My last two large group practicals at university were working on smallish open-source projects called Dizzy and Prism. It was a really good exercise and it was pretty exciting to get our changes integrated back upstream. I think it taught us far more about appreciating user needs than working on something that would have been canned as soon as it was done. In terms of grading, the professor controlled the CVS repository and met with us weekly and then assigned a grade based on the quantity and quality of our work.
Churches give substantial amounts of their money to charity. My previous church gave at least 10% of all the money they got in (revenue, not profit) to charities. When you factor the running costs of the church this is not an unsubstantial amount.
As for why they spend money on things like projectors rather than dedicating all that money to the poor: rightly or wrongly they place the value of your soul over the value of your life. That may not appear to make a lot of sense but this is why outreach and evangelism is still seen as an equal or (in some churches) superior priority to simply giving the money away.
I'm a scientist and a Christian and one of the best summaries I've heard about religion vs science is this: "Science is about the how, religion is about the who and why"
Read the article but it is intentionally vague on the license and the quantity.
Correct me if I'm wrong on this but I think Microsoft have released shared-source programs before but never properly allow modification and redistribution rights. I'd be surprised if this is any different.
I'm afraid I think one of the reasons this happens with teachers now is that, as beautifully parodied by the Simpsons, they rely on textbooks rather than actual solid knowledge of subjects.
One of my high school computing teachers repeatedly became annoyed with me for helping other kids with problems and expanding on his answers when he didn't know. He has never had any computing education, was a Latin teacher who just ended up teaching computing somehow.
As you astutely say, teachers don't seem to encourage innovation and discovery and hate to admit they might know less than the pupils in an area. I was considering becoming a teacher last year but the main thing that put me off was the sheer lack of real personal growth through the job. Having taught Computing for 40 years, I probably wouldn't know as much as a current 1st year college student. I think the type of people attracted to teaching as a result don't have the same craving for knowledge that some of their kids do, so can't understand the need for explanations outside of the syllabus.
I fail to see how usability ceases to be important. HCI research dictates that the things you seem to think are "some kind of joke" are what matters when interfaces are created.
Ultimately your average office worker won't be using the defrag or backup but if it makes them less efficient at using their computer, this is an important factor that needs to be considered.
In the letter they acknowledge the 'difficult challenges' of implementing DRM that is truly 'interoperable and open'
Clearly too bloody hard for them. I got two new DVDs last week, was pretty happy with them. Both use RipGuard, meaning none of my Linux machines, using XINE, MPlayer or VLC can play the damned things.
The sad fact is, these are fairly obscure UK TV shows, and basically, short of piracy, this is now the only way for me to get them on DVD. So what I have to do now is rip them to watch them on Linux.
Ironic, how the only way to watch "RipGuard" on any of my computers (all running Linux) is to rip the things!
I'm from the UK, so bear with me. I just don't understand why you let people called "Bill" into politics at all. The only thing I seem to hear about them is the problems they keep causing.
Who are these "Bill" characters, and why do they keep causing trouble?
I'm doing my final-year CS project on a topic similar to this, and the conclusion I've reached and what I personally adopt is basic input validation on the client using Javascript (that obviously falls back gracefully) to check any obvious mistakes in input before sending data to the server.
This means you have the advantage of immediate response to obvious errors, such as letters in a PIN, while still keeping all the secure information on the server.
As with most programming problems, it's not black and white. Using all client-side or all server-side validation of input data seems a little silly when graceful fallback can be easily done, and save the server some processing, and both parties some bandwidth.
I realise it's easy for me to say, and not be believed, but my friend knows the AC who posted this, and has confirmed its a lie, and the guy is trolling to try and be funny.
Please try and mod him down, as this sort of disinformation is just a really dickish thing to do.
Pretty much all my relevant work experience has been voluntary. This seems to be the problem with many people, they don't do anything course-related outside of class and don't ever volunteer or show any personal interest in their course other than passing exams.
