the out of date OS rant doesn't apply.. they are running the OS they were shipped with.. sure pre OS X macos's don't multitask.. but thats apple's fault.
Unless they plan on dramatically changing the way SmarterChild works, I don't really see how its an idea to trick children other than the fact that the author of the article says it is.
Not sure about Active Buddy.. but SmarterChild is obviously not like talking to an eliza type program that convinces you to buy things. SmarterChild is more like an interactive program that can play text based games with you and give you information such as weather and stocks. You'd be hard pressed to trick anyone that can read that they are talking to anything other than a computer script.
If you got accepted at UIUC, especially in CS, you should be able to get accepted at any state school and a good deal of decent private schools. Perhaps you didn't apply enough places?
Yeh basically any game that comes out, a mod comes out for halflife to do the same thing.. Day of Defeat is just like rtcw and that other quake3 engine based ww2 games..
Its kinda nice.. that way people who can run halflife but not newer games can keep up on emerging trends with games..
Take place during senior year or highschool/ first year of college so its reasonable to assume the actors are protraying 18 year olds. Pretty much all teen sex comedies take place in college so they dont really apply either.. Its been a while since I seen Lolita, but I don't recall any actual sex being depicted. and I haven't seen the others..
.. too late.. we already know now that music can be free.. although $.20 a song isnt too bad.. that would make a CD cost about $3 like we all know it should..
Agreed with the TCO. At my school district, 3 of us support about 500 workstations (and the network, and the servers, and the TV station, and everything), with about 50/50 splits between Macs and Windows boxes.
Two of us focus on PC support. We can maybe fix problems for two school sites in a day. Two of us, that is. The Mac guy can hit four sites in a day, no sweat, alone. From a support standpoint, our Macs have an insanely low TCO.
The school where I work has ~25% Macs, and sure they require very little work.. but if you hang out in the labs, you realize why they need little work.. they get little use.. honestly.. the entire pc side of the lab will fill up before anyone will sit down at a mac.. and then they can't figure how use telnet and ftp and end up waiting in line to use a pc.. Its a shame the PC makers don't bribe schools to use PC's like Apple bribes schools to use Macs.
OpenOffice is good, but its no where near the Word/Office killer that people here make it out to be. If the.doc you want to use has anything other than plain text it doesn't open or render out well at all..
Sure its the typical/. response to link to openoffice anytime someone comments about a word replacement.. but sadly OpenOffice just doesn't perform when you put it to the test.
Your first link discusses a couple of laws but doesn't contain any lawsuits to back up your intial claims nor does it have any relevant information regarding the submitted story.
from the second link This concept is why I'm mentioning this article in ARTVoices. It's important for artists whose work is installed in buildings as part of the decor, whether wall art, sculpture or other installation, or whose work is part of a public place, such as a mural, to realize that their work is NOT protected from being displayed in other people's art works (nor are movie producers required to pay you a fee for your art being in their movies if it's just part of a public place they're using as a set). Think of all the copyrighted and trademarked images on the buildings and signs at Times Square, for instance. Artists depict that scene all the time (and if you walk the streets of New York City for very long, you'll see lots of artists selling such paintings from tables on the edge of the sidewalks). The same is true in Las Vegas and many other cities.
It even specifically mentions where artists lost such cases further down..
Dude, when you make blanket statements that go against what people commonly believe and you don't back them up with links to legimate sources, you present yourself as a moron to everyone.
Nothing you have said has disproven anything I've said.. I'm familiar with the idea of the embedded IE.. it still doesn't change the fact that most people that use aol barely leave the confines of AOL's system of chatrooms and local content and get real internet content.
People that put stuff like that on their sites are morons anyway. If they halfway good at doing simple html and make a few mistakes here and there, it'll render just about the same in every browser anyway..
AOL has consistantly caused problems for website maintainers, thats why several websites have specific AOL only instructions, ie. IF YOU ARE USING AOL, CLICK THIS LINK TO DOWNLOAD STUFF. etc.. Most sites don't worry about it and just let them suffer for their choice of using aol for a net connection.. Hell, a huge percentage of AOL users never leave the confines of AOL's system to even get real internet content.
What MS is trying to do is say that you have to buy your telephone from only them. That is illegal. The alternative proposals from the non-settling states simply want force MS to allow consumers to use non-MS telephones with the MS system.
Except your analogy is wrong. A closer one would be that MS owns the phone companies and gave you a free phone, free caller id, free voicemail whether you wanted it or not. And if you didn't want it you could use some other phone/caller id/voicemail made by some other company what did a half assed job of making said appliances.
Don't lie to yourself. MS isn't illegally bundling anything to windows.. they are giving apps for free. If the DoJ makes them strip everything thats not technically an OS out of windows, its not going to be any cheaper.
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the out of date OS rant doesn't apply.. they are running the OS they were shipped with.. sure pre OS X macos's don't multitask.. but thats apple's fault.
thank you for providing atleast one legitimate example.. Romeo and Juliet is another..
yes, but unlike eliza, smarterchild doesn't pretend to be a person chatting with you.. it has text based menus and such.
