If you are like me, and you run linux and mozilla already, and your popup ads are disabled in mozilla, a new install of netscape will use mozilla's settings (since they are the same) and pop ups will automagically be blocked. BTW, I use netscape because it's pipelining feature seems faster.
Yeah, florida is so great. Thats why the year after I left, they lowered the standards for grade point average YET AGAIN to the 90-80-70-60 college scale. Talk about shooting its students in their feet. Florida has again doomed its students by presenting them as second-rate garbage that need to stay in their state and not pollute others. I can only pray that the colleges and universities will see through this sham and raise their admissions standards to compensate, otherwise, we will be flooded with shoulda-failed refuse that did not originally qualify for college education.
Florida did do one thing though, the FCAT, which is a much more challenging test than the HSCT. The HSCT could have been passed by a reasonably competent elementary school child.
As for teaching the test, FLA is the HUB for test-teaching. Most of these kids that do pass the standardized tests do so only because they have knowledge in a few of the subjects and are adept statistically enough to guess at most other answers. This type of 'studying' is not going to cut it in the University world. The students that get used to this method are the ones that last one semester in college and end up your admin assistants or printing your paycheck later on in life.
I agree that the level of algebra that is taught in school these days is far from adequate. I just finished high school and I am lucky that I studied math on my own before I started college. I believe that the teachers are more to blame than the actual course materials. They don't get paid enough to really give a shit about what they do. Teacher moral is somewhere along the lines of a division of soldiers that were just masacred. Most of them are brought in from other subjects. Most of them aren't even qualified to teach math/algebra/calculus. I for one, was lucky to have the Geometry/Algebra 2 teacher that I did. If it weren't for him, I would not have the interest in mathematics that I do now. We need to fix the teachers, then the teachers will fix the material.
I guess we are the only ones that see it that way. I guess laws that prohibit those ground-scraping cars from shattering windows, setting off alarms, and driving people mad with their unnecessarily loud music are also oppressive. Poor, poor oppressed people.
the US Patent office has also awarded a patent to Goodyear, the nation's largest tire manufacturer, over none other than the wheel, thus effectively disabling the nation's transportation system. Until a proper audit of the wheels currently in the country can be completed and all past royalties are subsequently paid, Goodyear executives have denied everyone the use of their invention. "I think it's only fair that we receive just compensation for our invention, which to this day, has gone uncredited."
The president of Goodyear also states that "Since no one else wanted to step up to the plate and take credit for this terrific invention, I figured we will. Someone has to capitalize off of it."
Despite the fact that Goodyear had nothing to do with the initial invention of the wheel and was incorporated many years after its creation, the fact that its' inventorship has gone unclaimed all these years made obtaining the patent that much more enticing.
Isn't it funny how m$ takes it upon itself to license your music? I am sticking to OGG from now on. Anyone who is dumb enough to use WMA for anything now deserves whatever they get.
And another thing: We should boycott music until the RIAA goes bankrupt. Don't buy CDs, don't even go to concerts (if you don't buy cd's then the RIAA will just get their dough from the concerts anyway, despite the written contract). Then and only then, will we have freedom once more. It'll be one of those things that go down in history like the boston tea party or something, maybe.
I wonder if there will be a registry key in the windows version that can be modified. They are taking out the check-box in the UI, but its more than likely that they might leave a registry key for it still intact. If so, its better than nothing.
I mean, hes not only a very good programmer, he looks like a computer dork, has a phat car, and actually cares what the community thinks about his games.
And I'll bet he even has a hot girlfriend/wife. this is a man that all uber-geeks should strive to emulate.
I have one DVD w/ SuSE 8.0 (or 7 CD's if I choose). If im gonna piss and moan about having to pop in cd's every once and a while, then I just use the DVD. Besides, its faster. If all of these beefy distros would switch to DVD, we can all be on one disk for at least a little while longer.
Yeah, but you also have to understand that the big wigs at dell were probably offered a choice: Either you put our OS on all of your PCs or we will give you a brutal ass-fscking by upping the prices of our software to retail levels. That means you will not have windows on ANY computers and no one will wanna 'dude, buy a dell'.
i'd have to say wrath of khan. that movie was the shit and always will be. those old trek movies had better special effects than anything we will ever see again since they actually took the time to build some pretty detailed scale models and really blow shit up.
Even the military has to follow FAA regulations when flying, especially near the vicinity of an airport. Could you imaging the debacle if a passenger jet had struck that invisible triangle in the sky?
if you are running linux, you can set agpgart to run at 2x agp to run the benchmark. I don't know if it works the same, but it would be interesting to see.
attempted karma whoring not going quite as expected, eh? perhaps, but informative none the less. I still have my nokia 3600. It was obsolete the minute I brought it out of the phone dealer. What a shame.
Even I agree with one of the moderators that my own post is just total flamebait. The comment about women and their time of the month was pretty tasteless, nonetheless, slightly humorous, maybe?
Slightly offtopic, from the link in the parent post: Has anyone noticed this or is it just me; HP has a very large amount of women in upper management for a corporate entity. I think its pretty interesting to see a woman as a Chairman and CEO of a company so large. Could This whole problem be because management is just at 'that time of the month'?
Im sure that all of us have seen that picture at one time or another. But to this day, I still laugh my ass off every time I see it. That asteroid is exactly the size of the moon in that pic. It'd fuckin obliterate us.
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If you are like me, and you run linux and mozilla already, and your popup ads are disabled in mozilla, a new install of netscape will use mozilla's settings (since they are the same) and pop ups will automagically be blocked. BTW, I use netscape because it's pipelining feature seems faster.
