I've had to design a piece of code for students to use as a framework for OpenGL programming. It took me something like two days to drill down to the correct, modern way of doing things in OpenGL, including going through multiple online tutorials on the subject. Most used archaic implementations and didn't bother to explain anything they were doing. And that's just to render a box on screen!
I also do DirectX programming and the difference is like night and day. The OpenGL official docs are acceptable, but I think they lack two key features: examples (and not huge programs with no comments, that's not an example that's an infodump) and more info on what's being phased out (especially if it's not fully deprecated). You can still stumble on official docs for OpenGL 1.1 going through stuff and it won't tell you that it shouldn't be used anywhere but in legacy applications.
Then there's the problems with OpenGL itself which make learning it difficult, such as the piss poor error reporting and the awful tools.
I am utterly against death penalties, but if you want to have them as "right" as you can, I'd first get the prosecutors and the judges who condemn people to be the ones pulling the lever or swinging the axe. They should have to face the gore each time. They should have to see and feel the fallout of their actions. I would also probably toss in the politicians who are in favor of the penalty for good measure. Perhaps they can clean up the mess? Would make them useful for once.
I wouldn't blame Lundbeck or any other pharmaceuticals company though. This is squarely caused by how the US still has this backwards strain of wanting to kill people for having killed people. The guy's in prison, it won't cause the Earth to stop spinning if you don't kill him.
So? Are we to go down to the level of someone we find barbaric in order to exact "justice"? Then we're no better than he is. This is not how society should behave. We're all better than this.
Yeah, it's really simple guys: the best anti-adblock is making ads that people actually want to see. At worst, if you can't do that, at least don't make them obnoxious, intrusive, or any other such thing. Also, making good content and making people want to support you is a good way of getting them to turn off adblock.
This is a technical "solution" to a non-technical problem. It will never work.
If you download it over time as you discover new stuff you can pretty easily own it all. Music is a lot cheaper in digital format and it really is worth owning your entire collection rather than depending on a service to exist forever.
I really, really wish I could finish my Master's just by guessing the right answer on a multiple-choices exam. Sadly, it would appear that either you're wrong, or I've picked a subject where that gross oversimplification does not apply. Either way, I think you're being blinded by your nostalgia goggles.
Foobar is eminently customizable. I use a Metro-ish theme which meshes quite well with the Windows 8 interface and looks really, really good. It's also got the most powerful search this side of Google, supports ReplayGain, AccurateRip and much more, and out of the box can read just about any format under the sun, batch fix the metadata on songs, rename them according to presets you define, and again a lot more. It's defined by how flexible it is and I have yet to see a music player that can match it.
That's the point that was being made here, though. The kilogram is defined in relation to this cylinder, which happens to change mass, so the definition of the kilogram also changes, which is less than ideal. I doubt the GP was suggesting a solution, merely explaining the problem.
If you don't see the point of a proper music player, then you're not targeted by proper music players anyway. I couldn't fathom using the default OS-provided options. This is like someone saying that nano is just fine as a primary text editor or that IE6 was a perfectly capable web browser.
Someone needs to re-read this again. Spandow was getting an Indian national in the Californian office, he's not the Indian in question. When he was told that the 50k figure was "good enough for an Indian", he protested and was fired, presumably over his protestation. He was not the one to get paid that 50k, he just protested that this Indian would be getting 50k when everyone else in his position was getting 60k, which from the looks was because the guy came from India. This is totally discrimination and there is no justification for Oracle firing him.
Movies take liberties because reality tends to be flat out boring. Nobody wants to watch a command line that just shows a progress % as it's cracking a password for two hours. They want to see action, add something tense, maybe a notification that the hacker's being traced or something. It needs to feel interactive and fit the movie's atmosphere and mood. Same thing for the vast majority of action sequences: most explosions in real life would just happen really quickly, show very little flame, and wreck stuff. You don't want that in a movie, you want bright flames, long lasting explosions that you can focus on, etc. This can be applied to every single element of a movie.
