Their civilization didn't live through the full cycle of their calendar. They indeed had broken it down into sections and they could predict the seasons just as easily as we could - but just like the American Civilization has not been around 2,000 years they still have an arbitrary point in the timeline that they mark as 0.
Similarily, the Mayans set their calendar further back than they had been around.
As far as I can recall, they only lived (in the heirarchy that we consider Mayan) from like 250 to 1546 AD. Still impressive all things considered.
We can go ahead and blame the Spanish for that. There are only 3 books containing Mayan Text still around today, all the rest were burned because they could contain "Heresay" (No one bothered to translate. Burn first ask questions later).
All of our calendars, even modern day ones, are just based off of Astrological occurences. We use 365 days for our Calendar because thats how long it takes the Earth to rotate around the sun. What if we decided to use different Stars and not the Sun?
Well basically the Mayan Calendar does this - They just use alot positions of Constellations to determine where they are in their cycle.
And as an educative side note: Without knowing yesterdays, todays, or tomorrows date, the current day of the week, Month of the year, or what year it currently is, one could still find out the date by simply measuring the stars position, and knowing the movement of the stars, and knowing what the sky looked like on ONE other night, and knowing the date that other night is occuring on. Time should be pretty precise too, as the stars move. It's fun to calculate what the sky will look like 3 months from now, and then see how accurate you are (with a bit of research)
I haven't been with it long enough to know how often this kind of stuff goes on, but are Cake Gestures common in IT/IS/CT? Or only after the release of Portal? I recall IE sending a Cake to Firefox... Or Mozilla... Or something... (or vice versa, I don't really remember who congradulated who)...
It almost seems like they would send a cake hoping it'll get news'd somewhere so the public favours whoever is sending the cake.
Or maybe I'm just paranoid. The companion cube will do that to ya, you know.
These guys are thinking way too small. Think if we really got this project going, we could sell handheld energy beaming devices to everyone! Imagine the applications!
Forgot to charge your cell phone? Not a problem! Car Battery Dead? Easy Peasy! Girlfriend not turned on? Eh... Well....
The only PC Pop ups I have are when Vista asks "Hey, you sure you want to do this? Let me make sure you're an admin and you're confirming this..." which one would argue are annoying - but when I read what it says, I haven't gotten a single Virus or Trojan since running Vista with Windows Firewall, Phishing filters enabled, And AVG Freely running.
I check every week with Malware Bytes and its always clean because I don't install those Active X controls that are suspicious.
And contrary to popular belief, there are viruses for Macs, and I've seen quite a few, mostly from Pron sites.
Funny - though in a more serious tone I learned a bit of My History from the Age of Empires Series - seriously.
Those games put so much effort into being as historically accurate as possible (at least in the single player campaigns) that they actually included some light reading in the game!
I kid you not: The Main menu was like Single Player Multiplayer Map Editor History
And upon the History Link you could learn about different facets of Medieval egyptian society, or the dozen other civilizations they put in the game. Believe me, a campaign where you are Genghis Khan taking over the known world is not only immersive in gameplay but also educates.
Different notations as to whats a Terabyte, the second one being the binary notation.
But more importantly, the summary* doesn't say which notation they're using, but because they say trillion we can assume the former. Why is that important? Look at the numbers.Thats 99 Gigs of difference.
Sadly, in an effort to save money, we hired some developers with little to no experience, and zero credentials. Turns out the program they wrote to control the thermostat eats up so many compute cycles that it visibly raises temperature of whatever machine its running on. So we ran it in the server room, because thats where temperature is most important. However by the time it would adjust the temperature the room would raise 1 Degree. Then it would have to redo its analysis and adjustments.
Long story short, the building burned down and I'm now unemployed.
Not quite. Video games come in very few forms, where audio and video come in very many. Steam limits you to the one type of digital output for video games that they use, meaning PC games. I can't however download it in any other format than they provide (not that keychest would be different on that front) - but basically I can't download the ISO image for the CD for the game, nor can I download the 360 version of Half Life 2 from Steam.
What disney seems to be doing is saying: Hey, You like the Lion King? (I mean I like the lion king) - Go ahead and buy it. You like WMA? Here use our WMA. You like AVI? Have an AVI. New format comes out? Don't worry, when its made available, you'll have access to it.
While similar in theory, Steam does not quite approach what Disney is about to undertake. Keychest will take what Steam does to the next level.
