I use a dual monitor workstation + a laptop to play the course content.
This allows me my regular programming workspace on my computer with any reference material I need on the second monitor. Using the laptop allows me to go fullscreen without worrying about window focus and makes the material easy to pause by mashing the spacebar.
My laptop also is setup to provide no notifications or interruptions so it is a distraction free workspace.
I also download course material that I can listen to on drives.
The subscription price is really just to offset the distribution cost. Someone looked at the New York Times distribution costs and determined that they could buy a kindle for every person who subscribes or buys an issue from the newsstand with the money used for distribution and STILL save money in one year!
There is no way distribution of the New York times costs the price of a kindle per subscriber.
A whole month to devise these strategies and counter-strategies aswell! Its obvious to me that there will be at least SOME fake sites in the country. Even in DARPA announced a last minute color change on the balloons or announced an image that would be painted on them it would be feasible for people to try and make them just as a prank if nothing else.
I think the best way to attack this problem would be to agree to donate the profits from the award to some worthy cause, letting people with the capability volunteer some time to a solution. Its a fairly complicated problem to solve for the amount of money given to solve it.
Lets say a group of capable programmers united for lets say an open source project develop a website that takes in the coordinates in the format required for the contest. The trick is going to be figuring out who is telling the truth when it comes to submitted data... You may be able to assume that if a number set is entered often that it is a candidate to be the real location. The task obviously requires coordination of many life humans as I doubt anyone that can compete has access to satellite time to do an automated search.
I am wondering how many people will attempt to put up fake balloon sites to either trick their competition or just get some publicity of tech people to come visit the site and take a GPS reading.
You could let them play inside a virtual machine: http://www.virtualbox.org/ If you cant say no to people using your system having them trapped in a virtual machine may keep you from reloading windows on your box.
If you use windows lock down Internet Explorer to unusual with an admin kit and force them to use Google Chrome, preventing some of the common nasties from eating your computer.
The real question is why not just be rude, a laptop is a tool that you use for education most students I know don't have unlimited resources to replace laptops that are damaged by people who are borrowing them.
I use Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/ for all my IDE needs. I have found that it works well on any platform (and with any language) that I find myself sitting behind (or coding in). Eclipse gets my vote mainly for its very wide language AND platform support.
US department of transportation will be sued for providing "roads" used to comit many crimes such as drunk driving drug transport... bank robberies..... and the ever popular bounce the old lady down the street.
How long until everyone who was ever used or submitted to a db that runs MySQL gets a letter asking for money or having a lawsuit on their hands for using SCO software;)
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I use a dual monitor workstation + a laptop to play the course content. This allows me my regular programming workspace on my computer with any reference material I need on the second monitor. Using the laptop allows me to go fullscreen without worrying about window focus and makes the material easy to pause by mashing the spacebar. My laptop also is setup to provide no notifications or interruptions so it is a distraction free workspace. I also download course material that I can listen to on drives.
A disclaimer like this also gives a good deal of publicity to the announcement, almost begging an article like this to be posted.
Finally a reason for socially inept people to buy diamonds!
Getting sued for picking the winning loto numbers?
The subscription price is really just to offset the distribution cost. Someone looked at the New York Times distribution costs and determined that they could buy a kindle for every person who subscribes or buys an issue from the newsstand with the money used for distribution and STILL save money in one year!
There is no way distribution of the New York times costs the price of a kindle per subscriber.
A whole month to devise these strategies and counter-strategies aswell! Its obvious to me that there will be at least SOME fake sites in the country. Even in DARPA announced a last minute color change on the balloons or announced an image that would be painted on them it would be feasible for people to try and make them just as a prank if nothing else.
I meant to say live humans not life sorry for the typo.
I think the best way to attack this problem would be to agree to donate the profits from the award to some worthy cause, letting people with the capability volunteer some time to a solution. Its a fairly complicated problem to solve for the amount of money given to solve it. Lets say a group of capable programmers united for lets say an open source project develop a website that takes in the coordinates in the format required for the contest. The trick is going to be figuring out who is telling the truth when it comes to submitted data... You may be able to assume that if a number set is entered often that it is a candidate to be the real location. The task obviously requires coordination of many life humans as I doubt anyone that can compete has access to satellite time to do an automated search. I am wondering how many people will attempt to put up fake balloon sites to either trick their competition or just get some publicity of tech people to come visit the site and take a GPS reading.
errr I meant to say unusable not unusual
You could let them play inside a virtual machine: http://www.virtualbox.org/ If you cant say no to people using your system having them trapped in a virtual machine may keep you from reloading windows on your box. If you use windows lock down Internet Explorer to unusual with an admin kit and force them to use Google Chrome, preventing some of the common nasties from eating your computer. The real question is why not just be rude, a laptop is a tool that you use for education most students I know don't have unlimited resources to replace laptops that are damaged by people who are borrowing them.
I use Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/ for all my IDE needs. I have found that it works well on any platform (and with any language) that I find myself sitting behind (or coding in). Eclipse gets my vote mainly for its very wide language AND platform support.
As a Nigerian prince I object to this and all similar software that makes an honest days work just a little harder to deal with.
If I was SUN I'd inform everyone that my competition was outdated again.
Great now hijackers just need to crack this device and they can take over the plane remotely
You would have thought that surface blemishes would stop around 2 billion or something. Earth needs to wash more.
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US department of transportation will be sued for providing "roads" used to comit many crimes such as drunk driving drug transport... bank robberies..... and the ever popular bounce the old lady down the street.
The USDOT denies being a gateway of evil...
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someone loves to mod me down
PS4 to include a 200$ toaster that also bakes a cake
boring news is better then no news... erm wait no it isnt
Troll? Failbait? who gave Bill Clinton Modpoints.....
The article doesnt mention how much clinton made by selling secrets to the chinese.... now thats a statistic I want!
If you remove that tag you will PAY!
I was befuddled too as to why it was a troll
You have been watching too much porn your dvd player has been locked to watch G rated movies from now on.
Enjoy bambi!
How long until everyone who was ever used or submitted to a db that runs MySQL gets a letter asking for money or having a lawsuit on their hands for using SCO software ;)