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The Prodigy Puzzle
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Otherwise just get the exams and see how well they do.
That's a great idea. Just give them the material, say that if they want out they have a week to learn it, then give them the final. They get a slight curve on it (since it's impossible to learn all of the subject in a week), and if they pass, they can go to the next level.
Of course they'll learn from those classes. They can just learn it much faster, and the system is failing the student if it keeps him/her there for eight months more than needed.
um can you say N64 Goldeneye??? Everyone always left it on the default control style... but if you switch to 1.2 Solitaire your skillz go through the roof.
Precisely. Halo was intuitive out of the box. My first exposure to Halo was on a school trip when some of my friends set up a LAN across a couple of hotel rooms. I could just walk in, pick up the controller, and more or less be able to play.
I attribute this to two things: first, the influence of Halo over the controller itself, and second, the influence of Microsoft over the game. Microsoft has always been able to make things obvious to the masses. They're never elegant (like UNIX) and rarely simple and intuitive (like Apple) or theoretically correct (like a couple of fringe OSes, and to some extent, Linux WMs). But people who sit down at a Microsoft product can generally use it immediately.
I would never have bought an Xbox or Halo if, the first time I played it, it hadn't been intuitive enough for me to realize I liked the game. Halo made it because people could easily show their friends that it's good - exploiting network effects, so to speak, even before it supported online gaming.
Halo had three things going for it: a reasonably good single-player plotline, a well-developed and engaging multiplayer game, and the ability to easily set up LAN parties or split-screen games and market it to one's friends.
The economically disadvantaged will also suffer from the lack of Opendocument support in Microsoft Office.
How would the economically disadvantaged suffer? They'll just use OpenOffice instead. 100% OD support, and zero cost.
Well, yeah, that's what they're supposed to do. And then how do they send it to an organization (e.g., a company they're applying to) that has standardized on MS Word? Or once they get that job, how do they get access to those documents at home?
Yes, OOo has MS.DOC support which works amazingly well, but it's still a reverse-engineered hack. It'd be better to have an open, standard document format that works as the native format of both Word and OOo. You can't guarantee that a given.DOC file will work equally well in Word and OOo. If Word complies to OD, though, you can make that guarantee.
One thing that irritates me about Amazon is that it will not tell you which book comes next in a series.
Actually, they do for most series. When you click on A Crown of Swords, for example, the book title says "(The Wheel of Time, Book 7)", and there's a link below saying "This is the 7th item in The Wheel of Time Series ".
By the way, it's interesting to see the first few series Amazon has (by changing the/2/ in the URL). One through four are fantasy; 5 and 6 are movie trilogies, #7 is the soundtracks from Dawson's Creek...!? There doesn't seem to be any ordering to this. #8 (surprisingly, not #1 or anything) is LoTR, and it takes until #40 to reach Discworld. Probably they just added series as they found them. It goes until rougly 904 (with a few gaps).
The cool thing about tagging is that it is allowing the unwashed masses to categorize stuff. It sort of casts aside the idea of a rigid heirarchy of categories, and uses a "free association" style of categorization.
Amazon... [has] little to no incentive for me to rate a product or provide any feedback.... However, i use the Netflix rating system extensively, because they use my ratings to provide feedback on what new movies I might like, and the system actually works. How can Amazon incentivize people to tag??
Apart from its misguided sarcasm, why is this marked as a troll? This is the whole point of the free software movement: to rewrite what has been developed and to write what hasn't under an OSS license so that everyone should be able to use the software regardless of their income.
Now of course the latest, greatest software, and the software with the most effort into it, will be released nonfree first. If you want someone to work on it full time you'll need to pay him. But CAD has been here for years. The research into what works and what doesn't has been completed, and any relevant software or design patents have (or should have) expired. The proper way to go about writing CAD software is by no means still a trade secret. So why shouldn't there be an OSS version?
