Unfortunately, Virtual PC does not run under Classic... it needs direct access to hardware which is why they did the OS X port.
Also, Connectix Virtual Game Station won't run under Classic either... which sucks, because then all this could be done, except running off a PlayStation emulator...
So the journaling features already present in 10.2 are finally going mainstream, but is there any possibility or reason in the future for HFS+ to support case sensitivity? This is something I've become used to on ext2/3 file systems, but is there a particular design reason that apple would not want to support this?
I'm running OS X, and I used Disc Copy to make a normal (albeit read-only).dmg image of the WC3 CD and it works seamlessly with the game. I don't need to have the physical CD anywhere near the computer. However, when I tried to burn the dmg for my Windows-using friend, he said the CD wouldn't work at all. I don't know whether this is due to Disc Copy, Securom, or both, but I do know a plain-vanilla Mac image works just fine with OS X.
Not to criticize your position on private schools and vouchers... but I have to wonder what happens if we do indeed "nuke [the public school system] flat." The private schools such as you went to will either become overburdened with students whose parents are looking for daycare, or they will have to make their admissions requirements much more stringent. Sure, daycare centers are easy enough to run, but even though the parents may be looking for somewhere to offload the brats during the workday, I still think it's a grand waste of a society to shove everybody into mindless busywork (except for those whose parents actually care). That's the one advantage of public schools, in my opinion: everybody is more or less forced to get some sort of baseline education, so we don't have a bunch of oversocialized drones running around ala Brave New World. I've had a drastically different high school experience from most of those posted in this thread so far; my high school (Tracy High in wonderful sunny Tracy, CA) may physically be a dump, and may have the requisite contingent of moron jocks and social-climbers, but it also has a number of teachers who care, and a surprising number of remarkably intelligent students. I've been lucky enough to be around most of the latter so far. I still believe that there is something fundamentally wrong in the US school system and it needs to be drastically revised. However, I've never been to any inner-city schools, but my little small-town HS has treated me well enough so far. I have to wonder how I would do in a private-school environment (where the student's parents are customers to be satisfied), but I worry at the same time that just dumping public schools would turn schooling into more of a generic commodity.
I think the best use for computers in schools is as a replacement for the textbook... not necessarily as a subject unto themselves. In my school district (Tracy, CA), there have been a lot of complaints over students having to carry large amounts of heavy textbooks (at least one, sometimes more, for each class). A single elementary school in the district is set up to be a "technology magnet school" and all the students get to use a district-supplied laptop. If every student in the district got a laptop, tablet, PDA, or some form of access to electronic copies of the physical textbooks they have to use now, I think this would greatly reduce the number of parent and student complaints, as well as textbook storage problems. Also, when the information in a textbook becomes outdated, the book itself has to be replaced. With an eBook, only the copy of the file on a central server needs to be updated (patched, not necessarily replaced) and those changes will automatically be distributed to each client accessing the file. I think this would be a much more optimal and focused use of computing technology in schools, as well as a definite step forward in the educational system.
As for emphasizing IT as a subject, I don't think it's absolutely necessary for every student. At my old elementary school, we went into the computer lab for at least one hour every week. We played Mario Teaches Typing for 15 min, and then used the rest of the time to type up a writing assignment that went on our english grade. We also had educational software such as Bailey's Book House and DinoPark Tycoon (???), and Internet access through buggy, crashprone Netscape 2.x. I think this time could've been much better served had typing skills, Internet access, and other such things had been integrated into some other curriculum rather than standing on their own. The students could learn more about the subject at hand while still acquiring useful computer skills.
I also don't doubt the value of certain educational software. Some of the teachers I have right now and have had in the past lead me to believe that an interactive CD-ROM would be more educational than a human literally reciting verbatim from a textbook.
They should offer plenty of bonus points for getting a Senator to say anything on the floor of the House of Representatives during anything other than a joint session of Congress.
But after a while, the same old formula starts to break down and the same plot with the characters switched around starts to lose its entertainment value. Hollywood chooses to spend money on SFX and pretty actresses, which will continue to entertain the masses long after the plot has vanished.
My solution? Bring Sean Connery back as an aged James Bond, just for the hell of it. And oh yeah, stop milking franchises for money. I don't run the entertainment industry, thank goodness I don't.
Think about it... Snoopy is friggin' immortal. How many times has he been shot down by the Red Baron? He never once died in the ensuing plane/doghouse crash. Charles Schulz has been dead for like a year now, but Peanuts (and consequently Snoopy) is still going strong in the papers. He can turn his ears into a little helicopter thing. If all else fails, he can summon Woodstock and his infinite hordes of little yellow bird-friends.
