I'm not sure what your prof was going to do with it, but I have my students submit their papers online and then I just type my comments in the paper in 14 point red font and send it back to them which is a lot easier to do with a text file than a pdf.
Of course I recommend they send it to me in rtf format, but more than 90% send it in doc format. I grade it, save it as a rtf and send it back to them...
(I don't think OO.o can open wordperfect files, at least not in the typical install. I think I remember there is a beta converter, but i might be wrong)
Yes, that page is incredibly ugly, even in IE. The layout of that page is ismple enough that if it was made with a non-Microsoft program (according to the page source it was made with Microsoft Visual Studio.NET) it would work fine in any browser. Some pages that do rather complicated things and I can at least understand why it would be time and labor intensive to recode the page to be standards compliant, but I don't see any reason why dreamweaver couldn't crank out the same page with standards compliant code.
However, this example does raise an interesting point. I wonder how many web sites aren't standards compliant, or don't look good in Firefox or Opera simply because they were made with Microsoft products?
Unfotunatly there are some odball sites out there that are IE only. This is a list of IE only sites. Most of them are pretty obscure, which makes one wonder why they even bother keeping out Moz in the first place.
It sounds like this was a one time thing, so why not just memorize it or at least the main points? I taught public speaking for a year and saw dozens of students give 5-10 minute speeches with minimal notes. Seems like an easier solution to me.
This is actually the second antivirus company Microsoft has bought. In 2003 they bought GeCAD, makers of RAV-AntiVirus. So it seems that Microsoft is indeed serious about getting into the anti-virus business.
I don't have any experience with the backend of the system so it may well be a problem with the implimentation, but it is just infuriating that they replaced a system that was admittedly dated, but worked, with this stystem that doesn't work half the time and is dated in other ways.
Indiana University switched over to a peoplesoft solution this year and it is the biggest steaming pile of crap I've ever seen. registering for classes is an arcane practice at best now. When it was first rolled out you couldn't look up a class by it's name or the department it was in but an obscure numerical code that had no relationship to the course number. I and several other people were on a waitlist to get into a course and only by accident a week before classes started one of us noticed there were spaces in the class, and yet we were all still on the waitlist and none of us had been notified.
There have also been cases where students didn't get their loan checks and I have experienced numerous times when the system, even when not under heavy load, has said i am not logged in right in the middle of doing something or said i didn't have permission to access something even though it is my records and the classes I am teaching as a grad student.
To top it all off, it is a web portal with a million links and buttons and tabs just like the web portals back in '99 that were really cool and then crashed and burned.
I can't imagine that Oracle could make things any worse.
I don't really care if people want me to muck about with their files or not, but the first thing I usually do with a pdf of something I find usefull is convert it to text. If all documents that were just plain text would be posted online in.rtf I would be happy.
I haven't tried this specific implimentation, but google's webpage translations are not the same as babelfish's, at least for German. (Even though there are better translators out there, the quick link to "translate this" in search results is often enough to tell me if I should bother dragging out my german-english dictionary)
I can't speak for casinos in other areas, but the casinos in Indiana, where I worked for 2+ years, are heavilly regulated. The only industry in Indiana that has more regulations is the nucular industry according to the casino. As you note, it is impossible to have a completely random wheel. I mean, Indiana casinos are on boats and even though they stay docked, they still are actual boats and I'm sure the weight of 2-3 thousand customers and employees is enough to shift the boat ever so slightly, so it is impossible.
Slot machines and card games, however, while stacked in the favor of the house because if they weren't it wouldn't be hard for employees to figure out how to beat the system and if a casino is afraid of anything, it is the employees cheating either to help a friend win or to get money themselves. At a casino the cameras are looking at the employees just as much as the customers. More than once surveilance called us up asked us what we were doing.
And again, at least in Indiana, if you aren't tampering with equipment, there is no law against using gambling aides. However, if you get caught you will get kicked out and probably banned.
I've been using this over a networked drive in the computer labs for quite a while now and it works great. It takes a while to start over the nework, but it is nice to have my bookmarks and cookies with me whichever windows computer i"m on. And it provides a nice bit of security since the browser is on my person network space and there isn't any way the next stranger who hops on the computer could stumble on my history or anything. (sure if someone really wanted to they could, but since everyone else uses the browser installed on the computer I don't thinks that's likely)
Is there ANYTHING in that trailer that says what platform it is coming out on? Looks like another 100% pure speculation passed off as a "scoop" from here.
