It's not referring to currency counterfeiting, but goods counterfeiting, like that guy on the street that sells "Rolex" watches for $5, or the guy that sells DVDs out the back of a station wagon.
Of course, I assume that was the original target, but the final bill is apparently more targeted at your everyday consumer, trying to put all the power in the hands of corporations.
You're supposed to be learning what's in the book, not what slash dots opinion on the subject is.
Umm... No. Rote memorization is passé--or at least it should be. Nowadays what we need more than anything is critical and creative thinking.
If you're just memorizing the book, you're not going to get very far. You want to be learning, understanding, and integrating the material into yourself. If you need to access resources on the Internet for this, then so be it.
And, of course, there's the Internet as a research resource. You can't really expect students to get everything locally, especially for specialized topics. Take, for example, a project on free speech. You might want to refer to the Tinker v. Des Moines case. Without the Internet, you'd probably go to the library.
In bigger cities, this might not be a problem, but around here, you'd be lucky to find one or two books. Even luckier if they were printed in the last 20 years. With the Internet, you can gather information from worldwide sources.
Then something goes wrong with the name printing, and nobody cares, because the USPS (and likely others) rarely care about the name. They deliver by address.
(Of course, they may try and use the name if a piece of mail is undeliverable because of a nonexistent address, or carriers will sometimes deliver mail to the address of the person whose name is on it, to compensate for a typo in the street number.)
The OnLive Game Service (the "Service") Fee will be waived for the first 12 months from the date you activate your OnLive Account. During these 12 months, your access to the Service will include free demos and community features, such as member Profiles, Friending, Chat, Spectating and Brag Clip(TM) videos, but will not include any games, content or other services that are offered for purchase, and which must be purchased separately.
So yes, you get free demos. But your "free year" doesn't include anything you'd normally have to purchase.
But if you're going to put ads on my paper, you dang well better be paying me for it.
If by "paying", you mean "subsidizing your purchase", you'd be right. That's generally how ad-supported publications work. (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, websites...)
For everything good that could come out of this, several somethings BAD will come out of it. Speed tracking for automatic tickets and insurance increases, and - NO TIN FOIL NEEDED - government tracking. The Brits will be the first to require this.
Well, I don't know if the cars are human- or machine-operated, but if they're machine-operated, speeding's not going to be a problem. because the car's going to be going the speed limit/a safe speed (they are not necessarily the same).
Re tracking: I know I'd implement this as a short-range (~20 meter?) wireless system for vehicles to communicate about what they're doing and what they're going to do, and generally being polite. (A lack of which, I'd estimate, would be the root cause of most, if not all, vehicle-on-vehicle collisions.)
Of course, if vehicles are autonomous, they'd have to watch for (e.g.) deer, as well as examine the road for potholes, ice, etc.
I assume you've never sent a kid to school. They constantly come home with lists of required purchases.
And clearly you haven't been a kid in school recently. 90% of the stuff on that list never gets used. Never.
My standard fare for grades ~7-12 was four three-ring binders and four 1" spiral-bound notebooks. That's it. Anything else I needed I could scrounge (i.e. pencils). In fact, I would regularly grab dropped/lost pencils one year. My desk drawer was full by year's end (and still is, several years later).
Hell, I rarely even used all the notebook paper! On average, I'd rarely get past half-full in any one notebook (but then, I rarely took notes, so the majority of use was English's writing and Math/Science's equations/work).
2.4 is too old? I'm working on re-setting up a system for my dad's florist shop for the "recipe" for each floral arrangement. The thing runs Red Hat 7--kernel 2.2. The program is written in COBOL, for crying out loud!
I tried installing Ubuntu Lucid and chrooting to the Red Hat partition, but that ultimately failed, so now I have to try installing Red Hat 7 and see if it works better that way.
Sorry Feds, you were the ones that started this whole theme about electronics and software being "weapons", and as such, you have no power to restrict the citizens from owning them.
...as part of a "well regulated Militia".
It's funny how frequently people forget that little phrase.
Your requirements are simple enough that I wonder why you don't just use a whiteboard (or chalkboard or whatever). Unless you want all kind of fancy graphics/point 'n' click manipulation, you could probably sketch a network in seconds, and add traffic, etc. in just a few more. Use colors.
