i would have thought that, like has already been pointed out, teenagers will generally move with their friends. if they are getting warned and pressure is being applied then they're probably more likely, i'd have thought, to stop or consider stopping p2p. older people on the other hand, myself included in that group, would either stick to what they do or look for a different way to do the same thing (eg newsgroups with ssl). when i was 16 i wouldn't have paid monthly for a giganews account. now im 25, i'll happily pay for it. i also feel like i'd take less notice of my ISP saying 'stop downloading' than i would as a teenager, since as an adult im in control rather than my parents.
i agree that the material is there for free if your willing to dig about or click through a few search results. however, i do find that a good book on the topic can save you a ton of time. i bought the Pro Drupal Dev book from Apress to get up to speed on the intricacies of drupal and probably saved myself a months worth of mucking around on my own with google & exisiting code.
the theme chapter in that is about 40 or 50 pages long but gives you more than enough to build complicated themes. normally i dont tend to buy technical books as they're too expensive or generic for me but I find that Apress have got some really excellent titles. The Drupal Dev one being my main savior for a while.
A decent, nicely sized book is still much more pleasurable to read than a stack of printed out A4 pages of a PDF or staring at a monitor for hours...
I don't know if Office 2007 can be set to save in the Office 97/2000/2003 formats by default
it can ('office button'>word options>save>format), we have to set it to this on any new machines we install with vista/office2007 to stop people instantly complaining that no-one can read their doc's in the office. after using office 2007 for a few months, i like the interface now, its grown on me a lot. at home though im running kubuntu & OOo and have no issues at all (i do more than just bog standard simple letters and spreadsheets).
where i work we manage a lot of clients sbs servers with exchange and i've not noticed such a performance hit, so im guessing whatever was causing this issue is long gone...
words fail to describe how mental this stragegy sounds, and the fact they're letting people apply for their job back at a lower rate of pay, if thats not a slap in the face for working for these guys i dont know what is. im all for 'you work for the company, the company doesnt work for you', but shit like this just annoys me. im sure someone on their board will make a good bonus this year, maybe someone will figure they dont need them anymore...
god help anyone aiming to make a good wage at cc:/
i always wondered why they didnt do something like this in XP or earlier. aside from things like a portable harddrive I dont think i've ever had a success with the new hardware wizard actually finding something when it checked online. someone really should have said 'guys, this thing doesnt work' and removed it instead of taunting you with false hope...
first thing i thought of when i saw the headline:) doesnt sound like an ideal perfume though:
"But we were misled, twice over. Firstly because that distinctive smell is not ozone, it is dimethyl sulphide. And secondly, because inhaling it is not necessarily good for you."
agreed, i hope they do what some posters are suggesting and allow the user the choice to autoplay it within the current googlevid style. personally, i normally search on googlevid first for more 'lecture style' topics than youtube and normally get good results, so it would be a total shame to see it all moved to youtube, imho. then again since they are one & the same company, the interface would (you'd think), take the best of both.
A lot of materials that are sold in the 'old' way of inches & feet are actually manufactured to metric measurements and then 'relabelled' for the end user.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_Un ited_Kingdom:
'Products that may appear to be imperial are actually manufactured to metric specifications, using metric drawings and made on metric machines, even if references to imperial units persist in some areas.The Coopers' trade is one of the exceptions to this rule.'
what are you trying to say? ive reread this a few times and still cant work it out:/ there are only 8(9) planets discovered in this solar system, and that means theres no way every country can have someone that discovered a planet. its no big deal in any case really, its hardly an issue of national pride i'd imagine. getting a man on the moon or orbiting the earth the first time, they're something you want to identify as a national achievment. planet spotting when the inner lot were already known by the ancients is hardly something to sway an argument politcally.
i think this decision is a long time in the coming, the many arguments against its classification as a 'planet' like jupiter, earth & the rest all make sense. the only problem i have is stopping my self saying 'neptune and...' when rhyming them off, i cant seem to make myself say 'and neptune'. anyway, i imagine it'll take til next monday for this to make it onto every pub quiz in london.
short of neo and his friends blasting off an EMP device next door at the adult expo i find it hard to believe that something like this would happen. i agree with the non-comparison statement above. win98 and a bit of hardware _are_very_ different. when i used to present custom hardware i had designed at science exhibits in ireland you can bet every penny you've got i made sure the thing worked _before_ showing the judges. how the hell this happens, i have absolutly no idea. im guessing some moron being paid $50 for the day got the cabling wrong or something, otherwise its a very bad advert for HD-DVD adopters...
thats a really good point. after reading it i remember reading an announcement that loads of 'classic' movies will soon be released in UMD format for the sony PSP, i thought to myself 'jeez, that must be cheap'. i cant really see the argument for upgrading so soon to a new media format.
yeah increased capacity, but for the average consumer what does this really mean? i've got a dual layer burner and still havent used up the 20 DVD-R's i bought 2 months ago. with harddrives as big as they are and recordable media so cheap and full of capacity it seems ridiculous to think that people will be flocking to upgrade _again_. if theres one thing the 90's & 00's have given us, its rapid 'suggested' upgrade cycles of computer components. it might be great that computers are developing so fast but its costing us all a fortune:)
unless games need to use the equivalant of 3 or more DVD's worth of storage (meaning just more crap to sit through when your trying to play) or peter jackson decided the lord of the rings should have been a 10hour marathon i cant see the immediate appeal for this technology. my parents & most people i know when im back home in northern ireland have only really got used to DVD these past 5 years.
