RTFA and also realize that while it may work for you, most of the time Gaim cannot support file transfers for most users! I am putting this here because there are too many people saying that this works for me to respond to!!
Algorithms are worth learning, but algorithms aint maths either.. they're just the 'known best' way to solve problems.
You obviously are confused as to the meaning of maths, as algorithms are absolutely based in mathematics. Mathematics is not all calculus and trigonometry and stuff like that - it includes set and graph and number theory and a lot of other fields that are directly applicable to computer science. "Creatively and logically solving problems" could easily describe mathematics - most mathematicians spend their time making logical arguments, not solving integrals. All the maths stuff you learned in high school are merely tools that came from and are useful in mathematics.
But maybe I'm just a product of the "old days" in which math teachers ruled the computer science department with an iron fist!
So now corporations, if they make software that can potentially be used for copyright infringment, must research all uses of that software that only infringe copyright, and block those?
On the other hand, if you're talking about Christians in the sense of those who have convictions to follow after the God of the Bible, live right, pray daily, and seek to have a relationship with their maker, then you're very lucky if you find a small percentage of these who accept what they're told in school about evolution.
How about the entire Catholic church? I don't suppose you'd count the Pope as a "true Christian" though, considering the Catholic Church readily admits that the human body could have been created through evolutionary forces (the soul of course is a Creation of God).
Do you know how many businesses use 98 still? A LOT. Many businesses are still using 95 and 98 on their old computers because they can't afford new computers. Businesses are not going to change as quickly as Microsoft wants them to. NEWS FLASH!
OK, so the terrorists are going to start raising money to buy an atomic bomb by selling bootleg copies of Eminem and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.
Sounds scary, doesn't it? It's chilling to think our own shitty media could be used against us in such a horrible fashion. Unfortunately, DRM and voluntary media restrictions are never going to work - the terrorists are going to make money selling us illegal "DRM Free" devices so we can watch bootlegs akin to the way people steal cable. And when New York gets attacked again, we'll all look at our bootleg copies of NOW That's What I Call Music 16 and know that we ourselves gave $5 to terrorists.
But there is hope. There is only one solution that works: remove all copyright laws. If the terrorists have to deal in a market where all IP is available absolutely for free, there will be no money to be made in selling copyrighted material!
Think about it: Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser sets up shop with his secret disguise in Phoenix. He's got all his copies of the Matrix trilogy set up, ready to be sold to the latest nerdy dupe walking down the street. But little does he know his plan will fail. Said nerdy dupe walks by and says to himself, "Now why is someone selling copyrighted material on the street? I can just download that off Bittorrent!" One 911 call later, Al-Nasser is arrested, arrainged, convicted, and drawn and quartered.
America is safer.
Now doesn't it seem as though our IP laws were but a meager price to pay for the saftey and security of our country?
What the hell is Finding Nemo doing on there? It's like they had to pick a single CG movie just to have that genre represented...why not Toy Story, or even its sequel? If you need something animated, why not something like Beauty and the Beast or Spirited Away? It's just bizarre...
I should also point out that they were middle-school students. I would also tend to believe that certain very basic forms of sarcasm are very obvious and quite universal, but the fact is that British people tend to use more sarcasm than their American counterparts.
Also, it wasn't that the students never said anything funny, they apparently (according to the story) didn't quite seem to understand the concept. He had sat them down and developed a lesson where they practiced using sarcasm, and apparently many of them didn't get the lesson. Now, perhaps he's just a bad teacher, or maybe it just isn't as prevalent among Japanese.
Sarcasm is more than just a function in the brain - some languages use it very little, if at all. The Japanese, for instance, almost NEVER use sarcasm. I have a friend who taught English there that tried to teach his students sarcasm - and it really failed because some of the students just didn't understand it.
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It's right there, in every license of almost every piece of software made:
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE
RTFA and also realize that while it may work for you, most of the time Gaim cannot support file transfers for most users! I am putting this here because there are too many people saying that this works for me to respond to!!
