Nobody thought about those poor children at 10 AM. On a Wednesday. Because their cameras were all at the Media Day. Or whatever NFL was doing at the JerryDome today
The Super Bowl will take as much power as a medium sized town. Good news for those Texas doctor's offices and schools who got power outages of 2-3 hours. Clearly we're not as important as JerryWorld.
They already have a few jokes interspersed, like "anagram" and "french military victories". I wonder if Bing shows unexpected results for those.
"french military victories" comes from the comedy site albinoblacksheep.com.
"recursion" is another one, though. More poking fun at itself or the search terms rather than "mountweazels"
Part of the reason for the poor translation is, rather than translate to the end of a sentence, it translates one line at a time. So, in the "Peligro" example (which the first word is rather blurry and thus not properly translated for that reason,) it has to translate "se require", "casco en", and "esta area" with no context of any of the other lines of Spanish. "It is required" is a good translation of the first line. "Casco" is probably not in the limited vocabulary of the app (I'd assume 5000-10000 words, and "helmet" is probably not in there.)
As for the green sign, I'd add to the above argument that it is already translated from English to Spanish by a machine, and translating back with this device provides nice opportunities for some major Engrish to develop.
In games of chance (which Google giving away fewer laptops than there are requests for one,) different municipalities have different rules for fairness purrposes. Google can't be expected to know the rules for every city, county, parish, province, state, or country. c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question
As a teacher who taught math in the public school system with class sets of TI's and Casio's, I'd say unless they've done something to make the Casio's less fragile, I doubt TI has much to worry about. I'd cringe when a Casio fell to the ground, as usually there'd be nothing left to work with (and I'd have to fight with parents to enforce the technology contract they signed.) With TI's, I've had the same class set for about six years, and I've replaced about four of them - two to theft, and two to students intentionally breaking screens.
Just to clarify, I do teach math in Texas, so I might have a conflict of interest. But I don't.
Seriously. What's the percentage of Italy's advertisement revenue from Youtube? Significant enough to question whether to maintain business in a country obviouly hostile to your service and willing to convict your employees that are helpful to the government in prosecuting the crime recorded on video?
If Google was seriously considering leaving the Chinese market (or using the threat to re-evaluate Chinese practices regarding them) then TPTB should consider an Interdict against Italy.
Youtube has already shown an ability to restrict content based on political boundaries, so this shouldn't be so much of a problem to implement. Maybe even put a nag screen (as they do to users of IE6) letting the Italian users know that this practice by their elected officials will not be tolerated.
Not mentioned in the article was did they pay for one of the (usually discounted) block of rooms CES had set aside. Usually large conventions set aside a block of rooms at a discount for people participating in the convention. Their guarantee subsidizes the cost of these rooms, and give them a bit more control over what goes on there. Doesn't make their actions less ass-hat, but does let me understand why the CES would have that much sway over the occupants of the rooms, as they might have paid for (up to half) part of the rooms' cost.
I remember using PEEK and POKE to manipulate the memory on the C64. Is the emulator sufficiently sandboxed or could you use POKE outside of the conventional memory to brick^H^H^H^H^Hfree your iPod?
...deep-linking to the songs on Google's servers?
It'd be upsetting for Google if they setup all the infrastructure, eat all the costs, and Baidu reaps the rewards by linking to the self-same content.
I bought my son one of the OLPC XO Give-one-Get-ones last year. He just turned two then, and just turned three earlier this month.
My son loved to use the camera option on it (I bought one of those sites that fit in the USB port next to the lens) so he'd run around the house taking pictures of stuff, and telling us about it. He also loves to play the Mini Tam Tam. Although he's having quite a problem learning that the touchpad on the laptop moves the mouse pointer on the screen, he enjoys clicking the mouse buttons to make the animals make noises. I also added VLC player and Hamachi on it so he can watch his Dora and Diego videos streamed from my media server. The only real problem is that the sites he likes to visit (Noggin and NickJr) don't allow all the features to be used unless you're using Windows/IE.
The key is, he's not ready to be alone with it -- not for safety reasons, but I'm not ready for the laptop to be a babysitter.
Point is, with Amazon coming out with another XO release (http://www.amazon.com/xo), I'm thinking of buying another one so I can teach him how to interact with someone using the Sugar interface.
