I agree wholeheartedly. The more iterations the better, and interactive prototypes are incredibly useful for user testing.
One of the visual designers I work with sent me a couple flash prototypes generated from http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/quick-and-easy-flash and I thought it was a very slick experience. Not sure how much work it was on the designer's end though.
Once elected, Obama can enact REAL change and retroactively remove the immunity if it is even worth it.
That is exactly the problem with this bill, once immunity is granted there is nothing the next administration can do to retract it. We will never get a chance to learn exactly what occurred...
Building large software systems is hard, but experience shows that building large software systems that actually work is even harder. And trying to do all this before your competitors has proved fatal to many software projects. This course covers techniques for dealing with the complexity of software systems. We will focus on the technology of software engineering for the individual and small team, rather than business or management issues. Topics will include, among others, specifications, principles of design and software architecture, testing, debugging, static analysis, and version control.
This course is unique in the CS curriculum in that students are involved in a large-team project. You will see what it takes to collaborate with people with different skills and approach to software development. Students select the topics of the projects and almost all aspects of developement (programming language, libraries, build environment, etc.).
I regret never being able to schedule this one when I was there, so can't comment on how it would have prepared me...
Err. Wouldn't a lazy and undedicated team just poop out games to exploit the licenses? I never understood why people get so hung up on release dates...Haven't all the games that are released with show-stopping bugs or tacked-on endings just to make a financial quarter taught us anything? For me the quality of the game is the main issue, and apparently for Blizzard as well.
Also, these are completely separate dev teams I believe. Diablo II was definitely Blizzard North, and I believe that Ghost is their console team.
Yeesh...you might want to trade in that English-to-Homophobe dictionary. Look for one where "GLBT-friendly" comes out as "we won't insult/harass/hate you" instead of "anti-straight".
I'm not familiar with the mentioned guild/server, but mine has a similar guild that took an extraordinary amount of flak for just trying to provide a gaming experience where you don't hear "stfu u fag" every 5 minutes. (Of course there are still plenty of "stfu u n00b", etc., but it's a start...)
...the receipt is for a 4x4 with 16 extra patties/cheese slices.
According to the nutritional info, a cheeseburger has 480 calories and 27 grams of fat, while a double-double has 670 and 41, respectively. That means this monstrosity weighs in at 4090 calories and 293g fat!
Personally I want to see before and after photos of the proud owner (renter?).
In my opinion, it's really important to read the book first. That way, you create your own interpretation of the characters, settings, etc. Once you've seen the movie, regardless of how good or bad it is, there's no way to completely forget the actors' faces and voices, and your imagination is no longer completely your own. So I prefer to read a book with just me and the words, and not think things like, "Oh, this is the scene where Julia Roberts gets mauled by that badger".
That argument works for houses, not so much for electronics, and fails miserably for cars and clothes. An SUV is one of the worst value-per-dollar investments I can think of (Kung-Fu lessons, anyone?)...ridiculous profit margins, poor handling, horrible efficiency, questionable aesthetics, yet sell like proverbial hotcakes here.
Also, TFA focuses on young adults (specifically teenage girls) as driving this part of the economy, so I don't think that home owners are necessarily a valid comparison.
The only time I'd use goto is in my example above, when there is only the one appropriately-named label in the function, so the flow is clear (or rather, clearer than the n nested ifs which it replaces). I trust myself to respect that, but wouldn't necessarily use this in a heavily collaborative situation.
In addition to the Netscape brand recognition and large AOL userbase, hopefully there can be some third-party cohabitation that AOL can pull off but Mozilla can't (won't). What I really want to see (and the reason I don't recommend novices install Moz/FF themselves) is a very user-friendly installer with the following plugins integrated:
Java
Flash & Shockwave
Quicktime
Realplayer
hell, Bittorrent too
That will give the target audience the full-featured, easy-to-install, compatible-with-most-sites-and-media browser they long for (even if they don't know it yet)
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I was looking forward to Guild Wars however since it is being created by NC Soft I will now skip that one too.
