I left middle school after 6th grade to go to a private accelerated high school where >90% of the students had skipped at least 1 grade and >%70 skipped 2 or more. I do not think there were really any gaps in my (or anyone else's there) education as the reason most of us skipped was that we were far enough ahead in our middle school curriculum that we had already learned most of what would be taught in the skipped grades. If during admissions testing this was not the case then the student (usually coming from 5th or 6th grade) would be put into the "Prep" year program before starting their freshman year where the curriculum was the (mostly) combined courses from 6-8th grade. Even if a person went straight to their freshman year without some of this knowledge, the advanced courses (AP US History, AP European History, AP Literature, etc) we were 'forced' to take more than made up for the gaps left by skipping out on the courses in middle school.
Really? I was under the impression that Asia Carrera was the most desirable geek chick ever... incredibly hot porn star who builds her own computers, makes her own UT maps/mods/models, is a Linux geek and will wipe the floor with anyone here in a UT2004 deathmatch... personally, I do not need to know any more b/c I do not think that combination can be beat.
"Technologies/Techniques like Flash, Javascript, AJAX, PHP, browser extensions and the rest can do a lot of what ActiveX could do"
First off, the Flash plug-in is an ActiveX control in and of itself, as are the plugins for Quicktime, Real Player (may it die a quick death), Acrobat, and a whole host of other multimedia plugins, and all are things that cannot be replaced by AJAX, PHP, etc.
And while I agree the original implementation of ActiveX was poor, the idea is good (and similar ideas are used in other browsers for plugins, extensions, etc.) The real problem with ActiveX (and something the IE7 team seems to be a good job correcting) is that any ActiveX control on your machine is capable of being utilized by IE (which is nice in that it makes IE a very powerful app), but many are never used for any practical purpose in IE and make great targets for hackers. As the article says, a lot of patches to IE are not to the browser itself, but to ActiveX controls themselves that IE should have no business using. In IE7, most of these will be off by default (except things like Flash, QT, Acrobat, etc), and will have to be explicitly "turned-on" by the user if they need the functionality.
I am still a diehard Firefox users, but I am not writing off IE7 yet as they seem to making good strides in both providing new functionality as well as making "surfing" a safer and more enjoyable experience.
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I know we are supposed to hate MS, but when.NET was released, Terranium provided just that (and still does). You create "creatures" in.NET languages and add them into the Terranium ecosystem to compete to survive with everyone else's creatures.
From the homepage:
"Terrarium is a multiplayer ecosystem game developed using the.NET Framework. Developers can create their own creatures and add them into the game on their own client machine. Teleporters on each client transfer the creatures between clients in the Terrarium peer-to-peer network.
As a creature developer, you can program either herbivores or carnivores. Herbivores are capable of eating plants, of course, while carnivores are capable of eating both herbivores and other carnivores. Once a creature is in the Terrarium ecosystem and competing for resources, this website can be used to compare its vital statistics against those of other creatures. The objective of Terrarium is to develop a creature that out-survives the rest.
Terrarium is also an excellent example of the capabilities of the.NET Framework. It uses Windows Forms and DirectX for a super-rich UI experience. And XML Web Services provide the community infrastructure for the game, enabling peer discovery, reporting, and auto-update of new versions."
I am not sure why this has to be discussed every time the cost of consoles comes up, but MS (and Sony and any other company selling a product at a loss) does not lose more money when they sell their product off the shelves.
Lets assume the console costs MS $400 and they are selling it for $300, a loss of $100. Now, that is a sunk cost to them. If the console stays on the shelf unsold, MS is out $400, but when one is sold (at $300), they are only out $100.
So, there is no ploy by the Japanese to hurt MS's bottome line by buying Xbox360's b/c everyone sold reduces their loss by $200. This is highschool economics material... common sense even.
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"There is a reson they have a 5 year warrenty and Maxtor only has a 1 year."
Funny, of the 7 Maxtor drives I have, 4 of them have (2x80GB, 1x100GB, 1x120GB) have 3-year warrenties and the other 3 all have 5-year warrenties (2x 250GB, 1x300GB).
N.B. Although I tend to buy Maxtor drives, I will say that my Seagates are a little more quiet and therefore, that is what is in my Xbox and HTPC.
this might be true only for a given order, but maintaining an average of 100 items/min is not viable over an extended period, or really even over the course of an entire day.
I worked at a Bigg's Hypermarket (Like Super Target or Super Walmart, but only in the greater Cincinnati area) and an individual cashier would routinely have orders topping 3-500 items and even the large corporate purchases (personal largest was almost $4000). Even with consistent large orders and utilizing little tricks like locking the computer when the customer is writing their check or getting a price check (time was only counted when the computer was unlocked), it was an extraordinary feat to maintain an item/min ratio over 25 (I prided myself at the time as being the only person ever to maintain a ratio over 29 for a month (actually just over 40).
so, yes, 100/min may be possible, but only in a span of 1 or maybe a couple transactions.
