Why? Because with a real college degree there will be very little question about his ability to learn something new. Or the ability to fully understand and comprehend a problem. Critical thinking and full problem analysis are skills that are only really developed at a good university. Sure you can learn a computer language on your own and learn the current tricks of the trade outside a university setting. But, if that is the case, you will only ever be a code monkey writing some sub function or routine. You will have a much harder time becomming the overall code designer, as your background doesn't show any experience at all with understanding full complex systems.
In other words, you may get into the industry, but getting higher then the bottom floor will be more difficult.
Besides, what will he do when the game industry decides to outsource to India? At least with a college degree in Computer Science or Engineering he has a chance to move to another industry. Just about every industry needs computer programmers, and many of them can not easily outsource (some can not do so by law). But with an industry certificate degree (i.e. DeVry Gaming, or similar), he will have an extremely hard time, and may in fact have to go back to school before being able to find other work. An engineering firm won't hire him for building their simulation tools if he has a degree from those types of institutes/schools, even if his last 2 years of work was building the physics model for outdoor environements in Half-Life Episode 9...
I experienced it the other way when an update to Ubuntu caused an unrecoverable video driver problem and I needed my email back urgently. It took well under an hour to reload the Windows HDD, move the Thunderbird data back from the server, and carry on till a fix was available.
You do know it would have only taken 3 minutes to boot up with Knoppix or Ubuntu Live on a CD and have immediate access to your email right?
And if you did, you will know that the thermal paste itself is very inefficient for its thermal properties compared to the metal surface of the heatsink. What IBM has found out is a way to cheaply and quickly put a heatsink on the CPU which uses less thermal paste (1/3 less), which results in a 50% increase in cooling capability of the heatsink. What they don't tell you is that the idea way is to spread the paste using a hard straight edge with a uniform height over the cpu itself and apply an extremely smooth heatsink to this. But, this process takes too long for it to be worth it in mass production. It typically takes me 2-3 minutes to spread the thermal compound and mount the heatsink on a chip. In a production line, it needs to take 5-20 seconds.
All IBM has done is develop a better method compared to their previous less efficient method. It is still worse then someone taking the time to lap the heatsink level and smooth and properly spread the true correct amount of thermal compound on the CPU then IBM's new method. To give you an idea, IBM is still using around 10x more thermal compound then is used in hand built systems. As you saw, a 1/3 reduction resulted in 50% increase in performance. Imagine then what a 9/10 reduction would result... The compound itself has the highest/worst thermal co-efficient in the cooling system. It makes a lot of sense that getting less of it in there will increase the performance. The key to reducing this substance is having a heatsink that will fit perfectly flush with the CPU.
Since they are owned by MS, they will follow company policy, which means DX10, which also means Vista only. How else is MS going to get all the hardcore gamers out there to upgrade to Vista? I mean, think about it, 10-15% performance hit is not something these people will accept. They tweak and tune and spend hundreds of dollars to get even that last 5fps out of a game. Going to Vista is not on their top of the list of things to do to make their games run faster.
So MS decided that since this was going to be the case (and they knew it early on in the Vista development cycle that there was going to be a large performance decrease), they made DX10 Vista only to force these people to upgrade to a product that they did not want.
I also think nintendo has made more money on its game unit as well. Especially over the last couple years. While Sony loses money on each PSP and PS3 sold, Nintendo has been making $30-50 each for its DS, DS-Lite, and Wii. Nintendo doesn't even need to sell any games or accessories and they are already making money. However, Sony needs to sell 10 games to their customers before they see any profit. At that point Nintendo has already made over $100 for that same customer....
Which is why I told him to use the channel that is unavailable with the normal firmware in the USA. The rest is just things to do in a congested area. And YES, putting up a high gain antenna WILL help in a congested area. One of the main problems in a congested area is dealing with all the other channel interference as the channels overlap. By having a stronger signal to your specific channel, you effectively improve the signal to noise ratio that you deal with in high congested areas. This is why if you have a radio station broadcast tower a half a mile away you will only be able to listen to that station because all the others are drowned out due to the completely overpowering signal of that station. By being the loudest network in the area, you will be pushing the wireless problems on the other people's networks are their equipment will be having the issues communicating with thier own system.
