A Canadian Man was seen running away from his burning home shouting "beware of the Beowulf" before being arrested for questioning and charged with arson. Firefighters have found over a hundred computers, one of which they believe is the source of the fire.
I agree. I don't see how it would be narrowed down to fast-food in that sense. I'm sure that sports logos, and brand names, and Coke and Pepsi products would all be found to have the same effects if logos themselves were the ones with the power to alter your state of mind.
No, its most likely your mind playing a subconcious trick because you already know about the logo. You look at it, and you don't think, "Hmmm, Golden Arches make me impatient", you think "I could go for some McDonalds, because I don't feel like cooking". Then you are in the mindset that you don't have time to cook, and you are impatient from thereafter.
Just like how looking at this nice Big Brand Coffee Cup makes me feel a little more relaxed at work, even though I haven't sipped it yet.
* I'm sure someone will point out the innovation came out in other browsers and Firefox was just the first one that got wide appeal**. ** As in you would recommend it to even your non-technical friends.
It's a good thing you put that ** in there, I might have forgotten to move over a character or two while reading.
The first Red Faction was cool in the sense that yes, just about everything was destructable but after you finished blowing away the current level you were left with a cool metal boxframe that reminded me of Bomberman but in 3D.
The latest Red Faction is similar in that you can destroy just about any building but the landscape at least remains the same.
Either way, its been done before, and the only thing this "Next-Gen" might do to interest me is 4 player split screen, because Red Faction: Guerilla was too physics intensive on the Xbox to offer up reliable local multiplayer.
You know Roger, I think the only way to explain this to you is to use a movie quote, since thats what you are most known for.
"The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose. The second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk. But the third time someone calls you a horse, well then perhaps it's time to go shopping for a saddle."
How many times do you have to say "Video Games can never be art" before you accept that they can be?
Santiago might cite an immersive game without points or rules, but I would say then it ceases to be a game and becomes a representation of a story, a novel, a play, dance, a film. Those are things you cannot win; you can only experience them.
I cried in the first Mass Effect when one of my team mates had to die (go ahead and get the lols out of the way). The whole game was a more immersive experience, and a better 'representation of a story' than some plays or dances or films I have seen. Even though I could technically "Beat" the game, or "win".
So really, Roger, what you are trying to say is, its not that Video Games can't be art, its that when it reaches that artistic level, its no longer a video game. Am I following properly?
I assumed this applied to most of the Electromagnetic spectrum, or is it just visible light, do they say? I always naturally assume IR included in these kinds of things, since it is so close to visible light on the spectrum.
Radar on the other hand, I thought we had reliable countermeasures for, like jamming? or have I been watching too much Hollywood
You know, they mentioned Invisibility cloaks a few weeks ago and I managed to get a +1 informative by mentioning your signature, asking if it was yours or someone elses since I couldn't remember.
I remember doing Visual Basic in High school and it was like that. It eventually made itself into a simple Tic Tac Toe game by the end of the 6th Module. When I applied to the local Polytechnic, they didn't recognise it as a real lesson, so in order to get into Computer Sciences I had to complete their "Intro to C" by correspondants.
I kid you not, 5 modules - the first one being "How to turn on and operate a computer" - and the last one being Multiplying two numbers taken in from a command prompt.
The biggest waste of time and money I've ever encountered. But at least my parents were proud of my perfect Grade.
Their admins must be completely incompetent. It's ridiculous that weeks later they can't figure out what's going on.
They're the kind of admin that thinks "We didn't change anything, so its not our fault".
It's probably some simple vulnerability that was fixed in a Windows Server patch, but they can't be damned to update it for fear of it not working afterwards.
No where was it stated that the For loop was part of the assignment though - it was only the GP's "Way" of doing things.
If told to print 1 to 5 without being taught for loops, how would you know to do it?
Essentially, you are also missing a function header/signature, since those are standard coding practices you should be including with all of your assignment code.
calculating the overall piracy loss in Europe draw on figures supplied by the recording industry itself
Seriously? You know, there was a time when we believed the cigarette companies that smoking was fine based on the stats they gave us - and look how well that turned out.
