Understandable by whom? That's the key - what if a student knows the right answer, but writes it out in text speak to the point that the teacher cannot understand it - but, say, another teacher in the same department can? That would be avoided if there was, oh, a lexicon of acceptable words, grammar, et cetera. Then again we already have that, and its taught in English classes.
One of the single most important things (not the most important, which is learning to learn) that you learn in school is how to communicate your ideas with other people clearly, concisely, and successfully. If you remove that requirement from the classroom, other than annoying the fsck out of the teachers you've now removed a huge function that the school system was, perhaps unofficially, teaching.
Should a student be penalized for a spelling mistake on a chemistry exam? Personally, I don't think so. However, if the teacher has to make a significant effort to understand the answer, I feel that they should be marked down for that. If for no other reason than in the "real world," if you can't communicate your ideas you'll find ourself out of a job pretty quickly.
And don't get me started on the limitations of IIS and SQL Server compared to their open source brethren. You really have to admire Microsoft for making so much money from mediocre products.
So on Linux you can install MySql or Oracle, and install Apache, right? Guess what. On Windows you can install MySql or Oracle, and install Apache. Its not hard.
Besides, much as you (and I for that matter) may not like it, SQL server runs some pretty massive installations very well. And IIS works better than Apache does for serving up small amounts of random data - I can wander over to our hosted Windows server, pull up the IIS console, and set up a bandwidth limited virtual server on a specific domain in about 3 minutes. I can do the same on Apache as well, but only by copy-and-pasting an existing configuration so it takes me a while to do the first one (and for features like bandwidth limits which I'm sure it supports but I don't have config-file samples for, it would take a lot longer).
For 95% of the tasks out there, almost any software works these days.
I had -- I forget what it was called actually, but right when the bootblock viruses started coming out (late 80s maybe?) I remember coming across a nice bootblock program that filled up all available space with a stupid little light/sound show. The idea was that if it ever looked or sounded different starting up, you had a virus on the disk. I never did, of course, but I got very used to the startup show anyway.
The summary is also wrong, it isn't 30% more, they claim $120 for a 5 story building. You must have cheap paint if that's 30% more than plain concrete.
Well, considering that this would give an original paint cost of $400, and that a lot of modern buildings are mostly glass, on first blush that sounds believable to me. On the low side, maybe, but still very much a possibility.
Yeah. While we're on the subject, personally I'd love to see a filter that automatically disallows any tag that already appears in the headline - after all, these should be totally unnecessary in any reasonable system. 5 minutes, one tag: "Wii." I mean, duh... That's my comment, not the tag, of course.
When America comes under fire from an external threat, consensus is not an issue. I don't care if Congress and the Senate had been 100% staunch frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Bush pacifists, he would've had the go-ahead to push into Afghanistan and root out al-Qaeda. If a country sent over bombers in an overt act of war? Fogeddaboudit.
In that vein, its worth noting that the US had the support of the world when we went after Afghanistan as well. Something that the "The world hates us," crowd conveniently ignore. Almost nobody was saying that the USA shouldn't defend themselves, or shouldn't pursue our attackers and those who sheltered them. They just made the very real point that Iraq fit neither of those definitions.
Unless you're passing data structures around between different binaries compiled against different minor point versions of the headers, to use a "totally rare" example. Then it would suck.
She didn't need a computer. Almost nobody does. She needed, in this order:
a) A way to run PhotoShop, which is critical for her business b) A way to access and send email, critical for business c) A way to browse the web, useful for business d) Possibly a way to play games, et cetera.
It happens to be that a computer is part of a great solution to those problems. A Mac and a Windows PC both nail a-c. Windows is slightly better than OSX at d, but does a little less well in the others if you include "quickly and stably" to the mix. A Linux box, right now, fails at "A". That doesn't mean that its not great, just that its not a great solution to her needs.
If only it were so simple, unfortunately, as anyone who has tried to buy a wireless adapter well knows, brand X model Y adapter very often comes in 4 versions with as many chipsets with no way to distinguish them without looking at the product itself (and thus opening the box to look at a sticker set in size 3 FlySpeck on the bottom of the product). Sometimes you need a screwdriver too. Sometimes just polling the bus once you've hooked the device up is enough.