And yes, we are overjoyed at having free word processors, and justifiably. We now have a free product that rivals the proprietary products released at the same time - and the free product was developed largely on people's spare time, whereas there are employees whose sole job is to develop the proprietary product. And even though there were employees writing StarOffice, they couldn't have been paid out of the royalties.
I don't suppose the XBox comes with, you know, a mouse, or some other controller that would actually make a console FPS fun?
Since you restarted the holy war, I may as well reply...
The Xbox controller has two thumbsticks on a single controller. This offers a few advantages over the keyboard/mouse setup:
You have two thumbsticks. If you use a keyboard, you have to use the digital arrow keys (or WASD) to move around. With a thumbstick, you have analog control both of exactly what direction you want to move/strafe or how fast you want to move. The other option is to use two mice.
All the buttons are near the thumbsticks, unlike FPSes which just have the two firing controls on the mouse. This means that you use the same hand for paired actions, which helps your reflexes a bit.
The interface is slightly more natural to gaming to use specially-designed buttons than to type keys.
And here's the catch: although I prefer console controllers, I can have as much fun with a keyboard and a mouse. If the controller prevents you from having fun, you need to rethink whether you were enjoying the game in the first place. We can debate about this here until Jesus comes back (and tells us what interface God uses), but meanwhile we should be able to enjoy both interfaces. Or make that all three, once the Revolution comes out. Unless a controller is actually poorly designed, it shouldn't interfere with your enjoyment of the game.
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AIDS is highly lethal, but it takes years or even decades to kill.
Thinking of setting up a website? (Score:5, Informative) by bigtallmofo (695287) Friend of a Friend on Sun Nov 13, '05 03:16 PM (#14021837) (http://www.insurancegenius.com/ | Last Journal: Tue Mar 22, '05 06:26 PM)
An insurance recommendation by a guy homepaged at insurancegenius.com? No conflict of interest to see here, move along....
A computerexpert, whose name is known by the redaction,
That has BabelFish's German to English fingerprints all over it. Unfortunately, the site doesn't site the German website that they plagiarized their content from, so I can't attempt to guess what "whose name is known by the redaction" really means (other than vaguely "who kept his name secret").
"The license for this program follows below. It can be derived from the GPL by replacing all references to the 'GPL' with 'this license', and by adding FOO as section 3.99."
Of course, that defeats the point of having a single GPL. What exactly is FOO?
I feel a disturbance in the Force Oh, so disturbance in the Force I feel a disturbance...and thousands of screams...and gay! er..silence. And I pity any Jedi who isn't alive today...
He's always late for the Council But his force choke is real; He's always late for everything Except for every kill... How do you solve a problem like Darth Vader? How do you hold a tractor beam in your hand?
I am the very model of a modern protocol droid, I've information technical, political, and linguical, I know the Dark Lords of the Sith and quote the fights historical, From Mandalore to Yuuzhan Vong in order categorical...
That's no moon for us; That's a space station for us; Strike me down and I'll become stronger; Strike me down and we're halfway there; We'll find A New Hope of living; We'll find a way of forgiving...
Imagine you distribute your software with the following note: "you can distribute this software under the GPL provided you meet criteria FOO, otherwise you have no distribution rights". Person A meets criteria FOO, and distributes your software under the GPL to person B. Person B is now free not to meet criteia FOO, as they recieved the software under the GPL.
You messed up the recursion, that's why. If you inherit from the GPL you're supposed to call your derived license, not the base license, in the recursion.
You'd say, roughly (IANAL, someone please correct this): "This software is licensed under the terms of the GPL with the requirement that you meet FOO. Iff you comply with the GPL and FOO, you may redistribute this software with the same license."
I might even buy a PS3 or Nintendo just from spite after a year's worth of idiotic 'viral marketing' from Microsoft.
The PS3 and the Revolution aren't launching this month. You're deluding yourself if you don't think there'll be at least this much coverage of the two systems on Slashdot when they get closer to launch.
Or actually you'll probably forget about it by then and end up buying a 360 out of spite.
The Bible, and the commandments do not say that there are no other gods. It says that God is the creator of man, and the you shouldn't worship any other gods.
