Your comment suggests there may not be any utilitarian reason to hack the Wii, and there may not be much; but the question suggests you don't understand hackers and hacker culture very well. More often than not, it's not to gain any utilitarian advantage, but for the pure fun of doing something unintended or frowned upon by the original manufacture of the device. It's the same reason numerous universities have traditions where (particularly engineering) students place objects in unusual places.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems to me there isn't much of a holy war going on in the JavaScript framework world. At least not nearly to the same extent as Linux vs. Win vs. Mac, Emacs vs. Vi, Python vs. Perl.
If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say these other holy wars exist where tools in the same domain space are are developed with radically different philosophies, whereas most/all JavaScript frameworks have more or less the same philosophy - it's just how far they take it and exactly what methodology they used to accomplish it. Some of them are even built on each other eg. Ext on YUI, Rico on Prototype, etc.
But there's nothing insightful, informative, or interesting to say. The summary covered that: "they don't have a single clue about where or what the heck this thing is."
It hasn't "since changed" everywhere. The university I went to was still giving out professional versions of MS Software for free or trivially cheap with the media to Comp Sci students. At least they got a little bit of money out of me for Visual Studio they wouldn't have otherwise gotten.
Of course this can have a negative effect if the quality of the software is bad. Sufficient to say, Vista Business and Linux both being free - I went with Linux.
How to best teach a person to program depends a great deal on the person. I myself learned on a Commodore 64 by copying BASIC verbatum from books starting when I was 4, and moving on to experiment and teach myself more and more as I grew older until I went to university and got a computer science degree.
However I have some experience teaching others as the helpful kid in the class who knew more than the teacher in highschool and as a Teaching Assistant at the university. Not everyone is motivated enough to pick up the Java API or C++ STL Reference and learn the language. Different people find different things satisfying, and you can figure that out fairly quickly through trial and error. I would suggest starting with a console hello world! If they think it's cool than stick with the interpreted console environment, (Python is probably a good choice, I've started people on C with mixed results) and move on to something with variables, flow control, and user input like a number guessing game. If they look at you blankly and ask for graphics maybe a scripting language for a game like RPG Maker or Aurora (Neverwinter Nights) may be a better place to start.
In general I'd say the key is don't push them; be someone they can come to for questions and sit with them on and off to be a guinea pig. If you have any more specific questions, just ask.
This article has been on/. for almost 3 hours and "Linux Firewalls" still isn't a significant enough search query for Google Trends? Well THAT is surprising.
Can mean that you can control the content rating of a film from open to 18+ just by selecting the scenes to display. There are already DVDs with this feature. I know the Crash DVD http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/, for one, has the option of viewing either an R or an NC-17 version, and for the R version it just skips scenes. (I suppose on the DVD player it is noticeable because they pause the movie for a half second or so to read ahead, whereas in flash memory it would be seemless.)
Sure, it's not state-of-the-art - but when it comes to laptops you have three competing demands - fast, cheap, powerful - but you only get to choose two I think the author confused laptops with some technology where fast and powerful weren't the same thing - like tractors. Personally I thought weight, battery life, speed, disk space, price, screen real estate, and durability were the competing factors in laptop design. This laptop chose weight, speed, and price over the others.
Or use Mozilla's media properties to find the path to the image and then paste that into IE, right click and save to get the original. (I've noticed that sometimes a page of image data isn't recognized as an image in Mozilla but it is in IE.) Or submit a request over telnet and pipe the response into an appropriately named file. There is no way to provide content using existing cross-browser compatible web technologies which cannot be saved locally by a knowledgeable individual.
One of the great features of the clicky wheel is that you can grab your ipod in your pocket and adjust the volume or skip tracks easily without looking at the device. On a multi-touch interface you're going to have to look at the screen to know what you are touching, which will make it a lot harder to use in your pocket or while driving.
What the parent was trying to say, and what was disregarded so lightly by yourself, is that attitudes like selfishness are possibly, indeed even likely, culturally relative. I would argue even that they are not just culturally but individually relative. Though I do not disagree that there may be an urge to satisfy ones own needs (a toddler will wine when it is hungry etc.), there is also an urge for altruism. Psychologists have found that toddlers will try to help others if they know that the person is having trouble. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2 006-03-02-toddler-altruism_x.htm This would indicate competing values, and it is up to the experience of the individual, (largely determined by the culture they grow up in,) and perhaps their genetic makeup to determine which of these values is nurtured to become dominant.
On a sad note, myself and two other Computer Science majors were unable to find porn on the internet one evening. It was not until we explained the situation to my fiancee and convinced her to help us that we actually came across any.
(There were some conditions, the porn had to be images or video available within one click from google... afterall who has time to read or navigate web pages)
Steve Wozniak eh, so I guess it wouldn't be appropriate to bring my three commodore 64's... Though one of them is one of the original 1980 ones with the buggy rom chip. Even back then Microsoft couldn't get things right.
