And if you their methodology for reaching their conclusions you'll see that it's all about research grants, papers published, Nobel Prizes of faculty etc etc, and absolutely nothing to do with the quality of education being offered to undergraduates. In fact, the number of Nobel Prizes held by faculty makes up for a total of 20% of the score, and I'd argue that this indicator for example, is utterly irrelevant.
One of my professors did an exchange year at an Ivy League university, and when they got there they had to send back to the UK for their A Level (pre-university qualification) notes as the students were not at the level that they expected.
Also, I had a friend who was on the student exchange program at the same University at the same time. She was a pretty average C grade student (I'm sure she won't mind me describing her like that), but in her year in the US she got straight As.
I don't know if the standard of education is going down in the US, but it apparantly was nowhere near the standard that my professor and friend expected.
I wonder how many lawyers lobby to have their representatives propose these laws... sounds like someone is making a lot of money out of this kind of bill.
This is a trial. There is no Mac/Linux version so the BBC will never be able to go down this route permanently (since their remit won't allow any license fee payers to be excluded). They're not trialling the player so much as trialling the streaming technology and the viability of delivering the content over the Internet.
As for whether it's DRMd, well if the DRM locks the content to license fee paying UK residents then I see nothing wrong with that.
What the EU and South Korea are worried about is the fact that OEMs have no choice but to bundle IE, MSN Messenger, Windows Media Player etc with their computers which means that competitors in this area cannot compete on a level playing field by having the OEMs bundle their software exclusively. This is the important distinction in the area of anti-trust law. The "exclusively" is the key. An OEM cannot distribute a machine with Windows installed but without IE, MSN Messenger, or WMP. The end user can't even uninstall them.
This does not apply to OSX or Linux. There is no such thing as an OEM for Apple - they make the hardware as well as software so anti-trust law does not apply in this case - you're buying an appliance in the same way as you buy a TV or toaster. And as for Linux, a distributor can obviously bundle whatever apps they like with their hardware.
Me too. The great thing about this machine was that there weren't that many games for it since the Spectrum came out and took over that market, even though the Oric was the superior machine. That meant that I became inspired to program, and wrote my first at the age of 10 or so. I'm now the owner of my own software company. I probably owe a lot of that to my Oric.
They aren't. At least the Muslim Council Of Great Britain hasn't been silent about it. In fact when I heard their spokesman on the radio he was spitting feathers he was so angry about the demonstrators in London.
Maybe it's the fault of the media in certain countries that the moderate Muslim reaction isn't being sought or heard?
If you are comfortable working with Ant, you can edit your Ant script and the IDE project configuration file to achieve an even tighter integration between NetBeans IDE and your build process.
No I can't. It's not my software to change and unless its in the requirements, no-one's going to pay me to do that.
Essentially, I don't want any kind of project file, ever. The code bases I work on already have their own build systems - some ant, some maven, some proprietary. I don't want to re-write the builds or re-order the directories and files just so I can build within my IDE. It's a complete waste of time. NetBeans 3.6 works just fine for me. I've looked at the feature set in both 4 and 5 and to be quite honest, there's nothing in there I'd ever want to use anyway. As long as I have code completion in my source and JSPs and can knock up a quick and dirty form in the form editor, then I'm happy. I do everything else on the command line anyway.
I work freelance and every single one of my clients uses a different IDE and source tree setup. The only IDE that can consistantly deal with this situation is NetBeans 3.6.
The developers dropped the ball with 4.x and above. Everything has to be where NetBeans expects it without a lot of messing around. I mean 4.x won't even let me create a JSP file unless NetBeans thinks that it has a "web app" to create it in. WTF is up with that? Especially since I can create it in Konqueror and refresh the folder in NetBeans and it now recognises the JSP.
Nope, I'm staying on 3.6 and when my clients move to Java 5 I'll be looking around for something else...
Bob
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Finally in Chapter 12: Using Advanced Mono Techniques, the author dives into such topics like performance tuning, reflection, and using threads.
Then what the hell are the basics? OK, I can just about let reflection pass, but a developer doesn't deserve to get above the rank of Junior or Beginner until they understand threads and performance tuning.
Last.fm do it in reverse in that they play you back *their* legally owned MP3s based on your playlist. They're licensed as a radio station I believe, but allow you to effectively choose your own playlist. You need to use their player, but it's open source, BSD licensed and runs on Windows/Mac/Linux.
Best of both worlds, 100% legal, and untouchable (especially since they're UK based so the RIAA can't touch them).
I ordered a couple of pizzas the other night on the phone. One was £7.50, the other £5.00. When it came to reading back my order, the person on the other end of the phone said "hold on please, I've lost my calculator" and put me on hold.
It's certainly true that when I was at University one of my Professors and some of the students did an exchange with a University in the US.
Anyway, the Professor had to send back for her A Level notes (last couple of years of school before University level stuff) as the US students were way behind the UK curriculum, and every single one of the students came back with straight 'A's even though a lot of them would have been considered average students here in the UK.
All the students said it was the easiest years worth of credits they'd taken and their only complaint was that at the age of 19/20 they weren't old enough to drink.
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And if you their methodology for reaching their conclusions you'll see that it's all about research grants, papers published, Nobel Prizes of faculty etc etc, and absolutely nothing to do with the quality of education being offered to undergraduates. In fact, the number of Nobel Prizes held by faculty makes up for a total of 20% of the score, and I'd argue that this indicator for example, is utterly irrelevant.
Bob
It might be a joke from your point of view, but it pretty much describes the post that eldavojohn made at the top...
Bob
One of my professors did an exchange year at an Ivy League university, and when they got there they had to send back to the UK for their A Level (pre-university qualification) notes as the students were not at the level that they expected.
