To test the theory, I just typed in lsjfsdlsjlsdf.google.com and Firefox came back with an error message. talk.google.com at least returns something from Google.
Can't this problem be solved by the simple addition of a dongle that connects between the video port and the monitor? The dongle would then give the pre-HDCP monitor the capability of receiving HD video that requires HDCP.
"If it's so important you must write it down, yet you state it's random stuff, then it must not be that important, so why write it down?"
Random in the sense that the information comes in no particular order. For example, I usually have an outline and a general script for how I want interviews with client to go. In reality, the client is going to talk about all sorts of things in a different order, but I still need that information. What I find myself doing now is taking down notes in random order straight down the page, but I'll put a little code in the margin so I can re-sort all of the thoughts later on.
"Is it just me, or are 99% of the podcasts out there completely braindead."
Tell me about it...I logged into iTunes yesterday and now George W. Bush's weekly radio address is now available as a podcast! I had to subscribe out of morbid curiousity.
Seriously though...there is a lot of crap to filter through, but there are some good ones. My two favorite podcasts are The Word Nerds and Catholic Insider. The Word Nerds are these three DC-area high school teachers that talk about the history and meanings of different words in the English language. Each week focuses on a different aspect of language and there is a "Rude Word of the Week." Catholic Insider is a weekly show hosted by a young Catholic priest in Amswoort, Netherlands, Father Roderick Vonhogen. It is not as overtly religious as you might think. He takes his listeners on soundseeing tours and is somewhat otaku about Star Wars. I'm not a Christian, but I'm a huge fan of his show because it is engaging.
Pull the *waistband* *down*? Perhaps if you're hung like baby that might come in handy. I've always pulled one of the little pant legs *up and over* to use a urinal.
Can you imagine the massive pilgrimage...
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...and discarded Kleenexes around Ron Jeremy's tombstone?
"I don't have an answer, but I want to know why is a computer overkill for taking notes in class?"
Because it's overkill in real life. Most "note type" information in the real world is quick random bits of info that may or may not have any connection and no easy way of writing it down without small diagrams or lines connecting things. In every situation in my job where I have had to take notes (meetings, interviewing clients, etc.), anything more than a pen and a pad would have been a waste of resources and a distraction to the topic at hand. After I'm done taking the notes, I can summarize them later in a report or just scan them into a PDF and stick them in the work file and forget about them.
They have RAID for laptops now. Check out the Sager models at Powernotebooks.com. Funny to note that although RAID is offered because the hardware supports it, they don't particularly recommend it.
People have been doing shitty things to each other since the beginning of time. Einstein came up with a formula, which amounts to a tool. It *always* comes down to people and their choices as to how a tool is used.
I'm all for learning the grunt work, but it should be followed up with giving the students experience. Actually, my 8th grade check writing lessons were very engaging:)
It depends upon the quality of the case study. I had one class where the entire grade was based upon writing a business valuation report...analyzing a company, its financial statements and then analyzing similar companies to come up with a value. The professor gave us bits of guidance, but in the end the class was a case study. In fact, that particular class was basically my "pre-internship" for the company I later interned with and eventually went to work for.
In other classes, there was much more fundamental lecture, but then we went in-depth with various long-term projects to see how it applies.
The idea here is to make homework more engaging. Even though the term "video game" is being bandied about, what they're really talking about is "computer simulation." This technology will make it easier to introduce the concept of *case studies* to kids at an earlier age. As anyone who went to college knows, the best way to learn something is by doing case studies.
When I was in grade school and high school, we just did pages full of math problems, with no real explanation of what use they are. While I still think that is necessary just to build up practice, I would have appreciated going to the next level and learning how some of those concepts actually applied to real life. As a result, there is a lot of stuff I learned in algebra and trig that I have simply forgotten over the years because I never had a chance to apply it to a real life situation, albeit a simulated one.
Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey has a huge drive-through safari with all of these animals, as well. It's almost a right of passage around here to have an ostrich eat at the gasket around your car window.
I swear to God we need a "bullshit" tag for moderating/. Your ignorance wrt EULAs, the GPL, licensing, copright law and basic tenets of private property is astounding. That or you are trolling. Please quite while you're ahead.
