Honestly, how much good faith could these people have? "Give us some money or we'll destroy this priceless piece of our nation's history" is not something that would come out of a regular joe who's accidentally bought a hot item.
I've always wondered why you can't get a monitor to follow your eye and bring focus to whatever you're looking at. This technology already exists in cameras and sight-to-speak computers (a la Stephen Hawking), so why can't it work on the desktop?
Now, if they sent over roadies to set up the AV units, now that would be something.
What about games like Freeciv? It's certainly professionally done in the engine, and the graphics are very good, too. And, as far as I know, it's all open-sourced.
Having worked at Toyota while the proxy work was being done (and, I'm proud to say, contributing somewhat), I have to say that PR was the last thing they were thinking about. I wasn't in on the decision making process, but I believe it was purely a technology decision.
We went with linux because a small group of people had a working prototype to show to management while the MS consultants said we'd be able to do anything we wanted if we waited four more months for Windows 2000 (with Active Directory!). Once MS said they couldn't do it, we went ahead with linux. It was not a PR decision at all.
If you've ever bought a big machine from HP, you know that there can't be any regard for the environment in them. They used to send everything in its own box...even individual license agreements! You'd get ten boxes roughly 9x12x3" each containing one piece of paper. Then, they'd stack them all up and put them in another box for shipment. It was disgusting.
I second this! I learned on LOGO years and years ago. It's easy to pick up, has simple commands, and actually displays stuff to the screen. Of course, in these days of GUI-everything, that's not saying much, but 15 or 20 years ago, it was something special to me.
Plus, a good way to teach them (at least, how my father taught me...) is to draw pictures on a piece of paper and make them duplicate it on the screen. It makes the tykes come up with their own solutions given a set of requirements, and isn't that the point of learning any programming language?
For my money, you'd have to go with "Genghis Khan II" for the best music. I played it so much one summer that even though it was fifteen years ago, my grandmother still sings the theme. The neat part is that as you took over new territories, the theme music would change to fit that region. Best yet!
It's been said many times by others: if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to be afraid of.
Yes, I've heard this a thousand times, and I just can't follow the logic. Let's say I have some money in a bank, and I don't want you to know how much. If you tell me, "You can show me your balance, unless you're laundering money," I'm put in the position of showing you something I rather keep secret just to prove I'm not laundering money. I'm not laundering money. I don't want you to know how much money I've saved for retirement. The two things are not related.
My question is: why do you have the right to know this about me? Is it worth it to further erode what fleeting privacy remains in this world to nab the 0.001% of people who abuse children so horribly? Am I hard-hearted because I'd prefer to keep the 99.999% safe and let the guilty walk free? It just doesn't make sense to me that I should have to prove I'm not doing anything wrong to stay in the good graces of some people who arbitrarily get to decide what's wrong in society.
Great! First Real decides to nest a browser in their player nested in a browser, and now AMD is going to compete with chips designed to compete with AMD!
Maybe the AMD chip will be just a little slower than the Intel chip for a little less money. Then, Intel will come out with a chip that costs even less, but runs a little slower. Then, AMD comes roaring back with a chip...
Pretty soon, both Intel and AMD will be shipping out little pieces of cardboard with smaller and smaller corrugation. "Now, the Intel Celeron 7000 is just a little slower than the Celeron 6500, but what are you going to do, use both Megahertz at the same time?"
Well, if you're going to stick up for UMCP, I think I'll have to chime in with a modest defense of JHU...
Hopkins, is, without the shadow of a doubt, the most overpriced school in history. I went there. I'm glad I did. Was it worth it? Nope. I tend to feel (because I'm a megalomaniac, I guess), that everything I've achieved since leaving Hopkins, I achieved in spite of my association with that school.
But here's the catch. Hopkins was hard. I wanted to quit every day. But I didn't (cue the music), and that's the value I got out of the school. Other schools may be hard, too. Many are harder. I'm not saying UMCP is easy. I'm saying that the stuff you learn at school is worthless if it's all academics. You have to take GE courses for a reason, and the school administrators know that. You have to live on campus with someone you may not like for two years. Deal with it. There's incredible pressure involved, but there has to be. How else will you turn your lump-o-coal brain into a diamond?
This ArsDigita University just sounds like a shortcut to me, and that will be telling in the future.
may I went to the wrong school, but I always thought social activities were one of the tenets of a valuable life. I think this school will be worse especially because of the lack of social activities.
As I remember, didn't the engineers of the O-rings know that they weren't reliable under a certain temperature? The problem was that NASA decided that shuttle was going up, and wouldn't listen when the engineers said it might not.
I don't think the recording industry would be in such a bad place if they charged a reasonable price for music! The cost to make CDs has been decreasing steadily since they were introduced, yet the cost to buy CDs has remained virtually constant, except when it's increased, over the same time. C'mon! 20 bucks for a CD? More in the rest of the world? I don't use Napster. I've never even fooled with it, but it seems to me that pretty much everyone knows they're getting screwed, and it's only natural to try to subvert an oppressive system over time.
This is just the latest junkball tossed at us by people making more money than they should. Think back to the huff the record industry got in when people started selling used CDs a few years ago. They said it wasn't fair because people wouldn't know if they were buying a used CD or a new one! Sure, they were looking out for the consumer then, not to mention the $10 profit on each new CD.
