Most colleges and universitiesdo claim that any work you submit becomes the intellectual property of the university. I don't know how well it would hold up in court, but it would likely be a horrific mess.
Look's like SCO have a new business opportunity...
Bah,
You don't need an advanced GUI and expensive GPU to to do wobble effects. Every time the guy in the next cubicle degaussed his computer monitor, *EVERY* window on my desktop would wobble, even the taskbar. To avoid any damage to my monitor, I'd degauss my monitor:)
The tail camera does point forwards, it's the dome camera in the underside that does the 360 degree view. Although I'd think a dome camera in the tail would be awesome.
But they do have CCTV surveillance systems fitted on the undercarriage and in the tail. The first is for intruder detection on the aircraft and for tourist entertainment, while the second is to detect engine fires.
Microsoft has a near monolpoly on the computer market, because everyone has to/or only gets to learn Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer. Allowing users to work with open source applications like OpenOffice, Mozilla/Firefox helps to break this monopoly. Recruiters still insist on CV's/resume's provided in.doc format - they should be able to accept.pdf and.odt files as well.
Perhaps the original poster of the article wishes to set up his own game company - it certainly is possible in the UK. Put together your own team (find some entry-level animators/artists and put together a game engine demo to show to publishers).
Britain had a similar privately maintained list for companies and people - it was the just about the only database that was stored on paper (a legal loophole allowed databases stored on paper to be exempt from data protection laws). The only problem was that Conservative company directors kept putting their business rivals on the list. One tabloid newspaper highlighted this by attending an annual conference and giving business owners their database details for ten pounds (then watching the resulting chain-reaction).
Both Labour and Conservative have become middle-of-the-road capitalist socialist parties who chase after the swing voters, identified using A Classification Of Residential Neighbourhoods (ACORN). From this, they know that there are some segments of the population who will always vote Labour (the immigration/state benefits industry) and other segments who will always vote Conservative (business owners), so they will never change. Instead, they go after those voters where a small change in taxation can make them believe they are financially better off or doing something for the environment.
We've got other parties such as the Liberal Democrats, the BNP (British National Party) and the SNP (Scottish National Party) as well as independent candidates (frequently voted in whenever a large hospital or good state school is threatened with closure).
Linux (at least Fedora Core 6) is starting to fill up with some extra baggage. My most recent discovery was that around 1 gigabyte of disk space had been gobbled up by my ".beagle" and ".thumbnails" directories. The first apparently attempts to create an index of every single text document on the file system, while the latter creates a thumbnail of every single image viewed.
I also encountered an annoying pop-up application (scim) which allows unicode text to be entered (obviously essential for languages like Chinese/Arabic or Japanese).
Doing a 'ps -ae | wc' reveals that there are around 130 processes running - the obvious ones are related to system input/output and file storage, console terminals and windows managers. Other processes have manual pages, so you can find out what exactly they do, but others like 'escd', 'puplet' and 'eggcups' need a google search to find out what they do.
Many, many slashdot articles ago, there was a article posted which described that researchers had derived the perfect formula for any adventure movie. This formula required twelve individual checkpoints. To the best of my knowledge, these were listed as follows:
1. The hero 2. The hero's mentor 3. The hero's girlfriend 4. The here's sidekick 5. The quest 6. The failed first quest attempt 7. The second quest attempt 8. The nemesis/arch-villain 9. The final fight 10. The final victory 11. The journey home 12. The happy ending/party
Not forgetting lots of cute furry animals and other characters which can be turned into merchandise like fluffy toys, wall posters, and collectors sets.
They're more or less the same - although features usually arrive in Direct3D first, then they are introduced later into OpenGL as custom extensions. These are documented in SGI's registry.
Usually each extension will appear as a vendor specific extension GL_NV_xxxx, GL_ATI_xxxx, then become introduced as a standard extension GL_ARB_xxxx.
Because that is the sum of all the financial transactions that were legally documented. Suppose every pae of those 800,000 pages is a single tax return worth on average $5000 to the state. Then you get a rather large number: 800,000 pages * $5000 = $40,000,000,000
Well, programmable pixel shaders in a C style language are a lot quicker to program than other methods such as register combiners. With register combiners, you had to break your lighting equation down into fundamental add/subtract/multiply operations, and assign each one to a single register combiner unit, with a maximum of eight units. Some graphics cards only had two units - just enough to do bump-mapping, shadow-mapping or phong lighting, but not all at the same time. Just figuring out where each operation RGB and alpha channel would go, could take an entire afternoon. And the resulting lighting would still look aliased because of the low bit precision.
Really, I don't understand people who would pay $20 or $25 for a DVD. How many times could you possibly watch the same movie in your life?
My parents have bought DVD's of their favourite sitcoms. They seem happy enough to watch the same episodes more than two or three times, even if these series are more than thirty years old. Their argument was that there was nothing else good on TV. (They have freeview satellite TV, but don't see the point in paying an extra $20-£30/month just to see the shows they already have the DVD's for). Their tastes are light comedy - all the shows that the whole family would sit down to watch on a Saturday night back in the late 1970's/80's
However, their greatest complaint is the lack of consistency between the menu interfaces of every different DVD. In some cases, the menu is so badly laid out, that trying to find out which icon the "next page" event is mapped to, is like playing an Sierra adventure game. Just discovering that there was a second page of episodes was a bonus. Having a red/yellow/blue box around individual menu items with no consistent up/down/left/right is not a good interface. A simpler and more efficient system would be to have a jukebox style menu system.
Wouldn't it be much easier just to hide the desktop box behind your desk if you really don't want to look at it.
Not everyone has a large office desk for their home PC. Maybe they have a small desk in an alcove somewhere in their living room/kitchen/staircase, or maybe they're just worried about burglars seeing a valuable PC sitting on a table. Having a customised PC in this way can help the PC appear less obvious.
That was the spirit of the early game developers - "we're not in it for the money, but for the love of programming and pushing hardware to the limit. Bonuses are, well, a nice bonus - if you want quick money, go and work as a manager in the city" (city = Financial city of London).
That's something a good many managers/supervisors/financial investors don't understand, and end up collapsing their companies like a pack of cards when they "promote" away from their area of interest.
From the abstract, they had fifteen permanent stations. Presumably, they would be using differential GPS, which would increase the accuracy down to a metre. That would allow relative movements of each station to be detected.
but every school I've encountered recently (via my children) goes to great extremes to eliminate competition and anything else that might damage the self-esteem of the precious little emperors.
It's ridiculous. Trophies for everybody! And it's not like the kids don't realize that the trophies are worthless, either.
In my primary school, we used to have sports day... there were two kids (a guy and a girl) who just won the medals in every competition they played. The guy had a strange medical condition that required that he could only run barefoot on the grass, while everyone else had to wear running shoes. The girl was about 5 inches taller than everyone. By the end of the day, they would have at least 5 medals each, with everyone else lucky to win one medal.
Given that you know who's going to win before the race has started, it's not exactly a competitive race?
The curriculum of nearly university courses are set by what the best employers/research departments want. And for any employer, a graduate will only end up using 30% of the material covered in that curriculum. For each employer, this will be a completely different 30% of the course.
As many comments have posted, companies developing embedded systems will want programmers who know how to code linked lists, while financial companies will want programmers who get an application up and running as quickly as possible. If it's a batch process running at night that can save the company millions from identifying bad transactions/customers, they probably don't care too much about whether it takes 10 minutes or 5 hours, it's more important to get it running as soon as possible.
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Most colleges and universitiesdo claim that any work you submit becomes the intellectual property of the university. I don't know how well it would hold up in court, but it would likely be a horrific mess.
...
