This already happens when trying to play a DVD on a laptop while sending the video on TV-OUT. You'll see the desktop background on the TV screen, while the DVD video is replaced by a blue screen.
And this even happens to downloadable movies (like archive.org) as well.
It's not just Canada. In the UK, a couple had their children taken into care simply for having learning difficulties or more precisely, a low IQ, even though they are still able to read and write.
I'm not sure what Outback means, but I guess it would be the equivalent of roadkill? Visions of dead squirrel on a platter...
I think it depends on the subject - if you're doing an undergraduate subject like object orientated programming using C++/Modula-2/Java, ASIC design, Mathematics or Statistics then there's no other option but to use a textbook, but I would expect and a readable (modular) book with both questions and answers. The worst situation is when a really bad book is selected simply because the author is an ex-college friend of the professor. Having professors who are currently researching the field they are teaching, are using the latest technology, and are currently working in industry are definitely the best.
Not at all - This was only for a single subject - oddly enough in two universities I've worked at, it was always Database Systems who never gave handouts, but insisted students take their own notes, even though both courses were taken straight out of a textbook.
This was in the time before PDA's, Powerpoint presentations, and PDF documents. I considered using a personal voice recorder like several other students did, but it was sufficient to highlight the key phrases from the papers being discussed (I never liked scribbling over textbooks).
If I had to take lectures again, I would probably use a PDA to record what the professor was saying, and if it had sufficient resolution, also take pictures of the whitescreen/overhead projector. Although now, everyone seems to have switched over to Powerpoint presentations, and give out a link to the PDF of the paper, and maybe give out the occassional handout.
Hmmm.. I found the concept of note-taking the most frustrating part. Since there are any number of good text-books and research papers out there, I'd rather have a professor tell me what papers/chapters to read, digest that information in my own time, and then come into class and then go over the material ask about any points that weren't clear. Having to sit and listen to someone else interpretation of a topic while frantically scribbling down every last word in order to guess which were and were not the important bits for the exam, was tedious and frustrating. Especially, when you're studying eight subjects simultaneously and having to do courseworks every evening, having to rewrite every set of lecture notes is just a timewaster.
Although, as far as Computer Science goes, nothing is better than actually designing and writing real software/hardware examples, with writing essays probably being the worst learning method.
Using the "video game" approach would be good for simulating chemistry, biology and physics, hardware engineering experiments, where the equipment is expensive, and accident insurance costs are constantly rising.
Me too. I once accepted a job in Brighton, and as money was tight, figured out that I could accept the job, stay in a hotel for a couple of weeks, then use that to put down a deposit for the rent.
The first stage was easy - moved down, found a hotel, started work, went out each lunchtime to visit the rental offices, and it was complee shambles.
For 850 pounds a month, the only places available were an overdeveloped parking space with eight flats above it, all of which shared the one letter box, a flat located directly above a woodmill, and another place where the architect had apparently decided that a multi-storey building didn't need guard rails for staircases and outside walkways (it's the place where someone sat on a wet concrete wall as seen in the Ka "Worn Wall" car advert). . One other place was a two-bedroom flat, but the owner had decided to lock all his belongings into one room and only charge the rate for a one bedroom. The last place I looked at didn't even have rubbish bins. Instead, everyone was expected to leave their rubbish bags in little nooks outside each door before 6am.
And even worse, the rental offices wanted 1900 pounds deposit for rent. By the end of the week, I still didn't have a permanent address, couldn't sign the NCA and had to drop the job.
In the UK, you tend to get quite a few dodgy builders who will drive round the area looking for the signs of some gullible person, knock on their door and claim that that some part of their building (usually the roof or chimney) is in a bad state, but not to worry as they can fix it. Then when the payment is about to be made, the builders refuse to accept cheques or credit cards, but offer to drive the person down to the nearest cash machine or bank. Only never to be seen again.
From what I've read about the property markets in California and the East Coast, prices keep on rising. In Southern California, first time buyer homes are costing around $500K and they still have to find space for another 6 million homes for the anticipated population growth. And in New York, people search the obituaries in order to find leads for properties that are yet to go on sale.
Not so different from the South of England, especially with the need to build another 120,000 homes. Or Edinburgh, where new flats are being sold for 500K pounds each. And even old apartments sell for 250K pounds each.
You must have read this story from bash.org, <skycreatoR> hehe awesome <skycreatoR> today at my job (i work in a cinema) we had the premiere on shrek 2 <skycreatoR> and because of the ocation, green popcorn <skycreatoR> then some little girl came over to my booth and asked why the popcorns were green <skycreatoR> i said it was because we put mashed shrek down in the popcorn machine >skycreatoR< then she began crying and ran away
Any student or worker can tell you of a time when they became upset after losing a coursework, report or spreadsheet or even the contents of an entire disk drive.
The items didn't exist physically except as the spin orientation of some electrons in an ferromagnetic material.
