OO need not even be used in python. You can do straight procedural programming in it. The loop constructs are also richer (maybe more intuitive) than what you would get in C.
The students are minors, a.k.a they have no rights at all. Furthermore, it is the teacher's prerogative how to enforce order in her own classroom. IANAL but I am 99.9% sure that there is legal precedent for the teacher being a surrogate parent while she has the kids. You surely wouldn't argue against a parent's right to not confiscate their children's possessions.
Teaching is hard enough, after all kids just want to have fun, and for most, fun isn't learning. It is important for the power dynamic in a classroom that the teacher is largely unquestioned. We have no right to question a teacher's actions to maintain order in her own classroom. This guy, if he feels so strongly about it, should have just stuffed a bunch of CDs in the students mailboxes instead of being such a blowhard and whinging about the teacher's incompetence. There is more to school than technology, and teachers can't be an expert about everything.
Wow! Because sueing teachers is totally going to stir the influx of good teachers into the system that is desperately needed. Teaching is hard, this teacher was wrong. Now step off, and let them do their job. There is more to education than "indoctrinating OSs" and if the kids like computers and have any innate desire or curiosity they'll come across linux eventually on their own. If not, they aren't worth it anyway.
Ctrl+Tab also cycles through tabs, even in firefox 3.1. I know you wanted the shiney animation, but Ctrl+Tab already does switch tabs.
That being said, I want the animated tab switcher. THe little thumbnails you can get in IE 7 are in my mind about the only thing it got right.
It may have escaped your notice, but regardless of internet connectivity inside cities, you still need to lay down massive trunks to move from city to city across all of the interesting continent spanning terrain. A 10000 gigazilion MBs link does you no good if it's limited by some pygmy link connecting to everyone else.
If you're using a windows version that firefox doesn't support then getting phished because the filters got turned off is the least of your worries (what with the multiple rootkits and keyloggers that are already on your machine)
I guess the question is, if people are so against upgrading to 3.0 (which I find worlds better btw), how long will it take someone to write an extension for 2.0 that supports the new format.
It doesn't help that Perl isn't actually a language. If I remember correctly Perl is defined by whatever the reference implementation executes and considers correct. Not a particularly rigorous definition for a language, particularly one so widely used.
Makefiles are easy, Makefile.am(s) are easy. configure.acs are where the pain is. Every time I have to do anything with them, I feel like I want to cry and then end up cutting and pasting a whole bunch of junk from some other configure.ac.
But then again how old is the freespace engine? Its not really cutting edge anymore, and games these days are in an arms race for who can have the best graphics at all costs, regardless of actually game play.
We'll get a rail gun launch system when the laws of physics no longer apply. Do you want to build a 30 mile high charged tower to accelerate human occupants safely and power it?
Hey, at least for the future, they learned how not to run a space station. I'm sure NASA and all the other space agencies have smart enough people to not fail so abysmally next time.
Its not necessarily bad design. The processes that have pages swapped out likely haven't run in a while (i.e. they likely won't run for a while longer). This free's up the physical ram for large unforseen memory allocations by running programs. In this way, the RAM can just be allocated, instead of your system grinding to a halt because 256MB need to be written to the disk to make room for something.
Can you de-fragment ram? I thought the only problems you run into where internal fragmentation since everything is allocated in page sized blocks? I can't really see being able to transparently compress data stored across multiple pages transparently to a user program.
No, it is not necessary on a multiprogramming environment. Older CPUs/OSs made do fine with primitive Memory Management Units that supported only base/limit address enforcement.
As an interesting other direction, neural networks can make interesting state evaluators. The only drawback being that the must be trained ahead of time. You end with (theoretically) more flexible state evaluators in the face of changing game environments.
I couldn't resist. However, I seem to remember the article claiming there were difficulties with the KDE spin because the KDE release cycle is so far askew from the fedora one.
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OO need not even be used in python. You can do straight procedural programming in it. The loop constructs are also richer (maybe more intuitive) than what you would get in C.
The students are minors, a.k.a they have no rights at all. Furthermore, it is the teacher's prerogative how to enforce order in her own classroom. IANAL but I am 99.9% sure that there is legal precedent for the teacher being a surrogate parent while she has the kids. You surely wouldn't argue against a parent's right to not confiscate their children's possessions.
