I would if I was hiring in this economy, because I know some excellent people who are out of work right now. Apparently you're more interested in how people "play the game" though, so I hope you find some experts at selling themselves.
Not only is the keyboard small, but it's made of those rubber buttons that are on cell phones. Can you imagine typing for any period of time on those? Plus it has a trackball in the upper right?! How about a pointer stick in the middle?
Give me a traditional PDA with a full-sized collapsable keyboard any day. With the screen doubling as the mouse input device, it's still very compact. If you need to do serious work, a 2.7 pound ultralight laptop shouldn't be too much to carry around.
Exactly. People break laws all the time without going to jail or even getting in trouble in the case of speeding. It's big news when a law is enforced in a new way, because law enforcement is effectively changing the law.
This makes sense when comparing a circular cover to, say, a square one. You can lift the square one up, rotate it diagonally, and drop it down. But I have two other shapes that won't fall.
One is a near-circle but not quite. It has a lot of edges, maybe 20 or more. Not enough to let slip down the hole, because the lip just below the surface hole is wide enough to compensate for any turning. This behaves differently than a circlular manhole in that it won't turn. Is this an advantage? Probably not, given the question.
Another is a equilateral triangular cover. There is no diagonal like there is in the square; no orientation that exploits a larger width than the triangle's sides.
The only thing this plan does is give moviegoers headaches. I want them to give me the best possible movie experience if I'm going to fork over 10 bucks.
I think it might be a difference in culture. In the U.S., employers want to see people that have already done what their job description would be. This includes entry level. So people like me who want a job need to focus on getting a game done, since no one buys demos. Also, I see people on demo boards in eighth grade taking C++ and graphics courses that are taught in their public schools. Not all of them will want programming jobs, they just see demo making as another form of art.
I think the U.S. indie game community is pretty healthy, though I don't know how it is compared to the one in Europe. The GDC was last month, and there were a lot of individuals and small teams who made games for little or nothing.
Future Crew was ahead of computer game companies, so they get credit for "making machines do ridiculous things". Today game companies have budgets rivaling movie studios, so they get all the attention. But small teams and even individuals can still make great demos.
Here are the three big demo parties and some recent results (may not be the latest):
Pouet - Has a big list of demos, intros, and lots of comments.
256b.com - If the 2-10 meg demos on pouet are too bloated for you, check these out.
CFXweb - A community web site with forums and a magazine.
My favorite demo of the moment is IV-Racer by The Lost Souls, though it uses mostly pre-made 3D models instead of calculated effects. For a good tiny one, try this one by Haujobb. They both have incredible atmosphere that I'd love to have in a game.
I've seen a few posts about paying extra for Postscript on laser printers. Can you clue me in as to why this is a big deal? I found the 1450 page, and it says it emulates PostScript Level 2. Is there any difference between emulation and native support?
I'm reading Permutation City right now, in which the dead and disabled have their minds transferred to a computer representation, which is very crude compared to the Matrix. Anyone not dead or disabled kills themselves out of depression, often in less than a day.
The protagonist wants to do research on his copy though, so he takes away the option of suicide. Is it humane research? Even when the copy is of yourself? I'm not that far in the book yet.
I've heard that diamonds are priced a lot higher than they have to be, because their scarcity is tightly controlled by the people who control the major sources of them. I wonder, if they turn out to be a source of superconductors, if the world might pressure them in to lowering prices to reasonable levels.
I love My Best Friend's Wedding because of its sad ending too. Julia doesn't get the guy. It's really the only romantic movie I can think of that has a sad (realistic!) ending.
I just graduated from a Top 5 CS university, and the other grads I know who have jobs did things like sysadmin or programming work in high school. So when they got to college, they were ready for real programming jobs while I was just learning about the corporate world.
Besides, for smart people in general, high school is not fun. If he can get a technical job and know that he is valuable in the real world, that could make a huge difference in his life.
They complain because someone paying $1,000 in taxes could probably use a few hundred extra to do things like eat and afford a place a few miles farther away from the ghetto. Take a few hundred from ten people like that and person #1 who probably makes $200+k/year can get some extra options on his BMW.
I'm not taking sides, but that's the emotional argument. One might argue person #1 earned that premium sound system and more powerful engine.
Maybe to a "programmer" who types code without thinking about those scary compilers, interpreters, and *gasp* actual hardware, PHP5 could be considered something in the same hemisphere as Java.
NT4 came out in September 1996, just three months after Linux 2.0. The last 2.0 version is 2.0.39, which was released January 2001, over two years ago. Both groups have moved on, and aren't willing to spend much effort on the old versions. It's true there are more recent 2.0 pre-patches, but if you're willing to use one of those, simply adding a port to your firewall block list should be cake.
