Sprint, for sure: Almost the coverage of Verizon, but cheaper plans. World phones available, and great smartphones with WebOS or Android (I've become a huge Pre fan after having tried out a Droid and Droid Eris on Verizon).
Let's look at the competition: Verizon: Best network, by far. But screws you up the ass, sorry, nickles and dimes you whenever they can.
AT&T: OK network if you happen to live in a Top 50 metropolis with Senators that can make your life miserable (I'm looking at you, awesome AT&T coverage in the DC to Baltimore corridor.)
Deutsche Mobile, I mean T-Mobile: Seriously? I guess if you're paid to use their shit in NYC or LA or are a typical jackass American and never leave your top 25 metro area.
For the record, I switched to a Pre on Sprint after happily having a Razr on Verizon for years. I love my Pre and I love Sprint. This from a guy who regularly travels the backroads of the country where AT&T and T-Mobile (and the iPhone and 3G) are myths.
All of the suggestions that have been modded to 5 are too high level, in my opinion.
The most useful mathematical tools to **anyone**, IMHO, are logic and statistics. (I'm not considering arithmetic or algebra "math" for this discussion.)
Logic, or pure math, is often a second-year undergraduate course for math programs at liberal art schools in the US. It's often called "intro to math", "abstract math", or "number theory" (though strictly speaking number theory should be considered a subset of logic/pure math, but a good and fun course to take after a intro to logic course). It is important because it teaches you how to generalize and analyze problems in a rigorous manner, basically how to reason.
Statistics should follow after logic since the tools learned in logic will be used to build the tools of statistics. Statistics is important because it teaches you how to rigorously collect, interpret, and model data, basically how to make educated guesses about what happened in the past what might happen in the future.
These tools are what have made human progress so amazing, and serve as the foundation for the rest of science. While you won't explicitly use them every time you write code, they will be the bedrock that makes it possible to convert difficult, real-world problems into good code.
Two additional suggestions: discrete math will help you understand how computers work at a fundamental level, and numerical analysis (continuous math) will help you figure out where errors will occur and how to deal with them. These are tools that turn you from a code monkey into a systems analyst.
Wow. That takes me back. My dad got me a subscription to OMNI in the late 80's. It was always a good day when the latest ish would show up on the kitchen table when I got home from school. When it folded I looked around for something to replace it, but there never really was its equal. Wired came close during its peak in the mid- to late-90s, but it didn't have the usually short fiction or kooky charm. Realms of Fantasy magazine continues to be my source for short fiction (though it was strictly fantasy, nothing approaching sci-fi is allowed to touch its pages), kooky ads, and the Folkroots column is great. But by the 2000s I had dropped all my print science mag subscriptions and moved solely online. Thanks/.!
If you're definition of "everyone" means "college kids in the late '90s" then I'd suspect you are right.
But the iPod made it easy and mainstream to find and listen to mp3s. Now Apple, because of Jobs, dominates the lucrative market for legal, commercial distribution of music and portable music playing devices.
I'm not saying this makes him a person of the decade. But you are way off base if you think a majority or even a significant minority of people got their music from IRC or hard drives, even USENET, at any point in history. I will grant that Napster was immensely popular at its peak (almost 30 million users before it was shut down, if I recall). But to make my point again, Napster's popularity was primarily among college and high school kids and during its life it was never a sustainable, profitable business.
One important caveat that this review overlooks is that many of his criticisms center on complexities and different approaches that Lucas took (before that he wanted to take different approaches when he asked Lynch to direct RotJ).
I don't know what this sentence is supposed to mean, exactly.
Just because Lucas screwed it up doesn't make these things bad.
Well, yes it does. The Phantom Menace is bad because Lucas screwed up. And the critic does explicitly address the fact that it is not just Lucas's fault, but the fault of the editors, producers, screenwriters, and everyone else who were sycophants instead of creative partners willing to say no and challenge Lucas when he screwed up.
Lucas gambled and he lost. He lost everything.
Lucas didn't gamble anything. And he sure as frak hasn't "lost everything". He's still in the top 25 of Forbes Celebrity 100. He pulled in $170 million last year and has an estimated net worth of around $3 billion (that's three-fraking-BILLION-with-a-"B").
