I was in my local EB last week and saw a woman in line with a child of about 10 yrs. (she looked to be his grandmother). She was attempting to purchase Vice City. The guy at the counter asked her who she was buying it for. She said it was for the small child with her. Counter guy asked if she was aware of the content of the game, and when she said she wasn't he explained the gist of the game to her. She put it back and walked out of the store. Why the hell do we need legislation when we've already got the co-operation of retailers?
Maybe if you were busying yourself with working with the students who *are* interested in your lecture, you wouldn't be so concerned with those who aren't. Maybe if you talked *with* your students instead of *at* them, and had an actual conversation instead of just reading the material straight from the text, you might find that some of the students who were surfing slashdot have perked up their ears and are now paying attention. Try it sometime.
It's unfortunate, but a university will give a teaching position to almost anyone whose name is followed by "PHD" on their resume. Just knowing the material does NOT qualify you to teach it to others. Listening to someone rehash the text is no better than reading it yourself. A *teacher* should be able to make you understand the material and make you want to learn it. A course taught by a good teacher only needs the text as a reference. Maybe if we made professors learn to *teach* before giving them *teaching* positions, we'd hear less of crap like this because they would know how to work with the technology rather than decry it.
I went to a highschool that sat right next to a well-traveled canal and all of the rooms on outside walls had windows. If I got bored in a class I'd stare at the passing boats, or I'd draw in my notebook. Sometimes I'd do work for other classes or just read a book. And very few teachers would get upset with me for not paying attention to them. I never had a PDA or a cell phone in highschool, but I had plenty of distractions. If people don't want to pay attention, they won't. If you take away their toys and gadgets they'll just stare off into space or doodle in the margins or spin a coin on their desks. If you're not distracting anyone else it shouldn't matter what you do.
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I only ever went to lectures where the instructor was helpful || entertaining. If I understood the material or didn't like the prof I spent that time in the lab, where I could be produtive and not annoy the prof by nodding off/doodling. Luckily for me, none of my courses had mandatory attendance marks. If they *do* make you go and you don't want to be there, I say do whatever you want provided you're not being a distraction to those who actually do need the help the lecture offers. Now, if the prof can't handle the fact that someone's not paying attention and they fell the need to stop their lecture and bother you, that's their own damn problem.
Ok, so I hadn't had my coffee yet. Still I think it's a solution that could be implemented without too many problems. After the first n hits, have the link in the story roll over use the peer network. Cache the story you pull from the peer network. Don't switch the link back over to the actual story for a day or so. Or the tree structure you suggested looks like it would be way more efficient than the crap I just rattled off. Either way, really. But it's something that seems perfectly workable.
While it may be great in theory to say that having to do compile keeps the idiots off of the network, the strength of p2p lies in numbers. As I'm typing this, KazaaLite is showing me 3.5 million users and over 650 million files on the network. You just can't get numbers like that unless it's easy to install and use.
hmmm...P2P sharing of articles to defend against the slashdot effect. It's about time KaZaA got a legitimate use;)
But seriously, since/. is so reluctant to set up a cache to protect the sites they link, how about a distributed/. client? Sits in your tray, checks slashdot for updates every couple minutes, and if it finds any new links on the front page, grabs them and stores them on your harddrive. Then some sort of link system on the sidebar of the mainpage ("view the cache at http://slashdot.org/p2pcache?articleID=whatever") that links us all together.
I'd love to see AOL dump all that cash (minus legal fees, of course) into Mozilla to help further develop the bayesian filters that they're adding to moz mail.
Sounds great, but I have a question. If you have to wait until the image downloads to block it, what's the point? Could you possible read the header to get the image size and if it falls on the filter list, just not download the rest? I'd rather not even waste the time / bandwidth on ads. Then again, I could just be talking out my ass. I keep an up to date/etc/hosts file on my firewall and Moz blocks popups, so I see very few ads anyways.
Yeah, targeted advertising seems to be *the* way to do internet advertising. No punch-th-monkey, no vile pop-ups, no flash ads jumping in front of the article I'm reading. Just target the audience. I'm sure a lot of you read penny-arcade, but they just had a little piece up about their ads, how they only show ads for products they actually like and think their audience will like too, and how many people actually click through. I'm too lazy to find it, but it's from within the last week. Pretty interesting to see that when you target to your core audience, almost all of them click the ads.
we used to play that game too, but in the middle of the day as well. Had to draw straws to see who got stuck in net -- nobody seemed to want to be the goalie.
