As far as I know,.edu addresses are for United Statesian schools only. I live in Canada, and every school I know uses.ca addresses. So using a system like this, only Americans could participate. Also, again, I'm unsure of what credentials are required to get a.edu domain, and whether or not you have to be an actual school, or how easy it is to fake. Also, I believe students as well as professors have email addresses as @schoolname.edu, so I don't believe that just having a.edu address is enough to say you are qualified.
What I like about PHP is that it's flexible enough to do either kind of programming. Being an ASP.Net programmer, I sometimes wish it were just easier to mix the code and presentation when making a quick page. On large projects, it's good not to mix the two, but sometimes throwing together a simple page is easier if you can mix code and presentation.
Maybe not the future, but the next 10 years is pretty safe. Until the old boys club decides that you can download content for a reasonable cost, or just download as much as you want, and back it up on standard DVD, then I'm much happier paying $50 for cable than paying $2 a show. I can use my DVR (SageTV) to record movies, tv shows, sporting events, and just about anything I want. It's going to take the old boys club a long time to start to offer a lot of shows for download. All those old sitcoms like the Cosby Show that play 6 times a day are really good to have sitting around on the DVR for something to watch when there's nothing on the TV. I would much rather just pay a flat fee and watch whatever I want, however I want, then pay $2 an episode to watch it only on licensed devices.
That's because the more scientific name for it is Infectious mononucleosis. It's usually called mono or mononucleosis in Canada. I've never heard the term glandular fever before.
Any word on when this would happen. I love Amarok, Digikam, and Kopete, and would love to have the running on windows. I'm currently running VMWare just to run Digikam, and a couple other linux Apps. I would really love to be able to run these on a windows box.
Well, if you want anti-virus, there's CLAM-AV, although there is no resident scanner included. Other good packages that I like from the Open Source world are Digikam, Amarok, Kopete. But sadly none of those are available on windows.
If your pagefile exists in RAM, then why even have a pagefile at all? Just get rid of the pagefile completely. If you have 2Gig of Ram, then you pretty much have no need for a page file for most desktop applications. Things like photo/video editing can take a lot of RAM, but if you don't do any of that, you're probably OK.
Most monitors sold in the last 10 years know which resolutions/refresh rates they support and will display an appropriate error screen if you feed it the wrong signal.
The point is, is that they could have just continued to sell XP for the next 5 years, and not wasted 5 billion on the development of Vista. They would still be selling just as many computers, and they would have a much easier time on maintenance because a lot of the bugs have been worked out of XP.
The way I see it is this. Microsoft only sold so few units because they had trouble getting enough of them on the shelves. People wanted to buy the 360 but couldn't. Sony on the other hand isn't selling out, and if you really want a PS3 it's not that hard to find them. You may have to go into a couple different shops, but it's not impossible. The Wii is also selling out, and nowhere to be found, but they are manufacturing tons more than sony is, and can't keep up with demand. So, from my point of view, even with Sony's low manufacturing numbers, they aren't that hard to find, which means that I don't think that Sony isn't doing very well at all. It probably won't drive them out of the console business, but they'll probably think twice next time about building at $700 console
Yes, but Quebecers have a really butchered version of french, including terms such as "beurre de peanut", "C'est pas froid." when saying that it's hot. And my all time favourite, the word "char" when talking about a car.
According to wikipedia, the list of "dot countries" includes India, China, United States, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, and many other very populous countries. Therefore I'm pretty sure more people use the dot. The list of "comma countries" seems to be quite a bit longer but contains a lot of lesser populated countries like Switzerland, Cuba, and Belgium, and most of the rest of Europe.
Or turning on the siren just so they can drive through a red light, after which they quickly turn it back off, and continue on at their regular non-emergency pace. Guess they just couldn't wait get to Tim Horton's.
The Firefox Web Developer Extension has an option to uncheck all radio buttons. I wonder what happens if you click that on dell's site. I Run off to dell.ca. I am amazed they sell vista desktops with 512 MB of Ram. Well, even if you uncheck all the radio buttons, it still thinks you chose windows vista. It doesn't even report any errors. I think i'm going to email dell and tell them about the bug.
I would just get the Vista refund for the principal if nothing else. Even if the refund was only $0.01 I would still get it if I wasn't using windows. Just to show Dell and MS that I infact wasn't using the software.
I've always found this a little complicated. We can't even decide on a standard for a system on how to write numbers? We still have problems with metric/imperial, but now we got different ways of writing the same value? Is there any standard that the scientific community uses? Do calculators in Europe have a comma key instead of a decimal key? Do european keyboard have a numpad with a comma? I know that people in Quebec sometimes insist on using the comma instead of the decimal, and to me it just seems completely weird. I find it weird because they say cinq point cinq, yet they write it as 5,5.
MS Office also is always running in the background, just incase you open up a document. You could do the same with just about any application. Keep it running in the background, and then poof, it starts. Of course, if you rarely used the application, you'd just be wasting memory, but hey, the app looks like it starts fast.
I was very disappointed also. I thought it would be something more TV oriented rather than just something you could watch ITMS videos on. I think that apple could make a much better set-top box, with TV Tuner, big hard drive (at least 300 GB) and a remote, and an application like MythTV or SageTV. Really I don't see much of a use for the Apple TV. If they made it a more generic media centre box, they could probably kill off the windows media center market before it even gets noticed by most people.
Or maybe he's just counting the time until the computer is actually usable. With Linux once the computer is booted, and you see the desktop, it's ready to use. With windows, it takes another 20 seconds (at least) after the desktop appears for it to actually become usable.
It's not that hard to believe after watching an episode of "Are you smarter than a 5th Grader". It's hard to imagine how dumb people can be before you actually see it. People who can't subtract 5 from 12 without using their fingers and taking 30 seconds to figure it out. People who think that all the continents are countries. ( Even after being able to name them all). Or people who can't do simple math like, "If y=3x and 3x=12 then what does y equal?" Seriously, the lack of intelligence in some people is amazing.
I'm with you on that. I'm not sure about the US, but in Canada, while I do know some "poor" people, most of them have a computer and internet access. Granted it's not Africa poor, just North America Poor, which is still much richer than most of the people in the world. A computer only costs $300. A net connection is $10 a month for dial-up, or $25 a month for low-speed-high-speed. Most people I know who are hard up for cash have no problem buying a case of beer every month ($24 for the cheapest of cases) or buying cigarettes ($10 a pack now), or ordering dinner twice a week, or..... There are some truly poor people, but I know a lot of people who never have money, yet piss it away on cellphones, cars, alcohol, eating out, cigarettes, and a lot of other things they probably don't need to be spending their money on.
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As far as I know, .edu addresses are for United Statesian schools only. I live in Canada, and every school I know uses .ca addresses. So using a system like this, only Americans could participate. Also, again, I'm unsure of what credentials are required to get a .edu domain, and whether or not you have to be an actual school, or how easy it is to fake. Also, I believe students as well as professors have email addresses as @schoolname.edu, so I don't believe that just having a .edu address is enough to say you are qualified.
What I like about PHP is that it's flexible enough to do either kind of programming. Being an ASP.Net programmer, I sometimes wish it were just easier to mix the code and presentation when making a quick page. On large projects, it's good not to mix the two, but sometimes throwing together a simple page is easier if you can mix code and presentation.
Maybe not the future, but the next 10 years is pretty safe. Until the old boys club decides that you can download content for a reasonable cost, or just download as much as you want, and back it up on standard DVD, then I'm much happier paying $50 for cable than paying $2 a show. I can use my DVR (SageTV) to record movies, tv shows, sporting events, and just about anything I want. It's going to take the old boys club a long time to start to offer a lot of shows for download. All those old sitcoms like the Cosby Show that play 6 times a day are really good to have sitting around on the DVR for something to watch when there's nothing on the TV. I would much rather just pay a flat fee and watch whatever I want, however I want, then pay $2 an episode to watch it only on licensed devices.
That's because the more scientific name for it is Infectious mononucleosis. It's usually called mono or mononucleosis in Canada. I've never heard the term glandular fever before.
Any word on when this would happen. I love Amarok, Digikam, and Kopete, and would love to have the running on windows. I'm currently running VMWare just to run Digikam, and a couple other linux Apps. I would really love to be able to run these on a windows box.
Well, if you want anti-virus, there's CLAM-AV, although there is no resident scanner included. Other good packages that I like from the Open Source world are Digikam, Amarok, Kopete. But sadly none of those are available on windows.
If your pagefile exists in RAM, then why even have a pagefile at all? Just get rid of the pagefile completely. If you have 2Gig of Ram, then you pretty much have no need for a page file for most desktop applications. Things like photo/video editing can take a lot of RAM, but if you don't do any of that, you're probably OK.
Most monitors sold in the last 10 years know which resolutions/refresh rates they support and will display an appropriate error screen if you feed it the wrong signal.
It's very easy. No assembly required
The point is, is that they could have just continued to sell XP for the next 5 years, and not wasted 5 billion on the development of Vista. They would still be selling just as many computers, and they would have a much easier time on maintenance because a lot of the bugs have been worked out of XP.
