but were in books is this text to speech feature?
Obviously they have it as Blind people are not mad about the use of them.
One thing I Really do not understand is, are Blind people even i the same classrooms are the sighted?
I know i have never seen one and every class i have ever attended would be very little use to a blind person anyways.
A house is not real money but when it burns down do you not lose thousands of dollars (the amount you could of sold it for)?
the ships were not real but if you could of sold your account/ship for thousands of dollars(real dollars) then thousands of dollars are lost.
no one is talking about using all of Microsoft offices applications at the same time.
I am saying you cannot compare MS Office installed on a $2000 dollar PC with the loading time of OO on a $300 laptop.
OO is slower, but that does not mean that MS Office would not also take a long time to load on a low end laptop.
I will admit that OO is slower, but I have seen MS Office take a long time to do anything on a laptop as well. They still need to be compared on a equal footing.
"For something like an Office product, if your everyday user needs to read a help file or gets confused about the way something works, you fucked up your GUI."
I have been forced to use a help file to figure out how to do stuff on OO, but i have also done that using MS office products.
they both have hundreds if not thousands of options and not all of them are intuitive and many need to be hidden behind layers of menu options.
"Takes a long fucking time to open OO. I mean a LONG time."
unless you compare it to the full Microsoft office on the same machine it is not really a fair comparison.
"I select all the fields and go to resize them all with a single click but--nothing happens. WTF? I try again. Nothing. I look on the menu bar quickly--nothing. WTF?"
OO does not duplicate all the functionality and gui of MS Office, it is a slight learning experience as it is a different product. But i for one have had more "wow, this such a better and more intuitive way of doing things" then "where have they put that" moments using OO.
I am surprised everyone seems so against this idea.
I do not know about anyone else but i do not go about trying addresses in the address bar and hoping to get a relevant site. if it does not show up on the first page of google chances are I will never visit the web page.
But, from what I have seen google does not seen to do much censoring, so i am not really worried at this point.
and I would consider it important not to be censored from any part of the internet.
Not that they should not edit out the people that try to artificially raise their relevant lvl, but web pages should not be filtered because some religions/ethnic group has a problem with the material.
Not that we necessarily need laws and the government to regulate it, if their are enough people around that consider it important hopefully their will always be censor free searches around.
While the article might contain some parts that sound like they come from someone upset that their business failed and are just blaming google because it is easy to do so, I believe the fundamental idea of search neutrality is something to want.
It just does not seem like nice language, if all the needed functionality is their they seem to have done a good job of hiding it.
and as to Scheme, it looks horrible, and C is very outdated compared to new OO style languages, so that is not a shining endorsement to me.
and just in general, how much better have they made JS run, I would think it would be almost impossible to give it the efficiency of a full language, even running on my computer that is probably about 1000 times more powerful then a mobile device a JS app could never hope to run 3D animations, drawing a few solid rectangles on the screen seems to be all it can handle without lagging.
It is a scripting language, and does a decent job at that, but you would no more write Halo in Unix Shell script then you would use JS.
"the target of Oct. 2018 would only be realized if adequate alternatives are developed."
So they want to faze out checks but they do not have any adequate alternatives? and they even have a date they want they fazed out by?
Seems like they are really getting ahead of themselves here.
I know when I did some work for a school library one part that stood out as very inefficient was the registering of new books.
They had a word document template, like one that could be printed off, you had to fill them in then email them to the main office (so that is 200 documents if their are 200 new books).
Then they would go threw them and enter them into a database.
And i am sure a lot of people even printed off the sheet.
It does not matter how fast and efficient using a computer is, if everyone continues to treat them as electronic paper or do everything in paper and then transfer it over.
No technology will instantly make huge advancements in efficiency if the users do not know to use it properly.
And when they own a significant portion of all good lesson plans do they jack up the price and start suing teachers using lesson plans that are similar to theirs?
Because you don't always need some response within 15 secs, nor do you want to always be responding to some questions that take away your time and concentration. Even if you have your email client open all the time, you can leave writing a reply to it for later time.
If you know you need a quicker response, you send an IM or call my phone. Something in between and you send an SMS.
For that matter I dont want everyone to know everything about me, I dont want everyone to know I'm available or not, I dont want everyone to know all the other people I know, nor do I want everyone to know something that only certain people should know.There's also no way you'll get me to install facebook or twitter apps on my phone. If I'm not on computer, there's no need to contact me other way than calling me (and I dont even always keep my phone with me - if I'm busy with other stuff, I'll call you back on better time)
You do not need to instantly respond to instant messages, nor do you need to indicate if you are online or not (most people are just constantly "away" in my experience).
