Looks like it would be amazing for sports stadiums. It could even deliver crowd-hyping mascots to various sections of the stadium. I wonder how the power source and recharging issue would be handled, though.
I did Running Start also, with no social stunting (that I can think of!). It's a fantastic program, and actually, quite a few high schoolers do it, and tend to take similar classes, with the side effect that you have some "community college" classes populated mostly by high school kids. It can be frustrating for the more adult students.
That said, it's free COLLEGE CREDITS for kids! I saved tons of time AND money by doing this, and ended up entering the workforce with a college degree as I turned 21.
I'm using it with my friends and it feels pretty nice. Privacy options are decently understandable, relatively granular, and it's not all that invasive. It's an excellent way to start a conversation with a select group of individuals you know, without the 140-character limitations of Twitter or the OMG APPLICATIONS environment of Facebook. Moreover, TONS of people already have gmail accounts so it's not much work to get people to use it.
Biofuels are not a long-term solution. Corn ethanol is over two orders of magnitude more land-intensive than solar thermal. Algae is just under one order of magnitude more land intensive.
I have a hard time parsing sentence construction like this and actually had to look up order of magnitude to confirm that you are saying that corn ethanol uses 100 times more land than solar thermal (for the same output?), while algae uses 10 times more land than its solar counterparts. Is this true or am I misinterpreting you? If so, could you provide a citation, because that's a pretty huge amount.
That sounds a bit absolutist to me. The question was not "which is secure" but rather "which is more secure." One can argue that my home is not secure because locks are easily compromised by someone who knows what they're doing, and one would be right. However, my home is still more secure when I lock the door than when I don't.
Maybe that's the original intent of the user, but oftentimes what keeps a game selling is often not how "fun" it is, but rather, how "engaging" or "immersive" it is. Sure, games can have all those qualities, but sometimes when the "fun" disappears, lots of gamers will continue to play for the immersion. Case example: every massively multiplayer game ever made. I know I've definitely put in hour after hour while not having fun, but just being "sucked into" a game world or set of objectives.
I don't have the inclination to try out a bunch of different IDEs, but one of my associates recommended a particular $99/license IDE to me, and getting it was as simply as sending an email request to my boss and getting a response that simply read "Confirmed." A day's pay to enhance a developer's productivity generally isn't even worth blinking at for management.
Right, because clicking "Become a fan" just once took so much time out of their day that from then on, they permanently resigned to living in basements and attics, coming out only for twinkies and pancakes.
The old Mario themes were actually pretty complex and really pushed the envelope with what you could do with limited polyphony. Their reggae-inspired rhythms let the composer work around the problem of only being able to play a few notes at a time by using staggered rhythms. Sometimes a limitation can be an inspiration!
Hasn't Microsoft only lost money on the X-Box AND the Zune? I don't see how comparing the new tablet to either of these ventures can lead to the argument that it will be successful. Sure, it'll sell, but will it profit?
I hope this new era you're daydreaming about never comes. We live in an era where you making the craziest sounds ever still has an audience. That's diversity in art like the world has never seen before, and I'd hate to lose that to some monolithic set of rules.
And remember, if you don't like it, you don't have to listen to it. I went to one atonal/serial concert and felt like clawing my ears out, but lots of artists I do like have been inspired by the dialogues that included atonal and serial music.
THANK YOU! Please mod parent up. People, we are at the dawn of an exciting new age of high-quality participatory art driven not by commerce but instead by individuals' needs to self-actualization and share with each other. The institution may whimper at its upcoming irrelevance, but we already in the midst of a renaissance the likes of which the world has never seen before.
The videos I've seen of this make it look very tedious. The patients seemed to be brain-typing around 1 character every few seconds. I'll be excited when I can use my brain to output to a computer at over 100 wpm... and without invasive surgery, for that matter!
If you actually had the option to work another hour for another hour's pay, sure. But especially for the salaried folk of which there are plenty around here, that's not always true.
Hence why I spent that hour on Slashdot instead of coding. =P
Actually, Facebook uses APC to compile and optimize the code in the shared memory so it doesn't have to be compiled over and over again.
There are other libraries for caching PHP functions on many different levels as well, and they're open source, for the most part. Some real bright minds from Facebook and other large PHP applications have contributed to them.