Ask the placement office or the undergrad advisor for the dept about the placement rating. I've found that the only place where the school really has much impact is if you want to continue to graduate school. I know for a fact that people from my masters program got turned away from phd programs because they get so many apps one of the easiest ways of culling the herd is to simply skip "bad" schools. Of course I'm in the humanities, so something like CS might differ.
Like it or not, the old rule of "It isn't what you know, but who you know" still applies in many cases.
Relatively recently you guys have started producing comics for videogames to use as a means of promotion. Is this something you pitched to the game companies or is did they approach you? Are they part of the larger plan to earn a living from your writing and art or is it just something fun to do (not that those two are entirely seperate categories)?
Well, mostly from what I've seen it is the employees and the family of employees that I have seen complaining.
However, there are cases where the customers do care, and in those cases, I imagine that the customers want both a good product and the people who make it to be treated well. They don't care if EA makes money or not. I know that an individual company's profits or lack thereof don't concern me at all (sure in the larger sense, in which I want a healthy economy and game industry they do, but on an individual company by company level they don't).
I don't really care if a company is making money or not. I want a good product at a low price, and I want it made under decent working conditions. Those things are hard to do and still stay in buisness? Too bad. No one ever said the demands of a customer are reasonable.
I mean, on a flamebait level I could say something like, "Boy those Nazis sure make good stuff. I heard they kill lots of people, but hey, that's not my concern," but that comparison does bring up the old point of "Do the ends justify the means?" Everyone has their own line that they think company practices may or may not cross and it is up to each of us to decide where that line is.
People are saying that this is fake. But based on other email comments I have seen from Jack Thompson, this is totally keeping in line with his responces.
In a thread on a videogame forum there are people who claim that they have emailed Thompson and got such pithy responces as: "the rubbish is up your cranium, take it out," "you're biased against lawyers. grow a brain," "No, actually it's all about ignorant gamers," "You don't know my motives, so don't try guessing," and "children are allowed to buy them. do your research, junior."
Finally, Thompson is also famous for being the lawyer behind the Two Live Crew obsenity trials, , and most bizarly, claiming that Janet Reno was unfit for office in Florida because she was gay and people would blackmail her because of it (except by making a public deal of it, wouldn't that make it impossible to blackmail her) which resulted in Reno getting a restraining order against him.
In short, Jack Thompson is certainly 100% capable of the odd responces stated in the article. There is actually lots more odd things that this lawyer has done. Do a search for "jack Thompson" and videogames and tons of stuff will come up about him.
I have to say that the trailer to polar express has some of the creepiest looking animation I have ever seen. Please, if you are thinking about seeing this with your kids, make sure they see the trailer and ask them if they want to see it first. I know I would have been scared as hell seeing that when I was a kid.
"Vote Kerry for a wealthier Kerry" So, did Bush take a vow of poverty or something? They are both Yale-educated millionares.
As far as the "few inconvieneiences," tell that to Jose Padilla, an American citizen who has been held in milatary custory for more than two years WITHOUT BEING CHARGED. If the guy is guilty, which I think he probably is, charge him with something, don't just throw him in a brig and throw away the key -- and not even give him access to a lawyer without a fight.
The folks over at metafilter are having an interesting conversation with lots of people complaining about a site that doesn't work in IE. Funny that many are so against that notion. I wonder if they are similarly outraged when a site doesn't work in mozilla.
I second that. I have a laptop sleeve I bought from ebags.com and just toss the laptop in it and the bag in my backpack and it works fine and since I cary my bag around every day, no one knows when by laptop is in it and when it isn't.
The article mentions that Shadow Ops is the first to include 64bit support OUT OF THE BOX, not as an extra download. Sure it is splitting hairs, but that is how they can claim it.
Well, it is nice to see that someone in Washington watches the Daily Show, I guess. The night after the speech they did a segment showing that several of the phrases in the speech were exactly the same as the president uses.
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I'm not sure what your prof was going to do with it, but I have my students submit their papers online and then I just type my comments in the paper in 14 point red font and send it back to them which is a lot easier to do with a text file than a pdf.