In software development, you generally start with the basics and master them before you begin an epic endeavor into parts unknown.
WiiWare and the Virtual Console are reason enough to own a Wii.
My "hardcore" gamer friends have all owned and then sold a Wii. They can't believe I'm still spending almost all of my gaming time on the Wii. But what I found out was they never used the Nintendo channel or the DLC. They've all been amazed and regret selling their Wiis when I show them things like the Tales of Monkey Island, Mega Man 9, Excite Bike, the two Lost Winds, and Bit Trip Void (and those are just the first line of my screens of downloads on my Wii). Then there's the long list of Virtual Console games: the Super Mario Bros, Zeldas, Super Mario Kart, A Boy and His Blob, etc.
If you have a Wii and aren't taking advantage of the amazing games and huuuge back catalog you aren't doing it right.
I'd add that Safari has the best web zooming of any browser I've tried in the past three months. It scales the entire page so it keeps its formatting. Text, images, and layout all scale up and down.
Safari is easily the best browser for couch-based surfing.
I play games on my Wii almost every day, and didn't have the same problem with it. Maybe it's just having used a physical controller for 30 years seeing people play without one at all strikes me as wrong.
Maybe it's that, while I'm comfortable with manipulating controllers I'm not comfortable with manipulating my body. Insert the standard nerd jokes here, but it's true: I'm not good at sports or exercise and tend to injure myself rather than getting better or more physically fit.
Setting my personal problems, who is going to get this that doesn't have a Wii already? If someone has neither a 360 nor a Wii, would this really make them pick the 360? I honestly can't picture someone who doesn't have a 360 or a Wii but will get a 360 now because of this thing at this stage of the game. I'm also having a hard time imagining a large number of people who have a 360 who will want this thing.
I just don't get it, at all, except as a yet another lame "me too" from Microsoft.
I'm going to have to guess you aren't married or have children. Those two hours you spend in the gym can be a huge sacrifice when they are two fewer hours a day you get to spend with your family. They are also two hours you don't have to get your kids ready for the next day and prepare healthy food for them to eat.
Hundreds of Toyota owners?! Well, then: if a percentage of the population of Toyota owners of North Dakota are upset, by all means, everyone who has ever owned a Toyota should raise their torch and/or pitchfork!
ISPs will be required to inform retail customers at least 30 days, and wholesale customers at least 60 days, before an Internet traffic management practice takes effect.
Most locales have de facto ISP monopolies. This ruling will just give customers 30 days warning of a rape, with no practical way to avoid it. Arguably better in theory, but no different in practice.
Give it to your local childrens' hospital. Be a gent and throw in extra controllers and an E for everyone game like Lego Indiana Jones, Lego Star Wars, or Viva Pinata.
Corporations are not people! They are not endowed by their creators with certain unalienable rights! They have no freedom of speech! The have to right to privacy! God damn corporatists, literally!
To be complete, he needs to take a look at the Democrats too. Senator Conrad of North Dakota is as bought and paid for by the health industry as anyone Olbermann called out in that video.
I'd say yes, Tiger has been as good as abandoned for quite some time. Various places were reporting 80% Leopard adoption across the Mac platforms waaay back in late 2007 to early 2008. Especially after the 10.5.2 service packs fixed many of the most glaring issues with the initial Leopard release.
Why did you hold of for so long? I'm genuinely curious. Not knowing anything else, if I were you I would have upgraded as soon as the Leopard/iWord/iLife boxed set were released at the absolute latest.
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Sprint, for sure:
Almost the coverage of Verizon, but cheaper plans. World phones available, and great smartphones with WebOS or Android (I've become a huge Pre fan after having tried out a Droid and Droid Eris on Verizon).
Let's look at the competition:
Verizon:
Best network, by far. But screws you up the ass, sorry, nickles and dimes you whenever they can.
AT&T:
OK network if you happen to live in a Top 50 metropolis with Senators that can make your life miserable (I'm looking at you, awesome AT&T coverage in the DC to Baltimore corridor.)
Deutsche Mobile, I mean T-Mobile:
Seriously? I guess if you're paid to use their shit in NYC or LA or are a typical jackass American and never leave your top 25 metro area.
