there is nothing worse than someone who learns computers by memorizing. It is far better for someone to learn the concepts of software and be able to apply them everywhere.
Mod parent up. Software users who learn a process by rote memorization are technophobic, and are notoriously resistant to change. In fact, the handful of Office-using administrators in the school were probably that very breed of user.
Systematically assimilating isolated facts without the ability to contextualize anything into a coherent whole is no way to study any topic. As someone else pointed-out, that syndrome only manages to drive away frustrated students.
Are you lot as frustrated as I am with the heaps of proprietary DVD technology? The deluge of overlapping advances seems to be non-stop. At this point, it's clear that the heterogeneity of DVD hardware and media goes well beyond the DVD-R vs. DVD+R battle, and I find myself perpetually postponing my DVD+RW drive purchase for this very reason: There doesn't ever seem to be a confluence of the best technologies in the DVD hardware market.
Looming product obsolescence is a fact of life for consumers of computer technology, but I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever find that perfect high-speed, high-capacity, dual-layer, SATA- or FW800-based burner.
I stopped buying that book ever since i saw highly dubious catagories creeping in like "The shortest instruction manual for a computer" which was "awarded" to the iMac a few years ago.
I couldn't agree more. What's worse, such fluff seems to have displaced some legitimate entries. I recently browsed through the 2005 edition, and was dismayed to find the paltry two-page Games section filled with such inspirational entries as "Best-selling Playstation2 game"; meanwhile, high scores for classic coin-ops were (as far as I could tell) nowhere to be found.
The new Guinness Book is rife with questionable entries, but to me the most disturbing is "Most Accurate Bomb". I recognize the targeting mechanism as an engineering feat, but is such a weapon really something we want to laud as a human triumph? (And what are we really celebrating here: a reduction in collateral damage, or our enhanced ability to kill and intimidate effectively?)
Yeah, I guess after his we can expect a pitch black screen with a loud WAV file of a beating heart. Or maybe the "X" mechanical fart sound from the Family Feud.
Star Trek Producers have finally agreed that Star Trek fans are oversaturated with the show, and are planning to provide a break.... but after the moratorium, what we want are new producers.
Yeah, in my view it misses the mark. The Mini is very compact; adding a hub for a couple of buses shouldn't double its size and cost nearly as much as the Mini itself.
What the Mini really needs add-ons can't provide: a FASTER external bus type (FireWire800), not more ports. I like the Mini, but I just don't understand why Apple saddled a machine designed for external expansion with FireWire400. Unfortunately, USB 2.0 is woefully inadequate for mass storage.
Well, that wouldn't be a LASER harp, but it's certainly possible to build an infrared harp.
A company called Interactive Light (now defunct) used to sell an infrared MIDI instrument called the Dimension Beam, sometimes referred-to as the "D-Beam".
The D-Beam emitted an egg-shaped infrared field which could consist of up to three distinct regions radiating from the core outward; one could define distinct MIDI parameters for each region. I believe Roland licensed the technology for the HPD-15 HandSonic.
Needless to say that the potential uses of the D-Beam are many and varied, and it's a favorite of many high-tech artists and and experimental musicians.
Indeed, by narrowly focusing the IR beams of several devices, one could indeed construct an incredibly versatile infrared harp. One group of students created a "body harp" by harnessing eight D-Beams.
...I think the success of Postgres & MySQL are already contra-proof positive...
Okay, geeky pet peeve time: "Postgres" was an ancestor of PostgreSQL with a different development team; and Postgres had no SQL support. In short, Postgres != PostgreSQL. I definitely understand the need to abbreviate, but can't we say PGSQL or something instead of "Postgres"?
Suing spammers is just a way to hopefully get hotmail back to a point where you can actually use it.
More like, they'll jump at the chance to appear to be a champion of the people (you know... users), and to offload the evil factor somewhat onto another entity.
(2) new Macs being built come with the new OS on the hard drive image from the factory. (3) computers in inventory get their boxes sliced open and a new OS upgrade CD (DVD?) dropped in. This disk requires the install drive to have an OS on it already, so it is not the same as what comes on the boxed OS CD.
Is this to say that Apple doesn't ordinarily include full installation CD-ROMs/DVD-ROMs? I've been wondering if each piece of the bundled OEM software they include is also provided on separate CDs/DVDs...
This was an older generation. My greatest programming mentors were women, but they were mainframe systems analysts, scientists, and FORTRAN programmers. Women who started in the early punchcard days are abandoning the field, retiring, expatriating, or moving toward academia and management.
