I don't know about your setup, but my 50" LCD rear proj Sony plays games amazingly well. If you have a TV with a decent video proceeessor, any half decent source can be made to looook fine. I play Game Cube games on it all the time and they're crisp and smooth. There aren't the interlaced gap issues that some HD sets may suffer from.
When you use glare blockers, the point is to remove or reflect away as much incoming light while trying to keep the outgoing light as intense as possible. One solution to this is to remove incoming light by angling '_/_' the reflective material so that light coming in from an angle relects away from observer viewing the screen from center position. This makes light relecting 'out' of the glare blocker just as weak at those same angles. This is why you can barely make out the picture from the side. The light has been trapped inside blocker.
I can't think of a decent glare blocker that wouldn't apply either depth or angular constraints on the display. Unless I've got my theory very wrong, you're asking for a glare blocker that doesn't do what glare blockers do.. erm.. yeah....
The only other hope you have is to boost the source lighting from the laptop. Maybe you should buy a super high intensity iris burning LCD. That'll cancel out most ambient lighting as well as turn your eyes into two little meat balls =)
The point is valid if not put a little heavy handed. A parent should make sure that their children are being raised with socially positive behaviour. A parent should with due diligence know what they're doing and where they're doing it. If you 'need' to take further strides than simply talking to your child, then by all means take them. If you wanna know where your kid is, get them a cell phone without caller ID and *gasp* actually talk to them. If you can't trust them, then get a phione that can report their general location. I think the tech is on the market for that (not GPS, but cell triangulation).
It basically comes down to if you can't trust your kid, then I'd monitor their web / phone logs. I would tell them vaguely that you could decide to do it at any point just to make sure they're not getting raped by some sick pedophiles. Use those words. They'll go "Oh Mom/Dad thats just sick" and soon forget about it. If they find out what you're doing by themselves, they'll just feel enclosed and abused by your hawking. Just imagine if yuo found out the local police office had you wiretapped. You'd really hate the cops for the same reason. As long as you tell them that it could happen, they've got nobody but themselves to blame for spilling out some nefarious secret.
PS: You want to monitor your child's online behaviour for the big stuff, not the little ones. If you but them on every little thing, they'll try to no end to bypass the monitor or just use the internet from somewhere else. Don't abuse your right to monitor because it could backfire by missing out on the big problems.
You're looking at the problem in reverse. The reason these companies are off-shore is because of the laws in place by the US. Its like me trying to open up a winery during the prohabition. It'd be plain stupid. Why would these people host gambling sites in America if its been illegal from the get go? If they're pissed off that the economy is loosing money, then they could change the laws which would encourage local gambling. They won't so this is the only viable solution to plug the hole.
--- or, you can get your ISP / host to do it for you, hence my comments.
Once again, if you're hosting your corporate email, you're more than likely hosting larger than 1 IP. My company had a block of 32 (out of the box) and they gave us our own ASN without even asking for it. If you're running on dynamic blocks, then there's no protection for you (for good reason). If you're buying IP space, make sure to get your own blocks. Some providers offer it, some don't.
The worst case is that you can't get your own CIDR block, your ISP hosts spam providers, the spammers are within your current netblock, and the ISP is unresponsive to the spam activity.
The judge was probably in the right sadly. Without -any- defense, the judge has no choice but to side with the plaintiff. Don't ask me how they came up with the damages though..
If you're worried about someone sending spam from a shared IP block, I'd start walking to another provider where your CIDR sub-block is registered to you and you only.
Sorry, but if you're worrying about how many port are on your TV, then you're missing half the problem to begin with. What part? The sound! If you want HDMI to you're TV, you're not getting a home theatre receiver. If you think that HDMI is more imporant than a home theatre sound system, then you're dreaming (unless you're deaf of course).
Most new mid-range receivers these days are coming out with 2 in, 1 out HDMI. If you're really that worried about running out of ports then pick up a higher end unit ($$) that has more. This has always been an issue SVIDEO, Component, and now HDMI.
