That used to be the system here in the UK: only the final exams count. However it was changed a few years ago (well OK about 20) to be a mix of coursework and exams. The driver being that exams test two things:
1. You're knowledge of the stuff.
2. Your ability to do written exams.
The idea of doing a mix of both is to reduce the impact of your ability to do written exams (well or not).
Personally I think it's quite a good idea: both the exams and the coursework is both internally (across the department within a school) and externally moderated (by the exam board across all schools doing that course).
Well to be fair, I bought a pirate copy of Catwoman in Hong Kong: my wife and watched and stopped half way through. What a pile of shit!
We would have gone and wasted our cash seeing it in the cinema (and walking out half way through) so in a sense piracy did cost the picture makers. But it saved us from wasting our time on some shit.
"I, Robot" now is the exact opposite. Having heard rumours etc about it we weren't going to see it. Having watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it on the pirate copy, again bought openly in a Hong Kong street market, we're planning to see it in the cinema. In that case piracy has had actually made the film maker's money!
Yeah they use a couple of those obsolete Intel CPUs to handle battery power management. What are they called now.... hmm oh yes Pentium 4 EE (EE for Energy Efficient I think).
Do you even own an iBook, PB or iPod? Or are you just repeating second-hand gossip from a friend of a friend who once knew someone who thought he saw a PowerBook one time on a train?
Neither of my PowerBooks nor my 2nd and 3rd gen iPods have any battery problems at all. After 2 years my 2nd gen iPod still ran for 8 hours and my 3rd gen is better.
Take your FUD and stick it where the sun don't shine.
I think what will work against it is the same repulsion people feel for the disabled, the deformed and the just plain different. (All of which are there to ensure you mate with a partner whose likely to give you strong, healthy and succesful offspring.)
I think the same will apply to implants and a mere 200 years won't be enough to overturn a several million years of evolution: we've evolved to be turned off by freaks.
Without DRM on iTMS music Apple wouldn't be allowed to sell the stuff.
Whilst I agree with your implicit statement that most Americans are dumb morons (hey look at your leader!) who'd give away basic freedoms for a bag of shiney beads you could at least get whose to blame right. Here's a hint for you: it isn't Apple.
Hmm yes I can fit standard IDE and SATA drives into my PC but it leaves a hell of a bulge in my suit pocket.
You're rather missing the point. Personally I really don't want to carry a housebrick around with me to listen to music: the iPod is about as big as I am willing to tolerate. (The smaller solid state players are just to much of a fag to use: I'm simply not going to select and download a different selection of music each day).
But I simply cannot imagine having any of this kind of enhancement: ever. I might consider it if say it was to restore something I'd lost completely (like my sight) but as an enhancement? No I don't think so. But then perhaps I'm a luddite: I haven't seriously considered laser eye surgery, partly because it's risky (however small) but mostly because my current eyeballs + glasses work just fine.
And as a humorous aside: how long do you think it would be before scumware companies worked out how to spam you new implants? "I ploughed into that part of school children because I was distracted by the advert for cheap viagra my retinaly implants I had just received".
lessor? where were you when they were teaching spulling? Or has Bush cut education spending that far already.
Anyway. Let's see, Bush has: sent American troops to die in an illegal war and after lying to the country about the reasons. He's presided over a regime that's successively stripped away your rights and freedoms. He's had out billions in tax breaks and dodgy contracts to his cronies (Halliburton): to such an extent that he's turned a massive budget surplus under the Democrats into a truly awe-inspiring defecit.
And what has Kelly done?
Clinton only lied about who was sucking his dick (and how is that anyone else's business anyway). Bush lied and got thousands of people killed, *increased* terrorism and reduced your freedoms (including the freedom to learn how to spell it seems).
And Kelly has done what exactly that even begins to compare with Bush's fundamental corruption? Hmm let's see.... Nope, nothing is still the answer. Let's face it, in many ways Saddam Hussein would be the lesser of two evils when put up against Dubyah: at least he's honest about how he came to power.
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Yeah but for that to happen you'd have to be over 21.
I know, I too get frustrated by the fact that other people can afford Ferraris and I can't.
Fortunately I can afford to buy something better than a WinDOH!s PC: although I was too slow to persuade my employer to buy me a PowerBook ("oh sorry, would have done, but we've already bought you a Dell. It's a really nice Dell, well it was until it went bleep,bleep,bleeep and we had to reinstall Windows again").
Moderation is exactly to allow the moderators to enforce their views on others, it's naive of you to think otherwise. All moderation is based on their personal opinion.
I thought your previous posting WAS flamebait although it lacked the usual profanity: your second posting was offtopic (as is my post but I have Karma to spare so I burn it often;-) and yours was also flamebait and contained plenty of profanity as well as personal attacks on some anonymous moderator.
