Actually, I believe steam allows you to host your (indie) games as well (for free) on their servers. What the requirements are, I don't know, but I believe it said any developers can upload their game.
Sorry for the lack of a link though. Take my word or explore the site to find it.
Care to explain? +5 interesting because you made a statement?
Overclocking of processors, especially when using higher than nominal voltage, causes electromigration between their transistors and significantly shortens the chips' lifetime.
GPUs tend to be overclocked frequently (hell, they sell overclocked GPUs as is) Defining reasonable time span can be difficult depending on the speed of technology. You spent $100 on a card today, that breaks in 3 years, and if you want to buy another of that same card, it will most likely be $20.
But to prove my point, electromigration happens, and IS an issue within ANY time span.
I worked a tech support hotline for about 6 months, and then on site as a tech for 6 months. I only have a 2 year degree (cause what's the point in gen eds... seriously...)
I had a horrible time applying at any place remotely professional, until I found a small company that was starting to get desperate. Stayed in there for a year (to prove I had some commitment) then had references to move to a big company. Although the company allows you to get in if you do internships, its just that working at a small company as a programmer helped build my experience.
I assume after a few years here, and a promotion (this is a big company, so plenty of rungs on the ladder) I will have enough "professional experience" to work anywhere, and it will come down to skills... and surprisingly I am still the youngest in my company...
It's non-obvious (at least to me, but I don't claim to be an expert).
People have been joking about patenting the "idea" to make patents. Although because they implement this a different way (by "finding ideas that are NOT patented yet"). They may still have a case...
had a conversation with one of my would to be Indian replacements (hello Mumbai!) and he literally told me he was afraid of doing his work because realized the consequences of doing something wrong.
Yes... all new comers are afraid to jump right in and mess with critical systems at the START of the job.
A little experience is good, but to say that your replacement was a horrible candidate based on his pre-career fears should not disqualify them. It takes a person around 3-6 months to get comfortable with the systems they work on. Even more if it's a huge system.
I'm more curious to hear about YOUR first few months on that same job. You can lie to yourself if you like though.
You're a little off the mark.
The problem here isn't strictly a hardware limitation,
Neither was his teleporter idea... He has a way to take pictures of the items you want to teleport, you just have to figure out how to use the pictures on the other end of it (ie, assemble the "data" in the pictures). All that's needed is something that can generate atoms in the order specified by the data in the pictures!
The idea for "salary" workers is that you get paid x amount regardless of hours (either overtime, OR undertime). The law states as long as you work 1 hour a day, you are to get paid for that day.
But companies will only hear what they want, and force a minimum of 40. In which case, if you force overtime, then make sure your employees get undertime as well.
A place I used to work at, would ALWAYS try to force overtime (the way it currently works, as long as they don't log your hours for overtime and you're salary, they already don't have to pay.)
Well, that's fine for me, because my coworkers made sure they put in just 40 hours, and the rest was chatting/surfing the internet etc. I decided for every hour extra they wanted from me, was an hour under work I would actually do (they pushed 50, so I surfed the web for an extra 2 hours a day).
Eventually they went back to 40, and decided to make "last minute requests", where 'you can't go home until this is done'. Until a smart co-worker decided 'looks done to me, cya tomorrow'.
Why quit (and lose eligibility for unemployment), when you can cost the company so much more?
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Would you rather have your kid to another kids house and get on when no parents are online?
Would you rather have your kid sneak on when you're not around?
I say, force the kid to go online (assuming the kid is reluctant, which I doubt), and make sure you are always with them when they are surfing. I'd rather be there when the kid stumbles upon a bad site, than have them find it when I'm not around, or being told ignorantly what it is by the other kids with them (before, during, or after the visit).
which overheated and caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100 degrees. This resulted in the accidental release of a ton of liquid helium
More importantly is the exact science and measurements...
~100 were heated up over 100 degrees (K/F/C?), so were these 100 overheated? How about that 'a ton' of liquid helium, is that like.... a lot, or was it exactly 2,000 pounds?
But lets assume its not used for convicting and would be used how it should be: to help determine who might be a threat. Therefor security can watch that person more closely (without pushing them over the edge as well).
I think using this to identify a criminal would obviously be the bad idea, but using this to help narrow who to watch would be what this should be used for.
