Comment Re:Nonsense (Score 1) 439
Nokia sold their soul to M$ and Erlop will see the Faustian compact consummated,
RIP Nokia, Sad but true.
MFG, omb
Apt post title.
Submission + - USS Enterprise Takes Its Final Voyage (npr.org)
westlake writes: "The AP is reporting that world's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise is being retired after fifty years of active service — the longest of any warship in US naval history. The big ship had become notoriously difficult to keep in repair. The only ship in its age and class, breakdowns became frequent and replacement parts often had to be custom made. Despite its place in naval history and popular culture, Enterprise will meet its end at the scrap yard and not be preserved as a museum. Famed USS Enterprise Takes Its Final Voyage"
Submission + - Ten Computer Games Which Defined RPGs In The 1980s
adeelarshad82 writes: 1980s' were huge for RPGs. This genre was one of the most defining game forms in the computer gaming world. A recently pubished article strolls down the memory lane to look back at ten classic computer games that both defined and extended the definition of the RPG in the 1980s. The roundup includes some obvious ones like Ultima and The Bard's Tale, and others which you may never have heard of.
Submission + - MIME Attachments Are 20 Years Old Today (techweekeurope.co.uk)
judgecorp writes: "MIME email attachments are 20 years old on 11 March, and we now send a trillion every day. The mountains of emails in corporate archives now contain vital information says MIME inventor Nathaniel Borenstein, which can be mined to expose conspiracies and make businesses more efficient. He also says that a one-penny tax on attachments would make him as rich as Germany — if it werent for the fact that such a charge would have killed MIME."
Submission + - A Better Way To Program (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: This video will change the way you think about programming. The argument is clear and impressive — it suggest that we really are building programs with one hand tied behind our backs.
Programmers can only understand their code by pretending to be computers and running it in their heads. As this video shows, this is increadibly inefficient and, as we generally have a computer in front of us, why not use it to help us understand the code?
Programmers can only understand their code by pretending to be computers and running it in their heads. As this video shows, this is increadibly inefficient and, as we generally have a computer in front of us, why not use it to help us understand the code?
Comment Re:Additional layers have nothing to do with this (Score 1, Interesting) 711
Forcing me to use a specific programming language is insane. Imagine Microsoft demanding all windows apps to be written only in C# and compiled only with Visual Studio. It would be an outrage. But hey, it's Steve Jobs, the Big Brother himself, and he knows what's best for us, right?
Is this asinine? You are aware Microsoft is demanding all Windows Phone 7 apps be written in C#/Silverlight, right? I may not agree with their move, but to say it puts them alone on a pillar of evil seems to show your own bias more than any factual opinion.
Comment Re:Linux (Score 1) 102
Actually this driver update miraculously fixed all the issues I was experiencing with PBOs and massively increased texture upload speed under some conditions compared to version 8.12. So I would say it has a good chance of fixing something else. I was about to throw my card in a really dirty bin after hacking away at 5 different methods of speeding up uploads and getting blank textures and 3 FPS for my trouble. 9.1 gave me back a picture, and then another 249 or so in the next second.
Comment Re:Best idea ever! (Score 1) 441
I don't know who you are, but I also went to North Sydney, and I also knew Mr. Starling and while he may've been more flamboyant than educational, he was fairly flamboyant.
On a serious note (he never actually taught me), you can't write off a school just because of a single teacher. There are bad teachers everywhere. Apart from a curious lack of girls, there was little else to complain about really.
As for the idea that parents should be able to peruse students comments on teachers... I see certain problems. Not all students are mature. Its a fact. Some of the comments will not be the most mature or helpful in terms of rating teaching ability. Back when I was a kid, if I had known that I could get back at a teacher by posting a scathing review on their educational abilities regardless of their basis on fact, I'll grudgingly admit I may take the opportunity. After a few drinks. May be I am weak, or perhaps its indicative of a problem. Who knows. I may not have read the article.
On a serious note (he never actually taught me), you can't write off a school just because of a single teacher. There are bad teachers everywhere. Apart from a curious lack of girls, there was little else to complain about really.
As for the idea that parents should be able to peruse students comments on teachers... I see certain problems. Not all students are mature. Its a fact. Some of the comments will not be the most mature or helpful in terms of rating teaching ability. Back when I was a kid, if I had known that I could get back at a teacher by posting a scathing review on their educational abilities regardless of their basis on fact, I'll grudgingly admit I may take the opportunity. After a few drinks. May be I am weak, or perhaps its indicative of a problem. Who knows. I may not have read the article.
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