Perhaps, but the other possibility is that the criminal shoots you and steals your wallet instead of threatening to shoot you and stealing your wallet.
Yeah, seems pretty straight forward. My rig laptop powered these days. I use the laptop's 1900x1200 with my 19" CRT's 1600x1200 to pull off a nice and easy 3500x1200 display. I can usually put all I need for coding on the laptop display and run the application in a test environment on the CRT. With the tiny resolution, I have to be close to the monitor to read without eye strain, so using the two monitors does involve turning my head. Not good for using reference code, but fine for code then test.
Yeah, I'm interested to see how that will work out in the next couple decades. When everyone else in the world (US, China, India, polish plumbers...) is willing to work longer and harder, why would anyone want to locate their new offices \ factories in France?
I think everyone would love to take summer long vacations, but not at the expense of seeing twice the amount of unemployment and the resulting negative wage pressures.
Still, I think the US will see a trend towards more vacation and less overtime as corporations and individuals realize that burnout is inefficient.
Um.. I must be missing something here. There are a number of nice, free JVMs floating about. If these people have time to contribute for free development, couldn't they put it towards something a little more practicle?
I absolutely agree. I'm not in the super fanboy camp, but Tribes 2 is the best fps type game I've ever played. There was just something unique in the combination of hectic play and calm - dare I serene? - cruising that made for a good balance. The games also required some thought. After the peak of the game, when I tried to return to it for a quick game or two it was nearly impossible to find a decent server.
Anyway, my hopes for Tribes 3 was that it would place more emphasis on team play and maybe even have each team devote a player strictly to a command and control role. That didn't exactly materialize and I never really got sucked in by it.
Be careful with such broad strokes. Frankly, without computers at my disposal, I would have been a miserable student.
The physical act of writing somewhat legibly took enough concentration for me that my spelling, grammar and ability to copy a sentence from one page to another suffered greatly. In elementary school I was placed in remedial classes.
Typing came much more naturally to me. When typing, I could easily correct things I left out, but more importantly I could concentrate on my thought process and putting together decent sentances, paragraphs and papers.
Being able to turn in type-written homework in elementary school let me catch back up and get out of remedial classes and move towards advanced classes. Eventually my 'by hand' writing improved as well and my hand written essays earned me high marks on the AP tests.
I still can't spell, but I left high school and college with confidence that I am a reasonably strong writer.
I'm not confident that I would have been a successful high school student had I not been using a computer to write my homework assignments out in elementary school.
I would argue instead that kids are suffering from a distinct lack of critical thinking in school. There is a strong emphasis on learning the limited set of skills that will get them high marks on the next standardized test.
Wow. That a way to observe the purpose of BitTorrent. It handles the extremely high demand time of initial release. After that, the standard mechanisms of mirrors works fine.
The other time to pre-order is when a game is different and may be flying low under the radar. If there are no pre-orders your local shop may decide to get very few or no copies of a game. Preordering casts your vote that the game should occupy shelf space.
Typing on a computer isn't all that exciting and isn't all we do. I would tell them that you first spend time talking to people who need their computer to help them with their jobs. Then you need to draw pictures, like a brick and mortar architect, to plan your program. The you need to give the computer lots of simple instructions to build what you drew.
If you're going to have some code with you, you could make it something interpretted and graphical. If you're a java guy, beanshell might be the way to go.
Still, I would put make sure to acknowledge that most software guys don't spend 8 (10) hours a day in front of a computer hacking away. Most of us work in teams were talking to one another is an important aspect of what we do.
If I search for Kerry and "stem cells" and on the sponspered link sections I get a page describing the bush position on stem cells, that seems reasonable to me. Someone is paying Google to ask me to view the alternative.
Now, if there is a page in the sponsored link section that appears to be the Kerry position on the issue, but is Bush sponsered bogus page, then we have a problem.
I'm still not sure that it's Google's problem. It seems more like the advertising site is in violation.
The next step is when someone creates a page with knock-offs of the designer's line and Google's non-sponsered links bring that up as a high result. That's rough.
