Okay, I have total faith in a company that uses a Make-your-own slide show script for their main site.
Seriously, this smells like either a) foreign company rip-off or b) a 20 something retro-enthusiast case-modder who managed to buy the rights to the brand for 20p, is going to churn out what are essentially just case-mods and has no clue how to make a proper website.
What about one that doesn't destroy the original you?
ooh ooh! I just came up with an awesome idea to make money! Tell people you have a quantum teleporter that will make a copy of them on another planet, but in reality, it doesn't do anything, but they can't prove it because they can't get to the other planet.
we could make a religion out of it or something. Make loads of money. *ca ching!*
Chrome's Adblock is utter shite to be perfectly honest. There's no Right-click "block this ad", as far as I can find there is no blacklist wildcard filters, no big red button to click on to tell you if ABP is activated. It's really woefully underfeatured.
It also doesn't have NoScript (last time I checked anyway)
The Digital Rights bill and the Lords that voted it in have nothing to do with their 'lack of cohesive leadership' imo. More the behind-the-scenes backstabbing and plotting that went on after they chucked Charles Kennedy out. The Lib Dems are still hurting from the fact they've got a leader with no charm or charisma.
Back when I was in school we did ample learning of how computers worked. Our teacher however was not very good at it, she had a hard time explaining what RAM did. I'm of the opinion that, for subjects that change frequently (ICT in particular) should have to sit and pass the exam (or a special teacher-only version) they are going to teach once every 5 years or so, or whenever a major change occurs in the syllabus to ensure they understand what it is they are teaching and aren't just spouting out rote. For those who say that ICT doesn't change fast enough, let's put it this way. When I went into Secondary School in 1997 they were using BBC Micro's and Acorn Electron's, when I left in 2003 we had gone through Windows 98 in 2nd year, MacOS 8 in Standard Grade, up to Windows 2000 by my Higher year. Incidently, my Higher year was the last year they taught 6502 Assembler. Mainly because they'd gotten rid of all the Micro's. We even had to use an emulator. My Advanced Higher year was mostly Programming, with about 1/3 of it being hardware-based learning (Mostly networking fundamentals and other data transfer methods)
Then again, I don't know how they teach ICT in England
Sadly, the government and megacorps don't see it this way, and seek to get ISPs to deep packet inspect all torrent traffic in an attempt to find infringers, slowing down legitimate torrenters (Like software downloads, updates, game patches and I believe Spotify uses BitTorrent - I know it uses some form of P2P, if it's BT or some other form of streaming, I don't know) as collateral damage.
It's really sad that some of the best current affairs programmes on the BBC are the likes of "Mock the Week" and "Have I Got News for You". Panorama's nonsense, Question Time's become an irrelevant circus, especially after that Griffin debacle. You get more sense and balance out of Richard Hammonds "Should I worry about" show.
The worth of what you learn first is down to how you connect to it, not whether or not it's a good language or not. We were forced to learn 'TrueBASIC' in Standard Grade, it didn't have line numbers or GOTO statements but even at 15 I knew it was nominally useless for anything practical. However, you did have control over the computers internal beep and much fun was had making our computer play songs. All of a sudden I could make a computer DO something. Something more than just print "Hello World" or run a Dice simulation. The Computing department tried to stop us, but it highlighted their own incompetence as they couldn't figure out how to turn off the internal beeper.
I also agree with the poster above about starting out with Javascript. It's easy to write, quick to change, has very visual results (which is better for teaching with) and has a reasonable OOP model. So long as you teach manipulating the DOM and stay away from inline document.write()s then it teaches OOP concepts incredibly well. I started with it, before moving server-side with PHP, which - being syntactically similar to it - prepared me for C++ (my first brush with strongly typed languages).
I still code alot of Javascript today, alongside moving to C#.net on the server side (I've not written a line of PHP in about 2 years, whether that's good or bad is a matter of opinion)
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GTA's focus on wanton violence and abuse may be dated for London, but it would be highly apt for GTA:Glasgow.
Pusillanimous... couldn't we shorten that to something simpler?
Pussy perhaps?
Okay, I have total faith in a company that uses a Make-your-own slide show script for their main site.
Seriously, this smells like either a) foreign company rip-off or b) a 20 something retro-enthusiast case-modder who managed to buy the rights to the brand for 20p, is going to churn out what are essentially just case-mods and has no clue how to make a proper website.
Who modded that funny? I was being serious!
*Lrons*
What about one that doesn't destroy the original you?
ooh ooh! I just came up with an awesome idea to make money!
Tell people you have a quantum teleporter that will make a copy of them on another planet, but in reality, it doesn't do anything, but they can't prove it because they can't get to the other planet.
we could make a religion out of it or something. Make loads of money. *ca ching!*
*cuts Tom Bombadil*
*cackles and dances in shower of blood*
what's even scarier is that it's eldavonjohn, so "you must be new here" doesn't work :S
Well, we already have 3D Movies!
