I've only ever seen a previous version get the newer features once.
It happened w/ the Nikon D70 when the D70s came out. Nikon released a firmware upgrade that brought the D70 up to par w/ the D70s, aside from the obviously larger screen the D70s had.
I actually used some old papers when the need fit.
As a junior in high school, I did a 1-page paper on ALS (Lou Gerig's Disease).
As a senior in high school, I expanded it to a 15 page paper.
As a freshman in college, I expanded it again to a 25-page paper. Did I reuse some sentences/paragraphs? Most likely yes. Did I reuse sources? Absolutly. I had, at the time, connections to several pharmaceutical researchers who were working on medicine for ALS, it would have been foolish not to. This isn't to say that I did no work on each paper, i did a ton of it, but I got to start w/ a decent bit of information out there, and was able to make my final project even better.
Senior year of college, I used the same presentation (with prof's permission) for 2 400 level and 1 300 level Math classes.
This does seem like an easy system to fool -- have a rogue teacher submit an extra 20-30 million papers to make it so that everything submitted is now a high chance of cheating. That will make the system totally useless.
I love free WiFi. I had to give a friend a ride to the doctor, and, poof, there was a free public WiFi available will full access to a couple of windows servers.
How did I find out? My computer signed in and AIM started as soon as I turned it on (I was planning on doing work).
Ah, what an age we live in, where even doctors offer free public WiFi.
As for public restrooms, VA has some terrible ones. Maryland has some nice ones, as does Delaware. Most PA ones are also quite nice (especially along the turnpike). But, no WiFi in any of them that I have seen so far.
IF this technology comes to market, I could imagine some anime people thinking it would be fun to play around with this and make things look all weird (so that the background is right in your face, while the foreground is far away - or a person whose leg is near you, but whose face is far and have objects pass each other in ways that would look fine in 2D but would look weird in 3D).
In short, this could bring us a whole new world of experimental film. Interesting, if true.
I can never remember my home phone number and they are always kind enough to inform me what my number is, right before I call hang up on them.
They are so much fun. As soon as I realize it is them, I put the phone down and walk away for a few minutes. Political callers are the best, as, I usually spout some anti-Capitalist, anti-Democratic stuff their way.
Hm, maybe I should un-register my home phone, I do so love messing with the telemarketers.
Now, my cell is another story. I have an international cell, as in, I can take it to other countries and it still rings with my USA-based number. I would not be happy to recieve a call from a telemarketer while in Australia, 11 hours ahead, and at a cost of US$1/min.
Oh, I use T-Mobile, so, this does not make me too happy.
I think the main point of turning off the TV is to promote excercise, getting outside, and/or reading. The problem with some of these is, at least in the DC area (where I am) it is looking like it is going to be raining for part of next week (maybe all, hey, it rained most of this week too), which effectivly kills the getting outside part (and most of the excercise that kids would otherwise get, as very few kids go to a gym).
I know, for me at least, I find that I watch less TV when the weather is nicer outside, even if I'm not out in it. Although, I did just discover a dark room down the street from me, which is now eating up a lot of time.
In short, I don't think it is as simple as just 'turning off the tv'. What about news? What about people in the gym, many morning gym people like to watch the news, or a morning news show (Good Morning America, the Today Show, etc) while on the treadmill. Sure, you could turn it off, but often it isn't just you in the gym, or not your decision.
That's my opinion, although I will still try to cut out most of my TV next week anyway.
You know, I thought you were kidding at first, then I looked at it and you are correct.
Not only a Mac, Not only QuarkXPress 4.11/Acrobat Distiller, but the title was "competitive OpenOffice.qxd" (well, I guess that's the file name).
Also interesting is that it looks like it was created on 20030911 which is either Sep 11, 2003 or Nov 9, 2003 (either way, this is several months old).