Of course I recommend they send it to me in rtf format, but more than 90% send it in doc format. I grade it, save it as a rtf and send it back to them...
(I don't think OO.o can open wordperfect files, at least not in the typical install. I think I remember there is a beta converter, but i might be wrong)
Yes, that page is incredibly ugly, even in IE. The layout of that page is ismple enough that if it was made with a non-Microsoft program (according to the page source it was made with Microsoft Visual Studio.NET) it would work fine in any browser. Some pages that do rather complicated things and I can at least understand why it would be time and labor intensive to recode the page to be standards compliant, but I don't see any reason why dreamweaver couldn't crank out the same page with standards compliant code.
However, this example does raise an interesting point. I wonder how many web sites aren't standards compliant, or don't look good in Firefox or Opera simply because they were made with Microsoft products?
Unfotunatly there are some odball sites out there that are IE only. This is a list of IE only sites. Most of them are pretty obscure, which makes one wonder why they even bother keeping out Moz in the first place.
It sounds like this was a one time thing, so why not just memorize it or at least the main points? I taught public speaking for a year and saw dozens of students give 5-10 minute speeches with minimal notes. Seems like an easier solution to me.
In 2003, they bought GeCAD , makers of RAV-AntiVirus . So is Microsoft going to release their own anti-virus too?
This is actually the second antivirus company Microsoft has bought. In 2003 they bought GeCAD, makers of RAV-AntiVirus. So it seems that Microsoft is indeed serious about getting into the anti-virus business.
I don't have any experience with the backend of the system so it may well be a problem with the implimentation, but it is just infuriating that they replaced a system that was admittedly dated, but worked, with this stystem that doesn't work half the time and is dated in other ways.
Indiana University switched over to a peoplesoft solution this year and it is the biggest steaming pile of crap I've ever seen. registering for classes is an arcane practice at best now. When it was first rolled out you couldn't look up a class by it's name or the department it was in but an obscure numerical code that had no relationship to the course number. I and several other people were on a waitlist to get into a course and only by accident a week before classes started one of us noticed there were spaces in the class, and yet we were all still on the waitlist and none of us had been notified.
There have also been cases where students didn't get their loan checks and I have experienced numerous times when the system, even when not under heavy load, has said i am not logged in right in the middle of doing something or said i didn't have permission to access something even though it is my records and the classes I am teaching as a grad student.
To top it all off, it is a web portal with a million links and buttons and tabs just like the web portals back in '99 that were really cool and then crashed and burned.
I can't imagine that Oracle could make things any worse.
I don't really care if people want me to muck about with their files or not, but the first thing I usually do with a pdf of something I find usefull is convert it to text. If all documents that were just plain text would be posted online in .rtf I would be happy.
So does this mean that only chemists can call themselves scholars? Damn, I guess I HAVE been wasting my life...
I haven't tried this specific implimentation, but google's webpage translations are not the same as babelfish's, at least for German. (Even though there are better translators out there, the quick link to "translate this" in search results is often enough to tell me if I should bother dragging out my german-english dictionary)
I can't speak for casinos in other areas, but the casinos in Indiana, where I worked for 2+ years, are heavilly regulated. The only industry in Indiana that has more regulations is the nucular industry according to the casino. As you note, it is impossible to have a completely random wheel. I mean, Indiana casinos are on boats and even though they stay docked, they still are actual boats and I'm sure the weight of 2-3 thousand customers and employees is enough to shift the boat ever so slightly, so it is impossible.
Slot machines and card games, however, while stacked in the favor of the house because if they weren't it wouldn't be hard for employees to figure out how to beat the system and if a casino is afraid of anything, it is the employees cheating either to help a friend win or to get money themselves. At a casino the cameras are looking at the employees just as much as the customers. More than once surveilance called us up asked us what we were doing.
And again, at least in Indiana, if you aren't tampering with equipment, there is no law against using gambling aides. However, if you get caught you will get kicked out and probably banned.
I've been using this over a networked drive in the computer labs for quite a while now and it works great. It takes a while to start over the nework, but it is nice to have my bookmarks and cookies with me whichever windows computer i"m on. And it provides a nice bit of security since the browser is on my person network space and there isn't any way the next stranger who hops on the computer could stumble on my history or anything. (sure if someone really wanted to they could, but since everyone else uses the browser installed on the computer I don't thinks that's likely)
Is there ANYTHING in that trailer that says what platform it is coming out on? Looks like another 100% pure speculation passed off as a "scoop" from here.
