I beg to differ. Maybe if failing is the same as "Not ubiquitous on the web", but I find myself using SVG more and more. My vector work in Inkscape is saved in SVG. I've created dynamically generated SVG and rendered it to static images using Batik, to automatically generate hundreds of heading images for websites. Firefox now supports basic SVG. I wouldn't call it a failure as much as slow adoption...
The good news: Watermarking does not restrict the freedom of personal use and transferring from one device to another. If this could make online music shopping truly feasible I'd prefer it over DRM. I want to do whatever I like with the media I buy.
But the question is how the media companies will use this newfound power... I support the idea of companies having the option to trace leaks, but this could make it possible to determine exactly who shared the 500 000 copies present of Band X's single Y on P2P network Z. Ensue more lawsuits?
My (Finnish equivalent to) high school focused all-round education. It was the best decision I ever made to study there. I've studied languages (Swedish, Finnish, English, French, German), the arts, philosophy, history, psychology, biology, math, physics, chemistry... The works.
And guess what? After learning the basics of pretty much everything (much at least) I'm damn sure I have a good base of general knowledge for the rest of my career, and life for that matter. When I need to pick something up I always have a place to start.
Had I been forced to focus on just a few subjects I would probably be a lot worse of in today's ever-evolving business world.
RTFA. This is fundamentally different from a terminal. The source computer talks to the graphics adapter sitting in a box on your desk. There is no additional layer of abstraction as far as the PC is concerned. Think beyond basic client/server and about stuff like medical imaging or audio engineering.
...this is kick-ass for sound applications. You can keep a noisy eight core workstation in a separate room together with a huge drive array, and only have the interface inside your studio booth. Excellent!
Another interesting bit is that the actual graphics processor is in the Extio, not in the PC. This way rendering lag is minimized. Weird, yet cool.
Most adults work for a living and are exhausted when they get home.
I've got double twins, four kids. Yes I'm exhausted when I get home, but I still make time to for them. It's my duty, and actually very much worth it too.
Most kids don't have yards or at least not yards big enough to enjoy.
This is a genuine issue. Especially in areas where there is no public spending on proper parks and stuff.
Videogames and television are a way they can keep the kids out of their hair and off the streets.
Videogames and television are a an easy way they can keep the kids out of their hair and off the streets.
I still think that the vast majority of the cases are more about lazy parents than something else.
First of all: Parents who don't monitor their kids gaming activities should get their heads out of their asses and accept responsibility. Granted, you can't control what's played at their friends, but that's no excuse.
On the other hand, over 60 percent of boys and girls agreed with the statement 'I play electronic games because there's nothing else to do.
This is, pardon my French, is fucked up. If kid's really have nothing to do that's a prime example of an upbringing gone awry. There are a million things one can do as a parent to encourage healthy free time usage on the kids side, including good video games. But what on earth happened to going and doing stuff with your kids? It's not like it's forbidden after they learn to play by themselves.
Get involved, come up with a hobby you can do together. Go hiking. Hunt used bike parts on the net and build a couple of custom mountain bikes for you and the kid. Figure out what really interests them and dig up books which are on the subject. Organize movie nights with borderline-too-mature movies and discuss afterwards, empowering them to process stuff which is a little too heavy.
I'm not saying it's easy, but I will say it's possible.
Indeed. Worms may be simple, but there's nothing quite like a hotseat Worms game with the right group... And of course you need to name your Worms teams with witty names, like ex- bosses or girlfriends.;)
The screen only works with skin contact. How am I supposed to use this thing in the winter?
From the article:
The iPhone's most controversial feature, the omission of a physical keyboard in favor of a virtual keyboard on the screen, turned out in our tests to be a nonissue, despite our deep initial skepticism. After five days of use, Walt -- who did most of the testing for this review -- was able to type on it as quickly and accurately as he could on the Palm Treo he has used for years. This was partly because of smart software that corrects typing errors on the fly.
So basically it's at least as annoying as using T9 for me, where I constantly have to keep changing between the Finnish, Swedish, and English dictionaries?
Except for the challenges of making one, what's it useful for? You can't use it to calibrate anything, the wear and tear caused by the friction of handling would eventually change it's mass and defy it's purpose. Is the actual "finished product" good for anything else than sitting in another vault somewhere?
The semantic web is about more than search. Rich semantics will enable applications of a completely different nature than today. Aggregating and mashing up data could be taken to a whole new level. Just because someone comes up with better indexing we shouldn't give up on the semantic web.
