As for cleartype the article is no longer coming up that I can see, but I as I recall, I don't believe that the Mac technology was for LCD's?
MS Media inventions. Let's see, their video codecs, their audio codecs (of which there are several), there streaming audio+video stuff, their livetime broadcasting encoder type stuff (for usage with eg webcams). I mean, I'm assuming some programmer didn't just pull all these things out of a hole in the air.
handwriting recognition--of course microsoft didn't invent, don't be deliberately slow, but they did make again, from all accounts, a very very good implementation. Once again, some programmer can't just pull that out of the air.
My Vic-20 was doing that in 1982. great! ANd now so is MS, but better. You should actually go to the MS Research homepage (sorry, I lost the link, it's prominent among the comments for this article), there's some pretty cool stuff going on there that I didn't know about! Incidentally, MS comes out with some quite good programming books too, recommended even on slashdot.
Uh, no. First of all, Isaac Newton lived from 1642 - 1727. That's WELL before the Victorian age and the sexual repression that you elude to. There's also (afaik) no evidence at all that Newton was a homosexual, simply asexual. I've never heard of that quote you mention, but I'm not saying it for sure didn't happen just sounds curious to me.
Being 'smart' is no precursor to either being a reasonable person, living a good (or happy life) or having the same opinions of other people.
Look how many of the geniuses of the past lived fscked lives. Newton for instance (probably) died a virgin. Literary figures are another area where the greats seem to lead terrible lives.
Well how much of what is secure? It seems to me that MOST of the security bugs one associates with Microsoft are problems with two programs in particular--IIS and Outlook (Express version only).
Examples of MS research type stuff? Clippy as maligned as it is was supposedly really good in the lab--it had to be dumbed down a lot for the power of the computers at the time, but a good bit of actual AI research went into it's design. What about ClearType? All the recent MS Media inventions? The MS handwriting recognition software which is supposed to be excellent? Text->voice software? And I'm SURE a lot of the stuff in NT,XP,2K, etc that we don't hear about but is part of the operating system comes from MS Research labs.
Where you live do they have the self-checkout grocery stores? They started getting them here about 2 years ago, and now they all have it. One person can manage 4 or 8 self-checkout stations. I LOVE this. It makes it so much quicker and easier to buy stuff and then get out. I'm all for a grocery cart I could check out that fast as you mention, that would be awesome.
This is not a new thing at all. I was in India about 2 years ago, and even then I found the contrasts great. A slum to your left and right, yet hundreds of signs advertising C# training (Java training too).. all kinds of computer skills (though I noticed a ton of C# in particular, this was in Bombay (Mumbai)).
I would say one thing in addition--many of the indian developers aren't exactly leading Silicon Valley hot shot developer lifestyles. As such, they will learn what they need to learn to get jobs and get money--ideology has no place here.
No I agree with you that censorship is a terrible thing, but in terms of Chinese censorship being EFFECTIVE, China has succeeded I think. I'm right with you that censorship and the communist parties iron fisted control of information and people is the only reason it's still a People's Republic.
I'm not sure I get it? It IS working pretty effectively in China, right? I sent some links recently about the Uighur Turks in Xinjiang (Sinkiang)province to some Chinese friends (living in America) who kept up with Chinese news sources via the web and they had never heard of anything in these articles (the existence of a Uighur Independence movement, bombings in Xinjiang, protests in the capital city of Xinjiang, etc).
It seems to me that China's censorship works pretty damn well!
Yes, Corel a Canadian company, is clearly indicative of American MBA's who are laying off workers to buy golden yachts. Idiot, do you KNOW ANYTHING about Corel?
Good shells?? text editors?! I don't know what kinda schools most people here went to but at my middle school (hell, at my highschool for that matter) a majority of the people would have had no clue what to do with a dos prompt. Something like vi would have left them scarred for life. (just for reference, my school system was pretty good academically, sent a number of kids to the ivies, etc).
Don't forget also that if you're doing K-5 a number of the kids won't be able to read, or at least read well. I would stay as far away from command prompts as possible. You can leave them in of course for the adventurous few children, but for god's sake go gui.
