I'm a US citizen, and I would recommend you simply do not program in the English system. Leave it out. I use metric in my day to day life, as I did what the White House suggested years ago- simply stopped using it.
I'm not sure if we'll ever get some regulations pass to move to metric, but I certainly gave up on being a good American a long time ago.
There's really no substitute on the web (for free) that replaces quality scientific periodicals. If I want to know about some uncommon subject, often the only way to get that information is by paying a credible source to deliver it regularly. The news-media and blogosphere aren't particularly interested in detailing the latest way to detect carbon nanotubes of a particular chirality, or the latest low-energy method of measuring gas flow. That's why I'm still an IEEE member, among other organizations.
There isn't a newsgroup or email list that has that information being discussed? Just curious.
Evidence of the flaws in adventure games are in the fact 'hint books' were rampant back then. I'm one of the biggest Sierra/Lucasarts/Westwood Studios fans out there (esp Quest for Glory, SQ, KQ) but they had serious issues with the design. Most of the old school adventure game designers admit this. The games I enjoyed the most were the least linear, namely QFG, where if you didn't know what to do next you could at least roam around and fight monsters to advance your stats. The fighting was fairly creative in some of the games and advanced for action on a PC. Though on the other hand, while I appreciate the enjoyable idle time sink, I also appreciated the general non-violence theme of many adventure series (notably KQ).
There's this idea that floats out there that adventure games were "intellectual".. I don't think any game is intellectual, maybe required patience and creativity at best.
Popularity of games like League of Legends (the worlds #1 game, and my go-to fix for the last few years) is because it's instantly gratifying (not mind numbing) and there is some thought involved with your champion selection and configuration. I'd say equally "intellectual".
tl;dr Adventure games were story telling, preceded by books, and were replaced by books.
If there's a shortage of H-1B visas (meaning there are times you can't obtain one no matter how much you're willing to pay), they should be put up for auction and sold to the highest bidder so everyone who wants one badly enough can get one. It's irresponsible of the government not to look for ways to reduce our tax burden.
When you say Ebay, I think you mean checking the domestic workforce.. and "bidding out the job" to the qualified applicant. Unfortunately, that's not an option because the purpose to H1B visas is to drop wages, not bid them up.
And then when it fails to bring money it gets discontinued. And you have a very expensive paperweight... Google Reader was an eye opener. Depending on a third party for core functionality is something I'll be avoiding from now one, since you never know...
It was an eye opener for you, and the unwashed masses. It wasn't an eye opener for an anti-vendor lock hater like myself. I never did trust nor tried to rely on Google any more than I had too. Use local, FOSS software and only promote that.
If you were never impressed with Windows from 3.0-8, install Ubuntu. I'm in this camp, while they are/were the defacto standard I find MS's UI designs nonsensical.
But if you think Windows 95-Vista had an excellent UI and were blown away at their intuitiveness, install Mint.
You can get more of the desktop shortcuts, quicklaunch bar, and crammed 300px x 300px start menu by using Mint. If you miss that. Mint also has slower updates due to lack of server infrastructure, a sparse dev team, and does not offer automatic in-place upgrades. Ubuntu has none of those problems.
For me there's only two choices I care about, Ubuntu and CentOS. Both are solid. Plenty of people religiously hate Ubuntu's Unity interface, but Ubuntu just works.
I've been using toolbar RSS feeds since I adopted FF in the early 2000s. I never switched to Google Reader, and always preferred to stay away from all for-profit, single-sourced products for my computing uses. I'm able to access my RSS feeds from any OS that can run Firefox. Being as I feel it's the superior web browser to Google Chrome, and I wouldn't use a browser from Google if they paid me (and they should be paying you to use it, as you can get FF for free without feeding Google's data center your info)- this isn't a problem for me.
Down with Google, down with Chrome, and good riddance to Google Reader. Maybe it will wake a few people up.
We can be recorded in every business we walk into, and every street we walk.. but the minute we turn the tables and it's no longer in the investment class's benefit for there to be recordings of everything.. it's a bad idea.
False. If everyone blocked ads and Slashdot died, an enthusiast created replacement would come about. Many people have noted sensationalism becoming more and more the trend for Slashdot, this is due to the necessity for hits/ads.
As the old way dies, another would take its place. You don't have to worry about that, and the quality will increase as it's for passion, not profit.
If only the crap on TV that's ad supported (and a subscription on top of that) disappeared, we'd be left with non-profit groups like PBS and other sources of non-profit programming. That would be a massive improvement as we moved from quantity to quality.