All anyone can tell you is to give SC2 a try, then you'll see. I pretty much pounded down the door at EB the day SC3 was released. It was good. If there had never been an SC1 and SC2 it would have been damn good. But as a sequel to those two, it was dismal. Go try out SC2. The graphics aren't special, but the storyline is incredible. As far as I (and many others, judging from this thread) am concerned, it's the single best game ever made.
Well, long after my map got destroyed, I could still start the game because I knew stars were at which coordinates from memory. Best game EVER. Are there any other exploration games that come anywhere near SC2?
I've been saying the same thing for months, but every once in a while I find a game that makes me glad I still have a windows partition (no os holy wars here please...). As much as SoF2 was pretty much "every other fps" it won huge points with me for great multi player. And I've recently discovered Gothic, which is a great rpg. You just need to look harder for good pc games. The good ones usually don't get the hype.
That depends. Somebody has to supply the military with firearms. If a pimp walks up to you on a street and asks to purchase a gun so that he can go murder a rival pimp, then you're probably an accessory. But if you're dealing arms to the military, chances are you're legally free and clear. Morally? You wouldn't be dealing arms if you were morally against it, now would you?
Companies, and individuals as well for that matter, only have to follow their own moral code. You can't *make* anyone share your morality. Don't like that Cisco sells filtering tech to China? Don't support Cisco. Hell, boycott if you want. Get your friends and family in on it. But always remember this: the morals you have are yours and yours alone. Nobody else "(has) to follow any moral code". You can't impose your beliefs on any one.
do you think the answer to having a massive and unreliable network is to build a second identical network?"
Take the number of patients in the hospital, A, multiply by the probable rate of death should the network fail, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a redundant network, we don't build one.
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I was in my local EB last week and saw a woman in line with a child of about 10 yrs. (she looked to be his grandmother). She was attempting to purchase Vice City. The guy at the counter asked her who she was buying it for. She said it was for the small child with her. Counter guy asked if she was aware of the content of the game, and when she said she wasn't he explained the gist of the game to her. She put it back and walked out of the store. Why the hell do we need legislation when we've already got the co-operation of retailers?
Maybe if you were busying yourself with working with the students who *are* interested in your lecture, you wouldn't be so concerned with those who aren't. Maybe if you talked *with* your students instead of *at* them, and had an actual conversation instead of just reading the material straight from the text, you might find that some of the students who were surfing slashdot have perked up their ears and are now paying attention. Try it sometime.
I'm sure there's a joke here about 'r00t c4n41z' but I can't quite find it...
It's unfortunate, but a university will give a teaching position to almost anyone whose name is followed by "PHD" on their resume. Just knowing the material does NOT qualify you to teach it to others. Listening to someone rehash the text is no better than reading it yourself. A *teacher* should be able to make you understand the material and make you want to learn it. A course taught by a good teacher only needs the text as a reference. Maybe if we made professors learn to *teach* before giving them *teaching* positions, we'd hear less of crap like this because they would know how to work with the technology rather than decry it.
I went to a highschool that sat right next to a well-traveled canal and all of the rooms on outside walls had windows. If I got bored in a class I'd stare at the passing boats, or I'd draw in my notebook. Sometimes I'd do work for other classes or just read a book. And very few teachers would get upset with me for not paying attention to them. I never had a PDA or a cell phone in highschool, but I had plenty of distractions. If people don't want to pay attention, they won't. If you take away their toys and gadgets they'll just stare off into space or doodle in the margins or spin a coin on their desks. If you're not distracting anyone else it shouldn't matter what you do.
I only ever went to lectures where the instructor was helpful || entertaining. If I understood the material or didn't like the prof I spent that time in the lab, where I could be produtive and not annoy the prof by nodding off/doodling. Luckily for me, none of my courses had mandatory attendance marks. If they *do* make you go and you don't want to be there, I say do whatever you want provided you're not being a distraction to those who actually do need the help the lecture offers. Now, if the prof can't handle the fact that someone's not paying attention and they fell the need to stop their lecture and bother you, that's their own damn problem.
