Seems to me, it reads that both parties are at fault. Anyone thinking he was pointing fingers and one side, might want to step back, and take off the rose/shit tinted spectacles.
"It seems to me that the coddling don't-hurt-their-self-esteem attitude that is churning out kids that have screwed up expectations, inadequate educations, and a distorted view of their own competence is a product of a subset of liberal thinkers." well, you are wrong, but keep letting the media dictate your views for you.
Sorry, rather liberal myself, but I don't think that one is pure media. The "try your best and get good marks even if you did a bad job" is a fairly liberal attitude, although an extreme case. Then agian, the extreme conservative case could defeat a child and make him or her think that he or she can do nothing, and give up. Both are problematic. However, it's only in rare/bad schools/classes where you will see either extreme. Even without the extremes, pushing to hard towards one of these, could hurt the mental and emotional growth of a child (the liberal side leading him/her to be unable to handle criticism, or perceived failure, the conservative side leading towards a perception of self-worthlessness that can't be overcome).
Add to that, private schools are self selecting for the people who care about the education of their children - if they didn't care, they would let the children go to the default, public schools. If they do care, they may choose private schools or they may chose to stick with public schools, but take a more active/supportive role.
Exception: Parents that don't care about general education, but do care about one topic in particular, will send their kids to private schools that don't teach education. Anyone know of a comparison educations results in the following schools? (a) private schools which teach evolution (b) private schools overall (c) private schools that don't teach evolution (d) public schools
My hypothesis is that education quality will go down, on average, from a to d, just from parental influence standpoints.
I think the point was, while peoples lives are being improved, it is silly to say it shows that they care about other things than profit. From reading the article, the main reason looks to be that they want to increase or at least ensure their profit.
That makes me think of all the people who hear complaints about Linux and respond with "Oh, that was last year, have you tried it recently?"
Except it's closer to a decade, instead of a year. If you're gonna complain, at least try to be on a current variant. That's four major versions ago. Would you bitch Linux due to issues with the 1.x kernel?
I wouldn't say that's the only thing, but I remember having laptops with better than 900 vertical resolution, and I'd love to see that again.
Aside from that * Options for both low power (energy) and high power (performance) processors - obviously you won't get either at the same time, but an option for whichever would fit your needs best, would be nice. * Options for either a simple-low-power-integrated GPU, or a high performance (ATI/nVidia) card. Many developers won't need the latter, many will. * Space for lots of memory (usually not an issue these days) * Space for at least two drives (useful for performance, data safety, etc.) * Lots of battery life - maybe a dual battery system. Done force lightest-weight-possible on everyone - some of us only need portable, not mobile, computing, and see an 8-12lb notebook as only mildly annoying, well worth the extra battery life that can be put into that weight.
I guess it comes down to - the most important thing for notebooks, is flexibility in what your models offer - there's a wide variety of dev work to be done out there.
Of course, if is better that rates go up, than to let the other guy get credit for being beneficial. It's not what's good for the country, it's what's good for the party.
I haven't seen a mod point in months, which is really depressing, because your post deserves a few insightful votes.
What I'd give to get out of this two party quagmire. Sadly, the only thing I can give is my vote (to third parties), and some money (to third parties), but it is not enough...
All single-language/paradigm groups are pretty-closed mind lots. I've not found the C# groups to be particularly better worse, than those for Java or PHP. Usually better than the Python groups, and I won't even start on the Perl community...
No matter how good a Java IDE is, it still has a huge/critical flaw IMO, namely Java having one of the worst base libraries of any language I've used, and it's missing quite a few features (although v7 fixed most, and v8 will get most of the rest).
Also, for the application I have to do most of my Java programming for, work files use eclipse. And honestly, aside form setting up the syntax coloring to not hurt my eyes, and so it is useful, Eclipse is just startup-and-go after about 10 minutes of work, including the download time. That is, at least, for my uses.
Who says OEMs would use VideoLan? They don't use it now, I can see it being very likely they will provide DVD software, and pay the royalties for it, legitimately. I've seen it before it was built into Windows, and I'm sure it will happen again. This is one of those cases where the customers would literally leave them for another manufacturer with a flub.
There is one danger to python that can hinder long-term maintainability:
The ability to change what member exist in an object after it is created. If you create a class, "foo" containing members "x", and "y", you can then create foo objects, and add "z" to some, remove "y" from others, etc.
This can make things tricky if you aren't careful, and should be avoided if you don't use a duck-typing methodology.
Also, I'll probably get lynched here, but consider C# with either MonoDevelop or Visual Studios Express. The latter, with intellisense, really speed up dev time IMO, even compared to Python.
I've used Anjuta, Eclipse, MonoDevelop and Netbeans. I definitely like Visual Studios the best. I've also used a couple non/semi-IDE editors (Emacs, Gedit, nano)...
The C++ compiler has had some interesting (read, aggravating/unpleasant) quirks, but the IDE itself is great. I also tend to stick with vanilla C, and avoid the C compiler issue...
Regarding the question in TFS...
