What the fuck, mods? He posts this five minutes later that the sibling post and he gets modded Redundant? Mod the parent up and out of the crapper you trigger-happy shitsticks!
I would assume that Multiplayer also means you can play Single Player skirmishes as any race and against any race. I don't see why they wouldn't do that.
I rarely play RTS games online but I do enjoy playing skirmishes every once in a while.
This is a part of the article I flat-out don't understand:
However, unless or until there is a way to explicitly demonstrate the productivity differential between a good programmer and a mediocre one, inexperienced or nontechnical hiring managers tend to look at resumes with an eye for youth, under the "more bang for the buck" theory.
I would say considering metrics like memory usage, processor usage, and size of the program alongside with how well and how fast it does its job would be a fine enough way to measure the difference between the skill of one programmer and another. As for the productivity, I'd take a guy who make an efficient program in 5 days over a guy who makes a slapdash, inefficient program (that gets the same job done) in 1 day.
I noticed that computers nowadays just feel slower. Windows 98 feels better than XP some days. Part of it is just developer laziness IMO.
Would you prefer a program that users 100 MB of RAM and completes a task in 5 seconds or a program that uses 10MB of RAM and completes an identical task in 10 seconds?
Developers need to figure out their priorities. You know the old joke about women and dating:
Single, pretty, sane - choose two.
It's the same way with programming, isn't it? Low usage of resources, or fast processing? Which of the two is more important in the design? (In the era of nearly 2TB hard drives, I doubt that disk space usages - at least for the program itself - is not necessarily important.)
The navigational deflector (also called the deflector dish, the deflector array or the nav deflector) is a component of many starships, and is used to deflect space debris, asteroids, microscopic particles and other objects that might collide with the ship. At warp speed the deflector is virtually indispensable for most starships as even the most minute particle can cause serious damage to a ship when it is traveling at superluminal velocities.
Star Trek may be filled with inanity and loads of technobabble, but it does occasionally have a sound basis in science.
As an aside, I've always wondered what the current state of plasma research is. When can I get me a plasma force field for my home, or my own personal lightsaber/hedge clipper/daughter's boyfriend intimidation unit?
Before anyone threatens to remove my geek cred, keep the following in mind:
My first computer was in 1999 and had a blazing fast processor speed of 199Mhz.
I didn't have Internet access until 2005.
I became a heavy PC gamer around 2007.
I understand the basic appeal of Myst is its great story and puzzles. Since it seems like you know a good bit about the game, where could I go about finding the originals legally? Are they open souce/free to download yet, or am I going to have to hit up Amazon? Are there any real stinkers in the series? Etc.
Oh man, that's everything I would want a MMO to be. Fuck the game, that sounds like an awesome community.
The stuff you do when you're bored - organized a parade or a game of leapfrog with a few random people - that will tell you more in 5 minutes about the community of MMO than listening to public chat or reading the public forums for 2 hours.
There's seriously something called a Hasselblad sensor? That is fucking awesome. That sounds like something off of Babylon 5. "Incoming enemy fighters on the Hasselblad sensors!"
I meant affirmative action in part, yes (I call all of such laws E.O. laws, even if that's not technically correct), but I did very much mean the same thing you're thinking of.
Let's say I'm to hire a worker in an office. A white man and a darker-skinned man have equal skills, but the white man is more sociable. If I hire the white man, there's the risk that I expose myself to legal action.
I'm just really sick of all this hippy "everyone is equal and special" hand-holding kinda crap.
If Google had like, a handful of white people working there compared to tons of Indians and Chinese do you think that the government would be screaming for them to hire more white people?
Didn't you know? Some people are more equal than others.
"Equal opportunity" laws were created in part to make up for the several hundred years of injustices done to the fairer sex and the various darker skin colors in America. I guess the legislators who came up with were out sick at school the day they had the "two wrongs don't make a right" lesson.
"Equal opportunity" in education (grants/scholarships/financial aid) is not necessarily flawed.
"Equal opportunity" in the workplace irrespective of the requirements is flawed. I shouldn't have to hire a less-qualified person of one particular ethnicity over a more-qualified white person because I have to fill a quota.
