In Canada, our French Immersion classes actually tended to consist of a lot LESS immigrant families than the English one. The non-immersion Spanish classes an exception however, but many of them already had some Spanish from home.
At your point in life, no, it would be pointless to learn a new language (unless it's something you WANT to do). The study is about people that grew up learning 2 languages (as I did). My family speaks English and I was enrolled in French Immersion from Kindergarten until I graduated high school. It really doesn't take any more time to learn 2 languages than it does to learn 1 since you are learning them at the same time, and believe it or not, our grades tended to be better than the English-only students! The only disadvantages we had were losing 3 elective classes (one per year for 3 years) in high school and having a language barrier between the textbook and your parents (you end up doing a LOT of translating, but it's good practice).
As for the article, one thing I did notice in high school (and yes I noticed it at the time, not "in hindsight") is that the bilingual students did tend to fair a little better in the technical classes (math, computers, etc) than the English-only students, even if those students didn't have much interest in the material.
If I ever have kids, you can bet your ass they'll be bilingual.
There are a few things people forget when they compare sales numbers of desktops vs mobile devices.
A) Most houses have 1 or 2 desktops (shared by the family), but most people have their own smartphone or laptop (since they take it with them to work/school/etc).
B) Desktops tend not to be replaced as often, partially due to them being more powerful/dollar in the first place, and partly because they are SO MUCH easier to upgrade.
C) Desktops cost a LOT less (unless you get a screaming gaming rig) than any other computing device out there, so comparing the *amount* people spend on desktops vs mobiles is pointless.
D) A lot of people that build gaming machines (and even some that don't), build there computers 1 piece at a time, and thus don't get counted as "PC Sales", almost NOBODY does this with laptops, cellphones or tablets.
Mobile devices may be on the rise, but I doubt desktops will dissapear any time soon, at least not until they stop being half the price of a less powerfull laptop!
I find it depends on the class. If the notes comprise of tables, diagrams, flowcharts and images then pencil & paper are probably best. If it's more of a text & speech only class (philosophy, history, programming, languages, etc) then I go for a pure-text application (vim being my personal preference). My personal way of taking electronic notes is to use vim for writing, then save everything in sub-folders of "~/notes/" which is git controlled so I can transfer everything around and even share them with others. 3 years worth of notes and it's still only 20MB so far (and that includes quite a few reference PDFs!)
What I'd recommend is stick with what already works for your harder classes, then spend some easy classes (where you aren't recording as much) to try out alternate methods. If an alternate method seems to work for you, try it in a harder class.
One last thing if you decide to use a laptop, consider learning something other than Qwerty. I used to get finger cramps after typing for a couple hours and need to take constant "finger" breaks, then I switched to Colemak and I can type for 10 hours at a time (done this *numerous* times) without the slightest bit of discomfort. If you DO decide to switch away from Qwerty, do it NOW since it will take ~a month to get back to your previous typing speed, after that you'll just keep getting faster and faster:)
10.10 is EOL, do NOT install this as it no longer receives ANY security updates. 10.04 is supported until April 2013, but do you really want to make them go through the "migration" as second time?!?
My recommendation (if you go with Ubuntu) would be 12.04 (supported until April 2017, so 4.5 years) and pick a DE that they will be comfortable with (XFCE or LXDE tend to be the easiest for non-technical windows converts).
Is it only your router that has an IPv6 address (acting as an IPv4-IPv6 bridge), or is it actually giving all the internal devices public IPv6 addresses?
Not really. When they win, it's usually in the 100's of thousands of dollars (sometimes millions, but they rarely collect that much due to bankrupting the defendant), when they lose the defendant probably spent around 10,000 at the most.
I don't have a published citation, but our entire CST class went by the motto (and I am NOT paraphrasing here!) "If at first you don't succeed, recompile!" This motto was ONLY ever said while working on win32 in VisualStudio.
Just a little background: I'm not talking about little clocks and stuff, we were writing low-level networking and GUI stuff such as streaming radio client/server setups, RFID readers and other fairly complicated applications.
I'd rather they trade off some of the close up I-can-count-the-rocks-on-the-ground detail for at least mediocre detail at a distance. I'm sick of having to wait until a blob is 100m in front of me to tell if it's a "ricochet off the car" obstacle or a freaking semi-truck.
Ummm, you've been able to shoot out GTA tires since at LEAST vice city (don't remember much of the earlier ones). I do this *constantly* in San Andreas. Just make sure you're using a PC, not a console if you want to do that.
Side not on mouse accuracy: I was playing San Andreas with a friend that had only ever played it on a console. He was talking about how much more control you get over the vehicles with a controller (which I agreed with) and was basically saying how the PC version sucked. Then about 5 minutes later I saw a nice car I wanted and he told me to run after it (it had just passed us), I gave him a funny look and head-shotted the driver THROUGH the back window with the pistol and the car came to a stop (making my "running after" much shorter). He didn't even know the game would let you do that!
