Blizzard (and indeed most MMORPGS these days) uses filesharing to upload patches to their games. So I guess online gaming is not allowed for students there.
No biggie I guess if that's the way they want it. They'd just better make that clear to prospective applicants. "No gamers wanted here."
Well, working backward (I got my BS in Computer Science in 89), only one of the things mentioned (mySQL) wouldn't have looked totally alien to me after I graduated 21 years ago. "Web Design & Development" didn't even exist then.
If my degree had been nothing more than learning 1989 - tech tools and training to do 1989 jobs, it would be pretty damned worthless right now. However, all that theory I learned about data structures, analysis of algorithms, good design principles, etc. is still in use today.
.. although even conservatives said liberal blogs were often better-written, Davis pointed out
The issue isn't that the Conservatives are more open minded. It is that the two kinds are articles aren't equivalent. Or to put it uncharitably, even Conservatives don't want to read that crap.
Also note that if you read the story, it is the Republican you get if you hold down on English too long. Presumably even in Nevada that is the more likely scenario. Nice deal when you can have a bug in your favor and complain about it too...
The games I play (MMORPGs) are now regularly taking up more than 100Gig each. It doesn't take a whole lot of those to "approach terabyte territory".
I have a 1TB drive now that is about 2/3 full, and there are no less than 4 AAA MMORPGs due out in the next 6 months that I know I'll want to try. Then there will be the inevitable betas I want to try out. So 1TB may last me till April...
Try playing the just-released Civilization V without a DX11 card, and you'll be signing this tune for real. I have a pretty good non-DX11 card, and its painful (for a frigging turn-based strategy game!). Pretty much every PC gamer is going to need one of these cards the next time they buy a new game.
Right now the cheapest decent DX11 cards are Nvidia's 960 series, which tend to go for $200 or so. Perhaps that's no big deal to some, but I have a family to support, so $200 is kinda painful. I've been eagerly awaiting the release of these mid-range AMD cards because the competition is guaranteed to drop the prices for the NVidia cards too.
So this is really big news for myself and just about any other PC gamer whose last name isn't "Rockafeller".
It came down to a choice between closing our plant, or a unionized one. Boy, good thing we passed that right-to-work! Employers like GM really appreciate how much easier it is to close plants based here.:-{
Am I the only one who finds it sad that all the complaints from our allies in Pakistan about the inaccuracy of the predator killing their citizens didn't move us one bit...but when it turned out the software was massively inaccurate due to being a pirated version of a beta, then one little "IP" lawsuit can get the whole program shut down?
Seriously. We are now hated by the populus of our most important ally in this effort, entirely due to the collateral damage from these drone strikes. Polls show the US is now less popular in Pakistan than in any other country on earth. This seriously jeapordizes our entire effort. But people only start caring about the targeting software's crappyness when some tiny company's "Intellectual Property" is violated? Do we seriously care more about that than the lives of our professed friends?
That's the way it used to be... well... sort of. All DoD software was delivered with sources and owned by the DoD. Any contractor working on a DoD job had access to the sources of other DoD jobs (after filing the appropriate paperwork).
It has only been the last 15 years or so where they started to emphasise "COTS" (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) software. The idea was to stop paying for the software equivalent of $5,000 hammers. The problem is that companies often get into the habit of declaring "COTS" stuff they developed just for that one DoD job. This kinda screws the goverment (us!), the government agency can look good for having used more "COTS", so they go along with it.
In this envirnment, GPL software actually works very well. I once delivered some software built with Gnat (the Gnu Ada compiler). The paper pushers came in to look at the license documents expecting all kinds of trouble, only to leave pleased as punch.
These are "oppressive governments" we are talking about here, right? So now when they raid you looking for licenses, they burn any they find, and, then they shut you down for operating on unlicensed software. Heck, if you are using Linux they could still do it. You'd have to go to court to prove them wrong. Their court.
Yeah, I guess that's belief too. Like cutting trillions of dollars in tax recepts off the books somehow won't cause a deficit. But we don't live in Neverland; you can't make something you'd like to believe true just by repeating it over and over again. The cold hard fact is that we had surplusses for years until the day Bush passed that tax cut.
