Yep, I've been a gamer since my dad bought a Commodore 128. Now I'm working through my Master's in Computer Science after completing a Computer Engineering Bachelor's. I wonder how much higher my Masters's 4.0 GPA would be if I wasn't a gamer...
If I had not already posted in here I would mod this up. No precisely a DRM issue but still those who pay get the same thing that those who pirate get for free. Value added how?
DLC done right is not held back content. Instead it is developers working right up to the final code freeze (may be weeks to months prior to release) on the content you paid for and then saving money by developing new content with the same software. I have no problem with this additional content. How many people have there been that finished a good game and wished for more?
Low frame rate on those things so power use would be almost negligible. I wonder if you could almost power something like that with solar panels from the florescent lights in my building (no clue how much power you can capture from those).
Its how you use it. A good programmer understands that no matter what programming language they use, the same structures apply (ex: branches, loops and function call/gosubs).
I write my first few little programs in various basic languages. I learned quickly that programming in blocks (one entry point, one exit) simplified things greatly. My first real training was in college in Java. This just further emphasized proper coding structure and built on what I had already learned on my own.
Since then I can develop programs in C/C++, Java, Ada, assembly, DXL, Perl and other languages but no matter what the language is I simply picture what structure I want to use and then figure out how that language can implement that structure.
Ultimately its not the language, its the developer...
Now I know that not everyone will agree with this because I don't think there are that many people that learn like me (feel free to surprise me).
I don't learn everything by just sitting and paying attention to the professor. I tried this at the beginning of college and just managed to fry my brain (that or the 5 class, 18 credit hour semesters, yuck). Over time I found that I learned best by picking up the major points during class and reading the books on those points later to help solidify the important points.
I actually do this by playing computer games while I'm in class. The computer games prevent me from completely zoning out but leave enough concentration left to pick up the major points.
I am a Computer Engineer with a 3.35 GPA in my BSE and a 4.0 with one class and a Thesis left in my graduate studies. Since college I've worked for six years now developing DO-178 level B embedded avionics software fairly successfully.
Computer games in class seem to benefit me. If any professor told me I couldn't take my laptop to class I'd tell them I'll be taking another class...
Agreed, I believe a diesel is more efficient because it is not ignited by a single point spark but instead the entire fuel mixture ignites at almost the same time due to heat and compression of the entire mixture.
If the fuel is just under the ignition point the ignition will consume all of the fuel more rapidly.
For simple numbers, assume that 1 gallon of gas has 100 miles at 100% efficiency. At 20% efficiency that gallon has 20 miles, a 50% increase of efficiency is 30% efficiency which 30 miles to that gallon.
Now if we were talking 50% decrease in loss, that is different. At 20% efficiency or 80% loss, 50% decrease in loss is 40% loss or 60% efficiency, 300% increase in efficiency. At 80% efficiency or 20% loss, (50% increase in efficiency is impossible) 50% decrease in loss is 10% loss or 90% efficiency, 12.5% increase in efficiency.
Not sure if that helps any though...
Not to mention when you are browsing from work and they block a majority of video services or you don't want to listen to audio. I just want five minutes or less to read an article and back to work thanks...
For me that's kind of a so what... I patch as much as windows will let me without a restart and go about my business. Once I'm done I shut down and walk away weather its a desktop or laptop ( the laptop I just drop somewhere appropriate and plugged in). Most of the time those patches don't mean a whole lot to me because the only time they cause me much of a problem is with viruses but my web computer I use often and my non-web computer couldn't care less (not that I go to most of the sites that are virus hazards).
Not only do they probably support zombies but they are probably digging up more bodies and making new configurations (like my company). Could we please start developing for something newer than IE6? IE7 at least has tabs...
All Microsoft needs to do is look at what Google's most common searches are (perhaps even look at Google's auto completes) and they have the data refined from having more customers.
Oh, this doesn't provide Microsoft an advantage over Google you say? Tough...
The next reply below summed up my thoughts pretty well. The difference between a computer keyboard and typewriters are how hard you hit the key but you can still tell if you care centered on a key or two keys before you press it. With touch screens you can punch in between two keys and not know until the letters pop up.
Maybe you can learn to respond by visual cues but I tend to catch mistyped letters by feel and if I don't feel it I tend not to even pick up that it was mistyped.
So is he saying if we better understand why some things disolve in water (and particular interest, water in our blood stream) and why some don't we will better handle diseases?
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Hmm, good to know. I didn't realize there were as many critters eating coal as breathing air.
Yep, love my CFLs. I've found most of the color seems to come from the enclosures instead of the bulbs...
And that way their remaining stock wont be used to produce extra mercury from coal burning power plants!
Yep, I've been a gamer since my dad bought a Commodore 128. Now I'm working through my Master's in Computer Science after completing a Computer Engineering Bachelor's. I wonder how much higher my Masters's 4.0 GPA would be if I wasn't a gamer...
Id be fine with an hour in between images, a minute or two morph between images could be an interesting effect...