I would recommend looking at C, C# and Python. I find for almost any problem, one of the three tends to be the best solution, or close to it. Usually I like combining one of the latter two with C.
C - Works almost everywhere, very powerful, and if you are creative, allows you to perform some interesting tricks. C# - With mono, this has great cross platform functionality. Compile-once and run on most desktop environments. The exception is if you want to use it on "big iron" style systems, such as HPUX, AIX, etc., where mono usually isn't ported. You can even use it to make apps for Android, iOS, and WindowsPhone, though unlike the desktops, each requires a recompile, and probably some code tweaks for the specific UI APIs. I picked this over Java for the cleaner API. Python - An extremely flexible language. Not the best performance by default, but with some things like Psycho or PyPy, it can provide higher performance than you'd expect. The ability to modify not only the values, but even the existence of members (even functions) run-time is incredibly powerful (but also dangerous). I could spend several hours on this post, and not do justice to this language, both in terms of pros, and dangers (the latter of which are easily avoidable by a moderately experienced programmer, who doesn't get distracted by the 'oooh-shiny' aspect of them).
Regarding the "no pay" requirement - for C# there is MonoDevelop and VIsual Studios Express - both are free (as in beer).
Aye. Also, in most cases, people live in rural areas because they want to be away from the 'hubub' of city life. There are choices and expenses associated with each.
Why not just make sure a hub is available to the regions (guaranteed to be within a certain distance), and leave the onus of the "last mile", up to the residents?
Yes - I know farmers have no choice but to live in less dense regions. However, in my experience. they tend to prefer these less dense regions, and in more than a few cases, either that's why they chose farming, or they consider a perk to the job.
There were job openings for skype developers specifically on Windows Phone prior to MSs acquisition of Skype. I think it is safe to assume that Skype, therefore, is not limited to the restriction of 3rd party APIs...
However, the sockets support is an interesting, new thing. I haven't actually played around with it since last fall. It looked like there were no plans on progressing on the 'network sockets' front. I'm glad this has changed. It's one of the big reasons I gave up on writing anything for the platform.
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Seems to me, it reads that both parties are at fault. Anyone thinking he was pointing fingers and one side, might want to step back, and take off the rose/shit tinted spectacles.
Sorry, rather liberal myself, but I don't think that one is pure media. The "try your best and get good marks even if you did a bad job" is a fairly liberal attitude, although an extreme case. Then agian, the extreme conservative case could defeat a child and make him or her think that he or she can do nothing, and give up.
Both are problematic. However, it's only in rare/bad schools/classes where you will see either extreme. Even without the extremes, pushing to hard towards one of these, could hurt the mental and emotional growth of a child (the liberal side leading him/her to be unable to handle criticism, or perceived failure, the conservative side leading towards a perception of self-worthlessness that can't be overcome).
Agreed.
Add to that, private schools are self selecting for the people who care about the education of their children - if they didn't care, they would let the children go to the default, public schools. If they do care, they may choose private schools or they may chose to stick with public schools, but take a more active/supportive role.
Exception: Parents that don't care about general education, but do care about one topic in particular, will send their kids to private schools that don't teach education. Anyone know of a comparison educations results in the following schools?
(a) private schools which teach evolution
(b) private schools overall
(c) private schools that don't teach evolution
(d) public schools
My hypothesis is that education quality will go down, on average, from a to d, just from parental influence standpoints.
Yeah that was my firs thought:
It is there to educate the public on the benefits of piracy.
I think the point was, while peoples lives are being improved, it is silly to say it shows that they care about other things than profit. From reading the article, the main reason looks to be that they want to increase or at least ensure their profit.
bed toyed with?
I'm not sure what kind of kinky shit you're into, backlashes being 'bed toys' now :-P
Or maybe they should have upgraded since then?
I'm not talking about making complaints /then/ I'm talking about making them now.
That makes me think of all the people who hear complaints about Linux and respond with "Oh, that was last year, have you tried it recently?"
Except it's closer to a decade, instead of a year. If you're gonna complain, at least try to be on a current variant. That's four major versions ago. Would you bitch Linux due to issues with the 1.x kernel?
My employer/university uses it also. Works fine for me on Firefox and the web browser on Android phones...
Have you seen a PoE terminal before? I think that was the point of this one...
It's nice, but if you don't need the high power, why bother?
Also, my notebook doesn't seem to be switching like it should :-(
I wouldn't say that's the only thing, but I remember having laptops with better than 900 vertical resolution, and I'd love to see that again.
Aside from that
* Options for both low power (energy) and high power (performance) processors - obviously you won't get either at the same time, but an option for whichever would fit your needs best, would be nice.
* Options for either a simple-low-power-integrated GPU, or a high performance (ATI/nVidia) card. Many developers won't need the latter, many will.
* Space for lots of memory (usually not an issue these days)
* Space for at least two drives (useful for performance, data safety, etc.)
* Lots of battery life - maybe a dual battery system. Done force lightest-weight-possible on everyone - some of us only need portable, not mobile, computing, and see an 8-12lb notebook as only mildly annoying, well worth the extra battery life that can be put into that weight.
