These incremental products are minor redesigns rather than full-on, must-upgrade things, anyway. If and when a device adds new features and functionality that represent significant improvement, then it's worth going after.
speaking as someone who likes the DS, but hasn't gotten one, yet, I have to say it's pretty neat-looking. Not a fan of that "scratch me, stain me" milk-white hardware look, though--I'll be waiting for the blue version.
Recommendations and requirements are there to make the university IT department's life easier. They can at least have disk images handy for Windows maintenance tasks--you know, format and reinstalls!--and not worry too much about breaking things.
Frankly, I'm disappointed. Wake me up when a university begins to require that all students at least dual-boot into a standard university Linux or BSD distribution, and that they be using the "preferred" OS when connected to the university network. That'll take a bite out of the malware drones, for sure.
considering Microsoft's wonderfully successful, indeed, almost Apple-esque, efforts to control supply, I want to know who can actually buy these things?
The idea is user-friendliness and connectivity, but on the terms of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese-encoded TLDs will make it easier for an increasingly-wired Chinese people to use the internet. It will also make it much easier for the Party to control exactly what happens on Chinese-language domains.
In an earlier age, Mao said that the Party must be in control of the gun. Now, the Party must be in control of the network. The effect is the same.
you have neglected to address Richard M. Stallman with the proper respect. Don't you know you must now say Richard M. Stallman, Peace be upon Him, or, in abbreviated form, RMS(PBUH)
The government of the United States has not in the past been particularly committed to its record-keeping. NARA as we know it is a fairly recent development.
As a budgetary priority, NARA falls pretty far down the list. Homeland Security (and its older brother, National Security) takes precedence, then the various entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare). Further down, there are the uncounted and uncountable tons of earmarked congressional pork--money given to individual congressional constituencies.
As a vote-getter, preserving the nation's history for the ages is a non-starter. Politicians, who seek election, and bureaucrats, who court the favor and funding of those same politicians, would much rather tell the voters about how much safer they are from Terror, or how many drugs they will be able to buy, or how many bridges to nowhere will be built.
A true cynic might suggest that it is in the interests of those people presently in power for future historians to be ignorant of the extent and nature of their improvidence.
There's not a lot of political will for the government to digitize all this stuff on its own (at which point we might even insist that it be digitized in a proper free format...!). Google's offered to do the heavy lifting, NARA have offered to provide the material (which is public domain anyway).
If it really bothers you that you can't have 'em for download, well...you can pay for the digitization, too.
standard, schoolboy Latin (the sort you default to when you have to do English-to-Latin prose composition exercises) usually gives a fairly standard word-order: Subject, object, verb. Adjectives usually follow the nouns they modify, so in this case "dominos" has three adjectives modifying it (nostros novos grammaticos). In totally conventional schoolboy Latin, you would expect the sentence to read something like Ego ex mea parte dominos nostros novos grammaticos saluto--note the verb at the very end, like German. But once you get your head around how the language works, you can switch it up and around for various rhetorical/stylistic effects. Actually quite cool.
Surely this should tell us that we should really be looking for better heat and power efficiency in *mobile* computers, rather than simply upping polygon counts in HalfLife or whatever....
Language learning in my experience, requires a certain "critical mass" before it becomes useful, fun, or amusing. Two semesters of anything is rarely enough.
Add to this the dismal state of language instruction generally, and Latin instruction in particular, in American schools. Most people have almost nothing to show for two semesters of Latin these days: they can't even read or write simple sentences, or have any appreciation for the language, because, frankly, they haven't put enough work in.
This is true for all language learning in America, I think, and for me, particularly appalling when it comes to Spanish (my other language). Standards are so diluted as to be meaningless, and there is no content to language education. Generations of otherwise-bright kids are being doomed to lives of dull monolingualism, with all of its consequences: intolerance, ignorance, and an inability to compete in the global marketplace.
actually, it's "pro bono publico"-- since the adjective (publico) modifies the object (bono) of the preposition (pro), it must agree in case (in this case, ablative).
I might not know a lick about C syntax, but I can certainly remember my Latin....
First: I agree, totally with you that LaTeX (and LyX, which is really more what I'm learning to use now) generates gorgeous printed output--far nicer than Word or OOo Writer. However, I don't think that they're for everyone by a long shot.
LyX and LaTeX are great if you already have the necessary environments and document classes you need, or if you're well-trained enough to generate them yourself as needed. They are not so great if you are a low-level, low-training, "hello my computer's cupholder is broken, and please fix the internet" clerical user.
My biggest gripe is that most of the existing "ready-made" templates are geared (not surprisingly) towards mathematics, the sciences, and engineering. As a humanities guy (History, International Relations, and, soon, Law), I'd love to be able to use LyX for writing, but I can't (yet) because I'm busy trying to learn how to make the appropriate, humanities and law-friendly templates.
