Funny, my experience with math was the exact opposite. I did great in Algebra, while I did poorly in Calculus. My algebra courses could all be done without a calculator, and actually required you to think and apply principles to solve problems. Calculus was a lot more memorization, d/dx sin(x) = cos(x), and countless other formulas you had to remember to find derivatives and integrals. Maybe it's just a matter of having bad teachers in one subject or the other. Or the fact that both of them contains elements that are both repetitive memorization, and creative problem solving, and the some teachers tend to focus on one or the other.
There was a scam going on here in Ontario with the same premise a few years ago. They would advertise a job in a local paper. Get you to send in a resume. Then call you up and give you a fake interview. A few days later, they'd call and say they were considering you for a position and ask you to send all the information to them (DOB, Name, SIN (Social Insurance Number, same as SSN)) plus a bunch of other personally identifying information. People who were pretty desperate for a job would send give them all the info, and then they would have their identity a couple days later. Really ingenious scam when you think about it. When everybody else is watching out for phishing sites, these guys were just using old technology to collect all the information. Problem is, is that once the police figured it out, it was very easy to trace back to the scammers.
The Americans have already been to the moon. I find it sad that they managed to do the entire Apollo program for somewhere between 20 and 25 million (135 billion in 2005 dollars), when they had to develop completely new technology. Why can't they just rebuild the Apollo rockets. Did they lose the plans along with the moon landing tapes? Going to the moon should have been figured out by now. We don't need any new technologies to accomplish this. Just reuse old designs.
You think engineering texts are expensive? You should see medical texts. And they got the same racket going with having a professional organization, that requires you graduate from an accredited institution. They also require that you go to school for like 7 years, not just a measly 4 years. If you don make it through systems engineering, and get your P. Eng. you most likely will be making enough money that the cost of the text books will seem like it was all worth it in the end.
Very true. When you count the costs of tuition, food, lodging, clothing, transporation, and all the other expenses of going to university, I would say that the cost of books make very little difference as to the overall cost of the schooling. And most of the students are wasting tons of money on cafeteria food and alcohol, and yet still think they have the right to complain that text books are too expensive.
And half the movies and CDs we take home are scratched enough that they skip quite a bit. Of course the books aren't in great condition either, but due to the fact that the data density is so much smaller, a scratch doesn't seem to cause any problems in readability. I wonder what the legal ramifications of lending out a copy of the original CD/DVD from the library, so that they can make another copy to lend when the first becomes unreadable?
I turned history off a long time ago. I don't ever use it. With the number of sites I visit in a day, I can't every find anything in there anyway, so no point leaving it around for others to stumble upon.
It doesn't need to be able to transmit this data back to the server, but it's extremely difficult to get it to not transmit it back to the server, if you are allowing at least something to be transmitted back to the server. Say you didn't want the size of an element transmitted back to the server. Well, you'd have to track every variable you assigned it to, and track every variable those were assigned, appended, or encoded to to ensure that none of that data in any way made it out to a server anywhere. It's a very hard problem when you think about all the ways you could obfuscate the data, and try to confuse the javascript engine as to what you are trying to do with the data.
I've been doing this with firefox for years. Just go to the privacy section of your options/preferences, and disable history, disable cookies, and tell it to clear your history every time you leave. Really I just have it set for no password/form/history saved, and only accept first party cookies until I close firefox, except for the white list I have so I don't have to keep on signing in to my usual sites.
I highly doubt it. How would the battle net servers know your internal LAN IP? Unless they developed some specific code to do specifically this, then I doubt that it would work. In most cases, they would probably want to send all data directly through their own servers, so that you don't get to figure out the IP address of those you are playing against.
Yeah, but Windows 95 didn't even have a web browser with it. When you get the ultimate edition of windows 7, you get quite a bit more than what you got with Windows 95. Not that you probably need all that, but if you don't need it, you are still free to buy whichever edition you want.
I had the same experience when change from Vista to Vista on my laptop. I formatted the machine and installed a fresh copy of just Vista, without all the crap ware, and boot times went from 2 minutes to 30 seconds. Also, the entire machine is much more responsive.
That's nothing. I had a psychology professor in university who got a grant to study the mindset of a middle aged man sailing around the world. Take one guess as to who that middle aged man was.
And then someone would write a browser plugin that would fake the referer information so that it looked like you were coming from their own site, or from nowhere at all (you typed in the URL).
