...For all the evils of ICANN, they do have a point. Yes, they artificially keep the pool of available websites limited by limiting the number of TLDs. Yes, the process is corrupt, they are evil, and should all burn in hell. But, by the same token, all the proposed "solutions" that involved p2p root servers, unlimited TLDs, etc - as I see it, that would be the quickest way to "break" the internet - make it a big, nonfunctioning mess.
I don't have much respect for Psychology majors and (cough! cough!) Education majors. There was a reason why those people could take 22 hours each semester and stay out drinking until 3AM. The courses they were taking were BULLSHIT.
Both of my parents are teachers. My mom is a bio teacher, and head of her dept. I'm considering becoming a tech teacher, and when I asked her, she said almost the same thing as the above poster. After she graduated with a BS in biology, she started taking classes to become accredited, but quit after seeing how pitiful and useless they were. As it is now, they no longer even give accredition credit for people who teach outside the public school system (that wasn't so 10 years ago).
What is the purpose of having a patent on something if you are going to make it available royalty free and available on a non-discriminatory basis. Once you do that, what value does the patent serve other than to prevent others from trying to patent it?
I'm surprised to see netscape is still around, but it's kind of like a tree falling in a forest... anyone who might be interested in using it is already using moz.
I can just imagine it now - some company would go into buisness taking EEG recordings of celebrities and offering them for sale. Just imagine how many people pay to listen to the brainwaves Bill Gates, or Marylin Mason, Calista Flockhart (food bad, thin good, food bad, thin good), etc etc. I guess it all depends on your taste.
You are missing the big picture. It is *not* restrictive. The GPL lets Red Hat use the intellectual property of others (the linux kernel, dozens of apps, et al), something they could otherwise not do due to copyright law. But that permission is conditional - whatever they change, they are not allowed to commercialize.
I'm from northern DE. From what you say, it sounds like you were stationed at Dover airforce base. If that's true, I'm sorry -- you have my sypathy. Delaware is basically two different worlds -- the canal cuts delaware into the north (where all the normal people are) and "slower-lower" delaware. Go to the southermost part of DE, and you have, as one of my friends put it -- "Welcome to Seaford, where there are only 2 things to do. Farm and fuck"
Moral majority? James Baker? I'm sorry, that's laughable. He's a black democrat. Look at his page here. Hardly the stuff the "moral majority" (aka, gun toting southerns) would vote for.
I'd like to say that James Baker is a corrupt ass and it'd take an act of god for him to get re-elected this coming election. Everyone wants him out. Just look at the number of cases winding their ways through the courts because of his (a) reverse-discriminatory policies, (b) flagarant nepotism, and (c) complete incompetence.
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Hibbert: This is such a beautiful day, I don't know why we don't operate outside more often.
[Tennis ball falls from sky into open wound, ECG flatlines]
I'd just like to voice my opinion that if you design a piece of hardware/software and you need to read the manual to get basic utility out of it, then you have failed as a designer. You should *NOT* have to read the manual to get an OS installed and usable. If you want to recompile the kernel or whatnot, I'd sure say that's advanced; but for basic usage, there is no reason you should have to.
I don't know how most places do it, but at my university you do in fact get credit for the classes you AP or test out of (language classes, which most high school require, are the exception). This sounds prefectly reasonable - why should you have to take harder math classes if you worked hard and placed out of the easier ones. [This does nothing but lower your GPA, as well] Now, I can say having taken my fair share of AP tests (12) that how much you take away from a class depends strongly on the teacher. My high school calc teacher was WONDERFUL, and well over half her kids were getting 5's (and she taught 150 kids a year), while some teachers were bums and I had to teach myself.
Now, for my personal sitation (And just for the record): I didn't want to lose the 51 credits I came in with (I had worked quite hard to earn those), so that I why I didn't apply to Olin. And, it turns out, I was able to get really lucky during the schedule, and jump straight into the sophmore engineering track. I was incredibly fortunate to have a great circuits class in high school. (Sadly, most places don't offer that). Once again, broad generalizations like that don't apply to everyone.
Sure, there are kids who come in with a ton of APs and bomb during their first semester, but for the most part, I think that you have to reward the kids who worked hard in high school. Make the tests harder, but don't eliminate the reward.
I was a high school senior a couple years ago when they came recruiting 25 graduating kids to help design their curriculum. IIRC, the first 5 years they plan to be free, and offer buisness classes through a partner university up there. (Sorry, I forget which one). They were going to put the 25 kids up in a hotel for the first few weeks, and then in an abandoned church. I decided not to apply when I found out they would give exactly no credit for APs and courses I had already taken. Wonder what become of those people.
