I'm in about the same place. I ordered from Allied since I'm in the states. Their website now states:
*Please note that due to extreme demand and short supply, the estimated delivery time is uncertain and will likely take several months. We do regret the delay and inconvenience this may cause.
I e-mailed them last week and they never got back to me. Fucking useless.
The desktop PC will die the year after the "year of the linux desktop".
i.e. It'll never happen.
My gasoline is drilled and refined many more miles away than my local power station. So what's your point? How much is energy is lost shipping my gas to my local gas station? Including what I waste driving to the gas station in the first place?
And yes, I clearly expressed that pollution is a global problem. But if we're going to have smokestacks, I'd rather have big smokestacks well away from where people live rather than everybody driving around with their own little smokestack pumping out crap right on my street. Yes, I'd rather have no smokestacks, but that's not gonna happen any time soon.
From the summary:
"The Associated Press is reporting that years before F-22 stealth fighter pilots began getting dizzy in the cockpit, before one struggled to breathe as he tried to pull out of a fatal crash"
Emphasis on the "fatal" part; i.e. he didn't eject.
One think I've noticed so far, it seems that pretty much all the courses on offer are introductory. And when you think about the drop out rate, this kinda makes sense. If only 10% of people starting your course finishes it, what's the point of putting up a follow-up course? Already the market for that course is tiny in comparison to the introductory course. You can probably expect a lower drop-out rate on the follow-up course, but it'll be less than 100%. And not even all the students finishing your first course will take the second. So maybe 10% finish the first course, 75% of them take the second class, and maybe 50% of them finish it. Now what's the point of the third class in the series? You pretty rapidly go from MOOC to TOOC (tiny open online class) with a handful of students.
So my fear is, while this is a great way to get a broad introduction to a lot of different topics, you'll never see it really get into depth. For that, you will absolutely still need a traditional university.
BTW, I took the original AI class, the Udacity web engineering class, and I'm currently taking the gamification course of Coursera. I've also done the traditional university thing in the past for far too many years to get a Ph.D.
So why are politicians wasting valuable time on such trivial nonsense as the economy, jobs, healthcare and the Middle East, when there is a genuine, honest-to-goodness global crisis going on?
This should be one of those rare moments that bring politicians of all ilk together to solve this. We need a bacon Apollo project, or a bacon Manhattan project.
I honestly don't know if that will help. After all by SP2 they had worked most of the bugs out of Vista but you still can't get most people to even think of taking Vista on a bet, once the public has made up its mind that is usually it.
Agreed. I didn't use Vista until I got a freebie DVD (with SP2) from a Microsoft event (and even then it was months before I tried it while I was building a new computer). I ran it for a couple of years with really no problems at all. A lot of the launch problems where a) resistance to change, b) a new driver model which meant a lot of rushed crappy drivers (especially from a certain video card maker), c) UAC (which comes back to resistance to change - because it's a good change), d) a lot of older software that ignored Microsoft recommendations and stored their data in the programs folder instead of the users documents folder. If Vista hadn't been launched at all, then all those same problems would have hit Windows 7 instead and that would have been deemed a failure too. As many have already said, Windows 7 is more like Vista SP3.
Having said all that, it was shocking how much bad publicity killed Vista so fast, and Windows 8 is already getting as much, if not more bad publicity even before launch. It looking like it might be an even more spectacular failure that Vista.
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.