Er, what's the problem? So you have three options, still done by package name:
1) Works.// this is the good one 2) Doesn't work// use this for "not supported" or "has problems" or "almost works if you do xxx" 3) Some work// use this with a link to a list of chips, or whatever.
Or just have two options - either "It will work, period," or "Try something else." Most people who want a CD burner (or whatever) don't care about getting a specific one to work - they just want to know one (and one is enough) that will work. If enough people start using the database, more vendors will start making sure that their products consistent receive a "Works" result.
Except the whole problem is that there's thousands of parts. It's simply not practical to catalogue them all, or even just the ones that work - hence why it has to be a "suck it and see".
Bull. First off, if there was one, single, trusted database, then at least some of the parts vendors could be approached to have them enter the information for their own product lines. This would have to be done by business-savvy folk, but hey, we volunteer more than coding time you know. Secondly, if the first person who did the "suck it and see" approach (or the second, or third) had somewhere to go to log the results in a standard format, then the non-bleeding-edge people could still go to the database first and get pretty good coverage.
Think about CDDB (or whatever). All you need is one person to enter the information and its available for all involved. I have rarely found publicly purchasable CD that's not in there, even stuff that I consider pretty weird, and never in the past 5 or more years. I have corrected a typo or two, but that's about it. Are there really more network cards than there are CD releases?
This is not only a solvable problem, its a mostly solved problem. All we have to do is take advantage of it.
Hmm - for some stuff, you could even have drivers (modules, whatever) available for download from the database too. Kinda the apt-repository of hardware support, like the one that Windows theoretically has that never seems to actually find a driver. So your system gets new hardware attached (either at boot or hot-swapped). It looks it up in the database, downloads the driver, rebuilds the kernel, whatever it needs to do, all automatically. Not something I'd aim for in 1.0 but a reasonable outgrowth of the ID database.
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The appropriate legal issue here is probably "maintaining an attractive nuisance." Or whatever your local (federal?) version is. Doing something that, while legal in and of itself, causes someone else great distress or difficulty - its a bit of a catch-all, but is remarkably unabused in most situations.
The only people who may have benefitted from [Saddam] not being in power are the Iraqi people who weren't prospering under his regime.
More than true, if you include bin Laden (who hated Saddam and the fact that Iraq was a functioning secular society). Although I'd like to think that making bin Laden happy wasn't one of the primary goals of the invasion.
This adds serious complexity for some people. While Dreamweaver can easily handle that, can you imagine what it would take to make/. XHTML? You would have to write little bits to parse out every comment and story submission that's in HTML and then output it into valid XHTML. That's a TON of work.
So reject any story submission that's not valid; same with comments. Slashdot already checks comments for all sorts of crap. Besides, while its "a TON of work," its a TON of boring, well-defined repetitive work. Computers are really good at that sort of thing.
Because they have a better way. This stopped me from getting a mac laptop for a long time - I hate external mice and modifier keys both. Now you have a silky smooth mousepad that supports one-finger-click for a left click, and two-finger-click for a right click. It makes an unbelievable amount of sense and works seamlessly. Combined with two-finger-scrolling and you have a really addictive system. And yes, I own an MB now and I'm eyeing the MBP as well, which would allow me to give the MB to my wife and toss out her Dell.
So... why bother even reading the articles? After all, if you're up to date on the latest "geek" stuff, you really don't need to go here at all, do you?
The criticism was perfectly justified. The article bit.
Nah. The transmission medium has to be able to accommodate the peak bandwidth needed. Even if it doesn't have to do it often, as long as it has to do it sometimes that's enough to require the capacity.
Even better, the wonderful thing is that it doesn't have to be transparent. Its auditable. Every single stage can be confirmed "outside the box," by testing against the specification rather than against any specific implementation. Any element can be tested against at any and every stage of the game, and spot recounts can occur against any polling stations.
The user doesn't give a rat's ass. Just the same way that the GIMP user doesn't care as long as there's a button (or whatever) in the native UI to draw a circle, or that when they highlight text that they've previously rotated they can change the letters to say something different. Nobody except a very, very few developers care if the code performing this "magic" is linked in, decoupled as a separate binary, or even grabbed as a buzzword-compliant SOAP based webservice. Results matter. Methods, as long as they don't get in the way, don't.
Hmm. Please go pack and read the GPP with a sarcastic tone of voice on that phrase that, apparently, failed to come through in a textual post. Huh. Imagine that.
