Here's the answer. If you don't already have a palm pilot, get a cheap one (like the Zire) and download the Palm Keyring. That way you can keep all your passwords in your palm pilot, encrypted, and accessible with one password. It can also generate passwords from 6? to 20 characters in length, and with various symbols and other criteria to meet you needs.
But that's the nice thing about going with AMD 64 bit. You can still run all your old software in 32 bit mode. You can run many programs in 64 bit mode, and these programs will run better because of this. But it's not like it's critical to run your browser in 64 bit mode. Who cares if your browser doesn't use the 64 bit technology. It probably wouldn't benefit from it much anyway.
I find that I have enoug buttons in easy access. It would be nice to have the "real number keys" in better reach, but once you start moving your hand over there, you often lose track of where you are. I also find that there isn't much difference in time between switching your weapons with next/previous weapon, and moving your hand over to find the right number key, and then selecting it, and then moving your hand back to where it's suppose to be.
Exactly. Nobody should ever look at Microsoft was a non-competitor. I'm sure the anti-spyware guys thought the same thing. Then MS made their own (bought out someone elses) anti-spyware package. Same goes for everything else. MS had no mapping software, then google started doing all this cool mapping software, and microsoft said "Me Too", and within a couple months, has something on par with what google was offering. Microsoft will always be a competitor, especially when there's lots of money at stake. Hey, even with the XBox they are a good competitor, and they are losing tons of money off that division.
I still don't understand why everyone uses WASD. Maybe because it's the default. Myself, I use the Keypad (Yes, with the left hand). You're much less likely to lose your spot, because the 5 key has a dot on it usually. Also, The fact that the buttons are actually in a grid configuration make it much easier to go from one button to the next. I also use + and for forward and back, and 8 and 2 for jump and duck. This is because it' makes it easier to switch from forward to back, which is much more useful than switching from jump to duck quickly. Also, if you are in need of extra keys, there's always hte insert/home area, which is also very easy to find, as well as the other set of arrows (which need not be used for movement). I just find that the right side of the keyboard is much easier to move your hand around without getting mixed up with your fingers on the wrong keys.
I wouldn't say that people who pirate buy nothing, or that they will buy everything they pirate and they like. I know some people who pirate anything and everything just to say they have it, and never buy anything, and then there are those who pirate a little bit, and still buy a some stuff, then there's those who never pirate, some who buy, and some who don't. There's lots of different kinds of people. Trying to fit everyone into one box doesn't work.
The french also have a 35 hour work week, and more holidays than your average American. Stress is a known cause of heart attacks. Maybe the reason they have less heart disease isn't because of the wine, but because they are just less stressed.
Besides, how many of the things listed would actually wipe out the entire human race. Let's see...
1) Global warming - Even if all the icecaps melt, there will still be lots of places for people to live, and unless the temperature goes up around 60 degress C, I think that people will be able to survive.
2) nuclear war - Could probably wipe out quite a few people. Again probably not the entire human race. Eventually someone would realize how stupid all this nuke stuff was and stop firing.
3) Genetically Engineered viruses - The human race has lived through the plague, and many other diseases. There's even reports of people who can fight of AIDS. I don't think there's any disease that would spread fast enough and far enough to wipe out the entire planet. We're pretty good about quarantining areas and people that are infected with really bad diseases.
I wouldn't care so much about having MS Office for Linux if MS Office would just use the ODF Format. Exchange, also doesn't have to be available. But make the specs open. Make the formats open. Make the protocols open. Interoperability isn't about sharing code with eachother, it's about having open formats so that my program can communicate with your program. With published APIs and formats, programs can interoperate without having to share any code.
Yeah, DVDs are getting pretty bad. I rented a movie last week and it had an advertisement for a car. I really couldn't believe it. It's almost as bad as watching that downloading is stealing trailers before every movie, ON A MOVIE I BOUGHT. Here's a clue. People who download movies don't buy them, and will never see that ad. Instead, people who buy these movies have to sit through this crap. Imagine if every time you put your favourite CD in, the first track told you about how wrong it is to copy music.
