I was lucky that when this happened to me in my high school that I was actually able to skip ahead days at a time and finished the entire semester's worth of coursework and testing in a few weeks and basically got it as a free period to do whatever I wanted.
I still participated in the tests though because through fate I ended up sitting next to the most insanely competitive individual I've ever met. He started that class with virtually zero typing ability, but because he wanted to beat me so bad he finished that class at like 45-55 wpm, 2nd best in the class by a fairly wide margin. He also ended up finishing most of the coursework way ahead of schedule, but he'd just do it over and over. I wonder what he would have been satisfied with if he hadn't ended up sitting next to me.
This makes a lot of sense, but I think what it means is that teaching typing should be integrated with general computer use as opposed the perspective that it is generally taught in which presumes that you are going to be constantly transcribing as opposed to actually creating.
I think an even bigger problem typing classes is that they presume everybody starts at the same basic level of not even knowing where the f and j keys are, which is less true then ever. Typing is probably one of the best case scenerios for using educational software to put each student on their own curriculum, analyze their weaknesses and put them on appropriate drills. If integrated into a bigger scope computer literature class, where typing software was used for the first week, then 10 minutes a day and also one day a week for the whole day, you'd probably get really good overall results.
What exactly is your question that makes it a useless measure and quality of code a useful one?
My question "How many lines of code are there in this central repository?" is answered perfectly by the measure of "Lines of code in this central repository", making it the most useful measure possible in at least one situation.
It depends on your perspective. This is more of a story of Sun falling then it is of linux rising. Also you have to realize that Boeing is a nexus for a huge number of subcontractors, the impact of a decision like this on their end could have unique ripple effects throughout an entire industry.
That analogy is pretty false. Making a totally seperate product illegal is a far cry from making it illegal to create immitation products and sell them as originals. The analogy of making it illegal to modify your car with aftermarket parts is _far_ more applicable. An even stronger functional equivalent would be making cars that don't go over 65 mph and modifying them to do so illegal.
C64 remixes. Some seriously good stuff in there, but you might have to wade through a lot of so-so or goofy stuff. Lots of serious effort out there though.
Some random starting points, helps to have played the actual games I guess.
Slumgud - Wizball The Dead Guys - Last Ninja / Paperboy DHS of TSW - Total Epygt N-Joy of The Soundwavers - Thundercats Puffy64 - Way of the exploding fist Instant Remedy - Commando DjLizard - International Karate / Temple of Apshai Trilogy Slow Poison - Wizball / Parallax Walkabout FTC - Parallax subtune 4 Lagerfeldt - Robocop THC Flatline - Short Circuit / SpellBound
But you could basically resimplify it away from most of those problems. Simply don't completely deny the existence of a higher power and through all the afterlife possibilities, you're less likely to mess it up. It's not as hard and fast of a concept, but basically I'm saying that the original idea still has some merit. What's the point of being a total athiest when that's just another form of unprovable faith?
MSIE and Mozilla are both free, are they both illegal product dumping? And even if they are, since they are equal on at least that ground, they must be competing with each other.
Arguments about how MSIE has an unfair advantage because of it's bundled nature are valid I suppose, but that's not what your talking about here. Your logic seems bizarre and inexplicable.
However, it is valid to consider how much money they are making when you're thinking of passing new laws that restrict technology simply on the basis that it could be used for piracy but has other legitimate uses.
And they do plan to drop that compatibility for the Gameboy DS to my knowledge, maybe they are just dropping the original gameboy and keeping advance, I'm not sure.
My high school was primarily the disadvantages of unions. The teachers were still underpaid, there were useless administration positions and worst of all there were a significant number of 'checked out' teachers that were basically just riding their untouchable tenure doing half assed jobs.
One teacher in particular, who had 3 full time student assistants who did all her work for her, was doubly untouchable because her room was plastered with famous black people. She never performed any actual teaching, everyday her assignment was to copy what was written in the book, word for word, everything. Even though I was only a freshman in high school I still asked her blunty why she didn't perform any actual teaching and instead of actually defending herself, she simply said "Because the book is issued by the state, which is a better teacher then me."
Most amazing of all, I got to know the principle of the school fairly well through building a computer lab and he actually apologized to me in frank about that teacher. Virtually every teacher in the school that knew anything about her apparently hated her but she was untouchable because of the union and her race.
