For a less bloated image viewer try FastStone Maxview: http://www.faststone.org/FSMaxViewDetail.htm. It's got a more minimalist interface, and none of the extra non-viewing related features.
I hope you're kidding. The documentation for Visual C++ 6 was in many places flawed, and sometimes just downright wrong. I pity any developer who ever tried to use any of the provided example codes. Many of them contained glaring bugs, extremely insecure coding practices, and some didn't even compile!
Granted, my experience in 2005 isn't nearly as extensive as it was with 6, I've found far fewer of such problems there.
From what I understand, BC dropped any notion of tuition deregulation some years ago. Tuition has been steadily increasing, although it's not quite to the point where it's getting ridiculous (unlike some US schools..). I used to get by with $1800 of tuition for a semester, and now I'm breaking $3000. Multiply that by 3 semesters a year and it makes for a significant increase.
Only problem with that approach is that it will discourage people from using the labs. I'm sure if I was billed for every hour I spent in the lab tweaking around with things, I would have spent minimal amounts of time there. With the cost split and amortized among students in the faculty, it puts everyone on equal footing. Some of the labs in the school already have usage policies that border on draconian, and as a result I rarely ever went to any of them.
Ah, but see, our lab is open 24/7, and to all engineering students. You can work on personal and non-school related projects there as well, providing you have an access card. Anyone in the program can go in to the lab at any time. It's a really great perk and I've learned a lot of things just by experimenting with electronics there after hours.
This is already implemented at my university, SFU. You can see that the per-credit cost for Engineering is about $15 more than for other courses, although not as much as the $50 differential for business students. I personally don't really mind this as I noticed the quality of our laboratory increased once the increased fees were put in to place. We managed to replace a lot of outdated scopes and other equipment, and I'm sure the fees were at least partially to thank for that. I can see how an Engineering degree could cost more compared to, for example, a liberal arts degree. Liberal arts majors don't require access to tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronics to get their education.
I'm still at a loss to explain the difference in the cost of business credit hours, I guess they're just milking those people because they can...
Yeah, because it's totally viable to replicate everything that can serve a large urban area in every small town in the interior. Give me a frickin break. They're focusing on the places where it will have the largest and reduce the most waste first, not attempting to provide a center in every little corner of the province. There's probably a few orders of magnitude more computers to be recycled in the Vancouver area than places like 100 mile.
Um, they're not the test market, they're the *primary* market. Said manufacturers sell far more units in the Asian market than they ever do in North America. The number of cell phone users there dwarfs the number in North America by a wide margin.
I don't think desktops are going away any time soon, especially in the enterprise. A laptop is far more expensive to support than a desktop. Not only is the hardware more prone to damage with users moving it around more often, it's also typically more expensive to repair. A spilled drink could mean a new motherboard is required whereas on a desktop a new keyboard would suffice.
A laptop is more vulnerable to data loss, not to mention complete loss of the hardware itself. It is more prone to virus infection since it can be connected to a network outside the company if a user takes it home.
Most users don't even need a laptop to do their job. Why give them one and incur the additional costs when a desktop would do?
Yeah. I found it annoying that in order to fit in to my binder I had to trim all of the business cards I had collected in Japan because they were just slightly too tall to fit in the plastic sleeves.
Well, there's a difference between stalking someone and snapping a few photos for art or creative purposes. Of course it's not black and white, but one should be able to judge to some degree what is reasonable behavior. Of course, lately I've been hearing more and more stories about photographers in the US being hassled by the authorities for innocently photographing things in public places so perhaps the viability of this is in decline there.
I'm a photographer. I shoot people on the street all the time. I've yet to ever have anyone get angry or hostile at me for taking their photograph. In fact, many people actually enjoy having their photo taken and will react positively if you point your camera at them. Most of the rest just assume you must be trying to photograph something else and they're standing in the way, so they'll do their best to move. I'm not aware of any "social norm" neither here in Canada nor in Japan where I lived that dictates you shouldn't take photographs of people in public.
They should use a model similar to that in the old BBS game Legend of the Red Dragon. Sure, the game wasn't really as story driven, but the point is that the story completed and someone won every few months or so and then it started again. Typically you had to start your players from scratch, but I suppose there's no reason there can't be several versions of the world with different difficulties so that you can keep advancing your character further each time you play. Since the story is already known, it doesn't matter that you play through it multiple times. And anyway, look at how many times people are willing to do boss runs or whatnot in WoW.
