The makers of every other decent 3D app don't think it's irrelevant.
I last used an early version of blender...so my opinion may be dated...but the documentation sucked as badly as the interface. With most 3D apps, you can just look at it and know what you're seeing. With blender, screw actually manipulating objects, just figuring out what's in front of you can be a pain.
That's great if you want job security, I guess. It'd be nice if there was a course that could teach people how to apply what they learn about one program to another, even if it doesn't do the same things. For example, that the "print" menus are almost always under "file" or that "properties" are usually to be found in "file" or "edit." Simple things like that that will make them actually functional when they are faced with something novel.
I suppose that's really placing too much of a demand on the students rather than too much on the teachers, though. Sigh...
(Worked in computer labs for 2 years...has stories)
The market is only SLIGHTLY more intelligent than evolution. Sure, manufacturers may occasionally find, on purpose, some non-obvious market. But mainly they just float stuff seemingly at random and if the market demands it it just doesn't go away.
I dunno about the other countries you listed, but Japanese...hell, they might be at a disadvantage because of the 6 years of english that anyone graduating in the last couple of decades had to take. I don't know what they're doing wrong, but I know I picked up Japanese better in 3 years than most japanese get english in 6. Hell, and german in 2 years, for that matter (and my teacher for that sucked).
Is it fraud if the fraud requires you to be a pinhead to fall for it?
But I guess that's not what this is about. There are plenty of people who have intelligence enough to justify their oxygen consumption who know little enough about computers to not recognize, for instance, that the "window" they're clicking on is embedded within another window, or that it is windows-style and they're using a mac.
I suppose it's really no different than a dishonest auto mechanic relying on the ignorance of drivers to to defraud them.
"Actually, distribution of that kind is legal. Ever been to an online rom site? "If you do not own an original ROM of this game, do not download it." or the ever classic "These ROMs are available for evaluation purposes only, if you decide not to buy the game, you must delete the ROM in 24 hours."
If that's legal, why can a click-thru license on Kazaa simply state that everyone agrees to something like that? "
It's not legal. ROM sites get shut down all the time.
But Dell used to ship a very nice keyboard with some of their servers. Enormous, heavy thing which was really loud and clicky. I swear I got an extra 5 wpm out of that thing. Gorgeous.
Only a tiny percentage of albums I've ever listened to have much of a common theme, or commonality of sound among the tracks beyond that which would be explained by them being made at the same time in an artists' career to really justify any artistic protest against them being separated.
And then there's the fact that there are a lot of KMFDMs out there...bands that couldn't put more than 2 listenable songs on an album if their lives depended on it, whether the songs go together or not.
If musicians have a problem, take it up with the distributors. I am not going to pay for shit I don't want to get what I do want.
Not that it matters, after that Jesse Jordan thing, I'm not buying ANY music from the RIAA companies. Fuck em.
English spelling is NOT random. It may not all follow one pattern, but very few words do not follow A pattern among A group of words. It's complex, sure, but if you can make a guess at where a word came from, and you know under what conditions a vowel will make which sound, you can be almost certain to spell a word correctly. It isn't as simple as the "long vowel short vowel silent vowel" stuff I got in 2nd grade (if it were, people would be able to spell) but it is NOT hard.
English IS phonetic, by way of a complex system of heuristics.
"the weight of the vehicle will transfer to the front wheels, possibly causing the rear ones to lose traction and induce an oversteer (Timmy spins out and causes an accident)."
Everyone should learn to drive on ice. (all you floridians and californians don't know shit about driving and should have your licenses suspended the second it starts to snow.) You can't avoid these facts on ice, so either you learn to drive really slow, or you learn to control the vehicle to keep it from spinning. Or you ditch it. Regardless, you're not causing many accidents.
"Or how about proximity? Notice how, when there's a small piece of debris in the road, most drivers give it a good 4-6 feet of berth just because they don't actually have a sense of the boundries of their car."
I usually drive over them, if I know they'll fit under the car and between the wheels.
In the ideal world, companies would realize this and allow IT workers much more time off with pay during slow times.
Why should they when they can save money by just firing them, and hiring more desperate programmers when they need them, or just not renewing contract employees?
It's win-win! Employees get their time off, and companies don't have to pay for it!
Most japanese people I knew were really slow typists. Consider that they have to slow down every other word or so to select a kanji...I can type about as fast as most japanese in japanese, and I only speak it at about a 3rd grade level. (My speed at everything BUT selecting kanji makes up for it I think)
Anyhow, I can't imagine something like that catching on with people who regularly type in languages that are easier to type, like english.
So print without taking your pen off the page. What you'll get is lines resulting from a motion more peculiar to your hand than fucking D'nealian (sp?) cursive. The way to make a forgery hard to spot is to copy not the lines, but to learn the motion used to create them (thus one is able to copy the subtleties like line width and darkness). Reducing your signature to a single random squiggly line is a bad idea. Reducing it to a few illegible non-random squiggles is better, and I would suggest better than cursive.
Hmm...I had been buying CDs recently, but this is enough to make me stop. That and the fact that nothing new interests me...but yeah, I'll just say fuck 'em.
many CEOs will see OSS developers as a liability thanks to this, because, "they dont care about our company and will happily release our precious source due to their GPL fanaticsm".
OTOH, they still have the developers, and if that code ever turns out to be important, they'll be best equipped to exploit it. But of course, only if they hold onto those programmers.
Job security
I realize you're joking, but all subways I've been on in Japan were clean and graffiti-free. (Bus stops weren't, though) It's not impossible. Even on a public system.
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The makers of every other decent 3D app don't think it's irrelevant.