My mother is a non-technical firefox user. Meaning, I got tired of cleaning up her machine, so I installed firefox, put the little IE icon on her desktop to link to the FF executable, and have had much fewer reasons to go over and "clean up her computer."
I seem to recall magazines like Byte and Compute! in the 70's and 80's that offered sourcecode in printed form. It is a durable physical medium, and customary.
The police state has already started in Bushland.
The state of Texas has decided that all teachers will be fingerprinted (http://www.sbec.state.tx.us/SBECOnline/fp/faq_SB9.asp) and their fingerprints will be compared annually to a nationwide criminal database. Any teacher who is not fingerprinted will be terminated within eighty days.
Of course, I was scheduled for fingerprinting Monday morning. The one company in the state of Texas given the bid to fingerprint teachers couldn't be bothered to show up Monday, so I was bumped to Tuesday. Tuesday I was bumped to Wednesday because 9 AM is way too early for them to show up (they started taking "papers" at 1:45 PM.) Wednesday I was bumped to Thursday because they were "late" again.
Just curious, what other licensed profession is fingerprinted and compared to a national criminal database annually? Doctors? Childcare Providers? Lawyers?
Otherwise if you choose c#, the ony decent ide is visual studio which will cost you a fortune.
We've used SharpDevelop http://sharpdevelop.com/ at our school for the past couple of years in our C# classes, and have found it to work out quite well. Having a program that can develop.Net on Win 98 computers is an added benefit for those of our students with, shall we say, Legacy equipment?
We've found that C# from a visual perspective works as a good transition language in our Pre-AP classes, and gets the students well acclimated for our AP class in Java.
Keep in mind this isn't a small program. Our school has between six and eight classes in Computer Science (both Pre-AP, AP Year 1, and AP Year 2) annually.
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Nobody thought about those poor children at 10 AM. On a Wednesday. Because their cameras were all at the Media Day. Or whatever NFL was doing at the JerryDome today
The Super Bowl will take as much power as a medium sized town. Good news for those Texas doctor's offices and schools who got power outages of 2-3 hours. Clearly we're not as important as JerryWorld.
They already have a few jokes interspersed, like "anagram" and "french military victories". I wonder if Bing shows unexpected results for those.
"french military victories" comes from the comedy site albinoblacksheep.com. "recursion" is another one, though. More poking fun at itself or the search terms rather than "mountweazels"
They'd only start slapping a Beta tag on everything like Google does.
Wait a minute. I thought "Beta" on Google's products just meant they hadn't figured out how to monetize them yet.
As for the green sign, I'd add to the above argument that it is already translated from English to Spanish by a machine, and translating back with this device provides nice opportunities for some major Engrish to develop.
... environment (8.59 Tesla, -
269.5 degrees Celsius)...
Poor choice of Line Feed location. I didn't see the negative before. 269.5 C didn't seem that bad.
In games of chance (which Google giving away fewer laptops than there are requests for one,) different municipalities have different rules for fairness purrposes. Google can't be expected to know the rules for every city, county, parish, province, state, or country. c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question
As a teacher who taught math in the public school system with class sets of TI's and Casio's, I'd say unless they've done something to make the Casio's less fragile, I doubt TI has much to worry about. I'd cringe when a Casio fell to the ground, as usually there'd be nothing left to work with (and I'd have to fight with parents to enforce the technology contract they signed.) With TI's, I've had the same class set for about six years, and I've replaced about four of them - two to theft, and two to students intentionally breaking screens. Just to clarify, I do teach math in Texas, so I might have a conflict of interest. But I don't.
If they charge per GB transferred, what's their incentive to reduce the usage of a client's system?
Adolf Hitler rant about missing iPhone in 3...2...1...
Seriously. What's the percentage of Italy's advertisement revenue from Youtube? Significant enough to question whether to maintain business in a country obviouly hostile to your service and willing to convict your employees that are helpful to the government in prosecuting the crime recorded on video?
If Google was seriously considering leaving the Chinese market (or using the threat to re-evaluate Chinese practices regarding them) then TPTB should consider an Interdict against Italy.
