Nah, I'd say treating education like it's a 9-5 job is the problem. Or more accurately treating education like it's grunt work, and part of gaining life's monetary compensation. We suck the creativity out of them by making them follow ridiculously rigid rules. We teach them that being exceptional is inconsiderate to children who are underachievers. We teach them that failure is a result of factors out of their hand, instead of teaching them to accept failure and learn to over come it. We treat education like it's a penance and accost them for accepting it as awesome.
Parents are very important in a child's education. They need to be there showing them that learning is both fascinating and fulfilling. That failure is an important part of the learning process. That many of the best rewards in life are not tangible, and are in fact only important to yourself. Most of all, parents have to understand that they're just as responsible for instilling the basics as school is. School shouldn't be teaching your kid the ABC's and 123's.
It's way easier than that. There is no argument to win in the first place. It's actually a PR battle, and you're defending your honour. It's better to be confident that you posted something intelligent, informed, and witty. If the forum is worth its salt, it will be recognized.
I'd say put the Wiimote into a programmable remote control for those of use who use computers to drive home entertainment devices. Make a front end that displays your video library in more practical (as in bigger) and not worry about where you're going to put your mouse and keyboard on your coffee table. Besides, how often are you fiddling with a TV remote and suddenly wished you had a mouse pointer? I can think of many instances where a Wiimote type pointer would be a real nice to have. I guess the main obstacle would be the sensor bar.
Obviously there are people in this world that write about computers without ever having to work with one. There's a reason the mouse has survived so long in the face of touch pad, tit mouses, track balls, and touch screens. It's simply the best pointing device that anyone has ever come up with. This is why laptops in all their desire to be compact still accommodate an external mouse, and users in all their desire to reduce what they need to carry them bring their mouse along. Of course they have to use the "iPhone" as an example. If anything the mouse will evolve, and adopt forced feedback and other features of the Wii remote. Touch screens are nice for specific purpose Human Machine Interfaces such as bank machines, check out computers, and machine controls.
Facial gestures????? FACIAL GESTURES?? Am I going to spend my work day making funny faces at my computer? Am I going to have to stop everything I'm doing if I'm on the phone because I'll make uncontrolled emotive expressions? Will I no longer be able to collaborate on my computer because it would confuse the sensors? That crap isn't even going to be here in five years, let alone work. Remember how the Aptiva talked to you, that was what? 20 years ago? What's next? Are people going to be telling us our PC will be the size of roll of hockey tape?
I disagree. Radiohead has never done anything that would prevent them from selling an outlandish number of records. First it would be completely futile to try and follow up OK Computer, and second having released an album often reviewed as "the album of the decade" gives tons of creative freedom in the studio. But, if you know Radiohead you know they test market their albums by playing the unfinished songs live before committing them to tape. When they start releasing albums with 25 minute improvisational jams, EPs of sound experiments, or something that has no pop/rock songs on it you can say they are feigning popularity. Has Radiohead ever released the ballet soundtrack they did?
I agree that there is a problem where Saddam wasn't conforming with his treaty demands. But, the aluminum tubes were primarily pushed as evidence of a clandestine and dangerous nuclear program brewing under the deserts of Iraq. The aluminum tubes were much more important in representing Iraq as a danger that needed to be dealt with militarily. Today they are much more important in representing how disingenuously the administration treated intelligence in the run up to the war.
IANAL and so on, but "in criminal law, fraud is the crime or offense of deliberately deceiving another in order to damage them â" usually, to obtain property or services unjustly." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud. Assuming this is a valid definition of fraud (and Wikipedia does state that the specific legal definition of fraud varies in different jurisdictions, so there *is* a little wiggle room here), then common sense would dictate that for Ms. Drew to be guilty of fraud, she would have to have been ineligible for a MySpace account had she used her real name/information but was able to get an account by falsifying this information. Otherwise, she neither damaged MySpace nor unjustly obtained services from them.
To me this is what elevates it above simply using an alias to protect your anonymity. She misrepresented herself to circumvent the safe guards put in place to protect minors. She was in effect ineligible for a MySpace in account that put her in contact with the victim. Do we draw this line at criminal intent? I don't know. Would the ramifications be as far reaching if criminal intent was a necessity?
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I find most programming books are simply too abstract when they explain the higher concepts. They talk about how Shape() can be commanded to draw a Circle, Square, or Triangle, but they don't really tell you have you are going to tell Shape() to do that. But, they will drone on and on about how wonderful it is that you can make Shape any of the 3. I would love to see a book just break it down to a practical level, show me what it looks like, tell me what it's called, tell me what to look out for, and point me to further references. I find that with not having a formal education in programming, the most difficult thing is knowing what to look up.
