They're called Impellers - you normally find them in jetskis, but they're high wear devices - especially in boats, so unless the pirates want to replace their boats every few months they're better off with traditional propellors, and just having an overhanging mesh guard around it to catch the ropes
Actually, I do a little bit of both at work. I make eLearning software (You know, Games that aren't actually fun) but alot I learned on my Computer Games Course is useful for both. So long as you get a little bit of interface design thrown in with your OMG GAMES! education you're sorted.
I may not be working with the same tools I learned to use in uni (or even the same programming language) or indeed the languages or tools I started working with way back when I started coding in my spare time, there are certain skills that transcend them. There are things you don't get taught in CS courses that you do get on CGT (like AI pathfinding, 3D mathematics and the likes) that don't carry over and are very specialised, but the chances you'll come out of university and straight into a job that requires you to do any of these things is highly unlikely even if it IS in the games industry, as you'll probably be working with an existing game engine.
The best way to break into the games industry? Get yourself an engine, and make yourself a mod. Unreal Engine has just been released, Valves engines have been 'free' (so long as you buy a Half-life game) since day 0, then there's a plethora of open-source free engines, there's the web-based ones like Unity3D, Director (quite old, but it still has its uses sometimes) and Googles O3D plugin.
Learn your filesystems, databases and GUI design formally, the principles of those rarely change.
Programme for fun. It doesn't matter how good you are, or how well you were educated, someone who enjoys what they do will learn on the job and expand more than someone who does it solely for the cash. They also make the best games.
The scary thing is is that Mandelson is a capable man in a house of incompetent loonies and he may just get his way with this. Ofcourse, that's only if the rumour is true (I wouldn't put it past him though)
The Conservatives are no different, they have a few more capable members than loonies, but they're as removed from the general population as they ever were, and no-one in Scotland will vote for them.
The Lib Dems are a non-entity since they kicked out their leader for being an alcoholic (he was the only personality the party had)
The SNP are still popular in Scotland (and ofc, they have their boy as first minister)
the BNP are making disturbing headway into certain areas (they came fourth in the Glasgow North East by-election)
Our only real hope is that the next election sees no one party gaining majority and forcing power sharing between Labor, Conservatives, Lib Dems and the SNP to prevent any one party dominating.
Or, and this is only a win in the worst of terms, Scotland goes for full independence and disconnects itself from the English. As much as I hate the idea, it's becoming more and more likely as time goes on and confidence in Westminster is dissolved.
The fact is, the Secret Service has spent time and effort keeping the populace blissfully ignorant of technology's pitfalls and it's backfired. The creme of those ignorami are now in government.
Admitedly, there isn't a Lidl within walking distance of my house, but I used to live next to one hence my outburst:D I shop at Morrisons now as the only alternatives are a Sainsbury's, an M&S Simply Food, and a Tesco Express (Which doesn't even sell Weetos).
Asimov did not write hard sci-fi in any definition of the word. It was soft sci-fi, focusing mainly on social sciences, like psychology. Any proper scientific discipline lacks technical detail, infact he *Made Up* the science of robotics, from scratch. That's not what Hard Sci-fi writers (like Clarke) do. The Foundation series is definitly soft-sci fi, and more of a space opera than anything else. (Note the difference between Hard, Soft and Pulp sci-fi. Hard and Soft are equally valid as science fiction, its all a matter of taste. Pulp Sci-fi is the likes of Planet of the Apes, Forbidden Planet, Flash Gordon or hell, even Star Wars, that use Science Fiction as a thin veneer for action orientated stories)
Asimovs ideas are what drives the story in I, Robot, not the science. His ideas stand the test of time, if not the technology (His earliest stories pre-date the invention of the transistor, so futuristic computers still take up warehouses and use vacuum tubes and punch cards)
I have almost all of Asmiov's Sci-fi output in my library, I absoloutely adore it for it's unfaltering charm and idealism, as well as it's interesting, twisting plots (Particularly Caves of Steel) The only licensed sequel I've enjoyed was Mirage by Mark W Tiedelman, admitedly I've not read many of them but there are quite a few. The second Foundation Trilogy, Caliban and Robot City. From what I've heard, both Caliban and Robot City were decent attempts and stand on their own, but the Second Foundation Trilogy was all but trash.
