There is some truth to that, but also, in my experience, those same people didn't pick the computer on their own. The asked their local computer geek, who DID know the difference, what they should buy and then did so. I know I'm personally responsible for computer purchasing advice for around 20 computers in the last couple years. And *I* know the difference, even if most of the people getting computer did not.
I consider myself a geek and my math skills are questionable (well, they are fine through high algebra and geometry level). I can field strip a PC blindfolded while sipping whiskey, but I can't integrate a function to save my first born. *shrug*
Son, the DVD and the new HD-DVD are not any more open-forum standards than Blu-ray. There are patents covering every aspect of the DVD and HD-DVD specs, just like Blu-ray, and someone gets paid for every DVD in your collection. What is wrong with Sony wanting to be that someone? (Especially when they have the better technology.)
I can tell from what you wrote that you take the time to have an active role in your daughter's education. If all parents did that, our education level in this country would skyrocket.
Way too many parents drop their kids off at school when they're 5 and come back to pick them up when they're 18.
When I was a kid, I didn't dread detention. I dreaded what my parents would do to me after I got home from detention. But there were other people in my class that got detention fairly often, but their parents never knew or cared!
JHutch
Go to your local junior high school. Find out which kids are doing well.
Now, find out which parents attended the last OPTIONAL parent teacher conference.
The two lists will be almost identical, I guarantee it.
When I was doing my student teaching (before I realized there were other things I wanted to do more than deal with administration in a school), we sent out some "invitations" to certain parents to come in because we needed to see them about their kids. Everyone else was told about the conferences but not specifically asked to come in. Only one parent showed up that I asked to come in. I talked with 11 other sets of parents who asked all sorts of questions about their students. And my answers were basically, "Your kid is wonderful. Want to raise some of the others, too?"
That works wonderfully for two separate human typed in files... For two computer OCR'd files, the differences are almost completely non-existant and it doesn't really get you anywhere. (Assumes, of course, that both scans did have a major hiccup that caused bogus data on one of the runs).
The problem with OCR is that while it is 95-97% accurate on clean, clear type (and this makes it sufficient for search purposes like Google), it becomes maddening to read a work with that many errors. I've seen many "experts" say that at least "4 9's" (99.99% accurate) is the minimum and I've seen "5 9's" (99.999%) or "6 9's" (99.9999%) proposed. Some checks from about a year ago showed the current DP output somewhere around 5 9's (99.999% accurate).
I must live in an alternate reality, then...
I don't make illegal copies of games. I use my modded Xbox for XBMC (media center).
I once did a research essay in high school that used a Playboy article as a source (and boy was it fun convincing the librarian to give me the magazine that was hidden in the "back room").
I'll give you the atom bomb though... I don't like my cocoa _quite_ that hot!
Here where I work, I know 7 guys that have modded XBoxes.
As far as I know, none of us use it for pirated games. One of the guys does burn his games to burnable DVDs and use that instead of the original because he has kids who are notorious for scratching game disks.
Mostly, we use the XBox as a media center. I have tons of movies on DVD. I also have a 4 year old who is good at leaving DVDs sitting on top of the DVD player when I'm not looking. By putting all the movies onto a network share, he has the ability to play the movie over the network with the click of a few buttons. Also, I can play my MP3s across the network to my nice sound system in the living room via the Xbox. Heck, I even have fun putting up picture slideshows of the kids when the grandparents come to town.
While I can agree with wanting this... It just ain't gonna happen. Textures have to be held in memory. The HDD just ain't fast enough to spool textures. And the memory just flat out isn't large enough to hold them.
You'd probably need an Xbox with 512MB of ram instead of the 64MB is actually has (especially since the video card int he Xbox shares its memory space with the main memory, not dedicated like most computer video cards).
I wouldn't worry a whole lot about the college. Heck, even the degree doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot.
My example: I went to school for secondary english education. Got all the way to student teaching and realized that while the kids were great and I enjoyed that part, I hated the idea of documenting every little thing that I said to an unruly student because the school system was paranoid about parent's coming in and raising a ruckus that so-and-so teacher is "picking on" little Johnny. I'm sorry, but little Johnny is a butthead!
Anyway, I graduated with my pretty little diploma and immediately went to work in the IT field. I've played with computers since a little kid and the Commodore Vic-20 days but I never enjoyed programming too much, so I mostly did tech support type things for people (and played DOOM, which did more for preparing me for computer support than anything else!).
I had odd jobs at college, such as the computer lab, networking group, newspaper webmaster, etc. THAT experience is what got me my job. The diploma just proved to my new boss that I could learn new things.
