I managed to get a GTX 750 Ti for about $80 USD (I price matched it at $120 CAD and it had a $20 MIR, so it ended up being $100 CAD plus tax).
I bought it because my old 6850 wasn't running Far Cry 4 all that well. The GTX 750 Ti runs it like a champ at 1080P with settings between medium and high. Huge performance increase over the 6850, it's much quieter, doesn't need an external power connector, and I even sold my old card to someone for $70.
If your device is not sleeping while plugged in make sure you're using the charger that came with the device. It seems like it shouldn't make any difference, but I had this problem myself and sure enough using the original charger fixed it. If it's still not sleeping while plugged in I'd probably try a factory reset. There are a few software settings such as one in the developer mode to purposely keep it on, but if you haven't messed with this stuff then it shouldn't be the problem.
The blue light decreases melatonin production. Set your device to display amber on black and dim the room's lights. If you're extra sensitive to it like me, get yourself a pair of blue-blocking glasses.
I started using the 64-bit version because the 32-bit version frequently hits 4GB of memory usage and crashes. I've seen the 64-bit version over 16GB on my 32GB system. This is a problem that Chrome does not have, but Firefox has some extensions I really like that Chrome lacks. As long as I can continue using the 64-bit nightly that I'm currently using I guess I won't really care, but this seems rather short-sighted.
Algae is plural, while alga is singular. If you wanted to say something like "algae-based" you would have to say alga-based. If "algae-based" doesn't sound wrong to you just substitute another plural in there such as "horses-based" to see how it sounds.
Setting up Google Chrome as the default PDF reader is more secure, and it's one less program to update. To do so in Windows 7 just right click on a PDF file, click "open with", click "choose default program", click Browse, and Browse to the following file: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\Chrome.exe
Adobe Reader does have some features that Chrome lacks, but 95% of users will be perfectly fine with just Chrome.
Many of the early adopters out there are Google Apps users, and yet we still can't use our Google Apps accounts with Google+. I've heard many good things about Google+ but am still waiting for Google to allow me to use it.
And I'm not interested in managing yet another account just to try out Google+.
If that fixes it then it obviously has something do with your extensions or something else in the profile.
If that does not fix it then try turning off hardware acceleration and see if that helps (options->advanced->general). I'm not sure what else to suggest right now, as I just started playing with it. It's certainly quicker on my system, and all the reviews indicate that it should be significantly faster.
Your analogy would make more sense if you said you didn't want to fly in a plane unless it was built by a physicist, as that's a closer analogy when comparing computer science to programming.
Software engineers learn how to built software, and aerospace engineers learn how to built airplanes.
You appear to be making many assumptions: You assume that people who do not complete a CS or math degree are not smart and do not learn things quickly. I need not comment on this one. You assume that people in a software engineering program are spending four years programming. I hope that's not what they're doing in your universities. You assume that a CS or Math grad is more likely to be able to "do" Lisp or ML than someone from a software engineering program. I think this unlikely, but again it depends on the curriculums at your universities.
Software engineering programs tend to have a few course in business. They will also tend to cover security, data and database admin, software quality and reliability engineering, and software architecture--all of which are usually not covered in a CS degree. Neither of the major universities near me have any courses on security within their CS faculties, which is obviously important these days.
I'm not sure what "MIS" means to you, but that acronym isn't used here to describe anything that's similar to software engineering.
Maybe the software engineering programs in your area just aren't very good or maybe there aren't any?
I started a Bachelor's in computer science and switched to an applied software engineering program. It's much less math, and the average course is far more useful in the real world. All the employers I've talked to so far have said that they prefer hiring out of the applied program because the students are ready to start working and have a broader range of skills.
As many have already pointed out, computer science != programming.
What we need is more schools that offer applied programming programs for those who want to become programmers and not computer scientists. And more students need to learn the differences between them and which one they want.
Magic Carpet is one of my all time favourite games and, to my knowledge, no game since it's release back in 1994 has similar gameplay.
The game is very much an FPS at its core, and, like a good FPS, there is a lot of strategy in it. You fly around on a carpet trying to build your castle while you fight off enemy wizards, which are either controlled by AI or other players. Killing monsters drops balls of mana which you cast a possession spell on so that balloons from your castle will go out and pickup the mana. Enemy wizards can re-possess the mana for their own balloons, so it's a constant fight over trying to get the mana to your castle. When you have enough mana you can increase the size of your castle, and you usually have to get a certain amount of total mana to win. As a wizard you have possibly the coolest arsenal of spells I've ever seen in any game, and these are detailed fairly well in the Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Carpet_%28video_game%29#Spells).
