I could use the same rationalization as to why I called kids names when I was in elementary school... but when you become an adult, you tend to realize that calling people/companies names is entirely juvenile and makes you come across as a tool.

But, hey, if you want to come across as an ass, by all means... just don't try to rationalize it to me.

River City Ransom and Metroid...

I've already mentioned... unread is basically google reader with a comments. All that google reader would need to do is add threading to the comments, and you have my dream of unread...

My standard response to "good morning" is "Well. It is moring."

Mine is "What's so good about it??" But I can be a pessimist.

Having said that... Merry Christmas to you, too, RG...

It is so ridiculous. There is no way taxpayer money should be used to purchase something as ridiculously overpriced as a bulk load of MacBooks (a few for school use, fine). This school board needs some serious management changes if they're greenlighting this sort of purchase when there are much cheaper options.

It's worse than that. My friend's son goes to a school here in Seattle where they require the parents to buy each student a MacBook.

Talk about stupidity. Yes, certainly, we'll force parents to buy their kids (not known for lack of clumsiness) laptops (known for failure when dropped) - and we'll pick the most expensive laptops out there!

Welcome to the club. Multiply is a "social network"... sucks donkeys

It's still possible. I think you misunderstood though because that doesn't make sense for games. Maybe in a HPC environment, which Cell is also intended for, work could be sent to non-local SPUs. Obviously the latency between two game consoles on the internet is too high for offloading any game logic unless you're into some really funky math games.

No, I understand grid/clustered computing alright. But they were explicitly talking about using it for games.

Other claims that didn't materialize: "Speaking of video, Sony Computer Entertainment's chief technical officer Masa Chatani was on hand to show off the PS3's panoramic video functions. Since the console has two HD outputs, it is can be hooked up to two side-by-side HDTVs to projecting video in a 32:9 extra-widescreen format (think Cinemascope in your living room). Like a gigantic version of the Nintendo DS, the dual digital outputs also allow for an extended game display, with the action on one screen and either game information or video chat on the second."

Let's see Sony since the PS2 has:

* Co-developed the most powerful consumer electronic chip on the planet along with IBM and Toshiba

Yes. In fact, if you believed Sony's PR before the launch, the chip they developed is so powerful that it can send signals FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

No, seriously. They claimed that you could use others' PS3's extra power when they weren't using it to render frames in games. A quick back of the envelope calculation for that showed that yep, you could do that, if you could transfer the rendered frames at speeds in excess of 3x10^8m/s

Best manager I ever worked under asked me my pain points, and what I wanted to do in the job and how I wanted to grow. He then proceeded to help me in those three areas.

That's it. Pretty simple, eh?

If they are seasoned, keep out of their way, help them when they are frustrated, and make sure they are doing stuff they enjoy and keep them happy. They find a new technology they want to use? You make sure they get the opportunity to use it. They want a managerial job? You make sure they get the classes/seminars/education/opportunities they need. Your job is simply to remove obstacles that get in there way...

See here:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html

Sorry for the all-caps, but it's that important. Basic is useful as a tool to teach very introductory programming logic to young kids, maybe 8 or 9 years old. Logo is just as useful for this purpose, and is less apt to confuse them once they get into more advanced topics. By the time they are 11, but especially 14, you should be steering them to a more modern language, for example one that has memory management. At that age, they shouldn't need the use of line numbers to help them with sequential logic, loops, etc

Modern Basics don't have line numbers. Actually, come to think of it, I'm not sure the original BASIC had line numbers either.

I wouldn't teach them a memory managed language until much later to be honest. Much more useful to go from BASIC (hey, this is how you program!) to Assembly (hey, this is what a computer really is... here's this memory thing... it's on a chip... each thing you store in it has an address). Makes it much easier to learn about things like pointers later.

What'll also help is a good understanding of flag registers, and bit arithmetic. That's a skill which from all the interview candidates I've seen over the past 4 years has nearly completely died out.

How do you figure? Or are you one of those strange and weird people who think that having a drag & drop UI builder means that somehow the IDE is writing all the code that does something with the UI for you?

... of course, to get it to beep, you had to turn the display on and off really fast, in the hope of creating an audio carrier that the TV could understand.

Ah, ZX81... how I ... well, actually I don't miss thee at all.

That's how I learned how to program. BASIC at age 6... assembly around age 11.