Why should they? The Wii was a raging success. The only real problem was that iDevices devastated the "casual gamer" market. The Wii had slightly-better-than-last-generation hardware. This makes it profitable. The WiiU will be similar - slightly better than the last generation. The WiiU will be able to play ports of iDevice games, with 10X the grunt. Any great iPad / Android game mechanics which emerge can be turned into AAA games.
iDevices didn't devastate the console market because they are cheaper. They devastated consoles because they are *better*. Playing games on a capacitive screen is just more fun than mashing buttons, for many people. Playing on a capacitive screen with great graphics and a HDTV will be even more fun.
Taxes, and carrier contracts. It's extremely common for luxury goods to be sold cheaper in Hong Kong than in mainland China. They are also more likely to be authentic.
The problem is, you are no longer testing photoshop skills, but general arts ability and photography.
You now have a problem which takes much more work (in order to get a wow factor), and no more on-topic learning. In the real world, artistic taste and hard work is more important than photoshop skills, but that defeats the purpose of the class - teaching basic skills which the students can apply later down the line.
The whole point of education is to teach basic skills in a controlled environment. It's an efficient way to learn boring but useful techniques. Unless you think that formal education is the only thing students should be doing with their life.
The President is elected, not appointed. You can't get into the military if you admit to having smoked pot, but it's no obstacle for someone running for public office.
There's two reasons newbies might need help - the documentation is not up to scratch (or not newbie friendly), or it's a hard problem with no real solution.
"What VM" is, I think, the second case. Postgres and MySQL are both fine databases, but have different strengths. SQL and No-SQL both have merits. KDE and Gnome are both fine desktop managers. VIM and emacs can both edit text.
Sure, there's differentiation, but there's no easy way to say which is best. My advice would be to just look for the one with the best documentation, because as a newbie that's your biggest problem.
It would be nice for virtual machines. Branch prediction is where VMs shine. But I can't see Sun (the Java people) having a big interest in it, and LLVM wasn't so widely used when Itanium had mindshare.
Presumably there was a lot of overcapacity. No-one wants to be in the hard drive business. PCs are dying, and everything else is going SSD. Would *you* build a hard drive factory?
The flood wiped out a lot of the extra factories which were keeping prices low. No-one's going to replace those factories, because they have better things to do with their money.
I'm sure Intel would luuuuve to start offering chips at 2X the price of the equivalent AMD one again; if only iPads, Phablets, web apps, the console-led stagnation of game requirements, cloud computing, and Windows XP being almost good enough wasn't killing all the demand at higher price points.
Since when are self-driving cars a "geek toy"? Road safety is a huge thing. Unless you hate old people, the disabled, and people who are just unlucky, getting humans away from the steering wheel is going to be up there with curing cancer.
Don't just drop a bombshell like that, try to actually argue it.
OK, I will - Linux is a great kernel, but Linus's focus on the kernel (and not on the UI or distro) means the rest is just a mess. The distro also needs a Linux Torvalds. There's Mark Shuttleworth, who's done a decent job. You can bag Unity all you want, but if it weren't for a group like Canonical taking responsibility for the distro we'd all still be on Gentoo.
Isaac Newton hates Hooke's guts, and the feeling was mutual. Hooke was actually pretty good, but not as good as Newton at math (who was?). Actually, Newton hated *everyone's* guts, and everyone hated him back (though most respected his genius).
Fun fact - when Newton said "I was standing on the shoulders of giants", he was pointing out that his work was based on Des-Cartes wave theory, not Hooke's particle theory (though both were later found to be true - the particles were waves). This was doubly insulting, because Hooke was not a tall man.
Not everyone loved Hooke either, because he spent far too much time drinking and whoring, but he would have been a fun guy to meet (unlike Newton).
Chinese HSR is often pretty slow. There's some really fast stuff, but most of it is only moderately high speed. But as you say, it's not low-cost freight lines (which China als has plenty).
> Actually some headphones do block noise, by having a mic and playing the reverse sound (180 degrees out of phase).
