I don't know what the solution is to discipline problems in school, but expelling people is clearly not it--it's not even a punishment, it's giving up the opportunity to reform these people.
The entire schoolboard of nearly every western country would disagree with you there (about expulsion being taken off the table).
Note also that when students are expelled, they are not expelled from the entire school system for life, as you implied a couple of times.
So i could publicly accuse my hypothetical school of anything online? (does the media matter? newspaper, sign on freeway overpass), and no matter how bad the slur you would not expel me?
I was interested too, so I went and looked up some of the features.
Windows Presentation Foundation
A high level API for managing documents, UI, databases. Appears to be tied together using any.net language .
Windows Communication Foundation
Also high level, this time for making services that interact with each other.
Windows Workflow Foundation
Messaging and collaboration API.
3D Video engine
(couldn't find this one easily on ms site)
BitLocker
Hard drive encryption.
SuperFetch
Pre-loading / pre-caching of often used products.
ReadyDrive
Support for new 'hybrid' storage devices that are a hard disk with a flash memory area to store and restart hybernated windows quicker.
ReadyBoost
Lets you use a usb key as additional ram.
Compound TCP/IP stack
Optimized tcp window sizes.
I must say I was ready to rip apart the first few, as they are named (and described on the site) very suspiciously like the typical user-lockin rubbish we are handed by MS. But WPF in particular I quite like. ReadyDrive also looks very good (not that they invented it).
SuperFetch is already partially implemented in XP (startup programs are laid out on the drive in perfect byte loading order). ReadyBoost is a plain bad idea, as far as I know at least. Is it not true that each byte in flash memory chip can only be written to around a million times? (Surely that would not get far, even with intelligent spreading of writes?).
Maybe new viruses will appear that contain a couple of for loops writing to memory and finally destroy your hardware.
That was an awesome read, thank you. I would recommend that article to any curious programmer with a spare couple of hours.
The article is an introduction to the bayesian formula, written at a suitable level for programming minds, but not as math-symbol-dense as other texts on the subject.
On an offtopic note, why must the variable naming used by mathematicians be so bad! Why write c = d + m instead of cat = dog + mouse ? Even when fleshing out the tiny formulas that you occasionally do when coding i have trouble using single character names.
In the end it is going to be the same poor 3rd world kid getting that extra $200 from the ebay sale, rather than his keeping his laptop. I realise the money would not carry the same intended educational benefit, but the money from the sale will surely add some good to the kid's life. I do agree though in principle that price discrimination is a bad idea. I just think that in this case it doesn't do much actual harm.
If they all (or mostly) install with no problem, then the problem clearly lies with Vista.
And even then, in the real world you can't expect most hardware manufacturers to have clean, well tested drivers for an OS that is not even out of beta.
Most likely MS has no blame here, unless the driver was calling the API perfectly and the API was crashing underneath. The only blame I could put on them in this case is that the driver model is not the easiest thing to write to (but hey, that's why driver writers get the big bucks).
The driver and the adapter are really the same thing in a lot of cases. Things that can be done in software with no added expense would logically be put in software in many cases, instead of hardware.
If I told you the format in which an nVidia card accepts lists of vertices, and the address to which they should be written, would this help you design a better card?
It would show any optimization methods they use to transfer verticies from the application to the driver.
Reasonableness or not has nothing to do with it. If I give you money, I can be as unreasonable as I wish.
But in reality that is only true to a point. You can't for instance ask people to strip naked first before receiving the money. Or do things that people would not consider appropriate (like censor all republican text and not democrat etc.).
Any institution or individual that accepts free money, must comply with the stipulations made by the grantor of such money.
That is true only to a point though. The argument here is that the new stipulation of blocking wikipedia type sites is unreasonable. I don't know enough about the subject to agree or disagree with it.
I murder someone. Now, untill I get caught and a judge declares me guilty, there was nothing illegal about that murder?
For situations in the law such as the one being discussed (where it is unclear what the exact international laws are for invasion etc.), it is not illegal unless a relevant authority says so (otherwise I can claim anything that is legally unclear is illegal).
If you murder someone in a society that has no/unclear law regarding murder, then yes, it is as legal as anything else because the law has never ruled otherwise.
Every politician and political party gets accused of "hijacking the system". It is way generic.
Uhm no, not every politician gets accused of that at all, tho maybe you are right when it concerns every politician in the USA..
Every politician gets accused of immoral, corrupt, money grabbing behaviour by the other side. If you'd like to hear my opinion on many democrats (and some supporters) I can show you that it occurs!
But the particular allegation of initiating the Iraq war as an excuse for stiffening internal control is simply wrong -- the could've used the Afghanistan war for that.
They are using it for stiffening internal control.
I agree, the republicans are doing everything to further their own control (surprise!). This doesn't mean they went into Iraq for that as the main reason. (you really need to check the voting of your own senators at around that time).
I wonder what else there is that a browser could do that couldn't (and possibly should) be accomplished with an extension or plugin. I'd like to see focus put into speed, memory footprint, and standards compliance like ACID2.
