why did you capitali(s|z)e the words 'Akimbo' and 'Penultimate'? They are not proper nouns, and you're not using them as the beginning of a sentence...this is in shameful need of editing, too...
these days, video games can attract far wider audiences than they could before. back in the day, little old ladies would sit at home doing crosswords for fun (hyperbole, but you get me), now they're on yahoo playing Literati.
for myself, i have felt complete apathy towards picking up a video game until last month, when i decided to purachase a GBA SP to re-play the old gameboy games of my youth. i think the hardcore (WoW or UT, etc) games as well as the Literati-ladies would look on my video gaming as equally foreign, but we're all playing video games.
regarding sudoku, yours is an uninformed opinion. while you're technically correct in that a "brute-force" approach will ultimately solve a sudoku puzzle, it's an unrealistic approach to solving the puzzles as it is immensely tedious and time-consuming. the practicable approaches to solving sudoku puzzles (described in depth at the wiki) can be incredibly intellectually demanding, especially on the more difficult puzzles which require locating and managing contingencies in order to effectively solve the puzzle.
humans are scarely more capable of applying the brute force method of solving a remotely-challenging sudoku than they are of playing chess in the same manner (like a calculating chess computer).
good lord, you're a moron...the specific ommission of the apostrophe in the possessive form of the pronoun 'it' (i.e., its) is to exclude confusion with the contraction of 'it is' (i.e., it's).
I lost interest after the PS1
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I had an NES, a Genesis, and then bought a PS1 when they first came out in 1995. These systems were excellent in their own right, and you could chart a real progression in the gaming experience with each new generation (Sonic at 16-bit really *was* better than 8-bit Mario, and the Madden/FIFA games on PS1 finally developed the sort of realism that you really need for a sports game and that the Genesis/SNES couldn't provide).
But something happened after PS1...the game companies stopped innovating, and the games stopped getting better, they just got more detailed, and more complicated. And I lost interest (and from this thread, I can tell I'm not the only one)...part of the allure of gaming for me was as an escape, but who wants to escape to a world more impossible to control than the one you're escaping from?
I finally broke down a bought a GBA SP two weeks ago, but only so I could go back and play all those great gameboy games from the early 90s that were just *fun*, not maddening, to play.
Re:OH, joy. Another anti-IT witch-hunting book. Ya
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"I'll be outside, since you're already on the cross..."
without waxing too poetic, life isn't about accumulating more moments, it's about investing the ones we have with as much quality as possible. life is short, but beautiful on account...if we had lifespans that measured on the geologic scale (or any scale much beyond the one we have present), the individual choices we make become less and less meaningful. quality over quantity, as always...
not good. it immediately stopped responding, and wouldn't work for a week thereafter. then, magically, it started working again, though it is *very* sensitive these days (if it is moved while running, it freezes or shuts off). the sad thing is that it wasn't even my laptop, but my brother's. he now blames his computer's quirks, which i know to be the fault of XP, instead on my "getting it drunk." heh.
last year, my ericsson t60d mobile phone ceased to function properly. while the phone's menu system worked fine and it appeared to call and connect, i could hear nothing nor would the phone transmit my voice. i noticed the sound of something loose coming from the interior of the phone, and upon unscrewing it, i found that the connector for a handsfree unit had broken off from the phone's tiny mainboard (apparently making the phone function as though i had a handsfree unit attached, explaining why everything worked yet i could hear nothing). a little electical solder and some burnt fingers later, the phone was good as new!
people who inhabit r&d are people who, generally speaking, have been in the trenches, have at one point done the tedious job of actually coding the software and later moved to architecting it.
but as offshoring moves the tedious jobs overseas, there's less of a domestic training ground for people to work into the higher-level r&d positions from. and with fewer of these jobs available, there's a commensurate decline in people opting to study CS & CE disciplines at university, creating a vicious cycle that spells a grim fate for the future of western software r&d.
not that this is a bad thing per se, just a new thing. 'bad' depends upon your perspective(s).
from the perspective of a degree as an object, something to be obtained, it is hard to fathom that it can be "revoked." however, if instead a degree is conceived as not merely a thing to be held, a possession, but rather a state of being (e.g. I am a doctor, as opposed to I have a doctorate), then a revokation here seems entirely justified, for in his falsification he undermined his claim to the status.
The irony is that even companies ostensibly engaged in assisting end-users in the fight against spam are perpetuating the problem. Just yesterday, I was spammmed by McAfee with an advertisment for thier new "SpamKiller" product.
At my company, the managers over the programming and sys admin teams successfully lobbied to have the company not only excuse the IT labor from work on Thursday afternoon but even got the company to pick up the tab for movie and refreshments under the label of "team building".
