Ah. For some reason my firefox 3b5 isn't showing _any_ rounded corners, so of course I didn't notice. lol. But yes, the gray does extend all the way up on mine as well.
I used about:config all the time, I've never looked up a single setting. If you read the names, it's generally fairly obvious what they do. And yes, what the average user may not agree with that, but I can't think of anything the average user would need to change that isn't in the normal settings box. Only time I've ever really had to go into about:config was to change pipelining settings, and what 'average user' do you know who will even know what that means? And I believe the variable name for those settings all start with 'http.pipelining', so it's pretty obvious. Oh, and there's that little search function too.
I dunno. It was told to me by someone I consider fairly honest, and the girl working in the depot was his sister...and it was also quite a few years ago. Possibly 40 years ago, if not more. But yes, I suppose it could be BS. But then again, this is the same person who has (and I have seen) 17,000 resistors that he bought army surplus a couple years ago, so obviously they were using them for something.
True story I was just told today: Girl working in Procurement at a US Army Depot is sent a list of parts needed for a radio. The radio is supposed to cost $30 each. She brings the list to her superior officer to get it OKed, and he notices the resistors listed are +/- 5% tolerance. He decides that the army deserves the very best and changes it to +/- 2%. It then has to be sent to his superior too, who makes the same decision and changes all the resistors to +/- 1%. In the end, the radios cost $250 each.
You'll have to pry my Model M from my cold dead fingers before I'll type on a _touch_ screen! Touchscreens are a novelty, nothing more. You can't type if you have to put your hand on the screen, it's rather painful to the muscles and fingers to be typing on something that doesn't move, and the loss of precision is far too great. Your fingers can't click a single pixel. Your mouse pointers can. I wouldn't even be able to properly maneuver my desktop by touch if it was a 40" screen, let alone a 20" (or smaller) laptop. And yes, you would need a different interface, but that means either having less working space as controls take over all your screen space, or having everything embedded even deeper into the maze of menus.
Yep, they all have day jobs. They won't tell anyone what they are though, 'cause they said that would ruin the reputation they've tried to build up for the band:)
As for being more goth than doom metal...from what I've read, most of the 'experts' consider them to be one of the founding bands of the doom metal genre. And I must agree with the experts for once. Of course, it also depends on what album you look at.
Hm. I thought we did get pressed CDs, but yea, you're right, they were burned. But, from the same place we got ours (DiskFaktory.com), you can get 1000 pressed CDs for $1.17 each...so I think my estimate of $2.50 each is still pretty good.
Yea. I was part of an indie band myself. We got 100 discs printed off, full liner notes and everything and shipped to us for under $250. If anyone in their basement can pump out CDs for $2.50 a piece, no reason big name artists couldn't do it cheaper. Hell, had we managed to sell them for $10 each, it woulda only taken 700 copies to completely pay for all our equipment. We put out two albums, so that's 350 of each. Probably coulda done that easy had we cared.
So let's see: assuming that same $7.50 profit on each album, and we'll say you wanna make at least $50,000 a year (which seems more than reasonable to me) and we'll say you put out one album every 3 years. That's 20,000 copies of each. Now, if you can't sell 20,000 copies of an album, you can't really expect to make it big. Or you could, ya know, have another job. Everyone in my band had other jobs, we still played shows here and there, and we managed two albums in about three years. For a better example, all the members of the doom metal band My Dying Bride have other jobs, and they've put out 13 albums in 14 years and tour other countries and continents. It's possible. As I said, if a bunch of kids in their basement can do it, why can't the professionals?
Was just gonna post the same thing. What is it with FPS games and using the ENTIRE keyboard? Games like that pretty much put me off the genre. I can't be using my mouse to aim and fire while using the number keys to switch weapons, using the arrow keys to move, using c to crouch, and various other commands. I can't have my hands three places at once. Some games do it well - like Halo was always easy to work with...but then too many don't, like Deus Ex II. There were so many controls in that game that I never got past the first 10 or so minutes of gameplay. I just couldn't manage everything at once.
Did you ever think that maybe it didn't 'sneak in there'? I've never had google's toolbar on any of my machines. But you should hear people bitch every times I get rid of it. Hell, even the obviously spyware toolbars people seem to love. I recently switched someone from IE to Firefox, and they kept complaining that they lost their 6 toolbars (Yes, 6!). Google's one that I've never seen 'sneak in' anywhere, but either way people seem to love 'em from what I've seen.
Yea, sure. But what about the people that can't even afford all that? I know people personally who can't even afford dial-up internet. Just because it's cheap to you doesn't mean everyone in the world can afford it.
In my view, 'collateral damage' is _never_ acceptable. But then again, I suppose those of us who hold on to the ideal of 'innocent until proven guilty' are just freaks now.
