Yeah but she'd have to be shown that she can mash the switch with the side of her hand instead of limply raking her fingertips across the general area.
Lecture notes are no substitute for a well-written textbook. Lecture notes are for when you learn in class, and then remind yourself for the test. But you really should be learning from your coursework and using lecture time to just try to absorb as much insight as possible from the masters..
I've had professors who expect us to learn from the course materials. They don't repeat the same thing that's in the textbook because that's a total waste of time. They do what a professor should: provide insights not in the book, share real-world experience (if applicable), and answer questions.
One day, we'll use a big private key (from a microsd card or an RFID) to authenticate instead of relying on a puny little 8-16 alphanumeric password.
It's already implemented in Vista at least.. you can log in from different authentication providers like a fingerprint scanner or a smart card or a web cam.
And for remote administration it's even better. You don't need to be there to put in a smart card; you just handshake with your key over the network.
Yeah but the reason I buy from amazon is that I only have to trust that one very trustworthy vendor. Only Amazon has my card info and my address. If I want to buy a book, that doesn't mean that some random bookstore in North Dakota now has my personal information.. it's all handled through a trusted party.
There's something wrong with calling home with usage statistics on client software. There's nothing wrong with logging usage (on the server side) of a web service they provide.
It's not data mining. If anyone actually read TFA, the extension just makes the default "new tab" page the standard Ubuntu-themed google search. And, like always, if you use their search service they will log your search. It's the same as before, except instead of only seeing the ubuntu search on your home page, you see it on every new tab.
If you're triple trolling off the GP and GGP, then a new comic needs to be drawn. Also message me your steam name because you're brilliant and I want to buy you a game.
Well said. And as you said, it's a long controlled fall; sucking in billions of idiot investors' money as each company eventually fails is not a viable long-term solution!
old-school business mentality coming head to head with something too revolutionary
You mean head to head with something too insane. What is the slashdot-supported model that he's too stupid to believe in? Would that be throwing billions of dollars overboard as youtube sinks to the bottom of profitability trying to stay free? Would that be Twitter, which currently sells no products, no paid services, and generally has no source of income at all?
Here's my model of the only possible internet. You pay for services, including downloading all content. That means paying the 10 euro/mo or whatever for rapidshare if you want to download free projects (unless they can get donated bandwidth from a university). Commercial projects can support their own bandwidth needs. If you want quality tech news, subscribe to Ars Technica - they're not going to just work for free.
Everything these days seems to be obsession with Free Free Free because there's some expection that selling advertising space is the best way to construct a stable world wide web. This is literally as absurd as paying for an expensive government program by selling advertising space in the WIC offices. OK yes that's income, but I don't want my premium services depending on that kind of funding.
Everyone clamoring for Free.. that's just not the way the world works. Toss em out -you wont need masses of readers anymore to support ad revenue- and let us pay you a fair price for the service you tender. Why would someone even think that they would make their newspapers available for free? Is this some kind of base assumption we run on that everything on the internet should be free and we just flush the bills down the toilet? What's happening is they incur cost producing Content and then they give it away for free. What kind of crazy business model is that, you make NO PROFIT. Strip off all this advertising crap. Charge for premium content. Turn the web into a real, competitive marketplace. We can dig deeper so
only for actual content and services by the way..
I'm in the very very late stages before I fall asleep so none of this is probably legible. i;; see tomoreew
Yes I did. They decided that there would be no point to accepting bids because Microsoft was the only vendor who had a product that could meet their needs. They did look at the options, and they decided that Microsoft had no competitors who could meet their criteria.
Keep in mind that others do have different views than us and can make an informed decision without coming to the same conclusions...
If they look at the options and decide they still want Windows then let them buy Windows. The Windows platform does has a lot of advantages like a huge software library (especially well supported by commercial software), existing user familiarity, and the Office suite. If Red Hat isn't a good fit for their needs then where's the problem?