It's not squeezing the kids into the car that's the problem, it's squeezing the soccer mom into the drivers seat of a station wagon that's the problem. Having 8" clearance makes it a lot easier to get in without having to be hunched up under a steering wheel, especially when kid no.6 is on the way.
During any inter-school team match, the car park and access road of the sports ground next to my house looks like a SUV owners appreciation society. Not even the nearest SUV showroom has that number of vehicles on show. And they certainly wouldn't be allowed to park 20+ vehicles on the sidewalk.
So, if Video Games is a two billion dollar market, why is it so hard to make a profit?
While the market has expanded, the development costs have increased because there is far more artwork to be created, and because the consoles are considerably more powerful.
For your early console system (Atari 2600), all you needed were a few sprite characters and a map level made from blocks (eg. Combat). All the work could be done by a single programmer (audio, animation, AI, menus).
2D consoles like SNES/Sega required 3 or 4 artists to paint the artwork for each animated character, backgrounds, a musician for sound effects, one programmer to integrate all of this (and maybe a couple of part-time programmers for the level editor and AI).
The latest 3D consoles systems require a game engine team (maybe outsourced) costing license fees (alternatively, the company will need one or more game engine programmers, a networking programmer, an audio programmer), and for each title will also require a gameplay programmer, an AI programmer, another programmer to customize the level editor, along with a whole team of artists and animators to build all of the characters, another programmer , along with a couple of musicians for all the sound effects.
And for all that money spent, there is no guarantee that a game will sell enough units (A really good game sells something like 500,000 units). Many companies are lucky to sell 5000 or more units, simply because there are far more game companies around than there were in the 1980's. And if a company fails three titles in a row, they will get dropped off the shelves of the retail stores. Or sometimes a publisher may just decide to focus on a particular genre of games.
You don't need a degree to study AI, although all the standard software and hardware courses do help structure your code and understand about working in teams.
AI is probably the largest area of shortages for game programmers in the UK.
True, but it's a nice little earner for Greek lawyers who get to argue this all day in court, especially when foreigners are involved, since they can jack up the fees.
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This already happens when trying to play a DVD on a laptop while sending the video on TV-OUT. You'll see the desktop background on the TV screen, while the DVD video is replaced by a blue screen.
And this even happens to downloadable movies (like archive.org) as well.
Not forgetting "Don't Bring Me Down" by E.L.O.
It's not just Canada. In the UK, a couple had their children taken into care simply for having learning difficulties or more precisely, a low IQ, even though they are still able to read and write.
Like this jacket with a built-in DVD player?.
I'm not sure what Outback means, but I guess it would be the equivalent of roadkill? Visions of dead squirrel on a platter...
I think it depends on the subject - if you're doing an undergraduate subject like object orientated programming using C++/Modula-2/Java, ASIC design, Mathematics or Statistics then there's no other option but to use a textbook, but I would expect and a readable (modular) book with both questions and answers. The worst situation is when a really bad book is selected simply because the author is an ex-college friend of the professor. Having professors who are currently researching the field they are teaching, are using the latest technology, and are currently working in industry are definitely the best.
Not at all - This was only for a single subject - oddly enough in two universities I've worked at, it was always Database Systems who never gave handouts, but insisted students take their own notes, even though both courses were taken straight out of a textbook.
This was in the time before PDA's, Powerpoint presentations, and PDF documents. I considered using a personal voice recorder like several other students did, but it was sufficient to highlight the key phrases from the papers being discussed (I never liked scribbling over textbooks).
If I had to take lectures again, I would probably use a PDA to record what the professor was saying, and if it had sufficient resolution, also take pictures of the whitescreen/overhead projector. Although now, everyone seems to have switched over to Powerpoint presentations, and give out a link to the PDF of the paper, and maybe give out the occassional handout.
Hmmm.. I found the concept of note-taking the most frustrating part. Since there are any number of good text-books and research papers out there, I'd rather have a professor tell me what papers/chapters to read, digest that information in my own time, and then come into class and then go over the material ask about any points that weren't clear. Having to sit and listen to someone else interpretation of a topic while frantically scribbling down every last word in order to guess which were and were not the important bits for the exam, was tedious and frustrating. Especially, when you're studying eight subjects simultaneously and having to do courseworks every evening, having to rewrite every set of lecture notes is just a timewaster.
Although, as far as Computer Science goes, nothing is better than actually designing and writing real software/hardware examples, with writing essays probably being the worst learning method.
Using the "video game" approach would be good for simulating chemistry, biology and physics, hardware engineering experiments, where the equipment is expensive, and accident insurance costs are constantly rising.
And would it be transparent with the seats in the colour of your choice?
Me too. I once accepted a job in Brighton, and as money was tight, figured out that I could accept the job, stay in a hotel for a couple of weeks, then use that to put down a deposit for the rent.
The first stage was easy - moved down, found a hotel, started work, went out each lunchtime to visit the rental offices, and it was complee shambles.
