Did you read what I wrote? a 233MHz machine running win98 would probably have USB. I'm talking about machines so old that they're running the original win95. These would be boxes that wouldn't even do any good for teaching "basic" computing skills because they'd be so horribly out of date that people would be learning programs they'd never use again (which reminds me of my old HS, which was indeed running a lab of 8088's and teaching a basic class as late as 1996). My "slashdot sensibilities" are refering to a lesser machine than you are.
Probably not. It has become a symbol that means to save, and not so much a symbol that means floppy disk (in this context). It's like those various sayings that we use in everyday life (of which I can naturally think of none to use as an example) that have a certain meaning. Then, one day, you get to thinking about it, and it occurs to you that the phrase really doesn't make any sense. You look up it's origins and find that back in the 1800's it came about because of such and such. That's exactly where we're heading here. We'll still be using it 50 years from now, but most people will have no clue what a floppy disk is.
That must be some pretty poor hardware. I recall USB ports being on mid-range pentiums...and I'm sure they were absolutely standard by the time PII's rolled out. I understand that some places, especially schools, don't update their hardware terribly often, but on the other hand, any $50 box out there should have USB ports.
I don't think the floppy is completely dead, and it won't be for quite some time, but it's not frequently used anymore. I myself gave up on them about 7 years ago and decided it would be more reliable to just email myself anything I needed. For my personal needs, I haven't used a floppy for anything but a boot disk sense.
I'm just waiting for some reliability. Gmail has been good to me, except a few weeks ago I couldn't so much as connect to the site at all for about 6 days. I won't really trust the service until I see beta removed from the title (which may be a while if it's anything like google news....)
That's just human nature. We get used to our environment and we want more. It's rather iritating, but it drives us strive to accomplish things. I won't really try to argue wether it's for the better or for the worse, but I can tell you that taken as a whole, society isn't going to notice this and be content with it anytime soon.
Don't forget the number of people who weren't so sure about the game at all and wanted to give it a try, and then went on to buy the game because they liked it. Not really the "right" way to go about it, but it's not a lost sale if it's acted as a promotional tool that drives a sale.
Although I couldn't agree with you more, it's very commonly overlooked. It's an engineering problem in general. How many times have you picked up a product and after only using it for a short while found ways that it could have been made better. Sometimes it really feels as though the designers never bothered to even test the dumb thing out. Of course you see this in software all the time too. Users are made to input data when the program could just as easily do most or all of it for them. Maybe the user ends up navigating through menus just to do a frequent task. It all seems like these things are common sense, and most of the time they are, but an amazing number of products make it to consumers with stupid problems.
Works great for me too. I signed up early so that I would stop getting calls as soon as the list became active, and the difference was like day and night. All the calls stopped. Now I get virtually no unsolicited calls. It's great.
I might also add that I never got that flood of junk mail that we were threatened with either....
Now you can finally figure out the name of that song on the radio that you've been dying to know!
We've had a way to do that for years, it's called google. Just remember half a line from the song and you'll find it.
This is something that always used to wish existed before google (or perhaps just the web in general). This should be very useful because it's easy to use and very portable. On the other hand, I don't have an AT&T cell phone, so for now I'll just stick to google.
Ah, nice. This is much better than the old trailer ("teaser trailer") I saw a couple of months ago that started off with Peter and Mary-Jane in a diner with a car crashing in. Although that one isn't bad at all. Check out the movie's website and click on "watch it now" under the Full Length Trailer section to see the original teaser and some other stuff as well.
This is great. I follow the link which brings me to a goole search. I then go to the top ranked site it found, slashdot, and once I get there I follow the link to...
You're missing the point. All those hits are a valuable service that they're providing you. It's a brilliant feature of their service designed to keep you on your toes.
Your logging just gets in the way. In fact, your firewall is really in the way of the advanced services they can provide you. I'd turn the whole thing off. Right now, you're just wasting valuable processing power/disk space.
A lot of people have enough trouble figuring out C/C++ when they start programming. Starting out teaching assembly would turn a lot of potential computer scientists away in frustration before they ever get a chance to get a feel for what they would really be doing (which would likely be using a higher level language, and not assembly). The computer science program I am going through right now includes an assembly language class and a more advanced class that follows up and teaches more about the basic machine architecture. Based on the reaction of my classmates, the majority of them would have probbaly switched degrees if they had started with assembly.
Oddly, the writer or somebody out there, seems to think that Google v. Microsoft is analogous to Netscape v. Microsoft. I wasn't aware that you needed to download special software to run this Google search application. Somehow, I don't think Microsoft will find this fight to be as easy.