You cannot rate what other people will do. yes you can out in a bad word filter, but they will get around it. you are interacting with people the ESRB cannot be responsible for what they say/do, therefore they do not put a rating on it.
In general yes, modifying game style to fit play style is a great concept.
Modifying difficulty is a gray area IMHO.
Mario Kart:
Now their is a to to be said for making the leader in a race not lap everyone else 20 times, he still wins but everyone else does not feel like a loser.
but "Mario Kart Wii" throws that out the window allows a players who was in last place the entire game suddenly get the instant win item and you, the far superior player suddenly loses.
And i have gone personally from last or close to it and winning the game in
and the same goes for the first place player, i have been feet away from the finish line only to be pelted by homing leader shells and other non avoidable items
In Mario Kart Wii the actual best player has to stay in second place for as much of the game as possible, as leading the pack means constantly being attacked by pretty much every time in the game
What is with search indexers anyway.
I swear i have scanned folders i knew had particular files and xp search did not find it, while i went in a opened the file myself seconds latter.
the indexing takes hours and hours and searching is also very slow.
Personally i use a free substitute "agent ransack" It does not index, is multiple times faster then xp search, and always finds stuff you are looking for.
I own an original xbox and properly modified it is a perfect media center.
I am not up on current Xbox 360 homebrew events, but all console makers are trying to crack down on homebrew and failing completely.
And since you would be installing your own OS, their is no reason to even connect to MS to get updates in the first place.
While I have never tried linux xbox, modding is very easy on the xbox 360 and it was always easy to install software/OSes on the original xbox.
I know the last, probably 5, games i have played required the physX engine to play.
does that mean that games that me and others used to play/own will no longer work?
Because that definitely sounds like something that should be illegal to me, if that is the case.
any information gathered by the UK government is normally in the hands of random Indians, Nigerians and Russians, etc within days, and the information on database so corrupt as to be worthless in less than a year.
Well that seems to exemplify the reason for this plan, racism.
The plan will not work because the UK is already so full of other nationalities and they are so incompetent that they make everything the UK does fail.
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but were in books is this text to speech feature?
Obviously they have it as Blind people are not mad about the use of them.
One thing I Really do not understand is, are Blind people even i the same classrooms are the sighted?
I know i have never seen one and every class i have ever attended would be very little use to a blind person anyways.
A house is not real money but when it burns down do you not lose thousands of dollars (the amount you could of sold it for)?
the ships were not real but if you could of sold your account/ship for thousands of dollars(real dollars) then thousands of dollars are lost.
no one is talking about using all of Microsoft offices applications at the same time.
I am saying you cannot compare MS Office installed on a $2000 dollar PC with the loading time of OO on a $300 laptop.
OO is slower, but that does not mean that MS Office would not also take a long time to load on a low end laptop.
I will admit that OO is slower, but I have seen MS Office take a long time to do anything on a laptop as well. They still need to be compared on a equal footing.
"For something like an Office product, if your everyday user needs to read a help file or gets confused about the way something works, you fucked up your GUI."
I have been forced to use a help file to figure out how to do stuff on OO, but i have also done that using MS office products.
they both have hundreds if not thousands of options and not all of them are intuitive and many need to be hidden behind layers of menu options.
"Takes a long fucking time to open OO. I mean a LONG time."
unless you compare it to the full Microsoft office on the same machine it is not really a fair comparison.
"I select all the fields and go to resize them all with a single click but--nothing happens. WTF? I try again. Nothing. I look on the menu bar quickly--nothing. WTF?"
OO does not duplicate all the functionality and gui of MS Office, it is a slight learning experience as it is a different product. But i for one have had more "wow, this such a better and more intuitive way of doing things" then "where have they put that" moments using OO.
I am surprised everyone seems so against this idea.
I do not know about anyone else but i do not go about trying addresses in the address bar and hoping to get a relevant site. if it does not show up on the first page of google chances are I will never visit the web page.
But, from what I have seen google does not seen to do much censoring, so i am not really worried at this point.
and I would consider it important not to be censored from any part of the internet.
Not that they should not edit out the people that try to artificially raise their relevant lvl, but web pages should not be filtered because some religions/ethnic group has a problem with the material.
Not that we necessarily need laws and the government to regulate it, if their are enough people around that consider it important hopefully their will always be censor free searches around.
While the article might contain some parts that sound like they come from someone upset that their business failed and are just blaming google because it is easy to do so, I believe the fundamental idea of search neutrality is something to want.
yes, but the keyword their is extended.
Now i will state now I am no expert at JS.