Yes, but unlike other genres, FPS games are *all* the same, more or less. The object is always the same - collect weapons, kill the opponent. The only exception that comes to mind are capture-the-flag variants (tribes et al), which IMHO, tend to have greater replay value. Anyway, to get back to the point, the biggest difference between one and the next is the graphics engine. And when you consider that, then I don't understand how anybody could push older ones. What can you get in original quake that you can't get in UT? (with or without Tac Ops, depending on your preference)
Quake I is the best multiplayer FPS of all time? Wow, that crack you smoked before posting that must have been mighty strong indeed. I really don't understand why people like to push old school FPS games, when in fact, of all the genres, that one gets stale the quickest.
think by law, ads should be rendered on the same page as the article and not in a popup or popunder window
Forget the law. That's too slow, too ineffecient, and what you suggest is downright unconstitional. The easiest solution here would be a technical one - create browsers and browser standards that smack down ads like that. Why the f*** does any browser support unsoliciated pop-ups anyway? Quite frankly, I can't think of a single beneficial use of them (beneficial to the non-advertisers, that is)
A great many websites do not function without it. In particular, forms no longer work. Many website also use those small (60x60 pixels or so) click-thru popups to provide instant help. Links in some website depend on javascript, which means that browsing around certain website becomes impossible with javascript disabled. And constant re-enabling/disabling makes it a pain in the ass to do. Summary - IE sucks the big one for pop-ups. You have to get a third party program, and from what I have seen, they aren't great either. So when I go to sites I suspect are going to bombard me with that stuff, I open up Moz. [But I generally stick to IE for the much, much faster instantiation time]
There are several majors (all in the humanities) that are guarenteed to put you right into the unemployment line: Philosophy, Women's Studies, *-American Studies, and so on. My advice to you is that you if you are going to double major, the ones that meld together best are ones where one is substantive (IE, there's a job at the end of the line), and the other is "fun", something that you enjoy doing. That keeps you from overworking while at the same time you can enjoy yourself. My first semester, I had 3 computer/electrical engineering classes, calc, and international econ. (that is NOT a normal freshman schedule, btw - I skipped the freshman track but had to make up the courses) The econ saved my sanity - it was a wonderful break from the hard classes, and I found the material interesting.
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...For all the evils of ICANN, they do have a point. Yes, they artificially keep the pool of available websites limited by limiting the number of TLDs. Yes, the process is corrupt, they are evil, and should all burn in hell. But, by the same token, all the proposed "solutions" that involved p2p root servers, unlimited TLDs, etc - as I see it, that would be the quickest way to "break" the internet - make it a big, nonfunctioning mess.
I got the same pack, and they fine on myOÂzYdows XP box, no special tweaks necessary.
I don't have much respect for Psychology majors and (cough! cough!) Education majors. There was a reason why those people could take 22 hours each semester and stay out drinking until 3AM. The courses they were taking were BULLSHIT.
Both of my parents are teachers. My mom is a bio teacher, and head of her dept. I'm considering becoming a tech teacher, and when I asked her, she said almost the same thing as the above poster. After she graduated with a BS in biology, she started taking classes to become accredited, but quit after seeing how pitiful and useless they were. As it is now, they no longer even give accredition credit for people who teach outside the public school system (that wasn't so 10 years ago).
It's a spooky sight to see a little penquin sized thing complaining because FILE-OPEN dialog box is sometimes a bit confusing
Freudian slip?
What is the purpose of having a patent on something if you are going to make it available royalty free and available on a non-discriminatory basis. Once you do that, what value does the patent serve other than to prevent others from trying to patent it?
Aww hell, why not? I told you so.
I'm surprised to see netscape is still around, but it's kind of like a tree falling in a forest... anyone who might be interested in using it is already using moz.
I don't know if it's because it's late, but listening to those samples really is making me tired.
I can just imagine it now - some company would go into buisness taking EEG recordings of celebrities and offering them for sale. Just imagine how many people pay to listen to the brainwaves Bill Gates, or Marylin Mason, Calista Flockhart (food bad, thin good, food bad, thin good), etc etc. I guess it all depends on your taste.
As a legal document, it is extremely restrictive
You are missing the big picture. It is *not* restrictive. The GPL lets Red Hat use the intellectual property of others (the linux kernel, dozens of apps, et al), something they could otherwise not do due to copyright law. But that permission is conditional - whatever they change, they are not allowed to commercialize.
I'm from northern DE. From what you say, it sounds like you were stationed at Dover airforce base. If that's true, I'm sorry -- you have my sypathy. Delaware is basically two different worlds -- the canal cuts delaware into the north (where all the normal people are) and "slower-lower" delaware. Go to the southermost part of DE, and you have, as one of my friends put it -- "Welcome to Seaford, where there are only 2 things to do. Farm and fuck"
Moral majority? James Baker? I'm sorry, that's laughable. He's a black democrat. Look at his page here. Hardly the stuff the "moral majority" (aka, gun toting southerns) would vote for.