The story goes that the aluminum tubes were built to a much higher spec than the rocket tubes. After the invasion they talked to the engineer that specified the tolerances, and he said it extends the range of the rocket's useful accuracy. What pains me is the fact that the intelligence hasn't changed since the run-up to the Iraq war. It's the same intelligence. The only thing they had before was the potential for gotchas, and a press that wouldn't challenge them on anything.
Why do I feel like I'm the only person that takes "don't be evil" with a grain of salt. Google has been a great corporation because they understood people on the Internet and how they wanted to be treated. But, they also use that knowledge when they calculate how far they can push the envelope. "Don't be evil" has translated into webmail accounts with massive amounts of space, web ads that's don't flash or pop-up, and a search engine who's front page maintains the very bland basic HTML feel. Now people dream of Google being the great fixer in any industry that has annoyed them over the years.
Yah, those are very comfortable keyboards to type on, and they intimidate the hell out of any outsider that wants to surf the web on your computer. I had one of those before I moved to the Logitech wireless. The only complaint I had over the natural keyboard was it's size. For awhile I lived in a small basement apartment and I had my computer setup at the end of my couch. There's not a lot of room for a CRT and keyboard on a small end table.
You're probably going to get scorched on the PS/2 bid. Knowing the PC industry there will probably be some way of shelling out a few bucks to continue support. Some of that stuff just dies really hard.
My favourite keyboard was bottom of the line Logitech wireless. Unfortunately I was unable to recover from the blue vodka cruiser incident. Right now I have a Logitech Access keyboard. It's fairly quiet, the keys are good enough, and it has all those fancy buttons. After 3 years of service I'm almost ready for a new one. I bought my daughter a Saitek. It's a full keyboard with the feel of a laptop keyboard. It has an odd feel at first but it's very comfortable and quiet to type on. It's also a very vibrant pink.
$130 for a keyboard? Maybe if I'm actually typing all day long.
I'm on Rogers in Canada and that's exactly what they have done. I'm a fairly heavy net user and average about 30gig of usage per month with the limit (before paying) of 70gig (upload + download). I don't think Torrents would be a problem if there wasn't a small select group of people turning their home Internet connect into a large 24/7 file server.
What is important about the long tail is that the people who go after category 3 are also the people that spend more on average than everybody else. They make for consistent reliable customers. If Block Buster focused on long tail they'd have a lot of movies that didn't move on a regular basis, but they'd also have a consistent clientèle interested in parts of that library. These same people are fairly disinterested in the new release wall.
Oh, you mean the same era where people were still buying full albums that had only one or two good songs? The same era where stations played only the marketable songs? Man, things sure are different today aren't they! I was actually referring to the days of,AOR (Album-oriented rock) and freeFrom radio. You know the reason that songs like Stairway to Heaven got air time despite never being released as singles. What has changed over the last 30 years is who programs the radio stations. The spontaneity of it all is completely gone.
It's not as bad as you make it out to be. People tend to be more accepting of music when it's at the very least in a genre they tend to like. It is in my experience. Most of the time I am recommending bands that are relatives (as in very close in style, names you'd throw out for comparison) or major influences of the bands people like. For music fans they'll pep up and ask questions, or they'll tell me what they've heard. But, the average person just gives you a glassy eyed stare like you're rubbing them the wrong way. Besides, I've never met a pop music fan that didn't claim to like all sorts of genres (usually everything but country and/or rap)
I hate to break it to you, but major labels are currently a necessity. An evil one, but they're there for a reason. The fact is, a good portion of the population doesn't want to take the time to find out what is good by sifting through 1 million shitty bands just to find that one good one. The major labels do this for us. They help promote the music that they think we, as a whole, want to listen to. (I realize "good" is subjective here.)
No, people will still hear and learn about music through print, the radio, clubs, friends, and the web. Without the major labels there wouldn't be a monopoly over the radio stations, you would have more variety, and better music would rise to the top. In fact it would be a similar to what existed in the 70s before they started chopping radio stations down into formats and controlling the play lists. (and major labels started to exist). It's not a matter of sifting through 1 million shitty bands. It's matter of just being open minded and little more receptive in cases where you're hearing things that aren't familiar. But, as a music fan, I can attest that it's extremely hard to get people to hear new music.
File sharing is 100% different. Libraries are granted the right to lend book by the copyright holders. Most file sharers are not granted this right. The photocopier falls under the category of fair use. Besides, most people aren't mentally retarded enough to pay 3x as much for a book by photocopying it when they could just read it half the amount of time. They give away movies and music all the time on the Internet and it's the same principle. The rights holder grant the distributer permission.
NO, artists have been doing this for decades. What really needs to happen is people have to stop turning their noses up on anything that isn't pushed by the mass media. It's bullshit that Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails get heaps of praise for moving away from major labels. Most bands never touch major labels.