And yes, with Linux, you have the source, so you could fix this yourself, right? Microsoft says this requires a large architectural changes. I think any person or group willing to re-architect NT4 or the 2.0 kernel would better spend their time and effort upgrading to a newer OS version.
Eh, there has to be something else you could imagine doing, if, say, there were zero programming jobs left (there are still about eight or nine in the U.S.). What kinds of things do you code? Systems-level programming? You might also enjoy designing hardware. GUI hacking? You could try engineering consumer products like car dashboards or washing machine controls. Games? How about inventing a new board game or an RPG expansion set, or writing a book, or becoming a college math professor (for those 3D graphics coders)?
In general, I think if I lived between 1750 and 1950 I'd be some sort of engineer, 1600-1750 and I'd be a scientist, and before that I'd be fighting just to survive like most everyone else in the middle ages or prehistoric era. Unless I was an Egyptian or Greek, where I would hopefully get to be one of the intellectuals and not part of the unwashed masses.
By the way, I got my C64 for my fourth Christmas. It took me years to figure out what PEEK and POKE were, but that didn't stop me from typing in games from Compute's Gazette.
TV shows shouldn't all be dismissed as trivial, just as Homer's Odyssey deserves more attention and even fanaticism than tabloids. Of course, most TV shows are closer to tabloids than the greatest works of fiction man has created, but Farscape is a pretty well crafted work of art.
Yes. In the UI it listed all incoming mail as unclassified. But clicking on the e-mails to view them, it lists the probability that it fits in to each bucket. Apparently 99.999% is not above the threshold for it to set a classification.
How long? I categorized about 200 messages in PopFile and it still wouldn't sort any itself. It was getting something like 99.999% certainty and wasn't getting any wrong. I checked the PopFile forums, and apparently no one else wonders how many hours you have to spend doing a triple click to categorize each e-mail.
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No one wants to interview an unsuccessful person.
I would if I was hiring in this economy, because I know some excellent people who are out of work right now. Apparently you're more interested in how people "play the game" though, so I hope you find some experts at selling themselves.
Not only is the keyboard small, but it's made of those rubber buttons that are on cell phones. Can you imagine typing for any period of time on those? Plus it has a trackball in the upper right?! How about a pointer stick in the middle?
Give me a traditional PDA with a full-sized collapsable keyboard any day. With the screen doubling as the mouse input device, it's still very compact. If you need to do serious work, a 2.7 pound ultralight laptop shouldn't be too much to carry around.
"Make elections publicly funded, and ban private funding."
"You can't do that, money is free speech!" -- The Republican Party
Of course, it's convenient that most Republicans have louder free speech than others.
Exactly. People break laws all the time without going to jail or even getting in trouble in the case of speeding. It's big news when a law is enforced in a new way, because law enforcement is effectively changing the law.
This makes sense when comparing a circular cover to, say, a square one. You can lift the square one up, rotate it diagonally, and drop it down. But I have two other shapes that won't fall.
One is a near-circle but not quite. It has a lot of edges, maybe 20 or more. Not enough to let slip down the hole, because the lip just below the surface hole is wide enough to compensate for any turning. This behaves differently than a circlular manhole in that it won't turn. Is this an advantage? Probably not, given the question.
Another is a equilateral triangular cover. There is no diagonal like there is in the square; no orientation that exploits a larger width than the triangle's sides.
The only thing this plan does is give moviegoers headaches. I want them to give me the best possible movie experience if I'm going to fork over 10 bucks.
There's no other reason for them not to do rebates at the POS/cash register.
A lot of people forget or are too lazy to mail in rebates, which means more money for the company.
I think it might be a difference in culture. In the U.S., employers want to see people that have already done what their job description would be. This includes entry level. So people like me who want a job need to focus on getting a game done, since no one buys demos. Also, I see people on demo boards in eighth grade taking C++ and graphics courses that are taught in their public schools. Not all of them will want programming jobs, they just see demo making as another form of art.
I think the U.S. indie game community is pretty healthy, though I don't know how it is compared to the one in Europe. The GDC was last month, and there were a lot of individuals and small teams who made games for little or nothing.
That all said, a U.S. demo party would be cool.
- The Gathering - 2002 winners
- The Party - 2001 winners
- Assembly - 2002 winners
Here are some other sites with demos:- Pouet - Has a big list of demos, intros, and lots of comments.