Ask the placement office or the undergrad advisor for the dept about the placement rating.
I've found that the only place where the school really has much impact is if you want to continue to graduate school. I know for a fact that people from my masters program got turned away from phd programs because they get so many apps one of the easiest ways of culling the herd is to simply skip "bad" schools. Of course I'm in the humanities, so something like CS might differ.
Like it or not, the old rule of "It isn't what you know, but who you know" still applies in many cases.
Relatively recently you guys have started producing comics for videogames to use as a means of promotion. Is this something you pitched to the game companies or is did they approach you? Are they part of the larger plan to earn a living from your writing and art or is it just something fun to do (not that those two are entirely seperate categories)?
Well, mostly from what I've seen it is the employees and the family of employees that I have seen complaining.
However, there are cases where the customers do care, and in those cases, I imagine that the customers want both a good product and the people who make it to be treated well. They don't care if EA makes money or not. I know that an individual company's profits or lack thereof don't concern me at all (sure in the larger sense, in which I want a healthy economy and game industry they do, but on an individual company by company level they don't).
I don't really care if a company is making money or not. I want a good product at a low price, and I want it made under decent working conditions. Those things are hard to do and still stay in buisness? Too bad. No one ever said the demands of a customer are reasonable.
I mean, on a flamebait level I could say something like, "Boy those Nazis sure make good stuff. I heard they kill lots of people, but hey, that's not my concern," but that comparison does bring up the old point of "Do the ends justify the means?" Everyone has their own line that they think company practices may or may not cross and it is up to each of us to decide where that line is.
People are saying that this is fake. But based on other email comments I have seen from Jack Thompson, this is totally keeping in line with his responces.
In a thread on a videogame forum there are people who claim that they have emailed Thompson and got such pithy responces as: "the rubbish is up your cranium, take it out," "you're biased against lawyers. grow a brain," "No, actually it's all about ignorant gamers," "You don't know my motives, so don't try guessing," and "children are allowed to buy them. do your research, junior."
In another email exchange I've found, he basically says, that he would rather sue videogame companies than have laws passed.
Finally, Thompson is also famous for being the lawyer behind the Two Live Crew obsenity trials, , and most bizarly, claiming that Janet Reno was unfit for office in Florida because she was gay and people would blackmail her because of it (except by making a public deal of it, wouldn't that make it impossible to blackmail her) which resulted in Reno getting a restraining order against him.
In short, Jack Thompson is certainly 100% capable of the odd responces stated in the article. There is actually lots more odd things that this lawyer has done. Do a search for "jack Thompson" and videogames and tons of stuff will come up about him.
The original announcement says midnight Pacific time. Half-Life Fallout has a countdown clock that counts down to the release.
I have to say that the trailer to polar express has some of the creepiest looking animation I have ever seen.
Please, if you are thinking about seeing this with your kids, make sure they see the trailer and ask them if they want to see it first. I know I would have been scared as hell seeing that when I was a kid.
"Vote Kerry for a wealthier Kerry"
So, did Bush take a vow of poverty or something? They are both Yale-educated millionares.
As far as the "few inconvieneiences," tell that to Jose Padilla, an American citizen who has been held in milatary custory for more than two years WITHOUT BEING CHARGED. If the guy is guilty, which I think he probably is, charge him with something, don't just throw him in a brig and throw away the key -- and not even give him access to a lawyer without a fight.
The folks over at metafilter are having an interesting conversation with lots of people complaining about a site that doesn't work in IE. Funny that many are so against that notion. I wonder if they are similarly outraged when a site doesn't work in mozilla.
I second that. I have a laptop sleeve I bought from ebags.com and just toss the laptop in it and the bag in my backpack and it works fine and since I cary my bag around every day, no one knows when by laptop is in it and when it isn't.
The article mentions that Shadow Ops is the first to include 64bit support OUT OF THE BOX, not as an extra download. Sure it is splitting hairs, but that is how they can claim it.
Well, it is nice to see that someone in Washington watches the Daily Show, I guess. The night after the speech they did a segment showing that several of the phrases in the speech were exactly the same as the president uses.