I was unimpressed by HL2, I didn't even play the sequels to it. A bit of a letdown. That said, I don't have much interest in shooter games, especially ones that set you tightly on the rails. I'll replay the HL1 series when I want to play something like that.
If only google translate was actually worthwhile. Using it does not help someone think about the world differently, which was the whole point of this study (even though it's common sense). There are some concepts that don't even translate well across some languages.
Learning a second language also helps you learn about your own language, how it works, how it is related to other languages, how it changes over time, how to speak it in a way that does not confuse non-native speakers, and so on.
Hasn't this been common knowledge for decades or centuries? It's the primary reason they teach some languages. Ie, no one learns Latin because it helps them communicate with native Latin speakers, and most of the students of Latin will not be perusing the classics as light reading (though the Latin version of Asterix is good), but they teach it because it affects how the students think.
Definitely I was told by more than one person growing up that learning a second language changes how you think about the world. So I can only presume that this new study is not breaking any ground and is just a bit more evidence to pile onto the mountain of evidence.
This is extra security. You must swipe your dachshund against the phone to unlock it. The dachshund has teeth therefore is unlikely to be stolen along with the phone.
But if customers have access to Airtel (presumably an ISP, or mobile phone service with IP service) then don't they already have free access to google and wikipedia without any help from Facebook? If there are data charges then those apply whether or not Facebook has an app, right? Or is there an agreement with Airtel that any access that uses Facebook's special app won't count as data usage (thus there's no engineering "magic" in the app which is what their web page implies)?
Hmm, if there is no internet in those places, but Facebook can add an "app" to get internet access, then I end up confused. How does the Facebook app get to the internet if there is no internet access? Maybe this is for mobile phones, but even then if a mobile phone can get to Facebook then it can obviously get to anywhere else on the internet. Or is Facebook rolling out its own access points in poorly connected parts of Africa for Facebook app access only?
I spent a summer at McDonald's too, and still have a scar to show for it. These days however it seems like the college kids aren't going for the shitty summer jobs anymore. I rarely see anyone remotely resembling a high school or college kid at fast food places, and when I do see someone that might fit the profile they have difficulty managing how to count out change so they probably aren't in college.
I'm not so sure. They split the keyboard at the wrong place for touch typists, and the angle is very odd. There are other split keyboard ergonomic designs from people other than Microsoft.
Voice activation. Sure it's not perfect but ergonomically you won't be getting any carpal tunnel problems that way. Drawback is that you end up shouting at your computer a lot because it can't understand you however that does help improve your lung capacity.
It's their voice operated search thing, like Siri, but also it's not voice operated. It is apparently named after a game character or computer from a Microsoft Xbox only game, in an attempt to get their xbox fans on board as unpaid marketing stooges.
If there were rules set fast in stone 500 years ago, then every single one of us who speaks English would be breaking most of them. Even if rules were carved out 100 years ago most of us including English professors would be breaking them. It's like trying to follow a map when old roads vanish and new ones are being built.
I suspect this isn't really programming, but writing in some sort of markup language, or using a GUI that creates the markup language for you. That's where most of the "programming" jobs are.
Not always. Very often that code you download is utterly inappropriate for various reasons, and it may take more than 10 weeks to squeeze it into shape, after which you have programmers who just don't understand it at all and are unable to maintain it in any sensible format, but it's been smacked around so much that it's too difficult to pick up the next set of patches if they do come out.
Then there is the guy who is schooled because his 10 second download just won't fit on the target, is too slow for the customer, or the legal department refuses to allow it's inclusion.
I think that list is just the registration with the official registrar, but there may have been unofficial usage of the TLDs? I was just a student at the time though and not doing any sysadmin stuff yet.
I should clarify, the DARPA registrations were for the TLDs only (ie, ORG/NET/EDU/GOV, but not COM for some reason). But nordu.net still registered before symbolics.com.
It's not that long. Even before this registering of the domain, the "internet" was already underway. What the registering did was provide a common name that everyone could agree upon so that you didn't have to use the IP address directly and you could use DNS so that you didn't have to enter all your favorites into the hosts table.
