As a former student of Prof. Matlof (I took his Assembly ECS50 course), I can say without a doubt he teaches computer science. Sure we ended up learning assembly language, but his focus was always on understanding what was actually going on behind the code.
Some students considered him a hard professor, I considered him one of my best.
Uhm, I believe you misread what I was saying. All those products you mentioned are being sponsored or supported by Round Two. Those are NOT products Round Two are actually offering.
The closest the article comes is "As for Round Two's own extensions, Decrem said the company was considering antivirus software to integrate with Firefox."
So, again, where's the content?
As an aside, reading articles requires comprehension as well as just scanning the words.
This story has no information about the "product" this "company" will soon be selling. It sounds like a company without any outstanding products attempting to get a little advertising.
A search for "round two mozilla" on google doesn't seem to find anything either. What gives?
The Matrix at #3
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I can understand the first movie being up there. But a box set? After the second two were so disappointing, I'd really rather own just the initial movie, even with all the extras available in the box set.
P.S. Did anyone else notice some pretty obvious similarities to Dune in the 3rd movie?
How is it an "observation" that Linux is mainstream when "research has predicted" that revenue will increase a lot? Not that Linux will be at some point, or is getting there, but that it IS mainsteam.
To me it's not really an observation, just a...what's the word... oh yeah, prediction.
Then I could have commented on this article earlier on, and got a better score!
That's not fair, slashdot should give their information out freely to everyone...
Oh wait, they do, they just treat their paying customers a little better...
I really don't see this as much of an issue. The "premier" customers don't get the patches any sooner. They get an advance heads-up on what the patches will contain. Why will this affect anybody?
According to the article: Microsoft insisted the information provided in the notice was "very basic in nature" and intended only to provide general guidelines concerning the maximum number of bulletins that may be released, the anticipated severity ratings, and an overview of products that may be affected.
One of the first things I did when I moved for college is register to vote, as I think it's an important civic duty. However, I won't be signing up for this sweepstakes, because I feel it cheapens the entire point. One should not be registering for the opportunity to win some free money! I think the money would be better spent in attempting to educate people on why they should WANT to register to vote, and take the time to become EDUCATED voters.
The two markets are somewhat related. As Craig said in his blog, "Like craigslist, eBay is about helping folks get everyday stuff done."
We'll see how it turns out
This used to be a big problem for me. I have hyperhydrosis, which essentially makes my hands sweat more than normal. My hand would literally slide right off the joystick in the middle of intense Descent 2 battles.
Nowadays I use just a keyboard and mouse for my games, as I got tired of dealing with a joystick. A product like this just might make me switch back.
Overall, the results are pretty clear: Mac users might not actually be smarter than PC users, but they certainly use better English and a larger vocabulary to express more complex thinking.
I would argue that many PC oriented sites (especially those dealing with hardware) use very specific, exact language to describe the complex subjects they are dealing with, similiarly to the way any field of study develops their own terms and definitions to add clarification to concepts.
While such language may not be broad and flowing, it is precise, and meant to avoid ambiguity. It takes more thought to express yourself in such terms, though they might score lower on such a test.
On the other hand, there are a lot of L33T crackers out there that can't split an infinitive to save their life.
According to the article: "...and cameras across the College could be taken down at the touch of a button"
that takes a little more than just sniffing the network.
Since we're all sharing graphite impalement stories, here's mine:
Back in 4th grade I collected pencils. Lots and lots of pencils. And I enjoyed sharpening them. There's nothing quite like writing with a pencil point small enough to impale tiny bugs (no, I did not impale tiny bugs, I'm just saying...). Anyway, being the smart 4th grader I am, I noticed that I could store a pencil in my sock and carry it around that way. Point up. While walking in from recess, I lifted my leg exceptionally high to take some stairs, and WHAM, I looked down to find super-pointy pencil lead stuck in the side of my (no! not there! I can still have kids, thank goodness) in the side of my knee. I walked all the way to the nurse with a pencil hanging from my knee. And now I have a nice little graphite dot.
75% of the population are extroverts? Most of the people I've met have been introverted just like me. But then again I'm a computer science major, I hang out in the computer lab and don't get too many invites to the big parties.
And the thing is, I've never had a problem with it. Do the self-esteem issues mentioned in the writeup stem from the "nagging" of extroverted friends? TV?
In my mind it seems to come down to parental support. My parents were fine with my preferring to come home and read rather than hang out with groups of friends. If my parents had been big extroverts and pushed me to be the same, that would have been hard for me.
I'm not saying I don't have self-esteem issues, I just have different reasons;).
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Aren't such renderfarms used for raytracing? I think GPUs and current games use a completely different approach.
As a former student of Prof. Matlof (I took his Assembly ECS50 course), I can say without a doubt he teaches computer science. Sure we ended up learning assembly language, but his focus was always on understanding what was actually going on behind the code.
Some students considered him a hard professor, I considered him one of my best.
"The experiment did not, however, produce more energy than the amount put in"
So, how is this useful from a fusion / energy source standpoint?Uhm, I believe you misread what I was saying. All those products you mentioned are being sponsored or supported by Round Two. Those are NOT products Round Two are actually offering. The closest the article comes is "As for Round Two's own extensions, Decrem said the company was considering antivirus software to integrate with Firefox." So, again, where's the content? As an aside, reading articles requires comprehension as well as just scanning the words.
This story has no information about the "product" this "company" will soon be selling. It sounds like a company without any outstanding products attempting to get a little advertising. A search for "round two mozilla" on google doesn't seem to find anything either. What gives?
I can understand the first movie being up there. But a box set? After the second two were so disappointing, I'd really rather own just the initial movie, even with all the extras available in the box set.
P.S. Did anyone else notice some pretty obvious similarities to Dune in the 3rd movie?
How is it an "observation" that Linux is mainstream when "research has predicted" that revenue will increase a lot? Not that Linux will be at some point, or is getting there, but that it IS mainsteam.
To me it's not really an observation, just a...what's the word... oh yeah, prediction.
Maybe I just don't get it.
That's not fair, slashdot should give their information out freely to everyone...
Oh wait, they do, they just treat their paying customers a little better...
I really don't see this as much of an issue. The "premier" customers don't get the patches any sooner. They get an advance heads-up on what the patches will contain. Why will this affect anybody?
According to the article: Microsoft insisted the information provided in the notice was "very basic in nature" and intended only to provide general guidelines concerning the maximum number of bulletins that may be released, the anticipated severity ratings, and an overview of products that may be affected.
One of the first things I did when I moved for college is register to vote, as I think it's an important civic duty. However, I won't be signing up for this sweepstakes, because I feel it cheapens the entire point. One should not be registering for the opportunity to win some free money! I think the money would be better spent in attempting to educate people on why they should WANT to register to vote, and take the time to become EDUCATED voters.
The two markets are somewhat related. As Craig said in his blog, "Like craigslist, eBay is about helping folks get everyday stuff done."
We'll see how it turns out
Nowadays I use just a keyboard and mouse for my games, as I got tired of dealing with a joystick. A product like this just might make me switch back.
Here's the full IT install, from the MS website:i splaylang=en&FamilyID=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E36 8D3CDB5A
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?d
Overall, the results are pretty clear: Mac users might not actually be smarter than PC users, but they certainly use better English and a larger vocabulary to express more complex thinking.
I would argue that many PC oriented sites (especially those dealing with hardware) use very specific, exact language to describe the complex subjects they are dealing with, similiarly to the way any field of study develops their own terms and definitions to add clarification to concepts.
While such language may not be broad and flowing, it is precise, and meant to avoid ambiguity. It takes more thought to express yourself in such terms, though they might score lower on such a test.
On the other hand, there are a lot of L33T crackers out there that can't split an infinitive to save their life.
According to the article: "...and cameras across the College could be taken down at the touch of a button" that takes a little more than just sniffing the network.
It's a troll people. I remember seeing practically the same text appear in all sorts of posts.
Since we're all sharing graphite impalement stories, here's mine:
Back in 4th grade I collected pencils. Lots and lots of pencils. And I enjoyed sharpening them. There's nothing quite like writing with a pencil point small enough to impale tiny bugs (no, I did not impale tiny bugs, I'm just saying...). Anyway, being the smart 4th grader I am, I noticed that I could store a pencil in my sock and carry it around that way. Point up. While walking in from recess, I lifted my leg exceptionally high to take some stairs, and WHAM, I looked down to find super-pointy pencil lead stuck in the side of my (no! not there! I can still have kids, thank goodness) in the side of my knee. I walked all the way to the nurse with a pencil hanging from my knee. And now I have a nice little graphite dot.
75% of the population are extroverts? Most of the people I've met have been introverted just like me. But then again I'm a computer science major, I hang out in the computer lab and don't get too many invites to the big parties.
And the thing is, I've never had a problem with it. Do the self-esteem issues mentioned in the writeup stem from the "nagging" of extroverted friends? TV?
In my mind it seems to come down to parental support. My parents were fine with my preferring to come home and read rather than hang out with groups of friends. If my parents had been big extroverts and pushed me to be the same, that would have been hard for me.
I'm not saying I don't have self-esteem issues, I just have different reasons ;).