Moreover, it says that the magicians in Pharaoh's temple were able to turn their staves into snakes also, and that the Nephilim were born from "the suns of God and the daughters of men". It strongly implies that black magic does work, but is sinful - when Jesus cast out demons, the response wasn't "WTF is a demon?" but "You can't do that on the Sabbath! You're one of them!" When He cast Legion into the pigs, the response wasn't "Wow, look at those crazy pigs running into the water, what a coincidence," but "You sent those demons into the pigs!"
So did demons exist in that time and have simply taken a different form now? And is black magic possible? Or are these all legends and creation myths, as the aforementioned rabbis say? (I'm inclined to believe the former, but you can't derive an answer from the Bible.)
How the hell do they know Halo 3 will be huge?...everyone hails these games as the second coming...
You answered your own question. The Market likes Halo. Nobody can explain what The Market will like, but you still have to listen to it. Since it liked the first two Halos, it's bound to like the third.
How? You can tell the customer, "We have a limited number, so we'd like to put it in the hands of people who'll use it more. If you want, you can come back a few days later and see if it's still available." Isn't that valid?
I feel distinctly uncomfortable with actually having a root shell open and unprotected on the Redhat box.
I've enabled the root account on Mac OS X, but I feel very uncomfortable logging in to the GUI as root. I use sudo over su because I rarely need to use more than one root command; if I do I switch between the two much in the manner I switch between, oh, ssh (slogin) on a regular shell and ssh-agent.
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Otherwise just get the exams and see how well they do.
That's a great idea. Just give them the material, say that if they want out they have a week to learn it, then give them the final. They get a slight curve on it (since it's impossible to learn all of the subject in a week), and if they pass, they can go to the next level.
Of course they'll learn from those classes. They can just learn it much faster, and the system is failing the student if it keeps him/her there for eight months more than needed.
um can you say N64 Goldeneye??? Everyone always left it on the default control style ... but if you switch to 1.2 Solitaire your skillz go through the roof.
Precisely. Halo was intuitive out of the box. My first exposure to Halo was on a school trip when some of my friends set up a LAN across a couple of hotel rooms. I could just walk in, pick up the controller, and more or less be able to play.
I attribute this to two things: first, the influence of Halo over the controller itself, and second, the influence of Microsoft over the game. Microsoft has always been able to make things obvious to the masses. They're never elegant (like UNIX) and rarely simple and intuitive (like Apple) or theoretically correct (like a couple of fringe OSes, and to some extent, Linux WMs). But people who sit down at a Microsoft product can generally use it immediately.
I would never have bought an Xbox or Halo if, the first time I played it, it hadn't been intuitive enough for me to realize I liked the game. Halo made it because people could easily show their friends that it's good - exploiting network effects, so to speak, even before it supported online gaming.
Halo had three things going for it: a reasonably good single-player plotline, a well-developed and engaging multiplayer game, and the ability to easily set up LAN parties or split-screen games and market it to one's friends.
The economically disadvantaged will also suffer from the lack of Opendocument support in Microsoft Office.
.DOC support which works amazingly well, but it's still a reverse-engineered hack. It'd be better to have an open, standard document format that works as the native format of both Word and OOo. You can't guarantee that a given .DOC file will work equally well in Word and OOo. If Word complies to OD, though, you can make that guarantee.
How would the economically disadvantaged suffer? They'll just use OpenOffice instead. 100% OD support, and zero cost.
Well, yeah, that's what they're supposed to do. And then how do they send it to an organization (e.g., a company they're applying to) that has standardized on MS Word? Or once they get that job, how do they get access to those documents at home?
Yes, OOo has MS
One thing that irritates me about Amazon is that it will not tell you which book comes next in a series.
/2/ in the URL). One through four are fantasy; 5 and 6 are movie trilogies, #7 is the soundtracks from Dawson's Creek...!? There doesn't seem to be any ordering to this. #8 (surprisingly, not #1 or anything) is LoTR, and it takes until #40 to reach Discworld. Probably they just added series as they found them. It goes until rougly 904 (with a few gaps).
