At GVSU, access to the campus wireless is granted through a web-based service that is platform independent. I've never heard of anyone having trouble connecting. GVSU has a pretty good track record with supporting Linux in my experience. In fact, the CS department has an almost exclusive focus on Linux; to a fault, in my opinion. There are no higher level CS courses focusing on Windows development at all. It's an issue I've been meaning to bring before the department, actually; I'd at least like to see a course that teaches C# or the Windows API or something.
Someone ought to fork Firefox. It's about time someone stood up and said "enough is enough" and made a straight-up browser for people with stuff to do. No fancy crap that can be handled by addons, no screwing with the interface. Fork the latest version of FF3 and do what parent said: bugfixes, performance work, and under-the-hood additions. Someone out there has to have the initiative and the know-how to do this.
As a CS major at GVSU, I have to say that Professor Kurmas is one of the better professors there. However, I have to disagree with him on this issue. The courses he talks about (CS 162 and 163) are, as he says, very much sink-or-swim. I disagree with how they're taught in a number of ways (for starters, I think teaching an intro to CS course entirely in Java is a poor idea). However, in terms of preparing someone for either the CS or the CIS (a more business-oriented degree with less focus on programing) curriculum offered at GVSU, they do a fantastic job. There's certainly more to either of these degrees than programming, but as an introduction to the remainder of the degree, I think they work fine. For most of the CS courses, an understanding of programming is the only thing required going in, the rest is taught in the class itself.
As a side note, Professor Kurmas also sometimes teaches Computer Architecture (CIS 451). This is one of the few courses in the CS degree where having a good understanding of programming (and especially Java programming) isn't really going to be helpful. There's a reason that course has Computer Organization (a course primarily about assembly) as a prerequisite. It doesn't really surprise me that he sees CIS 162 and 163 as not particularly helpful, but they're much more useful in other courses.
Thank you. As someone still in university and just starting to try and get a job, I'm finding that this sort of attitude is very pervasive. Everyone acts as if mobile and web development are the only ways to go. Even a lot of the professors are starting to drink the mobile kool-aid.
I have neither the desire nor the ability to do mobile development. I care even less about web development. I don't have a website because I have nothing worth publishing online and I don't have a cell phone because I don't want people to be calling me even when I'm on break or something. My interest in programming grew out of my interest in computers, and especially operating systems. I want to do systems programming, or at the very least standard applications development. I'm willing to do something slightly different in order to get job experience, but I get the feeling if I start doing mobile development, nobody will want to hire me for anything else.
ATI innovated far more than Nvidia in late 2009/early 2010. The competition brought by ATI's stellar 5000 series forced Nvidia to step up their 400 series; the 200 they had put out was just a rebrand of a rebrand of the 8800 GT.
I'd just like to point out that, as someone with a little statistics background, statistics never prove anything. Statistics establish associations and correlations, significance and probability; never proof.
He doesn't use the controversial word "pheromones" but he still uses the controversial word "proven." Establishing a link doesn't prove anything, it merely establishes a link. I am not a statistician, though; maybe this case is different. I'm still skeptical, however.
Additionally, if you check the comments of the/. posting of that article you'll notice that a lot of people mentioned that his name is a common insult in neighboring countries. It may have just been a coincidence that he held that name.
As a student, I can safely say $300 is out of my, and many of my friends', price range. No student's going to pay $300 for something they can get for free when we're struggling to get by as it is.
Well, I think he's full of shit. Some of the best games I've ever played are single-player. Golden Sun for GBA, Bioshock 1, the Elder Scrolls series, Persona 3, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, the Penumbra series, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 (despite 2's.. er... lack of polish), the Final Fantasy series... Come to think of it, Fallout: New Vegas' sales numbers prove this crap wrong. It's a perfect example of a modern single player game that garnered huge sales. Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age also had great sales as single player games, though I can't say whether they were good or not since I haven't played them.
