Quake II, if I am not mistaken, was written in C (not C++). So it looks like they ported the code to C++ and used.NET so that you can run the engine as a managed app. Should make it pretty easy to add new features.
Dude, I lived that way for 5 years. Eventually, you will get to the point (no matter how nice of a guy you are), that you begin to resent all of this. You then start resenting her. Then you start despising her. One day it will all just snap and you will end it. Take my advice: if you want to have a chance at staying together (happily), make sure that you talk with her about the things that irritate you. Otherwise they just build up and take over any of the feelings that you might have had for her. Take it from a guy who is now divorced with all of that credit card debt that a spouse can accrue.
On the bright side, I am now dating a very responsible, independent, attractive, and extremely intelligent geek-girl. It's good to be able to learn from one's own mistakes. It's better to learn from someone else's mistakes.
From a support standpoint, allowing users to choose to run whatever they want in an organization of any size is impracticle. Standards are necessary to make sure that all users can interoperate with each other and management. If something breaks that the user can't fix, and they are running completely different software than 90% of the company... well, there are problems.
Of course, I formatted my laptop when I got it at my current job and installed Gentoo on it, even though everyone else in the company is using Windows 2k/XP... Gotta love rdesktop for those apps (and) you just have to use.
Interesting stuff. When you say you re-ripped the CD, do you mean that you burned a CD from the original compressed audio, then ripped the CD to re-encode the file again to AAC?
If so, quality loss is understandable-you're using a lossy compression algorithm twice. If you are talking about ripping a newly burned (from AACs) CD to WAV and back to CD format again and the quality degraded, then I am confused...
"Re-ripping" quality would be a non-issue, I think. If you want to make another copy of the audio cd you can do a CD to CD copy and get a perfect duplicate. If you want to listen to it digitally, you have the original downloaded file. Now, yes, if you want to convert it to.ogg,.mp3, or whatever then you have some quality issues. I think that they are expecting that hardware manufacturers will switch to their format pretty soon with the amount of sales that they are generating, so it may not be that much of an issue either.
Of course, I would be happy if they allowed you to download it in.wav format so you could make "perfect" cds and have the ability to only do one lossy compression to convert to various formats, but I don't see that happening in the near future.
Actually, if you picked up the sqaure cover and oriented it vertically and spun it 45 degrees about the vertical axis it would still be able to fall through if it just had a small lip since the hypotenuse is 2^(1/2) times as long as one of the sides of the square.
Not exactly computer related, but my ex-mother-in-law certainly has some technology/physics issues. She once told me a story about why she hated flying. She argued with me for an hour about the time she was on a 747 trying to land in St. Louis and the flight went pretty well until the pilot stopped the plane in mid-air because they were in a "holding pattern" and could not land.
I tried to explain aerodynamics and lift, but she said "I don't know, but they did stop the plane and it was very bumpy. I hate flying." Sometimes it's really hard not to just laugh in the face of your relatives...
While what you say is true, some people only have the option of working hard. They do not have the resources available to them to be more productive.
Of course, I understand that if a larger percentage of the farmers are more productive then we need fewer farmers, etc. The thing is, I think that in many fields we could be a lot more productive than we currently are, but the more productive we become the less jobs that are available. It can't go on forever this way. I just don't see how capitalism is sustainable over increasingly long periods of technological progress.
Who knows, maybe I just watched too much Star Trek while growing up...:-)
I'm not complaining about my current comfort level. If anything, I am far too comfortable myself. I was, in fact, speaking about the difference between the guy drinking $1000 bottles of wine and the "Angolan peasant." I have no intention of getting on anyone's case, nor am I wanting to get into a charity-giving pissing match.
Let me tell you where I'm coming from on this issue. Last year I had to watch an uncle die from cancer. Financially, he didn't do too badly, but his insurance policy limits hit and he had to start paying pretty much out of his own pocket. His medicinal bills (not including hospital stays, etc.) were on the order of $15,000 per month. Did they buy him a couple more months of life? Yes, but the fact that it can completely wipe a family out just buying medicine for a dying man just doesn't seem right to me. This was a man with a family. To save his life, they would have given everything they had. And they pretty much did.
The thing is, is the company setting its prices so that they can continue to serve the public by creating new and more effective treatments and cures for various diseases? Or are they milking the public for every nickel they can to buy a bunch of people really nice houses and new Mercedes'?
I realize that a lot of people will say, "They worked hard. They have marketable skills. They deserve every thing that they have. They earned it." I used to feel this way. But now, I fail to see how anyone deserves to live in a $50 million dollar house, driving $200,000 dollar cars, drinking $1,000 bottles of wine, and spending more on an evening out on the town than some people make in a year. How can this be right, when millions of their fellow humans are dying from treatable and curable diseases? When others, who work just as hard as they ever did, live in abject poverty--unable to provide for the basic needs of there families.
