I actually had that happen to me. I was taking an assembly course where the teacher wanted us to reverse the order of values in a list.
He gave us a long complicated piece of c code to do this, but instead I just used a stack (we didn't "learn" about those in class untill a few weeks later). Well, it just so happened 1 other student felt like writing the 11 line stack implementation, rather than the 100+ line one the teacher recommended. The teacher then said we cheated.
Fortunatly we were both able to explain how our code worked
While I agree that in a psudeo-naval situation such as the Enterprise the wearing of baseball caps would be out of place. I could easily see people wearing them around the ship that aren't currently working. How many people do you see in the mall, movies, school, church, middle of night that wear baseball caps.
While I'll admit I don't know the actual laws behind it. Michigan's Attorney General said it had something to do with a Consumer Protection Laws. And that her office would be taking in complaints and looking at possible legal action because of the gouging.
I know this is off topic for this story, I posted this info on the story about gas prices but with the 700+ +2 comments I doubt many people saw it.
On the radio in to work today they were interviewing Michigan's Attorney General, Jennifer M. Granholm, about the sharp raise in gas prices. According to the major gas distributors, the price of gas at the retail level should NOT be affected. Any gas stations that have raised their prices significantly are doing so illegally.
She encouraged everyone that drives past gas stations, in Michigan, that have raised their prices greatly to report it to the attorney general website so that they can take action against said gas stations.
She also said to remember which gas stations are doing it and never by gas from them again.
I am also sure that the Attorney Generals of other states will also be looking in to similar cases in their states. The url for your state's attorney general is www.ag.state.$state.us and replace $state with your 2 letter abreviation.
On the radio in to work today they were interviewing Michigan's Attorney General, Jennifer M. Granholm, about the sharp raise in gas prices. According to the major gas distributors, the price of gas at the retail level should NOT be affected. Any gas stations that have raised their prices significantly are doing so illegally.
She encouraged everyone that drives past gas stations, in Michigan, that have raised their prices greatly to report it to the attorney general website so that they can take action against said gas stations.
She also said to remember which gas stations are doing it and never by gas from them again.
I am also sure that the Attorney Generals of other states will also be looking in to similar cases in their states.
It's not just the World trade center that has been attacked. The Pentagon Had a huge explosion, and the Washington Mall is on Fire. All air traffic in the US has been shut down, and other major towers are being evacuated.
And one of t he towers of the world trade center has just collapsed.
Marketwatches web site is up and is feeding in new stories very well:
I think you're confused as to what the user interface in a game is.
The special effects like fog and realistic lighting are part of what is being presented, you don't ever actually use it. The user interface is the menus, hand icon, etc...
One of the reason's why you may have mistaken that is because UIs in good games have gotten so seemless with the game its hard to tell the UI from the actual game (take Black & White for example).
You don't play RPG's very often do you. I can think of plenty of times that at a particular point in a game I needed to do something (but my character didn't have enough experience to do it) to continue with the game.
What a game would do is immediately give you those three features and then as you progressed and became a more powerful character it would give you more features
Mr. Clippy: I'm sorry, you're not experienced enough to change text colors yet. Try underlining it for now!
read the article: Waste bore the typed names of dead people. Those names had been crossed out by family members who signed for them.
So they sent the messages to people who they thought were alive, and the family members decided that they agreed with the letter, and crossed the name out and signed it themselves. Yes it does look hokey, they probably should have taken the time to re-write the letter, but is that Microsoft's fault that the dead person's famliy did this?
And as far as the fake addresses, the article said that there was only one, which could very easily have been a typo rather than a deceitful act.
While I'm no fan of Microsoft's products, or the way that they try to manipulate other companies and their customers. How is having pro-Microsoft groups write out pre-drafted letters, to be read over, signed and sent in, any differnet than all of the pre-written letters that have been posted on Slashdot (and modded up signifying our approval) to be e-mailed to public officials over concerns that we have about the DMCA/Skylarov/DeCSS/whatever else we want to complain about?
It must be tough to do earthbound testing of such a device
According to the article, they can simulate weightlessness in airplanes that fly in a parabolic curve (as seen in the picture at the bottom of the article of a guy floating in a padded airplane).
Usually when someone flames you they do it from behind the protection of an anonymous post in a talkback forum
sarcasm You guys suck. Your products are crap /sarcasm
Actually, while I've never used any of your products I think that your business model is a very sound one and hope it works well for you so that more companies can see that Linux is a viable OS for making money on, and there are ways to contribute to the Open Source comunitty, while still being able to turn a profit on some of your software.
MAybe the Washington Post actually did believe the study though. After all when I left their site a pop-up ad appeared. (Don't remember what it was though, and to think my parents told me that twitchy hand-eye co-ordination from playing too many video games wouldn't help me when I'm older))
While some sites out there could definately be improved by removing all of the adds. Slashdot only has 1 add per page (that happens to be the same height in pixels as 1 click with the scroll button on a mouse;)
Private schools can do whatever they heck they want, and are not bound by all of those things that public schools are.