But it didn't even scratch the surface of how the Western Roman Empire really imploded.
Still, unless they're actually in school, how many people think about the fall of Rome? How many think about Rome at all in their lives, or even ancient history for that matter? Reminding people of history and getting people interested is enough to get some to curiously click a link on Wikipedia and get the real history behind the fall of Rome.
Playing the game makes it real to people, and important.. it turns Rome from "I think I remember that name from school" to something real.
How much of that can one pack in a game, and still have people want to play it?
Interesting question and I think Rome Total War answers it well. Just integrate it into the gameplay and don't tack it on. For example you have to understand the impact of the Marian reforms that come around midgame in order to manage your empire well.
Age of Empires 2 was great for history. I didn't even hear the words "Holy Roman Empire" in class until World History at the end of high school, but I was already familiar with it from the missions and the history background info provided on the History tab. When you're 12 years old you have a lot of time and patience to play your favorite games over and over.
Even if you don't know the names and dates, it's still immensely useful to have a general idea of what happened. At Agincourt a few English archers were able to shoot down from a hilltop and defeated the French army who got stuck in mud in their heavy armor. I don't know anything else about it but it's more than most people know.
You can't help but learn from those kind of games. I haven't played Rise of Nations in 5 years but I still remember that the Terracotta Army was Chinese. I know what Angkor Wat and Versailles look like. These are all things that I first learned from that game.
There's your problem right there. I'm not going to pretend that I don't have problems upgrading Gentoo, but at least I don't have unsolvable mystery bugs caused by release incompatibility.
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Yeah but she'd have to be shown that she can mash the switch with the side of her hand instead of limply raking her fingertips across the general area.
Lecture notes are no substitute for a well-written textbook. Lecture notes are for when you learn in class, and then remind yourself for the test. But you really should be learning from your coursework and using lecture time to just try to absorb as much insight as possible from the masters..
I've had professors who expect us to learn from the course materials. They don't repeat the same thing that's in the textbook because that's a total waste of time. They do what a professor should: provide insights not in the book, share real-world experience (if applicable), and answer questions.
One day, we'll use a big private key (from a microsd card or an RFID) to authenticate instead of relying on a puny little 8-16 alphanumeric password.
It's already implemented in Vista at least.. you can log in from different authentication providers like a fingerprint scanner or a smart card or a web cam.
And for remote administration it's even better. You don't need to be there to put in a smart card; you just handshake with your key over the network.
Taking care of the environment costs more, not less.
They have no money to pay for it. Even if the government didn't excuse the debt, it wouldn't ever be paid.
I call "rejecting every uncensored app" forcing him.
Do you understand the English language?
In somewhat clearer words:
Yeah but the reason I buy from amazon is that I only have to trust that one very trustworthy vendor. Only Amazon has my card info and my address. If I want to buy a book, that doesn't mean that some random bookstore in North Dakota now has my personal information.. it's all handled through a trusted party.
There's something wrong with calling home with usage statistics on client software. There's nothing wrong with logging usage (on the server side) of a web service they provide.
It's not data mining. If anyone actually read TFA, the extension just makes the default "new tab" page the standard Ubuntu-themed google search. And, like always, if you use their search service they will log your search. It's the same as before, except instead of only seeing the ubuntu search on your home page, you see it on every new tab.
If you're triple trolling off the GP and GGP, then a new comic needs to be drawn. Also message me your steam name because you're brilliant and I want to buy you a game.
Yep, slashdot already featured coverage of the planet in question, although I guess discovering an atmosphere around it is new information..
It's actually pretty hard to uphold any patent against that kind of argument. "I invented the wheel, but this time it uses spokes and cotton!"
And it's split across 24 different pages. ... now where are all of the slashdotters who were arguing with me about ad-supported content last night? :)
You pay for your little 256kbps DSL line but sites incur massive costs paying for high bandwidth connections.