IMHO, split between Component and HDMI until you can pick up a decent receiver / speakers. The visual improvements between Component and HDMI aren't substantially different unless the source device isn't implementing one of the other correctly.
f**k cares when it costs ass loads just to opt into this rediculously expensive market. I don't even see my fellow nerds using '3g' technologies of today since telocs keep the prices outragously high (at least where I live).
The next slashdot poll should be My cell phone supports 1. Analog 2. 2g 3. 3g 4. Cowboynealg 5. I don't have a cell phone you insensitive clod!
when you hear them talking up about this and that, try to engage (ambush, whatever) them and ride with the punches. If you get in their face long enough, they'll either accept you as one of the crowd or think you're amazingly annoying. Either way, you know if you'll ever be accepted. Since you're in an IT-type discipline, the best times to approach are when they're on general technology topics.
Don't let gender related humor fly. Guys love to raz each-other and if/when tey take pot shots at vaginas, don't just let it stand. It sets a bad presidence. If they take a shot at you, comment on their small member, or something as asinine. This is often how the guy work circle behaves. Its not necessarily as nurturing as the female side of the equation. If you want to break down those barriers, you have to learn to be 'kinda' a guy.
Maybe after all of that and you've effectively broken into the clique, you find that they're not really the kind of people you wanted to hang out with anyway. Its though being the odd one out, but sometimes it's for the best.
PS: This is from a man, so this is the perspective from my side =/
Unlike anything else I saw, I bought a game cube after years and years of being a console hater. Why? Because I've a social gamer and nothing caters to my current gameing interests more than having a few friends coming over to play Mario party or Super Smash Bros, etc.
When the survey says that these groups aren't being catered to, they're not exactly being truthful. There are games produced for social gamers and the other groups. The problem is they're recognized less when propped up against multi-million dollar time killers like Grand Theft Auto. Plus, just because there are gamers of six categories, it doesn't mean there's money to be made. Anyone who isn't in the 'hard-core' demographics are typically not heavy spenders in gaming. Maybe, the supply is already meeting demand. Is the article flamebait, or just oversimplifying the supply/demand balance?
Adventure games of ye-olde year were not easy! I wish they had strategy guides, or maybe even an appendix of all the things you could touch, talk, get/take, look/see, etc... Frustration to no end.
Plus, there were always 'strategy'-typed guides for games ever since i remember them back in the eary console days. Many rediculous puzzles in games aren't a scale of difficulty but simply the result of bad game development. By the time a player gets to any puzzle in the game, they should be equipped with the mental ability to reason out the problem.
Take some games like the Zelda. I played though it without looking for answers. Its not that there weren't interesting puzzles to solve, its just that throughout the game, they sculplted their puzzles to 'train' you to use the tools you're given in creative ways. If a game gives you a gun and tells you to shoot enemies, it might not be evident that you can use it for other things like hitting switches or blowing up barrels hollywood-style.
/religious rhetoric In that vein, how can a good christian support blood transfusions and organ transplants since "it does bring up some difficult issues regarding souls". How do Christians define souls these days? When a fertilized egg splits into identical twins, does only one of them have a soul? If so, then when do you draw the line between parents' souls, new soul, and no soul? If I bleed, am I shedding a piece of my soul? If I 'spread my seed on the ground' am I not then loosing a piece of my soul? If you transplant cells from one person to another, does a part of the doner's soul get implanted into the recipient? In that extension would jehovah's witness's actually be right?/end
Ignoring all the religious rhetoric, there are definitly issues that span beyond the boundaries of religion. The entire spectrum of reprogenics will be an issue for the 21st century, and should be addressed by law makers now. We have to (as a society) address these issues with untained biases. The religious dogma holding back the progress of celular manipulations and selection will only last for so long. To dismiss the fight because of dogma when all society would be changed is not acceptible. This isn't a religious concern, its a concern of us all.
I think its important to develop a set of criteria regarding these practices that limit the extent gene manipulation can be taken both pre and post birth. Worrying about where the material is coming from is just one concern to address.
What are you talking about? If you actually read the OP's article, you'd see it was not about the eroding poverty of the very bottom rung of American society, but now the eroding middle class, hint all you poor protectionist IT bastards trying to hold onto your nice 30-70k (or whereever the middle-class line is drawn) jobs.
