A degree is required for most professional careers as an employee. Of course, there are other ways to make a living. Some people without degrees start their own companies because no one else will hire them. Most fail but some are talented enough and successful enough that college graduates end up working for them.
I played it for a while. It was a pretty cool game, but the story part of it was poorly implemented. It was set up such that the players could change the world or beat the game by accomplishing certain goals. But it mostly ended up being the players really had little control and progression basically came down to what the devs had time to implement. I wonder if it has changed much since then... do any current players have a more up to date analysis?
Stay away from pure code tests. Asking a person how they would solve a given problem or a puzzle is a great idea. But have them explain to you in their own words how they would solve it and don't focus on a particular programming language. The reasons are:
A) Programming languages can be learned. You don't want to rule out people who are great problem solvers just because they don't know your favorite language yet. And don't let them pick their favorite language because you may not know it well enough to judge their effort.
B) You want them to demonstrate good communication skills. In the real world good programmers have to deal with people (Customers, Mathematicians, Human Factors Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Safety Engineers, etc...) who aren't coders.
I have experience using rcs and it seemed good enough. Now I'm currently using subversion that someone else set up in the name of progress (not my decision). My problem is it's cluttering up my working directories with meta data, plus I run into consistency problems as I'm moving and merging code from temporary experimental folders and other teams folders that are not in the same repository. All of this was perfectly fine with rcs (I would just check out something, make whatever changes I needed to and check it back in), but subversion has problems with it (my hypothesis is other peoples' meta data is getting mixed up with my own, causing subversion to get confused). Does anyone else have this problem? Do all of the more recent systems share these issues? Am I just a clueless old coder confused by this new fangled technology?
Worse case scenario, it's not that difficult to transmit Morse code (which is easily identified even with interferrence). Making sure enough people are trained in Morse is important because it can be used almost anywhere, not just the HF band.
If we get to the point where we NEED HF communications, the interfering devices wouldn't be working and wouldn't interfere. Of course, in that scenario, nuclear radiation might be interfering with HF communications but that's a separate issue.
I don't think you understand. CPU transistor count is getting to the point where turning additional transistors into another general purpose core doesn't make as much sense as making a specialized graphics circuit with them on the same chip.
I'm seeing a lot of negative comments on this story. I don't know if this game will fail or not (it probably will), but at least we'll have a new space sim until it does. I'd like the chance to actually fly my internet spaceship with a joystick and out maneuver missiles while engaging full afterburners. They've already added a "Descent" style arena for those that remember that game. My hope is this will end up being a very good multi-player version of X-Wing or Wing Commander.
Do you want to get on your feet right away? Maybe BASIC, VB, or Pascal is the best choice. Do you want to really learn about the computer? Probably ASM, but C may be a useful alternative. Do you want to learn about different ways to think about programming? By all means, stick with LISP and its children.
I would argue that old school BASIC (not VB) applies to the 2nd better than the first (and better than C). It's not assembly language, but the flow control is similar enough to assembly that when I took my first assembly class, I was thinking to myself... hey, this isn't so bad, it's a lot like BASIC.
When you click on one of the alternatives it displays "The most recent version of *selected browser* can be downloaded here: *displays the web address*" The displayed url won't go anywhere because no browser is installed. Instead, when you click it, it displays the attention box: "You have clicked on a web link and you have no web browser installed. You can fix this problem by installing MS Internet Explorer. Would you like to do this now? (YES) (NO)"
You don't need 90 days in UT, Quake Arena, CS, etc... to be on equal footing with the other players, therefore they are all better than Asheron's Call for PvP. Also, AC is a good game, but PvP was just a part of it. For the other games I've mentioned, PvP *is* the game.
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Semantic quibbling? Solar generated electricity isn't given away for free, nor is it free to build/maintain the infrastructure needed to create it.
Internet service is not a natural monopoly. You can run duplicate cables from 2 different companies right next to each other. Competition is what will bring the greatest good at the cheapest cost, not regulation.
As far as higher prices, how else is the company going to get the funds to create more bandwidth and still increase profit? Maybe they already can from more subscribers... but then again maybe not. It's ultimately up to the customers. If enough people want more bandwidth, and are willing to pay for it, it will happen.
Any bandwidth you use is immediately available for reuse. There is no limit to how many times you can do this. To me, this means it's infinitely renewable. Yes, there's a limit to how much we can use at any given time, but you can say the same about any renewable resource. And it is free, it costs the same to use bandwith as it does to leave it idle.
A limit is a limit, a time constraint is just as much a limit as anything else. Also, routers not in use can be turned off to save electricity and money.
What's the point of charging users if you're not going to build more infrastructure? We should not design incentives for ISPs to sit on crappy decade old infrastructure making greater and greater profits for doing nothing, as demand increases.