It's hard though. A lot of times school budgets get grants (government and otherwise) that can only be spent on technology. It's not always the school's dumb decision on where the money gets spent.
That's exactly what Sun is trying to have happen. They don't neccassarily want to be the utility long term, but they would like to supply the technology to the utilities.
This is yet another extension of the old standby slogan "The Network is the Computer." You push your data out onto the network (utility grid) and get your results back.
Patched, XP is easy enough for my Mom to use and I don't have to go over and administer it more than once a year and 2-3 times over the phone. Windows is fine. It also does a fine job on my development laptop. Are there places I'd rather run Linux? Sure. Do I think Windows is overpriced? Sure. Is it a real product that can be legitamately sold for money? You bet. I would also argue that Linux is commercial quality.
An old project of mine: http://onebook.sourceforge.net/ is not. It does some cool things, is a great idea and could be made into a commercial product, but at this point it's really more of a toy or experiment.
Not too worried about this one. The guys at Firaxes has shown themselves adept at changing publishers or shifting companies entirely and still routinely cranking out good games. Firaxes itself wasn't sold.
Commercial quality is "High enough quality that someone would you pay for that and won't be pissed." There are plenty of closed and open source projects that don't meet that threshold.
Mostly they mean building serious stuff and not just toy projects.
I like Eclipse as a fancy editor. The syntax checking on the fly is nice - although occassionally when I'm low on memory it seeems to cause Eclipse to just go off to never-never land which is disruptive. I'm seeing that less on 3.
Once my project gets vaguely serious, I try to avoid doing real builds out of the IDE and I rarely do step through debugging.
We also have NetBeans people in the office and they like that too. I think the tools are fairly similar for our purposes. Eclipse has more plugins for it but most of them do crazy shit that just doesn't seem to belong in my editor.
Refactoring (also in Netbeans) is definately the big selling point. I use it both for legitamate purposes and to create my beans. Hating wizards, I just make a stack of public fields and refactor them into private fields with public getters and setters. The whole process is super quick. But renaming methods and having that take effect across the code base is just so nice.
I seriously doubt Sony would use this as a chance to prosecute anyone. That would be really dumb. Here they get the lesson of, "Don't steal our shit before we release it." out in a very clear way (people's stuff breaks) and they can still look like a decent company by repairing the devices.
Why go from decent PR to really bad PR at the launch of a product?
Getting from Oracle and Peoplesoft to Bush is an asshole in the middle east in two easy posts.
Sure, where big money can be made and legitimate law and order are scarce - thugs with guns will profit on expensive goods. Be they diamonds or cocaine. Some multinationals actively support these activities, others avoid them at all costs and hold themselves to a higher standard. Most just try to avoid the most obvious interactions with the thugs and will allow themselves to be "duped" by middlemen.
I never really bought into the concept that the war in Iraq was mostly an oil thing. It just doesn't make sense. If the priority was to get the oil, it would have been a hell of a lot cheaper and easier just to drop sanctions and buy some. Is Iraq even producing as much oil now as it was under OfF? Iraqis don't exactly love us these days either. Will they really let US companies control the oil fields in 10 years? Just doesn't make sense to me.
I think Bush geniunely believed that he could make the world a better place by invading Iraq. I'm not saying oil interests weren't a factor, or a factor for those around him, I just don't think they were the prime motivation.
Yeah, except the employees are free to move to another fiefdom any time they wish and when battles for territory errupt, there isn't a whole lot of bloodshed.
Right, Wikipedia is not a trusted source. I wouldn't cite it in a paper for any schooling about the third grade. However, if you're curious what _____ is wikipedia will often provide some decent information.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps, but the other possibility is that the criminal shoots you and steals your wallet instead of threatening to shoot you and stealing your wallet.
Watch out for the programmer mind share. Lots of programmers really dig the Mac these. You've got a pretty interface and a pretty architecture (unix).
I would have considered making last laptop purchase a Mac except that the resolution available on the powerbooks is dissapointing.
We've got a number of Mac users at our local java users group as well.