I don't know...maybe I'm just going soft in my old age (26).
This scenario is exactly why capitalism complete fails to serve the good of the public in the area of medicine. Curing diseases is hardly ever as profitable as treating them indefinitely. I'm sorry, but who the fuck cares about money when people's lives are on the line? And what, only the rich that can afford the treatments deserve to survive?
Do I know of a solution? Not exactly. But look at the Open Source and Free Software movements as examples. Here are a bunch of people writing extremely good code because they love doing it. They get a kick out of doing something that benefits others. This is the kind of ethos we need to see in the medical industry. People who want to benefit the world doing so for that purpose. I realize there are a lot of people in the field that do just that--unfortunately many of them work for people who don't share their sentiments.
There is far too much of a balance in the world for it to to have occured by chance instead of by design.
Some would argue that chance would inevitably lead to the delicate balance you see in the world. In nature, what works tends to survive and reproduce. After a significant passing of time, it's amazing how ordered everything can appear.
I fail to see the significant difference between Creationism and Intelligent Design. Both require a Creator(a god), and neither rule out evolution. Just because different groups of people accept one or the other doesn't make them substantially different.
Scientists are doing the best they can to discover and verify the origin/age/nature of the universe--and they are working a lot harder at it than those who merely accept what Moses (who obviously didn't witness the Creation he wrote about) wrote a few thousand years ago.
Far be it from me to call anyone's belief system "stupid" as you do in your post; each of us is entitled to view the world as we see fit. I just happen to place a lot less stock in faith than I once did. I like tests. I like results. I like verifiable data. Although, as you say, it may be impossible to ever know for certain what our origins are, we can look at the various theories available and choose the one that best fits the available data. And you're right again--our view of the world might change from time to time as more data becomes available. But I prefer this to a stagnant view of the world based on a limited set of data obtained from a set of writings that are thousands of years old. Again, just my preference.
Yes and no. Creationists are fond of circulating statements denouncing evolution signed by as many scientists as they can muster, with the intention of conveying the impression that evolution is a theory in crisis. The point of Project Steve is to demonstrate, in a lighthearted manner, that, on the contrary, the status of evolution within the scientific community is secure. But the signatories realize that science is not conducted by voting.
Reminds me of when the kid behind me in class (who bullied me just about every day) finally got his just desserts.
He was making a sport out of flipping me in the back of the ear during class, as usual. The teacher left the room for a minute and I stood up and grabbed the front of his desk (we had the standard one-piece chair/desk setup) and lifted quite quickly. He, of course, flips over and smashes his head into the floor while rolling around trapped under his desk by his own body weight. I sit back down.
The teacher walks back in and takes a look at him wallowing in misery, takes a look at me with a grin on my face, and continues teaching class without even referencing the incident.:-)
Mating triggers the development of new neurons in the smell centre of the brain...
Wow, that explains so much...
...provide clues on how to trick other parts of the vital organ to repair themselves after injuries caused by strokes or head traumas.
Yeah, those head traumas from strokes to your vital organ can be painful.
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I have actually done a similar thing. In 7th grade, a bully sat behind me in my Life Sciences class. He continually kept flipping me in the ear and generally being a jerk. One day, the teacher left the room. I just stood up, turned around, grabbed the front of his desk (those great integrated chair/desks), and pulled up on it as hard and fast as I could. The entire class cheered as he lay sprawled on the floor with a desk on top of him... God, that was a good day.:-)
I was not making a value judgement, merely answering the poster's question. I did say that the floating point op ability of the G4 was impressive--and it is. I don't remember saying anything to the effect of "A Mac is a better computer because it can do lots of flops!"
I say enough stupid things on my own without other people putting words into my mouth.
So as not to be a complete ass, the first link from that article as a statement that a P4 overclocked to 3.9GHz (wow--he used liquid nitrogen) was only able to do 4.9 Gigaflops. A dual-G4 1GHz did 15 Gigaflops...
If it is "Looking two moves into the future," it isn't looking very carefully. Still, kind of a fun project...at least I have a computer opponent that I can frequently beat.:)
I agree that their is a big difference between disobeying a direct order and an unlawful one.
My problem stemmed from the fact that after taking the ASVAB and getting a 99 and the DLAB and getting a 120, I proved that I didn't really belong in the intelligence field by telling the recruiter to change my MOS from intel to infantry. (It's amazing the things people will do when their fiancee dumps them...) When trying to convince them to change my MOS back to intel (it's amazing how sobering the first 2 months of USMC bootcamp is...) and getting no results, I refused to do anything that they told me from there on out.
