Actually i will if this is the way it will behave. The same goes for any console that does this kind of thing. I buy most of my games used, and keep my gaming systems for as long as they last. I stay away from any game that links to online services or verification in order to function properly. If i want a time-limited gaming experience, I'll visit one of the few arcades that are left (which I do whenever I'm near one).
You're thinking of Papyrus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_font
It's so much more obtrusive in recent use. At least you can occasionally forget that you're looking at Comic Sans when you're forced to read it.
The problem is that the people using these typefaces don't understand that decorative fonts should be used rarely, if at all. They think that if they use these in their text it, or they will come across as "fun" or "classy." Of course that's about as effective as a Camaro and a mullet are at being "cool."
The problem I see is if we are given the ability to gain another 8 hours a day it wouldn't stay just an extra 8 ours for ourselves. Certainly our employers, schools, etc. would quickly come to expect some of that time and we would quickly be left with the same 2-4 hours for ourselves that we currently get.
I would like to have the option to occasionally choose to skip some sleep or even a whole night without having to struggle through the next day.
For the most part I think you can safely use the software you have. I can't speak to Movie Maker and Flash 5 because it has been so long, but as far as Photoshop and Dreamweaver, I can't think of any vital features that would be lacking for your uses. Remember old doesn't mean useless, the software you have available is still able to accomplish all the tasks that they did when they were new, and you can still teach that. Most of us who currently use the most recent versions professionally used these older versions in the past and got along just fine. Most of the basic features in these have not changed much, if at all. Additionally, each of these programs has more features than you be able to touch upon in a High School level class. So I would be surprised if you will have an opportunity to run into limitations using these older versions.
It sounds like you are in a position where you can make available both the "industry standards" and the open source software. I think this is a greater opportunity than you realize. Photoshop can do things GIMP can't do, and vice versa. I use both in my work, using the strengths of each to accomplish my end goal, this gives me more options than someone who only "knows" Photoshop. That applies to most software really, like eclipse or Komposer vs. Dreamweaver, etc. Generally they each have their strengths.
For the people that are suggesting that you use only the most recent versions, consider also the hardware you're using. Newer versions would likely require better hardware, which if you don't have a budget for newer software, is likely not an option.
Regardless of what you choose, I hope that you teach concepts rather than just methods. Make the tools available to the students, then be available as a resource to help them apply the concepts you teach with the tools they have available. This will encourage the most important thing that a student can take away from any good education, the ability to continue learning on their own. If you do this you will be giving them skills that enable them to take what you have taught to any programs or software version: a skill for their life, not just the life of the software in question.
That would require the patents to be valid or recognized in the country in question wouldn't it? I suppose patent enforcing countries could address this with unfavorable trade agreements or embargoes, but I think that would only maybe happen with the US. Is there any reason for these countries to not laugh in Microsoft's face if this were to occur?
That's what I was thinking too. They seem to be wroking pretty hard at making it lightweight, efficient and capable. I get the impression that they are pushing AIR more than some of their past new products.
Looking at how quickly Dell responded to the suggestion of offering linux (if you assume that this is a response to their call for suggestions and wasn't already in the works) you you might not have to wait too long for additional models to be added. I would think that offering linux, and drivers for all of their hardware and supporting it would take much longer than it has taken to get these three models ready.
If you haven't already, make sure that you let them know you that you want that model with linux, and if you're serious about buying one now, contact their sales department and ask if you could buy one with Ubuntu, knowing that some of the drivers might not work as well as the current linux models mentioned above. That would count as a sale for linux rather than communicating a lack of insterest or a sale for windows.
Don't forget what your other options are: buying with windows and installing linux yourself, or paying more for someone else to do that. If this doesn't succeed, or appear to be a promising or profitable path for Dell, those might remain the only options for much longer, and you won't ever see the specific laptop you want preinstalled with linux.
I'm thinking about buying one of these in a couple of days when they are released. I also would be interested in one with higher resolution, but if these are priced as low as, or close to the windows versions, it's not too much money to just buy one with a nicer screen in a few months or next year. Hopefully we'll still have linux as an option.
