I just started using the browser and I like it. It isn't as useful as a browser on a pc, but I like that I'm now capable of browsing from my bed (of course you control everthing with one hand;)
I'm typing with the wiimote and it's reasonably fast with the word suggestion.
The first course where I had to use C there was only a bare minimum of introduction to get started. It was the course Numerical Physics in the second year of university. Almost nobody had any programming experience. The first day we received an introduction to C and we where assumed to know at least basic C things (simple flow control, variables arrays and functions. No pointers, structs etc.). From the start we where graded on the use of comments and you could net get any help if you did not indent your code.
I don't know if this method is good for everyone, but I do know a lot of students learned at least decent (for such a short time-span) programming skills.
There where even students, who had never programmed before, who went home and started typing in notepad. When they brought there code the next week it almost compiled at the first try. Of course you have students who copy almost all of their code and don't know what they are doing.
So my experience is: don't explain everything, just let them start with the bare minimum and let them ask for help and let them solve their own problems.
I never really believed the stories about post-it note with passwords under the keyboard.
My last job was in a large store with a few computers present on the floor and at the service desk. Most computers where not being watched most of the time. I could not find passwords UNDER the keyboards, but the computer at the service desk had a little piece of paper taped to the top left corner. This was in clear view of all the customers who entered the store. This password was not for the regular login account. The password was more like an admin password. With this password you could not only look for store information but also modify most information.
I did not report this information because I didn't think they would understand. I was told not to use keyboard shortcuts to shut down the machines because that was supposed to be bad?!
I'm in the second year of university where I study physics.
Less than a week ago I was offered a great job at a research institute connected to the university.
There are a few things you can do to increase your chance of getting such a job (based on my experience).
- Get to know some people at the institute (or company).
- Familiarize yourself with at least one cool or interesting project they are working on.
- Offer your help. Go to the people doing the research you like and talk with them and find out what little things you could start with.
These three points are what I think got me my job, but with one big difference: I was not looking for a job.
I just wanted to work with cool things and friendly people.
When i look at the Wii site now, I see 4 systems supported as virtual console.
About a month ago I could have sworn there where at least six systems on the same page.
I should have saved the page.
The video said you can only draw objects with the same topology as a sphere. This severely limits the uses of this software. Hopefully someone will find a way to draw objects with a different topology, because this looks very cool as it is now.
Proximity space links are defined to be shortrange,
bi-directional, fixed or mobile radio links, generally used to communicate among
probes, landers, rovers, orbiting constellations, and orbiting relays. These links are
characterized by short time delays, moderate (not weak) signals, and short, independent
sessions.
I think your definition of a "short time delay" deviates from the definition used by people who have sent probes much further.
The upgrade is a software upgrade.
But it's not an easy task to do this at such a distance. Two way communication is a painbecause of the lag time. I can't remember the exact time, bu I believe the lag is about 20 minutes. They use a specialised protocal that was designed to handle such extreme lag. The protocol is PROXIMITY-1 SPACE LINK PROTOCOL (specs).
They are verry carefull to make sure they dont have to reset the rover the hard way (A.K.A. reset-button) after updates and even during normal operation. I believe they build in all kinds of auto-reset features so the rover could reset itself.
The paddle from breakout would kick the square asses of both pong paddles!
I think Nintendo could manage to put a paddle in there the game. Probably as a boss or something, like the hand in the N64 version.
According to the article:
"Quantum cryptographic protocols are so secure that they can not only discover tapping but also where and how much information is leaking out. Now, using telecloning, the identity and location of the eavesdropper can be concealed."
Does this mean the eavesdropping can still be detected, but no information about the eavesdropper can be obtained?
The article talks about energy not mass. I think they mean with the kinetic energy of 14 mosquitoes.
I dont know the speed of the protons colliding, but with special relativistic effects in your calculations a factor of two times as much energy seems a bit low. The mass of a particle increases with its velocity. You wont notice it untill you get close to c, but these protons get close to c.
The only particles I can think of who have more kinetic energy are some cosmic ray particles. Take it from me when I say the LHC can accellerate particles with huge amount of kinetic energy.
I participated in a physics project in high school. The project was about comics rays and the detectors generated data files of aproximately 30,000 events per day per detector. The project now has 29 active detectors. The first day of measurements I can find in the database is march 26 2004. These are huge amounts of data (for high school students). Yet they advice high school students to do the data analysis in Microsoft Excel. Because I disliked Excel I wrote my own python script to do the data analysis. This generated a lot of positive reaction from the project organisers who apparently disliked excel too. I started do write a GUI around it. Now all high school students who participate can use and modify my script and it is a lot easier to use than Excel. The useful part of the script took about 30 minutes to write, only the GUI costs a lot more time (I'll take a good command line script;-) ). So I would advice anyone not to follow the obvious path (Excel), but follow a more fun, easy or even more free path. It is worth it.