1. Software is no different than any other intellectual property like a book or music CD.
2. You own your copy of OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, including the physical media. It is only copyright law and nothing else that prevents you from distributing copies. However, the GPL is the author's public declaration that you may distribute.
3. There is a whole wealth of information of what consititutes a valid contract, and a EULA is not one. If you press a "button" on your screen that says "I Agree," that does not mean you have agreed to anything in a legal sense.
4. Apple, Microsoft, Linus own the *copyright* on their respective works. It means they get to dictate the terms of *distribution* and nothing else. Otherwise, you can use the software any way you want.
5. The GPL only pertains to distribution of code and has nothing to do whatsoever with usage. If you don't agree to the terms of the GPL, you can still use the software.
Bottom line is that anything you buy in a retail transaction is yours to own and use, although you are restricted from distributing copies per copyright law. There are *real* software contracts out there (ie Microsoft site licenses, Bloomberg feeds, etc), however.
I complained to Yahoo! when I saw Playboy (ie porn) banner ads while reading Yahoo! Mail. Maybe they assumed since I was a male that it would be acceptable. Anyway, after sending them an email, the banner ads for adult materials stopped. If a company as big as Yahoo! can accomodate their customers in such a way, I would expect no less from anyone else.
The spirit of the argument still holds...IE on Mac is not the same program as the Windows version and will not give you the same results. The fact that they have the same name and both come from Microsoft is marketing speak (i.e. bullshit).
To put it another way...if a newbie coming from the Windows world asked me if IE was available on the Mac, I could only honestly say that Microsoft distributes a program called IE that's available for the Mac, but it's not really IE and doesn't give you the features of the Windows version.
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"Anyhow, what exactly would be wrong with a Christian republic?"
You've got to be fucking kidding me.
To test the theory, I just typed in lsjfsdlsjlsdf.google.com and Firefox came back with an error message. talk.google.com at least returns something from Google.
Can't this problem be solved by the simple addition of a dongle that connects between the video port and the monitor? The dongle would then give the pre-HDCP monitor the capability of receiving HD video that requires HDCP.
The Media Center version of Windows will have to deal with this problem.
"If it's so important you must write it down, yet you state it's random stuff, then it must not be that important, so why write it down?"
Random in the sense that the information comes in no particular order. For example, I usually have an outline and a general script for how I want interviews with client to go. In reality, the client is going to talk about all sorts of things in a different order, but I still need that information. What I find myself doing now is taking down notes in random order straight down the page, but I'll put a little code in the margin so I can re-sort all of the thoughts later on.
"Is it just me, or are 99% of the podcasts out there completely braindead."
Tell me about it...I logged into iTunes yesterday and now George W. Bush's weekly radio address is now available as a podcast! I had to subscribe out of morbid curiousity.
Seriously though...there is a lot of crap to filter through, but there are some good ones. My two favorite podcasts are The Word Nerds and Catholic Insider. The Word Nerds are these three DC-area high school teachers that talk about the history and meanings of different words in the English language. Each week focuses on a different aspect of language and there is a "Rude Word of the Week." Catholic Insider is a weekly show hosted by a young Catholic priest in Amswoort, Netherlands, Father Roderick Vonhogen. It is not as overtly religious as you might think. He takes his listeners on soundseeing tours and is somewhat otaku about Star Wars. I'm not a Christian, but I'm a huge fan of his show because it is engaging.
Pull the *waistband* *down*? Perhaps if you're hung like baby that might come in handy. I've always pulled one of the little pant legs *up and over* to use a urinal.
...and discarded Kleenexes around Ron Jeremy's tombstone?
"I don't have an answer, but I want to know why is a computer overkill for taking notes in class?"
Because it's overkill in real life. Most "note type" information in the real world is quick random bits of info that may or may not have any connection and no easy way of writing it down without small diagrams or lines connecting things. In every situation in my job where I have had to take notes (meetings, interviewing clients, etc.), anything more than a pen and a pad would have been a waste of resources and a distraction to the topic at hand. After I'm done taking the notes, I can summarize them later in a report or just scan them into a PDF and stick them in the work file and forget about them.
