I'd like to see this test repeated with a Ghz (1.2? 1/5?) cordless phone in the room.
I'm hesitant to buy one in case it interferes with my future bluetooth devices:)
(same goes for 802.11 I guess)
The main reason I buy 3D games is to get my fix of better-than-the-last-game graphics!
Sure game-play is important - but I buy different games for different reasons - some just for the graphics and some for game play.
I really hope 3D game designers don't make a vow-of-chastity!
I've just reciently finished a touchscreen app for
a screen mounted in a vehicle.
I ended up writing my own swing L&F. Actually, just just subclassed Metal.
That seemed to work very well. I limited my use to buttons, dropdown selectons of just 2-3 items, and a type of tabbed pane.
I basically make everything high contrast - black on white and judicial use of color with specific meanings.
It always amazes me that so many US citizens are so bind and believe all the crap your media is feeding you.
I moved here from Australia and was really surprised to find my freedoms practically non-existent. You have all the usual Western freedoms on paper, but for all practical purposes you might as well live in China - there is little difference.
The main difference is that here your freedoms are limited not only by government but mostly by commercial organizations.
Capatalism is at fault - it completely stifles competition, leaving all the power concentrated in a relatively few multi-national companies.
It is a sort of 'tragedy of the commons' in disguise.
The quality of life is poorer here than any Western country I have visited (only 5-6). The quality of goods and services is terrible. Businesses only care to milk as much money from consumers as possible - they are no longer moral entities that care about the society in which they operate.
Consumers have no choice and no power. Citizens are force to be consumers at every turn - even education costs money!
(alas that is increasingly true in Australia of late too).
Can't even watch TV or listen to the radio without advertisments brainwashing me to part with my money (unless I pay a cable/sat company to get ad free programming)!!
I'll never forget the first time I experienced an unsolicited caller at my home trying to sell me magazine subscriptions. When he mentioned that this is the land of the free I immediately laughed. Only to stop myself as I realised in amazment that he was deadly serious!
He didn't seem to grasp that his government was responsible for putting him in a position of having to go door-to-door, essentially, begging for money! Including assulting my freedom to be undisturbed in my own home.
There are no easy solutions of course. But perhaps Capatalism has been taken to an extreme because it is an ideal identified with freedom in this country. Perhaps just putting the brakes on it a little will help a lot.
(i.e. make businesses more responsible for the societal consequences of their actions, and maybe limit the size of companies. Why do companies need to just get larger and larger - richer and richer? - ask what for.)
-- end rant --
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I can't comment on the US education system (without getting flamed anyway), but when I took
CS, the S was for Science. The material was aimed
to be the first part of my training as a *scientist*. I was not taught programming (although was expected to pick it up as a tool).
I would suggest that if you want to know something about computing, rather than computer science, then do CIS.
Imagine the looks you'd get as you descend from the sky to the local cafe for a quick cappuccino, strapped into your personal VTOL (Vertical TakeOff and Landing), fuel efficient, high-reliability personal flyer.
Who needs a car!
All I want for Xmas is a SoloTrek XFV.
(Said to cost around the price of a high-end sports car)
How about someone write a player that cracks the DVD encryption upon installation/startup. That way it wouldn't contain DeCSS, or even any IP from the DVD Cons.
Also, in the unlikely event they change the keys, it will still work. If they change the encryption, we can update the cracking algorithms.
Is this really feasible?
I wouldn't mind if my DVD player installation had to run a background task to crack the encryption for a couple days before it became functional.
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I'd like to see this test repeated with a Ghz (1.2? 1/5?) cordless phone in the room. :)
I'm hesitant to buy one in case it interferes with my future bluetooth devices
(same goes for 802.11 I guess)
The main reason I buy 3D games is to get my fix of better-than-the-last-game graphics!
Sure game-play is important - but I buy different games for different reasons - some just for the graphics and some for game play.
I really hope 3D game designers don't make a vow-of-chastity!
I've just reciently finished a touchscreen app for
a screen mounted in a vehicle.
I ended up writing my own swing L&F. Actually, just just subclassed Metal.
That seemed to work very well. I limited my use to buttons, dropdown selectons of just 2-3 items, and a type of tabbed pane.
I basically make everything high contrast - black on white and judicial use of color with specific meanings.
How can something with no release date possibly be late anyway??
It always amazes me that so many US citizens are so bind and believe all the crap your media is feeding you.
I moved here from Australia and was really surprised to find my freedoms practically non-existent. You have all the usual Western freedoms on paper, but for all practical purposes you might as well live in China - there is little difference.
The main difference is that here your freedoms are limited not only by government but mostly by commercial organizations.
Capatalism is at fault - it completely stifles competition, leaving all the power concentrated in a relatively few multi-national companies.
It is a sort of 'tragedy of the commons' in disguise.
The quality of life is poorer here than any Western country I have visited (only 5-6). The quality of goods and services is terrible. Businesses only care to milk as much money from consumers as possible - they are no longer moral entities that care about the society in which they operate.
Consumers have no choice and no power. Citizens are force to be consumers at every turn - even education costs money!
(alas that is increasingly true in Australia of late too).
Can't even watch TV or listen to the radio without advertisments brainwashing me to part with my money (unless I pay a cable/sat company to get ad free programming)!!
I'll never forget the first time I experienced an unsolicited caller at my home trying to sell me magazine subscriptions. When he mentioned that this is the land of the free I immediately laughed. Only to stop myself as I realised in amazment that he was deadly serious!
He didn't seem to grasp that his government was responsible for putting him in a position of having to go door-to-door, essentially, begging for money! Including assulting my freedom to be undisturbed in my own home.
There are no easy solutions of course. But perhaps Capatalism has been taken to an extreme because it is an ideal identified with freedom in this country. Perhaps just putting the brakes on it a little will help a lot.
(i.e. make businesses more responsible for the societal consequences of their actions, and maybe limit the size of companies. Why do companies need to just get larger and larger - richer and richer? - ask what for.)
-- end rant --
I can't comment on the US education system (without getting flamed anyway), but when I took CS, the S was for Science. The material was aimed to be the first part of my training as a *scientist*. I was not taught programming (although was expected to pick it up as a tool). I would suggest that if you want to know something about computing, rather than computer science, then do CIS.
Imagine the looks you'd get as you descend from the sky to the local cafe for a quick cappuccino, strapped into your personal VTOL (Vertical TakeOff and Landing), fuel efficient, high-reliability personal flyer.
Who needs a car!
All I want for Xmas is a SoloTrek XFV.
(Said to cost around the price of a high-end sports car)
Check it out on Millenium Jet Inc.'s site www.solotrek.com.
How about someone write a player that cracks the DVD encryption upon installation/startup. That way it wouldn't contain DeCSS, or even any IP from the DVD Cons. Also, in the unlikely event they change the keys, it will still work. If they change the encryption, we can update the cracking algorithms. Is this really feasible? I wouldn't mind if my DVD player installation had to run a background task to crack the encryption for a couple days before it became functional.