I like the idea, but requiring people to handwrite papers probably wouldn't do much to stop the whole thing. You could easily get the guy in India to show all his work, scan it, and send the files to you. Then all you have to do is copy it verbatim. I knew a girl who had a professor who insisted that papers be handwritten, saying something about curbing cheaters. Really, it made people more likely to cheat, because of the increased time it would take for them to write it out by hand. I think most people in her class just wrote the whole thing on the computer, which made editing easier, and then copied out the final product. The whole process just makes it harder on the honest students. I think that a good solution, is to place way more emphasis on exams or other more verifiable means of grading students.
A week or so ago, I had Vista automatically reboot while I was actively using my computer. Apparently that little countdown timer doesn't always show up on top of the window you are working with, or you can miss it, because it shows in the bottom right, and then click on something and it gets hidden. Anyway, I don't know who thought it was a good idea to have a running computer automatically, without having the user take any action, reboot. I've more than once lost work this way. I've turned it off on all my machines, but I can't even see why this is an option, let alone the default behaviour.
I've never been asked to reboot to load new parts of my Linux box. When I get kernel updates, I have to reboot, for the new kernel to take effect, but I've never been asked to reboot my machine by the updater. I don't think I've seen a program on Linux that requires the user to reboot their computer to get it operational. I'm pretty sure you can even install VMware, which requires loading kernel modules, without rebooting the computer.
50 years ago, Sudbury would have made the list. At least we have hope of recovery of these severely polluted places. Sudbury isn't a quite back to it's original condition, but give it another 100 years, and you won't see any evidence of the pollution. I hope that these other cities, and even a bunch that didn't make the list can make a good turn around.
While it may be intentional, it really is still quite silly. To anybody who knows anything about IP, it just looks plain wrong, and takes away from the whole immersion in the TV show. It's pretty hard to suspend your disbelief when stupid completely wrong stuff like that is showing up on the screen. At least 555-xxxx could possibly be a valid phone number. I think it would just be better if the studio would buy a class C IP block, not have any computers hooked up to those IP address, and just use that set, instead of having all these plain wrong things show up on the screen.
Nonsense. The computers on CSI are able to filter out those crappy images, and produce wonderful quality 20 megapixel images from.3 megapixel over compressed jpgs. I'm sure the brits have similar technology.
Couldn't you use this feature to make the camera turn away. Have somebody make a big ruckus, so the camera turns away, then go in and do the actual crime while the camera is focused somewhere else.
Here's a comparison that shows XBox 360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii vs. PC in many different areas including standby, idle, gaming, and movies (Wii not included in movies).
Both your numbers seemed high, but I don't pay for hydro directly (included in my rent). After checking out the prices in my area, it seems to me like both of you are getting ripped off. If you don't like to follow links, that's 5 cents per kWh, for the first 600 kWh, and 5.9 cents for each kWh after that. I remember a place I was in 5 or 6 years ago, and we were paying under 4 cents.
What's wrong with NetBeans. I know a lot of people prefer Eclipse, but personally I like Netbeans better. Netbeans definitely isn't a bad product. And if you count Forte, it's been around quite a bit longer than Eclipse.
It is quite easy to find examples of people attacked by bears. While I don't personally know anybody who was attacked by a bear, I can find many examples of people who were attacked. At this point in time, it's not worth your time to do DNS cache poisoning, or trying to subvert the security of verisign (no matter how easy it may be), because it's all too easy to send out a million emails pretending to be a bank, and getting people to just give up their login and password, into a completely fake site.
I am just basing my definition fo "work well" based on experience in actually using it. All experience I've had with Vista has just been a huge disappointment. The other day it rebooted to do updates, right in the middle of when I was actually actively working on it. Apparently the countdown timer doesn't always appear. Why they would ever think it's a good idea to just go and reboot a computer is beyond me. I'm unsure of why that would even be an option, let alone the default set-up. This along with all the other problems present in Vista is the reason I don't like it. Not because some zealot said it sucks.
That's what they said about Nortel. Ok, so they didn't go bankrupt, but they aren't anything like they used to be. Their stock dropped from $120 to under $60 in a matter of months, and has had a steady downward slope ever since. They are currently at $9. This was the company that every I went to school with wanted to work for. Now, nobody thinks of them as a good place to work.