I agree. When I write for loops I let the variable names do the talking. If I'm writing a for loop that's going through an index strings I'll use:
for(StringIndex; StringIndex
Actual comments should describe the codes behavior and not it's function. What annoys me is programmers who still use DOS style truncation for their variable, and object names.
But there is danger out there. What if a woman does something and someone says that it is not very good. That would hurt her self-esteem! Since we've already proven that women are indeed capable of doing everything far better than men, this attempt to hurt women's self-esteem must be stopped. There will be a meeting followed by a handout of the new rules about how all men must grovel a sufficient amount everyday to be allowed in the room with women's amazing wonderfulness. But, we also risk being called sexist pigs because there is no way that any criticism is actually based on some kind of merit.
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Nah, I'd say treating education like it's a 9-5 job is the problem. Or more accurately treating education like it's grunt work, and part of gaining life's monetary compensation. We suck the creativity out of them by making them follow ridiculously rigid rules. We teach them that being exceptional is inconsiderate to children who are underachievers. We teach them that failure is a result of factors out of their hand, instead of teaching them to accept failure and learn to over come it. We treat education like it's a penance and accost them for accepting it as awesome.
Parents are very important in a child's education. They need to be there showing them that learning is both fascinating and fulfilling. That failure is an important part of the learning process. That many of the best rewards in life are not tangible, and are in fact only important to yourself. Most of all, parents have to understand that they're just as responsible for instilling the basics as school is. School shouldn't be teaching your kid the ABC's and 123's.
It's way easier than that. There is no argument to win in the first place. It's actually a PR battle, and you're defending your honour. It's better to be confident that you posted something intelligent, informed, and witty. If the forum is worth its salt, it will be recognized.
I'd say put the Wiimote into a programmable remote control for those of use who use computers to drive home entertainment devices. Make a front end that displays your video library in more practical (as in bigger) and not worry about where you're going to put your mouse and keyboard on your coffee table. Besides, how often are you fiddling with a TV remote and suddenly wished you had a mouse pointer? I can think of many instances where a Wiimote type pointer would be a real nice to have. I guess the main obstacle would be the sensor bar.
Obviously there are people in this world that write about computers without ever having to work with one. There's a reason the mouse has survived so long in the face of touch pad, tit mouses, track balls, and touch screens. It's simply the best pointing device that anyone has ever come up with. This is why laptops in all their desire to be compact still accommodate an external mouse, and users in all their desire to reduce what they need to carry them bring their mouse along. Of course they have to use the "iPhone" as an example. If anything the mouse will evolve, and adopt forced feedback and other features of the Wii remote. Touch screens are nice for specific purpose Human Machine Interfaces such as bank machines, check out computers, and machine controls.
Facial gestures????? FACIAL GESTURES?? Am I going to spend my work day making funny faces at my computer? Am I going to have to stop everything I'm doing if I'm on the phone because I'll make uncontrolled emotive expressions? Will I no longer be able to collaborate on my computer because it would confuse the sensors? That crap isn't even going to be here in five years, let alone work. Remember how the Aptiva talked to you, that was what? 20 years ago? What's next? Are people going to be telling us our PC will be the size of roll of hockey tape?
Or you write them a glowing recommendation and help them get promoted out.
Yah, but Radiohead is doing it. When ever Radiohead does something, it's like Radiohead is doing it first.
I disagree. Radiohead has never done anything that would prevent them from selling an outlandish number of records. First it would be completely futile to try and follow up OK Computer, and second having released an album often reviewed as "the album of the decade" gives tons of creative freedom in the studio. But, if you know Radiohead you know they test market their albums by playing the unfinished songs live before committing them to tape. When they start releasing albums with 25 minute improvisational jams, EPs of sound experiments, or something that has no pop/rock songs on it you can say they are feigning popularity. Has Radiohead ever released the ballet soundtrack they did?
I was just about the say the same thing. You also escort them directly out of the building and let them pick up their personal things a week later.
I agree that there is a problem where Saddam wasn't conforming with his treaty demands. But, the aluminum tubes were primarily pushed as evidence of a clandestine and dangerous nuclear program brewing under the deserts of Iraq. The aluminum tubes were much more important in representing Iraq as a danger that needed to be dealt with militarily. Today they are much more important in representing how disingenuously the administration treated intelligence in the run up to the war.
IANAL and so on, but "in criminal law, fraud is the crime or offense of deliberately deceiving another in order to damage them â" usually, to obtain property or services unjustly." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud. Assuming this is a valid definition of fraud (and Wikipedia does state that the specific legal definition of fraud varies in different jurisdictions, so there *is* a little wiggle room here), then common sense would dictate that for Ms. Drew to be guilty of fraud, she would have to have been ineligible for a MySpace account had she used her real name/information but was able to get an account by falsifying this information. Otherwise, she neither damaged MySpace nor unjustly obtained services from them.