-CPM
Here is the parts from the.pdf file, about 25 lines from the bottom /CreationDate (D:20030911160553) /Producer (Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh) /Author (Gravity) /Title (competitive OpenOffice.qxd) /Creator (QuarkXPress\(tm\) 4.11) /ModDate (D:20030911160603-07'00')
One of the reasons that Japanesse kids get such high grades is that they will retake tests until the majority of the kids pass.
I was not a JET (Japanesse English Teacher -- someone who speaks English nativly who teaches in a Japanesse school), but I know a lot of people who were. On many of the tests, if not enough people did well enough, they would take the same test over and over again until the majority did well enough.
So, you get to memorize for the test, but not learn.
However, I did get to visit some of these schools. The one had an accelerated class where students who did really well could be set aside and work at a faster pace.
As for the suicide in schools, from what I understand, it is a sign of a poor school when the students perform a lot of suicide. The district I was visiting had one or two per year (Miyagi Prefecture) versus Tokyo which has many more (sorry, don't know stats).
Oh, and for any Americans/Canadians/Aussies/Kiwis/Brits/Germans who happen to be about 6ft (oh, say about 1.8M) tall, you will be an instant crush of the week for all of the girls (this I do know from experience).
The current SAT's have 1.5 Verbal sections and.5 Math sections. I say this b/c about half of the math part is written and the 'process' counts more than the answer (in other words, you can get the right answer and still have the wrong answer, like the verbal section).
Now, some stupid board wants to add a 'writing skills' section to the test (aka, another English section), making it 2.5 English sections to the.5 Math sections.
That 'writing skills' section is the reason I was not National Merit, as I am not very good at English/Verbal, but got an 800 on the Math section.
So now that we have so much English on the test, a Math person doesn't do as well on the test and thus doesn't get the scholarships or into the best schools. Before you could do ok on one section and well on another and not have to worry about which school you get into. There has been a systematic killing of Math skills by a dumb group of people on a board somewhere.
Of course, this could always be a side effect of placing too much faith in one stupid test.
I didn't even know such things existed. It sounds comical.
So, what does a vitamin cartel do anyway? Do they price fix Iron suppliments or something? Or do they beat up the small iron works for trademark violation?
There is this web site called buddy zoo which proves that all you have to do to get thousands of people to willingly give up their buddylists is to allow them to make fun pictures with it.
I personally prefer 123 Any Street, Anytown USA. Unfortunatly, TV guide.com requires my actual zip code if I want the real info, but my address isn't going to do them any good at all.
One of the things I remember that I had to get used to when I went to Australia is that their buttons are the only way to get the signal telling you it is ok to walk.
While you can go at any time, cars have to stop when you have the walk and get impatient if you cross and do not have the blessing of the automated white hand.
I think more than free (most buisnesses really don't mind paying for products), more than marketing, and all that crap, companies care about choices. Right now, with opensource, Linux, BSD, etc, they have the choice of product to use.
Buisnesses also like secure systems and proven systems. Hence the reason buisnesses still run large IBM mainframes, DB2 and Oracle, and Solaris. Linux and the BSD's are really beginning to prove themselves, and Microsoft is proving that they really can't be trusted (all buisnesses I've every worked for never use the latest version, they always use the previous one, as it has been proven a bit better than the current version).
So, they are trying to kill this new movement before it starts.
Although, Sun has more to fear from Linux than MS has to fear from either.
So, that's my opinion, take it or leave it, it is only the world as I see it (well, sort of the way I see it, I forget what I wrote at this point).
I'm actually waiting for people to say that the MS firewall is going to be on full. When people see that they can't play their games online due to their firewall, they won't alter it, they will turn it off and the same problems will arise all the time.
You are right, the firewall is hardly the solution.
I can't read the article b/c the page won't load. I will read it when it will load.
If you look on the sendmail site, it says that they are also working with yahoo on domain keys. It looks like sendmail is going to create their own compatible version of everyone's anti-spam solution
Wait, is this a well written, well thought out, political argument on slashdot? Can't possibly be. All most of the comments here are "Party X Sucks" or "Candidate B is a luser".