If I had not already posted in here I would mod this up. No precisely a DRM issue but still those who pay get the same thing that those who pirate get for free. Value added how?
DLC done right is not held back content. Instead it is developers working right up to the final code freeze (may be weeks to months prior to release) on the content you paid for and then saving money by developing new content with the same software. I have no problem with this additional content. How many people have there been that finished a good game and wished for more?
Low frame rate on those things so power use would be almost negligible. I wonder if you could almost power something like that with solar panels from the florescent lights in my building (no clue how much power you can capture from those).
Yeah, I hope the reason they never went through with this is someone who understood what you just said looked at the plan and said "Are you insane?!".
Its about scientology isn't it?
I'm in college to learn, not for the degree. If they don't want to help me learn than the class is of no use to me.
Its how you use it. A good programmer understands that no matter what programming language they use, the same structures apply (ex: branches, loops and function call/gosubs).
I write my first few little programs in various basic languages. I learned quickly that programming in blocks (one entry point, one exit) simplified things greatly. My first real training was in college in Java. This just further emphasized proper coding structure and built on what I had already learned on my own.
Since then I can develop programs in C/C++, Java, Ada, assembly, DXL, Perl and other languages but no matter what the language is I simply picture what structure I want to use and then figure out how that language can implement that structure.
Ultimately its not the language, its the developer...
Now I know that not everyone will agree with this because I don't think there are that many people that learn like me (feel free to surprise me).
I don't learn everything by just sitting and paying attention to the professor. I tried this at the beginning of college and just managed to fry my brain (that or the 5 class, 18 credit hour semesters, yuck). Over time I found that I learned best by picking up the major points during class and reading the books on those points later to help solidify the important points.
I actually do this by playing computer games while I'm in class. The computer games prevent me from completely zoning out but leave enough concentration left to pick up the major points.
I am a Computer Engineer with a 3.35 GPA in my BSE and a 4.0 with one class and a Thesis left in my graduate studies. Since college I've worked for six years now developing DO-178 level B embedded avionics software fairly successfully.
Computer games in class seem to benefit me. If any professor told me I couldn't take my laptop to class I'd tell them I'll be taking another class...
Just my bent $0.02
Agreed, I believe a diesel is more efficient because it is not ignited by a single point spark but instead the entire fuel mixture ignites at almost the same time due to heat and compression of the entire mixture.
If the fuel is just under the ignition point the ignition will consume all of the fuel more rapidly.
For simple numbers, assume that 1 gallon of gas has 100 miles at 100% efficiency. At 20% efficiency that gallon has 20 miles, a 50% increase of efficiency is 30% efficiency which 30 miles to that gallon. Now if we were talking 50% decrease in loss, that is different. At 20% efficiency or 80% loss, 50% decrease in loss is 40% loss or 60% efficiency, 300% increase in efficiency. At 80% efficiency or 20% loss, (50% increase in efficiency is impossible) 50% decrease in loss is 10% loss or 90% efficiency, 12.5% increase in efficiency. Not sure if that helps any though...
Not to mention when you are browsing from work and they block a majority of video services or you don't want to listen to audio. I just want five minutes or less to read an article and back to work thanks...
Though no screen under the keyboard (if I understood the ASUS article right). http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/01/04/lenovos-u1-is-a-netbook-with-removable-tablet/
When your parent (godparent?) is trying to help hammer the stake deeper into your heart.
On a note for a similar funeral: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070211
(Unfortunately posted by a zombie, would someone please talk to my IT people?)
Since when?
For me that's kind of a so what... I patch as much as windows will let me without a restart and go about my business. Once I'm done I shut down and walk away weather its a desktop or laptop ( the laptop I just drop somewhere appropriate and plugged in). Most of the time those patches don't mean a whole lot to me because the only time they cause me much of a problem is with viruses but my web computer I use often and my non-web computer couldn't care less (not that I go to most of the sites that are virus hazards).
Not only do they probably support zombies but they are probably digging up more bodies and making new configurations (like my company). Could we please start developing for something newer than IE6? IE7 at least has tabs...
There was a pretty good user friendly commic on this a few years back on speach recognition:
I think Steff gave up on the voice recognition. How can you tell? The screen says "Cod am pizza ship".
All Microsoft needs to do is look at what Google's most common searches are (perhaps even look at Google's auto completes) and they have the data refined from having more customers.
Oh, this doesn't provide Microsoft an advantage over Google you say? Tough...
The next reply below summed up my thoughts pretty well. The difference between a computer keyboard and typewriters are how hard you hit the key but you can still tell if you care centered on a key or two keys before you press it. With touch screens you can punch in between two keys and not know until the letters pop up.
Maybe you can learn to respond by visual cues but I tend to catch mistyped letters by feel and if I don't feel it I tend not to even pick up that it was mistyped.
Just my $0.02
So is he saying if we better understand why some things disolve in water (and particular interest, water in our blood stream) and why some don't we will better handle diseases?