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according the article, he was arrested @ kennedy, not in dallas.
yeah, a "sales call" isn't (necessarily) a telephone call, an in-person sales meeting is also referred to by this moniker
Of course, good luck telling the latter locale's locals, "Silly Botswananites, this bread's not for eating!!"
except on the football pitch, eh?
*tsk* hoist upon your own petard...
these days, video games can attract far wider audiences than they could before. back in the day, little old ladies would sit at home doing crosswords for fun (hyperbole, but you get me), now they're on yahoo playing Literati.
for myself, i have felt complete apathy towards picking up a video game until last month, when i decided to purachase a GBA SP to re-play the old gameboy games of my youth. i think the hardcore (WoW or UT, etc) games as well as the Literati-ladies would look on my video gaming as equally foreign, but we're all playing video games.
humans are scarely more capable of applying the brute force method of solving a remotely-challenging sudoku than they are of playing chess in the same manner (like a calculating chess computer).
good lord, you're a moron...the specific ommission of the apostrophe in the possessive form of the pronoun 'it' (i.e., its) is to exclude confusion with the contraction of 'it is' (i.e., it's).
I had an NES, a Genesis, and then bought a PS1 when they first came out in 1995. These systems were excellent in their own right, and you could chart a real progression in the gaming experience with each new generation (Sonic at 16-bit really *was* better than 8-bit Mario, and the Madden/FIFA games on PS1 finally developed the sort of realism that you really need for a sports game and that the Genesis/SNES couldn't provide).
But something happened after PS1...the game companies stopped innovating, and the games stopped getting better, they just got more detailed, and more complicated. And I lost interest (and from this thread, I can tell I'm not the only one)...part of the allure of gaming for me was as an escape, but who wants to escape to a world more impossible to control than the one you're escaping from?
I finally broke down a bought a GBA SP two weeks ago, but only so I could go back and play all those great gameboy games from the early 90s that were just *fun*, not maddening, to play.
"I'll be outside, since you're already on the cross..."
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=learnt
you might also check out the definition for "comeuppance" while you're there
without waxing too poetic, life isn't about accumulating more moments, it's about investing the ones we have with as much quality as possible. life is short, but beautiful on account...if we had lifespans that measured on the geologic scale (or any scale much beyond the one we have present), the individual choices we make become less and less meaningful. quality over quantity, as always...
also, the pipe character
How prophetic Orwell was...
not good. it immediately stopped responding, and wouldn't work for a week thereafter. then, magically, it started working again, though it is *very* sensitive these days (if it is moved while running, it freezes or shuts off). the sad thing is that it wasn't even my laptop, but my brother's. he now blames his computer's quirks, which i know to be the fault of XP, instead on my "getting it drunk." heh.
last year, my ericsson t60d mobile phone ceased to function properly. while the phone's menu system worked fine and it appeared to call and connect, i could hear nothing nor would the phone transmit my voice. i noticed the sound of something loose coming from the interior of the phone, and upon unscrewing it, i found that the connector for a handsfree unit had broken off from the phone's tiny mainboard (apparently making the phone function as though i had a handsfree unit attached, explaining why everything worked yet i could hear nothing). a little electical solder and some burnt fingers later, the phone was good as new!
people who inhabit r&d are people who, generally speaking, have been in the trenches, have at one point done the tedious job of actually coding the software and later moved to architecting it.
but as offshoring moves the tedious jobs overseas, there's less of a domestic training ground for people to work into the higher-level r&d positions from. and with fewer of these jobs available, there's a commensurate decline in people opting to study CS & CE disciplines at university, creating a vicious cycle that spells a grim fate for the future of western software r&d.
not that this is a bad thing per se, just a new thing. 'bad' depends upon your perspective(s).
Haven't we learned from Kurt Godel that math is no more concrete than the "interpretive" subjects of History and English?
from the perspective of a degree as an object, something to be obtained, it is hard to fathom that it can be "revoked." however, if instead a degree is conceived as not merely a thing to be held, a possession, but rather a state of being (e.g. I am a doctor, as opposed to I have a doctorate), then a revokation here seems entirely justified, for in his falsification he undermined his claim to the status.
These guys are worse than insurance salesmen...
What??? Apache's not going to be ported to run on Nintendo?
You're in luck, kid. The guy upstairs seized Gene Roddenberry's heart 'bout 11 years back.
Too bad AotC sucked...
also...
what does it say of europeans if they allow themselves to be "oppressed" by ignorants???
$10 says the "fire-retardants" consist of cocount milk and peanut sauce...