Malware writers are not interested in corrupting your data, what do they have to gain from that? Maybe a small minority who just want to mess with people would actually bother. Real malware is created with the intent of taking over your machine silently and then using it as a zombie to distribute spam, that's where the money is after all.
Funny this Ask Slashdot should come up. I was looking at some Bash guides on TLDP just today and many of them are really poorly written and in sore need of modernization in style and layout, as well as some good copy editing. As someone with a passion for good documentation and writing and an eagerness to help out the open source community, I'd gladly put in work to update some of these. Unfortunately looking through the TLDP site, it looks it's fallen in to serious disrepair. The status page for updates and reviews looks like much of it hasn't been updated in around 2 years, and it's hard to find what the procedure for updating or contributing is these days. It looks like the mailing lists are not quite so active either, and most of the few discussions there are seem to resolve around licensing of documentation and some other not quite so productive topics. Is this site even relevant any more? Is it time for some people to get together and form something new and distribute some nicer formatter, better written, and quality standard documentation?
You can do this with the Flickr and Facebook uploaders for images, so it's certainly not impossible to implement for a web client either. Requires a Java applet however, but you could always fall back to the slower way if Java is not available.
Well if you look up "Official Monopoly Rules" any number of sites will contain the following paragraph copied verbatim from the official rules:
If you do not wish to buy the property, the Bank sells it at thru an auction to the highest bidder. The high bidder pays the Bank the amount of the bid in cash and receives the Title Deed card for that property. This has been present in every copy of Monopoly I've ever seen...
If you play Monopoly with the proper auction rules (if you decide not to buy a property, it goes up for auction and sells to the highest bidder) the game moves along much faster.
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For a less bloated image viewer try FastStone Maxview: http://www.faststone.org/FSMaxViewDetail.htm. It's got a more minimalist interface, and none of the extra non-viewing related features.
Many popular bands, the Talking Heads come to mind, intentionally change the speed of their recordings for effect.
I hope you're kidding. The documentation for Visual C++ 6 was in many places flawed, and sometimes just downright wrong. I pity any developer who ever tried to use any of the provided example codes. Many of them contained glaring bugs, extremely insecure coding practices, and some didn't even compile!
Granted, my experience in 2005 isn't nearly as extensive as it was with 6, I've found far fewer of such problems there.
Not only is it possible, but it's widely used in many RTOS. For example QNX lets you select scheduling algorithms on a per-thread basis: http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.3.0SP3/neutri no/prog/overview.html#SCHEDS
From what I understand, BC dropped any notion of tuition deregulation some years ago. Tuition has been steadily increasing, although it's not quite to the point where it's getting ridiculous (unlike some US schools..). I used to get by with $1800 of tuition for a semester, and now I'm breaking $3000. Multiply that by 3 semesters a year and it makes for a significant increase.
Only problem with that approach is that it will discourage people from using the labs. I'm sure if I was billed for every hour I spent in the lab tweaking around with things, I would have spent minimal amounts of time there. With the cost split and amortized among students in the faculty, it puts everyone on equal footing. Some of the labs in the school already have usage policies that border on draconian, and as a result I rarely ever went to any of them.
Ah, but see, our lab is open 24/7, and to all engineering students. You can work on personal and non-school related projects there as well, providing you have an access card. Anyone in the program can go in to the lab at any time. It's a really great perk and I've learned a lot of things just by experimenting with electronics there after hours.
Not all engineering schools have lab fees. Mine does not, and we have differential pricing for our credit hours.
This is already implemented at my university, SFU. You can see that the per-credit cost for Engineering is about $15 more than for other courses, although not as much as the $50 differential for business students. I personally don't really mind this as I noticed the quality of our laboratory increased once the increased fees were put in to place. We managed to replace a lot of outdated scopes and other equipment, and I'm sure the fees were at least partially to thank for that. I can see how an Engineering degree could cost more compared to, for example, a liberal arts degree. Liberal arts majors don't require access to tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronics to get their education.
I'm still at a loss to explain the difference in the cost of business credit hours, I guess they're just milking those people because they can...
Yeah, because it's totally viable to replicate everything that can serve a large urban area in every small town in the interior. Give me a frickin break. They're focusing on the places where it will have the largest and reduce the most waste first, not attempting to provide a center in every little corner of the province. There's probably a few orders of magnitude more computers to be recycled in the Vancouver area than places like 100 mile.
Um, they're not the test market, they're the *primary* market. Said manufacturers sell far more units in the Asian market than they ever do in North America. The number of cell phone users there dwarfs the number in North America by a wide margin.
I don't think desktops are going away any time soon, especially in the enterprise. A laptop is far more expensive to support than a desktop. Not only is the hardware more prone to damage with users moving it around more often, it's also typically more expensive to repair. A spilled drink could mean a new motherboard is required whereas on a desktop a new keyboard would suffice.
A laptop is more vulnerable to data loss, not to mention complete loss of the hardware itself. It is more prone to virus infection since it can be connected to a network outside the company if a user takes it home.
Most users don't even need a laptop to do their job. Why give them one and incur the additional costs when a desktop would do?
Yeah. I found it annoying that in order to fit in to my binder I had to trim all of the business cards I had collected in Japan because they were just slightly too tall to fit in the plastic sleeves.
Well, there's a difference between stalking someone and snapping a few photos for art or creative purposes. Of course it's not black and white, but one should be able to judge to some degree what is reasonable behavior. Of course, lately I've been hearing more and more stories about photographers in the US being hassled by the authorities for innocently photographing things in public places so perhaps the viability of this is in decline there.
I'm a photographer. I shoot people on the street all the time. I've yet to ever have anyone get angry or hostile at me for taking their photograph. In fact, many people actually enjoy having their photo taken and will react positively if you point your camera at them. Most of the rest just assume you must be trying to photograph something else and they're standing in the way, so they'll do their best to move. I'm not aware of any "social norm" neither here in Canada nor in Japan where I lived that dictates you shouldn't take photographs of people in public.
Except that copyright != trademark. I'm still amazed so many people fail to see the difference.
They should use a model similar to that in the old BBS game Legend of the Red Dragon. Sure, the game wasn't really as story driven, but the point is that the story completed and someone won every few months or so and then it started again. Typically you had to start your players from scratch, but I suppose there's no reason there can't be several versions of the world with different difficulties so that you can keep advancing your character further each time you play. Since the story is already known, it doesn't matter that you play through it multiple times. And anyway, look at how many times people are willing to do boss runs or whatnot in WoW.
Malware writers are not interested in corrupting your data, what do they have to gain from that? Maybe a small minority who just want to mess with people would actually bother. Real malware is created with the intent of taking over your machine silently and then using it as a zombie to distribute spam, that's where the money is after all.
Yeah except, you wouldn't want to have a unique IPv4 address for every URL.
Anyway, this whole problem was solved with QR codes long ago, just not yet adopted in the North American market.
Funny this Ask Slashdot should come up. I was looking at some Bash guides on TLDP just today and many of them are really poorly written and in sore need of modernization in style and layout, as well as some good copy editing. As someone with a passion for good documentation and writing and an eagerness to help out the open source community, I'd gladly put in work to update some of these. Unfortunately looking through the TLDP site, it looks it's fallen in to serious disrepair. The status page for updates and reviews looks like much of it hasn't been updated in around 2 years, and it's hard to find what the procedure for updating or contributing is these days. It looks like the mailing lists are not quite so active either, and most of the few discussions there are seem to resolve around licensing of documentation and some other not quite so productive topics. Is this site even relevant any more? Is it time for some people to get together and form something new and distribute some nicer formatter, better written, and quality standard documentation?
You can do this with the Flickr and Facebook uploaders for images, so it's certainly not impossible to implement for a web client either. Requires a Java applet however, but you could always fall back to the slower way if Java is not available.
More likely the network would get absorbed and integrated in to either Google, MSN, or Yahoo....
It's not a random variant. Read the rules for monopoly some time. I can't believe so many people miss this.
If you play Monopoly with the proper auction rules (if you decide not to buy a property, it goes up for auction and sells to the highest bidder) the game moves along much faster.