And in my opinion - it will flop horribly. Steam does alright for itself, but when I want to play a game with my friends, they just log into my account- install the game, and we LAN it up. Albeit, perhaps this is a leniency that Steam has agreed not to fix to keep their fans happy - this sort of thing applied to movies will result in a bigger loss. Hey, I bought the Lion King, now so long as I have access, everyone I'm friends with has access. And if I have alot of friends, thats alot of potential customers that won't even consider buying it.
But doesn't the target of Cloud Rendering mean that one day I can have my own render farm set up to run a game? For example the minimum requirement specs for a game could be "20 Rendering GPU's running to a total of X speed" instead of "Nvidia Card X or greater" ?
1. Multi-processing Architecture has been publicly available for more than 3 years. Whether or not you'd define it as common is really up to who you ask - I could tell that multiple cores was going to be the next big thing, and it just took a while for the rest of the world to catch on.
2. I finished a 2 year program (In Object Oriented Software Development) just over 2 years ago, and Multi-threading was towards the end of the first year. I bet if I were to turn that into a CS Degree now I wouldn't need a masters to learn it. Similar to how my parents learned Linear Algebra in High school, I had to learn it in middle school. Kids today start out even earlier.
3. If you are finding yourself debugging something because you "Got Lucky" the first time, you aren't doing it right. FIRST thing in ANY computer science class I've learned: Plan first - Write after. EVERY step of the way, not just class diagrams, Not just a flow chart, for it. If you haven't laid out how your threading is going to by Synchronized or not, you are going to run into issues. The "Code as you go" mentality has a funny way of causing problems.
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Their civilization didn't live through the full cycle of their calendar. They indeed had broken it down into sections and they could predict the seasons just as easily as we could - but just like the American Civilization has not been around 2,000 years they still have an arbitrary point in the timeline that they mark as 0.
Similarily, the Mayans set their calendar further back than they had been around.
As far as I can recall, they only lived (in the heirarchy that we consider Mayan) from like 250 to 1546 AD. Still impressive all things considered.
Clearly you missed the point of the Great Movie "Short Circuit"
We can go ahead and blame the Spanish for that. There are only 3 books containing Mayan Text still around today, all the rest were burned because they could contain "Heresay" (No one bothered to translate. Burn first ask questions later).
All of our calendars, even modern day ones, are just based off of Astrological occurences. We use 365 days for our Calendar because thats how long it takes the Earth to rotate around the sun. What if we decided to use different Stars and not the Sun?
Well basically the Mayan Calendar does this - They just use alot positions of Constellations to determine where they are in their cycle.
And as an educative side note: Without knowing yesterdays, todays, or tomorrows date, the current day of the week, Month of the year, or what year it currently is, one could still find out the date by simply measuring the stars position, and knowing the movement of the stars, and knowing what the sky looked like on ONE other night, and knowing the date that other night is occuring on. Time should be pretty precise too, as the stars move. It's fun to calculate what the sky will look like 3 months from now, and then see how accurate you are (with a bit of research)
Me too, I even had a message scrolling by in Marquee saying it's still a work in progress!
But I don't know if its Nostalgia or Relief...
I haven't been with it long enough to know how often this kind of stuff goes on, but are Cake Gestures common in IT/IS/CT? Or only after the release of Portal? I recall IE sending a Cake to Firefox... Or Mozilla... Or something... (or vice versa, I don't really remember who congradulated who)...
It almost seems like they would send a cake hoping it'll get news'd somewhere so the public favours whoever is sending the cake.
Or maybe I'm just paranoid. The companion cube will do that to ya, you know.
These guys are thinking way too small. Think if we really got this project going, we could sell handheld energy beaming devices to everyone! Imagine the applications!
Forgot to charge your cell phone? Not a problem!
Car Battery Dead? Easy Peasy!
Girlfriend not turned on? Eh... Well....
The only PC Pop ups I have are when Vista asks "Hey, you sure you want to do this? Let me make sure you're an admin and you're confirming this..." which one would argue are annoying - but when I read what it says, I haven't gotten a single Virus or Trojan since running Vista with Windows Firewall, Phishing filters enabled, And AVG Freely running.
I check every week with Malware Bytes and its always clean because I don't install those Active X controls that are suspicious.
And contrary to popular belief, there are viruses for Macs, and I've seen quite a few, mostly from Pron sites.
I do. And when they start to explain why it costs $30,000 more then my offer I go "Well why didn't you say it costs $30,001 in the first place?"
I can imagine the Mac vs PC commercials reversing very quickly if they start doing things (like this) to annoy the user.