The Wayans Bros. did a brilliant episode on this subject where Shawn Wayans was hired at a prestigious company. Despite his qualifications in the field, all he did was sit at a desk all day to sharpen pencils because he was there simply to fill the quota so the company could continue to get federal contracts. Ultimately, he screwed over the company at the last minute by quitting - thereby not meeting their quota and thus not being eligible for government contracts.
If it were the other way around - if a company had to hire a certain percentage of white people - it would certainly bother me in numerous ways if I was hired based on my skin color/nationality rather than my ability. Aside from the fact that it brings one's own abilities and prospects as an employee in question ("Was I hired because I'm qualified or was I hired to fill a quota?"), it's also downright insulting. The only situation within which I wouldn't give a damn is if I were jobless and needed the money. Then I would be happy for any work whatsoever. (That, however, is a situation universal to every nationality/culture/ethnic group out there.
Call me when I can upload my own ringtones to a Verizon phone.
Their ringtone store would be nice if it actually had songsthatIwanted.
Moreover, I'm not going to pay $1-$5 for songs I already own.
Their wireless service is great where I live but their media platform is very locked-in. Absolutely no freedom to make use of my own media. Until that changes, I'll be sticking with a cheapo $50 phone and a music player.
What I've always wondered is why they horribly abuse medical staff like that. Is there some sort of shortage of doctors, or are the hospitals just being cheap and not hiring enough doctors to cover reasonable amounts of time? Or is it something else entirely?
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What the fuck, mods? He posts this five minutes later that the sibling post and he gets modded Redundant? Mod the parent up and out of the crapper you trigger-happy shitsticks!
I would assume that Multiplayer also means you can play Single Player skirmishes as any race and against any race. I don't see why they wouldn't do that.
I rarely play RTS games online but I do enjoy playing skirmishes every once in a while.
The second commenter on that picture says:
STAR WARS
(I full well expect Slashcode to completely mess up the Japanese.)
I'm still learning my Japanese but from what I gather the guy is saying that it looks like the cockpit of a TIE fighter, which it does.
This is a part of the article I flat-out don't understand:
However, unless or until there is a way to explicitly demonstrate the productivity differential between a good programmer and a mediocre one, inexperienced or nontechnical hiring managers tend to look at resumes with an eye for youth, under the "more bang for the buck" theory.
I would say considering metrics like memory usage, processor usage, and size of the program alongside with how well and how fast it does its job would be a fine enough way to measure the difference between the skill of one programmer and another. As for the productivity, I'd take a guy who make an efficient program in 5 days over a guy who makes a slapdash, inefficient program (that gets the same job done) in 1 day.
I noticed that computers nowadays just feel slower. Windows 98 feels better than XP some days. Part of it is just developer laziness IMO.
Would you prefer a program that users 100 MB of RAM and completes a task in 5 seconds or a program that uses 10MB of RAM and completes an identical task in 10 seconds?
Developers need to figure out their priorities. You know the old joke about women and dating:
Single, pretty, sane - choose two.
It's the same way with programming, isn't it? Low usage of resources, or fast processing? Which of the two is more important in the design? (In the era of nearly 2TB hard drives, I doubt that disk space usages - at least for the program itself - is not necessarily important.)
A wild slick7 appears!
slick7 users grammar smackdown!
It's not very effective...
Sounds like the Navigational deflector for a starship in the Star Trek universe.
The navigational deflector (also called the deflector dish, the deflector array or the nav deflector) is a component of many starships, and is used to deflect space debris, asteroids, microscopic particles and other objects that might collide with the ship. At warp speed the deflector is virtually indispensable for most starships as even the most minute particle can cause serious damage to a ship when it is traveling at superluminal velocities.
Star Trek may be filled with inanity and loads of technobabble, but it does occasionally have a sound basis in science.
As an aside, I've always wondered what the current state of plasma research is. When can I get me a plasma force field for my home, or my own personal lightsaber/hedge clipper/daughter's boyfriend intimidation unit?
It's the people like us that are the reason "i totaly lurned about bnjmin frkln in school 2day"
won't be taught as proper English 100 years from now.
We're part of the natural selection process for language so it doesn't become flat-out retarded and indecipherable.
I've never played Myst.
Before anyone threatens to remove my geek cred, keep the following in mind:
I understand the basic appeal of Myst is its great story and puzzles. Since it seems like you know a good bit about the game, where could I go about finding the originals legally? Are they open souce/free to download yet, or am I going to have to hit up Amazon? Are there any real stinkers in the series? Etc.