Hope YOU have karma to burn otherwise shortly you'll be posting at a starting -1;-)
You know, I can't remember the last time I was asked to deliver a product that printed "Hello World" so whether or not the JVM is too heavyweight for such an app' is moot. And even if it was: throw more hardware at it. Hardware is cheap. Maintaining code is expensive and C++ has a much higher maintenance overhead than Java does (pointers, object ownership, misused multiple inheritance - the list goes on).
Seriously, this was a 100% fluff article. The foundation for the article was based entirely on the assertion that a Google for "Java" brought back far fewer hits than "NET": well no shit Sherlock- perhaps if you'd tried ".NET" instead?
The major problem Java has is EJBs: everyone in Java-land seems to think that their problem requires solving using this pile of crap. A web application with persistence- ooh we'd better use EJBs then!
A secondary issue for Java is the barrier to entry is extremely high: sure you can learn the language quickly but it's Java's libraries that add the real value. And there are an awful lot of them. I've been using Java for 10 years (yeah I developed using the AWT and cursed it every day: if it hadn't been for the AWT being so awful I'd never have thought Swing was any good). Anyway, I've been using Java for 10 years and I would hate to have to learn it from scratch today.
And then they'd have to decide on a percentage of people that would be gay and add a check to see whether your target was and and and. You sound like a user "oh yeah just add feature Y I want it so it must be easy to do".
Wow yes I can see this is so much better than Java!
public class Hello
{
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out,println("hello world");
}
}
Oh, no it isn't, look at that I did the same thing in Java with one line less of code: and Java and J2EE are already available on Win, OSX, *nix. So C# and.Net are useful why?
(Are methods and classes really public by default in C#?)
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That's all we need: Franken-Coral.
That used to be the system here in the UK: only the final exams count. However it was changed a few years ago (well OK about 20) to be a mix of coursework and exams. The driver being that exams test two things:
The idea of doing a mix of both is to reduce the impact of your ability to do written exams (well or not).
Personally I think it's quite a good idea: both the exams and the coursework is both internally (across the department within a school) and externally moderated (by the exam board across all schools doing that course).
Well to be fair, I bought a pirate copy of Catwoman in Hong Kong: my wife and watched and stopped half way through. What a pile of shit!
We would have gone and wasted our cash seeing it in the cinema (and walking out half way through) so in a sense piracy did cost the picture makers. But it saved us from wasting our time on some shit.
"I, Robot" now is the exact opposite. Having heard rumours etc about it we weren't going to see it. Having watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it on the pirate copy, again bought openly in a Hong Kong street market, we're planning to see it in the cinema. In that case piracy has had actually made the film maker's money!
Yeah they use a couple of those obsolete Intel CPUs to handle battery power management. What are they called now.... hmm oh yes Pentium 4 EE (EE for Energy Efficient I think).
Do you even own an iBook, PB or iPod? Or are you just repeating second-hand gossip from a friend of a friend who once knew someone who thought he saw a PowerBook one time on a train?
Neither of my PowerBooks nor my 2nd and 3rd gen iPods have any battery problems at all. After 2 years my 2nd gen iPod still ran for 8 hours and my 3rd gen is better.
Take your FUD and stick it where the sun don't shine.
Actually you know: I doubt that will be true.
I think what will work against it is the same repulsion people feel for the disabled, the deformed and the just plain different. (All of which are there to ensure you mate with a partner whose likely to give you strong, healthy and succesful offspring.)
I think the same will apply to implants and a mere 200 years won't be enough to overturn a several million years of evolution: we've evolved to be turned off by freaks.
What complete and utter horsehit.
Without DRM on iTMS music Apple wouldn't be allowed to sell the stuff.
Whilst I agree with your implicit statement that most Americans are dumb morons (hey look at your leader!) who'd give away basic freedoms for a bag of shiney beads you could at least get whose to blame right. Here's a hint for you: it isn't Apple.
Hmm yes I can fit standard IDE and SATA drives into my PC but it leaves a hell of a bulge in my suit pocket.
You're rather missing the point. Personally I really don't want to carry a housebrick around with me to listen to music: the iPod is about as big as I am willing to tolerate. (The smaller solid state players are just to much of a fag to use: I'm simply not going to select and download a different selection of music each day).
But I simply cannot imagine having any of this kind of enhancement: ever. I might consider it if say it was to restore something I'd lost completely (like my sight) but as an enhancement? No I don't think so. But then perhaps I'm a luddite: I haven't seriously considered laser eye surgery, partly because it's risky (however small) but mostly because my current eyeballs + glasses work just fine.
And as a humorous aside: how long do you think it would be before scumware companies worked out how to spam you new implants? "I ploughed into that part of school children because I was distracted by the advert for cheap viagra my retinaly implants I had just received".
