I love how people come up with these sophisticated sounding phrases that mean nothing. Would someone here please explain to me what the term "net neutrality" means? Is this to mean that different types of hardware are supposed to interoperate seamlessly or something?
This kind of cheating is terrible. When it's classes for your major, or your grad classes, you shouldn't cheat. After all, this is training for your job. What will you do when you get the job of your dream? End up not knowing how to do anything, because you cheated your way through school to get there?
Ok, I can understand if you're studying computer science, or engineering, or math, and you cheat your way through English 101. Nobody in these businesses cares about this Shakespeare nonsense unless it's a hobby of theirs, so yes, I think cheating in these subjects, which you are forced to take but have nothing to do with your major, is perfectly acceptible. After all, how can you be expected to understand a sentence like "Wherefore art thou, O Romeo?!" Couldn't she just say, "Where the fsck are you? No sex tonight!"
Now I know that most of us love to hate Microsoft, but hey, we've got plenty of choices. You could run any Linux distro. You could run any version of BSD. You could get a Mac. You could stay with Windows 98. Heck, there are probably about ten dozen other OSes out there. You don't HAVE to run Vista. So hate them all you want, but for once, let's be fair:
If it's ok for Apple to build something that competes with Adobe PDF into Mac OS X (I think it's called Quartz or something like that), then why isn't it OK for Microsoft to continue copying Apple's innovations and doing so as well? We can't have a double standard that says it's ok for most companies to do that, but not Microsoft because they're the nasty 8000 ton gorilla. And I sure as heck wouldn't want to see Apple being forced to remove Quartz from OS X and replace it with some hinky dinky GUI from the 1980's, just because NOBODY can use this PDF nonsense. So let Microsoft do their thing, and let's all of us refuse to drop hundreds more dollars on this Vista garbage rubbish trash, and use an operating system of our choice. Heck, if you run a business and need to interoperate with a bunch of things, Macs look hot on an office desk, run really well, are easy to use, don't crash often, are easy to administrate, and can run just about any commercial software. (Even if not ported to OS X, VMware will be coming out soon, and you can run your ONE app that won't run in a Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, or heck, even Vista, box, if that's what you want to do.
Who the heck is Gonzales? Is this Speedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all Mejico? Speaking of Mexico, there's a place in the world that is gobs of fun to visit... And if you're eligible for what I'm about to tell you about, you can be there, this winter, for free. And no, this ain't no joke: Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. It's a program, not in the same sense as a computer program. (I thought I should mention that because most 1337 h4x0rz here on/. might not recognize other uses of the word 'program.') This program is a free trip to Israel. Nope, this ain't no trick to make you buy something, and it's sure as I'm sitting here not a contest you have to win. And there's no essay to write, let alone worrying about buffer overruns, like, say, when they want a 500 word essay and you write 501 words. That last word ends up on someone else's essay. No, none of that stuff. It is a free trip to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26. If you're eligible, you could be there this winter with a group of peers. You'll meet IDF soldiers your age who will join your group and hang out with you for much of the time you'll spend there. And you'll hike Masada, take an unsinkable swim at the Dead Sea, see the holy sites, and a whole lot more. If you ask me, I'd rather do that any day than worry about what legislation some Gonzales dude might pass. By the end of this trip, you'll have many new friends from Israel and the U.S. This trip is an action-packed 10 days, and the entire experience is amazing and uplifting. Trips take place around late December through early January. Travel on Taglit-birthright israel. EXPERIENCE Israel FREE with Sachlav. Sure beats chasing after Speedy Gonzales.
