If, on the other hand, the student had a program like Photo Booth or Skype and in use, the school administrator would have been able to see what the webcam saw. The court filing does not seem to state with any authority what software or system was used.
One could imagine that there exists an optimal way to switch from application to application, window to window. Neither OS has it perfectly, but in both trying to better themselves, they end up looking remarkably similar.
Books dont have DRM. So why the hell should e-books?
Last time I checked, it was pretty damn hard to make as many copies of a book as you want and give them to your friends... Imagine the issues for textbook manufacturers.
Yeah... why this fascination with AJAX? Gmail doesn't stand up when compared to programs like Mail.app, and those rich text "word processors" are a joke when compared to the sophistication of a program like MS Word. There are so many things that an HTML editor would have amazing difficulty with (e.g. columns), fonts are restricted - the list goes on.
In the same way that tables are still being used to do design work that should be done in CSS, Flash was originally intended as a platform for animation, and later games. Anyone who implements a whole site in Flash is almost always not capable of doing anything similar in HTML. There are some rare acceptable uses of flash as navigation, but they are very very rare.
Flash is a wonderful tool for creating games, and a horrible tool for creating websites.
I would assume the original poster would purchase
No - the new iMac G5 will ensure a smooth experience, with its boosted-up video memory and Tiger, all in a small form factor. When I realised I really don't move my laptop around all that much, an iMac and an iPaq seemed the optimal combination.
My XP laptop's dying, and I've been looking for a new computer. Had ThinkSecret not put this rumor out, I may have gone for another windows machine. Now it'll be a mac for sure.
Maybe I'm being stupid, but if a competitor (e.g. Dell) was planning to launch a mini computer like apple's, they could bring the launch forward to steal Apple's thunder (and thus press, publicity).
The same goes for something like the Shuffle. If Sony had released their new player before the reception to shuffle would have been a lot cooler.
This may be to do with the heavy interlinking and high textual content that blogs tend towards. When I had a blog, I would get the most random google queries pointing to my home page. I don't think it has that much to do with XHTML - all my websites are written in XHTML, but interlinking matters much much more.
Just my two pence.
Not that this is a competition, but I get a comparable number on my site as well. I'm guessing, though, that most are visiting the site from work or institutional computers, given that the big draw to the site is a time-wasting game:)
10 million is great and all, but my non-geek website is still showing 2% of firefox users. And firefox crashed on me today, doing perfectly normal stuff.
I think something big needs to happen - massive hole in IE exposed or something - to get large companies to bother with the conversion on their intranets. Large companies are the ones holding users back, and they should be the main agents for change in the browser market.
Yup, after 10 years of puppy-like devotion to Microsoft, I've decided that Macs live up to their promises so much better than Windows PCs do. They have a modern, powerful operating system. I just don't get the same feeling using PCs.
I have always looked out for quality - using Firefox at the moment, and it's come to the point where the Mac is the only quality package out there. I don't want to have to wait 3 years for another buggy OS.
As I understand it they are only releasing content as long as it is not making money for them through their commercial arm (BBC Worldwide).
Don't expect to see any Python any time soon. I think the plan is to do with television as they do with radio - i.e. make the last 7 day's programs available online, though this could have changed.
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This video (at 4:39) shows how it can be done with fairly standard screen grabbing feature: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/schools/how-google-saved-a-school.html
If, on the other hand, the student had a program like Photo Booth or Skype and in use, the school administrator would have been able to see what the webcam saw. The court filing does not seem to state with any authority what software or system was used.
(I think I'll go wash my mind out with a good Vodka at this point)
In Soviet Russia, your mind washes the Vodka out!
The Slashdot cliché trifecta is now complete.
I feel enormously sorry for the kids of the guys involved, who may forever have that site appear when they Google their dads.
One could imagine that there exists an optimal way to switch from application to application, window to window. Neither OS has it perfectly, but in both trying to better themselves, they end up looking remarkably similar.
Books dont have DRM. So why the hell should e-books?
Last time I checked, it was pretty damn hard to make as many copies of a book as you want and give them to your friends... Imagine the issues for textbook manufacturers.
Yeah... why this fascination with AJAX? Gmail doesn't stand up when compared to programs like Mail.app, and those rich text "word processors" are a joke when compared to the sophistication of a program like MS Word. There are so many things that an HTML editor would have amazing difficulty with (e.g. columns), fonts are restricted - the list goes on.
In the same way that tables are still being used to do design work that should be done in CSS, Flash was originally intended as a platform for animation, and later games. Anyone who implements a whole site in Flash is almost always not capable of doing anything similar in HTML. There are some rare acceptable uses of flash as navigation, but they are very very rare.
Flash is a wonderful tool for creating games, and a horrible tool for creating websites.
I would assume the original poster would purchase No - the new iMac G5 will ensure a smooth experience, with its boosted-up video memory and Tiger, all in a small form factor. When I realised I really don't move my laptop around all that much, an iMac and an iPaq seemed the optimal combination.
My XP laptop's dying, and I've been looking for a new computer. Had ThinkSecret not put this rumor out, I may have gone for another windows machine. Now it'll be a mac for sure.
This service is only intended for people who have IPs in the UK. Finally, a reason to be proud to be a British geek...
I hate to be really sad and geeky, but you're wrong about the fonts. The font in the screenshot is actually Frutiger.
If you look really hard at the lower case 'u' you'll notice there's a tail in the screenshot, where there isn't one in Corbel.
That said there are visible improvements in the kerning in the screenshot to the native kerning in XP.
Maybe I'm being stupid, but if a competitor (e.g. Dell) was planning to launch a mini computer like apple's, they could bring the launch forward to steal Apple's thunder (and thus press, publicity).
The same goes for something like the Shuffle. If Sony had released their new player before the reception to shuffle would have been a lot cooler.
This may be to do with the heavy interlinking and high textual content that blogs tend towards. When I had a blog, I would get the most random google queries pointing to my home page. I don't think it has that much to do with XHTML - all my websites are written in XHTML, but interlinking matters much much more. Just my two pence.
2. Do not eat
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
Apple couldn't find the internal leak, so they're shooting the messenger.
Yeah they have. Those are the unnamed individuals named in the suit
on a very bad situation for microsoft - Firefox is a far superior product in so many ways, and it challenges MS's plans of a browser monopoly.
This is fantastic news for FF... it means no aggressive Microsoft marketing for a good two years.
I wait eagerly for the "very innovative set of capabilities"...
Not that this is a competition, but I get a comparable number on my site as well. I'm guessing, though, that most are visiting the site from work or institutional computers, given that the big draw to the site is a time-wasting game :)
10 million is great and all, but my non-geek website is still showing 2% of firefox users. And firefox crashed on me today, doing perfectly normal stuff.
I think something big needs to happen - massive hole in IE exposed or something - to get large companies to bother with the conversion on their intranets. Large companies are the ones holding users back, and they should be the main agents for change in the browser market.
Yup, after 10 years of puppy-like devotion to Microsoft, I've decided that Macs live up to their promises so much better than Windows PCs do. They have a modern, powerful operating system. I just don't get the same feeling using PCs.
I have always looked out for quality - using Firefox at the moment, and it's come to the point where the Mac is the only quality package out there. I don't want to have to wait 3 years for another buggy OS.
Sorry Microsoft. We had some good times.
As I understand it they are only releasing content as long as it is not making money for them through their commercial arm (BBC Worldwide).
Don't expect to see any Python any time soon. I think the plan is to do with television as they do with radio - i.e. make the last 7 day's programs available online, though this could have changed.
Bad analogy. If Ford find a critical fault, they recall the product. How many critical faults have MS found in XP so far?
NO Monkeys for RAM
NO Monkeys for RAM
This DDR RAM has not been tested on animals
No Monkeys for RAM No Monkeys for RAM This DDRRAM has not been tested on animals
but my legs have atrophied as an unfortunate side effect of my slashdottery.