Also symbolics.com was NOT the first domain. First registrations were darpa.org/darpa.net/darpa.gov and nordu.net. Not only was nordu.net there on the first day, it is also the oldest domain that is still active. For the next registration after symbolics.com, there was bbn.com on the same day as several.EDU domains. The.EDU domains far outnumbered.COM domains during 1985, which makes sense because the internet was highly academic in nature, and even the early commercial domains were primarily using it in their research divisions.
I found it odd that when searching for this list (it's on wikipedia) that I easily found several other hits that listed only the early.COM domains and it took a lot more digging to find hits listing all the early domains. But I guess that in the modern era that only for-profit commercial companies matter to the mass media and general public.
Context matters a lot here. When I see a good frame in a game, I am not moving so everything looks great. But that's for the sort of games I have. 30fps is definitely good enough for lots of things, in an MMO 15fps is probably good. However I guess for testosterone fueled shooter games that higher FPS makes a difference just because the view point is changing so rapidly.
Basically I can't see the problem with 15-20fps unless I take the mouse and jiggle it back and forth rapidly, which is something never done in the games I play. But for those kids on the shooters they do that all the time, but then they're spending tons more on their computers than I would ever dream of.
A big problem is lack of motion blur there, not necessarily the frame rate. Which is why TVs could run at a slower frame rate and with interlacing and you'd rarely notice it unless it was a fast paced sports game. But in a game the realism is just not at the point where the frame rate should matter, the extra realism isn't present even in a still frame. A bigger problem for me is hitching, which has nothing to do with frame rate but I have noticed online that a lot of players confuse hitching with having a substandard video card.
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I was unimpressed by HL2, I didn't even play the sequels to it. A bit of a letdown. That said, I don't have much interest in shooter games, especially ones that set you tightly on the rails. I'll replay the HL1 series when I want to play something like that.
If only google translate was actually worthwhile. Using it does not help someone think about the world differently, which was the whole point of this study (even though it's common sense). There are some concepts that don't even translate well across some languages.
Learning a second language also helps you learn about your own language, how it works, how it is related to other languages, how it changes over time, how to speak it in a way that does not confuse non-native speakers, and so on.
Additional knowledge is never useless.
Hasn't this been common knowledge for decades or centuries? It's the primary reason they teach some languages. Ie, no one learns Latin because it helps them communicate with native Latin speakers, and most of the students of Latin will not be perusing the classics as light reading (though the Latin version of Asterix is good), but they teach it because it affects how the students think.
Definitely I was told by more than one person growing up that learning a second language changes how you think about the world. So I can only presume that this new study is not breaking any ground and is just a bit more evidence to pile onto the mountain of evidence.
This is extra security. You must swipe your dachshund against the phone to unlock it. The dachshund has teeth therefore is unlikely to be stolen along with the phone.
But if customers have access to Airtel (presumably an ISP, or mobile phone service with IP service) then don't they already have free access to google and wikipedia without any help from Facebook? If there are data charges then those apply whether or not Facebook has an app, right? Or is there an agreement with Airtel that any access that uses Facebook's special app won't count as data usage (thus there's no engineering "magic" in the app which is what their web page implies)?
Those were my favorites. It sort of makes me miss the finely crafted writing you find inherent in slash fanfic.
Hmm, if there is no internet in those places, but Facebook can add an "app" to get internet access, then I end up confused. How does the Facebook app get to the internet if there is no internet access? Maybe this is for mobile phones, but even then if a mobile phone can get to Facebook then it can obviously get to anywhere else on the internet. Or is Facebook rolling out its own access points in poorly connected parts of Africa for Facebook app access only?
I spent a summer at McDonald's too, and still have a scar to show for it. These days however it seems like the college kids aren't going for the shitty summer jobs anymore. I rarely see anyone remotely resembling a high school or college kid at fast food places, and when I do see someone that might fit the profile they have difficulty managing how to count out change so they probably aren't in college.
