You have to be a very tallented and motivated person to excel in that industry. It's extremely challenging even at the coder level. All that code has to run as fast as possible and be *almost* entirely bug-free. Don't count on the school to turn you into a video game designer/programmer. A truly motivated and intelligent person will learn what it takes to distinguish himself by extrapolating from the basic principles taught at school (or self-taught). The others will keep on whining about the curriculum, which makes it easier for the goal-oriented ones to step on their heads as they await the spoon.
You're spectacularly ignorant. Bandwidth has to be capped, or else you get 1% of users consuming 99% of the bandwidth. Bandwidth doesn't just grow on trees... The bandwidth utopia you speak of can only be achieved once we have wireless networks down.
This seems like more of a novelty than it is useful. But this kind of software combined with a wireless device could be great. For example: If you've had a late night at work, you could use this to have a cup of coffee ready for you when you get home and then oven heated at 400 degrees for dinner. I don't know of any household appliances that are complicated enough to merit a full GUI for configuration, though. It would be great to use this for remote execution of everyday task.
You simply don't understand the idea behind it. He didn't leave the spot blank because it was too difficult to draw. He left it blank in order to capture the viewer's imagination.
I think Escher meant to leave that area blank since it seems like the rest of the drawing is being drawn towards it. It's the focal point of the picture since that's where the picture in the gallery actually connects to the gallery. If you look closely, you'll notice that the frame of the picture is on it's way to meet with the picture itself, which is infact the gallery (woah, I've fallen into the loop). I think this dot was left up to the imagination. There is no correct solution, but this method is a terrific idea.
Any research conducted in order to obtain a better understanding of gravity is a good thing IMO. This is an extremely large company with plenty of essets. If this project fails, it's nothing much off their backs. They may not find anything that gives them 0G, but some important discoveries may be made in the process.
The details of the bug weren't disclosed immediately because there was no patch available. Now that it can be patched, most system will be protected from the script-kiddie storm. But, as usual, there are plenty of lazy and/or ignorant sysadmins who won't patch this. It was hinted on bugtraq a while ago that a remote root exploit for SSH was discovered but would only be disclosed once patches were available.
Honor codes such as this one are ridiculous. In a professional environment, one must be able to co-operate. It's a good thing to get feedback on something from somebody else. A student shouldn't be expected to go running to the prof whenever he encounters some tough bug in his program. If you constantly ran to your boss or supervisor when you encountered a bug, you'd be canned in no time. Competent professionals rely on their own problem solving and research abilities, but they are also able to collaborate...
Trapping anti-particles is essential if we ever want to explore the outer reaches of our solar system. It's the perfect source of energy since annihilation releases all the energy from matter. There isn't a better clean energy source out there since the only product from annihilation is pure electromagnetic radiation. Once antimatter is produced in mass quantities, we will reach a new technological plateau.
This phenomenon has been around for a while now. If you observe certain distant galaxies, you notice an effect called gravitational lensing which is the dark matter's effect on the light traveling from that distant galaxy to earth. Astronomers have been observing this for a while now and it isn't a new discovery. What is new is the Sudbury neutrino observatory's (SNO) findings. They have discovered that neutrinos have a mass (they were previously thought of as weightless particles). It is beleived that a large source of the dark matter found in the universe consists of these neutrinos. This will allow astronomers to possibly account for the dark matter. If we do have enough dark matter in the universe, it means the growth of the universe will be reversed and it will collapse onto itself. The ammount of observable matter in the universe does not have a large enough gravitational pull to halt this expansion, but the dark matter in the universe may be able to account for the missing matter which will reverse the acceleration which has been going on since the big bang. This growth/collapse cycle may have been going on since infinity as well... It's kind of unsettling.
The pile of distro boxes in the back of my room are proof that I used to buy a distro about every six months or so. But once I got to school,I had a connection that was fast enough to get cd images. It all depends on your situation. Even if you don't have a means of downloading the O.S, you can get the distros dirt cheap from certain computer magazines. I think that most people end up buying their first distro full price, but once they become more experienced with Linux, they'll most likely find a cheaper way to get it.
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This is probably the funniest thing I've ever read on /.