Depends what distro you use, as with anything else. I've _never_ had to dick around with Mandriva...and if they can do it, I'm sure a company like RedHat is even better. I mean, I do anyways...and I was just gonna say, I agree with the GP, I find things like Linux itself or programs like Freenet (which will _never_ run well on a Windows computer) to be plenty of entertainment. The few times I do feel like playing a game I just want to play something simple...like SuperTux or some online game. I have better ways to waste my life:)
I completely agree. But what I was trying to argue in my first case is that this story does not appear to be a case of the students cheating any more than a student with a private tutor would be cheating. I mean, if someone posted the exact question, and someone else posted the exact answer, then yes, that would be cheating. But if someone was simply asking for help on a question, and someone pointed them in the right direction, then that's not. In my opinion, if they learn from the process, it's not cheating. And if they didn't learn, well, they'll fail the test and it'll probably be pretty obvious.
Dude, I'm not justifying not doing my own work. We just took our midterm - I got 110 out of 112. Why? Because I _do_ do my own work. And work on other projects of my own, which helps me a lot more than any classes. But my point is, there's a difference between doing your own work and not using any references. If I need to pull up the javadoc for the Math class or something, I hardly call that cheating. Likewise, if I ask someone in my class 'what are the arguments for the random class again?', I wouldn't consider that cheating. That's all I'm saying. And yes, if you rely too much on other people in the real world, you'll get your ass fired. But if you can't work together with other people, that'll also probably get your ass fired.
Sure, I'm only in highschool, but my dad's a lawyer and my mom's a nurse, and we've got bookshelves full of legal/medical books. And they use them. (or used to...now they mostly just use google) And neither of them have gotten fired yet. In fact, they just keep getting promoted. Yes, references are no replacement for basic knowledge, but you can't possibly be expected to know absolutely everything.
You know, I'm in high school, currently taking a few classes at the local university...and as much as their Computer Science department is a joke, they're at least reasonable and know what they're doing. The guy teaching my current class is an IBM employee, only teaches this one class...but he said to us the first day of class, we can use anything we want, talk to each other, google it, do whatever to get the answer. In the real world, there will never be a time when you can't look something up. And if we don't know anything, it'll be pretty obvious on the midterm and final.
You would think professors would know better. Who ever does any work completely on their own without any references? Maybe Einstein, Tesla, and Hawkings, but that's probably about it. Giving someone an answer, yes, that's cheating. Guiding someone to an answer, however, is teaching.
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Ah. For some reason my firefox 3b5 isn't showing _any_ rounded corners, so of course I didn't notice. lol. But yes, the gray does extend all the way up on mine as well.
What version of firefox? Works fine for me in both 2.0.0.13 and 3.0b5
I used about:config all the time, I've never looked up a single setting. If you read the names, it's generally fairly obvious what they do.
And yes, what the average user may not agree with that, but I can't think of anything the average user would need to change that isn't in the normal settings box. Only time I've ever really had to go into about:config was to change pipelining settings, and what 'average user' do you know who will even know what that means? And I believe the variable name for those settings all start with 'http.pipelining', so it's pretty obvious. Oh, and there's that little search function too.
That's what I usually attempt, but sometimes there are too many keys for that even!
I dunno. It was told to me by someone I consider fairly honest, and the girl working in the depot was his sister...and it was also quite a few years ago. Possibly 40 years ago, if not more. But yes, I suppose it could be BS. But then again, this is the same person who has (and I have seen) 17,000 resistors that he bought army surplus a couple years ago, so obviously they were using them for something.
True story I was just told today: Girl working in Procurement at a US Army Depot is sent a list of parts needed for a radio. The radio is supposed to cost $30 each. She brings the list to her superior officer to get it OKed, and he notices the resistors listed are +/- 5% tolerance. He decides that the army deserves the very best and changes it to +/- 2%. It then has to be sent to his superior too, who makes the same decision and changes all the resistors to +/- 1%. In the end, the radios cost $250 each.
You'll have to pry my Model M from my cold dead fingers before I'll type on a _touch_ screen! Touchscreens are a novelty, nothing more. You can't type if you have to put your hand on the screen, it's rather painful to the muscles and fingers to be typing on something that doesn't move, and the loss of precision is far too great. Your fingers can't click a single pixel. Your mouse pointers can. I wouldn't even be able to properly maneuver my desktop by touch if it was a 40" screen, let alone a 20" (or smaller) laptop. And yes, you would need a different interface, but that means either having less working space as controls take over all your screen space, or having everything embedded even deeper into the maze of menus.
Yep, they all have day jobs. They won't tell anyone what they are though, 'cause they said that would ruin the reputation they've tried to build up for the band :)
As for being more goth than doom metal...from what I've read, most of the 'experts' consider them to be one of the founding bands of the doom metal genre. And I must agree with the experts for once. Of course, it also depends on what album you look at.
Yea...it happens. lol
Dude, try clicking the 'parent' link next time. Just because the post I'm replying to has a score 1 doesn't mean it's not there.
Hm. I thought we did get pressed CDs, but yea, you're right, they were burned. But, from the same place we got ours (DiskFaktory.com), you can get 1000 pressed CDs for $1.17 each...so I think my estimate of $2.50 each is still pretty good.
I've developed and published code online without any license at all.
Sure, it wasn't exactly good or extensive software, but it was software nonetheless.
