I'm not sure, but I think the motion plus allows for greater precision. At the very least, you could get a wider range of motion (something I felt the game needed).
I lack a printer, and thus I rely on the University's printing capabilities. I'm sure I'm not the only one; many students appear to have their own computers, but seem to rely on the University for printing off papers or projects.
I believe Firefox 3 automatically imports your bookmarks from Firefox 2. I dont' know about history or passwords, but if you're losing your bookmarks, I don't think it's a Firefox problem, I think you missed an option or something.
I would actually argue opposite to this. Firefox is a much more traditional browser, along the lines of the early 2000s IE and Netscape releases. With IE7, I find it's harder to do what I want than it is in Firefox. The layout in FF is simple; the buttons are right where you'd expect them (not split between the right and left sides or anything), the URL bar is where it traditionally is, and the bookmarks and history menus are impossible to miss in the main menu bar (compared to the lack of a menu bar with IE7). Combine that with a search bar and it's much easier to use than IE7 for anybody that's used to traditional browsers.
Here's my experience with all the major browsers so far.
I currently have the following browsers installed on my computer.
On Vista:
Safari 3.1.2
Firefox 3.0.3
Opera 9.6.0
Internet Explorer 7.0.6
On XP (virtualized on Vista using VirtualBox; all of these are pre-release):
Safari 4.0
Firefox 3.1
Google Chrome 0.2
Internet Explorer 8.0
I have to say that, in terms of speed, Safari is the fastest of all these browsers I've tried. However, it seems to have more than its share of memory leaks (I've been running it now for about half an hour and it's using 250 MB). I haven't played around with the 4.0 beta yet to determine if there has been any stability upgrades, but it doesn't seem any slower than 3.1.2.
Opera and Chrome are both nice in their own ways, though I disabled one of Opera's more prominent features, the mouse gestures (I find them annoying). I use both of them for common browsing, but I find that I tend to use Opera more for social stuff and browsing, and I use Chrome more for doing particular tasks, such as checking my e-mail or the like.
Internet Explorer 7 is awful, tends to crash a lot, and snails along compared to my other browsers. IE8 has some significant standards improvements (but is still miles behind the competition), and appears to be at least marginally faster and less buggy than 7, but I'd still choose another browser over it. It's also got what are called "accelerators," which are basically plugins that let you do things such as define words using the context menu. In other words, stuff other browsers have been able to do for years.
Lastly, I have Firefox optimized for security and functionality, so I tend to not use it for common browsing. However, the 3.1 beta (which I don't have configured this way) seems to have a good balance of speed, stability, and standards support, and doesn't have any feature bloat to bog down my browsing experience.
They're different parts of the same group. They all consider themselves "Anonymous," but the subset of them that are carrying out the attacks against Scientology are vastly different than the subset of them that hacked Palin's email and posted the contents. From what my sources tell me (and I've got a few on the inside), there's actually a great deal of in-fighting between these two subsets (the ones attacking Scientology are worried about what this attack will do for their reputation, and the group that did this attack think the group attacking Scientology misrepresents Anonymous).
I'm currently enrolled in AP Computer Science AB, and I can say without a doubt it has been one of the most useful classes I've taken up to this point. I'm frustrated and confused at this news. I suppose the upside is that fewer computer science courses will conform to the strict Java-only curriculum, allowing for educations in other programming languages besides Java, such as C/C++. On the other hand, it may just mean less material is taught in high school computer science courses. If I had to guess which is more likely, I'd have to go with the latter.
Stopping school shootings is all good, but (a) there are ways to do it that don't involve methods that could theoretically limit freedom of expression, and (b) I highly doubt somebody that plans to shoot up a school is going to be deterred by the fact that s/he might be seen by the police while shooting it up.
Someone make a petition against it. I'd definitely sign it, and I'm sure thousands of others would, too. Then submit the petition to the Library of Congress.
The kids deserve to be punished for breaking the law; however, it was also an invasion of privacy to those who *weren't* breaking the law. Both parties deserve punishment.
Also, I believe there is legal precedent here. If I remember correctly, one school got sued for this exact same sort of thing -- and lost.
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I'm not sure, but I think the motion plus allows for greater precision. At the very least, you could get a wider range of motion (something I felt the game needed).
