One concern I didn't see with a quick scan through the comments: How do you make universal and intuitive gestures across cultures that read left-to-right vs. right-to-left. Off the top of my head, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew are some right-to-left languages/cultures. A significant chunk of the planet's population. Should a left-to-right swipe go back or forward? Depends on where you grew up.
The 3-part Commander Keen series was also one of the first shareware products released under the model "get a little for free, pay for the rest". In the days of BBSes and UseNet, there was little middle ground between free-as-in-beer-ware and commercial software. The Keen products changed that, and many other episodic games were released with the same model soon after. I think this marketing strategy was more pioneering and far-reaching in its effects than the side-scrolling-platforming-ice-sliding-alien-shooting part of the product.
Now we have DLC - Downloadable Content - which operates under the "pay for some now, pay for more later" model, but that's neither here nor there.
Plus, the last time I was there, they had a decommissioned SR-71 Blackbird (wikimedia image) hanging from the ceiling just inside the front door, with the tip of the nose just out of reach as you walk in. A really beautiful airplane, and awesome to see that close up. They used to have some first-rate space craft restoration exhibits there, as their museum crew were the ones responsible for getting the re-entry capsules ready for showing by the Smithsonian and others. They've specialized in the "space" part of "air and space museum" for many years.
Since Wichita is not likely to be on the road travel map (not if I had anything so say about it, anyway), it's probably worth mentioning that Hutchinson, Kansas is about 4 hours from Kansas City's airport.
Be sure that, whoever does your testing, your company's "policies and procedures" are both satisfactory and being reliably followed by all employees. Social engineering is quicker, cheaper, easier, and more difficult to detect and track, generally speaking, than hacking in through some obscure loophole in the application.
Your people need to know what not to do, what not to say, and whom not to talk to, or your iron-clad web app may as well be tin foil. A top-notch security analysis company should be able to help make sure those bases are covered, too.
I don't know that I'd recommend this in another setting, but I was a software developer for an in-house database app that would never be used by anyone outside our company. I wrote a search engine that was used *very* heavily by most of the staff. It had a simple easter egg built in: when it noticed that the current date was within 30 days of my birthday, it would randomly (once every 100 or so instances) display a "XX shopping days left until [cafn8ed's] birthday".
No harm done, one extra mouse click to dismiss the popup, and everyone at my workplace knew my birthday by heart, even several years after I left.
what the hell is IDA
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The IDA Pro Book
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It sure would be nice if "IDA" were defined somewhere in the lead blurb. It would have been almost as nice if it were defined anywhere in the full review text. Wikipedia says IDA can stand for many things. It's likely that the book is about the Interactive Disassembler, but I may be wrong.
Most of the posts suggest comedy is rare in computer/video games because 1) it's hard and 2) it doesn't sell as well.
I suggest that the impossibility of translating comedy into different languages might be the largest obstacle of all. In this era of computer gaming, a game needs to sell in more than one country in order to be successful, and it takes more than basic proficiency in a language to really appreciate comedy.
Er, I Read The Fabulous Article and the only thing it had in common with any of your post was your introductory quote. None of the rest was there.
Bitch out people for coming to class without doing the readings if you like, but don't complain when people who've read all the linked material form an opinion that clashes with your independent knowledge.
If you want a real physics model, go outside, pick up a rock, and throw it. For bonus points, you can throw it at your own window. You'll get a physics model, a destructible environment, and full stereo sound, all at once. Soon to be followed by an all-to-realistic economics model based on a goods and services, skilled labor market.
Meanwhile, um, Oblivion is a magical fantasy-based role playing game. I can't speak for anyone else, but I play games like that because they're NOT perfect models of reality. When I want reality, I turn off the computer and take a walk with my dog.
There are lots of things in your house that are cleaner than your toilet seat. Provided, of course, that you clean the toilet fairly regularly. This is because of the high-powered cleaning agents that are typically used in bathroom cleaning. In other situations, like kitchen counters for example, people use much milder cleaners because they're concerned about the toxicity and proximity to food and such.
In other words, your kitchen counter is probably dirtier than your toilet seat. YOU are probably dirtier than your toilet seat.
If you're going to be working in the US, a hard-earned lesson for you is to set aside half of your gross income for taxes (including social security, etc.). I spent a year doing consulting work on the side, so my consulting income was only a part of my total income, and made the mistake of not saving enough. I had heard "save half" and didn't believe it, that seemed unrealistically high, so I put aside a third of every paycheck for tax season. Then the day of reckoning - I found out the warnings were correct, and I was quite a bit short on cash. I ended up paying out something in the high forties, percentage-wise, so if I'd saved half my gross I'd have had a little bit left over.