Although I am not a Democrat (nor am I really a Republican, I am only registered as such b/c in my home town you can't say you are an 'independent' and actually have people listen to you) I would have rather seen a Dean vs Bush race (as Dean actually had some original ideas), but knew it would never happen.
I think (although I may be wrong on this) that one of the problems with Dean is that he was seen by most people as the 'anti-Bush', and while this may get a lot of extreme leftists out and shouting 'Go Dean', the extremes scare away normal people. Beyond that, to be the anti of something, the something must exist. Most people felt that Dean is nothing without Bush (how's that for irony). Before you call me names, hear me out on this.
Perception is the key here. If I see a candidate that I feel is the anti-Bush, as soon as Bush isn't around, what does he stand for? While you have to admire that he would so vocally issue a challange to the current president, without the +, what do you have to compare the - to (talking about electrical charges here)? '-' can not exist without '+' (or, what is 'good' without 'bad' and vice versa), and thus for many, it was percieved that Dean could not survive without Bush.
Take it however you want, even make me an enemy if you wish. I still want to say good job a well written argument.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that back in the day, the guy from Grc.com (I think that's the right site, it won't load right now) had a utility that would re-do letters so that they were smooth on LCD panels. I think he called it something along the lines of 'font smoothing', but it has been a while.
I don't remember (or maybe I never knew) when the feature was added to Windows (but I don't think it was there in Win2k), but, OS X has had this for a couple of years (predates winXP) and this utility from grc was definitly from Win98 era (pre win2K).
"Integration" is one of the new keywords in the military. This means that one plane (for example) can extend its radar using a nearby ship, plane, tank, ground based installation, etc, for any purpose it desires. Or, have a large squadron of planes (all the same model, lets say) where half have air-to-air, and the other air-to-ground missles. The air-to-air's can mix in the formation and provide all of the cover that is needed, while some can fly higher and farther in front, and the bombers can launch smart missiles using their radar.
For a pilot, the Blue Screen of Death is exactly that.
Therefore, integration is possible without MS products.
Wow, I really thought that was owned by the bank -- and, hey, I learned something today. I also had no idea that they owned so many of the Philadelphia Sports teams, and especially the Flyers (I really don't care about too many other sports). That bugs me.
Well, the Comcast-Spectacor has some nice boxes at the Wachovia Center (saw a Flyers vs Devils game there, right above the one goal, best game I've ever seen).
I guess this whole deal might mean that Mickey and the Flyers appear together more often.
All of that except the linux part -- I haven't had any trouble running linux/MacOS9,X/BSD/Solaris on a comcast cable internet connection. Besides, in my area, comcast is way better than Cox (I actually haven't had any trouble at all with comcast since I got it 2 months ago) and I don't have a phone line so no DSL (Verizon).
Um, Comcast doesn't own the stadiums mentioned. The Stadiums are owned by Wachovia (a bank, formerly First Union, who bought Corestates, and Corestates built the current stadium for the two mentioned teams). Comcast provides networking to the arenas, and has some sort of partnership with Wachovia (and they get a sign up on the side or the building that can be seen from every plane that lands at/takes off from Philly airport).
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I've only ever seen a previous version get the newer features once.
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It happened w/ the Nikon D70 when the D70s came out. Nikon released a firmware upgrade that brought the D70 up to par w/ the D70s, aside from the obviously larger screen the D70s had.
Source: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0504/05042002nikon70
It is the wordpress 'classic' theme.
For whatever reason, they put in "letter-spacing: -1px;" for the p tag.
Classic is actually a fantastic theme, if you comment out that one line, which is about line 150 in [wp install]/wp-content/themes/classic/style.css .
I actually used some old papers when the need fit.
As a junior in high school, I did a 1-page paper on ALS (Lou Gerig's Disease).
