So javaQuake in an applet viewer is faster, try using ANY browser available for Ubuntu and load the applet in it... now use a naked IE activeX control (or even an IE window) to host the applet.
Linux fails, because the overhead of running ubuntu gets COMBINED with the overhead of running FireFox of Epiphany or whatever, whereas windows overhead already includes IE.
Pretty much the only thing "taxing" I use my laptop for is playing Runescape (browser hosted 3d rendered 100% java applet MMORPG) and with the same laptop dual-booting WinXP and Ubuntu, it is 100% flawless under windows in IE and almost unplayable in Ubuntu for any combination of browser and JDK that I have tried. I am almost to the point of writing my own browser applet container (the game requires a browser, 100% applet container doesn't work), it is just really annoying to switch to "windows the hog" just to play a simple video game that SHOULD be cross platform (and is as long as the linux system is higher spec than my laptop)
I love how everything like this ignores the #2 (sometimes #3) MMO, Runescape, because it isn't as easily classified.
No character classes, skill based leveling, etc. Of course there is a giant base of 12-16 year olds that play it, but there are some "real people" too... not to mention it is one of the oldest surviving MMOs.
Teaching them to hit buttons on a calculator isn't math. Giving them a computer isn't learning.
that is true, but I always get the impression people are implying that having a calculator is detrimental to the teaching of "math" whereas what they really mean is "Damn you, I had to learn my times tables, so you should too".
I would argue that pen and paper arithmetic is just as much "not math" as punching numbers on a calculator, it is just slower, and therefore more of a waste of time.
Instead of teaching math, should they just give out calculators and provide training for how to press the buttons on a McRegister?
No offense, but if you think that you can do Math on a calculator, your arguements for better education are kinda weakened. Calculators (yes even graphing ones) are a way to get around the tedium of simple arithmetic, a way to skip past the dark ages and get to the meat of critical, logical thinking.
I analyze water flow patterns as it relates to insurance risk for a living... a mathematical job to be sure. When calculating the trajectory of a projected river overflow, I grab my scientific calculator, and I think back in sympathy for my 4th grade self, who was tortured by moronic ciriculum focused on creating mindless times table memorization, which I could not do...
The main advantage humans have over other animals is that our history and our technology make it possible to learn in one lifetime what could not otherwise be possible in a hundred lifetimes. "Back to basics" is how humanity self-destructs. Give them a pile of computers, have them teach the teacher.
The basic rule of any con is that "You can't cheat an honest person".
Unless you're the church, of course.
Those who lie to themselves are the least honest among us. The "faithful" are very easy to scam, because they pathologically suspend disbelief, it is automatic and well practiced, they do not need convincing, they need a reason to believe.
The cynic in me says that if you can be lead to believe that a man spoke the universe into existence, faked dinosaurs, made people - then bitch slapped them for eating a magical apple, then flooded the world killing all but a handful of white people, then etched 10 laws on some rocks, then decided to be born/send his son to be murdered, then fell silent for 2000 years; you could probably believe that some dude in Nigeria needs some help laundering money.
A lawyer is TESTED, a sales person is TESTED, a manager is TESTED. It is called an interview. All of these people talk to other people for a living, so the interview is an actual test of their job skills. Programmers are not expected to have top notch social skills because it doesn't have a whole lot to do with their job... So they are given a DIFFERENT test, not the only test in the world.
I am a developer for a 290,000 employee bank... We have a simple as hell test designed to be easy for a 1st year high school geek to display to us that he understands what the hell polymorphism and inheritance are. 80% of applicants FAIL. They are given the test AFTER we verify educational and employment background, and they complete it on their own time, with any resource they want. In other words, this test is intentionally rigged so that even if you are 100% lying about all your qualifications, but you are resourceful enough to spend 15 minutes on google to learn how to do it, you can defeat the test. 80% of these people vying for and "qualified" for a $90,000/year software developer job turn in a test which would earn a failing grade in a 9th grade programming course. The reason why we give the test should be obvious.
This is akin to saying "a bank manager would never be able to work as a loan officer because of the bank's constantly changing interest rates".
I work IT for a bank/mortgage lender, and I can tell you that is absolutly true, but not because of interest rates. It is because the loan office knows how to use the software, knows who/how to call when there is an issue, knows the process work-arounds and well... is a loan officer.
Good loan officers make more than their bosses; the branch managers because it is a hard, competitive, results based paycheck.