Nothing, however, would please me more than having my current job (I'm a clerk at a law firm) go to LyX...but considering that I work with people who still insist on typesetting everything in Courier New, 12 point, boldface (y'know, so it shows up nice on the carbon copy!), I'm not optimistic.
When I was in high school (late '90s), I used to sneak into the Fenwick Library at Mason to read (we lived right up the street). They had a number of Sun boxes up in the stacks--I assume they were SunRay thin clients--for catalog requests and web browsing. They ran Netscape Navigator, and I thought they were pretty darn cool. From that meagre experience, I thought Mason was a bit more heterogeneous, OS-wise, than it is now, apparently
Windows' dominance on campus, I suppose, is the perfect storm: University students need and want the things a computer can provide--information services, productivity software, games, pr0n. The prices for hardware really fell at about the time that Windows 95 was released. Universities offered free high-speed internet connectivity. Result: freshmen arrive with newly-bought windows machines, and the university just has to come around....
Businesses had very different priorities for computers than schools at the time. Schools wanted something that could be a bright and shiny educational tool. Businesses wanted to increase productivity for a minimum cost.
The IBM PC (and its horde of clones) had one virtue that Apples of the era did not--it was cheap. Its operating system was crude by comparison--but cheap. Its hardware was inelegant--but cheap. School budgets can and often are cut, but not nearly as quickly, suddenly, or viciously as corporate cost centers.
Podcasts are taking that space for many people now.
I know, I hate saying "podcast"--sounds like some bad '60s sci-fi movie--but canned programming distributed over the 'net for consumption on the go in portable players....much more flexible than streaming radio for most users."
"trendiness," from a corporate perspective, happens when a market becomes profitable enough to target aggressively. The disposable income of the game-playing demographic segment has risen tremendously in the past 15 years, so it's no surprise that firms want to market to that segment aggressively.
what I worry about, of course, is that so much of that disposable income comes from unsecured personal debt, but that's another economic problem and another discussion
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These incremental products are minor redesigns rather than full-on, must-upgrade things, anyway. If and when a device adds new features and functionality that represent significant improvement, then it's worth going after.
speaking as someone who likes the DS, but hasn't gotten one, yet, I have to say it's pretty neat-looking. Not a fan of that "scratch me, stain me" milk-white hardware look, though--I'll be waiting for the blue version.
gee. how handy that you can buy all those nice accessories from the same guys who brought you the review...
Recommendations and requirements are there to make the university IT department's life easier. They can at least have disk images handy for Windows maintenance tasks--you know, format and reinstalls!--and not worry too much about breaking things.
Frankly, I'm disappointed. Wake me up when a university begins to require that all students at least dual-boot into a standard university Linux or BSD distribution, and that they be using the "preferred" OS when connected to the university network. That'll take a bite out of the malware drones, for sure.
considering Microsoft's wonderfully successful, indeed, almost Apple-esque, efforts to control supply, I want to know who can actually buy these things?
I certainly am not buying them....
The idea is user-friendliness and connectivity, but on the terms of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese-encoded TLDs will make it easier for an increasingly-wired Chinese people to use the internet. It will also make it much easier for the Party to control exactly what happens on Chinese-language domains.
In an earlier age, Mao said that the Party must be in control of the gun. Now, the Party must be in control of the network. The effect is the same.
you have neglected to address Richard M. Stallman with the proper respect. Don't you know you must now say Richard M. Stallman, Peace be upon Him, or, in abbreviated form, RMS(PBUH)
The government of the United States has not in the past been particularly committed to its record-keeping. NARA as we know it is a fairly recent development.
As a budgetary priority, NARA falls pretty far down the list. Homeland Security (and its older brother, National Security) takes precedence, then the various entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare). Further down, there are the uncounted and uncountable tons of earmarked congressional pork--money given to individual congressional constituencies.
As a vote-getter, preserving the nation's history for the ages is a non-starter. Politicians, who seek election, and bureaucrats, who court the favor and funding of those same politicians, would much rather tell the voters about how much safer they are from Terror, or how many drugs they will be able to buy, or how many bridges to nowhere will be built.
A true cynic might suggest that it is in the interests of those people presently in power for future historians to be ignorant of the extent and nature of their improvidence.
There's not a lot of political will for the government to digitize all this stuff on its own (at which point we might even insist that it be digitized in a proper free format...!). Google's offered to do the heavy lifting, NARA have offered to provide the material (which is public domain anyway).
If it really bothers you that you can't have 'em for download, well...you can pay for the digitization, too.