While agree with you on the knowledge and information front, I think De Beers would disagree with you that your theorem holds true for all "inherently abundant resources" as they make a killing (literally according to some reports) in selling the world diamonds, which are found in "plentiful supply"
That is sound reasoning, in theory. Your memory bus may be faster, but the 2 cores still have to share the same pipeline to the memory with the Intel chips, severely bottlenecking performance, whereas with the AMD chips, each core has its own direct channel to the memory, meaning no fighting for time in the fast lane...this is where the AMD chips shine.
I would be willing to bet that your system with its 8GB of 1044MHz memory would still get trounced by a similar AMD system with its 4GB of 400MHz memory because that extra speed and memory is close to worthless if the cores are continuously fighting over it and cannot get a steady stream of access.
I'm not saying MS is doing it *well* necessarily, and there's a lot more to a UI than lickable graphics
I for one, would like to know where you get a monitor that enables you to taste the graphics... it would bring out a whole new dimension to my porn collection.
You have it wrong. Microsoft has said that they consider the GPL viral, not OSS in general and have used BSD-licensed code plenty of times in the past as well as releasing a few things from their software repository under open source licenses.
there a a few games that already use 6GB, but that still leaves a litte over 2GB of free space on a dual-layer disc. Combine this with the fact that the Xbox360 will support newer compression technologies (i.e. WMV9) and that more games are doing their FMV cutscenes using the in-game engine and scripting, that still gives us quite a bit of room to grow on a standard DL-DVD.
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It is good, but it is even better in GIMP, where it has been for years known as the Resynthesizer plugin.
http://o3.tumblr.com/post/470608946/photoshops-caf-content-aware-fill-unbelievable
LOUD NOISES!!!!
I left middle school after 6th grade to go to a private accelerated high school where >90% of the students had skipped at least 1 grade and >%70 skipped 2 or more. I do not think there were really any gaps in my (or anyone else's there) education as the reason most of us skipped was that we were far enough ahead in our middle school curriculum that we had already learned most of what would be taught in the skipped grades. If during admissions testing this was not the case then the student (usually coming from 5th or 6th grade) would be put into the "Prep" year program before starting their freshman year where the curriculum was the (mostly) combined courses from 6-8th grade. Even if a person went straight to their freshman year without some of this knowledge, the advanced courses (AP US History, AP European History, AP Literature, etc) we were 'forced' to take more than made up for the gaps left by skipping out on the courses in middle school.
Not when you are talking about the 5-day work week, which I assume the GP was referring to... but otherwise, you are technically correct.
I have a request tho' - I'd like the click+scrolly wheel zooms in a different direction for word & ie bug fixed. Please?
/.'er, then your ctrl+scrlUp in your browser would be the same as Office.
If you were using Firefox like a proper
But more seriously, this has been fixed in IE7b2 with ctrl+scrlUP zooming into the document just like Word (2003 at least).
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Actually, Microsoft has recently committed to supporting the format within its applications.
Really? I was under the impression that Asia Carrera was the most desirable geek chick ever... incredibly hot porn star who builds her own computers, makes her own UT maps/mods/models, is a Linux geek and will wipe the floor with anyone here in a UT2004 deathmatch... personally, I do not need to know any more b/c I do not think that combination can be beat.
-Squirrelmaster out
"Technologies/Techniques like Flash, Javascript, AJAX, PHP, browser extensions and the rest can do a lot of what ActiveX could do"
First off, the Flash plug-in is an ActiveX control in and of itself, as are the plugins for Quicktime, Real Player (may it die a quick death), Acrobat, and a whole host of other multimedia plugins, and all are things that cannot be replaced by AJAX, PHP, etc.
And while I agree the original implementation of ActiveX was poor, the idea is good (and similar ideas are used in other browsers for plugins, extensions, etc.) The real problem with ActiveX (and something the IE7 team seems to be a good job correcting) is that any ActiveX control on your machine is capable of being utilized by IE (which is nice in that it makes IE a very powerful app), but many are never used for any practical purpose in IE and make great targets for hackers. As the article says, a lot of patches to IE are not to the browser itself, but to ActiveX controls themselves that IE should have no business using. In IE7, most of these will be off by default (except things like Flash, QT, Acrobat, etc), and will have to be explicitly "turned-on" by the user if they need the functionality.
I am still a diehard Firefox users, but I am not writing off IE7 yet as they seem to making good strides in both providing new functionality as well as making "surfing" a safer and more enjoyable experience.