The further talk in the issue basically said that in the 80's, the disparity between poor and middle/rich grew quite a bit, but since around the nineties to now, its the rich launching off from the poor/middle classes. Apparently the top 1% of America own 15% of the wealth. Thats a fairly fat slice.
I'd pick up the magazine this issue if I were you. It was actually quite interesting following their reasoning if you believe it or not is another thing completely.
Ah, sweet BCIT. I worked on embedded systems development (Not exactly chip design mind you), and I delt with the challenge adequately. Another friend, same school, same company ended up being one of their most proficient developers. Just because you don't get the entirety of the education to be entry 'qualified' doesn't mean you're incapable of ever picking it up. Given the chance, many can perform quite well above their current educational level.
With that said, I think 2 years experience would be a challenging task. Then again, they don't necessarily hire entry level chip developers. They could start you off with more remedial jobs and make you work in-house a while.
The question really is, are there -any- chip manufacturers still around in the Americas? Well, there seems to be a few big-houses still around, and if you're really questioning to keep the program or not, why not ask these companies personally? Maybe you could even arange career seminars with soon-to-be graduates?
My reason for not upgrading my gaming rig is the same reason I didn't upgrade to XP. I hate the OS. Win2k has been perfectly functional for all my gaming needs throughout the entire XP product lifecycle. There was not a single game that I played where I felt less of a gamer by not using XP. I can handle not being 'supported', but what I won't accept is being cut out of the market all together. All this means is that I won't pay for anything Vista/Dx10 only.
Dx3,5,7,9 were all backward compatible to Win98 apparently. All of a sudden, Dx10 stops any form of backwards compatibility.
"..driver model in Vista is quite different from XP's model.." Well thats ok then. Make DX10 only support WDF then. According to their whitepaper (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/wdf/wdf-arch .mspx), WDF can run over any modern NT-based kernel. The question is, will they back-port WDF officially, or will they come out with a lame excuse to justify the lock-in.. only time will tell.
there are next to $0 solutions to your problems. I used to admin a network with a t1 and 3 DSL's. The DSL's were for specialty web traffic while the T1 was business services traffic and email.
Although we weren't providing anything around 5-9's service, my setup managed 3-9's without too much effort.
The router was a simple vanilla Linux router with n-ports, one for each internet line and one for any local subnets. You could be creative and break up the internal architecture any way you like.
You'll need to spend a few dedicated weeks learning everything about iproute2, iptables, and tc. Its not all that pretty for newbs, and if you simply don't have the time to get comfortable with it, just stop reading now. If you step into this, you'll need to be armed with information. Otherwise, you're in for a world of hurt. On the bright side, once, you've mastered all there is to it, you'll truly be a networking god, and not just the lowly net-op that you are today.
Maybe there's a reason there are shortages in these fields. I have known dozens of engineers that ended up getting jobs in software development.
I don't know why they didn't take a job in their field. Maybe the jobs are crap, maybe the pay just isn't worth it. Maybe the engineers are so old and wise that there are too few people graduating who can take up the slack?
or are their methodologies flawed? I could care less if Ads were in games, but I'd want full disclosure that they -are- in there. Also, if you're making money selling ad-encumbered game, I want a stiff discount on how much you're charging me for the game.
It relates to my movie watching habbits. DVD I buy DVD's for the purity of the movie without useless marketing crap. I don't buy DVDs that have no ads, period. If you wanna bleed a bunch of wankers for advertising, lower your prices for ad encumbered -low end- versions of your movies that maybe don't have the special features, etc..
Movie Theatre Since they're so full of ads these days, its almost impossible to drag me out to any multiplex-type movies. I see indy's cause its still a fun experience.
TV watching I expect Ads, but the programming is relatively cheap, so I don't have a problem with the annoyance of ads for paying less.
He said the couple non-kiddie-type games looked weak. The article's author seemed indifferent about if the Wii would be successful or not. He did say MS/Sony would bleed though.
"the Wii controller is a cheap gimmick..."