Nothing gives me a better feeling of power then having just gained a volcano spell and rushing over to my enemies castles to cast a big f’ing volcano on it, followed by some storm lightning and meteors. As the enemy castle is destroyed, bit by bit, it releases mana which you try to possess for your own castle. Of course, just like fresh blood attracts sharks, there will be other wizards there fighting for the released mana. The game is very fun to play even today.
Many years ago I pleaded with them to open source it, but was denied. I see they’ve recently ported it to the Playstation network 16 years after the game came out, which I thought was surprising.
Magic Carpet 1 is awesome and MC2 sucks. MC2 was easy and boring--it just didn't have the same wizard-vs-wizard battles and cool levels as the first one. So if you give it a shot just make sure you play the first one.
Linux will likely have the majority of the smartphone market soon now that Nokia is switching to MeeGo. Since smartphones are the future, Linux's future is looking very bright. Android - Linux MeeGo - Linux webOS - Linux iOS - Not Linux Win Phone 7 - Not Linux BlackBerry OS - Not Linux
That sort of information is redacted by Wikileaks. This is the main reason it takes them so long to release information after it has been given to them.
That mentality is a slippery slope. Do you believe in sterilization of mentally challenged people? How about sterilization of dumb people, which I might add was still done in North America up until the 70s? How about government efforts to promote the dissemination of DNA in those individuals deemed "stronger"? Take these ideas further and you end up with the Holocaust.
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I managed to get a GTX 750 Ti for about $80 USD (I price matched it at $120 CAD and it had a $20 MIR, so it ended up being $100 CAD plus tax).
I bought it because my old 6850 wasn't running Far Cry 4 all that well. The GTX 750 Ti runs it like a champ at 1080P with settings between medium and high. Huge performance increase over the 6850, it's much quieter, doesn't need an external power connector, and I even sold my old card to someone for $70.
If your device is not sleeping while plugged in make sure you're using the charger that came with the device. It seems like it shouldn't make any difference, but I had this problem myself and sure enough using the original charger fixed it. If it's still not sleeping while plugged in I'd probably try a factory reset. There are a few software settings such as one in the developer mode to purposely keep it on, but if you haven't messed with this stuff then it shouldn't be the problem.
The blue light decreases melatonin production. Set your device to display amber on black and dim the room's lights. If you're extra sensitive to it like me, get yourself a pair of blue-blocking glasses.
Here's what they need:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnH95uzQPOo
It's both cheap and effective (apparently).
It currently receives 4/5 stars based on 569 reviews, so it's fair to say that people like it.
I browsed over the reviews and there's nothing there to suggest that many people are returning it because it's a Chromebook.
This answers most of your questions and does so using data based on a large dataset.
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf
If you are concerned about reliability I suggest using an Intel SSD. Their failure rate is very low.
I started using the 64-bit version because the 32-bit version frequently hits 4GB of memory usage and crashes. I've seen the 64-bit version over 16GB on my 32GB system. This is a problem that Chrome does not have, but Firefox has some extensions I really like that Chrome lacks. As long as I can continue using the 64-bit nightly that I'm currently using I guess I won't really care, but this seems rather short-sighted.
Algae is plural, while alga is singular. If you wanted to say something like "algae-based" you would have to say alga-based. If "algae-based" doesn't sound wrong to you just substitute another plural in there such as "horses-based" to see how it sounds.
The Bay area is cheap compared to Vancouver Canada:
http://www.crackshackormansion.com/part2.html
According to the following website, the suspected person appeared in court yesterday:
http://www.dailydot.com/news/amanda-todd-kody-maxson/
I'm starting to think they'll never fix this.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660577
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683284
Slashdot messed up the path name. Where you see the double slashes is obviously the user name.
Setting up Google Chrome as the default PDF reader is more secure, and it's one less program to update. To do so in Windows 7 just right click on a PDF file, click "open with", click "choose default program", click Browse, and Browse to the following file:
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\Chrome.exe
Adobe Reader does have some features that Chrome lacks, but 95% of users will be perfectly fine with just Chrome.
Many of the early adopters out there are Google Apps users, and yet we still can't use our Google Apps accounts with Google+. I've heard many good things about Google+ but am still waiting for Google to allow me to use it.
And I'm not interested in managing yet another account just to try out Google+.
