It depends on your teacher. Honest! In highschool I learned qbasic. It was taught as an introduction to concepts like variables and loops. That was the whole point..
You could learn some of the basic but crucial programming concepts required before getting so frustrated with syntaxial errors that you gave up the class all together.
Of course, if your teacher is bad you will not take much out of the class, as with any other course.
Here in phoenix.. People would get ticketed for wasting a non renewable resource (40$ and no points on your license) and possibly hit with a no cruising law that they seem to have somewhere...
(they literally reduce the roads in certain parts of phoenix to 1 lane for each direction and do not allow left hand turns periodically to combat "cruising"... I have no idea how that's supposed to work)
Presidential _candidates_ are chosen by their party, then people vote on it. Also as stated below the populace's votes are different than the ??electoral college?? 's votes?
I'm not convinced that we could. (I am an American citicen BTW)
I understand that the ideal scenario would be the entire American Public write our senators and congressmen and express our dissatisfaction - and that they would in turn vote a president in who would get rid of the cia/vote amongst themselves to get rid of them for fear of losing their positions.
I just don't see this happening. In order for that change to occur you would need alternatives. People to take these officials place should they not get rid of the CIA. I have no doubt that some of them would take this stance, because it is beneficial to them, and they would potentially get a powerful position. This does not mean that they will end up with enough power to accomplish that goal.
I also don't see the american public doing anything about it because 1) we do feel powerless 2) not everyone is as educated or even aware as we all should be. I myself having a pretty basic idea of how our government is running.
and (most importantly) 3) some of the American Public will have no problem with this behavior whatsoever.
So, while the potential to correct this mess exists, I cannot see it happening. I think that's all the CIA needs to feel safe in their actions..
I would think that someone who was able to make a living playing a MMORPG (especially in the us economy..) would be a desired employee. It's not a task easily done, and takes the type of creativity other people are willing to pay for. You know the person is also very motivated. I really cannot see it as being a bad thing!
Of course, the bigwigs in HR might not be clueful...
I was always told that coconut migrated by being dropped in the ocean and being carried elsewhere by the waves of the ocean... That is ofcourse something I learned as a child and really don't question. But yah.
All right, now I have to jump in and set the record straight. EW is a fine rag, but they do take things out of context. Obviously when I said I had 'closure', what I meant was "I hate Serenity, I hated Firefly, I think my fans are stupid and Nathan Fillion smells like turnips." But EW's always got to put some weird negative spin on it. But so we're clear once and for all: If you read a quote saying "I'd love to do more in this 'verse with these actors in any medium" all I'm saying is that Nathan has a turnipy odor. It's not his fault, he doesn't eat a lot of them but everyone else in the cast noticed it and tht's not really something I'm prepared to deal with any more. And Jewel said outright she wouldn't do scenes with him except stuff like the SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER funeral scene which was outside in a high SPOILER wind. So if I do manage to find another incarnation for my beloved creation, it will have been totally against my will.
I hope that clears everything up. Oh, and when I say I want to do a Spike movie, it means I have a bunion on my toe.
-joss (by which I mean Tim)
(no, actually me.)
SO - key details. 1) main actor smells like turnips. I can't smell but in context this seems negative, as no one will work with him. 2) Joss Whedon doesn't like serenity or firefly 3) He's not really looking to make any more of the universe.
Yea - I have resorted to consoles for the reasons you name. You get much more value in my opinion for that 50$ because it always runs fine, just not neccessarily as pretty.
The only exception I've had with this has been SRS - which crashed on the ps2 version apparently.
Forgive me, but I'm going to pull out a flame thrower here...
Games aren't cheap to make, and good games consume countless hours playing them. (Mostly the RPG sector)
Now, lets take Final Fantasy X. I never beat the game, but I have clocked at least 50 hours into that game. That's what's recorded. That doesn't include me fighting the boss at 40 hours, losing horribly, spending another 10 hours trying to gather equipment, and still dying. Each time committing at least 20 minutes getting to the boss, and another 10-30 minutes fighting him... several times.
That's a lot of time for a game I bought for 20$. I would have gladly paid 50$ for this game! (I did not, however, have a ps2 or a job to fund them) There are games like this, quite a few of them. Now, when you consider other forms of entertainment and the cost behind them, this is a FANTASTIC deal. I'm sorry but I think you people are just being cheap because you can.