Although foreign investors are encouraged to bank and incorporate in Costa Rica, and to solicit local services (like VoIP), they aren't actually able to do business in Costa Rica. This is the key limitation that goes along with offshore incorporation: your money goes there, you can maybe lease office space, but you can't move there, you can't own real estate, and you can't sell your products and services in the host country. An enormous percentage of global wealth is housed in IFCs, and most of those are in Central America and the Carribbean. So your instinct is right: incorporating offshroe (in CR or somewhere else) makes a lot of sense.
But once again, since VoIP benefits CR's economy by servicing foreign business both directly and indirectly, this new legislation is mysterious.
Costa Rica also happens to be an international finance center (IFC), which is a more accurate and non-derogatory term for "offshore tax haven". Since IFCs typically make great efforts to maintain policies that attract international business, I find this decidedly anti-business legislation to be curious.
... an innocent-looking file called 'Lycos screensaver to fight spam.zip.
It's a matter of personal experience, but if a distributed file has an unsubtle and self-describing (yet imprecise) name like "screensaver to fight spam", it's automaticallly suspect. Legitimate programs just aren't named like that.
This "institute" must be brand spankin' new because there doesn't seem to be any links to it or information about it anywhere. It's not indexed by Yahoo or Google, and there's nothing on Usenet. If the project actually lives up to its name it could be an incredible resource, but so far it looks like a pet project with an ill-planned launch.
As a technophile and a cultural studies nut, I'm really interested in the kind of chronicle that the IOIH alleges to offer.
That picture is really something. I didn't know Gandalf wrote bsh.
That's what it looks like when the beard/pipe/suspenders crowd groom themselves. Sort of like an aged flower child version of Bill Gaines a la R. Crumb.
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Whether it's powered by a G5, pentium, or a squirell, as long as the eye candy is rendered smoothly, people will drool.
Oh god, I'm starting to drool already just thinking about those squirrels!!!!!!
You can limit search results by specifying daterange:startdate-enddate, where startdate and enddate are Julian dates.
there is nothing worse than someone who learns computers by memorizing. It is far better for someone to learn the concepts of software and be able to apply them everywhere.
Mod parent up. Software users who learn a process by rote memorization are technophobic, and are notoriously resistant to change. In fact, the handful of Office-using administrators in the school were probably that very breed of user.
Systematically assimilating isolated facts without the ability to contextualize anything into a coherent whole is no way to study any topic. As someone else pointed-out, that syndrome only manages to drive away frustrated students.
Are you lot as frustrated as I am with the heaps of proprietary DVD technology? The deluge of overlapping advances seems to be non-stop. At this point, it's clear that the heterogeneity of DVD hardware and media goes well beyond the DVD-R vs. DVD+R battle, and I find myself perpetually postponing my DVD+RW drive purchase for this very reason: There doesn't ever seem to be a confluence of the best technologies in the DVD hardware market.
Looming product obsolescence is a fact of life for consumers of computer technology, but I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever find that perfect high-speed, high-capacity, dual-layer, SATA- or FW800-based burner.
P.S.S. If Google and/or Amazon isn't interested (yet)...
I think you want PPS (post postscriptum), not "P.S.S.". Or perhaps you meant "PISS"?
I stopped buying that book ever since i saw highly dubious catagories creeping in like "The shortest instruction manual for a computer" which was "awarded" to the iMac a few years ago.
I couldn't agree more. What's worse, such fluff seems to have displaced some legitimate entries. I recently browsed through the 2005 edition, and was dismayed to find the paltry two-page Games section filled with such inspirational entries as "Best-selling Playstation2 game"; meanwhile, high scores for classic coin-ops were (as far as I could tell) nowhere to be found.
The new Guinness Book is rife with questionable entries, but to me the most disturbing is "Most Accurate Bomb". I recognize the targeting mechanism as an engineering feat, but is such a weapon really something we want to laud as a human triumph? (And what are we really celebrating here: a reduction in collateral damage, or our enhanced ability to kill and intimidate effectively?)
Yeah, I guess after his we can expect a pitch black screen with a loud WAV file of a beating heart. Or maybe the "X" mechanical fart sound from the Family Feud.
Star Trek Producers have finally agreed that Star Trek fans are oversaturated with the show, and are planning to provide a break. ... but after the moratorium, what we want are new producers.
Yeah, in my view it misses the mark. The Mini is very compact; adding a hub for a couple of buses shouldn't double its size and cost nearly as much as the Mini itself.
What the Mini really needs add-ons can't provide: a FASTER external bus type (FireWire800), not more ports. I like the Mini, but I just don't understand why Apple saddled a machine designed for external expansion with FireWire400. Unfortunately, USB 2.0 is woefully inadequate for mass storage.