Same with Need For Speed Undercover. Go look at some screenshots on google images. The entire game has a blue/cyan color scheem, including the fucking HUD. This means that even on a 1080p display, the map is damn near impossible to see at ALL. Contrast this with earlier games like Underground 2 where they not only got contrast right, but you could actually CUSTOMIZE the color of some of the HUD elements (mostly speedo) to make them even more visible.
For all MSs faults, they do good documentation and put a lot of effort into making their tools work.
Right, that's why MSDN still has no facility to filter a search by programming language (finding the "c" version of a call is damn near impossible since it also brings up c++, c# & objective-c) and hitting recompile a second time in Visual Studio will fix some bugs in your software.
I say this as someone that did a fair bit of win32 programming in College (required, trust me it was NOT by choice!) and it was by FAR the buggiest piece of crap I have EVER worked with and I've done JavaScript on IE6!
In Canada (I don't know about elsewhere) it is impossible (by law) for the original author of a copyrighted work to breach their own copyright. The best CraigsList would be able to get you for is breach of contract, but since you didn't provide any services to them (contracts must be "2-way" to be a legal contract), all they'd really be able to do is pull the ad.
Nonetheless, I think a bet on Windows Phone 8 is justifiable, even wise, since both people who purchase a new Windows Phone 8 device likely will want to load it with the latest and greatest apps.
The way it was explained to me (in a Business Law class) is that copyright is automatic (as you said) but that you can release it into the public domain (and thus have no control of that copy). You can then release a new (and possible modified) version and copyright is reasserted (on the new release, anyone with the old release still has no restrictions). The exception is a few duristictions (some back east, possible a few states in the US) where you cannot release anything into the public domain, it's just not possible due to the way their laws are written. As far as I know, premature (before expiry) public-domain releasing is legally possible in all of Canada, and but I'm not sure about the US or other countries.
I never understood this. The RIAA has been trying to stop MP3's for years now, yet they keep making their songs sound like crap so the MP3 algorithm works better. I really can't think of a metaphore dumber than the truth. I don't think iTunes + iPod uses MP3 anywhere in its stack, so that can't be it.
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The real problem is that each upgrade is painfull, while plenty have no user-visible changes, so it doesn't look good, especially for average-joe.
So what's painful about it...?
Regarding #1, I think that carriers giving you a free (price built into your plan) phone every 2 years has more to do with it than phones "breaking".
In Canada, our French Immersion classes actually tended to consist of a lot LESS immigrant families than the English one. The non-immersion Spanish classes an exception however, but many of them already had some Spanish from home.
At your point in life, no, it would be pointless to learn a new language (unless it's something you WANT to do). The study is about people that grew up learning 2 languages (as I did). My family speaks English and I was enrolled in French Immersion from Kindergarten until I graduated high school. It really doesn't take any more time to learn 2 languages than it does to learn 1 since you are learning them at the same time, and believe it or not, our grades tended to be better than the English-only students! The only disadvantages we had were losing 3 elective classes (one per year for 3 years) in high school and having a language barrier between the textbook and your parents (you end up doing a LOT of translating, but it's good practice).
As for the article, one thing I did notice in high school (and yes I noticed it at the time, not "in hindsight") is that the bilingual students did tend to fair a little better in the technical classes (math, computers, etc) than the English-only students, even if those students didn't have much interest in the material.
If I ever have kids, you can bet your ass they'll be bilingual.
There are a few things people forget when they compare sales numbers of desktops vs mobile devices.
A) Most houses have 1 or 2 desktops (shared by the family), but most people have their own smartphone or laptop (since they take it with them to work/school/etc).
B) Desktops tend not to be replaced as often, partially due to them being more powerful/dollar in the first place, and partly because they are SO MUCH easier to upgrade.
C) Desktops cost a LOT less (unless you get a screaming gaming rig) than any other computing device out there, so comparing the *amount* people spend on desktops vs mobiles is pointless.
D) A lot of people that build gaming machines (and even some that don't), build there computers 1 piece at a time, and thus don't get counted as "PC Sales", almost NOBODY does this with laptops, cellphones or tablets.
Mobile devices may be on the rise, but I doubt desktops will dissapear any time soon, at least not until they stop being half the price of a less powerfull laptop!
Unrelated Note: Why won't slashdot's comment boxes resize horizontally in Firefox?
I find it depends on the class. If the notes comprise of tables, diagrams, flowcharts and images then pencil & paper are probably best. If it's more of a text & speech only class (philosophy, history, programming, languages, etc) then I go for a pure-text application (vim being my personal preference). My personal way of taking electronic notes is to use vim for writing, then save everything in sub-folders of "~/notes/" which is git controlled so I can transfer everything around and even share them with others. 3 years worth of notes and it's still only 20MB so far (and that includes quite a few reference PDFs!)
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What I'd recommend is stick with what already works for your harder classes, then spend some easy classes (where you aren't recording as much) to try out alternate methods. If an alternate method seems to work for you, try it in a harder class.