I often ask the same question with music. A band would be independant if they produced their own music, and didn't sign under a label. But then there's so called Independant labels. How big can a label be before not being independant. Maybe if they aren't part of the RIAA then they are independant, but what if a bunch of non-RIAA labels joined forces? Would they cease to be independant? Once all these software companies join forces, are they really independant? For me Independant music often just means not good enough (good is subjective) to be mainstream. P-diddy/Puff daddy/Sean Combs has his own record company and therefore I assume produces all his own music, yet I would highly doubt that anyone would refer to him as an independant artist.
Why does it even matter if the US universities are better. Unless the startup is able to tons of capital, they won't be getting the graduates from these universities anyway. Maybe it's the graduates starting up their own business, but I don't see this happening a lot, as new grads generally have to pay off student loans, and if your from a top university, there's plenty of well paying jobs you can get, without having to worry about the insecurity of working for a start up.
Well, based on the world rankings I found, There's 25 in the top 500 universities in Canada. Pretty good for a country with only 30 million people, and none of the schools listed being private. Granted, many of the top schools are US based, but many schools aren't. I'm not even going to get into how they ranked the schools, since it seems hardvard (#1) received a total score of 100, and cambridge (#2) received a total score of 73.6. How they got such a large gap between the top 2 schools is beyond me.
There just aren't many good universities outside of the U.S. I can count them on one hand.
Even using binary hand notation (digit up = 1, digit down = 0), I'd have to say your guess is way off. Just becuase you've never heard of the university doesn't mean that they aren't any good. There's probably at least 2 hands (10) worth of schools in Canada alone which would rank among the top american universities.
You're right. The average user probably couldn't set up either windows or linux. Which is pretty sad considering how easy the modern distros (both windows and linux) are to install. And I think it is true, that either one is equally easy to learn. There's nothing hard about using Thunderbird/Evolution over Outlook, or using Firefox over IE. Or even using OO.o over msword. For what the average computer user is capable of doing with their computer, they would have no trouble using Linux. Linux even has stuff that's a lot better than what you can get on windows. Digikam for instance.
The thing is, there are some really good schools in the US. Harvard, Yale, MIT. There are also some really bad schools. The elite ones are really good, I think the state run universities are the ones that give the entire country a bad reputation. On average, the schools aren't that good. But companies don't pay attention to those schools. They pay attention to the top schools.
I dual boot because firstly, I've gotten to the point where I can run Linux 90% of the time, and my windows part only gets used rarely. I also live in an apartment, and although I'd have no problem keeping extra computer(s) around, just to mess around with, my girlfriend has lots of objections. Even when I was experimenting however, I always dual booted. It's simple enough to not bork your windows install, if you keep it on a seperate drive. Most linux distros have an easy enough install system now a days, that wiping out your entire windows partition isn't likely to happen. And if worse comes to worse, you can just change the bios to boot from the windows hard drive, and everything works fine. However getting a second machine if you have the space and money is probably a better way to go. But completely unnecessary.
I was reading the first paragraph, and immediately jumped to thinking about what you were saying in the second part of your post. I rarely studied more than 3 hours for any 1 final exam. Most of the time it was about an hour. I went over the general material, and anything that I was unsure about, but never really felt that I had to cram. This was because I payed attention during the semester, and stayed awake in class. The classes I didn't stay awake in (Calculus 2, first year physics) were classes that I didn't do very well in. I ended up graduating Magna Cum Lauda, so my approach couldn't have been that wrong. I always grimmaced when I saw the people cramming for final, because they copied the assignments and skipped all the classes, and realized that they'd still have to do well on the 60% final to actually get a good mark in the class.