Sadly, the Wii controller 'could' turn into a cheap gimmick. We've seen them before and we'll see them well into the future. We just have time to discover if the controller's gimmick or a useful innovation.
"console hardware loses money. Yeah? And they make money back through royalties on each game sold." I think xbox was the first platform to never break even on their hardware. Just because thats the going trend doesn't mean it can be sustained.
There'll be a tipping point where bleeding your apponent means taking losses that could potentially ruin you. Maybe Nintendo's less aggressive with the pixel pushing this cycle so that they actually turn a profit instead of just decapitate their foes. If Nintendo spend load of R&D on the system and it flops horribly it could end the company. MS/Sony have the safety net of a gigantic larger company to fall back on.
"point #3..." The industry may not crash, but there'll be adjustments certainly. Devs and publishers will come and go.
Thats why labor unions use as much political sway as they can wield to secure themselves against such predetory activities. I admit that in the state you're pretty much fucked. In canada, labor has a little sway. Not a ton, but better than southside. If you wanna see how labor sway countries, look at the euro-zone. Their politics are still fairly balanced between unions and business.
textile Low/No tariffs, easily trained work and cheap shipping costs made this inevitable.
airline employees The large amarican airlines themselves are dieing as well. The low-costs are doing a great job at maximizing profits and staying as 'thin' as possible. They carry unions and they make big cash. Maybe it wasn't the unions that are killing the airline industry.. Maybe its the poorly -managed- companies.
Um, maybe you should think about what the poster said a little more before answering in rant mode. You fail to note that there are many many many non-engineer's working in engineering-type fields. Just because someone isn't an engineer doesn't mean that they can't be electricians. I think the grand-parent wanted someone like that for IT. We don't have a professional designation. Accountants are certified, Engineers are certified, etc..
Our problem is that we've got so -many- certifications that are overtly specific to key fields that we could have an exchange server 'god' admin that couldn't support a network if their life depended on it. There's no 'professional' designation for a generalized IT or systems developer.
You're example is quite different from the rest of the discussion: 1. You have no prior business arrangement with Oracle 2. You haven't bought the piece of software in question 3. You aren't required to have a software audit upon request 4. They have no reason to question that you're using the software correctly or not (since you never used it, there's no dial home)
There's a difference between "Buy our software because you haven't, but you should, so do it!" and "We've been mulling it over in the ol' license factory and we think you're lieing when you say you're only using our software 5 times. We think you need to license 100,000,000 users since one server's SMB share is available to the internet serving pr0n (good pr0n btw). So instead of using high pressure marketing techniques which obviously aren't working, we're going to use our manifest right to invade your workplace to mandate what's needed for compliance the way we see it."
Dude! They fall down! And they start blinking.. BLINKING for christ sake then they vanish! If that isn't a sure fire proof then I.. ermm.. THEY BLINK.. then VANISH!!
Lets face it. One part of most boys development is to make liberal use of our adrenaline & testosterone. Some people play sports, some play video games, some get in fights, some go on murderous rampages, some break things, some hike, et al. The point is that it happens. Now, if there's a better outlet to fast-paced violent video games, then lets find it. IMHO if it means that some bored teenager wants to do -something- I'd rather it be beating the crap out of some virtual enemy than against a real person.
I think the real issue with the 'older' audience is that they've forgotten these key periods in a young boy's life. I say boys because in general people aren't afraid about girls morals being eroded. Its like there's a magical shield around girls that say they can't be violent offenders or mass murderers. Thats another flaw in their logic.
Not only that, they've mistakenly attributed the realism in video games as an increased threat to our childrens morals than the 'harmless' nature of games in the old days, like double dragon (The sole activity of the game is killing people).
If Jack really wanted to solve the problem, he'd come up with a new teenage pass-time that they actually want to do more than games.
Just to end this thought: "Part of the research challenge is to try to learn what positive changes affecting children born most recently are associated with the reductions in both victimization and offending" Quote relates to the severe decrease in crime from teenagers recently. http://www.nichd.nih.gov/new/releases/americas_chi ldren.cfm?from=sids
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I don't know about your setup, but my 50" LCD rear proj Sony plays games amazingly well. If you have a TV with a decent video proceeessor, any half decent source can be made to looook fine. I play Game Cube games on it all the time and they're crisp and smooth. There aren't the interlaced gap issues that some HD sets may suffer from.
