I'm sure one day some PC guy will come along and ask us not to use C because controllers written in C were used in some bomber aircrafts (or something like that).
I had signed up at some trade show where they made you fill out your name, address, company and title and other such identifying information. Although I'm usually pretty guarded about such information, I put down my real address, but put down the name of my one-person company, with me as the president of it. Some months later, I got a letter from the BSA saying that they had had an anonymous tipoff from someone in the company that we had some licensing problems with our software.
A few problems:
a) I'm the only person in the company, I sure as hell didn't tip them off on myself
b) I run webhosting using Linux and do software development on Mac OS X with the free suite of Project Development tools from Apple. Um, there's no software for me to have stolen!
Needless to say, I was furious, called the number on the letter, and told them to take me off their correspondence list. They took me off, no questions asked, and I haven't heard from them since.
Not to say that there is no bite to their bark, but they don't always have a source like they say they do. The distribution of letters seems to be fairly random.
Better get that closed, guys... wouldn't want Larry to lose his job.:)
That rat bastard! Mr. "nnnnnugh I have a Learjet for every day of the week"! Mr. "My underground speaker system is big as your house"! Mr. "My swimming pools hold more water than the entire Apple campus"!
Well, I tell you, databases schmatabases! Larry can take his job and just--
Maybe there's a big up-and-coming UNIX vendor they're really wanting to target who has deeper pockets than RedHat, SuSE and the rest combined, some one like, oh I don't know...APPLE! </conspiracy theory>
Seriously though, what if there's some UNIX quibble with Apple? Sounds like an extortion racket no matter what way it goes....
Not sure if this was Safari, OS X X11, or me rm -rf fink's/sw directory, but I had the misfortune of losing all control over the trackpad on my TiBook. Persisted across restarts, across pram zapping, across power manager reset. No mouse movement with USB mice either. My CD drive was fscked, so I couldn't boot off of OS 10.2 CD.
I ended up putting my TiBook in Firewire Disk Mode, and reinstalling Jaguar from my wife's iBook onto the Ti. It seems to be working so far, and I even felt adventurous enough to reinstall Safari and X11. (Yes, I'm a glutton for punishment.)
This is totally off-topic, but I just noticed the blatant advertising on the first link of the "Related Links" section. Has this been going for a while? It seems to show up in other articles as well...
Not to be an overzealous apple geek, but MacOS has had most of these capabilities since at least MacOS 8.
If you're opening or saving a file with Photoshop, it remembers the location where you last were (even across successive launches of the program) for each type of action. (It remembers one location for opening and a seperate one for saving.)
It has a "recent folders" popup menu, so you can easily go to a folder you've visited recently.
All in all, it does most of what you describe, and has since about 1995. (Don't flame me; I don't remember when 8 came out...)
I can't speak for ETS, but I work at a educational testing development environment. The process that test items go through at our center is similar to what the grandparent suggested. This process is called "equating", and great care is taken to ensure that different tests taken by various participants have roughly the same "weight".
For example, we have 4 forms of a standardized math test which contain different questions. Based on performance of previous testing, we are able to construct a statistical correlation between particular items, and essential create a weighted "final" equated score.
Equated scores are subtly different than base percent correct, so a "perfect" score could be had without having answered all questions correctly.
It is my impression that this is a widespread, pretty standard application of testing theory, not limited only to ETS,
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I'm sure one day some PC guy will come along and ask us not to use C because controllers written in C were used in some bomber aircrafts (or something like that).
Nah, some PC guy already wants you to use C#...
billg
I had signed up at some trade show where they made you fill out your name, address, company and title and other such identifying information. Although I'm usually pretty guarded about such information, I put down my real address, but put down the name of my one-person company, with me as the president of it. Some months later, I got a letter from the BSA saying that they had had an anonymous tipoff from someone in the company that we had some licensing problems with our software.
A few problems:
a) I'm the only person in the company, I sure as hell didn't tip them off on myself
b) I run webhosting using Linux and do software development on Mac OS X with the free suite of Project Development tools from Apple. Um, there's no software for me to have stolen!
Needless to say, I was furious, called the number on the letter, and told them to take me off their correspondence list. They took me off, no questions asked, and I haven't heard from them since.
Not to say that there is no bite to their bark, but they don't always have a source like they say they do. The distribution of letters seems to be fairly random.