The great thing about the updated firmware is that it also gives you very good information about your site in terms of other wireless signals/networks being detected, what SSID's are being used, what channel ID's are being used. This will let you more easily use an unused channel, and thus remove a lot of the problem the original poster is trying to deal with.
Check what version of the WRT54G that you have. You should be able to run "DD-WRT" on it. This read up on doing the flash properly as you can nuke your router if you put the wrong image on first. Basically there is a "first time flash" image to use. And then once you have put that on it, you can flash to the full version that your router supports. Again, it will depend on which hardware version of the WRT54G you have as there are something like 6 different revisions, some more powerful then others and some more friendly for using third-party images (due to having more storage on the device, some have as little as 2MB total space for the OS, others can have as much as 16 or even 32MB of space).
Now, once you have flashed it, you can use additional channel space that is normally unavailable to use as it is reserved bandwidth. I forget which channel ID it is, channel 14 I think is not normally accessible in the USA. Change to that channel and most of your interference should go away from other competing devices.
Now, other things to do, turn off the broadcast SSID. Setup the MAC Address Filter and only include the MAC addresses of devices that you want to allow to connect. You can now even setup your own local DNS and statically assigned DHCP addresses for devices (in other words, your device still does the normal DHCP request, but you always get the a specified address for that device, useful if you have any kind of file sharing or network server).
Other things you can do is boost your antenna gain in the software if you have poor coverage in the house/apartment. You can also try specifying a specific antenna to transmit or receive, which can be useful if you want to upgrade an antenna with one of your own design, or something you purchased. I personally have a 16 dbi omni on my wireless router. I also have a 24 dbi directional in case I ever need to do something like making a wireless bridge. Using something like that could potentially let you connect to your campus's wireless net and use their higher speed pipe that your student fees already pay for.
The Dreamcast's demise and sales figures can not be directly compared to the PS3 sales figures. The Dreamcast died because it was utterly and completely hacked. No mods needed. No opening up, no voiding warrenty, no soddering, nothing. Just simply copy the contents of the CD to a folder, and run a utility against it which created the ISO image. Burn the image, done. Perfect working pirated game. Due to this, game sales plummeted since people were simply renting the game and burning their own copy.
Probably not. But it almost appears that way. More likely politics on the issue that iTunes being an Apple product, and Apple not being an EU based company, while several other EU based companies *cough* Philips *cough* LG *cough* are not making any headway into the market which is completely dominated by Apple. While I personally love the outcome of the fight, i.e. someone fighting for removing of DRM. The reasons for the fight are suspect in my eyes.
Why just fight against DRM for iTunes, and not DRM for everything? If the EU commisioner was really fighting for consumer rights here, it should be all DRM'ed anything, music, movies, electronic books, etc., etc., should be able to be universally used on any device. Which essentially means that it needs to be universal. Problem here is that as such, DRM can not work.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I realized I wanted to say more...
Another reason governments have shy'ed away from the food industry is due to most people's feeling that they have the right to choose what they want to eat. I mean, think about it, there would be an uproar if we could no longer put salt on our food. Or can not use butter on a piece of bread. Or make a flourless chocolate cake. Or, etc., etc., etc... People simply won't stand for it. What you can do is educate people on how to properly eat. Try and have resturaunts serve healthier portions (hard to do...). Educate is really the best way, but the problem with that is that it will take years for it to really take effect. Look how long it is taking to effect smoking? It has been 40-50 years now that we have known for a fact that smoking will cause lung cancer and kill you. And it is only in the last 10-15 years that it is finally starting to take hold on the general public. It will be 40-50 plus years for us to educate the general public on proper healthy eating, and even then it will still be a problem to for many.