Parallel programming and construction share one crucial fundamental requirement: Proper communication. But building a house is much easier to grasp. Programming is abstract.
I think part of the problem is, that many programmers tend to be lone wolves, and having to take other people (and their code, processes, and threads) into consideration is a huge psychological hurdle.
Just think about traffic: If everyone were to cooperate and people wouldn't cut lanes and fuck around in general we'd all be better off. But traffic laws are still needed.
I figure what we really need is to develop proper guidelines and "laws" for increased parallelism.
Disclaimer: This is all totally unscientific coming from the top of my head...
The sad thing is that using something more enticing like "Free boobs this way" would send millions of clueless Joe Windowses your way... All ripe for the picking.
I believe that data retention will lead to less strict attitudes about what people have said in the past. Common sense dictates that a person's values and beliefs change over time. What someone once said need not necessarily be held against them later.
What happens, happens. The fact that something is recorded does not change that.
That being said, I do think twice about what I post online.
PS. I live in Finland, Europe... So I'm a bit biased by not living in a police state;)
Currency is just an agreement on a medium to symbolize value. A coin or a bill is just a piece of paper or metal, just as bits on a server are equally mundane until someone agrees they mean something more.
So, except for the legislative issues, is there really a fundamental difference?
Document.write() is executed as the page loads. Most AJAX-style implementation rely on either the innerHTML-property or creating nodes through the DOM. Testing these would tell us much more than testing Document.write().
One of the worst pitfalls of being in sales (with the pressure of actually selling) is becoming a "Yes-man". The kind of sales person who will sell anything, regardless of the actual feasibility of the project.
If you dare to tell a customer "No" some execs might flinch, but in the long run you tend to get a reputation as a person who's honest and actually delivers.
Therefore, unless you can be confident you really can tell the customer what you won't do, don't become a salesman.
While not a game, the TamTam music composition suite for the OLPC looks like a great app. The SynthLab sound editor is much like a modular synth, teaching audio physics and circuit design at at the same time. Check out this SynthLab video, good stuff.
But the interface of Office 2007 is vastly different from that of OpenOffice. Those students may eventually be employed by someone who uses Office 2007 internally within their organization, and wants new employees to be familiar with it without any training, mandating prior experience.
The vast majority of Office users never really use more than a very limited subset of the available features. A univeristy level student should be able to pick those up in a span of a few days, if familiar with Office applications in general.
If you're aiming for a job which requires serious Office involvement it's a good thing to learn MS Office. But for writing papers, etc. buying it makes little sense. Spend a few hours every now and then in the uni computer lab and practice with MS Office instead.
Dupe or not, the sad thing is there are lots of students clueless enough to think that they need MS Office when 99% of them can do all they need with OpenOffice.org.
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I beg to differ. Maybe if failing is the same as "Not ubiquitous on the web", but I find myself using SVG more and more. My vector work in Inkscape is saved in SVG. I've created dynamically generated SVG and rendered it to static images using Batik, to automatically generate hundreds of heading images for websites. Firefox now supports basic SVG. I wouldn't call it a failure as much as slow adoption...
The good news: Watermarking does not restrict the freedom of personal use and transferring from one device to another. If this could make online music shopping truly feasible I'd prefer it over DRM. I want to do whatever I like with the media I buy.
But the question is how the media companies will use this newfound power... I support the idea of companies having the option to trace leaks, but this could make it possible to determine exactly who shared the 500 000 copies present of Band X's single Y on P2P network Z. Ensue more lawsuits?
My (Finnish equivalent to) high school focused all-round education. It was the best decision I ever made to study there. I've studied languages (Swedish, Finnish, English, French, German), the arts, philosophy, history, psychology, biology, math, physics, chemistry... The works.
And guess what? After learning the basics of pretty much everything (much at least) I'm damn sure I have a good base of general knowledge for the rest of my career, and life for that matter. When I need to pick something up I always have a place to start.
Had I been forced to focus on just a few subjects I would probably be a lot worse of in today's ever-evolving business world.
RTFA. This is fundamentally different from a terminal. The source computer talks to the graphics adapter sitting in a box on your desk. There is no additional layer of abstraction as far as the PC is concerned. Think beyond basic client/server and about stuff like medical imaging or audio engineering.