Actually Guild Wars and City of Heroes are published by NC Soft, but are created by ArenaNet and Cryptic Studios respectively. And there is a world of difference...CoH is pretty much the antithesis of Lineage 2 in terms of MMORPG philosophy: a shipload of character options, fast-paced and exciting combat, no crafting, and no PvP (yet). So don't hold Lineage's suckitude against the other dev teams...
I've been on board since launch, and in the scant hours between raising a toddler and working 60 hour weeks, I've brought my character (scrapper) to almost lvl 30.
Team battles - I hang out with different people depending what time of day I'm on, and the composition of your team and that of the different enemy groups makes for plenty of variety (and lots of well-animated chaos). Soloing can definitely get repetitive, but finding a fun group makes all the difference. Quoth Tycho:
The other thing that I didn't understand is the extent to which playing with different groups reveals really crucial interdependencies. I'll talk about that some other time, but the more I play, the more I think that "teaming" is actually the purpose of their entire game.
Environments - The zones start out nice, and get cooler as you go. The scale of the damage in Faultline, the creepy atmosphere in Dark Astoria, and the Nazi base and Underground City indoor zones are my favorites so far (I haven't played or seen anything from the First Update yet). Although everyone is sick of warehouses and office buildings, all of the outdoor zones are huge, have their own unique feel, and the enemies make sense in their environment (mafia fighting triad for control of the docks, mystics performing rituals in graveyards, gangs stealing purses less than a block from superhero HQ (maybe not so much the last one)). Fantasy games just have a much more limited choice of settings.
The Writing - I strongly recommend reading all the "Clues" that advance each story, and always talking to your contacts. They've put a lot of effort into the content, and it is very entertaining. Doing missions with a group is much more rewarding than random patrols IMO. Plus I enjoy "events" like alien invasions, no matter how embarassing it is to get killed by an albino space chimp.
The Future - They are saying all the right things about where they want to take the game, and I am very curious about the higher-level content that is in the game now. I signed up for 6 months at once (it lowers the monthly rate to $13), and if I've seen all there is to see by then I will happily stop (hello WoW?). I'm not looking for a game to play forever (says the guy with active Diablo II accounts from like 5 years ago), but so far this has been fun every step of the way, unlike Lineage 2, which won't let you do anything fun at all until you are 80 hours in (I tried to enjoy the beta, really).
I definitely agree...I love the 8-function version....only $25 and it has Tivo and ReplayTV buttons. Plus it is incredibly light and thin. The only flaw is that the buttons are not backlit or glow-in-the-dark (which should be a minimum requirement for all remotes).
I used to geek out on my Philips NeoPronto, their $200 "low end" progammable remote, until my toddler introduced it to the floor. It was more fun to program than it was to use, though...you don't really care about having 20-step macros and custom logo bitmaps for all your favorite channels when you keep hitting the wrong fsckin' numbers on the touch screen.
Michael Moore found a tiny molehill in the flight of some bin Laden family members out of the country. It doesn't surprise me that he managed to make an entire 90 minute propaganda film out of this molehill. What is truly amazing are the hordes of people who think this is significant.
WTFM please...the flight issue is but one example of the Bush/Saudi relationship, which is but one point of the film. The only people making mountains out of molehills are conservatives, because IT'S THE ONLY POINT THEY CAN DISPUTE.
According to this PDF, "In 2003, the City converted to 100% Biodiesel for its diesel vehicles. Berkeley it is the first
city of its size in America to convert to 100% Biodiesel for virtually an entire fleet.
B100 is in use in over 180 of the City's diesel vehicles representing 90 percent of its fleet of
200 diesel vehicles. (The remaining 10 percent of diesel vehicles are Fire Department
vehicles that will be converted to 100% Biodiesel when accommodations are made for
delivering Biodiesel to the more remote Fire Stations throughout the City"
Also, "The City is committed to reducing its negative impact on air quality through alternative fuel
use in the city fleet including electric, CNG and biodiesel. In 2001, Berkeley received a
TFCA grant and purchased four compressed natural gas (CNG) refuse trucks, and one bus for
homeless transportation. The City also leases one electric vehicle for housing inspections.
These new vehicles expand the City's alternatively fueled vehicle fleet which already
includes 10 CNG vehicles, two electric pick up trucks, one electric sedan, 10 electric parking
scooters, 2 electric utility carts and 9 fleet bicycles. The City provides an electric vehicle
recharging station in Center Street Garage and preferential street parking for electric
vehicles."