They are all great goals but an importance service firefox also provides is (effectively) grouping useful extensions for you and managing their updates into a single package.
This assumes a war or conflict that can be ended. If it doesn't then the whole article is rubbish and those powers could just be given to the president in all situations, not just in case of war or conflict.
Well we do have a significant number of troops deployed in a country where tens of Iraqi civilians and US/Iraqi forces are being targetted and killed each day. I would say that, at least, qualifies as a war wouldn't you agree?
If there were no longer troops there then I would agree with you that the president has no right to invoke such measures.
I don't think I ever figured out what GOSUB did, though.:)
Hehe. I remember being scared of gosub for what seemed like years. It was some advanced code used that only the elite used. Just seeing it made me slightly fearful and always reminded me that I have so much to learn. It is amusing to look back now and see that is a crude way to call code where you are forced to pass parameters globally!
It's funny actually, in an on-topic way. Upon glancing at this slashdot story I was inclined to agree with many posters who say how easy programming was to learn back in the day. Yet your post reminded me of how hard something like a subroutine could be to understand.
It might just be possible that us existing coders are not giving youngsters enough credit for just how hard it is initially.
Microsoft intensionally sold below the market curve for consoles in order to drive the sales of games which are priced about $10 higher than new PS2/X-box games.
It may also have been deliberate in the sense that they wanted to put intense pressure on Sony to generate the same loss leadership.
I agree, and it wouldn't be too easy for little jonny to convince mom to buy him a PS3 when there's a 6 month old Xbox 360 sitting in the living room.
Add to that that hardware is getting cheaper by the year, and consoles are becoming much more of a cheap commodity because of that.
Add again that MS are very interested in owning the living room portal. The XBox will predictably morph into a home shopping unit. Take the piles of cash currently made through one way tv advertising, and multiply it by a factor of interactivity.
To say this is a mistake of under-pricing on MS's part basically ignores all of these arguments. To me, the article is no more than free advertising for MS. After all, who wouldn't miss an opportunity to buy something that is being sold under cost!
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I don't know what the solution is to discipline problems in school, but expelling people is clearly not it--it's not even a punishment, it's giving up the opportunity to reform these people.
The entire schoolboard of nearly every western country would disagree with you there (about expulsion being taken off the table).
Note also that when students are expelled, they are not expelled from the entire school system for life, as you implied a couple of times.
So i could publicly accuse my hypothetical school of anything online? (does the media matter? newspaper, sign on freeway overpass), and no matter how bad the slur you would not expel me?
I was interested too, so I went and looked up some of the features.
.net language .
Windows Presentation Foundation
A high level API for managing documents, UI, databases. Appears to be tied together using any
Windows Communication Foundation
Also high level, this time for making services that interact with each other.
Windows Workflow Foundation
Messaging and collaboration API.
3D Video engine
(couldn't find this one easily on ms site)
BitLocker
Hard drive encryption.
SuperFetch
Pre-loading / pre-caching of often used products.
ReadyDrive
Support for new 'hybrid' storage devices that are a hard disk with a flash memory area to store and restart hybernated windows quicker.
ReadyBoost
Lets you use a usb key as additional ram.
Compound TCP/IP stack
Optimized tcp window sizes.
I must say I was ready to rip apart the first few, as they are named (and described on the site) very suspiciously like the typical user-lockin rubbish we are handed by MS. But WPF in particular I quite like. ReadyDrive also looks very good (not that they invented it).
SuperFetch is already partially implemented in XP (startup programs are laid out on the drive in perfect byte loading order). ReadyBoost is a plain bad idea, as far as I know at least. Is it not true that each byte in flash memory chip can only be written to around a million times? (Surely that would not get far, even with intelligent spreading of writes?).
Maybe new viruses will appear that contain a couple of for loops writing to memory and finally destroy your hardware.
That was an awesome read, thank you. I would recommend that article to any curious programmer with a spare couple of hours.
The article is an introduction to the bayesian formula, written at a suitable level for programming minds, but not as math-symbol-dense as other texts on the subject.
On an offtopic note, why must the variable naming used by mathematicians be so bad! Why write c = d + m instead of cat = dog + mouse ? Even when fleshing out the tiny formulas that you occasionally do when coding i have trouble using single character names.
That's why this project it so moronic.
In the end it is going to be the same poor 3rd world kid getting that extra $200 from the ebay sale, rather than his keeping his laptop. I realise the money would not carry the same intended educational benefit, but the money from the sale will surely add some good to the kid's life. I do agree though in principle that price discrimination is a bad idea. I just think that in this case it doesn't do much actual harm.
I stand corrected.
If they all (or mostly) install with no problem, then the problem clearly lies with Vista.
And even then, in the real world you can't expect most hardware manufacturers to have clean, well tested drivers for an OS that is not even out of beta.
Most likely MS has no blame here, unless the driver was calling the API perfectly and the API was crashing underneath. The only blame I could put on them in this case is that the driver model is not the easiest thing to write to (but hey, that's why driver writers get the big bucks).
