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Surely the answer to this question is different depending on storage device type, bus protocol etc. Storage devices could talk to a chip in all kinds of ways, and negotiating this would be the responsibility of the driver for that device (if on a PC).

I would suggest perl if you want something that's quick to use and powerful, python if you want something more like a real programming language (but which requires a little more effort to do stuff). I honestly didn't know people still use awk...

I could probably answer basic questions about PHP but I avoid it when possible. In my opinion it produces code which is ungainly and slightly harder to maintain than code in other languages might be. I prefer Python for web dev, django is great, tornado is great. I like tornado because I find...

Polarization states "directly measured": What did this experiment do? I ran across, on phys.org, this fairly pop-sciencey RIT press release: http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=5692 It describes an experiment which sounds very interesting, but the way the experiment is described is...

I got one of these shirts! There is an older thread with some people attempting to answer this same question. My daydream is that someday the LHC will find a flaw or extension of the standard model, and then I can sew a patch onto the t-shirt correcting the lagrangian. bapowell, thank you for...

It's at half energy for safety reasons. They want to make sure it can handle full energy before they try to give it full energy. Remember the LHC was delayed for a year because when they first ran beam tests one of the magnets 'sploded. As I understand starting at less-than-design-spec energy...

Ah, I should have been able to figure that out on my own. Thanks! :)

I am uncertain whether to post this question here or in the BESM forum. I am curious about the reminders from CERN that, if I understood correctly-- did I understand correctly?-- officially they have found "a spin 0 boson" but they are not going so far as to call it the SM Higgs yet. I assume...

You can also just use hash map directly with the GCC you already have. This is what I use, it works fine with the gcc in xcode 3.x: #include <ext/hash_map> using namespace ::__gnu_cxx; namespace __gnu_cxx {...

I have a bachelor's in CS with a math focus (wound up 1 credit short of a math minor). I have been out of college for about six years now and working as a software developer during that time. Off and on since leaving college I have been self-teaching myself physics. Sometimes I daydream of going...

Frankly, if they're going to be teaching you a class in VB6, I think you should avoid taking that particular class. Find another. If you want to go the VB route I think learning VB.NET would be at least worth it as that is a language you could believably find use for in the real world.

Okay that is a big question! What tools and what language are best to use vary wildly depending on what it is you want to do. In particular C++ and web design do NOT mix well, you don't want to use C++ for website programming. I think a good place to start if you're just getting started is...

Really you might be happiest just downloading Unity 3D and using C#. If you already know some C++ it is not a big jump.

Yes, that is correct.

First off, you probably do want to use a game engine. Here's a list of game engines suitable for a hobbyist, some free... Second off, I recommend using Dev-C++ or Microsoft Visual Studio Express. Third off if you just want to start drawing 3D and do not want to rely on a library, the best...