Bottom line: PHP is quite powerful and efficient when built and extended properly.
Point taken--I can see now how opportunity cost shouldn't make it onto the final post-project budget sheet--though where does one draw the line for work that's invested in something that may or may not lead to future profits?
For instance, let's say an hour of this person's work on video editing can be billed to customers around town (for weddings, marketing pieces, whatever) at $50. Doesn't that hour of work now have a $50 value, especially if that's the cheapest price all the competitors in town would bill?
The value of your time is whatever someone is paying you for it. If nobody is paying you for it, then that time is worth $0. It almost certainly has a non-monetary worth, but you don't add that to your budget tally.
No, there's this thing called opportunity cost that can be used to value a hobbyist's time. For instance, if I can get $8/hr on Saturdays working at a coffeeshop instead of playing computer games, then it's worth at least $8/hr for me to spend that hour blasting virtual monsters with virtual rockets instead of making tasty espresso for impatient customers.
Actually, that is similar to what many people do: Comcast is notorious for offering introductory rates, like $20/month, that last for 3-6 months. Afterwards, they go back to the "standard" rate of $60/month.
Many people have a regular routine of calling up Comcast after the introductory period to tell Comcast that they can't afford the new rate. Once the Comcast rep has to decide between losing the customer or keeping the rates low, they quite often go for the latter. Payment throttled!
AFAIK, none of the bundled Apple software runs in the background or extends the length of boot time. Hence, not crapware. Moreover, it's all INCREDIBLY easy to remove: click and drag into your trash can. Even Joe End User can do that.
Actually, daily doses of aspirin can be harmful to many different sorts of individuals, though the parallel still stands, I suppose: just as many industry-prescribed security policies can have beneficial "side effects" for your business, they can also yield unintended consequences that generate more cost--and real risks (the feeling of security often leads to less of it!)--due to lack of careful planning or proper implementation.
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Looks like it would be amazing for sports stadiums. It could even deliver crowd-hyping mascots to various sections of the stadium. I wonder how the power source and recharging issue would be handled, though.
I did Running Start also, with no social stunting (that I can think of!). It's a fantastic program, and actually, quite a few high schoolers do it, and tend to take similar classes, with the side effect that you have some "community college" classes populated mostly by high school kids. It can be frustrating for the more adult students. That said, it's free COLLEGE CREDITS for kids! I saved tons of time AND money by doing this, and ended up entering the workforce with a college degree as I turned 21.
Which, incidentally, doesn't include any of the people I know that like to converse over social networks! No worries.
I'm using it with my friends and it feels pretty nice. Privacy options are decently understandable, relatively granular, and it's not all that invasive. It's an excellent way to start a conversation with a select group of individuals you know, without the 140-character limitations of Twitter or the OMG APPLICATIONS environment of Facebook. Moreover, TONS of people already have gmail accounts so it's not much work to get people to use it.
Biofuels are not a long-term solution. Corn ethanol is over two orders of magnitude more land-intensive than solar thermal. Algae is just under one order of magnitude more land intensive.
I have a hard time parsing sentence construction like this and actually had to look up order of magnitude to confirm that you are saying that corn ethanol uses 100 times more land than solar thermal (for the same output?), while algae uses 10 times more land than its solar counterparts. Is this true or am I misinterpreting you? If so, could you provide a citation, because that's a pretty huge amount.
That sounds a bit absolutist to me. The question was not "which is secure" but rather "which is more secure." One can argue that my home is not secure because locks are easily compromised by someone who knows what they're doing, and one would be right. However, my home is still more secure when I lock the door than when I don't.
The point of a game is to have fun. Period.
Maybe that's the original intent of the user, but oftentimes what keeps a game selling is often not how "fun" it is, but rather, how "engaging" or "immersive" it is. Sure, games can have all those qualities, but sometimes when the "fun" disappears, lots of gamers will continue to play for the immersion. Case example: every massively multiplayer game ever made. I know I've definitely put in hour after hour while not having fun, but just being "sucked into" a game world or set of objectives.
I don't have the inclination to try out a bunch of different IDEs, but one of my associates recommended a particular $99/license IDE to me, and getting it was as simply as sending an email request to my boss and getting a response that simply read "Confirmed." A day's pay to enhance a developer's productivity generally isn't even worth blinking at for management.