Exactly. If you don't believe in god, then a church is just another building, and has as much significance to you as any other community centre where people like to gather.
Well, not quite all parties that get any votes have a say, but any party that wins in any riding (we have 308 ridings across the country), get's a seat in parliament, and gets to vote on laws being passed. For the last 5? years we've had a minoriry government. which means that no single party holds more than 50% of the seats. This means they actually have to compromise if they want to get anything passed.
There's a lot of newspapers with very little news of an value in them. My city has 2 major papers, and you can compare one to the other. The second one linked to often has Paris Hilton and the likes on the front cover. Their top news story for the day is something to do with monster trucks.
Yeah Intel does make faster processors. But you'll pay for them. The AMD chips cost about the same as the comparable Intel chips, so in the end, the decision just comes down to religion. Unless you want to talk about spending $500 on a processor.
For the price they are incurring developing their own system, they could probably just outsource their payroll to a 3rd party with an already existing system.
Reproduce is the operative word here. The only thing that matters to evolution is whether or not a certain mutation will result in a person that can reproduce and who's children can reproduce. So you really don't ever get into a situation where something like cancer resistance will be chosen for, because for most cancers, you have already reproduced and raised your children by the time cancer gets you.
You could say that, but you would be wrong. Getting 100/100 on Acid3 does not in any way prove that you follow the specs 100%. ACID 3 tests a certain portion of the standards that most browsers have trouble with. Personally, I've found that Safari which also has a history of scoring very high on these tests, has many rendering bugs that show up when rendering normal everyday webpages. Scoring 100% ACID 3 only means that you have created a browser than can render ACID 3 correctly, and not that your browser would render any other web page properly when it was trying to read it.
And why can't I sync my non-Apple device with my iTunes library?
The same reason you can't sync your iPhone with Palm Desktop. The same reason you can't sync your Zune with the sony SonicStage software. iTunes was made specifically to sync with iPods. As someone else pointed out, it does sync with a couple other players. However the main purpose of iTunes is to put stuff on your ipod.
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Funny, my experience with math was the exact opposite. I did great in Algebra, while I did poorly in Calculus. My algebra courses could all be done without a calculator, and actually required you to think and apply principles to solve problems. Calculus was a lot more memorization, d/dx sin(x) = cos(x), and countless other formulas you had to remember to find derivatives and integrals. Maybe it's just a matter of having bad teachers in one subject or the other. Or the fact that both of them contains elements that are both repetitive memorization, and creative problem solving, and the some teachers tend to focus on one or the other.
There was a scam going on here in Ontario with the same premise a few years ago. They would advertise a job in a local paper. Get you to send in a resume. Then call you up and give you a fake interview. A few days later, they'd call and say they were considering you for a position and ask you to send all the information to them (DOB, Name, SIN (Social Insurance Number, same as SSN)) plus a bunch of other personally identifying information. People who were pretty desperate for a job would send give them all the info, and then they would have their identity a couple days later. Really ingenious scam when you think about it. When everybody else is watching out for phishing sites, these guys were just using old technology to collect all the information. Problem is, is that once the police figured it out, it was very easy to trace back to the scammers.
The Americans have already been to the moon. I find it sad that they managed to do the entire Apollo program for somewhere between 20 and 25 million (135 billion in 2005 dollars), when they had to develop completely new technology. Why can't they just rebuild the Apollo rockets. Did they lose the plans along with the moon landing tapes? Going to the moon should have been figured out by now. We don't need any new technologies to accomplish this. Just reuse old designs.
How about the Marijuana Party?
You think engineering texts are expensive? You should see medical texts. And they got the same racket going with having a professional organization, that requires you graduate from an accredited institution. They also require that you go to school for like 7 years, not just a measly 4 years. If you don make it through systems engineering, and get your P. Eng. you most likely will be making enough money that the cost of the text books will seem like it was all worth it in the end.
Very true. When you count the costs of tuition, food, lodging, clothing, transporation, and all the other expenses of going to university, I would say that the cost of books make very little difference as to the overall cost of the schooling. And most of the students are wasting tons of money on cafeteria food and alcohol, and yet still think they have the right to complain that text books are too expensive.