Better get that closed, guys... wouldn't want Larry to lose his job. :)
That rat bastard! Mr. "nnnnnugh I have a Learjet for every day of the week"! Mr. "My underground speaker system is big as your house"! Mr. "My swimming pools hold more water than the entire Apple campus"!
Well, I tell you, databases schmatabases! Larry can take his job and just--
Oh. Wrong Larry... Nevermind...
Looks at Kensington Mouseworks...
Five buttons?
Three, sir!
Maybe there's a big up-and-coming UNIX vendor they're really wanting to target who has deeper pockets than RedHat, SuSE and the rest combined, some one like, oh I don't know...APPLE!
</conspiracy theory>
Seriously though, what if there's some UNIX quibble with Apple? Sounds like an extortion racket no matter what way it goes....
Hey fellas,
/sw directory, but I had the misfortune of losing all control over the trackpad on my TiBook. Persisted across restarts, across pram zapping, across power manager reset. No mouse movement with USB mice either. My CD drive was fscked, so I couldn't boot off of OS 10.2 CD.
Not sure if this was Safari, OS X X11, or me rm -rf fink's
I ended up putting my TiBook in Firewire Disk Mode, and reinstalling Jaguar from my wife's iBook onto the Ti. It seems to be working so far, and I even felt adventurous enough to reinstall Safari and X11. (Yes, I'm a glutton for punishment.)
Has anyone out there has had a similar problem?
> Sex on TV doesn't hurt....unless you fall off
Or unless the rabbit ears are jabbing you in the... hmm...
oh, nevermind....
This is totally off-topic, but I just noticed the blatant advertising on the first link of the "Related Links" section. Has this been going for a while? It seems to show up in other articles as well...
Curiouser and curiouser....
Not to be an overzealous apple geek, but MacOS has had most of these capabilities since at least MacOS 8.
If you're opening or saving a file with Photoshop, it remembers the location where you last were (even across successive launches of the program) for each type of action. (It remembers one location for opening and a seperate one for saving.)
It has a "recent folders" popup menu, so you can easily go to a folder you've visited recently.
All in all, it does most of what you describe, and has since about 1995. (Don't flame me; I don't remember when 8 came out...)
One could argue it already is... ;)
What you're looking for is:
list($fieldname,$fieldname2)=mysql_fetch_row().
There are likely other features of the language that you have not come fully into contact with.
"Ouch"
I can't speak for ETS, but I work at a educational testing development environment. The process that test items go through at our center is similar to what the grandparent suggested. This process is called "equating", and great care is taken to ensure that different tests taken by various participants have roughly the same "weight".
For example, we have 4 forms of a standardized math test which contain different questions. Based on performance of previous testing, we are able to construct a statistical correlation between particular items, and essential create a weighted "final" equated score.
Equated scores are subtly different than base percent correct, so a "perfect" score could be had without having answered all questions correctly.
It is my impression that this is a widespread, pretty standard application of testing theory, not limited only to ETS,
Apple actually was threatening against the layout as well as the name; of you look at a screenshot, it is too similar to be coincidence.
Is it a minimum security conjugal-visits-type prison, or is it a federal-pound-me-in-the-ass-type prison?
Reminds me of someone's .sig line I've seen here:
WWJD? JWRTFM.
Think using non-unique combinations...you can use any one symbol more than once.
Thus there are 4096 choices for the first symbol, 4096 choices for the second symbol and so on... (Not 4096, then 4095, etc...)
Hmm...
67834509091283-90-1234763+
Naah...
Refer to the "drug tax" violation they often hit drug dealers with--last I checked, marijuana wasn't legal at large....
The first time I read this I thought you said that you were trying to persuade the english-*learning* world your particular past tenses...
I always wondered the consequences of teaching my (nonexistant) children the wrong names for colors or something similar. (My wife is not amused...)
+1, (Funny, err...I hope)
Microsoft said it plans to disclose 385 bits of computer code and internal operating rules, previously kept secret, that outside software developers can use to write programs to run on Windows.
Those being 1011001010010110110......
#!/bin/sh ...
/dev/audio
# of course, what I *meant* was
cat $1 >
#!/bin/sh
/dev/audio
cat $1 <
You'll need a REEL BIG FISH.
<ducking...>