Correct, but your missing one important fact. Just like private businesses, private schools are held responsible by the people that invest in them, namely the student's and their parents.
I went to a private schools all my life, and yes there were some things that we were forced to do, but if the school tried to do something that the majority did not agree with, guess what, the school lost.
I'll give you 2 examples from when I was in High School.
When I was a sophmore our principal of 6 or 7 years was asked to leave (mainly because he wasn't very good at keeping the budget). So they replaced him with a new principal who had better skills in this department. But the priest was a recluse, while I only went to the school for 1 year with the first principal he knew almost every person in the Freshman class, after two years with the new principal, I had only seen him a total of 4 or 5 times, he was never found walking the halls, and talking to students like the previous principal.
However the new principal was well liked by the administration and the Basillian Head offices (the people who ran our school, and a whole bunch of others), so he wasn't going anywhere any time soon. But the students decided that we wanted a new, more active principal, so we started a petition, among ourselves and our parents, and guess what, we had a new Principal my Senior year.
The other, and more contraversial, example occured my Junior year when a student was expelled for giving a teacher a lawn job. Now granted I don't agree with his actions, but many of the students felt that what you did out side of school shouldn't be held accountable inside of school. Plus he wasn't the only student there at the time (there were two cars with multiple students in both), but he was the only one singled out.
Most of the students felt this was BS so the day after he was expelled, after the first bell rang, we got out of our seats, walked out side, and said that we wouldn't come back to class untill they re-accepted him. You know what, the next day we were all back in class with him.
So don't think that the private schools can be draconian in the ways that they treat their students, because if they do violate the student's rights, you can be damn sure either the students, or their parents will be sure to set things right.
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I actually had that happen to me. I was taking an assembly course where the teacher wanted us to reverse the order of values in a list.
He gave us a long complicated piece of c code to do this, but instead I just used a stack (we didn't "learn" about those in class untill a few weeks later). Well, it just so happened 1 other student felt like writing the 11 line stack implementation, rather than the 100+ line one the teacher recommended. The teacher then said we cheated.
Fortunatly we were both able to explain how our code worked
While I agree that in a psudeo-naval situation such as the Enterprise the wearing of baseball caps would be out of place. I could easily see people wearing them around the ship that aren't currently working. How many people do you see in the mall, movies, school, church, middle of night that wear baseball caps.
While I'll admit I don't know the actual laws behind it. Michigan's Attorney General said it had something to do with a Consumer Protection Laws. And that her office would be taking in complaints and looking at possible legal action because of the gouging.
I know this is off topic for this story, I posted this info on the story about gas prices but with the 700+ +2 comments I doubt many people saw it.
On the radio in to work today they were interviewing Michigan's Attorney General, Jennifer M. Granholm, about the sharp raise in gas prices. According to the major gas distributors, the price of gas at the retail level should NOT be affected. Any gas stations that have raised their prices significantly are doing so illegally.
She encouraged everyone that drives past gas stations, in Michigan, that have raised their prices greatly to report it to the attorney general website so that they can take action against said gas stations.
She also said to remember which gas stations are doing it and never by gas from them again.
I am also sure that the Attorney Generals of other states will also be looking in to similar cases in their states. The url for your state's attorney general is www.ag.state.$state.us and replace $state with your 2 letter abreviation.
On the radio in to work today they were interviewing Michigan's Attorney General, Jennifer M. Granholm, about the sharp raise in gas prices. According to the major gas distributors, the price of gas at the retail level should NOT be affected. Any gas stations that have raised their prices significantly are doing so illegally.
She encouraged everyone that drives past gas stations, in Michigan, that have raised their prices greatly to report it to the attorney general website so that they can take action against said gas stations.
She also said to remember which gas stations are doing it and never by gas from them again.
I am also sure that the Attorney Generals of other states will also be looking in to similar cases in their states.
It's not just the World trade center that has been attacked. The Pentagon Had a huge explosion, and the Washington Mall is on Fire. All air traffic in the US has been shut down, and other major towers are being evacuated.
u lt .asp?siteid=mktw
And one of t he towers of the world trade center has just collapsed.
Marketwatches web site is up and is feeding in new stories very well:
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/newsfinder/defa
I think you're confused as to what the user interface in a game is.
The special effects like fog and realistic lighting are part of what is being presented, you don't ever actually use it. The user interface is the menus, hand icon, etc...
One of the reason's why you may have mistaken that is because UIs in good games have gotten so seemless with the game its hard to tell the UI from the actual game (take Black & White for example).
You don't play RPG's very often do you. I can think of plenty of times that at a particular point in a game I needed to do something (but my character didn't have enough experience to do it) to continue with the game.
