I don't see a problem with this approach. One of the silly things about HTML5 is that it looks like browser vendors are all going to run off and implement their own media stacks. Which just increases bloat and potential security issues. Why not just use WM, QT, or whatever comes with the OS?
We've been through this a couple of times now. Prove Microsoft's implementation is as secure as the one in Firefox, and I'll listen to you.
The main problem here is, yes, people do learn by doing the exact same problems.
Let me rephrase that: people as an individual learn by reinventing the wheel, if it's their first own wheel. People as a group learn by using the best known wheels to create new things.
The problem is, education is either going for a lot of different wheels, or forcing people with no wheels to invent a car.
I would hope there was a bit more to it than that, because then one person stealing another's code would cause the person that didn't do anything wrong to fail.
Well, yes. Everyone has his own coding style, we were rookies, and the teacher actually took the time to read through all our code. I suspect he'd known anyway. He was a real programmer, not just someone teaching programming languages.
Also bear in mind that if the copier put a comment in there saying so, he'd get full marks for that code too, maybe even extra praise for code reuse done right, if the code in question was worth copying.
In the computer science classes that I take, it's allowed to share the source code for your assignments as long as it isn't for a pending assignment and/or test.
One of my teachers had a different approach: he'd let you do anything, as long as you were clear on what you wrote yourself, and what you didn't. OTOH, if he found the same snippet of code in two different assignments and both students tried to take credit for it, both failed.
None of us dared use large chunks of someone elses work.
Maybe governments should figure out its the 21st century out there, and stop treating phone traffic as a source of tax revenue, instead of treating it exactly like every other kind of electronic traffic (internet, bank transactions, etc), which is tax free the way it should be.
How many governments do you know that willingly gave up entire categories of tax revenue?
GyurcsÃny won the elections with that promise in Hungary, they went through with it, and after a year they gave us a "see, we tried it, didn't work out" speech, and now taxes are higher than ever.
now we just have to figure out what this motion-sensing thing can do to gameplay while still requiring little enough movement from the player to keep going for hours.
Of course it definitely won't top the accuracy of a skilled gamer with a controller, or another one with a mouse and keyboard. Not to mention data density per movement. There is a reason why the keyboard is the most expressive form of user input, you know.
x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit. You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.
Evolution is quite real. Humanity has played with it for a long time. But we must drop the assumption that behavior observed now has been there 16 million years ago. Why do we assume chimpanzees stopped evolving, again?
From my personal view as someone who was not able to attend and was left with television and website coverage, 2009's edition was little more than 2008 with booth babes and more people in the background. Press conferences were lifeless as ever, with a few scant release announcement to cut the hum-drum of what looked like a stockholders quarterly fiscal meeting laced with flat corporate-approved jokes.
In short, can we have PAX yet?
At least the fifth comment has any freaking hint as to what "E3" actually is. And this on a website that regularly explains in the summary what a logical XOR is. (Both links treat it as defined, too.)
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They'll get to it, just after they've managed to properly implement HTML.
So I can view videos and play Duke Nukem Forever together?
I don't see a problem with this approach. One of the silly things about HTML5 is that it looks like browser vendors are all going to run off and implement their own media stacks. Which just increases bloat and potential security issues. Why not just use WM, QT, or whatever comes with the OS?
We've been through this a couple of times now. Prove Microsoft's implementation is as secure as the one in Firefox, and I'll listen to you.
To look on the bright side, IE6 will finally die.
With all that said; is there any reason they can't add Theora support later?
The codec Youtube uses will severely affect everything else on the net, if they come out first. You can't deny that.
How long will it take for IE to have support for another codec? They will have Youtube support in no time, I guarantee you that.
Can anyone explain why this virus is so different from all the others floating around? Why the panic?
The case fatality rate (CFR) of the pandemic strain is estimated at 0.4% (range 0.3%-1.5%)
We've all had worse diseases than this.
I decide to give it to Linus and he asks for a lot less.
Care to count how many layers of abstraction there are between a typical GUI application and the bare metal on a modern *nix?
