Well, since firefox has the "Undo Close Tab" feature, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't release all the memory when you close a tab. I'm not sure when it does release the memory, or if it's possible to disable undo close tab so that memory will be cleared when closing a tab.
Employees lying to the customers doesn't help either. I overheard a Staples employee tell a customer that they should really buy the service plan for a router because they break all the time, and that he had 3 break in the past year. I have never heard of a router breaking. Not once. Not ever. When you have employees outright lying to customers to sell them a router, then it's no wonder that people buy them. It's only piece of mind when the customer is told by the salesperson that the product has a good chance of breaking, even when it doesn't.
But if you go with MS, which is a company with a good financial record, you can be pretty sure that the system will only be supported for 10 years, unless you upgrade. So, you can either be completely sure that your system will be unsupported, and unsupportable by anyone (at least as far as changes to the code are concerned) in 10 years, or you can take pleasure in the fact that even if MySQL the company went out of business, someone else could, and most likely would, because of it's popularity, start supporting and maintaining it.
They are the same shape, but one is rotated 90 degrees, which gives them a significantly different feel, at least in my opinion. The Y is located vertical from the A button, and the X on the horizontal. See that little trick. I've seen some third party controllers that had the B button the same shape as the X button, but an mirrored on the x axis. Made it little bit bigger. Would have been a great controller if the analog stick didn't suck so much. What is it with 3rd party controllers being unable to make a good analog stick, or buttons that don't wear out in 3 months.
It depends what you consider current. I've seen lots of HP/Compaq computers at Radio Shack and other stores keep the same model at the same price for months on end. That may be alright for some people, but I know that prices change on a weekly basis, and you don't get the best deal with this kind of business model.
I don't understand why every company wants to be the biggest company in the world. So what if someone ships more units than you, or has a bigger revenue. The PS2 outsold the GC by a huge margin, but I don't think Nintendo cared, because they were still making lots of profit. I don't understand the logic behind companies who only want to be the biggest, and don't want to be the best.
The problem with the computers that are sold for retail is that the specs are often out of whack with the price, and there are not options for configuration. The strong point of Dell is that you can configure a bunch of things with your computer, and also that they can upsell you by offering you speakers, keyboards, mice, and routers as you go through the checkout process. Most of the advantage of Dell is lost once you try to bring it into the retail market. The time between creating the specs for the machine and getting it into the customer's hands is too long to maintain an optimal price. I don't see how they'll be able to offer computers at wal-mart for comparable prices of what they offer online.
But why are companies paying big bucks for certifications that the community views as a joke. You can say they have X and Y certification, but if they still don't know anything, you are wasting your money. If the certifications actually do mean something, and obtaining them proves (to some extent) that you are a competent admin, then I don't see a problem with shelling out the cash. But it just seems like all these businesses are spending money so that they have a piece of paper so they can pretend that they have the proper training, but they really don't know anything.
I'd buy it if it even had half that battery life. I've seen too many laptops who's battery life is 3 hours. That's when it ships. after 6-12 months of usage they drop to 2-2.5 hours. Try getting through a 3 hour lecture with that. I used to laugh at the kids in university who would scramble for a seat near a power outlet just so they could make it through the lecture without their battery dying. I'd rather just use a pen and paper at that point. Myself I used a palm pilot with a folding keyboard. That thing had great battery life.
I've never seen a console game that allowed all the buttons to be remapped. Some offer a couple different configurations to choose from, but I don't think I've ever seen one that was completely customizable like most PC games are. I think it would be nice to support it at the console level, so the game designers wouldn't have to do anything, but it's such a simple feature that I can't believe they don't include it. However, it would be a nice way to get around lazy development companies who refuse to offer features like this. I think it would be problematic though if you started adding functionality for reversing the axes (for FPS games this is needed). This would screw up how you go through the menus, and probably have some other adverse effects I'm not thinking of.
You probably couldn't set that all up in 5 days. It might take you 10. Or more. But you'd come out knowing it a lot better. I know a guy with his MCDBA that couldn't configure log shipping. If you're a DBA, you should know how to configure a server for log shipping. It should be a basic task. It seems to me from reading this thread that a lot of the Linux or Oracle certifications are a lot more in depth than what Microsoft Certifications required. We use mostly MS where I work, so I don't run into a lot of Oracle or Linux certified people, so maybe they aren't as bad as the MS certified people that I meet who most of the time have no clue what's going on.