I know we are supposed to hate MS, but when .NET was released, Terranium provided just that (and still does). You create "creatures" in .NET languages and add them into the Terranium ecosystem to compete to survive with everyone else's creatures.
.NET Framework. Developers can create their own creatures and add them into the game on their own client machine. Teleporters on each client transfer the creatures between clients in the Terrarium peer-to-peer network.
As a creature developer, you can program either herbivores or carnivores. Herbivores are capable of eating plants, of course, while carnivores are capable of eating both herbivores and other carnivores. Once a creature is in the Terrarium ecosystem and competing for resources, this website can be used to compare its vital statistics against those of other creatures. The objective of Terrarium is to develop a creature that out-survives the rest.
Terrarium is also an excellent example of the capabilities of the .NET Framework. It uses Windows Forms and DirectX for a super-rich UI experience. And XML Web Services provide the community infrastructure for the game, enabling peer discovery, reporting, and auto-update of new versions."
From the homepage:
"Terrarium is a multiplayer ecosystem game developed using the
I am not sure why this has to be discussed every time the cost of consoles comes up, but MS (and Sony and any other company selling a product at a loss) does not lose more money when they sell their product off the shelves.
Lets assume the console costs MS $400 and they are selling it for $300, a loss of $100. Now, that is a sunk cost to them. If the console stays on the shelf unsold, MS is out $400, but when one is sold (at $300), they are only out $100.
So, there is no ploy by the Japanese to hurt MS's bottome line by buying Xbox360's b/c everyone sold reduces their loss by $200. This is highschool economics material... common sense even.
-SquirrelMaster out
Yes, you are.
See, MS is taking a note out of the RIAA's mathbook and is multiplying the actual number of exploits by rand() to get the number they report.
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We have this already... for a while now. Check out GameFly for the exact experience you are looking for. -- I am not a monkey
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"There is a reson they have a 5 year warrenty and Maxtor only has a 1 year."
Funny, of the 7 Maxtor drives I have, 4 of them have (2x80GB, 1x100GB, 1x120GB) have 3-year warrenties and the other 3 all have 5-year warrenties (2x 250GB, 1x300GB). N.B. Although I tend to buy Maxtor drives, I will say that my Seagates are a little more quiet and therefore, that is what is in my Xbox and HTPC.
there is already a service that touts "more reliable, more secure, more parental-control friendly"... they call it AOL.
this might be true only for a given order, but maintaining an average of 100 items/min is not viable over an extended period, or really even over the course of an entire day. I worked at a Bigg's Hypermarket (Like Super Target or Super Walmart, but only in the greater Cincinnati area) and an individual cashier would routinely have orders topping 3-500 items and even the large corporate purchases (personal largest was almost $4000). Even with consistent large orders and utilizing little tricks like locking the computer when the customer is writing their check or getting a price check (time was only counted when the computer was unlocked), it was an extraordinary feat to maintain an item/min ratio over 25 (I prided myself at the time as being the only person ever to maintain a ratio over 29 for a month (actually just over 40). so, yes, 100/min may be possible, but only in a span of 1 or maybe a couple transactions.
Yahoo! voice chat...enough said.
Also, the File Transfer abilities seem somewhat lacking, particularly with AIM clients as it is not always functional
While agree with you on the knowledge and information front, I think De Beers would disagree with you that your theorem holds true for all "inherently abundant resources" as they make a killing (literally according to some reports) in selling the world diamonds, which are found in "plentiful supply"
That is sound reasoning, in theory. Your memory bus may be faster, but the 2 cores still have to share the same pipeline to the memory with the Intel chips, severely bottlenecking performance, whereas with the AMD chips, each core has its own direct channel to the memory, meaning no fighting for time in the fast lane...this is where the AMD chips shine.
I would be willing to bet that your system with its 8GB of 1044MHz memory would still get trounced by a similar AMD system with its 4GB of 400MHz memory because that extra speed and memory is close to worthless if the cores are continuously fighting over it and cannot get a steady stream of access.
I'm not saying MS is doing it *well* necessarily, and there's a lot more to a UI than lickable graphics
I for one, would like to know where you get a monitor that enables you to taste the graphics... it would bring out a whole new dimension to my porn collection.
Microsoft calls OSS viral
You have it wrong. Microsoft has said that they consider the GPL viral, not OSS in general and have used BSD-licensed code plenty of times in the past as well as releasing a few things from their software repository under open source licenses.
there a a few games that already use 6GB, but that still leaves a litte over 2GB of free space on a dual-layer disc. Combine this with the fact that the Xbox360 will support newer compression technologies (i.e. WMV9) and that more games are doing their FMV cutscenes using the in-game engine and scripting, that still gives us quite a bit of room to grow on a standard DL-DVD.