There's two types of headphones which can block noise - active and passive ones.
The active ones are only really good for predictable noise. They tend to be demoed with "airplane engine" noises, which are easy to cancel. They don't work so well on the "crying baby" noise (though really good ones might). Also, they are quite expensive, and often require batteries (or draw lots of power).
The passive ones are either in-ear, or ear-muffs + headphones. They work better, and are much cheaper, but some people find them uncomfortable.
I think Ubuntu is going Python 3. Most of the scientific stuff has been ported (though the Matplotlib port may be immature).
Bottle, Pyramid, and Tornado are all ported. Just not Django.
It's probably now at the point where new projects are better off starting with Python 3, to ease the pain of upgrading later, unless there's a library they really need. Starting with a mature (but depreciated) platform is not a great idea.
Hockey is very popular in Australia, I'm surprised you haven't heard of it.
It's played on a soccer field, and has similar rules; but you play it with a cricket ball which you hit with big sticks.
I think Canadians have some version which they play on ice, wearing lots of padding. Not sure what the padding is for, maybe they are afraid they'll fall over?
> Dictionary attacks have nothing to do with breaking hashes.
There's two kinds of hashes you should use - those which are meant to be slow (for password hashes), and those which are meant to be fast (for message signing). SHA is meant to be fast.
Is it fraud? If you claim to be someone else while while robbing a bank, it's fraud. If you wear a Mickey Mouse mask while robbing a bank, it's not.
He didn't provide an materially fake details, he just covered his trail. Using "Gary Host" instead of his own name didn't make his "crime" any easier. Spoofing a MAC address got him off a blacklist, so it might be material, but it's really at the margins.
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Why should they? The Wii was a raging success. The only real problem was that iDevices devastated the "casual gamer" market. The Wii had slightly-better-than-last-generation hardware. This makes it profitable. The WiiU will be similar - slightly better than the last generation. The WiiU will be able to play ports of iDevice games, with 10X the grunt. Any great iPad / Android game mechanics which emerge can be turned into AAA games.
iDevices didn't devastate the console market because they are cheaper. They devastated consoles because they are *better*. Playing games on a capacitive screen is just more fun than mashing buttons, for many people. Playing on a capacitive screen with great graphics and a HDTV will be even more fun.
Taxes, and carrier contracts. It's extremely common for luxury goods to be sold cheaper in Hong Kong than in mainland China. They are also more likely to be authentic.
The problem is, you are no longer testing photoshop skills, but general arts ability and photography.
You now have a problem which takes much more work (in order to get a wow factor), and no more on-topic learning. In the real world, artistic taste and hard work is more important than photoshop skills, but that defeats the purpose of the class - teaching basic skills which the students can apply later down the line.
The whole point of education is to teach basic skills in a controlled environment. It's an efficient way to learn boring but useful techniques. Unless you think that formal education is the only thing students should be doing with their life.
> THe sole reason the military also banned homosexuals was for the reason of blackmail.
So "don't ask don't tell" is a terrible policy, right?
The President is elected, not appointed. You can't get into the military if you admit to having smoked pot, but it's no obstacle for someone running for public office.
There's two reasons newbies might need help - the documentation is not up to scratch (or not newbie friendly), or it's a hard problem with no real solution.
"What VM" is, I think, the second case. Postgres and MySQL are both fine databases, but have different strengths. SQL and No-SQL both have merits. KDE and Gnome are both fine desktop managers. VIM and emacs can both edit text.
Sure, there's differentiation, but there's no easy way to say which is best. My advice would be to just look for the one with the best documentation, because as a newbie that's your biggest problem.
It would be nice for virtual machines. Branch prediction is where VMs shine. But I can't see Sun (the Java people) having a big interest in it, and LLVM wasn't so widely used when Itanium had mindshare.
Presumably there was a lot of overcapacity. No-one wants to be in the hard drive business. PCs are dying, and everything else is going SSD. Would *you* build a hard drive factory?
The flood wiped out a lot of the extra factories which were keeping prices low. No-one's going to replace those factories, because they have better things to do with their money.
