No, since gamers and customers are two different things. Gamers keep coming back (depending on how much they like the franchise). Customers have choice for different (and functionally identical) devices
Considering that he's submitted over 100 stories in the past year (search slashdot for Roland Piquepaille), he probably makes quite a decent living over his "research" and "journalism".
IBM decided to let the 'rest of us' in. They just decided to do it later. Good software on one platform is better than crap software on many...is probably how they think. And they're probably right. Do you really think IBM wouldn't make a Linux client?
That doesn't mean that someone who consistently yells "Fire!" should be legally required to stop talking, though, does it? You don't foster responsibility by making irresponsibility impossible.
One, we have a First Robotics competition -- or something. One of the two competitions involves legos, the other an embedded form of C and a lot of construction. The former is the easier for the two, so the people working on it are mainly middle schoolers, while high schoolers work on the latter (my school is a combination school with students from 7-12)
Two, encourage your students to participate in Spaceset -- an engineering simulation involving the construction, location, and internals of a space station. The RFPs are detailed enough for high school students (and certain enthusiastic middle school students) to collectively (groups of ~12-25) come up with 50 pages worth of material.
Third, my principal is encouraging me and two of my friends to teach the computer sci class, as the teacher for it retires this year.
To interest high school students you want things that a) Look good on college transcripts, b) teach them something useful, i.e. electronics engineering orgood communication in an engineering environment and c) give them an opportunity to socialize, meet new people, and generally take a positive experience with them to college.
Not sure if others have addressed this, but wouldn't prohibiting internet use be restricting what has become an entirely new medium for free speech? Is it legal to prohibit someone from the internet? Constitutional?
Other GNU/Linux distros may not have military grade security like Trusted Solaris 8, but Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) was developed by the National Security Agency -- surely that's good enough for government work.
Not really. Many people see different distributions of Linux as different OSes -- sure, under the hood it's the same, but dependencies, packaging systems, etc. etc. feed the perception that different Linux systems are just that -- where as Trusted Solaris 8 sounds to me like it's just a very secure version of Solaris 8. Keep in mind I don't know a whole lot about this stuff, but then, neither will the Execs who ultimately control the money towards paying for these systems.
Haven't we already reached the point where processors process faster than the brain and have more memory? I think that what will need to be developed is hardware and software that better emulate human thought processes.
Also, research human memory -- you remember a lot less than you think. For example, there were two plants in a study -- someone who had a tape recorded stolen from them, and another who stole it. One week after it happened, people were describing the tape recorder. There was never a tape recorder.
Then what are Visas (not the credit card) and passports for? You can move anywhere _inside_ your own country. That doesn't mean that you can go into another country without its consent. So yes, the government DOES decide if you get to move from point A to point B. It hasn't abused that as much as it could.
From the article: "To a certain extent, this probably reflects the interest of people searching as well as those linking, but is the world really that much more interested in Apple Computer than in old-fashioned apples?"
My Response: Yes. Yes, it is. These "holes" are actually Google doing its job, and the user forgetting to search properly.
couldn't the (tens of, hundreds of... whatever) thousands of linux developers pool together and sue SCO if they license linux? SCO would just be licensing the code, but that would still pollute the other code, right? Couldn't the GPL people also sue for that?
Get Peerguardian (windows program). It blocks IPs from RIAA, MPAA, and other IP ranges. It might not totally solve it, but I find that without fail, my IP is checked day after day, several times, by either or both the RIAA and the MPAA. I feel violated.
well, in order to even run a program on it you need to decrypt it, whereas you could *potentially* crack a secure install program...so it does add some protection for that. And it's simply easier for some people to put documents on there in a point-and-click fashion and retrieve it in the same fashion.