If you can do better, start your own business and do so. But don't just start wishing for things and demanding others to take care of it for you. The companies are in it to make a profit. This is OK. If they can provide the greatest utility to the greatest number of people at the lowest cost, more power to them. Forcing other users to ultimately pay higher rates so you can have more bandwidth isn't necessarily the best overall option. But this is a free country, if you think you have a better idea, draw up a business plan and start your own company that will give away unlimited bandwidth for a fixed price.
It's not infinitely renewable and free. Fixed costs do remain the same, but the demand for the resources fluctuates throughout the day. It would be completely reasonable to allow cheap/unmetered downloads after midnight while severely capping large file transfers (or charging a high fee for them) from say 3pm to midnight so more people can get surf the web, play games and check their email when they get home from work without having to build more infrastructure, which definitely is not free. Even then it would make sense to prioritize VoIP packets over file transfer packets should a choice have to be made.
It's not fraud if it's fully disclosed in the service agreement (and speaking as a customer of Cox, it is). It totally makes sense to throttle bandwidth for some applications and make a few customers unhappy rather than spend millions upgrading the network for a negative ROI. If you don't like it, find an ISP who fits your needs. If one doesn't exist, start your own ISP... be sure and state in your business plan how you're going to make money by selling bandwidth to power users cheaper than you can create it.
Something does amuse me about the fact an ultra-high tech. robot of the future would turn into a cassette of all things though.
Noob. All the transformers have their 20th century vehicle (or other) shapes because they were trying to blend in. I believe their respective ships sent out probes to analyze the environment and configure the bots appropriately. At any rate, their Cybertron forms were more ultra-high tech.
Or as random as one will possibly get, or as random enough for those mathematicians who work for Casinos across the world who use real die for a variety of Casino games and are willing to shell out hundreds of millions in winnings should the roller win.
Casino dice are of much higher quality than the normal dice shown in the video. Imperfections in one pair of dice can cost thousands of dollars. See this video at about 7:40 into it.
[In] EVE or SWG [...] every_single_item in game is produced by players.
In both games there are NPC buyers and sellers, even if the services they provide are minor. I mean I get your point that the economy is overall player driven, but there's no need to exaggerate.
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A degree is required for most professional careers as an employee. Of course, there are other ways to make a living. Some people without degrees start their own companies because no one else will hire them. Most fail but some are talented enough and successful enough that college graduates end up working for them.
Very witty! Too bad I don't have mod points today.
I'm experiencing the same thing. It's a mystery! Or perhaps a corrupt database.
Shame the anti-Nazi folk couldn't give you a break
I'm anti-Nazi. Everyone here is (hopefully) anti-Nazi. That doesn't mean we should censor their symbols out of existence or try to ignore history.
China seems to think it can take the benefits of the free market while the rest of the world assumes the risk.
Yet they ended up assuming the risk (our currency) while giving us the benefits (trade goods). Ironic isn't it?
I played it for a while. It was a pretty cool game, but the story part of it was poorly implemented. It was set up such that the players could change the world or beat the game by accomplishing certain goals. But it mostly ended up being the players really had little control and progression basically came down to what the devs had time to implement. I wonder if it has changed much since then... do any current players have a more up to date analysis?
Stay away from pure code tests. Asking a person how they would solve a given problem or a puzzle is a great idea. But have them explain to you in their own words how they would solve it and don't focus on a particular programming language. The reasons are:
A) Programming languages can be learned. You don't want to rule out people who are great problem solvers just because they don't know your favorite language yet. And don't let them pick their favorite language because you may not know it well enough to judge their effort.
B) You want them to demonstrate good communication skills. In the real world good programmers have to deal with people (Customers, Mathematicians, Human Factors Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Safety Engineers, etc...) who aren't coders.
I have experience using rcs and it seemed good enough. Now I'm currently using subversion that someone else set up in the name of progress (not my decision). My problem is it's cluttering up my working directories with meta data, plus I run into consistency problems as I'm moving and merging code from temporary experimental folders and other teams folders that are not in the same repository. All of this was perfectly fine with rcs (I would just check out something, make whatever changes I needed to and check it back in), but subversion has problems with it (my hypothesis is other peoples' meta data is getting mixed up with my own, causing subversion to get confused). Does anyone else have this problem? Do all of the more recent systems share these issues? Am I just a clueless old coder confused by this new fangled technology?
Worse case scenario, it's not that difficult to transmit Morse code (which is easily identified even with interferrence). Making sure enough people are trained in Morse is important because it can be used almost anywhere, not just the HF band.
If we get to the point where we NEED HF communications, the interfering devices wouldn't be working and wouldn't interfere. Of course, in that scenario, nuclear radiation might be interfering with HF communications but that's a separate issue.
