So by being slightly better than the extremely mediocre average, you get an A? This doesn't sound too good to me, especially since it would mean: a) You're congratulating a kid because he know the very basics, when the rest can't even add two numbers. b) An "A student" in one school might be one that completely fails in another. There's no real good measure of comparison.
Isn't moodle more for teacher-student communication, e-learning, etc? I think the op merely wants teachers to load grades and be able to print report cards based on those grades, while maybe moodle may achieve this, it's not really the right tool for the job.
Hopefully, he'll have inspired at least one of his colleagues to carry on his work. If he didn't actually reach a single other teacher, then it really is a sad world out there.
Google has an interes for open web standards, because they are web service providers, and develop web based apps. A standardized web, means it's easier to develop those products. So it's not out of the goodness of their hard that they want an open web, it's because it suits them better.
When has that ever worked? The US picked NTSC when Pal was clearly the superior standard. VHS won out even though Beta was better. Some felt HD was better than Blu-ray, I was on the Blu-ray side, but Blu-ray won out.
Who? I never recall having ever read/heard DVD-HD was better. It died in silence, I can't say I've even ever seen one in my entire life.
At the time it came out Firewire then firewire 800 were clearly superior standards. Eventually other standards came out to compete but I used Firewire for years and enjoyed the speed while others stubbornly refused to support it or users to use it.
That depends on how you define "better". It was faster, but way more expensive, and the speed wasn't that big of a deal for most consumer products at the time. Cost was.
Generally there are business and political factors that will determine a standard. Microsoft's is likely no better it's simply one they control. Apple does the same thing by tweaking things like ePub into their own proprietary standard so they can control it.
While Chrome is cross platform, it has zero platform integration. By default, it looks identical everywhere, and on X11, the most you can do it make use the same colors as GTK, but nothing more. Every control, tab, etc sticks out undeniably.
I think the earier explanation, is that those profile's oweners submited YOUR address book to facebook, so as soon as you registered, facebook already knew that you were in their address book.
Maybe the growl team did get screwed by the fact that the OS suddenly included the feature, but would you prefer to have an OS lacking features just so some third party can continue to implement it their own way? AFAIK, OS X was the only user-friendly OS that didn't have any notification system out-of-the-box. The only other one that didn't were the sort of OS that don't have an email client or browser out-of-the-box (ie: gentoo, debian, bsds).
In USA maybe, but around here: Single layer: $0.30 Double layer: $4
Not all the world has the same prices. And no, not everybody uses them, or I would have seen or touched or would have come in contact with some DVD in the last few years, but I can't remember the last time I saw/used one. Even single layer ones. DVDs are dissapearing, not used by everyone.
I'd gladly pay for plenty of UK shows. But I can't, even if I want to. They don't actually loose any revenue, since there's no way for me to give them money, so how can I feel guilty about it?
Slashdot's official mission is "News for nerds", I think that this qualifies.
How? Proxies and tunneling is over a decade old, and can be one of the first results while googleing. What sort of nerd can't use google? What sort of so-called-nerd hasn't heard about VPNs or proxies? Also, nerds don't usually care about sports events, wherever they may be.
I actually configure all software on my laptop to use proxy "localhost:9999", and do something similar to what you do. Whenever I don't want to tunnel traffic (due to bad connection quality, or some other reason), I just run ssh -fND 9999 localhost. Saves me having to change proxies all over the place.:)
How? How would you shut down VPNs that works though SSH tunnels? If you block SSH, you kill the internet, so you can't block it, and since you can't snoop into SSH traffic, you can't filter stuff out either. That's just to give an example.
That's exactly what I though, the article just mentions 15-20 year old technologies, and how the can be used, and have been used for years. This isn't news, in any circle, or any way. Except in the past, that is.
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Finaly Adobe is contributing and killing Flash. And itself too, hopefully!
Don't forget better support for close propietary hardware on an open source music player, because that's what we all want in our free software!
So by being slightly better than the extremely mediocre average, you get an A?
This doesn't sound too good to me, especially since it would mean:
a) You're congratulating a kid because he know the very basics, when the rest can't even add two numbers.
b) An "A student" in one school might be one that completely fails in another. There's no real good measure of comparison.
Isn't moodle more for teacher-student communication, e-learning, etc?