"The (video) games industry since the early 90s has had two or three incompatible formats and it hasn't slowed the adoption of game platforms,"
when i think about it, this seems like a great analogy to say 'hey, look 2 different types of disc isnt really that crazy or impractical' but i think they're missing a big point. can anybody imagine what it would be like to have a single console per generation? something within me is screaming 'that would suck, less innovation, less choice, less everything'. instinctivly i know that with video games having different consoles is definitly a good thing, i just cant seem to qualify it in writing appropiately, im sure some of you will agree.
with data storage/movies/whatever though i find it hard to accept having two potential 'standards'. we're not talking zip disks or anything here, were you know that your probably not going to be able to use it on 'every' computer you come across. yes, development of more than one type of _potential_ storage media is a good thing but for something that is so important from a cost/ease of use point of view there is, IMHO, room for -1- standard only in the end. unfortunatly some people are going to get burned when that eventual standard emerges.
unfortunately my particular department has gotten rid of the sun ultra's and doestnt seem to care too much about the very few linux machines. they do however have a crap load of windows xp boxes that struggle to run the bloody thing, it's all just a show for the new undergrads coming in, they can say 'ooh, look windows xp, how up to date...'. anyway, to answer your question imperial have a very strict policy regarding jacking your own box/laptop into their network, its basically a no-no. you can go through a vetting process whereby you'll be given an IP and allowed to plug into certain access points. apart from that, a zip disc comes in very handy:)
in the computer science department the situation regarding actually physically plugging into the network is much the same, however, they do have a wireless access point so it is possible to surf on your own machine without much trouble. network access points are most important in the hall's of residence, but then thats only for the first year undergrads.
before 2001 information systems engineering students studied at both the computer science and electronic engineering departments. this was great because we had access to the comp. science lab's with around 200-300 machines running both linux and windows 2000, which they still do.
when we moved to the EEE department however all we had access to were win2k machines and a handful of solaris boxes. after a while the department set aside only 6 machines to run linux. unfortunately they dont take it that seriously and all but 1 machine was unusable. now in 2004 they've decided to remove all the solaris machines, upgrade all the windows boxes to xp (which they sometimes struggle with) and the last time i checked there were 3 linux machines sitting in a corner of the smallest computer lab in the building.
when i asked why we cant have more linux machines (part of our degree focuses a lot on unix) i was told 'we dont have the support for it', i was then basically told 'why dont you just use a windows machine'.the problem is so bad i have to resort to bringing in my own box for software assignments as any code i write seems to refuse every attempt to compile on the (outdated) linux boxes and forget about the windows machines. its a pretty sorry state of affairs...
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i would have thought that, like has already been pointed out, teenagers will generally move with their friends. if they are getting warned and pressure is being applied then they're probably more likely, i'd have thought, to stop or consider stopping p2p. older people on the other hand, myself included in that group, would either stick to what they do or look for a different way to do the same thing (eg newsgroups with ssl). when i was 16 i wouldn't have paid monthly for a giganews account. now im 25, i'll happily pay for it. i also feel like i'd take less notice of my ISP saying 'stop downloading' than i would as a teenager, since as an adult im in control rather than my parents.
i agree that the material is there for free if your willing to dig about or click through a few search results. however, i do find that a good book on the topic can save you a ton of time. i bought the Pro Drupal Dev book from Apress to get up to speed on the intricacies of drupal and probably saved myself a months worth of mucking around on my own with google & exisiting code.
the theme chapter in that is about 40 or 50 pages long but gives you more than enough to build complicated themes. normally i dont tend to buy technical books as they're too expensive or generic for me but I find that Apress have got some really excellent titles. The Drupal Dev one being my main savior for a while.
A decent, nicely sized book is still much more pleasurable to read than a stack of printed out A4 pages of a PDF or staring at a monitor for hours...
where i work we manage a lot of clients sbs servers with exchange and i've not noticed such a performance hit, so im guessing whatever was causing this issue is long gone...
words fail to describe how mental this stragegy sounds, and the fact they're letting people apply for their job back at a lower rate of pay, if thats not a slap in the face for working for these guys i dont know what is. im all for 'you work for the company, the company doesnt work for you', but shit like this just annoys me. im sure someone on their board will make a good bonus this year, maybe someone will figure they dont need them anymore...