When you use glare blockers, the point is to remove or reflect away as much incoming light while trying to keep the outgoing light as intense as possible. One solution to this is to remove incoming light by angling '_/_' the reflective material so that light coming in from an angle relects away from observer viewing the screen from center position. This makes light relecting 'out' of the glare blocker just as weak at those same angles. This is why you can barely make out the picture from the side. The light has been trapped inside blocker.
I can't think of a decent glare blocker that wouldn't apply either depth or angular constraints on the display. Unless I've got my theory very wrong, you're asking for a glare blocker that doesn't do what glare blockers do.. erm.. yeah....
The only other hope you have is to boost the source lighting from the laptop. Maybe you should buy a super high intensity iris burning LCD. That'll cancel out most ambient lighting as well as turn your eyes into two little meat balls =)
The point is valid if not put a little heavy handed. A parent should make sure that their children are being raised with socially positive behaviour. A parent should with due diligence know what they're doing and where they're doing it. If you 'need' to take further strides than simply talking to your child, then by all means take them. If you wanna know where your kid is, get them a cell phone without caller ID and *gasp* actually talk to them. If you can't trust them, then get a phione that can report their general location. I think the tech is on the market for that (not GPS, but cell triangulation).
It basically comes down to if you can't trust your kid, then I'd monitor their web / phone logs. I would tell them vaguely that you could decide to do it at any point just to make sure they're not getting raped by some sick pedophiles. Use those words. They'll go "Oh Mom/Dad thats just sick" and soon forget about it. If they find out what you're doing by themselves, they'll just feel enclosed and abused by your hawking. Just imagine if yuo found out the local police office had you wiretapped. You'd really hate the cops for the same reason. As long as you tell them that it could happen, they've got nobody but themselves to blame for spilling out some nefarious secret.
PS: You want to monitor your child's online behaviour for the big stuff, not the little ones. If you but them on every little thing, they'll try to no end to bypass the monitor or just use the internet from somewhere else. Don't abuse your right to monitor because it could backfire by missing out on the big problems.
You're looking at the problem in reverse. The reason these companies are off-shore is because of the laws in place by the US. Its like me trying to open up a winery during the prohabition. It'd be plain stupid. Why would these people host gambling sites in America if its been illegal from the get go? If they're pissed off that the economy is loosing money, then they could change the laws which would encourage local gambling. They won't so this is the only viable solution to plug the hole.
--- or, you can get your ISP / host to do it for you, hence my comments.
Once again, if you're hosting your corporate email, you're more than likely hosting larger than 1 IP. My company had a block of 32 (out of the box) and they gave us our own ASN without even asking for it. If you're running on dynamic blocks, then there's no protection for you (for good reason). If you're buying IP space, make sure to get your own blocks. Some providers offer it, some don't.
The worst case is that you can't get your own CIDR block, your ISP hosts spam providers, the spammers are within your current netblock, and the ISP is unresponsive to the spam activity.
The judge was probably in the right sadly. Without -any- defense, the judge has no choice but to side with the plaintiff. Don't ask me how they came up with the damages though..
If you're worried about someone sending spam from a shared IP block, I'd start walking to another provider where your CIDR sub-block is registered to you and you only.
Sorry, but if you're worrying about how many port are on your TV, then you're missing half the problem to begin with. What part? The sound! If you want HDMI to you're TV, you're not getting a home theatre receiver. If you think that HDMI is more imporant than a home theatre sound system, then you're dreaming (unless you're deaf of course).
Most new mid-range receivers these days are coming out with 2 in, 1 out HDMI. If you're really that worried about running out of ports then pick up a higher end unit ($$) that has more. This has always been an issue SVIDEO, Component, and now HDMI.
IMHO, split between Component and HDMI until you can pick up a decent receiver / speakers. The visual improvements between Component and HDMI aren't substantially different unless the source device isn't implementing one of the other correctly.
f**k cares when it costs ass loads just to opt into this rediculously expensive market. I don't even see my fellow nerds using '3g' technologies of today since telocs keep the prices outragously high (at least where I live).