I've never understood why they didn't take a clue from the PC game industry and just make the controls completely configurable. Even games like Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, which had a PC version where the controller was customizable on the PC version failed to offer the same feature for the console version. It's nice that the developers think they know which controls everyone is going to like, but It's not hard to remap the buttons, and is certainly a welcome feature in every game.
My daughter has a VSmile controller that is ambidextrous. The stick part can rotate around the button so that it's on the other side. While it's not the most popular console, it's a pretty good system, and the games are simple for kids to play. It's amazing the amount of ingenuity you see in some kids toys. They're really a lot better thought out than most other things.
That's my biggest pet peeve about the PS2 controller. It's hard to associate the shapes with the position of the buttons on the controller. The GC controller has the big button in the middle that's used 80% of the time, with the other buttons easily reachable from it. While the other consoles have games where 1 button is pressed 80% of the time, that button is different for every game, and it's not always easy to get from one button to the other, without forgetting which button you are on. With the GC controller you can almost guess which button does which action just by looking at it. With the PS2 controller, and other controllers like the XBox, it's hard to tell which button does what.
I haven't tried the 360 controller, but to me, it doesn't look that much different than the xBox controller (the current one, not the original bear design). Personally, I love the GameCube controller. I think the best thing about it is that they moved away from the "diamond" button configuration to the design with a big home (A) button, with all the other buttons situated around it. After you use it for a while, you really appreciate being able to reach all the buttons easily and always knowing where your fingers are. It's also nice to have a really big button for the one button that you are pressing 80% of the time. The only downside is the Z button, thankfully, a lot of games don't use it for much, possibly because it is so badly located.
Very believable. I took a 5 day VB course back when I was a student and it cost $2000 (paid by my coop employer). That's why I think it's best to just have the people sit down and read a book. I could have learned everything that I learned in that class by just sitting down and reading a book, with some free time to try out the stuff I was reading about. Give somebody a book ($100) and 5 days where you don't bug them at all, and you will be surprised how much they can learn. I don't see why companies would pay $3700 + the person's salary for them to learn something when they can buy a book and spend $100 plus the person's salary to have them learn the same thing. Plus they can reuse the book when someone else needs to learn the same thing.
It probably is the best way to really learn an OS. I've taken some computer courses, and you often spend lots of time learning stuff you already knew before you started the course, and a lot of time recapping stuff that other people don't understand that the class already went over. While I realize it's important for the class to review stuff that some students didn't understand so that everybody comes out learning everything they're supposed to, I think it's a waste of time for the people that already do understand it. And since different people are going to have trouble with different things, it makes for a lot of wasted time. I've also seen a lot of people (more on the Microsoft side) who took all their courses, and got all their certifications, and still weren't very qualified to be working on the systems. They were ok as long as nothing unexpected showed up, but as soon as something unexpected did happen, they were completely lost, and had no problem solving abilities whatsoever. So while certifications can be good for a CYA situation, and ensuring that everybody "knows what they're doing", I don't think they leave you with enough knowledge to handle the systems when something goes wrong.
I thought this would be something interesting like fungus that ate and destroyed radiation. It would be great for getting rid of nuclear waste. I don't think such a thing could actually exist, but I'm not a nuclear physicist, or a biologist, so what do I know.
That's the catch 22. People want to be able to instantly pick up a domain name when it becomes available, yet they want it to be impossible for a script to automatically grab a domain name as soon as it becomes available. I think either way they should verify that there is an actual person registering each domain. You should also be able to put your name on a list so that you can buy it when the domain expires. I think that a 1 month period is enough lead time to put your name on the list. So 1 month before it expires you can put your name on the list (verified through picture codes) that you want to buy the domain. When it expires, it is automatically transfered to you.
I had a Voodoo II 2000(?) and later upgraded to the Voodoo 3 3500. Those were great cards. I think the only downside was that they only supported 16 bit colour. But I'm not really sure if that's such a downside. I don't think I ever was really able to see the difference between 16 and 32 bit. At least not at that point, with resolutions of 800x600. I would rather have a card that got 100 FPS in 16 bit and didn't do 32 bit, than a card that got 50 fps in 16 bit, and 30 fps in 32 bit, but would majorly stutter if you came up against complex scene.
I've ridden the bus many times. I ride it every day. I see young drivers who give a really smooth ride, and old drivers who make me wish that buses had seatbelts.
You can make the car sound more difficult to use if you want to.
gas pedal: (right side) push to go. Ensure that you don't press too hard on the gas or you may end up accelerating too fast and spin the tires.
break: (left side) push to stop. Ensure that you don't press too hard, or you will get a really jerky ride. Also make sure that you give yourself enough room to break, or you may not stop fast enough. When it's wet or icy, give yourself extra room for breaking
Don't press the break and the gas at the same time, In order to ensure this, use the same foot for both, even though there's two feet and two pedals.
steering wheel: turn the wheel, turn the car. Do not turn the wheel too fast or your car may lose traction. The amount you can turn the wheel without losing traction varies with the speed of the car, and also with the make and model of the car. Wet and icy roads can also affect turning ability.
turn signal bar: turn towards the left for left, right for right, After turning the signal will turn off. Or sometimes it won't if you haven't made a sharp enough turn.
Engine light: Could mean just about anything. Pay some guy $80 to tell you what it means.
I don't see why not. There's typing tutor games. Some are even extremely fun like Typing of the Dead. You can make a game out of just about anything. I'm sure you could make a spell-checking game that's a lot more fun than some of the other games out there.
Who's to say how good of a job the teacher is doing. I've never seen seen the principal sit in on a class to see how the teacher was teaching. In university, the students answer anonymous surveys to evaluate the teachers performance. I think that the same thing should be done for highschool and maybe even elementary school teachers. There would be students who would give a bad evaluation because they had some vendetta against the teacher, but I think that a long history of negative evaluations by the students could be grounds for firing the teacher, or at least denying them they pay raise they think they they deserve.
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Well, since firefox has the "Undo Close Tab" feature, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't release all the memory when you close a tab. I'm not sure when it does release the memory, or if it's possible to disable undo close tab so that memory will be cleared when closing a tab.
Employees lying to the customers doesn't help either. I overheard a Staples employee tell a customer that they should really buy the service plan for a router because they break all the time, and that he had 3 break in the past year. I have never heard of a router breaking. Not once. Not ever. When you have employees outright lying to customers to sell them a router, then it's no wonder that people buy them. It's only piece of mind when the customer is told by the salesperson that the product has a good chance of breaking, even when it doesn't.
But if you go with MS, which is a company with a good financial record, you can be pretty sure that the system will only be supported for 10 years, unless you upgrade. So, you can either be completely sure that your system will be unsupported, and unsupportable by anyone (at least as far as changes to the code are concerned) in 10 years, or you can take pleasure in the fact that even if MySQL the company went out of business, someone else could, and most likely would, because of it's popularity, start supporting and maintaining it.
They are the same shape, but one is rotated 90 degrees, which gives them a significantly different feel, at least in my opinion. The Y is located vertical from the A button, and the X on the horizontal. See that little trick. I've seen some third party controllers that had the B button the same shape as the X button, but an mirrored on the x axis. Made it little bit bigger. Would have been a great controller if the analog stick didn't suck so much. What is it with 3rd party controllers being unable to make a good analog stick, or buttons that don't wear out in 3 months.
It depends what you consider current. I've seen lots of HP/Compaq computers at Radio Shack and other stores keep the same model at the same price for months on end. That may be alright for some people, but I know that prices change on a weekly basis, and you don't get the best deal with this kind of business model.
I don't understand why every company wants to be the biggest company in the world. So what if someone ships more units than you, or has a bigger revenue. The PS2 outsold the GC by a huge margin, but I don't think Nintendo cared, because they were still making lots of profit. I don't understand the logic behind companies who only want to be the biggest, and don't want to be the best.
