Maddox has a pretty great view on womens suffrage - link
"Oh yeah, I was going to write about how I was going to take away women's right to vote, but that one is pretty obvious since nobody wants women to vote, except for women, and they don't count."
For most it's not about price, it's about being able to print your photos in your own home any time you want. It's the same reason Polaroid is still in business (they are still in business, right?).
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Even easier is the MEncoder GUI on OS X, where I just pop a dvd in, select "dvd rip" and get a nicely packaged rip in any format I want.
It works like this: If you have a certain firmware version (1.5 IIRC) than you can run homebrew apps (emulators, organizer apps, etc). If you have any other version like 2.0, then you can't. There was no way to downgrade until now, so if you upgraded or bought a PSP recently then you were screwed.
I think the difference is determined by the games themselves. If they release a game that's basically ported to Revolution, then it will probably suck because it's made for the mouse. If some smart game developer writes a game from scratch to only use the Revolution controller, than it has the potential to be very successful.
I like to use Halo as an example. Before Halo, FPS games were pretty much a kludge on consoles but Halo got the controller part right. Most people can pick up an Xbox controller for the first time and kill something with little effort.
Overall, it depends more on the developers to develop a good controlling mechanism to create a successful console FPS. This will be especially important with a radical new controller design like this.
This is why Java has a huge advantage over all the other languages, especially at the high school level.
I've been to many competitions where we'll get problems that can be done in less than 20 lines of Java because of the huge class library. Need to check if a number is prime? Just use BigInteger.isProbablePrime(). Need to work with dates? Just use the Java.util.Date class. Need to parse input? You can do it in one line with StringTokenizer.
These are all things I've used in competitions, and this is coming from a member of the (new) number one team which is the reigning champion of Florida (Celebration High School)
Yeah, I'm 17, and I can tell you that no teens actually care about hybrids because they're hybrids. I haven't seen them taking on a "hip" status at all, in fact most teenagers probably think that a hybrid is something their gay biology teacher would talk about.
In the end, even the teens that have heard of a Prius or other hybrid only know that they get good mileage which is pretty damn important at $7 an hour. I think in my school of 1900 students, probably 50 could tell you that a hybrid uses a battery and a gasoline motor to get better gas mileage.
It's worse than that. I'm 17 and in a high school in Florida. Someone could walk up to you and punch you in the face, and even if you just stood there and did nothing you would both get suspended for 5 days.
It's horrible because the kids that come from shitty neighborhoods do this to the kids that come from the good neighborhoods all the time because the shitty neighborhood kids get a week long break from school (their parents don't care, they have other things to worry about) and the good neighborhood kids get screwed by their parents.
A friend of mine was recently expelled for a conversation that went something like this:
Friend 1: "oh you won't believe what john did at lunch - he told everyone about your crush on cindy!!"
Friend 2: "ugh he did? *in a joking playful tone* i could just kill him sometimes!"
Teacher heard this whole conversation, told the dean, next day kid gets pulled out of class and is never seen again. And I was there for all of this - there is NO WAY that anyone could mistake him for being serious when he said that.
Also recently at my school I witnessed a gross exercise of power by the principal. Food and Drink are not allowed in any buildings (except cafeteria) including water (yeah, i know, its florida. they do this to "reduce bathroom breaks." i'm not kidding either.) So, a kid runs 7 miles in the morning (cross country team) and buys a gatorade from one of the machines on campus. He's heading towards his locker and the principal is outside the building his locker is in. The principal tells him that he can't go inside with the drink. He tells the principal in a calm non-condescending tone "I don't agree with this rule, but I respect you enough to obey it and not bring this drink inside." and calmly waits outside periodically drinking his gatorade and talking to friends (keep in mind that this was like 20 mins before school starts, so he wasn't going to be late to class or anything.) With the principal still there, a teacher comes over and tells my friend to move out of the way because he is blocking traffic. Now, he is standing about 5 feet to the left of the door, and is clearley not blocking traffic, but he does as he is told and moves about 5 steps off the wall. About 10 seconds later, the principal begins yelling at him for moving from the spot. My friend tries to explain himself calmly and without attitude, but the principal will not have it. He then tells him to go to guidance and wait there. My friend went to guidance, waited an hour and no one showed up so he went to class.
You would be suprised what goes on in public schools. Yesterday my history teacher who was giving a lesson on religions around the world did not know if Budda was fat in real life and when I asked about it I was told that it was of no significance anyway. I told him that in fact it could be rather important, as he had just taught us that Buddhism promotes freeing yourself from useless indulgences and possesions and that if Budda was actually fat then it would be contradictory to what he taught (as fat people are usually observed to be grossly indulgent.)