Ok, so I hadn't had my coffee yet. Still I think it's a solution that could be implemented without too many problems. After the first n hits, have the link in the story roll over use the peer network. Cache the story you pull from the peer network. Don't switch the link back over to the actual story for a day or so. Or the tree structure you suggested looks like it would be way more efficient than the crap I just rattled off. Either way, really. But it's something that seems perfectly workable.
While it may be great in theory to say that having to do compile keeps the idiots off of the network, the strength of p2p lies in numbers. As I'm typing this, KazaaLite is showing me 3.5 million users and over 650 million files on the network. You just can't get numbers like that unless it's easy to install and use.
hmmm...P2P sharing of articles to defend against the slashdot effect. It's about time KaZaA got a legitimate use ;)
/. is so reluctant to set up a cache to protect the sites they link, how about a distributed /. client? Sits in your tray, checks slashdot for updates every couple minutes, and if it finds any new links on the front page, grabs them and stores them on your harddrive. Then some sort of link system on the sidebar of the mainpage ("view the cache at http://slashdot.org/p2pcache?articleID=whatever") that links us all together.
But seriously, since
$10 for a two or three hour concert recording is pretty damn reasonable, when you consider that a 72 minute cd sells for $20 or so most of the time.
Sweet! Wanna pass it along to me? I promise not to tell on you...
the story dupes the editor!
Burn.
I'd love to see AOL dump all that cash (minus legal fees, of course) into Mozilla to help further develop the bayesian filters that they're adding to moz mail.
Sounds great, but I have a question. If you have to wait until the image downloads to block it, what's the point? Could you possible read the header to get the image size and if it falls on the filter list, just not download the rest? I'd rather not even waste the time / bandwidth on ads. Then again, I could just be talking out my ass. I keep an up to date /etc/hosts file on my firewall and Moz blocks popups, so I see very few ads anyways.
Yeah, targeted advertising seems to be *the* way to do internet advertising. No punch-th-monkey, no vile pop-ups, no flash ads jumping in front of the article I'm reading. Just target the audience. I'm sure a lot of you read penny-arcade, but they just had a little piece up about their ads, how they only show ads for products they actually like and think their audience will like too, and how many people actually click through. I'm too lazy to find it, but it's from within the last week. Pretty interesting to see that when you target to your core audience, almost all of them click the ads.
we used to play that game too, but in the middle of the day as well. Had to draw straws to see who got stuck in net -- nobody seemed to want to be the goalie.
If someone set up a dedicated box for me, first thing I'd do is ssh in and change the root pass. Then you *know* they're not logging on.
I'm sure everyone else here will point this out to you, but CleverNickName is Wil Wheaton.
But wouldn't using that GPL'ed code mean that the OpenBSD team would have to release THEIR code under the GPL instead of the BSD license?
All anyone can tell you is to give SC2 a try, then you'll see. I pretty much pounded down the door at EB the day SC3 was released. It was good. If there had never been an SC1 and SC2 it would have been damn good. But as a sequel to those two, it was dismal. Go try out SC2. The graphics aren't special, but the storyline is incredible. As far as I (and many others, judging from this thread) am concerned, it's the single best game ever made.
Well, long after my map got destroyed, I could still start the game because I knew stars were at which coordinates from memory. Best game EVER. Are there any other exploration games that come anywhere near SC2?
I've been saying the same thing for months, but every once in a while I find a game that makes me glad I still have a windows partition (no os holy wars here please...). As much as SoF2 was pretty much "every other fps" it won huge points with me for great multi player. And I've recently discovered Gothic, which is a great rpg. You just need to look harder for good pc games. The good ones usually don't get the hype.
That depends. Somebody has to supply the military with firearms. If a pimp walks up to you on a street and asks to purchase a gun so that he can go murder a rival pimp, then you're probably an accessory. But if you're dealing arms to the military, chances are you're legally free and clear. Morally? You wouldn't be dealing arms if you were morally against it, now would you?
Companies, and individuals as well for that matter, only have to follow their own moral code. You can't *make* anyone share your morality. Don't like that Cisco sells filtering tech to China? Don't support Cisco. Hell, boycott if you want. Get your friends and family in on it. But always remember this: the morals you have are yours and yours alone. Nobody else "(has) to follow any moral code". You can't impose your beliefs on any one.
do you think the answer to having a massive and unreliable network is to build a second identical network?"
Take the number of patients in the hospital, A, multiply by the probable rate of death should the network fail, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a redundant network, we don't build one.