You can never expect, unless you are really lucky or really academic, to get much or any relevant work experience, especially in IT, unless you are willing to do some for very little or for nothing. People don't ask nor care how much you got paid on your work experience, and places will be far more likely to take you for free or very little.
I'm not a Microsoft fan, I like Linux, and, personally, I won't be supporting IE7 on my personal websites any time soon. However, in this situation, blaming IE7 for BETTER MEETING STANDARDS in TFA is stupid, and a sign of laziness rather than Microsoft's evil.
The specs idea is nice, but no browser implements every aspect of the W3C specs absolutely perfectly, and none ever will.
I'm sorry to sound like a dick, but isn't this what the massive beta testing period is for? Microsoft release beta versions well in advance so websites can be changed BEFORE everyone starts having forceful upgrades. If you wait until these upgrades to do your porting, YOU are at fault, not Microsoft.
TFA was written by a guy who only recently has started porting sites to Firefox, so it's not really surprising he's finding this to be a pain.
Really, the only people this will bite are people who didn't care about standards compliant cross-browser support before, and now are annoyed because IE7 != IE6.
>> But it amazes me to see that in the eyes of so many readers here, Microsoft can do no >> right. Whatever they do, you'll see the glass half-empty.
>> And so what if Microsoft uses their Windows dominance to help the Xbox?
This is why people see the glass half-empty. Microsoft are a monopoly, according to both US and EU courts. The problem with monopolies is it's very easy to use their control of a market to force their way into another, running an unprofitable division in a market in order to kill off the competitors. This does not benefit the consumers, as we are left with little choice any more, and are forced to take whatever we are given (e.g. see Microsoft's dominance of the desktop market)
>> And if Linux is supposed to be an alternative to Windows, then it needs to have what it >> takes. If you say "I only play on Windows because Linux has no hardware drivers and no >> games, it means there is no market for these. Linux still has to get a lot better for >> it to be used by average folks at home on their desktops. It is a great server OS, but >> it just does not cut it for desktops, and to beat Microsoft, you have to build
>> something better, no destroy Redmond.
Linux does have hardware drivers, more than Windows, out of the box. Some hardware doesn't have driver support available as Microsoft have strong-armed their way into forcing companies to not write drivers for Linux or release specs. This can only happen due to their monopolistic position. As for the games having no market, ask TuxGames how many copies they sold last year.
Average folks at home run Linux fine. My parents had far less problems with Adware, spyware and random crashing with Windows than Linux. My girlfriend has no problem using my Linux machine. Whole divisions of governments are deploying Linux onto their desktops. Linux works as a desktop operating system, the problem comes when Microsoft doesn't release documents required to interoperate, and spreads FUD about unnamed patent violations.
>> I'm open to a discussion here, but please ask yourself, is there anything that
>> Microsoft could do as a business that would ever please you? Honestly?
Compete on innovation. Stop making idle threats. Don't use their monopoly position to force themselves on markets as loss-leaders, stifling competition. Release documentation to allow DOC, XLS, NTFS, SMB to work properly, and stop changing reverse-engineered technologies simply for the sake of breaking compatibility with other systems.
Do this, I'd be happy, but Vista was a chance to change almost of all these, and, as Microsoft have just behaved worse than before, I'm not holding my breath.
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You can get them in IBM Blades or from a company called Mercury that will sell you a Cell BE on a PCI-E accelerator board.
My last two large group practicals at university were working on smallish open-source projects called Dizzy and Prism. It was a really good exercise and it was pretty exciting to get our changes integrated back upstream.
I think it taught us far more about appreciating user needs than working on something that would have been canned as soon as it was done.
In terms of grading, the professor controlled the CVS repository and met with us weekly and then assigned a grade based on the quantity and quality of our work.
Churches give substantial amounts of their money to charity. My previous church gave at least 10% of all the money they got in (revenue, not profit) to charities. When you factor the running costs of the church this is not an unsubstantial amount.
