Fine, alot of you don't see the need for this. Don't use it, and more importantly, don't complain about it.

I work as teacher, mostly for fun, and got suckered into supposedly being admin for the school network. In reality I'm a general janitor / IT-support though. I have next to no time to spend on actually setting infrastructure. If anybody gives me a simple solution for printing any document, from any operating system on any computer easily to our public printers I'd give them a big, wet kiss. I certainly don't know any easy way of doing it now, because adding printers to students laptops is a f***king bother, and there's always some weird problem.

I'm certainly sure there's lots of other uses for this, aswell as lots of places it won't be usefull.

We have a single website for this in Norway already (norge.no), it's bloody usefull. Everything you need from the government is either there, or linked to from it. They even run free phone/sms/e-mail support.

There's nothing sinister about it, it certainly hasn't magically removed the bourecrazy, but it is another of the many small reasons I'm slightly smug to be norwegian; The land where stuff for the most part just works (which still doesn't stop people from whining though).

I'm a high-school teacher (16-18 year olds) and can confirm this. When I get my students I work really hard on teaching them to relax during math tests. Mainly by going around chatting, drawing stupid stuff on the whiteboard and just generally being bored. I estimate this improves math grades by around half a point (on a scale from 1 to 6, where the entire scale is actually used). Grades jump up by atleast 1 grade when I take over classes though. The rest I attribute to me being awsome.

This game is essentially unplayable on a regular CRT TV. The text is really small, and the conversation choices aren't bounded in small coloured boxes. The colour-bleed of a regular TV will make it impossible to read. Other than that, it is a great game, but really didn't capture me like the first one did. The mining mini-game is essentially hell on a XBOX too. The last one worked great on XBOX, but this one really is best on the PC.

Blærg. Finding vulnerabalities is a good thing. Fixing them is even better.

Microsoft just did a good thing. Google did too. The world just became a slightly better place.

If we just fixed the rest of the softwarebugs, ended world hunger, fixed the environment and I got together with my ex (whom I still a miss even a year afterwards..I'm such a f***ing loser) the world be kinda ok.

Smile :)

Who is really to blame for a rape?

a) The man doing it?
b) The woman for wearing suggestive clothes?
c) The Police for not being there?
d) The nightclub they met at for not monitoring everything closely enough?

..and yes, I do know the analogy doesn't quite hold, but I do believe it's close enough. If you commit a crime, you're at fault for breaking it. Always.

The victim should never get the blame for not anticipating somebody being an asshole. You might say they already got their punishment for that mistake.

Maybe I'm an exception, but I don't think that's true at all. I navigate entirely by landmarks. I don't even know the names of half the streets I travel on regularly. Furthermore, my mental map of the city is framed by our light rail system, major bus lines, and bike throughfares, not by the major roads carrying automobile traffic.

Sounds like you still have an somewhat abstract mental map. It sounds awfully close to what I'm using. I'm still can't easily take directions from most my female friends though.. they'll just constantly use landmarks I have trouble finding even when I'm standing right there.. just turn right after the shop selling those cute figurines.. you see the really nice red building?.. uh, come again?

Yes, but in the same article Ove Skåra from Datatilsynet (computer-watch.. government institution set up to help protect our privacy. They give out permits for surveillance cameraes and can give out legally binding rulings to companies who are in breach of privacy-laws) is quoted with saying:

"- Da er et brev med en anbefaling på ingen måte nok. Hvis ikke det kommer noen nye opplysninger, vil jeg ikke tro at brevet gjør noen særlig forskjell, sier han. "

(..since we recently had a meeting with the department concerning this..)
"- A letter with a recommondation is by no means enough. Unless there is new information relevant to the case, I do not believe the letter will make any difference".

The Minister of culture has openly supported the vigilante tactics of the "pirate-hunters"

Yes, but "Trond Giske, 4.0, god som gull", is demonstratebly not the brightest chap. Anything he says without a script should be just plainly disregarded.

There's a reason he's stuck as minister of culture. He's open, friendly and generally agreeable, so they want him as a visible part of the team, but not doing anything important. If he ever gets an important position, I will consider turning in my citizinship.

Full disclosure: I'm Norwegian! As somebody who has spent a fair time abroad, I'm growing to like Norway more and more. We're just, well, sensible. The ISP's don't censor, don't log and don't do crappy shit. They all do subscribe to a voluntary kidporn DNS-filter though. I actually downloaded the list of wikileaks once, switched to opendns (whom we all should avoid) and checked it out. I really, really regretted it. There really was childporn there. Anybody getting of on that shit needs to have their dick cut off. Either way, the ISP's are upfront if they're selling internet with usage limits (mainly due to strong Norwegian customer protection, companies aren't allowed to fuck you over), and everything just generally works. Not that that stops most norwegian from bitching about everything though. Bitching is kinda the national past-time. Seriously, I'm a big believer in the "freedom to not be fucked over". I definitivly enjoy not being screwed over, and I really do think more people should subscribe to it :)

Any metric is, at best, indicative. You can spend all day designing a better metric and by the end, you're still not going to get anything better than, well, indicative.

As with all data-analysis, make sure that whoever's using these numbers know how bad they are. If we're dealing with reports and decisions, make sure that there's a short explanatory comment by somebody in the know about to which degree you feel that these numbers are representative (example : overall performance is improved, but averages are scewed by a large of number complicated bugs on New Product).

Oh, and if the people making decisions are MBA's unable to read a single short sentence, you're screwed either way. Then you just have to roll with it :)

Add IE7 and IE8 on Windows XP to that list.

I actually thought it was slashdot following standards and IE being rubbish, since everything was fine with Opera at home. So, I guess this means that the machine they test new changes on before rolling out is running Opera? That's a rather limited test-suite, not that I don't approve though. GO OPERA!

Please don't mod parent up.

Conan is an enjoyable game. I'm not playing it currently, as the wast majority of people here, as it isn't really my type of game.. but still, it's an enjoyable game. If you're wondering about playing it, try the 7-day trial. It's free.

That said, I'm sick and tired of whiners making uninformed, poorly written posts. The Conan forums were full of them a month after launch. Why?! It's not going to help, it's not going to solve anything and it's ruining the forums for the people who actually play and enjoy the game.

Furthermore, why on earth are native speakers the ones with the most spelling mistakes? When they're ranting, can't they include some details on whats wrong, instead of just " tihs game suxx".. so atleast the people reading would get some information and some basis for discussion? Seriously, why are so many people acting like utter retards?

Sadly, parent isn't funny. It's insightfull.

It's the same phenomon that whenever a company relocates, they tend to relocate to really near wherever the top managment lives. The human brain is really good at making up good, objective reasons for justifying whatever it wants to.

Vista RTM had some copy performance issues but SP1 fixed those, and during Win7 there was a significant focus on improving copy / move / delete performance.

It's a crazy, crazy world when the limiting factor on IO-transfers is the overall operating system. It's just so utterly fundamentally wrong that I'm having trouble finding words.

I mean, seriously, these are very well-defined and simple operations. You can mess with the scheduler a bit, to ensure the computer doesn't freeze when copying, but that doesn't incur that big a overhead.. what else is there to do? IO is a lot slower than the rest of the stuff inside the machine, and thus IO should run at something close to its maximum speed. Always.