I had a big realization the other day. If Windows 7 is just as bad a Windows Vista, I fully expect at least 30% of the home market to jump ship to Linux or Apple. Businesses have a lot of legacy applications, that they simply can't do without, so I see that transition being quite a bit slower. With Linux distros, I don't find it uncommon for them to have 1 sub-par release every 2 or 3 iterations. The difference is that they release every 6 months, and it's not so bad to wait another 6 months for a new version to come out. With MS only producing a new version ever 3 or 4 years (sometimes longer), how long do you really want to wait for a new product.
Well, in my defense, I think the common analogy given about Americans and bad geography is that they can't find their home state on a map. I can find my home province on a map, and every other province and territory. I won't pretend that I'm a guru at geography, and that I could point out any country on a map, but not knowing where you live in the world, well, that's just stupid.
http://www.smoke-free.ca/heathercrowe/FAQ.htm
Read the first FAQ answer. Lung cancer is almost non-existent in people who are not exposed to cigarette smoke. There are a couple other risk factors, such as asbestos, and radon, but most people don't have any exposure to those kinds of things. The Heather Crowe thing is a little anecdotal, but so is my story. I don't have lung cancer or anything, but since they've banned smoking in most public places in Ontario, I find that the smell of smoke bothers me a lot more. When you are used to always smelling it, you stop noticing it. But now that it isn't everywhere, I realize just how bad it is.
It's actually funny, because, well I'm Canadian, and having never to bothered looking for Delaware on a map, I was somewhat sure that it was an inland state. It made the headline quite confusing. I could probably locate the general area of most US states on a map, but Delaware is one (until now) state that I would have had no idea where it was located.
Exactly. If I were to eat every meal at a fast food restaurant, or similarly priced TV dinners, It would cost me minimum 30days * 3meals * $4 = $360 a month to feed a single person. Compare that to the cost of eating healthy foods, and you can easily feed a single person for half that.
I hear this all the time, but I really don't see any proof. It's true, that chicken thighs are cheaper than chicken breasts, and breasts are healthier. Same goes for many other cuts of meat. The interesting thing, is that tofu, beans, lentils and many other meat substitutes have these items completely beaten in price, as well as healthiness. We switched to only eating meat 2 or 3 meals a week. Not only has our grocery bill been cut quite a bit, but we have both lost quite a few extra pounds.
Sometimes they do become an inconvenience though. I went to Walmart, to pick up a second steering wheel for MarioKart Wii. The plastic steering wheel, which costs $10, and contains only plastic, no electronic parts or anything was locked in the case with the games. I had to wait around 10 minutes for the clerk to get the guy with a key. Apparently the clerk didn't have his own. Not only that, once it was removed from the case, we had to pay for it at the games counter, even though we planned on doing more shopping. Which meant I had to do 2 debit transactions instead of 1. Good thing my account comes with unlimited transactions.
I took the oath too. The problem in software/cs, is that you don't need a software engineer overseeing your project. If you build a bridge across a river, for the general populace to use, then you must have an engineer sign off on the bridge design, and there are inspectors that ensure that it is built to code. If you design a software application for use by the general population, there is no such requirement to have an engineer sign off on it. Even for hugely popular commercial projects, like MS Windows, nobody has to vouch that the software in question even works as it is supposed to. Based on the EULA in most software packages, it is explicitly state that nobody is liable if the software fails to work as advertised. No engineer in their right mind would sign their name, and risk their reputation, to Windows Vista. Yet it's allowed to be released on the open market, and sold to everybody.
To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death.
That's quite a statement right there. Let's look at a scenario. A doctor tells somebody that they have a brain tumour, and that they have about 6 months to live. There is a surgery, that has a 75% chance of death, and a 25% chance of being successful, which will result in being able to live for many years to come. Are they not allowed to do the surgery, because it "may cause his death"?
Explain to me why my Linux installation has no problem dealing with FAT32 and NTFS, but my Windows installation cannot handle Ext2 very well. That link you point to is good, and it seems like things have come quite a long way since I last looked at the abilities of Windows to access EXT, however there's still quite a few deficiencies. The predominant one is that it cannot access soft links. The fact that it doesn't support EXT3, with journalling, is a bit of a let down. Also, it seems to have problems with files that differ only by capitalization.