That sound is in the trailer at least once. Plus I think the transformations pretty much look like we all imagined them as kids. So I think you might like it. Frankly if the story isn't so lame that that it interferes with the nostalgia and the "reality" of the live action transformers, I'll be happy. The sound will help too. I agree with you there.:)
If I hadn't posted in this thread earlier, I would mod you up.
An interesting thing I noticed about the GP is that his signature says he is "Author, the EverQuest Companion, Garwulf's Corner, Diablo: Demonsbane." Who is really going to read or pay for these 14 years in the future? How are his children supposed to profit from books about video games that are past their prime? (setting aside the "why should they?") Obviosly I am making some assumptions, but this guy might also be a little out of touch.
I don't know about the Delphi PHP IDE in the article, but if you are looking for a new develpoment enviroment, I would strongly recomend trying eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/ with PHPeclipse http://www.phpeclipse.net/tiki-view_articles.php and XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html. This compination is far more powerful than Dreamweaver, free (as in beer and speech), and has plugins available to support almost every every language I can think of. Which will help you in learning new languages with out having to learn a new IDE. Inaddition it can be made to run off a USB drive. Eclipse is java based so it is available for linux windows or osX.
The only advantage Dreamweaver may have is the WYSIWYG editor. There is an eclipse plugin for this (included in easy eclipse mentioned below) but I haven't used this much, since it's geneally faster and more reliable to edit the code to get the result I want. PHPeclipse includes an browser preview pane that, with the exception of directly editing the view in a WYSIWYG maner, is just as functional.
My two favorite features are the integration with XAMPP (an extrememly easy to setup and use local LAMP web server, which should work with Dreamweaver too) which allows for a Dreamweaver style design view for PHP code, and the Remote System Explorer (RSE) http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/tutorial/ plugin which allows you to connect and work on files on a remote webserver as if they were local, which is great for quick fixes and fixing typos.
This is slashdot. I think you're asking in the wrong place.
Then again, being that you're asking on slashdot, you probably don't know of any better place to ask anyway!:)
I think this would just cause a lot of software to move to a subscription model. Since they are paying for a "service" not the software itself the liability of the software company would be non existant. Of course the law could be written to account for this, i doubt it will happen with Microsoft and many others wanting to move to the greater profits of a subscription/service model.
Anyone know of site that does this is the U.S. or at least in North America this inexpensively? I'm sure the shipping from Germany would not be cheap, or would atleast place it into the same price range as the sites i've found after taking a quick look.
This is a great way to explain the situatiuon to a future employer. More people should take the ethics of situations into consideration like this.
That being said, a friend of mine who is a recent college graduate was told by a career consultant that she should not go into a career in corporate America because her level of ethics was too high. Go figure.
Apple is no longer targeting beginers. I recently purchased a new laptop computer. The #1 reason I didn't get a powerbook is the lack of a right mouse button. Buying a different mouse is simply not an option on a laptop. I for one not only hope that this will be true, but I hope they add the additional button to their laptops as well. If they really wanted to keep just one button they could have both buttons function the same until an option was changed in a OS menu. They could even use some type of cap that covered the crack between the buttons for those who would have THAT dificulty.
To me it just makes sense, a $1 change to their mouses and laptops could make them many more thousands in sales. ~$2000 in my case alone.
I wonder if this is not mainly an advertising technique to get free press. It's such an obviously self interested proposal that they might not even think it'll pass, but if they get to be known as the only online dating site that "does background checks" then they might get a lot more business. It occurs to me that this might cause a decrease in "quality" of the people who use true.com because people don't go through the effort of actually taking normal precautions in meeting someone online.
Seriously some of these look pretty cool, it's interesting that aesthetics seem to be so much more important in many of these than they are in other robotics competitions.
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Actually i will if this is the way it will behave. The same goes for any console that does this kind of thing. I buy most of my games used, and keep my gaming systems for as long as they last. I stay away from any game that links to online services or verification in order to function properly. If i want a time-limited gaming experience, I'll visit one of the few arcades that are left (which I do whenever I'm near one).
You're thinking of Papyrus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_font It's so much more obtrusive in recent use. At least you can occasionally forget that you're looking at Comic Sans when you're forced to read it.