"Russia Sovietica"?
literal translation is actually:
I, for my part, salute lords ours new grammatical
standard, schoolboy Latin (the sort you default to when you have to do English-to-Latin prose composition exercises) usually gives a fairly standard word-order: Subject, object, verb. Adjectives usually follow the nouns they modify, so in this case "dominos" has three adjectives modifying it (nostros novos grammaticos). In totally conventional schoolboy Latin, you would expect the sentence to read something like Ego ex mea parte dominos nostros novos grammaticos saluto--note the verb at the very end, like German. But once you get your head around how the language works, you can switch it up and around for various rhetorical/stylistic effects. Actually quite cool.
actually, in hindsight, it probably should have been MxXx|\/m or MxXx||||m (although the latter use is deprecated)
Surely this should tell us that we should really be looking for better heat and power efficiency in *mobile* computers, rather than simply upping polygon counts in HalfLife or whatever....
Tim3t3 ph4cuLt4T3m m34m L4ti|\|4m 3l3ct4m
...actually, that looks like it might make a damn good passphrase.
Language learning in my experience, requires a certain "critical mass" before it becomes useful, fun, or amusing. Two semesters of anything is rarely enough.
Add to this the dismal state of language instruction generally, and Latin instruction in particular, in American schools. Most people have almost nothing to show for two semesters of Latin these days: they can't even read or write simple sentences, or have any appreciation for the language, because, frankly, they haven't put enough work in.
This is true for all language learning in America, I think, and for me, particularly appalling when it comes to Spanish (my other language). Standards are so diluted as to be meaningless, and there is no content to language education. Generations of otherwise-bright kids are being doomed to lives of dull monolingualism, with all of its consequences: intolerance, ignorance, and an inability to compete in the global marketplace.
Ego, ex mea parte, saluto dominos nostros novos grammaticos!
actually, it's "pro bono publico"-- since the adjective (publico) modifies the object (bono) of the preposition (pro), it must agree in case (in this case, ablative).
I might not know a lick about C syntax, but I can certainly remember my Latin....
Most people I work for seem to think "oh, Excel. Great--something we can use to make tables!"
They'd be shocked to know it calculates.
how is this substantially different from a sequel?
First: I agree, totally with you that LaTeX (and LyX, which is really more what I'm learning to use now) generates gorgeous printed output--far nicer than Word or OOo Writer. However, I don't think that they're for everyone by a long shot.
LyX and LaTeX are great if you already have the necessary environments and document classes you need, or if you're well-trained enough to generate them yourself as needed. They are not so great if you are a low-level, low-training, "hello my computer's cupholder is broken, and please fix the internet" clerical user.
My biggest gripe is that most of the existing "ready-made" templates are geared (not surprisingly) towards mathematics, the sciences, and engineering. As a humanities guy (History, International Relations, and, soon, Law), I'd love to be able to use LyX for writing, but I can't (yet) because I'm busy trying to learn how to make the appropriate, humanities and law-friendly templates.
Nothing, however, would please me more than having my current job (I'm a clerk at a law firm) go to LyX...but considering that I work with people who still insist on typesetting everything in Courier New, 12 point, boldface (y'know, so it shows up nice on the carbon copy!), I'm not optimistic.
When I was in high school (late '90s), I used to sneak into the Fenwick Library at Mason to read (we lived right up the street). They had a number of Sun boxes up in the stacks--I assume they were SunRay thin clients--for catalog requests and web browsing. They ran Netscape Navigator, and I thought they were pretty darn cool. From that meagre experience, I thought Mason was a bit more heterogeneous, OS-wise, than it is now, apparently
Windows' dominance on campus, I suppose, is the perfect storm: University students need and want the things a computer can provide--information services, productivity software, games, pr0n. The prices for hardware really fell at about the time that Windows 95 was released. Universities offered free high-speed internet connectivity. Result: freshmen arrive with newly-bought windows machines, and the university just has to come around....
Businesses had very different priorities for computers than schools at the time. Schools wanted something that could be a bright and shiny educational tool. Businesses wanted to increase productivity for a minimum cost.
The IBM PC (and its horde of clones) had one virtue that Apples of the era did not--it was cheap. Its operating system was crude by comparison--but cheap. Its hardware was inelegant--but cheap. School budgets can and often are cut, but not nearly as quickly, suddenly, or viciously as corporate cost centers.
Podcasts are taking that space for many people now.
I know, I hate saying "podcast"--sounds like some bad '60s sci-fi movie--but canned programming distributed over the 'net for consumption on the go in portable players....much more flexible than streaming radio for most users."
"trendiness," from a corporate perspective, happens when a market becomes profitable enough to target aggressively. The disposable income of the game-playing demographic segment has risen tremendously in the past 15 years, so it's no surprise that firms want to market to that segment aggressively.
what I worry about, of course, is that so much of that disposable income comes from unsecured personal debt, but that's another economic problem and another discussion
I've never played or seen God of War, but I'm already sick of seeing this guy's every utterance reported on ./
Platitudes are not philosophy; and all the whining in the world doesn't make games today any better.
YOU might be the technical expert, but THEY are still signing your paycheck.