No they should not. They are not real persons, and by definitions have no interests except profits.
Yes, large corporations should maintain their present trend of social unaccountability.
This kind of solution only really works in town blocks where cat5 cabling is a realistic option.
While technically it's often possible to do gigabit ethernet with CAT5, the article actually mentions that the cable drops are CAT5e.
Jim Allchin details various planned Longhorn features to meet this goal, such as auto-defragmenting in the background
Here's something that works: implementing a file system that doesn't require constant defragmentation.
Well, that wouldn't be a LASER harp, but it's certainly possible to build an infrared harp.
A company called Interactive Light (now defunct) used to sell an infrared MIDI instrument called the Dimension Beam, sometimes referred-to as the "D-Beam".
The D-Beam emitted an egg-shaped infrared field which could consist of up to three distinct regions radiating from the core outward; one could define distinct MIDI parameters for each region. I believe Roland licensed the technology for the HPD-15 HandSonic.
Needless to say that the potential uses of the D-Beam are many and varied, and it's a favorite of many high-tech artists and and experimental musicians.
Indeed, by narrowly focusing the IR beams of several devices, one could indeed construct an incredibly versatile infrared harp. One group of students created a "body harp" by harnessing eight D-Beams.
... if you pantomime a jerking-off motion, you can recombine DNA into Jimmy Kimmel.
...I think the success of Postgres & MySQL are already contra-proof positive...
Okay, geeky pet peeve time: "Postgres" was an ancestor of PostgreSQL with a different development team; and Postgres had no SQL support. In short, Postgres != PostgreSQL. I definitely understand the need to abbreviate, but can't we say PGSQL or something instead of "Postgres"?
Suing spammers is just a way to hopefully get hotmail back to a point where you can actually use it.
More like, they'll jump at the chance to appear to be a champion of the people (you know... users), and to offload the evil factor somewhat onto another entity.
(2) new Macs being built come with the new OS on the hard drive image from the factory.
(3) computers in inventory get their boxes sliced open and a new OS upgrade CD (DVD?) dropped in. This disk requires the install drive to have an OS on it already, so it is not the same as what comes on the boxed OS CD.
Is this to say that Apple doesn't ordinarily include full installation CD-ROMs/DVD-ROMs? I've been wondering if each piece of the bundled OEM software they include is also provided on separate CDs/DVDs...
This was an older generation. My greatest programming mentors were women, but they were mainframe systems analysts, scientists, and FORTRAN programmers. Women who started in the early punchcard days are abandoning the field, retiring, expatriating, or moving toward academia and management.
Although foreign investors are encouraged to bank and incorporate in Costa Rica, and to solicit local services (like VoIP), they aren't actually able to do business in Costa Rica. This is the key limitation that goes along with offshore incorporation: your money goes there, you can maybe lease office space, but you can't move there, you can't own real estate, and you can't sell your products and services in the host country. An enormous percentage of global wealth is housed in IFCs, and most of those are in Central America and the Carribbean. So your instinct is right: incorporating offshroe (in CR or somewhere else) makes a lot of sense.
But once again, since VoIP benefits CR's economy by servicing foreign business both directly and indirectly, this new legislation is mysterious.
Costa Rica also happens to be an international finance center (IFC), which is a more accurate and non-derogatory term for "offshore tax haven". Since IFCs typically make great efforts to maintain policies that attract international business, I find this decidedly anti-business legislation to be curious.
...at a U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society...
:O
Wow, a World Summit on the Information Society?? I didn't think they were popular since the early 1990s.
Hunnamunnagunda... pure energy
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What's David Bowie doing with that geek playing pocket pool?
... an innocent-looking file called 'Lycos screensaver to fight spam.zip.
It's a matter of personal experience, but if a distributed file has an unsubtle and self-describing (yet imprecise) name like "screensaver to fight spam", it's automaticallly suspect. Legitimate programs just aren't named like that.
This "institute" must be brand spankin' new because there doesn't seem to be any links to it or information about it anywhere. It's not indexed by Yahoo or Google, and there's nothing on Usenet. If the project actually lives up to its name it could be an incredible resource, but so far it looks like a pet project with an ill-planned launch.
As a technophile and a cultural studies nut, I'm really interested in the kind of chronicle that the IOIH alleges to offer.
Btw, sorry to interrupt the Al Gore free-for-all.
That picture is really something. I didn't know Gandalf wrote bsh.
That's what it looks like when the beard/pipe/suspenders crowd groom themselves. Sort of like an aged flower child version of Bill Gaines a la R. Crumb.