As for why they spend money on things like projectors rather than dedicating all that money to the poor: rightly or wrongly they place the value of your soul over the value of your life. That may not appear to make a lot of sense but this is why outreach and evangelism is still seen as an equal or (in some churches) superior priority to simply giving the money away.
I'm a scientist and a Christian and one of the best summaries I've heard about religion vs science is this:
"Science is about the how, religion is about the who and why"
Half of 80x24 is either 40x24 or 80x12.
40x12 would be a quarter.
Read the article but it is intentionally vague on the license and the quantity.
Correct me if I'm wrong on this but I think Microsoft have released shared-source programs before but never properly allow modification and redistribution rights. I'd be surprised if this is any different.
I'm afraid I think one of the reasons this happens with teachers now is that, as beautifully parodied by the Simpsons, they rely on textbooks rather than actual solid knowledge of subjects.
One of my high school computing teachers repeatedly became annoyed with me for helping other kids with problems and expanding on his answers when he didn't know. He has never had any computing education, was a Latin teacher who just ended up teaching computing somehow.
As you astutely say, teachers don't seem to encourage innovation and discovery and hate to admit they might know less than the pupils in an area.
I was considering becoming a teacher last year but the main thing that put me off was the sheer lack of real personal growth through the job. Having taught Computing for 40 years, I probably wouldn't know as much as a current 1st year college student. I think the type of people attracted to teaching as a result don't have the same craving for knowledge that some of their kids do, so can't understand the need for explanations outside of the syllabus.
That simply isn't the case.
Firstly, the sourcecode has never been GPL, it is a mix of AFPL, LGPL and proprietary licensed code that is not included on the CVS.
Secondly, the CVS hasn't been updated for ages.
A lot less racism unless you are English and mention it in one of our major cities where you will probably be stabbed, robbed and left for dead.
Enjoy your stay! (Unless you are English)
I fail to see how usability ceases to be important. HCI research dictates that the things you seem to think are "some kind of joke" are what matters when interfaces are created.
Ultimately your average office worker won't be using the defrag or backup but if it makes them less efficient at using their computer, this is an important factor that needs to be considered.
In the letter they acknowledge the 'difficult challenges' of implementing DRM that is truly 'interoperable and open'
Clearly too bloody hard for them. I got two new DVDs last week, was pretty happy with them. Both use RipGuard, meaning none of my Linux machines, using XINE, MPlayer or VLC can play the damned things.
The sad fact is, these are fairly obscure UK TV shows, and basically, short of piracy, this is now the only way for me to get them on DVD. So what I have to do now is rip them to watch them on Linux.
Ironic, how the only way to watch "RipGuard" on any of my computers (all running Linux) is to rip the things!
Biological coating for structures on Mars?
Someone call Sheridan before they kill us all!
(Maybe too obscure...)
I'm from the UK, so bear with me. I just don't understand why you let people called "Bill" into politics at all. The only thing I seem to hear about them is the problems they keep causing.
Who are these "Bill" characters, and why do they keep causing trouble?
Technically, the biggest market is the EU, which has will and has seen far greater growth than the US, according to the article.
Out of interest, as I don't know, is there much of a performance hit for using a loopback filesystem as your root, in this way?
Nothing is easier to crack than CSS!
I've managed to crack Slashdot's. You just do view source, and find the URL in the tag!
Then you can download the CSS and use it for your own site! Man that was easy...
I'm doing my final-year CS project on a topic similar to this, and the conclusion I've reached and what I personally adopt is basic input validation on the client using Javascript (that obviously falls back gracefully) to check any obvious mistakes in input before sending data to the server.
This means you have the advantage of immediate response to obvious errors, such as letters in a PIN, while still keeping all the secure information on the server.
As with most programming problems, it's not black and white. Using all client-side or all server-side validation of input data seems a little silly when graceful fallback can be easily done, and save the server some processing, and both parties some bandwidth.
