As pointed out by a previous post, there is a mirror available. However, if you really want, you can use this torrent instead. The video is actually pretty interesting, particularly if you are interested in search or distributed systems.
I'll admit, Sony (and the Nokia Phone that someone else linked to) are on the right path to my "dream device". I would like a gadget that combines my cell phone, my digital camera, and my digital music player. PDA functionality doesn't interest me too much.
The challenge is to do everything as well as the individual devices. Sony's and Nokia's attempts aren't there yet. For example, the resolution of the photos that these devices can take is pathetic compared to "real" digital cameras.
It will take a lot of work and experimentation before integrating devices in this fashion will work well. It will be hard to figure out the user interface, and to pack all those digital components into a small container. I am convinced it will happen eventually, but for now, I'm willing to pack around my three toys everywhere I go.
I would get the kid the Lego Mindstorms starter kit. What a perfect toy/tool. It will teach him programming in a fun and cool and most importantly, creative way. And it has great hackability! You can put your own code on there programmed in C and a variety of other languages, and he could get involved with others working with Mindstorms over the internet.
Check it out, Mindstorms are the coolest toy I have seen in years.
--
Evan Jones http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/Students/ejones/
"Computers are useless. They can only give answers." - Pablo Picasso
If you have the cash and you want an editor that does more for you than Emacs/Vi/nedit/Scintilla/whatever, my recommendation in Dreamweaver UltraDev.
Advantages:
- The best GUI web editor around
- Cool "Live Edit" features
- Flexible: It is modifiable to work with many different "application servers".
Disadvantages:
- Proprietary software with a big price tag.
- Windows/Macintosh only.
At any rate, I find UltraDev to be a really awesome "first pass" by Macromedia: I can't wait to see what the next version of it can do. --
Evan Jones http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/Students/ejones/
"Computers are useless. They can only give answers." - Pablo Picasso
I think puzzles would be a great addition to Slashdot, just as their own section so they can be filtered.
The real challenge would be to find tough puzzles, or better yet, puzzles with multiple solutions, some easy, some more challenge.
And I suppose the bonus question could always be "Code a program to solve/demonstrate this puzzle", if it is such a puzzle type. -- Evan Jones http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/Students/ejones/ "Computers are useless. They can only give answers." - Pablo Picasso
It seems to me that if Netscape wanted to fit the "UNIX Mentality" well enough, they would include autocompletion, bash style. It would be nice to hit tab once to fill in the name, and if it doesn't have a match, you can hit tab again and get a drop down menu of choices. It would be similar to the IE5 version, with a bit of a UNIX twist.
Ah well, we can hope that future browsers (cough, cough, Mozilla or Gzilla developers) will do something similar to this.
My personal vote is for Dreamweaver, if price is no object and ease of use is required. But don't take my word for it, check out a recent webmonkey review of HTML editors:
Slashdot Mirror
As pointed out by a previous post, there is a mirror available. However, if you really want, you can use this torrent instead. The video is actually pretty interesting, particularly if you are interested in search or distributed systems.
I'll admit, Sony (and the Nokia Phone that someone else linked to) are on the right path to my "dream device". I would like a gadget that combines my cell phone, my digital camera, and my digital music player. PDA functionality doesn't interest me too much.
The challenge is to do everything as well as the individual devices. Sony's and Nokia's attempts aren't there yet. For example, the resolution of the photos that these devices can take is pathetic compared to "real" digital cameras.
It will take a lot of work and experimentation before integrating devices in this fashion will work well. It will be hard to figure out the user interface, and to pack all those digital components into a small container. I am convinced it will happen eventually, but for now, I'm willing to pack around my three toys everywhere I go.
I would get the kid the Lego Mindstorms starter kit. What a perfect toy/tool. It will teach him programming in a fun and cool and most importantly, creative way. And it has great hackability! You can put your own code on there programmed in C and a variety of other languages, and he could get involved with others working with Mindstorms over the internet.
Check it out, Mindstorms are the coolest toy I have seen in years.
--
Evan Jones http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/Students/ejones/
"Computers are useless. They can only give answers." - Pablo Picasso
If you have the cash and you want an editor that does more for you than Emacs/Vi/nedit/Scintilla/whatever, my recommendation in Dreamweaver UltraDev.
Advantages:
- The best GUI web editor around
- Cool "Live Edit" features
- Flexible: It is modifiable to work with many different "application servers".
Disadvantages:
- Proprietary software with a big price tag.
- Windows/Macintosh only.
At any rate, I find UltraDev to be a really awesome "first pass" by Macromedia: I can't wait to see what the next version of it can do.
--
Evan Jones http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/Students/ejones/
"Computers are useless. They can only give answers." - Pablo Picasso
I think puzzles would be a great addition to Slashdot, just as their own section so they can be filtered.
The real challenge would be to find tough puzzles, or better yet, puzzles with multiple solutions, some easy, some more challenge.
And I suppose the bonus question could always be "Code a program to solve/demonstrate this puzzle", if it is such a puzzle type.
--
Evan Jones http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/Students/ejones/
"Computers are useless. They can only give answers." - Pablo Picasso
Imagine how many donations the FSF would get if the GPL ever did get taken to court. I know I'd be mailing my check the second I heard about it!
--
Evan Jones http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/Students/ejones/
"Computers are useless. They can only give answers." - Pablo Picasso
It seems to me that if Netscape wanted to fit the "UNIX Mentality" well enough, they would include autocompletion, bash style. It would be nice to hit tab once to fill in the name, and if it doesn't have a match, you can hit tab again and get a drop down menu of choices. It would be similar to the IE5 version, with a bit of a UNIX twist.
Ah well, we can hope that future browsers (cough, cough, Mozilla or Gzilla developers) will do something similar to this.
http://www.webmonkey.com/99/19/index1a. html