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- Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:38 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Powering a Raspberry Pi
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1017
Re: Powering a Raspberry Pi
Thanks for the advice, folks. (I've been having password issues that stopped me replying sooner.) I take your point, davidcoton, but I've actually got a powered USB already (it was a present - I wouldn't have gone for USB3 myself) and I was wondering whether I really had to plug the RPI into TWO mai...
- Tue Dec 01, 2015 4:53 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Powering a Raspberry Pi
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1017
Powering a Raspberry Pi
Is there any reason why I shouldn't power my RPi 1 B from a powered USB (3) hub?
I'm not that bothered about smoking the RPi, 'coz that would just mean I had an excuse to go out and buy a model 2, but a new hub could cost me more than the RPi.
I'm not that bothered about smoking the RPi, 'coz that would just mean I had an excuse to go out and buy a model 2, but a new hub could cost me more than the RPi.
- Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:33 pm
- Forum: Off topic discussion
- Topic: Is this a British website?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 15064
Re: Is this a British website?
<t>Abishur said: <br/> <br/> <br/> …Almost every other language out there has a gender neutral you plural form, not English…<br/> <br/> <br/> To be boring and pedantic about it, English has lost – in the standard dialect – the singular familiar form – thou/thee. In French, (and in Welsh) these survi...
- Wed Jan 11, 2012 4:45 pm
- Forum: General programming discussion
- Topic: Best first language choice
- Replies: 140
- Views: 38862
Re: Best first language choice
rurwin said:
I would also characterise the arguments over OOP as being over and won. Maybe the fight now is between richly typed languages and older languages with framework-provided rich types.
Can you explain that, please?
I would also characterise the arguments over OOP as being over and won. Maybe the fight now is between richly typed languages and older languages with framework-provided rich types.
Can you explain that, please?
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:57 pm
- Forum: General programming discussion
- Topic: Best first language choice
- Replies: 140
- Views: 38862
Re: Best first language choice
<t>elchan said: <br/> <br/> <br/> Come on guys, enough of all this dogma. The guy's just asking what's the best language to start learning. He doesn't need a religious conversion.<br/> <br/> <br/> Elchan's right, of course. I would add that if you're learning on your own you really need a good boo...
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:30 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Declarataive vs. Procedural Programming
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4286
Re: Declarataive vs. Procedural Programming
<t>andywe said: <br/> <br/> <br/> One way of making \"programming more widely accessible\" might be to invent new graphical and declarative programming languages ...<br/> In an ideal world it might be possible to express a wish to a very powerful computer and on the \"your wish is my command\" princ...
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:09 pm
- Forum: General programming discussion
- Topic: Best first language choice
- Replies: 140
- Views: 38862
Re: Best first language choice
<t>Ollie Barbor said: <br/> <br/> <br/> It"s happened again, no one has agreed on anything. lol<br/> <br/> Python and Java has came up a lot so i will most likely pick them two. I have already done about 10-12 hours of work with python and have learn quite a bit. <br/> <br/> I was thinking<br/> <br/...
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:44 am
- Forum: General programming discussion
- Topic: Best first language choice
- Replies: 140
- Views: 38862
Re: Best first language choice
<t>My posting above was meant to be a quote and comment of what shaurz said, but the quote looks like My Original Work.<br/> My comments were:<br/> <br/> That"s why I"d start off with something much simpler. Though to be fair you can write Java code with just a class definition ("this is the program...
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:33 am
- Forum: General programming discussion
- Topic: Best first language choice
- Replies: 140
- Views: 38862
Re: Best first language choice
<t>My main complaint with Java (and similar languages - C#, C++, etc.) is that it requires a lot of "ceremony" to get a basic program working. Class and method declarations, types declarations, System.out.println, etc. Then there"s the extra complication of the compile/run cycle vs interpreted and l...
- Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:52 pm
- Forum: General programming discussion
- Topic: Best first language choice
- Replies: 140
- Views: 38862
Re: Best first language choice
<t>The main requirements for a first programming language are:<br/> <br/> 1. It must be easy to access (like my old BBC B that booted to BASIC in a matter of seconds). I'm picking up Java and Cocoa at present, and interacting with a command line is a pain in the fundament, like remembering when you ...
- Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:08 pm
- Forum: Off topic discussion
- Topic: PC's are boring
- Replies: 83
- Views: 19426
Re: PC's are boring
<t>And yet, the very fact of PCs being boring is the root of their success.<br/> <br/> The early computers that everyone"s remembering are single-user, single-tasking machines; you run a program that "owns" the full resources of the computer, so it can access device registers and memory directly; as...
- Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:15 pm
- Forum: Off topic discussion
- Topic: YOU SUCK: the venting thread
- Replies: 948
- Views: 191380
Re: YOU SUCK: the venting thread
<r>Quote from Josh on December 5, 2011, 12:53<br/> What sucks? My Laptop at the moment.<br/> No, it hasn't been infected with Vista <E>:D</E><br/> First, the right arrow key falls off completely elimintating literally everything I do (typing, gaming - I've had to go back to WASD). Yesterday, the who...
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 5:35 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Website
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2003
Re: Website
Anyone remember Apricot computers?
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 4:52 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Website
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2003
Re: Website
I seem to be having a bad day!
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 4:52 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Website
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2003
Re: Website
<r>And yet the iPad runs on ARM architecture - <URL url="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ipod/ipod-faq/ipod-processor-type-portal-player-samsung.html"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/i ... msung.html">http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ipod/ipod-faq/ipod-processor-typ...
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 3:35 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Website
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2003
Re: Website
<r>[quote]<B><s>[b]</s>Quote from obarthelemy on November 29, 2011, 15:16<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> do... not... make... Apple-racist.... joke....[/quote]<br/> <br/> It would probably be justified in my case! I\'ve worked out what I was doing wrong, and I don\'t want to talk about it, OK?<br/> <br/> It wo...
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 3:03 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Website
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2003
Re: Website
I\'m finding that the FORUM link above takes me to the Messaging page. (I\'m using Safari on an iPad.)
I\'m such a consummate professional that it\'s only taken me a week to realise that I can edit the URL instead of using a roundabout way from another page.
I\'m such a consummate professional that it\'s only taken me a week to realise that I can edit the URL instead of using a roundabout way from another page.
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:44 pm
- Forum: Off topic discussion
- Topic: YOU SUCK: the venting thread
- Replies: 948
- Views: 191380
Re: YOU SUCK: the venting thread
<t>(Forgot to quote again! It's an answer to the posting immediately above.)<br/> <br/> The reason why the shop has to charge more is that:<br/> They are paying for expensive premises for you to go and inspect the goods properly - you can't get a feel for how slim and beautiful an iPad is, and compa...
- Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:15 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: What did your first programs do?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11563
Re: What did your first programs do?
<t><<Forgot to quote the posting about passwords!!>><br/> <br/> Someone was caught doing a very similar thing at one place I worked. As the System Programmers we were threatened with the Official Secrets Act if we ever talked about it.<br/> <br/> So I haven\'t until now. The company no longer exists...
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:12 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: What did your first programs do?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11563
Re: What did your first programs do?
<t>I programmed an English Electric KDF-9 in 1970, using a pseudo-assmbler called MINI. The program bubble-sorted 5 numbers, but it didn\'t have any array support, so each comparison was hard-coded:<br/> Compare A and B: if unsorted, swap them<br/> Compare B and C, if unsorted, swap them and go back...
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:20 pm
- Forum: Off topic discussion
- Topic: YOU SUCK: the venting thread
- Replies: 948
- Views: 191380
Re: YOU SUCK: the venting thread
<t>Quote from winkleink on November 22, 2011, 16:20<br/> Quote from Jongoleur on November 22, 2011, 14:19<br/> <br/> D'you see Heirhunters is now a "primetime" TV programme? Now THAT sucks!<br/> <br/> <br/> I saw that. BBC2 and all so not BB3 or BBC4. Is this called cost cutting or has true taste go...
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 3:42 pm
- Forum: Off topic discussion
- Topic: YOU SUCK: the venting thread
- Replies: 948
- Views: 191380
Re: YOU SUCK: the venting thread
<t>I'd never heard of HeirHunters, so I've been for a look. Apparently the next programme is trying to find someone to inherit a "100 000 pound estate". I make that about 40 tonnes, give or take; I wonder what it's made up of.<br/> <br/> Though of course it's just that some creative writer on the pu...