How about teaching your students the principles of what they are going to do, so that (with some acclimatization) they can adapt to any software within the category you've taught.
And for this reason, you should teach the old commercial stuff. You can certainly use it to teach the theory, and the students can put "DreamWeaver, Photoshop, Flash" on their resume. That's a bit more eyecatching than "KSomeWysiwygHtmlThing, Gimp, CrayonsAndPaper". Pragmatism does have its merits.
notice that no one pointed out that devil patrick is a democrat. i thought it was only fat stooge evil republicans that wanted this kind of control over their subjects.
Help, Help!!! We're being persecuted by the liberalEliteHomosexualMediaConspiracy!
What? Wait a minute... What's that in the article?
"The provision, buried deep in Patrick's bill to allow three casinos to the state, puts the governor at odds with a fellow Democrat: US Representative Barney Frank, the sponsor of federal legislation to license and regulate online gambling nationally."
> 5. Google stock (Goog) is 708.67$ at the moment. > > What? Its irrelevant here? Sorry, my bad.
Yes, your bad. AAPL has split 2:1 three times. Splits are business decisions that do not affect the underlying value of the stock. If AAPL never split, it's current price per share would be $1502.96 per share today. But that still doesn't matter. Market capitalization does, which is the number of shares * price per share:
GOOG: $222.01B AAPL: $163.88B ADBE: $27.47B
If Apple wanted to buy Adobe, they'd have to pay some premium over $27.47B. But really, any buyout is really a merger: the combined value of the merged company would be roughly the sum of the parts, so the new AAPL would end up with a market cap of approximately $190B. Apple would issue new shares to make the purchase. AAPL would remain roughly the same price per share, adjusting only according to stockholder sentiment.
1: Zucker [explained] that it was "a relatively easy decision" for NBC to walk away from the Apple download service because it had only earned about $15 million from the service last year
2: "Apple sold millions of dollars worth of hardware off the back of our content and made a lot of money," he said.
In other words: Although NBC's content didn't drive sales, NBC's content drove sales.
How the fuck does CGDR2, Slashdot member for four whole days and designer of (almost certainly) exactly zero games, have any right to accuse Will Wright of anything at all?
- SW: Todo list. - SW: WiFi SIP phone application that I can use with any SIP provider. - SW: Dev kit. (Partly so I can implement/port these if Apple or "official 3rd party developer" doesn't.) - HW: HSDPA (3G). - Service: Wireless sync calendar/contacts over WiFi or Edge/3G.
I was one of the naysayers, but I ended up buying one of the $300 4GB models a couple weeks back to try it out. Now, it's "from my cold dead hands." Web browsing and email on the iPhone are simply leaps and bounds better than what I had on my Samsung Blackjack.
Actually, there's a very simple capitalistic free market solution to the very problem LiIon batteries pose. Legislate that LiIon batteries must use standardized battery format and be consumer changeable.
This is either clever sarcasm, or a complete failure to understand the concept.
The case at hand, Andersen v. Atlantic, is about an innocent person who the RIAA attempted to extort through an illegal investigation, negligent legal practices, etc. There's no claim that sharing of copyright files is OK. It's about the illegal practices of the RIAA in how they pursue these lawsuits.
> One thing that slashdotters forget is with MS Windows, don't underestimate the stupidity of the average user. > Most probably don't even know what a recovery disk is.
I honestly had no idea what a "recovery disk" was until I just googled for it. I've been using computers for over 20 years, and have made a career as a software engineer for the last 12. I've always just had the full OS on disk. I guess that makes me stupid.
I grew up in a suburb 20 minutes from Boston, and we had no water service to my house. We had some really great well water. Pain in the butt to maintain though.
If I remove DRM from a file on my computer such as a MP3 I'm also breaching the DMCA, this isn't very different.
The difference is that an unencrypted registry entry is arguably not a "security measure". The DMCA specifically refers to the circumvention of security measures. Indeed, the DMCA exists to let companies with inept security measures interfere with your privately owned machine.
Don't forget to enjoy your freedom while you still have some.
1. Please provide a link to a $370 dual-core Intel laptop with Vista. I'll be waiting. 2. The small size and weight (2 pounds) make it portable. The hypothetical 5.5 pound machine is a pain to lug around.
Half the posts here are just bickering with the headline. The article doesn't even mention Moore's law. It's a guy who is trying to spread OLPC FUD because, surprise surprise, he is the CEO of a company that competes directly with OLPC.
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How about teaching your students the principles of what they are going to do, so that (with some acclimatization) they can adapt to any software within the category you've taught.
And for this reason, you should teach the old commercial stuff. You can certainly use it to teach the theory, and the students can put "DreamWeaver, Photoshop, Flash" on their resume. That's a bit more eyecatching than "KSomeWysiwygHtmlThing, Gimp, CrayonsAndPaper". Pragmatism does have its merits.
I'd buy a Kindle if I knew I could get all my college books on it.
When some big company figures out that college textbooks are going to be the first big market for ebooks, I'm going to invest in them.
notice that no one pointed out that devil patrick is a democrat. i thought it was only fat stooge evil republicans that wanted this kind of control over their subjects.
