Why initialize it to String.Empty? And if it is the latest C# he should've used var instead of string, I think it would then be a valid function for any type, and type-safe :P
by the way: return condition? a:b;
Why initialize it to String.Empty? And if it is the latest C# he should've used var instead of string, I think it would then be a valid function for any type, and type-safe :P
by the way: return condition? a:b;
Doesn't work on ubuntu: it shows question marks instead of any control character.
@joelkatz said:
There are three huge advantages of blackboard for a teacher that probably explain why they choose it:
1) It's already set up and every student already has an account. They don't have to manage it, create accounts, or whatever.
2) The school already supports it. When a student has a problem, they don't have to deal with it.
3) Students only have to learn how to use one tool.
1) so do they for email. What's wrong with mailing lists?
2) You suggest there is support?
3) No: one extra. Email, office, a browser, and blackboard added.
Some disadvantages:
1) if a teacher wants to add students to a course, he has to add them one-by-one. Move the mouse to the top-left corner of the browser, then click a button at the bottom-right corner of the browser, and that times 30 (or more).
2) making tests is a hell for both teachers and students
3) it is slow, very very slow
4) everybody liked the solution of computer-science teachers making their personal web-pages, sending mails to mailing-lists, and so on. Why even bother?
Google's first hit (with the educated guess that it's a pic-processor):
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/devicedoc/30487c.pdf
For other programming instructions, just look up something generic about pic processing.
@senTree: what's wrong with the axillary pic-processors? :P
@morbiuswilters said:
It's more and more common in the Netherlands too, but most people I know want an ADSL internet connection, so that's why they have a landline. Cable internet most often means that the person doesn't have a landline because cellular is cheaper.@j6cubic said:
Might have to do with the fact that people are only going to have time for a sales talk when they're at home – and then they can use the home number anyway.It's more and more common in the US to not have a landline. Personally, I have never had landline phone service, only cellular. I think something like half of people now only have cell service, but don't quote me on that.
@j6cubic said:
Also, landline-to-mobile is usually more expensive than landline-to-landline (home plans, of course; don't know how it's for business clients).That's a bit odd, although it might be the same case in the US (just not so straightforward). Landline billing in the US typically has 3 parts: local, inter-exchange and long distance. Inter-exchange may be the rate used for calling a local cellular number from a landline, depending on the carriers involved. Non-local billing in the US is actually quite a complex fuckaree, so there may be more involved than just this.
Might have something to do with the free incoming calls in Europe. It might also have something to do with the size of the US: remember that the US has the scale of Europe, and calling between european countries is way too expensive (with Vodaphone I pay 1 euro starting costs on all calls in a foreign country, and that doesn't go on my 'free' minutes). Calling to mobile phones is a bit cheaper than 'long-distance' (EU-EU country).
@j6cubic said:
Not having to pay for incoming is very useful to homeless people – a cheap mobile with a prepaid card can go a long way and you are much more likely to get at least some kind of job when you have a phone number.The homeless people who sit on the sidewalk in front of my building begging for change and trying to sell "oxycontin" pills that look suspiciously like Advil are frequently talking on the cellphone. The best, though, had to be the couple of homeless people sitting around a laptop listening to iTunes.
I remember the 'homeless' guy that used to limp with his leg on the train station, and walking perfectly normal otherwise. And the overheard phone conversation that he got 300 euro's a day!.
Hoe komt het toch dat er zoveel Nederlanders hier zitten?
I'll be nice:
"Well, I'll make sure you get some of that in you if/when you read your email (or watch this thread). Eat my poisonous language!
By the way, good luck everybody, with the online translators and so on. I'm curious what they make of it (=I'm curious how that works out).
I've just tried that on the translator at Google, no good (or in English: "not much soup" (word-by-word translation for a common phrase))"
(intentional rubbish translation, because it was already rubbish in Dutch :P Most of it is word-by-word translated)
So, to all dutch people: go your gang, use the donkeys' bridge, we can take these people in the mailing.
By the way, according to some Turkish master students, formal Dutch can be translated to (some form of) English by google translate. Even this peace of
Forgot something:
"Vell, I'll meke-a soore-a yuoo get sume-a ooff thet in yuoo iff/vhee yuoo reed yuoor imeeel (oor vetch thees threed). Iet my pueesunuoos lungooege-a! By zee vey, guud loock iferybudy, veet zee oonleene-a trunsleturs und su oon. Bork bork bork! I'm cooreeuoos vhet zeey meke-a ooff it (=I'm cooreeuoos hoo thet vurks oooot). I'fe-a joost treeed thet oon zee trunsletur et Guugle-a, nu guud (oor in Ingleesh: "nut mooch suoop" (vurd-by-vurd trunsleshun fur a cummun phrese-a))" (intenshunel roobbeesh trunsleshun, becoose-a it ves elreedy roobbeesh in Dootch :P Must ooff it is vurd-by-vurd trunsleted) Su, tu ell dootch peuple-a: gu yuoor gung, use-a zee dunkeys' breedge-a, ve-a cun teke-a zeese-a peuple-a in zee meeeling.
In The Netherlands immigration laws won't be an issue if you are employed in the USA at a serious job :)
And I want to know about those sick days too. How do you guys handle illness? What if you break your leg (or for this audience: a couple of fingers)?
Just checked: no vagina...
But you probably think that Holland is the capital of Kopenhagen, right?
@SuperousOxide said:
It will also tell you how to get to Mars, Valhalla, and even Sesame Street, none of those prove to be that interesting either.
No?
Well, here it is...