If the "grade insurance" option isn't used much, it looks like a good way to get college kids to work. Direct monetary benefit was one of the reasons my GPA shot up my Junior and Senior year (I had a job that payed me more for better grades).
Sure, and my plug in golf car gets mpg on any test thrown at it. Really that's poor and deceitful advertising. This car is a plug in car - it doesn't generate it's own electricity. It's not like a prius where you just fill it and forget about it, you're supplying another form of energy yourself. Saying what MPG it gets is redundant unless you also show how many Joules of electricity it used in the process as well.
The same was said of hard disks and tape about a decade ago. People cried out that disks would never approach the storage capabilities of LTO, and that disks were only good for small amounts of storage at relatively high performance. Lo and behold though, the desktop market drove HDD purchases far beyond LTO, which meant more money was poured into research in that area. History repeats itself. I have a feeling that we'll see the marketing powers that be pushing SSD drives as the latest and greatest, which means there will be a user demand. User demand will create more funding for research, and eventually SSD's will catch up with disk drives.
Price. GPUs are being mass produced. Why create a separate market that only has the DSP in it (even if the technology is already present and utilized by GPUs) for the relatively small amount of servers that will be using them?
This is a pretty common thing legally. Corporations will often pay legal fees larger than the returns of a court case, if it means they can set precedence for the future. The other benefit is it creates fear in those who would have otherwise pirated songs.
New dists are nice if your target market is going to be primarily running your product as a live cd. While I agree with you in most cases, I can see why they'd chose to go for a separate distribution.
"We did not get access to kids as they were going through college,"
He makes a good point here - one of the sole reasons why I'm a linux guy today is because the college that I went to (Loyola Marymount University) had a strong FOSS ideology in their computer science department. Had I been exposed to any line of Microsoft products during that time, I'd venture to say that I'd be a MS guy today. College students, despite their outcry to be individuals and unique, are very easy to be moulded into the product of your choice.
It sounds like the web-app you're using isn't coded well. Hate to put it that way, but if you're having this many problems with it, it's probably true. As for browsers to use - just switch until you find one that works. Try each of the rendering engines and browsers that use them (trident, webkit, gecko, presto, etc). Find one that works, use that.
Next time around though, write the app better. Export to PDF/PS if you need formatting to be absolutely preserved.
Just got the EVO today, and while it isn't as large as the Dell Streak, it is significantly larger than most smartphones in its class. One of the things I noticed was that although it's a joy to type on, it isn't so nice holding it up to your ear. It feels bulky holding it up against your head - however I can still use a headset and keep the device in my pocket. The significantly larger size of Dell means that a.) I wont be able to keep it up to my head without it feeling awkward, and b.) I wont be able to keep it in my pocket and use a headset. I can't see a reason to want a device of this size. It's at the perfectly wrong size, in fact.
What part of "Don't admit to knowing anything" is confusing you. If you tell them the time of day, they'll know that you know. Now they have the upper hand!
As a theistic evolutionist myself, I can hopefully answer this for you. The problem doesn't lie in the compatibility of the two theories at all - each of them can easily co-exist. The problem is the clash of the culture that each carries. Many fundamentalists (and less extreme sects of Christianity [and possibly other religions, but I only have an authority to give an opinion here]) were brought up with a culture that ostracized evolution and the science behind it. They blindly accept that it's a theory that combats their theory of origins, without ever actually looking at the theory itself. I know from my personal experience, it was a good twelve years from the time I was introduced to the concept of evolution to the time I finally asked myself if it was compatible with Christian doctrine. Myself and those around me took it as a mathematician would take a axiom - without introspection because in the given paradigm it would "make sense". Granted, this was false logic in our case because of the propaganda of Christian culture. Note that I don't use the term propaganda here in a negative context - it has its place in the religion and would be worse off without it (but that's a discussion for another time).
TL;DR - the logic in each is compatible, but the cultures aren't.
Whatever can go wrong will rings pretty true here. Makes for an exciting day of work for them though I suppose; unlike yours truly. *Goes back to reading/.*
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They're small, about the size of a baseball. You can find plenty of personal tracking GPS systems online - look for hiking trail mappers.
So the real reason that cars of the future make that "bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop" sound as they go along is because of speakers?
I see that the effectiveness of DRM hasn't changed in 800 years.
If the "grade insurance" option isn't used much, it looks like a good way to get college kids to work. Direct monetary benefit was one of the reasons my GPA shot up my Junior and Senior year (I had a job that payed me more for better grades).
s/golf car gets mpg/golf cart gets infinite mpg/ /. doesn't like unicode infinity symbols.
