If someone is seen in the workplace using an iPod it's more than likely that it's for the wrong reasons - either podslurping or downloading music without permission. This is relatively easier to police.
What? Sorry then, I'll have to let everyone in my company here know that all of them are not the norm. Since they all just listen to music on their devices.
Same thing happened to me back when I was a kid. We'd regularly get a dozen or so of us together to play lazer tag around an elementary school/public playground that was next to a friend's house.
One night the cops were called. Granted this was a small town, and the number of cops was 2... and they weren't really believing the old lady about 'people shooting each other'.
So when they arrived, we got the 'So, what's going on here' discussion. We explained, they chuckled a bit, and asked us to call it a night that evening, and that they would talk to the lady so she wouldn't be worried in the future.
At what time did you lunch? I never could conquer the world before several hours into the game. I realize that Civ2 and 3 are even slower, but that doesn't mean that Civ was actually a short game.
Well, I myself used to do it regularly back in the day. Actually, it was known fact among my friends that either I would win a game of Civ within 2 hours, or I would completely lose.
It always happened that way. If I went majorly agressive I could do it. If I tried to build my civilization, I'd suddenly have bombers attacking my Cavalry:)
That's simple... you DO have to install a new device every time, at fairly high cost. One of the reasons most folks don't like this device.
That's silly. The cost of losing a finger or an arm is greater.
Well, that is true. However, as someone else here said. The risk to the woodworker who does things correctly, doesn't take risks, doesn't go: Well, just for this one cut, etc, is minimal with regular saws.
I agree that this is a good thing, for use in beginner classes, school shops, etc. Though, those kind of places probably can't afford them.
Also I have problems with the non-resetable aspect, because I can't test it!
Any safety device I have, I want to be able to regularly test it to make sure it is working. Just like hitting the test button on your GFCI plugs.
With this, if you want to test it, or even just 'show it off to your friends', it'll cost you $59.00 for a new brake cartridge.
Heck, what makes the cost aspect even worse, is that you need different brake cartridges for dado blades than regular blades. Which cost $69.00... This all really starts to add up, when you consider that your 'average home workshop contractor saw' you can get for probably around $400.
Not to mention, what happens when it goes off by accident... and you are out $60 all of a sudden.
Again, a good idea, I'd just like to see it made into a self resetting mechanism somehow.
That's simple... you DO have to install a new device every time, at fairly high cost. One of the reasons most folks don't like this device.
Of course, they also don't like it because the inventor has been trying to get legal action to FORCE all manufacturers to license and install his device, because otherwise they are 'being negligent'.
It sounds like whoever is using Dreamweaver has two problems:
A) Using an old version (newer versions really do check for those multi-tags as you do edits and cleans them up.)
B) Doesn't know what they are doing. Dreamweaver is GREAT, in that it SPECIFICALLY does EXACTLY what you tell it to. It's meant for the person who DOES understand HTML. It is not a true WYSIWYG in that sense. You have you know the different effects that assigning a class to the table, versus tr, versus td, versus the paragraph tag, versus the span means... and tell DW exactly which one you wanted the class on.
If the person doesn't understand that, you will get crap, because they will be clicking in random spots, and DW will THINK they know what they are doing.
I guess it's been a while since you used Dreamweaver. I do web design EXACTLY as you state, keeping separation of content and style, using Dreamweaver.
I use it to help organize my stylesheets, for it's autocompletion capabilities, for the advanced manipulation of the code, for having constant code reference and 'CSS Helpers' so to speak so that I don't have to have every single CSS possible option memorized...
For having a quick rough visual reference for what a page will look like, etc. etc. etc.
Dreamweaver has grown with the times, and continues to...
Yes, a LAN-party is the 'new version' of the arcade in that sense. But that wasn't really what this was about. It was about online gaming. A slightly-difference aspect there.
The big problem I see with LAN-parties though, is the 'effort'. Back in college, I could walk into the campus arcade between classes and pop a few quarters for an hour with a bunch of friends and have that great 'LAN-party' experience, then go to my next class.
That isn't possible with a LAN-party. You have to plan it ahead of time, have everyone drag their computers out, get the infrastructure set up for it, etc. You can't just do it to blow off a few hours.
I think the big difference though, is the 'crowd'. Online gaming, it is you, and the people in the game with you, that are involved. And that's it.
The part of the arcade that was always so much fun, was the crowd. When you are standing in line with a dozen other folks at the Street Fighter machine. Everyone oohing and groaning at what happens on the machine. People talking about this player and that player, and what their strengths are. The comraderie that develops from that, etc.