The only reason we've never actually seen Snoopy fight is because nobody's really pissed him off. If that happened, the universe would probably be destroyed or something in the titanic battle afterwards.
I'm going to reply to this with my highschool-precalculus-student's two cents worth.
Below, a poster made a comment about the universe folding in on itself in the shape of a hypersphere. Going off the above definition that a sphere is defined as the set of points being equidistant from a given central point, and considering the examples already given of the representations of 1, 2 and 3-D spheres, the following popped into my head. If the fourth dimension is what we perceive as time, then a 4-D sphere would be all points in 3 dimensions that exist around a certain point in 4-D space, which can also be expressed as a certain point in time. Since all points in 3-D space are represented in a hypersphere, our universe could conceivably fit the definition of a hypersphere.
It sounded good when I first thought of it, anyway.
I am compelled to wonder if initiatives like Red Flag Linux to deploy free software in China (and thus cut down on rampant piracy) will result in more viruses for Linux. If there are more people using Linux, then doubtless some of the less scrupulous individuals who were writing viruses for Windows will come over and start to mess with Linux.
I dressed up as Steve Jobs two years ago. Black turtleneck + gold-rimmed reading glasses = a costume that all of two people at my high school understood...
I read something that said both scenes were cut from the shooting draft of the script. However, they are still in the draft that was distributed as the "annotated" version, and Facer (the guy who did the annotations) highlighted them aptly enough. To me, tho, it doesn't really matter, as the movie is probably STILL going to suck, especially the end. But maybe I'll be surprised by a contemporary Trek movie for once...
Does anyone know if the Enemy Territory expansion pack will be out for Linux? I just got RtCW working under Linux and I would be quite happy if I had the latest 'n greatest.
However, the TDI has 155lb-ft. of torque at 1900 rpm. That's producing maximum torque practically as soon as you put your foot on the accelerator. It takes almost no time at all for the engine to go from idle speed (950 rpm) to 1900. I can't remember the torque specs on the 1.8T, but no matter what, the TDI has a respectable start off the line. Also, if you like, check out TDI Club.com and see some of the nice things they have to say about the reliability of the 1.8T as compared to the TDI.:-)
Wal-Mart is also selling (all of two models of) laptops branded Microtel. Unfortunately, neither of these have the option of being OS-less or running Mandrake or even Lindows. They both have WinXP Home Edition licenses tacked on, which drives up the price. I'd be happy to buy a laptop from Wally-World if I could get it with a bare drive so I could install Gentoo. Until then, I suppose there's always Tuxtops.com or something similar.
I find it sad that someone has come up with the idea of "pirate radio for the digital age." This means that streaming radio has lost its capacity of freedom of speech. What's really sad is that it didn't even need FCC deregulation for companies like Clear Channel and a massive power-hungry cartel known as the RIAA to move in and take over.
I think it's understood by everyone here that a denial-of-service attack against a remote system is illegal. Those who perpetrated the attacks against Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, and a number of other high-profile sites a couple years ago were prosecuted. This brings up a point that I think should be brought right out in any letters or other contacts to legislative representatives. Why should the RIAA or any other business entity be allowed to commit an illegal act in the name of protecting their bottom line? A distributed denial-of-service attack can even have an effect on the Internet at large. What gives the RIAA (who would most likely employ some geek with a workstation to do it, I doubt Hilary Rosen knows jack shit about ping packets) any more right to bog down a worldwide communications infrastructure than me? Nobody, not even a behemoth corporate conglomerate, has a right to do that.
Oh wait, I forgot about hefty campaign contributions... So a fat check puts you above the law.
The "Direct Injection" refers to the fact that in this engine design, fuel is metered at the injector rather than the fuel pump. I believe that most newer diesels have switched to this design. Also, I don't even think the VW engine even has an intercooler, but I'm not sure.
IIRC, it was a set of rules specifically targeted at diesel engines, mainly the ones used in semi rigs and diesel locomotives (which, needless to say, AREN'T low-emissions). These rules didn't really affect the TDI's LEV status, they just made VW jump through more hoops to get the cars brought in. Rather than do this and tack an extra cost onto the price of the cars, VW decided simply not to import those cars into CA and NY until they worked something out with the state government.
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Unfortunately, Virtual PC does not run under Classic... it needs direct access to hardware which is why they did the OS X port.
Also, Connectix Virtual Game Station won't run under Classic either... which sucks, because then all this could be done, except running off a PlayStation emulator...
Just being contacted by Rick Berman will make them want to shoot themselves.
(Especially if he sends them an autographed copy of that goofy photo of him standing in front of the warp core of the Enterprise-D.)
