Even if it doesn't make sense. That way, when they whittle you down to something less, they feel like they've accomplished something. Meanwhile, you get what you want.
We all know the tactic. It's like salary negotiations during an interview.
Another good trick is to get a dinky 256mb usb drive and stick emulators on it. Like WinUAE. Plenty of good old non-arcade games for the Amiga out there, and the emulator lets you pick your screen size (good for being sneaky). Head to www.back2roots.org for abandonware and other legal to use games.
They're all arcade games. Yeah they're a blast, but I can't play them at work. The banging on the keyboard is a dead giveaway - only faster way to summon the boss is with a flare gun.
That's why the little dinky Java strategy and card games are good.
Stashing all the entries in a 1.1M archive rather than posting links to the code. No way I'm going to download that just to see what all the fuss is about.
Well, as I'm sure you know, the radius of a circle doesn't have to be unity to use it to derive angles from. In high school one of the definitions we used to define sines and cosines was based on the "opposite, adjacent, hypotenuse" method. For instance, sin(t) = opposite/hypotenuse. You still need a circle and an inscribed right triangle, and that's what he's doing.
Maybe I'm just old school, but it really doesn't look like he's doing anything different here. That might be because I'm trained to look for standard trig... but really when I read this guy's work it doesn't look like anything new to me. Other than the names for things.
The notion of spread removes the dependence upon circles
Well, I've got the sample PDF and I'm looking at the definition of spread in 1.2. I still see a circle there. And it's the classic trig circle with the inscribed right triangle.
I applaud the guy for trying to make things simpler for students to start with, but ultimately I feel this won't help students in the long run by renaming everything and making their studies incompatible with the rest of the world.
Please note that my entire post is about what we need, whereas your post is about what we have. There is a difference, and you appear to have missed it.
Before we go to the moon again, how 'bout getting us some shuttles first? The ones we have now are past their prime.
Another point, what good does it do us to go to the moon again? What's there that we haven't already seen? I know pure research is wonderful and all, but let's get what we need before we get what we'd like.
And we need shuttles. To get those satellites up there, to fix Hubble, to take care of our orbital missions quickly and cheaply.
I used to search at AltaVista. Then a friend said "try Google, it seems to find things better". So I tried it, and it did.
Google didn't wind up in front because of clever marketing alone. Their search engine whomps the daylights out of all the other ones, IMHO. That *and* clever marketing put them out front.
You can send in an application for "...a method of wiping your arse comprising the step of utilizing paper in a back and forth rubbing motion" and that application would also be published.
The difference being that if you're Jeff Bezos, you have the money to resubmit it ten times. Eventually you'll get the one disgruntled guy who just wants to go home early and signs whatever is on his desk.
Because you are paying two different organizations for two different things. The movie ticket price goes to the move company. The theatre does not get any of that money. The theatre gets its money from popcorn and commercials. That is what pays for the building, employees, utilities.
I remember a time where there were no commercials at the movies. How did the theatre make its money back then?
We all know that popcorn doesn't cost $3 a bucket. A soda is not $3 either. And a dollar pack of candy shouldn't be $3.
The theaters are nearly the size of my living room anyways. Why pay money to sit in someone else's living room?
Commercials. I shouldn't have to pay for my movie twice. I paid the ticket at the door - lose the commercials.
Rude people. Once upon a time, people knew how to conduct themselves in public. If you ever want to know how far away from that we've gotten, go to the movies. You'll see.
Lying reviewers. I'm sure payola is involved somehow. Even the lamest movie has at least 3 idiots from some newspaper "raving" about how it's an "edge of your seat extravaganza!" Dear movie industry, you can cut that out now. Nobody believes these people and that's your own fault.
No difference in quality. Most of these dinky theaters have absolutely *lousy* audio. Primarily because you're sitting in a narrow cabinet. Bigger theaters make for better sound. And better picture quality too. The larger screens of days gone by could hide many sins. Remember watching Star Wars your first time? Looked great, didn't it? Then when you got your very first VCR tape of it you couldn't help but notice the light green boxes around all the spacecraft? Bigger screens are *better* - that's why.
Ok, that's enough rant for me for one day. Feel free to add more.
First off a disclaimer. I don't play much console and I'm not a football fan. I just ducked in here to see how EA's exclusive contract with the NFL is working out.
Not so well, apparently.
You know, if this was any other software in the world, the little tweaks you're describing would be a 1.01 downloadable patch (or something of the sort) and not a new release. Characters finally lining up correctly isn't exactly a breakthrough. It's a bugfix.
One can't help but wonder how much better of a football game you'd be able to play if there was another competitor out there who was allowed to make football games.
But since there isn't, gamers have to be happy with these little dibs and dabs of gameplay improvement at the cost of a completely new game.
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Planning on releasing a Linux version? Or any other OS other than Windows?
My thoughts exactly. Why be a slave just because your idiot supervisor makes promises you have to keep by constantly working? Laptops. Gah.
Work 8 hours a day then go the fuck home. And go walk in a park, for Christ's sake.
Even if it doesn't make sense. That way, when they whittle you down to something less, they feel like they've accomplished something. Meanwhile, you get what you want.
We all know the tactic. It's like salary negotiations during an interview.
Yeah that was my first thought too. First unlucky guy that walks by one of these wearing old style contact lenses is screwed.