... Too bad the front camera of it is not the greatest, but still, for a year and half device should not be so bad.
The front-facing cameras on the Google Nexus S, iPhone 4, and N900 are all 640x480.
Try it with a fresh profile.
If that fixes it then it obviously has something do with your extensions or something else in the profile.
If that does not fix it then try turning off hardware acceleration and see if that helps (options->advanced->general). I'm not sure what else to suggest right now, as I just started playing with it. It's certainly quicker on my system, and all the reviews indicate that it should be significantly faster.
Your analogy would make more sense if you said you didn't want to fly in a plane unless it was built by a physicist, as that's a closer analogy when comparing computer science to programming.
Software engineers learn how to built software, and aerospace engineers learn how to built airplanes.
You appear to be making many assumptions:
You assume that people who do not complete a CS or math degree are not smart and do not learn things quickly. I need not comment on this one.
You assume that people in a software engineering program are spending four years programming. I hope that's not what they're doing in your universities.
You assume that a CS or Math grad is more likely to be able to "do" Lisp or ML than someone from a software engineering program. I think this unlikely, but again it depends on the curriculums at your universities.
Software engineering programs tend to have a few course in business. They will also tend to cover security, data and database admin, software quality and reliability engineering, and software architecture--all of which are usually not covered in a CS degree. Neither of the major universities near me have any courses on security within their CS faculties, which is obviously important these days.
I'm not sure what "MIS" means to you, but that acronym isn't used here to describe anything that's similar to software engineering.
Maybe the software engineering programs in your area just aren't very good or maybe there aren't any?
I started a Bachelor's in computer science and switched to an applied software engineering program. It's much less math, and the average course is far more useful in the real world. All the employers I've talked to so far have said that they prefer hiring out of the applied program because the students are ready to start working and have a broader range of skills.
As many have already pointed out, computer science != programming.
What we need is more schools that offer applied programming programs for those who want to become programmers and not computer scientists. And more students need to learn the differences between them and which one they want.
They would need to do many more trips to gain any statistical significance.
Magic Carpet is one of my all time favourite games and, to my knowledge, no game since it's release back in 1994 has similar gameplay.
The game is very much an FPS at its core, and, like a good FPS, there is a lot of strategy in it. You fly around on a carpet trying to build your castle while you fight off enemy wizards, which are either controlled by AI or other players. Killing monsters drops balls of mana which you cast a possession spell on so that balloons from your castle will go out and pickup the mana. Enemy wizards can re-possess the mana for their own balloons, so it's a constant fight over trying to get the mana to your castle. When you have enough mana you can increase the size of your castle, and you usually have to get a certain amount of total mana to win. As a wizard you have possibly the coolest arsenal of spells I've ever seen in any game, and these are detailed fairly well in the Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Carpet_%28video_game%29#Spells).
Nothing gives me a better feeling of power then having just gained a volcano spell and rushing over to my enemies castles to cast a big f’ing volcano on it, followed by some storm lightning and meteors. As the enemy castle is destroyed, bit by bit, it releases mana which you try to possess for your own castle. Of course, just like fresh blood attracts sharks, there will be other wizards there fighting for the released mana. The game is very fun to play even today.
Many years ago I pleaded with them to open source it, but was denied. I see they’ve recently ported it to the Playstation network 16 years after the game came out, which I thought was surprising.
There are some gameplay videos on YouTube such as this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnHRiHCxtOE
Magic Carpet 1 is awesome and MC2 sucks. MC2 was easy and boring--it just didn't have the same wizard-vs-wizard battles and cool levels as the first one. So if you give it a shot just make sure you play the first one.
Linux will likely have the majority of the smartphone market soon now that Nokia is switching to MeeGo. Since smartphones are the future, Linux's future is looking very bright.
Android - Linux
MeeGo - Linux
webOS - Linux
iOS - Not Linux
Win Phone 7 - Not Linux
BlackBerry OS - Not Linux
That sort of information is redacted by Wikileaks. This is the main reason it takes them so long to release information after it has been given to them.
That mentality is a slippery slope. Do you believe in sterilization of mentally challenged people? How about sterilization of dumb people, which I might add was still done in North America up until the 70s? How about government efforts to promote the dissemination of DNA in those individuals deemed "stronger"? Take these ideas further and you end up with the Holocaust.
Oh really? They didn't seem to learn anything from an oil spill in 1979 that was very similar other than the depth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmhxpQEGPo