An ad-supported windows will never work. If one thinks about where the majority of computers are deployed / used; I can see no fortune 500 companies that would appreciate their employees bombarded by ads while doing their work.
Netzero and Juno both tried this model and they couldn't even get email / internet to work for ads.. let alone ads all the time..
This has been brought up at least once on/. (possibly more)... I thought part of the solution the libraries have set up was to setup a database so that different libraries can trade on what CDs they are getting in their settlement.
However, regardless, I think this is quite a despicable thing to do, not that I would expect anything less from the RIAA>
I don't think this proves anything. Firms like microsoft specifically go out of their way to hunt down prodigies BEFORE they enter a PhD program.
I know of at least one other firm (SUPER brain tank) that goes out of their way just to recruit students right after college.
Why you might ask? Because some of these people are already ULTRA advanced, and you want to grab them while they are young BEFORE they get sucked into academia. What does a PhD prove? That you can learn on your own?
Judging from the horrific comments that everyone on/. has about this new product, and how right the/. community has been about products.. (ipod mini comes to mind). This will make Toyota billions!
I am going to stick my neck out there and congratulate Professor Rubin while condemning hopkins...
Avi Rubin's name has been thrown around quite a bit recently due to the Diebold controversy and the shutdown of bell labs. However, I'm sure many of you know about the leaked Diebold memoes that were hosted by members of academia throughout the united states. It is probably most ironic that it was @ Hopkins that the administration FORCED a student to remove the memoes even over Professor Rubin's very vocal support of the student....
Well, the confusion is probably due to how TI calculators are named. It use to be that the calculators are named for the year that the head engineer graduated from college (hence the model numbers seem to be fairly random).
As of recent however, they seem to be trying to make it more linear, but keep adding random qualititve words like silver and plus.
TI realizes that this could be used as a cheating tool. Around a yr (or 2 yrs ago), it developed a piece of software call TestGuard that is suppose to help alleviate this problem (it wipes slsected portion of a calculator). I am not sure why this did not quite catch on..
If students really want to cheat, the HP49G+ is by far a superior version for cheating, its text editor allows for panning, and with a 1 gig SD card inserted into its expansion, can you imagine the PDFs that could be stored?;)
Due to these problems, you can see that the AP has now split into 2 sections, and most college courses ban calculators outright.
That's because you haven't been following/. GC is already at 99 dollars due to a previous price drop, now there is the possibility that PS2 will be coming down as well (hence sharing the rack).
If any of you have membership cards to aquariums or museums, then you will know that those cards are NOT transferable.
Is it the same case for mp3s? In this case where Apple is selling you the RIGHT to listen and not the actual intellectual property itself?
actually, what would happen if a community like Slashdot decides to HELP these people who are getting sued?
Ask everyone who's getting sued to release a list of the songs that they are releasing. And then a large community like slashdot donate OUR REAL copies to them.
How can RIAA possibly prove that we didn't give them these gifts (and hence making the mp3s legal) a LONG time ago?
Actually, PHP is REALLY Hot for database management and ready made packages. For a lot of web programmers that just want to deploy a professional websites (PHP Nuke, Gallery, JPGraph), a whole bunch of packages are out there for instant deploy (and for free).
Python's whitespace coding also pissed me off to no end. I mean it's nice to use whitespace to help identify structure of a program, but to use it to determine the structure? Gimme a break.
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An ad-supported windows will never work. If one thinks about where the majority of computers are deployed / used; I can see no fortune 500 companies that would appreciate their employees bombarded by ads while doing their work. Netzero and Juno both tried this model and they couldn't even get email / internet to work for ads.. let alone ads all the time..
"The good news is that it's a Trojan, so one still has to bother with running an attached file."
:-D
Haha, that's assuming you aren't being safe and also have Symantec Anti-Virus
This has been brought up at least once on /. (possibly more)... I thought part of the solution the libraries have set up was to setup a database so that different libraries can trade on what CDs they are getting in their settlement.
However, regardless, I think this is quite a despicable thing to do, not that I would expect anything less from the RIAA>
I don't think this proves anything. Firms like microsoft specifically go out of their way to hunt down prodigies BEFORE they enter a PhD program.
I know of at least one other firm (SUPER brain tank) that goes out of their way just to recruit students right after college.
Why you might ask? Because some of these people are already ULTRA advanced, and you want to grab them while they are young BEFORE they get sucked into academia. What does a PhD prove? That you can learn on your own?
Judging from the horrific comments that everyone on /. has about this new product, and how right the /. community has been about products.. (ipod mini comes to mind). This will make Toyota billions!
I am going to stick my neck out there and congratulate Professor Rubin while condemning hopkins... Avi Rubin's name has been thrown around quite a bit recently due to the Diebold controversy and the shutdown of bell labs. However, I'm sure many of you know about the leaked Diebold memoes that were hosted by members of academia throughout the united states. It is probably most ironic that it was @ Hopkins that the administration FORCED a student to remove the memoes even over Professor Rubin's very vocal support of the student....
Well, the confusion is probably due to how TI calculators are named. It use to be that the calculators are named for the year that the head engineer graduated from college (hence the model numbers seem to be fairly random). As of recent however, they seem to be trying to make it more linear, but keep adding random qualititve words like silver and plus.
TI realizes that this could be used as a cheating tool. Around a yr (or 2 yrs ago), it developed a piece of software call TestGuard that is suppose to help alleviate this problem (it wipes slsected portion of a calculator). I am not sure why this did not quite catch on.. If students really want to cheat, the HP49G+ is by far a superior version for cheating, its text editor allows for panning, and with a 1 gig SD card inserted into its expansion, can you imagine the PDFs that could be stored? ;)
Due to these problems, you can see that the AP has now split into 2 sections, and most college courses ban calculators outright.
That's because you haven't been following /. GC is already at 99 dollars due to a previous price drop, now there is the possibility that PS2 will be coming down as well (hence sharing the rack).
If any of you have membership cards to aquariums or museums, then you will know that those cards are NOT transferable. Is it the same case for mp3s? In this case where Apple is selling you the RIGHT to listen and not the actual intellectual property itself?
actually, what would happen if a community like Slashdot decides to HELP these people who are getting sued? Ask everyone who's getting sued to release a list of the songs that they are releasing. And then a large community like slashdot donate OUR REAL copies to them. How can RIAA possibly prove that we didn't give them these gifts (and hence making the mp3s legal) a LONG time ago?
Hey cool, francis actually works down the hall from me.
Man, look at his anti-spam page, he tries to do something for you geeks, and you guys DDoSed his server. =P
5) AIM window popping up for the 17 year old projectionist. "AzNgIrL121: whatz upz?"
I thought that was the stupidest thing ever, until I found out I was competing with the pigeons,.. wait a minute.
Actually, PHP is REALLY Hot for database management and ready made packages. For a lot of web programmers that just want to deploy a professional websites (PHP Nuke, Gallery, JPGraph), a whole bunch of packages are out there for instant deploy (and for free). Python's whitespace coding also pissed me off to no end. I mean it's nice to use whitespace to help identify structure of a program, but to use it to determine the structure? Gimme a break.
PERL is AMAZINGLY well suited for string manipulation and fast up and running programs.
Much of genetics sequencing (the small chunks) and Wall Street uses PERL to parse their data (RegExp!!).
However, the main backbone is still often C because it's just simply the fastest.
Actually, math texts in geometry seems to use Hero and Heron interchangably. It probably is just how the translations are not standarized.