Another good trick is to get a dinky 256mb usb drive and stick emulators on it. Like WinUAE. Plenty of good old non-arcade games for the Amiga out there, and the emulator lets you pick your screen size (good for being sneaky). Head to www.back2roots.org for abandonware and other legal to use games.
They're all arcade games. Yeah they're a blast, but I can't play them at work. The banging on the keyboard is a dead giveaway - only faster way to summon the boss is with a flare gun.
That's why the little dinky Java strategy and card games are good.
*sigh*
I'm on a cablemodem. I just don't care to wade through megabytes of crap just to read the winning entry.
Don't make assumptions about people you don't know. Just a suggestion mind you....
It's ok, I'm using Firefox. It's the most zyg234 bof*(0sls lkM12134 bsxQxo%9X browser out there!
Stashing all the entries in a 1.1M archive rather than posting links to the code. No way I'm going to download that just to see what all the fuss is about.
Well, as I'm sure you know, the radius of a circle doesn't have to be unity to use it to derive angles from. In high school one of the definitions we used to define sines and cosines was based on the "opposite, adjacent, hypotenuse" method. For instance, sin(t) = opposite/hypotenuse. You still need a circle and an inscribed right triangle, and that's what he's doing.
Maybe I'm just old school, but it really doesn't look like he's doing anything different here. That might be because I'm trained to look for standard trig... but really when I read this guy's work it doesn't look like anything new to me. Other than the names for things.
The notion of spread removes the dependence upon circles
Well, I've got the sample PDF and I'm looking at the definition of spread in 1.2. I still see a circle there. And it's the classic trig circle with the inscribed right triangle.
I applaud the guy for trying to make things simpler for students to start with, but ultimately I feel this won't help students in the long run by renaming everything and making their studies incompatible with the rest of the world.
Please note that my entire post is about what we need, whereas your post is about what we have. There is a difference, and you appear to have missed it.
Before we go to the moon again, how 'bout getting us some shuttles first? The ones we have now are past their prime.
Another point, what good does it do us to go to the moon again? What's there that we haven't already seen? I know pure research is wonderful and all, but let's get what we need before we get what we'd like.
And we need shuttles. To get those satellites up there, to fix Hubble, to take care of our orbital missions quickly and cheaply.
Forget the moon. Been there, done that. Shuttles.
I used to search at AltaVista. Then a friend said "try Google, it seems to find things better". So I tried it, and it did.
Google didn't wind up in front because of clever marketing alone. Their search engine whomps the daylights out of all the other ones, IMHO. That *and* clever marketing put them out front.
Perl Best Practices, page 1.
Use Python.
Ba-dump-bump! Thanks, I'll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waitresses.
That is so totally worth the $300 or so it'll cost to upgrade!!
DAMN but this will boost my productivity.
Woo!
You can send in an application for "...a method of wiping your arse comprising the step of utilizing paper in a back and forth rubbing motion" and that application would also be published.
The difference being that if you're Jeff Bezos, you have the money to resubmit it ten times. Eventually you'll get the one disgruntled guy who just wants to go home early and signs whatever is on his desk.
And don't tell me it never happens that way, because it does.
How about Media-S, which is a GPL'd DRM?
It's almost a philosophy question. Will Media-S dissolve in a puff of logic? Can the GPL create a rock so big it can't lift it?
Name one independent observer that could conduct a TCO study that everyone on both sides would trust, regardless of the outcome.
There is no substitute for personal attention from a real teacher.
Because you are paying two different organizations for two different things. The movie ticket price goes to the move company. The theatre does not get any of that money. The theatre gets its money from popcorn and commercials. That is what pays for the building, employees, utilities.
I remember a time where there were no commercials at the movies. How did the theatre make its money back then?
We all know that popcorn doesn't cost $3 a bucket. A soda is not $3 either. And a dollar pack of candy shouldn't be $3.
The theaters are nearly the size of my living room anyways. Why pay money to sit in someone else's living room?
Commercials. I shouldn't have to pay for my movie twice. I paid the ticket at the door - lose the commercials.
Rude people. Once upon a time, people knew how to conduct themselves in public. If you ever want to know how far away from that we've gotten, go to the movies. You'll see.
Lying reviewers. I'm sure payola is involved somehow. Even the lamest movie has at least 3 idiots from some newspaper "raving" about how it's an "edge of your seat extravaganza!" Dear movie industry, you can cut that out now. Nobody believes these people and that's your own fault.
No difference in quality. Most of these dinky theaters have absolutely *lousy* audio. Primarily because you're sitting in a narrow cabinet. Bigger theaters make for better sound. And better picture quality too. The larger screens of days gone by could hide many sins. Remember watching Star Wars your first time? Looked great, didn't it? Then when you got your very first VCR tape of it you couldn't help but notice the light green boxes around all the spacecraft? Bigger screens are *better* - that's why.
Ok, that's enough rant for me for one day. Feel free to add more.
They told him what he could do with his Pentium 4, and he took them literally.
First off a disclaimer. I don't play much console and I'm not a football fan. I just ducked in here to see how EA's exclusive contract with the NFL is working out.
Not so well, apparently.
You know, if this was any other software in the world, the little tweaks you're describing would be a 1.01 downloadable patch (or something of the sort) and not a new release. Characters finally lining up correctly isn't exactly a breakthrough. It's a bugfix.
One can't help but wonder how much better of a football game you'd be able to play if there was another competitor out there who was allowed to make football games.
But since there isn't, gamers have to be happy with these little dibs and dabs of gameplay improvement at the cost of a completely new game.