If you would just open your eyes, stop being so damn cynical about this, and realize that there are a lot of un31337 people using computers running windows who want an easy, "good enough to deter most people" security system, then you would realize that this IS practical and that its usability makes it more useful than just "encrypting and zipping using a proprietary system".
it's wrong, but once the damage is done, people will realize how insecure the internet is and how secure it can be. They can pester MS for patches and wait it out, whatever they want. I don't support this, but sometimes a jump backward results in two forward.
how would a pocket PC to use around the house be more expensive than several flat displays and wireless adapters or ethernet wiring to the central computer doing the music?
If anything, one PDA, one base station would probably be cheaper, unless he already has the other computers wired or wirelessed to the network AND has flatscreens on all of them, in which case money is probably not an issue.
on a loosely related topic, Fred Gallagher uses a simple MySQL backend which he uses phpMyAdmin with to add comics with. He plans to move to Ukyo's proprietary webcomic system, ionComix. If anyone's interested, there's iStrip (never tried it, looks confusing to code for) and comicengine (coded myself) on Sourceforge.
(btw, coding assistance would do much to further the cause of an MT substitute or a Keenspace substitute.)
For those who don't know what bayesian filtering is, look here: http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
Spam still takes out a lot of the internet's bandwidth -- and not EVERYBODY will use Outlook or Entourage. As long as they can send spam to the 5% (Non-Windows) who don't use those programs, they'll do it. Linux, BSD, Microsoft, and Apple will all have to do this, but there will still be people who get it nevertheless. They also might research into what kind of stuff goes through and send that. Eventually they'll die off, but that still won't solve the problem that those damn spammers take up a lot of bandwidth.
I pray to god that Fast TCP doesn't catch on among spammers, or they'll send it faster than ever before.
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No, since gamers and customers are two different things. Gamers keep coming back (depending on how much they like the franchise). Customers have choice for different (and functionally identical) devices
For sound, duh.
Quoted from http://www.leoville.com/ : "TV: I host Call for Help on G4techTV Canada. Tune in weeknights at 6p Eastern and Pacific."
Nope, still there -- but he's not on the US airwaves anymore, it would seem.
Considering that he's submitted over 100 stories in the past year (search slashdot for Roland Piquepaille), he probably makes quite a decent living over his "research" and "journalism".
IBM decided to let the 'rest of us' in. They just decided to do it later. Good software on one platform is better than crap software on many...is probably how they think. And they're probably right. Do you really think IBM wouldn't make a Linux client?
That doesn't mean that someone who consistently yells "Fire!" should be legally required to stop talking, though, does it? You don't foster responsibility by making irresponsibility impossible.
One, we have a First Robotics competition -- or something. One of the two competitions involves legos, the other an embedded form of C and a lot of construction. The former is the easier for the two, so the people working on it are mainly middle schoolers, while high schoolers work on the latter (my school is a combination school with students from 7-12)
Two, encourage your students to participate in Spaceset -- an engineering simulation involving the construction, location, and internals of a space station. The RFPs are detailed enough for high school students (and certain enthusiastic middle school students) to collectively (groups of ~12-25) come up with 50 pages worth of material.
Third, my principal is encouraging me and two of my friends to teach the computer sci class, as the teacher for it retires this year.
To interest high school students you want things that a) Look good on college transcripts, b) teach them something useful, i.e. electronics engineering orgood communication in an engineering environment and c) give them an opportunity to socialize, meet new people, and generally take a positive experience with them to college.
Link to spaceset: http://spaceset.org/
Not sure if others have addressed this, but wouldn't prohibiting internet use be restricting what has become an entirely new medium for free speech? Is it legal to prohibit someone from the internet? Constitutional?
You'll be able to make a cluster out of your cell phone?
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Oh, joy. 640KB/s ought to be enough for anybody
perhaps it was leaked so that if they renege on their promise, employees can jump on their ass even harder?
Other GNU/Linux distros may not have military grade security like Trusted Solaris 8, but Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) was developed by the National Security Agency -- surely that's good enough for government work.
