For grades 4th through 6th, our school had a dedicated class for GATE students. It was one teacher which taught all 3 grades, but it was all day thing, and not a few hours per week. Most GATE students just need simple instructions to get them started working, and that's why the teacher was able to spread a days worth over 3 different grade levels.
In High School, we had a different system called Honors and AP classes, which in a sense was GATE since it was more challenging than the regular courses.
Our school district had a program called GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) and basically did what you wanted, putting the gifted kids together and having the teacher(s) teach to their level. Something you must understand is that teachers don't teach at the level of the bottom of the class nor at the level of the top of the class. They cater towards the center, where the top feel it's not challenging enough, and the bottom feel it's going too fast. That is why the educational systems I've been have classes for the "not-as-bright" kids, and classes for the talented kids.
On that note, is it possible currently to link a bunch of AP together and so as you jump from one AP to another as you move around, it doesn't actually disconnect and seemlessly goes through?
1st of all, if the calendar system did change, the same change you do to the server can be easily done to the html file.
2nd, there are gazillions of situations one can make up so that it'd be better to have one than the either, but I'll give you the simplest scenario why it's better to do simple things w/o AJAX. Often times a webserver can be up while the database may have crashed or too many users have connected to it. Why update at semi-real-time when you can update at real-time? Why risk the chance of your database failing and not updating the entries at all, when you can have them all done on the client side.
This reminds me of my friend and what he did recently. He was contracted to make a website that would display a menu depending on the day of the week. The user gets to input the date he plans to order on and the drop down box will expose what he can order on that day. However, instead of just doing a simple javascript check to see what day it was and updating the drop list, he implemented it with AJAX that would send the date back to the server and the server will send the list of of items available on that day. If the menu changes often and doesn't follow a particular schema, this would've been a good way to do it. However, given the menu is based on the day of the week only, that's just at most 7 menus to store, and each menu being 20 items or less doesn't require that much overhead compared to the rest of the page itself.
But I guess when the thing is "in", everyone wants a part of it.
I've always been thinking, since we already have DVD drives that can play DVD+R, DVD-R, the RW versions of those, CD-R, CD-RW, what's the problem of adding 2 addition supports to these drives. Both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are going to be the same sized discs as the current CD/DVDs are.
The problem they had with BETA and VHS was the fact that they were 2 incompatible units. You could not stick one in the other. If they were the same size, I'm pretty sure a unit with both BETA and VHS heads would've been extremely popular and then we can let the market decide which one they like better.
I recall some other post on/. regarding selling software that competed against Photoshop. They had priced the software originally at $50, but very few bothered to try it because in their minds they were thinking how could a $50 software compare against a $400-500 software?
However, after a bit of market studying, they raised their prices to $100, and then people all over the industry that have been using Photoshop decided to give it a try. The price you set for your software tells the consumer the quality they should expect, though it doesn't really speak much for the software itself. I recalled the poster saying that many who tried it really liked it and even swapped over from Photoshop. The funny thing was if you purchased it at $100, there was a $50 rebate, which basically reduced it to the same $50 price level that they had before.
Bargain/Cheap products have a negative connotation in the minds of consumers. It means its the stuff that nobody wants, the left overs, the low quality version of the higher priced items. I'm not saying this is true for everyone. I'm a bargain-hunter myself, but if I see a motherboard sold everywhere for $20, I'm going to have doubts about the quality and not bother even trying. However, if this motherboard sells everywhere for $70, but at a legit site they have a sale on it for $20, then that's a bargain. The motherboard itself could've been the same in both cases.
The article didn't seem to get into the technical details on how the p2p actually worked. Knowing how DRM works, each person's version of the file is going to be different, or else it wouldn't be drm right?
I was curious on how this would actually work on 2 aspects, and both revolve around the p2p functionality.
1. How exactly is the p2p sharing going to work? Are they going to be removing the drm from each file and then sending the bits across and then on the other end, re-drming the file with the a different expiration date and user credentials? I guess that's what iTunes does when you share music across the network, but what they don't bother doing is re-drming the file, but they just won't let you save it.