I lack a printer, and thus I rely on the University's printing capabilities. I'm sure I'm not the only one; many students appear to have their own computers, but seem to rely on the University for printing off papers or projects.
Sounds like Robocode to me. http://robocode.sourceforge.net/
I believe Firefox 3 automatically imports your bookmarks from Firefox 2. I dont' know about history or passwords, but if you're losing your bookmarks, I don't think it's a Firefox problem, I think you missed an option or something.
I would actually argue opposite to this. Firefox is a much more traditional browser, along the lines of the early 2000s IE and Netscape releases. With IE7, I find it's harder to do what I want than it is in Firefox. The layout in FF is simple; the buttons are right where you'd expect them (not split between the right and left sides or anything), the URL bar is where it traditionally is, and the bookmarks and history menus are impossible to miss in the main menu bar (compared to the lack of a menu bar with IE7). Combine that with a search bar and it's much easier to use than IE7 for anybody that's used to traditional browsers.
And, for some odd reason, it appears all the line breaks I put in were completely ignored in the message. Sorry about that.
Here's my experience with all the major browsers so far. I currently have the following browsers installed on my computer. On Vista: Safari 3.1.2 Firefox 3.0.3 Opera 9.6.0 Internet Explorer 7.0.6 On XP (virtualized on Vista using VirtualBox; all of these are pre-release): Safari 4.0 Firefox 3.1 Google Chrome 0.2 Internet Explorer 8.0 I have to say that, in terms of speed, Safari is the fastest of all these browsers I've tried. However, it seems to have more than its share of memory leaks (I've been running it now for about half an hour and it's using 250 MB). I haven't played around with the 4.0 beta yet to determine if there has been any stability upgrades, but it doesn't seem any slower than 3.1.2. Opera and Chrome are both nice in their own ways, though I disabled one of Opera's more prominent features, the mouse gestures (I find them annoying). I use both of them for common browsing, but I find that I tend to use Opera more for social stuff and browsing, and I use Chrome more for doing particular tasks, such as checking my e-mail or the like. Internet Explorer 7 is awful, tends to crash a lot, and snails along compared to my other browsers. IE8 has some significant standards improvements (but is still miles behind the competition), and appears to be at least marginally faster and less buggy than 7, but I'd still choose another browser over it. It's also got what are called "accelerators," which are basically plugins that let you do things such as define words using the context menu. In other words, stuff other browsers have been able to do for years. Lastly, I have Firefox optimized for security and functionality, so I tend to not use it for common browsing. However, the 3.1 beta (which I don't have configured this way) seems to have a good balance of speed, stability, and standards support, and doesn't have any feature bloat to bog down my browsing experience.
They're different parts of the same group. They all consider themselves "Anonymous," but the subset of them that are carrying out the attacks against Scientology are vastly different than the subset of them that hacked Palin's email and posted the contents. From what my sources tell me (and I've got a few on the inside), there's actually a great deal of in-fighting between these two subsets (the ones attacking Scientology are worried about what this attack will do for their reputation, and the group that did this attack think the group attacking Scientology misrepresents Anonymous).
I'm currently enrolled in AP Computer Science AB, and I can say without a doubt it has been one of the most useful classes I've taken up to this point. I'm frustrated and confused at this news. I suppose the upside is that fewer computer science courses will conform to the strict Java-only curriculum, allowing for educations in other programming languages besides Java, such as C/C++. On the other hand, it may just mean less material is taught in high school computer science courses. If I had to guess which is more likely, I'd have to go with the latter.
Stopping school shootings is all good, but (a) there are ways to do it that don't involve methods that could theoretically limit freedom of expression, and (b) I highly doubt somebody that plans to shoot up a school is going to be deterred by the fact that s/he might be seen by the police while shooting it up.
Ignorant representatives: limiting distribution of FOSS since their election.
They're both non-profit and both only exist to help people.
Someone make a petition against it. I'd definitely sign it, and I'm sure thousands of others would, too. Then submit the petition to the Library of Congress.
The kids deserve to be punished for breaking the law; however, it was also an invasion of privacy to those who *weren't* breaking the law. Both parties deserve punishment.
Also, I believe there is legal precedent here. If I remember correctly, one school got sued for this exact same sort of thing -- and lost.