I think the op merely wants teachers to load grades and be able to print report cards based on those grades, while maybe moodle may achieve this, it's not really the right tool for the job.
Hopefully, he'll have inspired at least one of his colleagues to carry on his work. If he didn't actually reach a single other teacher, then it really is a sad world out there.
Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking. I'm pretty sure there's prior art of what this patent describes from over 20 years ago!
Google has an interes for open web standards, because they are web service providers, and develop web based apps. A standardized web, means it's easier to develop those products. So it's not out of the goodness of their hard that they want an open web, it's because it suits them better.
When has that ever worked? The US picked NTSC when Pal was clearly the superior standard. VHS won out even though Beta was better. Some felt HD was better than Blu-ray, I was on the Blu-ray side, but Blu-ray won out.
Who? I never recall having ever read/heard DVD-HD was better. It died in silence, I can't say I've even ever seen one in my entire life.
At the time it came out Firewire then firewire 800 were clearly superior standards. Eventually other standards came out to compete but I used Firewire for years and enjoyed the speed while others stubbornly refused to support it or users to use it.
That depends on how you define "better". It was faster, but way more expensive, and the speed wasn't that big of a deal for most consumer products at the time. Cost was.
Generally there are business and political factors that will determine a standard. Microsoft's is likely no better it's simply one they control. Apple does the same thing by tweaking things like ePub into their own proprietary standard so they can control it.
While Chrome is cross platform, it has zero platform integration. By default, it looks identical everywhere, and on X11, the most you can do it make use the same colors as GTK, but nothing more. Every control, tab, etc sticks out undeniably.
You worry about offending people that publicly distribute photographs of yourself without permission? I think you've got your priorities wrong.
You can even disallow being tagged on facebook (it requests your confirmation, and you can just deny every request).
I think the earier explanation, is that those profile's oweners submited YOUR address book to facebook, so as soon as you registered, facebook already knew that you were in their address book.
And what happens if you loose the salt?
Agreed. But obviously they have done a cost-benefit analysis and decided against this so far.
I personally like the Google 2-step authentication. Send a temporary code to my phone.
Where's the second factor in that? It's a temporary code and a... ??
Maybe the growl team did get screwed by the fact that the OS suddenly included the feature, but would you prefer to have an OS lacking features just so some third party can continue to implement it their own way? AFAIK, OS X was the only user-friendly OS that didn't have any notification system out-of-the-box. The only other one that didn't were the sort of OS that don't have an email client or browser out-of-the-box (ie: gentoo, debian, bsds).
Or, if you're serious about privacy, just don't use facebook or don't upload any photos of yourself.
In USA maybe, but around here:
Single layer: $0.30
Double layer: $4
Not all the world has the same prices.
And no, not everybody uses them, or I would have seen or touched or would have come in contact with some DVD in the last few years, but I can't remember the last time I saw/used one. Even single layer ones. DVDs are dissapearing, not used by everyone.
Yes, but what about Dr. Who? Sherlock?
Also, I haven't heard of any company streaming the olympics in Argentina either.
I'd gladly pay for plenty of UK shows. But I can't, even if I want to. They don't actually loose any revenue, since there's no way for me to give them money, so how can I feel guilty about it?
WOW! Slow down there, brainy!
Yes, because the world is full or sports-loving nerds who can't google!
We call them not-nerds where I come from!
Slashdot's official mission is "News for nerds", I think that this qualifies.
How? Proxies and tunneling is over a decade old, and can be one of the first results while googleing. What sort of nerd can't use google? What sort of so-called-nerd hasn't heard about VPNs or proxies?
Also, nerds don't usually care about sports events, wherever they may be.
So, in short, flash is problematic?
No news here either.
I actually configure all software on my laptop to use proxy "localhost:9999", and do something similar to what you do. :)
Whenever I don't want to tunnel traffic (due to bad connection quality, or some other reason), I just run
ssh -fND 9999 localhost.
Saves me having to change proxies all over the place.
How? How would you shut down VPNs that works though SSH tunnels? If you block SSH, you kill the internet, so you can't block it, and since you can't snoop into SSH traffic, you can't filter stuff out either.
That's just to give an example.
That's exactly what I though, the article just mentions 15-20 year old technologies, and how the can be used, and have been used for years. This isn't news, in any circle, or any way. Except in the past, that is.