No, your lap won't get hotter, as more heat will be sucked from laptop. This means you will be able to use your laptop as hair dryer. (More heat taken from cpu, radiator will be hotter).
Show him how he can solve some simple problems for school, so he can later try to solve some more complicated problems. I have started this way when I was 12.
I've used PHP/MYSQL to make some financial reporting web application which behaved very much like excel. I think it was still better than it would be in c++ (but in php it was about 1000 times slower, which I managed to get only 100 times slower after massive optimizations).
I wrote C++ code 20 years ago that still runs today and I'm confident that it will still compile and run 20 years from now.
Funny thing, I tried to use some c++ code, but after one day and correcting about 300 errors (about 20 different TYPES of errors) I gave up and scraped the code (this was Object-Oriented RayTracer from Nicholas Wilt).
Open source is like "Please look at our sources and if you can, try to make better"
DRM is like "No, you can't have our files, you may view this if you pay (but we can revoke your rights any time we want)"
I don't know itunes, but this is probably "you can view these files only on APPLE ipod, not other players. If you lose your files, you should have made backup (oh, you can't? hahaha!)"
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Ubuntu boot time on my machine (3core amd phenom, 2gb ram) is 70sec, you insensitive clod!
Sucked into radiator, through refrigeration perhaps? And then blown out as hot air (hotter than now, but chip will be cooler instead).
No, your lap won't get hotter, as more heat will be sucked from laptop. This means you will be able to use your laptop as hair dryer. (More heat taken from cpu, radiator will be hotter).
In soviet linux programmers write drivers!
Show him how he can solve some simple problems for school, so he can later try to solve some more complicated problems. I have started this way when I was 12.
Yeah, according to my random sample of mac users consisting solely of one person, macs are even worse than cheap asian laptops.
sorry, it's late, it should be ie[6-8].
But it doesn't run on linux and on windows only in firefox 2 (and of course ie{6,8}). So... back to warsow.
It's like asking why macs cost so much. Part of the price is better quality, but largest part is trademark.
Lucida sans typewriter (or lucida console on windows) looks good enough for me on lcd. The best font for coding, IMHO (YMMV)
I've used PHP/MYSQL to make some financial reporting web application which behaved very much like excel. I think it was still better than it would be in c++ (but in php it was about 1000 times slower, which I managed to get only 100 times slower after massive optimizations).
Open source is like "Please look at our sources and if you can, try to make better"
DRM is like "No, you can't have our files, you may view this if you pay (but we can revoke your rights any time we want)"
I don't know itunes, but this is probably "you can view these files only on APPLE ipod, not other players. If you lose your files, you should have made backup (oh, you can't? hahaha!)"
Native code for what? You would need to write native code for all supported platforms versus java code for all platforms.
Yeah, but outside Britain we use those little things called headphones. You can wear it on your ear and speak without using hands.
Yeah, if Gartner or Netcraft would say it, it would be true, but Cisco? Who would believe them in anything connected to internet?
Well, my firefox on ubuntu says it's 3.0, not RC. I will download installer anyway, just to bump up this "counter" thingy...
Sorry, I couldn't resist, it's so funny.
Subscribe him to some spamming sites. And shut down his spam filter. Spammers typically have small dicks, so maybe he could use some "medicine"
So you made another WW2 or Quake style game but with not such good graphics?
But they are still better than current generation of raytracing accelerators for pc (mainly because the latter don't exist yet).
Please read "Permutation city". Very good book, better than matrix IMHO. And it directly mentions raytracing.
I think you could be referring to this comic