If you really need the pretty graphics, you could get by with just something like the GIMP or Inkscape, manipulating representations of your hardware.
Bloat is indeed a big problem, programs are exploding into GIGABYTE sizes, which is insane.
Well, yes and no. Software packages--I'll use Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (PC) as an example, because it's convenient to me--are huge, as you say. The program folder is 6.2 GiB. However, iw3sp.exe,the main singleplayer engine binary, is just 2.9 MiB.
What takes up all of the space is game assets: textures, videos, maps, models, etc. The IWD resource files in the main/ directory are 1.9 Gib combined (and they're really ZIP archives). Localization files are 963.4 MiB. Moving into the video subdirectory, we see the 53 in-game videos, totaling 1.2 GiB for an average of ~23.8 MiB per video (Bink video codec).
Finally, we have the 62 actual maps (singleplayer and multiplayer) in zone/english, the largest group at 2.2 GiB (averaging ~41.8 MiB per map).
There certainly are REALLY huge packages, but I don't have any handy. In any case, it's not the code that's the biggest part, it's the user-facing assets.
Really, samzenpus? Could it be any more obvious this is basically an advertisement? The part where they include their ticker symbol didn't tip you off?!
I don't claim to be a hard-core network tech, but it seems that this device is just a router/gateway, which you could presumably just attach to your existing router, rather than replace it. This way, you wouldn't be passing your traffic through it, and it presumably wouldn't be able to see anything beyond what your router decides to route in its direction, and it could still perform its tests.
grep -E 'add\(([0-9.]+)?, ' *.c
Okay, so that's little over-complicated. You could probably just get away with 'add\([0-9]', if you're looking for use. (If you're looking for declaration, 'int add(', or whatever type it is.)
Voltage has asked the court to prevent those who downloaded the movie without paying for it from downloading its movies ever again
Don't bother, Voltage! I'll save you the trouble of suing me (not that I downloaded--or have actually seen--the movie) and voluntarily stop downloading--and buying, and renting, and viewing at theaters--your films!
Cube 2: Sauerbraten. Give it to him.
It's a free and open-source Quake-like FPS. Usually the progression goes like this: Playing -> Mapping -> Scripting -> Coding. I've seen that progression played out several times in the community and myself (full disclosure: I moderate the forums and Quadropolis.us, the primary source for maps, mods, etc.).
Mapping is done in real time and in-game. A mere tap of the E key will switch between editing and playing, so you can see and test what you're doing immediately.
It's also designed to be light on resources. I use the (very underpowered!) open-source radeon driver to drive my Radeon X1600 Pro, and I can get a consistent 30 FPS with the eyecandy barely dialed back.
For a little more detail, here's the description from cubeengine.com:
Free single and multi player 1st person shooter game with some satisfying fast oldskool gameplay. A large variety of gameplay modes from classic SP to fast 1 on 1 MP and objective based teamplay, with a great variety of original maps to play on.
Level editing has never been so much fun: a press of a key allows you to modify the geometry / textures / entities in-game, on the fly. Even more novel, you can make maps together with others online, in the unique "coop edit" mode (!)
The engine, though designed for simplicity and elegance as opposed to feature & eyecandy checklists, still competes nicely thanks to its novel "6-directional heighfield deformable cube octree" world structure that is the basis for its in-game editing. Occlusion culling, pixel & vertex shaders, very accurate lightmapping, robust custom physics system, network system, models, sound, scripting...
Right. What you were seeing was just a simulation/mockup of a virus scanner program within your browser (i.e. probably rendered with GIFs and/or Javascript), usually themed to look like the default Windows XP theme. After announcing it "found viruses", it tries to download the installer. It does this the same way every other file is downloaded, by changing the location (i.e. the page you're viewing) to the binary. This is the same behavior you get when clicking a link to a file the browser doesn't know how to handle.
I've seen these a few times myself, and because I'm running Linux, I just giggle and close the tab.;)
It seems that this is the number one reason for piracy: poor students don't actually have any money!
Of course, the only study I've done has a sample size of me, but I've still seen this explanation now and then on the Internet. It is by far the only actual explanation I've seen.
Computer based communication has followed this path backwards almost exactly. Punctuation was the first to suffer, followed by an increase in consonant only abbreviations, and smilies started the trend towards the final step. It looks like we've just hit rock-bottom.