Where are my flying cars and hoverboards?
Chrome's Adblock is utter shite to be perfectly honest. There's no Right-click "block this ad", as far as I can find there is no blacklist wildcard filters, no big red button to click on to tell you if ABP is activated. It's really woefully underfeatured.
It also doesn't have NoScript (last time I checked anyway)
What you need is BOTH SIDES!
The Digital Rights bill and the Lords that voted it in have nothing to do with their 'lack of cohesive leadership' imo. More the behind-the-scenes backstabbing and plotting that went on after they chucked Charles Kennedy out. The Lib Dems are still hurting from the fact they've got a leader with no charm or charisma.
Every party do this, everywhere. It's called Lame Duck Politics - it's not a uniquely Labour phenomenon.
I never implied you would vote BNP, What I was saying was that the BNP don't have any seats in parliment either (okay, they got 2 in the EU)
Calling yourself a party has nothing to do with how many seats you have.
Back when I was in school we did ample learning of how computers worked. Our teacher however was not very good at it, she had a hard time explaining what RAM did.
I'm of the opinion that, for subjects that change frequently (ICT in particular) should have to sit and pass the exam (or a special teacher-only version) they are going to teach once every 5 years or so, or whenever a major change occurs in the syllabus to ensure they understand what it is they are teaching and aren't just spouting out rote.
For those who say that ICT doesn't change fast enough, let's put it this way. When I went into Secondary School in 1997 they were using BBC Micro's and Acorn Electron's, when I left in 2003 we had gone through Windows 98 in 2nd year, MacOS 8 in Standard Grade, up to Windows 2000 by my Higher year.
Incidently, my Higher year was the last year they taught 6502 Assembler. Mainly because they'd gotten rid of all the Micro's. We even had to use an emulator.
My Advanced Higher year was mostly Programming, with about 1/3 of it being hardware-based learning (Mostly networking fundamentals and other data transfer methods)
Then again, I don't know how they teach ICT in England
Sadly, the government and megacorps don't see it this way, and seek to get ISPs to deep packet inspect all torrent traffic in an attempt to find infringers, slowing down legitimate torrenters (Like software downloads, updates, game patches and I believe Spotify uses BitTorrent - I know it uses some form of P2P, if it's BT or some other form of streaming, I don't know) as collateral damage.
If the BNP can call themselves a Party, the UKPP can too.
Same here, but my only other choices are SNP, Green, Socialist or the Christian Party.
I really only have one choice out of those...
I wonder what the Christian Party's stance on this bill is?
Oh, and Newswipe, how could I forget Newswipe. Using the media's own techniques to mock them. Delicious Irony.
It's really sad that some of the best current affairs programmes on the BBC are the likes of "Mock the Week" and "Have I Got News for You". Panorama's nonsense, Question Time's become an irrelevant circus, especially after that Griffin debacle. You get more sense and balance out of Richard Hammonds "Should I worry about" show.
Internet Asshattery, I want to see that on one of your campaign posters, preferably Mandelson wearing some kind of mechanical arsehole on his noggin.
Rounding error, 3.3 if you're going to 2dp, 3.26 if you're being accurate
The worth of what you learn first is down to how you connect to it, not whether or not it's a good language or not.
We were forced to learn 'TrueBASIC' in Standard Grade, it didn't have line numbers or GOTO statements but even at 15 I knew it was nominally useless for anything practical.
However, you did have control over the computers internal beep and much fun was had making our computer play songs. All of a sudden I could make a computer DO something. Something more than just print "Hello World" or run a Dice simulation. The Computing department tried to stop us, but it highlighted their own incompetence as they couldn't figure out how to turn off the internal beeper.
I also agree with the poster above about starting out with Javascript. It's easy to write, quick to change, has very visual results (which is better for teaching with) and has a reasonable OOP model. So long as you teach manipulating the DOM and stay away from inline document.write()s then it teaches OOP concepts incredibly well. I started with it, before moving server-side with PHP, which - being syntactically similar to it - prepared me for C++ (my first brush with strongly typed languages).
I still code alot of Javascript today, alongside moving to C#.net on the server side (I've not written a line of PHP in about 2 years, whether that's good or bad is a matter of opinion)
That wouldn't stop scalpers. Idiots would still buy them, especially if they claimed that these tickets didn't need ID.
The buyer wouldn't get into the concert, be out of pocket, and the scammer would have upped and legged it long before.
Du joo knot no dat misspellins es reqired ons da internecks, atlest wunce pir sentans. maibe moar!
What we need is a planetary Faraday Cage!