He's talking about the videocard in this particular case.
But anyways, you do bring up an interesting point. usual power saving features do things like lower the clock rate when not in use, but lowering the maximum clockrate you would lower the speed of the computer, thus the max power it puts out. Knowing that you will be running the processor at max speed longer, you may or may not gain power/heat savings overall for long complex tasks, but I imagine for simple tasks you would.
now - I don't believe you need to downclock just because you lowered the voltage, but you may introduce system instability...
That's usually what happens when you overclock without increasing the voltage as well.
Wow, only 6$ to your principal every month eh? That sounds like the ideal situation for paying extra. You might want to eliminate one or two of your other expenses and allocate that money to the loan instead - afterall 50$ extra a month now will have greater returns later on.. (in the form of a lower % of your payment going toards interist, thus going toards your principal instead)
Oh and to the person above - even though 2.875% is a/really/ good interist rate, any interist you pay is wasted money. prolonging that pay cycle just means you're throwing money away no matter how you look at it.
To stay on topic, I am going to agree. The grammar and spelling mistakes are occasionally rediculous, obvious errors. I think there is an enormous margin for improvement. To be honest, I wouldn't notice. =) I'm just not someone who notices when things are done right unless I get the "whole package" and say "Wow! This is astounding!" - I will however have no idea why I like it so much.
Now, if you check my sig, you'll see that I'm prone to make typo's, spelling errors, and grammatical mistakes. I give my posts a once over and be done with it, and I don't mind people pointing out obvious mistakes in anything I type.
However, grammar nazi's are called as such for a reason. Most of the posts are rude, condescending, and about simple mistakes that do not matter to anyone but the most anal retentive. This is not to say all of them are, as some are funny and light hearted, but I can definately understand why people would become sore about the topic =)
I like the idea of feedback forms, because they allow for classification.
Allow the viewer to specify weither there is a spelling or grammar mistake, and to select a level of severity (with posted guidelines about what qualifies for what)
Some other topics include factual verification, broken links, and soforth. This will make it easier to include severe spelling/grammatical errors as top priority, without ruining the culture CmdrTaco whishes to preserve. (Of which I enjoy very much. The discussions tell me more than the article)
I guess the important thing that people are trying to say is Don't let this become an Apathy drug of sorts...
Although I'm sure in my case I'd have had to take this for many numbers of years to get the effect ("emotional protection,") but I'm definately screwed up.
Still, I wouldn't want this to be used for less and less severe cases of emotional trauma. Everything has the potential for abuse.
Let's not forget the breakdown of society caused by people inflicting traumatic experiences for others because they have never experienced anything remotely traumatic, and know that that person will escape relatively unharmed due to the same treatment.
Then there's the fact mind altering drugs can greatly assist in controlling a population - Think Brave New World.
It's somewhat difficult to give instance directions to someone who doesn't understand them, leading to wipes.
Ditto on loot rules. I've never had a problem with people who were foreigners but spoke decent enough english to be understood *shrug*, but when someone kills you because they didnt follow the plan and agro'd mobs they shouldn't have... I can definately see why communication is a lot more than just a way to descriminate against gold farmers, but perhaps mislabeled.
To add to the previous post... Be sure to make a distinction between what a firewall protects against, and what an antivirus protects against for example, a firewall won't stop spyware - that's not what it is Designed for. An antivirus won't stop a worm from spreading (until it has already done it's damage, because updates are slow to react) but a firewall would.
another reason for this misconception is the nice handy dandy swap file.......
People are told that if their harddrive is full their computer will be slow. and really, unless they have an exess of ram, it will be.
And the easiest rebuttle to "but it says I have 15 gig-a-bytes free, isn't that a lot?" is: yes, but you have more than one kind of memory, and this one isn't big enough. - of course they will still persist, but you can't defeat that, they aren't listening.
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You wouldn't happen to have amd's clockspeed throttling software enabled would you? That'll easily get you temperatures similar/lower.
Hmm I am a native english speaker, and I never knew that until just now...
at least i'm not the only one who read it that way at first glance. lol
It depends on your teacher. Honest! In highschool I learned qbasic. It was taught as an introduction to concepts like variables and loops. That was the whole point ..
You could learn some of the basic but crucial programming concepts required before getting so frustrated with syntaxial errors that you gave up the class all together.