Iâ(TM)ve been offered âoea piece of the actionâ both personally and corporately in the past if I will either turn a blind eye or help them in their actions. This would have netted me and/or Mythic a very, very tidy sum, far more than we would see from box sales. My answer was and always will remain the same:
Go to hell.
I must say.. he is legend. Hopefully this type of behavior will stay 2-3 years down the road and not fall down the uncaring path that all big MMORPGs always do.
Same concept?
Situation 1: "Sorry, folks, the storage facility leaked into the local groundwater. You'll find a little bit of carbonation in your water supply."
Situation 2: "Sorry, folks, the storage facility leaked into the local groundwater. You'll find a little bit of Cesium-137 [wikipedia.org] in your water supply."
More like... "Sorry, folks, its in fucking Yucca Mountain underneath layers of concrete, where no seismic activity occurs, deep underground , nowhere near civilization.
Whereas, people push against storing underground are currently forcing them to store nuclear waste on site at the power plants which are near civilization.
Unless there is a massive reduction in CAS latency or something (much more than this), "fast" memory speeds mean absolutely nothing to me TODAY. This is nothing but a slashvertisement. Wake me up when it's $40.
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Just because one piece of hardware is pushed beyond necessity doesn't mean it's useless. Wait for the other components to require faster memory (for games/servers OR game servers:P).
It's useless to you today, but you say "wake me up when" means you would find it news, if you could afford it...
Chances are, by the way he sounds: I assume hes buying the "cheapest/most reliable" RAM. Not realizing that the cheapest is probably not going to make it the most reliable.
Uhh? Why not just use nuclear power, store it into Yucca Mountain (as was planned, until people complained) opposed to storing the nuclear waste in the nuclear plant itself.
http://www.iz3d.com/ has these special monitors (2 screens instead of a regular monitor, hence the 400-700 price tag), and supposedly work with existing directX technology.
If they can make it 3d over existing 1 screen monitors, then I suppose that's an improvement. Seems possible already. So congrats to them.
I'm still waiting for a 360 degree (hell, give me a visor with semi-crappy resolution) opposed to special monitors. All the objects are already loaded into directX/openGL, only a few tweaks to tell it to render some extra pieces would be necessary (if at all, since the visor would just be an up close monitor). This assumes that their goal is more immersion in games, and not making the game more realistic, which are 2 different things.
Empire Earth had an excellent difficulty system (when creating maps). You could set many key factors, especially whether it was going to cheat or not.
Another great RTS would be the Galactic Civilizations II games. Where if you played on an easy level, the computer actually told you it knew what you were doing - but was set too low to react (like putting tons of units on its borders before going hostile), to help you realize that it had the potential to counter-attack, and if you wanted a more fair challenge you should turn up the difficulty more.
The whole "beeline" into unknown territory always seems to be the hindrance in RTS games still though. Typical players don't tend to have scouts going into every possible area within the first 5 seconds of gameplay, because they don't have the micro management (although auto explore systems have helped a little on this).
I like to think that if God exists that he wants us to work out what is going on and so has left just enough clues to find out...
So... Hes just toying with us...
But you are assuming "if God exists" 'now'. What if he no longer exists? What if God (our creator) was not as powerful as you think? Technically we can consider ourselves god when we create things.
Sadly enough I have to quote Dogma: beliefs are taken too far. People die for beliefs, a theory is just that, a thought.
Time and time again, people are afraid to admit any changes in their view of their own god, and tend to reject any evidence that he is different than the way they think he is, but my (theory) is that this is because you were taught religion when you were a naive child. People tend to stick to their childhood beliefs a lot more than you think (fears, things you like, right and wrong, etc.). If you don't teach a child religion until they are adults, there's a far less chance they "convert" once they develop reasoning skills.
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Actually, I believe steam allows you to host your (indie) games as well (for free) on their servers. What the requirements are, I don't know, but I believe it said any developers can upload their game.
Sorry for the lack of a link though. Take my word or explore the site to find it.
Overclocking of processors, especially when using higher than nominal voltage, causes electromigration between their transistors and significantly shortens the chips' lifetime.
GPUs tend to be overclocked frequently (hell, they sell overclocked GPUs as is) Defining reasonable time span can be difficult depending on the speed of technology. You spent $100 on a card today, that breaks in 3 years, and if you want to buy another of that same card, it will most likely be $20.
