I've been using wordpress since it was called b2 and wow the project has made great strides in usability. The one big thing I'd love for them to tackle is a database abstraction layer. I'm sure mysql isn't going anywhere in the near to mid-term, but I'd like to have other options available. In any case, congrats to the dev team.
I see no mention of the soundtrack being removed in both the linked articles and the articles linked inside of them. I think you need to cite your resource.
Microsoft's law pricing is back in play. This law describes how Microsoft prices their XBox accessories. In short, take an accessory and come up with your own reasonable price. For instance, I'd pay twenty five dollars for a new controller. Now double it and you have Microsoft's price. Hence, the controller is fifty bucks. This camera thing would be reasonable if it were the cost of a new game or even slightly above in price. Instead, you get a piece of hardware that is way over priced and lacks any killer apps for it. I can't wait to read the inevitable post mortem on this disaster. I'm guessing the failure will be blamed on piracy.
Reminds of Forest Gump when Forest says he invested in a "fruit" company that turns out to be Apple. If people invested their money into Apple right after that movie came out, they'd be living like Gump themselves right now.
I think you need to get out of the mentality that you have to work your way up to do the thing you want to do. If you want to make games, make games. Get yourself a copy of flash or pick up an iphone, or hell, pick a browser and start coding. Think of your day job like an apprenticeship but never lose site of the goal. Also, cut up the credit cards,pay off the debt, and build an emergency fund. You'll be able to take lower paying jobs with great learning potential, or you will have the ability to get out of a nightmare development job without a ridiculous car payment holding you back. Finally... my last bit of advice... don't be held hostage by the dream. Trust me, out of college - the thing you *think* will make you happy might be a prison sentence in reality. Just be open to new ideas that make you happy. Good luck!
It's funny that people are so fixated over the video tag discussion that a lot of the other outstanding features of HTML5 are being overlooked. There's offline storage, javascript threads, and even in browser form validation. The awesome thing is that a bunch of these features are already implemented in various browsers. It's just a matter of including a simple javascript sniffer to determine if a client supports it or not. You can dig into the features over here.
Mod this guy up... webhostingtalk is the best place to do research on your hosts. If there is any dirt to be found, you'll find it there. Also, a lot of hosts will offer deals to the community which aren't listed on their site. I found my dedicated server there for only fifty bucks a month. Ask for the same thing through the sales team or even spec it out on their own site and you'd get a quote at least double that.
The key thing... do research before you select a host. Never go with a host on blind faith and never go for the cheapies that offer way too much for way too little. These are the hosts that charge ninety bucks a year for unlimited anything. Trust me, the moment you start to take advantage of their offer, you'll get punted off the service.
Support is crucial. Email only support is no dice for me. If my server goes down, I need someone on the phone, otherwise, I like to handle everything myself on my server. I made sure to install ISPConfig which is an open source control panel for creating sites, email accounts, and everything else you could need. It works well enough.
Lastly, I won't recommend you a good host (that's your job to find) but I will advise you to stay away from Valueweb at all costs. These guys had a network failure that took one week to fix (an eternity in internet time). There were no phone calls. No updates. Whenever I called, I was put on hold indefinitely. Customers started to rebel on their messageboards so they shut them down. Only when there was talk of a class action lawsuit did they get in touch. When the smoke finally cleared, they offered me one month of free hosting. I told them to screw themselves, got my databases, and moved on. It took me awhile of jumping from host to host to find my current one, and they've been the best one so far.
The algorithm textbook that he is using is a great read provided he does the exercises at the end of each chapter. The great thing about the exercises is that they challenge the reader to tackle the algorithm from a different perspective. So, if an algorithm is demonstrated using a recursive method, the book asks the reader to rewrite it using an iterative method which is an excellent way to learn.
I actually read halfway though the book skipping the exorcises, figuring they were too easy and I was wasting my time. When I started doing them, I realized how much I didn't know so I started back at the beginning and filled in all the gaps which really expanded my knowledge on the subject.