Oh man, that's everything I would want a MMO to be. Fuck the game, that sounds like an awesome community.
The stuff you do when you're bored - organized a parade or a game of leapfrog with a few random people - that will tell you more in 5 minutes about the community of MMO than listening to public chat or reading the public forums for 2 hours.
Hasselblad sensors
There's seriously something called a Hasselblad sensor? That is fucking awesome. That sounds like something off of Babylon 5. "Incoming enemy fighters on the Hasselblad sensors!"
I meant affirmative action in part, yes (I call all of such laws E.O. laws, even if that's not technically correct), but I did very much mean the same thing you're thinking of.
Let's say I'm to hire a worker in an office. A white man and a darker-skinned man have equal skills, but the white man is more sociable. If I hire the white man, there's the risk that I expose myself to legal action.
I'm just really sick of all this hippy "everyone is equal and special" hand-holding kinda crap.
I saw it. It wasn't that great, really. It was called Can and starred Oscar the grouch as a serial killer offing the other muppets.
If Google had like, a handful of white people working there compared to tons of Indians and Chinese do you think that the government would be screaming for them to hire more white people?
I think the overflowing barrels of oozing, bitter sarcasm of the GP's post are lost on you my friend.
Didn't you know? Some people are more equal than others.
"Equal opportunity" laws were created in part to make up for the several hundred years of injustices done to the fairer sex and the various darker skin colors in America. I guess the legislators who came up with were out sick at school the day they had the "two wrongs don't make a right" lesson.
"Equal opportunity" in education (grants/scholarships/financial aid) is not necessarily flawed.
"Equal opportunity" in the workplace irrespective of the requirements is flawed. I shouldn't have to hire a less-qualified person of one particular ethnicity over a more-qualified white person because I have to fill a quota.
The Wayans Bros. did a brilliant episode on this subject where Shawn Wayans was hired at a prestigious company. Despite his qualifications in the field, all he did was sit at a desk all day to sharpen pencils because he was there simply to fill the quota so the company could continue to get federal contracts. Ultimately, he screwed over the company at the last minute by quitting - thereby not meeting their quota and thus not being eligible for government contracts.
If it were the other way around - if a company had to hire a certain percentage of white people - it would certainly bother me in numerous ways if I was hired based on my skin color/nationality rather than my ability. Aside from the fact that it brings one's own abilities and prospects as an employee in question ("Was I hired because I'm qualified or was I hired to fill a quota?"), it's also downright insulting. The only situation within which I wouldn't give a damn is if I were jobless and needed the money. Then I would be happy for any work whatsoever. (That, however, is a situation universal to every nationality/culture/ethnic group out there.
Call me when I can upload my own ringtones to a Verizon phone.
Their ringtone store would be nice if it actually had songs that I wanted.
Moreover, I'm not going to pay $1-$5 for songs I already own.
Their wireless service is great where I live but their media platform is very locked-in. Absolutely no freedom to make use of my own media. Until that changes, I'll be sticking with a cheapo $50 phone and a music player.
Yeah man, look at this shit! They say they've got humans, fish, and animals covered, but what about the algae? What about the algae?!
<HelenLovejoy> Oh, won't someone please think of the algae?! </HelenLovejoy>
It makes me want to form a Motorcycle Club for gamers. I don't know what the name would be, but our motto would be "Big Hogs and Dual Analogs!"
To be fair, motorcycles are a little bit different down under.
What I've always wondered is why they horribly abuse medical staff like that. Is there some sort of shortage of doctors, or are the hospitals just being cheap and not hiring enough doctors to cover reasonable amounts of time? Or is it something else entirely?
No, the redhead with the short skirt over in Accounts Receivable is why all you can think of is porn at the office.
They don't want to be just dump pipes.
But they're so good at shitting all over their customers!
(I think you meant dumb pipes.)
Or it would be an effective way to encourage people to pirate the apps instead of paying for them...
If Apple actually follows through, they will cut off a goodly chunk of their userbase on principle.
1) Develop program for technologically unsophisticated users that automates "pissing in the well".
2) Mine the data of every user of the program.
3) PROFIT!