One last thing if you decide to use a laptop, consider learning something other than Qwerty. I used to get finger cramps after typing for a couple hours and need to take constant "finger" breaks, then I switched to Colemak and I can type for 10 hours at a time (done this *numerous* times) without the slightest bit of discomfort. If you DO decide to switch away from Qwerty, do it NOW since it will take ~a month to get back to your previous typing speed, after that you'll just keep getting faster and faster
His manager may thank you, but he sure won't. You just increased his workload!
10.10 is EOL, do NOT install this as it no longer receives ANY security updates. 10.04 is supported until April 2013, but do you really want to make them go through the "migration" as second time?!?
My recommendation (if you go with Ubuntu) would be 12.04 (supported until April 2017, so 4.5 years) and pick a DE that they will be comfortable with (XFCE or LXDE tend to be the easiest for non-technical windows converts).
Is it only your router that has an IPv6 address (acting as an IPv4-IPv6 bridge), or is it actually giving all the internal devices public IPv6 addresses?
Not really. When they win, it's usually in the 100's of thousands of dollars (sometimes millions, but they rarely collect that much due to bankrupting the defendant), when they lose the defendant probably spent around 10,000 at the most.
Either that or he's trying to say that even ESPN has a better write-up that TFA.
The trick is getting rid of the anti-particle. Sort of like you get rid of the clam-shell when you buy a yo-yo and thus have a net-positive gain!
That means that your post is your contribution and hosting it is theirs, so once again all they can really do is pull the ad.
I use Google to search through the online version nowadays, that works.
We did that as well, but the only way to make it work was by adding "-c++ -c# -objective-c" to EVERY search.
I don't have a published citation, but our entire CST class went by the motto (and I am NOT paraphrasing here!) "If at first you don't succeed, recompile!" This motto was ONLY ever said while working on win32 in VisualStudio.
Just a little background: I'm not talking about little clocks and stuff, we were writing low-level networking and GUI stuff such as streaming radio client/server setups, RFID readers and other fairly complicated applications.
I'd rather they trade off some of the close up I-can-count-the-rocks-on-the-ground detail for at least mediocre detail at a distance. I'm sick of having to wait until a blob is 100m in front of me to tell if it's a "ricochet off the car" obstacle or a freaking semi-truck.
Ummm, you've been able to shoot out GTA tires since at LEAST vice city (don't remember much of the earlier ones). I do this *constantly* in San Andreas. Just make sure you're using a PC, not a console if you want to do that.
Side not on mouse accuracy: I was playing San Andreas with a friend that had only ever played it on a console. He was talking about how much more control you get over the vehicles with a controller (which I agreed with) and was basically saying how the PC version sucked. Then about 5 minutes later I saw a nice car I wanted and he told me to run after it (it had just passed us), I gave him a funny look and head-shotted the driver THROUGH the back window with the pistol and the car came to a stop (making my "running after" much shorter). He didn't even know the game would let you do that!
Same with Need For Speed Undercover. Go look at some screenshots on google images. The entire game has a blue/cyan color scheem, including the fucking HUD. This means that even on a 1080p display, the map is damn near impossible to see at ALL. Contrast this with earlier games like Underground 2 where they not only got contrast right, but you could actually CUSTOMIZE the color of some of the HUD elements (mostly speedo) to make them even more visible.
Riiiiight. That's why lumber still comes in 4'x8' sheets and 2x4s... Oh, my bad, that's 3'7"x7'3" and 1 1/2"x3 1/2" :(
I'm from Canada and unfortunately, we deal with the same BS up here.
For all MSs faults, they do good documentation and put a lot of effort into making their tools work.
Right, that's why MSDN still has no facility to filter a search by programming language (finding the "c" version of a call is damn near impossible since it also brings up c++, c# & objective-c) and hitting recompile a second time in Visual Studio will fix some bugs in your software.
I say this as someone that did a fair bit of win32 programming in College (required, trust me it was NOT by choice!) and it was by FAR the buggiest piece of crap I have EVER worked with and I've done JavaScript on IE6!
In Canada (I don't know about elsewhere) it is impossible (by law) for the original author of a copyrighted work to breach their own copyright. The best CraigsList would be able to get you for is breach of contract, but since you didn't provide any services to them (contracts must be "2-way" to be a legal contract), all they'd really be able to do is pull the ad.
Nonetheless, I think a bet on Windows Phone 8 is justifiable, even wise, since both people who purchase a new Windows Phone 8 device likely will want to load it with the latest and greatest apps.
FTFY
The way it was explained to me (in a Business Law class) is that copyright is automatic (as you said) but that you can release it into the public domain (and thus have no control of that copy). You can then release a new (and possible modified) version and copyright is reasserted (on the new release, anyone with the old release still has no restrictions). The exception is a few duristictions (some back east, possible a few states in the US) where you cannot release anything into the public domain, it's just not possible due to the way their laws are written. As far as I know, premature (before expiry) public-domain releasing is legally possible in all of Canada, and but I'm not sure about the US or other countries.
I never understood this. The RIAA has been trying to stop MP3's for years now, yet they keep making their songs sound like crap so the MP3 algorithm works better. I really can't think of a metaphore dumber than the truth. I don't think iTunes + iPod uses MP3 anywhere in its stack, so that can't be it.