Basically it is saying that every child has a total limit on the activity they do in a day/week. And those limits are all about the same. So if the child is more active during school doing things like sports, they are less active out of school because they are tired. The children who were less active in school sports were more active outside of school doing other things, playing, riding bikes, running around outside, etc., etc...
The end result is that it doesn't seem to matter if you promote activity in school since the net total activity is approximitely the same between people active in school verses not active in school. Which means that the problem is not that people are not as active as they have been in the past, it is the food and portions of food they are eating along with their genetic disposition to the kinds of food.
Activity level is not a part of the problem of childhood obesity according to this research as it appears that the activity level at least between people who are over-weight and those who are not is not statistically linked. Further study may be able to prove that activity level is not linked to being over-weight. The problem with this conclusion is the fact that it means the food is the problem. And governments have not been very keen on attacking the food industry. Only a few places have done that, and it is usually at the local level, as at the national level, the food industry has too much lobby'ing power in most democratic governments.
It is pretty much what it was designed to do (i.e. manage all your IP addresses to Names). As a result, a good DNS application will manage ALL your subnets, virtual lans, static addresses, and DHCP addresses.
Something to keep in the back of your mind. Just move to Oregon and work there if you are stuck with one of these contracts, since the state law where you currently are employed will the be the applying law.
Which is why he should find a University which offers a co-operative education, or the very least, has internship/work/study programs with local businesses in his field. I walked out of college with 2.5 years of real experience by the time I received my BS in Computer Science. In fact, I had a full time job BEFORE I even finished my degree because the company I had done internships wanted me working for them (they even hired me as if I had my degree, even though I had 12 credits left to take).
Basically, this is the kind of school which gets you the contacts that you need, gets you real world experience, and puts your foot in the door at a local company all at the same time. Hard to beat that... plus, you get a degree.
...you beer. The primary use of beer is to consume as in, drink, the product. It is not an idea or thought that is passed through a written, or visual media. Thus, your "free speech" rights do not apply to this product.
The government needs to do the same thing they did with electricity to the internet. Mandate it. No company will ever want to distribute high speed access to everywhere in the nation. But it is something that is increasingly needed as an infrastructure for the future of the nation itself. Just like phone service and electricity before it, quality, reliable, high speed, low latency connection to the internet needs to be deployed across the nation by government mandate if need be.
The businesses all cry foul the second a city or township tries to deploy their own public owned network for their citizens and suddenly finds the money to go running *cough* buying *cough* Congress or State legislation, money that never seems to be there to actually build their own networks, but sure enough it is available whenever/wherever some town tries this.
I truly believe that internet access should be simply just another utility, like water, and electricity already.
...cheap and plentiful broadband access. At least in the USA since we are 12th in the world according to an earlier./ article. It is true too. Just look at Japan or South Korea. For the same cost as our 8megabit cable modem we could have 100megabit feeds in either of those countries. And not only that, but pretty much anywhere in the country as well.
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Microsoft on the other hand... AFAIK the 360 is currently selling at a small profit but the Xbox 1 never reached that point, which is why it was dropped so quickly; the games division on a whole has been deep in the red since it's inception. Even still, I suspect they'll come out on top eventually just on a much longer time scale.
But you need to remember MS's business model:
1) Spend outrageous, insane amount of money to undercut all competition 2) Become monopoly 3) Raise prices 4) Profit
But the CRIA does not have the authority to place that fee on items it does not make, in other words, memory cards, micro-hard drives, etc. Only the government has that authority, hence, the reason why they are saying "the government".
All you need to know is that they both talk about the same exact 160,000 bits memory implementation to know it is the same. No two competing groups would both come up with that same strange way of expressing the memory size. Anyplace else would say 20,000 bytes, or 19.53125 KB, not 160,000 bits.
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Why? Because with a real college degree there will be very little question about his ability to learn something new. Or the ability to fully understand and comprehend a problem. Critical thinking and full problem analysis are skills that are only really developed at a good university. Sure you can learn a computer language on your own and learn the current tricks of the trade outside a university setting. But, if that is the case, you will only ever be a code monkey writing some sub function or routine. You will have a much harder time becomming the overall code designer, as your background doesn't show any experience at all with understanding full complex systems.