The way I see it is this. Microsoft only sold so few units because they had trouble getting enough of them on the shelves. People wanted to buy the 360 but couldn't. Sony on the other hand isn't selling out, and if you really want a PS3 it's not that hard to find them. You may have to go into a couple different shops, but it's not impossible. The Wii is also selling out, and nowhere to be found, but they are manufacturing tons more than sony is, and can't keep up with demand. So, from my point of view, even with Sony's low manufacturing numbers, they aren't that hard to find, which means that I don't think that Sony isn't doing very well at all. It probably won't drive them out of the console business, but they'll probably think twice next time about building at $700 console
Yes, but Quebecers have a really butchered version of french, including terms such as "beurre de peanut", "C'est pas froid." when saying that it's hot. And my all time favourite, the word "char" when talking about a car.
According to wikipedia, the list of "dot countries" includes India, China, United States, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, and many other very populous countries. Therefore I'm pretty sure more people use the dot. The list of "comma countries" seems to be quite a bit longer but contains a lot of lesser populated countries like Switzerland, Cuba, and Belgium, and most of the rest of Europe.
Or turning on the siren just so they can drive through a red light, after which they quickly turn it back off, and continue on at their regular non-emergency pace. Guess they just couldn't wait get to Tim Horton's.
The Firefox Web Developer Extension has an option to uncheck all radio buttons. I wonder what happens if you click that on dell's site. I Run off to dell.ca. I am amazed they sell vista desktops with 512 MB of Ram. Well, even if you uncheck all the radio buttons, it still thinks you chose windows vista. It doesn't even report any errors. I think i'm going to email dell and tell them about the bug.
I would just get the Vista refund for the principal if nothing else. Even if the refund was only $0.01 I would still get it if I wasn't using windows. Just to show Dell and MS that I infact wasn't using the software.
Maybe he had an old copy of XP that he wanted to run. Wouldn't those drivers be supported?
I've always found this a little complicated. We can't even decide on a standard for a system on how to write numbers? We still have problems with metric/imperial, but now we got different ways of writing the same value? Is there any standard that the scientific community uses? Do calculators in Europe have a comma key instead of a decimal key? Do european keyboard have a numpad with a comma? I know that people in Quebec sometimes insist on using the comma instead of the decimal, and to me it just seems completely weird. I find it weird because they say cinq point cinq, yet they write it as 5,5.
MS Office also is always running in the background, just incase you open up a document. You could do the same with just about any application. Keep it running in the background, and then poof, it starts. Of course, if you rarely used the application, you'd just be wasting memory, but hey, the app looks like it starts fast.
I was very disappointed also. I thought it would be something more TV oriented rather than just something you could watch ITMS videos on. I think that apple could make a much better set-top box, with TV Tuner, big hard drive (at least 300 GB) and a remote, and an application like MythTV or SageTV. Really I don't see much of a use for the Apple TV. If they made it a more generic media centre box, they could probably kill off the windows media center market before it even gets noticed by most people.
Or maybe he's just counting the time until the computer is actually usable. With Linux once the computer is booted, and you see the desktop, it's ready to use. With windows, it takes another 20 seconds (at least) after the desktop appears for it to actually become usable.
It's not that hard to believe after watching an episode of "Are you smarter than a 5th Grader". It's hard to imagine how dumb people can be before you actually see it. People who can't subtract 5 from 12 without using their fingers and taking 30 seconds to figure it out. People who think that all the continents are countries. ( Even after being able to name them all). Or people who can't do simple math like, "If y=3x and 3x=12 then what does y equal?" Seriously, the lack of intelligence in some people is amazing.
I'm with you on that. I'm not sure about the US, but in Canada, while I do know some "poor" people, most of them have a computer and internet access. Granted it's not Africa poor, just North America Poor, which is still much richer than most of the people in the world. A computer only costs $300. A net connection is $10 a month for dial-up, or $25 a month for low-speed-high-speed. Most people I know who are hard up for cash have no problem buying a case of beer every month ($24 for the cheapest of cases) or buying cigarettes ($10 a pack now), or ordering dinner twice a week, or ..... There are some truly poor people, but I know a lot of people who never have money, yet piss it away on cellphones, cars, alcohol, eating out, cigarettes, and a lot of other things they probably don't need to be spending their money on.
The slashdot crowd already knows how cool Linux is, you have to get the rest of the people.
That's a much better commercial than the Novell ones. I wish IBM would put out more commercials like this. Get the public aware of what linux is.