The year before me, one of the fundamental CS courses semester-long project was to write an OS. The mere IDEA of doing that boggled me, so I wanted that assignment, but we didn't get it. We had to, instead, design a "chip" (given certain components), and submit the wiring and the microcode that made it possible to write an OS on top of.
Which, by all rights, should boggle me too, but since we did it, it doesn't seem as cool. It was a project of 4 of us, and I was shameless in grabbing the brainiacs (and the hotties--the hottie brainiacs)--it was Andre, Louis who I was flirting with (perffectly fine call--we never went further than flirting, and he was brilliant), and Loreta, who was the smartest person in our year.
I don't remember what tasks the guys got--I wrote the microcode, and Loretta formatted the report in LaTeX. It was generally accepted that she had the hardest job, and yet it was a waste of her brains.
Jesus--I just looked up the others in the team, and two of them are at MS, and one is attached to open source VOIP projects, and I SUCK.
one of the fundamental CS courses semester-long project was to write an OS.
That was my favorite class in college! My group was the only one to get an A.
Sometimes I wish I had majored in CS.
Windows Surface reviews - Boing Boing
Some love it; some say it has potential (needs more apps and what-not).
That was my favorite class in college! My group was the only one to get an A
We got an A too, but it just wasn't as cool as an OS...
Right! I created the microcode, Andre did the CPU, Louis create the assembler code, and poor Loreta...
I looked them all up in LinkedIn, and they're all working
for the same place they started working for as soon as they graduated.
I moved on from my first job in 3 years. I can't believe 2 of them went straight to Microsoft. I would not have felt prepared. Good lord.
Different paths, different paths.
I read the Giz review, because I have the best sense of their biases (i.e. we don't agree on much), and it looks like it's not something I'd make excuses to buy myself for my birthday to add to my tablet ecosystem.
I am not going anywhere near a barren app market again, so I'll definitely wait to buy until it catches up, rather than buying and waiting. And I'm not as focused as Biddle is on evaluating it as a tablet+, even if that's how it's being sold. I think you should be able to do work without a keyboard--I can do a decent amount of it--I'm toting my ASUS to the ER for the near-infinite (ISTG the meter is broken) battery life and extra ports, not because I'm writing the next great American novel.
I need Office lite apps, and producitivity apps, and cross systems apps-if the app store fills up with things that don't work on my Android and OS X (and to a lesser extent iOS), I'm also less interested, and I think that's the most likely thing to keep me away. I don't know if many people care. But it would be nice if the Android apps I use now develop Windows 8 versions.
Microsoft is offering to handhold app developers: [link]
OK, this is driving me crazy and maybe someone here knows what the problem is. I am having problems with the NY Times Crossword Puzzle Archive [link] and my mortgage account (oddly, the mortgage co. website is worrying me less because I'll pay them whether I can see my statements or not and the payment isn't due for a couple of weeks and SURELY I will have fixed this by then). In both cases, I log in, but there's nothing there - in the case of the mortgage, all I can access is my profile; with the crosswords, I can get this months puzzles, but navigating by date does nothing and clicking on the other tabs gets me an apparently empty list. This started before the latest Java update, which I have since updated (and uninstalled and reinstalled, just in case). I've tried shutting off all extensions in Safari (which is the browser I usually use) and tried Firefox and Opera and maybe Chrome I don't remember. Something advised me to open Safari in 32-but mode, so I tried that, too. None of that has made any difference at all. The NY Times cannot reproduce the problem and helpfully gives me a link to the page that isn't working for me.
Any ideas?
Wait--is it missing in the other browsers or not?
Yes, it's the same in all of them.