If the 3/4th of the internet that exists only due to ads disappeared, we'd live in a better world. In both cases, we'd move to enthusiast/hobbyist creations which would focus on content, not sensationalism.
Anyone reading this, please enable your adblocker (and disable the 'allow non-intrusive advertising' option).
True for the most part but, gaming on a piece of glass sucks. I don't even like touching the screen on my GS3 for an extended period of time. Need something other than glass, whether that be a gamepad or mouse and keyboard.
4, "insightful"? Really? Is anyone actually reading anything here?
The prosperity of SF, LA, NYC, Boston, etc. has very little to do with liberal views.
Wealth !-> liberal views.
In other words, wealth from trade leads to liberal views
Wealth -> liberal views. In "OTHER" words, at least.
Methinks you're confused, or full of shit. More time needs to be spend thinking (because your theory is bunk), and less blabbing on about liberals. By the time you're done thinking, you'll be a liberal.
There's a lot of factors to wealth generation. One quick example, the tech sector didn't have to exist in SoCal. It didn't rely on 'coastal cities'. It could've happened in Nebraska, or Miami. Why didn't it?
It has nothing to do with coastal cities but more with culture.
You've got to be kidding me. You did not detail where you live. It might be a dump compared to SF. I'm willing to reveal where I live (downtown Chicago) and you can't even get a 3BR house in the furthest burbs for 150K. Maybe a dump in a place approaching a ghetto.
Sometimes you pay higher prices because the place in which you live is verifiably desirable for people to WANT to be in. Sure, I could probably buy a 3br house in Idaho for 150k, but it wouldn't offer the same quality of life (if you enjoy good restaurants and the other niceties of a place like SF).
Median income where I live 66K.
Average home where I live 330K.
The view of Lake Michigan and quality of life in my neighborhood? Priceless.
And no, I'm not moving wherever it is you live. I'd first move to SF.
I don't know if it's socialism (not that there's anything wrong with socialism, it's the reason why I have a college education, 911 service, a fire department if need be, a subway system, and my great grandparents had none of those things)- but Richard Nixon suggested a 32 hour workweek was in the near future due to automation. Though it appears it might be the future thanks to H1B visa workers.
Same response as when someone calls trying to get WoW to work on Windows 98. To be honest, you wouldn't have to even offer the x86 version. Just Ubuntu LTS x86-64. Done.
for the past few years.. Killing Floor and League of Legends. It's all I need, but the resurgence in adventure gaming thru KS has peaked my interest in that genre again (especially the old Sierra designers).
Community college is the way of the future, even though they are maligned by education snobs. You save money, it's a good education, and it can transfer (if you check first, some applied science degrees will not).
Samsung is the best of all that you listed. It has the speed AND reliability. A better reliability record than either Crucial or Intel. The 830 series (and now 840) are faster or as fast on average.
I have old Intel G2 drives but Samsung would be my universally recommended and goto today.
Give the client facing employees cell phones.
When tech needs to be on a conference call, use Webex or another conferencing software that can be used with a PC instead of a real phone for audio.
For the rest, I'd use either or a combo of- GoogleApps (it's cheap, solves the mobile and a lot of app/remote access problems) and FOSS. Whoever needed a laptop could have a Thinkpad or Macbook, loaded with their OS of choice but I'd only support officially Ubuntu on Thinkpads to keep support/upgrade costs down. Sensitive irreplaceable data would be required to be stored on the network or a automatic trickle backup of sorts. Most things would rely on Google Docs for sharing though.
I'd try to keep the small office small, as things have to change a bit as the company expands and I'm not sure I'd be up for that. I guess if the moneys rolling it, anything would be welcome.
I agree, I have to use a smartphone for work and was never impressed. I had an HTC Tbolt and now a GS3. Convenient (besides the Tbolt which was a POS and still is from day 1), but not in the same realm as a standard phone.
If my employer no longer provides a smartphone (a blessing), I would just use a standard candy bar phone and pickup a tablet (preferably one with month to month internet plans like the iPad, but preferably with Android).
The headline suggests that GM corn causes cancer. This is ludicrous and only feeds the ignorant paranoid anti-GM crowd.
It's ROUNDUP exposure that's linked to tumors - NOT genetic modifications. I am not at all surprised.
I've been saying for years that there is nothing particularly risky about GM foods - it's dumping horrendous of herbicide on things that's risky... this is obvious to me, but not to the ignorant masses.
Don't give the freaks ammunition, please.
Well if they'd just scale up non-GM crops and stop using Roundup, making the food like it was 100 years ago.. it wouldn't matter if its the GM factor or the Roundup. The food would be like it was 10,000 years ago and the way it still should be today.