As a senior in high school, I expanded it to a 15 page paper.
As a freshman in college, I expanded it again to a 25-page paper. Did I reuse some sentences/paragraphs? Most likely yes. Did I reuse sources? Absolutly. I had, at the time, connections to several pharmaceutical researchers who were working on medicine for ALS, it would have been foolish not to. This isn't to say that I did no work on each paper, i did a ton of it, but I got to start w/ a decent bit of information out there, and was able to make my final project even better.
Senior year of college, I used the same presentation (with prof's permission) for 2 400 level and 1 300 level Math classes.
This does seem like an easy system to fool -- have a rogue teacher submit an extra 20-30 million papers to make it so that everything submitted is now a high chance of cheating. That will make the system totally useless.
-CPM
The officer that Mumia killed (in cold blood and all) was Daniel Faulkner (1980 or 81, I think).
In the northern part of the city, US RT1 aka Roosevelt Expressway (I think that's the name) is dedicated to this officer.
Mumia has been on death row for a while. I think I heard he was a radio personality before he killed the officer, but, I was too young to remember.
-CPM
I love free WiFi. I had to give a friend a ride to the doctor, and, poof, there was a free public WiFi available will full access to a couple of windows servers.
How did I find out? My computer signed in and AIM started as soon as I turned it on (I was planning on doing work).
Ah, what an age we live in, where even doctors offer free public WiFi.
As for public restrooms, VA has some terrible ones. Maryland has some nice ones, as does Delaware. Most PA ones are also quite nice (especially along the turnpike). But, no WiFi in any of them that I have seen so far.
-CPM
IF this technology comes to market, I could imagine some anime people thinking it would be fun to play around with this and make things look all weird (so that the background is right in your face, while the foreground is far away - or a person whose leg is near you, but whose face is far and have objects pass each other in ways that would look fine in 2D but would look weird in 3D).
In short, this could bring us a whole new world of experimental film. Interesting, if true.
-CPM
I can never remember my home phone number and they are always kind enough to inform me what my number is, right before I call hang up on them.
They are so much fun. As soon as I realize it is them, I put the phone down and walk away for a few minutes. Political callers are the best, as, I usually spout some anti-Capitalist, anti-Democratic stuff their way.
Hm, maybe I should un-register my home phone, I do so love messing with the telemarketers.
Now, my cell is another story. I have an international cell, as in, I can take it to other countries and it still rings with my USA-based number. I would not be happy to recieve a call from a telemarketer while in Australia, 11 hours ahead, and at a cost of US$1/min.
Oh, I use T-Mobile, so, this does not make me too happy.
-CPM
I think the main point of turning off the TV is to promote excercise, getting outside, and/or reading. The problem with some of these is, at least in the DC area (where I am) it is looking like it is going to be raining for part of next week (maybe all, hey, it rained most of this week too), which effectivly kills the getting outside part (and most of the excercise that kids would otherwise get, as very few kids go to a gym).
I know, for me at least, I find that I watch less TV when the weather is nicer outside, even if I'm not out in it. Although, I did just discover a dark room down the street from me, which is now eating up a lot of time.
In short, I don't think it is as simple as just 'turning off the tv'. What about news? What about people in the gym, many morning gym people like to watch the news, or a morning news show (Good Morning America, the Today Show, etc) while on the treadmill. Sure, you could turn it off, but often it isn't just you in the gym, or not your decision.
That's my opinion, although I will still try to cut out most of my TV next week anyway.
-CPM
You know, I thought you were kidding at first, then I looked at it and you are correct.
.pdf file, about 25 lines from the bottom
/CreationDate (D:20030911160553)
/Producer (Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh)
/Author (Gravity)
/Title (competitive OpenOffice.qxd)
/Creator (QuarkXPress\(tm\) 4.11)
/ModDate (D:20030911160603-07'00')
Not only a Mac, Not only QuarkXPress 4.11/Acrobat Distiller, but the title was "competitive OpenOffice.qxd" (well, I guess that's the file name).