But to prove my point, electromigration happens, and IS an issue within ANY time span.
From a person who was in your shoes:
I worked a tech support hotline for about 6 months, and then on site as a tech for 6 months. I only have a 2 year degree (cause what's the point in gen eds... seriously...)
I had a horrible time applying at any place remotely professional, until I found a small company that was starting to get desperate. Stayed in there for a year (to prove I had some commitment) then had references to move to a big company. Although the company allows you to get in if you do internships, its just that working at a small company as a programmer helped build my experience.
I assume after a few years here, and a promotion (this is a big company, so plenty of rungs on the ladder) I will have enough "professional experience" to work anywhere, and it will come down to skills... and surprisingly I am still the youngest in my company...
Good luck
It's non-obvious (at least to me, but I don't claim to be an expert).
People have been joking about patenting the "idea" to make patents. Although because they implement this a different way (by "finding ideas that are NOT patented yet"). They may still have a case...
had a conversation with one of my would to be Indian replacements (hello Mumbai!) and he literally told me he was afraid of doing his work because realized the consequences of doing something wrong.
Yes... all new comers are afraid to jump right in and mess with critical systems at the START of the job.
A little experience is good, but to say that your replacement was a horrible candidate based on his pre-career fears should not disqualify them. It takes a person around 3-6 months to get comfortable with the systems they work on. Even more if it's a huge system.
I'm more curious to hear about YOUR first few months on that same job. You can lie to yourself if you like though.
You're a little off the mark. The problem here isn't strictly a hardware limitation,
Neither was his teleporter idea... He has a way to take pictures of the items you want to teleport, you just have to figure out how to use the pictures on the other end of it (ie, assemble the "data" in the pictures). All that's needed is something that can generate atoms in the order specified by the data in the pictures!
The idea for "salary" workers is that you get paid x amount regardless of hours (either overtime, OR undertime). The law states as long as you work 1 hour a day, you are to get paid for that day.
But companies will only hear what they want, and force a minimum of 40. In which case, if you force overtime, then make sure your employees get undertime as well.
A place I used to work at, would ALWAYS try to force overtime (the way it currently works, as long as they don't log your hours for overtime and you're salary, they already don't have to pay.)
Well, that's fine for me, because my coworkers made sure they put in just 40 hours, and the rest was chatting/surfing the internet etc. I decided for every hour extra they wanted from me, was an hour under work I would actually do (they pushed 50, so I surfed the web for an extra 2 hours a day).
Eventually they went back to 40, and decided to make "last minute requests", where 'you can't go home until this is done'. Until a smart co-worker decided 'looks done to me, cya tomorrow'.
Why quit (and lose eligibility for unemployment), when you can cost the company so much more?
Would you rather have your kid to another kids house and get on when no parents are online?
Would you rather have your kid sneak on when you're not around?
I say, force the kid to go online (assuming the kid is reluctant, which I doubt), and make sure you are always with them when they are surfing. I'd rather be there when the kid stumbles upon a bad site, than have them find it when I'm not around, or being told ignorantly what it is by the other kids with them (before, during, or after the visit).
I once worked a full 6 of 8 hours in one day... Turns out I did 3x more than my coworkers did.
:)
Now I feel guilty that I did too much and am making my peers look bad... so... you'll see me around here more
which overheated and caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100 degrees. This resulted in the accidental release of a ton of liquid helium
More importantly is the exact science and measurements...
~100 were heated up over 100 degrees (K/F/C?), so were these 100 overheated? How about that 'a ton' of liquid helium, is that like.... a lot, or was it exactly 2,000 pounds?
But lets assume its not used for convicting and would be used how it should be: to help determine who might be a threat. Therefor security can watch that person more closely (without pushing them over the edge as well).
I think using this to identify a criminal would obviously be the bad idea, but using this to help narrow who to watch would be what this should be used for.
Wait... what?! If this was an attempt at humor, then that was just plain god awful horrible.
So not only do you advise covering your tracks, but you also advise going out of your way to make it look like something/someone else?!
Iâ(TM)ve been offered âoea piece of the actionâ both personally and corporately in the past if I will either turn a blind eye or help them in their actions. This would have netted me and/or Mythic a very, very tidy sum, far more than we would see from box sales. My answer was and always will remain the same:
Go to hell.
