I work for technical support for a telephone company ISP. One of my trouble shooting steps (of course when the modem is up and signal good) is to uninstall Norton if system restore does not work. That often fixes the problem. I'm sure there is a use for it out there, but why would you allow a simple home user to disable their internet connection and NOT be able to enable it without uninstalling the program?
It's a touchy subject. I can see how both sides could be argued. I was merely pointing out that it was not the nudity or sex acts themselves that was being prosecuted, but the violence and depravity that crossed the line (according to the courts). Even with all that, it was ruled different ways by 2 different courts.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Extreme_Associates
* Extreme Teen 24[1]: contains a scene of a naive supposed young girl being talked into having sex by an older man. The actress involved was over 18, however dressed and acted like a young girl.[3]
* Cocktails 2[1]: various scenes of women drinking vomit, saliva and other bodily fluids.[15] It was the director's cut version of the film that was cited in the case.[1]
* Ass Clowns 3: a female journalist is being raped by a gang led by Osama bin Laden; the journalist is freed and the gang members killed. The director's cut version also contains a scene where Jesus steps off the cross and has sex with an angel.
* 1001 Ways to Eat My Jizz:
* Forced Entry[16]: The film depicts the beating, rape and murder of women by a serial killer, who is eventually killed by a mob of vigilantes.[17] There are three scenes which graphically portray rape and murder, and women are also spat on.[3] Extreme's website called it their "most controversial movie" and "a stunningly disturbing look at a serial killer, satanic rituals, and the depths of human depravity."[18] Forced Entry was directed by Lizzy Borden and released in 2002. Again it was the director's cut version of the film that was cited in the case.[1]
So, your traditional porn is still safe in the US. There is porn and then there is sick minded porn. This addresses the more violent side that porn can take.
But that is exactly why you would want to force a page break. Someone may print your document with large fonts and someone else may print with small fonts and different page margins, ect. If it's an academic paper, you would want a page break after certain sections: Title Page, Table of Contents, sometimes Chapter breaks, just to be professional. This has no effect on the way it is seen in the browser, just how it is printed.
Game design is not the same thing as programming. For most game companies, a special team writes the story line, sets the objectives, creates the art, ect, which is probably what most people think about when they play the video game. Programmers on the other hand, are more about following those sets of instructions to make the game do what the designers have laid out for them. There are schools that teach this if you can afford them. http://www.fiea.ucf.edu/ is one that boasts a 95% hire on rate in the industry after graduation. You can either take game design or game programming tracks. You do have to have a Bachelor's degree to get into that school because it is for a master's degree.
That's pretty much what you have to do. Refuse to be a question/answer person for something someone should already know. I work at a help desk for a telephone company, but I have many other jobs since it's a small company. I don't have time to be bothered every time some customer service rep forgets something...which is a lot. I start giving them a hard time for the stupid questions especially if I have to answer the same question 2, 3 or 4 times... If you don't, I get them asking me about billing and prices. Their response to "I don't know. That's not my job." is: "Why don't you find out so I can ask you the next time I forget?" Some of the dumber ones might see you as an ass and not helpful, but I don't let it bother me. You are helping them become a better person after all. The average intelligence of humanity might go up a point.
That was my point. Television/media influence and peer pressure starts early. By the time they get old enough to make decisions as to education in higher math or doing beauty pageants, they are highly biased. That could be a contributing factor for the low number of girls in complex math classes such as Calculus in college. I believe it is a more likely reason than females have to study harder to do well in those classes than males do. I for one, don't find that I have to study harder. Calculus was fairly easy for me. I am not talking about barely passing with a C after the curve. I'm talking about making A's and not even paying attention in class. I learn better by reading the book on my own and working out a few problems. I've never had to have a professor explain something to me. I went to a group study session once and ended up being the one explaining things to the guys. I am not only able to understand it well enough to do well on a test, but enough to also be able to explain it to someone else who does not understand.
There are 6 girls in my Differential Equations class including me. I don't think any of them are ugly, but if you like the average college girl sorority look, I'd say there are at least 4 of them and I'm not going to even include myself in that bunch. I wouldn't say the gap isn't there. It is, but the article is suggesting that it is closing. I won't pretend to think that my own experiences suggest a sufficient sample set to confirm or deny this.:P
I tend to agree with the idea that gender has little to do with ability in math or science. As someone who has had to pull a team of 3 clueless guys through a programming project, I can tell you I have no problem keeping up in class. I do recognize that social pressures and conditioning do influence young girls to do other things. My classes average about 1 female to every 5 males. I once volunteered to help some brownies (younger girl scouts about 6 to 8 years old) through an activity in internet browsing at the computer lab at my college. The general impression I got from doing this was that they were more interested in fashion than computers. There was a lame flash game that let you pick a girl, backdrops and music to make your own music video. They went through the selections and when they got to one that looked very studious and wore glasses, they said she was ugly. It was just a cartoon drawing of a girl, so I did not think it was possible for her to actually look ugly, but the girls I was helping said they would never pick her and picked the "pretty" blond girl instead.