Software service providers have all the rights to lock down their applications and pre. My only beef is when they start pressuring ISPs to do the things at their end in order to save themselves time and effort.
it's not really the development of a new technology, it's the hybridisation of everything that's come before - IRC, IM, Wiki's, Email - into one flexible platform. It's certainly an interesting idea, but what it needs is the ability to forcibly narrow down the parameters so you can *if you want* lock it into a pure Wiki, or IRC clone or whatever.
It might, however, be one of those kid in a candy shop style affairs where the kid can have as much candy as he wants, but doesn't know where to start, eats everything, pukes and makes a mess.
it would have done, had it been real and full of rocket fuel. As far as I can tell, because it wasn't a proper 'seperation' (ie, once the bolts were seperated there was prolonged contact), allowing for some slight jostling, meaning the upper stage and the lower stage collided at some point and probably caused the cartwheeling.
But I'm not a scientist, so don't take my word for it:)
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Luckily, BBC News is run on the British TV Licence and can't - by power of it's charter - put adverts or start charging for anything.
They're called Impellers - you normally find them in jetskis, but they're high wear devices - especially in boats, so unless the pirates want to replace their boats every few months they're better off with traditional propellors, and just having an overhanging mesh guard around it to catch the ropes
Actually, I do a little bit of both at work. I make eLearning software (You know, Games that aren't actually fun) but alot I learned on my Computer Games Course is useful for both. So long as you get a little bit of interface design thrown in with your OMG GAMES! education you're sorted. I may not be working with the same tools I learned to use in uni (or even the same programming language) or indeed the languages or tools I started working with way back when I started coding in my spare time, there are certain skills that transcend them. There are things you don't get taught in CS courses that you do get on CGT (like AI pathfinding, 3D mathematics and the likes) that don't carry over and are very specialised, but the chances you'll come out of university and straight into a job that requires you to do any of these things is highly unlikely even if it IS in the games industry, as you'll probably be working with an existing game engine. The best way to break into the games industry? Get yourself an engine, and make yourself a mod. Unreal Engine has just been released, Valves engines have been 'free' (so long as you buy a Half-life game) since day 0, then there's a plethora of open-source free engines, there's the web-based ones like Unity3D, Director (quite old, but it still has its uses sometimes) and Googles O3D plugin. Learn your filesystems, databases and GUI design formally, the principles of those rarely change. Programme for fun. It doesn't matter how good you are, or how well you were educated, someone who enjoys what they do will learn on the job and expand more than someone who does it solely for the cash. They also make the best games.
SPACE GRUES! So THAT's why we've not returned to the moon...
They're not overtly buying them, it's totally covert (but blatant all the same)
The scary thing is is that Mandelson is a capable man in a house of incompetent loonies and he may just get his way with this. Ofcourse, that's only if the rumour is true (I wouldn't put it past him though)
The Conservatives are no different, they have a few more capable members than loonies, but they're as removed from the general population as they ever were, and no-one in Scotland will vote for them.
The Lib Dems are a non-entity since they kicked out their leader for being an alcoholic (he was the only personality the party had)
The SNP are still popular in Scotland (and ofc, they have their boy as first minister)
the BNP are making disturbing headway into certain areas (they came fourth in the Glasgow North East by-election)
Our only real hope is that the next election sees no one party gaining majority and forcing power sharing between Labor, Conservatives, Lib Dems and the SNP to prevent any one party dominating.
