any properly coded application will have abstracted the data layer so that you can easily port to another database if it's required.
Further, many application frameworks give you access to a plugin type system where you can write your queries to one SQL-like format and let the framework translate that into your chosen database's dialect.
I think that depends on whether a student is pursuing a computer science degree or a software engineering degree. Unfortunately many schools don't provide such a distinction, but there's no reason why a true computer science student should have to do an apprenticeship. Software engineering is about using tools to create systems and products and solving real-world problems with software, so an apprenticeship would be much more applicable for software engineering students.
According to the summary, each individual received two packages, one labeled as Atheist and one not. If weather conditions or other natural factors played into the shipment delays, wouldn't you expect the delay to affect both packages sent on the same day to the same address?
Thank you, for being a reasonable person who understands that responsible use of social network services does not mean Facebook has access to your bank accounts and personal diary. Facebook is a tool; I can use it for keeping in touch with my friends and family all around the country and other parts of the world in one easy place, and I can communicate non-personal stuff to them. If you're using Facebook as an hourly log of your activities and thoughts, you shouldn't be surprised that other people have access to that data.
Dialup used to be viable for people who simply did web browsing and no "multi-media" consumption, but the increasing amount of bandwidth intensive content on web pages has made that effectively unusable.
If you would rather steal games than pay for them then they don't have much of a choice, if you don't like it then don't buy the fucking game! It is pretty simple
Which I imagine is exactly what most of the pirates will do. Has the PC game industry done better for itself since the advent of always-online DRM? If not, then it's obvious to see that it is not effective. CD Projekt Red (makers of The Witcher and The Witcher 2) seems to be doing great with sales of their games, despite the lack of DRM.
Didn't Intel try to move out of x86 with the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit desktop chips and AMD made that impossible by releasing the Athlon 64's as x86-64 (thus offering 64-bit processors while retaining backwards compatibility)?
There are almost no legimimate java web apps anymore
Depends on how you define a Java web app. Applets are dead, sure, I won't disagree with that, but in my definition a web app that uses Javascript and AJAX calls to a server-side program running on a JVM and written in Java is still a Java web app.
You see, once you disable the browser plugin, that's 99% of the raison d'etre of Java gone for most end users
That last time I needed to use the Java browser plugin was nearly a year ago for a WebEx meeting. My last job involved server-side Java code, and I use OpenOffice at home, and that pretty much sums up my need for Java, other than the occasional program I write with it(very rare since I typically find that another language would be more suited to what I'm doing, and even when I chose Java it's never for applets). I understand my use probably does not represent the average computer user, but I can't even begin to imagine what all of those people you mention would be doing with Java applets.
Perhaps you should decline less politely next time (assuming they make you another offer). If prospects are loudly refusing their offers, perhaps they'll start changing the way they treat employees.
For that matter, with the PS4 not being compatible with the PS3 (much less the PS2) Sony won't be getting any of my gaming money either.
When a new console design treats my existing game library as if it's irrelevant, I'm going to ignore the new console design
I wish you had put that further up in your comment so I could have known to stop reading sooner. Do you know how consoles preserve backwards compatibility without emulation, which as we've seen with the 360, doesn't always work well? They have to include legacy chips on the board and switch to legacy mode for previous generation games. That costs money and requires engineering. The PS4 is going to be x86 based, whereas the PS3 is not, so that would lead to even more difficulties.
I think that you're being a bit too quick to judge. If you read/watch any modern interviews with him, he'll talk about all of the R&D type work he does in testing the current possibilities of ray-tracing, voxel engines and how hardware is changing and how they can utilize those changes in 3D graphics programming.
Dota 2 and LoL are very different games within the same genre. LoL is a much simpler and more streamlined version of the genre, which of course appeals to a wider audience. Dota 2 is primarily for players of the original and Heroes of Newerth. The mechanics are more robust and the learning curve is much steeper.
It was planned as a free-to-play game with cosmetic microtransactions. The whole point is to get as many people interested in it and playing as possible. The $30 you can spend for it is "early-access" for anyone that somehow can't get an invite. Look at the number of people playing it on a typical day - it usually peaks at over 200k simultaneous players.
It's pretty much that or civil service as far as I'm aware. As someone who is familiar with working with defense contractors (I was an enlisted programmer for the USAF), it's not the most exciting work that you can do as a programmer, but it beats no job, the pay is pretty good, and working with military folks is usually pretty fun (US military culture loves having BBQs when the weather is nice, and people are pretty tolerant of banter).
They only have to pay if it's deemed that they haven't done anything to use the patent and aren't the original owners of the patent. How many legitimate (aren't patent trolls) small shops are buying up patents and sitting on them?
Well, at least Super Mario 64 was a killer app that moved consoles off the shelves. What does the Wii U have to compare to this? (I seriously doubt New Super Mario Bros U can compare, but I haven't looked at the numbers so I could be wrong)
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any properly coded application will have abstracted the data layer so that you can easily port to another database if it's required.
Further, many application frameworks give you access to a plugin type system where you can write your queries to one SQL-like format and let the framework translate that into your chosen database's dialect.