You don't get that online. As why would you, there is no need to wait in line, everyone can play right now. But you lose that friendship/rivalry building.
As someone else pointed out. The problem here is that they are asking for the first 6 digits. And those are very predicible in a classroom setting.
I know for myself at least, that every kid in my class had the same first 3 (geographic based), and one of two different sequences of the second 2 (time scale based). At that point, if you know the persons name (duh), it only takes at most 20 guesses to know the first 6 of their SSN. 10 different digits on the 6th num, and 2 permutations of the first 5.
The writing of the slashdot article makes it sound like this is the LAST Great Observatory that NASA is doing, and then is closing it's doors on that subject.
Not so. It happens to be the last of the original 4 proposed ones in the 1970's. But others will come and go.
For example, the planned 'replacement' for Hubble. Known as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), formerly known as the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST).
Find out whatever you wish to know about it at: http://jwstsite.stsci.edu/
So just drink decaf stuff. I gave up caffeine a while back as well (at least when it is reasonable --- darn diners that don't have diet caffeine free sodas --- I also can't have sugar).
But just drink decaf coffee... and go to the really nice cappachino place, and order a decaf one...
I've got to say, that I really don't see the problem.
They didn't sue the person or anything like that. It's simply a nicely phrased letter from the company asking them to either replace the phrase with a generic one (sticky-tape), or place a registered trademark symbol after it.
That's all.
It was rather pleasant in fact. And makes perfect sense. As I would agree (not with the law, but with the action taken in response), that if I had been making a product, under a certain brand-name for 50 years. And this brandname is in danger of OTHER people being allowed to use it. I would defend it.
Otherwise, suddenly everyone is selling your brand name, and there is no distinction between your 'good product' that everyone has come to love, and the next guys cheap ripoff!
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I read a bit on this, and it does seem to have two drawbacks, that noone ever mentions:
A) It takes more processor power on your webserver. It has to constantly compress files to send... on a highly loaded webserver, this can make for alot of extra processor overhead.
B) It takes more processor power on the client. Well the client's gotten it quickly, but now it has to uncompress it. On a massively overpowered machine that is only running a web client at the time, not a problem. But perhaps problems for people with older machines, or running lots of stuff at the time.
I don't think that this really would be all that hard. In the situation you are in of course. Heck, I think a small script/batch file and a few web pages would about do it.
Here is my thought.
You have this PC machine with the good speakers/etc playing the songs (I'm assuming that this is powering speakers that everyone can hear, if this is shoutcasting or streaming somehow, that's a different story, but not TOO much worse).
On that machine make sure you have a web server going.
Now, write a small script that will look through a directory of mp3s, randomly pick one and play it. As it does this, it 'marks' that one as being played (for example, writes it's name into a file 'nowplaying.txt').
Ok, now write a little CGI/PHP/etc page on your website. Make it prompt for a username/password, and then display the song that is playing (by reading nowplaying.txt), and ask for a rating.
Store these ratings in a big file, let's say 'ratings.txt'. This file can have 1 line per song, and have a list of ratings after it. So if you have 5 people, and you only have 2 ratings (0=hate it, 1=like it) it might look like this:
Stairway_to_Heaven.mp3 0 1 0 1 1
Ok, So actually what you would need to do is autogenerate this ratings.txt file in the first place with ALL of the filenames in it, but no ratings yet. Now, instead of making your random player script actually look at the directory of MP3s, have it each time load this ratings file, and 'randomly' pick from it. In this case, if you have 5 people, and a hate it/love it system. You could simply have any song that has 3 hate its, never be played. Beyond that, give any song as many 'chances' as it has 'love its'. So a song that is 4 loves, 1 hate, as twice as much chance to be played as a song with 2 loves, 2 hates, which has twice as much chance to be played as a song with 1 love, 0 hates. etc.
Of course, this is the simple version. You could easily have a more complicated rating system and therefore a more complicated picking system.
But the basic gist is:
1) A random picker script that loops forever, reading ratings.txt (or a DB), applying rules to pick the song to play, and playing.
2) A CGI that asks for input on the song being played via reading nowplaying.txt, and updates ratings.txt
As an interviewee however, I see this the other way. When I have looked for a job in the past, I usually find 10 companies or so that match my 'best list'. I then go proceed to get interviews at said 10 companies.
After that, I've always started to get calls back from the companies within a few days. If a company doesn't call ME back, I figure that they aren't interested in me.
Even if it was my favorite company from my list... but when 8 of 10 are contacting me back, I'm not going to take the time to call the other 2, hoping that they had just forgotten about me. Heck, if they forgot about me, I probably don't wanna work there.
