this could lead to a lot of fingers in the microwave. maybe the professional hackers should specifically label one of the microwaves in the break room severed fingers in THIS microwave only.
Imagine hearing the first two minutes of song one EVERYTIME you left a class...
i don't know about you, but my portable and car cd players have a 'resume' feature so that the disc starts playing again at the same place as i stopped it. in fact i have fun sometimes swapping the disc without the cd player noticing and seeing where it will start . . .
just so i don't get flamed i'll mention that i only have an extemely cheap usb stick/mp3 player that certainly doesn't have any sort of resume feature, so i don't know how common resume play is on no-moving-parts players.
1 in 20 is a major understatement IMHO. I would have to say that out of the people I talk to, it's probably more like 4 out of 5.
keep in mind that's 4 out of 5 people that you talk to, when they bring their computers into your office to get fixed. when you consider the number of people who can actually fix it themselves (possibly small enough to be insignificant) and the people who know someone who can fix it for them (i'm sure this is big enough to make a difference considering the number of computers i provide 'tech support' for), the 1 in 20 figure may be more accurate than it appears to you at first. most of these people who aren't bringing in their computers are not going to have adware or spyware because they are not downloading it to begin with, or know somebody who set them up with a way to get rid of it / not download it.
i browse with javascript turned off in mozilla firebird. i have piro's policy manager extension installed for sites that i want to allow javascript for so that i can just right click and change js permissions for that domain. it cuts out a lot of ads as well as other annoyances.
fresh xp home or pro installs to c:\windows by default, and usually doesn't give an option to put it somewhere else. i've reinstalled enough times to know!
1 decibel isn't a constant. Isn't it logarithmic? The difference between 1 decibel at the 10-11 range is different than 1 decibel at the 50-51 range
actually a 1 dB change will sound the same to you no matter how loud the sound is to begin with. so it makes sense to use this scale for that reason. the decibel scale is 10 times the common log of a power ratio, so yes it is logarithmic. and you could say that it's not constant because if your sound intensity is 35 dB above the noise and you add 3 dB, that's not the same increase in power as adding 3 dB to 12 dB.
it also can help to remember that dB is a relative measurement--there really is no absolute scale for dB. if we are using it to represent the intensity of sound it's generally referenced to an accepted value that represents 'no sound'--essentially to say that noise is 20 dB means that it is 20 dB above that reference intensity.
wasn't it always implied that computers would save peoples time?
i work at a software company. if it weren't for computers, i'd probably have a lot more time. then again i'd have a lot less money and no job--it would certainly be difficult to do my job without a computer!
I'd heard back in my BBS days that upload actually meant that files came in, and download meant that files went out. this is of course backward from the way the terms are used now, as it was backward from the way the terms were used back in my BBS days. the explanation i was given is that everything was in the context of the server, so when you are 'downloading' you're really asking the server to download to you, and you would be uploading.
i am not sure if that information was ever in any way accurate, or if it just reflected the view of the person who explained it to me.
well when i think about the idea of calling people at home while they're probably eating dinner and trying to sell them something they probably don't need or want, that doesn't sound like a winning strategy either. it's quite likely that i'm being paranoid in this sense, but can you really trust telemarketers to follow the rules? or the government to really enforce them?
personally i don't trust people to use the do not call list appropriately. if you look at it from a spammer point of view, this is a list of verified working phone numbers! that's like the direct-marketing jackpot right there! they obviously don't understand that people trying to prevent telemarketers/spammers from bothering them aren't going to buy anything, so this means we have to rely on law enforcement to make sure we don't get bothered.
until i actually start getting telemarketing calls, i'm not putting my number on that list.
gnu.org isn't ugly, it's just simple. there's a big difference (namely, that simple is much easier for people to agree on than ugly, as ugly depends on personal preference).
personally i have only onced used vi and never emacs, but i write all of my html/css/javascript/php/asp/whatever else is needed in a text editor with appropriate coloring. and i think i can probably code up a better looking and better working page in the same time as it would take for someone to do a quick layout in some sort of wysiwyg html editor and then edit it later and still have some problems to work out.
so yes, i think that coding by hand is the best option, but at the same time a wysiwyg editor is going to be something a lot of people who can't code by hand will want. people who design great looking websites, on the other hand, should not be using any sort of editor. especially with the way all the editors i've seen in action generate messy/useless code. then again this is the one editor i'd expect to output code closest to what a good html coder would write.
