There is no excuse for not wearing proper footwear; whether running in place or not. Your feet, legs, and back are incredibly important (and all these are adversely affected from high impact exercises). Don't mess around with them to save a few bucks.
I don't know, my old Samsung YP-T9 always played FLAC & Vorbis files just fine. And, seriously, the cost of having to support those "additional cycles" in hardware is probably less than the licensing costs for MP3.
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What pisses me off even more is that the radar is mostly superfluous. It really would not have been that hard to have devised some other way to have found the Joker or whatever and combat the SWAT team. To me, it seemed like it was more just there to make the quick political statement (via Morgan Freeman's comments), rather than really help the movie.
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Totally. The Matrix worked so well because there was only really one stretch-of-the-imagination required; the year is actually 2199, and everyone is plugged into some virtual reality. Everything else was built on top of this one assumption. Once everyone accepted that assumption, everything else in the movie made sense. The Matrix didn't require the audience to continually make new allowances in order for the story to be told.
The way I see it, movies/shows are given a few basic allowances, usually set out at the beginning of the movie/show. After this, I figure you should have to work with what you got and stick to the world as laid out at the start. If your premise is a current-day world w/ super heroes, then that's what you get, current day tech & people, but with super heroes in the mix. The problems start when the creators start trying to stretch-the-audiences imagination further, by saying, "oh, and, we forgot to mention this in the first hour of the movie, but there also exists super-hacking-devices that are available to the general public, even though 99% of the other tech is as it is today" or "oh, by the way, that small town girl is also the world's greatest hacker... ever." They shouldn't make up new stuff every time they need a device to move the plot along.
Are they really claiming that it runs the code backwards, undoing the calculations and going from a programs outputs to what its inputs had to be? If so, that could be a major technological advance all by itself. Imagine the useful things you could do with this capability...
The article is referring to whitehouse.gov's privacy policy. The only web site this affects is whitehouse.gov and the only users are the visitors to whitehouse.gov.
So true. The first step whenever I start researching something is almost always a Wikipedia search, and it just branches off from there. Works better than just picking links at random from a Google search.
That's pretty subjective. Some people prefer their favourite statically typed language to be a little more conservative in added features (language, not runtime libraries).
I think the biggest pro for using divs is when you have to move something around. Tables are only easy for getting the initial layout just right. For something you actually have to maintain, divs just make sense. A little more work early on makes messing around w/ the pages design loads easier later on.
No, your entire brain is the meat part. This includes all emotion, memories, and perception. Every synapse that fires is physical (the meat part). Perhaps "self-aware bit" was a bad choice in words, I'm talking about the part that makes you YOU, rather than someone else. Without it, a human would still function the same, but there would be no one watching, if you know what I mean... Not sure how to explain it really.
The fact that we are self-aware can only be better explained by the existence of a soul, IMO. I can always use science to explain away other people and why they do what they do, but the fact remains that each of us has an observer which experiences everything, rather than just being a bunch of really smart, plush robots. Clearly there is something more to us than just our physical selves. Our bodies die, and with them goes what really makes us a person us (personalities, memories, etc.), but who is to say what happens to the self-aware bit, the bit which is just there for the ride.
Too true. Many unions also demand little more than what is required to maintain a competitive work environment, which makes a lot of sense in a professional setting, where potential employees aren't a dime-a-dozen. I'm in a union with my work (IT), and I know I am certainly not overpaid for what I do (actually, a little under the average).
How crappy you are treated usually seems to be inversely proportional to how much you get paid. I don't get how a manager can pay someone next-to-minimum wage, then just expect them to take their shit. I also don't get how someone can get paid next-to-minimum wage and actually take the managers shit. C'est la vie.
In web development internships I made $15.50-$19.06 between my 3 terms. I was on the high-end of the scale for pay though. Most people I know made around $12/h in IT related jobs.
No, as a long-time video game player I say, Twilight Princess and Super Mario Galaxy were both awesome games. That said, any publicly traded company's executives better be after profit, otherwise they shouldn't be execs. Profit for Nintendo - especially long term - comes from making great games & consoles that people buy. This is why people like Miyamoto are such assets to them.
Also, a console is more than just the hardware. Technically, both the Gamecube and the Xbox were better than the PS2, yet who outsold both by more than 6 times? It's about what is the most fun, and that comes from the games that come out for it. Nintendo is expecting Wii shortages AGAIN this winter... this would be the 3rd Xmas season the Wii has been out. Don't you think its time you rethink your "Gimmick" angle?
Someone gives you 2 blackboxes. They both perform the same task, but one does a much better job of it. Now someone asks you to do that task, which box will you use? Well, obviously the one that does it better. To you (the end user), it doesn't matter what's under the plastic, but what the end results are. So, it certainly means something. It doesn't speak to how well the implementation was coded, but certainly to the merits of using the PS3 as your web-browser vs. your desktop computer.
