"Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example Excite@Home users often get to see new features. They aren't told of this, just presented with the new UI and observed how they use it."
Speaking as a homeschooled senior in high school, I can say that very few of the schools I have talked/applied to have had any special requirements for homeschoolers.
A few schools (Reed and Cornell come to mind) do require that homeschooled students take SAT II subject tests, others require a personal interview only from homeschoolers. In most cases though, the school will just give a higher weight to the students SAT/ACT score and essay rather than to their GPA.
Another thing myself and a few of my homeschooled peers have done is to take classes at the local community college, which provides an outside verification of ability.
Seriously though, one cool part of the spec is that it's backwards compatible with regular PNG so any PNG-complient viewers will just display the first frame of the animation. It might not be acceptable for all applications, but it would be for most.
AFAIK, this is nearly always implemented with a central proxy sever doing the filtering, so it really shouldn't matter at all what OS the client machines are using.
I really don't think the 3d desktop will be feasable until we have some form of useful, cheap, and easy to use 3D input device. Anyone work with this sort of thing?
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"Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example Excite@Home users often get to see new features. They aren't told of this, just presented with the new UI and observed how they use it."
...from this page , which was posted on /. earlier this week.
Pshhh, that would involve Bush reading and talking at the same time. Reading is hard. :-)
Speaking as a homeschooled senior in high school, I can say that very few of the schools I have talked/applied to have had any special requirements for homeschoolers.
A few schools (Reed and Cornell come to mind) do require that homeschooled students take SAT II subject tests, others require a personal interview only from homeschoolers. In most cases though, the school will just give a higher weight to the students SAT/ACT score and essay rather than to their GPA.
Another thing myself and a few of my homeschooled peers have done is to take classes at the local community college, which provides an outside verification of ability.
Someone's been watching too much Good Will Hunting... :-)
Seriously though, one cool part of the spec is that it's backwards compatible with regular PNG so any PNG-complient viewers will just display the first frame of the animation. It might not be acceptable for all applications, but it would be for most.
AFAIK, this is nearly always implemented with a central proxy sever doing the filtering, so it really shouldn't matter at all what OS the client machines are using.
I really don't think the 3d desktop will be feasable until we have some form of useful, cheap, and easy to use 3D input device. Anyone work with this sort of thing?