I've got something that's way, way better than Linux for those who are dumping Windows Ninety-Eight. (Spelling out the Ninety-Eight makes this version of Windows look a bit more distinguished, since of all the garbage, crappy OSes that radiated from Redmond in the last 20 years, this one is the best, IMO.) And, no, I'm not about to push FreeBSD or Mac OS X on you. It's something much better than that, even. It's called Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. Well, it's a program, but it ain't exactly an operating system. In fact, it won't even run on a computer, AFAIK. But it's infinitely better than DOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, the Mac, even CP/M. This is a free trip to Israel. No, it's not a trick to make you buy something, and it's not a contest you have to win. And there's no essay to write, let alone a bunch of funky command line syntax that nobody understands, like 'dir' or 'ls'... (What do those do, anyway?) It is a free trip to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26. If you're eligible, you could be there this winter with a group of peers, connecting with IDF soldiers your age who will join your group, hiking Masada, taking an unsinkable swim at the Dead Sea, seeing the holy sites, and a whole lot more. If you ask me, I'd rather do that any day than sit in front of the green screen, practicing the three R's of Microsoft technical support (Retry, Reboot, Reinstall). Bring a camera and lots of good ol' film to take pictures of your new friends from the United States and Israel. This trip is an action-packed 10 days, and the entire experience is amazing and uplifting. Trips take place around late December through early January. Travel on Taglit-birthright israel. EXPERIENCE Israel FREE with Sachlav. Sure beats reconfiguring your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, or your/etc/rc.conf or whatever.
In this post, let us discuss the word "Choice." It is a word that we in the FOSS community like to throw around quite a bit, especially when justifying the existance of 30 different ways to "ls" in color. So the choice I'd like to discuss is this one: What are YOU doing this winter? Getting tangled up in wiring racks? How about something a bit more fun? Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. This is a free trip to Israel, not a trick to make you buy something, or a contest you have to win. And there's no essay to write. It is a free trip to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26. If you're eligible, you could be there this winter with a group of peers, connecting with IDF soldiers your age who will join your group, hiking Masada, taking an unsinkable swim at the Dead Sea, seeing the holy sites, and a whole lot more. Bring a camera and lots of memory cards to take pictures of your new friends from the United States and Israel. This trip is an action-packed 10 days, and the entire experience is amazing and uplifting. Trips take place around late December through early January. Travel on Taglit-birthright israel. EXPERIENCE Israel FREE with Sachlav. Sure beats tripping over gobs of wiring back here at home while your friends are having the time of their life in beautiful Israel. So what's your choice?
Space on a shoestring could be fun, especially with that five megapixel digital camera. How about something else on a shoestring? Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. This is a free trip to Israel. This is not a trick to make you buy something. This is not a contest you have to win. And there's no essay to write. It is a free trip to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26. If you're eligible, you could be there this winter, connect with Israelis your age who will join your group, hike Masada, take an unsinkable swim at the Dead Sea, see the holy sites, and a whole lot more. Bring that five megapixel camera to take pictures of your new friends from the United States and Israel. This trip is an action-packed 10 days, and the entire experience is amazing and uplifting. Trips take place around late December through early January. Travel on Taglit-birthright israel. EXPERIENCE Israel FREE with Sachlav. Sure beats taking a ride to space and experiencing the side effects of zero-G.
People are always going to self-promote. What, do you want GM to advertise Ford's cars? That would never happen. Besides, GM makes better cars.
But I digress... Since we're on the topic of advertising, I'll take the liberty of advertising something right here: Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. This is an amazing and uplifting program. If you're eligible (check the link to find out), you could have a great time in Israel this winter.
If all you do is sit around and play Nada 3 on the Nintendo all day, then you have a boring life... But there's hope! Instead of playing Nintendo this winter, have an adventure in Israel, free. Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. Registration is right NOW, and will close in less than a week. If you're eligible (click the link to find out), you can have an amazing and uplifting experience in Israel this winter, instead of playing Super Mario Brothers or Nada 3 or whatever the newest Nintendo game is. Hey, this post ain't offtopic: I used the words "Nintendo" and discussed the finer points of Super Mario Brothers, and that's definitely on topic. Astute readers will notice my reference to "Nada 3", an allusion to a television commercial. Do you know which commercial it was? Heh heh heh...
Well it looks like the hotel minibar has nothing better to do than install Diebold machines. But I'm sure you have many better things to do. Like having a great time in Israel this winter... free. Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. Registration is right NOW, and will close in less than a week. If you're eligible (click the link to find out), you can have an amazing and uplifting experience in Israel this winter, instead of wasting time installing Diebold machines in hotel minibars. Hey, this post ain't offtopic: I used the words "Diebold" and "minibar" in this post, both of which are definitely technical subjects that belong in this thread. Heh heh heh...