Of course, if your teacher is bad you will not take much out of the class, as with any other course.
Here in phoenix .. People would get ticketed for wasting a non renewable resource (40$ and no points on your license) and possibly hit with a no cruising law that they seem to have somewhere...
... I have no idea how that's supposed to work)
(they literally reduce the roads in certain parts of phoenix to 1 lane for each direction and do not allow left hand turns periodically to combat "cruising"
stickey phone ... *shudder*
i know we're kidding in this thread and all - but wouldnt the jeans provide a certain level of protection from radiation?
Presidential _candidates_ are chosen by their party, then people vote on it. Also as stated below the populace's votes are different than the ??electoral college?? 's votes?
I forget what the group is called.
I'm not convinced that we could. (I am an American citicen BTW)
..
I understand that the ideal scenario would be the entire American Public write our senators and congressmen and express our dissatisfaction - and that they would in turn vote a president in who would get rid of the cia/vote amongst themselves to get rid of them for fear of losing their positions.
I just don't see this happening.
In order for that change to occur you would need alternatives. People to take these officials place should they not get rid of the CIA. I have no doubt that some of them would take this stance, because it is beneficial to them, and they would potentially get a powerful position. This does not mean that they will end up with enough power to accomplish that goal.
I also don't see the american public doing anything about it because 1) we do feel powerless 2) not everyone is as educated or even aware as we all should be. I myself having a pretty basic idea of how our government is running.
and (most importantly) 3) some of the American Public will have no problem with this behavior whatsoever.
So, while the potential to correct this mess exists, I cannot see it happening. I think that's all the CIA needs to feel safe in their actions
I would think that someone who was able to make a living playing a MMORPG (especially in the us economy ..) would be a desired employee. It's not a task easily done, and takes the type of creativity other people are willing to pay for. You know the person is also very motivated. I really cannot see it as being a bad thing!
...
Of course, the bigwigs in HR might not be clueful
Wow - all I had was a sore arm.
This is the first time I can remember where it didn't rain even once during the winter...
(Phx, Az)
I was admittedly away from the state for 6 years, 5 years ago.
These could all be natural, and part of earths usual cycle. Can't say I'd be terribly supprised if it was global warming though.
hmm sorry I'm not a monty python fan, so I didn't get the joke
I was always told that coconut migrated by being dropped in the ocean and being carried elsewhere by the waves of the ocean... That is ofcourse something I learned as a child and really don't question. But yah.
I've probably been beaten to the punch, and this isnt really a direct quote ... but
http://www.bureau42.com/view/3011
A quote from Joss on Whedonesque.com:
All right, now I have to jump in and set the record straight. EW is a fine rag, but they do take things out of context. Obviously when I said I had 'closure', what I meant was "I hate Serenity, I hated Firefly, I think my fans are stupid and Nathan Fillion smells like turnips." But EW's always got to put some weird negative spin on it. But so we're clear once and for all: If you read a quote saying "I'd love to do more in this 'verse with these actors in any medium" all I'm saying is that Nathan has a turnipy odor. It's not his fault, he doesn't eat a lot of them but everyone else in the cast noticed it and tht's not really something I'm prepared to deal with any more. And Jewel said outright she wouldn't do scenes with him except stuff like the SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER funeral scene which was outside in a high SPOILER wind. So if I do manage to find another incarnation for my beloved creation, it will have been totally against my will.
I hope that clears everything up. Oh, and when I say I want to do a Spike movie, it means I have a bunion on my toe.
-joss (by which I mean Tim)
(no, actually me.)
SO - key details. 1) main actor smells like turnips. I can't smell but in context this seems negative, as no one will work with him.
2) Joss Whedon doesn't like serenity or firefly
3) He's not really looking to make any more of the universe.
*shrug* good enough for me.
Yea - I have resorted to consoles for the reasons you name. You get much more value in my opinion for that 50$ because it always runs fine, just not neccessarily as pretty.
The only exception I've had with this has been SRS - which crashed on the ps2 version apparently.
Forgive me, but I'm going to pull out a flame thrower here...
... several times.
