I don't have a strong opinion, but I have seen people use calculators as a brain crutch. The point of the homework and test questions is to encourage thought, not to encourage mad calculator skills.
Well you can't use this software on a test, and in the calc class I just finished the homework in merely for practice so you learn how to do it. And WolframAlpha has been quite useful there is a helpful in that there is an option to show steps. So if I'm stuck on a problem, I can put it in and see how it's done. Kind of how you might learn.
I don't know if they would automatically get the iPhone versions of pages(perhaps the web developers should target mobile webkit instead), but for sites where you can to the iPhone version via a special URL instead of just the UA(such as Facebook), other WebKit browsers such as Android and Nokia S60(especially the 5800) can usually display the iPhone sites quite well, so the Pre should be no exception.
Android is where I'm planning to focus my efforts. The process for getting a j2me app distributed through the carriers is jsut a hair shy of futile for an independent developer. Sure there are other options to distribute J2ME apps through, but most of the market just goes throgh their carrier. Things like the Android and iPhone stores are a perfect match for independent developers.
This is kind of like gun laws. All it really does is keep the stuff out of the hands of law abiding citizens. Most criminals aren't going to care if the substances they are using are illegal for them to have if they're going to use them to break the law anyway.
Yeah, I was hoping for a bit more content. Right now I'm kind of torn between this and the AppleTV. Sure the AppleTV might theoretically cost more to rent, but I don't watch that many movies and I can stream the media from my PC, which would be a huge thing for me. Right now I'm leaning toward the AppleTV since buying this box would mean I'd still have to come up with something to stream the music and video from my PC.
Not just for signatures, but it really annoys me when a company will only accept faxes instead of scanned emails for any number of documents. Luckily the situation has been improving in the recent years.
Being a PS2 owner, the backwards of the PS3 was one of it's biggest selling points. Of course the Wii was also backwards compatible with all of my GameCube games too, so I got that since it was cheaper.
This will be no more of a blow to the Wii than the existing $129 PS2. The only real advantage it has is the price, and people who are buying it on price are already buying the PS2 over the Wii and are probably buying the GBA over the DS and PSP.
All these high dollar buyouts seem to taking a bubble shape once again. Sure ad revenues provide more solid revenues than the late 90's bubble, but I'd imagine there will be a breaking point at some point in the future.
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I've been running a copy of Vista Business I got for free, and I'm trying to get it to run more like XP. Any utilities for that, because Vista is runs like a dog. I disabled all the prettiness, but it's still slow.
While I don't do any kind of page layout professionally, I've been happy with Scribus the times I've had to use it on Linux, though I found it kind of slow and unstable at the time on OS X, but that was a while back and may be fixed now.
It appears the good ole days of the RTS are back. C&C 3, Supreme Commander, and now StarCraft 2. Throw in some very good newcomers like Company of Heros, and it's the best time to be an RTS gamer since the 90's.
I believe they've already got flickr working with Yahoo logins. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's a requirement for new accounts, and they may have made the old users migrate.
I was wondering how they were going to merge Yahoo photos with flickr, and was expecting and uglier merger. Throwing out Yahoo photos is a much nicer solution.
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Even if they were available electronically, they're not likely to be much cheaper. Very little of a book's cost is from the paper it's printed on.
Mine was out last night, but seem to have been working all morning for me. BIS and Sprint here.
The terminator conquest will be so great, a verb would not suffice in describing it, only a noun could contain it.
Don't forget to tell the people buying now, 10 years down the road.
I don't have a strong opinion, but I have seen people use calculators as a brain crutch. The point of the homework and test questions is to encourage thought, not to encourage mad calculator skills.
Well you can't use this software on a test, and in the calc class I just finished the homework in merely for practice so you learn how to do it. And WolframAlpha has been quite useful there is a helpful in that there is an option to show steps. So if I'm stuck on a problem, I can put it in and see how it's done. Kind of how you might learn.
I don't know if they would automatically get the iPhone versions of pages(perhaps the web developers should target mobile webkit instead), but for sites where you can to the iPhone version via a special URL instead of just the UA(such as Facebook), other WebKit browsers such as Android and Nokia S60(especially the 5800) can usually display the iPhone sites quite well, so the Pre should be no exception.
Even worse, they could randomly come together and create something worse like kidde porn or Windows ME.
However, be advised that this may affect the resale value.
Android is where I'm planning to focus my efforts. The process for getting a j2me app distributed through the carriers is jsut a hair shy of futile for an independent developer. Sure there are other options to distribute J2ME apps through, but most of the market just goes throgh their carrier. Things like the Android and iPhone stores are a perfect match for independent developers.
I'm personally expected Star Trek: The Phantom Menace.
This is kind of like gun laws. All it really does is keep the stuff out of the hands of law abiding citizens. Most criminals aren't going to care if the substances they are using are illegal for them to have if they're going to use them to break the law anyway.
So this is more like what SecureComputingdoes with their firewalls when they just rebadge off the shelf dell server?
Yeah, I was hoping for a bit more content. Right now I'm kind of torn between this and the AppleTV. Sure the AppleTV might theoretically cost more to rent, but I don't watch that many movies and I can stream the media from my PC, which would be a huge thing for me. Right now I'm leaning toward the AppleTV since buying this box would mean I'd still have to come up with something to stream the music and video from my PC.
Not just for signatures, but it really annoys me when a company will only accept faxes instead of scanned emails for any number of documents. Luckily the situation has been improving in the recent years.
Being a PS2 owner, the backwards of the PS3 was one of it's biggest selling points. Of course the Wii was also backwards compatible with all of my GameCube games too, so I got that since it was cheaper.
This will be no more of a blow to the Wii than the existing $129 PS2. The only real advantage it has is the price, and people who are buying it on price are already buying the PS2 over the Wii and are probably buying the GBA over the DS and PSP.
I guess this Sony's answer to removing backwards compatibility on the new 40GB PS3?
All these high dollar buyouts seem to taking a bubble shape once again. Sure ad revenues provide more solid revenues than the late 90's bubble, but I'd imagine there will be a breaking point at some point in the future.
I've been running a copy of Vista Business I got for free, and I'm trying to get it to run more like XP. Any utilities for that, because Vista is runs like a dog. I disabled all the prettiness, but it's still slow.
The problem with MythTV and other PC based solutions is that the box may not looks so good in the living room and particularly price.
While I don't do any kind of page layout professionally, I've been happy with Scribus the times I've had to use it on Linux, though I found it kind of slow and unstable at the time on OS X, but that was a while back and may be fixed now.
It appears the good ole days of the RTS are back. C&C 3, Supreme Commander, and now StarCraft 2. Throw in some very good newcomers like Company of Heros, and it's the best time to be an RTS gamer since the 90's.
People still use ICQ? I wonder if it's really seeing any significant numbers of new users, or if it's just the old people sticking around.
I believe they've already got flickr working with Yahoo logins. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's a requirement for new accounts, and they may have made the old users migrate.
I was wondering how they were going to merge Yahoo photos with flickr, and was expecting and uglier merger. Throwing out Yahoo photos is a much nicer solution.