I'm sure many of us here from my age and around have fond memories of early apple ][ type games. Oregon trail! Number munchers! That crazy game where you did math and built space ships or something. Get good games like that and hope they will run on linux.
Make sure you have good easy to use art software (ie, not gimp) -- that can be easily used by kids to draw fun little pictures and maybe print them out. Paint brush in windows is perfect for this.
I don't recall writing too many papers in my elementary years, and certaintly NONE AT school, but I suppose it can't hurt. Another good idea imho would be to get a lot of bookmarks made for your browser, so that kids can go play flash games, read websites targeted for their age groups etc. I'm guessing you're putting no censorship software, but it seriously might be a good idea to block porn sites or something.
Programming languages are also pretty unimportant. A few kids will get em no doubt, but I'm guessing those kids will already have computers at home to play with.
Remember, short attention spans, things that can be done in a group good and are fun are good! Good luck finding linux software for most of this (might try wine for a lots of it).
I'm a junior at college. When I was a freshman the seniors all used zephyr and 'top' would always show it running on the login computers. Now people barely check their email in pine anymore (so most people never login to unix anymore) and I don't know of anyone using zephyer anymore. Sic transit gloria mundi as they say.
In terms of the first "IM" that's a chat system as we know it today I wouldn't be surprised if PowWow was one of the first (_the_ first maybe) internet ones. PowWow was great for it's time (Tribal Voices software i think). I'm not really sure I'd count Zephyr or talk in the same category as ICQ/AIM, but they definitely perform similar tasks. But yeah on your point, talk definitely preceded AIM or ICQ, lol n00b to the guy who says otherwise;)
I didn't say that *I* had been the one downloading them...if you're at college it's pretty much impossible to NOT see people watching pirated stuff on the net. I buy my CD's and DVD's (and software for that matter).
I'm not serious. I view this as a good step--piracy in Asia is a terrible problem, software, movies, and more. I know that personally a number of movies I've seen downloaded from the net have Chinese subscripts. Enforcing intellectual property rights for the artists (be they producers, directors, actors, programmers, etc) can only be a good thing.
Yes, Dune, originally published in the '60s stole from Star Wars. Genius.
On your second point, I managed to get to book 5 before quitting I think. Haven't tried re-reading since then, though I still think the first is excellent (and have reread it). If you have knowledge of world religions, Dune becomes a lot cooler incidentally.
One car that lasted quite well was a Saab. There was a ford explorer that I *think* was just about 6.5 years old when I kinda got in a wreck..oops. I couldn't tell you offhand the mileage, but I know the saab was put through a lot. It did require some work to keep it up (the turbo died at one point) but it's still being driven and is an '86 i think.
Planned obsolescence bah. Changing styles and added features in cars do plenty to drive the industry currently. And besides which, do you really think if not for the greedy manufacturers today we'd all be driving mint condition 30 year old cars now? pssssh.
and also what cars are you driving that break down enough to warrant a new car every 3-5 years? I'm driving one of my families cars now, and the shortest we've had any car in my lifetime has been about 8 years--and most longer.
the addition is the addition to "one nation under god" to the pledge of allegiance. It's not really controversial--or rather is only controversial with a few small groups of people, most people by and by don't care. I've been completely public schools educated and maybe had to say the pledge of allegiance 5x in my entire life..no one ever complained about saying god.
As a side note, from talks I've heard given by Intel engineers, their goal was definitely to up the megahertz AND overall speed. To do this, they needed to design a totally scaleable architecture. Looks like they got it right too--what's the fastest P4 today? Somewhere in the 3.0GHz range (just below I believe, and with overclocking success well about), whereas Athlon's have yet to break the 2.0GHz barrier afaik. No question mhz-for-mhz the Athlon is faster, but when it's outpaced by over 1GHz, the advantage moves back to the p4's court.
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No, I mean Clippy.
As for cleartype the article is no longer coming up that I can see, but I as I recall, I don't believe that the Mac technology was for LCD's?