I don't think you understand. CPU transistor count is getting to the point where turning additional transistors into another general purpose core doesn't make as much sense as making a specialized graphics circuit with them on the same chip.
I'm seeing a lot of negative comments on this story. I don't know if this game will fail or not (it probably will), but at least we'll have a new space sim until it does. I'd like the chance to actually fly my internet spaceship with a joystick and out maneuver missiles while engaging full afterburners. They've already added a "Descent" style arena for those that remember that game. My hope is this will end up being a very good multi-player version of X-Wing or Wing Commander.
Woooosh! TIPS
Of course, those didn't exist when the nuclear reactors were built.
I would argue that old school BASIC (not VB) applies to the 2nd better than the first (and better than C). It's not assembly language, but the flow control is similar enough to assembly that when I took my first assembly class, I was thinking to myself... hey, this isn't so bad, it's a lot like BASIC.
When you click on one of the alternatives it displays "The most recent version of *selected browser* can be downloaded here: *displays the web address*" The displayed url won't go anywhere because no browser is installed. Instead, when you click it, it displays the attention box: "You have clicked on a web link and you have no web browser installed. You can fix this problem by installing MS Internet Explorer. Would you like to do this now? (YES) (NO)"
You don't need 90 days in UT, Quake Arena, CS, etc... to be on equal footing with the other players, therefore they are all better than Asheron's Call for PvP. Also, AC is a good game, but PvP was just a part of it. For the other games I've mentioned, PvP *is* the game.
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Semantic quibbling? Solar generated electricity isn't given away for free, nor is it free to build/maintain the infrastructure needed to create it.
Internet service is not a natural monopoly. You can run duplicate cables from 2 different companies right next to each other. Competition is what will bring the greatest good at the cheapest cost, not regulation.
As far as higher prices, how else is the company going to get the funds to create more bandwidth and still increase profit? Maybe they already can from more subscribers... but then again maybe not. It's ultimately up to the customers. If enough people want more bandwidth, and are willing to pay for it, it will happen.
Any bandwidth you use is immediately available for reuse. There is no limit to how many times you can do this. To me, this means it's infinitely renewable. Yes, there's a limit to how much we can use at any given time, but you can say the same about any renewable resource. And it is free, it costs the same to use bandwith as it does to leave it idle.
A limit is a limit, a time constraint is just as much a limit as anything else. Also, routers not in use can be turned off to save electricity and money.
What's the point of charging users if you're not going to build more infrastructure? We should not design incentives for ISPs to sit on crappy decade old infrastructure making greater and greater profits for doing nothing, as demand increases.
If you can do better, start your own business and do so. But don't just start wishing for things and demanding others to take care of it for you. The companies are in it to make a profit. This is OK. If they can provide the greatest utility to the greatest number of people at the lowest cost, more power to them. Forcing other users to ultimately pay higher rates so you can have more bandwidth isn't necessarily the best overall option. But this is a free country, if you think you have a better idea, draw up a business plan and start your own company that will give away unlimited bandwidth for a fixed price.
You're seriously arguing that Asheron's Call has better PvP than Unreal Tournament? That's like saying you little league team could beat the Yankees.
It's not infinitely renewable and free. Fixed costs do remain the same, but the demand for the resources fluctuates throughout the day. It would be completely reasonable to allow cheap/unmetered downloads after midnight while severely capping large file transfers (or charging a high fee for them) from say 3pm to midnight so more people can get surf the web, play games and check their email when they get home from work without having to build more infrastructure, which definitely is not free. Even then it would make sense to prioritize VoIP packets over file transfer packets should a choice have to be made.
It's not fraud if it's fully disclosed in the service agreement (and speaking as a customer of Cox, it is). It totally makes sense to throttle bandwidth for some applications and make a few customers unhappy rather than spend millions upgrading the network for a negative ROI. If you don't like it, find an ISP who fits your needs. If one doesn't exist, start your own ISP ... be sure and state in your business plan how you're going to make money by selling bandwidth to power users cheaper than you can create it.
Something does amuse me about the fact an ultra-high tech. robot of the future would turn into a cassette of all things though.
Noob. All the transformers have their 20th century vehicle (or other) shapes because they were trying to blend in. I believe their respective ships sent out probes to analyze the environment and configure the bots appropriately. At any rate, their Cybertron forms were more ultra-high tech.
Casino dice are of much higher quality than the normal dice shown in the video. Imperfections in one pair of dice can cost thousands of dollars. See this video at about 7:40 into it.
[In] EVE or SWG [...] every_single_item in game is produced by players.
In both games there are NPC buyers and sellers, even if the services they provide are minor. I mean I get your point that the economy is overall player driven, but there's no need to exaggerate.