Well I guess the meat of the problem is I don't want it being a phone and a GPS at the same time. I don't want a call to come in and interrupt my navigation at an inopportune time. Plus, I already had a standalone GPS anyway.
I have an iPhone and a dedicated GPS unit because I don't want my phone triple-tasking as a phone, music player, and GPS unit while I'm driving. I don't trust it to do that many things at once without them tripping over each other at some point.
I'm in the computer science program at RHIT and we're required to take two courses on computer architecture. In the first course, we implement a simple processor using an FPGA, then we design and build our own. Of course, this is before we learn about pipelining, but it's still a lot of fun. In the prereq course where we learn digital circuits, my section's final project was to build a judging system for a pinewood derby race using an FPGA, and other sections had to do such things as implement an alarm clock. I had a lot of fun doing both and they really made me appreciate digital hardware.
Also, as a fun side note, a roommate of mine last year designed on paper a Brainfuck interpreter that ran off raw Brainfuck ASCII source for the Xilinx FPGA competition, but never built it because he wasn't sure if he could present on Brainfuck without laughing. I wonder if that schematic is still lying around somewhere...
I want to wear my glasses in my driver's license picture! But, as an Indiana resident whose license expires next year, I suppose I'll have to be Scowly McNoGlasses in my next picture. Though I guess it's better than the rain-induced white boy afro in my current picture.
You could really call it either. I suppose calling it a translator makes sense given the language analogy, but really all a compiler does is read in some file(s) (usually source code) and emit file(s) based on the input, usually but not always in the form of something executable. So, a source-to-source compiler is still a compiler.
Okay, so people that want the content and have to pay for it are pissed. But what about your customers that don't have Internet access on their console? They're double-screwed even if they bought the game new.
I am a little too young to have read Bloom County when it ran, but I know that every time I read Opus, it was just annoying and non-funny. However, if so many people remember Bloom County fondly, maybe I should dig up a collection book.
At my school, there are more companies coming to the career fair looking for CS/SE employees than we have graduates from the program. Too bad being a professor is the only job I can think of where I possibly wouldn't want to kill myself and every single person I've ever had to work with.
This has crossed the lowest point of the valley but is just beginning to climb back out.
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This thread is already so full of words, but I thought I should mention that I saw it on IMAX on Saturday and it was magnificent. A really great film any way you look at it. Hell, if I lived in Chicago, I'd be afraid to go outside for a few days after seeing it, because it was presented in the most realistic manner I have ever seen in a superhero film. I've even seen less realistic heist films!
They can take our mice, but they can never take our keyboards!
Seriously, I'm fine with just a keyboard for almost everything. Keyboard shortcuts exist for a reason.
I'm a fairly scrawny college student and my waistline is probably 30 or 31 inches. Do the Japanese have smaller waists, or waist-shrinking robots, or something? 33.5 seems pretty harsh.
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In every calculus class I've taken, saying "derive" instead of "differentiate" has not been met kindly by any sort of mathematician, so it bothers me too.
I don't really get Twitter as a social thing, but it's damn useful for interfacing with Remember the Milk through SMS when I'm away from my computer. That's the only reason I have a Twitter account.
Sit her down with a stock Mac and make her do the same tasks and see what happens. There's a difference between "I can't do it because Leenocks is hard!" and "I'm set in my Windows ways and can't think outside of them for myself."
Different from Windows does not equal bad or wrong. There would be a similar initial learning curve in any non-Windows environment.
Less vertical space does not mean you're losing coding space. In fact, I am usually editing (or at least referencing) more than one file at a time when coding, and it's rather nice to be able to just blow up my Xterm and:vnew several documents into vim, and have them all fit side-by-side on the screen.
Also, since my laptop is 1920x1200, it's got more vertical space than any screen I had had before, anyway.
I just thought it needed to be said, though I haven't really read the other comments so it's probably been said already.
I ran Vista on my laptop as an experiment from RC2 until a few months after release, and eventually I got tired of the quirkiness and went back to XP. Then, I finally got around to learning my way around Linux after many years of procrastinating, and I don't know why I didn't do it a long time ago. I'm so much more productive than in Windows, and I just can't live without multiple workspaces and a powerful command line anymore. Sure, there's Cygwin to satisfy my command line lust, but it just doesn't feel right to me. I feel claustrophobic in Windows now. I only still have XP on my laptop so I can pretend like I boot into it and play games on Steam every now and then, but I do that so little that I'll probably wipe Windows off of it completely after I build my next desktop (and run XP and Linux on it).
I might perform another Vista experiment in the future to see if I could tolerate phasing XP out of what little of my life it still affects, but XP just doesn't feel as antiquated compared to Vista as 98 did to XP. I'll probably keep running XP when I need Windows until there is a highly compelling reason to do otherwise, because right now there aren't any. Who knows, I might skip straight to Windows 7 if they manage to make it not terrible. Then again, the moon might grow legs and do a dance, too.
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Well I guess the meat of the problem is I don't want it being a phone and a GPS at the same time. I don't want a call to come in and interrupt my navigation at an inopportune time. Plus, I already had a standalone GPS anyway.
I have an iPhone and a dedicated GPS unit because I don't want my phone triple-tasking as a phone, music player, and GPS unit while I'm driving. I don't trust it to do that many things at once without them tripping over each other at some point.
I'm in the computer science program at RHIT and we're required to take two courses on computer architecture. In the first course, we implement a simple processor using an FPGA, then we design and build our own. Of course, this is before we learn about pipelining, but it's still a lot of fun. In the prereq course where we learn digital circuits, my section's final project was to build a judging system for a pinewood derby race using an FPGA, and other sections had to do such things as implement an alarm clock. I had a lot of fun doing both and they really made me appreciate digital hardware.
Also, as a fun side note, a roommate of mine last year designed on paper a Brainfuck interpreter that ran off raw Brainfuck ASCII source for the Xilinx FPGA competition, but never built it because he wasn't sure if he could present on Brainfuck without laughing. I wonder if that schematic is still lying around somewhere...
I want to wear my glasses in my driver's license picture! But, as an Indiana resident whose license expires next year, I suppose I'll have to be Scowly McNoGlasses in my next picture. Though I guess it's better than the rain-induced white boy afro in my current picture.
Personally, I've always preferred to think of it as a Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. It does such a good job at handling all my rubbish, too!
You could really call it either. I suppose calling it a translator makes sense given the language analogy, but really all a compiler does is read in some file(s) (usually source code) and emit file(s) based on the input, usually but not always in the form of something executable. So, a source-to-source compiler is still a compiler.
I expected it to flip out and start destroying shit.
Okay, so people that want the content and have to pay for it are pissed. But what about your customers that don't have Internet access on their console? They're double-screwed even if they bought the game new.
I am a little too young to have read Bloom County when it ran, but I know that every time I read Opus, it was just annoying and non-funny. However, if so many people remember Bloom County fondly, maybe I should dig up a collection book.
At my school, there are more companies coming to the career fair looking for CS/SE employees than we have graduates from the program. Too bad being a professor is the only job I can think of where I possibly wouldn't want to kill myself and every single person I've ever had to work with.
This has crossed the lowest point of the valley but is just beginning to climb back out.
This thread is already so full of words, but I thought I should mention that I saw it on IMAX on Saturday and it was magnificent. A really great film any way you look at it. Hell, if I lived in Chicago, I'd be afraid to go outside for a few days after seeing it, because it was presented in the most realistic manner I have ever seen in a superhero film. I've even seen less realistic heist films!
They can take our mice, but they can never take our keyboards! Seriously, I'm fine with just a keyboard for almost everything. Keyboard shortcuts exist for a reason.
I saw one of these on campus many months ago. Here's the picture I took. http://therpham.googlepages.com/wtfplate.jpg
I'm a fairly scrawny college student and my waistline is probably 30 or 31 inches. Do the Japanese have smaller waists, or waist-shrinking robots, or something? 33.5 seems pretty harsh.
In every calculus class I've taken, saying "derive" instead of "differentiate" has not been met kindly by any sort of mathematician, so it bothers me too.
Developers developers developers developers.
There, I said it.
God that's such a stupid catchy song.
I don't really get Twitter as a social thing, but it's damn useful for interfacing with Remember the Milk through SMS when I'm away from my computer. That's the only reason I have a Twitter account.
Sit her down with a stock Mac and make her do the same tasks and see what happens. There's a difference between "I can't do it because Leenocks is hard!" and "I'm set in my Windows ways and can't think outside of them for myself."
Different from Windows does not equal bad or wrong. There would be a similar initial learning curve in any non-Windows environment.
My roommate keeps his home directory on his laptop truecrypted. He doesn't have anything to hide, but we both agree that this is more or bullshit.
Less vertical space does not mean you're losing coding space. In fact, I am usually editing (or at least referencing) more than one file at a time when coding, and it's rather nice to be able to just blow up my Xterm and :vnew several documents into vim, and have them all fit side-by-side on the screen.
Also, since my laptop is 1920x1200, it's got more vertical space than any screen I had had before, anyway.
I just thought it needed to be said, though I haven't really read the other comments so it's probably been said already.
He probably doesn't even know what a chiclet keyboard is. "How do you make a keyboard out of tiny pieces of gum?"
I ran Vista on my laptop as an experiment from RC2 until a few months after release, and eventually I got tired of the quirkiness and went back to XP. Then, I finally got around to learning my way around Linux after many years of procrastinating, and I don't know why I didn't do it a long time ago. I'm so much more productive than in Windows, and I just can't live without multiple workspaces and a powerful command line anymore. Sure, there's Cygwin to satisfy my command line lust, but it just doesn't feel right to me. I feel claustrophobic in Windows now. I only still have XP on my laptop so I can pretend like I boot into it and play games on Steam every now and then, but I do that so little that I'll probably wipe Windows off of it completely after I build my next desktop (and run XP and Linux on it).
I might perform another Vista experiment in the future to see if I could tolerate phasing XP out of what little of my life it still affects, but XP just doesn't feel as antiquated compared to Vista as 98 did to XP. I'll probably keep running XP when I need Windows until there is a highly compelling reason to do otherwise, because right now there aren't any. Who knows, I might skip straight to Windows 7 if they manage to make it not terrible. Then again, the moon might grow legs and do a dance, too.
The signal-to-noise ratio here isn't looking very good, so I thought I'd just poke out a quick additional congratulations to try to better things.