For 850 pounds a month, the only places available were an overdeveloped parking space with eight flats above it, all of which shared the one letter box, a flat located directly above a woodmill, and another place where the architect had apparently decided that a multi-storey building didn't need guard rails for staircases and outside walkways (it's the place where someone sat on a wet concrete wall as seen in the Ka "Worn Wall" car advert).
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One other place was a two-bedroom flat, but the owner had decided to lock all his belongings into one room and only charge the rate for a one bedroom. The last place I looked at didn't even have rubbish bins. Instead, everyone was expected to leave their rubbish bags in little nooks outside each door before 6am.
And even worse, the rental offices wanted 1900 pounds deposit for rent. By the end of the week, I still didn't have a permanent address, couldn't sign the NCA and had to drop the job.
In the UK, you tend to get quite a few dodgy builders who will drive round the area looking for the signs of some gullible person, knock on their door and claim that that some part of their building (usually the roof or chimney) is in a bad state, but not to worry as they can fix it. Then when the payment is about to be made, the builders refuse to accept cheques or credit cards, but offer to drive the person down to the nearest cash machine or bank. Only never to be seen again.
From what I've read about the property markets in California and the East Coast, prices keep on rising. In Southern California, first time buyer homes are costing around $500K and they still have to find space for another 6 million homes for the anticipated population growth. And in New York, people search the obituaries in order to find leads for properties that are yet to go on sale.
Not so different from the South of England, especially with the need to build another 120,000 homes. Or Edinburgh, where new flats are being sold for 500K pounds each. And even old apartments sell for 250K pounds each.
Not Europe, but the UK is certainly becoming like the US, especially in terms of property prices, employment law and immigration.
You must have read this story from bash.org,
<skycreatoR> hehe awesome
<skycreatoR> today at my job (i work in a cinema) we had the premiere on shrek 2
<skycreatoR> and because of the ocation, green popcorn
<skycreatoR> then some little girl came over to my booth and asked why the popcorns were green
<skycreatoR> i said it was because we put mashed shrek down in the popcorn machine
>skycreatoR< then she began crying and ran away
Then maybe we will have polarized light transistors (switching the polarization of light), with multiple light frequencies.
Any student or worker can tell you of a time when they became upset after losing a coursework, report or spreadsheet or even the contents of an entire disk drive.
The items didn't exist physically except as the spin orientation of some electrons in an ferromagnetic material.
When I said "water-cooler" I meant one of these
It's not squeezing the kids into the car that's the problem, it's squeezing the soccer mom into the drivers seat of a station wagon that's the problem. Having 8" clearance makes it a lot easier to get in without having to be hunched up under a steering wheel, especially when kid no.6 is on the way.
During any inter-school team match, the car park and access road of the sports ground next to my house looks like a SUV owners appreciation society. Not even the nearest SUV showroom has that number of vehicles on show. And they certainly wouldn't be allowed to park 20+ vehicles on the sidewalk.
...is for someone to convert a water cooler into a graphics card cooler. Now, that would be impressive.
I like the use of the term "proprietary lifting gas".
It sounds like they've discovered a new element or molecule lighter than both Oxygen and Nitrogen.
So, if Video Games is a two billion dollar market, why is it so hard to make a profit?
While the market has expanded, the development costs have increased because there is far more artwork to be created, and because the consoles are considerably more powerful.
For your early console system (Atari 2600), all you needed were a few sprite characters and a map level made from blocks (eg. Combat). All the work could be done by a single programmer (audio, animation, AI, menus).
2D consoles like SNES/Sega required 3 or 4 artists to paint the artwork for each animated character, backgrounds, a musician for sound effects, one programmer to integrate all of this (and maybe a couple of part-time programmers for the level editor and AI).
The latest 3D consoles systems require a game engine team (maybe outsourced) costing license fees (alternatively, the company will need one or more game engine programmers, a networking programmer, an audio programmer), and for each title will also require a gameplay programmer, an AI programmer, another programmer to customize the level editor, along with a whole team of artists and animators to build all of the characters, another programmer , along with a couple of musicians for all the sound effects.
And for all that money spent, there is no guarantee that a game will sell enough units (A really good game sells something like 500,000 units). Many companies are lucky to sell 5000 or more units, simply because there are far more game companies around than there were in the 1980's.
And if a company fails three titles in a row, they will get dropped off the shelves of the retail stores. Or sometimes a publisher may just decide to focus on a particular genre of games.
You don't need a degree to study AI, although all the standard software and hardware courses do help structure your code and understand about working in teams.
AI is probably the largest area of shortages for game programmers in the UK.
I meant "it takes" in the sense that it appears to download the map data from the server and renders them onto terrain.
Have you tried Google Earth - it takes the satellite data from Google maps and combines it with terrain data so you can fly around entire cities.
This document is definitely worth a read - It's like the mutant offspring between a Monty Python movie, the BOFH and Dilbert.
True, but it's a nice little earner for Greek lawyers who get to argue this all day in court, especially when foreigners are involved, since they can jack up the fees.