I would have to assume that if they can tax you for virtual earning, you should be able to deduct virtual expenses. If this is considered a viable economy, your monthly subscription fee should be deductable. I would assume that if this moves forward, there is far more money spent on the game than is ever earned in it. It seems like it would be an overall loss for the government.
I have been developing professionally for over ten years in Unix and Windows. The best solution I have found is to do all of my development in Dev Studio and then cross compile for Linux. If you are not doing OS specific development it isn't very hard to do. After a while you learn all of the irritating little differences between Windows and Linux and start developing in a platform independent way naturally.
Writing code in Linux is just as easy as writing code for Windows, but when it comes to debugging, there is just no comparison...Dev Studio smokes anything Linux has to offer by such a wide margin as to be embarrassing. It still astounds me that the Linux community has not come up with anything that can compare. I put this down to the whole OSS attitude of "Real Developers use VI/EMACS." Creating a top-notch development environment is extremely hard, and there are no good alternatives for Linux.
That all being said, if you are doing Java development, Eclipse is easily a match for Dev Studio.
I found the opposite approach was much better at ending my addiction. Give every character a dozen wands of wishing at the beginning of the game (I call it WishHack). It gets so easy that it is not any fun to play any more. Addiction cured. I have used this method on myself and several other Nethack addicts and it has never failed. Try it. You will see...
I was very irritated to see people bitching about an editorial oversight within a couple of minutes of it being posted...claiming that the editors "must not care." What a load of BS. The error was corrected in seven minutes. If that's not good enough for you, too d*mn bad.
I think you are talking about CAPTCHAs (an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"). I think a hybrid approach would be great. Use the nofollow tag if the CAPTCHA is not used and remove it if it is. This would allow the best of both worlds.
What a clever insight. Because they caught one bug in November, they can't be any other bugs that they did not catch. What luck. I found a bug in my software this morning, I guess that means that I won't be finding any more.
I think it is a bit hypocritical of Dish Network to complain about bundling when that is exactly what they do with their "Packages." It's not like I can choose not to get QVG, HSN, Oxygen, etc. I have to get a dozen crappy channels just to get the few that I want. If the Dish Network let me pick the channels I wanted, I would be more sympathetic to their complaints about Viacom.
I find it doubtful that the erroneous e-mail addresses are malicious. That would suggest that these spammers have vastly higher intelligence they evidence indicates.
But...thanks to this new and wonderful tutorial, they can vastly improve the quality of their spam e-mail lists. The tutorial was even kind enough to provide the appropriate regex patterns at the bottom. How thoughtful
I think the assumption that they are maliciously giving out bad e-mail addresses overstates their intelligence. It is more likely that they just don't know what they are doing.
But...thanks to this wonderful (and free) tutorial, they can now vastly improve their own spam e-mail lists! The tutorial was even kind enough to provide the appropriate regex patterns at the bottom.
How Thoughful.
I would not be the least bit surprised to see the SCO senior staff who are dumping stock get sued by the shareholders for artificially inflating the company's value for personal profit when SCO finally gets its comeuppance. All of the dumped over-valued stock is being purchased by people who are going to be really unhappy when this whole thing is done.
There seems to be the assumption that working is pure sciences is equivalent to working for an academic institution. That is simply not the case. I have worked for two different companies for the last seven years that both specialize in research and pure science. My current employer specialized in artificial intelligence research. There are no politics involved in my job, just science.
If you are interested in science, don't just look to academia, there are some truly interesting scientific organization out there that do not suffer from the same problems that academia does. (politics, pay, respect, etc.)
p.s. My company has been in the black every year since I started.
The STL is great, but it can be a bit of a pig when it comes to compile time. Heavy use of the STL ends up roughly doubling our compile times... even with very careful dependency manipulation. There is no good way to forward declare complex template declarations, so you usually end up including the stl headers in your.h files instead of in your.cpp files where they belong.
There are some very clever template expansion tricks that can be used to do compile time calculation of certain mathematical functions that end up really inflating compile times as well.
A really good tip for improving compile times is to search the stl headers to find their header guards (e.g. _STRING_, _ALGORITHM_) and in your code, put:
#ifndef _VECTOR_ #include #endif
Even though the code in the header does not get compiled, it still has to be parsed to find the associated #endif. Wrapping your own #include is much more efficient.
Yes, yes, yes, I know it does not work on across platforms, but it does not hurt the other platorms either, it just works like normal.
They have nothing bad to say about Slashdot at all, they just seem to be using Slashdot as an example of a popular advocacy site. All they seem to be saying is that sites that offer a more objective coverage of Linux would be welcome.
I would recommend Algorithms by Sedgewick. It is effectively a simplified version of some of the mainstream parts of Knuth, but it is more applied and better suited to the beginner and intermediate programmer.
Effective C++ and More Effective C++ by Scott Meyers.
I think it is important to distinguish between being a game designer, and a game programmer.
Historically they have been the same person, but that is not as common as it used to be, and it is getting less common. Games are not really designed by one person, but by a team of people. The Lead Designer may come up with the concept, and even the plot and many of the features, but artists are a critical element in designing the mood of the game, programmers often have great new ideas that come up as the game get's developed. Even the program manger has an impact on game design by deciding how much can be spend on what, and what has to be cut when time runs short.
The question is, do you want to be strictly a designer, a programmer, an artist, a producer, a program manager, D) all of the above? There are many opportunites in the gaming industry, it is important to decide what you want to do.