If indeed copyrighted works can't be copied and distributed beyond the original (i.e. legitimate) owner then why is their school campaign labelled propaganda?
well because it IS propaganda. read the article--it mentions one of these guest "teachers" telling the kinds a flat-out lie, and when one of the kids who knows better says so, he just gets cut off. now if the MPAA/RIAA wanted to come in an actually TEACH the kids the facts about copyright law then that's fine, but that doesn't belong in grades 5-9 either. why do you think they'd be going to this age group who isn't going to understand the complexities of the law if not for propaganda? if you wanted to actually teach, you would choose an age level who would actually be able to at least somewhat understand. like another/.er said, this really belongs in something like a high school business law class, not grade schools and middle schools. so it's not so much that they're trying to teach kids that it's illegal to download copyrighted material that we have a problem with, it's the approach they're taking.
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this could lead to a lot of fingers in the microwave. maybe the professional hackers should specifically label one of the microwaves in the break room severed fingers in THIS microwave only.
luckily, i type in dvorak, so they'll never be able to pull my ra;;,soh out of thin air!
so is MII supposed to be pronounced "me" or "my?"
are you by chance a GM at Blizzard? maybe even the one in your 'hypothetical' story?
you're so totally ip-banned.
just so i don't get flamed i'll mention that i only have an extemely cheap usb stick/mp3 player that certainly doesn't have any sort of resume feature, so i don't know how common resume play is on no-moving-parts players.
(don't get excited--i made that up)
first, split it into it's two parts. man, which means -- well, man. drake, which means dragon.
so we have man-dragon. switch that around and we now have dragon-man. and who was a dragon-man? why TROGDOR, of course!
surely 'trogdor' is free of trademark issues
i browse with javascript turned off in mozilla firebird. i have piro's policy manager extension installed for sites that i want to allow javascript for so that i can just right click and change js permissions for that domain. it cuts out a lot of ads as well as other annoyances.
fresh xp home or pro installs to c:\windows by default, and usually doesn't give an option to put it somewhere else. i've reinstalled enough times to know!
m = 10^-3; $10m = $0.01
it also can help to remember that dB is a relative measurement--there really is no absolute scale for dB. if we are using it to represent the intensity of sound it's generally referenced to an accepted value that represents 'no sound'--essentially to say that noise is 20 dB means that it is 20 dB above that reference intensity.
i am not sure if that information was ever in any way accurate, or if it just reflected the view of the person who explained it to me.
well when i think about the idea of calling people at home while they're probably eating dinner and trying to sell them something they probably don't need or want, that doesn't sound like a winning strategy either. it's quite likely that i'm being paranoid in this sense, but can you really trust telemarketers to follow the rules? or the government to really enforce them?
until i actually start getting telemarketing calls, i'm not putting my number on that list.
personally i have only onced used vi and never emacs, but i write all of my html/css/javascript/php/asp/whatever else is needed in a text editor with appropriate coloring. and i think i can probably code up a better looking and better working page in the same time as it would take for someone to do a quick layout in some sort of wysiwyg html editor and then edit it later and still have some problems to work out.
so yes, i think that coding by hand is the best option, but at the same time a wysiwyg editor is going to be something a lot of people who can't code by hand will want. people who design great looking websites, on the other hand, should not be using any sort of editor. especially with the way all the editors i've seen in action generate messy/useless code. then again this is the one editor i'd expect to output code closest to what a good html coder would write.
if this is going on when i have children in school, they're not going on days when these guest "teachers" are there