This guy needs to chill out a bit. The whole article is one long rant about how he believes nothing progressed the way it should have.
There is even a point where he writes, " I don't spend time complaining about this stuff"... quite funny considering he's just told us "There should be a half-life on software so old software just melts away over 10 or 15 years."
He even calls users stupid, he uses the word "unsophisticated" to describe the masses! A bit pretentious if you ask me!
On page 3, the last six paragraphs are basically him repeating over and over "Java sucks... Java sucks... Java sucks...".
Then he lays into C++... "well-meant idea went wrong"...
Does Alan Kay see anything of merit in today's world?
Probably the best reason to run a DOS emulator is so you can play Scorched Earth (the mother of all games).
The author of the guide says he used to play Scorched in his Sixth Form, and the network admin would join in too... exactly like in my school! This game must have been more popular than I first thought. If you've never played it, you really should...
... are, without a doubt, the Nokia 6100 and the Nokia 7250.
The Nokia 6100 is a simple, elegant phone - packed with features (colour screen, polyphonic ringtones, etc) but also currently the smallest and lightest phone on the market. Missing features - no camera, no radio, but that means this phone is just 13mm thick!!
The Nokia 7250 is the updated version of the 7210 (better screen and better software), also with an integrated camera (but no video).
That said, you will earn nothing from advertising. Nobody clicks on banner ads any more. In the future we will see many sites opting for the "micropayments for content" model.
IBM is an open source company. They are huge on open source.... in fact, only two months ago they gave a lecture at my university on how they are using and providing open source technologies.
The fact that you can decompile Java is irrelevant... you can do that with *any* compiled program.
The poster was pointing out that if they were monitoring Northern Irish traffic, then they would actually be monitoring UK traffic. This is a very real possibility since many Irish ISPs are also available within Northern Ireland. He wasn't talking about terrorism.
Make sure your gap year is going to be *constructive*. If you're just going to sit on your arse all year, forget about getting a place at college.
Volunteer work in some remote part of the world, such as teaching english as a foreign language, is a *HUGE* plus.
Also, if you're planning on just raising a lot of money, make sure you take a couple of months off for travelling/volunteer work. Twelve months of non-stop paid work doesn't look that great either.
I'm just entering my first term at university, and I spent a huge portion of last year deciding where to study, if i should take a gap year, etc.
I'm in the UK: here a gap year is pushed as something that can only be positive--and if you think about it, that's a true assessment, in most cases.
For subjects other than computer science and maths, practically all UK universities will actually PREFER if you're going to take, or already have taken, a gap year when applying to study there.
You probably already know the benefits of a gap year--mostly life experience--and that's exactly what universities love.
My school even gives travel scholarships to people taking gap years (they actually gave me a small scholarship to go holidaying in South Korea during August!).
In the end, I couldn't take a gap year, because my university really don't like Maths/Compsci students taking gap years (the Compsci course is 70% maths in the first year). Simple reason for that: Mathematicians tend to forget quickly.
Here are a couple of links you should look at: http://www.gapyear.com/ http://www.statravel .com/
Hope that helps.
They don't carry cholera!
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From the WP article...
> Early imports were packed in material found to > contain the pathogen that causes cholera, > though no cases resulted.
It was the packaging, not the worms, that were the problem. I just thought I'd clear that up for anyone who didn't read the full WP article.:)
I never said I hated Microsoft. In fact I am pretty much pro-Microsoft (just look through my previous comments in other/. threads).
It is you who is assuming that I hate Microsoft. I *do* think they use spam to make money but I don't have a problem with it. Business is business and I'm not complaining. You get what you pay for, right?
>They are providing the infrastructure and >bandwidth to service BILLIONS of spams a year, >sent by people who pay them nothing.
So instead of putting effort into blocking spam, they use spam to their advantage and try to make some money out of it in the process. Simple.
This has been said for months, but it's obvious why the spam gets through: because Microsoft lets it get through.
If you don't check your Hotmail account for a few weeks, spam will surely push you over the 80% mailbox size limit... and suddenly you get an email from Microsoft telling you that you've nearly reached your limit, and you should upgrade for only $x a month.
Also, don't they also have an advanced spam filter for paid accounts?
