the idea (or at least the most common result) of the AP tests are to give one college credit for knowledge one has gained prior to attending such an institution. Therefore, they would try to replicate the knowledge set most commonly related in college, most notably the coding portion. Intro comp sci courses involve coding, so therefore the AP's do as well. Ideally just knowledge of the basic concepts would be worthwhile, but the AP's are bound by what the colleges teach, so they must cover the java
While it is true that there are forums for venting on issues in the US, the key distinction is that such forums as the referenced Hatch/. article are so insignificant to the big picture that posting one's views there has about as much effect on the political landscape as posting the same comments using stickynotes to your bedroom wall. The point here is to allow critical responses to have a larger voice, elevating them to a position of, perhaps, being something other than completely ineffectual replies that are ultimately futile.
now if the chinese dropped a probe of their own down to the core we'd be all set! Of course, what we really need is a big zero-gravity theme park located directly at the core of the earth. unfortunately the cost to get in would be a bit expensive what with all the air conditioning costs and all...
How can a website possibly fake the lock-icon which happens to be on the toolbar?
Due to the special "features" of IE, it is possible to eliminate the status bar (not task bar) where the lock icon usually resides. By then creating a page using frames it would then be possible to replicate the look of the status bar without much trouble at all, even including the text of the page loading sequence using something so simple as an animated gif.
at a mass of one gram i very much doubt that we're anywhere near the kind of small scale necessary for quantum effects (which i presume are the "completely different set of physical laws" you speak of") to take effect in this technology. For such laws to take over would mean a decrease in the size of these muscles by many many orders of magnitude, something that, with their forseen purpose of replacing small electrical motors, i don't see being on the "roadmap" of nanomuscles, at least of this variety
When we were sophomores in high school but a scant few years ago, a few friends of mine and i decided to put together a computer club of sorts to explore one of our favorite hobbies in all its many iterations as well as to teach others about computers. Eventually the focus of the club shifted to focus primarily on designing a webpage for the school. We had grand plans, but the problem came when we realized the true extent of the paranoia of school officials when it came to the evil influences that are supposed to propogate through this internet thing they had so recently heard of. As a result, we had restriction after restriction piled upon us, resulting in a website that could not show pictures of the school, the name or pictures of students, or the pictures of staff members. Eventually, as the fearfulness of administrators reached a crescendo with the world trade center disaster, we ended up scrapping the project entirely, as we saw no reason to battle for a project that no one except ourselves seemed to want.
In the end, my overly long story comes down to this: make sure you fully educate your administrators on what it is you are to be doing in this club lest they smite you with their ignorance and put an end to this club, whether or not you are truly doing anything wrong.
The problem with this approach is that the technology does not seem to be well suited to the punishing demands on durability and long-term use that credit cards and other wallet-dwellers are subject to.
"The card actually has moveable parts inside its thin shell," says Bill Heil, vice president of StorCard.
The presence of moving parts almost ensures that the drive will wear out after a time, especially considering the beating taken by being sat on repeatedly in a wallet over several years' time
Those pictures of the beta levels look an awful lot like some of the levels from quake 3. The technological look with silver walls full of dials and miscellaneous lights really resembles, say the tutorial level in the newer game minus, of course, the whole 3d thing.
One of my main problems with realplayer (and other real products) is the fact that it dumps all manner of ad- and spy-ware on my computer whenever i install it. Therefore, i wonder if the lisence includes stipulations about including advertising software despite the rest of the project being open source. Other than a scheme such as this one, I can't see how a company with a financial scheme like Real could get much benefit out of this arrangement. After all, I find it hard to imagine a large company such as this one just trying to do the Right Thing by the open source people.
i really can't see any possible way of detecting things such as these. They move so fast and are so small that it would be extremely difficult to detect one even if you knew exactly which direction to look, which, of course, we do not. Therefore chances of detecting these things are pretty much negligable even if effort was put into it (which will certainly not be the case with the funding space stuff gets these days).
i believe they included something about "grating it raw" or something to that effect.:::shudder::: oh well, guess that won't be a problem for him anymore...
my fps was incredibly slow even with my g4 4400, and didn't really even approach the 12 fps stated in the post. This leak is really good for the graphics card makers, as the slow play rate lends itself nicely to buying a new graphics card to make this highly anticipated game playable. Obviously they will improve performance later on in production, but things still don't look promising for my current system...