Seriously? My text editor of choice (vim) has had a way to automatically replace tabs with a chosen about of spaces for.... basically forever. I can't imagine that any other good text editor doesn't have the same functionality built into it.
My text editor of choice gedit also has a way to automatically replace tabs with spaces. So does Notepad++, VIM (which I also use), Emacs, pretty much everything does that you would even open a.py file with.
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I'm not sure if we'll ever get some regulations pass to move to metric, but I certainly gave up on being a good American a long time ago.
There's really no substitute on the web (for free) that replaces quality scientific periodicals. If I want to know about some uncommon subject, often the only way to get that information is by paying a credible source to deliver it regularly. The news-media and blogosphere aren't particularly interested in detailing the latest way to detect carbon nanotubes of a particular chirality, or the latest low-energy method of measuring gas flow. That's why I'm still an IEEE member, among other organizations.
There isn't a newsgroup or email list that has that information being discussed? Just curious.
Evidence of the flaws in adventure games are in the fact 'hint books' were rampant back then. I'm one of the biggest Sierra/Lucasarts/Westwood Studios fans out there (esp Quest for Glory, SQ, KQ) but they had serious issues with the design. Most of the old school adventure game designers admit this. The games I enjoyed the most were the least linear, namely QFG, where if you didn't know what to do next you could at least roam around and fight monsters to advance your stats. The fighting was fairly creative in some of the games and advanced for action on a PC. Though on the other hand, while I appreciate the enjoyable idle time sink, I also appreciated the general non-violence theme of many adventure series (notably KQ).
There's this idea that floats out there that adventure games were "intellectual".. I don't think any game is intellectual, maybe required patience and creativity at best.
Popularity of games like League of Legends (the worlds #1 game, and my go-to fix for the last few years) is because it's instantly gratifying (not mind numbing) and there is some thought involved with your champion selection and configuration. I'd say equally "intellectual".
tl;dr Adventure games were story telling, preceded by books, and were replaced by books.
If there's a shortage of H-1B visas (meaning there are times you can't obtain one no matter how much you're willing to pay), they should be put up for auction and sold to the highest bidder so everyone who wants one badly enough can get one. It's irresponsible of the government not to look for ways to reduce our tax burden.
When you say Ebay, I think you mean checking the domestic workforce.. and "bidding out the job" to the qualified applicant. Unfortunately, that's not an option because the purpose to H1B visas is to drop wages, not bid them up.
And then when it fails to bring money it gets discontinued. And you have a very expensive paperweight... Google Reader was an eye opener. Depending on a third party for core functionality is something I'll be avoiding from now one, since you never know...
It was an eye opener for you, and the unwashed masses. It wasn't an eye opener for an anti-vendor lock hater like myself. I never did trust nor tried to rely on Google any more than I had too. Use local, FOSS software and only promote that.
If you were never impressed with Windows from 3.0-8, install Ubuntu. I'm in this camp, while they are/were the defacto standard I find MS's UI designs nonsensical. But if you think Windows 95-Vista had an excellent UI and were blown away at their intuitiveness, install Mint. You can get more of the desktop shortcuts, quicklaunch bar, and crammed 300px x 300px start menu by using Mint. If you miss that. Mint also has slower updates due to lack of server infrastructure, a sparse dev team, and does not offer automatic in-place upgrades. Ubuntu has none of those problems. For me there's only two choices I care about, Ubuntu and CentOS. Both are solid. Plenty of people religiously hate Ubuntu's Unity interface, but Ubuntu just works.
Down with Google, down with Chrome, and good riddance to Google Reader. Maybe it will wake a few people up.
We can be recorded in every business we walk into, and every street we walk.. but the minute we turn the tables and it's no longer in the investment class's benefit for there to be recordings of everything.. it's a bad idea.
As the old way dies, another would take its place. You don't have to worry about that, and the quality will increase as it's for passion, not profit.
If the 3/4th of the internet that exists only due to ads disappeared, we'd live in a better world. In both cases, we'd move to enthusiast/hobbyist creations which would focus on content, not sensationalism.
Anyone reading this, please enable your adblocker (and disable the 'allow non-intrusive advertising' option).
True for the most part but, gaming on a piece of glass sucks. I don't even like touching the screen on my GS3 for an extended period of time. Need something other than glass, whether that be a gamepad or mouse and keyboard.
The prosperity of SF, LA, NYC, Boston, etc. has very little to do with liberal views.
Wealth !-> liberal views.
In other words, wealth from trade leads to liberal views
Wealth -> liberal views. In "OTHER" words, at least. Methinks you're confused, or full of shit. More time needs to be spend thinking (because your theory is bunk), and less blabbing on about liberals. By the time you're done thinking, you'll be a liberal.