The problem with the computers that are sold for retail is that the specs are often out of whack with the price, and there are not options for configuration. The strong point of Dell is that you can configure a bunch of things with your computer, and also that they can upsell you by offering you speakers, keyboards, mice, and routers as you go through the checkout process. Most of the advantage of Dell is lost once you try to bring it into the retail market. The time between creating the specs for the machine and getting it into the customer's hands is too long to maintain an optimal price. I don't see how they'll be able to offer computers at wal-mart for comparable prices of what they offer online.
But why are companies paying big bucks for certifications that the community views as a joke. You can say they have X and Y certification, but if they still don't know anything, you are wasting your money. If the certifications actually do mean something, and obtaining them proves (to some extent) that you are a competent admin, then I don't see a problem with shelling out the cash. But it just seems like all these businesses are spending money so that they have a piece of paper so they can pretend that they have the proper training, but they really don't know anything.
I'd buy it if it even had half that battery life. I've seen too many laptops who's battery life is 3 hours. That's when it ships. after 6-12 months of usage they drop to 2-2.5 hours. Try getting through a 3 hour lecture with that. I used to laugh at the kids in university who would scramble for a seat near a power outlet just so they could make it through the lecture without their battery dying. I'd rather just use a pen and paper at that point. Myself I used a palm pilot with a folding keyboard. That thing had great battery life.
I've never seen a console game that allowed all the buttons to be remapped. Some offer a couple different configurations to choose from, but I don't think I've ever seen one that was completely customizable like most PC games are. I think it would be nice to support it at the console level, so the game designers wouldn't have to do anything, but it's such a simple feature that I can't believe they don't include it. However, it would be a nice way to get around lazy development companies who refuse to offer features like this. I think it would be problematic though if you started adding functionality for reversing the axes (for FPS games this is needed). This would screw up how you go through the menus, and probably have some other adverse effects I'm not thinking of.
You probably couldn't set that all up in 5 days. It might take you 10. Or more. But you'd come out knowing it a lot better. I know a guy with his MCDBA that couldn't configure log shipping. If you're a DBA, you should know how to configure a server for log shipping. It should be a basic task. It seems to me from reading this thread that a lot of the Linux or Oracle certifications are a lot more in depth than what Microsoft Certifications required. We use mostly MS where I work, so I don't run into a lot of Oracle or Linux certified people, so maybe they aren't as bad as the MS certified people that I meet who most of the time have no clue what's going on.
I've never understood why they didn't take a clue from the PC game industry and just make the controls completely configurable. Even games like Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, which had a PC version where the controller was customizable on the PC version failed to offer the same feature for the console version. It's nice that the developers think they know which controls everyone is going to like, but It's not hard to remap the buttons, and is certainly a welcome feature in every game.
My daughter has a VSmile controller that is ambidextrous. The stick part can rotate around the button so that it's on the other side. While it's not the most popular console, it's a pretty good system, and the games are simple for kids to play. It's amazing the amount of ingenuity you see in some kids toys. They're really a lot better thought out than most other things.
You might want to check out the GameCube controller. Each button has it's own shape, so you always know which button you're pressing.
That's my biggest pet peeve about the PS2 controller. It's hard to associate the shapes with the position of the buttons on the controller. The GC controller has the big button in the middle that's used 80% of the time, with the other buttons easily reachable from it. While the other consoles have games where 1 button is pressed 80% of the time, that button is different for every game, and it's not always easy to get from one button to the other, without forgetting which button you are on. With the GC controller you can almost guess which button does which action just by looking at it. With the PS2 controller, and other controllers like the XBox, it's hard to tell which button does what.
I haven't tried the 360 controller, but to me, it doesn't look that much different than the xBox controller (the current one, not the original bear design). Personally, I love the GameCube controller. I think the best thing about it is that they moved away from the "diamond" button configuration to the design with a big home (A) button, with all the other buttons situated around it. After you use it for a while, you really appreciate being able to reach all the buttons easily and always knowing where your fingers are. It's also nice to have a really big button for the one button that you are pressing 80% of the time. The only downside is the Z button, thankfully, a lot of games don't use it for much, possibly because it is so badly located.