If a branch manager gets involved in loan officer activity it is merely to flaunt his authority to remove obsticles for the loan officer, which is what a manager should do.
When I worked for a workflow/crm company back in the day our non-US version cost more for 2 reasons:
1) We had to localize(localise) the language
2) We had to license a different encryption algorithm because the one we used in the USA was illegal to export.
I work for a big bank (hint). One that had a major customer data scare a few years back. All SSN/Name data is encrypted in the database and in all files. When it needs to be displayed it is decrypted then sent through our https presentation layer, or shown in a fat client of some kind. Ad-hoc reporting (such as pulling files for CSV extracts or whatever) is not allowed, at all on CSI (customer sensitive information) tables. As far as SQL permissions, only the applications that are cetrtified presentation mechanisms are allowed to do selects of those tables (which contain encrypted data).
If they do somehow manage to get some sensitive data on to a laptop, our laptops are all lojacked, and FDE'd (Full disk encryption). Burining dvd R/CD-R drives are disabled, usb drives are auto-mounted as read only, email is monitored... Sure there are still ways around, but you would have to be a bit smarter than your average PHB to screw over the customer's privacy.
bump - oops.
70mph + kevlar + one small mistake by you or some daft driver = death
I like my cage, it makes me die less often, I like to keep the deaths to a minimum.
for the record, before I really cared if I lived or died, I rode a Honda CX 500, signficiantly less money up front (about $2000), 50mpg and about 15 bucks a month for insurance. No doubt was it cheaper, but you know what... a crack den in Compton is signiticantly cheaper than my house in Thousand Oaks, it is even closer to pretty good jobs...
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So javaQuake in an applet viewer is faster, try using ANY browser available for Ubuntu and load the applet in it... now use a naked IE activeX control (or even an IE window) to host the applet.
Linux fails, because the overhead of running ubuntu gets COMBINED with the overhead of running FireFox of Epiphany or whatever, whereas windows overhead already includes IE.
Pretty much the only thing "taxing" I use my laptop for is playing Runescape (browser hosted 3d rendered 100% java applet MMORPG) and with the same laptop dual-booting WinXP and Ubuntu, it is 100% flawless under windows in IE and almost unplayable in Ubuntu for any combination of browser and JDK that I have tried. I am almost to the point of writing my own browser applet container (the game requires a browser, 100% applet container doesn't work), it is just really annoying to switch to "windows the hog" just to play a simple video game that SHOULD be cross platform (and is as long as the linux system is higher spec than my laptop)
I love how everything like this ignores the #2 (sometimes #3) MMO, Runescape, because it isn't as easily classified.
No character classes, skill based leveling, etc. Of course there is a giant base of 12-16 year olds that play it, but there are some "real people" too... not to mention it is one of the oldest surviving MMOs.
I have never had a PC or a Laptop which was able to reliably "Suspend" or "UnSuspend" Never in my life.
Not with Windows or several Linux Distros. I would say at least 25% of the time the machine will not return and must be rebooted anyway.
that is true, but I always get the impression people are implying that having a calculator is detrimental to the teaching of "math" whereas what they really mean is "Damn you, I had to learn my times tables, so you should too".
I would argue that pen and paper arithmetic is just as much "not math" as punching numbers on a calculator, it is just slower, and therefore more of a waste of time.
No offense, but if you think that you can do Math on a calculator, your arguements for better education are kinda weakened. Calculators (yes even graphing ones) are a way to get around the tedium of simple arithmetic, a way to skip past the dark ages and get to the meat of critical, logical thinking.
I analyze water flow patterns as it relates to insurance risk for a living... a mathematical job to be sure. When calculating the trajectory of a projected river overflow, I grab my scientific calculator, and I think back in sympathy for my 4th grade self, who was tortured by moronic ciriculum focused on creating mindless times table memorization, which I could not do...
The main advantage humans have over other animals is that our history and our technology make it possible to learn in one lifetime what could not otherwise be possible in a hundred lifetimes. "Back to basics" is how humanity self-destructs. Give them a pile of computers, have them teach the teacher.
"To help our children compete in a 21st century economy"
It's bad enough that I have to compete with cheap "offshore" labor, now I gotta compete against someone willing to work for pokemon cards??
Finally I can browse the internets on the Mac, it was the one thing missing from that experience...
let me rephrase your comment to explain:
Why would a bunch of nerds be interested in a guy that made a BILLION DOLLARS doing something nerdy?
I assumed it was sarcasm, one of the hardest to print and often unsuccessful devices in journalism.