Also interesting is that it looks like it was created on 20030911 which is either Sep 11, 2003 or Nov 9, 2003 (either way, this is several months old).
-CPM
Here is the parts from the
One of the reasons that Japanesse kids get such high grades is that they will retake tests until the majority of the kids pass.
I was not a JET (Japanesse English Teacher -- someone who speaks English nativly who teaches in a Japanesse school), but I know a lot of people who were. On many of the tests, if not enough people did well enough, they would take the same test over and over again until the majority did well enough.
So, you get to memorize for the test, but not learn.
However, I did get to visit some of these schools. The one had an accelerated class where students who did really well could be set aside and work at a faster pace.
As for the suicide in schools, from what I understand, it is a sign of a poor school when the students perform a lot of suicide. The district I was visiting had one or two per year (Miyagi Prefecture) versus Tokyo which has many more (sorry, don't know stats).
Oh, and for any Americans/Canadians/Aussies/Kiwis/Brits/Germans who happen to be about 6ft (oh, say about 1.8M) tall, you will be an instant crush of the week for all of the girls (this I do know from experience).
-CPM
The current SAT's have 1.5 Verbal sections and .5 Math sections. I say this b/c about half of the math part is written and the 'process' counts more than the answer (in other words, you can get the right answer and still have the wrong answer, like the verbal section).
.5 Math sections.
Now, some stupid board wants to add a 'writing skills' section to the test (aka, another English section), making it 2.5 English sections to the
That 'writing skills' section is the reason I was not National Merit, as I am not very good at English/Verbal, but got an 800 on the Math section.
So now that we have so much English on the test, a Math person doesn't do as well on the test and thus doesn't get the scholarships or into the best schools. Before you could do ok on one section and well on another and not have to worry about which school you get into. There has been a systematic killing of Math skills by a dumb group of people on a board somewhere.
Of course, this could always be a side effect of placing too much faith in one stupid test.
-CPM
Project behind in the programming? Have a 'break-in' and push off release indefinitly. Worked for the Half-life 2 team.
In all seriousness, however, it would not be good if they did have a break in, as this is a very large, popular project.
-CPM
I didn't even know such things existed. It sounds comical.
So, what does a vitamin cartel do anyway? Do they price fix Iron suppliments or something? Or do they beat up the small iron works for trademark violation?
I'm really curious.
-CPM
There is this web site called buddy zoo which proves that all you have to do to get thousands of people to willingly give up their buddylists is to allow them to make fun pictures with it.
I'm going to buy tin foil for a new hat now.
-CPM
Hey, that's my address :).
I personally prefer 123 Any Street, Anytown USA. Unfortunatly, TV guide.com requires my actual zip code if I want the real info, but my address isn't going to do them any good at all.
-CPM
One of the things I remember that I had to get used to when I went to Australia is that their buttons are the only way to get the signal telling you it is ok to walk.
While you can go at any time, cars have to stop when you have the walk and get impatient if you cross and do not have the blessing of the automated white hand.
-CPM
I think more than free (most buisnesses really don't mind paying for products), more than marketing, and all that crap, companies care about choices. Right now, with opensource, Linux, BSD, etc, they have the choice of product to use.
Buisnesses also like secure systems and proven systems. Hence the reason buisnesses still run large IBM mainframes, DB2 and Oracle, and Solaris. Linux and the BSD's are really beginning to prove themselves, and Microsoft is proving that they really can't be trusted (all buisnesses I've every worked for never use the latest version, they always use the previous one, as it has been proven a bit better than the current version).
So, they are trying to kill this new movement before it starts.
Although, Sun has more to fear from Linux than MS has to fear from either.
So, that's my opinion, take it or leave it, it is only the world as I see it (well, sort of the way I see it, I forget what I wrote at this point).