Essentially, sure, try to be as close to reality as possible, but it'll often be thrown out of the window in order to make the movie more entertaining. You watch movies to escape reality, not to be reminded of it constantly.
I tend to abstract out most of the computer speak from TV shows because it's generally woefully inaccurate, but I couldn't help but cringe when I saw NCIS put the IP address of a supposedly dangerous hacker as 192.168.1.1 (I forget the last numbers, could've been 0.[1-9] too). I assume that they did it to avoid actually pointing to a real address and causing quite a few people to go to it and cause problems, but it kind of broke the fantasy for a moment.
Wow, X10, that's ancient. Everybody's using X11 nowadays! While it no longer automates lights, doors, heating or well... anything, really, it's absolutely killer for window management. You can do anything with them, even look at the window remotely! Isn't technology fantastic?
Just don't press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. I heard it's bad for the space-time continuum.
How do you handle the unattractive students? A student that has a C average and doesn't seem motivated to improve? Do you just not provide education? Do you slot them into schools designated for poor students? That's a recipe for disaster, and it won't change anything since the good teachers will avoid those schools in general.
From what I understand, without the charter they would have been unable to refuse students, so no, it wouldn't have worked.
The idea that it "degrades" surrounding schools is also a bit precarious. Are we really considering good students as just tools to prop up mediocre students? A good student going to a bad school will have detrimental effects to their education. They won't be as motivated to perform and they'll constantly get dragged down, just because it supposedly helps other students improve. Do we want to sack them to ever so slightly inflate the other schools' performance indices?
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I daresay that the hotter the place was, the faster it burned out, like a shooting star, leaving nothing but a desiccated corpse behind, if that.
I know dupes are a long time Slashdot tradition, so I'm asking: is this a dupe from 1995 or something? Because it sure feels like it.
I've had to design a piece of code for students to use as a framework for OpenGL programming. It took me something like two days to drill down to the correct, modern way of doing things in OpenGL, including going through multiple online tutorials on the subject. Most used archaic implementations and didn't bother to explain anything they were doing. And that's just to render a box on screen!
I also do DirectX programming and the difference is like night and day. The OpenGL official docs are acceptable, but I think they lack two key features: examples (and not huge programs with no comments, that's not an example that's an infodump) and more info on what's being phased out (especially if it's not fully deprecated). You can still stumble on official docs for OpenGL 1.1 going through stuff and it won't tell you that it shouldn't be used anywhere but in legacy applications.
Then there's the problems with OpenGL itself which make learning it difficult, such as the piss poor error reporting and the awful tools.
Now that he's gone, we have one less murderer off the face of the Earth, but 11.57 million people have also tacitly condoned a murder of their own.
I am not sure we are better off.
I am utterly against death penalties, but if you want to have them as "right" as you can, I'd first get the prosecutors and the judges who condemn people to be the ones pulling the lever or swinging the axe. They should have to face the gore each time. They should have to see and feel the fallout of their actions. I would also probably toss in the politicians who are in favor of the penalty for good measure. Perhaps they can clean up the mess? Would make them useful for once.
I wouldn't blame Lundbeck or any other pharmaceuticals company though. This is squarely caused by how the US still has this backwards strain of wanting to kill people for having killed people. The guy's in prison, it won't cause the Earth to stop spinning if you don't kill him.
So? Are we to go down to the level of someone we find barbaric in order to exact "justice"? Then we're no better than he is. This is not how society should behave. We're all better than this.
I am in full agreement with you, but if there's one tip I can give: please, always triple check that you spell pub*l*ically properly.
Americans have become the textbook example for this, but they wouldn't know since they don't read books.
Yeah, it's really simple guys: the best anti-adblock is making ads that people actually want to see. At worst, if you can't do that, at least don't make them obnoxious, intrusive, or any other such thing. Also, making good content and making people want to support you is a good way of getting them to turn off adblock.
This is a technical "solution" to a non-technical problem. It will never work.
If you download it over time as you discover new stuff you can pretty easily own it all. Music is a lot cheaper in digital format and it really is worth owning your entire collection rather than depending on a service to exist forever.
Are you working at Oracle by any chance?
I really, really wish I could finish my Master's just by guessing the right answer on a multiple-choices exam. Sadly, it would appear that either you're wrong, or I've picked a subject where that gross oversimplification does not apply. Either way, I think you're being blinded by your nostalgia goggles.
And Apple and Google's browsers are both by and large open source, so that's still all sorts of dumb for an Irish politician to say.
Except when it stops looking like that: http://www.deviantart.com/customization/skins/?q=foobar
Foobar is eminently customizable. I use a Metro-ish theme which meshes quite well with the Windows 8 interface and looks really, really good. It's also got the most powerful search this side of Google, supports ReplayGain, AccurateRip and much more, and out of the box can read just about any format under the sun, batch fix the metadata on songs, rename them according to presets you define, and again a lot more. It's defined by how flexible it is and I have yet to see a music player that can match it.
That's the point that was being made here, though. The kilogram is defined in relation to this cylinder, which happens to change mass, so the definition of the kilogram also changes, which is less than ideal. I doubt the GP was suggesting a solution, merely explaining the problem.
If you don't see the point of a proper music player, then you're not targeted by proper music players anyway. I couldn't fathom using the default OS-provided options. This is like someone saying that nano is just fine as a primary text editor or that IE6 was a perfectly capable web browser.
Someone needs to re-read this again. Spandow was getting an Indian national in the Californian office, he's not the Indian in question. When he was told that the 50k figure was "good enough for an Indian", he protested and was fired, presumably over his protestation. He was not the one to get paid that 50k, he just protested that this Indian would be getting 50k when everyone else in his position was getting 60k, which from the looks was because the guy came from India. This is totally discrimination and there is no justification for Oracle firing him.
Unity is powered by Mono and is quickly becoming one of the most popular game engines available. If that's not traction, I don't know what is.
Movies take liberties because reality tends to be flat out boring. Nobody wants to watch a command line that just shows a progress % as it's cracking a password for two hours. They want to see action, add something tense, maybe a notification that the hacker's being traced or something. It needs to feel interactive and fit the movie's atmosphere and mood. Same thing for the vast majority of action sequences: most explosions in real life would just happen really quickly, show very little flame, and wreck stuff. You don't want that in a movie, you want bright flames, long lasting explosions that you can focus on, etc. This can be applied to every single element of a movie.
Essentially, sure, try to be as close to reality as possible, but it'll often be thrown out of the window in order to make the movie more entertaining. You watch movies to escape reality, not to be reminded of it constantly.
I tend to abstract out most of the computer speak from TV shows because it's generally woefully inaccurate, but I couldn't help but cringe when I saw NCIS put the IP address of a supposedly dangerous hacker as 192.168.1.1 (I forget the last numbers, could've been 0.[1-9] too). I assume that they did it to avoid actually pointing to a real address and causing quite a few people to go to it and cause problems, but it kind of broke the fantasy for a moment.
This sounds eerily close to how copyright works for big labels. How strange, isn't it?
Wow, X10, that's ancient. Everybody's using X11 nowadays! While it no longer automates lights, doors, heating or well... anything, really, it's absolutely killer for window management. You can do anything with them, even look at the window remotely! Isn't technology fantastic?
Just don't press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. I heard it's bad for the space-time continuum.
How do you handle the unattractive students? A student that has a C average and doesn't seem motivated to improve? Do you just not provide education? Do you slot them into schools designated for poor students? That's a recipe for disaster, and it won't change anything since the good teachers will avoid those schools in general.
From what I understand, without the charter they would have been unable to refuse students, so no, it wouldn't have worked.
The idea that it "degrades" surrounding schools is also a bit precarious. Are we really considering good students as just tools to prop up mediocre students? A good student going to a bad school will have detrimental effects to their education. They won't be as motivated to perform and they'll constantly get dragged down, just because it supposedly helps other students improve. Do we want to sack them to ever so slightly inflate the other schools' performance indices?