>Also, the weapon switch hotkey thing. In terms of
>realism, the old way didn't really take long enough
>(you try unstrapping a shield from your arm and
>drawing a longsword and see how long it takes). Now
>you can switch instantly?
Actually, I'll take you up on the offer. I do medieval reinactment, and I can drop my shield and draw a longsword, in, oh, let's say 2 seconds tops? It's not that tough. However, to make it realisitic, the current weapon, if one handed might be 'resheathed'. But any shield or 2H weapon in your hands should be dropped to the ground as you draw the new weapon if you are in the heat of combat.
But that's not very niec from a playability point of view.
Sorry Jon, but having her request that he does the 'worst possible' in the tournament to please her is a VERY period thing. It was often that a knight would go to the extremes to please a lady, responding to her whim, going against their normal 'creed'.
I found this to be very well done (although I was suprised that he just 'stood there', would have looked better to have galloped forward with lance raised high crying her name loudly for all to hear).
Although there is a catch22 on this. In programming, if you get stuck, you need help. There are two places to turn usually.
1) Look on the web for some sample code that is doing what you need to do.
2) talk to a friend to figure out how to do it.
Either way, you are going to end up with code that looks like another bit of code. There are only SO many ways to code a certain algorithm. Just because two people in this case happened to, for example, code the same bug into their software doesn't mean they cheated.
It can mean that they collaborated, or one tried to help the other out with the basic concepts, and the other got the same flawed idea and implemented it in the same flawed way.
Ok, so they found common phrases, even paragraphs, in the papers. Yes, some of these are copying, I am sure. But are they also trying to kill teamwork?
I remember all the time having study sessions, or 'work sessions' with friends in a class. If there was a big paper to write, we would all get together and discuss the issues, really hash them out together until we knew them. It would be inevitable that we would probably end up with some of the same phrases on our papers. Someone probably said something memorable that really clicked with us all, so we all end up writing the exact same words, or very similar ones.
Also, like the article mentioned with the one student, there is the 'who cheated' question. Which I don't think they can really answer. How do you know which student copied, and which wrote the original? Unless someone offers to give themselves up, you can't tell, and attempting to tell is just gambling.
This sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen if they expel ANYONE.
Actually, I'm not sure about all states, but in the east coast ones I've lived my life around (West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland)... It's illegal to drink under 21, even with parent's consent.
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What? Sorry then, I'll have to let everyone in my company here know that all of them are not the norm. Since they all just listen to music on their devices.
Big versions are found here:/ releases/2005/37/image/a+warn
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive
Same thing happened to me back when I was a kid. We'd regularly get a dozen or so of us together to play lazer tag around an elementary school/public playground that was next to a friend's house.
... and they weren't really believing the old lady about 'people shooting each other'.
One night the cops were called. Granted this was a small town, and the number of cops was 2
So when they arrived, we got the 'So, what's going on here' discussion. We explained, they chuckled a bit, and asked us to call it a night that evening, and that they would talk to the lady so she wouldn't be worried in the future.
At what time did you lunch? I never could conquer the world before several hours into the game. I realize that Civ2 and 3 are even slower, but that doesn't mean that Civ was actually a short game.
:)
Well, I myself used to do it regularly back in the day. Actually, it was known fact among my friends that either I would win a game of Civ within 2 hours, or I would completely lose.
It always happened that way. If I went majorly agressive I could do it. If I tried to build my civilization, I'd suddenly have bombers attacking my Cavalry
Well, that is true. However, as someone else here said. The risk to the woodworker who does things correctly, doesn't take risks, doesn't go: Well, just for this one cut, etc, is minimal with regular saws.
I agree that this is a good thing, for use in beginner classes, school shops, etc. Though, those kind of places probably can't afford them.
Also I have problems with the non-resetable aspect, because I can't test it!
Any safety device I have, I want to be able to regularly test it to make sure it is working. Just like hitting the test button on your GFCI plugs.
With this, if you want to test it, or even just 'show it off to your friends', it'll cost you $59.00 for a new brake cartridge.
Heck, what makes the cost aspect even worse, is that you need different brake cartridges for dado blades than regular blades. Which cost $69.00
Not to mention, what happens when it goes off by accident
Again, a good idea, I'd just like to see it made into a self resetting mechanism somehow.
That's simple ... you DO have to install a new device every time, at fairly high cost. One of the reasons most folks don't like this device.
Of course, they also don't like it because the inventor has been trying to get legal action to FORCE all manufacturers to license and install his device, because otherwise they are 'being negligent'.
It sounds like whoever is using Dreamweaver has two problems:
... and tell DW exactly which one you wanted the class on.