But when you program with a group of people, who's to say who the original author of the code is. It is a collaborative work. Do they all own all of it? or do they own the individual portion which they wrote. With bug fixes and revisions and all that it's hard to say who owns what. You can easily run blame (attrib) to find out who submitted the code last, but that doesn't mean they wrote those lines. So, if any person in the group left, would they be allowed to take the entire code base with them? Even the files they worked on could encompass large parts of the software. You can't expect to run a software house, and not have anybody leave ever, eventually someone is going to offer them gobs of money if it means getting their hands on all your source code.
The problem with using tables is that when you make dynamic web pages, using PHP/JSP/ASP/?, that your code has to figure out how to display the content. If you use CSS, you can write the code once, and just have it output the content in a bunch of div tags. Then when you want to change how your site looks, you don't have to go through all your code changing things around. Just change the CSS that says how the content is to be displayed. Tables save time if you are never going to change your design. However, CSS saves time even if you have to change your design once.
yeah, but your browser doesn't have to be 3D to accomplish this. All they need to do is change the functionality of the back button (or provide an alternate button) which allows you to go back and load the pages from memory, instead of having to load them from the web server.
That's because the cartridges are not designed to be refilled. They are designed to be used once, and then thrown out. I'm sure it's not impossible to design a cartridge which can be refilled. It's just that they aren't trying to build a refillable cartridge.
Why would you go through 9? How? either you go through 2 or 3, decide they are crap because they keep breaking, and move onto something else. I therefore assume that you bought the warranty, and keep on having to send the back and get new ones when they break. I still don't see how you could go through 9 in 18 months. I know some of them end up bad, but there's got to be a bigger problem for you to go through that many.
Exactly. The Mac Mini is somewhere around $500, and doesn't provide much of a gaming experience. The Wii on the other hand, will probably debut at around $200-250, and offer a great game play experience.
You actually have a titanium wedding ring? I tried one of those on in the store. It was way too light and kind of felt like plastic. Like something you'd find in a gumball machine. Sorry, only real gold for me. Titanium is great for other things that benefit from being light, like cars, bicycles, and shotguns. Imagine having a car with all the steel parts replaced with titanium. It would be a lot lighter, and you'd get better gas mileage, and no rust.
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Here's the answer. If you don't already have a palm pilot, get a cheap one (like the Zire) and download the Palm Keyring. That way you can keep all your passwords in your palm pilot, encrypted, and accessible with one password. It can also generate passwords from 6? to 20 characters in length, and with various symbols and other criteria to meet you needs.
But that's the nice thing about going with AMD 64 bit. You can still run all your old software in 32 bit mode. You can run many programs in 64 bit mode, and these programs will run better because of this. But it's not like it's critical to run your browser in 64 bit mode. Who cares if your browser doesn't use the 64 bit technology. It probably wouldn't benefit from it much anyway.
I find that I have enoug buttons in easy access. It would be nice to have the "real number keys" in better reach, but once you start moving your hand over there, you often lose track of where you are. I also find that there isn't much difference in time between switching your weapons with next/previous weapon, and moving your hand over to find the right number key, and then selecting it, and then moving your hand back to where it's suppose to be.
Exactly. Nobody should ever look at Microsoft was a non-competitor. I'm sure the anti-spyware guys thought the same thing. Then MS made their own (bought out someone elses) anti-spyware package. Same goes for everything else. MS had no mapping software, then google started doing all this cool mapping software, and microsoft said "Me Too", and within a couple months, has something on par with what google was offering. Microsoft will always be a competitor, especially when there's lots of money at stake. Hey, even with the XBox they are a good competitor, and they are losing tons of money off that division.
I still don't understand why everyone uses WASD. Maybe because it's the default. Myself, I use the Keypad (Yes, with the left hand). You're much less likely to lose your spot, because the 5 key has a dot on it usually. Also, The fact that the buttons are actually in a grid configuration make it much easier to go from one button to the next. I also use + and for forward and back, and 8 and 2 for jump and duck. This is because it' makes it easier to switch from forward to back, which is much more useful than switching from jump to duck quickly. Also, if you are in need of extra keys, there's always hte insert/home area, which is also very easy to find, as well as the other set of arrows (which need not be used for movement). I just find that the right side of the keyboard is much easier to move your hand around without getting mixed up with your fingers on the wrong keys.
