Sure, but what's your point? It's easy to do bad things with Javascript, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a very flexible and useful language, and the only scripting platform supported by pretty much every browser.
If you order one from the Newark Element 14 place, you can probably get one in about 3 weeks (maybe not right now with holidays coming up), since they're the ones using the UK manufacturing facility and can complete their orders much faster. I ordered a Model B on November 3rd and got it last week.
Must only be for the ones manufactured in the UK. I got a Model B from Newark Element 14 just last week, but mine was a "Made in China" model and did not come with the case. Same box, however.
Assuming that's even true, the difference is that you are probably not employed as a web developer. It's safe to assume that whoever created the photo album viewer GP mentioned is employed as a web developer, and is obviously not very good at his/her job if he/she can't figure out how to pass content from the server with AJAX. Unless, as someone else mentioned, the point is to inflate page views.
From my experience, it seems that a four-year degree is there to help you get the first job. After that, your work experience, skills, and a personal portfolio seem to do more to keep you employed. If you can get the first job without a degree, you have the benefit of not having $50k+ in student loans to pay off. The benefit of a four-year degree, even after you're already employed in your field, however, can be a higher salary and the opportunity to pursue more advanced degrees.
That tired old argument again? I do most of my gaming on PC and it's been literally years since I've had to do any of that to get a new game to work (although I heard Rage behaved very poorly right after release; never played it though). One of my friends used to play WoW, and since he knows most of his old guild-mates IRL, they let us use a room in their Ventrilo server for voice chat, which typically means better audio quality than you get with Xbox Live as well.
But, when a seven year old console sells better during your brand new console's launch week
I haven't bothered to do the research, so I could be mistaken here, but is it possible that that is due to the normal launch-week unit shortages? Typically new consoles almost immediately sell out the entirety of their first shipment.
I wholeheartedly agree with this, and I don't think many people realize just how damaging this type of upbringing can be. I was also raised in a fundamentalist Christian home (my father was even a pastor for a period of time), and as a young adult I feel that I am only just overcoming the emotional and mental damage that I incurred. Don't get me wrong, I've never been broken or unfit for life in society, but I don't think you can really understand the impact it has on relationships and your own inner well-being unless you grew up in such a situation. Even if a child is fortunate enough to see religion for what it is as they reach their adolescent years, the fear and guilt are so ingrained in you that every day while you grow up there is internal and external struggle as you have thoughts like "what if I'm wrong and I go to hell for eternity" and try to deal with the constant friction between you and your parents since they think of you as a sinner and try to control your life. Neither myself nor my sisters ever felt comfortable with asking our parents the kinds of questions that children should be able to ask, and as I've had private talks with them as adults they mirror my sentiment for the difficulties in growing up like that.
Even if down the road we discover that the theory of evolution is incorrect, forcing state-funded schools to teach evolution for now will still be a blessing just by introducing young minds to science who would otherwise be living in the controlled ecosystem that many home-schooling Christian fundamentalist families raise their kids in.
Teaching evolution over creationism at least makes children aware that there are ways to investigate and explain the universe around them, whereas creationism teaches children that all of the difficult and complex things around them happened by magic and are thus not worth exploring or thinking about. I think it will do the opposite of stifling scientific progress.
Then teach your children without public funding. That's what this is all about. It doesn't appear that privately funded "free schools" are required to teach evolution.
A week or two ago there was a discussion about software engineer unions, and from my perspective it seemed that more comments were against unionizing than were for it.
If Blizzard decided to ban you from Battle.net, you would lose (if you had purchased these games) World of Warcraft plus any expansions you own, StarCraft II, and Diablo 3. You would never be able to play those games again without purchasing them again or finding a crack which removes the Battle.net requirement (if any such cracks exist). So yes, that is excessive DRM.
That reminds me of an interview I read a while back with the CEO of the Ernie Ball guitar string company. Someone in his IT department, unbeknownst to the owner, had been installing Microsoft software on more computers than they had licenses for. Rather than giving them the opportunity to fix the situation, Microsoft immediately jumped into legal action. The result is that the owner had his IT department move all of their workstations to Linux and only use open source software so that it could never happen again.
the 15-25 year old crowd is a lost decade of potential customers
Thanks for the blanket statement, but I'm 24 and pay for all of my media (games, music, books, movies, etc.), at least that which is not freely distributed by the creators. With only maybe one or two exceptions, all of my friends and associates do the same. Crappy people are crappy people; age makes no difference except that in previous generations, one had to be technically inclined to even know how to pirate media, whereas now it's common knowledge.
When Blizzard and Activision die and somebody else buys the rights to the games? Blizzard loves their DRM and would never release their games on a platform that doesn't allow DRM.
A lot of "enthusiast PCs" are owned by gamers. I do all of my "real" computing on Linux, but keep a Windows partition around solely for games, which I can't just recompile to ARM binaries.
I would agree it is written by a 9 year old based on the sensationalism and redundancy. Because of redundancy in the summary, along with sensationalism, I agree that it was written by a 9 year old.
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Wow, this is just too funny. Especially the "take just a second to think about the obvious before posting" part.
In fact, the chips Moore had access to at the time had very little memory on them
Well of course! That was a lot of 18 monthses ago!
Sure, but what's your point? It's easy to do bad things with Javascript, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a very flexible and useful language, and the only scripting platform supported by pretty much every browser.