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I just started using the browser and I like it. It isn't as useful as a browser on a pc, but I like that I'm now capable of browsing from my bed (of course you control everthing with one hand ;)
I'm typing with the wiimote and it's reasonably fast with the word suggestion.
The first course where I had to use C there was only a bare minimum of introduction to get started. It was the course Numerical Physics in the second year of university. Almost nobody had any programming experience. The first day we received an introduction to C and we where assumed to know at least basic C things (simple flow control, variables arrays and functions. No pointers, structs etc.). From the start we where graded on the use of comments and you could net get any help if you did not indent your code. I don't know if this method is good for everyone, but I do know a lot of students learned at least decent (for such a short time-span) programming skills. There where even students, who had never programmed before, who went home and started typing in notepad. When they brought there code the next week it almost compiled at the first try. Of course you have students who copy almost all of their code and don't know what they are doing. So my experience is: don't explain everything, just let them start with the bare minimum and let them ask for help and let them solve their own problems.
With this new version you can wait another few month for the compilation to finish.
I never really believed the stories about post-it note with passwords under the keyboard. My last job was in a large store with a few computers present on the floor and at the service desk. Most computers where not being watched most of the time. I could not find passwords UNDER the keyboards, but the computer at the service desk had a little piece of paper taped to the top left corner. This was in clear view of all the customers who entered the store. This password was not for the regular login account. The password was more like an admin password. With this password you could not only look for store information but also modify most information. I did not report this information because I didn't think they would understand. I was told not to use keyboard shortcuts to shut down the machines because that was supposed to be bad?!
Artificial flavours are specially modeled to fit to specific receptors.
I'm in the second year of university where I study physics. Less than a week ago I was offered a great job at a research institute connected to the university. There are a few things you can do to increase your chance of getting such a job (based on my experience). - Get to know some people at the institute (or company). - Familiarize yourself with at least one cool or interesting project they are working on. - Offer your help. Go to the people doing the research you like and talk with them and find out what little things you could start with. These three points are what I think got me my job, but with one big difference: I was not looking for a job. I just wanted to work with cool things and friendly people.
When i look at the Wii site now, I see 4 systems supported as virtual console. About a month ago I could have sworn there where at least six systems on the same page. I should have saved the page.
The video said you can only draw objects with the same topology as a sphere. This severely limits the uses of this software. Hopefully someone will find a way to draw objects with a different topology, because this looks very cool as it is now.
You mean....... there are hole in those shiny Macs?
The upgrade is a software upgrade. But it's not an easy task to do this at such a distance. Two way communication is a painbecause of the lag time. I can't remember the exact time, bu I believe the lag is about 20 minutes. They use a specialised protocal that was designed to handle such extreme lag. The protocol is PROXIMITY-1 SPACE LINK PROTOCOL (specs). They are verry carefull to make sure they dont have to reset the rover the hard way (A.K.A. reset-button) after updates and even during normal operation. I believe they build in all kinds of auto-reset features so the rover could reset itself.
The paddle from breakout would kick the square asses of both pong paddles! I think Nintendo could manage to put a paddle in there the game. Probably as a boss or something, like the hand in the N64 version.
And FreeBSD is best suited for a Mercury mission.
These people would be helped by a project like Tor. http://tor.eff.org/
According to the article: "Quantum cryptographic protocols are so secure that they can not only discover tapping but also where and how much information is leaking out. Now, using telecloning, the identity and location of the eavesdropper can be concealed." Does this mean the eavesdropping can still be detected, but no information about the eavesdropper can be obtained?
The article talks about energy not mass. I think they mean with the kinetic energy of 14 mosquitoes. I dont know the speed of the protons colliding, but with special relativistic effects in your calculations a factor of two times as much energy seems a bit low. The mass of a particle increases with its velocity. You wont notice it untill you get close to c, but these protons get close to c. The only particles I can think of who have more kinetic energy are some cosmic ray particles. Take it from me when I say the LHC can accellerate particles with huge amount of kinetic energy.
I participated in a physics project in high school. The project was about comics rays and the detectors generated data files of aproximately 30,000 events per day per detector. The project now has 29 active detectors. The first day of measurements I can find in the database is march 26 2004. These are huge amounts of data (for high school students). Yet they advice high school students to do the data analysis in Microsoft Excel. Because I disliked Excel I wrote my own python script to do the data analysis. This generated a lot of positive reaction from the project organisers who apparently disliked excel too. I started do write a GUI around it. Now all high school students who participate can use and modify my script and it is a lot easier to use than Excel. The useful part of the script took about 30 minutes to write, only the GUI costs a lot more time (I'll take a good command line script ;-) ). So I would advice anyone not to follow the obvious path (Excel), but follow a more fun, easy or even more free path. It is worth it.
How many test drivers where killed during testing? http://www.nuonsolarteam.nl/movies/