On the contrary. I'm sure you'd say that some omit punctuation (e.g. on IRC), but you forget the newline is punctuation, and is frequently used in place of periods (unless you want a long line, for some reason). As the period becomes redundant, it is dropped.
As for single-letter abbreviations (r, u, etc.), while generally unambiguous, I too frown upon, if only for style reasons.
Smilies (or, nowadays, "emoticons"), though, I've found a great benefit. As it can be very hard to transmit mood/tone/etc. in text, the emoticon allows you to indicate your tone. For example, I am using no emoticons in this post, so it should be read as "serious". If I were to insert the standard smiley (":)"), that would indicate "friendly". Likewise, ":P" for silly, or ":\" for a "but what can you do, y'know?"-type attitude. (I don't know the name.) Without these, one can be easily misinterpreted.
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It's not referring to currency counterfeiting, but goods counterfeiting, like that guy on the street that sells "Rolex" watches for $5, or the guy that sells DVDs out the back of a station wagon.
Of course, I assume that was the original target, but the final bill is apparently more targeted at your everyday consumer, trying to put all the power in the hands of corporations.
Umm... No. Rote memorization is passé--or at least it should be. Nowadays what we need more than anything is critical and creative thinking.
If you're just memorizing the book, you're not going to get very far. You want to be learning, understanding, and integrating the material into yourself. If you need to access resources on the Internet for this, then so be it.
And, of course, there's the Internet as a research resource. You can't really expect students to get everything locally, especially for specialized topics. Take, for example, a project on free speech. You might want to refer to the Tinker v. Des Moines case. Without the Internet, you'd probably go to the library.
In bigger cities, this might not be a problem, but around here, you'd be lucky to find one or two books. Even luckier if they were printed in the last 20 years. With the Internet, you can gather information from worldwide sources.
Then something goes wrong with the name printing, and nobody cares, because the USPS (and likely others) rarely care about the name. They deliver by address.
(Of course, they may try and use the name if a piece of mail is undeliverable because of a nonexistent address, or carriers will sometimes deliver mail to the address of the person whose name is on it, to compensate for a typo in the street number.)
So yes, you get free demos. But your "free year" doesn't include anything you'd normally have to purchase.
If by "paying", you mean "subsidizing your purchase", you'd be right. That's generally how ad-supported publications work. (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, websites...)
I suggest you never get involved with the US military. More TLAs than you can shake a stick at.
"Utilize" in this case means "make use of".
Boss: "Hey Joe, our old webmaster died/resigned/etc. Would you mind taking over for him?"
Joe: "Do I get paid more?"
You can take it from there, depending on the boss' answer.
Well, I don't know if the cars are human- or machine-operated, but if they're machine-operated, speeding's not going to be a problem. because the car's going to be going the speed limit/a safe speed (they are not necessarily the same).
Re tracking: I know I'd implement this as a short-range (~20 meter?) wireless system for vehicles to communicate about what they're doing and what they're going to do, and generally being polite. (A lack of which, I'd estimate, would be the root cause of most, if not all, vehicle-on-vehicle collisions.)
Of course, if vehicles are autonomous, they'd have to watch for (e.g.) deer, as well as examine the road for potholes, ice, etc.
And clearly you haven't been a kid in school recently. 90% of the stuff on that list never gets used. Never.
My standard fare for grades ~7-12 was four three-ring binders and four 1" spiral-bound notebooks. That's it. Anything else I needed I could scrounge (i.e. pencils). In fact, I would regularly grab dropped/lost pencils one year. My desk drawer was full by year's end (and still is, several years later).
Hell, I rarely even used all the notebook paper! On average, I'd rarely get past half-full in any one notebook (but then, I rarely took notes, so the majority of use was English's writing and Math/Science's equations/work).
2.4 is too old? I'm working on re-setting up a system for my dad's florist shop for the "recipe" for each floral arrangement. The thing runs Red Hat 7--kernel 2.2.
The program is written in COBOL, for crying out loud! I tried installing Ubuntu Lucid and chrooting to the Red Hat partition, but that ultimately failed, so now I have to try installing Red Hat 7 and see if it works better that way.
It's funny how frequently people forget that little phrase.
Your requirements are simple enough that I wonder why you don't just use a whiteboard (or chalkboard or whatever). Unless you want all kind of fancy graphics/point 'n' click manipulation, you could probably sketch a network in seconds, and add traffic, etc. in just a few more. Use colors.