MS Media inventions. Let's see, their video codecs, their audio codecs (of which there are several), there streaming audio+video stuff, their livetime broadcasting encoder type stuff (for usage with eg webcams). I mean, I'm assuming some programmer didn't just pull all these things out of a hole in the air.
handwriting recognition--of course microsoft didn't invent, don't be deliberately slow, but they did make again, from all accounts, a very very good implementation. Once again, some programmer can't just pull that out of the air.
My Vic-20 was doing that in 1982. great! ANd now so is MS, but better. You should actually go to the MS Research homepage (sorry, I lost the link, it's prominent among the comments for this article), there's some pretty cool stuff going on there that I didn't know about! Incidentally, MS comes out with some quite good programming books too, recommended even on slashdot.
Uh, no. First of all, Isaac Newton lived from 1642 - 1727. That's WELL before the Victorian age and the sexual repression that you elude to. There's also (afaik) no evidence at all that Newton was a homosexual, simply asexual. I've never heard of that quote you mention, but I'm not saying it for sure didn't happen just sounds curious to me.
Being 'smart' is no precursor to either being a reasonable person, living a good (or happy life) or having the same opinions of other people.
Look how many of the geniuses of the past lived fscked lives. Newton for instance (probably) died a virgin. Literary figures are another area where the greats seem to lead terrible lives.
Well how much of what is secure? It seems to me that MOST of the security bugs one associates with Microsoft are problems with two programs in particular--IIS and Outlook (Express version only).
Examples of MS research type stuff? Clippy as maligned as it is was supposedly really good in the lab--it had to be dumbed down a lot for the power of the computers at the time, but a good bit of actual AI research went into it's design. What about ClearType? All the recent MS Media inventions? The MS handwriting recognition software which is supposed to be excellent? Text->voice software? And I'm SURE a lot of the stuff in NT,XP,2K, etc that we don't hear about but is part of the operating system comes from MS Research labs.
Where you live do they have the self-checkout grocery stores? They started getting them here about 2 years ago, and now they all have it. One person can manage 4 or 8 self-checkout stations. I LOVE this. It makes it so much quicker and easier to buy stuff and then get out. I'm all for a grocery cart I could check out that fast as you mention, that would be awesome.
This is not a new thing at all. I was in India about 2 years ago, and even then I found the contrasts great. A slum to your left and right, yet hundreds of signs advertising C# training (Java training too)
I would say one thing in addition--many of the indian developers aren't exactly leading Silicon Valley hot shot developer lifestyles. As such, they will learn what they need to learn to get jobs and get money--ideology has no place here.
No I agree with you that censorship is a terrible thing, but in terms of Chinese censorship being EFFECTIVE, China has succeeded I think. I'm right with you that censorship and the communist parties iron fisted control of information and people is the only reason it's still a People's Republic.
I'm not sure I get it? It IS working pretty effectively in China, right? I sent some links recently about the Uighur Turks in Xinjiang (Sinkiang)province to some Chinese friends (living in America) who kept up with Chinese news sources via the web and they had never heard of anything in these articles (the existence of a Uighur Independence movement, bombings in Xinjiang, protests in the capital city of Xinjiang, etc).
It seems to me that China's censorship works pretty damn well!
It's clearly done so much good for Corel too :p
I'm one of the ones that bought a copy (though I rather wish I had just pirated MS Office instead now...)
Yes, Corel a Canadian company, is clearly indicative of American MBA's who are laying off workers to buy golden yachts. Idiot, do you KNOW ANYTHING about Corel?
Good shells?? text editors?! I don't know what kinda schools most people here went to but at my middle school (hell, at my highschool for that matter) a majority of the people would have had no clue what to do with a dos prompt. Something like vi would have left them scarred for life. (just for reference, my school system was pretty good academically, sent a number of kids to the ivies, etc).
Don't forget also that if you're doing K-5 a number of the kids won't be able to read, or at least read well. I would stay as far away from command prompts as possible. You can leave them in of course for the adventurous few children, but for god's sake go gui.
I'm sure many of us here from my age and around have fond memories of early apple ][ type games. Oregon trail! Number munchers! That crazy game where you did math and built space ships or something. Get good games like that and hope they will run on linux.