:/
god help anyone aiming to make a good wage at cc
i always wondered why they didnt do something like this in XP or earlier. aside from things like a portable harddrive I dont think i've ever had a success with the new hardware wizard actually finding something when it checked online. someone really should have said 'guys, this thing doesnt work' and removed it instead of taunting you with false hope...
agreed, i hope they do what some posters are suggesting and allow the user the choice to autoplay it within the current googlevid style. personally, i normally search on googlevid first for more 'lecture style' topics than youtube and normally get good results, so it would be a total shame to see it all moved to youtube, imho. then again since they are one & the same company, the interface would (you'd think), take the best of both.
what are you trying to say? ive reread this a few times and still cant work it out :/ there are only 8(9) planets discovered in this solar system, and that means theres no way every country can have someone that discovered a planet. its no big deal in any case really, its hardly an issue of national pride i'd imagine. getting a man on the moon or orbiting the earth the first time, they're something you want to identify as a national achievment. planet spotting when the inner lot were already known by the ancients is hardly something to sway an argument politcally.
i think this decision is a long time in the coming, the many arguments against its classification as a 'planet' like jupiter, earth & the rest all make sense. the only problem i have is stopping my self saying 'neptune and ...' when rhyming them off, i cant seem to make myself say 'and neptune'. anyway, i imagine it'll take til next monday for this to make it onto every pub quiz in london.
short of neo and his friends blasting off an EMP device next door at the adult expo i find it hard to believe that something like this would happen. i agree with the non-comparison statement above. win98 and a bit of hardware _are_very_ different. when i used to present custom hardware i had designed at science exhibits in ireland you can bet every penny you've got i made sure the thing worked _before_ showing the judges. how the hell this happens, i have absolutly no idea. im guessing some moron being paid $50 for the day got the cabling wrong or something, otherwise its a very bad advert for HD-DVD adopters...
thats a really good point. after reading it i remember reading an announcement that loads of 'classic' movies will soon be released in UMD format for the sony PSP, i thought to myself 'jeez, that must be cheap'. i cant really see the argument for upgrading so soon to a new media format.
:)
yeah increased capacity, but for the average consumer what does this really mean? i've got a dual layer burner and still havent used up the 20 DVD-R's i bought 2 months ago. with harddrives as big as they are and recordable media so cheap and full of capacity it seems ridiculous to think that people will be flocking to upgrade _again_. if theres one thing the 90's & 00's have given us, its rapid 'suggested' upgrade cycles of computer components. it might be great that computers are developing so fast but its costing us all a fortune
unless games need to use the equivalant of 3 or more DVD's worth of storage (meaning just more crap to sit through when your trying to play) or peter jackson decided the lord of the rings should have been a 10hour marathon i cant see the immediate appeal for this technology. my parents & most people i know when im back home in northern ireland have only really got used to DVD these past 5 years.
At the end it quotes:
"The (video) games industry since the early 90s has had two or three incompatible formats and it hasn't slowed the adoption of game platforms,"
when i think about it, this seems like a great analogy to say 'hey, look 2 different types of disc isnt really that crazy or impractical' but i think they're missing a big point. can anybody imagine what it would be like to have a single console per generation? something within me is screaming 'that would suck, less innovation, less choice, less everything'. instinctivly i know that with video games having different consoles is definitly a good thing, i just cant seem to qualify it in writing appropiately, im sure some of you will agree.
with data storage/movies/whatever though i find it hard to accept having two potential 'standards'. we're not talking zip disks or anything here, were you know that your probably not going to be able to use it on 'every' computer you come across. yes, development of more than one type of _potential_ storage media is a good thing but for something that is so important from a cost/ease of use point of view there is, IMHO, room for -1- standard only in the end. unfortunatly some people are going to get burned when that eventual standard emerges.
unfortunately my particular department has gotten rid of the sun ultra's and doestnt seem to care too much about the very few linux machines. they do however have a crap load of windows xp boxes that struggle to run the bloody thing, it's all just a show for the new undergrads coming in, they can say 'ooh, look windows xp, how up to date...'. anyway, to answer your question imperial have a very strict policy regarding jacking your own box/laptop into their network, its basically a no-no. you can go through a vetting process whereby you'll be given an IP and allowed to plug into certain access points. apart from that, a zip disc comes in very handy :)
in the computer science department the situation regarding actually physically plugging into the network is much the same, however, they do have a wireless access point so it is possible to surf on your own machine without much trouble. network access points are most important in the hall's of residence, but then thats only for the first year undergrads.
before 2001 information systems engineering students studied at both the computer science and electronic engineering departments. this was great because we had access to the comp. science lab's with around 200-300 machines running both linux and windows 2000, which they still do.
when we moved to the EEE department however all we had access to were win2k machines and a handful of solaris boxes. after a while the department set aside only 6 machines to run linux. unfortunately they dont take it that seriously and all but 1 machine was unusable. now in 2004 they've decided to remove all the solaris machines, upgrade all the windows boxes to xp (which they sometimes struggle with) and the last time i checked there were 3 linux machines sitting in a corner of the smallest computer lab in the building.
when i asked why we cant have more linux machines (part of our degree focuses a lot on unix) i was told 'we dont have the support for it', i was then basically told 'why dont you just use a windows machine'.the problem is so bad i have to resort to bringing in my own box for software assignments as any code i write seems to refuse every attempt to compile on the (outdated) linux boxes and forget about the windows machines. its a pretty sorry state of affairs...