That would be sad if you got modded up, because this is SO painfully offtopic it's not even funny
Yeh, let's keep discussing how 'Vista beta has major problems' because some nerd couldn't find drivers for his (non ms manufactured) hardware devices.
Good laughs.
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This old print ad appeared in the video that I hadn't seen before too: http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/Newsweek/p01
The driver and the adapter are really the same thing in a lot of cases. Things that can be done in software with no added expense would logically be put in software in many cases, instead of hardware.
If I told you the format in which an nVidia card accepts lists of vertices, and the address to which they should be written, would this help you design a better card?
It would show any optimization methods they use to transfer verticies from the application to the driver.
The only problem was Yahoo was the king before the Internet became common place .
No I reckon their biggest problem was the amount of crap on their front page.
Reasonableness or not has nothing to do with it. If I give you money, I can be as unreasonable as I wish.
But in reality that is only true to a point. You can't for instance ask people to strip naked first before receiving the money. Or do things that people would not consider appropriate (like censor all republican text and not democrat etc.).
After all, they're already "fighting terrorism" by giving the feds complete records of all of your calls.
So you would rather them not have those records for terrorism specific scanning only? I'm interested in that specific question.
Any institution or individual that accepts free money, must comply with the stipulations made by the grantor of such money.
That is true only to a point though. The argument here is that the new stipulation of blocking wikipedia type sites is unreasonable. I don't know enough about the subject to agree or disagree with it.
Why do you conservatives DO this? Anyone says anything bad about yer boy, ya gotta pipe up with, "Yeah, well so and so did it too!"
So by that logic this hypothetical conversation would be unacceptable to you:
Me: Democrats have regular corrupt dealings with lobbyists.
You: Well so do Republicans.
In this case I have said 'something bad about yer boy' and it would be wrong of you to pipe up with that response right?
Microsoft runs these bug-checker-programs on their code all the time.
Excluding Outlook Express I guess.
I murder someone. Now, untill I get caught and a judge declares me guilty, there was nothing illegal about that murder?
For situations in the law such as the one being discussed (where it is unclear what the exact international laws are for invasion etc.), it is not illegal unless a relevant authority says so (otherwise I can claim anything that is legally unclear is illegal).
If you murder someone in a society that has no/unclear law regarding murder, then yes, it is as legal as anything else because the law has never ruled otherwise.
Uhm no, not every politician gets accused of that at all, tho maybe you are right when it concerns every politician in the USA..
Every politician gets accused of immoral, corrupt, money grabbing behaviour by the other side. If you'd like to hear my opinion on many democrats (and some supporters) I can show you that it occurs!
They are using it for stiffening internal control.
I agree, the republicans are doing everything to further their own control (surprise!). This doesn't mean they went into Iraq for that as the main reason. (you really need to check the voting of your own senators at around that time).
I wonder what else there is that a browser could do that couldn't (and possibly should) be accomplished with an extension or plugin. I'd like to see focus put into speed, memory footprint, and standards compliance like ACID2.
They are all great goals but an importance service firefox also provides is (effectively) grouping useful extensions for you and managing their updates into a single package.
Why not just middle click them to close, rather that installing a mod?
This assumes a war or conflict that can be ended. If it doesn't then the whole article is rubbish and those powers could just be given to the president in all situations, not just in case of war or conflict.
Well we do have a significant number of troops deployed in a country where tens of Iraqi civilians and US/Iraqi forces are being targetted and killed each day. I would say that, at least, qualifies as a war wouldn't you agree?
If there were no longer troops there then I would agree with you that the president has no right to invoke such measures.
as you say, the tree does look a tad dry.
I agree. The democrat policy tree is very dry.
What method does a person use to stop heartbeats like that? Also, do doctors say it is bad for you?
Very well said Sir.
I don't think I ever figured out what GOSUB did, though. :)
Hehe. I remember being scared of gosub for what seemed like years. It was some advanced code used that only the elite used. Just seeing it made me slightly fearful and always reminded me that I have so much to learn. It is amusing to look back now and see that is a crude way to call code where you are forced to pass parameters globally!
It's funny actually, in an on-topic way. Upon glancing at this slashdot story I was inclined to agree with many posters who say how easy programming was to learn back in the day. Yet your post reminded me of how hard something like a subroutine could be to understand.
It might just be possible that us existing coders are not giving youngsters enough credit for just how hard it is initially.
I agree, and it wouldn't be too easy for little jonny to convince mom to buy him a PS3 when there's a 6 month old Xbox 360 sitting in the living room.
Add to that that hardware is getting cheaper by the year, and consoles are becoming much more of a cheap commodity because of that.
Add again that MS are very interested in owning the living room portal. The XBox will predictably morph into a home shopping unit. Take the piles of cash currently made through one way tv advertising, and multiply it by a factor of interactivity.
To say this is a mistake of under-pricing on MS's part basically ignores all of these arguments. To me, the article is no more than free advertising for MS. After all, who wouldn't miss an opportunity to buy something that is being sold under cost!