They have RAID for laptops now. Check out the Sager models at Powernotebooks.com. Funny to note that although RAID is offered because the hardware supports it, they don't particularly recommend it.
You're fired!
Love,
Your Third Personality.
To figure out who's leaking their OSX-x86 developer copies before they start testing the *real* thing :)
People have been doing shitty things to each other since the beginning of time. Einstein came up with a formula, which amounts to a tool. It *always* comes down to people and their choices as to how a tool is used.
No, they are issuing new stock. Various Google execs cash out all the time, which isn't news for any publicly traded company.
Today's issuance of new stock is why the price is down almost 7 bucks today...dilution.
Do you believe everything you read?
I'm all for learning the grunt work, but it should be followed up with giving the students experience. Actually, my 8th grade check writing lessons were very engaging :)
It depends upon the quality of the case study. I had one class where the entire grade was based upon writing a business valuation report...analyzing a company, its financial statements and then analyzing similar companies to come up with a value. The professor gave us bits of guidance, but in the end the class was a case study. In fact, that particular class was basically my "pre-internship" for the company I later interned with and eventually went to work for.
In other classes, there was much more fundamental lecture, but then we went in-depth with various long-term projects to see how it applies.
Probably none of them. It's just tiny bits of rubber that they can poop out like a Nylabone.
The idea here is to make homework more engaging. Even though the term "video game" is being bandied about, what they're really talking about is "computer simulation." This technology will make it easier to introduce the concept of *case studies* to kids at an earlier age. As anyone who went to college knows, the best way to learn something is by doing case studies.
When I was in grade school and high school, we just did pages full of math problems, with no real explanation of what use they are. While I still think that is necessary just to build up practice, I would have appreciated going to the next level and learning how some of those concepts actually applied to real life. As a result, there is a lot of stuff I learned in algebra and trig that I have simply forgotten over the years because I never had a chance to apply it to a real life situation, albeit a simulated one.
Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey has a huge drive-through safari with all of these animals, as well. It's almost a right of passage around here to have an ostrich eat at the gasket around your car window.
I swear to God we need a "bullshit" tag for moderating /. Your ignorance wrt EULAs, the GPL, licensing, copright law and basic tenets of private property is astounding. That or you are trolling. Please quite while you're ahead.
1. Software is no different than any other intellectual property like a book or music CD.
2. You own your copy of OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, including the physical media. It is only copyright law and nothing else that prevents you from distributing copies. However, the GPL is the author's public declaration that you may distribute.
3. There is a whole wealth of information of what consititutes a valid contract, and a EULA is not one. If you press a "button" on your screen that says "I Agree," that does not mean you have agreed to anything in a legal sense.
4. Apple, Microsoft, Linus own the *copyright* on their respective works. It means they get to dictate the terms of *distribution* and nothing else. Otherwise, you can use the software any way you want.
5. The GPL only pertains to distribution of code and has nothing to do whatsoever with usage. If you don't agree to the terms of the GPL, you can still use the software.
Bottom line is that anything you buy in a retail transaction is yours to own and use, although you are restricted from distributing copies per copyright law. There are *real* software contracts out there (ie Microsoft site licenses, Bloomberg feeds, etc), however.
Apparently the civil war is going on right now but we won't be fully aware of it until 2008.
I complained to Yahoo! when I saw Playboy (ie porn) banner ads while reading Yahoo! Mail. Maybe they assumed since I was a male that it would be acceptable. Anyway, after sending them an email, the banner ads for adult materials stopped. If a company as big as Yahoo! can accomodate their customers in such a way, I would expect no less from anyone else.
Wilbur the GIMP? Wow, I didn't know open source was that prevalent in they gay community!
The spirit of the argument still holds...IE on Mac is not the same program as the Windows version and will not give you the same results. The fact that they have the same name and both come from Microsoft is marketing speak (i.e. bullshit).
To put it another way...if a newbie coming from the Windows world asked me if IE was available on the Mac, I could only honestly say that Microsoft distributes a program called IE that's available for the Mac, but it's not really IE and doesn't give you the features of the Windows version.