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Berkeley was the original University of California, until we needed places to send all the inferior faculty and students.
I agree wholeheartedly. The more iterations the better, and interactive prototypes are incredibly useful for user testing. One of the visual designers I work with sent me a couple flash prototypes generated from http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/quick-and-easy-flash and I thought it was a very slick experience. Not sure how much work it was on the designer's end though.
Once elected, Obama can enact REAL change and retroactively remove the immunity if it is even worth it.
That is exactly the problem with this bill, once immunity is granted there is nothing the next administration can do to retract it. We will never get a chance to learn exactly what occurred...
I regret never being able to schedule this one when I was there, so can't comment on how it would have prepared me...
...I better go turn the TV off and take my son outside.
Err. Wouldn't a lazy and undedicated team just poop out games to exploit the licenses? I never understood why people get so hung up on release dates...Haven't all the games that are released with show-stopping bugs or tacked-on endings just to make a financial quarter taught us anything? For me the quality of the game is the main issue, and apparently for Blizzard as well.
Also, these are completely separate dev teams I believe. Diablo II was definitely Blizzard North, and I believe that Ghost is their console team.
"Disgusting" seems a leetle melodramatic to me.
Yeesh...you might want to trade in that English-to-Homophobe dictionary. Look for one where "GLBT-friendly" comes out as "we won't insult/harass/hate you" instead of "anti-straight".
I'm not familiar with the mentioned guild/server, but mine has a similar guild that took an extraordinary amount of flak for just trying to provide a gaming experience where you don't hear "stfu u fag" every 5 minutes. (Of course there are still plenty of "stfu u n00b", etc., but it's a start...)
According to the nutritional info, a cheeseburger has 480 calories and 27 grams of fat, while a double-double has 670 and 41, respectively. That means this monstrosity weighs in at 4090 calories and 293g fat!
Personally I want to see before and after photos of the proud owner (renter?).
In my opinion, it's really important to read the book first. That way, you create your own interpretation of the characters, settings, etc. Once you've seen the movie, regardless of how good or bad it is, there's no way to completely forget the actors' faces and voices, and your imagination is no longer completely your own. So I prefer to read a book with just me and the words, and not think things like, "Oh, this is the scene where Julia Roberts gets mauled by that badger".
That argument works for houses, not so much for electronics, and fails miserably for cars and clothes. An SUV is one of the worst value-per-dollar investments I can think of (Kung-Fu lessons, anyone?)...ridiculous profit margins, poor handling, horrible efficiency, questionable aesthetics, yet sell like proverbial hotcakes here.
Also, TFA focuses on young adults (specifically teenage girls) as driving this part of the economy, so I don't think that home owners are necessarily a valid comparison.
The only time I'd use goto is in my example above, when there is only the one appropriately-named label in the function, so the flow is clear (or rather, clearer than the n nested ifs which it replaces). I trust myself to respect that, but wouldn't necessarily use this in a heavily collaborative situation.
not a "need" per se, but I've found it to be occasionally helpful for legible memory management:
In addition to the Netscape brand recognition and large AOL userbase, hopefully there can be some third-party cohabitation that AOL can pull off but Mozilla can't (won't). What I really want to see (and the reason I don't recommend novices install Moz/FF themselves) is a very user-friendly installer with the following plugins integrated:
That will give the target audience the full-featured, easy-to-install, compatible-with-most-sites-and-media browser they long for (even if they don't know it yet) .
How long has EQ been out now? And how much of that endgame content was there in the first year?
The best use I found for my dremel is to cut my basset hound's toenails...good for any large dog, and much easier than clippers IMO.
I was looking forward to Guild Wars however since it is being created by NC Soft I will now skip that one too.
Actually Guild Wars and City of Heroes are published by NC Soft, but are created by ArenaNet and Cryptic Studios respectively. And there is a world of difference...CoH is pretty much the antithesis of Lineage 2 in terms of MMORPG philosophy: a shipload of character options, fast-paced and exciting combat, no crafting, and no PvP (yet). So don't hold Lineage's suckitude against the other dev teams...
Or perhaps this!