...this is kick-ass for sound applications. You can keep a noisy eight core workstation in a separate room together with a huge drive array, and only have the interface inside your studio booth. Excellent!
Another interesting bit is that the actual graphics processor is in the Extio, not in the PC. This way rendering lag is minimized. Weird, yet cool.
I still think that the vast majority of the cases are more about lazy parents than something else.
Get involved, come up with a hobby you can do together. Go hiking. Hunt used bike parts on the net and build a couple of custom mountain bikes for you and the kid. Figure out what really interests them and dig up books which are on the subject. Organize movie nights with borderline-too-mature movies and discuss afterwards, empowering them to process stuff which is a little too heavy.
I'm not saying it's easy, but I will say it's possible.
> Worms
;)
Indeed. Worms may be simple, but there's nothing quite like a hotseat Worms game with the right group... And of course you need to name your Worms teams with witty names, like ex- bosses or girlfriends.
From the article:So basically it's at least as annoying as using T9 for me, where I constantly have to keep changing between the Finnish, Swedish, and English dictionaries?
I still want one, though...
Except for the challenges of making one, what's it useful for? You can't use it to calibrate anything, the wear and tear caused by the friction of handling would eventually change it's mass and defy it's purpose. Is the actual "finished product" good for anything else than sitting in another vault somewhere?
Oh, it's just the server going up in smoke trying to serve a live webcam on Slashdot...
The semantic web is about more than search. Rich semantics will enable applications of a completely different nature than today. Aggregating and mashing up data could be taken to a whole new level. Just because someone comes up with better indexing we shouldn't give up on the semantic web.
Just my 2 cents, anyway.
Parallel programming and construction share one crucial fundamental requirement: Proper communication. But building a house is much easier to grasp. Programming is abstract.
I think part of the problem is, that many programmers tend to be lone wolves, and having to take other people (and their code, processes, and threads) into consideration is a huge psychological hurdle.
Just think about traffic: If everyone were to cooperate and people wouldn't cut lanes and fuck around in general we'd all be better off. But traffic laws are still needed.
I figure what we really need is to develop proper guidelines and "laws" for increased parallelism.
Disclaimer: This is all totally unscientific coming from the top of my head...
Nowadays mostly here, and The Inquirer http://www.theinquirer.net/
Some times also Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware and Anandtech. Gizmodo is fun to check from time to time.
The sad thing is that using something more enticing like "Free boobs this way" would send millions of clueless Joe Windowses your way... All ripe for the picking.
I believe that data retention will lead to less strict attitudes about what people have said in the past. Common sense dictates that a person's values and beliefs change over time. What someone once said need not necessarily be held against them later.
;)
What happens, happens. The fact that something is recorded does not change that.
That being said, I do think twice about what I post online.
PS. I live in Finland, Europe... So I'm a bit biased by not living in a police state
Even if it will, the can of liquid Schwarz will probably be missing.
Currency is just an agreement on a medium to symbolize value. A coin or a bill is just a piece of paper or metal, just as bits on a server are equally mundane until someone agrees they mean something more.
So, except for the legislative issues, is there really a fundamental difference?
Document.write() is executed as the page loads. Most AJAX-style implementation rely on either the innerHTML-property or creating nodes through the DOM. Testing these would tell us much more than testing Document.write().
From a developer to another: On the same machine? If so, by virtualization, or how?
One of the worst pitfalls of being in sales (with the pressure of actually selling) is becoming a "Yes-man". The kind of sales person who will sell anything, regardless of the actual feasibility of the project.
If you dare to tell a customer "No" some execs might flinch, but in the long run you tend to get a reputation as a person who's honest and actually delivers.
Therefore, unless you can be confident you really can tell the customer what you won't do, don't become a salesman.
While not a game, the TamTam music composition suite for the OLPC looks like a great app. The SynthLab sound editor is much like a modular synth, teaching audio physics and circuit design at at the same time. Check out this SynthLab video, good stuff.
The vast majority of Office users never really use more than a very limited subset of the available features. A univeristy level student should be able to pick those up in a span of a few days, if familiar with Office applications in general.
If you're aiming for a job which requires serious Office involvement it's a good thing to learn MS Office. But for writing papers, etc. buying it makes little sense. Spend a few hours every now and then in the uni computer lab and practice with MS Office instead.
Dupe or not, the sad thing is there are lots of students clueless enough to think that they need MS Office when 99% of them can do all they need with OpenOffice.org.