I just ran 2 copies of the launcher on Widows Vista. Works just fine with one directory. Now if you wanted 2 different UI's or game option setups, it might be different. I haven't tried. I know in EverQuest, it was possible to have 2 different UI's, and game options only had the effect of the last one to log out would save the options for the next instance you logged in.
Ah, I actually thought of that, but made a simple mistake of using 1.05 instead of 1.005 (confusing 5% with 0.5%) and getting something completely different. Concentration sometimes slips while at work. On a completely different note, a joke modded "Insightful" will usually die a horrible death.
I have no idea where you're getting 2.563 since you didn't bother to explain what numbers and operations you were putting into the calculator, it's a moot point. I was just using the numbers from the summary, which are stated to approximate, so I approximated the total over 4 days by adding it. It's close to what you say it is anyway. I was just replying to the original that thought the total growth was 1.04 over 4 days.
The article summary is the one that is misleading. He probably just didn't reread it. If you RTFA...
"Split out day-by-day, the Safari beta release grew its share of users by almost 0.5 per cent a day following its release, to 1.04 per cent on day four, which Net Applications said amounted to around 10 million users."
This means the growth rate was 0.5 per cent a day for 3 days after it's release. Then the growth rate (not total growth), on day 4, it was 1.04 percent. This means the total growth rate over the 4 days was 0.5 * 3 + 1.04 = 2.54...consults calculator...yah, that's right. Someone forgot to review their Calculus book. See tangent lines association to rates of growth.
Cause you know it was the lawyer that dashed the "reasonable doubt" defense by explaining the holes in the theories of the accused. It wasn't another techie helping him explain to the jury exactly how they were being misled....
(I know, off topic)
If you take "I think MMORPGs are nothing more than an epic waste of time. I avoid them like the child-killing plague that they are." and put it into google French->English, you get exactly what Francais Troll posted. The name also gives you an idea of what he is.:)
The key to translation engines is not to use idioms and keep the wording as simple as possible.
For example, taking the horrible French translation and setting it to French->English in google, you get "I think MMORPGs are nothing more than a waste of time epic. I avoid them like the plague killing of children who they are." That should give the pure English speaking people an idea of how bad the French is.
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I work for technical support for a telephone company ISP. One of my trouble shooting steps (of course when the modem is up and signal good) is to uninstall Norton if system restore does not work. That often fixes the problem. I'm sure there is a use for it out there, but why would you allow a simple home user to disable their internet connection and NOT be able to enable it without uninstalling the program?
It's a touchy subject. I can see how both sides could be argued. I was merely pointing out that it was not the nudity or sex acts themselves that was being prosecuted, but the violence and depravity that crossed the line (according to the courts). Even with all that, it was ruled different ways by 2 different courts.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Extreme_Associates
* Extreme Teen 24[1]: contains a scene of a naive supposed young girl being talked into having sex by an older man. The actress involved was over 18, however dressed and acted like a young girl.[3]
* Cocktails 2[1]: various scenes of women drinking vomit, saliva and other bodily fluids.[15] It was the director's cut version of the film that was cited in the case.[1]
* Ass Clowns 3: a female journalist is being raped by a gang led by Osama bin Laden; the journalist is freed and the gang members killed. The director's cut version also contains a scene where Jesus steps off the cross and has sex with an angel.
* 1001 Ways to Eat My Jizz:
* Forced Entry[16]: The film depicts the beating, rape and murder of women by a serial killer, who is eventually killed by a mob of vigilantes.[17] There are three scenes which graphically portray rape and murder, and women are also spat on.[3] Extreme's website called it their "most controversial movie" and "a stunningly disturbing look at a serial killer, satanic rituals, and the depths of human depravity."[18] Forced Entry was directed by Lizzy Borden and released in 2002. Again it was the director's cut version of the film that was cited in the case.[1]
So, your traditional porn is still safe in the US. There is porn and then there is sick minded porn. This addresses the more violent side that porn can take.
But that is exactly why you would want to force a page break. Someone may print your document with large fonts and someone else may print with small fonts and different page margins, ect. If it's an academic paper, you would want a page break after certain sections: Title Page, Table of Contents, sometimes Chapter breaks, just to be professional. This has no effect on the way it is seen in the browser, just how it is printed.
Game design is not the same thing as programming. For most game companies, a special team writes the story line, sets the objectives, creates the art, ect, which is probably what most people think about when they play the video game. Programmers on the other hand, are more about following those sets of instructions to make the game do what the designers have laid out for them. There are schools that teach this if you can afford them. http://www.fiea.ucf.edu/ is one that boasts a 95% hire on rate in the industry after graduation. You can either take game design or game programming tracks. You do have to have a Bachelor's degree to get into that school because it is for a master's degree.
Someone obviously has no sense of humor.
So now they can shut up about it now that it's finally happened?
That's pretty much what you have to do. Refuse to be a question/answer person for something someone should already know. I work at a help desk for a telephone company, but I have many other jobs since it's a small company. I don't have time to be bothered every time some customer service rep forgets something...which is a lot. I start giving them a hard time for the stupid questions especially if I have to answer the same question 2, 3 or 4 times... If you don't, I get them asking me about billing and prices. Their response to "I don't know. That's not my job." is: "Why don't you find out so I can ask you the next time I forget?" Some of the dumber ones might see you as an ass and not helpful, but I don't let it bother me. You are helping them become a better person after all. The average intelligence of humanity might go up a point.
That was my point. Television/media influence and peer pressure starts early. By the time they get old enough to make decisions as to education in higher math or doing beauty pageants, they are highly biased. That could be a contributing factor for the low number of girls in complex math classes such as Calculus in college. I believe it is a more likely reason than females have to study harder to do well in those classes than males do. I for one, don't find that I have to study harder. Calculus was fairly easy for me. I am not talking about barely passing with a C after the curve. I'm talking about making A's and not even paying attention in class. I learn better by reading the book on my own and working out a few problems. I've never had to have a professor explain something to me. I went to a group study session once and ended up being the one explaining things to the guys. I am not only able to understand it well enough to do well on a test, but enough to also be able to explain it to someone else who does not understand.
There are 6 girls in my Differential Equations class including me. I don't think any of them are ugly, but if you like the average college girl sorority look, I'd say there are at least 4 of them and I'm not going to even include myself in that bunch. I wouldn't say the gap isn't there. It is, but the article is suggesting that it is closing. I won't pretend to think that my own experiences suggest a sufficient sample set to confirm or deny this. :P
I tend to agree with the idea that gender has little to do with ability in math or science. As someone who has had to pull a team of 3 clueless guys through a programming project, I can tell you I have no problem keeping up in class. I do recognize that social pressures and conditioning do influence young girls to do other things. My classes average about 1 female to every 5 males. I once volunteered to help some brownies (younger girl scouts about 6 to 8 years old) through an activity in internet browsing at the computer lab at my college. The general impression I got from doing this was that they were more interested in fashion than computers. There was a lame flash game that let you pick a girl, backdrops and music to make your own music video. They went through the selections and when they got to one that looked very studious and wore glasses, they said she was ugly. It was just a cartoon drawing of a girl, so I did not think it was possible for her to actually look ugly, but the girls I was helping said they would never pick her and picked the "pretty" blond girl instead.
I just ran 2 copies of the launcher on Widows Vista. Works just fine with one directory. Now if you wanted 2 different UI's or game option setups, it might be different. I haven't tried. I know in EverQuest, it was possible to have 2 different UI's, and game options only had the effect of the last one to log out would save the options for the next instance you logged in.
Ah, I actually thought of that, but made a simple mistake of using 1.05 instead of 1.005 (confusing 5% with 0.5%) and getting something completely different. Concentration sometimes slips while at work. On a completely different note, a joke modded "Insightful" will usually die a horrible death.
I have no idea where you're getting 2.563 since you didn't bother to explain what numbers and operations you were putting into the calculator, it's a moot point. I was just using the numbers from the summary, which are stated to approximate, so I approximated the total over 4 days by adding it. It's close to what you say it is anyway. I was just replying to the original that thought the total growth was 1.04 over 4 days.
The article summary is the one that is misleading. He probably just didn't reread it. If you RTFA... "Split out day-by-day, the Safari beta release grew its share of users by almost 0.5 per cent a day following its release, to 1.04 per cent on day four, which Net Applications said amounted to around 10 million users." This means the growth rate was 0.5 per cent a day for 3 days after it's release. Then the growth rate (not total growth), on day 4, it was 1.04 percent. This means the total growth rate over the 4 days was 0.5 * 3 + 1.04 = 2.54...consults calculator...yah, that's right. Someone forgot to review their Calculus book. See tangent lines association to rates of growth.
Cause you know it was the lawyer that dashed the "reasonable doubt" defense by explaining the holes in the theories of the accused. It wasn't another techie helping him explain to the jury exactly how they were being misled....
(I know, off topic) If you take "I think MMORPGs are nothing more than an epic waste of time. I avoid them like the child-killing plague that they are." and put it into google French->English, you get exactly what Francais Troll posted. The name also gives you an idea of what he is. :)
The key to translation engines is not to use idioms and keep the wording as simple as possible.
For example, taking the horrible French translation and setting it to French->English in google, you get "I think MMORPGs are nothing more than a waste of time epic. I avoid them like the plague killing of children who they are." That should give the pure English speaking people an idea of how bad the French is.