A) Using an old version (newer versions really do check for those multi-tags as you do edits and cleans them up.)
B) Doesn't know what they are doing. Dreamweaver is GREAT, in that it SPECIFICALLY does EXACTLY what you tell it to. It's meant for the person who DOES understand HTML. It is not a true WYSIWYG in that sense. You have you know the different effects that assigning a class to the table, versus tr, versus td, versus the paragraph tag, versus the span means
If the person doesn't understand that, you will get crap, because they will be clicking in random spots, and DW will THINK they know what they are doing.
I guess it's been a while since you used Dreamweaver. I do web design EXACTLY as you state, keeping separation of content and style, using Dreamweaver.
...
I use it to help organize my stylesheets, for it's autocompletion capabilities, for the advanced manipulation of the code, for having constant code reference and 'CSS Helpers' so to speak so that I don't have to have every single CSS possible option memorized
For having a quick rough visual reference for what a page will look like, etc. etc. etc.
Dreamweaver has grown with the times, and continues to...
Same here ... which ends up including subhobbies such as: medieval swordfighting, archery, crossbow making, brewing, cooking, costuming, etc.
...
In fact, one sub-hobby (crossbow making) took off and became it's own mini-business
Yes, a LAN-party is the 'new version' of the arcade in that sense. But that wasn't really what this was about. It was about online gaming. A slightly-difference aspect there.
The big problem I see with LAN-parties though, is the 'effort'. Back in college, I could walk into the campus arcade between classes and pop a few quarters for an hour with a bunch of friends and have that great 'LAN-party' experience, then go to my next class.
That isn't possible with a LAN-party. You have to plan it ahead of time, have everyone drag their computers out, get the infrastructure set up for it, etc. You can't just do it to blow off a few hours.
I think the big difference though, is the 'crowd'. Online gaming, it is you, and the people in the game with you, that are involved. And that's it.
The part of the arcade that was always so much fun, was the crowd. When you are standing in line with a dozen other folks at the Street Fighter machine. Everyone oohing and groaning at what happens on the machine. People talking about this player and that player, and what their strengths are. The comraderie that develops from that, etc.
You don't get that online. As why would you, there is no need to wait in line, everyone can play right now. But you lose that friendship/rivalry building.
For space related 'kid knowledge', check out Amazing Space: http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorati ons/
As someone else pointed out. The problem here is that they are asking for the first 6 digits. And those are very predicible in a classroom setting.
I know for myself at least, that every kid in my class had the same first 3 (geographic based), and one of two different sequences of the second 2 (time scale based). At that point, if you know the persons name (duh), it only takes at most 20 guesses to know the first 6 of their SSN. 10 different digits on the 6th num, and 2 permutations of the first 5.
The writing of the slashdot article makes it sound like this is the LAST Great Observatory that NASA is doing, and then is closing it's doors on that subject. Not so. It happens to be the last of the original 4 proposed ones in the 1970's. But others will come and go. For example, the planned 'replacement' for Hubble. Known as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), formerly known as the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST). Find out whatever you wish to know about it at: http://jwstsite.stsci.edu/
So just drink decaf stuff. I gave up caffeine a while back as well (at least when it is reasonable --- darn diners that don't have diet caffeine free sodas --- I also can't have sugar).
... and go to the really nice cappachino place, and order a decaf one ...
But just drink decaf coffee
I've got to say, that I really don't see the problem.
They didn't sue the person or anything like that. It's simply a nicely phrased letter from the company asking them to either replace the phrase with a generic one (sticky-tape), or place a registered trademark symbol after it.
That's all.
It was rather pleasant in fact. And makes perfect sense. As I would agree (not with the law, but with the action taken in response), that if I had been making a product, under a certain brand-name for 50 years. And this brandname is in danger of OTHER people being allowed to use it. I would defend it.
Otherwise, suddenly everyone is selling your brand name, and there is no distinction between your 'good product' that everyone has come to love, and the next guys cheap ripoff!
I read a bit on this, and it does seem to have two drawbacks, that noone ever mentions:
... on a highly loaded webserver, this can make for alot of extra processor overhead.
A) It takes more processor power on your webserver. It has to constantly compress files to send
B) It takes more processor power on the client. Well the client's gotten it quickly, but now it has to uncompress it. On a massively overpowered machine that is only running a web client at the time, not a problem. But perhaps problems for people with older machines, or running lots of stuff at the time.
I don't think that this really would be all that hard. In the situation you are in of course. Heck, I think a small script/batch file and a few web pages would about do it.
Here is my thought.