The problem is that the people using these typefaces don't understand that decorative fonts should be used rarely, if at all. They think that if they use these in their text it, or they will come across as "fun" or "classy." Of course that's about as effective as a Camaro and a mullet are at being "cool."
Sounds like a good reason to not visit microsoft.com. :)
The problem I see is if we are given the ability to gain another 8 hours a day it wouldn't stay just an extra 8 ours for ourselves. Certainly our employers, schools, etc. would quickly come to expect some of that time and we would quickly be left with the same 2-4 hours for ourselves that we currently get. I would like to have the option to occasionally choose to skip some sleep or even a whole night without having to struggle through the next day.
For the most part I think you can safely use the software you have. I can't speak to Movie Maker and Flash 5 because it has been so long, but as far as Photoshop and Dreamweaver, I can't think of any vital features that would be lacking for your uses. Remember old doesn't mean useless, the software you have available is still able to accomplish all the tasks that they did when they were new, and you can still teach that. Most of us who currently use the most recent versions professionally used these older versions in the past and got along just fine. Most of the basic features in these have not changed much, if at all. Additionally, each of these programs has more features than you be able to touch upon in a High School level class. So I would be surprised if you will have an opportunity to run into limitations using these older versions.
It sounds like you are in a position where you can make available both the "industry standards" and the open source software. I think this is a greater opportunity than you realize. Photoshop can do things GIMP can't do, and vice versa. I use both in my work, using the strengths of each to accomplish my end goal, this gives me more options than someone who only "knows" Photoshop. That applies to most software really, like eclipse or Komposer vs. Dreamweaver, etc. Generally they each have their strengths.
For the people that are suggesting that you use only the most recent versions, consider also the hardware you're using. Newer versions would likely require better hardware, which if you don't have a budget for newer software, is likely not an option.
Regardless of what you choose, I hope that you teach concepts rather than just methods. Make the tools available to the students, then be available as a resource to help them apply the concepts you teach with the tools they have available. This will encourage the most important thing that a student can take away from any good education, the ability to continue learning on their own. If you do this you will be giving them skills that enable them to take what you have taught to any programs or software version: a skill for their life, not just the life of the software in question.
That would require the patents to be valid or recognized in the country in question wouldn't it? I suppose patent enforcing countries could address this with unfavorable trade agreements or embargoes, but I think that would only maybe happen with the US. Is there any reason for these countries to not laugh in Microsoft's face if this were to occur?
That's what I was thinking too. They seem to be wroking pretty hard at making it lightweight, efficient and capable. I get the impression that they are pushing AIR more than some of their past new products.
Looking at how quickly Dell responded to the suggestion of offering linux (if you assume that this is a response to their call for suggestions and wasn't already in the works) you you might not have to wait too long for additional models to be added. I would think that offering linux, and drivers for all of their hardware and supporting it would take much longer than it has taken to get these three models ready.
If you haven't already, make sure that you let them know you that you want that model with linux, and if you're serious about buying one now, contact their sales department and ask if you could buy one with Ubuntu, knowing that some of the drivers might not work as well as the current linux models mentioned above. That would count as a sale for linux rather than communicating a lack of insterest or a sale for windows.
Don't forget what your other options are: buying with windows and installing linux yourself, or paying more for someone else to do that. If this doesn't succeed, or appear to be a promising or profitable path for Dell, those might remain the only options for much longer, and you won't ever see the specific laptop you want preinstalled with linux.
I'm thinking about buying one of these in a couple of days when they are released. I also would be interested in one with higher resolution, but if these are priced as low as, or close to the windows versions, it's not too much money to just buy one with a nicer screen in a few months or next year. Hopefully we'll still have linux as an option.
That sound is in the trailer at least once. Plus I think the transformations pretty much look like we all imagined them as kids. So I think you might like it. Frankly if the story isn't so lame that that it interferes with the nostalgia and the "reality" of the live action transformers, I'll be happy. The sound will help too. I agree with you there. :)
If I hadn't posted in this thread earlier, I would mod you up.