It won't win over support... There is nothing to win. Election is over.
However, as far as morons voting for Bush... Things made a lot more sense for me when I realized that over half the people out there voting are below average intelligence.
This same realization explains the reality show craze on TV, too. It probably also explains people who prefer cats over dogs, too, but I can't prove that one.
Don't blame me! It was those rednecks from southern Ohio who came down out of the hills to vote for the retarded cowboy from Texas. Most of us folks with a higher than fourth grade education in the north voted for Kerry.
Heck, even Tom Brokaw kept saying how Ohio is basically two different states based on how we vote and view the world.
Actually, I expect the opposite in WoW's launch... Remember, open beta was free. Everybody and their brother grabbed an account (some people, multiple accounts). Not all of them will get the final game.
While I think WoW will set some records on player totals at launch, it will be significantly BELOW 500,000 accounts during launch.
*NOTE: I define the launch period as the first month after initial launch.
In fact, you'll find new copyright notices on these types of images all the time. However, from a legal point of view, they aren't worth the digital ink they are written with. Just because someone CLAIMS a copyright, it doesn't mean they HAVE a copyright.
For instance, every once in a while I find a Project Gutenberg etext out on the web, where someone just stripped the PG headers and then pasted their own copyright notice on it. They're claiminga copyright, but they don't actually HAVE a copyright and therefore cannot enforce the rights they would have if they did have a copyright.
Same here. Plus, since it is the Library of Congress, the chances of them trying to claim copyright is pretty small, so I doubt it is something we'll need to worry about.
Just scanning a piece of paper does not provide a new copyright on the resulting image file. Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders (www.pgdp.net) rely on this fact quite a bit.
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I must be slow... That link looks like GVP, not AVI. Is my computer just being mean to me?
There is some truth to that, but also, in my experience, those same people didn't pick the computer on their own. The asked their local computer geek, who DID know the difference, what they should buy and then did so. I know I'm personally responsible for computer purchasing advice for around 20 computers in the last couple years. And *I* know the difference, even if most of the people getting computer did not.
You aren't looking at comparable chips, then. At similar performance marks, the AMD chips are cheaper than their Intel counterparts.
I consider myself a geek and my math skills are questionable (well, they are fine through high algebra and geometry level). I can field strip a PC blindfolded while sipping whiskey, but I can't integrate a function to save my first born. *shrug*
Batman and Robin was bad, true...
But nothing compares to the sheer mind-boggling awfulness that was Showgirls.
A movie so bad that naked boobs couldn't even save it!
Son, the DVD and the new HD-DVD are not any more open-forum standards than Blu-ray. There are patents covering every aspect of the DVD and HD-DVD specs, just like Blu-ray, and someone gets paid for every DVD in your collection. What is wrong with Sony wanting to be that someone? (Especially when they have the better technology.)
While there is something to what you say, the flip side is that knowing your sh!t doesn't mean you'll know how to teach said sh!t
VOLTRON
With an R
Uncultured swine.
That makes it a PRODUCT PLACEMENT, not an AD.
Subtle, but distinct difference, which the original poster made clear.
I can tell from what you wrote that you take the time to have an active role in your daughter's education. If all parents did that, our education level in this country would skyrocket. Way too many parents drop their kids off at school when they're 5 and come back to pick them up when they're 18. When I was a kid, I didn't dread detention. I dreaded what my parents would do to me after I got home from detention. But there were other people in my class that got detention fairly often, but their parents never knew or cared! JHutch
Do me a favor.
Go to your local junior high school. Find out which kids are doing well.
Now, find out which parents attended the last OPTIONAL parent teacher conference.
The two lists will be almost identical, I guarantee it.
When I was doing my student teaching (before I realized there were other things I wanted to do more than deal with administration in a school), we sent out some "invitations" to certain parents to come in because we needed to see them about their kids. Everyone else was told about the conferences but not specifically asked to come in. Only one parent showed up that I asked to come in. I talked with 11 other sets of parents who asked all sorts of questions about their students. And my answers were basically, "Your kid is wonderful. Want to raise some of the others, too?"
Wrong.
The computer didn't just up and die on its own. It was systematically attacked by OTHER COMPUTERS through the DSL network connection.
The original analogy that compared that to someone else hitting your car is accurate.
JHutch
That works wonderfully for two separate human typed in files... For two computer OCR'd files, the differences are almost completely non-existant and it doesn't really get you anywhere. (Assumes, of course, that both scans did have a major hiccup that caused bogus data on one of the runs).