My guess is that EA would rather pump out the same big name game over and over. Guaranteed profits, no risk, and virtually no money spent on developing the hard things like a good plot or character depth. Don't get me wrong, some of my favorite games are multiplayer (hell, the Battlefield series is one of my favorite series as well, been a fan since BF1942, and don't get me started on Valve games), but by no means is single player a dead genre.
That's not true, though. The way reCaptcha works is that only one word needs to be correctly solved. It's actually relatively easy for a human to tell which one needs to be solved; it's often the longer one or the one with unusual characters.
Internet Explorer still has about 60% market share (http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0). You can't really just ignore that, especially if you're developing for a business.
Are you really going to argue that one download equates to one lost sale? That's the same shit-brained argument the RIAA/MPAA have been making for years, and it's just stupid. People tend to pirate for two reasons: they can't afford the game, or it's more convenient to pirate. The first group would not buy the game anyway, and the second group would not exist if it weren't for inconvenient DRM schemes. Look at Steam; it is, by definition, a DRM scheme, and yet customers and professionals alike praise the system. Do Valve's games still get pirated? Of course, but usually only by that first group. The second group is buying games off Steam left and right because it's so damn easy, and Valve is doing extremely well as a result; piracy of their games compared to the rest of the industry is remarkably low. Valve's business model is the perfect example of how to do PC gaming right. What Ubisoft did is stick their head in the sand and ignore this, opting instead to introduce something so inconvenient that paying customers can't even play the game they bought. There is no excuse for that in this day.
There was something about a deployable LAN connection in the article; you might be able to use that without an internet connection, though I imagine you'd need to at least validate online beforehand or something.
And those that will tell you that Zerg or Protoss is. The top three Starcraft players in the KeSPA rankings right now are Zerg, then Protoss, then Terran third (link).
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If Valve hasn't been hacked since 2004, I'm perfectly content with their ability to protect my data.
At GVSU, access to the campus wireless is granted through a web-based service that is platform independent. I've never heard of anyone having trouble connecting. GVSU has a pretty good track record with supporting Linux in my experience. In fact, the CS department has an almost exclusive focus on Linux; to a fault, in my opinion. There are no higher level CS courses focusing on Windows development at all. It's an issue I've been meaning to bring before the department, actually; I'd at least like to see a course that teaches C# or the Windows API or something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVq5QwMlaII
He should listen to this guy, he seems to know what he's talking about.
Maybe when useful products stop forcing it to be a requirement.
Which is to say, never.
Someone ought to fork Firefox. It's about time someone stood up and said "enough is enough" and made a straight-up browser for people with stuff to do. No fancy crap that can be handled by addons, no screwing with the interface. Fork the latest version of FF3 and do what parent said: bugfixes, performance work, and under-the-hood additions. Someone out there has to have the initiative and the know-how to do this.
As a CS major at GVSU, I have to say that Professor Kurmas is one of the better professors there. However, I have to disagree with him on this issue. The courses he talks about (CS 162 and 163) are, as he says, very much sink-or-swim. I disagree with how they're taught in a number of ways (for starters, I think teaching an intro to CS course entirely in Java is a poor idea). However, in terms of preparing someone for either the CS or the CIS (a more business-oriented degree with less focus on programing) curriculum offered at GVSU, they do a fantastic job. There's certainly more to either of these degrees than programming, but as an introduction to the remainder of the degree, I think they work fine. For most of the CS courses, an understanding of programming is the only thing required going in, the rest is taught in the class itself.
As a side note, Professor Kurmas also sometimes teaches Computer Architecture (CIS 451). This is one of the few courses in the CS degree where having a good understanding of programming (and especially Java programming) isn't really going to be helpful. There's a reason that course has Computer Organization (a course primarily about assembly) as a prerequisite. It doesn't really surprise me that he sees CIS 162 and 163 as not particularly helpful, but they're much more useful in other courses.
Thank you. As someone still in university and just starting to try and get a job, I'm finding that this sort of attitude is very pervasive. Everyone acts as if mobile and web development are the only ways to go. Even a lot of the professors are starting to drink the mobile kool-aid.