Well said. And as you said, it's a long controlled fall; sucking in billions of idiot investors' money as each company eventually fails is not a viable long-term solution!
You mean head to head with something too insane. What is the slashdot-supported model that he's too stupid to believe in? Would that be throwing billions of dollars overboard as youtube sinks to the bottom of profitability trying to stay free? Would that be Twitter, which currently sells no products, no paid services, and generally has no source of income at all?
Here's my model of the only possible internet. You pay for services, including downloading all content. That means paying the 10 euro/mo or whatever for rapidshare if you want to download free projects (unless they can get donated bandwidth from a university). Commercial projects can support their own bandwidth needs. If you want quality tech news, subscribe to Ars Technica - they're not going to just work for free.
Everything these days seems to be obsession with Free Free Free because there's some expection that selling advertising space is the best way to construct a stable world wide web. This is literally as absurd as paying for an expensive government program by selling advertising space in the WIC offices. OK yes that's income, but I don't want my premium services depending on that kind of funding.
Everyone clamoring for Free.. that's just not the way the world works. Toss em out -you wont need masses of readers anymore to support ad revenue- and let us pay you a fair price for the service you tender. Why would someone even think that they would make their newspapers available for free? Is this some kind of base assumption we run on that everything on the internet should be free and we just flush the bills down the toilet? What's happening is they incur cost producing Content and then they give it away for free. What kind of crazy business model is that, you make NO PROFIT. Strip off all this advertising crap. Charge for premium content. Turn the web into a real, competitive marketplace. We can dig deeper so only for actual content and services by the way.. I'm in the very very late stages before I fall asleep so none of this is probably legible. i;; see tomoreew
Yes I did. They decided that there would be no point to accepting bids because Microsoft was the only vendor who had a product that could meet their needs. They did look at the options, and they decided that Microsoft had no competitors who could meet their criteria.
Keep in mind that others do have different views than us and can make an informed decision without coming to the same conclusions...
If they look at the options and decide they still want Windows then let them buy Windows. The Windows platform does has a lot of advantages like a huge software library (especially well supported by commercial software), existing user familiarity, and the Office suite. If Red Hat isn't a good fit for their needs then where's the problem?
Still, unless they're actually in school, how many people think about the fall of Rome? How many think about Rome at all in their lives, or even ancient history for that matter? Reminding people of history and getting people interested is enough to get some to curiously click a link on Wikipedia and get the real history behind the fall of Rome.
Playing the game makes it real to people, and important.. it turns Rome from "I think I remember that name from school" to something real.
Interesting question and I think Rome Total War answers it well. Just integrate it into the gameplay and don't tack it on. For example you have to understand the impact of the Marian reforms that come around midgame in order to manage your empire well.
I truly pity anyone who really thinks FileZilla is the best FTP client out there. Why don't more people worship The Perfection That Is WinSCP? :(
Yeah you're right. The Agincourt mission was on flat ground. I was remembering one of the user-created scenarios, not the official one.
The game set up the battle and you get to be the general, win or lose. There's no historical statement there; it's just a matter of how well you play.
Age of Empires 2 was great for history. I didn't even hear the words "Holy Roman Empire" in class until World History at the end of high school, but I was already familiar with it from the missions and the history background info provided on the History tab. When you're 12 years old you have a lot of time and patience to play your favorite games over and over.
Even if you don't know the names and dates, it's still immensely useful to have a general idea of what happened. At Agincourt a few English archers were able to shoot down from a hilltop and defeated the French army who got stuck in mud in their heavy armor. I don't know anything else about it but it's more than most people know.
You can't help but learn from those kind of games. I haven't played Rise of Nations in 5 years but I still remember that the Terracotta Army was Chinese. I know what Angkor Wat and Versailles look like. These are all things that I first learned from that game.
There's your problem right there. I'm not going to pretend that I don't have problems upgrading Gentoo, but at least I don't have unsolvable mystery bugs caused by release incompatibility.