You obviously are confused as to the meaning of maths, as algorithms are absolutely based in mathematics. Mathematics is not all calculus and trigonometry and stuff like that - it includes set and graph and number theory and a lot of other fields that are directly applicable to computer science. "Creatively and logically solving problems" could easily describe mathematics - most mathematicians spend their time making logical arguments, not solving integrals. All the maths stuff you learned in high school are merely tools that came from and are useful in mathematics.
But maybe I'm just a product of the "old days" in which math teachers ruled the computer science department with an iron fist!
we made XP a little TOO stable!
Even better! Audio features are being brought third!
So now corporations, if they make software that can potentially be used for copyright infringment, must research all uses of that software that only infringe copyright, and block those?
Watch out bittorrent.
Also our rock-hard balls routinely travel in excess of 100 MPH.
But you have to put on 60 pounds of armor because you're scared of getting hit by a ball trying to protect a stick in the ground?
Click here to claim your prize!!!
The Stallman link now has possible spoilers (maybe stallman fell for a prank?) but you should mention that on the front page.
You should probably never leave your house for fear of being offended.
Do you know how many businesses use 98 still? A LOT. Many businesses are still using 95 and 98 on their old computers because they can't afford new computers. Businesses are not going to change as quickly as Microsoft wants them to. NEWS FLASH!
You missed the best one: /wmd/text
Disallow:
Chuck E. Cheese?
You mean SHOWBIZ PIZZA.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes!!!
OK, so the terrorists are going to start raising money to buy an atomic bomb by selling bootleg copies of Eminem and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.
Sounds scary, doesn't it? It's chilling to think our own shitty media could be used against us in such a horrible fashion. Unfortunately, DRM and voluntary media restrictions are never going to work - the terrorists are going to make money selling us illegal "DRM Free" devices so we can watch bootlegs akin to the way people steal cable. And when New York gets attacked again, we'll all look at our bootleg copies of NOW That's What I Call Music 16 and know that we ourselves gave $5 to terrorists.
But there is hope. There is only one solution that works: remove all copyright laws. If the terrorists have to deal in a market where all IP is available absolutely for free, there will be no money to be made in selling copyrighted material!
Think about it: Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser sets up shop with his secret disguise in Phoenix. He's got all his copies of the Matrix trilogy set up, ready to be sold to the latest nerdy dupe walking down the street. But little does he know his plan will fail. Said nerdy dupe walks by and says to himself, "Now why is someone selling copyrighted material on the street? I can just download that off Bittorrent!" One 911 call later, Al-Nasser is arrested, arrainged, convicted, and drawn and quartered.
America is safer.
Now doesn't it seem as though our IP laws were but a meager price to pay for the saftey and security of our country?
What the hell is Finding Nemo doing on there? It's like they had to pick a single CG movie just to have that genre represented...why not Toy Story, or even its sequel? If you need something animated, why not something like Beauty and the Beast or Spirited Away? It's just bizarre...
oh well,
--Stephen
I should also point out that they were middle-school students. I would also tend to believe that certain very basic forms of sarcasm are very obvious and quite universal, but the fact is that British people tend to use more sarcasm than their American counterparts.
Also, it wasn't that the students never said anything funny, they apparently (according to the story) didn't quite seem to understand the concept. He had sat them down and developed a lesson where they practiced using sarcasm, and apparently many of them didn't get the lesson. Now, perhaps he's just a bad teacher, or maybe it just isn't as prevalent among Japanese.
Sarcasm is more than just a function in the brain - some languages use it very little, if at all. The Japanese, for instance, almost NEVER use sarcasm. I have a friend who taught English there that tried to teach his students sarcasm - and it really failed because some of the students just didn't understand it.
CNN reports on horribly obvious, banal, or trivial news!!!
Moodle is good stuff, especially considering there are tools to convert Blackboard to Moodle course converstion and another utility to convert Moodle courses to a variety of formats.