2. Assuming the above works, since videos expire after 24hrs, does that mean the file will no longer be shared after 24hrs? If it can be still shared after 24hrs, that means they can still extract the video from the DRM after it's expired. Is that possible? If you can't share after 24hrs, that really impedes the functionality of p2p sharing. If you can, does that mean users can somehow still view the video?
I thought it was developed by Hitachi too. but that could be because that I saw that hilarious flash video on their site. In fact, Hitachi was the 1st to release the Perpendicular bits in retail 3.5" hdds, though that doesn't really say they were the inventors.
Console games are demanding,' says Mike Snyder, a 33-year-old computer programmer in Wichita, Kan. 'With text games, you can sit there at the prompt, go make a sandwich, then come back and play more.'"
I fail to see the difference between the demand of the player's attention between a console game and a text-based game. For similar Adventure/RPG games, a simple tap on the start or esc button will pause the game and I could go and make myself the sandwich. Of course, console games play at a higher pace, but I can always pause the game whenever I need to take a bite outta my sandwich.
Then he might be refferring to MORPGs where you can't really pause unless you return to a safe location. If that's the case, good text base games will have the same feature where you can get attacked or robbed when you're idling.
If he wants to make the argument that console games move at a higher pace, I'd agree. But I don't agree that you can't pause the game and go make yourself a sandwich argument.
I know the parent was being funny, but on the contrary, eggs cost between US$10,000 to US$50,000. I'm curious to why they didn't just purchase the egg themselves instead of having one of the lab assistants to donate. The only viable reasonings that I can come up with is:
1. They didn't have enough money, which I highly doubt because with a project of this size, money's gotta be pouring in from somewhere. Though money conservation may be another reasoning, but once again, I don't believe money should've been an issue with this project.
2. The lab assistant insisted they use her eggs and was happy to donate them. There can be multiple reasons for that. She may have been an unknown lab assistance and if the project was sucessful, her name might have come up once in the findings document, but the top researchers would be the one getting a the credit. Now with her name gauranteed in the article, her fame can be used for multiple things such as taking her into higher levels of research or even lead governmental sponsered researches. I'm not sure what this lab worker exactly was, but if she was an undergrad, she's probably going to be garaunteed admission into any graduate program and if she was a graduate student, have her Ph.D papers signed off. Many of you can see this as 'betraying yourself' to get somewhere and I guess that's what the ethical reasons against this is for.
I don't agree with your analogy at all, especially comparing it to a CD. What's hard to say is how much of the initial investment was "resold" and how much of the the earnings were from taxes and fees that he's collected. If 100% of his earnings came by reselling property, then I'd agree this was a pretty poor investment. It's like buy $26k of stock and reselling the stock for $26k a year later. Practically no earnings.
However, if only 50% of his earnings came from reselling property, and the other 50% came from taxes and fees he's charging people, then I'd say he fared quite well. That means he still has 50% of virtual property left (or even more, depending on how he much he's reselling property for) and it also means for a 50% return on his investment. Tell me another investment that'll give you 50% return in just 1 year. And this 50% return will probably carry year over year.
It all really depends on how big the exceprt is. From a tutorial/learning textbook point of view, maybe there's a couple of chapters I'd like to learn while the rest I already know. It's quite easy to see which chapters contain what information and I would only get the chapters that I want to see and learn. By owning paying for the part that I want to see, I don't have to pay for all the extra crap that I either know already or don't want to see.
I'm not sure why you think there's no way around this...
I think you're allowed to see the TOS before you actually start paying the subscription fee. and if the terms are unacceptable, just stop payment on your credit card account if they're not willing to refund your subscription because like you said, it was their breach of the contract. I don't get it when you say you're stuck with virtually no recourse. I guess I'm confused when you say there's no legal remedies when WoW changes their TOS. Is it part of their TOS that says they can change their TOS anytime they want. If it is, then that's enough proof for the judge to throw out that TOS all by itself.