By doing what, sending all of the images at once? That's great for a small album, less useful for large ones.
If you can get your money back, try ordering from Newark. See my earlier post.
If you order one from the Newark Element 14 place, you can probably get one in about 3 weeks (maybe not right now with holidays coming up), since they're the ones using the UK manufacturing facility and can complete their orders much faster. I ordered a Model B on November 3rd and got it last week.
Must only be for the ones manufactured in the UK. I got a Model B from Newark Element 14 just last week, but mine was a "Made in China" model and did not come with the case. Same box, however.
Assuming that's even true, the difference is that you are probably not employed as a web developer. It's safe to assume that whoever created the photo album viewer GP mentioned is employed as a web developer, and is obviously not very good at his/her job if he/she can't figure out how to pass content from the server with AJAX. Unless, as someone else mentioned, the point is to inflate page views.
From my experience, it seems that a four-year degree is there to help you get the first job. After that, your work experience, skills, and a personal portfolio seem to do more to keep you employed. If you can get the first job without a degree, you have the benefit of not having $50k+ in student loans to pay off. The benefit of a four-year degree, even after you're already employed in your field, however, can be a higher salary and the opportunity to pursue more advanced degrees.
That tired old argument again? I do most of my gaming on PC and it's been literally years since I've had to do any of that to get a new game to work (although I heard Rage behaved very poorly right after release; never played it though). One of my friends used to play WoW, and since he knows most of his old guild-mates IRL, they let us use a room in their Ventrilo server for voice chat, which typically means better audio quality than you get with Xbox Live as well.
But, when a seven year old console sells better during your brand new console's launch week
I haven't bothered to do the research, so I could be mistaken here, but is it possible that that is due to the normal launch-week unit shortages? Typically new consoles almost immediately sell out the entirety of their first shipment.
I wholeheartedly agree with this, and I don't think many people realize just how damaging this type of upbringing can be. I was also raised in a fundamentalist Christian home (my father was even a pastor for a period of time), and as a young adult I feel that I am only just overcoming the emotional and mental damage that I incurred. Don't get me wrong, I've never been broken or unfit for life in society, but I don't think you can really understand the impact it has on relationships and your own inner well-being unless you grew up in such a situation. Even if a child is fortunate enough to see religion for what it is as they reach their adolescent years, the fear and guilt are so ingrained in you that every day while you grow up there is internal and external struggle as you have thoughts like "what if I'm wrong and I go to hell for eternity" and try to deal with the constant friction between you and your parents since they think of you as a sinner and try to control your life. Neither myself nor my sisters ever felt comfortable with asking our parents the kinds of questions that children should be able to ask, and as I've had private talks with them as adults they mirror my sentiment for the difficulties in growing up like that.
Even if down the road we discover that the theory of evolution is incorrect, forcing state-funded schools to teach evolution for now will still be a blessing just by introducing young minds to science who would otherwise be living in the controlled ecosystem that many home-schooling Christian fundamentalist families raise their kids in.
Teaching evolution over creationism at least makes children aware that there are ways to investigate and explain the universe around them, whereas creationism teaches children that all of the difficult and complex things around them happened by magic and are thus not worth exploring or thinking about. I think it will do the opposite of stifling scientific progress.
Then teach your children without public funding. That's what this is all about. It doesn't appear that privately funded "free schools" are required to teach evolution.
I assumed it meant "Assad's Last Stand", or something like that.
Smaller and less salty?
A week or two ago there was a discussion about software engineer unions, and from my perspective it seemed that more comments were against unionizing than were for it.
If Blizzard decided to ban you from Battle.net, you would lose (if you had purchased these games) World of Warcraft plus any expansions you own, StarCraft II, and Diablo 3. You would never be able to play those games again without purchasing them again or finding a crack which removes the Battle.net requirement (if any such cracks exist). So yes, that is excessive DRM.
That reminds me of an interview I read a while back with the CEO of the Ernie Ball guitar string company. Someone in his IT department, unbeknownst to the owner, had been installing Microsoft software on more computers than they had licenses for. Rather than giving them the opportunity to fix the situation, Microsoft immediately jumped into legal action. The result is that the owner had his IT department move all of their workstations to Linux and only use open source software so that it could never happen again.
Found the link.
the 15-25 year old crowd is a lost decade of potential customers
Thanks for the blanket statement, but I'm 24 and pay for all of my media (games, music, books, movies, etc.), at least that which is not freely distributed by the creators. With only maybe one or two exceptions, all of my friends and associates do the same. Crappy people are crappy people; age makes no difference except that in previous generations, one had to be technically inclined to even know how to pirate media, whereas now it's common knowledge.
When Blizzard and Activision die and somebody else buys the rights to the games? Blizzard loves their DRM and would never release their games on a platform that doesn't allow DRM.
Does id really even make fun games anymore? It seems that everything they've released in the last decade has only been an expensive tech demo.
I was stationed in Montgomery, AL for a while, and about a mile off of base there was a "Christian" PC repair shop...
A lot of "enthusiast PCs" are owned by gamers. I do all of my "real" computing on Linux, but keep a Windows partition around solely for games, which I can't just recompile to ARM binaries.
I would agree it is written by a 9 year old based on the sensationalism and redundancy. Because of redundancy in the summary, along with sensationalism, I agree that it was written by a 9 year old.