Apparently
How is 67 terabytes almost a petabyte?
"78 miles per gallon on the European cycle"
Sure, and my plug in golf car gets mpg on any test thrown at it. Really that's poor and deceitful advertising. This car is a plug in car - it doesn't generate it's own electricity. It's not like a prius where you just fill it and forget about it, you're supplying another form of energy yourself. Saying what MPG it gets is redundant unless you also show how many Joules of electricity it used in the process as well.
I just installed 10.04 on a Dell Precision T3400 about two weeks ago. No issues here.
The same was said of hard disks and tape about a decade ago. People cried out that disks would never approach the storage capabilities of LTO, and that disks were only good for small amounts of storage at relatively high performance. Lo and behold though, the desktop market drove HDD purchases far beyond LTO, which meant more money was poured into research in that area. History repeats itself. I have a feeling that we'll see the marketing powers that be pushing SSD drives as the latest and greatest, which means there will be a user demand. User demand will create more funding for research, and eventually SSD's will catch up with disk drives.
s/pour/poor
Price. GPUs are being mass produced. Why create a separate market that only has the DSP in it (even if the technology is already present and utilized by GPUs) for the relatively small amount of servers that will be using them?
This is a pretty common thing legally. Corporations will often pay legal fees larger than the returns of a court case, if it means they can set precedence for the future. The other benefit is it creates fear in those who would have otherwise pirated songs.
Oop, this was my comment, not sure why the "post anonymously" button was checked. -pwnies
New dists are nice if your target market is going to be primarily running your product as a live cd. While I agree with you in most cases, I can see why they'd chose to go for a separate distribution.
Did you just link to an Engadget story which links back to /.?
"We did not get access to kids as they were going through college,"
He makes a good point here - one of the sole reasons why I'm a linux guy today is because the college that I went to (Loyola Marymount University) had a strong FOSS ideology in their computer science department. Had I been exposed to any line of Microsoft products during that time, I'd venture to say that I'd be a MS guy today. College students, despite their outcry to be individuals and unique, are very easy to be moulded into the product of your choice.
TeX 3.15 will get released. Subsequently, the universe will collapse.
It sounds like the web-app you're using isn't coded well. Hate to put it that way, but if you're having this many problems with it, it's probably true. As for browsers to use - just switch until you find one that works. Try each of the rendering engines and browsers that use them (trident, webkit, gecko, presto, etc). Find one that works, use that.
Next time around though, write the app better. Export to PDF/PS if you need formatting to be absolutely preserved.
What about OSX86? Been running that for the last few months. It's fancy.
Just got the EVO today, and while it isn't as large as the Dell Streak, it is significantly larger than most smartphones in its class. One of the things I noticed was that although it's a joy to type on, it isn't so nice holding it up to your ear. It feels bulky holding it up against your head - however I can still use a headset and keep the device in my pocket. The significantly larger size of Dell means that a.) I wont be able to keep it up to my head without it feeling awkward, and b.) I wont be able to keep it in my pocket and use a headset. I can't see a reason to want a device of this size. It's at the perfectly wrong size, in fact.
What part of "Don't admit to knowing anything" is confusing you. If you tell them the time of day, they'll know that you know. Now they have the upper hand!
As a theistic evolutionist myself, I can hopefully answer this for you. The problem doesn't lie in the compatibility of the two theories at all - each of them can easily co-exist. The problem is the clash of the culture that each carries. Many fundamentalists (and less extreme sects of Christianity [and possibly other religions, but I only have an authority to give an opinion here]) were brought up with a culture that ostracized evolution and the science behind it. They blindly accept that it's a theory that combats their theory of origins, without ever actually looking at the theory itself. I know from my personal experience, it was a good twelve years from the time I was introduced to the concept of evolution to the time I finally asked myself if it was compatible with Christian doctrine. Myself and those around me took it as a mathematician would take a axiom - without introspection because in the given paradigm it would "make sense". Granted, this was false logic in our case because of the propaganda of Christian culture. Note that I don't use the term propaganda here in a negative context - it has its place in the religion and would be worse off without it (but that's a discussion for another time).
TL;DR - the logic in each is compatible, but the cultures aren't.
Works here as well. 5.0.342.5 dev running on Ubuntu.
Whatever can go wrong will rings pretty true here. Makes for an exciting day of work for them though I suppose; unlike yours truly. /.*
*Goes back to reading
Give Heroes of Newerth a try. It's a dota clone++ that runs on linux/osx/windows. Was released today publicly iirc.