Games aren't cheap to make, and good games consume countless hours playing them. (Mostly the RPG sector)
Now, lets take Final Fantasy X. I never beat the game, but I have clocked at least 50 hours into that game. That's what's recorded. That doesn't include me fighting the boss at 40 hours, losing horribly, spending another 10 hours trying to gather equipment, and still dying. Each time committing at least 20 minutes getting to the boss, and another 10-30 minutes fighting him
That's a lot of time for a game I bought for 20$. I would have gladly paid 50$ for this game! (I did not, however, have a ps2 or a job to fund them) There are games like this, quite a few of them. Now, when you consider other forms of entertainment and the cost behind them, this is a FANTASTIC deal. I'm sorry but I think you people are just being cheap because you can.
He's talking about the videocard in this particular case.
...
But anyways, you do bring up an interesting point. usual power saving features do things like lower the clock rate when not in use, but lowering the maximum clockrate you would lower the speed of the computer, thus the max power it puts out. Knowing that you will be running the processor at max speed longer, you may or may not gain power/heat savings overall for long complex tasks, but I imagine for simple tasks you would.
now - I don't believe you need to downclock just because you lowered the voltage, but you may introduce system instability
That's usually what happens when you overclock without increasing the voltage as well.
Wow, only 6$ to your principal every month eh? That sounds like the ideal situation for paying extra. You might want to eliminate one or two of your other expenses and allocate that money to the loan instead - afterall 50$ extra a month now will have greater returns later on .. (in the form of a lower % of your payment going toards interist, thus going toards your principal instead)
/really/ good interist rate, any interist you pay is wasted money. prolonging that pay cycle just means you're throwing money away no matter how you look at it.
Oh and to the person above - even though 2.875% is a
Yea ... I couldn't read past "evar" ...
To stay on topic, I am going to agree. The grammar and spelling mistakes are occasionally rediculous, obvious errors. I think there is an enormous margin for improvement. To be honest, I wouldn't notice. =) I'm just not someone who notices when things are done right unless I get the "whole package" and say "Wow! This is astounding!" - I will however have no idea why I like it so much.
Now, if you check my sig, you'll see that I'm prone to make typo's, spelling errors, and grammatical mistakes. I give my posts a once over and be done with it, and I don't mind people pointing out obvious mistakes in anything I type.
However, grammar nazi's are called as such for a reason. Most of the posts are rude, condescending, and about simple mistakes that do not matter to anyone but the most anal retentive. This is not to say all of them are, as some are funny and light hearted, but I can definately understand why people would become sore about the topic =)
I like the idea of feedback forms, because they allow for classification.
Allow the viewer to specify weither there is a spelling or grammar mistake, and to select a level of severity (with posted guidelines about what qualifies for what)
Some other topics include factual verification, broken links, and soforth. This will make it easier to include severe spelling/grammatical errors as top priority, without ruining the culture CmdrTaco whishes to preserve. (Of which I enjoy very much. The discussions tell me more than the article)
I guess the important thing that people are trying to say is Don't let this become an Apathy drug of sorts...
Although I'm sure in my case I'd have had to take this for many numbers of years to get the effect ("emotional protection,") but I'm definately screwed up.
Still, I wouldn't want this to be used for less and less severe cases of emotional trauma. Everything has the potential for abuse.
Let's not forget the breakdown of society caused by people inflicting traumatic experiences for others because they have never experienced anything remotely traumatic, and know that that person will escape relatively unharmed due to the same treatment.
Then there's the fact mind altering drugs can greatly assist in controlling a population - Think Brave New World.
It's somewhat difficult to give instance directions to someone who doesn't understand them, leading to wipes.
... I can definately see why communication is a lot more than just a way to descriminate against gold farmers, but perhaps mislabeled.
Ditto on loot rules. I've never had a problem with people who were foreigners but spoke decent enough english to be understood *shrug*, but when someone kills you because they didnt follow the plan and agro'd mobs they shouldn't have
To add to the previous post ... Be sure to make a distinction between what a firewall protects against, and what an antivirus protects against
for example, a firewall won't stop spyware - that's not what it is Designed for. An antivirus won't stop a worm from spreading (until it has already done it's damage, because updates are slow to react) but a firewall would.
another reason for this misconception is the nice handy dandy swap file.......
People are told that if their harddrive is full their computer will be slow. and really, unless they have an exess of ram, it will be.
And the easiest rebuttle to "but it says I have 15 gig-a-bytes free, isn't that a lot?" is: yes, but you have more than one kind of memory, and this one isn't big enough. - of course they will still persist, but you can't defeat that, they aren't listening.