Actually, IBM was still hiring quite a bit through 2000, and early 2001. It slowed down and a few divisions were sold off, but the big layoffs didn't come until about April 2002.
No need. There is a program out that allows you to basically run as many clients as your computer can handle and run some script on each one without attending it. Depending on how advanced you want to make the scripts would determine how effective your method is.
I think one of the reasons I enjoyed the series so much was that my opinions of the characters changed quite a bit from book 1 through book 2.
Also, I tried reading Terry Brooks recently and after 200 pages of the same "woe is me" bs from the main chars I couldn't take it anymore.
That's not to say I liked all the chars and was certainly more interested in some more than others, but even those I didn't care for much had enough going on around them to make reading enjoyable.
In college I had a friend who's suitemate was always stealing food/drinks. Eventually they decided to started making special batches of brownies, cookies, etc. which had ex-lax, or other such extras in them. Everyone but the offending stealer knew not to eat them. I don't know if the guy ever figured it out or not, but it sure brings a smile to my face thinking about it now.
Which is the exact reason I never used comments in my programs during school. Why clutter my clean program so some grad student without a clue can read it better? C is self documenting!
I wasn't nearly as excited about Spider-Man after seeing it as my friends were. I thought Attack of the Clowns had the worst dialogue of any non-Spike Lee movie I've ever seen. The acting was pretty bad in both.
But, there was enough action in both films to keep me interested. I'm not upset I saw the movies, just upset people seem to think that either of them is remotely important.
Yep, sounds like they're shooting for August for a price drop. Just consider you're extra $50 or $100 as rent for a few months...not a bad deal I suppose.
But without people like me doing their jobs over here, those Marines overseas could not do theirs. While they don't have the option of spending their free time doing whatever they want, I'm pretty sure I do, within reason. That said, I never got into anime...but can't pass judgement on those that did.
I disagree. I like the fact that most places still use C++ in some of their courses. Programming in C or C++ has more pitfalls, in my opinion than Java, or.NET if I understand correctly.
What I'm saying is I like potential future programmers to learn off something that isn't simplified down to a level that the E*trade chimp should be able to understand.
That being said, teach it if you think it's worthwhile, just make sure you show there are alternative languages.
I believe my bike is whatever bike is currently in my posession. What makes up that bike doesn't matter to me.
If I have kidney transplant surgery, should I call that kidney mine or not? I didn't grow it, but I'm using it and it continues to function because of me. Therefore, I'll call it my kidney.
I believe you can create a machine that can learn and appears intelligent. However, I believe human intelligence stems mostly from illogical thoughts/behavior. Consider this...music can be ordered mathmatically. However, from looking at a pattern of numbers, can you immediately determine whether it is pleasing to the ear? You have to actually hear it. I believe a machine could remember exactly what was played, analyze it some, but could it tell you if it was beautiful music?
I'm certainly not smart enough to determine a way for it to do that. I could only base it on randomness, which I would expect would show it is not truely intelligent, but rather displays characteristics associated with intelligence.
Honestly I watched dvd's on my comp back when I was in college because there wasn't really much room for anything with all the comp equipment taking up space anyways. As for TV, I'd watch it on comp if that was my only alternative, but I really like my 36" tv better than any monitors I've seen at a reasonable price. To each his own, I guess.
My initial thought is that if this is in Taiwan...everyone already is buying pirated copies on dvd for less than $1 American. Getting some people in other countries using this could really take up all their bandwidth, but my thought is people still don't want to pay.
To be honest, I don't want the service. I want to buy quality products that don't break. I can get them cheaper at Best Buy and Circuit City than Joe's TV Shop. For the difference in cost between the *discounter* and the retailer, I can buy a nice extended warranty which usually has better coverage than that service you want me to pay for.
Besides, Best Buy employees generally stay out of the way so you can make purchases...they don't hover around looking for a commision.
Well, in the US we force companies to adhere to certain sets of standards (sometimes). For example, one reason HDTV channels are pretty rare is the networks cannot adopt it as a standard until 2007 (is that right, or is it sooner?). When they are able to it probably won't be for a couple years. The idea is to not force people to buy new products all the time.
Would I want to work with one? No. Do I work with them? Yes. That's life, I have to deal with it. If professors gave a rat's ass about teaching rather than putting research so far above I'd be alot more impressed by their efforts to curb cheating.
While piracy does take away $$$ from the hard working movie companies, it's not as bad as they'd lead you to believe. The vast majority of people who steal music/movies/tv shows online were probably never intending to buy that item anyhow.
