Look at the German government. I remember hearing that the built-in defrag in XP (Diskeeper extra lite?) had to be removed because of the Scientology connection. OK, this says that it was Win2k and that MS gave them a way to remove it. This has more on the company itself.
They'll try to weasel around it by claiming it's the same as getting someone to teach meditation to the staff and the instructor just happens to also be a priest. If you keep the religion away from the training, it can be OK. How you do that with the COS 'teachings,' I have no idea.
Basically identical, except one tries to be strongly typed. Trust me, swapping between JS and AS3 isn't as easy as it sounds. That's just the language, the run-time environments are nowhere near identical.
The government did ask for it. It was in the Request for Tender. Those things are iron-clad for a reason. If they don't bounce non-conforming tenders any slashdotter could submit a one-page proposal and expect equal treatment. Now, there's a thought.
Last thing I heard, it was a $700 tax credit to parents that bought their kids a laptop. Is this a replacement for that? It looks like another election promise is morphing. Where does the year 9-12 bracket come from. That doesn't match any school I've seen. Must be an eastern states thing.
I was talking in terms of the GP post that mentioned replacing the plastic in an LCD with wind-shield strength safety glass. That would have to have some weight. But yeah, the brackets are usually pretty tough.
Force Unleashed came out this year and the first lawsuit came out not long after the Wii was released. I'd imagine it was more people bowling or pitching in baseball.
I'm in Australia and some of us refer to the new Wiimotes with the heavily padded 'jacket' and beefy strap as Americanized Wiimotes. Sorry to you Americans who have to live amongst these people.
Squeak feels like a playground to me. Any 'real' programming tool feels like work. A first lesson with Squeak would include time to find the neat stuff buried inside it. Combine that with the fact that you can alter pretty much anything and you work with a single file VM image and kids could go wild with it. The eToy (?) interface is also pretty cool from a simple, not really programming, but making things happen point of view.
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Self help books have taught me that the best way to make money is to write the self-help books. Scientology really makes that point.
It's a cut-down version of Diskeeper. The scientology / Diskeeper / Windows connection has caused problems in the past. Here's one link.
I'd be interested to know what MS pays them for the cut-down copy in Win2k, XP, and later.
Exactly, the COS is only a 'church' for the tax benefits.
Look at the German government. I remember hearing that the built-in defrag in XP (Diskeeper extra lite?) had to be removed because of the Scientology connection. OK, this says that it was Win2k and that MS gave them a way to remove it. This has more on the company itself.
They'll try to weasel around it by claiming it's the same as getting someone to teach meditation to the staff and the instructor just happens to also be a priest. If you keep the religion away from the training, it can be OK. How you do that with the COS 'teachings,' I have no idea.
Why use JScript and limit yourself to Windows?
Basically identical, except one tries to be strongly typed. Trust me, swapping between JS and AS3 isn't as easy as it sounds. That's just the language, the run-time environments are nowhere near identical.
The correct term is Strine, thanks.
The government did ask for it. It was in the Request for Tender. Those things are iron-clad for a reason. If they don't bounce non-conforming tenders any slashdotter could submit a one-page proposal and expect equal treatment. Now, there's a thought.
What's next, deriding "Sandford and Son"?
Which is a poor ripoff of Steptoe and Son.
Last thing I heard, it was a $700 tax credit to parents that bought their kids a laptop. Is this a replacement for that? It looks like another election promise is morphing. Where does the year 9-12 bracket come from. That doesn't match any school I've seen. Must be an eastern states thing.
It also cuts down on customer complaints.
I was talking in terms of the GP post that mentioned replacing the plastic in an LCD with wind-shield strength safety glass. That would have to have some weight. But yeah, the brackets are usually pretty tough.
That's why it's a class action. Safety in numbers.
And then we can sue the makers of wall mounts that can't handle the weight. After that, builders.
You should look at the death rates for hospitals. Those places are freaking dangerous.
Force Unleashed came out this year and the first lawsuit came out not long after the Wii was released. I'd imagine it was more people bowling or pitching in baseball.
I'm in Australia and some of us refer to the new Wiimotes with the heavily padded 'jacket' and beefy strap as Americanized Wiimotes. Sorry to you Americans who have to live amongst these people.
I wonder if those Funny Home Video shows will have a Wii special at some point. It's just made for it.
Complete with Enron style accounting. That's just brilliant. The comments are even funnier.
Pascal, actually. Damn, I just frightened myself.
Squeak feels like a playground to me. Any 'real' programming tool feels like work. A first lesson with Squeak would include time to find the neat stuff buried inside it. Combine that with the fact that you can alter pretty much anything and you work with a single file VM image and kids could go wild with it. The eToy (?) interface is also pretty cool from a simple, not really programming, but making things happen point of view.
Right, so there's more to it. They probably should have used a different name. It's like me making a new Windows Task Manager and calling it Alt+F4.
Next question, how the hell did they break it? The UI needs more work, WTF? Maybe they were trying to add some eye candy to it.