Yes, I know that I signed a contract. Yes, I believe that one should hold up their part of a contract that they sign. But, one also needs to be true to themselves, and I am not an Infantryman. I do not do well in situations where I have to be completely trusting of other people and follow their orders blindly. I am definitely not the person that the other infantryman need by their side if I am going to be constantly questioning the orders that I am given. I knew what the penalty was for my breach of contract, I accepted it and have moved on with my life.
A word of caution to all who are thinking of joining the Armed Forces: take into consideration your decisions for joining. For many people, joining the military is the best thing that ever happened to them. Just don't make any radical decisions without thinking them through. (like, yeah...put me in the infantry! My girlfriend left me; I want to kick some ass! [this is not to say that joining the infantry is necessarily bad, it just takes a particular type of person]).
As someone who spent 30 days in solitary confinement for disobeying orders in the Marine Corps (mainly because I am a stubborn geek who isn't good a taking orders that I disagree with--yes I know it was a really bad idea to enlist in the Marine Corps as an Infantryman if I can't take orders...the recruiter called on a particularly interesting day in my life--we'll call it a "learning experience"), I can attest that taking the "ultimate step" and disobeying orders can be a very unpleasant experience. One's rights under the UCMJ are significantly less than one's rights under the US Constitution.
In regards to the job analogy, you don't get sent to jail for deciding to quit your civilian job.
Apparently, Microsoft's FUD... er Advertising Department also adheres to the "Embrace and Extend" ideal. Of course, the Apple Switch commercials are much sexier...
Even though it would be some work, if you are interested in Physics you should buy The Feynman Lectures on Physics on tape and use your soundcard to rip to mp3. These are an absolutely wonderful collection of Physics lectures from one of the brightest minds in the field.
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Quake II, if I am not mistaken, was written in C (not C++). So it looks like they ported the code to C++ and used .NET so that you can run the engine as a managed app. Should make it pretty easy to add new features.
On the bright side, I am now dating a very responsible, independent, attractive, and extremely intelligent geek-girl. It's good to be able to learn from one's own mistakes. It's better to learn from someone else's mistakes.
Of course, I formatted my laptop when I got it at my current job and installed Gentoo on it, even though everyone else in the company is using Windows 2k/XP... Gotta love rdesktop for those apps (and) you just have to use.
If so, quality loss is understandable-you're using a lossy compression algorithm twice. If you are talking about ripping a newly burned (from AACs) CD to WAV and back to CD format again and the quality degraded, then I am confused...
Of course, I would be happy if they allowed you to download it in .wav format so you could make "perfect" cds and have the ability to only do one lossy compression to convert to various formats, but I don't see that happening in the near future.
Actually, if you picked up the sqaure cover and oriented it vertically and spun it 45 degrees about the vertical axis it would still be able to fall through if it just had a small lip since the hypotenuse is 2^(1/2) times as long as one of the sides of the square.
I tried to explain aerodynamics and lift, but she said "I don't know, but they did stop the plane and it was very bumpy. I hate flying." Sometimes it's really hard not to just laugh in the face of your relatives...
Of course, I understand that if a larger percentage of the farmers are more productive then we need fewer farmers, etc. The thing is, I think that in many fields we could be a lot more productive than we currently are, but the more productive we become the less jobs that are available. It can't go on forever this way. I just don't see how capitalism is sustainable over increasingly long periods of technological progress.
Who knows, maybe I just watched too much Star Trek while growing up... :-)
Let me tell you where I'm coming from on this issue. Last year I had to watch an uncle die from cancer. Financially, he didn't do too badly, but his insurance policy limits hit and he had to start paying pretty much out of his own pocket. His medicinal bills (not including hospital stays, etc.) were on the order of $15,000 per month. Did they buy him a couple more months of life? Yes, but the fact that it can completely wipe a family out just buying medicine for a dying man just doesn't seem right to me. This was a man with a family. To save his life, they would have given everything they had. And they pretty much did.
I realize that a lot of people will say, "They worked hard. They have marketable skills. They deserve every thing that they have. They earned it." I used to feel this way. But now, I fail to see how anyone deserves to live in a $50 million dollar house, driving $200,000 dollar cars, drinking $1,000 bottles of wine, and spending more on an evening out on the town than some people make in a year. How can this be right, when millions of their fellow humans are dying from treatable and curable diseases? When others, who work just as hard as they ever did, live in abject poverty--unable to provide for the basic needs of there families.
I don't know...maybe I'm just going soft in my old age (26).
Do I know of a solution? Not exactly. But look at the Open Source and Free Software movements as examples. Here are a bunch of people writing extremely good code because they love doing it. They get a kick out of doing something that benefits others. This is the kind of ethos we need to see in the medical industry. People who want to benefit the world doing so for that purpose. I realize there are a lot of people in the field that do just that--unfortunately many of them work for people who don't share their sentiments.