There's a lot of factors to wealth generation. One quick example, the tech sector didn't have to exist in SoCal. It didn't rely on 'coastal cities'. It could've happened in Nebraska, or Miami. Why didn't it?
It has nothing to do with coastal cities but more with culture.
You've got to be kidding me. You did not detail where you live. It might be a dump compared to SF. I'm willing to reveal where I live (downtown Chicago) and you can't even get a 3BR house in the furthest burbs for 150K. Maybe a dump in a place approaching a ghetto.
Sometimes you pay higher prices because the place in which you live is verifiably desirable for people to WANT to be in. Sure, I could probably buy a 3br house in Idaho for 150k, but it wouldn't offer the same quality of life (if you enjoy good restaurants and the other niceties of a place like SF).
Median income where I live 66K.
Average home where I live 330K.
The view of Lake Michigan and quality of life in my neighborhood? Priceless.
And no, I'm not moving wherever it is you live. I'd first move to SF.
I don't know if it's socialism (not that there's anything wrong with socialism, it's the reason why I have a college education, 911 service, a fire department if need be, a subway system, and my great grandparents had none of those things)- but Richard Nixon suggested a 32 hour workweek was in the near future due to automation. Though it appears it might be the future thanks to H1B visa workers.
Same response as when someone calls trying to get WoW to work on Windows 98. To be honest, you wouldn't have to even offer the x86 version. Just Ubuntu LTS x86-64. Done.
>One of the warts that yosefk complains about (int / int = float)
That's not a wart. That's how it's supposed to be. Is mathematics education so different in other areas of the world or what?
You are right, but in mathematics. In programming you have bit limits so you want fractions rather than floating points.
League of Legends. My other favorite game is already available on Steam for Linux beta, Killing Floor.
for the past few years.. Killing Floor and League of Legends. It's all I need, but the resurgence in adventure gaming thru KS has peaked my interest in that genre again (especially the old Sierra designers).
to switch to a Linux distro fulltime.
Community college is the way of the future, even though they are maligned by education snobs. You save money, it's a good education, and it can transfer (if you check first, some applied science degrees will not).
Samsung is the best of all that you listed. It has the speed AND reliability. A better reliability record than either Crucial or Intel. The 830 series (and now 840) are faster or as fast on average. I have old Intel G2 drives but Samsung would be my universally recommended and goto today.
Give the client facing employees cell phones. When tech needs to be on a conference call, use Webex or another conferencing software that can be used with a PC instead of a real phone for audio. For the rest, I'd use either or a combo of- GoogleApps (it's cheap, solves the mobile and a lot of app/remote access problems) and FOSS. Whoever needed a laptop could have a Thinkpad or Macbook, loaded with their OS of choice but I'd only support officially Ubuntu on Thinkpads to keep support/upgrade costs down. Sensitive irreplaceable data would be required to be stored on the network or a automatic trickle backup of sorts. Most things would rely on Google Docs for sharing though. I'd try to keep the small office small, as things have to change a bit as the company expands and I'm not sure I'd be up for that. I guess if the moneys rolling it, anything would be welcome.
I agree, I have to use a smartphone for work and was never impressed. I had an HTC Tbolt and now a GS3. Convenient (besides the Tbolt which was a POS and still is from day 1), but not in the same realm as a standard phone. If my employer no longer provides a smartphone (a blessing), I would just use a standard candy bar phone and pickup a tablet (preferably one with month to month internet plans like the iPad, but preferably with Android).
The headline suggests that GM corn causes cancer. This is ludicrous and only feeds the ignorant paranoid anti-GM crowd.
It's ROUNDUP exposure that's linked to tumors - NOT genetic modifications. I am not at all surprised.
I've been saying for years that there is nothing particularly risky about GM foods - it's dumping horrendous of herbicide on things that's risky... this is obvious to me, but not to the ignorant masses.
Don't give the freaks ammunition, please.
Well if they'd just scale up non-GM crops and stop using Roundup, making the food like it was 100 years ago.. it wouldn't matter if its the GM factor or the Roundup. The food would be like it was 10,000 years ago and the way it still should be today.
Seriously? My text editor of choice (vim) has had a way to automatically replace tabs with a chosen about of spaces for .... basically forever. I can't imagine that any other good text editor doesn't have the same functionality built into it.
My text editor of choice gedit also has a way to automatically replace tabs with spaces. So does Notepad++, VIM (which I also use), Emacs, pretty much everything does that you would even open a .py file with.