The book linked to at the end of the first section - "Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-truths, and Total Nonsense" - looks interesting. Has anybody read it?
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I think that would just result in a lot of students dropping out. As a beginner, it's nice to get the computer to actually do something - even if it's just printing out a stupid message.
Gordon Brown became Prime Minister after Tony Blair resigned - he hasn't called a General Election yet.
If by 150K you mean 150,000 US dollars, it might interest you to learn that the average UK house price is more than twice that:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/uk_house_pric...
"Here are seven non-rules imposed on writers that can be safely discarded...
(3) You must not end a sentence with a preposition."
Visual Studio 2005 has a built-in option to use Emacs keybindings.
It's news to me. I think it's still fair to say that the name "doesn't really mean anything".
Is there a programming language which doesn't have an Emacs mode?
I'm not sure what they're trying to say, but they don't seem to be talking about indexing your own private data for you.
How can password-protected data not be user-specific? If the web application writers want to make certain data public, they already do this - for example, my Facebook profile is indexed by Google, but the messages I see when I log in aren't.
(a) you have a number to call if it suddenly stops working, and
(b) you can threaten to stop paying them if they don't sort the problem out.
Personally, I use GMail as my main account, and it doesn't worry me that there's some (probably miniscule) risk of being locked out of my account. If anyone wanted to get hold of me, they could still reach me via my work email address, telephone, or Facebook.
I'm slightly more worried that they could lose all my past emails - in which case there would be very little I could do to get any sort of redress from them - but I'm pretty confident that I'm more likely to lose my own data than Google. It is possible to back up your GMail messages to your local machine, and I have taken this precaution, although I don't do this very frequently.
It's not clear, but I took this to mean that his meal (if not the tip/bribe) was paid for on expenses.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4164669.stm
"...anyone trying to access the e-mails of the deceased is fighting an uphill struggle... In future... many webmailers may choose to side-step this process by entrusting their passwords to a loved one."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/27/stop-complaining-about-...
"In America, starting a successful business is the surest, most controllable path available to you for making a million dollars in less than 42 years."
Maybe you get your million dollars in two years, but only after thirty years of practice?
"...life expectancy for African-Americans rose... [after] public officials upgraded the sewer and water systems in black neighborhoods."
I think I'd rather be obese and alive than thin and dead from a disease caused by poor hygiene.
"Since this service is provided free of charge, it comes without any warranty, neither express nor implied (even the actual sending of the messages is not guaranteed, but we'll do our best)."
Yes, yes it does. Unless you're a cockroach who can't work the shift key:
I will do such things - what they are yet I know not - but they shall be the terrors of the earth.
The founders intend that eventually the answer you're looking for will show up as a stackoverflow.com question in the first page of Google results. They get more advertising revenue, the purported benefits to their users are:
* You don't have to pay or even register to use the site (unlike Experts Exchange).
* If an answer goes out of date (e.g. it only applies to the beta version) it can be updated.
* You can always add your own comments (not all blogs allow comments).
* If you manage to solve some tricky problem yourself, you can easily publish the information to help others (not everyone has their own blog).
From http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/gold_never_illegal.html:
'Presidential Executive Order 6102, April 5, 1933, made it illegal to "hoard" gold. The order exempted anyone whose "usual and customary" business required gold. (Dentists and jewelers come to mind. Electronic fabricators would come under this once electronics was invented.) Anyone could own up to $100 in gold coin. In 1933, $100 was two or three months wages for the average worker, about $6000 to $10,000 in today's money.'
http://www.answers.com/wizened&r=67
wiz·ened (wĭz'ənd) adj.
Withered; wizen.
phrasal verb:
wise up Slang. To make or become aware, informed, or sophisticated.
That's interesting, as according to Wikipedia version 1.0 of Firefox was released in February 2004. [1]
'But the response to Chrome shouldn't be to launch new features.'
Which new features are these?
'Here's the problem/challenge: when your friends switch to Firefox, your life doesn't get better.'
No, but when you switch to Firefox your life gets better. How many products or services are sold on the basis of making other people's lives better? Exactly one - charities.
'And the key to growing any piece of software (or just about any product or service, actually) is the opposite. People will recommend something if adoption improves their lives.'
Er, what?
'Fax machines?'
What machines? Fax machines? Oh, you mean version 2.0 of the telegraph?
'Life is better for me if you have one.'
The phrase you're looking for is 'network effect'. [2]
'Fashion? Life is better for me if I'm not the only one wearing this.'
Yes, everyone knows that a woman loves turning up to a party and seeing another woman wearing the same dress as her.
'Religious sect? Life is better for me if I'm not the only one in the building.'
Unless you're a hermit.
'So, Firefox needs to add functionality that makes the surfing experience better for all users when more users use Firefox.'
Say what?
'There are many ways to do this, and you can invent more than I ever could. Systems that allow for rating pages, or grouping them, or communicating (but only with FF users).'
Haven't you heard of the 'any browser' campaign? [3]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox#History
Yes, he was also complaining about there being 9 options to chose from when leaving your Windows Vista computer:
I can't quite see how this could be such a time-consuming task.
Does anyone know what this 'compelling web content' is?
"Google's greatest fear - that Microsoft will turn off ads in IE."
Google's ads are discreet text links, not blinking banners - does anyone want to turn them off? As the commenters point out, Firefox already has adblock.