Seriously, you all have Britney Spears and Michael Jackson songs/videos on your computers you would NEVER actually buy, right? Besides, I still believe the biggest reason to buy in stores is better quality. Sure, some things are close, but only true fans would buy the dvds to begin with.
In the future piracy of movies will probably be a big deal, but I have trouble feeling sorry for studios willing to shell out $20 million to Julia Roberts so we can go watch a steaming pile of dogshit (like that classic My Best Friend's Wedding).
Yeah, more or less you're right. It's like watching DVD's on your computer compared to off a dvd player on your TV. The comp is all software, the dvd player is all hardware. I'd be surprised if you could emulate xbox games on current computers and get playable frames.
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Like Battlestar Galactica?
Isn't that part of the do not compete agreement with just about any company?
Actually, IBM was still hiring quite a bit through 2000, and early 2001. It slowed down and a few divisions were sold off, but the big layoffs didn't come until about April 2002.
No need. There is a program out that allows you to basically run as many clients as your computer can handle and run some script on each one without attending it. Depending on how advanced you want to make the scripts would determine how effective your method is.
Actually, I believe the correct reply is "I have no recollection of that."
or maybe Armonk, NY?
Also, I tried reading Terry Brooks recently and after 200 pages of the same "woe is me" bs from the main chars I couldn't take it anymore.
That's not to say I liked all the chars and was certainly more interested in some more than others, but even those I didn't care for much had enough going on around them to make reading enjoyable.
At least here you get 3 t-shirts!
Think tax cuts.
In college I had a friend who's suitemate was always stealing food/drinks. Eventually they decided to started making special batches of brownies, cookies, etc. which had ex-lax, or other such extras in them. Everyone but the offending stealer knew not to eat them. I don't know if the guy ever figured it out or not, but it sure brings a smile to my face thinking about it now.
Which is the exact reason I never used comments in my programs during school. Why clutter my clean program so some grad student without a clue can read it better? C is self documenting!
But, there was enough action in both films to keep me interested. I'm not upset I saw the movies, just upset people seem to think that either of them is remotely important.
I make it my personal policy to only use the metric system for scientific measurements.
For everything else the numbers aren't really important anyways...
Yep, sounds like they're shooting for August for a price drop. Just consider you're extra $50 or $100 as rent for a few months...not a bad deal I suppose.
But without people like me doing their jobs over here, those Marines overseas could not do theirs. While they don't have the option of spending their free time doing whatever they want, I'm pretty sure I do, within reason. That said, I never got into anime...but can't pass judgement on those that did.
What I'm saying is I like potential future programmers to learn off something that isn't simplified down to a level that the E*trade chimp should be able to understand.
That being said, teach it if you think it's worthwhile, just make sure you show there are alternative languages.
If I have kidney transplant surgery, should I call that kidney mine or not? I didn't grow it, but I'm using it and it continues to function because of me. Therefore, I'll call it my kidney.
I'm certainly not smart enough to determine a way for it to do that. I could only base it on randomness, which I would expect would show it is not truely intelligent, but rather displays characteristics associated with intelligence.
Honestly I watched dvd's on my comp back when I was in college because there wasn't really much room for anything with all the comp equipment taking up space anyways. As for TV, I'd watch it on comp if that was my only alternative, but I really like my 36" tv better than any monitors I've seen at a reasonable price. To each his own, I guess.
My initial thought is that if this is in Taiwan...everyone already is buying pirated copies on dvd for less than $1 American. Getting some people in other countries using this could really take up all their bandwidth, but my thought is people still don't want to pay.
Besides, Best Buy employees generally stay out of the way so you can make purchases...they don't hover around looking for a commision.
Well, in the US we force companies to adhere to certain sets of standards (sometimes). For example, one reason HDTV channels are pretty rare is the networks cannot adopt it as a standard until 2007 (is that right, or is it sooner?). When they are able to it probably won't be for a couple years. The idea is to not force people to buy new products all the time.
Would I want to work with one? No. Do I work with them? Yes. That's life, I have to deal with it. If professors gave a rat's ass about teaching rather than putting research so far above I'd be alot more impressed by their efforts to curb cheating.
Seriously, you all have Britney Spears and Michael Jackson songs/videos on your computers you would NEVER actually buy, right? Besides, I still believe the biggest reason to buy in stores is better quality. Sure, some things are close, but only true fans would buy the dvds to begin with.
In the future piracy of movies will probably be a big deal, but I have trouble feeling sorry for studios willing to shell out $20 million to Julia Roberts so we can go watch a steaming pile of dogshit (like that classic My Best Friend's Wedding).
Atari > Xbox in my opinion!