- 256b.com - If the 2-10 meg demos on pouet are too bloated for you, check these out.
- CFXweb - A community web site with forums and a magazine.
My favorite demo of the moment is IV-Racer by The Lost Souls, though it uses mostly pre-made 3D models instead of calculated effects. For a good tiny one, try this one by Haujobb. They both have incredible atmosphere that I'd love to have in a game.I've seen a few posts about paying extra for Postscript on laser printers. Can you clue me in as to why this is a big deal? I found the 1450 page, and it says it emulates PostScript Level 2. Is there any difference between emulation and native support?
I'm reading Permutation City right now, in which the dead and disabled have their minds transferred to a computer representation, which is very crude compared to the Matrix. Anyone not dead or disabled kills themselves out of depression, often in less than a day.
The protagonist wants to do research on his copy though, so he takes away the option of suicide. Is it humane research? Even when the copy is of yourself? I'm not that far in the book yet.
And 2-3 more boxed games' worth to get a motherboard to go with it, and 2-3 more for new RAM. Otherwise upgrading the CPU probably isn't worth it.
I've heard that diamonds are priced a lot higher than they have to be, because their scarcity is tightly controlled by the people who control the major sources of them. I wonder, if they turn out to be a source of superconductors, if the world might pressure them in to lowering prices to reasonable levels.
I love My Best Friend's Wedding because of its sad ending too. Julia doesn't get the guy. It's really the only romantic movie I can think of that has a sad (realistic!) ending.
Ironically, a win32 port has yet to be released.
They're probably too busy playing games released this decade.
I just graduated from a Top 5 CS university, and the other grads I know who have jobs did things like sysadmin or programming work in high school. So when they got to college, they were ready for real programming jobs while I was just learning about the corporate world.
Besides, for smart people in general, high school is not fun. If he can get a technical job and know that he is valuable in the real world, that could make a huge difference in his life.
They complain because someone paying $1,000 in taxes could probably use a few hundred extra to do things like eat and afford a place a few miles farther away from the ghetto. Take a few hundred from ten people like that and person #1 who probably makes $200+k/year can get some extra options on his BMW.
I'm not taking sides, but that's the emotional argument. One might argue person #1 earned that premium sound system and more powerful engine.
Maybe to a "programmer" who types code without thinking about those scary compilers, interpreters, and *gasp* actual hardware, PHP5 could be considered something in the same hemisphere as Java.
NT4 came out in September 1996, just three months after Linux 2.0. The last 2.0 version is 2.0.39, which was released January 2001, over two years ago. Both groups have moved on, and aren't willing to spend much effort on the old versions. It's true there are more recent 2.0 pre-patches, but if you're willing to use one of those, simply adding a port to your firewall block list should be cake.
And yes, with Linux, you have the source, so you could fix this yourself, right? Microsoft says this requires a large architectural changes. I think any person or group willing to re-architect NT4 or the 2.0 kernel would better spend their time and effort upgrading to a newer OS version.
I couldnt imagine doing anything else.
Eh, there has to be something else you could imagine doing, if, say, there were zero programming jobs left (there are still about eight or nine in the U.S.). What kinds of things do you code? Systems-level programming? You might also enjoy designing hardware. GUI hacking? You could try engineering consumer products like car dashboards or washing machine controls. Games? How about inventing a new board game or an RPG expansion set, or writing a book, or becoming a college math professor (for those 3D graphics coders)?
In general, I think if I lived between 1750 and 1950 I'd be some sort of engineer, 1600-1750 and I'd be a scientist, and before that I'd be fighting just to survive like most everyone else in the middle ages or prehistoric era. Unless I was an Egyptian or Greek, where I would hopefully get to be one of the intellectuals and not part of the unwashed masses.
By the way, I got my C64 for my fourth Christmas. It took me years to figure out what PEEK and POKE were, but that didn't stop me from typing in games from Compute's Gazette.
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TV shows shouldn't all be dismissed as trivial, just as Homer's Odyssey deserves more attention and even fanaticism than tabloids. Of course, most TV shows are closer to tabloids than the greatest works of fiction man has created, but Farscape is a pretty well crafted work of art.
Yes. In the UI it listed all incoming mail as unclassified. But clicking on the e-mails to view them, it lists the probability that it fits in to each bucket. Apparently 99.999% is not above the threshold for it to set a classification.
How long? I categorized about 200 messages in PopFile and it still wouldn't sort any itself. It was getting something like 99.999% certainty and wasn't getting any wrong. I checked the PopFile forums, and apparently no one else wonders how many hours you have to spend doing a triple click to categorize each e-mail.