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Your comment suggests there may not be any utilitarian reason to hack the Wii, and there may not be much; but the question suggests you don't understand hackers and hacker culture very well. More often than not, it's not to gain any utilitarian advantage, but for the pure fun of doing something unintended or frowned upon by the original manufacture of the device. It's the same reason numerous universities have traditions where (particularly engineering) students place objects in unusual places.
You're suppose to post as Anonymous Coward when you make political comments on slashdot.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems to me there isn't much of a holy war going on in the JavaScript framework world. At least not nearly to the same extent as Linux vs. Win vs. Mac, Emacs vs. Vi, Python vs. Perl. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say these other holy wars exist where tools in the same domain space are are developed with radically different philosophies, whereas most/all JavaScript frameworks have more or less the same philosophy - it's just how far they take it and exactly what methodology they used to accomplish it. Some of them are even built on each other eg. Ext on YUI, Rico on Prototype, etc.
I regret I posted from an old article. As of yesterday: "U.S., Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China" - http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/10/21/7155516-ap.html
You have a fairly narrow view of the rest of the world. "To date only three countries have sent missions to the moon -- the United States, Russia and Japan." - http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/08/13/india.moon/index.html
But there's nothing insightful, informative, or interesting to say. The summary covered that: "they don't have a single clue about where or what the heck this thing is."
Almost all distributions allow you to set yourself up without a GUI, including Redhat.
Is there any difference between this new service and... Digg? (or XKCD because the best the net has to offer is already posted there.)
It hasn't "since changed" everywhere. The university I went to was still giving out professional versions of MS Software for free or trivially cheap with the media to Comp Sci students. At least they got a little bit of money out of me for Visual Studio they wouldn't have otherwise gotten. Of course this can have a negative effect if the quality of the software is bad. Sufficient to say, Vista Business and Linux both being free - I went with Linux.
How to best teach a person to program depends a great deal on the person. I myself learned on a Commodore 64 by copying BASIC verbatum from books starting when I was 4, and moving on to experiment and teach myself more and more as I grew older until I went to university and got a computer science degree.
However I have some experience teaching others as the helpful kid in the class who knew more than the teacher in highschool and as a Teaching Assistant at the university. Not everyone is motivated enough to pick up the Java API or C++ STL Reference and learn the language. Different people find different things satisfying, and you can figure that out fairly quickly through trial and error. I would suggest starting with a console hello world! If they think it's cool than stick with the interpreted console environment, (Python is probably a good choice, I've started people on C with mixed results) and move on to something with variables, flow control, and user input like a number guessing game. If they look at you blankly and ask for graphics maybe a scripting language for a game like RPG Maker or Aurora (Neverwinter Nights) may be a better place to start.
In general I'd say the key is don't push them; be someone they can come to for questions and sit with them on and off to be a guinea pig. If you have any more specific questions, just ask.
This article has been on /. for almost 3 hours and "Linux Firewalls" still isn't a significant enough search query for Google Trends? Well THAT is surprising.
So that's it, Excel is actually a 3d programming environment. The Excel 97 flight simulator then was a demo. http://www.eeggs.com/items/718.html
A real picture can be found here: http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/02/project-epoc-thought-powered-controller-could-gaming-get-any-la/
While stopwatches may work well for load time and busy waiting scenarios, you'd have to be particularly quick to measure frame rates with one.
Or use Mozilla's media properties to find the path to the image and then paste that into IE, right click and save to get the original. (I've noticed that sometimes a page of image data isn't recognized as an image in Mozilla but it is in IE.) Or submit a request over telnet and pipe the response into an appropriately named file. There is no way to provide content using existing cross-browser compatible web technologies which cannot be saved locally by a knowledgeable individual.
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How exactly do you bid on these items?
One of the great features of the clicky wheel is that you can grab your ipod in your pocket and adjust the volume or skip tracks easily without looking at the device. On a multi-touch interface you're going to have to look at the screen to know what you are touching, which will make it a lot harder to use in your pocket or while driving.
Steve Balmer's ego doesn't even compare with the size of his internal void. Need I remind you: Developers! developers! developers!
What the parent was trying to say, and what was disregarded so lightly by yourself, is that attitudes like selfishness are possibly, indeed even likely, culturally relative. I would argue even that they are not just culturally but individually relative. Though I do not disagree that there may be an urge to satisfy ones own needs (a toddler will wine when it is hungry etc.), there is also an urge for altruism. Psychologists have found that toddlers will try to help others if they know that the person is having trouble. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2 006-03-02-toddler-altruism_x.htm This would indicate competing values, and it is up to the experience of the individual, (largely determined by the culture they grow up in,) and perhaps their genetic makeup to determine which of these values is nurtured to become dominant.
Apparently so.
On a sad note, myself and two other Computer Science majors were unable to find porn on the internet one evening. It was not until we explained the situation to my fiancee and convinced her to help us that we actually came across any.
(There were some conditions, the porn had to be images or video available within one click from google... afterall who has time to read or navigate web pages)
Steve Wozniak eh, so I guess it wouldn't be appropriate to bring my three commodore 64's... Though one of them is one of the original 1980 ones with the buggy rom chip. Even back then Microsoft couldn't get things right.