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If you're using Hungarian as an excuse, shouldn't that read:
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Understandable by whom? That's the key - what if a student knows the right answer, but writes it out in text speak to the point that the teacher cannot understand it - but, say, another teacher in the same department can? That would be avoided if there was, oh, a lexicon of acceptable words, grammar, et cetera. Then again we already have that, and its taught in English classes.
One of the single most important things (not the most important, which is learning to learn) that you learn in school is how to communicate your ideas with other people clearly, concisely, and successfully. If you remove that requirement from the classroom, other than annoying the fsck out of the teachers you've now removed a huge function that the school system was, perhaps unofficially, teaching.
Should a student be penalized for a spelling mistake on a chemistry exam? Personally, I don't think so. However, if the teacher has to make a significant effort to understand the answer, I feel that they should be marked down for that. If for no other reason than in the "real world," if you can't communicate your ideas you'll find ourself out of a job pretty quickly.
So on Linux you can install MySql or Oracle, and install Apache, right? Guess what. On Windows you can install MySql or Oracle, and install Apache. Its not hard.
Besides, much as you (and I for that matter) may not like it, SQL server runs some pretty massive installations very well. And IIS works better than Apache does for serving up small amounts of random data - I can wander over to our hosted Windows server, pull up the IIS console, and set up a bandwidth limited virtual server on a specific domain in about 3 minutes. I can do the same on Apache as well, but only by copy-and-pasting an existing configuration so it takes me a while to do the first one (and for features like bandwidth limits which I'm sure it supports but I don't have config-file samples for, it would take a lot longer).
For 95% of the tasks out there, almost any software works these days.
I had -- I forget what it was called actually, but right when the bootblock viruses started coming out (late 80s maybe?) I remember coming across a nice bootblock program that filled up all available space with a stupid little light/sound show. The idea was that if it ever looked or sounded different starting up, you had a virus on the disk. I never did, of course, but I got very used to the startup show anyway.
Well, considering that this would give an original paint cost of $400, and that a lot of modern buildings are mostly glass, on first blush that sounds believable to me. On the low side, maybe, but still very much a possibility.
Yeah. While we're on the subject, personally I'd love to see a filter that automatically disallows any tag that already appears in the headline - after all, these should be totally unnecessary in any reasonable system. 5 minutes, one tag: "Wii." I mean, duh... That's my comment, not the tag, of course.
Well, maybe because that's not the way it works with circles, lines, et cetera? Or do you really select a line in GIMP and then draw it?
When America comes under fire from an external threat, consensus is not an issue. I don't care if Congress and the Senate had been 100% staunch frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Bush pacifists, he would've had the go-ahead to push into Afghanistan and root out al-Qaeda. If a country sent over bombers in an overt act of war? Fogeddaboudit.
In that vein, its worth noting that the US had the support of the world when we went after Afghanistan as well. Something that the "The world hates us," crowd conveniently ignore. Almost nobody was saying that the USA shouldn't defend themselves, or shouldn't pursue our attackers and those who sheltered them. They just made the very real point that Iraq fit neither of those definitions.
Unless you're passing data structures around between different binaries compiled against different minor point versions of the headers, to use a "totally rare" example. Then it would suck.
She didn't need a computer. Almost nobody does. She needed, in this order:
a) A way to run PhotoShop, which is critical for her business
b) A way to access and send email, critical for business
c) A way to browse the web, useful for business
d) Possibly a way to play games, et cetera.
It happens to be that a computer is part of a great solution to those problems. A Mac and a Windows PC both nail a-c. Windows is slightly better than OSX at d, but does a little less well in the others if you include "quickly and stably" to the mix. A Linux box, right now, fails at "A". That doesn't mean that its not great, just that its not a great solution to her needs.
Big difference.
So that's how they can keep them warm and bubbly during trans-atlantic container shipment. I'd wondered about that.
If only it were so simple, unfortunately, as anyone who has tried to buy a wireless adapter well knows, brand X model Y adapter very often comes in 4 versions with as many chipsets with no way to distinguish them without looking at the product itself (and thus opening the box to look at a sticker set in size 3 FlySpeck on the bottom of the product). Sometimes you need a screwdriver too. Sometimes just polling the bus once you've hooked the device up is enough.