My favorite of the series has been the first one. It's all lean and mean. It's funny to watch the books grow fatter with each iteration until they are absolute door stops. The plots got flabbier and flabbier as she took more liberties to walk off the path of a cohesive narrative to "explore her universe". Seriously, by the fifth book, it reads like poor fan fiction. Like Lucas, she was too "esteemed" to be told "that sucks".
I just think it is a little ridiculous transferring our national spaceflight capabilities to the private sector when no private company has launched a person into space. This is a national security issue and should be treated as such. That said, once the private sector has proved that it can do it and do it cheaply, then we should utilize it for ferry missions while the big brains build their heavy lifter. I have a feeling that NASA's mission ends with the ISS.
Back in 2004, I quit my job and went on a roadtrip on steroids. I drove from Mexico to Alaska, down to Texas, up to the Dakotas, and finally back home to Massachusetts. I was an AT&T wireless customer and I was stunned at the lack of coverage. I could only talk near major cities if I were lucky. Even then, calls were being dropped every other call. Their coverage charts were such BS. I quit my service once I got home, and switched to another provider, experiencing only minor irritations on subsequent road trips.
I worked for a company eight years ago that bought a software company. They were all about getting tough on piracy that they created a task forced headed by the top legal counsel in the company. In meetings, they talked about the steps they took, smacking down pirates.
Everyone of those anti-piracy motherfuckers were just as bad as the people who they were cracking down. They all traded cracked copies of shit out of the meeting. I didn't think it was that bad until I was at work late one night. The head counsel visited my desk, asked for a cracked copy of photoshop, then borrowed one of my photoshop books. No joke.
This company is still in business today. I don't know if those people are still there, but they ran that small software division into the ground.
The funny thing, that's when I started posting on Slashdot. Jesus Christ, I can't believe I've been visiting the same web site for eight years. I need a life.
I believe the Microsoft rule of accessory pricing goes something like this... take an item's reasonable price and multiply it by at least two and you get the ballpark figure. For example, I would pay only thirty bucks for a wireless controller... after the Microsoft formula, it's fifty bucks (it used to be sixty). Take 120gig hard drive. I'd pay sixty or seventy bucks but after the formula, it's 150 bucks. Pay forty bucks for a wireless adapter? It's ninety bucks (for the G version).
Their pricing is so ridiculous. It's like buying groceries at a movie theater. Thank god there's ebay.
But the Democrats won't listen to or accept a single change to bills from Republicans, apparently, unless it is one that the Democrats all approve of in the first place.
If you actually watched the committee hearings instead of reading about them, you'd be surprised at how conciliatory dems can be about their own bills. They make concessions when they don't have to (to the ire of the left and myself). And yes, Repubs make some crazy request, but they also some good ideas which are taken up. Yet no one talks about that because it doesn't make a good sound bites.
It amazes me that facebook rose to prominence in the way it did. Out of all the sites I have ever used, Facebook is the worst when it comes to bugs. It simply floors me at how much bad code is pushed out to production servers or how many things break on a daily basis. I'm not talking simple copy bugs, but full on showstopping bugs. At one point, I was filing bug reports to them on a daily basis. If there is any qa department, it is incredibly lax. I'm guessing it's just a couple of interns sniffing for a gig. The only reason I'm using facebook is to grow my zombie blog, and once I reach a point where my traffic isn't dependent on that site, I'm dropping them like a friggin rock. And it will be a glorious day indeed.
Actually, the first zombie films dealt with vodoo controlled zombies an the hands of evil landowners. The first modern zombie film was Night of the Living, and that had nothing to do with consumerism. Night of the Living Dead was a metaphor for the sixties, and civil rights in general. Consumerism entered the picture with Romero's Dawn of the Dead which was made in the late seventies/early eighties. Shaun of the Dead took that message and ran with it.
What the fuck are you talking about? Not allowing Swatiskas in birthplace of the Nazi regime is somehow part of a worldwide trend on reducing freedoms? I know shit about contemporary German culture, but I can imagine that the swatiska is a emotional lightning rod for people there. You know... the regime was responsible for the deaths of millions and millions of people. Sure, they aren't really dealing with it by hiding it, but that's their choice. This is a uniquely German issue, not some liberal plot to filter words or ideas.
Also, equating video games with suffering because it doesn't have blood or swatiskas in it is like saying some dude is suffering because his fajita wasn't served with sour cream. It's not suffering. It's whining.
Jesus... I don't know who is a bigger ass... you or the people who modded you insightful.
My wife and I are investigating home schooling our child at the moment, and one of her friends in her home schooling network is a big proponent of "no-schooling". Long story short, this woman's nine year old child still cannot read. I find that almost criminal so needless to say, I'm not a big fan of the technique... if it can be even labeled a technique.
In January, the Congressional Budget Office projected a deficit this year of $1.2 trillion before Obama took office, with no estimate for actions he might take. To a large extent, the CBO's estimate simply represented the $482 billion deficit projected by the Bush administration in last summer's budget review, plus the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, which George W. Bush rammed through Congress in September over strenuous conservative objections. Thus the vast bulk of this year's currently estimated $1.8 trillion deficit was determined by Bush's policies, not Obama's.
What I described was the iranian model for the point of sarcasm. The problem with living in a democracy is that sometimes uninformed voters will vote for uninformed candidates. It's the nature of the beast. As for people running businesses with no oversight... I have no interest in capitalism run amock. It is because of the reforms made post Depression that the US ended its boom bust cycle, and it is because of the deregulation that occurred in the last thirty years in which we have returned to them. It's funny... if you look at the rate of wealth accumulated by the country for the past one hundred years, you'll notice that from 1940 - 1980, everyone's wealth grew proportionate to one another. if you look at the last twenty years, you'll see the most wealthy people have almost tripled their income whereas the middle class has remained stagnant.
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these days, it should really be news if they aren't remaking something.
I've been using wordpress since it was called b2 and wow the project has made great strides in usability. The one big thing I'd love for them to tackle is a database abstraction layer. I'm sure mysql isn't going anywhere in the near to mid-term, but I'd like to have other options available. In any case, congrats to the dev team.
I see no mention of the soundtrack being removed in both the linked articles and the articles linked inside of them. I think you need to cite your resource.
Microsoft's law pricing is back in play. This law describes how Microsoft prices their XBox accessories. In short, take an accessory and come up with your own reasonable price. For instance, I'd pay twenty five dollars for a new controller. Now double it and you have Microsoft's price. Hence, the controller is fifty bucks. This camera thing would be reasonable if it were the cost of a new game or even slightly above in price. Instead, you get a piece of hardware that is way over priced and lacks any killer apps for it. I can't wait to read the inevitable post mortem on this disaster. I'm guessing the failure will be blamed on piracy.
Reminds of Forest Gump when Forest says he invested in a "fruit" company that turns out to be Apple. If people invested their money into Apple right after that movie came out, they'd be living like Gump themselves right now.
I think you need to get out of the mentality that you have to work your way up to do the thing you want to do. If you want to make games, make games. Get yourself a copy of flash or pick up an iphone, or hell, pick a browser and start coding. Think of your day job like an apprenticeship but never lose site of the goal. Also, cut up the credit cards,pay off the debt, and build an emergency fund. You'll be able to take lower paying jobs with great learning potential, or you will have the ability to get out of a nightmare development job without a ridiculous car payment holding you back. Finally ... my last bit of advice ... don't be held hostage by the dream. Trust me, out of college - the thing you *think* will make you happy might be a prison sentence in reality. Just be open to new ideas that make you happy. Good luck!
It's funny that people are so fixated over the video tag discussion that a lot of the other outstanding features of HTML5 are being overlooked. There's offline storage, javascript threads, and even in browser form validation. The awesome thing is that a bunch of these features are already implemented in various browsers. It's just a matter of including a simple javascript sniffer to determine if a client supports it or not. You can dig into the features over here.
Mod this guy up ... webhostingtalk is the best place to do research on your hosts. If there is any dirt to be found, you'll find it there. Also, a lot of hosts will offer deals to the community which aren't listed on their site. I found my dedicated server there for only fifty bucks a month. Ask for the same thing through the sales team or even spec it out on their own site and you'd get a quote at least double that.
The key thing ... do research before you select a host. Never go with a host on blind faith and never go for the cheapies that offer way too much for way too little. These are the hosts that charge ninety bucks a year for unlimited anything. Trust me, the moment you start to take advantage of their offer, you'll get punted off the service.
Support is crucial. Email only support is no dice for me. If my server goes down, I need someone on the phone, otherwise, I like to handle everything myself on my server. I made sure to install ISPConfig which is an open source control panel for creating sites, email accounts, and everything else you could need. It works well enough.
Lastly, I won't recommend you a good host (that's your job to find) but I will advise you to stay away from Valueweb at all costs. These guys had a network failure that took one week to fix (an eternity in internet time). There were no phone calls. No updates. Whenever I called, I was put on hold indefinitely. Customers started to rebel on their messageboards so they shut them down. Only when there was talk of a class action lawsuit did they get in touch. When the smoke finally cleared, they offered me one month of free hosting. I told them to screw themselves, got my databases, and moved on. It took me awhile of jumping from host to host to find my current one, and they've been the best one so far.
The algorithm textbook that he is using is a great read provided he does the exercises at the end of each chapter. The great thing about the exercises is that they challenge the reader to tackle the algorithm from a different perspective. So, if an algorithm is demonstrated using a recursive method, the book asks the reader to rewrite it using an iterative method which is an excellent way to learn.
I actually read halfway though the book skipping the exorcises, figuring they were too easy and I was wasting my time. When I started doing them, I realized how much I didn't know so I started back at the beginning and filled in all the gaps which really expanded my knowledge on the subject.
My favorite of the series has been the first one. It's all lean and mean. It's funny to watch the books grow fatter with each iteration until they are absolute door stops. The plots got flabbier and flabbier as she took more liberties to walk off the path of a cohesive narrative to "explore her universe". Seriously, by the fifth book, it reads like poor fan fiction. Like Lucas, she was too "esteemed" to be told "that sucks".
I just think it is a little ridiculous transferring our national spaceflight capabilities to the private sector when no private company has launched a person into space. This is a national security issue and should be treated as such. That said, once the private sector has proved that it can do it and do it cheaply, then we should utilize it for ferry missions while the big brains build their heavy lifter. I have a feeling that NASA's mission ends with the ISS.
I think NASA disqualified wood in their testing process and went straight to hay.
Back in 2004, I quit my job and went on a roadtrip on steroids. I drove from Mexico to Alaska, down to Texas, up to the Dakotas, and finally back home to Massachusetts. I was an AT&T wireless customer and I was stunned at the lack of coverage. I could only talk near major cities if I were lucky. Even then, calls were being dropped every other call. Their coverage charts were such BS. I quit my service once I got home, and switched to another provider, experiencing only minor irritations on subsequent road trips.
I worked for a company eight years ago that bought a software company. They were all about getting tough on piracy that they created a task forced headed by the top legal counsel in the company. In meetings, they talked about the steps they took, smacking down pirates.
Everyone of those anti-piracy motherfuckers were just as bad as the people who they were cracking down. They all traded cracked copies of shit out of the meeting. I didn't think it was that bad until I was at work late one night. The head counsel visited my desk, asked for a cracked copy of photoshop, then borrowed one of my photoshop books. No joke.
This company is still in business today. I don't know if those people are still there, but they ran that small software division into the ground.
The funny thing, that's when I started posting on Slashdot. Jesus Christ, I can't believe I've been visiting the same web site for eight years. I need a life.
I believe the Microsoft rule of accessory pricing goes something like this ... take an item's reasonable price and multiply it by at least two and you get the ballpark figure. For example, I would pay only thirty bucks for a wireless controller ... after the Microsoft formula, it's fifty bucks (it used to be sixty). Take 120gig hard drive. I'd pay sixty or seventy bucks but after the formula, it's 150 bucks. Pay forty bucks for a wireless adapter? It's ninety bucks (for the G version).
Their pricing is so ridiculous. It's like buying groceries at a movie theater. Thank god there's ebay.
If you actually watched the committee hearings instead of reading about them, you'd be surprised at how conciliatory dems can be about their own bills. They make concessions when they don't have to (to the ire of the left and myself). And yes, Repubs make some crazy request, but they also some good ideas which are taken up. Yet no one talks about that because it doesn't make a good sound bites.
It amazes me that facebook rose to prominence in the way it did. Out of all the sites I have ever used, Facebook is the worst when it comes to bugs. It simply floors me at how much bad code is pushed out to production servers or how many things break on a daily basis. I'm not talking simple copy bugs, but full on showstopping bugs. At one point, I was filing bug reports to them on a daily basis. If there is any qa department, it is incredibly lax. I'm guessing it's just a couple of interns sniffing for a gig. The only reason I'm using facebook is to grow my zombie blog, and once I reach a point where my traffic isn't dependent on that site, I'm dropping them like a friggin rock. And it will be a glorious day indeed.
Actually, the first zombie films dealt with vodoo controlled zombies an the hands of evil landowners. The first modern zombie film was Night of the Living, and that had nothing to do with consumerism. Night of the Living Dead was a metaphor for the sixties, and civil rights in general. Consumerism entered the picture with Romero's Dawn of the Dead which was made in the late seventies/early eighties. Shaun of the Dead took that message and ran with it.
Easy ... look at this job loss infographic. It is a painful reminder that we are, you know, in the middle of a recession.
What the fuck are you talking about? Not allowing Swatiskas in birthplace of the Nazi regime is somehow part of a worldwide trend on reducing freedoms? I know shit about contemporary German culture, but I can imagine that the swatiska is a emotional lightning rod for people there. You know ... the regime was responsible for the deaths of millions and millions of people. Sure, they aren't really dealing with it by hiding it, but that's their choice. This is a uniquely German issue, not some liberal plot to filter words or ideas.
Also, equating video games with suffering because it doesn't have blood or swatiskas in it is like saying some dude is suffering because his fajita wasn't served with sour cream. It's not suffering. It's whining.
Jesus ... I don't know who is a bigger ass ... you or the people who modded you insightful.
My wife and I are investigating home schooling our child at the moment, and one of her friends in her home schooling network is a big proponent of "no-schooling". Long story short, this woman's nine year old child still cannot read. I find that almost criminal so needless to say, I'm not a big fan of the technique ... if it can be even labeled a technique.
In January, the Congressional Budget Office projected a deficit this year of $1.2 trillion before Obama took office, with no estimate for actions he might take. To a large extent, the CBO's estimate simply represented the $482 billion deficit projected by the Bush administration in last summer's budget review, plus the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, which George W. Bush rammed through Congress in September over strenuous conservative objections. Thus the vast bulk of this year's currently estimated $1.8 trillion deficit was determined by Bush's policies, not Obama's.
The GOP's Misplaced Rage by Bruce Bartlett
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Yes. You're right. If you want to be pedantic, income has raised a tiny bit for the middle class according to this article: Average Income in 2006 up $60,000 for Top 1 Percent of Households, Just $430 for Bottom 90 Percent: Income Concentration at Highest Level Since 1928, New Analysis Shows . Check out figure two then get back me.
What I described was the iranian model for the point of sarcasm. The problem with living in a democracy is that sometimes uninformed voters will vote for uninformed candidates. It's the nature of the beast. As for people running businesses with no oversight ... I have no interest in capitalism run amock. It is because of the reforms made post Depression that the US ended its boom bust cycle, and it is because of the deregulation that occurred in the last thirty years in which we have returned to them. It's funny ... if you look at the rate of wealth accumulated by the country for the past one hundred years, you'll notice that from 1940 - 1980, everyone's wealth grew proportionate to one another. if you look at the last twenty years, you'll see the most wealthy people have almost tripled their income whereas the middle class has remained stagnant.