Look's like SCO have a new business opportunity
Bah, :)
You don't need an advanced GUI and expensive GPU to to do wobble effects. Every time the guy in the next cubicle degaussed his computer monitor, *EVERY* window on my desktop would wobble, even the taskbar. To avoid any damage to my monitor, I'd degauss my monitor
The tail camera does point forwards, it's the dome camera in the underside that does the 360 degree view. Although I'd think a dome camera in the tail would be awesome.
But they do have CCTV surveillance systems fitted on the undercarriage and in the tail. The first is for intruder detection on the aircraft and for tourist entertainment, while the second is to detect engine fires.
Has anyone noticed that the play button on the video link looks either like he's got a large pacifier in his mouth?
Microsoft has a near monolpoly on the computer market, because everyone has to/or only gets to learn Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer. Allowing users to work with open source applications like OpenOffice, Mozilla/Firefox helps to break this monopoly. Recruiters still insist on CV's/resume's provided in .doc format - they should be able to accept .pdf and .odt files as well.
Perhaps the original poster of the article wishes to set up his own game company - it certainly is possible in the UK. Put together your own team (find some entry-level animators/artists and put together a game engine demo to show to publishers).
Britain had a similar privately maintained list for companies and people - it was the just about the only database that was stored on paper (a legal loophole allowed databases stored on paper to be exempt from data protection laws). The only problem was that Conservative company directors kept putting their business rivals on the list. One tabloid newspaper highlighted this by attending an annual conference and giving business owners their database details for ten pounds (then watching the resulting chain-reaction).
... if they had an extremely rare diamond that was used as a battery.
Both Labour and Conservative have become middle-of-the-road capitalist socialist parties who chase after the swing voters, identified using A Classification Of Residential Neighbourhoods (ACORN). From this, they know that there are some segments of the population who will always vote Labour (the immigration/state benefits industry) and other segments who will always vote Conservative (business owners), so they will never change. Instead, they go after those voters where a small change in taxation can make them believe they are financially better off or doing something for the environment.
We've got other parties such as the Liberal Democrats, the BNP (British National Party) and the SNP (Scottish National Party) as well as independent candidates (frequently voted in whenever a large hospital or good state school is threatened with closure).
Here's a link to the story:
Arrests at GOP convention criticised
Linux (at least Fedora Core 6) is starting to fill up with some extra baggage. My most recent discovery was that around 1 gigabyte of disk space had been gobbled up by my ".beagle" and ".thumbnails" directories. The first apparently attempts to create an index of every single text document on the file system, while the latter creates a thumbnail of every single image viewed.
I also encountered an annoying pop-up application (scim) which allows unicode text to be entered (obviously essential for languages like Chinese/Arabic or Japanese).
Doing a 'ps -ae | wc' reveals that there are around 130 processes running - the obvious ones are related to system input/output and file storage, console terminals and windows managers. Other processes have manual pages, so you can find out what exactly they do, but others like 'escd', 'puplet' and 'eggcups' need a google search to find out what they do.
Many, many slashdot articles ago, there was a article posted which described that researchers had derived the perfect formula for any adventure movie. This formula required twelve individual checkpoints. To the best of my knowledge, these were listed as follows:
1. The hero
2. The hero's mentor
3. The hero's girlfriend
4. The here's sidekick
5. The quest
6. The failed first quest attempt
7. The second quest attempt
8. The nemesis/arch-villain
9. The final fight
10. The final victory
11. The journey home
12. The happy ending/party
Not forgetting lots of cute furry animals and other characters which can be turned into merchandise like fluffy toys, wall posters, and collectors sets.
going to jail in protest of these letters is about as effective as taking sand to the beach.,
Taking sand to the beach can get you sent to prison as well, at least in the UK.
They're more or less the same - although features usually arrive in Direct3D first, then they are introduced later into OpenGL as custom extensions. These are documented in SGI's registry.
Usually each extension will appear as a vendor specific extension GL_NV_xxxx, GL_ATI_xxxx, then become introduced as a standard extension GL_ARB_xxxx.