Blizzard being able to change their TOS any time they want, doesn't change the fact you can cancel the subscription any time you want. In fact, since they breached the contract first, it is in your favor to demand something in return, such as refund of the entire month's subscription + the cost of the game that you're no going to play. Not saying it's going to be easy, and might even need a class action lawsuit, but that's difinitely a plan of recourse.
If you're pointing to the fact that you invested $x in a game and since it's opened box, you can no longer return it, there are STILL legal remedies for it. I'm not saying it's going to be practical, but the fact being since the TOS did change before you even started playing the game, you should be entitled to a full refund either by the store you purchased at or from Blizzard.
The restaurant was just a simple analogy referring to a case where others are allowed to deny you access to their own property.
If you want to make a comparison, you should do it to my home alarm system analogy. If your home security system service provider decided to suddenly change the TOS on you which you no longer agree to, should you be getting a refund on your subscription service? Should you be getting a refund on the hardware that you invested to provide security for your home? I believe you certainly should be able to get part of your subscription fee back (pro-rated to the time you haven't used), but the hardware you purchased for the security system should not be refunded. It was an initial investment and you did in fact use it for some time. If you're allowed to get a full refund on it, that's no different than buying a cell phone and then when they change your TOS, you should be allowed to break the contract, but not get a refund for your phone.
You can argue that WoW becomes useless after your subscription ends, but it's no more useless than security hardware w/o the service provider, or a cell phone without a service provider. You may than argue the latter two, you can probably reuse with a different service provider. Well, there's tons of private WoW servers you can use too and no one's forcing you to pay Blizzard to play WoW, though I'm not sure if that breaks the EULA.
1. Showing the hacks who run Disney that not all movies have to suck. It is possible to make an animated movie that's actually watchable and somewhat entertaining. Just think about the crappy cartoons that existed before Pixar movies, in case you don't agree.
Not all cartoons sucked before Pixar movies. In fact, Disney for some time was making GREAT animations. Think about Aladdin, Lion King, and several other movies BEFORE Lion King. I think Lion King was the real last "great" Disney animation per se. Lilo and Stitch is arguable, but not "great" in the sense like Lion King or Aladdin.
Exactly. Just like how restaurants have the right to deny service to anyone. High class restaurants won't allow you to come in if you aren't dress appropriately.
A good analogy would be your home alarm system. The alarm system scans every room (or every room/door/window you install a detector in) for movement. Some even have cameras/monitors. We can only trust that the alarm companies aren't stealing this information. They claim that all that information is only sent when the alarm goes off, but who really knows.
I remember getting a call once and the lady told me that the front door of my house had been breached and asked if everything was okay. I wasn't home at that time so they went ahead and sent the police. Apparently, my grandma had forgotten the security code.
But to use their service, some privacy must be given up, which in this case I believe is a good thing.
Video in the News: Bees Battle "Hornets From Hell"
A small but highly efficient killing machine lurks in the mountains of Japan--the Japanese giant hornet. The voracious predator pumps out a dose of venom with an enzyme so strong it can dissolve human tissue. Just a handful of these hornets can kill 30,000 European honeybees within hours. Watch an attack of giant hornets on a beehive, and learn the surprising secret that Japanese honeybees use in their defense.
Wouldn't they be considered to be breaking that code since they are offering it as "free" compared to Microsoft's prices. I'm not sure if that's a reasonable or unreasonable price, but I can't really see how any price could be more unreasonable besides giving money to take the software.
Unless Microsoft is offering their software below "free", I don't think this law would stick
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One of the major problems is when you "close" the tab besides just the last page, the memory doesn't seem to be freed.
For grades 4th through 6th, our school had a dedicated class for GATE students. It was one teacher which taught all 3 grades, but it was all day thing, and not a few hours per week. Most GATE students just need simple instructions to get them started working, and that's why the teacher was able to spread a days worth over 3 different grade levels.
