kangelos - Slashdot User

Comment 100s does not mean much (Score 1) 323

by kangelos on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @09:34AM (#49620213) Attached to: Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations

100s does not mean much if this IP is a corporate gateway. In a campus with a dedicated gateway/proxy one may observe just such behaviour. Now if it is a continuous stream of registrations things change. In any case $soft may well enough research it just to see what is hidden behind it and quite frankly I would like to know too to see if my non-assumption is correct. Regards .A.

Comment From a tax paying Greek (Score 1) 690

by kangelos on Monday February 09, 2015 @07:13AM (#49016235) Attached to: Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece?

As a tax paying Greek working in the private sector and paying nearly 50% tax rate I can tell you that I am severely underwhelmed by all these freebies. For one I have to pay through the nose for a multi-myriad non productive public sector employees who never get fired even if they commit murder, now I have also got to pay for all the people who got exorbitant loans to buy posh homes and Tsipras will now right off their loans, and of course for free electricity to be the afforementioned peoples. Quite frankly I should have emmigrated a long time ago rather than live in this new found post-apocalyptic socialist utopia of Greece, and to think that I considered myself a leftist some years ago.

Comment No glasses needed (Score 1) 464

by kangelos on Saturday January 03, 2015 @02:13PM (#48725733) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users?

As I need reading glasses too, I have found out that for coding they are a detriment. Chuck the glasses at work and the Ipads and digital readers all together and just use glasses to read print. That will help your eyes.

Comment Record them (Score 1) 384

by kangelos on Friday September 16, 2011 @03:06AM (#37417508) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Low-Cost Tools To Track Employees' Web Use?

Shameless plug: why not record their sessions? use https://sourceforge.net/projects/rautor triggered on application use.

Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily 213

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 28, 2010 @12:23AM from the soup-to-nuts-to-linear-algebra dept.

eldavojohn writes "Working from the comfort of his home, Salman Khan has made available more than 1,500 mini-lectures to educate the world. Subjects range from math and physics to finance, biology, and current economics. Kahn Academy amounts to little more than a YouTube channel and one very devoted man. He is trying to provide education in the way he wished he had been taught. With more than 100,000 video views a day, the man is making a difference for many students. In his FAQ he explains how he knows he is being effective. What will probably ensure his popularity (and provide a legacy surpassing that of most highly paid educators) is that everything is licensed under Creative Commons 3.0. He only needs his time, a $200 Camtasia Recorder, an $80 Wacom Bamboo Tablet, and a free copy of SmoothDraw3. While the lecturing may not be quite up to the Feynman level, it's a great augmenter for advanced learners, and a lifeline for those without much access to learning resources."

Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours 154

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday June 27, 2010 @11:26PM from the first-in-line dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Aaron Ardiri challenged himself to port his classic PalmOS version of Lemmings to the iPhone, Palm Pre, Mac, and Windows. The porting was done using his own dev environment, which creates native C versions of the game. He liveblogged the whole thing, and finished after only 36 hours with an iPhone version and a Palm Pre version awaiting submission, and free versions for Windows and Mac available on his site."

Good Language Choice For School Programming Test? 407

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 14, 2010 @09:01PM from the 'strailian's-too-difficult dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Australian Informatics Olympiad programming test is being run in a couple of months. I'm an experienced programmer and I'm thinking of volunteering to tutor interested kids at my children's school to get them ready. There will be children of all levels in the group, from those that can't write 'hello world' in any language, to somewhat experienced programmers. For those starting from scratch, I'm wondering what language to teach them to code in. Accepted languages are C, C++, Pascal, Java, PHP, Python and Visual Basic. I'm leaning towards Python, because it is a powerful language with a simple syntax. However, the test has a run-time CPU seconds limit, so using an interpreted language like Python could put the students at a disadvantage compared to using C. Is it better to teach them something in 2 months that they're likely to be able to code in but possibly run foul of the CPU time limit, or struggle to teach them to code in a more complicated syntax like C/C++ which would however give them the best chance of having a fast solution?"

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