For the record, I switched to a Pre on Sprint after happily having a Razr on Verizon for years. I love my Pre and I love Sprint. This from a guy who regularly travels the backroads of the country where AT&T and T-Mobile (and the iPhone and 3G) are myths.
All of the suggestions that have been modded to 5 are too high level, in my opinion.
The most useful mathematical tools to **anyone**, IMHO, are logic and statistics. (I'm not considering arithmetic or algebra "math" for this discussion.)
Logic, or pure math, is often a second-year undergraduate course for math programs at liberal art schools in the US. It's often called "intro to math", "abstract math", or "number theory" (though strictly speaking number theory should be considered a subset of logic/pure math, but a good and fun course to take after a intro to logic course). It is important because it teaches you how to generalize and analyze problems in a rigorous manner, basically how to reason.
Statistics should follow after logic since the tools learned in logic will be used to build the tools of statistics. Statistics is important because it teaches you how to rigorously collect, interpret, and model data, basically how to make educated guesses about what happened in the past what might happen in the future.
These tools are what have made human progress so amazing, and serve as the foundation for the rest of science. While you won't explicitly use them every time you write code, they will be the bedrock that makes it possible to convert difficult, real-world problems into good code.
Two additional suggestions: discrete math will help you understand how computers work at a fundamental level, and numerical analysis (continuous math) will help you figure out where errors will occur and how to deal with them. These are tools that turn you from a code monkey into a systems analyst.
Wow. That takes me back. My dad got me a subscription to OMNI in the late 80's. It was always a good day when the latest ish would show up on the kitchen table when I got home from school. When it folded I looked around for something to replace it, but there never really was its equal. Wired came close during its peak in the mid- to late-90s, but it didn't have the usually short fiction or kooky charm. Realms of Fantasy magazine continues to be my source for short fiction (though it was strictly fantasy, nothing approaching sci-fi is allowed to touch its pages), kooky ads, and the Folkroots column is great. But by the 2000s I had dropped all my print science mag subscriptions and moved solely online. Thanks /.!
My point is that 30 million people is many fewer than the total number of people who listened to music at the height of Napster's popularity.
It's also many fewer than the 250 million or so iPods that have been sold to date.
Steve Jobs changed how people listened to music.
If you're definition of "everyone" means "college kids in the late '90s" then I'd suspect you are right.
But the iPod made it easy and mainstream to find and listen to mp3s. Now Apple, because of Jobs, dominates the lucrative market for legal, commercial distribution of music and portable music playing devices.
I'm not saying this makes him a person of the decade. But you are way off base if you think a majority or even a significant minority of people got their music from IRC or hard drives, even USENET, at any point in history. I will grant that Napster was immensely popular at its peak (almost 30 million users before it was shut down, if I recall). But to make my point again, Napster's popularity was primarily among college and high school kids and during its life it was never a sustainable, profitable business.
Slashdot needs a (-1, Delusional) mod.
Mods, this is supposed to be funny and/or flaimbait.
Wow. Insightful? Really?
Well played, Anenome, well played.
Why would you get T-Mobile in the US? Apparently you have never left the large American city in which you live?
Frak you, you fraking mother-fraker.
One important caveat that this review overlooks is that many of his criticisms center on complexities and different approaches that Lucas took (before that he wanted to take different approaches when he asked Lynch to direct RotJ).
I don't know what this sentence is supposed to mean, exactly.
Just because Lucas screwed it up doesn't make these things bad.
Well, yes it does. The Phantom Menace is bad because Lucas screwed up. And the critic does explicitly address the fact that it is not just Lucas's fault, but the fault of the editors, producers, screenwriters, and everyone else who were sycophants instead of creative partners willing to say no and challenge Lucas when he screwed up.
Lucas gambled and he lost. He lost everything.
Lucas didn't gamble anything. And he sure as frak hasn't "lost everything". He's still in the top 25 of Forbes Celebrity 100. He pulled in $170 million last year and has an estimated net worth of around $3 billion (that's three-fraking-BILLION-with-a-"B").
In software development, you generally start with the basics and master them before you begin an epic endeavor into parts unknown.
How did this vacuous comment make it to +5?