Take this concept a step further and you've created a powerful antipiracy argument in favor of opensource. If so many people weren't satisfied using illegal copies of photoshop because they can't afford it, more people would have spent time improving Gimp out of neccessity.
I agree, while their future is uncertain, there are things I do daily on a 24 proc 26 gigs sun boxes daily where the development costs to engineer a clustering solution would outweigh the savings in switching to cheaper hardware.
But if the only pair of shoes you could buy that worked with the only fashionable socks came with a lifetime supply of shoelaces you had to take, you'd most likely then put replacement shoelace companies out of business. Then, later on, the fashionable socks would no longer work with those shoes and you'd have to buy new ones. You'd also then find out that the lifetime supply of shoelaces don't work with them either.
The other shoelace companies have gone out of business and now the shoe seller owns a monopoly on that business as well, forcing you to buy them now if they want, but they had the magical ability to create a more or less infinite amount of a physical product at no additional per shoe cost, they may or may not do it again.
And uhh, lets also say that the shoelaces eventually integrate direct music sales, putting other music sales businesses at a big disadvantage since they have the barrier of installation and exposure that an integrated solution does not have to overcome. Can you even think up a shoe analogy for direct music sales?
Good post but to me it just all falls apart when you consider the fact that unlike recievers, shoes, and everything else with integrated nonreplacable components there is no alternative way to run windows software you can buy that doesn't have those integrated unremovable components you don't want.
Also, I just think that all analogies that compare physically manufactured goods to digital ones are for the most part going to fail to apply in some critical fashion. Nobody just throws integrated DVD players into televisions for the hell of it to spite DVD manufacturers and sells it at the price of a similar quality television, because the cost is proportional to the number of televisions sold, whereas any virtual product unless its so large that it requires coming on it's own physical medium is not going to have any meaningful effect on manufacturing cost, just the initial development.
I do think its just goofy and strange to go after something like the media player, odds are the integrated media player that these resellers want to put in must have some kind of even more annoying intrusive feature that users would most likely just avoid by using microsoft's media player and that is the real reason they don't want it there. Being able to uninstall/never-install media player should be enough to settle this particular issue, the idea of a totally different version that doesn't include it in the first place indicates to me something fundamentally anticonsumer.
There are just so many other fundamental Microsoft practices that are monopolistic they could go after that would have a much more beneficial effect. Imagine if they went after them for their barriers to interoperability. Officially make projects like Samba 100% protected. Eliminate the situation where all javascript has to do everything 2 ways in order to work with MSIE/Others. Force a patch to all office products going back to '98 requiring the ability to export documents in a _non/variable_lossy_ accessible format.
You could just go on and on with ways to deal with the fundamentally monopolistic aspects of Microsoft rather then this kind of bizarre "Im an unhappy reseller, my media player only plz!" initiated punishment.
Mod parent up, too many people underestimate window's CLI abilities. The original poster's solution to the problem is a straw man and a false dilema. Not only is it not the only means possible, the gui method still has the advantage that its discoverable strictly through the interface, and this is a discussion strictly about interface.
I'm an avid linux user, but I'd only recommend it on it's strengths, not try to advocate it by exposing a weakness.
Grab an emulator and some bowling arcade games that use trackball, I have this mouse and with those games you can literally pretend to be rolling a bowling ball and it feels very authenticate, controlling the angle and speed of the ball, having to keep your line straight and such.
Just don't accidently let go of the mouse like a ball.
How many times have you gotten the shaft from a company you actually bought their software from? And have had a support contract with?
I've had more luck getting and giving support for open source products then I have for ones I actually paid for. I'm not saying that paid software sucks just for that reason or anything, there are a ton of products for which theres no open source alternative even coming close, and probably won't for an extremely long time, but don't try to sell the argument that poor support in free software makes it bad when we almost all know from experience how poor the paid support often is.
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I was lucky that when this happened to me in my high school that I was actually able to skip ahead days at a time and finished the entire semester's worth of coursework and testing in a few weeks and basically got it as a free period to do whatever I wanted.
I still participated in the tests though because through fate I ended up sitting next to the most insanely competitive individual I've ever met. He started that class with virtually zero typing ability, but because he wanted to beat me so bad he finished that class at like 45-55 wpm, 2nd best in the class by a fairly wide margin. He also ended up finishing most of the coursework way ahead of schedule, but he'd just do it over and over. I wonder what he would have been satisfied with if he hadn't ended up sitting next to me.