If you really need the pretty graphics, you could get by with just something like the GIMP or Inkscape, manipulating representations of your hardware.
Well, yes and no. Software packages--I'll use Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (PC) as an example, because it's convenient to me--are huge, as you say. The program folder is 6.2 GiB. However, iw3sp.exe,the main singleplayer engine binary, is just 2.9 MiB.
What takes up all of the space is game assets: textures, videos, maps, models, etc. The IWD resource files in the main/ directory are 1.9 Gib combined (and they're really ZIP archives). Localization files are 963.4 MiB. Moving into the video subdirectory, we see the 53 in-game videos, totaling 1.2 GiB for an average of ~23.8 MiB per video (Bink video codec).
Finally, we have the 62 actual maps (singleplayer and multiplayer) in zone/english, the largest group at 2.2 GiB (averaging ~41.8 MiB per map).
There certainly are REALLY huge packages, but I don't have any handy. In any case, it's not the code that's the biggest part, it's the user-facing assets.
Clearly, you don't have any 12-year-old daughters.
Really, samzenpus? Could it be any more obvious this is basically an advertisement? The part where they include their ticker symbol didn't tip you off?!
I don't claim to be a hard-core network tech, but it seems that this device is just a router/gateway, which you could presumably just attach to your existing router, rather than replace it. This way, you wouldn't be passing your traffic through it, and it presumably wouldn't be able to see anything beyond what your router decides to route in its direction, and it could still perform its tests.
grep -E 'add\(([0-9.]+)?, ' *.c
Okay, so that's little over-complicated. You could probably just get away with 'add\([0-9]', if you're looking for use. (If you're looking for declaration, 'int add(', or whatever type it is.)
Don't bother, Voltage! I'll save you the trouble of suing me (not that I downloaded--or have actually seen--the movie) and voluntarily stop downloading--and buying, and renting, and viewing at theaters--your films!
Your friend,
SheeEttin
It's a free and open-source Quake-like FPS. Usually the progression goes like this: Playing -> Mapping -> Scripting -> Coding. I've seen that progression played out several times in the community and myself (full disclosure: I moderate the forums and Quadropolis.us, the primary source for maps, mods, etc.).
Mapping is done in real time and in-game. A mere tap of the E key will switch between editing and playing, so you can see and test what you're doing immediately.
It's also designed to be light on resources. I use the (very underpowered!) open-source radeon driver to drive my Radeon X1600 Pro, and I can get a consistent 30 FPS with the eyecandy barely dialed back.
For a little more detail, here's the description from cubeengine.com:
Right. What you were seeing was just a simulation/mockup of a virus scanner program within your browser (i.e. probably rendered with GIFs and/or Javascript), usually themed to look like the default Windows XP theme. After announcing it "found viruses", it tries to download the installer. It does this the same way every other file is downloaded, by changing the location (i.e. the page you're viewing) to the binary. This is the same behavior you get when clicking a link to a file the browser doesn't know how to handle.
;)
I've seen these a few times myself, and because I'm running Linux, I just giggle and close the tab.
It seems that this is the number one reason for piracy: poor students don't actually have any money!
Of course, the only study I've done has a sample size of me, but I've still seen this explanation now and then on the Internet. It is by far the only actual explanation I've seen.
I was expecting you to think that you should take your car to a Pokemon Center...
What, you don't think there's at least one NSA spook available who speaks Klingon?
On the contrary. I'm sure you'd say that some omit punctuation (e.g. on IRC), but you forget the newline is punctuation, and is frequently used in place of periods (unless you want a long line, for some reason). As the period becomes redundant, it is dropped.
As for single-letter abbreviations (r, u, etc.), while generally unambiguous, I too frown upon, if only for style reasons.
Smilies (or, nowadays, "emoticons"), though, I've found a great benefit. As it can be very hard to transmit mood/tone/etc. in text, the emoticon allows you to indicate your tone. For example, I am using no emoticons in this post, so it should be read as "serious". If I were to insert the standard smiley (":)"), that would indicate "friendly". Likewise, ":P" for silly, or ":\" for a "but what can you do, y'know?"-type attitude. (I don't know the name.) Without these, one can be easily misinterpreted.