I wouldn't say that people who pirate buy nothing, or that they will buy everything they pirate and they like. I know some people who pirate anything and everything just to say they have it, and never buy anything, and then there are those who pirate a little bit, and still buy a some stuff, then there's those who never pirate, some who buy, and some who don't. There's lots of different kinds of people. Trying to fit everyone into one box doesn't work.
The french also have a 35 hour work week, and more holidays than your average American. Stress is a known cause of heart attacks. Maybe the reason they have less heart disease isn't because of the wine, but because they are just less stressed.
Besides, how many of the things listed would actually wipe out the entire human race. Let's see...
1) Global warming - Even if all the icecaps melt, there will still be lots of places for people to live, and unless the temperature goes up around 60 degress C, I think that people will be able to survive.
2) nuclear war - Could probably wipe out quite a few people. Again probably not the entire human race. Eventually someone would realize how stupid all this nuke stuff was and stop firing.
3) Genetically Engineered viruses - The human race has lived through the plague, and many other diseases. There's even reports of people who can fight of AIDS. I don't think there's any disease that would spread fast enough and far enough to wipe out the entire planet. We're pretty good about quarantining areas and people that are infected with really bad diseases.
I wouldn't care so much about having MS Office for Linux if MS Office would just use the ODF Format. Exchange, also doesn't have to be available. But make the specs open. Make the formats open. Make the protocols open. Interoperability isn't about sharing code with eachother, it's about having open formats so that my program can communicate with your program. With published APIs and formats, programs can interoperate without having to share any code.
Yeah, DVDs are getting pretty bad. I rented a movie last week and it had an advertisement for a car. I really couldn't believe it. It's almost as bad as watching that downloading is stealing trailers before every movie, ON A MOVIE I BOUGHT. Here's a clue. People who download movies don't buy them, and will never see that ad. Instead, people who buy these movies have to sit through this crap. Imagine if every time you put your favourite CD in, the first track told you about how wrong it is to copy music.
I often ask the same question with music. A band would be independant if they produced their own music, and didn't sign under a label. But then there's so called Independant labels. How big can a label be before not being independant. Maybe if they aren't part of the RIAA then they are independant, but what if a bunch of non-RIAA labels joined forces? Would they cease to be independant? Once all these software companies join forces, are they really independant? For me Independant music often just means not good enough (good is subjective) to be mainstream. P-diddy/Puff daddy/Sean Combs has his own record company and therefore I assume produces all his own music, yet I would highly doubt that anyone would refer to him as an independant artist.
Why does it even matter if the US universities are better. Unless the startup is able to tons of capital, they won't be getting the graduates from these universities anyway. Maybe it's the graduates starting up their own business, but I don't see this happening a lot, as new grads generally have to pay off student loans, and if your from a top university, there's plenty of well paying jobs you can get, without having to worry about the insecurity of working for a start up.
Well, based on the world rankings I found, There's 25 in the top 500 universities in Canada. Pretty good for a country with only 30 million people, and none of the schools listed being private. Granted, many of the top schools are US based, but many schools aren't. I'm not even going to get into how they ranked the schools, since it seems hardvard (#1) received a total score of 100, and cambridge (#2) received a total score of 73.6. How they got such a large gap between the top 2 schools is beyond me.
There just aren't many good universities outside of the U.S. I can count them on one hand.
Even using binary hand notation (digit up = 1, digit down = 0), I'd have to say your guess is way off. Just becuase you've never heard of the university doesn't mean that they aren't any good. There's probably at least 2 hands (10) worth of schools in Canada alone which would rank among the top american universities.
You're right. The average user probably couldn't set up either windows or linux. Which is pretty sad considering how easy the modern distros (both windows and linux) are to install. And I think it is true, that either one is equally easy to learn. There's nothing hard about using Thunderbird/Evolution over Outlook, or using Firefox over IE. Or even using OO.o over msword. For what the average computer user is capable of doing with their computer, they would have no trouble using Linux. Linux even has stuff that's a lot better than what you can get on windows. Digikam for instance.