I don't bootleg CDs, but I won't cry too hard for the recording industry when they don't get paid. I don't buy the story that the artists get hurt by lifting music: the band James used to make more money on selling T-shirts at concerts than on their contract. The more people that hear the music, the more people go the shows, the more money the band makes. The more people buy the CDs, the more money the regime makes. It's ridiculous.
For my money, you can't beat "Wizards" for post-apocolyptic movie enjoyment. It's a bit obscure, but where else can you see elves, wizards, Nazis, handguns, and mutants all in the same frame?
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Honestly, how much good faith could these people have? "Give us some money or we'll destroy this priceless piece of our nation's history" is not something that would come out of a regular joe who's accidentally bought a hot item.
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I've always wondered why you can't get a monitor to follow your eye and bring focus to whatever you're looking at. This technology already exists in cameras and sight-to-speak computers (a la Stephen Hawking), so why can't it work on the desktop?
Now, if they sent over roadies to set up the AV units, now that would be something.
So how come the OSS model doesn't work for games?
We went with linux because a small group of people had a working prototype to show to management while the MS consultants said we'd be able to do anything we wanted if we waited four more months for Windows 2000 (with Active Directory!). Once MS said they couldn't do it, we went ahead with linux. It was not a PR decision at all.
If you've ever bought a big machine from HP, you know that there can't be any regard for the environment in them. They used to send everything in its own box...even individual license agreements! You'd get ten boxes roughly 9x12x3" each containing one piece of paper. Then, they'd stack them all up and put them in another box for shipment. It was disgusting.
Plus, a good way to teach them (at least, how my father taught me...) is to draw pictures on a piece of paper and make them duplicate it on the screen. It makes the tykes come up with their own solutions given a set of requirements, and isn't that the point of learning any programming language?
For my money, you'd have to go with "Genghis Khan II" for the best music. I played it so much one summer that even though it was fifteen years ago, my grandmother still sings the theme. The neat part is that as you took over new territories, the theme music would change to fit that region. Best yet!
Yes, I've heard this a thousand times, and I just can't follow the logic. Let's say I have some money in a bank, and I don't want you to know how much. If you tell me, "You can show me your balance, unless you're laundering money," I'm put in the position of showing you something I rather keep secret just to prove I'm not laundering money. I'm not laundering money. I don't want you to know how much money I've saved for retirement. The two things are not related.
My question is: why do you have the right to know this about me? Is it worth it to further erode what fleeting privacy remains in this world to nab the 0.001% of people who abuse children so horribly? Am I hard-hearted because I'd prefer to keep the 99.999% safe and let the guilty walk free? It just doesn't make sense to me that I should have to prove I'm not doing anything wrong to stay in the good graces of some people who arbitrarily get to decide what's wrong in society.
Maybe the AMD chip will be just a little slower than the Intel chip for a little less money. Then, Intel will come out with a chip that costs even less, but runs a little slower. Then, AMD comes roaring back with a chip...
Pretty soon, both Intel and AMD will be shipping out little pieces of cardboard with smaller and smaller corrugation. "Now, the Intel Celeron 7000 is just a little slower than the Celeron 6500, but what are you going to do, use both Megahertz at the same time?"
Hopkins, is, without the shadow of a doubt, the most overpriced school in history. I went there. I'm glad I did. Was it worth it? Nope. I tend to feel (because I'm a megalomaniac, I guess), that everything I've achieved since leaving Hopkins, I achieved in spite of my association with that school.
But here's the catch. Hopkins was hard. I wanted to quit every day. But I didn't (cue the music), and that's the value I got out of the school. Other schools may be hard, too. Many are harder. I'm not saying UMCP is easy. I'm saying that the stuff you learn at school is worthless if it's all academics. You have to take GE courses for a reason, and the school administrators know that. You have to live on campus with someone you may not like for two years. Deal with it. There's incredible pressure involved, but there has to be. How else will you turn your lump-o-coal brain into a diamond?
This ArsDigita University just sounds like a shortcut to me, and that will be telling in the future.
may I went to the wrong school, but I always thought social activities were one of the tenets of a valuable life. I think this school will be worse especially because of the lack of social activities.
C'mon you stupid gun! Open! Unlock so I can start blastin' the guy standing ten feet away from me!"
As I remember, didn't the engineers of the O-rings know that they weren't reliable under a certain temperature? The problem was that NASA decided that shuttle was going up, and wouldn't listen when the engineers said it might not.
This is just the latest junkball tossed at us by people making more money than they should. Think back to the huff the record industry got in when people started selling used CDs a few years ago. They said it wasn't fair because people wouldn't know if they were buying a used CD or a new one! Sure, they were looking out for the consumer then, not to mention the $10 profit on each new CD.
I don't bootleg CDs, but I won't cry too hard for the recording industry when they don't get paid. I don't buy the story that the artists get hurt by lifting music: the band James used to make more money on selling T-shirts at concerts than on their contract. The more people that hear the music, the more people go the shows, the more money the band makes. The more people buy the CDs, the more money the regime makes. It's ridiculous.
For my money, you can't beat "Wizards" for post-apocolyptic movie enjoyment. It's a bit obscure, but where else can you see elves, wizards, Nazis, handguns, and mutants all in the same frame?