Stanford definately recognizes video games. There are many courses on AI and graphics, with the projects in introductory courses focused on the simpler models present in video games.
Outside the School of Engineering (where Computer Science lives), video games haven't gone unnoticed. The Stanford Humanities Lab has a video game project called "How They Got Game" led by two respected researchers. A very popular undergraduate course linked to this research project is Science, Technology, & Society 145: History of Computer Game Design.
.. one of the many perks to attending a university located in the Silicon Valley.
It varies from title to title which is cheaper, but I especially like the way animeniacs takes the dvds out of their cases and puts them in paper sleeves so they don't fall out and get scratched during shipping.
Realize that these dvds are good quality, but are counterfeits (professionally done, but still not genuine). Nothing wrong with the video quality, but if you're into giving the artists/authors/publishers their royalties, go to here -- good selection, but genuine anime is expensive!
Lousy pay, some benefits, but completely unsatisfying work.
Any innovation or creativity is frowned upon by the bureaucracy, projects get cancled, *reprioritized*, etc, not at the whim of your pointy-haired boss, but at the whim of politicians.
Bleh, work for a small-medium sized company where you can see tangible results, and actually feel like you're doing something useful with your life.
It's a lot more than routers and fiber. In fact, compared with the costs of upkeep and support, the infrastructure is almost negligible. That's why there's so much infrastructure already built, but so little utilized.
Why not use it all? Because people are not yet willing to pay for what they get. Standard business practice is to charge the customer 5x the actual cost of a product or a service.
Broadband service is so desparately trying to compete with the low cost of dialup, that it's not making the margin it needs. Of course it doesn't scale linearly, as a 128kb DSL connection doesn't cost 32x a 4kb dialup, but a 128kb DSL connection for only 2x or 3x the cost of that dialup sure isn't making the DSL provider the same margin as the dialup gives the dialup provider.
Bandwidth is expensive, we want -- no, we demand 100% uptime, no slowdowns, this, that, etc. Until people are willing to pay the true cost of this service, none of the greedy Telcos are going to make any money out of this, and will have no motivation to build new infrastructure, make new plans available.
Question:
Has anyone wondered exactly what "Slashback" means? I would expect it to be updates to previous stories on Slashdot... but it seems to be more like longer quickies or simply a cluster of a handful of submissions.
Any of the old-timers remember the meaning of slashback?
This ain't a troll or anything... it's an honest question!
If this actually works, they'll have to figure out how to make an airplane that won't burn up at those speeds!
Wasn't there an issue with the SR-71 that they had to take into the account the expansion of the airplane's skin, such that sitting on the ground, the airplane would leak fuel between the gaps of the non-expanded parts? And that was only at Mach 3...
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Stanford definately recognizes video games. There are many courses on AI and graphics, with the projects in introductory courses focused on the simpler models present in video games.
Outside the School of Engineering (where Computer Science lives), video games haven't gone unnoticed. The Stanford Humanities Lab has a video game project called "How They Got Game" led by two respected researchers. A very popular undergraduate course linked to this research project is Science, Technology, & Society 145: History of Computer Game Design.
Hey there,
I buy from here and here.
It varies from title to title which is cheaper, but I especially like the way animeniacs takes the dvds out of their cases and puts them in paper sleeves so they don't fall out and get scratched during shipping.
Realize that these dvds are good quality, but are counterfeits (professionally done, but still not genuine). Nothing wrong with the video quality, but if you're into giving the artists/authors/publishers their royalties, go to here -- good selection, but genuine anime is expensive!
Lousy pay, some benefits, but completely unsatisfying work.
Any innovation or creativity is frowned upon by the bureaucracy, projects get cancled, *reprioritized*, etc, not at the whim of your pointy-haired boss, but at the whim of politicians.
Bleh, work for a small-medium sized company where you can see tangible results, and actually feel like you're doing something useful with your life.
Stop and think about how much bandwidth costs.
It's a lot more than routers and fiber. In fact, compared with the costs of upkeep and support, the infrastructure is almost negligible. That's why there's so much infrastructure already built, but so little utilized.
Why not use it all? Because people are not yet willing to pay for what they get. Standard business practice is to charge the customer 5x the actual cost of a product or a service.
Broadband service is so desparately trying to compete with the low cost of dialup, that it's not making the margin it needs. Of course it doesn't scale linearly, as a 128kb DSL connection doesn't cost 32x a 4kb dialup, but a 128kb DSL connection for only 2x or 3x the cost of that dialup sure isn't making the DSL provider the same margin as the dialup gives the dialup provider.
Bandwidth is expensive, we want -- no, we demand 100% uptime, no slowdowns, this, that, etc. Until people are willing to pay the true cost of this service, none of the greedy Telcos are going to make any money out of this, and will have no motivation to build new infrastructure, make new plans available.
Question:
Has anyone wondered exactly what "Slashback" means? I would expect it to be updates to previous stories on Slashdot... but it seems to be more like longer quickies or simply a cluster of a handful of submissions.
Any of the old-timers remember the meaning of slashback?
This ain't a troll or anything... it's an honest question!
does he think EVERYONE is an AOL user???
There are enough AOL users out there to make a lot of money...
If this actually works, they'll have to figure out how to make an airplane that won't burn up at those speeds!
Wasn't there an issue with the SR-71 that they had to take into the account the expansion of the airplane's skin, such that sitting on the ground, the airplane would leak fuel between the gaps of the non-expanded parts? And that was only at Mach 3...
Isn't the entire point of using the Transmeta chips to save on power consumption?
If the thing's plugged in, who cares how much power it uses!
Just use an uber cheap celeron or something.
How about they take action against the owner of every computer involved in the DoS attack?
If I left a loaded gun sitting around and some kid picked it up and started shooting people, I could be held responsible.
Why not hold the same precidence here?
Hey!
The fact that these politicians' sites are being blocked is A Good Thing!
The politicians will only do something if they can plainly see that its hurting their chances for re-election.
Maybe they will finally do something about it!
If you want to read about some real-world research, check this out.
(I don't work there, just listened to a lecture from someone who does)
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility