Hrmm, I didn't see that misspelling. Anyways, storyboard discussion was not meant for perfect grammer or spelling. In addition it may have just been your browser, which if you update, which is what this post was all about anyways you might not have seen the space in the w or d. Try to stay civil next time. Thank you.
No not for the movie, not even to see the corny JasonX trailer... but it is the Star Wars Trailer (which I assume has been in other movies, yet I have not seen it in any others).
The editors should have caught the use of the word "mutation," which is misused in this article. A mutation by definition is a genetic deviance which is only passed down through generation. Mutations cannot occur in the span of one lifetime. For example, are we to call all those college basketball players mutants because they can make free throws with about a 80-90% success rate when the average Joe can only make aobut 10-20%? No, this is fine tuning the muscles in which they were born with... Example 2... many guitar players have what would appear to be "mutated" hands when actually it is a buildup of callus on their (generally left) hand.
I've got a new format for the music industry. Make CD's a bit larger, for example approx 12" Since the digital stream is so easy to copy, just make the bumps on this new disc at different levels to accompany different volumes, pitches, waveforms etc. To read this a conventional laser would not be useful, so a needle would have to be used instead. You could also save quite a bit of machine wear and tear by slowing the rotation of the disc to, oh about 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.
What's that Mr Edison, its already been done. Oh well vinyl sounds better anyways.
Ha! We don't prosecute celebrities. We tell them to go to rehab, hug a tree, or test out the new environmentally safe helicopter ejection seat (wait, maybe not that one, but it is a funny picture)
I'm going to go a step further with the $36.5 trillion in sales. If you figure about what the average indie artist makes from their music that means that the average indie artist would make about $1.47 (not counting the $2000 studio fees, $1500 production and another $1000 packaging, and finally $100 for about 10 cases of Miller drank while writing/recording.
I've seen Apple's ads and it clearly (or at least more clearly than car commercials) says in small print at the bottom of the screen that Rip, Mix, Burn should only be used for lawful purposes... ie making a digital backup of CD's lawfully obtained and mixing those backups into a "for personal use" cd.
Many posts are on track... this legislation sucks... so if you are a US citizen (or legal alien for that matter) take part in the political process contact your legislators. It angers me to no end when people complain and do not follow up. Write, email and call your congressmen/women.
Do you expect, then, that you can pick up some open source project, work on it in the 5 free minutes that you say you don't even have, and expect it to look great on your resume?
That's exactly my point... I think we're in agreement that for what I see would be good employee prospects, working on an opensource project can only be an afterthought to studies. The reason why I chose to go to a liberal arts university rather than an engineering school reflects this idea... Rather than being the most prolific coder (which I'm not) I'd rather be able to sell my ability to understand problems, think of a solution and effectively communicate both. As far as my carreer aspirations yeah I want to work in the technology industry (preferably in system administration or security) but unless I'm working for a computer company, I'll have to have some kind of understanding as to what goes on in the real world... how the business is run etc. etc. To sum up, I think that being a CS grad shows your competency in the technology realm, however that should not be your only concentration in life or on your resume for that manner.
It seems as though you have forgotten what it is like to be a college student... particularly at a liberal arts college (you know the kind that at least trys to diversify your education). If yours was anything like mine it would read something like this... 6:30 am Get up 7:00 leave for internship 7:45-8 arrive at internship 8-1:30 work ass of at internship mostly solving petty user problems 1:30 bust ass to get to class 2-5 class 5 get to eat for the first time in the day 5:15 start working on homework 9-11 meeting for _____ group/committee 11-2:30 work on homework/senior thesis
Did I mention that this is my friday schedule?? Now I know I am not alone in saying where am I supposed to have time to work on this "project?"
I'm a soon-to-be CS grad. Working at a bank for an intership. Just wondering how bleak is the job market? I've been told for us entry level (read cheap) workers there is still quite a job market. Thing is I'm starting to believe that there aren't all that many jobs available as I have been looking for job leads without much success (note my job search has been primarily focused on the midwest ie Chicago area). Any thoughts from seasoned professonals or other soon to be grads?