I'm sure Intel would luuuuve to start offering chips at 2X the price of the equivalent AMD one again; if only iPads, Phablets, web apps, the console-led stagnation of game requirements, cloud computing, and Windows XP being almost good enough wasn't killing all the demand at higher price points.
SSH + HDMI + USB + EC2 + Wifi + a fibre.
Too much lag for gaming / interactive 3D work though.
Since when are self-driving cars a "geek toy"? Road safety is a huge thing. Unless you hate old people, the disabled, and people who are just unlucky, getting humans away from the steering wheel is going to be up there with curing cancer.
No, because most kids don't want to learn all the boring stuff they need to get jobs.
Note - don't leech a hacker's wifi if you're going to be downloading taste or smell files.
> It could be argued
Don't just drop a bombshell like that, try to actually argue it.
OK, I will - Linux is a great kernel, but Linus's focus on the kernel (and not on the UI or distro) means the rest is just a mess. The distro also needs a Linux Torvalds. There's Mark Shuttleworth, who's done a decent job. You can bag Unity all you want, but if it weren't for a group like Canonical taking responsibility for the distro we'd all still be on Gentoo.
Isaac Newton hates Hooke's guts, and the feeling was mutual. Hooke was actually pretty good, but not as good as Newton at math (who was?). Actually, Newton hated *everyone's* guts, and everyone hated him back (though most respected his genius).
Fun fact - when Newton said "I was standing on the shoulders of giants", he was pointing out that his work was based on Des-Cartes wave theory, not Hooke's particle theory (though both were later found to be true - the particles were waves). This was doubly insulting, because Hooke was not a tall man.
Not everyone loved Hooke either, because he spent far too much time drinking and whoring, but he would have been a fun guy to meet (unlike Newton).
Chinese HSR is often pretty slow. There's some really fast stuff, but most of it is only moderately high speed. But as you say, it's not low-cost freight lines (which China als has plenty).
Romney is doing all he can to hide the differences. He's selling himself as "Obama, without the baggage of having cleaned up the mess Bush left".
Is that Chinese years or Western ones? Because a Chinese who says they are 14 is actually 13 (they start counting at 1, like Fortran).
It's OK. I'm sure that someone will make an app for lessor phones to emulate this.
Governments are not monolithic entities.
> Actually some headphones do block noise, by having a mic and playing the reverse sound (180 degrees out of phase).
There's two types of headphones which can block noise - active and passive ones.
The active ones are only really good for predictable noise. They tend to be demoed with "airplane engine" noises, which are easy to cancel. They don't work so well on the "crying baby" noise (though really good ones might). Also, they are quite expensive, and often require batteries (or draw lots of power).
The passive ones are either in-ear, or ear-muffs + headphones. They work better, and are much cheaper, but some people find them uncomfortable.
I think Ubuntu is going Python 3. Most of the scientific stuff has been ported (though the Matplotlib port may be immature).
Bottle, Pyramid, and Tornado are all ported. Just not Django.
It's probably now at the point where new projects are better off starting with Python 3, to ease the pain of upgrading later, unless there's a library they really need. Starting with a mature (but depreciated) platform is not a great idea.
Hockey is very popular in Australia, I'm surprised you haven't heard of it.
It's played on a soccer field, and has similar rules; but you play it with a cricket ball which you hit with big sticks.
I think Canadians have some version which they play on ice, wearing lots of padding. Not sure what the padding is for, maybe they are afraid they'll fall over?
> Dictionary attacks have nothing to do with breaking hashes.
There's two kinds of hashes you should use - those which are meant to be slow (for password hashes), and those which are meant to be fast (for message signing). SHA is meant to be fast.
Is it fraud? If you claim to be someone else while while robbing a bank, it's fraud. If you wear a Mickey Mouse mask while robbing a bank, it's not.
He didn't provide an materially fake details, he just covered his trail. Using "Gary Host" instead of his own name didn't make his "crime" any easier. Spoofing a MAC address got him off a blacklist, so it might be material, but it's really at the margins.