Or, and this is only a win in the worst of terms, Scotland goes for full independence and disconnects itself from the English. As much as I hate the idea, it's becoming more and more likely as time goes on and confidence in Westminster is dissolved.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1407593&cid=29776261
link, because "plain old text" turns urls into links
it only works for me in FF if I come from the RSS link and not the frontpage.
for a site designed to attract computer geeks it's not doing too well is it?
"Brangelina" sounds like some kind of Laxitive Fairy
You can't invalidate hope! *lobbies*
The fact is, the Secret Service has spent time and effort keeping the populace blissfully ignorant of technology's pitfalls and it's backfired. The creme of those ignorami are now in government.
So Red Dwarf WASN'T The first Sci-fi show to ruin itself by cross-polinating itself with a soap opera...
Asda sells food?!
Admitedly, there isn't a Lidl within walking distance of my house, but I used to live next to one hence my outburst :D
I shop at Morrisons now as the only alternatives are a Sainsbury's, an M&S Simply Food, and a Tesco Express (Which doesn't even sell Weetos).
hear hear! Who shops in Sainsbury's in this financial climate either?
they should have teamed up with Lidl
Deathwing lives under North East Egypt? Does that mean dark iron dwarves live in Mount Sinai?
You dare call is Oomkins and we will drop a Starfall on your collective arses.
need a giant snake... that'll freeze to death in winter, and make excellent handbags
Asimov did not write hard sci-fi in any definition of the word. It was soft sci-fi, focusing mainly on social sciences, like psychology. Any proper scientific discipline lacks technical detail, infact he *Made Up* the science of robotics, from scratch. That's not what Hard Sci-fi writers (like Clarke) do. The Foundation series is definitly soft-sci fi, and more of a space opera than anything else. (Note the difference between Hard, Soft and Pulp sci-fi. Hard and Soft are equally valid as science fiction, its all a matter of taste. Pulp Sci-fi is the likes of Planet of the Apes, Forbidden Planet, Flash Gordon or hell, even Star Wars, that use Science Fiction as a thin veneer for action orientated stories)
Asimovs ideas are what drives the story in I, Robot, not the science. His ideas stand the test of time, if not the technology (His earliest stories pre-date the invention of the transistor, so futuristic computers still take up warehouses and use vacuum tubes and punch cards)
I have almost all of Asmiov's Sci-fi output in my library, I absoloutely adore it for it's unfaltering charm and idealism, as well as it's interesting, twisting plots (Particularly Caves of Steel)
The only licensed sequel I've enjoyed was Mirage by Mark W Tiedelman, admitedly I've not read many of them but there are quite a few. The second Foundation Trilogy, Caliban and Robot City. From what I've heard, both Caliban and Robot City were decent attempts and stand on their own, but the Second Foundation Trilogy was all but trash.
so Enterprise, DS9 and Voyager aren't "Canon" - woot!
Software service providers have all the rights to lock down their applications and pre. My only beef is when they start pressuring ISPs to do the things at their end in order to save themselves time and effort.
it's only a matter of time before someone registers bánkófámérícá.com or llóydstsb.co.uk for their phishing schemes
it's not really the development of a new technology, it's the hybridisation of everything that's come before - IRC, IM, Wiki's, Email - into one flexible platform. It's certainly an interesting idea, but what it needs is the ability to forcibly narrow down the parameters so you can *if you want* lock it into a pure Wiki, or IRC clone or whatever.
It might, however, be one of those kid in a candy shop style affairs where the kid can have as much candy as he wants, but doesn't know where to start, eats everything, pukes and makes a mess.
Did a search for Lawn darts... best picture ever http://www.core77.com/blog/images/vanbezooyen_core77_worsttoys.jpg
The main article was posted before launch, I think the first paragraph is an addendum put in after the thing launched.
it would have done, had it been real and full of rocket fuel. As far as I can tell, because it wasn't a proper 'seperation' (ie, once the bolts were seperated there was prolonged contact), allowing for some slight jostling, meaning the upper stage and the lower stage collided at some point and probably caused the cartwheeling.
But I'm not a scientist, so don't take my word for it :)