Amen to that , brother!
I remember in the combat section of the original manual for Civilization, they actually told you how the computer was going to calculate whether a unit won or lost a battle. In some of todays manuals you rarely get information on which factors affect combat effectiveness.
From the article: As a side note, EA's classic Square/Circle/Triangle corporate logo was devised by Barry Deutsch of Steinhilber Deutsch and Gard design firm . They proposed the three shapes to stand for the "basic alphabet of graphic design," and they rasterized them to connote technology. About a year later, ATT unveiled a similar treatment in their logo.
I went to The Laser Center in Houston, TX to have the LASIK procedure performed. It worked like a charm. I now have 20/15 vision and am never encumbered by those damn glasses. I highly recommend that you get it done.
There is one down side, though. Low light vision does suffer a little after the procedure. To me it seems like there are little halos around every light source.
Good luck to you, what ever you decide.
I believe the full title of one who runs a train is "Locomotive Engineer". Locomotive Engineers were so named because they were supposed to know how the locomotive worked so they could run it effectively. While positions like fireman and breakman were in charge of specific components of the train, the locomotive engineer was in charge of the train as a whole. It was his job to ensure that all the components worked together efficiently like a well oil... er, train. As such, your typical locomotive engineer had extensive domain knowledge, and the application of that knowledge was a (very limited) form of engineering.
I especially like the part where Hiro has an internal dialog about the side effects to ones self image of Raven being a nuclear power.
It's the part where Hiro is talking about how you can train in Kung Fu all your life and think you're the baddest mofo around, but then you realize that this mofo [Raven] is nuclear and you don't feel like such a badass anymore.
My company implemented a furlough program. It's basically 8 days of unpaid vacation. You can take the days anytime throughout the rest of the year, but the pay is deducted evenly throughout the pay periods in this quarter. It's not altogether a bad deal. The extra days off are nice and all said it's only a 3% paycut when you spread it out over the course of a year. I just worry that a move like this will be followed by something similar (or worse) next quarter.
I have not seen the movie yet (have my tickets for 10p tonight), but do you think that perhaps someone might have been putting a little trace of Fizban into Gandalf?
For those that don't know, Fizban is the doddering old wizard from Dragonlance who was obviously based on Gandalf (albeit loosely). As a matter of fact, it seems as if most wizards in modern fiction share many traits with Gandalf.
Ah but the last 10 digits are copyrighted. So that means when someone dials that international form you mentioned they will be 'sampling' the original copywritten material.
If we learned anything from the wise Mr. Vanilla Ice, it's that you have to give credit where credit is due.
I always thought she was a weak character, a real waste of potential.
You're kidding right? Scully kicked ass on numerous occasions. She was rarely not able to hold her own against whatever was menacing the world that particular week. There were times that she was positioned as the victim for plot reasons. Since the show was really centered on Mulder, they had to make him look like a hero every now and then by letting him rescue the person who meant the most to him, his partner.
She's weak in combat, always seeming to get her gun knocked away.
She shot everybody! Hell, she even shot Mulder once. On purpose!
I tend to agree with your analysis of her not being a partner to Mulder. But, only early on. And, this was intentional. She was origionally paired with Mulder to debunk his X-Files conclusions.
As far as the show with new agents is concerned, it may very well end up being a decent show. (I doubt it) Even if it is a fine show, it still will not be the X-Files that some of us have come to know and love. But then, I guess is hasn't for past couple of seasons either.:)
Computer Science was formerly called Computing Science. It really has little to do with computers. The reason computers come into the picture is because they make computing practical.
Computer Engineering, OTOH, like all engineering is concerned with the application of a discipline. Thus, it will involve more of the ers than the ings.
What if, like many replies have said, using your memory less and less causes it to atrophy? I'm not saying it does, but it sounds like a reasonable assumtion to me.
Consider this along with the observation (again, this may or may not be true) that our minds' architecture resembles that of von Neumann architecture where the program exists in the same memory as the data. Then, if the the mind's ability to retain data shrinks to zero, we may still be able to process efficiently (intelligence), but what would all of that processing power be acting upon?
While I generally hold that it is more important to understand how or why something is rather than simply memorizing facts or one-off solutions, I don't think that exercising our powers of memorization every now and then will cause us too much harm.
For example, some of the submitors to/. should probably take the time to memorize the difference between to, too, and two -- then and than -- etc.;-)
I seem to remember that among other things (like categorization), one of the reasons for so many top level domains was so that different people that wanted to name their domain PETA could. If you have an organization named PETA and I have an organization named PETA, you can have PETA.com, I'll take PETA.org, and the next guy can have PETA.net or PETA.us
Also, is PETA a commercial enterprise? Should they be allowed to have a.com domain? *smirk* Maybe PETA.com and PETA.org should just swap.
I agree. Stephenson's Snow Crash effectively uses the "Metaverse" as a plot device without having to resort to any of this dying in VR equates to dying in RL crap. It is a must-read.
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Oh how I long for the old Microprose Manuals.
Amen to that , brother!
I remember in the combat section of the original manual for Civilization, they actually told you how the computer was going to calculate whether a unit won or lost a battle. In some of todays manuals you rarely get information on which factors affect combat effectiveness.
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Here's a little something.
From the article:
As a side note, EA's classic Square/Circle/Triangle corporate logo was devised by Barry Deutsch of Steinhilber Deutsch and Gard design firm . They proposed the three shapes to stand for the "basic alphabet of graphic design," and they rasterized them to connote technology. About a year later, ATT unveiled a similar treatment in their logo.
I went to The Laser Center in Houston, TX to have the LASIK procedure performed. It worked like a charm. I now have 20/15 vision and am never encumbered by those damn glasses. I highly recommend that you get it done.
There is one down side, though. Low light vision does suffer a little after the procedure. To me it seems like there are little halos around every light source.
Good luck to you, what ever you decide.
I believe the full title of one who runs a train is "Locomotive Engineer". Locomotive Engineers were so named because they were supposed to know how the locomotive worked so they could run it effectively. While positions like fireman and breakman were in charge of specific components of the train, the locomotive engineer was in charge of the train as a whole. It was his job to ensure that all the components worked together efficiently like a well oil ... er, train. As such, your typical locomotive engineer had extensive domain knowledge, and the application of that knowledge was a (very limited) form of engineering.
the D&D in space system I can't remember
SpellJammer, perhaps?
Two tons of flax
He-he.
I especially like the part where Hiro has an internal dialog about the side effects to ones self image of Raven being a nuclear power.
It's the part where Hiro is talking about how you can train in Kung Fu all your life and think you're the baddest mofo around, but then you realize that this mofo [Raven] is nuclear and you don't feel like such a badass anymore.
No, it's Spiderman. Murray K. Spiderman. Part time super hero and full time accountant.
My company implemented a furlough program. It's basically 8 days of unpaid vacation. You can take the days anytime throughout the rest of the year, but the pay is deducted evenly throughout the pay periods in this quarter.
It's not altogether a bad deal. The extra days off are nice and all said it's only a 3% paycut when you spread it out over the course of a year. I just worry that a move like this will be followed by something similar (or worse) next quarter.
I have not seen the movie yet (have my tickets for 10p tonight), but do you think that perhaps someone might have been putting a little trace of Fizban into Gandalf?
For those that don't know, Fizban is the doddering old wizard from Dragonlance who was obviously based on Gandalf (albeit loosely). As a matter of fact, it seems as if most wizards in modern fiction share many traits with Gandalf.
Ah but the last 10 digits are copyrighted. So that means when someone dials that international form you mentioned they will be 'sampling' the original copywritten material.
If we learned anything from the wise Mr. Vanilla Ice, it's that you have to give credit where credit is due.
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth is a must have.
I always thought she was a weak character, a real waste of potential.
:)
You're kidding right? Scully kicked ass on numerous occasions. She was rarely not able to hold her own against whatever was menacing the world that particular week. There were times that she was positioned as the victim for plot reasons. Since the show was really centered on Mulder, they had to make him look like a hero every now and then by letting him rescue the person who meant the most to him, his partner.
She's weak in combat, always seeming to get her gun knocked away.
She shot everybody! Hell, she even shot Mulder once. On purpose!
I tend to agree with your analysis of her not being a partner to Mulder. But, only early on. And, this was intentional. She was origionally paired with Mulder to debunk his X-Files conclusions.
As far as the show with new agents is concerned, it may very well end up being a decent show. (I doubt it) Even if it is a fine show, it still will not be the X-Files that some of us have come to know and love. But then, I guess is hasn't for past couple of seasons either.
...for nearly a century the embodiment of technological hubris and human fate, bravery and tragedy.
Is Katz talking about Pearl Harbor or Perl Harbor?
Bakula is a good TV actor, one that I'm afraid will never really manage the leap to the silver screen because he keeps taking CRAP roles.
Crap role, schmap role -- Lord of Illusion kicked ass! It may not have been one of the all-time greats, but I still check it out every now and again.
I believe it was Thomas Blackstone who said "It is better that ten guilty men escape than one innocent suffer."
Computer Science was formerly called Computing Science. It really has little to do with computers. The reason computers come into the picture is because they make computing practical.
Computer Engineering, OTOH, like all engineering is concerned with the application of a discipline. Thus, it will involve more of the ers than the ings.
What if, like many replies have said, using your memory less and less causes it to atrophy? I'm not saying it does, but it sounds like a reasonable assumtion to me.
/. should probably take the time to memorize the difference between to, too, and two -- then and than -- etc. ;-)
Consider this along with the observation (again, this may or may not be true) that our minds' architecture resembles that of von Neumann architecture where the program exists in the same memory as the data. Then, if the the mind's ability to retain data shrinks to zero, we may still be able to process efficiently (intelligence), but what would all of that processing power be acting upon?
While I generally hold that it is more important to understand how or why something is rather than simply memorizing facts or one-off solutions, I don't think that exercising our powers of memorization every now and then will cause us too much harm.
For example, some of the submitors to
Yea, and he said unto the Anonymous Cowards: ...go thou and smooth it out...
Up, up, and away-ay-ay! ... stock option!
In my beautiful, beautiful
I seem to remember that among other things (like categorization), one of the reasons for so many top level domains was so that different people that wanted to name their domain PETA could. If you have an organization named PETA and I have an organization named PETA, you can have PETA.com, I'll take PETA.org, and the next guy can have PETA.net or PETA.us
.com domain? *smirk* Maybe PETA.com and PETA.org should just swap.
Also, is PETA a commercial enterprise? Should they be allowed to have a
I agree. Stephenson's Snow Crash effectively uses the "Metaverse" as a plot device without having to resort to any of this dying in VR equates to dying in RL crap. It is a must-read.