WiiWare and the Virtual Console are reason enough to own a Wii.
My "hardcore" gamer friends have all owned and then sold a Wii. They can't believe I'm still spending almost all of my gaming time on the Wii. But what I found out was they never used the Nintendo channel or the DLC. They've all been amazed and regret selling their Wiis when I show them things like the Tales of Monkey Island, Mega Man 9, Excite Bike, the two Lost Winds, and Bit Trip Void (and those are just the first line of my screens of downloads on my Wii). Then there's the long list of Virtual Console games: the Super Mario Bros, Zeldas, Super Mario Kart, A Boy and His Blob, etc.
If you have a Wii and aren't taking advantage of the amazing games and huuuge back catalog you aren't doing it right.
Anyone who voluntarily lives in Detroit or Chicago deserves what they get for being stupid.
I'd add that Safari has the best web zooming of any browser I've tried in the past three months. It scales the entire page so it keeps its formatting. Text, images, and layout all scale up and down.
Safari is easily the best browser for couch-based surfing.
I haven't tried it.
But the demo videos at http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/ strike me as extremely weird and creepy.
I play games on my Wii almost every day, and didn't have the same problem with it. Maybe it's just having used a physical controller for 30 years seeing people play without one at all strikes me as wrong.
Maybe it's that, while I'm comfortable with manipulating controllers I'm not comfortable with manipulating my body. Insert the standard nerd jokes here, but it's true: I'm not good at sports or exercise and tend to injure myself rather than getting better or more physically fit.
Setting my personal problems, who is going to get this that doesn't have a Wii already? If someone has neither a 360 nor a Wii, would this really make them pick the 360? I honestly can't picture someone who doesn't have a 360 or a Wii but will get a 360 now because of this thing at this stage of the game. I'm also having a hard time imagining a large number of people who have a 360 who will want this thing.
I just don't get it, at all, except as a yet another lame "me too" from Microsoft.
I'm going to have to guess you aren't married or have children. Those two hours you spend in the gym can be a huge sacrifice when they are two fewer hours a day you get to spend with your family. They are also two hours you don't have to get your kids ready for the next day and prepare healthy food for them to eat.
$700?! And it doesn't even come with the stupid remote? I don't think so.
Apple gets away with this because they have an established brand and reputation.
I can't believe they don't even have a video of the UI they are hyping. Show, don't tell.
Wow. This is just ridiculous. Is the Internet being punked?
Hundreds of Toyota owners?! Well, then: if a percentage of the population of Toyota owners of North Dakota are upset, by all means, everyone who has ever owned a Toyota should raise their torch and/or pitchfork!
ISPs will be required to inform retail customers at least 30 days, and wholesale customers at least 60 days, before an Internet traffic management practice takes effect.
Most locales have de facto ISP monopolies. This ruling will just give customers 30 days warning of a rape, with no practical way to avoid it. Arguably better in theory, but no different in practice.
National Public Radio in the US, while not as large or ancient as the BBC, is much better than you seem to believe.
Give it to your local childrens' hospital. Be a gent and throw in extra controllers and an E for everyone game like Lego Indiana Jones, Lego Star Wars, or Viva Pinata.
Corporations are not people! They are not endowed by their creators with certain unalienable rights! They have no freedom of speech! The have to right to privacy! God damn corporatists, literally!
What are you talking about? Why would contractors do what government employees should be doing anyway?
Oh, what's that? 'Small government' and 'Free market' Republicans want this?
OK, then!
Here come the Chinese! Aah! **boogeyboogeyboogey* We're all going to turn yellow! Oh noes!
To be complete, he needs to take a look at the Democrats too. Senator Conrad of North Dakota is as bought and paid for by the health industry as anyone Olbermann called out in that video.
I'd say yes, Tiger has been as good as abandoned for quite some time. Various places were reporting 80% Leopard adoption across the Mac platforms waaay back in late 2007 to early 2008. Especially after the 10.5.2 service packs fixed many of the most glaring issues with the initial Leopard release.
Why did you hold of for so long? I'm genuinely curious. Not knowing anything else, if I were you I would have upgraded as soon as the Leopard/iWord/iLife boxed set were released at the absolute latest.