Teaching is hard enough, after all kids just want to have fun, and for most, fun isn't learning. It is important for the power dynamic in a classroom that the teacher is largely unquestioned. We have no right to question a teacher's actions to maintain order in her own classroom. This guy, if he feels so strongly about it, should have just stuffed a bunch of CDs in the students mailboxes instead of being such a blowhard and whinging about the teacher's incompetence. There is more to school than technology, and teachers can't be an expert about everything.
Wow! Because sueing teachers is totally going to stir the influx of good teachers into the system that is desperately needed. Teaching is hard, this teacher was wrong. Now step off, and let them do their job. There is more to education than "indoctrinating OSs" and if the kids like computers and have any innate desire or curiosity they'll come across linux eventually on their own. If not, they aren't worth it anyway.
Ctrl+Tab also cycles through tabs, even in firefox 3.1. I know you wanted the shiney animation, but Ctrl+Tab already does switch tabs.
That being said, I want the animated tab switcher. THe little thumbnails you can get in IE 7 are in my mind about the only thing it got right.
Intruigingly, so would the rest of the world's economies as well. Thus we have MAD, and everyone is suddenly happy with the status quo.
It may have escaped your notice, but regardless of internet connectivity inside cities, you still need to lay down massive trunks to move from city to city across all of the interesting continent spanning terrain. A 10000 gigazilion MBs link does you no good if it's limited by some pygmy link connecting to everyone else.
And then the US would pull out its giant honkin big "Cancelled" stamp.
Does that mean you never go to google in the first place?
Thats odd. Maybe a glitch in the clear private data. I've done into the history and deleted things manually, they are then gone from the bar.
If you're using a windows version that firefox doesn't support then getting phished because the filters got turned off is the least of your worries (what with the multiple rootkits and keyloggers that are already on your machine)
I guess the question is, if people are so against upgrading to 3.0 (which I find worlds better btw), how long will it take someone to write an extension for 2.0 that supports the new format.
It doesn't help that Perl isn't actually a language. If I remember correctly Perl is defined by whatever the reference implementation executes and considers correct. Not a particularly rigorous definition for a language, particularly one so widely used.
Makefiles are easy, Makefile.am(s) are easy. configure.acs are where the pain is. Every time I have to do anything with them, I feel like I want to cry and then end up cutting and pasting a whole bunch of junk from some other configure.ac.
But then again how old is the freespace engine? Its not really cutting edge anymore, and games these days are in an arms race for who can have the best graphics at all costs, regardless of actually game play.
We'll get a rail gun launch system when the laws of physics no longer apply. Do you want to build a 30 mile high charged tower to accelerate human occupants safely and power it?
Hey, at least for the future, they learned how not to run a space station. I'm sure NASA and all the other space agencies have smart enough people to not fail so abysmally next time.
That does sound nifty. How does this stack up to the "HotSpot" optimizations that Java and .NET CLR do?
Its not necessarily bad design. The processes that have pages swapped out likely haven't run in a while (i.e. they likely won't run for a while longer). This free's up the physical ram for large unforseen memory allocations by running programs. In this way, the RAM can just be allocated, instead of your system grinding to a halt because 256MB need to be written to the disk to make room for something.
Can you de-fragment ram? I thought the only problems you run into where internal fragmentation since everything is allocated in page sized blocks? I can't really see being able to transparently compress data stored across multiple pages transparently to a user program.
No, it is not necessary on a multiprogramming environment. Older CPUs/OSs made do fine with primitive Memory Management Units that supported only base/limit address enforcement.
As an interesting other direction, neural networks can make interesting state evaluators. The only drawback being that the must be trained ahead of time. You end with (theoretically) more flexible state evaluators in the face of changing game environments.
I'm going to go with yes, i.e 1/(x^n)
So, it sounds like you are advocating Bread & Circuses. That worked out great for Rome...
I couldn't resist. However, I seem to remember the article claiming there were difficulties with the KDE spin because the KDE release cycle is so far askew from the fedora one.
A distro for tweakers that ships Gnome by default? Gasp!