Those who lie to themselves are the least honest among us. The "faithful" are very easy to scam, because they pathologically suspend disbelief, it is automatic and well practiced, they do not need convincing, they need a reason to believe.
The cynic in me says that if you can be lead to believe that a man spoke the universe into existence, faked dinosaurs, made people - then bitch slapped them for eating a magical apple, then flooded the world killing all but a handful of white people, then etched 10 laws on some rocks, then decided to be born/send his son to be murdered, then fell silent for 2000 years; you could probably believe that some dude in Nigeria needs some help laundering money.
ZING only on slashdot does a carriage return joke get modded high, then nitpicked by the first responder, man I love it.\n\n\n\n\n awesome.
Man that commercial made me wonder why a kid would want a yellow sport walkman, it never did make me want to shop there.
yes, yes they have had a sub-car
Rinspeed sQuba
Also can you please teach me the difference between UBB code and HTML before you leave?
[blockquote]I'm also quite secure in my employment. [/blockquote]
Cisco, I need to see you in my office, bring your ID badge please.
vodka through a brita is more expensive then just buying better vodka, filters ain't cheap.
Engine braking is illegal in many counties near me (north texas/dallas area). It annoys the crap out of me.
A lawyer is TESTED, a sales person is TESTED, a manager is TESTED. It is called an interview. All of these people talk to other people for a living, so the interview is an actual test of their job skills. Programmers are not expected to have top notch social skills because it doesn't have a whole lot to do with their job... So they are given a DIFFERENT test, not the only test in the world.
I am a developer for a 290,000 employee bank... We have a simple as hell test designed to be easy for a 1st year high school geek to display to us that he understands what the hell polymorphism and inheritance are. 80% of applicants FAIL. They are given the test AFTER we verify educational and employment background, and they complete it on their own time, with any resource they want. In other words, this test is intentionally rigged so that even if you are 100% lying about all your qualifications, but you are resourceful enough to spend 15 minutes on google to learn how to do it, you can defeat the test. 80% of these people vying for and "qualified" for a $90,000/year software developer job turn in a test which would earn a failing grade in a 9th grade programming course. The reason why we give the test should be obvious.
I work IT for a bank/mortgage lender, and I can tell you that is absolutly true, but not because of interest rates. It is because the loan office knows how to use the software, knows who/how to call when there is an issue, knows the process work-arounds and well... is a loan officer.
Good loan officers make more than their bosses; the branch managers because it is a hard, competitive, results based paycheck.
If a branch manager gets involved in loan officer activity it is merely to flaunt his authority to remove obsticles for the loan officer, which is what a manager should do.
So glad I got 2 of these before the Revenuers caught on. NES on a chip has been a boon for the homebrew handheld console crowd.
Or better yet Fight cancer with rabies, then create vampire things that look fake because no matter how much we try, CG still looks like shit.
Also take the pussy hollywood ending instead of allowing neville to realize that he is the only monster left.
Welcome to the internet!
When I worked for a workflow/crm company back in the day our non-US version cost more for 2 reasons:
1) We had to localize(localise) the language
2) We had to license a different encryption algorithm because the one we used in the USA was illegal to export.
I work for a big bank (hint). One that had a major customer data scare a few years back. All SSN/Name data is encrypted in the database and in all files. When it needs to be displayed it is decrypted then sent through our https presentation layer, or shown in a fat client of some kind. Ad-hoc reporting (such as pulling files for CSV extracts or whatever) is not allowed, at all on CSI (customer sensitive information) tables. As far as SQL permissions, only the applications that are cetrtified presentation mechanisms are allowed to do selects of those tables (which contain encrypted data).
If they do somehow manage to get some sensitive data on to a laptop, our laptops are all lojacked, and FDE'd (Full disk encryption). Burining dvd R/CD-R drives are disabled, usb drives are auto-mounted as read only, email is monitored... Sure there are still ways around, but you would have to be a bit smarter than your average PHB to screw over the customer's privacy.
bump - oops.
70mph + kevlar + one small mistake by you or some daft driver = death
I like my cage, it makes me die less often, I like to keep the deaths to a minimum.
for the record, before I really cared if I lived or died, I rode a Honda CX 500, signficiantly less money up front (about $2000), 50mpg and about 15 bucks a month for insurance. No doubt was it cheaper, but you know what... a crack den in Compton is signiticantly cheaper than my house in Thousand Oaks, it is even closer to pretty good jobs...