Actually, they do for most series. When you click on A Crown of Swords , for example, the book title says "(The Wheel of Time, Book 7)", and there's a link below saying "This is the 7th item in The Wheel of Time Series ".
By the way, it's interesting to see the first few series Amazon has (by changing the
The cool thing about tagging is that it is allowing the unwashed masses to categorize stuff. It sort of casts aside the idea of a rigid heirarchy of categories, and uses a "free association" style of categorization.
Basically, keywords + wiki = tags?
Amazon ... [has] little to no incentive for me to rate a product or provide any feedback.... However, i use the Netflix rating system extensively, because they use my ratings to provide feedback on what new movies I might like, and the system actually works. How can Amazon incentivize people to tag??
By using your ratings to provide feedback on what new books you might like. And yes, the system actually works.
No. Wherever the hub is, it still needs a physical wire connecting it to Internet2. And those mainly exist in countries with US-like legal systems.
Apart from its misguided sarcasm, why is this marked as a troll? This is the whole point of the free software movement: to rewrite what has been developed and to write what hasn't under an OSS license so that everyone should be able to use the software regardless of their income.
Now of course the latest, greatest software, and the software with the most effort into it, will be released nonfree first. If you want someone to work on it full time you'll need to pay him. But CAD has been here for years. The research into what works and what doesn't has been completed, and any relevant software or design patents have (or should have) expired. The proper way to go about writing CAD software is by no means still a trade secret. So why shouldn't there be an OSS version?
And yes, we are overjoyed at having free word processors, and justifiably. We now have a free product that rivals the proprietary products released at the same time - and the free product was developed largely on people's spare time, whereas there are employees whose sole job is to develop the proprietary product. And even though there were employees writing StarOffice, they couldn't have been paid out of the royalties.
I don't suppose the XBox comes with, you know, a mouse, or some other controller that would actually make a console FPS fun?
Since you restarted the holy war, I may as well reply...
The Xbox controller has two thumbsticks on a single controller. This offers a few advantages over the keyboard/mouse setup:
You have two thumbsticks. If you use a keyboard, you have to use the digital arrow keys (or WASD) to move around. With a thumbstick, you have analog control both of exactly what direction you want to move/strafe or how fast you want to move. The other option is to use two mice.
All the buttons are near the thumbsticks, unlike FPSes which just have the two firing controls on the mouse. This means that you use the same hand for paired actions, which helps your reflexes a bit.
The interface is slightly more natural to gaming to use specially-designed buttons than to type keys.
And here's the catch: although I prefer console controllers, I can have as much fun with a keyboard and a mouse. If the controller prevents you from having fun, you need to rethink whether you were enjoying the game in the first place. We can debate about this here until Jesus comes back (and tells us what interface God uses), but meanwhile we should be able to enjoy both interfaces. Or make that all three, once the Revolution comes out. Unless a controller is actually poorly designed, it shouldn't interfere with your enjoyment of the game.
AIDS is highly lethal, but it takes years or even decades to kill.
Same with birth.
Thinking of setting up a website?
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by bigtallmofo (695287) Friend of a Friend on Sun Nov 13, '05 03:16 PM (#14021837)
(http://www.insurancegenius.com/ | Last Journal: Tue Mar 22, '05 06:26 PM)
An insurance recommendation by a guy homepaged at insurancegenius.com? No conflict of interest to see here, move along....
A computerexpert, whose name is known by the redaction,
That has BabelFish's German to English fingerprints all over it. Unfortunately, the site doesn't site the German website that they plagiarized their content from, so I can't attempt to guess what "whose name is known by the redaction" really means (other than vaguely "who kept his name secret").
C. A. R. f'ing Hoare works for Microsoft Research.
You know, the guy who invented stacks and quicksort and all that?
And...what's your personal opinion of AT&T (the old Ma Bell)? Did it color your opinion of Bell Labs?