I'm not so sure. They split the keyboard at the wrong place for touch typists, and the angle is very odd. There are other split keyboard ergonomic designs from people other than Microsoft.
Voice activation. Sure it's not perfect but ergonomically you won't be getting any carpal tunnel problems that way. Drawback is that you end up shouting at your computer a lot because it can't understand you however that does help improve your lung capacity.
I predict a surge in band-aid sales.
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All hail the mother land.
It's their voice operated search thing, like Siri, but also it's not voice operated. It is apparently named after a game character or computer from a Microsoft Xbox only game, in an attempt to get their xbox fans on board as unpaid marketing stooges.
If there were rules set fast in stone 500 years ago, then every single one of us who speaks English would be breaking most of them. Even if rules were carved out 100 years ago most of us including English professors would be breaking them. It's like trying to follow a map when old roads vanish and new ones are being built.
Drag from the top of the full screen metro app down to the bottom, and it kills the app. 8.1 though added an X to kill apps though.
I suspect this isn't really programming, but writing in some sort of markup language, or using a GUI that creates the markup language for you. That's where most of the "programming" jobs are.
Not always. Very often that code you download is utterly inappropriate for various reasons, and it may take more than 10 weeks to squeeze it into shape, after which you have programmers who just don't understand it at all and are unable to maintain it in any sensible format, but it's been smacked around so much that it's too difficult to pick up the next set of patches if they do come out.
Then there is the guy who is schooled because his 10 second download just won't fit on the target, is too slow for the customer, or the legal department refuses to allow it's inclusion.
I think that list is just the registration with the official registrar, but there may have been unofficial usage of the TLDs? I was just a student at the time though and not doing any sysadmin stuff yet.
I should clarify, the DARPA registrations were for the TLDs only (ie, ORG/NET/EDU/GOV, but not COM for some reason). But nordu.net still registered before symbolics.com.
It's not a .COM domain so that mass media doesn't notice it. Just as they didn't notice nordu.net who registered a few months before symbolics.net :-)
bbn.com AND five universities. So BBN was really in a 6 way tie to be second...
It's not that long. Even before this registering of the domain, the "internet" was already underway. What the registering did was provide a common name that everyone could agree upon so that you didn't have to use the IP address directly and you could use DNS so that you didn't have to enter all your favorites into the hosts table.
Also symbolics.com was NOT the first domain. First registrations were darpa.org/darpa.net/darpa.gov and nordu.net. Not only was nordu.net there on the first day, it is also the oldest domain that is still active. For the next registration after symbolics.com, there was bbn.com on the same day as several .EDU domains. The .EDU domains far outnumbered .COM domains during 1985, which makes sense because the internet was highly academic in nature, and even the early commercial domains were primarily using it in their research divisions.
I found it odd that when searching for this list (it's on wikipedia) that I easily found several other hits that listed only the early .COM domains and it took a lot more digging to find hits listing all the early domains. But I guess that in the modern era that only for-profit commercial companies matter to the mass media and general public.
Context matters a lot here. When I see a good frame in a game, I am not moving so everything looks great. But that's for the sort of games I have. 30fps is definitely good enough for lots of things, in an MMO 15fps is probably good. However I guess for testosterone fueled shooter games that higher FPS makes a difference just because the view point is changing so rapidly.
Basically I can't see the problem with 15-20fps unless I take the mouse and jiggle it back and forth rapidly, which is something never done in the games I play. But for those kids on the shooters they do that all the time, but then they're spending tons more on their computers than I would ever dream of.
A big problem is lack of motion blur there, not necessarily the frame rate. Which is why TVs could run at a slower frame rate and with interlacing and you'd rarely notice it unless it was a fast paced sports game. But in a game the realism is just not at the point where the frame rate should matter, the extra realism isn't present even in a still frame. A bigger problem for me is hitching, which has nothing to do with frame rate but I have noticed online that a lot of players confuse hitching with having a substandard video card.