Make sure you have good easy to use art software (ie, not gimp) -- that can be easily used by kids to draw fun little pictures and maybe print them out. Paint brush in windows is perfect for this.
I don't recall writing too many papers in my elementary years, and certaintly NONE AT school, but I suppose it can't hurt. Another good idea imho would be to get a lot of bookmarks made for your browser, so that kids can go play flash games, read websites targeted for their age groups etc. I'm guessing you're putting no censorship software, but it seriously might be a good idea to block porn sites or something.
Programming languages are also pretty unimportant. A few kids will get em no doubt, but I'm guessing those kids will already have computers at home to play with.
Remember, short attention spans, things that can be done in a group good and are fun are good! Good luck finding linux software for most of this (might try wine for a lots of it).
I'm a junior at college. When I was a freshman the seniors all used zephyr and 'top' would always show it running on the login computers. Now people barely check their email in pine anymore (so most people never login to unix anymore) and I don't know of anyone using zephyer anymore. Sic transit gloria mundi as they say.
In terms of the first "IM" that's a chat system as we know it today I wouldn't be surprised if PowWow was one of the first (_the_ first maybe) internet ones. PowWow was great for it's time (Tribal Voices software i think). I'm not really sure I'd count Zephyr or talk in the same category as ICQ/AIM, but they definitely perform similar tasks. But yeah on your point, talk definitely preceded AIM or ICQ, lol n00b to the guy who says otherwise ;)
to is a preposition as in "I went to the store"
What you were looking for is "too" as in "I drank too much milk"
I didn't say that *I* had been the one downloading them...if you're at college it's pretty much impossible to NOT see people watching pirated stuff on the net. I buy my CD's and DVD's (and software for that matter).
I'm not serious. I view this as a good step--piracy in Asia is a terrible problem, software, movies, and more. I know that personally a number of movies I've seen downloaded from the net have Chinese subscripts. Enforcing intellectual property rights for the artists (be they producers, directors, actors, programmers, etc) can only be a good thing.
Thanks for the tip. After seeing the s.f. channel miniseries recently, I've had an urge to go through the series again.
thanks
Yes, Dune, originally published in the '60s stole from Star Wars. Genius.
On your second point, I managed to get to book 5 before quitting I think. Haven't tried re-reading since then, though I still think the first is excellent (and have reread it). If you have knowledge of world religions, Dune becomes a lot cooler incidentally.
What's the avg SUV mpg? I thought it was more like 17 or 18mpg (city) and like 21/22 highway?
One car that lasted quite well was a Saab. There was a ford explorer that I *think* was just about 6.5 years old when I kinda got in a wreck..oops. I couldn't tell you offhand the mileage, but I know the saab was put through a lot. It did require some work to keep it up (the turbo died at one point) but it's still being driven and is an '86 i think.
Planned obsolescence bah. Changing styles and added features in cars do plenty to drive the industry currently. And besides which, do you really think if not for the greedy manufacturers today we'd all be driving mint condition 30 year old cars now? pssssh.
and also what cars are you driving that break down enough to warrant a new car every 3-5 years? I'm driving one of my families cars now, and the shortest we've had any car in my lifetime has been about 8 years--and most longer.
the addition is the addition to "one nation under god" to the pledge of allegiance. It's not really controversial--or rather is only controversial with a few small groups of people, most people by and by don't care. I've been completely public schools educated and maybe had to say the pledge of allegiance 5x in my entire life..no one ever complained about saying god.
Oh ok, the highest one I saw in stores was clocked at 1.87GHz (I'm not talking PR Hz at all, though I do understand and advocate their use)
As a side note, from talks I've heard given by Intel engineers, their goal was definitely to up the megahertz AND overall speed. To do this, they needed to design a totally scaleable architecture. Looks like they got it right too--what's the fastest P4 today? Somewhere in the 3.0GHz range (just below I believe, and with overclocking success well about), whereas Athlon's have yet to break the 2.0GHz barrier afaik. No question mhz-for-mhz the Athlon is faster, but when it's outpaced by over 1GHz, the advantage moves back to the p4's court.