This is just like Netscape vs. IE. Just wait until longhorn comes out. MS's search engine will be integrated into windows (where it will undoubtedly function as not only a search engine but it will handle all memory access as well, so it can't be removed). It will have the entire web cached and right there waiting for you. It will then use your spare bandwidth to update itself continuously. Who will want to go all the way to google.com to do a search when the entire web is available right on your own computer? Google is doomed for sure.
I think it's a simple matter of economics. That is to say, people want to bring their own computers with them to college and be online in their rooms. If it is not allowed, then there would be a lot of people who would think twice about going there. Yes, it's a stupid thing to make a big difference, the education itself should be the important thing, but I think that it is true. There are a LOT of universities out there that don't stand out as being particularly better than another. A lot of students choose schools just because they are near by. They're looking to go to college, and they're not looking for the kind of school where they need to write 5 essays to get in so that they can compete with the other 20,000 people who have applied.
I don't think most people view it as a luxury (a pampering). It's just something they expect to be able to do.
I'd also say that it would be a hinderence in the whole idea of a university, where people are supposed to come together to learn.
It's interesting to see how Popular Science works though. All they have to do is change the date on their articles every month or two and tada!, new contenet. Who knows, we might see this article come up as brand new again in a few months.
Of course Koreans have easy access to broadband, it's subsidized by their government. When a government wants to get behind something, they can make it work, whatever it is. The downside is that government resources only stretch so far, so when they push broadband, some other area (education, public welfare, defense, economic investment, etc.) will inevitably get less funding. It's just a matter of priorities.
Personally, I don't see what all the fuss is about.
Congress is perfectly within their rights keep on extending copyright protection. After all, who would congress listen to if they didn't listen to the big corporations who benefit from this sort of thing.
Not to say that I disagree with their direction at all. Quite the opposite. In fact, I'm still not satisfied with the law as it stands. I have all kinds of great original ideas that I have shared with my closest friends and family members. They all agree with me and think they're great. But frankly, if I only have control over my ideas until 70 years after I'm dead, I don't see the point of moving forward. So come on congress, give me and the millions of other Americans out there some incentive to be creative.
Sounds like a great way to help push through legislation similar to the do not call registry for mailing and spam.
Incendentally, a good way to deal with an abundance of junk mail to to write "refused, return to sender" on it and drop it in a mail box. It will get send back to the mailer and they will pay for the return postage.
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That sounds more like The Shield..
Did you read what I wrote? a 233MHz machine running win98 would probably have USB. I'm talking about machines so old that they're running the original win95. These would be boxes that wouldn't even do any good for teaching "basic" computing skills because they'd be so horribly out of date that people would be learning programs they'd never use again (which reminds me of my old HS, which was indeed running a lab of 8088's and teaching a basic class as late as 1996). My "slashdot sensibilities" are refering to a lesser machine than you are.
Probably not. It has become a symbol that means to save, and not so much a symbol that means floppy disk (in this context). It's like those various sayings that we use in everyday life (of which I can naturally think of none to use as an example) that have a certain meaning. Then, one day, you get to thinking about it, and it occurs to you that the phrase really doesn't make any sense. You look up it's origins and find that back in the 1800's it came about because of such and such. That's exactly where we're heading here. We'll still be using it 50 years from now, but most people will have no clue what a floppy disk is.
That must be some pretty poor hardware. I recall USB ports being on mid-range pentiums...and I'm sure they were absolutely standard by the time PII's rolled out. I understand that some places, especially schools, don't update their hardware terribly often, but on the other hand, any $50 box out there should have USB ports. I don't think the floppy is completely dead, and it won't be for quite some time, but it's not frequently used anymore. I myself gave up on them about 7 years ago and decided it would be more reliable to just email myself anything I needed. For my personal needs, I haven't used a floppy for anything but a boot disk sense.
I'm just waiting for some reliability. Gmail has been good to me, except a few weeks ago I couldn't so much as connect to the site at all for about 6 days. I won't really trust the service until I see beta removed from the title (which may be a while if it's anything like google news....)
That's just human nature. We get used to our environment and we want more. It's rather iritating, but it drives us strive to accomplish things. I won't really try to argue wether it's for the better or for the worse, but I can tell you that taken as a whole, society isn't going to notice this and be content with it anytime soon.
Don't forget the number of people who weren't so sure about the game at all and wanted to give it a try, and then went on to buy the game because they liked it. Not really the "right" way to go about it, but it's not a lost sale if it's acted as a promotional tool that drives a sale.
If you're living, but have no pulse, I think the real question is: Can you see yourself in a mirror?
It makes perfect sense to me. Each side can have their segways form a line, about 50 yards apart. A second line of segways behind the first could...