I was then yelled at for "interuppting class" despite the fact that I had raised my hand and been called on as per procedure specified by him. Basically he tried to blame me instead of just saying something like "Actually, I'm not sure. If we have time at the end of class we can look it up on the internet."
Anyway those are just some of my observations spending 12 years in the public school system.
This is probably the most ignorant post about Linux I have ever read.
I love the way he bashes the GPL for not generating money when the philosophy of the GPL is not to just make money, but to better society.
I also love how he ignores that most GPLed software is written by coders who are paid to write it.
Remind me where in the GPL it says that you cannot sell a product under the GPL?
It is possible to release source and make money.
Damn flamebait.
Me? Why so mad? I'm just sick that the Ipod has the market. It doesn't have an easy to access format, and tries to lock your music to you. Everyone knows the disadvantage of an Ipod by now, so I don't think I need to go on.
Since when is mp3 not an easy to access format? Since when does mp3 lock your music to you?
Nobody's forcing you to use the iTMS.
And I don't know the disadvantages of an iPod by now, so please, do go on.
If you could get an entire album of music for $5 that you had full rights to (i.e. able to play it on any device you owned and able to make a backup as well), it has been proven time and time again that people are more willing to pay for something rather than steal it (which nobody can really argue, downloading albums without permission is illegal, whether moral or not).
This is totally true. I used to pirate songs like crazy, then I found allofmp3.com and I can buy entire albums for less than $2. I haven't pirated a song in months!
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Maddox has a pretty great view on womens suffrage - link
"Oh yeah, I was going to write about how I was going to take away women's right to vote, but that one is pretty obvious since nobody wants women to vote, except for women, and they don't count."
If you notice on the graph, the only president that really had a surplus was Clinton.
I'd also like to point out that a surplus is BAD because it means that the government is taxing the people too much. Right at $0 would be perfect.
Convenience.
For most it's not about price, it's about being able to print your photos in your own home any time you want. It's the same reason Polaroid is still in business (they are still in business, right?).
Even easier is the MEncoder GUI on OS X, where I just pop a dvd in, select "dvd rip" and get a nicely packaged rip in any format I want.
"We do have a problem with people pirating information that is incorrect," he said.
You can thank the RIAA for the use of the word "pirating" that way...
Well if it makes you feel better, I thought it was funny.
It works like this: If you have a certain firmware version (1.5 IIRC) than you can run homebrew apps (emulators, organizer apps, etc). If you have any other version like 2.0, then you can't. There was no way to downgrade until now, so if you upgraded or bought a PSP recently then you were screwed.
You could easily do #2 if you had a Verizon phone that'll work as a bluetooth modem.
WEP is considerably more secure than a magstripe component?
I think the difference is determined by the games themselves. If they release a game that's basically ported to Revolution, then it will probably suck because it's made for the mouse. If some smart game developer writes a game from scratch to only use the Revolution controller, than it has the potential to be very successful.
I like to use Halo as an example. Before Halo, FPS games were pretty much a kludge on consoles but Halo got the controller part right. Most people can pick up an Xbox controller for the first time and kill something with little effort.
Overall, it depends more on the developers to develop a good controlling mechanism to create a successful console FPS. This will be especially important with a radical new controller design like this.
Yeah, because obviously everyone who writes programming problems has also taken extremely advanced math classes.
But that would be a terribly hasty generalization.
Sorry for sarcasm, it's built into my personality.
At every high school competition I've been to here in Florida (greater than 10) I've never seen them disallow the class library.
Now, I have HEARD of them disallowing certain parts of it, I remember hearing about a competition where awt (I think) wasn't allowed.
Or just learn to code in a regular text editor and compile it manually...
This is why Java has a huge advantage over all the other languages, especially at the high school level.
I've been to many competitions where we'll get problems that can be done in less than 20 lines of Java because of the huge class library. Need to check if a number is prime? Just use BigInteger.isProbablePrime(). Need to work with dates? Just use the Java.util.Date class. Need to parse input? You can do it in one line with StringTokenizer.
These are all things I've used in competitions, and this is coming from a member of the (new) number one team which is the reigning champion of Florida (Celebration High School)
Yeah, I'm 17, and I can tell you that no teens actually care about hybrids because they're hybrids. I haven't seen them taking on a "hip" status at all, in fact most teenagers probably think that a hybrid is something their gay biology teacher would talk about.