I last used an early version of blender...so my opinion may be dated...but the documentation sucked as badly as the interface. With most 3D apps, you can just look at it and know what you're seeing. With blender, screw actually manipulating objects, just figuring out what's in front of you can be a pain.
That's great if you want job security, I guess. It'd be nice if there was a course that could teach people how to apply what they learn about one program to another, even if it doesn't do the same things. For example, that the "print" menus are almost always under "file" or that "properties" are usually to be found in "file" or "edit." Simple things like that that will make them actually functional when they are faced with something novel.
I suppose that's really placing too much of a demand on the students rather than too much on the teachers, though. Sigh...
(Worked in computer labs for 2 years...has stories)
That overtone is "liberal" in the economic sense, of not regulating commerce.
It's less confusing than you seem to be making it out to be.
Although one could have confusion if one refers to an american economist as a "liberal."
The market is only SLIGHTLY more intelligent than evolution. Sure, manufacturers may occasionally find, on purpose, some non-obvious market. But mainly they just float stuff seemingly at random and if the market demands it it just doesn't go away.
I just open a window.
Only if you're learning it where the language is spoken by most of the population, really.
I met very few japanese people who spoke useable english who hadn't been abroad for at least 6 months.
And my Japanese wasn't ACTIVELY useable until I'd been there a couple of weeks.
Honestly, if I had a point, I don't know what it was.
I dunno about the other countries you listed, but Japanese...hell, they might be at a disadvantage because of the 6 years of english that anyone graduating in the last couple of decades had to take. I don't know what they're doing wrong, but I know I picked up Japanese better in 3 years than most japanese get english in 6. Hell, and german in 2 years, for that matter (and my teacher for that sucked).
Is it fraud if the fraud requires you to be a pinhead to fall for it?
But I guess that's not what this is about. There are plenty of people who have intelligence enough to justify their oxygen consumption who know little enough about computers to not recognize, for instance, that the "window" they're clicking on is embedded within another window, or that it is windows-style and they're using a mac.
I suppose it's really no different than a dishonest auto mechanic relying on the ignorance of drivers to to defraud them.
If that's legal, why can a click-thru license on Kazaa simply state that everyone agrees to something like that? "
It's not legal. ROM sites get shut down all the time.
I microwave them for entertainment.
But Dell used to ship a very nice keyboard with some of their servers. Enormous, heavy thing which was really loud and clicky. I swear I got an extra 5 wpm out of that thing. Gorgeous.
Nothing would be worth the frustration of him NOT STAYING DEAD!
And then there's the fact that there are a lot of KMFDMs out there...bands that couldn't put more than 2 listenable songs on an album if their lives depended on it, whether the songs go together or not.
If musicians have a problem, take it up with the distributors. I am not going to pay for shit I don't want to get what I do want.
Not that it matters, after that Jesse Jordan thing, I'm not buying ANY music from the RIAA companies. Fuck em.
English spelling is NOT random. It may not all follow one pattern, but very few words do not follow A pattern among A group of words. It's complex, sure, but if you can make a guess at where a word came from, and you know under what conditions a vowel will make which sound, you can be almost certain to spell a word correctly. It isn't as simple as the "long vowel short vowel silent vowel" stuff I got in 2nd grade (if it were, people would be able to spell) but it is NOT hard.
English IS phonetic, by way of a complex system of heuristics.
"the weight of the vehicle will transfer to the front wheels, possibly causing the rear ones to lose traction and induce an oversteer (Timmy spins out and causes an accident)."
Everyone should learn to drive on ice. (all you floridians and californians don't know shit about driving and should have your licenses suspended the second it starts to snow.) You can't avoid these facts on ice, so either you learn to drive really slow, or you learn to control the vehicle to keep it from spinning. Or you ditch it. Regardless, you're not causing many accidents.
"Or how about proximity? Notice how, when there's a small piece of debris in the road, most drivers give it a good 4-6 feet of berth just because they don't actually have a sense of the boundries of their car."
I usually drive over them, if I know they'll fit under the car and between the wheels.
Why should they when they can save money by just firing them, and hiring more desperate programmers when they need them, or just not renewing contract employees?
It's win-win! Employees get their time off, and companies don't have to pay for it!
Most japanese people I knew were really slow typists. Consider that they have to slow down every other word or so to select a kanji...I can type about as fast as most japanese in japanese, and I only speak it at about a 3rd grade level. (My speed at everything BUT selecting kanji makes up for it I think)
Anyhow, I can't imagine something like that catching on with people who regularly type in languages that are easier to type, like english.
I remember once my brother was talking on a BBS, and he didn't know how to type. Someone said to him "What, are you typing with your dick?"
I forsee a day in the near future where this will be practical.
So print without taking your pen off the page. What you'll get is lines resulting from a motion more peculiar to your hand than fucking D'nealian (sp?) cursive. The way to make a forgery hard to spot is to copy not the lines, but to learn the motion used to create them (thus one is able to copy the subtleties like line width and darkness). Reducing your signature to a single random squiggly line is a bad idea. Reducing it to a few illegible non-random squiggles is better, and I would suggest better than cursive.
The more standard the pen-strokes, the easier it is to fake.
Hmm...I had been buying CDs recently, but this is enough to make me stop. That and the fact that nothing new interests me...but yeah, I'll just say fuck 'em.
Sounds like it would be reviving the most-missed aspect of the local BBS.
OTOH, they still have the developers, and if that code ever turns out to be important, they'll be best equipped to exploit it. But of course, only if they hold onto those programmers. Job security
I realize you're joking, but all subways I've been on in Japan were clean and graffiti-free. (Bus stops weren't, though) It's not impossible. Even on a public system.
One who is into computer games, is slim and trim, is constantly in a position to give head, and isn't going to flee at the sight of him.