In High School, we had a different system called Honors and AP classes, which in a sense was GATE since it was more challenging than the regular courses.
Our school district had a program called GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) and basically did what you wanted, putting the gifted kids together and having the teacher(s) teach to their level. Something you must understand is that teachers don't teach at the level of the bottom of the class nor at the level of the top of the class. They cater towards the center, where the top feel it's not challenging enough, and the bottom feel it's going too fast. That is why the educational systems I've been have classes for the "not-as-bright" kids, and classes for the talented kids.
On that note, is it possible currently to link a bunch of AP together and so as you jump from one AP to another as you move around, it doesn't actually disconnect and seemlessly goes through?
um... informative?
1st of all, if the calendar system did change, the same change you do to the server can be easily done to the html file.
2nd, there are gazillions of situations one can make up so that it'd be better to have one than the either, but I'll give you the simplest scenario why it's better to do simple things w/o AJAX. Often times a webserver can be up while the database may have crashed or too many users have connected to it. Why update at semi-real-time when you can update at real-time? Why risk the chance of your database failing and not updating the entries at all, when you can have them all done on the client side.
if you've played with javascript, it's as simple as onchange="javascript:function()" where function() modifies the list. no post/reload needed.
This reminds me of my friend and what he did recently. He was contracted to make a website that would display a menu depending on the day of the week. The user gets to input the date he plans to order on and the drop down box will expose what he can order on that day. However, instead of just doing a simple javascript check to see what day it was and updating the drop list, he implemented it with AJAX that would send the date back to the server and the server will send the list of of items available on that day. If the menu changes often and doesn't follow a particular schema, this would've been a good way to do it. However, given the menu is based on the day of the week only, that's just at most 7 menus to store, and each menu being 20 items or less doesn't require that much overhead compared to the rest of the page itself.
But I guess when the thing is "in", everyone wants a part of it.
I've always been thinking, since we already have DVD drives that can play DVD+R, DVD-R, the RW versions of those, CD-R, CD-RW, what's the problem of adding 2 addition supports to these drives. Both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are going to be the same sized discs as the current CD/DVDs are. The problem they had with BETA and VHS was the fact that they were 2 incompatible units. You could not stick one in the other. If they were the same size, I'm pretty sure a unit with both BETA and VHS heads would've been extremely popular and then we can let the market decide which one they like better.
I recall some other post on /. regarding selling software that competed against Photoshop. They had priced the software originally at $50, but very few bothered to try it because in their minds they were thinking how could a $50 software compare against a $400-500 software?
However, after a bit of market studying, they raised their prices to $100, and then people all over the industry that have been using Photoshop decided to give it a try. The price you set for your software tells the consumer the quality they should expect, though it doesn't really speak much for the software itself. I recalled the poster saying that many who tried it really liked it and even swapped over from Photoshop. The funny thing was if you purchased it at $100, there was a $50 rebate, which basically reduced it to the same $50 price level that they had before.
Bargain/Cheap products have a negative connotation in the minds of consumers. It means its the stuff that nobody wants, the left overs, the low quality version of the higher priced items. I'm not saying this is true for everyone. I'm a bargain-hunter myself, but if I see a motherboard sold everywhere for $20, I'm going to have doubts about the quality and not bother even trying. However, if this motherboard sells everywhere for $70, but at a legit site they have a sale on it for $20, then that's a bargain. The motherboard itself could've been the same in both cases.
The article didn't seem to get into the technical details on how the p2p actually worked. Knowing how DRM works, each person's version of the file is going to be different, or else it wouldn't be drm right?
I was curious on how this would actually work on 2 aspects, and both revolve around the p2p functionality.
1. How exactly is the p2p sharing going to work? Are they going to be removing the drm from each file and then sending the bits across and then on the other end, re-drming the file with the a different expiration date and user credentials? I guess that's what iTunes does when you share music across the network, but what they don't bother doing is re-drming the file, but they just won't let you save it.