I just wanted to comment on the various posts that make the blanket statement... patents are bad. They aren't all bad, in fact for those who live in the US, take a look at you constitution. Patents are useful for protecting innovators for a limited time and thus gives them the freedom to innovate further. Now on to software, I think that is where patents get a little hairy. Code as most would agree, should be open, and based on my historical knowledge (which I'll admit isn't the most extensive) isn't what the framers had in mind in protecting.
I have been corrected, no Linux is not free as in beer, however, I still stand that beer is an inalienable right for all free people no matter what race, creed, age (well, except for those of you under 21 in the US sorry kiddies). Nonetheless, any GPL software can be sold as is. This is my freedom to distribute under the GPL. If I can find a sucker to pay $100 for Slackware, as long as I provide the source and give credit, I'm in no way violating the GPL... at least I think. Anyhow, I'm off in search of free beer and pursuing the freedoms which every man or woman should hold dear. Goodnight!
>software is Free as in GPL and can't legally be sold at a profit.
Umm, no. You can sell GPL software, and make it fairly big... ever hear of a little company called IBM, or perhaps Red Hat? Last time I checked they both sold Linux solutions. And Linux is free as in beer, go to www.gnu.org.
AOL: 20 times
Microsoft: 16 times
MSN: 13 times
Windows: 9 times
Linux: 11 times
Red Hat: 6 times
Torvalds: 1 time:)
Definition web services architechtures:??? nice sounding marketing cliche.
Def. set-top boxes: all those things that say Domninoes on my TV
License of Linux: GPL - NOT "open source" but "free software" www.gnu.org
While this article was supposed to be about RH & AOL, I found myself reading about the new features of M$ WinXP and MSN. If that wasn't enough the article implies that Linux isn't a viable desktop OS... don't tell that to the gov't, I like not having to pay for gov't software.
Unfortunately, micro atx has issues with heat as well as expandability. But yes, Micro ATX could do the trick, but are P4 2 Ghz or Athlon XP 1900 capable miro ATX mb are available?
If working help desk/tech support while in my first two years at college taught me anything, it is that people are dumb. They don't care about their computers, whether it is Mac, Windows, Linux, or "Microsoft Office" or "Word Perfect." They just want it to work, and if they have to pay the bills, they want it cheap. If you can prove that this will positively effect their pocketbooks (I'm not entirely convinced that Linux is all that much cheaper than Windows with amortized costs), then they will vote for you.
If you want the latest and greatest with expandability, you can't go much smaller than ATX. However as I see it, the reason that the iMac can be so small is that it:
1)Is meant to be a system that can only have a few upgrades: RAM, HD, maybe videocard - which is beyond what most users do anyways.
2)Adds funcitonality through USB and IEEE 1394 (Firewire).
The problem I have (with my own iMac) is the abundance of cords. As another poster pointed out. A solution: wireless (Bluetooth or IrDA) devices. Not like the wireless mice and keyboards available, but truely wireless devices in the same manner that Apple has so successfully marketed AirPort(802.11) for internet connectivity.
Size of form factor and expandability are by nature inversely proportional.
Take this with a grain of salt as it is coming from a senior "IT" undergrad. Ok actually a CS undergrad.
My experience has been that Linux is highly respected in acadamia. My acquaintences at UIC, MIT, and Marquette all seem to have similar feelings.
Our program (at Concordia University) strongly emphasizes the general theory and foundations of Computer Science, and Linux/Unix are OSs that lend themselves to that task. The problem is HR departments see things like MCSE as a golden egg. They ask questions like, "Do you know Visual Basic 5.0?" or "What certifications do you have." Which baffles me as learning new languages is not a hard task after the first few.
So who's to blame, not acadamia, but business demanding the lowest common denominator from colleges. --Enough of my long rant.
Strategy actually takes in consideration the level of AI the game programmers put into their games. For computers everything is numbers, so the only way to have a "smart" enemy that uses strategy would be to program some of these strategies ie chess simulators with opening moves programmed in. Until we can really figure out what we are doing with AI, this might be a hard task for the mear mortal programmer.
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Hrmm, I didn't see that misspelling. Anyways, storyboard discussion was not meant for perfect grammer or spelling. In addition it may have just been your browser, which if you update, which is what this post was all about anyways you might not have seen the space in the w or d. Try to stay civil next time. Thank you.
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Luckily my roommate works at a theatre so I spend all of $1 to go see movies :-p
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No not for the movie, not even to see the corny JasonX trailer... but it is the Star Wars Trailer (which I assume has been in other movies, yet I have not seen it in any others).
The editors should have caught the use of the word "mutation," which is misused in this article. A mutation by definition is a genetic deviance which is only passed down through generation. Mutations cannot occur in the span of one lifetime. For example, are we to call all those college basketball players mutants because they can make free throws with about a 80-90% success rate when the average Joe can only make aobut 10-20%? No, this is fine tuning the muscles in which they were born with... Example 2... many guitar players have what would appear to be "mutated" hands when actually it is a buildup of callus on their (generally left) hand.
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This once again re-affirms the premise that nerds and their "beige boxes" rule the world.
Thanks for the info, I'm glad you caught me in my blatant attempt at being funny/sarcastic.
I've got a new format for the music industry. Make CD's a bit larger, for example approx 12" Since the digital stream is so easy to copy, just make the bumps on this new disc at different levels to accompany different volumes, pitches, waveforms etc. To read this a conventional laser would not be useful, so a needle would have to be used instead. You could also save quite a bit of machine wear and tear by slowing the rotation of the disc to, oh about 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.
What's that Mr Edison, its already been done. Oh well vinyl sounds better anyways.
Ha! We don't prosecute celebrities. We tell them to go to rehab, hug a tree, or test out the new environmentally safe helicopter ejection seat (wait, maybe not that one, but it is a funny picture)
I'm going to go a step further with the $36.5 trillion in sales. If you figure about what the average indie artist makes from their music that means that the average indie artist would make about $1.47 (not counting the $2000 studio fees, $1500 production and another $1000 packaging, and finally $100 for about 10 cases of Miller drank while writing/recording.
Net profit -$4598.53
yippie we're rich
I've seen Apple's ads and it clearly (or at least more clearly than car commercials) says in small print at the bottom of the screen that Rip, Mix, Burn should only be used for lawful purposes... ie making a digital backup of CD's lawfully obtained and mixing those backups into a "for personal use" cd.
Many posts are on track... this legislation sucks... so if you are a US citizen (or legal alien for that matter) take part in the political process contact your legislators. It angers me to no end when people complain and do not follow up. Write, email and call your congressmen/women.
http://www.senate.gov
http://www.house.gov
Do you expect, then, that you can pick up some open source project, work on it in the 5 free minutes that you say you don't even have, and expect it to look great on your resume?
That's exactly my point... I think we're in agreement that for what I see would be good employee prospects, working on an opensource project can only be an afterthought to studies. The reason why I chose to go to a liberal arts university rather than an engineering school reflects this idea... Rather than being the most prolific coder (which I'm not) I'd rather be able to sell my ability to understand problems, think of a solution and effectively communicate both. As far as my carreer aspirations yeah I want to work in the technology industry (preferably in system administration or security) but unless I'm working for a computer company, I'll have to have some kind of understanding as to what goes on in the real world... how the business is run etc. etc. To sum up, I think that being a CS grad shows your competency in the technology realm, however that should not be your only concentration in life or on your resume for that manner.
It seems as though you have forgotten what it is like to be a college student... particularly at a liberal arts college (you know the kind that at least trys to diversify your education). If yours was anything like mine it would read something like this...
6:30 am Get up
7:00 leave for internship
7:45-8 arrive at internship
8-1:30 work ass of at internship mostly solving petty user problems
1:30 bust ass to get to class
2-5 class
5 get to eat for the first time in the day
5:15 start working on homework
9-11 meeting for _____ group/committee
11-2:30 work on homework/senior thesis
Did I mention that this is my friday schedule?? Now I know I am not alone in saying where am I supposed to have time to work on this "project?"
I'm a soon-to-be CS grad. Working at a bank for an intership. Just wondering how bleak is the job market? I've been told for us entry level (read cheap) workers there is still quite a job market. Thing is I'm starting to believe that there aren't all that many jobs available as I have been looking for job leads without much success (note my job search has been primarily focused on the midwest ie Chicago area). Any thoughts from seasoned professonals or other soon to be grads?
I just wanted to comment on the various posts that make the blanket statement... patents are bad. They aren't all bad, in fact for those who live in the US, take a look at you constitution. Patents are useful for protecting innovators for a limited time and thus gives them the freedom to innovate further. Now on to software, I think that is where patents get a little hairy. Code as most would agree, should be open, and based on my historical knowledge (which I'll admit isn't the most extensive) isn't what the framers had in mind in protecting.
I have been corrected, no Linux is not free as in beer, however, I still stand that beer is an inalienable right for all free people no matter what race, creed, age (well, except for those of you under 21 in the US sorry kiddies). Nonetheless, any GPL software can be sold as is. This is my freedom to distribute under the GPL. If I can find a sucker to pay $100 for Slackware, as long as I provide the source and give credit, I'm in no way violating the GPL... at least I think. Anyhow, I'm off in search of free beer and pursuing the freedoms which every man or woman should hold dear. Goodnight!
>software is Free as in GPL and can't legally be sold at a profit.
Umm, no. You can sell GPL software, and make it fairly big... ever hear of a little company called IBM, or perhaps Red Hat? Last time I checked they both sold Linux solutions. And Linux is free as in beer, go to www.gnu.org.
An interesting note word count in article:
:)
AOL: 20 times
Microsoft: 16 times
MSN: 13 times
Windows: 9 times
Linux: 11 times
Red Hat: 6 times
Torvalds: 1 time
Definition web services architechtures:??? nice sounding marketing cliche.
Def. set-top boxes: all those things that say Domninoes on my TV
License of Linux: GPL - NOT "open source" but "free software" www.gnu.org
While this article was supposed to be about RH & AOL, I found myself reading about the new features of M$ WinXP and MSN. If that wasn't enough the article implies that Linux isn't a viable desktop OS... don't tell that to the gov't, I like not having to pay for gov't software.
Unfortunately, micro atx has issues with heat as well as expandability. But yes, Micro ATX could do the trick, but are P4 2 Ghz or Athlon XP 1900 capable miro ATX mb are available?
If working help desk/tech support while in my first two years at college taught me anything, it is that people are dumb. They don't care about their computers, whether it is Mac, Windows, Linux, or "Microsoft Office" or "Word Perfect." They just want it to work, and if they have to pay the bills, they want it cheap. If you can prove that this will positively effect their pocketbooks (I'm not entirely convinced that Linux is all that much cheaper than Windows with amortized costs), then they will vote for you.
If you want the latest and greatest with expandability, you can't go much smaller than ATX. However as I see it, the reason that the iMac can be so small is that it:
1)Is meant to be a system that can only have a few upgrades: RAM, HD, maybe videocard - which is beyond what most users do anyways.
2)Adds funcitonality through USB and IEEE 1394 (Firewire).
The problem I have (with my own iMac) is the abundance of cords. As another poster pointed out. A solution: wireless (Bluetooth or IrDA) devices. Not like the wireless mice and keyboards available, but truely wireless devices in the same manner that Apple has so successfully marketed AirPort(802.11) for internet connectivity.
Size of form factor and expandability are by nature inversely proportional.
Take this with a grain of salt as it is coming from a senior "IT" undergrad. Ok actually a CS undergrad.
My experience has been that Linux is highly respected in acadamia. My acquaintences at UIC, MIT, and Marquette all seem to have similar feelings.
Our program (at Concordia University) strongly emphasizes the general theory and foundations of Computer Science, and Linux/Unix are OSs that lend themselves to that task. The problem is HR departments see things like MCSE as a golden egg. They ask questions like, "Do you know Visual Basic 5.0?" or "What certifications do you have." Which baffles me as learning new languages is not a hard task after the first few.
So who's to blame, not acadamia, but business demanding the lowest common denominator from colleges. --Enough of my long rant.
I've found a very effective 1 step program for video game addiction...
:)
Read every Slashdot article and all comments
Strategy actually takes in consideration the level of AI the game programmers put into their games. For computers everything is numbers, so the only way to have a "smart" enemy that uses strategy would be to program some of these strategies ie chess simulators with opening moves programmed in. Until we can really figure out what we are doing with AI, this might be a hard task for the mear mortal programmer.