Yea. I was part of an indie band myself. We got 100 discs printed off, full liner notes and everything and shipped to us for under $250. If anyone in their basement can pump out CDs for $2.50 a piece, no reason big name artists couldn't do it cheaper. Hell, had we managed to sell them for $10 each, it woulda only taken 700 copies to completely pay for all our equipment. We put out two albums, so that's 350 of each. Probably coulda done that easy had we cared.
So let's see: assuming that same $7.50 profit on each album, and we'll say you wanna make at least $50,000 a year (which seems more than reasonable to me) and we'll say you put out one album every 3 years. That's 20,000 copies of each. Now, if you can't sell 20,000 copies of an album, you can't really expect to make it big. Or you could, ya know, have another job. Everyone in my band had other jobs, we still played shows here and there, and we managed two albums in about three years. For a better example, all the members of the doom metal band My Dying Bride have other jobs, and they've put out 13 albums in 14 years and tour other countries and continents. It's possible. As I said, if a bunch of kids in their basement can do it, why can't the professionals?
Was just gonna post the same thing. What is it with FPS games and using the ENTIRE keyboard? Games like that pretty much put me off the genre. I can't be using my mouse to aim and fire while using the number keys to switch weapons, using the arrow keys to move, using c to crouch, and various other commands. I can't have my hands three places at once. Some games do it well - like Halo was always easy to work with...but then too many don't, like Deus Ex II. There were so many controls in that game that I never got past the first 10 or so minutes of gameplay. I just couldn't manage everything at once.
Did you ever think that maybe it didn't 'sneak in there'? I've never had google's toolbar on any of my machines. But you should hear people bitch every times I get rid of it. Hell, even the obviously spyware toolbars people seem to love. I recently switched someone from IE to Firefox, and they kept complaining that they lost their 6 toolbars (Yes, 6!). Google's one that I've never seen 'sneak in' anywhere, but either way people seem to love 'em from what I've seen.
Yea, sure. But what about the people that can't even afford all that? I know people personally who can't even afford dial-up internet. Just because it's cheap to you doesn't mean everyone in the world can afford it.
I'm still 17 for another couple months - Quick! Find me one of these boxes! Then we can get Comcast arrested! hooray!
In my view, 'collateral damage' is _never_ acceptable. But then again, I suppose those of us who hold on to the ideal of 'innocent until proven guilty' are just freaks now.
9-11 wasn't an anomaly...I think our government knew exactly what it was doing with those planes.
Depends what distro you use, as with anything else. I've _never_ had to dick around with Mandriva...and if they can do it, I'm sure a company like RedHat is even better. I mean, I do anyways...and I was just gonna say, I agree with the GP, I find things like Linux itself or programs like Freenet (which will _never_ run well on a Windows computer) to be plenty of entertainment. The few times I do feel like playing a game I just want to play something simple...like SuperTux or some online game. I have better ways to waste my life :)
Oh. I missed the 'independent' part. Typical /.-er, didn't RTFM. oops. my bad.
I completely agree. But what I was trying to argue in my first case is that this story does not appear to be a case of the students cheating any more than a student with a private tutor would be cheating. I mean, if someone posted the exact question, and someone else posted the exact answer, then yes, that would be cheating. But if someone was simply asking for help on a question, and someone pointed them in the right direction, then that's not. In my opinion, if they learn from the process, it's not cheating. And if they didn't learn, well, they'll fail the test and it'll probably be pretty obvious.
Dude, I'm not justifying not doing my own work. We just took our midterm - I got 110 out of 112. Why? Because I _do_ do my own work. And work on other projects of my own, which helps me a lot more than any classes. But my point is, there's a difference between doing your own work and not using any references. If I need to pull up the javadoc for the Math class or something, I hardly call that cheating. Likewise, if I ask someone in my class 'what are the arguments for the random class again?', I wouldn't consider that cheating. That's all I'm saying. And yes, if you rely too much on other people in the real world, you'll get your ass fired. But if you can't work together with other people, that'll also probably get your ass fired.
Sure, I'm only in highschool, but my dad's a lawyer and my mom's a nurse, and we've got bookshelves full of legal/medical books. And they use them. (or used to...now they mostly just use google) And neither of them have gotten fired yet. In fact, they just keep getting promoted. Yes, references are no replacement for basic knowledge, but you can't possibly be expected to know absolutely everything.
You know, I'm in high school, currently taking a few classes at the local university...and as much as their Computer Science department is a joke, they're at least reasonable and know what they're doing. The guy teaching my current class is an IBM employee, only teaches this one class...but he said to us the first day of class, we can use anything we want, talk to each other, google it, do whatever to get the answer. In the real world, there will never be a time when you can't look something up. And if we don't know anything, it'll be pretty obvious on the midterm and final.
You would think professors would know better. Who ever does any work completely on their own without any references? Maybe Einstein, Tesla, and Hawkings, but that's probably about it. Giving someone an answer, yes, that's cheating. Guiding someone to an answer, however, is teaching.
To put it as simply as possible: Because things can't spin in three dimensions.