An interesting thing I noticed about the GP is that his signature says he is "Author, the EverQuest Companion, Garwulf's Corner, Diablo: Demonsbane." Who is really going to read or pay for these 14 years in the future? How are his children supposed to profit from books about video games that are past their prime? (setting aside the "why should they?") Obviosly I am making some assumptions, but this guy might also be a little out of touch.
It's good to see that I'm not the only one who gets all their news from slashdot. ;)
I don't know about the Delphi PHP IDE in the article, but if you are looking for a new develpoment enviroment, I would strongly recomend trying eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/ with PHPeclipse http://www.phpeclipse.net/tiki-view_articles.php and XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html. This compination is far more powerful than Dreamweaver, free (as in beer and speech), and has plugins available to support almost every every language I can think of. Which will help you in learning new languages with out having to learn a new IDE. Inaddition it can be made to run off a USB drive. Eclipse is java based so it is available for linux windows or osX.
The only advantage Dreamweaver may have is the WYSIWYG editor. There is an eclipse plugin for this (included in easy eclipse mentioned below) but I haven't used this much, since it's geneally faster and more reliable to edit the code to get the result I want. PHPeclipse includes an browser preview pane that, with the exception of directly editing the view in a WYSIWYG maner, is just as functional.
My two favorite features are the integration with XAMPP (an extrememly easy to setup and use local LAMP web server, which should work with Dreamweaver too) which allows for a Dreamweaver style design view for PHP code, and the Remote System Explorer (RSE) http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/tutorial/ plugin which allows you to connect and work on files on a remote webserver as if they were local, which is great for quick fixes and fixing typos.
To use eclipse, PHPeclipse, and XAMPP to create a portable development environment on a USB drive, check out http://www.plog4u.org/index.php/Using_PHPEclipse:I nstallation:XAMPP_Example_Installation for eclipse and PHP eclipse installation into XAMPP and this thread http://portableapps.com/node/929 to make it all portable. I would also recomend checking out http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/home/ for easy installation of eclipse with many of the most useful plugins preinstalled for you.
This is slashdot. I think you're asking in the wrong place. Then again, being that you're asking on slashdot, you probably don't know of any better place to ask anyway! :)
acording to the article, that is a "young lady". LOL BEAR would make a great shirt though.
I think this would just cause a lot of software to move to a subscription model. Since they are paying for a "service" not the software itself the liability of the software company would be non existant. Of course the law could be written to account for this, i doubt it will happen with Microsoft and many others wanting to move to the greater profits of a subscription/service model.
Anyone know of site that does this is the U.S. or at least in North America this inexpensively? I'm sure the shipping from Germany would not be cheap, or would atleast place it into the same price range as the sites i've found after taking a quick look.
This is a great way to explain the situatiuon to a future employer. More people should take the ethics of situations into consideration like this.
That being said, a friend of mine who is a recent college graduate was told by a career consultant that she should not go into a career in corporate America because her level of ethics was too high. Go figure.
It's quite possinle that you'll get your own chorus, once your post get's modded +5 Funny.
Best post in response to this article yet!
They actually have an article on Hoverboards too. At least I can read about how my two favorite fictional gadgets work in "theory".
Apple is no longer targeting beginers. I recently purchased a new laptop computer. The #1 reason I didn't get a powerbook is the lack of a right mouse button. Buying a different mouse is simply not an option on a laptop. I for one not only hope that this will be true, but I hope they add the additional button to their laptops as well.
If they really wanted to keep just one button they could have both buttons function the same until an option was changed in a OS menu. They could even use some type of cap that covered the crack between the buttons for those who would have THAT dificulty.
To me it just makes sense, a $1 change to their mouses and laptops could make them many more thousands in sales. ~$2000 in my case alone.
I wonder if this is not mainly an advertising technique to get free press. It's such an obviously self interested proposal that they might not even think it'll pass, but if they get to be known as the only online dating site that "does background checks" then they might get a lot more business. It occurs to me that this might cause a decrease in "quality" of the people who use true.com because people don't go through the effort of actually taking normal precautions in meeting someone online.
Is it wrong that i actually laughed at this?
I didn't. Thank you!
Nice sig!
When will we have 4 story high fighting robots?
Seriously some of these look pretty cool, it's interesting that aesthetics seem to be so much more important in many of these than they are in other robotics competitions.