If China is seizing illegal CDs, maybe you should seize the day and have an adventure in Israel this winter... free. And unlike pirated discs, this is a perfectly legal way to have a great time. Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. Registration is right NOW, and will close in less than a week. If you're eligible (click the link to find out), you can have an amazing and uplifting experience in Israel this winter, instead of downloading MP3s and breaking the law. Hey, this post ain't offtopic: I used the words "China" and "CDs" in this post, not to mention that I talked about MP3s, all of which are definitely technical subjects that belong in this thread. Heh heh heh...
If the PS3 is having some downtime, maybe you should unplug a bit and have some downtime of your own... This winter, in Israel, for free. Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. Registration is right NOW, and will close in less than a week. If you're eligible (click the link to find out), you can have an amazing and uplifting experience in Israel this winter, instead of sitting on your be-hind and playing GTA3 or whatever. Hey, this post ain't offtopic: I used the words "PS3" and "downtime" in this post, not to mention GTA3, which is definitely a gaming term. Heh heh heh...
Drones and botnets, eh? Since there's such a flood going on, let's have another one: A flood of information about Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. Registration is right NOW, and will close in less than a week. If you're eligible (click the link to find out), you can have an amazing and uplifting experience in Israel, free. Hey, this post ain't offtopic: I used the words "drones" and "botnets" in this post. Heh heh heh...
i don't understand why this is necessary. TV? DVD? what do all these acronyms mean anyway? and what happened to the good ol' days when there was good programming on the radio? this "radio with pictures" nonsense has gone too far.
You ahd a long rebuttel, you say? You relized mine an alarmist idiot? I might not understand the big words, but at least I spell correctly.
In your post:
actually, if left handed people opperated the same way, they would just want to be sure left handed people had equall access.
I ahd a long rebuttel, but then I relized your an alarmist idiot who wouldn't understand the big words.
You misspelled the following (followed by the correct spelling, for your convenience):
opperated - operated
equall - equal
ahd - had
rebuttel - rebuttal
relized - realized
your - you're
Perhaps you should consult A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling, by Mark Twain:
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
The process of trolling for karma on/. is original, innovative, not obvious to an expert in the field, and has no prior art. Therefore, this process deserves patent protection.
This post is patent pending. All rights reserved. Do not make illegal copies of this post.
I have an idea. Let's embrace and extend DRM in Windows. From now on, the operating system will not allow anything to read any information from anywhere. Your own files on your hard drive? Sorry, you can't access them, because you might accidently pirate your English class essay that you wrote last night, and Windows, being much, much, much smarter than you could ever dream of being in your wildest dreams, is therefore charged with the duty of making sure you don't do something illegal like that.
Just as there are activists for equal rights of minorities, there should be activists for equal rights for left-handed people.
These activists would operate in the same manner as those for minorities. For example, there are activists for that minority of this country's population that does not believe in God. They go around starting legal battles with courthouses that display the Ten Commandments to symbolize moral service under a higher authority, counties that display a cross on their seal to symbolize the county's roots in a mission, etc. In other words, because just one person doesn't agree with there being a cross on something, everybody must change their ways to accomodate that one person. That is what these activists do. They twist the words of the Constitution out of context and insert nonexistent language. The language "separation of church and state" does NOT exist in the Constitution. What exists there is "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This language was designed to mean that anyone can practice whatever religion they want without the fear of persecution. But this is somehow taken to mean that even the slightest insinuation of religion is illegal in public. In other words, it means that if you're religious, you're persecuted. A cross on a seal is not a law respecting an establishment of religion. It is a symbol of the history of the place. God forbid if we actually teach that religion played a role in the development of what is now a metropolis. Next thing you know, churches will operate in secret, underground, and the KGB will chase down anyone who believes in God. And that is what equal rights mean. That one person's rights supercede the rights of everybody else, because God forbid, we can't have someone getting offended, even if it's by something that we've all been doing for thousands of years and that the offended person could easily ignore.
The activists for equal rights for left-handed people would operate in the same manner. They would get laws passed that force everything to be made exclusively for left-handed people, with no version to accomodate right-handed people, even though right-handed people make up most of the population. This includes the design of mice, the placement of scrollbars, the design of furniture such as school desks, and all other things.