I realise it's easy for me to say, and not be believed, but my friend knows the AC who posted this, and has confirmed its a lie, and the guy is trolling to try and be funny.
Please try and mod him down, as this sort of disinformation is just a really dickish thing to do.
Pretty much all my relevant work experience has been voluntary. This seems to be the problem with many people, they don't do anything course-related outside of class and don't ever volunteer or show any personal interest in their course other than passing exams.
You can never expect, unless you are really lucky or really academic, to get much or any relevant work experience, especially in IT, unless you are willing to do some for very little or for nothing. People don't ask nor care how much you got paid on your work experience, and places will be far more likely to take you for free or very little.
I hope you are being serious, as I've thought for a long time that that is a good idea.
I'm not a Microsoft fan, I like Linux, and, personally, I won't be supporting IE7 on my personal websites any time soon. However, in this situation, blaming IE7 for BETTER MEETING STANDARDS in TFA is stupid, and a sign of laziness rather than Microsoft's evil.
The specs idea is nice, but no browser implements every aspect of the W3C specs absolutely perfectly, and none ever will.
If you are anywhere near a professional web designer, yes, you should be paying for multiple operating systems to test sites on.
Yes, its not convenient, but between that and IE6 having 100% market share, I chose the current situation.
As I said, they published a MIGRATION DOCUMENT of major changes that weren't bugs. This guy clearly didn't read it.
I'm sorry to sound like a dick, but isn't this what the massive beta testing period is for? Microsoft release beta versions well in advance so websites can be changed BEFORE everyone starts having forceful upgrades. If you wait until these upgrades to do your porting, YOU are at fault, not Microsoft.
TFA was written by a guy who only recently has started porting sites to Firefox, so it's not really surprising he's finding this to be a pain.
Really, the only people this will bite are people who didn't care about standards compliant cross-browser support before, and now are annoyed because IE7 != IE6.
>> But it amazes me to see that in the eyes of so many readers here, Microsoft can do no >> right. Whatever they do, you'll see the glass half-empty. >> And so what if Microsoft uses their Windows dominance to help the Xbox? This is why people see the glass half-empty. Microsoft are a monopoly, according to both US and EU courts. The problem with monopolies is it's very easy to use their control of a market to force their way into another, running an unprofitable division in a market in order to kill off the competitors. This does not benefit the consumers, as we are left with little choice any more, and are forced to take whatever we are given (e.g. see Microsoft's dominance of the desktop market) >> And if Linux is supposed to be an alternative to Windows, then it needs to have what it >> takes. If you say "I only play on Windows because Linux has no hardware drivers and no >> games, it means there is no market for these. Linux still has to get a lot better for >> it to be used by average folks at home on their desktops. It is a great server OS, but >> it just does not cut it for desktops, and to beat Microsoft, you have to build >> something better, no destroy Redmond. Linux does have hardware drivers, more than Windows, out of the box. Some hardware doesn't have driver support available as Microsoft have strong-armed their way into forcing companies to not write drivers for Linux or release specs. This can only happen due to their monopolistic position. As for the games having no market, ask TuxGames how many copies they sold last year. Average folks at home run Linux fine. My parents had far less problems with Adware, spyware and random crashing with Windows than Linux. My girlfriend has no problem using my Linux machine. Whole divisions of governments are deploying Linux onto their desktops. Linux works as a desktop operating system, the problem comes when Microsoft doesn't release documents required to interoperate, and spreads FUD about unnamed patent violations. >> I'm open to a discussion here, but please ask yourself, is there anything that >> Microsoft could do as a business that would ever please you? Honestly? Compete on innovation. Stop making idle threats. Don't use their monopoly position to force themselves on markets as loss-leaders, stifling competition. Release documentation to allow DOC, XLS, NTFS, SMB to work properly, and stop changing reverse-engineered technologies simply for the sake of breaking compatibility with other systems. Do this, I'd be happy, but Vista was a chance to change almost of all these, and, as Microsoft have just behaved worse than before, I'm not holding my breath.