I'd like to say that James Baker is a corrupt ass and it'd take an act of god for him to get re-elected this coming election. Everyone wants him out. Just look at the number of cases winding their ways through the courts because of his (a) reverse-discriminatory policies, (b) flagarant nepotism, and (c) complete incompetence.
Hibbert: This is such a beautiful day, I don't know why we don't operate outside more often.
[Tennis ball falls from sky into open wound, ECG flatlines]
Hibbert: Time of death.. 10:15.
I'd just like to voice my opinion that if you design a piece of hardware/software and you need to read the manual to get basic utility out of it, then you have failed as a designer. You should *NOT* have to read the manual to get an OS installed and usable. If you want to recompile the kernel or whatnot, I'd sure say that's advanced; but for basic usage, there is no reason you should have to.
this post has merit since it is true. MOD PARENT UP!!!
1 = 1
Now mod me up, bitch.
How long until we see hardcore antarctican porn sites?
I don't know how most places do it, but at my university you do in fact get credit for the classes you AP or test out of (language classes, which most high school require, are the exception). This sounds prefectly reasonable - why should you have to take harder math classes if you worked hard and placed out of the easier ones. [This does nothing but lower your GPA, as well] Now, I can say having taken my fair share of AP tests (12) that how much you take away from a class depends strongly on the teacher. My high school calc teacher was WONDERFUL, and well over half her kids were getting 5's (and she taught 150 kids a year), while some teachers were bums and I had to teach myself.
Now, for my personal sitation (And just for the record): I didn't want to lose the 51 credits I came in with (I had worked quite hard to earn those), so that I why I didn't apply to Olin. And, it turns out, I was able to get really lucky during the schedule, and jump straight into the sophmore engineering track. I was incredibly fortunate to have a great circuits class in high school. (Sadly, most places don't offer that). Once again, broad generalizations like that don't apply to everyone.
Sure, there are kids who come in with a ton of APs and bomb during their first semester, but for the most part, I think that you have to reward the kids who worked hard in high school. Make the tests harder, but don't eliminate the reward.
I was a high school senior a couple years ago when they came recruiting 25 graduating kids to help design their curriculum. IIRC, the first 5 years they plan to be free, and offer buisness classes through a partner university up there. (Sorry, I forget which one). They were going to put the 25 kids up in a hotel for the first few weeks, and then in an abandoned church. I decided not to apply when I found out they would give exactly no credit for APs and courses I had already taken. Wonder what become of those people.
Yes, but unlike other genres, FPS games are *all* the same, more or less. The object is always the same - collect weapons, kill the opponent. The only exception that comes to mind are capture-the-flag variants (tribes et al), which IMHO, tend to have greater replay value. Anyway, to get back to the point, the biggest difference between one and the next is the graphics engine. And when you consider that, then I don't understand how anybody could push older ones. What can you get in original quake that you can't get in UT? (with or without Tac Ops, depending on your preference)
Quake I is the best multiplayer FPS of all time? Wow, that crack you smoked before posting that must have been mighty strong indeed. I really don't understand why people like to push old school FPS games, when in fact, of all the genres, that one gets stale the quickest.
Allow me to quote myself:
Why the f*** does any browser support unsoliciated pop-ups anyway?
If you clicked on a link that said "Show me the nearest branch," then by definition it is a solicited pop-up.
think by law, ads should be rendered on the same page as the article and not in a popup or popunder window
Forget the law. That's too slow, too ineffecient, and what you suggest is downright unconstitional. The easiest solution here would be a technical one - create browsers and browser standards that smack down ads like that. Why the f*** does any browser support unsoliciated pop-ups anyway? Quite frankly, I can't think of a single beneficial use of them (beneficial to the non-advertisers, that is)
A great many websites do not function without it. In particular, forms no longer work. Many website also use those small (60x60 pixels or so) click-thru popups to provide instant help. Links in some website depend on javascript, which means that browsing around certain website becomes impossible with javascript disabled. And constant re-enabling/disabling makes it a pain in the ass to do. Summary - IE sucks the big one for pop-ups. You have to get a third party program, and from what I have seen, they aren't great either. So when I go to sites I suspect are going to bombard me with that stuff, I open up Moz. [But I generally stick to IE for the much, much faster instantiation time]
There are several majors (all in the humanities) that are guarenteed to put you right into the unemployment line: Philosophy, Women's Studies, *-American Studies, and so on. My advice to you is that you if you are going to double major, the ones that meld together best are ones where one is substantive (IE, there's a job at the end of the line), and the other is "fun", something that you enjoy doing. That keeps you from overworking while at the same time you can enjoy yourself. My first semester, I had 3 computer/electrical engineering classes, calc, and international econ. (that is NOT a normal freshman schedule, btw - I skipped the freshman track but had to make up the courses) The econ saved my sanity - it was a wonderful break from the hard classes, and I found the material interesting.