Youtube has already shown an ability to restrict content based on political boundaries, so this shouldn't be so much of a problem to implement. Maybe even put a nag screen (as they do to users of IE6) letting the Italian users know that this practice by their elected officials will not be tolerated.
Not mentioned in the article was did they pay for one of the (usually discounted) block of rooms CES had set aside. Usually large conventions set aside a block of rooms at a discount for people participating in the convention. Their guarantee subsidizes the cost of these rooms, and give them a bit more control over what goes on there. Doesn't make their actions less ass-hat, but does let me understand why the CES would have that much sway over the occupants of the rooms, as they might have paid for (up to half) part of the rooms' cost.
Can I have a Nobel Peace Prize?
I remember using PEEK and POKE to manipulate the memory on the C64. Is the emulator sufficiently sandboxed or could you use POKE outside of the conventional memory to brick^H^H^H^H^Hfree your iPod?
Can I run IE Tab on Internet Explorer and make the world explode?
...deep-linking to the songs on Google's servers? It'd be upsetting for Google if they setup all the infrastructure, eat all the costs, and Baidu reaps the rewards by linking to the self-same content.
I bought my son one of the OLPC XO Give-one-Get-ones last year. He just turned two then, and just turned three earlier this month.
My son loved to use the camera option on it (I bought one of those sites that fit in the USB port next to the lens) so he'd run around the house taking pictures of stuff, and telling us about it. He also loves to play the Mini Tam Tam. Although he's having quite a problem learning that the touchpad on the laptop moves the mouse pointer on the screen, he enjoys clicking the mouse buttons to make the animals make noises. I also added VLC player and Hamachi on it so he can watch his Dora and Diego videos streamed from my media server. The only real problem is that the sites he likes to visit (Noggin and NickJr) don't allow all the features to be used unless you're using Windows/IE.
The key is, he's not ready to be alone with it -- not for safety reasons, but I'm not ready for the laptop to be a babysitter.
Point is, with Amazon coming out with another XO release (http://www.amazon.com/xo), I'm thinking of buying another one so I can teach him how to interact with someone using the Sugar interface.
My mother is a non-technical firefox user. Meaning, I got tired of cleaning up her machine, so I installed firefox, put the little IE icon on her desktop to link to the FF executable, and have had much fewer reasons to go over and "clean up her computer."
I seem to recall magazines like Byte and Compute! in the 70's and 80's that offered sourcecode in printed form. It is a durable physical medium, and customary.
The police state has already started in Bushland. The state of Texas has decided that all teachers will be fingerprinted (http://www.sbec.state.tx.us/SBECOnline/fp/faq_SB9.asp) and their fingerprints will be compared annually to a nationwide criminal database. Any teacher who is not fingerprinted will be terminated within eighty days. Of course, I was scheduled for fingerprinting Monday morning. The one company in the state of Texas given the bid to fingerprint teachers couldn't be bothered to show up Monday, so I was bumped to Tuesday. Tuesday I was bumped to Wednesday because 9 AM is way too early for them to show up (they started taking "papers" at 1:45 PM.) Wednesday I was bumped to Thursday because they were "late" again. Just curious, what other licensed profession is fingerprinted and compared to a national criminal database annually? Doctors? Childcare Providers? Lawyers?
From TFA: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/audiosrc/arts/1860v2.mp3
For comparison, the same song sung in 1931: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/audiosrc/arts/1931.mp3
25 sites are shut down? How am I supposed to watch Ni Hao, Kai-Lan?
Otherwise if you choose c#, the ony decent ide is visual studio which will cost you a fortune.
.Net on Win 98 computers is an added benefit for those of our students with, shall we say, Legacy equipment?
We've used SharpDevelop http://sharpdevelop.com/ at our school for the past couple of years in our C# classes, and have found it to work out quite well. Having a program that can develop
I haven't had a chance to do any real work with Mono http://www.monodevelop.com/Main_Page, but I hear from some students that it works well.
We've found that C# from a visual perspective works as a good transition language in our Pre-AP classes, and gets the students well acclimated for our AP class in Java.
Keep in mind this isn't a small program. Our school has between six and eight classes in Computer Science (both Pre-AP, AP Year 1, and AP Year 2) annually.