In other words, you may get into the industry, but getting higher then the bottom floor will be more difficult.
Besides, what will he do when the game industry decides to outsource to India? At least with a college degree in Computer Science or Engineering he has a chance to move to another industry. Just about every industry needs computer programmers, and many of them can not easily outsource (some can not do so by law). But with an industry certificate degree (i.e. DeVry Gaming, or similar), he will have an extremely hard time, and may in fact have to go back to school before being able to find other work. An engineering firm won't hire him for building their simulation tools if he has a degree from those types of institutes/schools, even if his last 2 years of work was building the physics model for outdoor environements in Half-Life Episode 9...
I experienced it the other way when an update to Ubuntu caused an unrecoverable video driver problem and I needed my email back urgently. It took well under an hour to reload the Windows HDD, move the Thunderbird data back from the server, and carry on till a fix was available.
You do know it would have only taken 3 minutes to boot up with Knoppix or Ubuntu Live on a CD and have immediate access to your email right?
And if you did, you will know that the thermal paste itself is very inefficient for its thermal properties compared to the metal surface of the heatsink. What IBM has found out is a way to cheaply and quickly put a heatsink on the CPU which uses less thermal paste (1/3 less), which results in a 50% increase in cooling capability of the heatsink. What they don't tell you is that the idea way is to spread the paste using a hard straight edge with a uniform height over the cpu itself and apply an extremely smooth heatsink to this. But, this process takes too long for it to be worth it in mass production. It typically takes me 2-3 minutes to spread the thermal compound and mount the heatsink on a chip. In a production line, it needs to take 5-20 seconds.
All IBM has done is develop a better method compared to their previous less efficient method. It is still worse then someone taking the time to lap the heatsink level and smooth and properly spread the true correct amount of thermal compound on the CPU then IBM's new method. To give you an idea, IBM is still using around 10x more thermal compound then is used in hand built systems. As you saw, a 1/3 reduction resulted in 50% increase in performance. Imagine then what a 9/10 reduction would result... The compound itself has the highest/worst thermal co-efficient in the cooling system. It makes a lot of sense that getting less of it in there will increase the performance. The key to reducing this substance is having a heatsink that will fit perfectly flush with the CPU.
Since they are owned by MS, they will follow company policy, which means DX10, which also means Vista only. How else is MS going to get all the hardcore gamers out there to upgrade to Vista? I mean, think about it, 10-15% performance hit is not something these people will accept. They tweak and tune and spend hundreds of dollars to get even that last 5fps out of a game. Going to Vista is not on their top of the list of things to do to make their games run faster.
So MS decided that since this was going to be the case (and they knew it early on in the Vista development cycle that there was going to be a large performance decrease), they made DX10 Vista only to force these people to upgrade to a product that they did not want.
I also think nintendo has made more money on its game unit as well. Especially over the last couple years. While Sony loses money on each PSP and PS3 sold, Nintendo has been making $30-50 each for its DS, DS-Lite, and Wii. Nintendo doesn't even need to sell any games or accessories and they are already making money. However, Sony needs to sell 10 games to their customers before they see any profit. At that point Nintendo has already made over $100 for that same customer....
Which is why I told him to use the channel that is unavailable with the normal firmware in the USA. The rest is just things to do in a congested area. And YES, putting up a high gain antenna WILL help in a congested area. One of the main problems in a congested area is dealing with all the other channel interference as the channels overlap. By having a stronger signal to your specific channel, you effectively improve the signal to noise ratio that you deal with in high congested areas. This is why if you have a radio station broadcast tower a half a mile away you will only be able to listen to that station because all the others are drowned out due to the completely overpowering signal of that station. By being the loudest network in the area, you will be pushing the wireless problems on the other people's networks are their equipment will be having the issues communicating with thier own system.
