Yes, push email on the iPhone is "truly push". Your phone is notified of new messages without having to poll.
As for push notifications in the SDK, those won't be available until September or so, but they will be available. Jobs even said this in the WWDC keynote.
Cute, but in my book, real-life sex does not involve a camera strategically positioned 4 inches from the naughty bits involved. Like I said, I'm trying to watch porn, not a gynecological exam.
I don't know about you, but unless I'm watching exclusively girl-on-girl porn (and even then), there are some things I absolutely do NOT need to see in all their HD glory.
Actually, all beers are about 75% water. That's part of what makes beer beer. As for the alcohol content, there are plenty of dark ales with around a 5% ABV content, and most drinkers would consider them "real beers."
Sir, I hope you're joking. I went to CMU, and I can assure you that a good deal of partying went down on and around campus.
Yes, there were a lot of people who just sat around studying, but don't let these types convince you that everybody from CMU is a total dork. (Yes, I'm posting on Slashdot, but anyway..)
Undergraduate level programming assignments do not require even consultation with other students, IMHO. They are too simple. If you can't code an undergraduate programming project without extensive "consulting", then you can't program. Period.
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Well, aren't you just hot shit. While I concur that _introductory level_ undergraduate CS courses are not that challenging, you go a bit too far in lumping all undergrad courses in this category.
This past semester, I took a 400-level - undergrad- course in basic compiler design. As a project course, we spent the semester writing - you guessed it - a working compiler. Given the scope of the assignments we had to work on, I don't think you could consider them "too simple" to ask for help.
Unless, of course, you are just one bad-ass programmer, as you seem to be. And if you are, more power to you. If not, kindly do us all a favor and piss off.
I totally agree...to a point. You don't have to get completely plastered to "unwind." I can come home after a hard day, grab a beer, and put on a [football/baseball/hockey] game, and I feel better.
If you need to get drunk to unwind, that's not a good sign.
It's not just corporations that overuse the SSN as a form of ID - universities are guilty of this practice. I go to Carnegie Mellon, where the primary form of student ID is - you guessed it - the student's SSN. International students get (psuedo)random numbers, but we American citizens are not so lucky.
In fact, in an economics course I took freshman year, the staff kept track of students' grades in a big database, using the students' ID numbers as the keys (minus the last 2 or 3 digits, if I recall correctly). Occasionally, individual grade updates would be sent to each student enrolled in the course, along with all their other info from the database (ID, total points, etc.).
You can almost imagine what happened next: there was a mistake, and the course staff accidentally (!) sent out an email to all students in the course containing grades and ID information for all the students. Oops.
This debacle finally got the administration to at least consider the implications of using the SSN as a form of ID. Of course, being a bureaucracy, nothing concrete has been done yet...oh well. This seems to demonstrate the abject stupidity of using this kind of ID - I mean, thank God the items in the database were only released to a small group of college students - the consequences could have been much worse than they were.
I won't begin to argue with you about FF9 (I loved the game, I just don't want to argue about it), but I can't entirely agree with your opinion of Chrono Cross as an altogether better game.
While the battle system was certainly innovative and complex, I hesitate to say it was "more fun", simply because of the sometimes ridiculous micromanagement you had to do to advance (before completing the game, anyway).
And please, no comments about how I'm not intelligent enough to figure out such a simple system. I thoroughly destroyed the game (and wasted a lot of time in the process), but I thought the idea was not to have to play endlessly with spell allocation for the sake of mastering the (overly complex) battle system, but to just have fun. I mean, isn't that the point of video games? I get enough complication and mindless detail in the work I do, and I don't play video games to have to expend more time and mental energy.
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"Actual questions" like "is Obama a Marxist?" and "Aren't you embarrassed by ACORN"?
Why not just ask Biden "have you stopped beating your wife?". That would be just as legitimate an interview tack.
Who modded the parent interesting?
Yes, push email on the iPhone is "truly push". Your phone is notified of new messages without having to poll.
As for push notifications in the SDK, those won't be available until September or so, but they will be available. Jobs even said this in the WWDC keynote.
Alcohol isn't brewing "waste" -- it's the entire point!
Cute, but in my book, real-life sex does not involve a camera strategically positioned 4 inches from the naughty bits involved. Like I said, I'm trying to watch porn, not a gynecological exam.
I don't know about you, but unless I'm watching exclusively girl-on-girl porn (and even then), there are some things I absolutely do NOT need to see in all their HD glory.
You'll get massive amounts of advertising and "opinion" pieces but little in the way of actual content on IGN.
I thought you were talking about things that would change.
Actually, all beers are about 75% water. That's part of what makes beer beer. As for the alcohol content, there are plenty of dark ales with around a 5% ABV content, and most drinkers would consider them "real beers."
Ha ha! When I'm in command, every mission will be a suicide mission!
Sir, I hope you're joking. I went to CMU, and I can assure you that a good deal of partying went down on and around campus.
Yes, there were a lot of people who just sat around studying, but don't let these types convince you that everybody from CMU is a total dork. (Yes, I'm posting on Slashdot, but anyway..)
Undergraduate level programming assignments do not require even consultation with other students, IMHO. They are too simple. If you can't code an undergraduate programming project without extensive "consulting", then you can't program. Period.
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Well, aren't you just hot shit. While I concur that _introductory level_ undergraduate CS courses are not that challenging, you go a bit too far in lumping all undergrad courses in this category.
This past semester, I took a 400-level - undergrad- course in basic compiler design. As a project course, we spent the semester writing - you guessed it - a working compiler. Given the scope of the assignments we had to work on, I don't think you could consider them "too simple" to ask for help.
Unless, of course, you are just one bad-ass programmer, as you seem to be. And if you are, more power to you. If not, kindly do us all a favor and piss off.
If you need to get drunk to unwind, that's not a good sign.
In fact, in an economics course I took freshman year, the staff kept track of students' grades in a big database, using the students' ID numbers as the keys (minus the last 2 or 3 digits, if I recall correctly). Occasionally, individual grade updates would be sent to each student enrolled in the course, along with all their other info from the database (ID, total points, etc.).
You can almost imagine what happened next: there was a mistake, and the course staff accidentally (!) sent out an email to all students in the course containing grades and ID information for all the students. Oops.
This debacle finally got the administration to at least consider the implications of using the SSN as a form of ID. Of course, being a bureaucracy, nothing concrete has been done yet...oh well. This seems to demonstrate the abject stupidity of using this kind of ID - I mean, thank God the items in the database were only released to a small group of college students - the consequences could have been much worse than they were.
I won't begin to argue with you about FF9 (I loved the game, I just don't want to argue about it), but I can't entirely agree with your opinion of Chrono Cross as an altogether better game. While the battle system was certainly innovative and complex, I hesitate to say it was "more fun", simply because of the sometimes ridiculous micromanagement you had to do to advance (before completing the game, anyway). And please, no comments about how I'm not intelligent enough to figure out such a simple system. I thoroughly destroyed the game (and wasted a lot of time in the process), but I thought the idea was not to have to play endlessly with spell allocation for the sake of mastering the (overly complex) battle system, but to just have fun. I mean, isn't that the point of video games? I get enough complication and mindless detail in the work I do, and I don't play video games to have to expend more time and mental energy.