The next slashdot poll should be
My cell phone supports
1. Analog
2. 2g
3. 3g
4. Cowboynealg
5. I don't have a cell phone you insensitive clod!
when you hear them talking up about this and that, try to engage (ambush, whatever) them and ride with the punches. If you get in their face long enough, they'll either accept you as one of the crowd or think you're amazingly annoying. Either way, you know if you'll ever be accepted. Since you're in an IT-type discipline, the best times to approach are when they're on general technology topics.
Don't let gender related humor fly. Guys love to raz each-other and if/when tey take pot shots at vaginas, don't just let it stand. It sets a bad presidence. If they take a shot at you, comment on their small member, or something as asinine. This is often how the guy work circle behaves. Its not necessarily as nurturing as the female side of the equation. If you want to break down those barriers, you have to learn to be 'kinda' a guy.
Maybe after all of that and you've effectively broken into the clique, you find that they're not really the kind of people you wanted to hang out with anyway. Its though being the odd one out, but sometimes it's for the best.
PS: This is from a man, so this is the perspective from my side =/
Unlike anything else I saw, I bought a game cube after years and years of being a console hater. Why? Because I've a social gamer and nothing caters to my current gameing interests more than having a few friends coming over to play Mario party or Super Smash Bros, etc.
When the survey says that these groups aren't being catered to, they're not exactly being truthful. There are games produced for social gamers and the other groups. The problem is they're recognized less when propped up against multi-million dollar time killers like Grand Theft Auto. Plus, just because there are gamers of six categories, it doesn't mean there's money to be made. Anyone who isn't in the 'hard-core' demographics are typically not heavy spenders in gaming. Maybe, the supply is already meeting demand. Is the article flamebait, or just oversimplifying the supply/demand balance?
Adventure games of ye-olde year were not easy! I wish they had strategy guides, or maybe even an appendix of all the things you could touch, talk, get/take, look/see, etc... Frustration to no end.
Plus, there were always 'strategy'-typed guides for games ever since i remember them back in the eary console days. Many rediculous puzzles in games aren't a scale of difficulty but simply the result of bad game development. By the time a player gets to any puzzle in the game, they should be equipped with the mental ability to reason out the problem.
Take some games like the Zelda. I played though it without looking for answers. Its not that there weren't interesting puzzles to solve, its just that throughout the game, they sculplted their puzzles to 'train' you to use the tools you're given in creative ways. If a game gives you a gun and tells you to shoot enemies, it might not be evident that you can use it for other things like hitting switches or blowing up barrels hollywood-style.
/religious rhetoric /end
In that vein, how can a good christian support blood transfusions and organ transplants since "it does bring up some difficult issues regarding souls". How do Christians define souls these days? When a fertilized egg splits into identical twins, does only one of them have a soul? If so, then when do you draw the line between parents' souls, new soul, and no soul? If I bleed, am I shedding a piece of my soul? If I 'spread my seed on the ground' am I not then loosing a piece of my soul? If you transplant cells from one person to another, does a part of the doner's soul get implanted into the recipient? In that extension would jehovah's witness's actually be right?
Ignoring all the religious rhetoric, there are definitly issues that span beyond the boundaries of religion. The entire spectrum of reprogenics will be an issue for the 21st century, and should be addressed by law makers now. We have to (as a society) address these issues with untained biases. The religious dogma holding back the progress of celular manipulations and selection will only last for so long. To dismiss the fight because of dogma when all society would be changed is not acceptible. This isn't a religious concern, its a concern of us all.
I think its important to develop a set of criteria regarding these practices that limit the extent gene manipulation can be taken both pre and post birth. Worrying about where the material is coming from is just one concern to address.
What are you talking about? If you actually read the OP's article, you'd see it was not about the eroding poverty of the very bottom rung of American society, but now the eroding middle class, hint all you poor protectionist IT bastards trying to hold onto your nice 30-70k (or whereever the middle-class line is drawn) jobs.
