Perhaps all three, but I think after using Gmail for a couple of months, the idea that I can quickly search the full content of everything I've received is nice; the threaded conversations are really cool; and the sharp user interface is pretty nice.
So what you're saying is that gmail's attractive features are features that have been in email clients for over a decade. I, too, don't understand the allure of gmail. Let me know when it lest me pick my editor.
Nothing. Why would I want to pay for a poor answer to a sovled problem? I have storage for my email; it's called a hard drive. I can already search through my past emails; it's called grep, sometimes even find. I don't get why everyone's so excited over google's solution to something that people have had figured out for twenty years.
Not everything belongs on the web. Email is one of those things.
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Did you even look at the changes page? The semantics and syntax are moving more towards what Java uses, and whether the language itself is compiled or interpreted or a terrible combination of the two is incidental. That it's considered a "scripting" language makes no difference in how it handles visibility, interfaces, or any of the other things they are adding which python and ruby both lack.
Actually, I think they changed that so that caffeinated Mt. Dew would be legal, but they still sell it uncaffeinated since no one in Canada expects to have caffeine. *shrug*
The difference between A and B is whether the conciousness is contained within the body itself, or simply the state of the body. B could be transported through the "destroy and recreate somewhere else" method, while A could not.
You mean like Emusic? Of course, they also sell whole albums for $9, but they also sell on the song-by-song basis. They Might Be Giants have gotten into the sale of mp3's rather heavily thanks to Emusic. These places are out there, it's just that they're not as popular as Napster due to issues of price. (it's cheaper than CD's, but more expensive than free)
So this doesn't mean that computers don't belong in the classroom, just that they're mismanaged. I agree that computers are handled horribly in schools, that 75% of the admins are morons, and that they're use is usually abused; but I if used properly, I think that they can augment the learning process. Learning games probably aren't a good idea, since the computers in classrooms are designed to give information, not teach, but if they are used for informational purposes (perhaps a history or science lesson) they may be useful. Also, as you said, computers used to come with BASIC interpreters, and they should again. If basic algorithms are taught along with mathematics, that would be useful as well. I don't think we need to automatically say that computers are evil in classrooms, we simply need to rethink the way that they are handled.
I suppose that brings up the question of whether or not the person signed anything before a check was performed. Companys can do background checks on potential employees without the person's consent, usually through a third party agency. My guess is that the person did not sign away any rights, and therefore is probably able to sue the company that performed the check.
It may be that the amendment to this bill is just an attempt to please some political interest group. No matter how much we despsise them or tell them our perfectly logical arguments, there will always be a "tax the Internet" crowd. This whole thing may just be a way of saying "look! We have the potential to get some money from Internet. Now vote for my stuff!" I don't think that it's likely the FCC will take advantage of this, but it's still disturbing to think that they can. My belief and hope is that the FCC will act like this bill doesn't exist to avoid the riots that charging for Voice over IP services may cause.
It could be the presence of the Network Solutions monolopy is the reason that ICANN is trying to get more people involved with the company. I imagine that the at large board members probably won't carry as much weight as the real board members, but this is a good way to get more people to like ICANN. If they can convince people that they care about the little people and want to hear what you think too (or rather want to hear what the people representing you think) then maybe more people will switch to ICANN.
Does this mean there's no such thing as an MCP that can really help you? M$ doesn't have men in black that come and fix your network every time NT crashes? My world is collapsing!
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So what you're saying is that gmail's attractive features are features that have been in email clients for over a decade. I, too, don't understand the allure of gmail. Let me know when it lest me pick my editor.
Nothing. Why would I want to pay for a poor answer to a sovled problem? I have storage for my email; it's called a hard drive. I can already search through my past emails; it's called grep, sometimes even find. I don't get why everyone's so excited over google's solution to something that people have had figured out for twenty years.
Not everything belongs on the web. Email is one of those things.
The best one still have to be the version implemented in the C preprocesser.
http://www0.us.ioccc.org/years.html#1995_vanschnit z
Did you even look at the changes page? The semantics and syntax are moving more towards what Java uses, and whether the language itself is compiled or interpreted or a terrible combination of the two is incidental. That it's considered a "scripting" language makes no difference in how it handles visibility, interfaces, or any of the other things they are adding which python and ruby both lack.
Actually, I think they changed that so that caffeinated Mt. Dew would be legal, but they still sell it uncaffeinated since no one in Canada expects to have caffeine. *shrug*
You can do the same thing with a Canadian toonie. Just put it in a freezer for a while and pop the middle part out.
The difference between A and B is whether the conciousness is contained within the body itself, or simply the state of the body. B could be transported through the "destroy and recreate somewhere else" method, while A could not.
You mean like Emusic?
Of course, they also sell whole albums for $9, but they also sell on the song-by-song basis. They Might Be Giants have gotten into the sale of mp3's rather heavily thanks to Emusic. These places are out there, it's just that they're not as popular as Napster due to issues of price. (it's cheaper than CD's, but more expensive than free)
So this doesn't mean that computers don't belong in the classroom, just that they're mismanaged. I agree that computers are handled horribly in schools, that 75% of the admins are morons, and that they're use is usually abused; but I if used properly, I think that they can augment the learning process. Learning games probably aren't a good idea, since the computers in classrooms are designed to give information, not teach, but if they are used for informational purposes (perhaps a history or science lesson) they may be useful. Also, as you said, computers used to come with BASIC interpreters, and they should again. If basic algorithms are taught along with mathematics, that would be useful as well. I don't think we need to automatically say that computers are evil in classrooms, we simply need to rethink the way that they are handled.
I suppose that brings up the question of whether or not the person signed anything before a check was performed. Companys can do background checks on potential employees without the person's consent, usually through a third party agency. My guess is that the person did not sign away any rights, and therefore is probably able to sue the company that performed the check.
It may be that the amendment to this bill is just an attempt to please some political interest group. No matter how much we despsise them or tell them our perfectly logical arguments, there will always be a "tax the Internet" crowd. This whole thing may just be a way of saying "look! We have the potential to get some money from Internet. Now vote for my stuff!" I don't think that it's likely the FCC will take advantage of this, but it's still disturbing to think that they can. My belief and hope is that the FCC will act like this bill doesn't exist to avoid the riots that charging for Voice over IP services may cause.
It could be the presence of the Network Solutions monolopy is the reason that ICANN is trying to get more people involved with the company. I imagine that the at large board members probably won't carry as much weight as the real board members, but this is a good way to get more people to like ICANN. If they can convince people that they care about the little people and want to hear what you think too (or rather want to hear what the people representing you think) then maybe more people will switch to ICANN.
Does this mean there's no such thing as an MCP that can really help you? M$ doesn't have men in black that come and fix your network every time NT crashes? My world is collapsing!