Unless they plan on dramatically changing the way SmarterChild works, I don't really see how its an idea to trick children other than the fact that the author of the article says it is.
Not sure about Active Buddy.. but SmarterChild is obviously not like talking to an eliza type program that convinces you to buy things. SmarterChild is more like an interactive program that can play text based games with you and give you information such as weather and stocks. You'd be hard pressed to trick anyone that can read that they are talking to anything other than a computer script.
If you got accepted at UIUC, especially in CS, you should be able to get accepted at any state school and a good deal of decent private schools. Perhaps you didn't apply enough places?
Yeh basically any game that comes out, a mod comes out for halflife to do the same thing.. Day of Defeat is just like rtcw and that other quake3 engine based ww2 games..
Its kinda nice.. that way people who can run halflife but not newer games can keep up on emerging trends with games..
-American Pie I & II
Take place during senior year or highschool/ first year of college so its reasonable to assume the actors are protraying 18 year olds. Pretty much all teen sex comedies take place in college so they dont really apply either..
Its been a while since I seen Lolita, but I don't recall any actual sex being depicted. and I haven't seen the others..
.. too late.. we already know now that music can be free.. although $.20 a song isnt too bad.. that would make a CD cost about $3 like we all know it should..
I said school.. I didn't say k-12..
Agreed with the TCO. At my school district, 3 of us support about 500 workstations (and the network, and the servers, and the TV station, and everything), with about 50/50 splits between Macs and Windows boxes.
Two of us focus on PC support. We can maybe fix problems for two school sites in a day. Two of us, that is. The Mac guy can hit four sites in a day, no sweat, alone. From a support standpoint, our Macs have an insanely low TCO.
The school where I work has ~25% Macs, and sure they require very little work.. but if you hang out in the labs, you realize why they need little work.. they get little use.. honestly.. the entire pc side of the lab will fill up before anyone will sit down at a mac.. and then they can't figure how use telnet and ftp and end up waiting in line to use a pc.. Its a shame the PC makers don't bribe schools to use PC's like Apple bribes schools to use Macs.
totally different deal.. notice vcr implies that it records Video..
OpenOffice is good, but its no where near the Word/Office killer that people here make it out to be. If the .doc you want to use has anything other than plain text it doesn't open or render out well at all..
/. response to link to openoffice anytime someone comments about a word replacement.. but sadly OpenOffice just doesn't perform when you put it to the test.
Sure its the typical
well cnet owns com.com and links to all of their various sites from there..
That lawsuit would surely win some kind of stupidity award since they are using rtsp which is a standard protocal.
Your first link discusses a couple of laws but doesn't contain any lawsuits to back up your intial claims nor does it have any relevant information regarding the submitted story.
from the second link
This concept is why I'm mentioning this article in ARTVoices. It's important for artists whose work is installed in buildings as part of the decor, whether wall art, sculpture or other installation, or whose work is part of a public place, such as a mural, to realize that their work is NOT protected from being displayed in other people's art works (nor are movie producers required to pay you a fee for your art being in their movies if it's just part of a public place they're using as a set). Think of all the copyrighted and trademarked images on the buildings and signs at Times Square, for instance. Artists depict that scene all the time (and if you walk the streets of New York City for very long, you'll see lots of artists selling such paintings from tables on the edge of the sidewalks). The same is true in Las Vegas and many other cities.
It even specifically mentions where artists lost such cases further down..
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Dude, when you make blanket statements that go against what people commonly believe and you don't back them up with links to legimate sources, you present yourself as a moron to everyone.
Care to back that up with a link or some more detailed info atleast?
The comic is "Spider-Man" note the dash and the captiol M. Incase you are not believing, check out here and here (note the reserved trademark at the bottom).
Nothing you have said has disproven anything I've said.. I'm familiar with the idea of the embedded IE.. it still doesn't change the fact that most people that use aol barely leave the confines of AOL's system of chatrooms and local content and get real internet content.
"Best with Internet Explorer"
People that put stuff like that on their sites are morons anyway. If they halfway good at doing simple html and make a few mistakes here and there, it'll render just about the same in every browser anyway..
AOL has consistantly caused problems for website maintainers, thats why several websites have specific AOL only instructions, ie. IF YOU ARE USING AOL, CLICK THIS LINK TO DOWNLOAD STUFF. etc.. Most sites don't worry about it and just let them suffer for their choice of using aol for a net connection.. Hell, a huge percentage of AOL users never leave the confines of AOL's system to even get real internet content.
What MS is trying to do is say that you have to buy your telephone from only them. That is illegal. The alternative proposals from the non-settling states simply want force MS to allow consumers to use non-MS telephones with the MS system.
Except your analogy is wrong. A closer one would be that MS owns the phone companies and gave you a free phone, free caller id, free voicemail whether you wanted it or not. And if you didn't want it you could use some other phone/caller id/voicemail made by some other company what did a half assed job of making said appliances.
Don't lie to yourself. MS isn't illegally bundling anything to windows.. they are giving apps for free. If the DoJ makes them strip everything thats not technically an OS out of windows, its not going to be any cheaper.