The thing is, there are some really good schools in the US. Harvard, Yale, MIT. There are also some really bad schools. The elite ones are really good, I think the state run universities are the ones that give the entire country a bad reputation. On average, the schools aren't that good. But companies don't pay attention to those schools. They pay attention to the top schools.
I dual boot because firstly, I've gotten to the point where I can run Linux 90% of the time, and my windows part only gets used rarely. I also live in an apartment, and although I'd have no problem keeping extra computer(s) around, just to mess around with, my girlfriend has lots of objections. Even when I was experimenting however, I always dual booted. It's simple enough to not bork your windows install, if you keep it on a seperate drive. Most linux distros have an easy enough install system now a days, that wiping out your entire windows partition isn't likely to happen. And if worse comes to worse, you can just change the bios to boot from the windows hard drive, and everything works fine. However getting a second machine if you have the space and money is probably a better way to go. But completely unnecessary.
I was reading the first paragraph, and immediately jumped to thinking about what you were saying in the second part of your post. I rarely studied more than 3 hours for any 1 final exam. Most of the time it was about an hour. I went over the general material, and anything that I was unsure about, but never really felt that I had to cram. This was because I payed attention during the semester, and stayed awake in class. The classes I didn't stay awake in (Calculus 2, first year physics) were classes that I didn't do very well in. I ended up graduating Magna Cum Lauda, so my approach couldn't have been that wrong. I always grimmaced when I saw the people cramming for final, because they copied the assignments and skipped all the classes, and realized that they'd still have to do well on the 60% final to actually get a good mark in the class.
But when you program with a group of people, who's to say who the original author of the code is. It is a collaborative work. Do they all own all of it? or do they own the individual portion which they wrote. With bug fixes and revisions and all that it's hard to say who owns what. You can easily run blame (attrib) to find out who submitted the code last, but that doesn't mean they wrote those lines. So, if any person in the group left, would they be allowed to take the entire code base with them? Even the files they worked on could encompass large parts of the software. You can't expect to run a software house, and not have anybody leave ever, eventually someone is going to offer them gobs of money if it means getting their hands on all your source code.
The problem with using tables is that when you make dynamic web pages, using PHP/JSP/ASP/?, that your code has to figure out how to display the content. If you use CSS, you can write the code once, and just have it output the content in a bunch of div tags. Then when you want to change how your site looks, you don't have to go through all your code changing things around. Just change the CSS that says how the content is to be displayed. Tables save time if you are never going to change your design. However, CSS saves time even if you have to change your design once.
yeah, but your browser doesn't have to be 3D to accomplish this. All they need to do is change the functionality of the back button (or provide an alternate button) which allows you to go back and load the pages from memory, instead of having to load them from the web server.
That's because the cartridges are not designed to be refilled. They are designed to be used once, and then thrown out. I'm sure it's not impossible to design a cartridge which can be refilled. It's just that they aren't trying to build a refillable cartridge.
Why would you go through 9? How? either you go through 2 or 3, decide they are crap because they keep breaking, and move onto something else. I therefore assume that you bought the warranty, and keep on having to send the back and get new ones when they break. I still don't see how you could go through 9 in 18 months. I know some of them end up bad, but there's got to be a bigger problem for you to go through that many.
Exactly. The Mac Mini is somewhere around $500, and doesn't provide much of a gaming experience. The Wii on the other hand, will probably debut at around $200-250, and offer a great game play experience.
You actually have a titanium wedding ring? I tried one of those on in the store. It was way too light and kind of felt like plastic. Like something you'd find in a gumball machine. Sorry, only real gold for me. Titanium is great for other things that benefit from being light, like cars, bicycles, and shotguns. Imagine having a car with all the steel parts replaced with titanium. It would be a lot lighter, and you'd get better gas mileage, and no rust.