If you graph out Federal expenditures over the last 10 years, along with the expenses related to our two wars and the losses to the treasury due to being in a recession and to Bush's tax cuts, you will see that without those three things we'd actually be deficit-neutral right now. Had we made different decisions over the last 10 years we could have had a balanced budget today.
If the car can't exceed 70 mph then nobody will buy it. Such a car would be simply unsafe.
My old 1982 Toyota 4-runner had trouble going more than 55 up relatively minor hills on highways. I thought it sucked too, but evidently people still bought the things.
My personal favorite is Senator Coburn, who pays a staffer to ferret out "waste" in the millions of dollar range and blather about it on the internet, while Coburn himself is in the Senate working tirelessly to extend the trillions of dollars of tax cuts for billionaires, which is responsible for about a third of our deficit.
My highest security job ever was a COMSEC job (think encryption key generators). All the documents were labeled SECRET - NOFORN (no non-US citizens). However, a full 1/3rd of my co-workers, while all US citizens were born in communist countries.
You could take the position that they'd be less likely to betray the US than people who've never lived under a Communist system like the rest of us. You might even be right. But I couldn't help but find it odd considering how anal they were about us not ever visiting Communist countries or talking to citizens of same.
However, what disturbs me about Seekfind is its apparent narrowness in what they deem as "Christian-enough." Apparently they will not index sites that describe end-times from an amillennial perspective -- which is the most widely held view in all of Christendom (not American fundamentalism), and they won't consider infant baptism (as we in the Presbyterian Church do) or even believers' baptism by sprinkling. What the?
Infant baptism and sprinkling are what is practiced in the Methodist Church (2'nd largest denomination in the USA) and most other "mainline" churches as well. It appears that this is yet another attempt by a small minority to promote their radical brand of Christianity as the only way Christians believe.
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Blizzard (and indeed most MMORPGS these days) uses filesharing to upload patches to their games. So I guess online gaming is not allowed for students there.
No biggie I guess if that's the way they want it. They'd just better make that clear to prospective applicants. "No gamers wanted here."
I'm pretty sure I've seen that TV show before.
Surely it's a Foot-operated User Device (FUD)?
No, they've had FUD patented for years.
Well, working backward (I got my BS in Computer Science in 89), only one of the things mentioned (mySQL) wouldn't have looked totally alien to me after I graduated 21 years ago. "Web Design & Development" didn't even exist then.
If my degree had been nothing more than learning 1989 - tech tools and training to do 1989 jobs, it would be pretty damned worthless right now. However, all that theory I learned about data structures, analysis of algorithms, good design principles, etc. is still in use today.
If you brought the button to the intersection yourself, its a pretty good bet it isn't connected to the light.
.. although even conservatives said liberal blogs were often better-written, Davis pointed out
The issue isn't that the Conservatives are more open minded. It is that the two kinds are articles aren't equivalent. Or to put it uncharitably, even Conservatives don't want to read that crap.
Austria-Hungary?
Further suppose that the company that makes the voting machines happens to have Nevada roots...
Also note that if you read the story, it is the Republican you get if you hold down on English too long. Presumably even in Nevada that is the more likely scenario. Nice deal when you can have a bug in your favor and complain about it too...
OK, I tried it out over the weekend, and playing Civ5 in DX9 mode definitely makes the difference (as attested to by my now bloodshot eyes).
The games I play (MMORPGs) are now regularly taking up more than 100Gig each. It doesn't take a whole lot of those to "approach terabyte territory".
I have a 1TB drive now that is about 2/3 full, and there are no less than 4 AAA MMORPGs due out in the next 6 months that I know I'll want to try. Then there will be the inevitable betas I want to try out. So 1TB may last me till April...
Well it *could* be that things are much better in DirectX 9 mode (which is what you'll have to use if you are still on XP I imagine).
Oops. Meant NVidia 460. Doh!
Try playing the just-released Civilization V without a DX11 card, and you'll be signing this tune for real. I have a pretty good non-DX11 card, and its painful (for a frigging turn-based strategy game!). Pretty much every PC gamer is going to need one of these cards the next time they buy a new game.
Right now the cheapest decent DX11 cards are Nvidia's 960 series, which tend to go for $200 or so. Perhaps that's no big deal to some, but I have a family to support, so $200 is kinda painful. I've been eagerly awaiting the release of these mid-range AMD cards because the competition is guaranteed to drop the prices for the NVidia cards too.