Well... they never actually said Adobe gave them the source. "Customization" could mean just about anything, including a wrapper or something. They also say it was a "seperate flash implementation," which I don't really understand. Does Adobe have another version of Flash laying around?
Yeah, true. I was comparing it to the PS2, which sold 140m units (6.4x number of units sold) and was thinking "by far." I suppose the fact that the Xbox (sales) sucked equally as bad in comparison lessens the blow. But, more on topic to my point, when you are about to release a system in a market where the previous competition outsold you by 6 times the number of consoles, and your last console sold less in its lifetime than the other did in less than 2 years, then, yeah, you may not want to invest all your money into it.
On your second point, clearly all companies don't want to drop all their cash into a system, but I think it was pretty clear the PS2 was going to be a huge success. Sony was the first to the market w/ their system (by almost a full year), was backwards compatible with the games people bought for 100m+ consoles, and had a huge fan following. With the Wii, Nintendo was essentially making a system for a market that did not yet exist (they were clearly not marketing towards the gamer segment that was looking for the next PS2). Blue-ocean strategies are always risky. You can't really say that Sony really had the same amount of risk w/ the PS2 that Nintendo did with the Wii.
Yeah, but you are talking about Nintendo after the Gamecube (LEAST successful previous gen console, by far) vs. Sony after the PlayStation (MOST successful prev - to the PS2 - console, by far). I imagine there would be some trepidation about building factories to handle 2.4M units/month. Sure, its selling that well now, but hindsight is always 20/20.
Those bird CS courses are usually there for a reason. Most university courses will require you to have a somewhat intermediate level of knowledge of office software. I'd rather students waste a few hours a week in their first semester learning all this software, then trying to figure it out in later courses. Nothing is more annoying then a prof. or GA having to answer basic Excel questions in a 2nd+ year course. It's a waste or the instructor/GA's time, other students time, and your time. More than likely, the profs complaints are probably the reason these courses became mandatory for some programs.
Most 1st year courses are pretty straight-forward, but they lay the foundation for future courses, allowing them to be taught at a much more aggressive pace. And seriously, you are talking about 1 course in FIRST year. If your biggest waste of time during a 40 course program was 1 intro to computers course, you are probably doing well.
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There is no excuse for not wearing proper footwear; whether running in place or not. Your feet, legs, and back are incredibly important (and all these are adversely affected from high impact exercises). Don't mess around with them to save a few bucks.
I don't know, my old Samsung YP-T9 always played FLAC & Vorbis files just fine. And, seriously, the cost of having to support those "additional cycles" in hardware is probably less than the licensing costs for MP3.
What pisses me off even more is that the radar is mostly superfluous. It really would not have been that hard to have devised some other way to have found the Joker or whatever and combat the SWAT team. To me, it seemed like it was more just there to make the quick political statement (via Morgan Freeman's comments), rather than really help the movie.
Totally. The Matrix worked so well because there was only really one stretch-of-the-imagination required; the year is actually 2199, and everyone is plugged into some virtual reality. Everything else was built on top of this one assumption. Once everyone accepted that assumption, everything else in the movie made sense. The Matrix didn't require the audience to continually make new allowances in order for the story to be told.
The way I see it, movies/shows are given a few basic allowances, usually set out at the beginning of the movie/show. After this, I figure you should have to work with what you got and stick to the world as laid out at the start. If your premise is a current-day world w/ super heroes, then that's what you get, current day tech & people, but with super heroes in the mix. The problems start when the creators start trying to stretch-the-audiences imagination further, by saying, "oh, and, we forgot to mention this in the first hour of the movie, but there also exists super-hacking-devices that are available to the general public, even though 99% of the other tech is as it is today" or "oh, by the way, that small town girl is also the world's greatest hacker... ever." They shouldn't make up new stuff every time they need a device to move the plot along.
Are they really claiming that it runs the code backwards, undoing the calculations and going from a programs outputs to what its inputs had to be? If so, that could be a major technological advance all by itself. Imagine the useful things you could do with this capability ...
Sir, I introduce you to Prolog.
Well, no. If you don't complain, Apple will keep making the same crap. You think they dropped DRM on iTunes because no one complained?
The article is referring to whitehouse.gov's privacy policy. The only web site this affects is whitehouse.gov and the only users are the visitors to whitehouse.gov.
So true. The first step whenever I start researching something is almost always a Wikipedia search, and it just branches off from there. Works better than just picking links at random from a Google search.
C# is a better language
That's pretty subjective. Some people prefer their favourite statically typed language to be a little more conservative in added features (language, not runtime libraries).
I think the biggest pro for using divs is when you have to move something around. Tables are only easy for getting the initial layout just right. For something you actually have to maintain, divs just make sense. A little more work early on makes messing around w/ the pages design loads easier later on.