What a game would do is immediately give you those three features and then as you progressed and became a more powerful character it would give you more features
Mr. Clippy: I'm sorry, you're not experienced enough to change text colors yet. Try underlining it for now!
Wouldn't all the mice starve to death when their teeth fall out?
:(
(I would link to previous article but the search engine doesn't work and couldn't find it on Google
Hey they're dumb enough to be Microsoft supporters.
read the article: Waste bore the typed names of dead people. Those names had been crossed out by family members who signed for them.
So they sent the messages to people who they thought were alive, and the family members decided that they agreed with the letter, and crossed the name out and signed it themselves. Yes it does look hokey, they probably should have taken the time to re-write the letter, but is that Microsoft's fault that the dead person's famliy did this?
And as far as the fake addresses, the article said that there was only one, which could very easily have been a typo rather than a deceitful act.
While I'm no fan of Microsoft's products, or the way that they try to manipulate other companies and their customers. How is having pro-Microsoft groups write out pre-drafted letters, to be read over, signed and sent in, any differnet than all of the pre-written letters that have been posted on Slashdot (and modded up signifying our approval) to be e-mailed to public officials over concerns that we have about the DMCA/Skylarov/DeCSS/whatever else we want to complain about?
Come on, why are we always so hypocritical?
...people connected to the internet still pay for their porn? Wow!
It must be tough to do earthbound testing of such a device
According to the article, they can simulate weightlessness in airplanes that fly in a parabolic curve (as seen in the picture at the bottom of the article of a guy floating in a padded airplane).
Usually when someone flames you they do it from behind the protection of an anonymous post in a talkback forum
sarcasm
You guys suck. Your products are crap
/sarcasm
Actually, while I've never used any of your products I think that your business model is a very sound one and hope it works well for you so that more companies can see that Linux is a viable OS for making money on, and there are ways to contribute to the Open Source comunitty, while still being able to turn a profit on some of your software.
I bet over half of the FP'ers on slashdot are actually a script written by cmdr taco to gain more hits for slashdot.
Taco also is probably the brain child behind pouring hot grits down his pants.
So Taco, how many fake Accounts do you have?
MAybe the Washington Post actually did believe the study though. After all when I left their site a pop-up ad appeared. (Don't remember what it was though, and to think my parents told me that twitchy hand-eye co-ordination from playing too many video games wouldn't help me when I'm older))
Uh, what does this article have to do with the linux desktop Enlightenment?
I wonder how much time he spent going through this script to remove the servers for porn adds, before posting to slashdot?;>
The biggest fear I've had of systems coming with hard drives is having to worry about filling them up.
Seeing that the hard drives are 40GB each, I would hope that that wouldn't become a problem.
Those are slightly larger than the memory cards for the PS2, (I believe they're 32MB's).
plus bonus content, in a blissfully ad-free environment." Is it worth doing something like that here?
So taco, if you implement this, will bonus content for the user's be actual News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters?
While some sites out there could definately be improved by removing all of the adds. Slashdot only has 1 add per page (that happens to be the same height in pixels as 1 click with the scroll button on a mouse;)
Thers's always your local McDonald's ;>
Private schools can do whatever they heck they want, and are not bound by all of those things that public schools are.
Correct, but your missing one important fact. Just like private businesses, private schools are held responsible by the people that invest in them, namely the student's and their parents.
I went to a private schools all my life, and yes there were some things that we were forced to do, but if the school tried to do something that the majority did not agree with, guess what, the school lost.
I'll give you 2 examples from when I was in High School.
When I was a sophmore our principal of 6 or 7 years was asked to leave (mainly because he wasn't very good at keeping the budget). So they replaced him with a new principal who had better skills in this department. But the priest was a recluse, while I only went to the school for 1 year with the first principal he knew almost every person in the Freshman class, after two years with the new principal, I had only seen him a total of 4 or 5 times, he was never found walking the halls, and talking to students like the previous principal.
However the new principal was well liked by the administration and the Basillian Head offices (the people who ran our school, and a whole bunch of others), so he wasn't going anywhere any time soon. But the students decided that we wanted a new, more active principal, so we started a petition, among ourselves and our parents, and guess what, we had a new Principal my Senior year.
The other, and more contraversial, example occured my Junior year when a student was expelled for giving a teacher a lawn job. Now granted I don't agree with his actions, but many of the students felt that what you did out side of school shouldn't be held accountable inside of school. Plus he wasn't the only student there at the time (there were two cars with multiple students in both), but he was the only one singled out.
Most of the students felt this was BS so the day after he was expelled, after the first bell rang, we got out of our seats, walked out side, and said that we wouldn't come back to class untill they re-accepted him. You know what, the next day we were all back in class with him.
So don't think that the private schools can be draconian in the ways that they treat their students, because if they do violate the student's rights, you can be damn sure either the students, or their parents will be sure to set things right.