for them). The UN is however is not such an organization; never has not never will be.
It is a rather big problem that IT "specialists" are only specialists because they know how to navigate a GUI. It is not a surpise that there will be corporate resistence against OSS simply because a number of "IT specialists" live on the fact that Microsoft saves thier sorry unintelligent asses.
I find it way more practical to have voice recognition than facial recongnition for security reasons. Someone's voice could get recorded and then played back, but if a specific phrase would be recognized only, then it would be kind of tough to force a the owner to say it to a recorder.