This makes a lot of sense, but I think what it means is that teaching typing should be integrated with general computer use as opposed the perspective that it is generally taught in which presumes that you are going to be constantly transcribing as opposed to actually creating.
I think an even bigger problem typing classes is that they presume everybody starts at the same basic level of not even knowing where the f and j keys are, which is less true then ever. Typing is probably one of the best case scenerios for using educational software to put each student on their own curriculum, analyze their weaknesses and put them on appropriate drills. If integrated into a bigger scope computer literature class, where typing software was used for the first week, then 10 minutes a day and also one day a week for the whole day, you'd probably get really good overall results.
What exactly is your question that makes it a useless measure and quality of code a useful one?
My question "How many lines of code are there in this central repository?" is answered perfectly by the measure of "Lines of code in this central repository", making it the most useful measure possible in at least one situation.
It's only a good or bad measurement depending on what your question is.
If your question is "Just, in general, how big is this thing?", then it's a pretty useful measurement.
If your question is "How complex is this thing?", it's probably a pretty decent shot in the dark.
If your question is "Will it will win the ultimate war of the languages?", then your question is retarded.
It depends on your perspective. This is more of a story of Sun falling then it is of linux rising. Also you have to realize that Boeing is a nexus for a huge number of subcontractors, the impact of a decision like this on their end could have unique ripple effects throughout an entire industry.
Ignoring the fact that if one worm has already gotten in, in order to be able to perform that, what difference does it make if more get in?
Security patches are definitely worth it. What you said is kind of like saying, why even bother with an air bag if you still need to wear a seatbelt?
Ahh the VCR, trying to make video reproduction engineers out of people who can't even thread a quadruplex.
So a mod chip then is logically as bad as a missile launcher, crack cocaine or killing a baby.
That analogy is pretty false. Making a totally seperate product illegal is a far cry from making it illegal to create immitation products and sell them as originals. The analogy of making it illegal to modify your car with aftermarket parts is _far_ more applicable. An even stronger functional equivalent would be making cars that don't go over 65 mph and modifying them to do so illegal.
C64 remixes. Some seriously good stuff in there, but you might have to wade through a lot of so-so or goofy stuff. Lots of serious effort out there though.
Some random starting points, helps to have played the actual games I guess.
Slumgud - Wizball
The Dead Guys - Last Ninja / Paperboy
DHS of TSW - Total Epygt
N-Joy of The Soundwavers - Thundercats
Puffy64 - Way of the exploding fist
Instant Remedy - Commando
DjLizard - International Karate / Temple of Apshai Trilogy
Slow Poison - Wizball / Parallax Walkabout
FTC - Parallax subtune 4
Lagerfeldt - Robocop
THC Flatline - Short Circuit / SpellBound
But you could basically resimplify it away from most of those problems. Simply don't completely deny the existence of a higher power and through all the afterlife possibilities, you're less likely to mess it up. It's not as hard and fast of a concept, but basically I'm saying that the original idea still has some merit. What's the point of being a total athiest when that's just another form of unprovable faith?
Never heard of the Trabant before.
MSIE and Mozilla are both free, are they both illegal product dumping? And even if they are, since they are equal on at least that ground, they must be competing with each other.
Arguments about how MSIE has an unfair advantage because of it's bundled nature are valid I suppose, but that's not what your talking about here. Your logic seems bizarre and inexplicable.
However, it is valid to consider how much money they are making when you're thinking of passing new laws that restrict technology simply on the basis that it could be used for piracy but has other legitimate uses.
And they do plan to drop that compatibility for the Gameboy DS to my knowledge, maybe they are just dropping the original gameboy and keeping advance, I'm not sure.
My high school was primarily the disadvantages of unions. The teachers were still underpaid, there were useless administration positions and worst of all there were a significant number of 'checked out' teachers that were basically just riding their untouchable tenure doing half assed jobs.
One teacher in particular, who had 3 full time student assistants who did all her work for her, was doubly untouchable because her room was plastered with famous black people. She never performed any actual teaching, everyday her assignment was to copy what was written in the book, word for word, everything. Even though I was only a freshman in high school I still asked her blunty why she didn't perform any actual teaching and instead of actually defending herself, she simply said "Because the book is issued by the state, which is a better teacher then me."