I think that depends on whether a student is pursuing a computer science degree or a software engineering degree. Unfortunately many schools don't provide such a distinction, but there's no reason why a true computer science student should have to do an apprenticeship. Software engineering is about using tools to create systems and products and solving real-world problems with software, so an apprenticeship would be much more applicable for software engineering students.
According to the summary, each individual received two packages, one labeled as Atheist and one not. If weather conditions or other natural factors played into the shipment delays, wouldn't you expect the delay to affect both packages sent on the same day to the same address?
But with what accuracy can you determine which individual is homosexual? That's the more difficult task.
Thank you, for being a reasonable person who understands that responsible use of social network services does not mean Facebook has access to your bank accounts and personal diary. Facebook is a tool; I can use it for keeping in touch with my friends and family all around the country and other parts of the world in one easy place, and I can communicate non-personal stuff to them. If you're using Facebook as an hourly log of your activities and thoughts, you shouldn't be surprised that other people have access to that data.
Haven't you ever played volleyball?
Dialup used to be viable for people who simply did web browsing and no "multi-media" consumption, but the increasing amount of bandwidth intensive content on web pages has made that effectively unusable.
That's not multiplayer being removed.
If you would rather steal games than pay for them then they don't have much of a choice, if you don't like it then don't buy the fucking game! It is pretty simple
Which I imagine is exactly what most of the pirates will do. Has the PC game industry done better for itself since the advent of always-online DRM? If not, then it's obvious to see that it is not effective. CD Projekt Red (makers of The Witcher and The Witcher 2) seems to be doing great with sales of their games, despite the lack of DRM.
Yes but a lot of those GOG games have things like MP removed
I was not aware of that, and haven't noticed it in any of the titles I've purchased from GOG. Could you name any titles in particular?
Didn't Intel try to move out of x86 with the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit desktop chips and AMD made that impossible by releasing the Athlon 64's as x86-64 (thus offering 64-bit processors while retaining backwards compatibility)?
It's very possible that the guy who called you wasn't a part of the campaign but an employee at a rented call center.
Just wait until he chews out one of the PRC's devs for blaming something on a userspace app!
There are almost no legimimate java web apps anymore
Depends on how you define a Java web app. Applets are dead, sure, I won't disagree with that, but in my definition a web app that uses Javascript and AJAX calls to a server-side program running on a JVM and written in Java is still a Java web app.
You see, once you disable the browser plugin, that's 99% of the raison d'etre of Java gone for most end users
That last time I needed to use the Java browser plugin was nearly a year ago for a WebEx meeting. My last job involved server-side Java code, and I use OpenOffice at home, and that pretty much sums up my need for Java, other than the occasional program I write with it(very rare since I typically find that another language would be more suited to what I'm doing, and even when I chose Java it's never for applets). I understand my use probably does not represent the average computer user, but I can't even begin to imagine what all of those people you mention would be doing with Java applets.
They are better read.
But are they better write?
I phrased it poorly; what I meant was "the original DotA, and Heroes of Newerth."
Perhaps you should decline less politely next time (assuming they make you another offer). If prospects are loudly refusing their offers, perhaps they'll start changing the way they treat employees.
For that matter, with the PS4 not being compatible with the PS3 (much less the PS2) Sony won't be getting any of my gaming money either. When a new console design treats my existing game library as if it's irrelevant, I'm going to ignore the new console design
I wish you had put that further up in your comment so I could have known to stop reading sooner. Do you know how consoles preserve backwards compatibility without emulation, which as we've seen with the 360, doesn't always work well? They have to include legacy chips on the board and switch to legacy mode for previous generation games. That costs money and requires engineering. The PS4 is going to be x86 based, whereas the PS3 is not, so that would lead to even more difficulties.
I think that you're being a bit too quick to judge. If you read/watch any modern interviews with him, he'll talk about all of the R&D type work he does in testing the current possibilities of ray-tracing, voxel engines and how hardware is changing and how they can utilize those changes in 3D graphics programming.
Dota 2 and LoL are very different games within the same genre. LoL is a much simpler and more streamlined version of the genre, which of course appeals to a wider audience. Dota 2 is primarily for players of the original and Heroes of Newerth. The mechanics are more robust and the learning curve is much steeper.
It was planned as a free-to-play game with cosmetic microtransactions. The whole point is to get as many people interested in it and playing as possible. The $30 you can spend for it is "early-access" for anyone that somehow can't get an invite. Look at the number of people playing it on a typical day - it usually peaks at over 200k simultaneous players.
It's pretty much that or civil service as far as I'm aware. As someone who is familiar with working with defense contractors (I was an enlisted programmer for the USAF), it's not the most exciting work that you can do as a programmer, but it beats no job, the pay is pretty good, and working with military folks is usually pretty fun (US military culture loves having BBQs when the weather is nice, and people are pretty tolerant of banter).
They only have to pay if it's deemed that they haven't done anything to use the patent and aren't the original owners of the patent. How many legitimate (aren't patent trolls) small shops are buying up patents and sitting on them?
Well, at least Super Mario 64 was a killer app that moved consoles off the shelves. What does the Wii U have to compare to this? (I seriously doubt New Super Mario Bros U can compare, but I haven't looked at the numbers so I could be wrong)