It just does not seem like nice language, if all the needed functionality is their they seem to have done a good job of hiding it.
and as to Scheme, it looks horrible, and C is very outdated compared to new OO style languages, so that is not a shining endorsement to me.
and just in general, how much better have they made JS run, I would think it would be almost impossible to give it the efficiency of a full language, even running on my computer that is probably about 1000 times more powerful then a mobile device a JS app could never hope to run 3D animations, drawing a few solid rectangles on the screen seems to be all it can handle without lagging.
It is a scripting language, and does a decent job at that, but you would no more write Halo in Unix Shell script then you would use JS.
JavaScript is not a good substitute for an actual programming language.
"the target of Oct. 2018 would only be realized if adequate alternatives are developed."
So they want to faze out checks but they do not have any adequate alternatives? and they even have a date they want they fazed out by?
Seems like they are really getting ahead of themselves here.
As long as they have big celebrities that are scientologists and publicly endorse the cult they are mainstream, in my opinion.
I know when I did some work for a school library one part that stood out as very inefficient was the registering of new books.
They had a word document template, like one that could be printed off, you had to fill them in then email them to the main office (so that is 200 documents if their are 200 new books).
Then they would go threw them and enter them into a database.
And i am sure a lot of people even printed off the sheet.
It does not matter how fast and efficient using a computer is, if everyone continues to treat them as electronic paper or do everything in paper and then transfer it over.
No technology will instantly make huge advancements in efficiency if the users do not know to use it properly.
And when they own a significant portion of all good lesson plans do they jack up the price and start suing teachers using lesson plans that are similar to theirs?
I never understood why computer sells found it necessary to make the computers they sell crappier before they sold it.
Ya, it was funny. I was actually reading about how they were dangerous to have while i was prompted by Firefox to remove them.
Time to move to Finland.
Because you don't always need some response within 15 secs, nor do you want to always be responding to some questions that take away your time and concentration. Even if you have your email client open all the time, you can leave writing a reply to it for later time.
If you know you need a quicker response, you send an IM or call my phone. Something in between and you send an SMS.
For that matter I dont want everyone to know everything about me, I dont want everyone to know I'm available or not, I dont want everyone to know all the other people I know, nor do I want everyone to know something that only certain people should know.There's also no way you'll get me to install facebook or twitter apps on my phone. If I'm not on computer, there's no need to contact me other way than calling me (and I dont even always keep my phone with me - if I'm busy with other stuff, I'll call you back on better time)
You do not need to instantly respond to instant messages, nor do you need to indicate if you are online or not (most people are just constantly "away" in my experience).
You cannot rate what other people will do. yes you can out in a bad word filter, but they will get around it. you are interacting with people the ESRB cannot be responsible for what they say/do, therefore they do not put a rating on it.
In general yes, modifying game style to fit play style is a great concept.
Modifying difficulty is a gray area IMHO.
Mario Kart: Now their is a to to be said for making the leader in a race not lap everyone else 20 times, he still wins but everyone else does not feel like a loser.
but "Mario Kart Wii" throws that out the window allows a players who was in last place the entire game suddenly get the instant win item and you, the far superior player suddenly loses.
And i have gone personally from last or close to it and winning the game in and the same goes for the first place player, i have been feet away from the finish line only to be pelted by homing leader shells and other non avoidable items
In Mario Kart Wii the actual best player has to stay in second place for as much of the game as possible, as leading the pack means constantly being attacked by pretty much every time in the game
What is with search indexers anyway. I swear i have scanned folders i knew had particular files and xp search did not find it, while i went in a opened the file myself seconds latter. the indexing takes hours and hours and searching is also very slow. Personally i use a free substitute "agent ransack" It does not index, is multiple times faster then xp search, and always finds stuff you are looking for.
Because malware never comes with legal software...
I own an original xbox and properly modified it is a perfect media center.
I am not up on current Xbox 360 homebrew events, but all console makers are trying to crack down on homebrew and failing completely.
And since you would be installing your own OS, their is no reason to even connect to MS to get updates in the first place.
While I have never tried linux xbox, modding is very easy on the xbox 360 and it was always easy to install software/OSes on the original xbox.
I know the last, probably 5, games i have played required the physX engine to play. does that mean that games that me and others used to play/own will no longer work? Because that definitely sounds like something that should be illegal to me, if that is the case.
any information gathered by the UK government is normally in the hands of random Indians, Nigerians and Russians, etc within days, and the information on database so corrupt as to be worthless in less than a year.
Well that seems to exemplify the reason for this plan, racism. The plan will not work because the UK is already so full of other nationalities and they are so incompetent that they make everything the UK does fail.
I dont understand why this would be considered unhackable. Exploits have already been released for windowed 7.