2. Assuming the above works, since videos expire after 24hrs, does that mean the file will no longer be shared after 24hrs? If it can be still shared after 24hrs, that means they can still extract the video from the DRM after it's expired. Is that possible? If you can't share after 24hrs, that really impedes the functionality of p2p sharing. If you can, does that mean users can somehow still view the video?
Too bad I'm already at the maximum, and I guess they weren't able to add any buddies onto my list.
I thought it was developed by Hitachi too. but that could be because that I saw that hilarious flash video on their site. In fact, Hitachi was the 1st to release the Perpendicular bits in retail 3.5" hdds, though that doesn't really say they were the inventors.
Console games are demanding,' says Mike Snyder, a 33-year-old computer programmer in Wichita, Kan. 'With text games, you can sit there at the prompt, go make a sandwich, then come back and play more.'"
I fail to see the difference between the demand of the player's attention between a console game and a text-based game. For similar Adventure/RPG games, a simple tap on the start or esc button will pause the game and I could go and make myself the sandwich. Of course, console games play at a higher pace, but I can always pause the game whenever I need to take a bite outta my sandwich.
Then he might be refferring to MORPGs where you can't really pause unless you return to a safe location. If that's the case, good text base games will have the same feature where you can get attacked or robbed when you're idling.
If he wants to make the argument that console games move at a higher pace, I'd agree. But I don't agree that you can't pause the game and go make yourself a sandwich argument.
I know the parent was being funny, but on the contrary, eggs cost between US$10,000 to US$50,000. I'm curious to why they didn't just purchase the egg themselves instead of having one of the lab assistants to donate. The only viable reasonings that I can come up with is:
1. They didn't have enough money, which I highly doubt because with a project of this size, money's gotta be pouring in from somewhere. Though money conservation may be another reasoning, but once again, I don't believe money should've been an issue with this project.
2. The lab assistant insisted they use her eggs and was happy to donate them. There can be multiple reasons for that. She may have been an unknown lab assistance and if the project was sucessful, her name might have come up once in the findings document, but the top researchers would be the one getting a the credit. Now with her name gauranteed in the article, her fame can be used for multiple things such as taking her into higher levels of research or even lead governmental sponsered researches. I'm not sure what this lab worker exactly was, but if she was an undergrad, she's probably going to be garaunteed admission into any graduate program and if she was a graduate student, have her Ph.D papers signed off. Many of you can see this as 'betraying yourself' to get somewhere and I guess that's what the ethical reasons against this is for.
I don't agree with your analogy at all, especially comparing it to a CD. What's hard to say is how much of the initial investment was "resold" and how much of the the earnings were from taxes and fees that he's collected. If 100% of his earnings came by reselling property, then I'd agree this was a pretty poor investment. It's like buy $26k of stock and reselling the stock for $26k a year later. Practically no earnings.
However, if only 50% of his earnings came from reselling property, and the other 50% came from taxes and fees he's charging people, then I'd say he fared quite well. That means he still has 50% of virtual property left (or even more, depending on how he much he's reselling property for) and it also means for a 50% return on his investment. Tell me another investment that'll give you 50% return in just 1 year. And this 50% return will probably carry year over year.
It all really depends on how big the exceprt is. From a tutorial/learning textbook point of view, maybe there's a couple of chapters I'd like to learn while the rest I already know. It's quite easy to see which chapters contain what information and I would only get the chapters that I want to see and learn. By owning paying for the part that I want to see, I don't have to pay for all the extra crap that I either know already or don't want to see.
I'm not sure why you think there's no way around this...
I think you're allowed to see the TOS before you actually start paying the subscription fee. and if the terms are unacceptable, just stop payment on your credit card account if they're not willing to refund your subscription because like you said, it was their breach of the contract. I don't get it when you say you're stuck with virtually no recourse. I guess I'm confused when you say there's no legal remedies when WoW changes their TOS. Is it part of their TOS that says they can change their TOS anytime they want. If it is, then that's enough proof for the judge to throw out that TOS all by itself.