That's a lot of toads.
Sorry, it tested fine when I posted. The model number is PMDVR8, and following those links, amazon has it for only $15.
I've been on board since launch, and in the scant hours between raising a toddler and working 60 hour weeks, I've brought my character (scrapper) to almost lvl 30.
Team battles - I hang out with different people depending what time of day I'm on, and the composition of your team and that of the different enemy groups makes for plenty of variety (and lots of well-animated chaos). Soloing can definitely get repetitive, but finding a fun group makes all the difference. Quoth Tycho:
Environments - The zones start out nice, and get cooler as you go. The scale of the damage in Faultline, the creepy atmosphere in Dark Astoria, and the Nazi base and Underground City indoor zones are my favorites so far (I haven't played or seen anything from the First Update yet). Although everyone is sick of warehouses and office buildings, all of the outdoor zones are huge, have their own unique feel, and the enemies make sense in their environment (mafia fighting triad for control of the docks, mystics performing rituals in graveyards, gangs stealing purses less than a block from superhero HQ (maybe not so much the last one)). Fantasy games just have a much more limited choice of settings.
The Writing - I strongly recommend reading all the "Clues" that advance each story, and always talking to your contacts. They've put a lot of effort into the content, and it is very entertaining. Doing missions with a group is much more rewarding than random patrols IMO. Plus I enjoy "events" like alien invasions, no matter how embarassing it is to get killed by an albino space chimp.
The Future - They are saying all the right things about where they want to take the game, and I am very curious about the higher-level content that is in the game now. I signed up for 6 months at once (it lowers the monthly rate to $13), and if I've seen all there is to see by then I will happily stop (hello WoW?). I'm not looking for a game to play forever (says the guy with active Diablo II accounts from like 5 years ago), but so far this has been fun every step of the way, unlike Lineage 2, which won't let you do anything fun at all until you are 80 hours in (I tried to enjoy the beta, really).
I definitely agree...I love the 8-function version....only $25 and it has Tivo and ReplayTV buttons. Plus it is incredibly light and thin. The only flaw is that the buttons are not backlit or glow-in-the-dark (which should be a minimum requirement for all remotes).
I used to geek out on my Philips NeoPronto, their $200 "low end" progammable remote, until my toddler introduced it to the floor. It was more fun to program than it was to use, though...you don't really care about having 20-step macros and custom logo bitmaps for all your favorite channels when you keep hitting the wrong fsckin' numbers on the touch screen.
Michael Moore found a tiny molehill in the flight of some bin Laden family members out of the country. It doesn't surprise me that he managed to make an entire 90 minute propaganda film out of this molehill. What is truly amazing are the hordes of people who think this is significant.
WTFM please...the flight issue is but one example of the Bush/Saudi relationship, which is but one point of the film. The only people making mountains out of molehills are conservatives, because IT'S THE ONLY POINT THEY CAN DISPUTE.
Warren Ellis called them "kinetic harpoons" in the most recent issue of Global Frequency.
620 KiB/s here...guess it's time to leave a tip
According to this PDF, "In 2003, the City converted to 100% Biodiesel for its diesel vehicles. Berkeley it is the first city of its size in America to convert to 100% Biodiesel for virtually an entire fleet. B100 is in use in over 180 of the City's diesel vehicles representing 90 percent of its fleet of 200 diesel vehicles. (The remaining 10 percent of diesel vehicles are Fire Department vehicles that will be converted to 100% Biodiesel when accommodations are made for delivering Biodiesel to the more remote Fire Stations throughout the City"
Also, "The City is committed to reducing its negative impact on air quality through alternative fuel use in the city fleet including electric, CNG and biodiesel. In 2001, Berkeley received a TFCA grant and purchased four compressed natural gas (CNG) refuse trucks, and one bus for homeless transportation. The City also leases one electric vehicle for housing inspections. These new vehicles expand the City's alternatively fueled vehicle fleet which already includes 10 CNG vehicles, two electric pick up trucks, one electric sedan, 10 electric parking scooters, 2 electric utility carts and 9 fleet bicycles. The City provides an electric vehicle recharging station in Center Street Garage and preferential street parking for electric vehicles."
Plus, I saw a cop on a segway once.