Yeah, because authors hate having to be creative... :-)
Some would argue that chance would inevitably lead to the delicate balance you see in the world. In nature, what works tends to survive and reproduce. After a significant passing of time, it's amazing how ordered everything can appear.
I fail to see the significant difference between Creationism and Intelligent Design. Both require a Creator(a god), and neither rule out evolution. Just because different groups of people accept one or the other doesn't make them substantially different.
Scientists are doing the best they can to discover and verify the origin/age/nature of the universe--and they are working a lot harder at it than those who merely accept what Moses (who obviously didn't witness the Creation he wrote about) wrote a few thousand years ago.
Far be it from me to call anyone's belief system "stupid" as you do in your post; each of us is entitled to view the world as we see fit. I just happen to place a lot less stock in faith than I once did. I like tests. I like results. I like verifiable data. Although, as you say, it may be impossible to ever know for certain what our origins are, we can look at the various theories available and choose the one that best fits the available data. And you're right again--our view of the world might change from time to time as more data becomes available. But I prefer this to a stagnant view of the world based on a limited set of data obtained from a set of writings that are thousands of years old. Again, just my preference.
Well, is this some kind of joke, then?
Yes and no. Creationists are fond of circulating statements denouncing evolution signed by as many scientists as they can muster, with the intention of conveying the impression that evolution is a theory in crisis. The point of Project Steve is to demonstrate, in a lighthearted manner, that, on the contrary, the status of evolution within the scientific community is secure. But the signatories realize that science is not conducted by voting.
He was making a sport out of flipping me in the back of the ear during class, as usual. The teacher left the room for a minute and I stood up and grabbed the front of his desk (we had the standard one-piece chair/desk setup) and lifted quite quickly. He, of course, flips over and smashes his head into the floor while rolling around trapped under his desk by his own body weight. I sit back down.
The teacher walks back in and takes a look at him wallowing in misery, takes a look at me with a grin on my face, and continues teaching class without even referencing the incident. :-)
Wow, that explains so much...
Yeah, those head traumas from strokes to your vital organ can be painful.
I have actually done a similar thing. In 7th grade, a bully sat behind me in my Life Sciences class. He continually kept flipping me in the ear and generally being a jerk. One day, the teacher left the room. I just stood up, turned around, grabbed the front of his desk (those great integrated chair/desks), and pulled up on it as hard and fast as I could. The entire class cheered as he lay sprawled on the floor with a desk on top of him... God, that was a good day. :-)
It's nice to see that I am not as unique as I once thought...
Maybe my wife is right about me being a "typical gifted student."
I say enough stupid things on my own without other people putting words into my mouth.
So as not to be a complete ass, the first link from that article as a statement that a P4 overclocked to 3.9GHz (wow--he used liquid nitrogen) was only able to do 4.9 Gigaflops. A dual-G4 1GHz did 15 Gigaflops...
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If it is "Looking two moves into the future," it isn't looking very carefully. Still, kind of a fun project...at least I have a computer opponent that I can frequently beat. :)
My problem stemmed from the fact that after taking the ASVAB and getting a 99 and the DLAB and getting a 120, I proved that I didn't really belong in the intelligence field by telling the recruiter to change my MOS from intel to infantry. (It's amazing the things people will do when their fiancee dumps them...) When trying to convince them to change my MOS back to intel (it's amazing how sobering the first 2 months of USMC bootcamp is...) and getting no results, I refused to do anything that they told me from there on out.
Yes, I know that I signed a contract. Yes, I believe that one should hold up their part of a contract that they sign. But, one also needs to be true to themselves, and I am not an Infantryman. I do not do well in situations where I have to be completely trusting of other people and follow their orders blindly. I am definitely not the person that the other infantryman need by their side if I am going to be constantly questioning the orders that I am given. I knew what the penalty was for my breach of contract, I accepted it and have moved on with my life.
A word of caution to all who are thinking of joining the Armed Forces: take into consideration your decisions for joining. For many people, joining the military is the best thing that ever happened to them. Just don't make any radical decisions without thinking them through. (like, yeah...put me in the infantry! My girlfriend left me; I want to kick some ass! [this is not to say that joining the infantry is necessarily bad, it just takes a particular type of person]).
In regards to the job analogy, you don't get sent to jail for deciding to quit your civilian job.
Apparently, Microsoft's FUD... er Advertising Department also adheres to the "Embrace and Extend" ideal. Of course, the Apple Switch commercials are much sexier...
Even though it would be some work, if you are interested in Physics you should buy The Feynman Lectures on Physics on tape and use your soundcard to rip to mp3. These are an absolutely wonderful collection of Physics lectures from one of the brightest minds in the field.