Let's make it so that in Windows XP, the video is read off the disc, unencrypted, saved to the hard drive in full resolution, and then played through an unprotected videopath. Then, the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft can sue Microsoft for making illegal copies of movies. It doesn't matter that Microsoft will be both a plaintiff and a defendant in this case. When a company is so big, it's not uncommon for one department to do something without another department's knowledge, such as sue itself. Hmmm... if their legal department worked the same way as their software, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
It's about time that someone comes up with this idea. I am sick and tired of the price gouging that goes on in the textbook industry. There is no excuse for a math book to cost $100 new, $90 used.
Once, I took an accounting course. All the students were angry that the textbook cost nearly $200. So the publisher actually sent a representative to our class to explain to us why it's ok that the book costs so much. He said that unlike New York Times bestsellers, which are printed in quantities of millions and therefore enjoy reasonable prices due to economies of scale, college textbooks are printed in small quantities and therefore have to cover a larger chunk of the non-recurring expenses, such as the writing, layout, photography, and other design that goes into the book before it ever goes into print.
So this explanation sounds good and fine. But let me ask you something: How much has changed in basic accounting since 1950? Since 1900? Since 1850? The only difference today is that most accounting is done on a computer, whereas before, it was done on paper. However, the course is taught on paper, not on the computer, so that the student will learn how accounting works. Therefore, I claim that nothing has changed in accounting or the method used to teach it, at least since Pacioli lived.
In other words, I'm saying that this textbook should have been designed in 1975, and the same edition should continue printing to this day. There is no excuse for the book being in its 20th edition, which it was. Which leads me to this obvious conclusion: Textbook publishers change the pictures and layout every year or two for the sole purposes of price gouging and killing the used textbook market.
And, yes, I know that we all know this already. That is why I support this effort 100%. Even if students will have to pay, say, $40 for a new textbook. That's less than half of normal textbook prices, and it would more than cover the cost of printing, plus yield profit for the project to operate and flourish, even hiring professionals in each field to write and check the books. Used books could be sold for $10 to $20. Quite reasonable if you ask me.
When will they come up with a 50" iMac? It would basically look like a big-screen flat TV. That would be good for having lots of windows open. Especially when they come up with the dual-headed model.
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I love how people come up with these sophisticated sounding phrases that mean nothing. Would someone here please explain to me what the term "net neutrality" means? Is this to mean that different types of hardware are supposed to interoperate seamlessly or something?
Ok, I can understand if you're studying computer science, or engineering, or math, and you cheat your way through English 101. Nobody in these businesses cares about this Shakespeare nonsense unless it's a hobby of theirs, so yes, I think cheating in these subjects, which you are forced to take but have nothing to do with your major, is perfectly acceptible. After all, how can you be expected to understand a sentence like "Wherefore art thou, O Romeo?!" Couldn't she just say, "Where the fsck are you? No sex tonight!"
Now I know that most of us love to hate Microsoft, but hey, we've got plenty of choices. You could run any Linux distro. You could run any version of BSD. You could get a Mac. You could stay with Windows 98. Heck, there are probably about ten dozen other OSes out there. You don't HAVE to run Vista. So hate them all you want, but for once, let's be fair:
If it's ok for Apple to build something that competes with Adobe PDF into Mac OS X (I think it's called Quartz or something like that), then why isn't it OK for Microsoft to continue copying Apple's innovations and doing so as well? We can't have a double standard that says it's ok for most companies to do that, but not Microsoft because they're the nasty 8000 ton gorilla. And I sure as heck wouldn't want to see Apple being forced to remove Quartz from OS X and replace it with some hinky dinky GUI from the 1980's, just because NOBODY can use this PDF nonsense. So let Microsoft do their thing, and let's all of us refuse to drop hundreds more dollars on this Vista garbage rubbish trash, and use an operating system of our choice. Heck, if you run a business and need to interoperate with a bunch of things, Macs look hot on an office desk, run really well, are easy to use, don't crash often, are easy to administrate, and can run just about any commercial software. (Even if not ported to OS X, VMware will be coming out soon, and you can run your ONE app that won't run in a Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, or heck, even Vista, box, if that's what you want to do.
