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JohnoFon

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...

JohnoFon

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.

JohnoFon

<t>Abishur said: …Almost every other language out there has a gender neutral you plural form, not English… 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...

JohnoFon

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?

JohnoFon

<t>elchan said: 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. Elchan's right, of course. I would add that if you're learning on your own you really need a good boo...

JohnoFon

<t>andywe said: One way of making \"programming more widely accessible\" might be to invent new graphical and declarative programming languages ... 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...

JohnoFon

<t>Ollie Barbor said: It"s happened again, no one has agreed on anything. lol 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. I was thinking <br/...

JohnoFon

<t>My posting above was meant to be a quote and comment of what shaurz said, but the quote looks like My Original Work. My comments were: 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...

JohnoFon

<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...

JohnoFon

<t>The main requirements for a first programming language are: 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 ...

JohnoFon

<t>And yet, the very fact of PCs being boring is the root of their success. 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...

JohnoFon

<r>Quote from Josh on December 5, 2011, 12:53 What sucks? My Laptop at the moment. No, it hasn't been infected with Vista <E>:D</E> 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...

JohnoFon

Anyone remember Apricot computers?

JohnoFon

I seem to be having a bad day!

JohnoFon

<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...

JohnoFon

<r>[quote]<s>[b]</s>Quote from obarthelemy on November 29, 2011, 15:16<e>[/b]</e> do... not... make... Apple-racist.... joke....[/quote] 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? It wo...

JohnoFon

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.

JohnoFon

<t>(Forgot to quote again! It's an answer to the posting immediately above.) The reason why the shop has to charge more is that: 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...

JohnoFon

<t><<Forgot to quote the posting about passwords!!>> 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. So I haven\'t until now. The company no longer exists...

JohnoFon

<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: Compare A and B: if unsorted, swap them Compare B and C, if unsorted, swap them and go back...

JohnoFon

<t>Quote from winkleink on November 22, 2011, 16:20 Quote from Jongoleur on November 22, 2011, 14:19 D'you see Heirhunters is now a "primetime" TV programme? Now THAT sucks! I saw that. BBC2 and all so not BB3 or BBC4. Is this called cost cutting or has true taste go...

JohnoFon

<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. Though of course it's just that some creative writer on the pu...

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