This kind of self policing industry crap has got to stop.
And isn't a CS degree so that you understand how to program?
I could copy a wikipedia article on Ancient Rome but that doesn't make me a history major any more than copying my google results for "C# logon control" makes me a good object oriented programmer.
Albeit, in both cases I'm uses skills that applies to the field, for history I'm learning basic research principles (and how ineffective or horrible a source Wikipedia might be), and in the other example I'm learning code reusage, which may be just as ineffective or horrible as wikipedia. Just because something works doesn't make it good code. This is the kind of thing they need to be teaching in Object Oriented programming.
Because its one thing to avoid reinventing the wheel. But you should know how a wheel works before you use it.
There is no need for an assignment like that to be scalable (as is kind of his point). If they were going for scalability they need to be using more variables, like i=x;i==y, and then setting x and y previously so it actually counts the range dependant on what you pass it. And then take out i++, because you don't know if you'll be iterating by one. Maybe you'll need every second number, or third number.
The amount of things you can do to make a simple project "Scalable" is very overwhelming. You need to assess at what point does a scalable option becomes pointless.
And in the case of counting from 1 to 10, he said scalable options ARE pointless already.
I wasn't sure if 5 quotes at the end of the article was correct or not. I decided to employ brackets to handle the scenario. Taking out the wording, my findings are above. It IS correct.
Is it bad that this was the most exciting part of the article to me?
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A Canadian Man was seen running away from his burning home shouting "beware of the Beowulf" before being arrested for questioning and charged with arson. Firefighters have found over a hundred computers, one of which they believe is the source of the fire.
Of course. I'm the VP of HTTP!
I think they use one of those ion Cannons from Empire Strikes Back.
I agree. I don't see how it would be narrowed down to fast-food in that sense. I'm sure that sports logos, and brand names, and Coke and Pepsi products would all be found to have the same effects if logos themselves were the ones with the power to alter your state of mind.
No, its most likely your mind playing a subconcious trick because you already know about the logo. You look at it, and you don't think, "Hmmm, Golden Arches make me impatient", you think "I could go for some McDonalds, because I don't feel like cooking". Then you are in the mindset that you don't have time to cook, and you are impatient from thereafter.
Just like how looking at this nice Big Brand Coffee Cup makes me feel a little more relaxed at work, even though I haven't sipped it yet.
* I'm sure someone will point out the innovation came out in other browsers and Firefox was just the first one that got wide appeal**.
** As in you would recommend it to even your non-technical friends.
It's a good thing you put that ** in there, I might have forgotten to move over a character or two while reading.
And everything else will be built in ads?
I hope it will have migrated off the desktop, off the smartphone, and onto some contact lenses.
*sigh* am I thinking a little too distant?
The first Red Faction was cool in the sense that yes, just about everything was destructable but after you finished blowing away the current level you were left with a cool metal boxframe that reminded me of Bomberman but in 3D.
The latest Red Faction is similar in that you can destroy just about any building but the landscape at least remains the same.
Either way, its been done before, and the only thing this "Next-Gen" might do to interest me is 4 player split screen, because Red Faction: Guerilla was too physics intensive on the Xbox to offer up reliable local multiplayer.
Well, Yeah, but to make a dollar, the code is just
Print "$1.00"
It's not about who is right. Its about who is left.
Worth a shot, right?
You know Roger, I think the only way to explain this to you is to use a movie quote, since thats what you are most known for.
"The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose.
The second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk.
But the third time someone calls you a horse, well then perhaps it's time to go shopping for a saddle."
How many times do you have to say "Video Games can never be art" before you accept that they can be?
Santiago might cite an immersive game without points or rules, but I would say then it ceases to be a game and becomes a representation of a story, a novel, a play, dance, a film. Those are things you cannot win; you can only experience them.