The further talk in the issue basically said that in the 80's, the disparity between poor and middle/rich grew quite a bit, but since around the nineties to now, its the rich launching off from the poor/middle classes. Apparently the top 1% of America own 15% of the wealth. Thats a fairly fat slice.
I'd pick up the magazine this issue if I were you. It was actually quite interesting following their reasoning if you believe it or not is another thing completely.
Ah, sweet BCIT. I worked on embedded systems development (Not exactly chip design mind you), and I delt with the challenge adequately. Another friend, same school, same company ended up being one of their most proficient developers. Just because you don't get the entirety of the education to be entry 'qualified' doesn't mean you're incapable of ever picking it up. Given the chance, many can perform quite well above their current educational level.
With that said, I think 2 years experience would be a challenging task. Then again, they don't necessarily hire entry level chip developers. They could start you off with more remedial jobs and make you work in-house a while.
The question really is, are there -any- chip manufacturers still around in the Americas? Well, there seems to be a few big-houses still around, and if you're really questioning to keep the program or not, why not ask these companies personally? Maybe you could even arange career seminars with soon-to-be graduates?
My reason for not upgrading my gaming rig is the same reason I didn't upgrade to XP. I hate the OS. Win2k has been perfectly functional for all my gaming needs throughout the entire XP product lifecycle. There was not a single game that I played where I felt less of a gamer by not using XP. I can handle not being 'supported', but what I won't accept is being cut out of the market all together. All this means is that I won't pay for anything Vista/Dx10 only.
h .mspx), WDF can run over any modern NT-based kernel. The question is, will they back-port WDF officially, or will they come out with a lame excuse to justify the lock-in.. only time will tell.
Dx3,5,7,9 were all backward compatible to Win98 apparently. All of a sudden, Dx10 stops any form of backwards compatibility.
"..driver model in Vista is quite different from XP's model.."
Well thats ok then. Make DX10 only support WDF then. According to their whitepaper (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/wdf/wdf-arc
there are next to $0 solutions to your problems. I used to admin a network with a t1 and 3 DSL's. The DSL's were for specialty web traffic while the T1 was business services traffic and email.
Although we weren't providing anything around 5-9's service, my setup managed 3-9's without too much effort.
The router was a simple vanilla Linux router with n-ports, one for each internet line and one for any local subnets. You could be creative and break up the internal architecture any way you like.
You'll need to spend a few dedicated weeks learning everything about iproute2, iptables, and tc. Its not all that pretty for newbs, and if you simply don't have the time to get comfortable with it, just stop reading now. If you step into this, you'll need to be armed with information. Otherwise, you're in for a world of hurt. On the bright side, once, you've mastered all there is to it, you'll truly be a networking god, and not just the lowly net-op that you are today.
Maybe there's a reason there are shortages in these fields. I have known dozens of engineers that ended up getting jobs in software development.
I don't know why they didn't take a job in their field. Maybe the jobs are crap, maybe the pay just isn't worth it. Maybe the engineers are so old and wise that there are too few people graduating who can take up the slack?
or are their methodologies flawed? I could care less if Ads were in games, but I'd want full disclosure that they -are- in there. Also, if you're making money selling ad-encumbered game, I want a stiff discount on how much you're charging me for the game.
It relates to my movie watching habbits.
DVD
I buy DVD's for the purity of the movie without useless marketing crap. I don't buy DVDs that have no ads, period. If you wanna bleed a bunch of wankers for advertising, lower your prices for ad encumbered -low end- versions of your movies that maybe don't have the special features, etc..
Movie Theatre
Since they're so full of ads these days, its almost impossible to drag me out to any multiplex-type movies. I see indy's cause its still a fun experience.
TV watching
I expect Ads, but the programming is relatively cheap, so I don't have a problem with the annoyance of ads for paying less.
"all Wii games are going to do very poorly"
He said the couple non-kiddie-type games looked weak. The article's author seemed indifferent about if the Wii would be successful or not. He did say MS/Sony would bleed though.
"the Wii controller is a cheap gimmick..."
Sadly, the Wii controller 'could' turn into a cheap gimmick. We've seen them before and we'll see them well into the future. We just have time to discover if the controller's gimmick or a useful innovation.