So the journaling features already present in 10.2 are finally going mainstream, but is there any possibility or reason in the future for HFS+ to support case sensitivity? This is something I've become used to on ext2/3 file systems, but is there a particular design reason that apple would not want to support this?
I'm running OS X, and I used Disc Copy to make a normal (albeit read-only) .dmg image of the WC3 CD and it works seamlessly with the game. I don't need to have the physical CD anywhere near the computer. However, when I tried to burn the dmg for my Windows-using friend, he said the CD wouldn't work at all. I don't know whether this is due to Disc Copy, Securom, or both, but I do know a plain-vanilla Mac image works just fine with OS X.
a PhD. If college is anything like high school, I will have sufficiently improved my "Jean-Luc Picard"-style hairdo by then.
Not to criticize your position on private schools and vouchers... but I have to wonder what happens if we do indeed "nuke [the public school system] flat." The private schools such as you went to will either become overburdened with students whose parents are looking for daycare, or they will have to make their admissions requirements much more stringent. Sure, daycare centers are easy enough to run, but even though the parents may be looking for somewhere to offload the brats during the workday, I still think it's a grand waste of a society to shove everybody into mindless busywork (except for those whose parents actually care). That's the one advantage of public schools, in my opinion: everybody is more or less forced to get some sort of baseline education, so we don't have a bunch of oversocialized drones running around ala Brave New World. I've had a drastically different high school experience from most of those posted in this thread so far; my high school (Tracy High in wonderful sunny Tracy, CA) may physically be a dump, and may have the requisite contingent of moron jocks and social-climbers, but it also has a number of teachers who care, and a surprising number of remarkably intelligent students. I've been lucky enough to be around most of the latter so far. I still believe that there is something fundamentally wrong in the US school system and it needs to be drastically revised. However, I've never been to any inner-city schools, but my little small-town HS has treated me well enough so far. I have to wonder how I would do in a private-school environment (where the student's parents are customers to be satisfied), but I worry at the same time that just dumping public schools would turn schooling into more of a generic commodity.
I think the best use for computers in schools is as a replacement for the textbook... not necessarily as a subject unto themselves. In my school district (Tracy, CA), there have been a lot of complaints over students having to carry large amounts of heavy textbooks (at least one, sometimes more, for each class). A single elementary school in the district is set up to be a "technology magnet school" and all the students get to use a district-supplied laptop. If every student in the district got a laptop, tablet, PDA, or some form of access to electronic copies of the physical textbooks they have to use now, I think this would greatly reduce the number of parent and student complaints, as well as textbook storage problems. Also, when the information in a textbook becomes outdated, the book itself has to be replaced. With an eBook, only the copy of the file on a central server needs to be updated (patched, not necessarily replaced) and those changes will automatically be distributed to each client accessing the file. I think this would be a much more optimal and focused use of computing technology in schools, as well as a definite step forward in the educational system.
As for emphasizing IT as a subject, I don't think it's absolutely necessary for every student. At my old elementary school, we went into the computer lab for at least one hour every week. We played Mario Teaches Typing for 15 min, and then used the rest of the time to type up a writing assignment that went on our english grade. We also had educational software such as Bailey's Book House and DinoPark Tycoon (???), and Internet access through buggy, crashprone Netscape 2.x. I think this time could've been much better served had typing skills, Internet access, and other such things had been integrated into some other curriculum rather than standing on their own. The students could learn more about the subject at hand while still acquiring useful computer skills.
I also don't doubt the value of certain educational software. Some of the teachers I have right now and have had in the past lead me to believe that an interactive CD-ROM would be more educational than a human literally reciting verbatim from a textbook.
They should offer plenty of bonus points for getting a Senator to say anything on the floor of the House of Representatives during anything other than a joint session of Congress.
But after a while, the same old formula starts to break down and the same plot with the characters switched around starts to lose its entertainment value. Hollywood chooses to spend money on SFX and pretty actresses, which will continue to entertain the masses long after the plot has vanished.
My solution? Bring Sean Connery back as an aged James Bond, just for the hell of it. And oh yeah, stop milking franchises for money. I don't run the entertainment industry, thank goodness I don't.
Think about it... Snoopy is friggin' immortal. How many times has he been shot down by the Red Baron? He never once died in the ensuing plane/doghouse crash. Charles Schulz has been dead for like a year now, but Peanuts (and consequently Snoopy) is still going strong in the papers. He can turn his ears into a little helicopter thing. If all else fails, he can summon Woodstock and his infinite hordes of little yellow bird-friends.
The only reason we've never actually seen Snoopy fight is because nobody's really pissed him off. If that happened, the universe would probably be destroyed or something in the titanic battle afterwards.