I cried in the first Mass Effect when one of my team mates had to die (go ahead and get the lols out of the way). The whole game was a more immersive experience, and a better 'representation of a story' than some plays or dances or films I have seen. Even though I could technically "Beat" the game, or "win".
So really, Roger, what you are trying to say is, its not that Video Games can't be art, its that when it reaches that artistic level, its no longer a video game. Am I following properly?
I assumed this applied to most of the Electromagnetic spectrum, or is it just visible light, do they say? I always naturally assume IR included in these kinds of things, since it is so close to visible light on the spectrum.
Radar on the other hand, I thought we had reliable countermeasures for, like jamming? or have I been watching too much Hollywood
You know, they mentioned Invisibility cloaks a few weeks ago and I managed to get a +1 informative by mentioning your signature, asking if it was yours or someone elses since I couldn't remember.
Yeah - you aren't invisible, but wouldn't that still make the tracking missile miss you?
I remember doing Visual Basic in High school and it was like that. It eventually made itself into a simple Tic Tac Toe game by the end of the 6th Module. When I applied to the local Polytechnic, they didn't recognise it as a real lesson, so in order to get into Computer Sciences I had to complete their "Intro to C" by correspondants.
I kid you not, 5 modules - the first one being "How to turn on and operate a computer" - and the last one being Multiplying two numbers taken in from a command prompt.
The biggest waste of time and money I've ever encountered. But at least my parents were proud of my perfect Grade.
Their admins must be completely incompetent. It's ridiculous that weeks later they can't figure out what's going on.
They're the kind of admin that thinks "We didn't change anything, so its not our fault".
It's probably some simple vulnerability that was fixed in a Windows Server patch, but they can't be damned to update it for fear of it not working afterwards.
No where was it stated that the For loop was part of the assignment though - it was only the GP's "Way" of doing things.
If told to print 1 to 5 without being taught for loops, how would you know to do it?
Essentially, you are also missing a function header/signature, since those are standard coding practices you should be including with all of your assignment code.
I would hope that using a for loop to count to 10 is something you go over in class and that your assignment is a little more demanding.
But yes, if the assignment specifies, thats obviously how it should be done. (The Grandparent made no mention a for loop was required) :)
calculating the overall piracy loss in Europe draw on figures supplied by the recording industry itself
Seriously? You know, there was a time when we believed the cigarette companies that smoking was fine based on the stats they gave us - and look how well that turned out.
This kind of self policing industry crap has got to stop.
And isn't a CS degree so that you understand how to program?
I could copy a wikipedia article on Ancient Rome but that doesn't make me a history major any more than copying my google results for "C# logon control" makes me a good object oriented programmer.
Albeit, in both cases I'm uses skills that applies to the field, for history I'm learning basic research principles (and how ineffective or horrible a source Wikipedia might be), and in the other example I'm learning code reusage, which may be just as ineffective or horrible as wikipedia. Just because something works doesn't make it good code. This is the kind of thing they need to be teaching in Object Oriented programming.
Because its one thing to avoid reinventing the wheel. But you should know how a wheel works before you use it.
Woosh.
There is no need for an assignment like that to be scalable (as is kind of his point). If they were going for scalability they need to be using more variables, like i=x;i==y, and then setting x and y previously so it actually counts the range dependant on what you pass it. And then take out i++, because you don't know if you'll be iterating by one. Maybe you'll need every second number, or third number.
The amount of things you can do to make a simple project "Scalable" is very overwhelming. You need to assess at what point does a scalable option becomes pointless.
And in the case of counting from 1 to 10, he said scalable options ARE pointless already.
Have you ever played a game without playing a demo of it?
I am going to bet you have.
Don't get me wrong, I judge movies all the same, especially by their trailers. But I don't go youtube trailers, I get enough of them at the theatres.
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I wasn't sure if 5 quotes at the end of the article was correct or not. I decided to employ brackets to handle the scenario. Taking out the wording, my findings are above. It IS correct.
Is it bad that this was the most exciting part of the article to me?