You have this PC machine with the good speakers/etc playing the songs (I'm assuming that this is powering speakers that everyone can hear, if this is shoutcasting or streaming somehow, that's a different story, but not TOO much worse).
On that machine make sure you have a web server going.
Now, write a small script that will look through a directory of mp3s, randomly pick one and play it. As it does this, it 'marks' that one as being played (for example, writes it's name into a file 'nowplaying.txt').
Ok, now write a little CGI/PHP/etc page on your website. Make it prompt for a username/password, and then display the song that is playing (by reading nowplaying.txt), and ask for a rating.
Store these ratings in a big file, let's say 'ratings.txt'. This file can have 1 line per song, and have a list of ratings after it. So if you have 5 people, and you only have 2 ratings (0=hate it, 1=like it) it might look like this:
Stairway_to_Heaven.mp3 0 1 0 1 1
Ok, So actually what you would need to do is autogenerate this ratings.txt file in the first place with ALL of the filenames in it, but no ratings yet. Now, instead of making your random player script actually look at the directory of MP3s, have it each time load this ratings file, and 'randomly' pick from it. In this case, if you have 5 people, and a hate it/love it system. You could simply have any song that has 3 hate its, never be played. Beyond that, give any song as many 'chances' as it has 'love its'. So a song that is 4 loves, 1 hate, as twice as much chance to be played as a song with 2 loves, 2 hates, which has twice as much chance to be played as a song with 1 love, 0 hates. etc.
Of course, this is the simple version. You could easily have a more complicated rating system and therefore a more complicated picking system.
But the basic gist is:
1) A random picker script that loops forever, reading ratings.txt (or a DB), applying rules to pick the song to play, and playing.
2) A CGI that asks for input on the song being played via reading nowplaying.txt, and updates ratings.txt
As an interviewee however, I see this the other way. When I have looked for a job in the past, I usually find 10 companies or so that match my 'best list'. I then go proceed to get interviews at said 10 companies.
... but when 8 of 10 are contacting me back, I'm not going to take the time to call the other 2, hoping that they had just forgotten about me. Heck, if they forgot about me, I probably don't wanna work there.
After that, I've always started to get calls back from the companies within a few days. If a company doesn't call ME back, I figure that they aren't interested in me.
Even if it was my favorite company from my list
>Also, the weapon switch hotkey thing. In terms of
>realism, the old way didn't really take long enough
>(you try unstrapping a shield from your arm and
>drawing a longsword and see how long it takes). Now
>you can switch instantly?
Actually, I'll take you up on the offer. I do medieval reinactment, and I can drop my shield and draw a longsword, in, oh, let's say 2 seconds tops? It's not that tough. However, to make it realisitic, the current weapon, if one handed might be 'resheathed'. But any shield or 2H weapon in your hands should be dropped to the ground as you draw the new weapon if you are in the heat of combat.
But that's not very niec from a playability point of view.
Sorry Jon, but having her request that he does the 'worst possible' in the tournament to please her is a VERY period thing. It was often that a knight would go to the extremes to please a lady, responding to her whim, going against their normal 'creed'.
I found this to be very well done (although I was suprised that he just 'stood there', would have looked better to have galloped forward with lance raised high crying her name loudly for all to hear).
Actually, the judge was talking about Digital Audio Tapes ... IE: DAT ...
Although there is a catch22 on this. In programming, if you get stuck, you need help. There are two places to turn usually.
1) Look on the web for some sample code that is doing what you need to do.
2) talk to a friend to figure out how to do it.
Either way, you are going to end up with code that looks like another bit of code. There are only SO many ways to code a certain algorithm. Just because two people in this case happened to, for example, code the same bug into their software doesn't mean they cheated.
It can mean that they collaborated, or one tried to help the other out with the basic concepts, and the other got the same flawed idea and implemented it in the same flawed way.
Ok, so they found common phrases, even paragraphs, in the papers. Yes, some of these are copying, I am sure. But are they also trying to kill teamwork?
I remember all the time having study sessions, or 'work sessions' with friends in a class. If there was a big paper to write, we would all get together and discuss the issues, really hash them out together until we knew them. It would be inevitable that we would probably end up with some of the same phrases on our papers. Someone probably said something memorable that really clicked with us all, so we all end up writing the exact same words, or very similar ones.
Also, like the article mentioned with the one student, there is the 'who cheated' question. Which I don't think they can really answer. How do you know which student copied, and which wrote the original? Unless someone offers to give themselves up, you can't tell, and attempting to tell is just gambling.
This sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen if they expel ANYONE.
Actually, I'm not sure about all states, but in the east coast ones I've lived my life around (West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland) ... It's illegal to drink under 21, even with parent's consent.