Perhaps you mean the following entry?
DICKSON SUPPLY COMPANY a New Jersey corporation
www.dicksonsupply.com
Oops, looks like I just shit on your stupid joke. Oh well.
I'm going to reply to this with my highschool-precalculus-student's two cents worth.
Below, a poster made a comment about the universe folding in on itself in the shape of a hypersphere. Going off the above definition that a sphere is defined as the set of points being equidistant from a given central point, and considering the examples already given of the representations of 1, 2 and 3-D spheres, the following popped into my head. If the fourth dimension is what we perceive as time, then a 4-D sphere would be all points in 3 dimensions that exist around a certain point in 4-D space, which can also be expressed as a certain point in time. Since all points in 3-D space are represented in a hypersphere, our universe could conceivably fit the definition of a hypersphere.
It sounded good when I first thought of it, anyway.
I am compelled to wonder if initiatives like Red Flag Linux to deploy free software in China (and thus cut down on rampant piracy) will result in more viruses for Linux. If there are more people using Linux, then doubtless some of the less scrupulous individuals who were writing viruses for Windows will come over and start to mess with Linux.
I dressed up as Steve Jobs two years ago. Black turtleneck + gold-rimmed reading glasses = a costume that all of two people at my high school understood...
I read something that said both scenes were cut from the shooting draft of the script. However, they are still in the draft that was distributed as the "annotated" version, and Facer (the guy who did the annotations) highlighted them aptly enough. To me, tho, it doesn't really matter, as the movie is probably STILL going to suck, especially the end. But maybe I'll be surprised by a contemporary Trek movie for once...
Does anyone know if the Enemy Territory expansion pack will be out for Linux? I just got RtCW working under Linux and I would be quite happy if I had the latest 'n greatest.
MECHA BAR-BAR-AH STREI-SAND!!!
'nuf said, even though she's annoying otherwise.
However, the TDI has 155lb-ft. of torque at 1900 rpm. That's producing maximum torque practically as soon as you put your foot on the accelerator. It takes almost no time at all for the engine to go from idle speed (950 rpm) to 1900. I can't remember the torque specs on the 1.8T, but no matter what, the TDI has a respectable start off the line. Also, if you like, check out TDI Club.com and see some of the nice things they have to say about the reliability of the 1.8T as compared to the TDI. :-)
Wal-Mart is also selling (all of two models of) laptops branded Microtel. Unfortunately, neither of these have the option of being OS-less or running Mandrake or even Lindows. They both have WinXP Home Edition licenses tacked on, which drives up the price. I'd be happy to buy a laptop from Wally-World if I could get it with a bare drive so I could install Gentoo. Until then, I suppose there's always Tuxtops.com or something similar.
And a prototype Lupo built from much lighter-weight materials gets 130 mpg. But they won't sell it here. Bastards.
Oh well, even if I did have a Lupo GTI, it'd probably get sucked into the radiator of an Excursion.
I find it sad that someone has come up with the idea of "pirate radio for the digital age." This means that streaming radio has lost its capacity of freedom of speech. What's really sad is that it didn't even need FCC deregulation for companies like Clear Channel and a massive power-hungry cartel known as the RIAA to move in and take over.
I think it's understood by everyone here that a denial-of-service attack against a remote system is illegal. Those who perpetrated the attacks against Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, and a number of other high-profile sites a couple years ago were prosecuted. This brings up a point that I think should be brought right out in any letters or other contacts to legislative representatives. Why should the RIAA or any other business entity be allowed to commit an illegal act in the name of protecting their bottom line? A distributed denial-of-service attack can even have an effect on the Internet at large. What gives the RIAA (who would most likely employ some geek with a workstation to do it, I doubt Hilary Rosen knows jack shit about ping packets) any more right to bog down a worldwide communications infrastructure than me? Nobody, not even a behemoth corporate conglomerate, has a right to do that.
Oh wait, I forgot about hefty campaign contributions... So a fat check puts you above the law.
The "Direct Injection" refers to the fact that in this engine design, fuel is metered at the injector rather than the fuel pump. I believe that most newer diesels have switched to this design. Also, I don't even think the VW engine even has an intercooler, but I'm not sure.
IIRC, it was a set of rules specifically targeted at diesel engines, mainly the ones used in semi rigs and diesel locomotives (which, needless to say, AREN'T low-emissions). These rules didn't really affect the TDI's LEV status, they just made VW jump through more hoops to get the cars brought in. Rather than do this and tack an extra cost onto the price of the cars, VW decided simply not to import those cars into CA and NY until they worked something out with the state government.