Yeah, florida is so great. Thats why the year after I left, they lowered the standards for grade point average YET AGAIN to the 90-80-70-60 college scale. Talk about shooting its students in their feet. Florida has again doomed its students by presenting them as second-rate garbage that need to stay in their state and not pollute others. I can only pray that the colleges and universities will see through this sham and raise their admissions standards to compensate, otherwise, we will be flooded with shoulda-failed refuse that did not originally qualify for college education.
Florida did do one thing though, the FCAT, which is a much more challenging test than the HSCT. The HSCT could have been passed by a reasonably competent elementary school child.
As for teaching the test, FLA is the HUB for test-teaching. Most of these kids that do pass the standardized tests do so only because they have knowledge in a few of the subjects and are adept statistically enough to guess at most other answers. This type of 'studying' is not going to cut it in the University world. The students that get used to this method are the ones that last one semester in college and end up your admin assistants or printing your paycheck later on in life.
I agree that the level of algebra that is taught in school these days is far from adequate. I just finished high school and I am lucky that I studied math on my own before I started college. I believe that the teachers are more to blame than the actual course materials. They don't get paid enough to really give a shit about what they do. Teacher moral is somewhere along the lines of a division of soldiers that were just masacred. Most of them are brought in from other subjects. Most of them aren't even qualified to teach math/algebra/calculus. I for one, was lucky to have the Geometry/Algebra 2 teacher that I did. If it weren't for him, I would not have the interest in mathematics that I do now. We need to fix the teachers, then the teachers will fix the material.
Tried finding a TNT2 PCI card lately for $20? It's not funny.
Ever heard of ebay?
It seems like using a sledgehammer to kill an annoying fly
It works pretty damn well though, doesn't it?
I guess we are the only ones that see it that way. I guess laws that prohibit those ground-scraping cars from shattering windows, setting off alarms, and driving people mad with their unnecessarily loud music are also oppressive. Poor, poor oppressed people.
the US Patent office has also awarded a patent to Goodyear, the nation's largest tire manufacturer, over none other than the wheel, thus effectively disabling the nation's transportation system. Until a proper audit of the wheels currently in the country can be completed and all past royalties are subsequently paid, Goodyear executives have denied everyone the use of their invention. "I think it's only fair that we receive just compensation for our invention, which to this day, has gone uncredited."
The president of Goodyear also states that "Since no one else wanted to step up to the plate and take credit for this terrific invention, I figured we will. Someone has to capitalize off of it."
Despite the fact that Goodyear had nothing to do with the initial invention of the wheel and was incorporated many years after its creation, the fact that its' inventorship has gone unclaimed all these years made obtaining the patent that much more enticing.
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Isn't it funny how m$ takes it upon itself to license your music? I am sticking to OGG from now on. Anyone who is dumb enough to use WMA for anything now deserves whatever they get.
And another thing: We should boycott music until the RIAA goes bankrupt. Don't buy CDs, don't even go to concerts (if you don't buy cd's then the RIAA will just get their dough from the concerts anyway, despite the written contract). Then and only then, will we have freedom once more. It'll be one of those things that go down in history like the boston tea party or something, maybe.
I wonder if there will be a registry key in the windows version that can be modified. They are taking out the check-box in the UI, but its more than likely that they might leave a registry key for it still intact. If so, its better than nothing.
And now, for the obligatory flame remarks: what a dumb ass. C64 != "IBM PC".
I mean, hes not only a very good programmer, he looks like a computer dork, has a phat car, and actually cares what the community thinks about his games.
And I'll bet he even has a hot girlfriend/wife. this is a man that all uber-geeks should strive to emulate.
shit dude, you know you'd be all up for that shit if you were a smack head.
I have one DVD w/ SuSE 8.0 (or 7 CD's if I choose). If im gonna piss and moan about having to pop in cd's every once and a while, then I just use the DVD. Besides, its faster. If all of these beefy distros would switch to DVD, we can all be on one disk for at least a little while longer.
Yeah, but you also have to understand that the big wigs at dell were probably offered a choice: Either you put our OS on all of your PCs or we will give you a brutal ass-fscking by upping the prices of our software to retail levels. That means you will not have windows on ANY computers and no one will wanna 'dude, buy a dell'.
I always was under the assumption that the Internet, not the Web (two different things) was the creation of the US military. But I could be wrong.
i'd have to say wrath of khan. that movie was the shit and always will be. those old trek movies had better special effects than anything we will ever see again since they actually took the time to build some pretty detailed scale models and really blow shit up.
one of these days
Neither does your's and neither does mine. We are both offtopic. Now, stfu.
What about the site that you posted this parent on? Would you take GUI design tips from them? I would certainly hope not.
Even the military has to follow FAA regulations when flying, especially near the vicinity of an airport. Could you imaging the debacle if a passenger jet had struck that invisible triangle in the sky?
if you are running linux, you can set agpgart to run at 2x agp to run the benchmark. I don't know if it works the same, but it would be interesting to see.
if yer running one of the distros in the article or you have patched your kernel and recompiled then you device probably works great. Check again.
attempted karma whoring not going quite as expected, eh? perhaps, but informative none the less. I still have my nokia 3600. It was obsolete the minute I brought it out of the phone dealer. What a shame.
Even I agree with one of the moderators that my own post is just total flamebait. The comment about women and their time of the month was pretty tasteless, nonetheless, slightly humorous, maybe?
Slightly offtopic, from the link in the parent post: Has anyone noticed this or is it just me; HP has a very large amount of women in upper management for a corporate entity. I think its pretty interesting to see a woman as a Chairman and CEO of a company so large. Could This whole problem be because management is just at 'that time of the month'?
Im sure that all of us have seen that picture at one time or another. But to this day, I still laugh my ass off every time I see it. That asteroid is exactly the size of the moon in that pic. It'd fuckin obliterate us.