Blizzard being able to change their TOS any time they want, doesn't change the fact you can cancel the subscription any time you want. In fact, since they breached the contract first, it is in your favor to demand something in return, such as refund of the entire month's subscription + the cost of the game that you're no going to play. Not saying it's going to be easy, and might even need a class action lawsuit, but that's difinitely a plan of recourse.
If you're pointing to the fact that you invested $x in a game and since it's opened box, you can no longer return it, there are STILL legal remedies for it. I'm not saying it's going to be practical, but the fact being since the TOS did change before you even started playing the game, you should be entitled to a full refund either by the store you purchased at or from Blizzard.
Mod parent up. That is exactly true on what's going to happen!
The restaurant was just a simple analogy referring to a case where others are allowed to deny you access to their own property.
If you want to make a comparison, you should do it to my home alarm system analogy. If your home security system service provider decided to suddenly change the TOS on you which you no longer agree to, should you be getting a refund on your subscription service? Should you be getting a refund on the hardware that you invested to provide security for your home? I believe you certainly should be able to get part of your subscription fee back (pro-rated to the time you haven't used), but the hardware you purchased for the security system should not be refunded. It was an initial investment and you did in fact use it for some time. If you're allowed to get a full refund on it, that's no different than buying a cell phone and then when they change your TOS, you should be allowed to break the contract, but not get a refund for your phone.
You can argue that WoW becomes useless after your subscription ends, but it's no more useless than security hardware w/o the service provider, or a cell phone without a service provider. You may than argue the latter two, you can probably reuse with a different service provider. Well, there's tons of private WoW servers you can use too and no one's forcing you to pay Blizzard to play WoW, though I'm not sure if that breaks the EULA.
1. Showing the hacks who run Disney that not all movies have to suck. It is possible to make an animated movie that's actually watchable and somewhat entertaining. Just think about the crappy cartoons that existed before Pixar movies, in case you don't agree.
Not all cartoons sucked before Pixar movies. In fact, Disney for some time was making GREAT animations. Think about Aladdin, Lion King, and several other movies BEFORE Lion King. I think Lion King was the real last "great" Disney animation per se. Lilo and Stitch is arguable, but not "great" in the sense like Lion King or Aladdin.
Exactly. Just like how restaurants have the right to deny service to anyone. High class restaurants won't allow you to come in if you aren't dress appropriately.
A good analogy would be your home alarm system. The alarm system scans every room (or every room/door/window you install a detector in) for movement. Some even have cameras/monitors. We can only trust that the alarm companies aren't stealing this information. They claim that all that information is only sent when the alarm goes off, but who really knows.
I remember getting a call once and the lady told me that the front door of my house had been breached and asked if everything was okay. I wasn't home at that time so they went ahead and sent the police. Apparently, my grandma had forgotten the security code.
But to use their service, some privacy must be given up, which in this case I believe is a good thing.
A friend gave me a link to this video a few days ago and I thought it was interesting:0 12_051012_hornet_video.html
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1
Video in the News: Bees Battle "Hornets From Hell"
A small but highly efficient killing machine lurks in the mountains of Japan--the Japanese giant hornet. The voracious predator pumps out a dose of venom with an enzyme so strong it can dissolve human tissue. Just a handful of these hornets can kill 30,000 European honeybees within hours. Watch an attack of giant hornets on a beehive, and learn the surprising secret that Japanese honeybees use in their defense.
Original Article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/thinkpad-x 41.ars
I'm not sure why suddenly all these companies are doing reviews on the x41 tablet pc. It's been out for quite some time.
If you look at the competition
OS: Linux
Office Suite: OpenOffice
Wouldn't they be considered to be breaking that code since they are offering it as "free" compared to Microsoft's prices. I'm not sure if that's a reasonable or unreasonable price, but I can't really see how any price could be more unreasonable besides giving money to take the software.
Unless Microsoft is offering their software below "free", I don't think this law would stick
well, there's young good-looking people and then there's young /. readers.