Most amazing of all, I got to know the principle of the school fairly well through building a computer lab and he actually apologized to me in frank about that teacher. Virtually every teacher in the school that knew anything about her apparently hated her but she was untouchable because of the union and her race.
Take this concept a step further and you've created a powerful antipiracy argument in favor of opensource. If so many people weren't satisfied using illegal copies of photoshop because they can't afford it, more people would have spent time improving Gimp out of neccessity.
I agree, while their future is uncertain, there are things I do daily on a 24 proc 26 gigs sun boxes daily where the development costs to engineer a clustering solution would outweigh the savings in switching to cheaper hardware.
But if the only pair of shoes you could buy that worked with the only fashionable socks came with a lifetime supply of shoelaces you had to take, you'd most likely then put replacement shoelace companies out of business. Then, later on, the fashionable socks would no longer work with those shoes and you'd have to buy new ones. You'd also then find out that the lifetime supply of shoelaces don't work with them either.
The other shoelace companies have gone out of business and now the shoe seller owns a monopoly on that business as well, forcing you to buy them now if they want, but they had the magical ability to create a more or less infinite amount of a physical product at no additional per shoe cost, they may or may not do it again.
And uhh, lets also say that the shoelaces eventually integrate direct music sales, putting other music sales businesses at a big disadvantage since they have the barrier of installation and exposure that an integrated solution does not have to overcome. Can you even think up a shoe analogy for direct music sales?
Good post but to me it just all falls apart when you consider the fact that unlike recievers, shoes, and everything else with integrated nonreplacable components there is no alternative way to run windows software you can buy that doesn't have those integrated unremovable components you don't want.
Also, I just think that all analogies that compare physically manufactured goods to digital ones are for the most part going to fail to apply in some critical fashion. Nobody just throws integrated DVD players into televisions for the hell of it to spite DVD manufacturers and sells it at the price of a similar quality television, because the cost is proportional to the number of televisions sold, whereas any virtual product unless its so large that it requires coming on it's own physical medium is not going to have any meaningful effect on manufacturing cost, just the initial development.
I do think its just goofy and strange to go after something like the media player, odds are the integrated media player that these resellers want to put in must have some kind of even more annoying intrusive feature that users would most likely just avoid by using microsoft's media player and that is the real reason they don't want it there. Being able to uninstall/never-install media player should be enough to settle this particular issue, the idea of a totally different version that doesn't include it in the first place indicates to me something fundamentally anticonsumer.
There are just so many other fundamental Microsoft practices that are monopolistic they could go after that would have a much more beneficial effect. Imagine if they went after them for their barriers to interoperability. Officially make projects like Samba 100% protected. Eliminate the situation where all javascript has to do everything 2 ways in order to work with MSIE/Others. Force a patch to all office products going back to '98 requiring the ability to export documents in a _non/variable_lossy_ accessible format.
You could just go on and on with ways to deal with the fundamentally monopolistic aspects of Microsoft rather then this kind of bizarre "Im an unhappy reseller, my media player only plz!" initiated punishment.
Mod parent up, too many people underestimate window's CLI abilities. The original poster's solution to the problem is a straw man and a false dilema. Not only is it not the only means possible, the gui method still has the advantage that its discoverable strictly through the interface, and this is a discussion strictly about interface.
I'm an avid linux user, but I'd only recommend it on it's strengths, not try to advocate it by exposing a weakness.
Well, actually if I remember right, NARC gave you extra points for arresting them instead of just simply killing them.
For what thats worth.
You seriously did not read this article, and neither did any of the people that modded you up. :(
Grab an emulator and some bowling arcade games that use trackball, I have this mouse and with those games you can literally pretend to be rolling a bowling ball and it feels very authenticate, controlling the angle and speed of the ball, having to keep your line straight and such.
Just don't accidently let go of the mouse like a ball.
How many times have you gotten the shaft from a company you actually bought their software from? And have had a support contract with?
I've had more luck getting and giving support for open source products then I have for ones I actually paid for. I'm not saying that paid software sucks just for that reason or anything, there are a ton of products for which theres no open source alternative even coming close, and probably won't for an extremely long time, but don't try to sell the argument that poor support in free software makes it bad when we almost all know from experience how poor the paid support often is.