I guess it comes down to - the most important thing for notebooks, is flexibility in what your models offer - there's a wide variety of dev work to be done out there.
Wow, Major geek demerits! That only is for direct application of the radiation. The GP is correct, as he had indirect application through a spider.
Of course, if is better that rates go up, than to let the other guy get credit for being beneficial. It's not what's good for the country, it's what's good for the party.
Not to mention a cheap and desperate labor force, which is great for profit.
I haven't seen a mod point in months, which is really depressing, because your post deserves a few insightful votes.
What I'd give to get out of this two party quagmire. Sadly, the only thing I can give is my vote (to third parties), and some money (to third parties), but it is not enough...
All single-language/paradigm groups are pretty-closed mind lots. I've not found the C# groups to be particularly better worse, than those for Java or PHP. Usually better than the Python groups, and I won't even start on the Perl community...
No matter how good a Java IDE is, it still has a huge/critical flaw IMO, namely Java having one of the worst base libraries of any language I've used, and it's missing quite a few features (although v7 fixed most, and v8 will get most of the rest).
Also, for the application I have to do most of my Java programming for, work files use eclipse. And honestly, aside form setting up the syntax coloring to not hurt my eyes, and so it is useful, Eclipse is just startup-and-go after about 10 minutes of work, including the download time. That is, at least, for my uses.
No, that is who it targets
It was probably thought up by someone who wanted a quick boost in sales.
Who says OEMs would use VideoLan? They don't use it now, I can see it being very likely they will provide DVD software, and pay the royalties for it, legitimately. I've seen it before it was built into Windows, and I'm sure it will happen again. This is one of those cases where the customers would literally leave them for another manufacturer with a flub.
There is one danger to python that can hinder long-term maintainability:
The ability to change what member exist in an object after it is created. If you create a class, "foo" containing members "x", and "y", you can then create foo objects, and add "z" to some, remove "y" from others, etc.
This can make things tricky if you aren't careful, and should be avoided if you don't use a duck-typing methodology.
Also, I'll probably get lynched here, but consider C# with either MonoDevelop or Visual Studios Express. The latter, with intellisense, really speed up dev time IMO, even compared to Python.
I've used Anjuta, Eclipse, MonoDevelop and Netbeans. I definitely like Visual Studios the best. I've also used a couple non/semi-IDE editors (Emacs, Gedit, nano)...
The C++ compiler has had some interesting (read, aggravating/unpleasant) quirks, but the IDE itself is great. I also tend to stick with vanilla C, and avoid the C compiler issue...
Regarding the question in TFS...
I would recommend looking at C, C# and Python. I find for almost any problem, one of the three tends to be the best solution, or close to it. Usually I like combining one of the latter two with C.
C - Works almost everywhere, very powerful, and if you are creative, allows you to perform some interesting tricks.
C# - With mono, this has great cross platform functionality. Compile-once and run on most desktop environments. The exception is if you want to use it on "big iron" style systems, such as HPUX, AIX, etc., where mono usually isn't ported. You can even use it to make apps for Android, iOS, and WindowsPhone, though unlike the desktops, each requires a recompile, and probably some code tweaks for the specific UI APIs. I picked this over Java for the cleaner API.
Python - An extremely flexible language. Not the best performance by default, but with some things like Psycho or PyPy, it can provide higher performance than you'd expect. The ability to modify not only the values, but even the existence of members (even functions) run-time is incredibly powerful (but also dangerous). I could spend several hours on this post, and not do justice to this language, both in terms of pros, and dangers (the latter of which are easily avoidable by a moderately experienced programmer, who doesn't get distracted by the 'oooh-shiny' aspect of them).
Regarding the "no pay" requirement - for C# there is MonoDevelop and VIsual Studios Express - both are free (as in beer).
I suspect most manufacturers will do what they do now.
Provide you with their own player.
Really, this only affects people who install their own copies of Windows.
You can get Visual Studio Express with it's C compiler, for free.
You can get GCC through either MinGW or Cygwin for free.
Why would you want to pay $100? If you really want, you can give me $100 and I'll send you any of these on a CD...
Aye. Also, in most cases, people live in rural areas because they want to be away from the 'hubub' of city life. There are choices and expenses associated with each.
Why not just make sure a hub is available to the regions (guaranteed to be within a certain distance), and leave the onus of the "last mile", up to the residents?
Yes - I know farmers have no choice but to live in less dense regions. However, in my experience. they tend to prefer these less dense regions, and in more than a few cases, either that's why they chose farming, or they consider a perk to the job.
There were job openings for skype developers specifically on Windows Phone prior to MSs acquisition of Skype. I think it is safe to assume that Skype, therefore, is not limited to the restriction of 3rd party APIs...
However, the sockets support is an interesting, new thing. I haven't actually played around with it since last fall. It looked like there were no plans on progressing on the 'network sockets' front. I'm glad this has changed. It's one of the big reasons I gave up on writing anything for the platform.