I must say.. he is legend. Hopefully this type of behavior will stay 2-3 years down the road and not fall down the uncaring path that all big MMORPGs always do.
Same concept? Situation 1: "Sorry, folks, the storage facility leaked into the local groundwater. You'll find a little bit of carbonation in your water supply." Situation 2: "Sorry, folks, the storage facility leaked into the local groundwater. You'll find a little bit of Cesium-137 [wikipedia.org] in your water supply."
More like... "Sorry, folks, its in fucking Yucca Mountain underneath layers of concrete, where no seismic activity occurs, deep underground , nowhere near civilization.
Whereas, people push against storing underground are currently forcing them to store nuclear waste on site at the power plants which are near civilization.
Unless there is a massive reduction in CAS latency or something (much more than this), "fast" memory speeds mean absolutely nothing to me TODAY. This is nothing but a slashvertisement. Wake me up when it's $40.
text added :P).
Just because one piece of hardware is pushed beyond necessity doesn't mean it's useless. Wait for the other components to require faster memory (for games/servers OR game servers
It's useless to you today, but you say "wake me up when" means you would find it news, if you could afford it...
buy overpriced junk
Chances are, by the way he sounds: I assume hes buying the "cheapest/most reliable" RAM. Not realizing that the cheapest is probably not going to make it the most reliable.
Uhh? Why not just use nuclear power, store it into Yucca Mountain (as was planned, until people complained) opposed to storing the nuclear waste in the nuclear plant itself.
SAME concept as the article...
I only know one 14 year old pirate girl, and she sings.
I've always considered Anonymous a bit shady in their dealings, and this justs seals the deal.
Woah woah woah... Why is everyone assuming this Anonymous is the Anonymous vs scientology? Is that because of the summary, or just a blind assumption?
Anonymous != Anonymous, just like Random IP != Random IP.
Aren't police allowed to place tracker bugs on your vehicle without your knowledge anyways?
Or is that all from the undercover cop TV shows? In which case they are showing a "good" cop doing something illegal.
http://www.iz3d.com/ has these special monitors (2 screens instead of a regular monitor, hence the 400-700 price tag), and supposedly work with existing directX technology.
If they can make it 3d over existing 1 screen monitors, then I suppose that's an improvement. Seems possible already. So congrats to them.
I'm still waiting for a 360 degree (hell, give me a visor with semi-crappy resolution) opposed to special monitors. All the objects are already loaded into directX/openGL, only a few tweaks to tell it to render some extra pieces would be necessary (if at all, since the visor would just be an up close monitor). This assumes that their goal is more immersion in games, and not making the game more realistic, which are 2 different things.
Empire Earth had an excellent difficulty system (when creating maps). You could set many key factors, especially whether it was going to cheat or not.
Another great RTS would be the Galactic Civilizations II games. Where if you played on an easy level, the computer actually told you it knew what you were doing - but was set too low to react (like putting tons of units on its borders before going hostile), to help you realize that it had the potential to counter-attack, and if you wanted a more fair challenge you should turn up the difficulty more.
The whole "beeline" into unknown territory always seems to be the hindrance in RTS games still though. Typical players don't tend to have scouts going into every possible area within the first 5 seconds of gameplay, because they don't have the micro management (although auto explore systems have helped a little on this).
I like to think that if God exists that he wants us to work out what is going on and so has left just enough clues to find out ...
So... Hes just toying with us...
But you are assuming "if God exists" 'now'. What if he no longer exists? What if God (our creator) was not as powerful as you think? Technically we can consider ourselves god when we create things.
Sadly enough I have to quote Dogma: beliefs are taken too far. People die for beliefs, a theory is just that, a thought.
Time and time again, people are afraid to admit any changes in their view of their own god, and tend to reject any evidence that he is different than the way they think he is, but my (theory) is that this is because you were taught religion when you were a naive child. People tend to stick to their childhood beliefs a lot more than you think (fears, things you like, right and wrong, etc.). If you don't teach a child religion until they are adults, there's a far less chance they "convert" once they develop reasoning skills.
Keep using BPA products. And people wonder why girls are hitting puberty so much earlier now.
Internet? (reference: any adult web site)
attention deficit disorder
Internet? (reference: online games)
and neurological systems
Internet? (reference: goatse)