-CPM
I'm actually waiting for people to say that the MS firewall is going to be on full. When people see that they can't play their games online due to their firewall, they won't alter it, they will turn it off and the same problems will arise all the time.
You are right, the firewall is hardly the solution.
I can't read the article b/c the page won't load. I will read it when it will load.
-CPM
If you look on the sendmail site, it says that they are also working with yahoo on domain keys. It looks like sendmail is going to create their own compatible version of everyone's anti-spam solution
source, http://www.sendmail.com/sender_auth.shtml
-CPM
Wait, is this a well written, well thought out, political argument on slashdot? Can't possibly be. All most of the comments here are "Party X Sucks" or "Candidate B is a luser".
Although I am not a Democrat (nor am I really a Republican, I am only registered as such b/c in my home town you can't say you are an 'independent' and actually have people listen to you) I would have rather seen a Dean vs Bush race (as Dean actually had some original ideas), but knew it would never happen.
I think (although I may be wrong on this) that one of the problems with Dean is that he was seen by most people as the 'anti-Bush', and while this may get a lot of extreme leftists out and shouting 'Go Dean', the extremes scare away normal people. Beyond that, to be the anti of something, the something must exist. Most people felt that Dean is nothing without Bush (how's that for irony). Before you call me names, hear me out on this.
Perception is the key here. If I see a candidate that I feel is the anti-Bush, as soon as Bush isn't around, what does he stand for? While you have to admire that he would so vocally issue a challange to the current president, without the +, what do you have to compare the - to (talking about electrical charges here)? '-' can not exist without '+' (or, what is 'good' without 'bad' and vice versa), and thus for many, it was percieved that Dean could not survive without Bush.
Take it however you want, even make me an enemy if you wish. I still want to say good job a well written argument.
-CPM
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that back in the day, the guy from Grc.com (I think that's the right site, it won't load right now) had a utility that would re-do letters so that they were smooth on LCD panels. I think he called it something along the lines of 'font smoothing', but it has been a while.
I don't remember (or maybe I never knew) when the feature was added to Windows (but I don't think it was there in Win2k), but, OS X has had this for a couple of years (predates winXP) and this utility from grc was definitly from Win98 era (pre win2K).
-CPM
"Integration" is one of the new keywords in the military. This means that one plane (for example) can extend its radar using a nearby ship, plane, tank, ground based installation, etc, for any purpose it desires. Or, have a large squadron of planes (all the same model, lets say) where half have air-to-air, and the other air-to-ground missles. The air-to-air's can mix in the formation and provide all of the cover that is needed, while some can fly higher and farther in front, and the bombers can launch smart missiles using their radar.
For a pilot, the Blue Screen of Death is exactly that.
Therefore, integration is possible without MS products.
-CPM
Wow, I really thought that was owned by the bank -- and, hey, I learned something today. I also had no idea that they owned so many of the Philadelphia Sports teams, and especially the Flyers (I really don't care about too many other sports). That bugs me.
Well, the Comcast-Spectacor has some nice boxes at the Wachovia Center (saw a Flyers vs Devils game there, right above the one goal, best game I've ever seen).
I guess this whole deal might mean that Mickey and the Flyers appear together more often.
-CPM
All of that except the linux part -- I haven't had any trouble running linux/MacOS9,X/BSD/Solaris on a comcast cable internet connection. Besides, in my area, comcast is way better than Cox (I actually haven't had any trouble at all with comcast since I got it 2 months ago) and I don't have a phone line so no DSL (Verizon).
-CPM
Um, Comcast doesn't own the stadiums mentioned. The Stadiums are owned by Wachovia (a bank, formerly First Union, who bought Corestates, and Corestates built the current stadium for the two mentioned teams). Comcast provides networking to the arenas, and has some sort of partnership with Wachovia (and they get a sign up on the side or the building that can be seen from every plane that lands at/takes off from Philly airport).
-CPM