this is OT, but in the real world, none of this is considered cheating. I'm a software engineer. I consider the lone wolf programmer who does everything in secrecy on his own to be a bad fit for my team. I want people to work together. I want people to compare notes and review each other's code. I want multiple people to be involved in working on one cohesive application.
I suspect other engineering tasks are similar. When someone is building a building, is it forbidden for the other engineers to work together?
Even when it comes to writing reports, having someone else do it for you is considered outsourcing and the ability to manage outsourced work is highly sought after.
Esspecially if the programer has a c++ foundation. Ive been a c/c++ programmer, a java programmer, a vb programmer, a c# programmer, a JavaScript programmer, and currently, an objective c programmer. I'm confident that I can take up whatever language is needed.
Incidentally, IMO,.net is the most cohesive, well documented platform coupled with the best tools I have ever used. It seems silly to pass up jobs because the tech might be made by a company you don't like. I'm sure there are plenty of good companies that do good work that just happens to leverage.net
She's more important than most people. It's not a measure of worth. It's just the way the world works.
the impact of a transgression is I^2 * T where I is the importance of the victim and T is the importance of the transgression. Most people are of fractional importance so for anyone to care what happens to you, the importance of the transgression has to be huge. Murder and robbery and rape are big so people will care.
Achieve some celebrity and your I might get over 1. then people will care about little things happening to you. They probably care more because just being in your proximity raises their I value some.
If you (though i don't know who you are) or I complained about someone breaking into our email accounts, nobody would care. People would agree you were a victim, but they would have no incentive to pursue anything. If you achieve fame, which is synonymous with importance in our society, then people will care.
I don't know anyone in the military who's come back to tell me how awesome it was killing people in afganistan.
Call of Duty games glorify violence and murder. Movies glorify violence and murder. Politicians glorify violence and murder. To my experience, the people in the military themselves are just people doing a job and hoping to stay alive.
Technically, i think the W3C standards for HTML 4.0 require a 3.5% interest rate. The other browsers are just providing proprietary rates in a standards breaking battle of oneupmanship. I think HTML 5 attempts to address this issue with the new heavily scriptable InterestCanvas element.
Graffiti was great. I still think it was the best input system for screen based devices. Once you learned it, i think speed an accuracy were far superior to todays soft keyboards and natural handwriting recognition. The palms also had this fun game to help you learn it. After a couple days of playing that game where letters fell down the screen, i was a pro.
I was going to post about how graffiti was the best ever and 8pen probably sucks, but after watching the video, i think i'm kind of intrigued by it. It actually looks like it would work well and, much like graffiti, is based around a set of unambiguous gestures with well defined start and end points.
It also looks like it's engineered to work well with a touch screen. Yeah, i appreciate the accuracy of a stylus for drawing, but really, why require a little stick that gets lost or broken easily when you can come up with a perfectly efficient means of data entry that utilizes just the device and the user?
I'm actually a little bummed that i won't see it on my iphone anytime soon.
Also the amount of power that such a system would likely dispense is dangerous. These stations would probably require service attendants trained in the use of the equipment. I see them popping up in oregon and new jersey first.
I want this battery in my laptop! Computers suck a fraction of the amps that a car does. With one of these magic batteries you could be mobile for months (if it actually works)
facebook is a creepy public place and this is par for the course. anyone who thinks they are doing anything in secret is mistaken. What i want to know is why it's so easy to do this, but a simple search to let me find my own posts by date or content doesn't exist?
Not to mention she's using her left hand. Cell phones can't even get reception now if you hold them in your left hand. They probably can't get a signal across that vast a timespace distance lefthanded.
My computer has been controlled by my brain for years. I think about how i want my fingers to move and the text gets entered into the system. As an added benefit, i can prevent my computer from accepting text from my thoughts by simply putting my hands in a different place!
That's why the systems tend to define a resolution independent mechanism for specifying text sizes. nobody is going to read 24 pixel type on that screen. it would be 0.04".
i've just taken apple's vision to mean that in 5 years, when you buy a macbook pro, it will look similar to today's macbook air. You'll have a big screen and all the power you need, but at that point the macbook air will be a ridiculously thin magical mithril elven thing, and a macbook pro that is as thick as today's air will look like a beast. compared to the laptops of 6 years ago, alienware's m15x looks like a macbook air.
the ridiculous talk of macbook air's being the 'future of computing'
wait, why is talk of macbook air's being the future of computing ridiculous? It's ridiculous for me to consider using a macbook air at this point, but my vanilla $999 macbook is plenty good for development (maybe i wish i had just a teeny bit more gaming power). There was a time in the past when i would have scoffed at the idea of anything less than a tower with 8 HD bays. Now, the extra power that i get in a desktop doesn't trump the portability of a notebook. I don't want to see a future where everything is an appliance like the ipad, but super thin ultraportables that ran a full featured os sound appealing, at that point, devices like the macbook air will seem beefy to us.