Because that is the sum of all the financial transactions that were legally documented. Suppose every pae of those 800,000 pages is a single tax return worth on average $5000 to the state. Then you get a rather large number: 800,000 pages * $5000 = $40,000,000,000
Well, programmable pixel shaders in a C style language are a lot quicker to program than other methods such as register combiners. With register combiners, you had to break your lighting equation down into fundamental add/subtract/multiply operations, and assign each one to a single register combiner unit, with a maximum of eight units. Some graphics cards only had two units - just enough to do bump-mapping, shadow-mapping or phong lighting, but not all at the same time. Just figuring out where each operation RGB and alpha channel would go, could take an entire afternoon. And the resulting lighting would still look aliased because of the low bit precision.
Really, I don't understand people who would pay $20 or $25 for a DVD. How many times could you possibly watch the same movie in your life?
My parents have bought DVD's of their favourite sitcoms. They seem happy enough to watch the same episodes more than two or three times, even if these series are more than thirty years old. Their argument was that there was nothing else good on TV.
(They have freeview satellite TV, but don't see the point in paying an extra $20-£30/month just to see the shows they already have the DVD's for).
Their tastes are light comedy - all the shows that the whole family would sit down to watch on a Saturday night back in the late 1970's/80's
However, their greatest complaint is the lack of consistency between the menu interfaces of every different DVD. In some cases, the menu is so badly laid out,
that trying to find out which icon the "next page" event is mapped to, is like playing an Sierra adventure game. Just discovering that there was a second page of episodes was a bonus. Having a red/yellow/blue box around individual menu items with no consistent up/down/left/right is not a good interface. A simpler and more efficient system would be to have a jukebox style menu system.
Wouldn't it be much easier just to hide the desktop box behind your desk if you really don't want to look at it.
Not everyone has a large office desk for their home PC. Maybe they have a small desk in an alcove somewhere in their living room/kitchen/staircase, or maybe they're just worried about burglars seeing a valuable PC sitting on a table. Having a customised PC in this way can help the PC appear less obvious.
Unless of course, the employer uses a CV/resume verification service. This seems to be more of a UK thing.
In other words, the studios want someone who has done everything at least once before.
That was the spirit of the early game developers - "we're not in it for the money, but for the love of programming and pushing hardware to the limit. Bonuses are, well, a nice bonus - if you want quick money, go and work as a manager in the city" (city = Financial city of London).
That's something a good many managers/supervisors/financial investors don't understand, and end up collapsing their companies like a pack of cards when they "promote" away from their area of interest.
From the abstract, they had fifteen permanent stations. Presumably, they would be using differential GPS, which would increase the accuracy down to a metre. That would allow relative movements of each station to be detected.
but every school I've encountered recently (via my children) goes to great extremes to eliminate competition and anything else that might damage the self-esteem of the precious little emperors.
... there were two kids (a guy and a girl) who just won the medals in every competition they played. The guy had a strange medical condition that required that he could only run barefoot on the grass, while everyone else had to wear running shoes. The girl was about 5 inches taller than everyone. By the end of the day, they would have at least 5 medals each, with everyone else lucky to win one medal.
It's ridiculous. Trophies for everybody! And it's not like the kids don't realize that the trophies are worthless, either.
In my primary school, we used to have sports day
Given that you know who's going to win before the race has started, it's not exactly a competitive race?
The curriculum of nearly university courses are set by what the best employers/research departments want. And for any employer, a graduate will only end up using 30% of the material covered in that curriculum. For each employer, this will be a completely different 30% of the course.
As many comments have posted, companies developing embedded systems will want programmers who know how to code linked lists, while financial companies will want programmers who get an application up and running as quickly as possible. If it's a batch process running at night that can save the company millions from identifying bad transactions/customers, they probably don't care too much about whether it takes 10 minutes or 5 hours, it's more important to get it running as soon as possible.