The problem with OCR is that while it is 95-97% accurate on clean, clear type (and this makes it sufficient for search purposes like Google), it becomes maddening to read a work with that many errors. I've seen many "experts" say that at least "4 9's" (99.99% accurate) is the minimum and I've seen "5 9's" (99.999%) or "6 9's" (99.9999%) proposed. Some checks from about a year ago showed the current DP output somewhere around 5 9's (99.999% accurate).
I must live in an alternate reality, then... I don't make illegal copies of games. I use my modded Xbox for XBMC (media center). I once did a research essay in high school that used a Playboy article as a source (and boy was it fun convincing the librarian to give me the magazine that was hidden in the "back room"). I'll give you the atom bomb though... I don't like my cocoa _quite_ that hot!
I don't know about that statistic.
Here where I work, I know 7 guys that have modded XBoxes.
As far as I know, none of us use it for pirated games. One of the guys does burn his games to burnable DVDs and use that instead of the original because he has kids who are notorious for scratching game disks.
Mostly, we use the XBox as a media center. I have tons of movies on DVD. I also have a 4 year old who is good at leaving DVDs sitting on top of the DVD player when I'm not looking. By putting all the movies onto a network share, he has the ability to play the movie over the network with the click of a few buttons. Also, I can play my MP3s across the network to my nice sound system in the living room via the Xbox. Heck, I even have fun putting up picture slideshows of the kids when the grandparents come to town.
You're right. That is a case of the fingers typing more than the brain told them to. Take out the word "over" and you have what I *meant* to write. :)
While I can agree with wanting this... It just ain't gonna happen. Textures have to be held in memory. The HDD just ain't fast enough to spool textures. And the memory just flat out isn't large enough to hold them.
You'd probably need an Xbox with 512MB of ram instead of the 64MB is actually has (especially since the video card int he Xbox shares its memory space with the main memory, not dedicated like most computer video cards).
I wouldn't worry a whole lot about the college. Heck, even the degree doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot.
My example: I went to school for secondary english education. Got all the way to student teaching and realized that while the kids were great and I enjoyed that part, I hated the idea of documenting every little thing that I said to an unruly student because the school system was paranoid about parent's coming in and raising a ruckus that so-and-so teacher is "picking on" little Johnny. I'm sorry, but little Johnny is a butthead!
Anyway, I graduated with my pretty little diploma and immediately went to work in the IT field. I've played with computers since a little kid and the Commodore Vic-20 days but I never enjoyed programming too much, so I mostly did tech support type things for people (and played DOOM, which did more for preparing me for computer support than anything else!).
I had odd jobs at college, such as the computer lab, networking group, newspaper webmaster, etc. THAT experience is what got me my job. The diploma just proved to my new boss that I could learn new things.
It won't win over support... There is nothing to win. Election is over.
However, as far as morons voting for Bush... Things made a lot more sense for me when I realized that over half the people out there voting are below average intelligence.
This same realization explains the reality show craze on TV, too. It probably also explains people who prefer cats over dogs, too, but I can't prove that one.
Oh, get off the high-horse. For the average reader, Web and Internet are the same thing.
Don't blame me! It was those rednecks from southern Ohio who came down out of the hills to vote for the retarded cowboy from Texas. Most of us folks with a higher than fourth grade education in the north voted for Kerry.
Heck, even Tom Brokaw kept saying how Ohio is basically two different states based on how we vote and view the world.
Actually, I expect the opposite in WoW's launch... Remember, open beta was free. Everybody and their brother grabbed an account (some people, multiple accounts). Not all of them will get the final game.
While I think WoW will set some records on player totals at launch, it will be significantly BELOW 500,000 accounts during launch.
*NOTE: I define the launch period as the first month after initial launch.
I don't think you a troll.
In fact, you'll find new copyright notices on these types of images all the time. However, from a legal point of view, they aren't worth the digital ink they are written with. Just because someone CLAIMS a copyright, it doesn't mean they HAVE a copyright.
For instance, every once in a while I find a Project Gutenberg etext out on the web, where someone just stripped the PG headers and then pasted their own copyright notice on it. They're claiminga copyright, but they don't actually HAVE a copyright and therefore cannot enforce the rights they would have if they did have a copyright.
Same here. Plus, since it is the Library of Congress, the chances of them trying to claim copyright is pretty small, so I doubt it is something we'll need to worry about.
Just scanning a piece of paper does not provide a new copyright on the resulting image file. Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders (www.pgdp.net) rely on this fact quite a bit.
Well, if you support fully funding space travel ... guess what?
YOU ARE NOT A CONVERSATIVE IN THAT AREA!
(sorry for shouting, but since you missed his original point with that rant, I figured I better say it loudly in case you just missed some key words)