To me this is what elevates it above simply using an alias to protect your anonymity. She misrepresented herself to circumvent the safe guards put in place to protect minors. She was in effect ineligible for a MySpace in account that put her in contact with the victim. Do we draw this line at criminal intent? I don't know. Would the ramifications be as far reaching if criminal intent was a necessity?
I find most programming books are simply too abstract when they explain the higher concepts. They talk about how Shape() can be commanded to draw a Circle, Square, or Triangle, but they don't really tell you have you are going to tell Shape() to do that. But, they will drone on and on about how wonderful it is that you can make Shape any of the 3. I would love to see a book just break it down to a practical level, show me what it looks like, tell me what it's called, tell me what to look out for, and point me to further references. I find that with not having a formal education in programming, the most difficult thing is knowing what to look up.
The story goes that the aluminum tubes were built to a much higher spec than the rocket tubes. After the invasion they talked to the engineer that specified the tolerances, and he said it extends the range of the rocket's useful accuracy. What pains me is the fact that the intelligence hasn't changed since the run-up to the Iraq war. It's the same intelligence. The only thing they had before was the potential for gotchas, and a press that wouldn't challenge them on anything.
Why do I feel like I'm the only person that takes "don't be evil" with a grain of salt. Google has been a great corporation because they understood people on the Internet and how they wanted to be treated. But, they also use that knowledge when they calculate how far they can push the envelope. "Don't be evil" has translated into webmail accounts with massive amounts of space, web ads that's don't flash or pop-up, and a search engine who's front page maintains the very bland basic HTML feel. Now people dream of Google being the great fixer in any industry that has annoyed them over the years.
Yah, those are very comfortable keyboards to type on, and they intimidate the hell out of any outsider that wants to surf the web on your computer. I had one of those before I moved to the Logitech wireless. The only complaint I had over the natural keyboard was it's size. For awhile I lived in a small basement apartment and I had my computer setup at the end of my couch. There's not a lot of room for a CRT and keyboard on a small end table.
You're probably going to get scorched on the PS/2 bid. Knowing the PC industry there will probably be some way of shelling out a few bucks to continue support. Some of that stuff just dies really hard.
My favourite keyboard was bottom of the line Logitech wireless. Unfortunately I was unable to recover from the blue vodka cruiser incident. Right now I have a Logitech Access keyboard. It's fairly quiet, the keys are good enough, and it has all those fancy buttons. After 3 years of service I'm almost ready for a new one. I bought my daughter a Saitek. It's a full keyboard with the feel of a laptop keyboard. It has an odd feel at first but it's very comfortable and quiet to type on. It's also a very vibrant pink.
$130 for a keyboard? Maybe if I'm actually typing all day long.
I'm on Rogers in Canada and that's exactly what they have done. I'm a fairly heavy net user and average about 30gig of usage per month with the limit (before paying) of 70gig (upload + download). I don't think Torrents would be a problem if there wasn't a small select group of people turning their home Internet connect into a large 24/7 file server.
Microsoft could simply extend support to XP and make a friendlier Virtual Machine interface.
What is important about the long tail is that the people who go after category 3 are also the people that spend more on average than everybody else. They make for consistent reliable customers. If Block Buster focused on long tail they'd have a lot of movies that didn't move on a regular basis, but they'd also have a consistent clientèle interested in parts of that library. These same people are fairly disinterested in the new release wall.
No, people will still hear and learn about music through print, the radio, clubs, friends, and the web. Without the major labels there wouldn't be a monopoly over the radio stations, you would have more variety, and better music would rise to the top. In fact it would be a similar to what existed in the 70s before they started chopping radio stations down into formats and controlling the play lists. (and major labels started to exist). It's not a matter of sifting through 1 million shitty bands. It's matter of just being open minded and little more receptive in cases where you're hearing things that aren't familiar. But, as a music fan, I can attest that it's extremely hard to get people to hear new music.
File sharing is 100% different. Libraries are granted the right to lend book by the copyright holders. Most file sharers are not granted this right. The photocopier falls under the category of fair use. Besides, most people aren't mentally retarded enough to pay 3x as much for a book by photocopying it when they could just read it half the amount of time. They give away movies and music all the time on the Internet and it's the same principle. The rights holder grant the distributer permission.
NO, artists have been doing this for decades. What really needs to happen is people have to stop turning their noses up on anything that isn't pushed by the mass media. It's bullshit that Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails get heaps of praise for moving away from major labels. Most bands never touch major labels.
The libraries are licensed to lend you the books. They've been granted that right by the copyright holders.
I agree. When I write for loops I let the variable names do the talking. If I'm writing a for loop that's going through an index strings I'll use:
for(StringIndex; StringIndex
Actual comments should describe the codes behavior and not it's function. What annoys me is programmers who still use DOS style truncation for their variable, and object names.