Also, I had a friend who was on the student exchange program at the same University at the same time. She was a pretty average C grade student (I'm sure she won't mind me describing her like that), but in her year in the US she got straight As.
I don't know if the standard of education is going down in the US, but it apparantly was nowhere near the standard that my professor and friend expected.
Bob
...and it shows...
Bob
I wonder how many lawyers lobby to have their representatives propose these laws... sounds like someone is making a lot of money out of this kind of bill.
Bob
I can live with it if it's even remotely like this
Bob
This is a trial. There is no Mac/Linux version so the BBC will never be able to go down this route permanently (since their remit won't allow any license fee payers to be excluded). They're not trialling the player so much as trialling the streaming technology and the viability of delivering the content over the Internet.
As for whether it's DRMd, well if the DRM locks the content to license fee paying UK residents then I see nothing wrong with that.
Bob
What the EU and South Korea are worried about is the fact that OEMs have no choice but to bundle IE, MSN Messenger, Windows Media Player etc with their computers which means that competitors in this area cannot compete on a level playing field by having the OEMs bundle their software exclusively. This is the important distinction in the area of anti-trust law. The "exclusively" is the key. An OEM cannot distribute a machine with Windows installed but without IE, MSN Messenger, or WMP. The end user can't even uninstall them.
This does not apply to OSX or Linux. There is no such thing as an OEM for Apple - they make the hardware as well as software so anti-trust law does not apply in this case - you're buying an appliance in the same way as you buy a TV or toaster. And as for Linux, a distributor can obviously bundle whatever apps they like with their hardware.
Bob
I think you need to turn on the Joliet file settings...
Bob
Me too. The great thing about this machine was that there weren't that many games for it since the Spectrum came out and took over that market, even though the Oric was the superior machine. That meant that I became inspired to program, and wrote my first at the age of 10 or so. I'm now the owner of my own software company. I probably owe a lot of that to my Oric.
Bob
Actually, it's a pleasant 22C in my living room right now, in Norwich.
Bob
Three words - Tomorrow Never Knows
Bob
...I got the hell out of there.
Bob
They aren't. At least the Muslim Council Of Great Britain hasn't been silent about it. In fact when I heard their spokesman on the radio he was spitting feathers he was so angry about the demonstrators in London.
Maybe it's the fault of the media in certain countries that the moderate Muslim reaction isn't being sought or heard?
Bob
From your link:-
If you are comfortable working with Ant, you can edit your Ant script and the IDE project configuration file to achieve an even tighter integration between NetBeans IDE and your build process.
No I can't. It's not my software to change and unless its in the requirements, no-one's going to pay me to do that.
Essentially, I don't want any kind of project file, ever. The code bases I work on already have their own build systems - some ant, some maven, some proprietary. I don't want to re-write the builds or re-order the directories and files just so I can build within my IDE. It's a complete waste of time. NetBeans 3.6 works just fine for me. I've looked at the feature set in both 4 and 5 and to be quite honest, there's nothing in there I'd ever want to use anyway. As long as I have code completion in my source and JSPs and can knock up a quick and dirty form in the form editor, then I'm happy. I do everything else on the command line anyway.
Bob
I work freelance and every single one of my clients uses a different IDE and source tree setup. The only IDE that can consistantly deal with this situation is NetBeans 3.6.
The developers dropped the ball with 4.x and above. Everything has to be where NetBeans expects it without a lot of messing around. I mean 4.x won't even let me create a JSP file unless NetBeans thinks that it has a "web app" to create it in. WTF is up with that? Especially since I can create it in Konqueror and refresh the folder in NetBeans and it now recognises the JSP.
Nope, I'm staying on 3.6 and when my clients move to Java 5 I'll be looking around for something else...
Bob
Finally in Chapter 12: Using Advanced Mono Techniques, the author dives into such topics like performance tuning, reflection, and using threads.
Then what the hell are the basics? OK, I can just about let reflection pass, but a developer doesn't deserve to get above the rank of Junior or Beginner until they understand threads and performance tuning.
Bob
What, are the staff at McAfee time travellers? From TFA:-
The Nyxem-E Windows virus first emerged on 16 January
Bob
Last.fm do it in reverse in that they play you back *their* legally owned MP3s based on your playlist. They're licensed as a radio station I believe, but allow you to effectively choose your own playlist. You need to use their player, but it's open source, BSD licensed and runs on Windows/Mac/Linux.
Best of both worlds, 100% legal, and untouchable (especially since they're UK based so the RIAA can't touch them).
Bob
I ordered a couple of pizzas the other night on the phone. One was £7.50, the other £5.00. When it came to reading back my order, the person on the other end of the phone said "hold on please, I've lost my calculator" and put me on hold.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry...
Bob
It's certainly true that when I was at University one of my Professors and some of the students did an exchange with a University in the US.
Anyway, the Professor had to send back for her A Level notes (last couple of years of school before University level stuff) as the US students were way behind the UK curriculum, and every single one of the students came back with straight 'A's even though a lot of them would have been considered average students here in the UK.
All the students said it was the easiest years worth of credits they'd taken and their only complaint was that at the age of 19/20 they weren't old enough to drink.
Bob
Apple did it with OSX and the "Classic" environment - why can't Microsoft?
I suspect that its because Windows is such a mass of spaghetti code that they simply just don't know how to anymore.
Bob
That's about as classic a song as it's possible to get from "In The Court Of The Crimson King" by King Crimson.
Just buy the album, you won't regret it.
Bob
Smoke me a kipper...
Happy New Year to you as well
Bob
Own too many MS shares for your own liking? Or am I speaking to Bill itself?
Bob