I'm the system administrator for a large school, and all the pupils and teaching staff are off in July and August.... that's 1300 users! The only ones in to celebrate my day with me are the 5 technicians and the caretakers!!!
I'm sure other schools/colleges/etc are in the same position as mine (closed during July and August).
Can't we move System Administrator Appreciation Day forward two months?!!? Please?!!!!:)
Slashdot polls are only accurate because the polls are never too personal - "how many WPM can you type?" is a lot different from "how much do you earn each year?". People don't like answering deeply personal questions.
This is probably the most sensible way of doing this, using, for example, Java or even ActiveX.
However, it still doesn't fix the problem that people lie. Even if they know that their privacy is guaranteed, they'll still lie, simply because it's fun--after all, rules are made to be broken.
I think it could just be supply problems, it hasn't officially been put back to August; but if you go into any Carphone Warehouse store, they will tell you that the 7650 won't be available til August.
As for the 9210, yes you're right, it does have a colour screen, I was just being stupid and forgot about it.:) What I really meant to say was that 7650 is the first "everyday" phone from Nokia with a colour screen.
Re:standardized locations, etc.
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The registry wasn't just a replacement for.ini files, in fact as far as i can remember the registry was part of Windows 3.1, used for OLE registration and other centralising stuff.
"After one FTC staff member closed out of 32 separate windows, leaving just two windows on the task bar, he selected the "back" button, only to watch the same seven windows that initiated the blitz erupt on his screen, and the cybertrap began anew,"
Although the/. post mentions 64 windows, this article only mentions 32. Although another 32 were opened, nobody said the staff member bothered to close them. Perhaps he used his reset button... probably faster that way;)
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This guy needs to chill out a bit. The whole article is one long rant about how he believes nothing progressed the way it should have.
There is even a point where he writes, " I don't spend time complaining about this stuff"... quite funny considering he's just told us "There should be a half-life on software so old software just melts away over 10 or 15 years."
He even calls users stupid, he uses the word "unsophisticated" to describe the masses! A bit pretentious if you ask me!
On page 3, the last six paragraphs are basically him repeating over and over "Java sucks... Java sucks... Java sucks...".
Then he lays into C++... "well-meant idea went wrong"...
Does Alan Kay see anything of merit in today's world?
I thank you sir!
Probably the best reason to run a DOS emulator is so you can play Scorched Earth (the mother of all games).
The author of the guide says he used to play Scorched in his Sixth Form, and the network admin would join in too... exactly like in my school! This game must have been more popular than I first thought. If you've never played it, you really should...
... are, without a doubt, the Nokia 6100 and the Nokia 7250.
w .nokiausa.com/phones/6100
The Nokia 6100 is a simple, elegant phone - packed with features (colour screen, polyphonic ringtones, etc) but also currently the smallest and lightest phone on the market. Missing features - no camera, no radio, but that means this phone is just 13mm thick!!
The Nokia 7250 is the updated version of the 7210 (better screen and better software), also with an integrated camera (but no video).
http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/7250i
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Phones to avoid: the 7210 and the 6610. These are essentially "older" versions of the phones above.
A good site with lots of information is SitePoint, and more specifically, SitePoint Community Forums.
That said, you will earn nothing from advertising. Nobody clicks on banner ads any more. In the future we will see many sites opting for the "micropayments for content" model.
IBM is an open source company. They are huge on open source.... in fact, only two months ago they gave a lecture at my university on how they are using and providing open source technologies.
The fact that you can decompile Java is irrelevant... you can do that with *any* compiled program.
I can second this; I'm another happy NTL 128k service customer.
:)
Just to note, the 128k service is actually increasing to 150k from May 1. Happy days!!
You forgot online alcohol purchases. This is Ireland we're talking about, after all. 20% maybe?
The poster was pointing out that if they were monitoring Northern Irish traffic, then they would actually be monitoring UK traffic. This is a very real possibility since many Irish ISPs are also available within Northern Ireland. He wasn't talking about terrorism.
Make sure your gap year is going to be *constructive*. If you're just going to sit on your arse all year, forget about getting a place at college.
Volunteer work in some remote part of the world, such as teaching english as a foreign language, is a *HUGE* plus.