In the end, even the teens that have heard of a Prius or other hybrid only know that they get good mileage which is pretty damn important at $7 an hour. I think in my school of 1900 students, probably 50 could tell you that a hybrid uses a battery and a gasoline motor to get better gas mileage.
Actually the TI-89 has a 12Mhz processor.
Not that it makes any difference in your post anyway, but just thought I would point that out... Specs here
It's worse than that. I'm 17 and in a high school in Florida. Someone could walk up to you and punch you in the face, and even if you just stood there and did nothing you would both get suspended for 5 days.
It's horrible because the kids that come from shitty neighborhoods do this to the kids that come from the good neighborhoods all the time because the shitty neighborhood kids get a week long break from school (their parents don't care, they have other things to worry about) and the good neighborhood kids get screwed by their parents.
A friend of mine was recently expelled for a conversation that went something like this:
Friend 1: "oh you won't believe what john did at lunch - he told everyone about your crush on cindy!!"
Friend 2: "ugh he did? *in a joking playful tone* i could just kill him sometimes!"
Teacher heard this whole conversation, told the dean, next day kid gets pulled out of class and is never seen again. And I was there for all of this - there is NO WAY that anyone could mistake him for being serious when he said that.
Also recently at my school I witnessed a gross exercise of power by the principal. Food and Drink are not allowed in any buildings (except cafeteria) including water (yeah, i know, its florida. they do this to "reduce bathroom breaks." i'm not kidding either.) So, a kid runs 7 miles in the morning (cross country team) and buys a gatorade from one of the machines on campus. He's heading towards his locker and the principal is outside the building his locker is in. The principal tells him that he can't go inside with the drink. He tells the principal in a calm non-condescending tone "I don't agree with this rule, but I respect you enough to obey it and not bring this drink inside." and calmly waits outside periodically drinking his gatorade and talking to friends (keep in mind that this was like 20 mins before school starts, so he wasn't going to be late to class or anything.) With the principal still there, a teacher comes over and tells my friend to move out of the way because he is blocking traffic. Now, he is standing about 5 feet to the left of the door, and is clearley not blocking traffic, but he does as he is told and moves about 5 steps off the wall. About 10 seconds later, the principal begins yelling at him for moving from the spot. My friend tries to explain himself calmly and without attitude, but the principal will not have it. He then tells him to go to guidance and wait there. My friend went to guidance, waited an hour and no one showed up so he went to class.
You would be suprised what goes on in public schools. Yesterday my history teacher who was giving a lesson on religions around the world did not know if Budda was fat in real life and when I asked about it I was told that it was of no significance anyway. I told him that in fact it could be rather important, as he had just taught us that Buddhism promotes freeing yourself from useless indulgences and possesions and that if Budda was actually fat then it would be contradictory to what he taught (as fat people are usually observed to be grossly indulgent.)
I was then yelled at for "interuppting class" despite the fact that I had raised my hand and been called on as per procedure specified by him. Basically he tried to blame me instead of just saying something like "Actually, I'm not sure. If we have time at the end of class we can look it up on the internet."
Anyway those are just some of my observations spending 12 years in the public school system.
When will you nerf shamans, if ever?
Everyone knows they're unbalanced in PvP. Will you ever fix this problem?
This is probably the most ignorant post about Linux I have ever read. I love the way he bashes the GPL for not generating money when the philosophy of the GPL is not to just make money, but to better society. I also love how he ignores that most GPLed software is written by coders who are paid to write it. Remind me where in the GPL it says that you cannot sell a product under the GPL? It is possible to release source and make money. Damn flamebait.
Sir,
Will the user community ever recieve a formal apology for Windows ME?
If so, when?
Thank you.
I completely agree with you. Worst. Article. Ever.
Like anyone could even know that, Napoleon.
hahahahaha made my night
Me? Why so mad? I'm just sick that the Ipod has the market. It doesn't have an easy to access format, and tries to lock your music to you. Everyone knows the disadvantage of an Ipod by now, so I don't think I need to go on.
Since when is mp3 not an easy to access format? Since when does mp3 lock your music to you?
Nobody's forcing you to use the iTMS.
And I don't know the disadvantages of an iPod by now, so please, do go on.
If you could get an entire album of music for $5 that you had full rights to (i.e. able to play it on any device you owned and able to make a backup as well), it has been proven time and time again that people are more willing to pay for something rather than steal it (which nobody can really argue, downloading albums without permission is illegal, whether moral or not).
This is totally true. I used to pirate songs like crazy, then I found allofmp3.com and I can buy entire albums for less than $2. I haven't pirated a song in months!
You should be expecting an indictment in the mail soon ;-)