I have neither the desire nor the ability to do mobile development. I care even less about web development. I don't have a website because I have nothing worth publishing online and I don't have a cell phone because I don't want people to be calling me even when I'm on break or something. My interest in programming grew out of my interest in computers, and especially operating systems. I want to do systems programming, or at the very least standard applications development. I'm willing to do something slightly different in order to get job experience, but I get the feeling if I start doing mobile development, nobody will want to hire me for anything else.
Was the rat's name Algernon?
ATI innovated far more than Nvidia in late 2009/early 2010. The competition brought by ATI's stellar 5000 series forced Nvidia to step up their 400 series; the 200 they had put out was just a rebrand of a rebrand of the 8800 GT.
I'd just like to point out that, as someone with a little statistics background, statistics never prove anything. Statistics establish associations and correlations, significance and probability; never proof.
He doesn't use the controversial word "pheromones" but he still uses the controversial word "proven." Establishing a link doesn't prove anything, it merely establishes a link.
I am not a statistician, though; maybe this case is different. I'm still skeptical, however.
I'm relatively certain Fair Use is a clause in American copyright law and has no bearing in Germany.
Additionally, if you check the comments of the /. posting of that article you'll notice that a lot of people mentioned that his name is a common insult in neighboring countries. It may have just been a coincidence that he held that name.
As a student, I can safely say $300 is out of my, and many of my friends', price range. No student's going to pay $300 for something they can get for free when we're struggling to get by as it is.
Well, I think he's full of shit. Some of the best games I've ever played are single-player. Golden Sun for GBA, Bioshock 1, the Elder Scrolls series, Persona 3, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, the Penumbra series, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 (despite 2's.. er... lack of polish), the Final Fantasy series... Come to think of it, Fallout: New Vegas' sales numbers prove this crap wrong. It's a perfect example of a modern single player game that garnered huge sales. Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age also had great sales as single player games, though I can't say whether they were good or not since I haven't played them.
My guess is that EA would rather pump out the same big name game over and over. Guaranteed profits, no risk, and virtually no money spent on developing the hard things like a good plot or character depth. Don't get me wrong, some of my favorite games are multiplayer (hell, the Battlefield series is one of my favorite series as well, been a fan since BF1942, and don't get me started on Valve games), but by no means is single player a dead genre.
http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/the-mysterious-california-missile-launch-that-wasnt/5646/ This site is saying that it might just be a commercial airliner.
Er, the longer one or the one with unusual characters that *doesn't* need to be solved, that is.
That's not true, though. The way reCaptcha works is that only one word needs to be correctly solved. It's actually relatively easy for a human to tell which one needs to be solved; it's often the longer one or the one with unusual characters.
As I understand it, LAN play is still possible after an initial authentication. After that, you don't need internet access.
Internet Explorer still has about 60% market share (http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0). You can't really just ignore that, especially if you're developing for a business.
Are you really going to argue that one download equates to one lost sale? That's the same shit-brained argument the RIAA/MPAA have been making for years, and it's just stupid. People tend to pirate for two reasons: they can't afford the game, or it's more convenient to pirate. The first group would not buy the game anyway, and the second group would not exist if it weren't for inconvenient DRM schemes. Look at Steam; it is, by definition, a DRM scheme, and yet customers and professionals alike praise the system. Do Valve's games still get pirated? Of course, but usually only by that first group. The second group is buying games off Steam left and right because it's so damn easy, and Valve is doing extremely well as a result; piracy of their games compared to the rest of the industry is remarkably low. Valve's business model is the perfect example of how to do PC gaming right. What Ubisoft did is stick their head in the sand and ignore this, opting instead to introduce something so inconvenient that paying customers can't even play the game they bought. There is no excuse for that in this day.
True pirates will use Avast! anyway.
There was something about a deployable LAN connection in the article; you might be able to use that without an internet connection, though I imagine you'd need to at least validate online beforehand or something.
And those that will tell you that Zerg or Protoss is. The top three Starcraft players in the KeSPA rankings right now are Zerg, then Protoss, then Terran third (link).
Sorry, AltaVista has been owned by Yahoo! since 2003. There's always Ask.com, though.