Mine assumes that time.apple.com (and time.windows.com for that matter) are both second-hand data, and syncs to time.nist.gov.
"The license for this program follows below. It can be derived from the GPL by replacing all references to the 'GPL' with 'this license', and by adding FOO as section 3.99."
Of course, that defeats the point of having a single GPL. What exactly is FOO?
I feel a disturbance in the Force
Oh, so disturbance in the Force
I feel a disturbance...and thousands of screams...and gay! er..silence.
And I pity any Jedi who isn't alive today...
He's always late for the Council
But his force choke is real;
He's always late for everything
Except for every kill...
How do you solve a problem like Darth Vader?
How do you hold a tractor beam in your hand?
I am the very model of a modern protocol droid,
I've information technical, political, and linguical,
I know the Dark Lords of the Sith and quote the fights historical,
From Mandalore to Yuuzhan Vong in order categorical...
That's no moon for us;
That's a space station for us;
Strike me down and I'll become stronger;
Strike me down and we're halfway there;
We'll find A New Hope of living;
We'll find a way of forgiving...
Imagine you distribute your software with the following note: "you can distribute this software under the GPL provided you meet criteria FOO, otherwise you have no distribution rights". Person A meets criteria FOO, and distributes your software under the GPL to person B. Person B is now free not to meet criteia FOO, as they recieved the software under the GPL.
You messed up the recursion, that's why. If you inherit from the GPL you're supposed to call your derived license, not the base license, in the recursion.
You'd say, roughly (IANAL, someone please correct this): "This software is licensed under the terms of the GPL with the requirement that you meet FOO. Iff you comply with the GPL and FOO, you may redistribute this software with the same license."
(Not "...under the GPL."!)
I might even buy a PS3 or Nintendo just from spite after a year's worth of idiotic 'viral marketing' from Microsoft.
The PS3 and the Revolution aren't launching this month. You're deluding yourself if you don't think there'll be at least this much coverage of the two systems on Slashdot when they get closer to launch.
Or actually you'll probably forget about it by then and end up buying a 360 out of spite.
The Bible, and the commandments do not say that there are no other gods. It says that God is the creator of man, and the you shouldn't worship any other gods.
Moreover, it says that the magicians in Pharaoh's temple were able to turn their staves into snakes also, and that the Nephilim were born from "the suns of God and the daughters of men". It strongly implies that black magic does work, but is sinful - when Jesus cast out demons, the response wasn't "WTF is a demon?" but "You can't do that on the Sabbath! You're one of them!" When He cast Legion into the pigs, the response wasn't "Wow, look at those crazy pigs running into the water, what a coincidence," but "You sent those demons into the pigs!"
So did demons exist in that time and have simply taken a different form now? And is black magic possible? Or are these all legends and creation myths, as the aforementioned rabbis say? (I'm inclined to believe the former, but you can't derive an answer from the Bible.)
How the hell do they know Halo 3 will be huge? ...everyone hails these games as the second coming...
You answered your own question. The Market likes Halo. Nobody can explain what The Market will like, but you still have to listen to it. Since it liked the first two Halos, it's bound to like the third.
That looks more like 343 Guilty Spark than Clippy.
I think he's just looking for a way to count the number of people who understand pointers.
How? You can tell the customer, "We have a limited number, so we'd like to put it in the hands of people who'll use it more. If you want, you can come back a few days later and see if it's still available." Isn't that valid?
What I find amusing is that the gay niggers are intellectually superior to the people writing the lameness filter.
/Gay Nigger/i /GNAA/i
Hey guys...what if you just take out all the other lameness filter rules and replace it with these?
There goes your problem.
I feel distinctly uncomfortable with actually having a root shell open and unprotected on the Redhat box.
I've enabled the root account on Mac OS X, but I feel very uncomfortable logging in to the GUI as root. I use sudo over su because I rarely need to use more than one root command; if I do I switch between the two much in the manner I switch between, oh, ssh (slogin) on a regular shell and ssh-agent.