Yeah, seems pretty straight forward. My rig laptop powered these days. I use the laptop's 1900x1200 with my 19" CRT's 1600x1200 to pull off a nice and easy 3500x1200 display. I can usually put all I need for coding on the laptop display and run the application in a test environment on the CRT. With the tiny resolution, I have to be close to the monitor to read without eye strain, so using the two monitors does involve turning my head. Not good for using reference code, but fine for code then test.
Yeah, I'm interested to see how that will work out in the next couple decades. When everyone else in the world (US, China, India, polish plumbers...) is willing to work longer and harder, why would anyone want to locate their new offices \ factories in France?
I think everyone would love to take summer long vacations, but not at the expense of seeing twice the amount of unemployment and the resulting negative wage pressures.
Still, I think the US will see a trend towards more vacation and less overtime as corporations and individuals realize that burnout is inefficient.
Um.. I must be missing something here. There are a number of nice, free JVMs floating about. If these people have time to contribute for free development, couldn't they put it towards something a little more practicle?
It's not even a competition. Microsoft has filed 215 lawsuits over a couple years. The music industry is holding steady at something like 700 a month.
That said, MS is targetting corporations who might try to defend themselves. The Music industry is targetting grandma.
You buy hard drives with bad sectors on them all the time.
I absolutely agree. I'm not in the super fanboy camp, but Tribes 2 is the best fps type game I've ever played. There was just something unique in the combination of hectic play and calm - dare I serene? - cruising that made for a good balance. The games also required some thought. After the peak of the game, when I tried to return to it for a quick game or two it was nearly impossible to find a decent server.
Anyway, my hopes for Tribes 3 was that it would place more emphasis on team play and maybe even have each team devote a player strictly to a command and control role. That didn't exactly materialize and I never really got sucked in by it.
Be careful with such broad strokes. Frankly, without computers at my disposal, I would have been a miserable student.
The physical act of writing somewhat legibly took enough concentration for me that my spelling, grammar and ability to copy a sentence from one page to another suffered greatly. In elementary school I was placed in remedial classes.
Typing came much more naturally to me. When typing, I could easily correct things I left out, but more importantly I could concentrate on my thought process and putting together decent sentances, paragraphs and papers.
Being able to turn in type-written homework in elementary school let me catch back up and get out of remedial classes and move towards advanced classes. Eventually my 'by hand' writing improved as well and my hand written essays earned me high marks on the AP tests.
I still can't spell, but I left high school and college with confidence that I am a reasonably strong writer.
I'm not confident that I would have been a successful high school student had I not been using a computer to write my homework assignments out in elementary school.
I would argue instead that kids are suffering from a distinct lack of critical thinking in school. There is a strong emphasis on learning the limited set of skills that will get them high marks on the next standardized test.
Wow. That a way to observe the purpose of BitTorrent. It handles the extremely high demand time of initial release. After that, the standard mechanisms of mirrors works fine.
Use each tool for its appropriate purpose.
The other time to pre-order is when a game is different and may be flying low under the radar. If there are no pre-orders your local shop may decide to get very few or no copies of a game. Preordering casts your vote that the game should occupy shelf space.
Absolutely. Wind Waker is one of my 2-3 favorite games from this platform cycle - and yes, I also a PS2 and a Cube.
Typing on a computer isn't all that exciting and isn't all we do. I would tell them that you first spend time talking to people who need their computer to help them with their jobs. Then you need to draw pictures, like a brick and mortar architect, to plan your program. The you need to give the computer lots of simple instructions to build what you drew.
If you're going to have some code with you, you could make it something interpretted and graphical. If you're a java guy, beanshell might be the way to go.
Still, I would put make sure to acknowledge that most software guys don't spend 8 (10) hours a day in front of a computer hacking away. Most of us work in teams were talking to one another is an important aspect of what we do.
If I search for Kerry and "stem cells" and on the sponspered link sections I get a page describing the bush position on stem cells, that seems reasonable to me. Someone is paying Google to ask me to view the alternative.
Now, if there is a page in the sponsored link section that appears to be the Kerry position on the issue, but is Bush sponsered bogus page, then we have a problem.
I'm still not sure that it's Google's problem. It seems more like the advertising site is in violation.
The next step is when someone creates a page with knock-offs of the designer's line and Google's non-sponsered links bring that up as a high result. That's rough.
It's hard though. A lot of times school budgets get grants (government and otherwise) that can only be spent on technology. It's not always the school's dumb decision on where the money gets spent.
That's exactly what Sun is trying to have happen. They don't neccassarily want to be the utility long term, but they would like to supply the technology to the utilities.
This is yet another extension of the old standby slogan "The Network is the Computer." You push your data out onto the network (utility grid) and get your results back.
Patched, XP is easy enough for my Mom to use and I don't have to go over and administer it more than once a year and 2-3 times over the phone. Windows is fine. It also does a fine job on my development laptop. Are there places I'd rather run Linux? Sure. Do I think Windows is overpriced? Sure. Is it a real product that can be legitamately sold for money? You bet. I would also argue that Linux is commercial quality.
An old project of mine: http://onebook.sourceforge.net/ is not. It does some cool things, is a great idea and could be made into a commercial product, but at this point it's really more of a toy or experiment.
Not too worried about this one. The guys at Firaxes has shown themselves adept at changing publishers or shifting companies entirely and still routinely cranking out good games. Firaxes itself wasn't sold.
Commercial quality is "High enough quality that someone would you pay for that and won't be pissed." There are plenty of closed and open source projects that don't meet that threshold.
Mostly they mean building serious stuff and not just toy projects.
I like Eclipse as a fancy editor. The syntax checking on the fly is nice - although occassionally when I'm low on memory it seeems to cause Eclipse to just go off to never-never land which is disruptive. I'm seeing that less on 3.
Once my project gets vaguely serious, I try to avoid doing real builds out of the IDE and I rarely do step through debugging.
We also have NetBeans people in the office and they like that too. I think the tools are fairly similar for our purposes. Eclipse has more plugins for it but most of them do crazy shit that just doesn't seem to belong in my editor.
Refactoring (also in Netbeans) is definately the big selling point. I use it both for legitamate purposes and to create my beans. Hating wizards, I just make a stack of public fields and refactor them into private fields with public getters and setters. The whole process is super quick. But renaming methods and having that take effect across the code base is just so nice.
I seriously doubt Sony would use this as a chance to prosecute anyone. That would be really dumb. Here they get the lesson of, "Don't steal our shit before we release it." out in a very clear way (people's stuff breaks) and they can still look like a decent company by repairing the devices.
Why go from decent PR to really bad PR at the launch of a product?
Getting from Oracle and Peoplesoft to Bush is an asshole in the middle east in two easy posts.
Sure, where big money can be made and legitimate law and order are scarce - thugs with guns will profit on expensive goods. Be they diamonds or cocaine. Some multinationals actively support these activities, others avoid them at all costs and hold themselves to a higher standard. Most just try to avoid the most obvious interactions with the thugs and will allow themselves to be "duped" by middlemen.
I never really bought into the concept that the war in Iraq was mostly an oil thing. It just doesn't make sense. If the priority was to get the oil, it would have been a hell of a lot cheaper and easier just to drop sanctions and buy some. Is Iraq even producing as much oil now as it was under OfF? Iraqis don't exactly love us these days either. Will they really let US companies control the oil fields in 10 years? Just doesn't make sense to me.
I think Bush geniunely believed that he could make the world a better place by invading Iraq. I'm not saying oil interests weren't a factor, or a factor for those around him, I just don't think they were the prime motivation.
Yeah, except the employees are free to move to another fiefdom any time they wish and when battles for territory errupt, there isn't a whole lot of bloodshed.
Closer, but I'd suggest the following edit:
"You can believe that when we have fully tactile 3d VR, we'll have it because porn consumers paid for it."
The porn industry picks technologies but it's their customers who have to buy the new ____ players to see the latest and greatest.
Right, Wikipedia is not a trusted source. I wouldn't cite it in a paper for any schooling about the third grade. However, if you're curious what _____ is wikipedia will often provide some decent information.