*BOOM* Beer gushes out of the chimney
That was the most coherent post I've ever read.
You have to be a very tallented and motivated person to excel in that industry. It's extremely challenging even at the coder level. All that code has to run as fast as possible and be *almost* entirely bug-free. Don't count on the school to turn you into a video game designer/programmer. A truly motivated and intelligent person will learn what it takes to distinguish himself by extrapolating from the basic principles taught at school (or self-taught). The others will keep on whining about the curriculum, which makes it easier for the goal-oriented ones to step on their heads as they await the spoon.
You're spectacularly ignorant. Bandwidth has to be capped, or else you get 1% of users consuming 99% of the bandwidth. Bandwidth doesn't just grow on trees... The bandwidth utopia you speak of can only be achieved once we have wireless networks down.
This seems like more of a novelty than it is useful. But this kind of software combined with a wireless device could be great. For example: If you've had a late night at work, you could use this to have a cup of coffee ready for you when you get home and then oven heated at 400 degrees for dinner.
I don't know of any household appliances that are complicated enough to merit a full GUI for configuration, though. It would be great to use this for remote execution of everyday task.
You simply don't understand the idea behind it. He didn't leave the spot blank because it was too difficult to draw. He left it blank in order to capture the viewer's imagination.
I think Escher meant to leave that area blank since it seems like the rest of the drawing is being drawn towards it. It's the focal point of the picture since that's where the picture in the gallery actually connects to the gallery. If you look closely, you'll notice that the frame of the picture is on it's way to meet with the picture itself, which is infact the gallery (woah, I've fallen into the loop). I think this dot was left up to the imagination. There is no correct solution, but this method is a terrific idea.
Any research conducted in order to obtain a better understanding of gravity is a good thing IMO. This is an extremely large company with plenty of essets. If this project fails, it's nothing much off their backs. They may not find anything that gives them 0G, but some important discoveries may be made in the process.
The details of the bug weren't disclosed immediately because there was no patch available. Now that it can be patched, most system will be protected from the script-kiddie storm. But, as usual, there are plenty of lazy and/or ignorant sysadmins who won't patch this.
It was hinted on bugtraq a while ago that a remote root exploit for SSH was discovered but would only be disclosed once patches were available.
Honor codes such as this one are ridiculous. In a professional environment, one must be able to co-operate. It's a good thing to get feedback on something from somebody else. A student shouldn't be expected to go running to the prof whenever he encounters some tough bug in his program. If you constantly ran to your boss or supervisor when you encountered a bug, you'd be canned in no time. Competent professionals rely on their own problem solving and research abilities, but they are also able to collaborate...
Trapping anti-particles is essential if we ever want to explore the outer reaches of our solar system. It's the perfect source of energy since annihilation releases all the energy from matter. There isn't a better clean energy source out there since the only product from annihilation is pure electromagnetic radiation. Once antimatter is produced in mass quantities, we will reach a new technological plateau.
This phenomenon has been around for a while now. If you observe certain distant galaxies, you notice an effect called gravitational lensing which is the dark matter's effect on the light traveling from that distant galaxy to earth. Astronomers have been observing this for a while now and it isn't a new discovery. What is new is the Sudbury neutrino observatory's (SNO) findings. They have discovered that neutrinos have a mass (they were previously thought of as weightless particles). It is beleived that a large source of the dark matter found in the universe consists of these neutrinos. This will allow astronomers to possibly account for the dark matter. If we do have enough dark matter in the universe, it means the growth of the universe will be reversed and it will collapse onto itself. The ammount of observable matter in the universe does not have a large enough gravitational pull to halt this expansion, but the dark matter in the universe may be able to account for the missing matter which will reverse the acceleration which has been going on since the big bang. This growth/collapse cycle may have been going on since infinity as well... It's kind of unsettling.
The pile of distro boxes in the back of my room are proof that I used to buy a distro about every six months or so. But once I got to school,I had a connection that was fast enough to get cd images. It all depends on your situation. Even if you don't have a means of downloading the O.S, you can get the distros dirt cheap from certain computer magazines. I think that most people end up buying their first distro full price, but once they become more experienced with Linux, they'll most likely find a cheaper way to get it.