Now why would my windows have to be rolled down for you to hear my music?... :)
Although I couldn't agree with you more, it's very commonly overlooked. It's an engineering problem in general. How many times have you picked up a product and after only using it for a short while found ways that it could have been made better. Sometimes it really feels as though the designers never bothered to even test the dumb thing out. Of course you see this in software all the time too. Users are made to input data when the program could just as easily do most or all of it for them. Maybe the user ends up navigating through menus just to do a frequent task. It all seems like these things are common sense, and most of the time they are, but an amazing number of products make it to consumers with stupid problems.
Works great for me too. I signed up early so that I would stop getting calls as soon as the list became active, and the difference was like day and night. All the calls stopped. Now I get virtually no unsolicited calls. It's great.
I might also add that I never got that flood of junk mail that we were threatened with either....
We've had a way to do that for years, it's called google. Just remember half a line from the song and you'll find it.
This is something that always used to wish existed before google (or perhaps just the web in general). This should be very useful because it's easy to use and very portable. On the other hand, I don't have an AT&T cell phone, so for now I'll just stick to google.
Ah, nice. This is much better than the old trailer ("teaser trailer") I saw a couple of months ago that started off with Peter and Mary-Jane in a diner with a car crashing in. Although that one isn't bad at all. Check out the movie's website and click on "watch it now" under the Full Length Trailer section to see the original teaser and some other stuff as well.
This is great. I follow the link which brings me to a goole search. I then go to the top ranked site it found, slashdot, and once I get there I follow the link to...
You're missing the point. All those hits are a valuable service that they're providing you. It's a brilliant feature of their service designed to keep you on your toes. Your logging just gets in the way. In fact, your firewall is really in the way of the advanced services they can provide you. I'd turn the whole thing off. Right now, you're just wasting valuable processing power/disk space.
A lot of people have enough trouble figuring out C/C++ when they start programming. Starting out teaching assembly would turn a lot of potential computer scientists away in frustration before they ever get a chance to get a feel for what they would really be doing (which would likely be using a higher level language, and not assembly). The computer science program I am going through right now includes an assembly language class and a more advanced class that follows up and teaches more about the basic machine architecture. Based on the reaction of my classmates, the majority of them would have probbaly switched degrees if they had started with assembly.
Oddly, the writer or somebody out there, seems to think that Google v. Microsoft is analogous to Netscape v. Microsoft. I wasn't aware that you needed to download special software to run this Google search application. Somehow, I don't think Microsoft will find this fight to be as easy.
This is just like Netscape vs. IE. Just wait until longhorn comes out. MS's search engine will be integrated into windows (where it will undoubtedly function as not only a search engine but it will handle all memory access as well, so it can't be removed). It will have the entire web cached and right there waiting for you. It will then use your spare bandwidth to update itself continuously. Who will want to go all the way to google.com to do a search when the entire web is available right on your own computer? Google is doomed for sure.
I think it's a simple matter of economics. That is to say, people want to bring their own computers with them to college and be online in their rooms. If it is not allowed, then there would be a lot of people who would think twice about going there. Yes, it's a stupid thing to make a big difference, the education itself should be the important thing, but I think that it is true. There are a LOT of universities out there that don't stand out as being particularly better than another. A lot of students choose schools just because they are near by. They're looking to go to college, and they're not looking for the kind of school where they need to write 5 essays to get in so that they can compete with the other 20,000 people who have applied. I don't think most people view it as a luxury (a pampering). It's just something they expect to be able to do. I'd also say that it would be a hinderence in the whole idea of a university, where people are supposed to come together to learn.
It's interesting to see how Popular Science works though. All they have to do is change the date on their articles every month or two and tada!, new contenet. Who knows, we might see this article come up as brand new again in a few months.
Of course Koreans have easy access to broadband, it's subsidized by their government. When a government wants to get behind something, they can make it work, whatever it is. The downside is that government resources only stretch so far, so when they push broadband, some other area (education, public welfare, defense, economic investment, etc.) will inevitably get less funding. It's just a matter of priorities.
It would have been perfect in Homer's car last season though...
Personally, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Congress is perfectly within their rights keep on extending copyright protection. After all, who would congress listen to if they didn't listen to the big corporations who benefit from this sort of thing. Not to say that I disagree with their direction at all. Quite the opposite. In fact, I'm still not satisfied with the law as it stands. I have all kinds of great original ideas that I have shared with my closest friends and family members. They all agree with me and think they're great. But frankly, if I only have control over my ideas until 70 years after I'm dead, I don't see the point of moving forward. So come on congress, give me and the millions of other Americans out there some incentive to be creative.
Sounds like a great way to help push through legislation similar to the do not call registry for mailing and spam. Incendentally, a good way to deal with an abundance of junk mail to to write "refused, return to sender" on it and drop it in a mail box. It will get send back to the mailer and they will pay for the return postage.
DirecTV is not owned by GM. It is owned by Hughes, which was owned by GM, but spun off last year.