If you're a hardcore code monkey, sure, the university experience might not help you that much - but it's my experience, that it's a good idea for a coder to be able to relate better to other areas of a business, and this is where the general knowledge of the longer education might come in handy.
There are frequent file errors on my ipod, both current and previous. This means songs are often truncated, and they are actually hard to reload in proper version, without resetting the device entirely, since there is no direct file-system access.
One of the key points, that is completely ignored in the OP, is do you have any other marketable skills ?? That has a core impact on any of the derived questions you are asking anyway.
Probably at least a few minutes, since you'd have to retrieve it at least twice. There is no way you'll get it to glide more than 30 metres. (If it's anything like a CD.. I speak from legacy experience:p )
I thought one of the limitations with using optical fibres is that they aren't very bendy. Certainly not as bendy as, say, a soft ethernet cable. For my 90 degree wire bundles, will they work at all?
The actual problem is that you assume that all the power needs need to come from one source. Before electricity was effectively harnessed we got 'power' from a multitude of sources - what's wrong with doing that again? As long as you can generate X amount and feed it into the infrastructure, you're helping the problem. You dont need a silver bullet, you need 1000 trickles to make the river.
Lets for a minute pretend that glass is durable enough, and that you can somehow devise a plan to keep it clean enough to actually admit enough sunlight to be panels...
...there's still the issue of DRIVING ON GLASS - what happens when it rains? There will be very little friction to keep you on the road I assume? You could of course rough up the surface of the glass a bit to improve friction, but that would impact the light it admits to the panels, wouldn't it?
It's a neat thought, but honestly, just put the solar panels on the SIDE of the road and stop trying to combine things in ways that are hugely impractical, when you already have the space to do two separate systems - one for driving, one for energy generation..
"overview of hardware, software, operating systems, and file systems"
I have a hard time reconciling that this should be college level course material. What kinds of students actually need to be given this information in 2009?
You can't teach intelligence and age dont cure stupid.
There's a fairly widespread belief that people with a higher education are probably smarter than people without one - this girl very much disproves that. When I was in law school, it was full of less than brilliant minds to be sure, some I wouldn't even have trusted to cook me a burger at the local Mmmshack.
If only the engine got a graphical facelift, the gameplay would keep me entertained for weeks.
Not sure what happened to quality turn based gaming - instead of all this realtime twitch gaming. Then again, I'm also the kind of person who enjoyed Warlords immensely until they ruined that by going realtime too.
We haven't entered a new stage of evolution, we have entered a stage of devolution. The incessant focus on all (human) life being precious has severely impacted our long term prospects by continuously contaminating the collective gene pool for instance.
The issue isn't that transportation is slow, it's that it's boring.
This is where static content fails. There is hardly ever anything new going on in an area you've already visited. Maybe game developers should focus less on expanding worlds when they do expansion packs and such, and more on coming up with systems for dynamic content delivery that mimics a living world better.
I wouldn't mind a 10 min trek through a known area, if the monsters changed, little random quests popped up, or whatever else happened on the way.
The issue is plainly the static nature of the world, not a lack of teleportation (or whatever other system is suggested)
Most weeks I'll be over that, heck in a good afternoon I'll be over that.
What exactly do they consider too much I wonder. So much for video on demand and such.
"Is this like Microsoft asserting control over what programmers may code for Windows?"
Only if you have 6 million simultaneous users on the same windows installation, who all have to be assured equal rights and accessibility to everything at once.
So a blog article by some random guy is proof?
Well Dr. Svensmarks SKY experiment would tell you otherwise http://www.sciencebits.com/SkyResults - as would the fact that since 2002 roughly the Earth temperature has been stable, with a possible cooling trend (that is not yet statistically significant, on the order of -0.04C). Incidentally this coincides with a starting low activity period for the sun afaik.
Does this mean the DivX support on the PS3 will be updated to support it as well?
If that is the case then... er... I need a bigger usb drive. Maybe Sony should give up the resistance to making the PS3 a solid multimedia device (ie. add more format support) and just start making disk drive add-ons themselves for the extra buck:)
What happens if the game doesn't sell for some reason, like it sucking for instance? Will Ubisoft then say it's because it was widely pirated instead??
Just looks like a way to cover your bases to me.
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If you're a hardcore code monkey, sure, the university experience might not help you that much - but it's my experience, that it's a good idea for a coder to be able to relate better to other areas of a business, and this is where the general knowledge of the longer education might come in handy.
There are frequent file errors on my ipod, both current and previous. This means songs are often truncated, and they are actually hard to reload in proper version, without resetting the device entirely, since there is no direct file-system access.
One of the key points, that is completely ignored in the OP, is do you have any other marketable skills ?? That has a core impact on any of the derived questions you are asking anyway.
Well, neither google nor yahoo actually run trackers, so your comparison is a little off... ;)
More likely 1/3 are either somewhat deaf, or just dont care enough about music quality to be able to tell the difference.
:P
I really doubt it's a functional issue, more that they just can't be bothered.
OR 1/3 of people are functional retards
It's entirely possible I'm missing something, but why not just put XBMC on it and be done with it?? http://xbmc.org/
Probably at least a few minutes, since you'd have to retrieve it at least twice. There is no way you'll get it to glide more than 30 metres. (If it's anything like a CD .. I speak from legacy experience :p )
I thought one of the limitations with using optical fibres is that they aren't very bendy. Certainly not as bendy as, say, a soft ethernet cable. For my 90 degree wire bundles, will they work at all?
Or did they somehow invent super-flexi fibres?
The actual problem is that you assume that all the power needs need to come from one source. Before electricity was effectively harnessed we got 'power' from a multitude of sources - what's wrong with doing that again? As long as you can generate X amount and feed it into the infrastructure, you're helping the problem. You dont need a silver bullet, you need 1000 trickles to make the river.
Lets for a minute pretend that glass is durable enough, and that you can somehow devise a plan to keep it clean enough to actually admit enough sunlight to be panels...
...there's still the issue of DRIVING ON GLASS - what happens when it rains? There will be very little friction to keep you on the road I assume? You could of course rough up the surface of the glass a bit to improve friction, but that would impact the light it admits to the panels, wouldn't it?
It's a neat thought, but honestly, just put the solar panels on the SIDE of the road and stop trying to combine things in ways that are hugely impractical, when you already have the space to do two separate systems - one for driving, one for energy generation..
"overview of hardware, software, operating systems, and file systems"
I have a hard time reconciling that this should be college level course material. What kinds of students actually need to be given this information in 2009?
Which western country are you talking about? That sentence would apply to every one of them at this time.
You can't teach intelligence and age dont cure stupid.
There's a fairly widespread belief that people with a higher education are probably smarter than people without one - this girl very much disproves that. When I was in law school, it was full of less than brilliant minds to be sure, some I wouldn't even have trusted to cook me a burger at the local Mmmshack.
SSI Gold Box games.
If only the engine got a graphical facelift, the gameplay would keep me entertained for weeks.
Not sure what happened to quality turn based gaming - instead of all this realtime twitch gaming. Then again, I'm also the kind of person who enjoyed Warlords immensely until they ruined that by going realtime too.
Yeah, I shouldn't .. but seeing as I'm in a good mood, I'll inform the fatally lazy OP.
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"... I know, free wireless!"
We haven't entered a new stage of evolution, we have entered a stage of devolution. The incessant focus on all (human) life being precious has severely impacted our long term prospects by continuously contaminating the collective gene pool for instance.
The issue isn't that transportation is slow, it's that it's boring.
This is where static content fails. There is hardly ever anything new going on in an area you've already visited. Maybe game developers should focus less on expanding worlds when they do expansion packs and such, and more on coming up with systems for dynamic content delivery that mimics a living world better.
I wouldn't mind a 10 min trek through a known area, if the monsters changed, little random quests popped up, or whatever else happened on the way.
The issue is plainly the static nature of the world, not a lack of teleportation (or whatever other system is suggested)
"They also mention that one of the titles you can print is the 1915 Oxford Poetry Book, which includes one of Tolkien's first poems, 'Goblin's Feet."
If it's from 1915 it would be in the public domain, so why would anyone buy it instead of just printing one themselves??
Most weeks I'll be over that, heck in a good afternoon I'll be over that. What exactly do they consider too much I wonder. So much for video on demand and such.
So will it be Goobay .. Piroogle perhaps?
"Is this like Microsoft asserting control over what programmers may code for Windows?"
:)
Only if you have 6 million simultaneous users on the same windows installation, who all have to be assured equal rights and accessibility to everything at once.
You probably don't
So a blog article by some random guy is proof? Well Dr. Svensmarks SKY experiment would tell you otherwise http://www.sciencebits.com/SkyResults - as would the fact that since 2002 roughly the Earth temperature has been stable, with a possible cooling trend (that is not yet statistically significant, on the order of -0.04C). Incidentally this coincides with a starting low activity period for the sun afaik.
Does this mean the DivX support on the PS3 will be updated to support it as well? If that is the case then ... er... I need a bigger usb drive. Maybe Sony should give up the resistance to making the PS3 a solid multimedia device (ie. add more format support) and just start making disk drive add-ons themselves for the extra buck :)
What happens if the game doesn't sell for some reason, like it sucking for instance? Will Ubisoft then say it's because it was widely pirated instead?? Just looks like a way to cover your bases to me.