with the amount of raw computing power available for low prices (at least low to a large company), is this really necessary? More importantly, though it may have some use for a choice few businesses, the problem seems to arise in regaining those 10 billion dollars put into this project. even if this is a moderately sized success, it seems unlikely that a large profit would be made outside of merely regaining the investment.
you realize, of course, that this very strategy is of the utmost importance for the most successful corporations out there. Without providing competitive pay, one cannot attract the best leaders to the company and thus cannot make a profit. Of course, I am in no way defending the criminal acts of some executives in this company, but the point stands nonetheless.
what am i dressing up as? Well, in a kind of ill-considered show of bravado i agreed to dress in drag with a (male) friend of mine. Oh god the embarrasment of shopping for women's chlothes. Especially when the key word for the outing is "sluttify.":::shudder:::
This sets me to thinking about a true, built in dividing line that has the potential to divide humanity physiologically into classes of "haves" and "have nots." While the inhabitants of wealthy nations may be able to afford the kind of genetic tailoring necessary to lead to increased life spans those in poorer nations will almost certainly be unable to implement these kinds of measures for their children. THe end result could be an even greater disregard among wealthy nations such as the US for the well-being of the inhabitants of poor nations.
Instead of merely sloughing off undesireable industries to these nations with only cursory safety protocols, these protocols may be seen as unnecessary, as, in comparison to the genetically tailored upper class of the world, the longevity of these "lesser" humans is seen as unimportant as a result of their already "inferior" lifespans. In other words, a decade plus or minus is inconsequential.
Take these words as you wish, but i can see this as a possibility in some kind of future world with this kind of advanced biotech.
So what happens to those people who don't want to live forever?
I think that with the introduction of something like this in humans we will have a massive protest from groups on the religious right who see this as a circumvention of God's will. As such, I can see a surge in support of the right to die movement as people try to hold on to "traditional" times of death.
I see this a positive thing as it will hopefully lead to greater control for people over their own lives (and where it ends) by removing some of the stigma associated with ending ones own life in contemporary society.
Our many varied theories over the past have been wrong. All of our studies and science have not yielded the truth. Bigfoot as the cultural myth we know does not exist, for we now have proof that it is not a furry guy in the woods, but rather this creature.
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the idea (or at least the most common result) of the AP tests are to give one college credit for knowledge one has gained prior to attending such an institution. Therefore, they would try to replicate the knowledge set most commonly related in college, most notably the coding portion. Intro comp sci courses involve coding, so therefore the AP's do as well. Ideally just knowledge of the basic concepts would be worthwhile, but the AP's are bound by what the colleges teach, so they must cover the java
This is all a result of global warming.
yeah, those martians might start dying off pretty quick if we destroy their canal systems
While it is true that there are forums for venting on issues in the US, the key distinction is that such forums as the referenced Hatch /. article are so insignificant to the big picture that posting one's views there has about as much effect on the political landscape as posting the same comments using stickynotes to your bedroom wall. The point here is to allow critical responses to have a larger voice, elevating them to a position of, perhaps, being something other than completely ineffectual replies that are ultimately futile.
now if the chinese dropped a probe of their own down to the core we'd be all set! Of course, what we really need is a big zero-gravity theme park located directly at the core of the earth. unfortunately the cost to get in would be a bit expensive what with all the air conditioning costs and all...
Due to the special "features" of IE, it is possible to eliminate the status bar (not task bar) where the lock icon usually resides. By then creating a page using frames it would then be possible to replicate the look of the status bar without much trouble at all, even including the text of the page loading sequence using something so simple as an animated gif.
at a mass of one gram i very much doubt that we're anywhere near the kind of small scale necessary for quantum effects (which i presume are the "completely different set of physical laws" you speak of") to take effect in this technology. For such laws to take over would mean a decrease in the size of these muscles by many many orders of magnitude, something that, with their forseen purpose of replacing small electrical motors, i don't see being on the "roadmap" of nanomuscles, at least of this variety
In the end, my overly long story comes down to this: make sure you fully educate your administrators on what it is you are to be doing in this club lest they smite you with their ignorance and put an end to this club, whether or not you are truly doing anything wrong.
The problem with this approach is that the technology does not seem to be well suited to the punishing demands on durability and long-term use that credit cards and other wallet-dwellers are subject to.
The presence of moving parts almost ensures that the drive will wear out after a time, especially considering the beating taken by being sat on repeatedly in a wallet over several years' time
and the best part is, no receipts are required, making the process of claiming your money very easy (and exploitable by some)...
Those pictures of the beta levels look an awful lot like some of the levels from quake 3. The technological look with silver walls full of dials and miscellaneous lights really resembles, say the tutorial level in the newer game minus, of course, the whole 3d thing.
One of my main problems with realplayer (and other real products) is the fact that it dumps all manner of ad- and spy-ware on my computer whenever i install it. Therefore, i wonder if the lisence includes stipulations about including advertising software despite the rest of the project being open source. Other than a scheme such as this one, I can't see how a company with a financial scheme like Real could get much benefit out of this arrangement. After all, I find it hard to imagine a large company such as this one just trying to do the Right Thing by the open source people.
i really can't see any possible way of detecting things such as these. They move so fast and are so small that it would be extremely difficult to detect one even if you knew exactly which direction to look, which, of course, we do not. Therefore chances of detecting these things are pretty much negligable even if effort was put into it (which will certainly not be the case with the funding space stuff gets these days).
Well, in my opinion, anything related to laserdisc can't be bad, right guys? guys...?
you know, i made the post and i agree with you wholeheartedly. mods on crack i guess...
"All your base are belong to us". Please, when posting shitty jokes, at least post them correctly.
i believe they included something about "grating it raw" or something to that effect. :::shudder::: oh well, guess that won't be a problem for him anymore...
my fps was incredibly slow even with my g4 4400, and didn't really even approach the 12 fps stated in the post. This leak is really good for the graphics card makers, as the slow play rate lends itself nicely to buying a new graphics card to make this highly anticipated game playable. Obviously they will improve performance later on in production, but things still don't look promising for my current system...
with the amount of raw computing power available for low prices (at least low to a large company), is this really necessary? More importantly, though it may have some use for a choice few businesses, the problem seems to arise in regaining those 10 billion dollars put into this project. even if this is a moderately sized success, it seems unlikely that a large profit would be made outside of merely regaining the investment.
you realize, of course, that this very strategy is of the utmost importance for the most successful corporations out there. Without providing competitive pay, one cannot attract the best leaders to the company and thus cannot make a profit. Of course, I am in no way defending the criminal acts of some executives in this company, but the point stands nonetheless.
what am i dressing up as? Well, in a kind of ill-considered show of bravado i agreed to dress in drag with a (male) friend of mine. Oh god the embarrasment of shopping for women's chlothes. Especially when the key word for the outing is "sluttify." :::shudder:::
This sets me to thinking about a true, built in dividing line that has the potential to divide humanity physiologically into classes of "haves" and "have nots." While the inhabitants of wealthy nations may be able to afford the kind of genetic tailoring necessary to lead to increased life spans those in poorer nations will almost certainly be unable to implement these kinds of measures for their children. THe end result could be an even greater disregard among wealthy nations such as the US for the well-being of the inhabitants of poor nations.
Instead of merely sloughing off undesireable industries to these nations with only cursory safety protocols, these protocols may be seen as unnecessary, as, in comparison to the genetically tailored upper class of the world, the longevity of these "lesser" humans is seen as unimportant as a result of their already "inferior" lifespans. In other words, a decade plus or minus is inconsequential.
Take these words as you wish, but i can see this as a possibility in some kind of future world with this kind of advanced biotech.
I think that with the introduction of something like this in humans we will have a massive protest from groups on the religious right who see this as a circumvention of God's will. As such, I can see a surge in support of the right to die movement as people try to hold on to "traditional" times of death.
I see this a positive thing as it will hopefully lead to greater control for people over their own lives (and where it ends) by removing some of the stigma associated with ending ones own life in contemporary society.
Our many varied theories over the past have been wrong. All of our studies and science have not yielded the truth. Bigfoot as the cultural myth we know does not exist, for we now have proof that it is not a furry guy in the woods, but rather this creature.