The main problem here is, yes, people do learn by doing the exact same problems.
Let me rephrase that: people as an individual learn by reinventing the wheel, if it's their first own wheel. People as a group learn by using the best known wheels to create new things.
The problem is, education is either going for a lot of different wheels, or forcing people with no wheels to invent a car.
But the experience was of no real value to anyone in the end.
What do you mean, Mr. Informative?
I would hope there was a bit more to it than that, because then one person stealing another's code would cause the person that didn't do anything wrong to fail.
Well, yes. Everyone has his own coding style, we were rookies, and the teacher actually took the time to read through all our code. I suspect he'd known anyway. He was a real programmer, not just someone teaching programming languages.
Also bear in mind that if the copier put a comment in there saying so, he'd get full marks for that code too, maybe even extra praise for code reuse done right, if the code in question was worth copying.
Cars are a necessity in the US. We have more room and things are much father spread out. Try getting around a typical western US city without a car.
That's not because you have more room. That's because public transportation sucks and has a social stigma.
You don't need a car in London, for example.
In the computer science classes that I take, it's allowed to share the source code for your assignments as long as it isn't for a pending assignment and/or test.
One of my teachers had a different approach: he'd let you do anything, as long as you were clear on what you wrote yourself, and what you didn't. OTOH, if he found the same snippet of code in two different assignments and both students tried to take credit for it, both failed.
None of us dared use large chunks of someone elses work.
Maybe governments should figure out its the 21st century out there, and stop treating phone traffic as a source of tax revenue, instead of treating it exactly like every other kind of electronic traffic (internet, bank transactions, etc), which is tax free the way it should be.
How many governments do you know that willingly gave up entire categories of tax revenue?
GyurcsÃny won the elections with that promise in Hungary, they went through with it, and after a year they gave us a "see, we tried it, didn't work out" speech, and now taxes are higher than ever.
They obviously don't have an "inherent" right, because if they did, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Exactly. Free speech is an inherent right. The First Amendment does not grant it, but forbids Congress to restrict it.
Now contrast that to Disney's right over Mickey Mouse.
A lot of people want to combine exercise and entertainment.
So you're reinventing sport again?
We have fucksony, sonysucks, gaystation, and the n-word.
Heh. So the words fuck, suck, and gay are fine but nigger is taboo? When did that happen?
now we just have to figure out what this motion-sensing thing can do to gameplay while still requiring little enough movement from the player to keep going for hours.
Of course it definitely won't top the accuracy of a skilled gamer with a controller, or another one with a mouse and keyboard. Not to mention data density per movement. There is a reason why the keyboard is the most expressive form of user input, you know.
For example, Adobe also patched today- but can you manage that upgrade at the same time? Nope.
I'm still looking for the feature that disables all auto-update checks and dialog boxes.
About fucking time.
Am I supposed to watch half an hour of videos before they tell me what they actually did?
Couldn't you just, you know, summarize it for us?
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.109951
I know there's an observation in this one, at least.
x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit. You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.
-- Theo de Raadt
Evolution is quite real. Humanity has played with it for a long time. But we must drop the assumption that behavior observed now has been there 16 million years ago. Why do we assume chimpanzees stopped evolving, again?
From my personal view as someone who was not able to attend and was left with television and website coverage, 2009's edition was little more than 2008 with booth babes and more people in the background. Press conferences were lifeless as ever, with a few scant release announcement to cut the hum-drum of what looked like a stockholders quarterly fiscal meeting laced with flat corporate-approved jokes.
In short, can we have PAX yet?
At least the fifth comment has any freaking hint as to what "E3" actually is. And this on a website that regularly explains in the summary what a logical XOR is. (Both links treat it as defined, too.)
I was waiting for a car analogy.
Here you go.
Because you want one that doesn't suck.
And that would be the one that doesn't let you change the (marketing dept. approved I presume) privacy settings and search engine?
I smell a rat.
Some really good games have only become possible with better hardware.
I have to agree. But even the original 2D version was a classic.