And half the movies and CDs we take home are scratched enough that they skip quite a bit. Of course the books aren't in great condition either, but due to the fact that the data density is so much smaller, a scratch doesn't seem to cause any problems in readability. I wonder what the legal ramifications of lending out a copy of the original CD/DVD from the library, so that they can make another copy to lend when the first becomes unreadable?
I turned history off a long time ago. I don't ever use it. With the number of sites I visit in a day, I can't every find anything in there anyway, so no point leaving it around for others to stumble upon.
It doesn't need to be able to transmit this data back to the server, but it's extremely difficult to get it to not transmit it back to the server, if you are allowing at least something to be transmitted back to the server. Say you didn't want the size of an element transmitted back to the server. Well, you'd have to track every variable you assigned it to, and track every variable those were assigned, appended, or encoded to to ensure that none of that data in any way made it out to a server anywhere. It's a very hard problem when you think about all the ways you could obfuscate the data, and try to confuse the javascript engine as to what you are trying to do with the data.
I've been doing this with firefox for years. Just go to the privacy section of your options/preferences, and disable history, disable cookies, and tell it to clear your history every time you leave. Really I just have it set for no password/form/history saved, and only accept first party cookies until I close firefox, except for the white list I have so I don't have to keep on signing in to my usual sites.
I highly doubt it. How would the battle net servers know your internal LAN IP? Unless they developed some specific code to do specifically this, then I doubt that it would work. In most cases, they would probably want to send all data directly through their own servers, so that you don't get to figure out the IP address of those you are playing against.
Yeah, but Windows 95 didn't even have a web browser with it. When you get the ultimate edition of windows 7, you get quite a bit more than what you got with Windows 95. Not that you probably need all that, but if you don't need it, you are still free to buy whichever edition you want.
I had the same experience when change from Vista to Vista on my laptop. I formatted the machine and installed a fresh copy of just Vista, without all the crap ware, and boot times went from 2 minutes to 30 seconds. Also, the entire machine is much more responsive.
That's nothing. I had a psychology professor in university who got a grant to study the mindset of a middle aged man sailing around the world. Take one guess as to who that middle aged man was.
Also worth pointing out, that if you ask a person from France, the language that people in Quebec speak sounds nothing at all like French.
And then someone would write a browser plugin that would fake the referer information so that it looked like you were coming from their own site, or from nowhere at all (you typed in the URL).
Exactly. If you don't believe in god, then a church is just another building, and has as much significance to you as any other community centre where people like to gather.
Well, not quite all parties that get any votes have a say, but any party that wins in any riding (we have 308 ridings across the country), get's a seat in parliament, and gets to vote on laws being passed. For the last 5? years we've had a minoriry government. which means that no single party holds more than 50% of the seats. This means they actually have to compromise if they want to get anything passed.
Problem is though, if your car catches on fire, then that fire can quickly turn the gasoline into it's gaseous state, making it extremely flammable.
There's a lot of newspapers with very little news of an value in them. My city has 2 major papers, and you can compare one to the other. The second one linked to often has Paris Hilton and the likes on the front cover. Their top news story for the day is something to do with monster trucks.
Yeah Intel does make faster processors. But you'll pay for them. The AMD chips cost about the same as the comparable Intel chips, so in the end, the decision just comes down to religion. Unless you want to talk about spending $500 on a processor.
For the price they are incurring developing their own system, they could probably just outsource their payroll to a 3rd party with an already existing system.
Reproduce is the operative word here. The only thing that matters to evolution is whether or not a certain mutation will result in a person that can reproduce and who's children can reproduce. So you really don't ever get into a situation where something like cancer resistance will be chosen for, because for most cancers, you have already reproduced and raised your children by the time cancer gets you.
You could say that, but you would be wrong. Getting 100/100 on Acid3 does not in any way prove that you follow the specs 100%. ACID 3 tests a certain portion of the standards that most browsers have trouble with. Personally, I've found that Safari which also has a history of scoring very high on these tests, has many rendering bugs that show up when rendering normal everyday webpages. Scoring 100% ACID 3 only means that you have created a browser than can render ACID 3 correctly, and not that your browser would render any other web page properly when it was trying to read it.
The same reason you can't sync your iPhone with Palm Desktop. The same reason you can't sync your Zune with the sony SonicStage software. iTunes was made specifically to sync with iPods. As someone else pointed out, it does sync with a couple other players. However the main purpose of iTunes is to put stuff on your ipod.