Well if IBM get their judgement this could be just about the best news for free software since GNU started.
It's certainkly worth the trauma of the last year to get the GPL publicly upheld in court.
Here's three cheers for IBM (and SCO;-).
Err simple. Most of that money is owed to US citizens...
$5 you were ripped.
Try allofmp3.com where an album costs around 60 cents, comes in any format or bit rate you want and has absoltely no DRM at all ever.
I love my iPod and my 3 Macs but why anyone would buy from iTMS (or Real) when there's allofmp3 I don't know.
Hmm. Who else do we know that has such difficulty with the English language? Hmmmm...
COME ON OUT GEORGE we know it's you hiding behind that Sumbumass moniker!
lessor? where were you when they were teaching spulling? Or has Bush cut education spending that far already.
Anyway. Let's see, Bush has: sent American troops to die in an illegal war and after lying to the country about the reasons. He's presided over a regime that's successively stripped away your rights and freedoms. He's had out billions in tax breaks and dodgy contracts to his cronies (Halliburton): to such an extent that he's turned a massive budget surplus under the Democrats into a truly awe-inspiring defecit.
And what has Kelly done?
Clinton only lied about who was sucking his dick (and how is that anyone else's business anyway). Bush lied and got thousands of people killed, *increased* terrorism and reduced your freedoms (including the freedom to learn how to spell it seems).
And Kelly has done what exactly that even begins to compare with Bush's fundamental corruption? Hmm let's see.... Nope, nothing is still the answer. Let's face it, in many ways Saddam Hussein would be the lesser of two evils when put up against Dubyah: at least he's honest about how he came to power.
Yeah but for that to happen you'd have to be over 21.
I know, I too get frustrated by the fact that other people can afford Ferraris and I can't.
Fortunately I can afford to buy something better than a WinDOH!s PC: although I was too slow to persuade my employer to buy me a PowerBook ("oh sorry, would have done, but we've already bought you a Dell. It's a really nice Dell, well it was until it went bleep,bleep,bleeep and we had to reinstall Windows again").
Moderation is exactly to allow the moderators to enforce their views on others, it's naive of you to think otherwise. All moderation is based on their personal opinion.
I thought your previous posting WAS flamebait although it lacked the usual profanity: your second posting was offtopic (as is my post but I have Karma to spare so I burn it often ;-) and yours was also flamebait and contained plenty of profanity as well as personal attacks on some anonymous moderator.
Hope YOU have karma to burn otherwise shortly you'll be posting at a starting -1 ;-)
Nah if Dell had patented it there'd be a lot of us being treated for shock: "OMG Dell actually came up with something original- ARGH!".
But it'll never happen: Dell only innovate in making the cheapest, most crappy computers they can get some dumb schmucks to pay for.
I have, I am doing and I do.
And here's that link again spring framework from a non-AC poster so this should be more visible here ;-)
If you're going to nitpick at least get your facts straight !
23 May 1995 Sun announced Java and HotJava at Sun Con.
You know, I can't remember the last time I was asked to deliver a product that printed "Hello World" so whether or not the JVM is too heavyweight for such an app' is moot. And even if it was: throw more hardware at it. Hardware is cheap. Maintaining code is expensive and C++ has a much higher maintenance overhead than Java does (pointers, object ownership, misused multiple inheritance - the list goes on).
Seriously, this was a 100% fluff article. The foundation for the article was based entirely on the assertion that a Google for "Java" brought back far fewer hits than "NET": well no shit Sherlock- perhaps if you'd tried ".NET" instead?
The major problem Java has is EJBs: everyone in Java-land seems to think that their problem requires solving using this pile of crap. A web application with persistence- ooh we'd better use EJBs then!
A secondary issue for Java is the barrier to entry is extremely high: sure you can learn the language quickly but it's Java's libraries that add the real value. And there are an awful lot of them. I've been using Java for 10 years (yeah I developed using the AWT and cursed it every day: if it hadn't been for the AWT being so awful I'd never have thought Swing was any good). Anyway, I've been using Java for 10 years and I would hate to have to learn it from scratch today.
Because AFAIK no other state in the Union is dominated by a single church in the way that Utah is dominated by the Mormons.
And then they'd have to decide on a percentage of people that would be gay and add a check to see whether your target was and and and. You sound like a user "oh yeah just add feature Y I want it so it must be easy to do".
Wow yes I can see this is so much better than Java! public class Hello { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out,println("hello world"); } } Oh, no it isn't, look at that I did the same thing in Java with one line less of code: and Java and J2EE are already available on Win, OSX, *nix. So C# and .Net are useful why?
(Are methods and classes really public by default in C#?)