So this is really big news for myself and just about any other PC gamer whose last name isn't "Rockafeller".
It came down to a choice between closing our plant, or a unionized one. Boy, good thing we passed that right-to-work! Employers like GM really appreciate how much easier it is to close plants based here. :-{
Am I the only one who finds it sad that all the complaints from our allies in Pakistan about the inaccuracy of the predator killing their citizens didn't move us one bit...but when it turned out the software was massively inaccurate due to being a pirated version of a beta, then one little "IP" lawsuit can get the whole program shut down?
Seriously. We are now hated by the populus of our most important ally in this effort, entirely due to the collateral damage from these drone strikes. Polls show the US is now less popular in Pakistan than in any other country on earth. This seriously jeapordizes our entire effort. But people only start caring about the targeting software's crappyness when some tiny company's "Intellectual Property" is violated? Do we seriously care more about that than the lives of our professed friends?
That's the way it used to be ... well ... sort of. All DoD software was delivered with sources and owned by the DoD. Any contractor working on a DoD job had access to the sources of other DoD jobs (after filing the appropriate paperwork).
It has only been the last 15 years or so where they started to emphasise "COTS" (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) software. The idea was to stop paying for the software equivalent of $5,000 hammers. The problem is that companies often get into the habit of declaring "COTS" stuff they developed just for that one DoD job. This kinda screws the goverment (us!), the government agency can look good for having used more "COTS", so they go along with it.
In this envirnment, GPL software actually works very well. I once delivered some software built with Gnat (the Gnu Ada compiler). The paper pushers came in to look at the license documents expecting all kinds of trouble, only to leave pleased as punch.
These are "oppressive governments" we are talking about here, right? So now when they raid you looking for licenses, they burn any they find, and, then they shut you down for operating on unlicensed software. Heck, if you are using Linux they could still do it. You'd have to go to court to prove them wrong. Their court.
If they want you, they have you, laws be dammed.
Yeah, I guess that's belief too. Like cutting trillions of dollars in tax recepts off the books somehow won't cause a deficit. But we don't live in Neverland; you can't make something you'd like to believe true just by repeating it over and over again. The cold hard fact is that we had surplusses for years until the day Bush passed that tax cut.
If you graph out Federal expenditures over the last 10 years, along with the expenses related to our two wars and the losses to the treasury due to being in a recession and to Bush's tax cuts, you will see that without those three things we'd actually be deficit-neutral right now. Had we made different decisions over the last 10 years we could have had a balanced budget today.
For all our sakes, please nobody point that thing at Conservapedia.
If the car can't exceed 70 mph then nobody will buy it. Such a car would be simply unsafe.
My old 1982 Toyota 4-runner had trouble going more than 55 up relatively minor hills on highways. I thought it sucked too, but evidently people still bought the things.
My personal favorite is Senator Coburn, who pays a staffer to ferret out "waste" in the millions of dollar range and blather about it on the internet, while Coburn himself is in the Senate working tirelessly to extend the trillions of dollars of tax cuts for billionaires, which is responsible for about a third of our deficit.
My highest security job ever was a COMSEC job (think encryption key generators). All the documents were labeled SECRET - NOFORN (no non-US citizens). However, a full 1/3rd of my co-workers, while all US citizens were born in communist countries.
You could take the position that they'd be less likely to betray the US than people who've never lived under a Communist system like the rest of us. You might even be right. But I couldn't help but find it odd considering how anal they were about us not ever visiting Communist countries or talking to citizens of same.
However, what disturbs me about Seekfind is its apparent narrowness in what they deem as "Christian-enough." Apparently they will not index sites that describe end-times from an amillennial perspective -- which is the most widely held view in all of Christendom (not American fundamentalism), and they won't consider infant baptism (as we in the Presbyterian Church do) or even believers' baptism by sprinkling. What the?
Infant baptism and sprinkling are what is practiced in the Methodist Church (2'nd largest denomination in the USA) and most other "mainline" churches as well. It appears that this is yet another attempt by a small minority to promote their radical brand of Christianity as the only way Christians believe.
If a US citizen had written the same email, he'd instead get a visit from Fox executives to talk to him about getting his own show.
Where do I plug my laserdisc's into it?