// this is the good one // use this for "not supported" or "has problems" or "almost works if you do xxx" // use this with a link to a list of chips, or whatever.
Er, what's the problem? So you have three options, still done by package name:
1) Works.
2) Doesn't work
3) Some work
Or just have two options - either "It will work, period," or "Try something else." Most people who want a CD burner (or whatever) don't care about getting a specific one to work - they just want to know one (and one is enough) that will work. If enough people start using the database, more vendors will start making sure that their products consistent receive a "Works" result.
Except the whole problem is that there's thousands of parts. It's simply not practical to catalogue them all, or even just the ones that work - hence why it has to be a "suck it and see".
Bull. First off, if there was one, single, trusted database, then at least some of the parts vendors could be approached to have them enter the information for their own product lines. This would have to be done by business-savvy folk, but hey, we volunteer more than coding time you know. Secondly, if the first person who did the "suck it and see" approach (or the second, or third) had somewhere to go to log the results in a standard format, then the non-bleeding-edge people could still go to the database first and get pretty good coverage.
Think about CDDB (or whatever). All you need is one person to enter the information and its available for all involved. I have rarely found publicly purchasable CD that's not in there, even stuff that I consider pretty weird, and never in the past 5 or more years. I have corrected a typo or two, but that's about it. Are there really more network cards than there are CD releases?
This is not only a solvable problem, its a mostly solved problem. All we have to do is take advantage of it.
Hmm - for some stuff, you could even have drivers (modules, whatever) available for download from the database too. Kinda the apt-repository of hardware support, like the one that Windows theoretically has that never seems to actually find a driver. So your system gets new hardware attached (either at boot or hot-swapped). It looks it up in the database, downloads the driver, rebuilds the kernel, whatever it needs to do, all automatically. Not something I'd aim for in 1.0 but a reasonable outgrowth of the ID database.
The appropriate legal issue here is probably "maintaining an attractive nuisance." Or whatever your local (federal?) version is. Doing something that, while legal in and of itself, causes someone else great distress or difficulty - its a bit of a catch-all, but is remarkably unabused in most situations.
More than true, if you include bin Laden (who hated Saddam and the fact that Iraq was a functioning secular society). Although I'd like to think that making bin Laden happy wasn't one of the primary goals of the invasion.
So reject any story submission that's not valid; same with comments. Slashdot already checks comments for all sorts of crap. Besides, while its "a TON of work," its a TON of boring, well-defined repetitive work. Computers are really good at that sort of thing.
He was obviously passing through a free speech zone at the time.
Because they have a better way. This stopped me from getting a mac laptop for a long time - I hate external mice and modifier keys both. Now you have a silky smooth mousepad that supports one-finger-click for a left click, and two-finger-click for a right click. It makes an unbelievable amount of sense and works seamlessly. Combined with two-finger-scrolling and you have a really addictive system. And yes, I own an MB now and I'm eyeing the MBP as well, which would allow me to give the MB to my wife and toss out her Dell.
Wow, that is amazing. Where do I sign up?
So... why bother even reading the articles? After all, if you're up to date on the latest "geek" stuff, you really don't need to go here at all, do you?
The criticism was perfectly justified. The article bit.
Nah. The transmission medium has to be able to accommodate the peak bandwidth needed. Even if it doesn't have to do it often, as long as it has to do it sometimes that's enough to require the capacity.
Even better, the wonderful thing is that it doesn't have to be transparent. Its auditable. Every single stage can be confirmed "outside the box," by testing against the specification rather than against any specific implementation. Any element can be tested against at any and every stage of the game, and spot recounts can occur against any polling stations.
There are people in Milton Keynes? I mean; real, living people? Oh, pull one of the other ones, it has bells on...
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The user doesn't give a rat's ass. Just the same way that the GIMP user doesn't care as long as there's a button (or whatever) in the native UI to draw a circle, or that when they highlight text that they've previously rotated they can change the letters to say something different. Nobody except a very, very few developers care if the code performing this "magic" is linked in, decoupled as a separate binary, or even grabbed as a buzzword-compliant SOAP based webservice. Results matter. Methods, as long as they don't get in the way, don't.
Hmm. Please go pack and read the GPP with a sarcastic tone of voice on that phrase that, apparently, failed to come through in a textual post. Huh. Imagine that.