Very believable. I took a 5 day VB course back when I was a student and it cost $2000 (paid by my coop employer). That's why I think it's best to just have the people sit down and read a book. I could have learned everything that I learned in that class by just sitting down and reading a book, with some free time to try out the stuff I was reading about. Give somebody a book ($100) and 5 days where you don't bug them at all, and you will be surprised how much they can learn. I don't see why companies would pay $3700 + the person's salary for them to learn something when they can buy a book and spend $100 plus the person's salary to have them learn the same thing. Plus they can reuse the book when someone else needs to learn the same thing.
It probably is the best way to really learn an OS. I've taken some computer courses, and you often spend lots of time learning stuff you already knew before you started the course, and a lot of time recapping stuff that other people don't understand that the class already went over. While I realize it's important for the class to review stuff that some students didn't understand so that everybody comes out learning everything they're supposed to, I think it's a waste of time for the people that already do understand it. And since different people are going to have trouble with different things, it makes for a lot of wasted time. I've also seen a lot of people (more on the Microsoft side) who took all their courses, and got all their certifications, and still weren't very qualified to be working on the systems. They were ok as long as nothing unexpected showed up, but as soon as something unexpected did happen, they were completely lost, and had no problem solving abilities whatsoever. So while certifications can be good for a CYA situation, and ensuring that everybody "knows what they're doing", I don't think they leave you with enough knowledge to handle the systems when something goes wrong.
I thought this would be something interesting like fungus that ate and destroyed radiation. It would be great for getting rid of nuclear waste. I don't think such a thing could actually exist, but I'm not a nuclear physicist, or a biologist, so what do I know.
That's the catch 22. People want to be able to instantly pick up a domain name when it becomes available, yet they want it to be impossible for a script to automatically grab a domain name as soon as it becomes available. I think either way they should verify that there is an actual person registering each domain. You should also be able to put your name on a list so that you can buy it when the domain expires. I think that a 1 month period is enough lead time to put your name on the list. So 1 month before it expires you can put your name on the list (verified through picture codes) that you want to buy the domain. When it expires, it is automatically transfered to you.
I had a Voodoo II 2000(?) and later upgraded to the Voodoo 3 3500. Those were great cards. I think the only downside was that they only supported 16 bit colour. But I'm not really sure if that's such a downside. I don't think I ever was really able to see the difference between 16 and 32 bit. At least not at that point, with resolutions of 800x600. I would rather have a card that got 100 FPS in 16 bit and didn't do 32 bit, than a card that got 50 fps in 16 bit, and 30 fps in 32 bit, but would majorly stutter if you came up against complex scene.
I've ridden the bus many times. I ride it every day. I see young drivers who give a really smooth ride, and old drivers who make me wish that buses had seatbelts.
You can make the car sound more difficult to use if you want to.
gas pedal: (right side) push to go. Ensure that you don't press too hard on the gas or you may end up accelerating too fast and spin the tires.
break: (left side) push to stop. Ensure that you don't press too hard, or you will get a really jerky ride. Also make sure that you give yourself enough room to break, or you may not stop fast enough. When it's wet or icy, give yourself extra room for breaking
Don't press the break and the gas at the same time, In order to ensure this, use the same foot for both, even though there's two feet and two pedals.
steering wheel: turn the wheel, turn the car. Do not turn the wheel too fast or your car may lose traction. The amount you can turn the wheel without losing traction varies with the speed of the car, and also with the make and model of the car. Wet and icy roads can also affect turning ability.
turn signal bar: turn towards the left for left, right for right, After turning the signal will turn off. Or sometimes it won't if you haven't made a sharp enough turn.
Engine light: Could mean just about anything. Pay some guy $80 to tell you what it means.
I don't see why not. There's typing tutor games. Some are even extremely fun like Typing of the Dead. You can make a game out of just about anything. I'm sure you could make a spell-checking game that's a lot more fun than some of the other games out there.
Who's to say how good of a job the teacher is doing. I've never seen seen the principal sit in on a class to see how the teacher was teaching. In university, the students answer anonymous surveys to evaluate the teachers performance. I think that the same thing should be done for highschool and maybe even elementary school teachers. There would be students who would give a bad evaluation because they had some vendetta against the teacher, but I think that a long history of negative evaluations by the students could be grounds for firing the teacher, or at least denying them they pay raise they think they they deserve.