I'd also recommend paying for a decent accountant, and to do so before you begin. Any competent accountant will be willing to run some hypothetical numbers for you and help you estimate what to withhold from your earnings.
As someone who's studied both dead languages (Latin and Old English) and one live one (French), I can safely say that learning a live language is NOTHING like learning a dead one.
To learn a live language, no amount of flash cards will teach you, you need live people and live conversation. Otherwise all you can do is read and write.
I'm not so certain that's something to brag about in this case. DNA may be stable, but DNA replication is not always reliable and accurate. Genetic mutations are common - they are the result of random errors in the replication process. Some organisms have turned really rotten replication accuracy into an advantage (e.g. HIV, which mutates so fast that it has demonstrated an amazing ability to survive everything science has thrown at it). Other organisms do a better job, but never perfectly, as far as I know.
I'm utterly certain the scientists involved know more about DNA than I ever will, so surely they've considered this. I merely wanted to point out that, there are many really cool things that DNA can do, 100% copy accuracy is not one of them.
I don't know much about the underlying technology, but if the ethernet-delivered power is DC, then it could save some space, weight, and efficiency on the part of the electronics to not have to convert the AC current to DC before using it. In other words, no transformer brick needed for the device.
Among all the various national/regional news items of the day, just as with today's papers, old newspapers had lots of local info having to do with marriages, births, deaths, property changing hands, etc. etc. Much of that info could be helpful to people in many areas of historical research.
P.S. Google allows searches on 8 billion pages of already-digitized content. It's a much, MUCH larger chore to take a 150-year old newspaper and make its text searchable online.
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Hey, we get to live out Asimov's Foundation trilogy in real life! Woo! Er... wait a minute, that didn't exactly end well for modern society, did it.
One concern I didn't see with a quick scan through the comments: How do you make universal and intuitive gestures across cultures that read left-to-right vs. right-to-left. Off the top of my head, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew are some right-to-left languages/cultures. A significant chunk of the planet's population. Should a left-to-right swipe go back or forward? Depends on where you grew up.
It's available for Windows, OS X, the PS3, and the Xbox 360.
This alone is one of the more impressive elements of the release.
The 3-part Commander Keen series was also one of the first shareware products released under the model "get a little for free, pay for the rest". In the days of BBSes and UseNet, there was little middle ground between free-as-in-beer-ware and commercial software. The Keen products changed that, and many other episodic games were released with the same model soon after. I think this marketing strategy was more pioneering and far-reaching in its effects than the side-scrolling-platforming-ice-sliding-alien-shooting part of the product.
Now we have DLC - Downloadable Content - which operates under the "pay for some now, pay for more later" model, but that's neither here nor there.
As a disclaimer for twitter, I recommend appending "U may die." to the end of every ad. At least it's more adult-sounding than "Ur so ded."
My biggest problem with the slashes is the number of people (especially in the mainstream press) who call them backslashes. Drives me up a wall.
Plus, the last time I was there, they had a decommissioned SR-71 Blackbird (wikimedia image) hanging from the ceiling just inside the front door, with the tip of the nose just out of reach as you walk in. A really beautiful airplane, and awesome to see that close up. They used to have some first-rate space craft restoration exhibits there, as their museum crew were the ones responsible for getting the re-entry capsules ready for showing by the Smithsonian and others. They've specialized in the "space" part of "air and space museum" for many years.
Since Wichita is not likely to be on the road travel map (not if I had anything so say about it, anyway), it's probably worth mentioning that Hutchinson, Kansas is about 4 hours from Kansas City's airport.
Be sure that, whoever does your testing, your company's "policies and procedures" are both satisfactory and being reliably followed by all employees. Social engineering is quicker, cheaper, easier, and more difficult to detect and track, generally speaking, than hacking in through some obscure loophole in the application.
Your people need to know what not to do, what not to say, and whom not to talk to, or your iron-clad web app may as well be tin foil. A top-notch security analysis company should be able to help make sure those bases are covered, too.
I don't know that I'd recommend this in another setting, but I was a software developer for an in-house database app that would never be used by anyone outside our company. I wrote a search engine that was used *very* heavily by most of the staff. It had a simple easter egg built in: when it noticed that the current date was within 30 days of my birthday, it would randomly (once every 100 or so instances) display a "XX shopping days left until [cafn8ed's] birthday".
No harm done, one extra mouse click to dismiss the popup, and everyone at my workplace knew my birthday by heart, even several years after I left.
It sure would be nice if "IDA" were defined somewhere in the lead blurb. It would have been almost as nice if it were defined anywhere in the full review text. Wikipedia says IDA can stand for many things. It's likely that the book is about the Interactive Disassembler, but I may be wrong.
Anyone else see the irony in this story's blurb here on /.?
"Yahoo is reporting the release of 'Google Gadgets'..."
Most of the posts suggest comedy is rare in computer/video games because 1) it's hard and 2) it doesn't sell as well.
I suggest that the impossibility of translating comedy into different languages might be the largest obstacle of all. In this era of computer gaming, a game needs to sell in more than one country in order to be successful, and it takes more than basic proficiency in a language to really appreciate comedy.
Er, I Read The Fabulous Article and the only thing it had in common with any of your post was your introductory quote. None of the rest was there.
Bitch out people for coming to class without doing the readings if you like, but don't complain when people who've read all the linked material form an opinion that clashes with your independent knowledge.
If you want a real physics model, go outside, pick up a rock, and throw it. For bonus points, you can throw it at your own window. You'll get a physics model, a destructible environment, and full stereo sound, all at once. Soon to be followed by an all-to-realistic economics model based on a goods and services, skilled labor market.
Meanwhile, um, Oblivion is a magical fantasy-based role playing game. I can't speak for anyone else, but I play games like that because they're NOT perfect models of reality. When I want reality, I turn off the computer and take a walk with my dog.
There are lots of things in your house that are cleaner than your toilet seat. Provided, of course, that you clean the toilet fairly regularly. This is because of the high-powered cleaning agents that are typically used in bathroom cleaning. In other situations, like kitchen counters for example, people use much milder cleaners because they're concerned about the toxicity and proximity to food and such.
In other words, your kitchen counter is probably dirtier than your toilet seat. YOU are probably dirtier than your toilet seat.
Clash of the Titans anyone?
(see username)
It's too sappy.
For that matter, I generate CO2 as a by-product of living.
A later post says "Think of the children!" Yes, let's. Think of all the CO2 the little buggers will generate in their lifetimes.
Everybody panic!
If you're going to be working in the US, a hard-earned lesson for you is to set aside half of your gross income for taxes (including social security, etc.). I spent a year doing consulting work on the side, so my consulting income was only a part of my total income, and made the mistake of not saving enough. I had heard "save half" and didn't believe it, that seemed unrealistically high, so I put aside a third of every paycheck for tax season. Then the day of reckoning - I found out the warnings were correct, and I was quite a bit short on cash. I ended up paying out something in the high forties, percentage-wise, so if I'd saved half my gross I'd have had a little bit left over.
I'd also recommend paying for a decent accountant, and to do so before you begin. Any competent accountant will be willing to run some hypothetical numbers for you and help you estimate what to withhold from your earnings.
As someone who's studied both dead languages (Latin and Old English) and one live one (French), I can safely say that learning a live language is NOTHING like learning a dead one.
To learn a live language, no amount of flash cards will teach you, you need live people and live conversation. Otherwise all you can do is read and write.
Disclaimer: IANA[Molecular Biochemist/Geneticist]
I'm not so certain that's something to brag about in this case. DNA may be stable, but DNA replication is not always reliable and accurate. Genetic mutations are common - they are the result of random errors in the replication process. Some organisms have turned really rotten replication accuracy into an advantage (e.g. HIV, which mutates so fast that it has demonstrated an amazing ability to survive everything science has thrown at it). Other organisms do a better job, but never perfectly, as far as I know.
I'm utterly certain the scientists involved know more about DNA than I ever will, so surely they've considered this. I merely wanted to point out that, there are many really cool things that DNA can do, 100% copy accuracy is not one of them.
I don't know much about the underlying technology, but if the ethernet-delivered power is DC, then it could save some space, weight, and efficiency on the part of the electronics to not have to convert the AC current to DC before using it. In other words, no transformer brick needed for the device.
Among all the various national/regional news items of the day, just as with today's papers, old newspapers had lots of local info having to do with marriages, births, deaths, property changing hands, etc. etc. Much of that info could be helpful to people in many areas of historical research.
P.S. Google allows searches on 8 billion pages of already-digitized content. It's a much, MUCH larger chore to take a 150-year old newspaper and make its text searchable online.
To get straight to the good stuff, fast-forward to 23:00 (minutes:seconds)