Also, if you're planning on just raising a lot of money, make sure you take a couple of months off for travelling/volunteer work. Twelve months of non-stop paid work doesn't look that great either.
I'm just entering my first term at university, and I spent a huge portion of last year deciding where to study, if i should take a gap year, etc.
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I'm in the UK: here a gap year is pushed as something that can only be positive--and if you think about it, that's a true assessment, in most cases.
For subjects other than computer science and maths, practically all UK universities will actually PREFER if you're going to take, or already have taken, a gap year when applying to study there.
You probably already know the benefits of a gap year--mostly life experience--and that's exactly what universities love.
My school even gives travel scholarships to people taking gap years (they actually gave me a small scholarship to go holidaying in South Korea during August!).
In the end, I couldn't take a gap year, because my university really don't like Maths/Compsci students taking gap years (the Compsci course is 70% maths in the first year). Simple reason for that: Mathematicians tend to forget quickly.
Here are a couple of links you should look at:
http://www.gapyear.com/
http://www.statrave
Hope that helps.
From the WP article...
:)
> Early imports were packed in material found to
> contain the pathogen that causes cholera,
> though no cases resulted.
It was the packaging, not the worms, that were the problem. I just thought I'd clear that up for anyone who didn't read the full WP article.
From the article:
> You control the computer by doing what you want (to
> play peek-a-boo) instead of asking the computer to
> do it.
Hmmmmm.... funny, but I thought the whole idea of computers were that you ask them to do stuff and they do it.
In fact, this whole article makes little sense and I find it hard to define what the point of the article actually is.
I never said I hated Microsoft. In fact I am pretty much pro-Microsoft (just look through my previous comments in other /. threads).
It is you who is assuming that I hate Microsoft. I *do* think they use spam to make money but I don't have a problem with it. Business is business and I'm not complaining. You get what you pay for, right?
>They are providing the infrastructure and
>bandwidth to service BILLIONS of spams a year,
>sent by people who pay them nothing.
So instead of putting effort into blocking spam, they use spam to their advantage and try to make some money out of it in the process. Simple.
This has been said for months, but it's obvious why the spam gets through: because Microsoft lets it get through.
If you don't check your Hotmail account for a few weeks, spam will surely push you over the 80% mailbox size limit... and suddenly you get an email from Microsoft telling you that you've nearly reached your limit, and you should upgrade for only $x a month.
Also, don't they also have an advanced spam filter for paid accounts?
The correct ABC link is here.
Why should copy protection matter? Once you buy the hardware, you logically should be able to do what you like with it, since you own it.
I'm the system administrator for a large school, and all the pupils and teaching staff are off in July and August.... that's 1300 users! The only ones in to celebrate my day with me are the 5 technicians and the caretakers!!!
:)
I'm sure other schools/colleges/etc are in the same position as mine (closed during July and August).
Can't we move System Administrator Appreciation Day forward two months?!!? Please?!!!!
Slashdot polls are only accurate because the polls are never too personal - "how many WPM can you type?" is a lot different from "how much do you earn each year?". People don't like answering deeply personal questions.
This is probably the most sensible way of doing this, using, for example, Java or even ActiveX.
However, it still doesn't fix the problem that people lie. Even if they know that their privacy is guaranteed, they'll still lie, simply because it's fun--after all, rules are made to be broken.
I think it could just be supply problems, it hasn't officially been put back to August; but if you go into any Carphone Warehouse store, they will tell you that the 7650 won't be available til August.
As for the 9210, yes you're right, it does have a colour screen, I was just being stupid and forgot about it. :) What I really meant to say was that 7650 is the first "everyday" phone from Nokia with a colour screen.
Presumably this technology won't be available for at least a few years, considering that Nokia have not yet launched their full-colour mobiles.
The Nokia 7650 was scheduled for UK release in May but it's been put back to August.
Try stem cells.
The registry wasn't just a replacement for .ini files, in fact as far as i can remember the registry was part of Windows 3.1, used for OLE registration and other centralising stuff.
Although the /. post mentions 64 windows, this article only mentions 32. Although another 32 were opened, nobody said the staff member bothered to close them. Perhaps he used his reset button... probably faster that way ;)