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I like the idea, but requiring people to handwrite papers probably wouldn't do much to stop the whole thing. You could easily get the guy in India to show all his work, scan it, and send the files to you. Then all you have to do is copy it verbatim. I knew a girl who had a professor who insisted that papers be handwritten, saying something about curbing cheaters. Really, it made people more likely to cheat, because of the increased time it would take for them to write it out by hand. I think most people in her class just wrote the whole thing on the computer, which made editing easier, and then copied out the final product. The whole process just makes it harder on the honest students. I think that a good solution, is to place way more emphasis on exams or other more verifiable means of grading students.
We must not let there be an information gap!
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A week or so ago, I had Vista automatically reboot while I was actively using my computer. Apparently that little countdown timer doesn't always show up on top of the window you are working with, or you can miss it, because it shows in the bottom right, and then click on something and it gets hidden. Anyway, I don't know who thought it was a good idea to have a running computer automatically, without having the user take any action, reboot. I've more than once lost work this way. I've turned it off on all my machines, but I can't even see why this is an option, let alone the default behaviour.
I've never been asked to reboot to load new parts of my Linux box. When I get kernel updates, I have to reboot, for the new kernel to take effect, but I've never been asked to reboot my machine by the updater. I don't think I've seen a program on Linux that requires the user to reboot their computer to get it operational. I'm pretty sure you can even install VMware, which requires loading kernel modules, without rebooting the computer.
50 years ago, Sudbury would have made the list. At least we have hope of recovery of these severely polluted places. Sudbury isn't a quite back to it's original condition, but give it another 100 years, and you won't see any evidence of the pollution. I hope that these other cities, and even a bunch that didn't make the list can make a good turn around.
While it may be intentional, it really is still quite silly. To anybody who knows anything about IP, it just looks plain wrong, and takes away from the whole immersion in the TV show. It's pretty hard to suspend your disbelief when stupid completely wrong stuff like that is showing up on the screen. At least 555-xxxx could possibly be a valid phone number. I think it would just be better if the studio would buy a class C IP block, not have any computers hooked up to those IP address, and just use that set, instead of having all these plain wrong things show up on the screen.
Nonsense. The computers on CSI are able to filter out those crappy images, and produce wonderful quality 20 megapixel images from .3 megapixel over compressed jpgs. I'm sure the brits have similar technology.
Couldn't you use this feature to make the camera turn away. Have somebody make a big ruckus, so the camera turns away, then go in and do the actual crime while the camera is focused somewhere else.
Yeah, my prices don't include the 13 extra surcharges that they stack on.
Here's a comparison that shows XBox 360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii vs. PC in many different areas including standby, idle, gaming, and movies (Wii not included in movies).
Both your numbers seemed high, but I don't pay for hydro directly (included in my rent). After checking out the prices in my area, it seems to me like both of you are getting ripped off. If you don't like to follow links, that's 5 cents per kWh, for the first 600 kWh, and 5.9 cents for each kWh after that. I remember a place I was in 5 or 6 years ago, and we were paying under 4 cents.
What's wrong with NetBeans. I know a lot of people prefer Eclipse, but personally I like Netbeans better. Netbeans definitely isn't a bad product. And if you count Forte, it's been around quite a bit longer than Eclipse.
It is quite easy to find examples of people attacked by bears. While I don't personally know anybody who was attacked by a bear, I can find many examples of people who were attacked. At this point in time, it's not worth your time to do DNS cache poisoning, or trying to subvert the security of verisign (no matter how easy it may be), because it's all too easy to send out a million emails pretending to be a bank, and getting people to just give up their login and password, into a completely fake site.
I am just basing my definition fo "work well" based on experience in actually using it. All experience I've had with Vista has just been a huge disappointment. The other day it rebooted to do updates, right in the middle of when I was actually actively working on it. Apparently the countdown timer doesn't always appear. Why they would ever think it's a good idea to just go and reboot a computer is beyond me. I'm unsure of why that would even be an option, let alone the default set-up. This along with all the other problems present in Vista is the reason I don't like it. Not because some zealot said it sucks.
That's what they said about Nortel. Ok, so they didn't go bankrupt, but they aren't anything like they used to be. Their stock dropped from $120 to under $60 in a matter of months, and has had a steady downward slope ever since. They are currently at $9. This was the company that every I went to school with wanted to work for. Now, nobody thinks of them as a good place to work.
I had a big realization the other day. If Windows 7 is just as bad a Windows Vista, I fully expect at least 30% of the home market to jump ship to Linux or Apple. Businesses have a lot of legacy applications, that they simply can't do without, so I see that transition being quite a bit slower. With Linux distros, I don't find it uncommon for them to have 1 sub-par release every 2 or 3 iterations. The difference is that they release every 6 months, and it's not so bad to wait another 6 months for a new version to come out. With MS only producing a new version ever 3 or 4 years (sometimes longer), how long do you really want to wait for a new product.
Well, in my defense, I think the common analogy given about Americans and bad geography is that they can't find their home state on a map. I can find my home province on a map, and every other province and territory. I won't pretend that I'm a guru at geography, and that I could point out any country on a map, but not knowing where you live in the world, well, that's just stupid.
http://www.smoke-free.ca/heathercrowe/FAQ.htm Read the first FAQ answer. Lung cancer is almost non-existent in people who are not exposed to cigarette smoke. There are a couple other risk factors, such as asbestos, and radon, but most people don't have any exposure to those kinds of things. The Heather Crowe thing is a little anecdotal, but so is my story. I don't have lung cancer or anything, but since they've banned smoking in most public places in Ontario, I find that the smell of smoke bothers me a lot more. When you are used to always smelling it, you stop noticing it. But now that it isn't everywhere, I realize just how bad it is.
It's actually funny, because, well I'm Canadian, and having never to bothered looking for Delaware on a map, I was somewhat sure that it was an inland state. It made the headline quite confusing. I could probably locate the general area of most US states on a map, but Delaware is one (until now) state that I would have had no idea where it was located.
Exactly. If I were to eat every meal at a fast food restaurant, or similarly priced TV dinners, It would cost me minimum 30days * 3meals * $4 = $360 a month to feed a single person. Compare that to the cost of eating healthy foods, and you can easily feed a single person for half that.
I hear this all the time, but I really don't see any proof. It's true, that chicken thighs are cheaper than chicken breasts, and breasts are healthier. Same goes for many other cuts of meat. The interesting thing, is that tofu, beans, lentils and many other meat substitutes have these items completely beaten in price, as well as healthiness. We switched to only eating meat 2 or 3 meals a week. Not only has our grocery bill been cut quite a bit, but we have both lost quite a few extra pounds.
Sometimes they do become an inconvenience though. I went to Walmart, to pick up a second steering wheel for MarioKart Wii. The plastic steering wheel, which costs $10, and contains only plastic, no electronic parts or anything was locked in the case with the games. I had to wait around 10 minutes for the clerk to get the guy with a key. Apparently the clerk didn't have his own. Not only that, once it was removed from the case, we had to pay for it at the games counter, even though we planned on doing more shopping. Which meant I had to do 2 debit transactions instead of 1. Good thing my account comes with unlimited transactions.
I took the oath too. The problem in software/cs, is that you don't need a software engineer overseeing your project. If you build a bridge across a river, for the general populace to use, then you must have an engineer sign off on the bridge design, and there are inspectors that ensure that it is built to code. If you design a software application for use by the general population, there is no such requirement to have an engineer sign off on it. Even for hugely popular commercial projects, like MS Windows, nobody has to vouch that the software in question even works as it is supposed to. Based on the EULA in most software packages, it is explicitly state that nobody is liable if the software fails to work as advertised. No engineer in their right mind would sign their name, and risk their reputation, to Windows Vista. Yet it's allowed to be released on the open market, and sold to everybody.
Explain to me why my Linux installation has no problem dealing with FAT32 and NTFS, but my Windows installation cannot handle Ext2 very well. That link you point to is good, and it seems like things have come quite a long way since I last looked at the abilities of Windows to access EXT, however there's still quite a few deficiencies. The predominant one is that it cannot access soft links. The fact that it doesn't support EXT3, with journalling, is a bit of a let down. Also, it seems to have problems with files that differ only by capitalization.