The great thing about the updated firmware is that it also gives you very good information about your site in terms of other wireless signals/networks being detected, what SSID's are being used, what channel ID's are being used. This will let you more easily use an unused channel, and thus remove a lot of the problem the original poster is trying to deal with.
Check what version of the WRT54G that you have. You should be able to run "DD-WRT" on it. This read up on doing the flash properly as you can nuke your router if you put the wrong image on first. Basically there is a "first time flash" image to use. And then once you have put that on it, you can flash to the full version that your router supports. Again, it will depend on which hardware version of the WRT54G you have as there are something like 6 different revisions, some more powerful then others and some more friendly for using third-party images (due to having more storage on the device, some have as little as 2MB total space for the OS, others can have as much as 16 or even 32MB of space).
Now, once you have flashed it, you can use additional channel space that is normally unavailable to use as it is reserved bandwidth. I forget which channel ID it is, channel 14 I think is not normally accessible in the USA. Change to that channel and most of your interference should go away from other competing devices.
Now, other things to do, turn off the broadcast SSID. Setup the MAC Address Filter and only include the MAC addresses of devices that you want to allow to connect. You can now even setup your own local DNS and statically assigned DHCP addresses for devices (in other words, your device still does the normal DHCP request, but you always get the a specified address for that device, useful if you have any kind of file sharing or network server).
Other things you can do is boost your antenna gain in the software if you have poor coverage in the house/apartment. You can also try specifying a specific antenna to transmit or receive, which can be useful if you want to upgrade an antenna with one of your own design, or something you purchased. I personally have a 16 dbi omni on my wireless router. I also have a 24 dbi directional in case I ever need to do something like making a wireless bridge. Using something like that could potentially let you connect to your campus's wireless net and use their higher speed pipe that your student fees already pay for.
The Dreamcast's demise and sales figures can not be directly compared to the PS3 sales figures. The Dreamcast died because it was utterly and completely hacked. No mods needed. No opening up, no voiding warrenty, no soddering, nothing. Just simply copy the contents of the CD to a folder, and run a utility against it which created the ISO image. Burn the image, done. Perfect working pirated game. Due to this, game sales plummeted since people were simply renting the game and burning their own copy.
Probably not. But it almost appears that way. More likely politics on the issue that iTunes being an Apple product, and Apple not being an EU based company, while several other EU based companies *cough* Philips *cough* LG *cough* are not making any headway into the market which is completely dominated by Apple. While I personally love the outcome of the fight, i.e. someone fighting for removing of DRM. The reasons for the fight are suspect in my eyes.
Why just fight against DRM for iTunes, and not DRM for everything? If the EU commisioner was really fighting for consumer rights here, it should be all DRM'ed anything, music, movies, electronic books, etc., etc., should be able to be universally used on any device. Which essentially means that it needs to be universal. Problem here is that as such, DRM can not work.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I realized I wanted to say more...
Another reason governments have shy'ed away from the food industry is due to most people's feeling that they have the right to choose what they want to eat. I mean, think about it, there would be an uproar if we could no longer put salt on our food. Or can not use butter on a piece of bread. Or make a flourless chocolate cake. Or, etc., etc., etc... People simply won't stand for it. What you can do is educate people on how to properly eat. Try and have resturaunts serve healthier portions (hard to do...). Educate is really the best way, but the problem with that is that it will take years for it to really take effect. Look how long it is taking to effect smoking? It has been 40-50 years now that we have known for a fact that smoking will cause lung cancer and kill you. And it is only in the last 10-15 years that it is finally starting to take hold on the general public. It will be 40-50 plus years for us to educate the general public on proper healthy eating, and even then it will still be a problem to for many.
