This interview is the best example of Nintendo's attention to detail that I can find. In it, Miyamoto describes the insane amount of detail that went into the first ten seconds of Super Mario Bros. The mushroom, goomba, blocks, and pipe were all played just so in order for the player to realize what was good, what was bad, and so on. All without a tutorial and losing at most one life.
I think modern game designers could learn a lot by going back and studying how they used to convey ideas to the player without the memory space for tutorials.
When I'm teaching, I don't care if students are using laptops. I don't care if students are paying attention at all. It's my job to teach the material. Learning is their job.
When I'm taking a class, laptops have never bothered me. I've taken notes on one a handful of times. I still prefer paper, but to each his or her own.
I'd think the experience of learning how to live long-term in space alone would be worth $100 billion. Scientific experiments up there are just a bonus.
I beg to differ. I vastly prefer KDE to any other interface. And yes, I've used Mac OS 10.2 - 10.5 pretty extensively. The plasmoids, the kioslaves, the applications, the sheer customizablility... I see no reason to use anything else on decent hardware.
I doubt transportation that requires little human intervention will have as profound an effect as something that has revolutionized the way information is distributed. It's like saying automatic transmission had as profound an effect as the invention of the printing press (or radio, or television.) There is no comparison.
...four elements of your personality as a child strongly predict four elements of your personality as an adult (according to the study.) Headline is misleading.
An acquaintance of mine has an interesting and subtle tattoo. It's a black line across his wrist with three black tick marks such that the line segments separated by the marks measure out the golden ratio.
Going by my own example and that of my brother, nothing will get him into coding if he doesn't want to. Playing games got me into computers, and soon I was playing around with computers for its own sake instead of to play or make games. By his age, I was teaching myself C for the fun of it and experimenting with Linux too.
He'll find some obsession sooner or later. All you can do is present him with options and hope he picks something useful.
3D data is all but ungraphable on Linux systems anyway, so I suppose Octave is not alone here.
As I recall, MATLAB has a Linux port. As does Maple, Mathematica, et cetera. And Mayavi is an open source program capable of excellent 3D graphics that works with Python, and therefore SciPy.
So what you really mean is that 3D data graphing is inadequate with Octave and gnuplot on any system. 3D data is perfectly graphable in Linux.
I programmed in the real world for a business for about a year and a half before going to grad school. What I learned is that the Python virtual machine is just as nice as the JVM, and there are much nicer JVM languages than Java.
Goals change, life goes on. Apple has been on this path since the original Macintosh. This is nothing new. I don't think an oversized iPhone warrants all the melodrama it's been getting.
You're half right. C certainly is a great systems language. But Java is a terrible applications language. It's clunky, providing all of the drawbacks of a bytecode-compiled language with very few of the benefits. Which is why it has been steadily losing ground to other, nicer languages that run on the JVM.
Really, Java's only advantage is that it's easy to learn if you already know a C-esque language. Other than that, there's no point to using it to write JVM programs.
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This interview is the best example of Nintendo's attention to detail that I can find. In it, Miyamoto describes the insane amount of detail that went into the first ten seconds of Super Mario Bros. The mushroom, goomba, blocks, and pipe were all played just so in order for the player to realize what was good, what was bad, and so on. All without a tutorial and losing at most one life.
I think modern game designers could learn a lot by going back and studying how they used to convey ideas to the player without the memory space for tutorials.
When I'm teaching, I don't care if students are using laptops. I don't care if students are paying attention at all. It's my job to teach the material. Learning is their job.
When I'm taking a class, laptops have never bothered me. I've taken notes on one a handful of times. I still prefer paper, but to each his or her own.
I am reminded of this obligatory xkcd.
It really bugs me when people lacking foresight bash those who have it. And then, years later...
"Lost In Stupid Parentheses."
I'd think the experience of learning how to live long-term in space alone would be worth $100 billion. Scientific experiments up there are just a bonus.
It cheers me to see the system living on so long after its official death.
I beg to differ. I vastly prefer KDE to any other interface. And yes, I've used Mac OS 10.2 - 10.5 pretty extensively. The plasmoids, the kioslaves, the applications, the sheer customizablility... I see no reason to use anything else on decent hardware.
I doubt transportation that requires little human intervention will have as profound an effect as something that has revolutionized the way information is distributed. It's like saying automatic transmission had as profound an effect as the invention of the printing press (or radio, or television.) There is no comparison.
...apparently just live forever. Likewise for men.
...four elements of your personality as a child strongly predict four elements of your personality as an adult (according to the study.) Headline is misleading.
I generally watch indie films at some guy named Art's house.
An acquaintance of mine has an interesting and subtle tattoo. It's a black line across his wrist with three black tick marks such that the line segments separated by the marks measure out the golden ratio.
I'm tired of, "Well, it could be worse," being the norm for the US government.
What's sad is that this seems to work better than gnash and swfdec combined, and they've been in the works for years and years.
Going by my own example and that of my brother, nothing will get him into coding if he doesn't want to. Playing games got me into computers, and soon I was playing around with computers for its own sake instead of to play or make games. By his age, I was teaching myself C for the fun of it and experimenting with Linux too.
He'll find some obsession sooner or later. All you can do is present him with options and hope he picks something useful.
3D data is all but ungraphable on Linux systems anyway, so I suppose Octave is not alone here.
As I recall, MATLAB has a Linux port. As does Maple, Mathematica, et cetera. And Mayavi is an open source program capable of excellent 3D graphics that works with Python, and therefore SciPy.
So what you really mean is that 3D data graphing is inadequate with Octave and gnuplot on any system. 3D data is perfectly graphable in Linux.
When I can, I turn my cell phone off and enjoy the peace and solitude. Maybe it's because I was raised without internet (80s and 90s rural Alabama.)
then pay for it.
If you sell me an "up to" 1mbps connection, then I've paid for up to 1mbps. If you want to sell me a 250MB/mo connection, go right ahead and do that.
Don't sell me an "up to" 1mbps connection then come along and claim that its actually 250MB/mo and send your sockpuppets to demand that I pay more.
I don't know what you meant by "sockpuppets," but it certainly inspired an amusing mental image.
I programmed in the real world for a business for about a year and a half before going to grad school. What I learned is that the Python virtual machine is just as nice as the JVM, and there are much nicer JVM languages than Java.
Goals change, life goes on. Apple has been on this path since the original Macintosh. This is nothing new. I don't think an oversized iPhone warrants all the melodrama it's been getting.
Better than Java on the JVM? Groovy and Jython would be my first choices. I've also heard good things about Scala, but I've never used it.
But if you meant better than C for systems programming, I don't believe such a language exists.
You're half right. C certainly is a great systems language. But Java is a terrible applications language. It's clunky, providing all of the drawbacks of a bytecode-compiled language with very few of the benefits. Which is why it has been steadily losing ground to other, nicer languages that run on the JVM.
Really, Java's only advantage is that it's easy to learn if you already know a C-esque language. Other than that, there's no point to using it to write JVM programs.
However many people this will help in the short term, the precedent this has set and it's long-term implications are incredibly dangerous.
Snow Crash, or at least it's corporateocracy setting, looks more and more plausible every day.
Running with scissors is fun too, and so is driving without a seatbelt.