The issue I have with the government taking action is that once people start assuming that the government is protecting them, they will forget that the best thing to do is to think for themselves.
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I would have to assume that if they can tax you for virtual earning, you should be able to deduct virtual expenses. If this is considered a viable economy, your monthly subscription fee should be deductable. I would assume that if this moves forward, there is far more money spent on the game than is ever earned in it. It seems like it would be an overall loss for the government.
Writing code in Linux is just as easy as writing code for Windows, but when it comes to debugging, there is just no comparison...Dev Studio smokes anything Linux has to offer by such a wide margin as to be embarrassing. It still astounds me that the Linux community has not come up with anything that can compare. I put this down to the whole OSS attitude of "Real Developers use VI/EMACS." Creating a top-notch development environment is extremely hard, and there are no good alternatives for Linux.
That all being said, if you are doing Java development, Eclipse is easily a match for Dev Studio.
I found the opposite approach was much better at ending my addiction. Give every character a dozen wands of wishing at the beginning of the game (I call it WishHack). It gets so easy that it is not any fun to play any more. Addiction cured. I have used this method on myself and several other Nethack addicts and it has never failed. Try it. You will see...
I was very irritated to see people bitching about an editorial oversight within a couple of minutes of it being posted...claiming that the editors "must not care." What a load of BS. The error was corrected in seven minutes. If that's not good enough for you, too d*mn bad.
I think you are talking about CAPTCHAs (an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"). I think a hybrid approach would be great. Use the nofollow tag if the CAPTCHA is not used and remove it if it is. This would allow the best of both worlds.
What a clever insight. Because they caught one bug in November, they can't be any other bugs that they did not catch. What luck. I found a bug in my software this morning, I guess that means that I won't be finding any more.
I think it is a bit hypocritical of Dish Network to complain about bundling when that is exactly what they do with their "Packages." It's not like I can choose not to get QVG, HSN, Oxygen, etc. I have to get a dozen crappy channels just to get the few that I want. If the Dish Network let me pick the channels I wanted, I would be more sympathetic to their complaints about Viacom.
I find it doubtful that the erroneous e-mail addresses are malicious. That would suggest that these spammers have vastly higher intelligence they evidence indicates.
But...thanks to this new and wonderful tutorial, they can vastly improve the quality of their spam e-mail lists. The tutorial was even kind enough to provide the appropriate regex patterns at the bottom. How thoughtful
I think the assumption that they are maliciously giving out bad e-mail addresses overstates their intelligence. It is more likely that they just don't know what they are doing. But...thanks to this wonderful (and free) tutorial, they can now vastly improve their own spam e-mail lists! The tutorial was even kind enough to provide the appropriate regex patterns at the bottom. How Thoughful.
I would not be the least bit surprised to see the SCO senior staff who are dumping stock get sued by the shareholders for artificially inflating the company's value for personal profit when SCO finally gets its comeuppance. All of the dumped over-valued stock is being purchased by people who are going to be really unhappy when this whole thing is done.
There seems to be the assumption that working is pure sciences is equivalent to working for an academic institution. That is simply not the case. I have worked for two different companies for the last seven years that both specialize in research and pure science. My current employer specialized in artificial intelligence research. There are no politics involved in my job, just science. If you are interested in science, don't just look to academia, there are some truly interesting scientific organization out there that do not suffer from the same problems that academia does. (politics, pay, respect, etc.) p.s. My company has been in the black every year since I started.
The STL is great, but it can be a bit of a pig when it comes to compile time. Heavy use of the STL ends up roughly doubling our compile times... even with very careful dependency manipulation. There is no good way to forward declare complex template declarations, so you usually end up including the stl headers in your .h files instead of in your .cpp files where they belong.
There are some very clever template expansion tricks that can be used to do compile time calculation of certain mathematical functions that end up really inflating compile times as well.
A really good tip for improving compile times is to search the stl headers to find their header guards (e.g. _STRING_, _ALGORITHM_) and in your code, put:
#ifndef _VECTOR_
#include
#endif
Even though the code in the header does not get compiled, it still has to be parsed to find the associated #endif. Wrapping your own #include is much more efficient.
Yes, yes, yes, I know it does not work on across platforms, but it does not hurt the other platorms either, it just works like normal.
The latest firmware release for the BEFSR41 takes care of the half-life problem.
They have nothing bad to say about Slashdot at all, they just seem to be using Slashdot as an example of a popular advocacy site. All they seem to be saying is that sites that offer a more objective coverage of Linux would be welcome.
I would recommend Algorithms by Sedgewick. It is effectively a simplified version of some of the mainstream parts of Knuth, but it is more applied and better suited to the beginner and intermediate programmer. Effective C++ and More Effective C++ by Scott Meyers.
I think it is important to distinguish between being a game designer, and a game programmer. Historically they have been the same person, but that is not as common as it used to be, and it is getting less common. Games are not really designed by one person, but by a team of people. The Lead Designer may come up with the concept, and even the plot and many of the features, but artists are a critical element in designing the mood of the game, programmers often have great new ideas that come up as the game get's developed. Even the program manger has an impact on game design by deciding how much can be spend on what, and what has to be cut when time runs short. The question is, do you want to be strictly a designer, a programmer, an artist, a producer, a program manager, D) all of the above? There are many opportunites in the gaming industry, it is important to decide what you want to do.
The issue I have with the government taking action is that once people start assuming that the government is protecting them, they will forget that the best thing to do is to think for themselves.