Basically it is saying that every child has a total limit on the activity they do in a day/week. And those limits are all about the same. So if the child is more active during school doing things like sports, they are less active out of school because they are tired. The children who were less active in school sports were more active outside of school doing other things, playing, riding bikes, running around outside, etc., etc... The end result is that it doesn't seem to matter if you promote activity in school since the net total activity is approximitely the same between people active in school verses not active in school. Which means that the problem is not that people are not as active as they have been in the past, it is the food and portions of food they are eating along with their genetic disposition to the kinds of food. Activity level is not a part of the problem of childhood obesity according to this research as it appears that the activity level at least between people who are over-weight and those who are not is not statistically linked. Further study may be able to prove that activity level is not linked to being over-weight. The problem with this conclusion is the fact that it means the food is the problem. And governments have not been very keen on attacking the food industry. Only a few places have done that, and it is usually at the local level, as at the national level, the food industry has too much lobby'ing power in most democratic governments.
We use it on my site. In fact we have about 2000+ users who use it every day.
It is pretty much what it was designed to do (i.e. manage all your IP addresses to Names). As a result, a good DNS application will manage ALL your subnets, virtual lans, static addresses, and DHCP addresses.
Personally I like Lucent's VitalQIP.
Something to keep in the back of your mind. Just move to Oregon and work there if you are stuck with one of these contracts, since the state law where you currently are employed will the be the applying law.
They probably realized the same thing that I and others have posted above. Its not viable at $2000 price, no one will buy it.
And not only that, the $2000 device can't even do what the $1000 laptop could.... I just don't see this going very far. Maybe if it cost $600-800.
And I bet a LOT of TV companies would be very willing to pay a great deal of money for this.
Which is why he should find a University which offers a co-operative education, or the very least, has internship/work/study programs with local businesses in his field. I walked out of college with 2.5 years of real experience by the time I received my BS in Computer Science. In fact, I had a full time job BEFORE I even finished my degree because the company I had done internships wanted me working for them (they even hired me as if I had my degree, even though I had 12 credits left to take). Basically, this is the kind of school which gets you the contacts that you need, gets you real world experience, and puts your foot in the door at a local company all at the same time. Hard to beat that... plus, you get a degree.
...you beer. The primary use of beer is to consume as in, drink, the product. It is not an idea or thought that is passed through a written, or visual media. Thus, your "free speech" rights do not apply to this product.
In Japan it was government mandated.
Ding ding ding ding ding! We have a winner!
The government needs to do the same thing they did with electricity to the internet. Mandate it. No company will ever want to distribute high speed access to everywhere in the nation. But it is something that is increasingly needed as an infrastructure for the future of the nation itself. Just like phone service and electricity before it, quality, reliable, high speed, low latency connection to the internet needs to be deployed across the nation by government mandate if need be.
The businesses all cry foul the second a city or township tries to deploy their own public owned network for their citizens and suddenly finds the money to go running *cough* buying *cough* Congress or State legislation, money that never seems to be there to actually build their own networks, but sure enough it is available whenever/wherever some town tries this.
I truly believe that internet access should be simply just another utility, like water, and electricity already.
...cheap and plentiful broadband access. At least in the USA since we are 12th in the world according to an earlier ./ article. It is true too. Just look at Japan or South Korea. For the same cost as our 8megabit cable modem we could have 100megabit feeds in either of those countries. And not only that, but pretty much anywhere in the country as well.
Origionally Posted By twistedsymphony: Microsoft on the other hand... AFAIK the 360 is currently selling at a small profit but the Xbox 1 never reached that point, which is why it was dropped so quickly; the games division on a whole has been deep in the red since it's inception. Even still, I suspect they'll come out on top eventually just on a much longer time scale.
But you need to remember MS's business model:
1) Spend outrageous, insane amount of money to undercut all competition
2) Become monopoly
3) Raise prices
4) Profit
But the CRIA does not have the authority to place that fee on items it does not make, in other words, memory cards, micro-hard drives, etc. Only the government has that authority, hence, the reason why they are saying "the government".
All you need to know is that they both talk about the same exact 160,000 bits memory implementation to know it is the same. No two competing groups would both come up with that same strange way of expressing the memory size. Anyplace else would say 20,000 bytes, or 19.53125 KB, not 160,000 bits.
Was going to say the same thing once I saw the 160,000 bit size.