"console hardware loses money. Yeah? And they make money back through royalties on each game sold."
I think xbox was the first platform to never break even on their hardware. Just because thats the going trend doesn't mean it can be sustained.
There'll be a tipping point where bleeding your apponent means taking losses that could potentially ruin you. Maybe Nintendo's less aggressive with the pixel pushing this cycle so that they actually turn a profit instead of just decapitate their foes. If Nintendo spend load of R&D on the system and it flops horribly it could end the company. MS/Sony have the safety net of a gigantic larger company to fall back on.
"point #3..."
The industry may not crash, but there'll be adjustments certainly. Devs and publishers will come and go.
Thats why labor unions use as much political sway as they can wield to secure themselves against such predetory activities. I admit that in the state you're pretty much fucked. In canada, labor has a little sway. Not a ton, but better than southside. If you wanna see how labor sway countries, look at the euro-zone. Their politics are still fairly balanced between unions and business.
C orporation
steel
I dunno. According to the following article, unions started it, but 'below cost imports' were the nails in the coffin. Thats what Tariffs are for =)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Steel_
textile
Low/No tariffs, easily trained work and cheap shipping costs made this inevitable.
airline employees
The large amarican airlines themselves are dieing as well. The low-costs are doing a great job at maximizing profits and staying as 'thin' as possible. They carry unions and they make big cash. Maybe it wasn't the unions that are killing the airline industry.. Maybe its the poorly -managed- companies.
Um, maybe you should think about what the poster said a little more before answering in rant mode. You fail to note that there are many many many non-engineer's working in engineering-type fields. Just because someone isn't an engineer doesn't mean that they can't be electricians. I think the grand-parent wanted someone like that for IT. We don't have a professional designation. Accountants are certified, Engineers are certified, etc..
Our problem is that we've got so -many- certifications that are overtly specific to key fields that we could have an exchange server 'god' admin that couldn't support a network if their life depended on it. There's no 'professional' designation for a generalized IT or systems developer.
You're example is quite different from the rest of the discussion:
/self-slap
1. You have no prior business arrangement with Oracle
2. You haven't bought the piece of software in question
3. You aren't required to have a software audit upon request
4. They have no reason to question that you're using the software correctly or not (since you never used it, there's no dial home)
There's a difference between
"Buy our software because you haven't, but you should, so do it!"
and
"We've been mulling it over in the ol' license factory and we think you're lieing when you say you're only using our software 5 times. We think you need to license 100,000,000 users since one server's SMB share is available to the internet serving pr0n (good pr0n btw). So instead of using high pressure marketing techniques which obviously aren't working, we're going to use our manifest right to invade your workplace to mandate what's needed for compliance the way we see it."
Yeah, I was ranting...
Dude! They fall down! And they start blinking.. BLINKING for christ sake then they vanish! If that isn't a sure fire proof then I.. ermm.. THEY BLINK.. then VANISH!!
Lets face it. One part of most boys development is to make liberal use of our adrenaline & testosterone. Some people play sports, some play video games, some get in fights, some go on murderous rampages, some break things, some hike, et al. The point is that it happens. Now, if there's a better outlet to fast-paced violent video games, then lets find it. IMHO if it means that some bored teenager wants to do -something- I'd rather it be beating the crap out of some virtual enemy than against a real person.
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I think the real issue with the 'older' audience is that they've forgotten these key periods in a young boy's life. I say boys because in general people aren't afraid about girls morals being eroded. Its like there's a magical shield around girls that say they can't be violent offenders or mass murderers. Thats another flaw in their logic.
Not only that, they've mistakenly attributed the realism in video games as an increased threat to our childrens morals than the 'harmless' nature of games in the old days, like double dragon (The sole activity of the game is killing people).
If Jack really wanted to solve the problem, he'd come up with a new teenage pass-time that they actually want to do more than games.
Just to end this thought:
"Part of the research challenge is to try to learn what positive changes affecting children born most recently are associated with the reductions in both victimization and offending"
Quote relates to the severe decrease in crime from teenagers recently.
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/new/releases/americas_ch