Who the heck is Gonzales? Is this Speedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all Mejico? Speaking of Mexico, there's a place in the world that is gobs of fun to visit... And if you're eligible for what I'm about to tell you about, you can be there, this winter, for free. And no, this ain't no joke: Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. It's a program, not in the same sense as a computer program. (I thought I should mention that because most 1337 h4x0rz here on /. might not recognize other uses of the word 'program.') This program is a free trip to Israel. Nope, this ain't no trick to make you buy something, and it's sure as I'm sitting here not a contest you have to win. And there's no essay to write, let alone worrying about buffer overruns, like, say, when they want a 500 word essay and you write 501 words. That last word ends up on someone else's essay. No, none of that stuff. It is a free trip to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26. If you're eligible, you could be there this winter with a group of peers. You'll meet IDF soldiers your age who will join your group and hang out with you for much of the time you'll spend there. And you'll hike Masada, take an unsinkable swim at the Dead Sea, see the holy sites, and a whole lot more. If you ask me, I'd rather do that any day than worry about what legislation some Gonzales dude might pass. By the end of this trip, you'll have many new friends from Israel and the U.S. This trip is an action-packed 10 days, and the entire experience is amazing and uplifting. Trips take place around late December through early January. Travel on Taglit-birthright israel. EXPERIENCE Israel FREE with Sachlav. Sure beats chasing after Speedy Gonzales.
I've got something that's way, way better than Linux for those who are dumping Windows Ninety-Eight. (Spelling out the Ninety-Eight makes this version of Windows look a bit more distinguished, since of all the garbage, crappy OSes that radiated from Redmond in the last 20 years, this one is the best, IMO.) And, no, I'm not about to push FreeBSD or Mac OS X on you. It's something much better than that, even. It's called Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. Well, it's a program, but it ain't exactly an operating system. In fact, it won't even run on a computer, AFAIK. But it's infinitely better than DOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, the Mac, even CP/M. This is a free trip to Israel. No, it's not a trick to make you buy something, and it's not a contest you have to win. And there's no essay to write, let alone a bunch of funky command line syntax that nobody understands, like 'dir' or 'ls'... (What do those do, anyway?) It is a free trip to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26. If you're eligible, you could be there this winter with a group of peers, connecting with IDF soldiers your age who will join your group, hiking Masada, taking an unsinkable swim at the Dead Sea, seeing the holy sites, and a whole lot more. If you ask me, I'd rather do that any day than sit in front of the green screen, practicing the three R's of Microsoft technical support (Retry, Reboot, Reinstall). Bring a camera and lots of good ol' film to take pictures of your new friends from the United States and Israel. This trip is an action-packed 10 days, and the entire experience is amazing and uplifting. Trips take place around late December through early January. Travel on Taglit-birthright israel. EXPERIENCE Israel FREE with Sachlav. Sure beats reconfiguring your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, or your /etc/rc.conf or whatever.
In this post, let us discuss the word "Choice." It is a word that we in the FOSS community like to throw around quite a bit, especially when justifying the existance of 30 different ways to "ls" in color. So the choice I'd like to discuss is this one: What are YOU doing this winter? Getting tangled up in wiring racks? How about something a bit more fun? Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. This is a free trip to Israel, not a trick to make you buy something, or a contest you have to win. And there's no essay to write. It is a free trip to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26. If you're eligible, you could be there this winter with a group of peers, connecting with IDF soldiers your age who will join your group, hiking Masada, taking an unsinkable swim at the Dead Sea, seeing the holy sites, and a whole lot more. Bring a camera and lots of memory cards to take pictures of your new friends from the United States and Israel. This trip is an action-packed 10 days, and the entire experience is amazing and uplifting. Trips take place around late December through early January. Travel on Taglit-birthright israel. EXPERIENCE Israel FREE with Sachlav. Sure beats tripping over gobs of wiring back here at home while your friends are having the time of their life in beautiful Israel. So what's your choice?
Space on a shoestring could be fun, especially with that five megapixel digital camera. How about something else on a shoestring? Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. This is a free trip to Israel. This is not a trick to make you buy something. This is not a contest you have to win. And there's no essay to write. It is a free trip to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26. If you're eligible, you could be there this winter, connect with Israelis your age who will join your group, hike Masada, take an unsinkable swim at the Dead Sea, see the holy sites, and a whole lot more. Bring that five megapixel camera to take pictures of your new friends from the United States and Israel. This trip is an action-packed 10 days, and the entire experience is amazing and uplifting. Trips take place around late December through early January. Travel on Taglit-birthright israel. EXPERIENCE Israel FREE with Sachlav. Sure beats taking a ride to space and experiencing the side effects of zero-G.
People are always going to self-promote. What, do you want GM to advertise Ford's cars? That would never happen. Besides, GM makes better cars.
But I digress... Since we're on the topic of advertising, I'll take the liberty of advertising something right here: Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. This is an amazing and uplifting program. If you're eligible (check the link to find out), you could have a great time in Israel this winter.
If all you do is sit around and play Nada 3 on the Nintendo all day, then you have a boring life... But there's hope! Instead of playing Nintendo this winter, have an adventure in Israel, free. Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. Registration is right NOW, and will close in less than a week. If you're eligible (click the link to find out), you can have an amazing and uplifting experience in Israel this winter, instead of playing Super Mario Brothers or Nada 3 or whatever the newest Nintendo game is. Hey, this post ain't offtopic: I used the words "Nintendo" and discussed the finer points of Super Mario Brothers, and that's definitely on topic. Astute readers will notice my reference to "Nada 3", an allusion to a television commercial. Do you know which commercial it was? Heh heh heh...
Well it looks like the hotel minibar has nothing better to do than install Diebold machines. But I'm sure you have many better things to do. Like having a great time in Israel this winter... free. Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. Registration is right NOW, and will close in less than a week. If you're eligible (click the link to find out), you can have an amazing and uplifting experience in Israel this winter, instead of wasting time installing Diebold machines in hotel minibars. Hey, this post ain't offtopic: I used the words "Diebold" and "minibar" in this post, both of which are definitely technical subjects that belong in this thread. Heh heh heh...
If China is seizing illegal CDs, maybe you should seize the day and have an adventure in Israel this winter... free. And unlike pirated discs, this is a perfectly legal way to have a great time. Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. Registration is right NOW, and will close in less than a week. If you're eligible (click the link to find out), you can have an amazing and uplifting experience in Israel this winter, instead of downloading MP3s and breaking the law. Hey, this post ain't offtopic: I used the words "China" and "CDs" in this post, not to mention that I talked about MP3s, all of which are definitely technical subjects that belong in this thread. Heh heh heh...
If the PS3 is having some downtime, maybe you should unplug a bit and have some downtime of your own... This winter, in Israel, for free. Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. Registration is right NOW, and will close in less than a week. If you're eligible (click the link to find out), you can have an amazing and uplifting experience in Israel this winter, instead of sitting on your be-hind and playing GTA3 or whatever. Hey, this post ain't offtopic: I used the words "PS3" and "downtime" in this post, not to mention GTA3, which is definitely a gaming term. Heh heh heh...
Drones and botnets, eh? Since there's such a flood going on, let's have another one: A flood of information about Taglit-birthright israel with Sachlav Educational Experience. Registration is right NOW, and will close in less than a week. If you're eligible (click the link to find out), you can have an amazing and uplifting experience in Israel, free. Hey, this post ain't offtopic: I used the words "drones" and "botnets" in this post. Heh heh heh...
Embedded systems could really use a processor like this. Like my toaster.
if you're gonna say something nasty, don't do it in writing, you jerk.
i don't understand why this is necessary. TV? DVD? what do all these acronyms mean anyway? and what happened to the good ol' days when there was good programming on the radio? this "radio with pictures" nonsense has gone too far.
Because Windows was not properly written, one or more of your disks may have errors on it.
To avoid seeing this message again, get a Mac.
can it produce one point twenty-one jiga-watts?
In your post: You misspelled the following (followed by the correct spelling, for your convenience):
opperated - operated
equall - equal
ahd - had
rebuttel - rebuttal
relized - realized
your - you're
Perhaps you should consult A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling, by Mark Twain:
This post is patent pending. All rights reserved. Do not make illegal copies of this post.
I have an idea. Let's embrace and extend DRM in Windows. From now on, the operating system will not allow anything to read any information from anywhere. Your own files on your hard drive? Sorry, you can't access them, because you might accidently pirate your English class essay that you wrote last night, and Windows, being much, much, much smarter than you could ever dream of being in your wildest dreams, is therefore charged with the duty of making sure you don't do something illegal like that.
Just as there are activists for equal rights of minorities, there should be activists for equal rights for left-handed people.
These activists would operate in the same manner as those for minorities. For example, there are activists for that minority of this country's population that does not believe in God. They go around starting legal battles with courthouses that display the Ten Commandments to symbolize moral service under a higher authority, counties that display a cross on their seal to symbolize the county's roots in a mission, etc. In other words, because just one person doesn't agree with there being a cross on something, everybody must change their ways to accomodate that one person. That is what these activists do. They twist the words of the Constitution out of context and insert nonexistent language. The language "separation of church and state" does NOT exist in the Constitution. What exists there is "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This language was designed to mean that anyone can practice whatever religion they want without the fear of persecution. But this is somehow taken to mean that even the slightest insinuation of religion is illegal in public. In other words, it means that if you're religious, you're persecuted. A cross on a seal is not a law respecting an establishment of religion. It is a symbol of the history of the place. God forbid if we actually teach that religion played a role in the development of what is now a metropolis. Next thing you know, churches will operate in secret, underground, and the KGB will chase down anyone who believes in God. And that is what equal rights mean. That one person's rights supercede the rights of everybody else, because God forbid, we can't have someone getting offended, even if it's by something that we've all been doing for thousands of years and that the offended person could easily ignore.
The activists for equal rights for left-handed people would operate in the same manner. They would get laws passed that force everything to be made exclusively for left-handed people, with no version to accomodate right-handed people, even though right-handed people make up most of the population. This includes the design of mice, the placement of scrollbars, the design of furniture such as school desks, and all other things.
Let's make it so that in Windows XP, the video is read off the disc, unencrypted, saved to the hard drive in full resolution, and then played through an unprotected videopath. Then, the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft can sue Microsoft for making illegal copies of movies. It doesn't matter that Microsoft will be both a plaintiff and a defendant in this case. When a company is so big, it's not uncommon for one department to do something without another department's knowledge, such as sue itself. Hmmm... if their legal department worked the same way as their software, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
It's about time that someone comes up with this idea. I am sick and tired of the price gouging that goes on in the textbook industry. There is no excuse for a math book to cost $100 new, $90 used.
Once, I took an accounting course. All the students were angry that the textbook cost nearly $200. So the publisher actually sent a representative to our class to explain to us why it's ok that the book costs so much. He said that unlike New York Times bestsellers, which are printed in quantities of millions and therefore enjoy reasonable prices due to economies of scale, college textbooks are printed in small quantities and therefore have to cover a larger chunk of the non-recurring expenses, such as the writing, layout, photography, and other design that goes into the book before it ever goes into print.
So this explanation sounds good and fine. But let me ask you something: How much has changed in basic accounting since 1950? Since 1900? Since 1850? The only difference today is that most accounting is done on a computer, whereas before, it was done on paper. However, the course is taught on paper, not on the computer, so that the student will learn how accounting works. Therefore, I claim that nothing has changed in accounting or the method used to teach it, at least since Pacioli lived.
In other words, I'm saying that this textbook should have been designed in 1975, and the same edition should continue printing to this day. There is no excuse for the book being in its 20th edition, which it was. Which leads me to this obvious conclusion: Textbook publishers change the pictures and layout every year or two for the sole purposes of price gouging and killing the used textbook market.
And, yes, I know that we all know this already. That is why I support this effort 100%. Even if students will have to pay, say, $40 for a new textbook. That's less than half of normal textbook prices, and it would more than cover the cost of printing, plus yield profit for the project to operate and flourish, even hiring professionals in each field to write and check the books. Used books could be sold for $10 to $20. Quite reasonable if you ask me.
When will they come up with a 50" iMac? It would basically look like a big-screen flat TV. That would be good for having lots of windows open. Especially when they come up with the dual-headed model.