It's an experiment to measure vibrations. if you are sitting on a whirling rock full of shifting matter, is that really a good place to measure the fundamental noise of space time? It's akin to setting up a recording studio in the open in times square.
Logic dictates that if this noise exists, it would exist everywhere. So it's not like it wouldn't exist here. You can take your measurements, but you would probably want to find a very isolated part of the universe to repeat the experiment in at a later date.
what about tracking every noob you gank in WoW or what asteroids you mine in Eve? Savvy miscreants would encode messages into team fortress 2 sprays and put them on walls to communicate with each other.
I've said for a long time that the sensible way to fight piracy is to simply sell the product at a price point where people are happy to pay for the convenience of an easy high quality download.
Now i've discovered a new market. People want cheats for SC2. Blizzard should make cheats available and charge some nominal fee to download their cheat program. $2.99. Sure it's more than the free cheats, but it's unlikely to carry trojans, it's easily downloaded through the blizzard downloader you already have, and really who knows more about the inner workings of the game? Some punks with a hex editor or Blizzard?
I am only about 25% joking. When i started typing this i thought it was funny. now i think this idea has real merit.
i always hear about how awesome sense is. as a developer, can one support sense? I would imagine if you could, you would need to download additional sdks from htc, then your stuff wouldn't run on anything other than an htc sense phone.
I think it's a valid point. there was a recent article about the developers of tweetdeck encountering some 200+ permutations of android. IOS has about 9.
Of those, the differences are small. All have the same keyboard. Similar screen functions. 3 resolutions, and 2 of them are abstracted to the point that you don't need to worry about them. IOS has a really nice UI api that works in points rather than pixels, and you never have to do anything but make some images that are 2X bigger and name them with an @2x to support the retina display. you never need to fiddle with the locations of screen elements or write retina specific code if you are working in cocoa.
Almost all devices now have cameras and gps and compass and gyro.
Apple is militant (to a fault) about obsoleting old devices. There's no point in supporting the 3G anymore. Heck, even their ide releases systematically remove old sdks. Writing code for os 3.x devices is becoming a crapshoot as there is nothing to compiletime check your code against the old sdk. the iPad is a little more work to support, but OS 4.2 should bring it more in line with it's more diminutive siblings. If you think IOS is fractured, you probably never developed for Web, Windows, Linux, Windows Mobile, Symbian, even Java rivals IOS for fractured.
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this is OT, but in the real world, none of this is considered cheating. I'm a software engineer. I consider the lone wolf programmer who does everything in secrecy on his own to be a bad fit for my team. I want people to work together. I want people to compare notes and review each other's code. I want multiple people to be involved in working on one cohesive application.
I suspect other engineering tasks are similar. When someone is building a building, is it forbidden for the other engineers to work together?
Even when it comes to writing reports, having someone else do it for you is considered outsourcing and the ability to manage outsourced work is highly sought after.
Yes, but their greatest claims to fame were not stupid.
Esspecially if the programer has a c++ foundation. Ive been a c/c++ programmer, a java programmer, a vb programmer, a c# programmer, a JavaScript programmer, and currently, an objective c programmer. I'm confident that I can take up whatever language is needed.
.net is the most cohesive, well documented platform coupled with the best tools I have ever used. It seems silly to pass up jobs because the tech might be made by a company you don't like. I'm sure there are plenty of good companies that do good work that just happens to leverage .net
Incidentally, IMO,
She's more important than most people. It's not a measure of worth. It's just the way the world works.
the impact of a transgression is I^2 * T where I is the importance of the victim and T is the importance of the transgression. Most people are of fractional importance so for anyone to care what happens to you, the importance of the transgression has to be huge. Murder and robbery and rape are big so people will care.
Achieve some celebrity and your I might get over 1. then people will care about little things happening to you. They probably care more because just being in your proximity raises their I value some.
If you (though i don't know who you are) or I complained about someone breaking into our email accounts, nobody would care. People would agree you were a victim, but they would have no incentive to pursue anything. If you achieve fame, which is synonymous with importance in our society, then people will care.
I don't know anyone in the military who's come back to tell me how awesome it was killing people in afganistan.
Call of Duty games glorify violence and murder. Movies glorify violence and murder. Politicians glorify violence and murder. To my experience, the people in the military themselves are just people doing a job and hoping to stay alive.
Technically, i think the W3C standards for HTML 4.0 require a 3.5% interest rate. The other browsers are just providing proprietary rates in a standards breaking battle of oneupmanship. I think HTML 5 attempts to address this issue with the new heavily scriptable InterestCanvas element.
Graffiti was great. I still think it was the best input system for screen based devices. Once you learned it, i think speed an accuracy were far superior to todays soft keyboards and natural handwriting recognition. The palms also had this fun game to help you learn it. After a couple days of playing that game where letters fell down the screen, i was a pro.
I was going to post about how graffiti was the best ever and 8pen probably sucks, but after watching the video, i think i'm kind of intrigued by it. It actually looks like it would work well and, much like graffiti, is based around a set of unambiguous gestures with well defined start and end points.
It also looks like it's engineered to work well with a touch screen. Yeah, i appreciate the accuracy of a stylus for drawing, but really, why require a little stick that gets lost or broken easily when you can come up with a perfectly efficient means of data entry that utilizes just the device and the user?
I'm actually a little bummed that i won't see it on my iphone anytime soon.
Yeah! At one point chrome, safari, opera and firefox had 0 market share. That didn't mean they were a failure. It meant they didn't exist.
Also the amount of power that such a system would likely dispense is dangerous. These stations would probably require service attendants trained in the use of the equipment. I see them popping up in oregon and new jersey first.
I want this battery in my laptop! Computers suck a fraction of the amps that a car does. With one of these magic batteries you could be mobile for months (if it actually works)
facebook is a creepy public place and this is par for the course. anyone who thinks they are doing anything in secret is mistaken. What i want to know is why it's so easy to do this, but a simple search to let me find my own posts by date or content doesn't exist?
Not to mention she's using her left hand. Cell phones can't even get reception now if you hold them in your left hand. They probably can't get a signal across that vast a timespace distance lefthanded.
My computer has been controlled by my brain for years. I think about how i want my fingers to move and the text gets entered into the system. As an added benefit, i can prevent my computer from accepting text from my thoughts by simply putting my hands in a different place!
That's why the systems tend to define a resolution independent mechanism for specifying text sizes. nobody is going to read 24 pixel type on that screen. it would be 0.04".
i've just taken apple's vision to mean that in 5 years, when you buy a macbook pro, it will look similar to today's macbook air. You'll have a big screen and all the power you need, but at that point the macbook air will be a ridiculously thin magical mithril elven thing, and a macbook pro that is as thick as today's air will look like a beast. compared to the laptops of 6 years ago, alienware's m15x looks like a macbook air.
i see lots of people getting data like tv shows and movies from space with a dish that you could probably make for $10
anyone can send a server to space, all you need is a weather balloon and an iphone.
the ridiculous talk of macbook air's being the 'future of computing'
wait, why is talk of macbook air's being the future of computing ridiculous? It's ridiculous for me to consider using a macbook air at this point, but my vanilla $999 macbook is plenty good for development (maybe i wish i had just a teeny bit more gaming power). There was a time in the past when i would have scoffed at the idea of anything less than a tower with 8 HD bays. Now, the extra power that i get in a desktop doesn't trump the portability of a notebook. I don't want to see a future where everything is an appliance like the ipad, but super thin ultraportables that ran a full featured os sound appealing, at that point, devices like the macbook air will seem beefy to us.
It's an experiment to measure vibrations. if you are sitting on a whirling rock full of shifting matter, is that really a good place to measure the fundamental noise of space time? It's akin to setting up a recording studio in the open in times square.
Logic dictates that if this noise exists, it would exist everywhere. So it's not like it wouldn't exist here. You can take your measurements, but you would probably want to find a very isolated part of the universe to repeat the experiment in at a later date.
now this is going to absolutely ruin Spinal Tap.
what about tracking every noob you gank in WoW or what asteroids you mine in Eve? Savvy miscreants would encode messages into team fortress 2 sprays and put them on walls to communicate with each other.
I've said for a long time that the sensible way to fight piracy is to simply sell the product at a price point where people are happy to pay for the convenience of an easy high quality download.
Now i've discovered a new market. People want cheats for SC2. Blizzard should make cheats available and charge some nominal fee to download their cheat program. $2.99. Sure it's more than the free cheats, but it's unlikely to carry trojans, it's easily downloaded through the blizzard downloader you already have, and really who knows more about the inner workings of the game? Some punks with a hex editor or Blizzard?
I am only about 25% joking. When i started typing this i thought it was funny. now i think this idea has real merit.
probably not on AT&T
i always hear about how awesome sense is. as a developer, can one support sense? I would imagine if you could, you would need to download additional sdks from htc, then your stuff wouldn't run on anything other than an htc sense phone.
I think it's a valid point. there was a recent article about the developers of tweetdeck encountering some 200+ permutations of android. IOS has about 9.
Of those, the differences are small. All have the same keyboard. Similar screen functions. 3 resolutions, and 2 of them are abstracted to the point that you don't need to worry about them. IOS has a really nice UI api that works in points rather than pixels, and you never have to do anything but make some images that are 2X bigger and name them with an @2x to support the retina display. you never need to fiddle with the locations of screen elements or write retina specific code if you are working in cocoa.
Almost all devices now have cameras and gps and compass and gyro.
Apple is militant (to a fault) about obsoleting old devices. There's no point in supporting the 3G anymore. Heck, even their ide releases systematically remove old sdks. Writing code for os 3.x devices is becoming a crapshoot as there is nothing to compiletime check your code against the old sdk. the iPad is a little more work to support, but OS 4.2 should bring it more in line with it's more diminutive siblings. If you think IOS is fractured, you probably never developed for Web, Windows, Linux, Windows Mobile, Symbian, even Java rivals IOS for fractured.