Funny - though in a more serious tone I learned a bit of My History from the Age of Empires Series - seriously.
Those games put so much effort into being as historically accurate as possible (at least in the single player campaigns) that they actually included some light reading in the game!
I kid you not: The Main menu was like
Single Player
Multiplayer
Map Editor
History
And upon the History Link you could learn about different facets of Medieval egyptian society, or the dozen other civilizations they put in the game. Believe me, a campaign where you are Genghis Khan taking over the known world is not only immersive in gameplay but also educates.
I heard you liked Mozilla Lab Projects so I tweeted about this, so you can read about Raindrop while using Raindrop.
Yeah, I mean, I haven't used a super computer before, but I did use a Mac Pro once.
I'll be happy when I can Grab a Dell with those specs at a decent price.
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
TB:1,000,000,000,000
TiB:1,099,511,627,776
Different notations as to whats a Terabyte, the second one being the binary notation.
But more importantly, the summary* doesn't say which notation they're using, but because they say trillion we can assume the former. Why is that important? Look at the numbers.Thats 99 Gigs of difference.
*(Because I wouldn't read the full article)
You misunderstood the "a huge percent", what they really mean is 1%.
And the 7 cents a day is actually in Canadian Dollars.
Yahoo's Answer: Lap Dances
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The one IT related conference I DON'T go to... AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENS!
Sadly, in an effort to save money, we hired some developers with little to no experience, and zero credentials. Turns out the program they wrote to control the thermostat eats up so many compute cycles that it visibly raises temperature of whatever machine its running on. So we ran it in the server room, because thats where temperature is most important. However by the time it would adjust the temperature the room would raise 1 Degree. Then it would have to redo its analysis and adjustments.
Long story short, the building burned down and I'm now unemployed.
As far as I know, Jet Fighters aren't designed for right or left-handedness either, and in fact the Joystick sits right between their legs.
I mean thats what hollywood has led me to believe.
Not quite. Video games come in very few forms, where audio and video come in very many. Steam limits you to the one type of digital output for video games that they use, meaning PC games. I can't however download it in any other format than they provide (not that keychest would be different on that front) - but basically I can't download the ISO image for the CD for the game, nor can I download the 360 version of Half Life 2 from Steam.
What disney seems to be doing is saying:
Hey, You like the Lion King? (I mean I like the lion king) - Go ahead and buy it. You like WMA? Here use our WMA. You like AVI? Have an AVI. New format comes out? Don't worry, when its made available, you'll have access to it.
While similar in theory, Steam does not quite approach what Disney is about to undertake. Keychest will take what Steam does to the next level.
And in my opinion - it will flop horribly. Steam does alright for itself, but when I want to play a game with my friends, they just log into my account- install the game, and we LAN it up. Albeit, perhaps this is a leniency that Steam has agreed not to fix to keep their fans happy - this sort of thing applied to movies will result in a bigger loss. Hey, I bought the Lion King, now so long as I have access, everyone I'm friends with has access. And if I have alot of friends, thats alot of potential customers that won't even consider buying it.
But doesn't the target of Cloud Rendering mean that one day I can have my own render farm set up to run a game? For example the minimum requirement specs for a game could be "20 Rendering GPU's running to a total of X speed" instead of "Nvidia Card X or greater" ?
INSERT INTO oracle
(acquisitions)
SELECT employees
FROM competitors c
WHERE c.Company = 'mysql';
ALTER TABLE oracle RENAME COLUMN acquisitions TO interns;
Are you sure you would like to commit the following transactions?
1. Multi-processing Architecture has been publicly available for more than 3 years. Whether or not you'd define it as common is really up to who you ask - I could tell that multiple cores was going to be the next big thing, and it just took a while for the rest of the world to catch on.
2. I finished a 2 year program (In Object Oriented Software Development) just over 2 years ago, and Multi-threading was towards the end of the first year. I bet if I were to turn that into a CS Degree now I wouldn't need a masters to learn it. Similar to how my parents learned Linear Algebra in High school, I had to learn it in middle school. Kids today start out even earlier.
3. If you are finding yourself debugging something because you "Got Lucky" the first time, you aren't doing it right. FIRST thing in ANY computer science class I've learned: Plan first - Write after. EVERY step of the way, not just class diagrams, Not just a flow chart, for it. If you haven't laid out how your threading is going to by Synchronized or not, you are going to run into issues. The "Code as you go" mentality has a funny way of causing problems.