Not really. Many people see different distributions of Linux as different OSes -- sure, under the hood it's the same, but dependencies, packaging systems, etc. etc. feed the perception that different Linux systems are just that -- where as Trusted Solaris 8 sounds to me like it's just a very secure version of Solaris 8. Keep in mind I don't know a whole lot about this stuff, but then, neither will the Execs who ultimately control the money towards paying for these systems.
correct. are there really this many /.ers who haven't read the GPL? While still praising it? Sad. Everyone should RTFGPL before liking it. -_-
Haven't we already reached the point where processors process faster than the brain and have more memory? I think that what will need to be developed is hardware and software that better emulate human thought processes.
Also, research human memory -- you remember a lot less than you think. For example, there were two plants in a study -- someone who had a tape recorded stolen from them, and another who stole it. One week after it happened, people were describing the tape recorder. There was never a tape recorder.
I sense a hole in his prediction.
i should have referred to the government as the government of the country to which you want to travel. You are correct.
Then what are Visas (not the credit card) and passports for? You can move anywhere _inside_ your own country. That doesn't mean that you can go into another country without its consent. So yes, the government DOES decide if you get to move from point A to point B. It hasn't abused that as much as it could.
From the article:
"To a certain extent, this probably reflects the interest of people searching as well as those linking, but is the world really that much more interested in Apple Computer than in old-fashioned apples?"
My Response: Yes. Yes, it is.
These "holes" are actually Google doing its job, and the user forgetting to search properly.
couldn't the (tens of, hundreds of... whatever) thousands of linux developers pool together and sue SCO if they license linux? SCO would just be licensing the code, but that would still pollute the other code, right? Couldn't the GPL people also sue for that?
Because everyone really wants to EFF the RIAA up. :)
(don't kill me for the bad pun please)
Get Peerguardian (windows program). It blocks IPs from RIAA, MPAA, and other IP ranges. It might not totally solve it, but I find that without fail, my IP is checked day after day, several times, by either or both the RIAA and the MPAA. I feel violated.
well, in order to even run a program on it you need to decrypt it, whereas you could *potentially* crack a secure install program...so it does add some protection for that. And it's simply easier for some people to put documents on there in a point-and-click fashion and retrieve it in the same fashion.
If you would just open your eyes, stop being so damn cynical about this, and realize that there are a lot of un31337 people using computers running windows who want an easy, "good enough to deter most people" security system, then you would realize that this IS practical and that its usability makes it more useful than just "encrypting and zipping using a proprietary system".
it's wrong, but once the damage is done, people will realize how insecure the internet is and how secure it can be. They can pester MS for patches and wait it out, whatever they want. I don't support this, but sometimes a jump backward results in two forward.
doesn't the site mention a 40-hour version for PCs in 2 years...?
how would a pocket PC to use around the house be more expensive than several flat displays and wireless adapters or ethernet wiring to the central computer doing the music?
If anything, one PDA, one base station would probably be cheaper, unless he already has the other computers wired or wirelessed to the network AND has flatscreens on all of them, in which case money is probably not an issue.
on a loosely related topic, Fred Gallagher uses a simple MySQL backend which he uses phpMyAdmin with to add comics with. He plans to move to Ukyo's proprietary webcomic system, ionComix. If anyone's interested, there's iStrip (never tried it, looks confusing to code for) and comicengine (coded myself) on Sourceforge. (btw, coding assistance would do much to further the cause of an MT substitute or a Keenspace substitute.)
For those who don't know what bayesian filtering is, look here: http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
Spam still takes out a lot of the internet's bandwidth -- and not EVERYBODY will use Outlook or Entourage. As long as they can send spam to the 5% (Non-Windows) who don't use those programs, they'll do it. Linux, BSD, Microsoft, and Apple will all have to do this, but there will still be people who get it nevertheless. They also might research into what kind of stuff goes through and send that. Eventually they'll die off, but that still won't solve the problem that those damn spammers take up a lot of bandwidth.
I pray to god that Fast TCP doesn't catch on among spammers, or they'll send it faster than ever before.