Very good point... I got some pondering to do!
No, your entire brain is the meat part. This includes all emotion, memories, and perception. Every synapse that fires is physical (the meat part). Perhaps "self-aware bit" was a bad choice in words, I'm talking about the part that makes you YOU, rather than someone else. Without it, a human would still function the same, but there would be no one watching, if you know what I mean... Not sure how to explain it really.
The fact that we are self-aware can only be better explained by the existence of a soul, IMO. I can always use science to explain away other people and why they do what they do, but the fact remains that each of us has an observer which experiences everything, rather than just being a bunch of really smart, plush robots. Clearly there is something more to us than just our physical selves. Our bodies die, and with them goes what really makes us a person us (personalities, memories, etc.), but who is to say what happens to the self-aware bit, the bit which is just there for the ride.
Too true. Many unions also demand little more than what is required to maintain a competitive work environment, which makes a lot of sense in a professional setting, where potential employees aren't a dime-a-dozen. I'm in a union with my work (IT), and I know I am certainly not overpaid for what I do (actually, a little under the average).
How crappy you are treated usually seems to be inversely proportional to how much you get paid. I don't get how a manager can pay someone next-to-minimum wage, then just expect them to take their shit. I also don't get how someone can get paid next-to-minimum wage and actually take the managers shit. C'est la vie.
In web development internships I made $15.50-$19.06 between my 3 terms. I was on the high-end of the scale for pay though. Most people I know made around $12/h in IT related jobs.
Isn't this what the DMCA was created for?
No, as a long-time video game player I say, Twilight Princess and Super Mario Galaxy were both awesome games. That said, any publicly traded company's executives better be after profit, otherwise they shouldn't be execs. Profit for Nintendo - especially long term - comes from making great games & consoles that people buy. This is why people like Miyamoto are such assets to them.
Also, a console is more than just the hardware. Technically, both the Gamecube and the Xbox were better than the PS2, yet who outsold both by more than 6 times? It's about what is the most fun, and that comes from the games that come out for it. Nintendo is expecting Wii shortages AGAIN this winter... this would be the 3rd Xmas season the Wii has been out. Don't you think its time you rethink your "Gimmick" angle?
Someone gives you 2 blackboxes. They both perform the same task, but one does a much better job of it. Now someone asks you to do that task, which box will you use? Well, obviously the one that does it better. To you (the end user), it doesn't matter what's under the plastic, but what the end results are. So, it certainly means something. It doesn't speak to how well the implementation was coded, but certainly to the merits of using the PS3 as your web-browser vs. your desktop computer.
Well... they never actually said Adobe gave them the source. "Customization" could mean just about anything, including a wrapper or something. They also say it was a "seperate flash implementation," which I don't really understand. Does Adobe have another version of Flash laying around?
Yeah, true. I was comparing it to the PS2, which sold 140m units (6.4x number of units sold) and was thinking "by far." I suppose the fact that the Xbox (sales) sucked equally as bad in comparison lessens the blow. But, more on topic to my point, when you are about to release a system in a market where the previous competition outsold you by 6 times the number of consoles, and your last console sold less in its lifetime than the other did in less than 2 years, then, yeah, you may not want to invest all your money into it.
On your second point, clearly all companies don't want to drop all their cash into a system, but I think it was pretty clear the PS2 was going to be a huge success. Sony was the first to the market w/ their system (by almost a full year), was backwards compatible with the games people bought for 100m+ consoles, and had a huge fan following. With the Wii, Nintendo was essentially making a system for a market that did not yet exist (they were clearly not marketing towards the gamer segment that was looking for the next PS2). Blue-ocean strategies are always risky. You can't really say that Sony really had the same amount of risk w/ the PS2 that Nintendo did with the Wii.
Really? You must know something Sony doesn't.
Cliffs: 100m units in 5 year 9 months
Yeah, but you are talking about Nintendo after the Gamecube (LEAST successful previous gen console, by far) vs. Sony after the PlayStation (MOST successful prev - to the PS2 - console, by far). I imagine there would be some trepidation about building factories to handle 2.4M units/month. Sure, its selling that well now, but hindsight is always 20/20.
Those bird CS courses are usually there for a reason. Most university courses will require you to have a somewhat intermediate level of knowledge of office software. I'd rather students waste a few hours a week in their first semester learning all this software, then trying to figure it out in later courses. Nothing is more annoying then a prof. or GA having to answer basic Excel questions in a 2nd+ year course. It's a waste or the instructor/GA's time, other students time, and your time. More than likely, the profs complaints are probably the reason these courses became mandatory for some programs.
Most 1st year courses are pretty straight-forward, but they lay the foundation for future courses, allowing them to be taught at a much more aggressive pace. And seriously, you are talking about 1 course in FIRST year. If your biggest waste of time during a 40 course program was 1 intro to computers course, you are probably doing well.