Help, Help!!! We're being persecuted by the liberalEliteHomosexualMediaConspiracy!
What? Wait a minute... What's that in the article?
"The provision, buried deep in Patrick's bill to allow three casinos to the state, puts the governor at odds with a fellow Democrat: US Representative Barney Frank, the sponsor of federal legislation to license and regulate online gambling nationally."
> 5. Google stock (Goog) is 708.67$ at the moment.
>
> What? Its irrelevant here? Sorry, my bad.
Yes, your bad. AAPL has split 2:1 three times. Splits are business decisions that do not affect the underlying value of the stock. If AAPL never split, it's current price per share would be $1502.96 per share today. But that still doesn't matter. Market capitalization does, which is the number of shares * price per share:
GOOG: $222.01B
AAPL: $163.88B
ADBE: $27.47B
If Apple wanted to buy Adobe, they'd have to pay some premium over $27.47B. But really, any buyout is really a merger: the combined value of the merged company would be roughly the sum of the parts, so the new AAPL would end up with a market cap of approximately $190B. Apple would issue new shares to make the purchase. AAPL would remain roughly the same price per share, adjusting only according to stockholder sentiment.
1: Zucker [explained] that it was "a relatively easy decision" for NBC to walk away from the Apple download service because it had only earned about $15 million from the service last year
2: "Apple sold millions of dollars worth of hardware off the back of our content and made a lot of money," he said.
In other words: Although NBC's content didn't drive sales, NBC's content drove sales.
How the fuck does CGDR2, Slashdot member for four whole days and designer of (almost certainly) exactly zero games, have any right to accuse Will Wright of anything at all?
Agreed. It was cool and all, but grating after about 15 seconds.
Iraq wasn't a theocratic totalitarian regime. It was a secular military dictatorship.
Look. Saddam = Evil. US = good. It's real simple. Stop trying to bring facts into the discussion!
FYI: Someone in another post found that 25 * 2621.4 = 65535 gives the proper behavior, yet 2621.4 has no perfect floating point binary representation.
the power company has to pay you for that power
Depends on where you live. In the US, not all states require net metering. Not sure about the rest of the world.
It's something done by little men with inferiority complexes
Many people are "off grid" for the simple fact that their home is not near power lines.
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- SW: Todo list.
- SW: WiFi SIP phone application that I can use with any SIP provider.
- SW: Dev kit. (Partly so I can implement/port these if Apple or "official 3rd party developer" doesn't.)
- HW: HSDPA (3G).
- Service: Wireless sync calendar/contacts over WiFi or Edge/3G.
I was one of the naysayers, but I ended up buying one of the $300 4GB models a couple weeks back to try it out. Now, it's "from my cold dead hands." Web browsing and email on the iPhone are simply leaps and bounds better than what I had on my Samsung Blackjack.
Actually, there's a very simple capitalistic free market solution to the very problem LiIon batteries pose. Legislate that LiIon batteries must use standardized battery format and be consumer changeable.
This is either clever sarcasm, or a complete failure to understand the concept.
The case at hand, Andersen v. Atlantic, is about an innocent person who the RIAA attempted to extort through an illegal investigation, negligent legal practices, etc. There's no claim that sharing of copyright files is OK. It's about the illegal practices of the RIAA in how they pursue these lawsuits.
> One thing that slashdotters forget is with MS Windows, don't underestimate the stupidity of the average user.
> Most probably don't even know what a recovery disk is.
I honestly had no idea what a "recovery disk" was until I just googled for it. I've been using computers for over 20 years, and have made a career as a software engineer for the last 12. I've always just had the full OS on disk. I guess that makes me stupid.
> If you can only take measurements from one spot, you can't say whether it's spin, acceleration or proximity to a gravity well.
Wouldn't a gyroscope/gyrocompass positioned anywhere in the spaceship suffice?
I grew up in a suburb 20 minutes from Boston, and we had no water service to my house. We had some really great well water. Pain in the butt to maintain though.
If I remove DRM from a file on my computer such as a MP3 I'm also breaching the DMCA, this isn't very different.
The difference is that an unencrypted registry entry is arguably not a "security measure". The DMCA specifically refers to the circumvention of security measures. Indeed, the DMCA exists to let companies with inept security measures interfere with your privately owned machine.
Don't forget to enjoy your freedom while you still have some.
MS System Restore also deletes entries from your registry. Obviously, this violates the DMCA.
Be interesting to see where they are getting their numbers from.
I'm not actually that interested in looking up their arses.
Please! You had to go and ruin his unsubstantiated rantings with facts?!? Have some decency!
1. Please provide a link to a $370 dual-core Intel laptop with Vista. I'll be waiting.
2. The small size and weight (2 pounds) make it portable. The hypothetical 5.5 pound machine is a pain to lug around.
Correlation does not imply causation.
but only if you consume 50 times your body weight over a course of 2 weeks...
Have you seen how much diet soda these people drink?
Half the posts here are just bickering with the headline. The article doesn't even mention Moore's law. It's a guy who is trying to spread OLPC FUD because, surprise surprise, he is the CEO of a company that competes directly with OLPC.