I think they didn't review Notepad because it's not an integrated development environment.
Right, because clicking "Become a fan" just once took so much time out of their day that from then on, they permanently resigned to living in basements and attics, coming out only for twinkies and pancakes.
EXACTLY what I was thinking. I don't even pick up the FREE weeklies here in Seattle most of the time, but I still glance at their covers.
The old Mario themes were actually pretty complex and really pushed the envelope with what you could do with limited polyphony. Their reggae-inspired rhythms let the composer work around the problem of only being able to play a few notes at a time by using staggered rhythms. Sometimes a limitation can be an inspiration!
According to TFA, this vulnerability was in IE6. Lock-in or no, you'd think they could have at least upgraded one version level up, if not two.
Hasn't Microsoft only lost money on the X-Box AND the Zune? I don't see how comparing the new tablet to either of these ventures can lead to the argument that it will be successful. Sure, it'll sell, but will it profit?
I hope this new era you're daydreaming about never comes. We live in an era where you making the craziest sounds ever still has an audience. That's diversity in art like the world has never seen before, and I'd hate to lose that to some monolithic set of rules. And remember, if you don't like it, you don't have to listen to it. I went to one atonal/serial concert and felt like clawing my ears out, but lots of artists I do like have been inspired by the dialogues that included atonal and serial music.
THANK YOU! Please mod parent up. People, we are at the dawn of an exciting new age of high-quality participatory art driven not by commerce but instead by individuals' needs to self-actualization and share with each other. The institution may whimper at its upcoming irrelevance, but we already in the midst of a renaissance the likes of which the world has never seen before.
The videos I've seen of this make it look very tedious. The patients seemed to be brain-typing around 1 character every few seconds. I'll be excited when I can use my brain to output to a computer at over 100 wpm... and without invasive surgery, for that matter!
If you actually had the option to work another hour for another hour's pay, sure. But especially for the salaried folk of which there are plenty around here, that's not always true.
Hence why I spent that hour on Slashdot instead of coding. =P
Actually, Facebook uses APC to compile and optimize the code in the shared memory so it doesn't have to be compiled over and over again.
There are other libraries for caching PHP functions on many different levels as well, and they're open source, for the most part. Some real bright minds from Facebook and other large PHP applications have contributed to them.
Bottom line: PHP is quite powerful and efficient when built and extended properly.
Point taken--I can see now how opportunity cost shouldn't make it onto the final post-project budget sheet--though where does one draw the line for work that's invested in something that may or may not lead to future profits?
For instance, let's say an hour of this person's work on video editing can be billed to customers around town (for weddings, marketing pieces, whatever) at $50. Doesn't that hour of work now have a $50 value, especially if that's the cheapest price all the competitors in town would bill?
The value of your time is whatever someone is paying you for it. If nobody is paying you for it, then that time is worth $0. It almost certainly has a non-monetary worth, but you don't add that to your budget tally.
No, there's this thing called opportunity cost that can be used to value a hobbyist's time. For instance, if I can get $8/hr on Saturdays working at a coffeeshop instead of playing computer games, then it's worth at least $8/hr for me to spend that hour blasting virtual monsters with virtual rockets instead of making tasty espresso for impatient customers.
Seriously, is this a joke? Because it really looks like one.
Actually, that is similar to what many people do: Comcast is notorious for offering introductory rates, like $20/month, that last for 3-6 months. Afterwards, they go back to the "standard" rate of $60/month. Many people have a regular routine of calling up Comcast after the introductory period to tell Comcast that they can't afford the new rate. Once the Comcast rep has to decide between losing the customer or keeping the rates low, they quite often go for the latter. Payment throttled!
AFAIK, none of the bundled Apple software runs in the background or extends the length of boot time. Hence, not crapware. Moreover, it's all INCREDIBLY easy to remove: click and drag into your trash can. Even Joe End User can do that.
Actually, daily doses of aspirin can be harmful to many different sorts of individuals, though the parallel still stands, I suppose: just as many industry-prescribed security policies can have beneficial "side effects" for your business, they can also yield unintended consequences that generate more cost--and real risks (the feeling of security often leads to less of it!)--due to lack of careful planning or proper implementation.